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Evidence of haze control of Pluto’s atmospheric heat balance from JWST/MIRI thermal light curves: #Pluto

@… also question given your posts about finding various web games: have you played Stephen Lavelle's "Opera Omnia" or Adam Cadre's "Photopia?" Neither is technically a web game, but they both have strong web-game-like feel to me, and they are some of the best games I've ever played in terms of game length vs. emotional impact.

A pictures says more than 1000 words. How much more can an audio representation of your data tell you? #rstats

sonify: Data Sonification - Turning Data into Sound
Sonification (or audification) is the process of representing data by sounds in the audible range. This package provides the R function sonify() that transforms univariate data, sampled at regular or irregular intervals, into a continuous sound with time-varying frequency. The ups and downs in frequency represent the ups and downs in the data. Sonify provides a substitute for R's plot function to simplify data analysis for the visually impaired.

"The ChargeWise California pilot found that dynamic price signals, combined with automated charging management, achieve up to 98% EV charging load delivered off-peak, above the 60-70% typically achieved by ToU tariffs."
https://www.current-new…

Dynamic price signals beat time-of-use tariffs for energy load management in US trial
A pilot programme funded by the California Energy Commission shows EV charging on dynamic price signals outperforms time-of-use (ToU) rates.

Google ends its Recipe Quick View pilot, which showed full recipes directly in search results, after some bloggers feared it would reduce traffic to their sites (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Authoritarianism and the decentring of the constitution
https://ift.tt/Ar46wTX
by Mayur Suresh The impetus for this project stems from a disquiet, felt by so many in different…
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Authoritarianism and the decentring of the constitution
by Mayur SureshThe impetus for this project stems from a disquiet, felt by so many in different parts of the world, of the arrival of authoritarian strongmen who had been elected to power. As Kim Scheppele’s influential article tells us, “By now, we know the pattern” of a charismatic leader elected to power, on the back of a wave of popular disenchantment with the state. This leader promises to wipe away the roadblocks that he says have held the country back: established elites, oppos…

Google ends its Recipe Quick View pilot, which showed full recipes directly in search results, after some bloggers feared it would reduce traffic to their sites (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Two-Stage Lithium Niobate Nonlinear Photonic Circuits for Low-Crosstalk and Broadband All Optical Wavelength Conversion
Xiaoting Li, Haochuan Li, Zhaoxi Chen, Fei Ma, Ke Zhang, Wenzhao Sun, Cheng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01777

Two-Stage Lithium Niobate Nonlinear Photonic Circuits for Low-Crosstalk and Broadband All Optical Wavelength Conversion
All optical wavelength converters (AOWCs) that can effectively and flexibly switch optical signals between different wavelength channels are essential elements in future optical fiber communications and quantum information systems. A promising strategy for achieving high-performance AOWCs is to leverage strong three-wave mixing processes in second-order nonlinear nanophotonic devices, specifically thin-film periodically poled lithium niobate (TF-PPLN) waveguides. By exploiting the advantages of…

That… is quite a number. I wonder what the return on that investment will look like?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-nvidia-played-a-central-role-in-the-306-billion-ai-startup-boom-195741749.html

How Nvidia 'played a central role' in the $306 billion AI startup boom
Nvidia's AI chips laid the groundwork for a massive wave of investment in artificial intelligence.