Was speaking to some journalists recently who didn't realise how long a history the use of radar has in measuring ice thickness over glaciers.
The technique was discovered by pilots, who must have had the frankly terrifying experience of landing on the ice sheet with their radars telling them they still had a few thousand metres of descent to reach the surface...
It's not mentioned in this obituary but I wonder if this guy would have seen it? Perhaps he didn't even have radar to assist in landing?
https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/obituaries-bq1u22g8z/-/a-gd4LiLY4RbOMXavSDWOBQQ:a:3195393-/0
newyorktimes@flipboard.com - Conrad Shinn, First Pilot to Land at the South Pole, Dies at 102
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/obituaries/conrad-shinn-dead.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Obituaries @obituaries-newyorktimes
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Just finished "Statistically Speaking" by Debbie Johnson. It's coincidentally the second book dealing with adoption that I've just finished, though I suspect in both cases not #OwnVoices, which I also suspect matters somewhat. I was well-absorbed and enjoyed it immensely, but was left again with the reservation that I'm sure it may reflect only that small facet of real life which is pleasing and/or tolerable to a wide audience, and may thus in its own way make things more difficult for those whose realities it does not reflect. I find myself very glad to have also recently read Mama by Nikkya Hargrove, which is autobiographical and which as a result of having more real-world complexity drives its similar point about found family home with more force, to me (to be fair, Johnson's work has a decent amount of real life complexity, for a novel).
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Achieving Linear Speedup and Near-Optimal Complexity for Decentralized Optimization over Row-stochastic Networks
Liyuan Liang, Xinyi Chen, Gan Luo, Kun Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04600
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Characterizing Multi-Hunk Patches: Divergence, Proximity, and LLM Repair Challenges
Noor Nashid, Daniel Ding, Keheliya Gallaba, Ahmed E. Hassan, Ali Mesbah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04418
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It’s not the mistakes that matter. Apple has made them before. The Newton, MobileMe, the butterfly keyboard. What matters is the posture. A company once defined by joyful provocation—by thinking different—is now defined by its defensiveness. Its leadership acts not like inventors but like stewards of a status quo. They protect margins like relics. They fear dilution. They optimize at the expense of surprise.
Linear Discriminant Analysis with Gradient Optimization on Covariance Inverse
Cencheng Shen, Yuexiao Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06845 https://
Stochastic thermodynamics for classical non-Markov jump processes
Kiyoshi Kanazawa, Andreas Dechant
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04726 https://