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This is the most complete guide to music writing I have ever found: "New Zealand School of Music Guide to Music Notation".
https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/nzsm/study/support/student-guides/NZSM-Guide-to-Notation-2019.pdf

Yesterday, I wanted to quickly post something on my blog when I realized that my blog generating process was broken after upgrading to Debian 13.
So I had to analyze the situation, got lost in my complex shell script hell and decided to merge it into one single script without lots of dated stuff.
Next I realized that one of my own libs has a minor issue with Python 3 strings: had to migrate to raw strings to get rid of very valid warnings.
Well, I could not publish that lib…

"Clear Vivid"-Podcast von Alan Alda: "Alex Pentland: Shared Wisdom" https://www.goloudnow.com/podcasts/clearvivid-with-alan-alda-931/alex-pentland-shared-wisdom-563176
*How technological innovation has shape…

"Kṣaṇa = the time taken for a needle to pierce through hundred lotus petals stacked one on top of the other." https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/kshana

Does Weighting Improve Matrix Factorization for Recommender Systems?
Alex Ayoub, Samuel Robertson, Dawen Liang, Harald Steck, Nathan Kallus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10440 http…

Does Weighting Improve Matrix Factorization for Recommender Systems?
Matrix factorization is a widely used approach for top-N recommendation and collaborative filtering. When implemented on implicit feedback data (such as clicks), a common heuristic is to upweight the observed interactions. This strategy has been shown to improve performance for certain algorithms. In this paper, we conduct a systematic study of various weighting schemes and matrix factorization algorithms. Somewhat surprisingly, we find that training with unweighted data can perform comparably …

Opvallend uit Nieuwsuur:
- iedereen moest wachten op de show van Trump in Israel.
- Netanyahu kwam niet opdagen
- inhoud onbekend
Inhoudelijk is het dus niet zoveel. De handtekening van Netanyahu is toch wel cruciaal.
Hallo Nieuwsuur: uiteindelijk -deed- Netanyahu niets... Er is geen handtekening. (Detail, maar bijzonder cruciaal)
#Gaza #Trump #Cairo

Cristina Mittermeier’s show A Greater Wisdom celebrates the beauty of Earth in stunning photographs
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/nov/04/cristina-mittermeier-earth-most-spectacular-inhabit…

The conservative majority on the Supreme Court has repeatedly signaled that it plans to adopt the
“unitary executive theory,”
which says the original understanding of the Constitution demands letting the president remove executive branch officials as he sees fit.
But a new article, from a leading originalist law professor, has complicated and perhaps upended the conventional wisdom.
The legal academy treated the development like breaking news.
“Bombshell!” Willi…

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials
As the Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president’s power, a leading scholar whose work the justices have often cited issued a provocative dissent.

Holiday seasons are so full of family drama. On this day in 1066, my 24th great-grandfather, having invaded from Normandy and slain my my 27 great-grandfather, was planning his Christmas Day coronation at Westminster Abbey.
We know how that turned out: when William was cheered, soldiers outside thought it was a riot and set fire to nearby Saxon homes.
And a very merry Christmas to you, too.

edit_wiktionary: Wiktionary edits (2010)
Three bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wiktionary, for French, German, and English. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 142 nodes and 156 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps