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Appalachian FiguresHarlan County KY
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

Appalachian Figures “Charlie” from Mary Helen Charles W. “Charlie” Berger was born in Harlan on January 12, 1936, the son of Benjamin Southard Berger and Rebecca Ethington Berger, and grew up in the Mary Helen coal camp at Coalgood. In that company town he absorbed the social world he would later represent: union men and coal operators, courthouse politicos and Green Dragon athletes, Baptist pews and hunting buddies scattered up the

Appalachian FiguresMartin County KY
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

Appalachian Figures Series When Judge Andrew Jackson Kirk died at his home in Paintsville on the night of 25 May 1933, the Big Sandy News told its readers that his life had been “interwoven with the very fiber of life in this section of the state.” For nearly half a century he stood at the center of eastern Kentucky’s legal and political world.

Dark MatterData InterpretationGalaxy FormationLCDMPersonal Experience
Published in Triton Station

The mass distribution of dark matter halos that we infer from observations tells us where the dark matter needs to be now. This differs form the mass distribution it had to start, as it gets altered by the process of galaxy formation. It is the primordial distribution that dark matter-only simulations predict most robustly.

BiografíasHistoria PolíticaSpanish
Published in BLOG ATARRAYA
Author Atarraya

por Alicia Salmerón Rosendo Pineda, personaje considerado por el historiador Daniel Cosío Villegas como “uno de los mejores animales políticos que se han dado en México”, fue un joven abogado de Oaxaca –juchiteco–, llegado a la ciudad de México en 1880, como diputado federal recién electo por su estado natal.

SpatialSpatial-patternsSpatial-machine-learningRstatsRspatial
Published in Thinking in spatial patterns

Slides: https://jakubnowosad.com/rome2025 Video recording: https://youtu.be/uZe7thh80MI Reproducible code: https://jakubnowosad.com/rome2025/index.R Geospatial predictive mapping is a common task across many domains, aiming to produce continuous surfaces from point observations and spatial predictors.

AiEvidenceLlmsEvidence
Published in Anil Madhavapeddy's feed

Our neighbours France and the UK announced a Franco-British AI collaboration a few months ago dubbed the Entente CordIAle. Last week we held a couple of days of workshops with our Oxford and French buddies deep diving into details of what a partnership might actually involve; a particular pleasure with France given my group's long history of working with Inria on OCaml and other open source projects.