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πŸ”— Pareto Front

πŸ”— Computer science πŸ”— Economics πŸ”— Engineering

In multi-objective optimization, the Pareto front (also called Pareto frontier or Pareto curve) is the set of all Pareto efficient solutions. The concept is widely used in engineering.:β€Š111–148β€Š It allows the designer to restrict attention to the set of efficient choices, and to make tradeoffs within this set, rather than considering the full range of every parameter.:β€Š63–65β€Š:β€Š399–412β€Š

πŸ”— TIL there are 82 named techniques (β€œkimarite”) for winning a sumo match

πŸ”— Lists πŸ”— Martial arts πŸ”— Sumo

Kimarite (ζ±ΊγΎγ‚Šζ‰‹, "Deciding technique") are winning techniques in a sumo bout. For each bout in a Grand Sumo tournament (or honbasho), a sumo referee, or gyōji, will decide and announce the type of kimarite used by the winner. It is possible (although rare) for the judges to modify this decision later. Records of the kimarite are kept and statistical information on the preferred techniques of different wrestlers can be deduced easily. For example, a pie chart of the kimarite used by each sekitori in the past year can be found on the Japan Sumo Association webpage.

Since 2001, the Japan Sumo Association recognizes 82 types of kimarite (and 5 winning non-techniques), but only about a dozen are used regularly. For example, yorikiri, oshidashi and hatakikomi are frequent methods used to win bouts. In addition to kimarite, a bout can end in a disqualification if either wrestler makes a foul (禁手, kinjite), such as striking with a closed fist.

The following is a full list of kimarite. Literal translations of the Japanese are also given.

πŸ”— Wikipedia has deprecated and will blacklist archive.today

πŸ”— Internet πŸ”— Websites πŸ”— Websites/Computing πŸ”— Digital Preservation

The English Wikipedia has decided to stop using archive.today and its related websites. This decision was taken after a request for comment with more than 200 participants and is due to multiple concerns, including the site using editors' and readers' computers to run a denial-of-service attack and evidence that the website has tampered with some archived pages.

The addition of links to these websites is already being blocked by the edit filter, and it will likely be added to the spam blacklist in the future. Before that happens, we need everyone's help to replace or remove links to these websites. As of FebruaryΒ 28, 2026, the citation templates in popular use on Wikipedia (WP:CS1 and WP:CS2) will not render Archive.today and affiliated archive URLs.

Note: Archive.org, or web.archive.org, run by the Internet Archive and the most-used web archive on Wikipedia, is uninvolved with and entirely separate from archive.today. Please keep using archive.org.

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πŸ”— Dagen H – the day Sweden switched to driving on the right

πŸ”— Transport πŸ”— Sweden

Dagen H (H day), today usually called "HΓΆgertrafikomlΓ€ggningen" ("The right-hand traffic diversion"), was the day on 3 September 1967, in which the traffic in Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right. The "H" stands for "HΓΆgertrafik", the Swedish word for "right traffic". It was by far the largest logistical event in Sweden's history.

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πŸ”— Ashcan Comic

πŸ”— Comics

An ashcan comic is a form of the American comic book created solely to establish trademarks on potential titles and not intended for sale. The practice was common in the 1930s and 1940s when the comic book industry was in its infancy, but was phased out after updates to US trademark law. The term was revived in the 1980s by Bob Burden, who applied it to prototypes of his self-published comic book. Since the 1990s, the term has been used to describe promotional materials produced in large print runs and made available for mass consumption. In the film and television industries, the term "ashcan copy" has been adopted for low-grade material created to preserve a claim to licensed property rights.

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πŸ”— Warez Scene

πŸ”— Computing πŸ”— Internet culture πŸ”— Law πŸ”— Software πŸ”— Software/Computing

The Warez scene, often referred to as The Scene, is an underground network of piracy groups specialized in obtaining and illegally releasing digital media before their official release date. The Scene distributes all forms of digital media, including computer games, movies, TV shows, music, and pornography. This network is meant to be hidden from the public, with the files shared only with members of the community. However, as files became commonly leaked outside the community and their popularity grew, some individuals from The Scene began leaking files and uploading them to file-hosts, torrents and EDonkey Networks.

The Scene has no central leadership, location, or other organizational culture. The groups themselves create a rule set for each Scene category (for example, MP3 or TV) that then becomes the active rules for encoding material. These rule sets include a rigid set of requirements that warez groups (shortened as "grps") must follow in releasing and managing material. The groups must follow these rules when uploading material and, if the release has a technical error or breaks a rule, other groups may "nuke" (flag as bad content) the release. Groups are in constant competition to get releases up as fast as possible. First appearing around the time of Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes), The Scene is composed primarily of people dealing with and distributing media content, for which special skills and advanced software are required.

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πŸ”— List of Largest US Bank Failures

πŸ”— United States πŸ”— Finance & Investment πŸ”— Lists πŸ”— Business

This is a list of the largest United States bank failures with respect to total assets under management at the time of the bank failure (banks with $1.0 billion or more in assets are listed here). Assets of the banks listed here are figures provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

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πŸ”— Etymology of tea

πŸ”— China πŸ”— Linguistics πŸ”— Food and drink πŸ”— Linguistics/Etymology πŸ”— Food and drink/Beverages

The etymology of the word tea can be traced back to the various Chinese pronunciations of the word. Nearly all the words for tea worldwide, fall into three broad groups: te, cha and chai, which reflected the history of transmission of tea drinking culture and trade from China to countries around the world. The few exceptions of words for tea that do not fall into these three broad groups are mostly from the minor languages from the botanical homeland of the tea plant, and likely to be the ultimate origin of the Chinese words for tea. Notably, none of these words mean 'dinner' or a late afternoon meal.

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πŸ”— Rimac Concept One

πŸ”— Environment πŸ”— Automobiles πŸ”— Croatia πŸ”— Environment/Green vehicle

The Rimac Concept One, sometimes stylized as Concept_One, is a two-seat high-performance electric car designed and manufactured in Croatia by Rimac Automobili. With a total output of 913Β kW (1,241Β PS; 1,224Β hp) and an acceleration time from 0–62Β mph (0–100Β km/h) in 2.5 seconds.

The Rimac Concept One was claimed to be the world's fastest accelerating electric vehicle in 2013.

To advertise both Rimac Automobili and Formula E, the Concept One was used as the official zero-emission race director's car during the first season of Formula E championship in 2014.

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