Tootfinder

That story seems convincing.
In 2009-2011 we covered a huge mayoral bribery trial. The mayor of a midsized southern city, Larry Langford, was convicted on $235,000 in bribes to grease bond deals, leading to a MASSIVE boondoggle: a $3.2 billion sewer debt, contributing to the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
I thought, even then, $235K seemed light for a big town mayor.
So $600,000 in a years-long deal for a sitting congressman?
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The New York Times :press: (@nytimes@press.coop)
Attached: 1 image Henry Cuellar, Texas Representative, and His Wife Indicted on Bribery Charges Mr. Cuellar and his wife are accused of accepting bribes from a bank in Mexico City and from an oil and gas company owned by Azerbaijan. He has maintained they are innocent. #press https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/us/politics/henry-cuellar-indictment.html?utm_source=press.coop

Factors Affecting Terahertz Emission from InGaN Quantum Wells under Ultrafast Excitation
Muhammad Farooq Saleem, Ghulam Abbas Ashraf, Muhammad Faisal Iqbal, Rashid Khan, Muhammad Javid, Tianwu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02398

Factors Affecting Terahertz Emission from InGaN Quantum Wells under Ultrafast Excitation
InGaN quantum wells (QWs) grown on c-plane sapphire substrate experience strain due to the lattice mismatch. The strain generates a strong piezoelectric field in QWs that contributes to THz emission under ultrafast excitation. Physical parameters such as QW width, period number, and Indium concentration can affect the strength of the piezoelectric field and result in THz emission. Experimental parameters such as pump fluence, laser energy, excitation power, pump polarization angle, and incident…

Should have read this before. Great book so far.
"Aged six, Terry happened innocently on the sole relic of Eileen’s Catholicism – a small, cheaply produced wooden crucifix on the dressing table in his parents’ bedroom – and he gathered it up and carried it to her with the immortal line, ‘Mum! I’ve found a stick with an acrobat on it.’"
-- Rob Wilkins
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes

Radiation damage on Silicon Photomultipliers from ionizing and non-ionizing radiation of low-earth orbit operations
Stefano Merzi, Fabio Acerbi, C. Aicardi, D. Fiore, V. Goiffon, Alberto Gola, O. Marcelot, A. Materne, O. Saint-Pe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07191

Trustless Audits without Revealing Data or Models
Suppakit Waiwitlikhit, Ion Stoica, Yi Sun, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Daniel Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04500

Trustless Audits without Revealing Data or Models
There is an increasing conflict between business incentives to hide models and data as trade secrets, and the societal need for algorithmic transparency. For example, a rightsholder wishing to know whether their copyrighted works have been used during training must convince the model provider to allow a third party to audit the model and data. Finding a mutually agreeable third party is difficult, and the associated costs often make this approach impractical. In this work, we show that it is …