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Trump is still pushing the limits of the gag order.
It could come back to haunt him at sentencing.
Dealing with the gag order is a distraction for both sides. But if Trump is convicted, his violations could be used as aggravating factors.
https://www.politico…

💔 Those poor children. https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/112142529500322234

P\'eclet dependent Interactions of Self-Propelled Droplets
Prateek Dwivedi, Sobiya Ashraf, Pawan Kumar, Dipin Pillai, Rahul Mangal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13740

Péclet dependent Interactions of Self-Propelled Droplets
Interactions among biologically active agents is facilitated by their self-generated chemical and hydrodynamic fields. In order to elucidate the pair-wise interactions between such micro-organisms, we employ active droplets as a model system, capable of self-generating chemical and hydrodynamic fields. We demonstrate that the solute Péclet number ($Pe$), characterizing the relative strength of its convective to diffusive transport, plays a crucial role in determining how the chemical and hydro…

Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars: evolution of a masterpiece
I was surprised to learn that Rocket League was actually a sequel to a PS3 game by Psyonix called Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars. With such a catchy title, it's hard to see why it never took off to the same extent as Rocket League did. Having said that, apparently it was downloaded on PSN over two million times, so if anything it just goes to show how I don't keep up with…

Perhaps the most interesting article I've read on Europe's efforts to decarbonise road transport, the controversy over electrification, the proposed alternatives, Chinese manufacturing and a way forward for Europe.
(article in French, screenshots translated with DeepL)
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Fin du véhicule thermique : pourquoi et comment y parvenir ? | Terra Nova
Dans le cadre de la campagne pour les élections européennes 2024, nous avons demandé à différents experts de formuler des recommandations sur plusieurs questions stratégiques pour l’avenir de l’Union européenne. Nous ouvrons cette série avec une contribution de Jean-Philippe Hermine, directeur de l’Institut Mobilités en Transition (IMT), à qui nous avons posé la question de la fin du véhicule thermique. Alors que certains émettent des doutes sur les orientations du Green Deal…

I had to go into my spam folder looking for an activation email. I found email telling me "The Toilet Strategy to Pee Like A Firehose!".
Has my toilet strategy has been suffering due to my spam filter? To what great heights could I have developed by urination techniques by this time If I had not turned the spam filter on? Where could I be by now?....

My iOS 17.4.1 exhibits an extremely annoying bug in iOS Shortcuts.
Dialogs (for input, for display) stop being displayed blocking the shortcut.
The aggravating factor besides breaking the shortcuts is that the only solution I could find is to restart the phone. This makes it extremely frustrating as an experience to a level that not even old days Windows required restarting this often.
My searches are not finding anything useful.

My iOS 17.4.1 exhibits an extremely annoying bug in iOS Shortcuts.
Dialogs (for input, for display) stop being displayed blocking the shortcut.
The aggravating factor besides breaking the shortcuts is that the only solution I could find is to restart the phone. This makes it extremely frustrating as an experience to a level that not even old days Windows required restarting this often.
My searches are not finding anything useful.

Quranic Audio Dataset: Crowdsourced and Labeled Recitation from Non-Arabic Speakers
Raghad Salameh, Mohamad Al Mdfaa, Nursultan Askarbekuly, Manuel Mazzara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02675

Quranic Audio Dataset: Crowdsourced and Labeled Recitation from Non-Arabic Speakers
This paper addresses the challenge of learning to recite the Quran for non-Arabic speakers. We explore the possibility of crowdsourcing a carefully annotated Quranic dataset, on top of which AI models can be built to simplify the learning process. In particular, we use the volunteer-based crowdsourcing genre and implement a crowdsourcing API to gather audio assets. We integrated the API into an existing mobile application called NamazApp to collect audio recitations. We developed a crowdsourcin…