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email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

"Despite good-faith efforts by DSI [dense street imagery] providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and license plates, these measures fail to address broader privacy concerns. In this work, we find that increased data density and advancements in artificial intelligence enable harmful group membership inferences from supposedly anonymized data."
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Privacy of Groups in Dense Street Imagery
Spatially and temporally dense street imagery (DSI) datasets have grown unbounded. In 2024, individual companies possessed around 3 trillion unique images of public streets. DSI data streams are only set to grow as companies like Lyft and Waymo use DSI to train autonomous vehicle algorithms and analyze collisions. Academic researchers leverage DSI to explore novel approaches to urban analysis. Despite good-faith efforts by DSI providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and l…

Randomly reminded of the pet mice my family had when I was a kid.
We'd always get them in pairs and they had the weirdest names.
I've probably forgot a few but...
Breyah and Ghibou (named by me as a toddler, they asked me to name them and used the next two bits of babbling i made)
Rosie and Sarah (nothing super weird there)
Davina (feminized form of David) and Bextra (banned COX-2 inhibitor, a close cousin of Vioxx)
Ammonium Nitrate or Annie for sh…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Neil Young:
🎵 After the Gold Rush
#NeilYoung
https://anonymouschoir.bandcamp.com/album/anonymous-choir-sings-neil-youngs-after-the-gold-rush
https://open.spotify.com/track/2anPa0qaFG1Nf0swkpfOQd

Attention les yeux ! Première analyse "en direct" d'une solution "en double anonymat" qui fait sa pub sur Linkedin, pour vérifier l'age des personnes accédant Š un site pornographique : AnonymAge !
On rappelle que le double anonymat, c'est que le site porno n'apprend pas l'identité de l'utilisateurice et l'application de vérification n'apprend pas le site visité.
Deuxième étape de la vérification : on prend son téléphone, on lan…

Millions of public euros subsidize bullfighting through regional televisions https://www.animanaturalis.org/n/46882?utm_source=Mastodon
Madrid raises its voice against bullfighting and for a cruelty-free culture

Millions of public euros subsidize bullfighting through regional televisions
We reveal the hidden cost of public funding for bullfighting broadcasts on Spain’s regional television channels, which has increased in recent years, especially in those Autonomous Communities governed by the Partido Popular and VOX.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06151 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csOS_…

Zerrow: True Zero-Copy Arrow Pipelines in Bauplan
Bauplan is a FaaS-based lakehouse specifically built for data pipelines: its execution engine uses Apache Arrow for data passing between the nodes in the DAG. While Arrow is known as the "zero copy format", in practice, limited Linux kernel support for shared memory makes it difficult to avoid copying entirely. In this work, we introduce several new techniques to eliminate nearly all copying from pipelines: in particular, we implement a new kernel module that performs de-anonymization, thus eli…

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…