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good thread on Biden's failings w.r.t covid
See e.g. this story of the flipflop from $2000 promised to $1400 delivered:
#Biden #covid

I’d wanted to interview Jennifer Harris for years.
She has been the quiet intellectual force behind the Biden administration’s economic policies,
and she seemed key to understanding why both parties in Washington had walked away from free trade and neoliberalism
— the belief that free markets will bring prosperity and democracy around the world.
These matters felt personal to me.
I spent much of the Trump administration following steelworkers in Indiana who los…

Opinion | Bidenomics: The Queen Bee Is Jennifer Harris
Jennifer Harris is the intellectual force driving the administration’s approach to trade and economic policies.

I've long been fond of the phrase, "the bottom falling out of the bucket" as a reference in #Zen to a kind of irreversible awakening experience. It's used in the 12th c. *Blue Cliff Record.* This story appears to be from a century later, but it's nice (from Paul Reps' *Zen Flesh, Zen Bones*):

Raiders Offense Is Playing Catch Up https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_offense_is_playing_catch_up/s1_17391_40492881

Raiders Offense Is Playing Catch Up
It’s safe to say that during the Raiders OTA’s that the defense has had the upper hand on the offense. There has been some bright spots from the offense. But the majority of plays has been coming from the defensive side of the ball. Cornerback Nate Hobbs had a feeling quarterback Gardner Minshew was going to target him on a third-and-long play during the first day of Raiders’ mandatory minicamp earlier this week. He couldn’t stop it anyway. Hobbs was fooled and allowed a long completion…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07402 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

An excursion onto Schrödinger's bridges: Stochastic flows with spatio-temporal marginals
The purpose of the present work is to expand substantially the type of control and estimation problems that can be addressed following the paradigm of Schrödinger bridges, by incorporating termination (killing) of stochastic flows. Specifically, in the context of estimation, we seek the most likely evolution realizing measured spatio-temporal marginals of killed particles. In the context of control, we seek a suitable control action directing the killed process toward spatio-temporal probabili…

Time-dependent density functional theory study of induced-fission dynamics of $^{226}$Th
B. Li, D. Vretenar, T. Nik\v{s}i\'c, P. W. Zhao, J. Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11124

Time-dependent density functional theory study of induced-fission dynamics of $^{226}$Th
A microscopic finite-temperature model based on time-dependent nuclear density functional theory (TDDFT), is employed to study the induced-fission process of $^{226}$Th. The saddle-to-scission dynamics of this process is explored, starting from various points on the deformation surface of Helmholtz free energy at a temperature that corresponds to the experimental excitation energy, and following self-consistent isentropic fission trajectories as they evolve toward scission. Dissipation effects …