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2 years of war: how Ukraine and the world have changed. Ukraine in Flames #578: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/27/years-of-war.html

Top 10 Raiders Day 2 picks of past 10 years https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/lists/top-10-raiders-day-2-picks-of-past-10-years/

Top 10 Raiders Day 2 picks of past 10 years
To begin Day 2 of this year’s draft we look back at the past 10 years of Raiders Day 2 picks and rank the Top 10

Sources: Meta aims to reveal and demo the first version of its AR glasses, codenamed Orion, during its Connect developer conference in the fall (Kali Hays/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-reveal-first-ar-glasses-fal…

Meta aiming to reveal first AR glasses during fall Connect conference
Meta's first "true" AR glasses, codenamed Orion, have been in the works for several years.

Sony put out the Premium Series Doko Demo Issyo SCPH-10020 KA white memory card for the PlayStation 2 on November 27, 2003.
Unfortunately, the Doko Demo Issyo website on the packaging from 21 years ago no longer works. 🤣
But you still get that 8 megabytes of sheer memory power, baby
#PS2 #PlayStation2

This is so weird, they’ve been making laptop screens for more than 30 years now and phones for 17 years, you’d think they have it down how to make reliable glass for mobile devices https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/23/24080886/apple-vision-pro-cracks-damag…

Vision Pro owners are reporting a mysterious crack in the front glass
A small number of Apple Vision Pro owners have posted pictures of the same vertical crack appearing on the nose bridge of their headsets.

Reigning cats and dogs
My family has always been fond of pets. We have had a dog around since the kids were all little. Over the years, we’ve also had guinea pigs, gerbils, cockatoos, finches, doves, and lots of aquarium fish. One thing I never expected to have is so many pets at one time. Currently, our family consists of three dogs and five cats.

Reigning cats and dogs
My family has always been fond of pets. We have had a dog around since the kids were all little. Over the years, we’ve also had guinea pigs, gerbils, cockatoos, finches, doves, and lots of aquarium…

2 years of full-scale invasion of the 10-year war 10 years of the Russian-Ukrainian war. 2 years since Russia began its full-scale invasion. Our country is now a big battlefield. We are grateful to ou Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/2-years-of-full-scale-invas…

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#OnAirWithAnnieNightingale
- Episode 2
Annie Nightingale on the music and personalities of her 50 years in broadcasting.
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BBC Radio 2 - On Air With Annie Nightingale, Episode 2
Annie Nightingale on the music and personalities of her 50 years in broadcasting.

Life’s Milestones: Embracing Changes and New Opportunities
🎉Celebrating two years of weekly blog posts and family milestones! From blogging streaks to graduations, join us on this journey. #milestones #blogging

Life’s Milestones: Embracing Changes and New Opportunities – Bob Mueller
Reflecting on milestones in blogging and family life, from weekly post streaks to celebrating school graduations and new chapters in life

Until Death Do Us Part: Europeans Were Buried With Their Dogs 2,200 Years Ago https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/europeans-were-buried-with-their-dogs-2200-years-ago/

Until Death Do Us Part: Europeans Were Buried With Their Dogs 2,200 Years Ago
People from ancient Italy were buried with dogs and horses which may indicate an enduring companion relationship they had with their animals.

Commercial Bridge Loans: Fast, Flexible Financing for Multifamily Investors
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Commercial Bridge Loans: Fast, Flexible Financing for Multifamily Investors
Commercial bridge loans offer investors flexible terms from one to three years and clear paths to long-term financing.

10 worst Raiders Day 2 picks over past 10 years https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/lists/10-worst-raiders-day-2-picks-over-past-10-years/

10 worst Raiders Day 2 picks over past 10 years
The Raiders have had some Day two duds over the past ten years. Here are the biggest of those duds.

It is wild to me that a game I set up a home network to play with my daughter and her cousins almost 20 years ago, is getting updates! Wow. (OFC that was the Mac version, and sadly this is Windows only)
https://arstechnica.com/?p=2005903

Age of Empires 2 gets another expansion 25 years later, and deservedly so
The rest of 2024 promises a whole lot for Age of Empires fans across all titles.

Remember like three years ago when crypto bros were trying to sell us this big story about how they were going to be friendly demand response players who could accelerate the energy transition by balancing load with supply? (I didn't bite.) Then how it turned out they were running 24x7 and keeping coal plants running that would have otherwise retired? And then how the DOE started tracking their energy consumption? Well, now the crypto bros are blocking DOE.

Bitcoin miners win legal battle to keep mum about energy use
Bitcoin miners in the US notched a legal victory against the Department of Energy’s attempt to quantify how much electricity they use.

calendar event reminders:
-2.8 million years: HD 7977 flyby. disturbed ort cloud. (.48 light years / 1k AU, conflicting data)
-161,000 years: GJ 3379 (Giclas 99-49) flyby (4.08 light years)
40,000 years: voyager 2 passes within 1.7 light years of Ross 248, voyager 1 passes within 1.6 light years of Gliese 445
80,000 years: Ross 128 becomes closest star for 9,000 years. awkward that we sent nudes. (different graphic, I must be reading conflicting data... damn, ah whoops that's 248)
1.29 million years: Gliese 710 flyby (1/25 distance of proxima centuri, bright as a planet, .16 light years)
due to simultaneous messages, both star systems think we're cheating, but we're just polyamorous.
#astronomy

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in #providence, concluding 2 nights. spring ’84, show #17. jim vita audience tape:

Portrait of the Invader: 2 years of Russian soldiering in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/portrait-of-the.html

Such a cheerful read: The Busy Worker’s Handbook to the [Climate] Apocalypse
#ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateChange

The Busy Worker’s Handbook to the Apocalypse - Sam Hall - Medium
Climate change will cause agricultural failure and subsequent collapse of hyperfragile modern civilization, likely within 10–15 years. By 2050 total human population will likely be under 2 billion…

So I'm in an interesting place at work.
I'm working on a data processing pipeline that was written for a specific smallish set of data in 2015-2016. Then the project was largely idle for 2-4 years, then picked up by a team that has been significantly expanding the coverage of the data processing pipeline, but not necessarily with full understanding of what it's doing underneath or how to examine it closely.

Vinyl sales have been growing steadily for the last 17 years now. Vinyl is pricier and far more profitable raking in $1.4 billion compared to $537 million from CDs.
"Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running"
https://www.theverg…

#QI
Via Quite Interesting @qikipedia
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1h
Duelling in Colorado has recently been reduced from a felony requiring 2-6 years in prison to a misdemeanor, which requires no prison time.

For the past ~2 years, I’ve been working on a neuroscience startup (called Matter). We have an app that—by its nature—needs to operate on private user data. Some of that data is so private that we never actually want to handle it ourselves. So we don’t.
We can’t leak data we don’t have. We can’t mishandle private info that never leaves the control of the user.
We’re taking a mostly-unique approach to user data at Matter, and I’ve finally written a little bit about it:

Matter and Privacy
When I was still working at Faculty, we took on a new client that was not yet named Matter. We eventually transitioned from an agency-client relationship to a startup relationship, where I became the

Sony put out the Premium Series Doko Demo Issyo SCPH-10020 KA white memory card for the PlayStation 2 on November 27, 2003.
Unfortunately, the Doko Demo Issyo website on the packaging from 21 years ago no longer works. 🤣
But you still get that 8 megabytes of sheer memory power, baby
#PS2 #PlayStation2

7 best available remaining players for the Cowboys on Day 2 of 2024 NFL Draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/7_best_available_remaining_players_for_the_cowboys_on_day_2_of_2024_nfl_draft/s1_…

7 best available remaining players for the Cowboys on Day 2 of 2024 NFL Draft
The first round of the 2024 NFL Draft is in the books but the Dallas Cowboys are just getting started as Day 2 will be crucial in determining how we remember this class years from now. The Cowboys got Tyler Guyton in the first round at 29th overall, not before getting the Detroit Lions' 73rd overall pick in return for 24th overall. That removes tackle as their biggest need going into the draft.  Let's dive into some of the top players still on the board that make sense for the Cowboys. I'll do…

🌞 OPERATION SOL SUCK: LET’S GO YEAR 3 🌞

Anti-woke Star Wars fans discover that the rest of the galaxy in Star Wars (3.2 billion habitable systems; diameter of around 120,000 light-years) is quite woke ->
The Acolyte | Official Trailer | Disney - Star Wars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtytYWhg2mc

#WordWeavers 2/28: How often do you back up your work?
Instantly to the cloud, less frequent to a separate media.
You shouldn't take the risk of loosing years of work because you didn't take ten minutes to set it up. Go, back your stuff up. Now.

Detection of possible glycine precursor molecule methylamine towards the hot molecular core G358.93$-$0.03 MM1
Arijit Manna, Sabyasachi Pal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16798

Detection of possible glycine precursor molecule methylamine towards the hot molecular core G358.93$-$0.03 MM1
The search for the simplest amino acid, glycine (NH$_{2}$CH$_{2}$COOH), in the interstellar medium (ISM), has become a never-ending story for astrochemistry and astrophysics researchers because that molecule plays a possible connection between the Universe and the origin of life. In the last forty years, all searches for NH$_{2}$CH$_{2}$COOH in the ISM at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths have failed. Since the detection of NH$_{2}$CH$_{2}$COOH in the ISM was extremely difficult, we aime…

Russian court sentences human rights campaigner Oleg Orlov to 2.5 years in prison: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/27/russian-court-sentences.html

After two and a half years I finally touched a little python project again. Lesson 1: It was clearly written by some mad genius, I don't understand anything. Also, it's very poorly commented. Lesson 2: Seemingly, I stopped during some debugging because I cant't get it to work properly again.
So I use this opportunity to switch from Gtk3 to Gtk4, from Glade to Cambalache, from Geany to GNOME Builder. And boy, some documentation could be improved upon.

Are there any people who trust socket.dev quality scores? I find them to be hyper-random and nonsense.
- 2 years after one if its biggest funding rounds... yet they still mark them as "experimental".
- They also avoid explaining how these scores are calculated.
- They give very low scores to pkgs that have dev/peer dependencies which are supposedly unsafe... but those same "unsafe" packages have super-high scores... 🤦‍♂️
How do they manage to sustai…

When he died, his family discovered 50 years of cartooning output: the secret comics of Frank Johnson are published
When shipping clerk and former musician Frank Johnson died in Chicago in 1979 at the age of 67, his family was shocked to discover 2,300 pages of comics in bound notebooks that apparently nobody knew about. When his widow passed away in 2003, the notebooks were put up for sale, and comics expert Dan Nadel happened upon them (according to editor Chris Byrne).
What Na…

When he died, his family discovered 50 years of cartooning output: the secret comics of Frank Johnson are published
When shipping clerk and former musician Frank Johnson died in Chicago in 1979 at the age of 67, his family was shocked to discover 2,300 pages of comics in bound…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11027 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

Introduction to the second edition of "The Supersymmetric World"
The first Edition of this book was released in 2000, just before the symposium ``Thirty Years of Supersymmetry'' was held at the William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (FTPI) of the University of Minnesota. Founders and trailblazers of supersymmetry descended on FTPI, as well as a large crowd of younger theorists deeply involved in research in this area. Since then 23 years have elapsed and significant changes happened in supersymmetry (SUSY). Its history definitely needs an update. Such…

There's been a bug in macOS/iPad OS with Universal Control for over 2 years now, where if you have a Logitech Mouse connected to your Mac via Bluetooth, the CMD and Shift keys no longer work when typing into a text field on a connected iPad. Maddening. https://www.

calendar event reminders:
-2.8 million years: HD 7977 flyby. disturbed ort cloud. (.48 light years / 1k AU, conflicting data)
-161,000 years: GJ 3379 (Giclas 99-49) flyby (4.08 light years)
40,000 years: voyager 2 passes within 1.7 light years of Ross 248, voyager 1 passes within 1.6 light years of Gliese 445
80,000 years: Ross 128 becomes closest star for 9,000 years. awkward that we sent nudes. (different graphic, I must be reading conflicting data... damn, ah whoops that's 248)
1.29 million years: Gliese 710 flyby (1/25 distance of proxima centuri, bright as a planet, .16 light years)
due to simultaneous messages, both star systems think we're cheating, but we're just polyamorous.
#astronomy

Synthesizing Soundscapes: Leveraging Text-to-Audio Models for Environmental Sound Classification
Francesca Ronchini, Luca Comanducci, Fabio Antonacci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17864

Synthesizing Soundscapes: Leveraging Text-to-Audio Models for Environmental Sound Classification
In the past few years, text-to-audio models have emerged as a significant advancement in automatic audio gener- ation. Although they represent impressive technological progress, the effectiveness of their use in the development of audio applications remains uncertain. This paper aims to investigate these aspects, specifically focusing on the task of classification of environmental sounds. This study analyzes the performance of two different environmental classification systems when data generat…

Rapid non-destructive inspection of sub-surface defects in 3D printed alumina through 30 layers with 7 {\mu}m depth resolution
C. Lapre, D. Brouczek, M. Schwentenwein, K. Neuman, N. Benson, C. R. Petersen, O. Bang, N. M. Israelsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17662

Rapid non-destructive inspection of sub-surface defects in 3D printed alumina through 30 layers with 7 μm depth resolution
The use of additive manufacturing (AM) processes for industrial fabrication has grown rapidly over the last ten years. The most well-known AM technologies are fused deposition modelling and stereolithography techniques. One particular industry where 3D printing is advantageous over traditional fabrication techniques is within ceramic components due to its flexibility. To establish a new and improved level of print quality and reduce resource consumption in the 3D printing ceramics industry, the…

TrustMol: Trustworthy Inverse Molecular Design via Alignment with Molecular Dynamics
Kevin Tirta Wijaya, Navid Ansari, Hans-Peter Seidel, Vahid Babaei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16930

TrustMol: Trustworthy Inverse Molecular Design via Alignment with Molecular Dynamics
Data-driven generation of molecules with desired properties, also known as inverse molecular design (IMD), has attracted significant attention in recent years. Despite the significant progress in the accuracy and diversity of solutions, existing IMD methods lag behind in terms of trustworthiness. The root issue is that the design process of these methods is increasingly more implicit and indirect, and this process is also isolated from the native forward process (NFP), the ground-truth function…

Combining Transformer based Deep Reinforcement Learning with Black-Litterman Model for Portfolio Optimization
Ruoyu SunXi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, School of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, Angelos StefanidisXi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Entrepreneur College, Zhengyong JiangXi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Entrepreneur College, Jionglong SuXi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Entrepreneur College

Combining Transformer based Deep Reinforcement Learning with Black-Litterman Model for Portfolio Optimization
As a model-free algorithm, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agent learns and makes decisions by interacting with the environment in an unsupervised way. In recent years, DRL algorithms have been widely applied by scholars for portfolio optimization in consecutive trading periods, since the DRL agent can dynamically adapt to market changes and does not rely on the specification of the joint dynamics across the assets. However, typical DRL agents for portfolio optimization cannot learn a policy …

Such a cheerful read: The Busy Worker’s Handbook to the [Climate] Apocalypse
#ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateChange

The Busy Worker’s Handbook to the Apocalypse - Sam Hall - Medium
Climate change will cause agricultural failure and subsequent collapse of hyperfragile modern civilization, likely within 10–15 years. By 2050 total human population will likely be under 2 billion…

Birds of Empire - Season 2 finale 🦅🐻🐺🐏
Dramatized post-apocalyptic fantasy series | Total listening time: 13h 48m
New Dakota: 15,000 CE, thousands of years after the fall of civilization. Having barely survived, humanity has returned to a way of life more closely resembling civilizations of the ancient past: The Bears, The Rams, The ...
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Birds of Empire - Season 2 finale 🦅🐻🐺🐏
Dramatized post-apocalyptic fantasy series | Total listening time: 13h 48m New Dakota: 15,000 CE, thousands of years after the fall of civilization. Having barely survived, humanity has returned to a way of life more closely resembling civilizations of the ancient past: The Bears, The Rams, The Birds, and The Wolves. A dramatized cinematic fantasy event in audio. 2 seasons, 28 episodes as of Feb 22, 2024.

2 years of war: how Ukraine and the world have changed The ongoing Russian barbaric war against Ukraine presents numerous challenges, including military losses, territorial occupation, a severe humani Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/ukraine-in-flames-578

It took Robert J. Oppenheimer 1068 days (2 years, 11 months, 3 days) to develop a functional nuclear bomb.
It has been 1651 days since Hollow Knight: Silksong's announcement trailer.

I know nobody can control what their parents name them, but I gotta say, I would have changed my name *the day* I turned 18. Like, I would have had the paperwork all drawn up and waiting to file, years in advance.

Global cumulative shipments of 5G smartphones crossed 2B in less than five years, a faster adoption rate than 3G or 4G; Apple and Samsung together shipped 1B (Counterpoint Research)
https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insight…

Along with the police violence (look at the sheer number of bullets sprayed into that dormitory!), racism, SCOTUS nonsense, and the general lack of historical coverage (people know about Kent State, but not this) - there's a #SafeStreets/#BanCars angle here too.
50 years later, things truly have not changed much.

Sally Strange (@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe)
Attached: 2 images Since people are talking about Kent State, Ohio, 1970, it's a good time to talk about Jackson State, Mississippi, 1970. Similar situation, except there was no active protest, just a bunch of students hanging out. The mayor of Jackson declared a riot and called in the pigs. Someone threw a glass bottle, not at the pigs, but they still opened fire. Phillip Gibbs, a student at Jackson State, and James Green, a high school student who was walking home from his job, were murder…

Turns out pumping shit into the atmosphere for a hundred years is not a good thing.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09311 has been replaced.
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Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on the Precipitation and Temperature: A Case Study on Krishna River Basin
In this study, the statistical downscaling model (SDSM) is employed for downscaling the precipitation (PREC), maximum temperature (T max ) and minimum temperature (T min ) over Krishna River Basin (KRB). The Canadian Earth System Model, version 2 (CanESM2) General Circulation Model (GCM) outputs were considered as predictor variables. First, the SDSM is calibrated using 30-years (1961-1990) of data and subsequently validated for 15-years (1991-2005). Upon perceiving the satisfactory performance…

I now use a @… laptop for 2 years or so.
And I only just noticed that on the german keyboard, the left Ctrl-key is labelled "Ctrl" and the right one "Strg".
I have never seen a mix like that before on a keyboard
#framework

https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-not-diverting-911-calls-to-mental-crisis-hotline/

San Jose not diverting 911 calls to mental crisis hotline - San José Spotlight
San Jose is struggling to divert 911 calls related to mental and emotional distress away from police, despite the county adopting the 988 mental crisis hotline two years ago to handle those situations. A recent report shows county mental health teams in 2023 responded to just 2% of nearly 60,000 San Jose 911 calls that...

After two and a half years I finally touched a little python project again. Lesson 1: It was clearly written by some mad genius, I don't understand anything. Also, it's very poorly commented. Lesson 2: Seemingly, I stopped during some debugging because I cant't get it to work properly again.
So I use this opportunity to switch from Gtk3 to Gtk4, from Glade to Cambalache, from Geany to GNOME Builder. And boy, some documentation could be improved upon.

A study by scientists at a major university has concluded that the average person spends 3 years, 4 months and 2 days of their life looking for something to wipe their hands on.

I ate the exact same lunch from kindergarten through high school.
Then I really "mixed it up" in adulthood and would eat the same lunch for 2-5 years before shifting to the "next lunch" phase.
Yet it took till my mid-30s to learn I'm #ActuallyAutistic 🙃
...just one of so many things I look back at and think "All the signs were there!"<…

Are you hiring a research software engineer? Which competencies are you looking for?
Check out this paper and let us know if these competencies match your expectations.
#RSEng
https://buff.ly/46o1zNm<…

Foundational Competencies and Responsibilities of a Research Software Engineer
The term Research Software Engineer, or RSE, emerged a little over 10 years ago as a way to represent individuals working in the research community but focusing on software development. The term has been widely adopted and there are a number of high-level definitions of what an RSE is. However, the roles of RSEs vary depending on the institutional context they work in. At one end of the spectrum, RSE roles may look similar to a traditional research role. At the other extreme, they resemble that…

For the past couple of years, I have been watching TV shows and movies on the iPad.
The worst thing to happen to me was the introduction of multitasking. Since then, whenever there is a slow part in the movie, I would open a social media app and scroll. And then, if I found something good, I would stop the show.
A 2-hour show takes me about six hours to watch over a week or so.
With vision in theater mode, I found myself without any desire to multitask and can now finis…

Optical variability of the blazar 3C 371: from minute to year timescales
J. Otero-Santos, C. M. Raiteri, J. A. Acosta-Pulido, M. I. Carnerero, M. Villata, S. S. Savchenko, D. Carosati, W. P. Chen, S. O. Kurtanidze, M. D. Joner, E. Semkov, T. Pursimo, E. Ben\'itez, G. Damljanovic, G. Apolonio, G. A. Borman, V. Bozhilov, F. J. Galindo-Guil, T. S. Grishina, V. A. Hagen-Thorn, D. Hiriart, H. Y. Hsiao, S. Ibryamov, R. Z. Ivanidze, G. N. Kimeridze, E. N. Kopatskaya, O. M. Kurtanidze, V. …

Optical variability of the blazar 3C 371: from minute to year timescales
The BL Lac object 3C 371 has been observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (\textit{TESS}) for approximately a year, between July 2019 and July 2020, with an unmatched 2-minute observing cadence. In parallel, the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) Collaboration organized an extensive observing campaign, providing three years of continuous optical monitoring between 2018 and 2020. These datasets allow for a thorough investigation of the variability of the source. The goal of this s…

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#TracksOfMyYears
- Vernon Kay talks to Emma Willis
Vernon Kay takes us on the musical journey of TV presenter and former model Emma Willis.
Relisten now 👇

BBC Radio 2 - Tracks Of My Years, Vernon Kay talks to Emma Willis
Vernon Kay takes us on the musical journey of TV presenter and former model Emma Willis.

Hey you, I see you right now. I know how you feel. Life sucks right now.
Can I encourage you for a second? This moment will get better. In a year or 2 or 3 you will be in the best possible place ever. Better than you ever thought you deserved.
Today I look back at where I was years ago and I didn’t expect to be where I am now. With someone who I never thought I deserved to be with because I doubted my worth.
Don’t give up. Today sucks, but tomorrow will be better. 💜

How #Russia's Economy Has Avoided Going Bust After 2 Years of War
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-economy-how-moscow…

How Russia's economy has avoided going bust after 2 years of war
Moscow looks poised to continue funding its war for a third year — and wars are expensive.

Transforming from Kitaev to Disguised Ising Chain: Application to CoNb$_2$O$_6$
Derek Churchill, Hae-Young Kee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14754 https://

Transforming from Kitaev to Disguised Ising Chain: Application to CoNb$_2$O$_6$
For many years, CoNb$_2$O$_6$ has served as an exemplar of the one-dimensional Ising model. However, recent experimental and theoretical analyses challenge its applicability to this material. Prior to that, a tailored spin model for 3d$^7$ systems such as Co$^{2+}$, known as the $JKΓ$ model, has emerged, featuring Heisenberg $(J)$, Kitaev $(K)$, and Gamma $(Γ)$ interactions. While these interactions are permitted by the symmetry of the system, their role in CoNb$_2$O$_6$ remains enigmatic. We…

Search for high-mass resonances in final states with a $\tau$-lepton and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector
ATLAS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16576 <…

Search for high-mass resonances in final states with a $τ$-lepton and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector
A search for high-mass resonances decaying into a $τ$-lepton and a neutrino using proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV is presented. The full Run 2 data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb$^{-1}$ recorded by the ATLAS experiment in the years 2015-2018 is analyzed. The $τ$-lepton is reconstructed in its hadronic decay modes and the total transverse momentum carried out by neutrinos is inferred from the reconstructed missing transverse …

Ehi ehi ehi, attenzione, c'è un nuovo LP dei Three Second Kiss in arrivo 😍
https://thoughtswordsaction.com/2024/02/20/three-second-kiss-signs-to-overdrive-records-announce-first-lp-in-twelve-years/

Three Second Kiss Signs To Overdrive Records; Announce First LP In Twelve Years 
Photo courtesy of Three Second Kiss Three Second Kiss is back after 12 years with a new work. An infinite amount of time when compared to the times of the contemporary music market. A chasm. B…

”Twenty years and two days ago, @… and I introduced #microformats in a conference presentation.“
Congrats, @…! 👏…

Synthesizing Soundscapes: Leveraging Text-to-Audio Models for Environmental Sound Classification
Francesca Ronchini, Luca Comanducci, Fabio Antonacci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17864

Synthesizing Soundscapes: Leveraging Text-to-Audio Models for Environmental Sound Classification
In the past few years, text-to-audio models have emerged as a significant advancement in automatic audio gener- ation. Although they represent impressive technological progress, the effectiveness of their use in the development of audio applications remains uncertain. This paper aims to investigate these aspects, specifically focusing on the task of classification of environmental sounds. This study analyzes the performance of two different environmental classification systems when data generat…

E(n)-Equivariant Cartesian Tensor Passing Potential
Junjie Wang, Yong Wang, Haoting Zhang, Ziyang Yang, Zhixin Liang, Jiuyang Shi, Hui-Tian Wang, Dingyu Xing, Jian Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15286

E(n)-Equivariant Cartesian Tensor Passing Potential
Machine learning potential (MLP) has been a popular topic in recent years for its potential to replace expensive first-principles calculations in some large systems. Meanwhile, message passing networks have gained significant attention due to their remarkable accuracy, and a wave of message passing networks based on Cartesian coordinates has emerged. However, the information of the node in these models is limited to scalars, vectors, and tensors. In this work, we proposed High-order Tensor Pass…

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Rapid non-destructive inspection of sub-surface defects in 3D printed alumina through 30 layers with 7 μm depth resolution
The use of additive manufacturing (AM) processes for industrial fabrication has grown rapidly over the last ten years. The most well-known AM technologies are fused deposition modelling and stereolithography techniques. One particular industry where 3D printing is advantageous over traditional fabrication techniques is within ceramic components due to its flexibility. To establish a new and improved level of print quality and reduce resource consumption in the 3D printing ceramics industry, the…

Combining Transformer based Deep Reinforcement Learning with Black-Litterman Model for Portfolio Optimization
Ruoyu SunXi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, School of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, Angelos StefanidisXi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Entrepreneur College, Zhengyong JiangXi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Entrepreneur College, Jionglong SuXi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Entrepreneur College

Combining Transformer based Deep Reinforcement Learning with Black-Litterman Model for Portfolio Optimization
As a model-free algorithm, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agent learns and makes decisions by interacting with the environment in an unsupervised way. In recent years, DRL algorithms have been widely applied by scholars for portfolio optimization in consecutive trading periods, since the DRL agent can dynamically adapt to market changes and does not rely on the specification of the joint dynamics across the assets. However, typical DRL agents for portfolio optimization cannot learn a policy …

Unraveling cell-cell communication with NicheNet by inferring active ligands from transcriptomics data
Chananchida Sang-aram, Robin Browaeys, Ruth Seurinck, Yvan Saeys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16358

Unraveling cell-cell communication with NicheNet by inferring active ligands from transcriptomics data
Ligand-receptor interactions constitute a fundamental mechanism of cell-cell communication and signaling. NicheNet is a well-established computational tool that infers ligand-receptor interactions that potentially regulate gene expression changes in receiver cell populations. Whereas the original publication delves into the algorithm and validation, this paper describes a best practices workflow cultivated over four years of experience and user feedback. Starting from the input single-cell expr…

Good Morning #Canada
It's Sunday so a nice relaxing read with a coffee is in order. And this article about one of Canada’s most dangerous volcanoes is perfect... unless of course you live in the shadow of Mount Meager. The Mount Meager massif is a group of volcanic peaks in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southwestern BC. It last erupted some 2,400 years ago but recent volcanic a…

Sleeping giant: Inside the Mount Meager volcano
Something melted a hole through the glacier above the Mount Meager Volcano in 2016. A perilous expedition ventured deep inside the cave to find out, did the volcano wake up? 

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.09797 has been replaced.
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The stringor bundle
We set up a framework of 2-Hilbert bundles, which allows to rigorously define the "stringor bundle", a higher differential geometric object anticipated by Stolz and Teichner in an unpublished preprint about 20 years ago. Our framework includes an associated bundle construction, allowing us to associate a 2-Hilbert bundle with a principal 2-bundle and a unitary representation of its structure 2-group. We prove that the Stolz-Teichner stringor bundle is canonically isomorphic to the 2-Hilbert bun…

Witness the Glory of the 2024 European Tree of the Year – Growing in Poland for 2,000 Years https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/witness-the-glory-of-the-2024-european-tree-of-the-year-from-poland/

Witness the Glory of the 2024 European Tree of the Year – Growing in Poland for 2,000 Years
Thought to be 2,000 years old, The Heart of the Garden is the third Polish tree in a row to win, following up a pair oaks in 2023 and 2022.

Three-day war is lasting for 2 years. Russian war crimes must be NO MORE.: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/25/threeday-war-is.html

Filing: Sun Microsystems co-founder Andreas Bechtolsheim settles with the US SEC for alleged insider trading on Cisco's $2.6B offer to buy Acacia in 2019 (Austin Weinstein/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Billionaire Bechtolsheim Accused of Insider Trading by SEC
Andreas Bechtolsheim, a billionaire founder of Sun Microsystems Inc. and Arista Networks Inc., will be barred from serving as an executive or board member of a public company for five years after the Securities and Exchange Commission accused him of insider trading.

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Generative Pre-training for Speech with Flow Matching
Generative models have gained more and more attention in recent years for their remarkable success in tasks that required estimating and sampling data distribution to generate high-fidelity synthetic data. In speech, text-to-speech synthesis and neural vocoder are good examples where generative models have shined. While generative models have been applied to different applications in speech, there exists no general-purpose generative model that models speech directly. In this work, we take a st…

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The FAST Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot Survey: V. PSR J1901+0658 in a double neutron star system
Double neutron star (DNS) systems offer excellent opportunities to test gravity theories. We report the timing results of a pulsar, PSR J1901+0658, discovered in the FAST Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot (GPPS) survey. Based on timing observations by FAST over 5 years, we obtain the phase-coherent timing solutions and derive the precise measurements of its position, spin parameters, orbital parameters, and also the dispersion measure (DM). It has a period of 75.7 ms, a period derivative of 2.169(…

Witness the Glory of the 2024 European Tree of the Year – Growing in Poland for 2,000 Years https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/witness-the-glory-of-the-2024-european-tree-of-the-year-from-poland/

Witness the Glory of the 2024 European Tree of the Year – Growing in Poland for 2,000 Years
Thought to be 2,000 years old, The Heart of the Garden is the third Polish tree in a row to win, following up a pair oaks in 2023 and 2022.

Top U.S. Multifamily Rent Growth Markets — Q4 2023
Arbor - February 14, 2024
“In the previous two years, Sun Belt markets dominated the top rent growth lists, as pandemic-related re-shuffling settled. In 2023, the list of top markets became much more diverse.”

Top U.S. Multifamily Rent Growth Markets Q4 2023 - Arbor Realty
In the previous two years, Sun Belt markets dominated the top rent growth lists, as pandemic-related re-shuffling settled. In 2023, the list of top markets became much more diverse.

”Twenty years and two days ago, @… and I introduced #microformats in a conference presentation.“
Congrats, @…! 👏…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16338 has been replaced.
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Generative Pre-training for Speech with Flow Matching
Generative models have gained more and more attention in recent years for their remarkable success in tasks that required estimating and sampling data distribution to generate high-fidelity synthetic data. In speech, text-to-speech synthesis and neural vocoder are good examples where generative models have shined. While generative models have been applied to different applications in speech, there exists no general-purpose generative model that models speech directly. In this work, we take a st…

Reddit will give some of its top users, including moderators and those with high karma scores, the chance to buy shares in its IPO (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24079978/reddit-ipo-public-offering-shares-power-users…

Reddit is going public and inviting power users to invest
More than two years after first filing to go public, Reddit has detailed its finances and invited its power users to invest in its imminent IPO.

Balance #AppleNews #Doomscrolling …

Real-time Low-latency Music Source Separation using Hybrid Spectrogram-TasNet
Satvik Venkatesh, Arthur Benilov, Philip Coleman, Frederic Roskam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17701

Real-time Low-latency Music Source Separation using Hybrid Spectrogram-TasNet
There have been significant advances in deep learning for music demixing in recent years. However, there has been little attention given to how these neural networks can be adapted for real-time low-latency applications, which could be helpful for hearing aids, remixing audio streams and live shows. In this paper, we investigate the various challenges involved in adapting current demixing models in the literature for this use case. Subsequently, inspired by the Hybrid Demucs architecture, we pr…

Bullies gonna bully🙄 of course they did: Russian politicians and diplomats have reacted with threats to reports that Romania is building the largest NATO military base in Europe - a EUR 2.5 billion project initiated by Romania in 2019 and expected to take 20 years to complete
https://www.

Russia warns Romania over building "largest NATO military base" in Europe
Russian politicians and diplomats have reacted with threats to reports that Romania is building the largest NATO military base in Europe - a EUR 2.5 billion project initiated by Romania in 2019 and expected to take 20 years to complete. The expansion of Romania's 57 Mihail Kogalniceanu air base...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01054 has been replaced.
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Quantum theory of orbital angular momentum in spatiotemporal optical vortices
Spatiotemporal Optical Vortices (STOVs) are structured electromagnetic fields propagating in free space with phase singularities in the space-time domain. Depending on the tilt of the helical phase front, STOVs can carry both longitudinal and transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM). Although STOVs have gained significant interest in the recent years, the current understanding is limited to the semi-classical picture. Here, we develop a quantum theory for STOVs with an arbitrary tilt, extendin…

Exploring the Power of Pure Attention Mechanisms in Blind Room Parameter Estimation
Chunxi Wang, Maoshen Jia, Meiran Li, Changchun Bao, Wenyu Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16003 …

Exploring the Power of Pure Attention Mechanisms in Blind Room Parameter Estimation
Dynamic parameterization of acoustic environments has drawn widespread attention in the field of audio processing. Precise representation of local room acoustic characteristics is crucial when designing audio filters for various audio rendering applications. Key parameters in this context include reverberation time (RT60) and geometric room volume. In recent years, neural networks have been extensively applied in the task of blind room parameter estimation. However, there remains a question of …

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia Lost one more AWACS A-50 Airplane | 2 Years of full scale War: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/24/update-from-ukraine.html

Bullies gonna bully🙄 of course they did: Russian politicians and diplomats have reacted with threats to reports that Romania is building the largest NATO military base in Europe - a EUR 2.5 billion project initiated by Romania in 2019 and expected to take 20 years to complete
https://www.

Russia warns Romania over building "largest NATO military base" in Europe
Russian politicians and diplomats have reacted with threats to reports that Romania is building the largest NATO military base in Europe - a EUR 2.5 billion project initiated by Romania in 2019 and expected to take 20 years to complete. The expansion of Romania's 57 Mihail Kogalniceanu air base...

Opinion: In the past 2 years of war, we have all died a little: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/opinion-in-the.html

Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company plans to invest €3.2B in Germany in the next two years with a focus on AI, its biggest German investment ever (Michael Nienaber/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

(MSFT) Microsoft to Invest €3.2 Billion in German AI Infrastructure
Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith announced plans to invest €3.2 billion ($3.4 billion) over the next two years in German artificial intelligence infrastructure at an event with Chancellor Olaf Scholz, as the technology giant seeks to build up its computing power in Europe.

Opinion: In the past 2 years of war, we have all died a little: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/opinion-in-the.html

Destroyed city: 2 years of Russian attack on biggest shelter for refugees in Mariupol: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/18/destroyed-city-years.html

Evolution of Voices in French Audiovisual Media Across Genders and Age in a Diachronic Perspective
Albert Rilliard, David Doukhan, R\'emi Uro, Simon Devauchelle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16104

Evolution of Voices in French Audiovisual Media Across Genders and Age in a Diachronic Perspective
We present a diachronic acoustic analysis of the voice of 1023 speakers from French media archives. The speakers are spread across 32 categories based on four periods (years 1955/56, 1975/76, 1995/96, 2015/16), four age groups (20-35; 36-50; 51-65, >65), and two genders. The fundamental frequency ($F_0$) and the first four formants (F1-4) were estimated. Procedures used to ensure the quality of these estimations on heterogeneous data are described. From each speaker's $F_0$ distribution, the ba…

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Evolution of Voices in French Audiovisual Media Across Genders and Age in a Diachronic Perspective
Albert Rilliard, David Doukhan, R\'emi Uro, Simon Devauchelle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16104

Evolution of Voices in French Audiovisual Media Across Genders and Age in a Diachronic Perspective
We present a diachronic acoustic analysis of the voice of 1023 speakers from French media archives. The speakers are spread across 32 categories based on four periods (years 1955/56, 1975/76, 1995/96, 2015/16), four age groups (20-35; 36-50; 51-65, >65), and two genders. The fundamental frequency ($F_0$) and the first four formants (F1-4) were estimated. Procedures used to ensure the quality of these estimations on heterogeneous data are described. From each speaker's $F_0$ distribution, the ba…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16003 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

Exploring the Power of Pure Attention Mechanisms in Blind Room Parameter Estimation
Dynamic parameterization of acoustic environments has drawn widespread attention in the field of audio processing. Precise representation of local room acoustic characteristics is crucial when designing audio filters for various audio rendering applications. Key parameters in this context include reverberation time (RT60) and geometric room volume. In recent years, neural networks have been extensively applied in the task of blind room parameter estimation. However, there remains a question of …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16003 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

Exploring the Power of Pure Attention Mechanisms in Blind Room Parameter Estimation
Dynamic parameterization of acoustic environments has drawn widespread attention in the field of audio processing. Precise representation of local room acoustic characteristics is crucial when designing audio filters for various audio rendering applications. Key parameters in this context include reverberation time (RT60) and geometric room volume. In recent years, neural networks have been extensively applied in the task of blind room parameter estimation. However, there remains a question of …