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«Free speech is fine as long as the board shares my opinions» was my impression when reading the #JackDorsey interview.
@… goes one step further with his deconstruction of tech billionaires' adoring uncensorable free speech.
A must-read …

Finally the sun is out again. Feeling a bit sore but happy, reading on my balcony with a huuuge mug of coffee by my side. My feet hurt from dancing last night, my tinnitus and birds' chirping intermingling nicely and I gathered some woodruff to make some May wine later.

I followed that #UFO on the mysterious "The Bahlsen Family" logo into the web and found several #TIL​​​​s.

Bounded fractional intersecting families are linear in size
Niranjan Balachandran, Shagnik Das, Brahadeesh Sankarnarayanan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14981

Bounded fractional intersecting families are linear in size
Using the sunflower method, we show that if $θ\in (0,1) \cap \mathbb{Q}$ and $\mathcal{F}$ is a $O(n^{1/3})$-bounded $θ$-intersecting family over $[n]$, then $\lvert \mathcal{F} \rvert = O(n)$, and that if $\mathcal{F}$ is $o(n^{1/3})$-bounded, then $\lvert \mathcal{F} \rvert \leq (\frac{3}{2} + o(1))n$. This partially solves a conjecture raised in (Balachandran et al., Electron J. Combin. 26 (2019), #P2.40) that any $θ$-intersecting family over $[n]$ has size at most linear in $n$, in the r…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14250 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_…

Frosty: Bringing strong liveness guarantees to the Snow family of consensus protocols
Snowman is the consensus protocol implemented by the Avalanche blockchain and is part of the Snow family of protocols, first introduced through the original Avalanche leaderless consensus protocol. A major advantage of Snowman is that each consensus decision only requires an expected constant communication overhead per processor in the `common' case that the protocol is not under substantial Byzantine attack, i.e. it provides a solution to the scalability problem which ensures that the expected…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14250 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_…

Frosty: Bringing strong liveness guarantees to the Snow family of consensus protocols
Snowman is the consensus protocol implemented by the Avalanche blockchain and is part of the Snow family of protocols, first introduced through the original Avalanche leaderless consensus protocol. A major advantage of Snowman is that each consensus decision only requires an expected constant communication overhead per processor in the `common' case that the protocol is not under substantial Byzantine attack, i.e. it provides a solution to the scalability problem which ensures that the expected…

Arlington DES, years after redoing this stop, have finally realized their dumb design was bad and put in an ugly fix of removing a parking space and sticking some plastic in there.
Doesn’t stop drivers from blocking the bike lane though.

Frosty: Bringing strong liveness guarantees to the Snow family of consensus protocols
Aaron Buchwald, Stephen Buttolph, Andrew Lewis-Pye, Patrick O'Grady, Kevin Sekniqi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14250

Frosty: Bringing strong liveness guarantees to the Snow family of consensus protocols
Snowman is the consensus protocol implemented by the Avalanche blockchain and is part of the Snow family of protocols, first introduced through the original Avalanche leaderless consensus protocol. A major advantage of Snowman is that each consensus decision only requires an expected constant communication overhead per processor in the `common' case that the protocol is not under substantial Byzantine attack, i.e. it provides a solution to the scalability problem which ensures that the expected…