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Mistrial declared in lawsuit filed by former Abu Ghraib prisoners | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/abu-ghraib-military-contractor-abuse-detainees-caci-3626690f14850075310a771d95ec5ab1

Mistrial declared in lawsuit filed by former Abu Ghraib prisoners
A judge declared a mistrial after a jury said it was deadlocked and couldn't reach a verdict in the trial of a military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq two decades ago. The mistrial Thursday came in the jury’s eighth day of deliberations. The eight-member civil jury in Alexandria deadlocked on accusations the civilian interrogators who were supplied to the U.S. Army at Abu Ghraib in 2003 and 2004 had conspired with soldiers to abus…

Woke up early and was doing lab stuff until wife texted me saying it was time to get the kid up.
Walked upstairs and was greeted by K-pop blasting from her room. Apparently the first thing our toddler did after waking up was ask for mommy to put on BLACKPINK.

PSU's Robinson wows with 4.48 40 at combine https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39626090/penn-state-chop-robinson-wows-nfl-combine-448-40

Penn State's Chop Robinson wows NFL combine with 4.48 40 - ESPN
Penn State's Chop Robinson ran a 4.48 40-yard dash at the NFL Scouting Combine, and his 10-yard split of 1.54 seconds was tops for a player his size since 2003.

Leo Brouwer ist gestern 85 geworden. Spiele ich doch heute Abend mal eine seiner wunderbaren Etüden, und zwar aus den weniger bekannten neueren "Nuevos Estudios Sencillos" (2003) die Hommage an Sor. Habe vor vielen Jahren mal "Cuban landscape with rain" in einem Gitarrenquartett bei Jugend Musiziert gespielt. Tolles Stück! "Elogio de la danza" mag ich auch. #Gitarre …

Level-$k$ Reasoning, Cognitive Hierarchy, and Rationalizability
Shuige Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19623 https://arxiv.org/pdf/240…

Level-$k$ Reasoning, Cognitive Hierarchy, and Rationalizability
We use a uniform framework to cognitive hierarchy (CH) solution concepts a decision-theoretical foundation by the epistemic game theoretical solution concept $Δ$-rationalizability (Battigalli and Siniscalchi, 2003). We formulate level-$k$ strategic sophistication as an information type, and, by putting intuitive conditions on the the belief of players with a strategic sophistication, we define a restriction $Δ^κ$, from which the levels of reasoning is endogenously determined. We show that in…

Chandra Study of the Proper Motion of HST-1 in the Jet of M87
Rameshan Thimmappa, Joseph Neilsen, Daryl Haggard, Michael A. Nowak, Sera Markoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19272

Chandra Study of the Proper Motion of HST-1 in the Jet of M87
The radio galaxy M87 is well known for its jet, which features a series of bright knots observable from radio to X-ray wavelengths. We analyze the X-ray image and flux variability of the knot HST-1 in the jet. Our analysis includes all 112 available \textit{Chandra} ACIS-S observations from 2000-2021, with a total exposure time of $\sim$887 ks. We use de-convolved images to study the brightness profile of the X-ray jet and measure the relative separation between the core and HST-1. From 2003-20…

Anyone have a preferred tool for stripping 16-22 AWG stranded wire to a controlled, reproducible length?

Sobering observations:
“ these US-made fighter jets will not be a ‘silver bullet’, primarily because it will take Ukrainian pilots hundreds of hours of flight time to become proficient in combat. Much like the downgraded Abrams tanks, the Ukrainians will receive older F-16 variants (last upgraded between 2003 and 2005) which lack advanced avionics, software and sensors, and the most advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles will not be supplied until 2026. “

Weathering the Storm: Western Security Assistance on the Defensive in Ukraine
Evolving Russian tactics and sustained pressure along the frontline have pushed Ukrainian forces onto the defensive in 2024. If the West wants to keep Ukraine in the fight, it must adapt its security assistance accordingly.

Given a STEP file, if I want to measure the distance from one point to another in 3D, are there any reasonable F/OSS options?
What about if I want to actually draw a 3D path between them with controlled bend radius (i.e. cable/pipe routing)?

Just had someone suggest that I start a company making my probes and "exit" by selling out to a scope vendor (who would almost certainly bury the project as active probes are way more profitable).
He even offered to put me in touch with VCs. What part of "this is not a capitalist enterprise" did you miss??