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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 …

Some wine discounter delivered six bottles of Spanish red, some kind of a sampler intro pack, to us. Except: we never ordered it. The putative addressee at our house was one Egon Mayer, who seems to have been a famous German Luftwaffe pilot in WWII.
We emailed the distributor, who had the package picked up today. We got to keep a bottle for our diligence.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19027 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Better Optimization of Variational Quantum Eigensolvers by combining the Unitary Block Optimization Scheme with Classical Post-Processing
Variational Quantum Eigensolvers (VQE) are a promising approach for finding the classically intractable ground state of a Hamiltonian. The Unitary Block Optimization Scheme (UBOS) is a state-of-the-art VQE method which works by sweeping over gates and finding optimal parameters for each gate in the environment of other gates. UBOS improves the convergence time to the ground state by an order of magnitude over Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). It nonetheless suffers in both rate of convergence …

> Though much of what I've written here is deeply depressing, I do want to leave you with some good news:
> Elon Musk is absolutely miserable, and there's little good news in his future.
Ed Zitron, on the colossally pathetic and insecure billionaire
https://www.

The Descent of Elon Musk
Money can't buy happiness, but it can get you pretty damn close. As the second richest man alive,  Elon Musk should be rolling electric coal down Rodeo Drive in a cybertruck, smugly aware of the fact that, despite what the haters say, he's kind of won. He took Twitter private,

#Wordle 1001 4/6*
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Skill 80/99
Luck 53/99
I felt pretty pleased w/ myself when I got it. I think just in my process on evaluating the clues.
I was pretty sure my 3rd guess although valid wasn't the answer, but it tested extra letters and I wasn't thinking of any other decent guesses at that time.

> Though much of what I've written here is deeply depressing, I do want to leave you with some good news:
> Elon Musk is absolutely miserable, and there's little good news in his future.
Ed Zitron, on the colossally pathetic and insecure billionaire
https://www.

The Descent of Elon Musk
Money can't buy happiness, but it can get you pretty damn close. As the second richest man alive,  Elon Musk should be rolling electric coal down Rodeo Drive in a cybertruck, smugly aware of the fact that, despite what the haters say, he's kind of won. He took Twitter private,

One might wonder whether the situation described in the article, below, might be subject to 18 USC § 2710
(The article is about federal investigators trying to get records of who watched what on YouTube. The law is "Wrongful disclosure of video tape rental or sale records" but it could be read to encompass online videos as a descendant of "prerecorded video cassette tapes")

If you watched certain YouTube videos, investigators demanded your data from Google
Shared YouTube data prompts civil liberty worries.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00207 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Statistical and Computational Complexities of BFGS Quasi-Newton Method for Generalized Linear Models
The gradient descent (GD) method has been used widely to solve parameter estimation in generalized linear models (GLMs), a generalization of linear models when the link function can be non-linear. In GLMs with a polynomial link function, it has been shown that in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime, due to the problem's strong convexity and smoothness, GD converges linearly and reaches the final desired accuracy in a logarithmic number of iterations. In contrast, in the low SNR setting,…

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