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Filing: to settle a 2020 class action suit about Chrome's Incognito mode, Google has agreed to destroy billions of data points it allegedly improperly collected (Wall Street Journal)
https://t.co/A33M8S8ZBe

The pandemic inflicted higher rates of excess deaths on both Republicans and Democrats. But after COVID-19 vaccines arrived, Republican voters in Florida and Ohio died at a higher rate than their counterparts, according to a new study.
Researchers from Yale University who studied the pandemic's effects on those two states say that from the pandemic's start in March 2020 through December 2021, "excess mortality was significantly higher for Republican voters than Democratic v…

Die Crux war von Anfang an folgende: sollte man nach dem Mannheimer Irrlicht Naidoo, den Coronaleugnern und dem Sturm auf den Reichstag 2020 die #Reichsbürger Gruppe um Prinz #Reuß mit ihren Umsturzplänen ernst nehmen und damit die Wehrhaftigkeit des Staates mit einem Fragezeichen verseh…

Reuß-Gruppe: Stammheim statt Staatsstreich
Sie wollten Prinz Reuß ins Amt putschen: Zum Auftakt des Stuttgarter Reichsbürgerprozesses geben sich die Angeklagten kleinlaut. Das Terrorverfahren ist äußerst komplex.

NFL Draft countdown: Focus on Cowboys' first-round pick at No. 24 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_draft_countdown_focus_on_cowboys_first_round_pick_at_no_24/s1_13132_40182631

NFL Draft countdown: Focus on Cowboys' first-round pick at No. 24
The 2024 NFL Draft is April 25-27 in Detroit. Last year, the Giants selected cornerback Deonte Banks 24th overall. This year, the Cowboys pick 24th.  Here's who the experts think they'll take. Pro Football Focus (Brad Spielberger): Laiatu Latu, Edge-rusher, UCLA Latu would have been a top-10 pick if not for a preseason neck injury with Washington in 2020. A medical retirement kept him off the field for two years until UCLA doctors cleared him to play in 2022. With the loss of defensive ends li…

Watch the Grateful Dead Slip Past Security & Play a Gig at Columbia University’s Anti-Vietnam Protest (1968)
https://www.openculture.com/2020/02/watch-the-dead-play-a-gig-at-columbia-universitys-anti-vietnam-…

Watch the Grateful Dead Slip Past Security & Play a Gig at Columbia University’s Anti-Vietnam Protest (1968)
In 1968, the Vietnam War was not a catalyst for protests but a sort of nexus for all other injustices--the part contained elements of the whole: racism, class war, capitalist profiteering, imperialism. It was symptom and cause, much like climate change feels today.

Jonathan Howard:
I can’t stop thinking about the essay
"No, Young Adults Should Not Live in Fear from Coronavirus" by Drs. John Mandrola and Andrew Foy,
two so-called “medical conservatives”.
It was written on December 29th, 2020 in response to a research letter titled "All-Cause Excess Mortality and COVID-19–Related Mortality Among US Adults Aged 25-44 Years, March-July 2020",
which found that 4,535 COVID deaths were recorded among young ad…

Once a Doctor Has Minimized Literal Death for Young People, Should We Value Their Opinion on Any Topic Less Consequential Than Literal Death?
Is potential death worse than real death?

This was me at the end of 2020 after all the police riots of that year: https://stranger.social/@OGjester/112340068942915124

#today has been: home from clubbing at 4am, lunch with a friend (argh, I forgot and had to sprint when he called), a nice hot bath, and messing around with the EOU site and RSS and my podcasting 'how-to' for my own records*...
https://www.

Metacast 2: Podcast Specs and Workflow (2020-04)
Another podcast episode about podcasting - documenting for consistency.

Gestern begannen die Parteien Plakate aufzuhängen.
Die Grünen mit dem Lastenrarad unterwegs.
Die CDU mit dem Auto auf Gehwegen parkend (ohne foto, weil Standard und cm war spannender)
Glückwunsch: Diesmal hat es die spd geschafft sich nicht auf Radwegen parkend fotografieren zu lassen (Foto 2020 von dasfuxi)

Trump is a co-conspirator in Michigan's 2020 false electors plot, state investigator says (Craig Mauger/The Detroit News)
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/24/donald-trump-unindicted-co-conspirator-in-false-electors-plot-michigan-rudy-giuliani-mark-meadows/73420368007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240424/p52#a240424p52

In a dissenting opinion to the state of New York court of appeals 4-3 decision to overturn Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction by a jury for sexual crimes against 3 named complainants, Judge Madeline Singas accused the ruling majority of participating in a “disturbing trend of overturning juries’ guilty verdicts in cases involving sexual violence.”
“The majority’s determination perpetuates outdated notions of sexual violence and allows predators to escape accountability.”

Please stop writing down music.
"In all Indian musical traditions, learning, rationalization and sharing are part of an internal process within and between artists. The magnificence of this non-scribal technique is the acceptance of diversity and the possibility of continuous musical change. The internalization of structure and form in the art, the role of memory and rediscovering without written reference keeps the music moving and varied. Every voice is not identical; the possibi…

Cowboys Re-Sign LB Damien Wilson https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_re_sign_lb_damien_wilson/s1_17039_40300566

13 Dinge, die du tun kannst,
statt die Polizei zu rufen.
https://1weltohnepolizei.blackblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/1178/2020/01/13dinge.pdf

"The Daily Caller lost 57 percent of its audience; Drudge Report was down 81 percent; and The Federalist lost a staggering 91 percent."
Atlantic: Traffic To Cultist Sites Has Cratered Since 2020 - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/04/atlantic-<…

Atlantic: Traffic To Cultist Sites Has Cratered Since 2020
The Atlantic reports: The flow of traffic to Donald Trump’s most loyal digital-media boosters isn’t just slowing, as in the rest of the industry; it’s utterly collapsing. The Daily Caller lost 57 perc

Wende in MeToo-Prozess - „Benachteiligt“: Weinstein-Urteil aufgehoben #News #Nachrichten

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.

A look at Apple's iPhone recycling, including shredding robots, and contractor GEEP, which Apple sued in 2020 for $22.6M in a case that has since been inactive (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04…

Apple iPhone Recycling Program Has Secrets
Apple touts its network of shredding robots and contractors as a greener way to reuse old gadgets. A lengthy court battle and a Businessweek investigation have cast some light on the recycling industry’s dirty secrets.

Parks Associates: US households with internet now consume an average 43.5 hours of video per week across all viewing devices, up from 37.2 hours in 2020 (James Careless/TV Tech)
https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/video-viewing-rises-sig…

Video Viewing Rises Significantly in U.S. Internet Households
Those homes are now watching six more hours of video per week than they were in 2020

Reflection on middle-aged most-used emoji progression:
pre-2020: 👀🙄
2020-2021: 😴💤
2022-2023: 😬🤞
2024-:🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Another covid erasure rant
Also from conversations at the dentist: staff don't test themselves regularly any more, but they do if they have respiratory symptoms!
There's a giant list of possible covid symptoms besides those! Like headache for example! Are we in a timewarp back to spring 2020?
It's really up in my face right now how weird the world is nowadays. No longer medical professionals' jobs to know even the basic facts necessary for infection control.
#CovidErasure #covid

#today has been: home from clubbing at 4am, lunch with a friend (argh, I forgot and had to sprint when he called), a nice hot bath, and messing around with the EOU site and RSS and my podcasting 'how-to' for my own records*...
https://www.

Metacast 2: Podcast Specs and Workflow (2020-04)
Another podcast episode about podcasting - documenting for consistency.

Life Education
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Life Education | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Life Education Host: Tracey Challenor Category: Kids & Family Sub-Category: Mental Health & Well Being, Parenting & Pregnancy & Families First Episode: 2020 The Life Ed podcast supports…

Nachdem im letzten Jahr fast alle #Armenier #Bergkarabach verlassen und #Aserbaidschan die volle Kontrolle übernommen hat, scheint man vor Ort weiter Fakten zu schaffen - oder eher zu beseitige…

The Ordinary Epic - Season 1 finale 🎲✨⚔️
Dramatized fantasy comedy series | Total listening time: 2h 43m
A comedic audio drama about found families, role-playing games, dungeons, and (occasionally) dragons.
2020 BBC Audio Drama Awards finalist "Best Podcast or Online Audio Drama."
#AudioFiction

The Ordinary Epic - Season 1 finale 🎲✨⚔️
Dramatized fantasy comedy series | Total listening time: 2h 43m A comedic audio drama about found families, role-playing games, dungeons, and (occasionally) dragons. 2020 BBC Audio Drama Awards finalist "Best Podcast or Online Audio Drama." 1 seasons, 6 episodes as of Jun 24, 2019.

In her role as Minister of Finance, to which she was appointed in August, 2020, the Deputy Prime Minister has supported the Canadian economy’s strong recovery from the pandemic recession, led the introduction of Canada’s first national system of affordable early learning and child care, and returned Canada’s finances to a sustainable footing after the winding-down of emergency pandemic spending.

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/cabinet/honourable-chrystia-freeland

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07203 has been replaced.
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Successive Refinement of Shannon Cipher System Under Maximal Leakage
We study the successive refinement setting of Shannon cipher system (SCS) under the maximal leakage secrecy metric for discrete memoryless sources under bounded distortion measures. Specifically, we generalize the threat model for the point-to-point rate-distortion setting of Issa, Wagner and Kamath (T-IT 2020) to the multiterminal successive refinement setting. Under mild conditions that correspond to partial secrecy, we characterize the asymptotically optimal normalized maximal leakage region…

{testthat} is great for automatic testing. Here are some tricks for the heavy user: #rstats

Supreme Court seems poised to allow Trump’s D.C. trial, but not soon
enough
The Supreme Court appeared poised to reject Donald Trump’s sweeping claim that he is immune from prosecution on charges of trying to subvert the 2020 election,
but in a way that is likely to significantly delay his stalled election-interference trial in D.C.

During nearly three hours of oral argument, several conservative justices said they were concerned about hampering the power of future …

Supreme Court seems poised to allow Trump’s D.C. trial, but not soon
The Supreme Court is weighing Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

a deadly #BirdFlu outbreak has skipped species impact and been affecting seal and #SeaLion colonies...
#SouthAmerica has been particularly hard hit with over 20,000

Bird flu is killing thousands of seals
Avian influenza is killing tens of thousands of seals and sea lions in different corners of the world, disrupting ecosystems and flummoxing scientists who don’t see a clear way to slow the devastating virus. The worldwide bird flu outbreak that began in 2020 has led to the deaths of millions of domesticated birds and spread to wildlife all over the globe. This virus isn’t thought to be a major threat to humans, but its spread in farming operations and ecosystems has caused widespread econom…

MTAC report: foreign malign influence from Russia, China, and Iran in the US presidential election got off to a slower start this year compared to 2016 and 2020 (Clint Watts/Microsoft On the Issues)
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-iss

Russian US election interference targets support for Ukraine after slow start - Microsoft On the Issues
Foreign malign influence in the U.S. presidential elections has yet to hit the levels of previous years, and AI-enhanced and AI audio fake content will likely have more impact than deepfake videos, according to the second Microsoft Threat Intelligence Election Report published today.

Rams will stick with tradition of not attending NFL Combine despite having a first-round pick, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams…

Rams will stick with tradition of not attending NFL Combine despite having a first-round pick, per report
L.A. has not attended the combine since 2020

Trump loses bid to halt Jan. 6 lawsuits while he faces criminal trial - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-jan-6-lawsuits/

Trump loses bid to halt Jan. 6 lawsuits while he faces criminal trial
Despite the fact that Donald Trump is currently being tried in a criminal case involving the January 6 riot and the attempt to overturn the 2020 election result, lawsuits filed by lawmakers and police officers against Trump over his actions on the day move forward, a federal judge ruled on Thursday....

Synthetic Census Data Generation via Multidimensional Multiset Sum
Cynthia Dwork, Kristjan Greenewald, Manish Raghavan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10095 htt…

Synthetic Census Data Generation via Multidimensional Multiset Sum
The US Decennial Census provides valuable data for both research and policy purposes. Census data are subject to a variety of disclosure avoidance techniques prior to release in order to preserve respondent confidentiality. While many are interested in studying the impacts of disclosure avoidance methods on downstream analyses, particularly with the introduction of differential privacy in the 2020 Decennial Census, these efforts are limited by a critical lack of data: The underlying "microdata,…

Supreme Court seems poised to allow Trump’s D.C. trial, but not soon
enough
The Supreme Court appeared poised to reject Donald Trump’s sweeping claim that he is immune from prosecution on charges of trying to subvert the 2020 election,
but in a way that is likely to significantly delay his stalled election-interference trial in D.C.

During nearly three hours of oral argument, several conservative justices said they were concerned about hampering the power of future …

Supreme Court seems poised to allow Trump’s D.C. trial, but not soon
The Supreme Court is weighing Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

I'm looking for some example #DMP s for a workshop: Do you have any favourite publicly shared DMPs that you point people to? Ideally fairly recent? (After 2020)
I already have the BY-COVID project one: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6884815

Globally, March 2024 was:
• 0.73°C warmer than the 1991-2020 average for March
• the warmest March on record, 0.10°C warmer than March 2016, the previous warmest March
• 1.68°C warmer than an estimate of the pre-industrial average for 1850-1900
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surf…

Wspaniałe. Jeden typek lat 29 startuje do powiatu z list Trzeciej Drogi. Patrzę na jego FB, w 2020 miał nakładkę proaborcyjną XD
Lokalna polityka jest wspaniała.

In October 2020 I installed two Samsung SSDs as cache devices in my NAS box (Synology DS918 ).
In the past 2 weeks, *both* of them failed. I suspect it’s because I have my security cameras writing to the NAS storage, and this crept my writes up to their 100% lifespan. No data loss because they’re cache devices only; my real data is on spinning disk.
I’m actually impressed that they failed at just about the same time. A good reminder to replace failing spinning disks immediately.<…

Shit. It’s fucking cold out here. I coulda been in Cabo, but nnnooooo.
#DeepThoughtsOfSpringBirds #HashTagGames

HISTORY WILL JUDGE THE COMPLICIT
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
By Anne Applebaum
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/trumps-collaborators/61225…

"A c implementation of tic-tac-toe in a single call to printf. Written for IOCCC 2020." – Nicholas Carlini
https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe

Dynamical formation of Gaia BH3 in the progenitor globular cluster of the ED-2 stream
Daniel Mar\'in Pina, Sara Rastello, Mark Gieles, Kyle Kremer, Laura Fitzgerald, Bruno Rando
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13036

Dynamical formation of Gaia BH3 in the progenitor globular cluster of the ED-2 stream
Context. The star-black hole (S-BH) binary discovered by the Gaia Collaboration - Gaia BH3 - is chemically and kinematically associated with the metal-poor ED-2 stream in the Milky Way halo. Aims. We explore the possibility that Gaia BH3 was assembled dynamically in the progenitor globular cluster (GC) of the ED-2 stream. Methods. We use a public suite of star-by-star dynamical Monte Carlo models by Kremer et al. (2020) to identify S-BH binaries in GCs with different initial masses and (hal…

A Texas appeals court has ruled that Republican Attorney General #Ken #Paxton can face discipline from the state bar association over his failed effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
A disciplinary committee of the State Bar of Texas accused Paxton in 2022 of making false claims of fraud in a lawsuit that q…

Texas AG Ken Paxton can be disciplined for suit to overturn 2020 election, court says
A Texas appeals court has ruled that Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton can face discipline from the state bar association over his failed effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. A disciplinary committee of the group says Paxton made false claims of fraud in a lawsuit that questioned the 2020 presidential election results showing President Joe Biden won. A three-judge panel of the 5th District Court of Appeals ruled Thursday Paxton can be sanctioned by the committee because the l…

I rode my #bike today for the first time this year. Well, I tried to ride three weeks ago, the last time it was 18 degrees Celsius, but I had to abort then because my electronic shifters had no charge. But today I rode. It felt good. (I had to pump up the tire again. I need to get a new tube.) Also, April 5th is the same day I got back into bicycling in 2020 and was able to combine it with calisthe…

"Minneapolis police officers reprimanded for misconduct in aftermath of George Floyd's murder"
(gift link)
#policemisconduct

Minneapolis officers reprimanded for misconduct in 2020 after George Floyd’s murder
Newly published discipline reports reveal that former police chiefs moved to terminate two officers for excessive force and suspended others for failing to uphold department policy.

Yet another House Republican announces retirement — and says 'dysfunction' has 'taken a toll' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/house-republican-retirement-dysfunct…

Yet another House Republican announces retirement — and says 'dysfunction' has 'taken a toll'
House Republicans will now have one more vacant seat to fill this November after yet another member of the majority announced his retirement on Thursday.Rep. Jake LaTurner (R-Kansas), who was first elected in 2020, stated he would not be seeking a third term in the House of Representatives this fall...

Desde junio de 2020, dedico una hora a la semana para conectar con desconocidos. Ya he tenido el placer de charlar con mšs de 80 personas con las que he charlado sobre datos, carrera laboral, formación, frustraciones, proyectos personales o management. Comparte o apúntate 👉 https://www.pelayoarbues.com/notes/Office-<…

Over EU-subsidies en wat daarvan bij boeren terecht komt. " .... naar de inkomenssteun aan boeren (Europese Landbouw Garantie Fonds). Uit dit fonds ontving Nederland in de periode 2014-2020 circa € 5 miljard. Het was daarmee goed voor ongeveer twee derde van de totale EU-ontvangsten in Nederland."

Wat leveren EU-subsidies op voor Nederland?
Het is belangrijk dat Europese subsidies volgens de regels worden uitgegeven. Maar ook als dat in orde is, betekent dat nog niet dat er echt iets met het geld is bereikt. Uit ons onderzoek blijkt dat je wel kunt zien dat EU-subsidies een belangrijke stimulans zijn voor projecten en ook welke prestaties er worden geleverd met EU-subsidies, maar het blijft vaak onduidelijk wat de effecten zijn van de inzet van de subsidies. 

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12335 has been replaced.
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Parisi's hypercube, Fock-space fluxes, and the microscopics of near-AdS$_2$/near-CFT$_1$ duality
Parisi's hypercube model describes a charged particle hopping on a $d$-dimensional hypercube with disordered background fluxes in the large $d$ limit. It was noted previously [Jia and Verbaarschot, J. High Energy Phys. 11 (2020) 154] that the hypercube model at leading order in $1/d$ has the same spectral density as the double-scaled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (DS-SYK) model. In this work we identify the set of observables that have the same correlation functions as the DS-SYK model, demonstrating that …

2020:
Bruce Springsteen, Little Steven boost Biden, take on Trump as Election Day nears
https://www.app.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/10/27/bruce-springsteen-little-steven-boos…

Bruce Springsteen, Little Steven boost Biden, take on Trump as Election Day nears
It's election season on E Street

I was just wondering. If Trump STILL thinks the election in 2020 was rigged when the GOP had control, how could he possibly think he could win in 2024 when they have lost so much ground since? One would think his believers would not even bother to vote but instead wait for some expected coup.

A 25-year veteran editor at NPR says an "open-minded spirit" no longer exists there and blames ex-CEO John Lansing's focus on race and identity starting in 2020 (Uri Berliner/The Free Press)
https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trus…

NPR Editor Uri Berliner: Here’s How We Lost America's Trust
Writing for The Free Press, Uri Berliner says NPR lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think on Trump, Covid-19, race, and identity politics.

Supreme court hears arguments in Trump’s presidential immunity case – live
Liberal justice Sonia Sotomayor sounded sharply skeptical of John Sauer’s arguments as she harkened back to the country’s early days in exploring the situations where a president could be prosecuted.
Referring to amicus, or “friend of the court”, briefs filed in the case by outside groups, Sotomayor said:
"There are amica here who tell us that the founders actually talked about whether to grant …

The Open Autonomy Safety Case Framework
Michael Wagner, Carmen Carlan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05444 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.054…

The Open Autonomy Safety Case Framework
A system safety case is a compelling, comprehensible, and valid argument about the satisfaction of the safety goals of a given system operating in a given environment supported by convincing evidence. Since the publication of UL 4600 in 2020, safety cases have become a best practice for measuring, managing, and communicating the safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Although UL 4600 provides guidance on how to build the safety case for an AV, the complexity of AVs and their operating environment…

Raiders Re-Signing DT Adam Butler To One-Year Deal https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_re_signing_dt_adam_butler_to_one_year_deal/s1_17039_40119370

Bird of the Day — Pectoral Sandpiper, Kansas, 2020
Just passing through
#Nature #NaturePhotography #Birds #Wildlife

Balancing-based model reduction for switched descriptor systems
Mattia Manucci, Benjamin Unger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10511 https://

Balancing-based model reduction for switched descriptor systems
We present a novel certified model order reduction (MOR) algorithm for switched descriptor systems applicable to large-scale systems. Our algorithm combines the idea of [Hossain \& Trenn, Technical report, 2023] to reformulate the switched descriptor system as a switched ordinary differential equation with jumps and an extension of the balanced truncation for switched ODE from [Pontes Duff et al., IEEE Trans.~Automat.~Control, 2020]. Besides being the first MOR method for switched descriptor sy…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10636 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

What are human values, and how do we align AI to them?
There is an emerging consensus that we need to align AI systems with human values (Gabriel, 2020; Ji et al., 2024), but there is very little work on what that means and how we actually do it. We split the problem of "aligning to human values" into three parts: first, eliciting values from people; second, reconciling those values into an alignment target for training ML models; and third, actually training the model. In this paper, we focus on the first two parts, and ask the question: what are …

Lawsuits by members of Congress and police officers against Donald Trump for his actions on Jan. 6 may advance
despite the related criminal case against him in Washington, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected Trump’s effort to pause the lawsuits until the criminal charges over his attempt to subvert the 2020 election — brought by special counsel Jack Smith — are resolved.
Instead, Mehta ordered Trump to begin describing the basis for his c…

Over EU-subsidies en wat daarvan bij boeren terecht komt. " .... naar de inkomenssteun aan boeren (Europese Landbouw Garantie Fonds). Uit dit fonds ontving Nederland in de periode 2014-2020 circa € 5 miljard. Het was daarmee goed voor ongeveer twee derde van de totale EU-ontvangsten in Nederland."

Wat leveren EU-subsidies op voor Nederland?
Het is belangrijk dat Europese subsidies volgens de regels worden uitgegeven. Maar ook als dat in orde is, betekent dat nog niet dat er echt iets met het geld is bereikt. Uit ons onderzoek blijkt dat je wel kunt zien dat EU-subsidies een belangrijke stimulans zijn voor projecten en ook welke prestaties er worden geleverd met EU-subsidies, maar het blijft vaak onduidelijk wat de effecten zijn van de inzet van de subsidies. 

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12335 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hept…

Parisi's hypercube, Fock-space fluxes, and the microscopics of near-AdS$_2$/near-CFT$_1$ duality
Parisi's hypercube model describes a charged particle hopping on a $d$-dimensional hypercube with disordered background fluxes in the large $d$ limit. It was noted previously [Jia and Verbaarschot, J. High Energy Phys. 11 (2020) 154] that the hypercube model at leading order in $1/d$ has the same spectral density as the double-scaled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (DS-SYK) model. In this work we identify the set of observables that have the same correlation functions as the DS-SYK model, demonstrating that …

Cowboys Re-Signing RB Rico Dowdle https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_re_signing_rb_rico_dowdle/s1_17039_40129395

Upgrade of NaI(Tl) crystal encapsulation for the NEON experiment
J. J. Choi, E. J. Jeon, J. Y. Kim, K. W. Kim, S. H. Kim, S. K. Kim, Y. D. Kim, Y. J. Ko, B. C. Koh, C. Ha, B. J. Park, S. H. Lee, I. S. Lee, H. Lee, H. S. Lee, J. Lee, Y. M. Oh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03691

Upgrade of NaI(Tl) crystal encapsulation for the NEON experiment
The Neutrino Elastic-scattering Observation with NaI(Tl) experiment (NEON) aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering~(CE$ν$NS) in a NaI(Tl) crystal using reactor anti-electron neutrinos at the Hanbit nuclear power plant complex. A total of 13.3 kg of NaI(Tl) crystals were initially installed in December 2020 at the tendon gallery, 23.7$\pm$0.3\,m away from the reactor core, which operates at a thermal power of 2.8\,GW. Initial engineering operation was performed from May 2021…

Conservative anti-Trump lawyer George Conway gives $900K to Biden reelection fund - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/george-conway-biden-trump/

Conservative anti-Trump lawyer gives $900K to Biden reelection fund
In 2020, attorney George Conway was among the prominent conservatives who supported Joe Biden over Donald Trump — a group that also included former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Arizona), former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and GOP activist Cindy McCain, among many others. And Conway, a scathing critic of...

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Constrained Pressure-Temperature Residual (CPTR) Preconditioner Performance for Large-Scale Thermal CO2 Injection Simulation
This work studies the performance of a novel preconditioner, designed for thermal reservoir simulation cases and recently introduced in Roy et al. (2020) and Cremon et al. (2020), on large-scale thermal CO2 injection cases. For Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) projects, injecting CO2 under supercritical conditions is typically tens of degrees colder than the reservoir temperature. Thermal effects can have a significant impact on the simulation results, but they also add many challenges fo…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10636 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

What are human values, and how do we align AI to them?
There is an emerging consensus that we need to align AI systems with human values (Gabriel, 2020; Ji et al., 2024), but there is very little work on what that means and how we actually do it. We split the problem of "aligning to human values" into three parts: first, eliciting values from people; second, reconciling those values into an alignment target for training ML models; and third, actually training the model. In this paper, we focus on the first two parts, and ask the question: what are …

Georgia lawmaker runs secret election-conspiracy Telegram channel

A Fulton county commissioner in Georgia has been
operating a private Telegram channel for years,
propagating debunked claims about the 2020 election,
and spreading accusations of crimes by county employees,
including #Ruby #Freeman

Der #Klimawandel bedroht Brasiliens #Kaffeeproduktion!
Bis zu 65% der #Anbauflächen für #Canephora

Climate change and its consequences on the climatic zoning of Coffea canephora in Brazil - Environment, Development and Sustainability
Coffee production has a large share in Brazilian agribusiness and a cultural and social importance in the country. Worldwide, Brazil is the largest producer of arabica coffee and the second largest of canephora species. In 2020, national production was 14.3 million bags of canephora coffee. Few studies on canephora coffee adaptation to climate changes can be found in the literature. Thus, our goal was to identify areas suitable for Coffea canephora cultivation in Brazil under CMIP-5 climate cha…

Balancing-based model reduction for switched descriptor systems
Mattia Manucci, Benjamin Unger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10511 https://

Balancing-based model reduction for switched descriptor systems
We present a novel certified model order reduction (MOR) algorithm for switched descriptor systems applicable to large-scale systems. Our algorithm combines the idea of [Hossain \& Trenn, Technical report, 2023] to reformulate the switched descriptor system as a switched ordinary differential equation with jumps and an extension of the balanced truncation for switched ODE from [Pontes Duff et al., IEEE Trans.~Automat.~Control, 2020]. Besides being the first MOR method for switched descriptor sy…

Lee Chatfield, Michigan’s Republican House speaker in 2019 and 2020,
is facing 13 criminal charges
stemming from his use of political dark money on vacations and luxury goods,
the state’s attorney general, Dana Nessel, a Democrat, said on Tuesday
https://ww…

All-Pro Superstar Threatens Holdout Amist Contract Dispute https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/all_pro_superstar_threatens_holdout_amist_contract_dispute/s1_17198_40215435

All-Pro Superstar Threatens Holdout Amist Contract Dispute
Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb is entering the final year of his rookie contract and could holdout for a better deal. A first-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, the Oklahoma product quickly established himself as one of the most dangerous secondary options in the game. While playing behind Amari Cooper, the wide receiver recorded a combined 153 receptions for 2,037 yards and 11 touchdowns through his first two seasons. The Cowboys traded Amari Cooper following the 2021 season, leaving …

18 #RedState AG's file #amicus brief supporting embattled TX #GOP AG #KenPaxton for his 2020 anti-democratic

18 Attorneys General Side with Paxton in State Bar Disciplinary Actions | Daily Business Review
The brief argues any attempt by the judiciary to restrict an attorney general's discretionary choices interferes with the exercise of the attorney general's constitutional authority.

The great Oregon indie bookshop Powell's Books is now selling a perfume that smells like old books.
"Powell's By Powell's" is a unisex fragrance with notes of wood, violet, and "biblichor" (old book smell).
It's $24.99 for a one ounce bottle.

Powell's Books is now selling perfume that smells like old books
The great Oregon indie bookshop Powell's Books is now selling a perfume that smells like old books. "Powell's By Powell's" is a unisex fragrance with notes of wood, violet, and…

Upgrade of NaI(Tl) crystal encapsulation for the NEON experiment
J. J. Choi, E. J. Jeon, J. Y. Kim, K. W. Kim, S. H. Kim, S. K. Kim, Y. D. Kim, Y. J. Ko, B. C. Koh, C. Ha, B. J. Park, S. H. Lee, I. S. Lee, H. Lee, H. S. Lee, J. Lee, Y. M. Oh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03691

Upgrade of NaI(Tl) crystal encapsulation for the NEON experiment
The Neutrino Elastic-scattering Observation with NaI(Tl) experiment (NEON) aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering~(CE$ν$NS) in a NaI(Tl) crystal using reactor anti-electron neutrinos at the Hanbit nuclear power plant complex. A total of 13.3 kg of NaI(Tl) crystals were initially installed in December 2020 at the tendon gallery, 23.7$\pm$0.3\,m away from the reactor core, which operates at a thermal power of 2.8\,GW. Initial engineering operation was performed from May 2021…

Completed a small project I've been meaning to do for awhile with some leftovers. (real project with 2020 LED strips is still far from complete)
https://hackaday.io/project/195078-led-choker

Special counsel urges Supreme Court to reject Trump’s immunity claim

Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday urged the Supreme Court to reject Donald Trump’s “novel and sweeping” claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution on charges of conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

“The President’s constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed does not entail a general right to violate them,” Smith said in his office’s main brie…

Special counsel urges Supreme Court to reject Trump’s immunity claim
A president’s “constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed does not entail a general right to violate them,” Jack Smith writes in his office’s brief.

#ElectronicsGoesGreen - the world's leading #conference for #electronics and the #environment

Electronics Goes Green
The upcoming Electronics Goes Green (September 01 – 03, 2020) conference is an outstanding event for the growing global community of scientists, product developers, and business managers working on the task of improving the environmental properties of technologies and products along the value chain of the electronics and ICT industry.

The number of people who describe themselves as Republican has slightly declined since the last presidential election.
The polling firm Gallup, which tracks party affiliation monthly, says that those identifying as Republicans has shrunk by two percentage points since 2020.
In February 2020, 30 percent of those Gallup polled said they were Republicans, while 29 percent considered themselves Democrats.

It looked like it had “just been dropped down from space,” Mr. Muir said during a telephone interview on Tuesday.
The sighting immediately captured media attention, calling to mind similar mysterious objects placed around the world in late 2020.
“If you didn’t know anything, to look at it, you could have easily thought it had been dropped off by a U.F.O. or something.”

A ‘Perfect Monolith’ Appears in Wales
A resident said he discovered the shiny, silver object on a prominent hill during his daily walk.