Tootfinder

I'm going to be thinking about this post for a while, I can feel it.
https://brianlui.dog/2020/10/06/upside-decay/

I got this phishing email that claims I have a balance in my Bittrex account, which I haven’t had since 2020. It’s very real looking except for the non-Bittrex email address.
From what I read in Reddit, a lot of folks lost crypto when they fell for the scam.
What concerns me is that it seems like someone got a hold of Bittrex’s user database amid the bankruptcy confusion (perhaps with all my know your customer info.?)

The Stooges – “Russia Melodia” (1990)
Label is Мелодия
“Unofficial Release” 🤷‍♂️
This was sold to me as a bootleg in 1991. I think I’ve played it a few times. It’s from 1973. This was also reissued on red vinyl for Record Store Day in 2020.
#vinyl #VinylRecords

Don't dig too deep, #GOP; you might not like what you find...might be one of your own
WATCH: House GOP launches new probe of #Jan6, starting with police response to pipe bombs | PBS NewsHour

WATCH: House GOP launches new probe of Jan. 6, starting with police response to pipe bombs
House Republicans are launching a vast reinvestigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, seeking to push the blame away from Donald Trump, who has been indicted over his actions or his supporters in the mob siege trying to overturn the 2020 election.

Opal Vessel
"Fidelis"
#ambient

In 1997, 43% of 16 year olds had their driver’s license.
By 2020, it was just 25%.
Why have young adults (aka teens) stopped driving?

Can 3GPP New Radio Non-Terrestrial Networks Meet the IMT-2020 Requirements for Satellite Radio Interface Technology?
Mikko Majamaa, Lauri Sormunen, Verneri R\"onty, Henrik Martikainen, Jani Puttonen, Timo H\"am\"al\"ainen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08569

Returning the endangered slow loris to its wild Javan home
:mastodon:
https://www.rewildingmag.com/in-indonesia-a-helping-hand-for-the-endangered-javan-slow-loris/?ref=rewilding-magazine-newslett…

Returning the endangered slow loris to its wild Javan home
How a team of Indonesian conservationists is rehabilitating illegally traded Javan slow lorises so they can reclaim their lives in the wild.

Brody Dalle 👊🏻 #MusicWomenWednesday #TheyStareAndGrowl #Distillers

Im Jahr 2020 verzeichnete die #Arktis extrem niedrige #Eisbedeckung und rekordhohe Temperaturen. Das #Meereis war im September um 2,3 Millionen km² geringer als der Durchschnitt der Jahre 1979 bis 2…

"Angenommen, Vonovia wäre nicht eine börsennotierte Aktiengesellschaft, sondern eine Wohnungsgenossenschaft ohne Gewinnerzielungsabsicht und ohne Dividenden auszuzahlen, so hätten die Mieten der Vonovia-Miethaushalte 2020 um 31% niedriger sein können (..)
Über die drei betrachteten Jahre hin hätten also die Mieten bei Wegfall der Dividendenauszahlungen im Durchschnitt um mehr als ein Viertel (27,5%) gesenkt werden können."
Prof. Dr. Christian Kreiß

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
The Cribs:
🎵 Come On, Be A No-One
#TheCribs
#Bandcamp

#Mokrz station: 2020 and 2024.
I don't know about you, but I don't really enjoy this upgrade. Of course, the first thing done was cutting down the trees. And so, we've gotten a nice, modern frying pan.
#rail

Analysis: the tech-dominated list of top 50 companies whose stocks made the biggest percentage gains in 2020 have since collectively lost $1.5T in market value (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)
https://t.co/8eZ6jfnLMW

Vor etwa zehn Jahren machte Schweden Schlagzeilen mit der Abschaffung von Bargeld. Doch seit 2020 zeichnet sich eine Kehrtwende ab. Die schwedische Politik denkt über gesetzliche Standards für eine Grundversorgung mit Bargeld nach. 💸🪙
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-9708325?…

April 2024 was warmer globally than any previous April on record, with an average surface air temperature of 15.03°C, 0.67°C above the 1991-2020 average for April and 0.14°C above the previous high set in April 2016.
#globalwarming #ClimateChange

Stacja #Mokrz: 2020 i 2024.
Nie wiem, jak wam się podoba, ale do mnie ta modernizacja nie przemawia. Oczywiście, praktycznie pierwszą rzeczą, jaką zrobiono było wycięcie wszystkich drzew. W ten sposób otrzymaliśmy ładną, nowoczesną patelnię.
#kolej

Hey @eddgrant@twitter.com, thanks for https://www.eddgrant.com/blog/2020/10/01/enabling-wan-icmp-ping-on-a-unifi-security-gateway.html
The "Internet In" vs "Internet Local" got me too!

Jar of Rebuke 🗝🦌🏳️‍🌈
Dramatized queer horror | Follow Dr. Jared Hel’s journey as he works to re-discover his forgotten past and finds his place within the small Indiana farm town of Wichton and the cryptozoological organization he works for called 'The Enclosure’.
We won an award with TwiPods 2020, and we were nomin...
https://w…

Jar of Rebuke 🗝🦌🏳️‍🌈
Dramatized queer horror | Follow Dr. Jared Hel’s journey as he works to re-discover his forgotten past and finds his place within the small Indiana farm town of Wichton and the cryptozoological organization he works for called 'The Enclosure’. We won an award with TwiPods 2020, and we were nominated for the recent People's Choice Podcast Awards for the LGBTQ+ category. We are an LGBTQ+ and disabled-led project which prioritizes marginalized artists and crew members. 2 seasons, 27 epis…

Returning the endangered slow loris to its wild Javan home
:mastodon:
https://www.rewildingmag.com/in-indonesia-a-helping-hand-for-the-endangered-javan-slow-loris/?ref=rewilding-magazine-newslett…

Returning the endangered slow loris to its wild Javan home
How a team of Indonesian conservationists is rehabilitating illegally traded Javan slow lorises so they can reclaim their lives in the wild.

Fast synaptic learning is pretty amazing: it seems to require only very sparse firing (both in terms of percentage of cells firing and in terms of firing rate), but it can lead to very long-term changes.
Piette et al 2020. Engrams of Fast Learning. #Neuroscience

The Founders drew a line between peaceful protest and armed insurrection
Today, armed protesters believe they are evoking the spirit of the Founders,
yet, the history of the Whiskey Rebellion offers a different perspective,
showing the Founders made a clear distinction between public assembly and protest
— protected by the federal Constitution
— and threats of insurrection.

The Founders were also weary of a tyrannical government,
after all they had …

The Founders drew a line between peaceful protest and armed insurrection
The history of the Whiskey Rebellion reveals the misguided beliefs of today’s covid-19 protesters.

Not exactly encouraging news.
While suicides, homicides, cars have significant impacts on the disparity, diseases of poverty play a role as well: " Native American children died from pneumonia and the flu at three times the rate of white children, for example, and Black children died from asthma at almost eight times the rate of white children."
It's shameful

Widening Racial Disparities Underlie Rise in Child Deaths in the U.S.
New research finds that the death rate among Black youths soared by 37 percent, and among Native American youths by 22 percent, between 2014 and 2020, compared with less than 5 percent for white youths.

YES. Let’s do that. #Monday

"Democrats did not disclose the specifics of their security plans, but a top official with the Democratic National Committee said they had one in 2020 and have one for 2024. When electors are placed, which is happening all over the country, the party will hold a security briefing for them."
How Democrats plan to keep 2024 electors safe from political violence

'Terrifying': Democrats say they have plans to keep electors safe from political violence
2020 looms over the people who sign up to cast votes for political parties on behalf of the Electoral College, which is what picks the next president.

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

Le revenu après impôt total au Québec s’élevait Š 279,38 milliards de dollars en 2020 et Š 292,67 milliards en 2021. Pourtant, il manquait 2,56 milliards de dollars en 2020, et 2,66 milliards en 2021, dans les revenus des ménages les plus pauvres pour que l’ensemble de la population couvre ses besoins selon la MPC, soit 1% du revenu total après impôt. Or, le décile le plus riche a empoché 4,15 milliards de plus après impôt en 2020!!! Cherchez l’erreur!

Entre budget et plan d’action : un déficit invisible à prendre en compte vers une société sans pauvreté
Qu’y a-t-il de si impensable dans le projet de « tendre vers un Québec sans pauvreté » inscrit dans une loi adoptée à l’unani

This discussion of the burden of proof and design patent damages is good so I'll forgive the "patent design" part. Kyjen v. ScheduleA, 2024 WL 1421126, at *7. #ScheduleA #Remedies

iPhone 15 Pro Max was Q1's best-selling smartphone; Pro phones were 50% of Apple's sales, up from 24% in 2020; Apple and Samsung each had five phones in top 10 (Counterpoint Research)
https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insig

iPhone 15 Pro Max Best-selling Smartphone in Q1 2024
Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro Max was the best-selling smartphone of Q1 2024 reflecting a trend of consumer preference for high-end smartphones.

Ravens place franchise tag on Pro Bowl DT Justin Madubuike https://theathletic.com/5290134/2024/03/05/justin-madubuike-free-agency-franchise-tag/

Ravens place franchise tag on Pro Bowl DT Justin Madubuike
The 2020 third-round pick is coming off the best season of his young career, leading all interior defensive linemen with 13 sacks in 2023.

"When Extinction Rebellion blockaded Rupert Murdoch’s Broxbourne print works in 2020, the use of tensegrity towers made it almost impossible for police to dismantle the blockade safely.... The structures’ beauty is that they can be premade, packed and transported in relatively compact form, and then speedily unfurled in all their cop-confusing glory."
👉...maybe all that Buckminster Fuller nerdery will come in handy some time after all...👈

The Order of the (123, 132)-Avoiding Stack Sort
Owen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01854 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.01854

The Order of the (123, 132)-Avoiding Stack Sort
Let $s$ be West's deterministic stack-sorting map. A well-known result (West) is that any length $n$ permutation can be sorted with $n-1$ iterations of $s.$ In 2020, Defant introduced the notion of highly-sorted permutations -- permutations in $s^t(S_n)$ for $t \lessapprox n-1.$ In 2023, Choi and Choi extended this notion to generalized stack-sorting maps $s_σ,$ where we relax the condition of becoming sorted to the analogous condition of becoming periodic with respect to $s_σ.$ In this work,…

Yearly allergy post! Took my first Allegra today. Not feeling any of the usual itchy or sneezing but my sinuses have been clogged for days now.
2024: April 7
2023: April 16
2022: Jan 13
2021: Mar 4
2020: none?
2019: Feb 2

How Language, Culture, and Geography shape Online Dialogue: Insights from Koo
Amin Mekacher, Max Falkenberg, Andrea Baronchelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07531

How Language, Culture, and Geography shape Online Dialogue: Insights from Koo
Koo is a microblogging platform based in India launched in 2020 with the explicit aim of catering to non-Western communities in their vernacular languages. With a near-complete dataset totalling over 71M posts and 399M user interactions, we show how Koo has attracted users from several countries including India, Nigeria and Brazil, but with variable levels of sustained user engagement. We highlight how Koo's interaction network has been shaped by multiple country-specific migrations and display…

I reeeally need to win the lottery this weekend. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-03/for-sale-the-b-52s-singers-airstream-park-in-the-mojave-desert

The B-52s singer’s Airstream park is for sale in the Mojave Desert
Kate Pierson, vocalist for the B-52s, has put her Airstream trailer park near Joshua Tree National Park up for sale.

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

Confirmed: The April average of atmospheric CO₂ at Mauna Loa was 426.6 ppm, another big jump ( 3.2 ppm!) from one year before.
Overall, we're still speeding in the wrong direction.
#ClimateChange #climate

Low-Distortion Clustering in Bounded Growth Graphs
Yi-Jun Chang, Varsha Dani, Thomas P. Hayes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05132 https://

Low-Distortion Clustering in Bounded Growth Graphs
The well-known clustering algorithm of Miller, Peng, and Xu (SPAA 2013) is useful for many applications, including low-diameter decomposition and low-energy distributed algorithms. One nice property of their clustering, shown in previous work by Chang, Dani, Hayes, and Pettie (PODC 2020), is that distances in the cluster graph are rescaled versions of distances in the original graph, up to an $O(\log n)$ distortion factor and rounding issues. Minimizing this distortion factor is important for e…

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
St Germain & Dramane Dembele:
🎵 So flute (Ludovic Navarre Amapiano version 2020)
#StGermain #DramaneDembele

From the #RiversOfLondon book False Value, published 2020, before we lost our AI innocence.

De expert die vanavond vol trots in #nieuwsuur kwam vertellen dat we ons in NL prima aan een zeespiegelstijging van 5 meter kunnen aanpassen, deed me ergens aan denken .... het duurde even maar toen kwam er een klik!

Raiders might move training camp site out of Henderson https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-might-move-training-camp-site-out-of-henderson-3045595/

Raiders might move training camp site out of Henderson
The Raiders have used their practice facility in Henderson as their training camp site since moving to Las Vegas in 2020, but that could change this summer.

In #Xinjiang, #China, zeigt eine Studie bedeutende saisonale Unterschiede der #Niederschlagsmuster. Im warmen Sommer regnet es mindestens doppelt so viel wie im kalten Winter. Diese Ergebniss…

Climate change impacts on precipitation and water resources in Northwestern China
A statistical analysis is conducted on the hourly precipitation at 105 national meteorological stations in the Xinjiang region of China from 2011 to 2020. The purpose of this analysis is to determine the total quantity of precipitation during the warm and cold seasons, as well as the precipitation frequency at each station. The results of the analysis indicate that there is a more pronounced inter-annual variation in precipitation during the warm and cold seasons in Xinjiang, where the total am…

Harsh but fair: «For this reason, and as reported in other islands worldwide (Campbell & Donlan, 2005; Capizzi, 2020), complete eradication of feral goats represents the only option to preserve the natural plant communities in microinsular ecosystems over the long term.»
https://zenodo.org/records/10924962

Maximally Forward-Looking Core Inflation
Philippe Goulet Coulombe, Karin Klieber, Christophe Barrette, Maximilian Goebel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05209 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.05209
arXiv:2404.05209v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Timely monetary policy decision-making requires timely core inflation measures. We create a new core inflation series that is explicitly designed to succeed at that goal. Precisely, we introduce the Assemblage Regression, a generalized nonnegative ridge regression problem that optimizes the price index's subcomponent weights such that the aggregate is maximally predictive of future headline inflation. Ordering subcomponents according to their rank in each period switches the algorithm to be learning supervised trimmed inflation - or, put differently, the maximally forward-looking summary statistic of the realized price changes distribution. In an extensive out-of-sample forecasting experiment for the US and the euro area, we find substantial improvements for signaling medium-term inflation developments in both the pre- and post-Covid years. Those coming from the supervised trimmed version are particularly striking, and are attributable to a highly asymmetric trimming which contrasts with conventional indicators. We also find that this metric was indicating first upward pressures on inflation as early as mid-2020 and quickly captured the turning point in 2022. We also consider extensions, like assembling inflation from geographical regions, trimmed temporal aggregation, and building core measures specialized for either upside or downside inflation risks.

Inexact Adaptive Cubic Regularization Algorithms on Riemannian Manifolds and Application
Z. Y. Li, X. M. Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02588 https://

Inexact Adaptive Cubic Regularization Algorithms on Riemannian Manifolds and Application
The adaptive cubic regularization algorithm employing the inexact gradient and Hessian is proposed on general Riemannian manifolds, together with the iteration complexity to get an approximate second-order optimality under certain assumptions on accuracies about the inexact gradient and Hessian. The algorithm extends the inexact adaptive cubic regularization algorithm under true gradient in [Math. Program., 184(1-2): 35-70, 2020] to more general cases even in Euclidean settings. As an applicati…

Amen!

A Saturday thread:
Are you a fan of Charley Barsotti? I was always a huge fan--all the way back to Sally Bananas, but especially of the Pup--but I always loved his political cartoons, as well, & then, when I lived in Kansas City, we became friends. I woke up thinking about him today--I think I dreamed about him last night.

Todays example of why you should always read forms… The US ESTA form added Cuba to the state sponsors of terrorism in 2021. My last ESTA expired in 2020, and I was in Cuba in the mid 2010s, so just clicking “No” to all the scary questions would have caused some issues getting into the US on my next trip because my passport still has my Cuban visa stamp 😬

Data Feminism for AI
Lauren Klein, Catherine D'Ignazio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01286 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.01286

Data Feminism for AI
This paper presents a set of intersectional feminist principles for conducting equitable, ethical, and sustainable AI research. In Data Feminism (2020), we offered seven principles for examining and challenging unequal power in data science. Here, we present a rationale for why feminism remains deeply relevant for AI research, rearticulate the original principles of data feminism with respect to AI, and introduce two potential new principles related to environmental impact and consent. Together…

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

🧧 Loongson CPU that performs like 2020 Core i3 makes its way to Chinese mini PCs
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/13/loongson_cpu_mini_pc/

Loongson CPU that performs like 2020 Core i3 makes its way to Chinese mini PCs
Slow but bona fide made in China

LFG!
https://wapo.st/4aOOO1s

Meadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies charged in Arizona 2020 election probe
The indictments cap a year-long investigation by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) into how the 2020 pro-Trump elector strategy played out in Arizona, which Biden won by 10,457 votes.

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.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14191 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Noisy Measurements Are Important, the Design of Census Products Is Much More Important
McCartan et al. (2023) call for "making differential privacy work for census data users." This commentary explains why the 2020 Census Noisy Measurement Files (NMFs) are not the best focus for that plea. The August 2021 letter from 62 prominent researchers asking for production of the direct output of the differential privacy system deployed for the 2020 Census signaled the engagement of the scholarly community in the design of decennial census data products. NMFs, the raw statistics produced b…

Blackbird Compass #AI. A new AI "Fact Checker" #LLM. I like the shade the AI returned to my question about who won the 2020 election 🙂​
"This information is corroborated by multiple reputable sources, including The Hill, which states that *everyone living in objective reality* understands that Donald Trump did not win the 2020 presidential election. "
https://www.blackbirdcompass.com/app

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

On vector parking functions and q-analogue
Wenkai Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04954 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.04954

On vector parking functions and q-analogue
In 2000, it was demonstrated that the set of $x$-parking functions of length $n$, where $x$=($a,b,...,b$) $\in \mathbbm{N}^n$, is equivalent to the set of rooted multicolored forests on [$n$]=\{1,...,$n$\}. In 2020, Yue Cai and Catherine H. Yan systematically investigated the properties of rational parking functions. Subsequently, a series of Context-free grammars possessing the requisite property were introduced by William Y.C. Chen and Harold R.L. Yang in 2021. %An Abelian-type identity is de…

On the time dependency of $a_0$
Antonino Del Popolo, Man Ho Chan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01841 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.01841

On the time dependency of $a_0$
In this paper, we test one of the predictions of the Scale Invariant Vacuum (SIV) theory on MOND. According to that theory, MOND's acceleration $a_0$ is not a universal quantity but depends on several parameters, including time. To check this prediction, we compare the dependency of $a_0$ from redshift, using the values of $a_0$ obtained in Marra et al. (2020) by carrying a Bayesian inference for 153 galaxies of the SPARC sample. Since this sample does not contain galaxies at large redshift, we…

iiMedia Research: China's food delivery market reached $208B in 2023, 2.3x the size in 2020; Meituan and Ele.me employ over 10M gig workers combined (Takashi Kawakami/Nikkei Asia)
https://t.co/TXfYpEbLPr

China's food delivery market explodes to $208bn as workers scrape by
Meituan, Ele.me employ a combined 10m, but conditions remain harsh for gig employees

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio1's #Breakfast with #GregJames
David Guetta Vs The Egg:
🎵 Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away)
#BBCR1 #DavidGuettaVsTheEgg
https://open.spotify.com/track/0mIAWTIXUP9Os5RBXKclO6
https://betzz.bandcamp.com/track/david-guetta-love-dont-let-me-go-betzz-edit-2020

最好笑的事情是，乌鲁木齐火灾的事情过去还不过一年半载，就算忽视白纸运动的事情，当时是另一种逃生通道被堵住，到现在，我真的是无言 https://m.cmx.im/@kaidinoke/111985638290807431

彩云之南彩虹之下 (@kaidinoke@m.cmx.im)
附加媒体：3 张图片 南京一小区火灾15人遇难44人受伤 经初步分析，火灾由电动自行车停放处起火引发，具体原因正在进一步调查。 2020-2024

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

Landmark SCOTUS tribal sovereignty ruling capped by 30-year prison sentence | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/landmark-scotus-tribal-sovereignty-ruling-capped-by-30-year-prison-sentence/<…

Landmark SCOTUS tribal sovereignty ruling capped by 30-year prison sentence
Jimcy McGirt's state case was thrown out by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2020 on grounds Oklahoma lacked jurisdiction because the child rape occurred on Native American land that was never dissolved by Congress.

Was the 2020 election stolen?
Job interviews at #RNC take an unusual turn.

Prospective hires say agreeing with Trump’s false election claim appears to be a new #litmus #test for being hired by the party

Was the 2020 election stolen? Job interviews at RNC take an unusual turn.
Prospective hires say agreement with Trump’s false election claims appear to be a new litmus test for being hired by the party.

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…

Data Feminism for AI
Lauren Klein, Catherine D'Ignazio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01286 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.01286

Data Feminism for AI
This paper presents a set of intersectional feminist principles for conducting equitable, ethical, and sustainable AI research. In Data Feminism (2020), we offered seven principles for examining and challenging unequal power in data science. Here, we present a rationale for why feminism remains deeply relevant for AI research, rearticulate the original principles of data feminism with respect to AI, and introduce two potential new principles related to environmental impact and consent. Together…

On my bike home from Mars 2020 operations today

Ni ne povas toleri la riĉulojn.
Egaleco necesas por daŭripovo. La popolo en pli egalaj societoj estas pli fidemaj kaj pli protektemaj de la medio, ol tiuj en neegalaj.
De 2020 al 2022, la plej riĉa 1% kaptis preskaŭ duoble el la nova monda riĉeco ol la alia 99 faris kune, kaj en 2019 ili elmetis tiom da karbona dioksido, kiom la plej malriĉaj du trionoj. En la jardeko ĝis 2022, la miliarduloj de la mondo pli ol duobligis iliajn riĉecon al US$ 12 mil miliardoj (12×10¹²)

Die Gute Fabrik's shutting down. 😢
Their point and click adventure game Mutazione felt different from the genre throwbacks I've played. It was a really thoughtful heartfelt experience that helped distract me from some tough times in 2020. Playing in my sound garden and enjoying the interactions between its interesting cast of characters was delightful.
One of their contributors has a great podcast too:

Former judge J. Michael Luttig with record of knowing what’s next predicts Trump Supreme Court verdict - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-luttig/

Conservative judge with record of knowing what’s next predicts Trump Supreme Court verdict
Former Judge J. Michael Luttig has been right on just about everything he predicted coming from the Supreme Court so far, MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace said. So, she wanted to know his predictions for the decision over Donald Trump's claim of presidential immunity. Trump's 2020 election case went befo...

For those that actually still read stuff here are a couple good breakdowns of what Section 230 is and isn't. And why its repeal would basically kill social media and comment sections making the site libel or anything posted on it.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/section-230-good-actually

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05086 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

A new type of stellarator divertor: the hybrid stellarator divertor
A new type of stellarator divertor is found. It has features of both a nonresonant divertor (A. Punjabi and A. H. Boozer, Phys. Plasmas 27, 012503 (2020)) as well as a resonant divertor. It has the outermost confining surface with sharp edges and large islands outside the outermost surface. For this reason, we have called it hybrid divertor. This divertor can be configured by adjusting the currents in external coils which produce nonresonant perturbations. We have simulated this divertor using …

Sources: the SEC is asking tech and telecom companies how they handled the 2020 SolarWinds cyberattack, drawing industry complaints about alleged overreach (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03…

SolarWinds (SWI) Hack: SEC Steps Up Cyberattack Probe of Techs, Telecoms
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is asking tech and telecom companies how they handled the sprawling 2020 SolarWinds cyberattack, and drawing fire from the cybersecurity industry and big business for what they call overreach.

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 23826 nodes and 285752 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
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Furthermore, potassium has been shown to enhance bone health and reduce the risk of osteoporosis. A study published in the journal Nutrients in 2020 revealed that potassium plays a key role in maintaining bone density and strength, especially in postmenopausal women. By increasing your potassium intake through foods like bananas, sweet potatoes, and avocados, you can support healthy bones and reduce the risk of fractures.

@… @… nehmen wir mal die Zahlen aus dem Artikel:
1/2020 7,4%, 1/2021 9,3% und 1/2022 11,6% ergeben 31% vom ersten Quartal 2019 bis zum ersten Quartal 2022.
Das sind allerdings alle Wohnimmobilien, nicht nur gebrauchte. Bei gebrauchten…

A quantification of the effects using different stellar population synthesis models for epoch of reionization
Peiai Liu, Qingbo Ma, Yunkun Han, Rongxin Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01821

A quantification of the effects using different stellar population synthesis models for epoch of reionization
The luminosity and spectral energy distribution (SED) of high-$z$ galaxies are sensitive to the stellar population synthesis (SPS) models. In this paper, we study the effects of different SPS models on the measurements of high-$z$ galaxies and the budget of ionizing photons during the epoch of reionization, by employing each of them in the semi-analytical galaxy formation model {\sc L-Galaxies 2020}. We find that the different SPS models lead to $\lesssim 0.5$ dex differences on the amplitudes …

An iterative method for the solution of Laplace-like equations in high and very high space dimensions
Harry Yserentant
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00682 htt…

An iterative method for the solution of Laplace-like equations in high and very high space dimensions
This paper deals with the equation $-Δu+μu=f$ on high-dimensional spaces $\mathbb{R}^m$, where the right-hand side $f(x)=F(Tx)$ is composed of a separable function $F$ with an integrable Fourier transform on a space of a dimension $n>m$ and a linear mapping given by a matrix $T$ of full rank and $μ\geq 0$ is a constant. For example, the right-hand side can explicitly depend on differences $x_i-x_j$ of components of $x$. Following our publication [Numer. Math. (2020) 146:219--238], we show th…

The Magic Number Conjecture for the $m=2$ amplituhedron and Parke-Taylor identities
Matteo Parisi, Melissa Sherman-Bennett, Ran Tessler, Lauren Williams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03026

The Magic Number Conjecture for the $m=2$ amplituhedron and Parke-Taylor identities
The amplituhedron $\mathcal{A}_{n,k,m}$ is a geometric object introduced in the context of scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang Mills. It generalizes the positive Grassmannian (when $n=k+m$), cyclic polytopes (when $k=1$), and the bounded complex of the cyclic hyperplane arrangement (when $m=1$). Of substantial interest are the tilings of the amplituhedron, which are analogous to triangulations of a polytope. Karp, Williams and Zhang (2020) observed that the known tilings of $\ma…

From reproductive rights to marriage equality to trans lives, the fallout from the decision overruling Roe v. Wade is extreme, dangerous
— and expanding
The five justices of the U.S. Supreme Court who overturned Roe v. Wade 20 months ago Saturday gave a green light to a new brand of Republican extremism in hyperdrive
— a hyperdrive that has been on full, frightening display this week.
Many of the most extreme legal developments since late 2020 have been advanced by fa…

This week, we faced all that the Dobbs justices unleashed
From reproductive rights to marriage equality to trans lives, the fallout from Dobbs is extreme, dangerous — and expanding.

Ni ne povas toleri la riĉulojn.
Egaleco necesas por daŭripovo. La popolo en pli egalaj societoj estas pli fidemaj kaj pli protektemaj de la medio, ol tiuj en neegalaj.
De 2020 al 2022, la plej riĉa 1% kaptis preskaŭ duoble el la nova monda riĉeco ol la alia 99 faris kune, kaj en 2019 ili elmetis tiom da karbona dioksido, kiom la plej malriĉaj du trionoj. En la jardeko ĝis 2022, la miliarduloj de la mondo pli ol duobligis iliajn riĉecon al US$ 12 mil miliardoj (12×10¹²)

Some TikTok fans in India still question the country's 2020 decision to ban the app, saying alternatives like YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels lack its allure (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/indi…

Mark Meadows, #Giuliani and 9 other co-conspirators indicted by #GrandJury in #AZ 2020 #ElectionFraud case.

Meadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies charged in Arizona 2020 election probe
The indictments cap a year-long investigation by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) into how the 2020 pro-Trump elector strategy played out in Arizona, which Biden won by 10,457 votes.

Improved Lower Bound on the Number of Pseudoline Arrangements
Justin Dallant
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13923 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Improved Lower Bound on the Number of Pseudoline Arrangements
We show that for large enough $n$, the number of non-isomorphic pseudoline arrangements of order $n$ is greater than $2^{c\cdot n^2}$ for some constant $c > 0.2604$, improving the previous best bound of $c>0.2083$ by Dumitrescu and Mandal (2020). Arrangements of pseudolines (and in particular arrangements of lines) are important objects appearing in many forms in discrete and computational geometry. They have strong ties for example with oriented matroids, sorting networks and point configurati…

Report on the 49th Annual United States of America Mathematical Olympiad
Bela Bajnok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11639 https://arxiv.o…

Report on the 49th Annual United States of America Mathematical Olympiad
We provide the problems and their solutions to the 2020 USA Mathematical Olympiad.

Beyond Beats: A Recipe to Song Popularity? A machine learning approach
Niklas Sebastian, Jung, Florian Mayer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12079 https://

Beyond Beats: A Recipe to Song Popularity? A machine learning approach
Music popularity prediction has garnered significant attention in both industry and academia, fuelled by the rise of data-driven algorithms and streaming platforms like Spotify. This study aims to explore the predictive power of various machine learning models in forecasting song popularity using a dataset comprising 30,000 songs spanning different genres from 1957 to 2020. Methods: We employ Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS), Random Forest, and XGBoo…

More extreme Indian monsoon daily rainfall in El Ni\~no summers
Spencer A Hill, Destiny Zamir Meyers, Adam H Sobel, Michela Biasutti, Mark A Cane, Michael K Tippett, Fiaz Ahmed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12419

More extreme Indian monsoon daily rainfall in El Niño summers
Extreme rainfall in the Indian summer monsoon can be destructive and deadly. Although El Niño/ events in the equatorial Pacific make dry days and whole summers more likely throughout India, their influence on daily extremes is not well established. Despite this summer-mean drying effect, we show using observational data spanning 1901-2020 that El Niño increases extreme rainfall likelihoods within monsoonal India, especially in the the summer's core rainy areas of central-eastern India and the…

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Tour 316: Wanderung Oberstdorf - Nebelhorn - Gaisalpsee - Reichenbach (ca. 11 km)
Diese Wanderung vom Höfatsblick nach Reichenbach über den Gaisfußsattel ist auf der gesamten Strecke anspruchsvoll. Man muss trittsicher sein, genug Kraft und P

Bird of the Day — Pectoral Sandpiper, Kansas, 2020
Just passing through
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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.

Via @JoJoFromJerz on post.news:
'So, in their effort to besmirch President Biden, the Rs have managed to reveal the fact that then AG Bill Barr actively covered up crimes he knew Trump was committing, & that Pete Sessions, Devin Nunes, Sens. Ron Johnson & Lindsey Graham as well as John Solomon & Sean Hannity over at Fox, were all in on the plot to push a false narrative to deceive the American public ahead of the 2020 election.'

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So, in their effort to besmirch President Biden, the Republicans have managed to reveal the fact that then AG Bill Barr actively covered up the crimes he knew then-President Trump was committing, and that Congressman Pete Sessions, then Congressman Devin Nunes, Senators Ron Johns

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.

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…

Smartmatic, One America News Network (OAN) settle lawsuit
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/17/smartmatic-one-america-news-network-oann-lawsuit-settlement

Smartmatic and OANN settle 2020 election defamation lawsuit
Smartmatic accused network of broadcasting baseless conspiracy theories about its voting equipment over Biden's win.

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

On a conjecture of Gross, Mansour and Tucker for $\Delta$-matroids
Remi Cocou Avohou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13839 https://arxiv.o…

On a conjecture of Gross, Mansour and Tucker for $Δ$-matroids
Gross, Mansour, and Tucker introduced the partial-duality polynomial of a ribbon graph [Distributions, European J. Combin. 86, 1--20, 2020], the generating function enumerating partial duals by the Euler genus. Chmutov and Vignes-Tourneret wondered if this polynomial and its conjectured properties would hold for general delta-matroids, which are combinatorial abstractions of ribbon graphs. Yan and Jin contributed to this inquiry by identifying a subset of delta-matroids-specifically, even norma…

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

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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…