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“No way my guy lost! I voted for him nine times!”
Also, this fellow is lurching toward the bad-at-crime category of white collar crime.
#Georgia #GOP

GOP official who claimed 2020 election was stolen voted illegally 9 times, judge rules
Brian Pritchard, first vice chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine, as well as investigative costs and be publicly reprimanded.

Oh, yeah, and by the way, logged in.
And this, from @… , is the thing at the top of my feed - https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigra

A profile of NetChoice, whose revenue jumped from $3M in 2020 to $34M in 2022, as it prepares to fight Florida and Texas' social media laws in front of SCOTUS (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

US Supreme Court Social Media Battles Fueled by Brash Tech Lobby
After California passed a law forcing digital platforms to adopt privacy guardrails and safety standards for young users, Carl Szabo had a blunt warning for legislators attending the nation’s biggest conference for state policymakers: “The lawsuits are coming.”

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.

This seems like a very good thing: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/science-hub-climate-litigation

The UCS Science Hub for Climate Litigation
We're connecting scientific experts, legal scholars, and practitioners working at the intersection of science and climate litigation.

On Uniqueness of a Solution to the Boundary Initial Value Problem
Vladimir V. Basov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15816 https://arxiv.or…

On Uniqueness of a Solution to the Boundary Initial Value Problem
A first-order ordinary differential equation, solved with respect to derivative, is considered. It's right-hand side is defined and continuous on the set, consisting of a connected open subset of a two-dimensional Euclidean space and a part of its boundary. In the papers, dated by 2020, problems related to the existence or absence of the solution to the BIVP -- Initial Value Problem set at the boundary point -- were researched using different approaches. Such formulation of the Initial Value Pr…

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

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David Guetta Vs The Egg:
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#BBCR1 #DavidGuettaVsTheEgg
https://open.spotify.com/track/0mIAWTIXUP9Os5RBXKclO6
https://betzz.bandcamp.com/track/david-guetta-love-dont-let-me-go-betzz-edit-2020

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.

PEARLS: NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Extragalactic Survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field II
Xiurui Zhao, Francesca Civano, Christopher N. A. Willmer, Silvia Bonoli, Chien-Ting Chen, Samantha Creech, Renato Dupke, Francesca M. Fornasini, Rolf A. Jansen, Satoshi Kikuta, Anton M. Koekemoer, Sibasish Laha, Stefano Marchesi, Rosalia O'Brien, Ross Silver, S. P. Willner, Rogier A. Windhorst, Haojing Yan, Jailson Alcaniz, Narciso Benitez, Saulo Carneiro, Javier Cenarro, David C…

PEARLS: NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Extragalactic Survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field II
We present the second NuSTAR and XMM-Newton extragalactic survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Time-Domain Field (TDF). The first NuSTAR NEP-TDF survey (Zhao et al. 2021) had 681 ks total exposure time executed in NuSTAR cycle 5, in 2019 and 2020. This second survey, acquired from 2020 to 2022 in cycle 6, adds 880 ks of NuSTAR exposure time. The overall NuSTAR NEP-TDF survey is the most sensitive NuSTAR extragalactic survey to date, and a total of 60 sources were detected above the 95% …

The real divide among Democrats is between those focused on populist kitchen-table economics (Biden & Sanders) and those, on both the left & the center, who want to fight culture wars. Voters are much more with Biden & Sanders, as the 2020 primaries showed. https://wapo.st/3TpKrUn

Bernie Sanders’s private warning to Biden about the 2024 campaign
The Vermont senator and onetime presidential hopeful has urged the White House to articulate a clearer contrast with the GOP.

Republican strategists expect most of the party’s primary voters to support Mr. Trump in the general election, pointing to exit polls that found that 4 in 10 of Ms. Haley’s voters in New Hampshire and South Carolina had backed Mr. Biden in 2020.
That data point, however, could also underscore Mr. Trump’s weaknesses.
In 2020, roughly 9 percent of Republicans said they had voted for someone other than Mr. Trump for president. That was about double the share of Democrats who said th…

Trump’s Crushing Primary Triumph Masked Quiet Weaknesses
Even though he easily defeated Nikki Haley, the primary results suggested that he still has long-term problems with suburban voters, moderates and independents.

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.

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.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00682 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

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…

I'm visiting an OLD part of the codebase today

Yet again, a reminder that there is no such thing as a "flushable" wipe. These must never be disposed of in a toilet - they get only pee, poo and (t)paper.
🟨💩🧻
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-court-confirms-national-cl…

B.C. court confirms national class action after flushable wipes recall
B.C.'s Supreme Court has confirmed a national class action lawsuit against Kimberly-Clark Corporation following a 2020 recall of flushable wipes over possible bacteria contamination.

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 …

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…

Commanders sign another former Cowboys player to deal https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/commanders_sign_another_former_cowboys_player_to_deal/s1_127_40123934

Commanders sign another former Cowboys player to deal
Dan Quinn is assembling Cowboys East in Washington. John Keim of ESPN reported on Sunday that the Washington Commanders are signing cornerback Noah Igbinoghene. The 24-year-old Igbinoghene played out last year on the Cowboys under the new Commanders coach Quinn, who was previously the defensive coordinator in Dallas. A first-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft (No. 30 overall), Igbinoghene plays far more often on special teams these days than he does on defense. But he fills that role very well, e…

NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP) Mission Star List for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (2023)
Eric Mamajek, Karl Stapelfeldt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12414

NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP) Mission Star List for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (2023)
The Astro 2020 Decadal Survey "Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s" has recommended that "after a successful mission and technology maturation program, NASA should embark on a program to realize a mission to search for biosignatures from a robust number of about ~25 habitable zone planets and to be a transformative facility for general astrophysics," and prescribing that the high-contrast direct imaging mission would have "a target off-axis inscribed diameter of ap…

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.

The real divide among Democrats is between those focused on populist kitchen-table economics (Biden & Sanders) and those, on both the left & the center, who want to fight culture wars. Voters are much more with Biden & Sanders, as the 2020 primaries showed. https://wapo.st/3TpKrUn

Bernie Sanders’s private warning to Biden about the 2024 campaign
The Vermont senator and onetime presidential hopeful has urged the White House to articulate a clearer contrast with the GOP.

Nebraska lawmakers face Trump-fueled push to change electoral vote system - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/03/nebraska-electoral-votes-trump-push/

Nebraska state lawmakers face Trump-fueled push to change electoral vote system
Nebraska is one of only two states that divides its electoral votes among statewide and congressional district winners, which allowed President Biden to pick off an electoral vote in 2020.

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Arlo Parks · Song · 2020

Chained Information-Theoretic bounds and Tight Regret Rate for Linear Bandit Problems
Amaury Gouverneur, Borja Rodr\'iguez-G\'alvez, Tobias J. Oechtering, Mikael Skoglund
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03361

Chained Information-Theoretic bounds and Tight Regret Rate for Linear Bandit Problems
This paper studies the Bayesian regret of a variant of the Thompson-Sampling algorithm for bandit problems. It builds upon the information-theoretic framework of [Russo and Van Roy, 2015] and, more specifically, on the rate-distortion analysis from [Dong and Van Roy, 2020], where they proved a bound with regret rate of $O(d\sqrt{T \log(T)})$ for the $d$-dimensional linear bandit setting. We focus on bandit problems with a metric action space and, using a chaining argument, we establish new boun…

Ontology Engineering to Model the European Cultural Heritage: The Case of Cultural Gems
Valentina Alberti, Cinzia Cocco, Sergio Consoli, Valentina Montalto, Francesco Panella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07351

Ontology Engineering to Model the European Cultural Heritage: The Case of Cultural Gems
Cultural gems is a web application conceived by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (DG JRC), which aims at engaging people and organisations across Europe to create a unique repository of cultural and creative places. The main goal is to provide a vision of European culture in order to strengthen a sense of identity within a single European cultural realm. Cultural gems maps more than 130,000 physical places in over 300 European cities and towns, and since 2020 it also lists online…

The DESI Early Data Release White Dwarf Catalogue
Christopher J. Manser, Paula Izquierdo, Boris T. G\"ansicke, Andrew Swan, Detlev Koester, Akshay Robert, Siyi Xu, Keith Inight, Ben Amroota, N. P. Gentile Fusillo, Sergey E. Koposov, Bokyoung Kim, Arjun Dey, Carlos Allende Prieto, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen, R. Blum, D. Brooks, T. Claybaugh, A. P. Cooper, K. Dawson, A. de la Macorra, P. Doel, J. E. Forero-Romero, E. Gazta\~naga, S. Gontcho A Gontcho, K. Honscheid, T. Kisner, A. Kremin, A…

The DESI Early Data Release White Dwarf Catalogue
The Early Data Release (EDR) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) comprises spectroscopy obtained from 2020 December 14 to 2021 June 10. White dwarfs were targeted by DESI both as calibration sources and as science targets and were selected based on Gaia photometry and astrometry. Here we present the DESI EDR white dwarf catalogue, which includes 2706 spectroscopically confirmed white dwarfs of which approximately 1630 (roughly 60 per cent) have been spectroscopically observed for…

Commanders sign another former Cowboys player to deal https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/commanders_sign_another_former_cowboys_player_to_deal/s1_127_40123934

Commanders sign another former Cowboys player to deal
Dan Quinn is assembling Cowboys East in Washington. John Keim of ESPN reported on Sunday that the Washington Commanders are signing cornerback Noah Igbinoghene. The 24-year-old Igbinoghene played out last year on the Cowboys under the new Commanders coach Quinn, who was previously the defensive coordinator in Dallas. A first-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft (No. 30 overall), Igbinoghene plays far more often on special teams these days than he does on defense. But he fills that role very well, e…

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Arlo Parks:
🎵 Eugene
#NowPlaying #ArloParks

Eugene
Arlo Parks · Song · 2020

Chained Information-Theoretic bounds and Tight Regret Rate for Linear Bandit Problems
Amaury Gouverneur, Borja Rodr\'iguez-G\'alvez, Tobias J. Oechtering, Mikael Skoglund
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03361

Chained Information-Theoretic bounds and Tight Regret Rate for Linear Bandit Problems
This paper studies the Bayesian regret of a variant of the Thompson-Sampling algorithm for bandit problems. It builds upon the information-theoretic framework of [Russo and Van Roy, 2015] and, more specifically, on the rate-distortion analysis from [Dong and Van Roy, 2020], where they proved a bound with regret rate of $O(d\sqrt{T \log(T)})$ for the $d$-dimensional linear bandit setting. We focus on bandit problems with a metric action space and, using a chaining argument, we establish new boun…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06779 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Hard QBFs for Merge Resolution
We prove the first genuine QBF proof size lower bounds for the proof system Merge Resolution (MRes [Olaf Beyersdorff et al., 2020]), a refutational proof system for prenex quantified Boolean formulas (QBF) with a CNF matrix. Unlike most QBF resolution systems in the literature, proofs in MRes consist of resolution steps together with information on countermodels, which are syntactically stored in the proofs as merge maps. As demonstrated in [Olaf Beyersdorff et al., 2020], this makes MRes quite…

Apple reports Q1 sales in Greater China fell 13% YoY to $20.82B, vs $23.5B est., its weakest December quarter in the region since Q1 2020 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-01/a…

Apple (AAPL) Reports First Sales Gain in a Year Despite Slump in China
Apple Inc. reported better sales than projected in the holiday quarter, snapping a yearlong slump, after strong iPhone sales around the world helped make up for weakness in China.

A Comparison of Cryptocurrency Volatility-benchmarking New and Mature Asset Classes
Alessio Brini, Jimmie Lenz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04962 https://

A Comparison of Cryptocurrency Volatility-benchmarking New and Mature Asset Classes
The paper analyzes the cryptocurrency ecosystem at both the aggregate and individual levels to understand the factors that impact future volatility. The study uses high-frequency panel data from 2020 to 2022 to examine the relationship between several market volatility drivers, such as daily leverage, signed volatility and jumps. Several known autoregressive model specifications are estimated over different market regimes, and results are compared to equity data as a reference benchmark of a mo…

[CII] luminosity models and large-scale image cubes based on COSMOS 2020 and ALPINE-ALMA [CII] data back to the epoch of reionisation
J. Clarke, C. Karoumpis, D. Riechers, B. Magnelli, Y. Okada, A. Dev, T. Nikola, F. Bertoldi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05352

[CII] luminosity models and large-scale image cubes based on COSMOS 2020 and ALPINE-ALMA [CII] data back to the epoch of reionisation
We implement a novel method to create simulated [CII] emission line intensity mapping (LIM) data cubes using COSMOS 2020 galaxy catalog data. This allows us to provide solid lower limits for previous simulation-based model predictions and the expected signal strength of upcoming surveys. We applied [CII]158$μ$m luminosity models to COSMOS 2020 to create LIM cubes that cover 1.2$\times$1.2 deg$^2$ sky area. These models are derived using galaxy bulk property data from the ALPINE-ALMA survey ove…

The DESI Early Data Release White Dwarf Catalogue
Christopher J. Manser, Paula Izquierdo, Boris T. G\"ansicke, Andrew Swan, Detlev Koester, Akshay Robert, Siyi Xu, Keith Inight, Ben Amroota, N. P. Gentile Fusillo, Sergey E. Koposov, Bokyoung Kim, Arjun Dey, Carlos Allende Prieto, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen, R. Blum, D. Brooks, T. Claybaugh, A. P. Cooper, K. Dawson, A. de la Macorra, P. Doel, J. E. Forero-Romero, E. Gazta\~naga, S. Gontcho A Gontcho, K. Honscheid, T. Kisner, A. Kremin, A…

The DESI Early Data Release White Dwarf Catalogue
The Early Data Release (EDR) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) comprises spectroscopy obtained from 2020 December 14 to 2021 June 10. White dwarfs were targeted by DESI both as calibration sources and as science targets and were selected based on Gaia photometry and astrometry. Here we present the DESI EDR white dwarf catalogue, which includes 2706 spectroscopically confirmed white dwarfs of which approximately 1630 (roughly 60 per cent) have been spectroscopically observed for…

An improved calendar ring hole-count for the Antikythera mechanism
Graham Woan, Joseph Bayley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00040 https://

An improved calendar ring hole-count for the Antikythera mechanism
We present a new analysis of the positions of holes beneath the calendar ring of the Antikythera mechanism, as measured by Budiselic et al. (2020). We significantly refine their estimate for the number of holes that were present in the full ring. Our $68\%$-credible estimate for this number, taking account of all the data, is $355.24^{ +1.39 }_{ -1.36 }$. If holes adjacent to fractures are removed from the analysis, our estimate becomes $354.08^{ +1.47}_{-1.41}$. A ring of 360 holes is strongly…

An improved calendar ring hole-count for the Antikythera mechanism
Graham Woan, Joseph Bayley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00040 https://

An improved calendar ring hole-count for the Antikythera mechanism
We present a new analysis of the positions of holes beneath the calendar ring of the Antikythera mechanism, as measured by Budiselic et al. (2020). We significantly refine their estimate for the number of holes that were present in the full ring. Our $68\%$-credible estimate for this number, taking account of all the data, is $355.24^{ +1.39 }_{ -1.36 }$. If holes adjacent to fractures are removed from the analysis, our estimate becomes $354.08^{ +1.47}_{-1.41}$. A ring of 360 holes is strongly…