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The man who turned his home into a homeless shelter
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/30/stuart-potts-man-who-turned-his-home-into-a-homeless-shelter

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Extrapolating Solution Paths of Polynomial Homotopies towards Singularities with PHCpack and phcpy
PHCpack is a software package for polynomial homotopy continuation, which provides a robust path tracker [Telen, Van Barel, Verschelde, SISC 2020]. This tracker computes the radius of convergence of Newton's method, estimates the distance to the nearest path, and then applies Padé approximants to predict the next point on the path. A priori step size control is less sensitive to finely tuned tolerances than a posteriori step size control, and is therefore robust. The Python interface phcpy is …

US election workers face thousands of threats – so why so few prosecutions?
The US Department of Justice circulated a memo to all federal prosecutors and FBI agents. There had been a “significant increase in the threat of violence against Americans who administer free and fair elections”, the memo said.
The increase in threats amounted to “a threat to democracy. We will promptly and vigorously prosecute offenders.”
The memo announced the formation of a new unit within the ju…

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Learning Approximate and Exact Numeral Systems via Reinforcement Learning
Recent work (Xu et al., 2020) has suggested that numeral systems in different languages are shaped by a functional need for efficient communication in an information-theoretic sense. Here we take a learning-theoretic approach and show how efficient communication emerges via reinforcement learning. In our framework, two artificial agents play a Lewis signaling game where the goal is to convey a numeral concept. The agents gradually learn to communicate using reinforcement learning and the result…

Precise Mass, Orbital motion and Stellar properties of the M-dwarf binary LP 349-25AB
Salvador Curiel (IAUNAM), Gisela N. Ortiz-Leon (NRAO), Amy J. Mioduszewski (INAOE), Anthony B. Arenas-Martinez (INAOE, Facultad de Ciencias)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16964

Precise Mass, Orbital motion and Stellar properties of the M-dwarf binary LP 349-25AB
LP~349$-$25 is a well studied close stellar binary system comprised of two late M dwarf stars, both stars close to the limit between star and brown dwarf. This system was previously identified as a source of GHz radio emission. We observed LP~349$-$25AB in 11 epochs in 2020$-$2022, detecting both components in this nearby binary system using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). We fit simultaneously the VLBA absolute astrometric positions together with existing relative astrometric observations…

Die #COVID-19-Lockdowns im Frühjahr 2020 haben zu einer signifikanten #Reduzierung der #Luftverschmutzung in der

Air pollution reductions caused by the COVID-19 lockdown open up a way to preserve the Himalayan glaciers
Abstract. The rapid melting of glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH) during recent decades poses an alarming threat to water security for larger parts of Asia. If this melting persists, the entirety of the Himalayan glaciers are estimated to disappear by end of the 21st century. Here, we assess the influence of the spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdown on the HKH, demonstrating the potential benefits of a strict emission reduction roadmap. Chemistry–climate model simulations, supported by satell…

Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction overturned by New York appeals court (Minyvonne Burke/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvey-weinsteins-rape-conviction-overturned-rcna149328
http://www.memeorandum.com/240425/p31#a240425p31

Wanted: An SC to investigate SC Weiss.
“What David Weiss discovered — if he didn’t already know about it — is that he was part of an effort to frame Joe Biden in 2020, an effort that involved the Attorney General of the United States.”
https://www.

David Weiss Is a Direct Witness to the Crimes on Which He Indicted Alexander Smirnov - emptywheel
With the indictment of Alexander Smirnov, David Weiss has now confessed that he's a witness in the investigation of an attempt to frame Joe Biden, an investigation that claims to be investigating.

House Democrats are adding four more candidates to their♦️ "Red to Blue"🔹 program as they attempt to flip enough Republican-held seats to 💥take the House majority💥
All four candidates are in districts President Biden won in 2020
– a sign that Democrats are doubling down on a strategy of trying to ride Biden's coattails in November.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's list includes three candidates challenging Republican incumbents and one run…

Scoop: House Democrats grow their GOP target list for 2024
All four candidates are in districts President Biden won in 2020.

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.

Mesure d’audience de site web via Matomo
https://www.palabritudes.net/2024/03/17/mesure-audience-site-matomo.html

"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

Es wurde ein Zhougpürierbeschluss gefasst.
https://alexandracooks.com/2020/06/16/schug-zhug-sauce/
(dazu selbstgemachtes Hummus und gebratene Auberginen)

How to Make Schug (Skug, Zhug, Zhoug) Sauce | Alexandra's Kitchen
Schug is a delicious, spiced green sauce originating from Yemen. To make, simply blend herbs, lemon, garlic, olive oil, chilies, and spices.

#saytheirnames #hanau

In Gaza City, during the global fight against the novel coronavirus, innovative ideas emerged. Engineer Mohammed Abu Matar and his team at Tashkeel 3D used 3D printing technology to manufacture essential medical equipment to combat the pandemic. The team produced protective respirator face masks, and devices enabling patients to have shared ventilator use. From Al-Monitor:

Gewusst: Unsere Altersversorgung ist gleich auf mehrere Arten von der Zuwanderung von Ausländern abhängig.
Eine davon im @… -Überblick über die AHV-Finanzierung von 2019.
#AHV

First, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. McCaul (R-Texas), and then chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Turner (R-Ohio).
Now the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Warner (D-Virginia).
Are we finally going to take this seriously?
https://www.<…

Americans Are More Vulnerable to Foreign Propaganda, Senator Warns
Senator Mark Warner, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said the United States was more susceptible to Russian influence operations than it was during the 2020 elections.

[Libération] - #OlivioGomes tué par un policier renvoyé aux assises : «La panique n’exclut pas l’intention homicide».
Dans la nuit du 16 au 17 octobre 2020, Gilles G. a tué de trois balles un automobiliste de 28 ans Š #Poissy. Mis en accusation pour meurtre aux assises, le gardien de la pai…

Olivio Gomes tué par un policier renvoyé aux assises : «La panique n’exclut pas l’intention homicide»
Le 17 octobre 2020, Gilles G. a tué de trois balles un automobiliste de 28 ans à Poissy. Mis en accusation pour meurtre aux assises, le gardien de la paix nie l’«intention homicide» et a fait appel de cette rare décision.

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

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Della Reese:
🎵 Come On, A My House
#NowPlaying #DellaReese
https://open.spotify.com/track/2YSKZSdG6JnhvqjwrOiq4N
https://vangelislolos.bandcamp.com/track/della-reese-come-on-a-my-house-vangelis-lolos-re-edit-2020

Reports: Commanders to sign former first-round pick Noah Igbinoghene https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/reports_commanders_to_sign_former_first_round_pick_noah_igbinoghene/s1_17049_40122575

Reports: Commanders to sign former first-round pick Noah Igbinoghene
The Washington Commanders are signing cornerback Noah Igbinoghene to a free agent deal, according to multiple reports Sunday. A first-round pick by the Dolphins in 2020, Igbinoghene will be playing for his third team. Miami traded him to the Dolphins last August, and he became a free agent at the end of the 2023 season. He becomes the fourth member of the Cowboys' 2023 roster to move to the rival Commanders since Washington hired Dan Quinn as head coach in February. Quinn was the defensive coor…

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Bridging or Breaking: Impact of Intergroup Interactions on Religious Polarization
While exposure to diverse viewpoints may reduce polarization, it can also have a backfire effect and exacerbate polarization when the discussion is adversarial. Here, we examine the question whether intergroup interactions around important events affect polarization between majority and minority groups in social networks. We compile data on the religious identity of nearly 700,000 Indian Twitter users engaging in COVID-19-related discourse during 2020. We introduce a new measure for an individu…

Job oder Sozialhilfe? - Lohnt es sich für Sie überhaupt noch zu arbeiten? #News #Nachrichten

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

I keep seeing people saying that the internet went downhill after 2020, but honestly it peaked in 2010. Sorry to those of you who weren't around for it!
https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/09/party.html

The Party
At some point during my childhood, my mother made the mistake of taking me to see an orthodontist.  It was discovered that I had a rogue too...

Are the Bills squandering Josh Allen? ‘Everybody wants the head coach fired’ https://theathletic.com/5320434/2024/03/07/josh-allen-buffalo-bills-sean-mcdermott-squandering/

Are the Bills squandering Josh Allen? ‘Everybody wants the head coach fired’
Pressure mounts as Allen and Sean McDermott's Bills have not advanced past the divisional round since the 2020 season.

Gewusst: Unsere Altersversorgung ist gleich auf mehrere Arten von der Zuwanderung von Ausländern abhängig.
Eine davon im @… -Überblick über die AHV-Finanzierung von 2019.
#AHV

Happy Delaware laptop day, everyone. Things might start to get interesting.
While the FBI might get away with accessing an encrypted device without a separate warrant, anyone else who accessed it — as Garrett Ziegler keeps confessing he did — may have committed a CFAA violation.
Curiously, though, the FBI did get separate warrants for all the other devices backed up separately.
That’s what the July 10, 2020 warrant did: permit the FBI to access four device backups that we…

Happy Delaware Laptop Day, for Those Who Celebrate - emptywheel
A Delaware court will consider Hunter Biden's motion for summary judgment against John Paul Mac Isaac today. If he prevails, the decision may roil both criminal cases against Hunter Biden and 40 months of propaganda from Murdoch properties.

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A (tight) upper bound for the length of confidence intervals with conditional coverage
We show that two popular selective inference procedures, namely data carving (Fithian et al., 2017) and selection with a randomized response (Tian et al., 2018b), when combined with the polyhedral method (Lee et al., 2016), result in confidence intervals whose length is bounded. This contrasts results for confidence intervals based on the polyhedral method alone, whose expected length is typically infinite (Kivaranovic and Leeb, 2020). Moreover, we show that these two procedures always dominate…

$\operatorname{SL}(n)$ contravariant function-valued valuations on polytopes
Zhongwen Tang, Jin Li, Gangsong Leng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12890 https://…

$\operatorname{SL}(n)$ contravariant function-valued valuations on polytopes
We present a complete classification of $\operatorname{SL}(n)$ contravariant, $C(\mathbb{R}^n\setminus\{o\})$-valued valuations on polytopes, without any additional assumptions.It extends the previous results of the second author [Int. Math. Res. Not. 2020] which have a good connection with the $L_p$ and Orlicz Brunn-Minkowski theory. Additionally, our results deduce a complete classification of $\operatorname{SL}(n)$ contravariant symmetric-tensor-valued valuations on polytopes.

Where Slate desperately tries to buy Greyhound tickets to Atlanta for the DOJ.
From: @…
https://assortedflotsam.com/@politicsb

The Raiders Release D.J Fluker https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/the_raiders_release_dj_fluker/s1_17391_40201873

The Raiders Release D.J Fluker
The Las Vegas Raiders have decided to cut ties with D.J Fluker as they released him on Friday. Fluker joined the Raiders practice squad in December of 2023 and signed on a futures deal in January 2024. Fluker hasn’t played a regular-season game since 2020 when he was with Baltimore. D.J Fluker, a first-round pick in 2013 out of Alabama has played for the Los Angeles Chargers, Miami Dolphins, New York Giants, Seattle Seahawks, Baltimore Ravens, and Las Vegas Raiders. Robert LaMar is a writer …

Cowboys DB coach Al Harris promoted to assistant head coach https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_db_coach_al_harris_promoted_to_assistant_head_coach/s1_17236_40124371

Cowboys DB coach Al Harris promoted to assistant head coach
Al Harris has a new title. The defensive backs coach for the Dallas Cowboys is expected to be promoted — adding assistant head coach to his current title, Josina Anderson of CBS Sports reported Sunday. Harris, 49, has been on the Cowboys’ coaching staff since 2020 when Mike McCarthy was named the team’s head coach. McCarthy spent four seasons as Harris’ head coach when the former NFL cornerback played for the Green Bay Packers (2006-09). Under Harris’ tutelage, Trevon Diggs and DaRon …

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The Bulk Properties of Isolated Neutron Stars Inferred from the Gravitational Redshift Measurements
The measurements of the bulk properties of most isolated neutron stars (INSs) are challenging tasks. Tang et al. (2020) have developed a new method, based on the equation of state (EoS) of neutron star (NS) material constrained by the observational data, to infer the gravitational masses of a few INSs whose gravitational redshifts are available. However, in that work, the authors only considered the constraints on the EoS from nuclear experiments/theories and the gravitational wave data of GW17…

In recent years, California has approved more than $700m of funding for homeless camp clearance, part of its strategy for grappling with a growing unsheltered population of 123,000, according to a recent count.
Private firms have been paid at least $100m to clear homeless camps in California.
Astrid Stromberg, who oversees encampment cleanups for Tucker Construction, said its business has expanded dramatically since 2020.
The company had about a dozen laborers working full-…

Revealed: how companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps - Type Investigations

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

Reports: Commanders to sign former first-round pick Noah Igbinoghene https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/reports_commanders_to_sign_former_first_round_pick_noah_igbinoghene/s1_17049_40122575

Reports: Commanders to sign former first-round pick Noah Igbinoghene
The Washington Commanders are signing cornerback Noah Igbinoghene to a free agent deal, according to multiple reports Sunday. A first-round pick by the Dolphins in 2020, Igbinoghene will be playing for his third team. Miami traded him to the Dolphins last August, and he became a free agent at the end of the 2023 season. He becomes the fourth member of the Cowboys' 2023 roster to move to the rival Commanders since Washington hired Dan Quinn as head coach in February. Quinn was the defensive coor…

Seven states, including Michigan, that were the focal points of Republican efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election have
👉more than 200 legislators labeled in a new report as being “#election #deniers.”
States United Action, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with a mission to protect elections,…

Report classifies one-fifth of Michigan Legislature as ‘election deniers’ • Michigan Advance
Seven states, including Michigan, that were the focal points of Republican efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election have more than 200 legislators labeled in a new report as being “election deniers.” States United Action, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with a mission to protect elections, issued the report Thursday using data collected  with the assistance […]

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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…

Lawrence Lessig has a message for America:
Donald Trump’s assault on democracy in 2020, with his stolen-election lie and refusal to concede the White House, may have been shocking, but wait till you see what’s coming next.
“We are in a profoundly dangerous moment,” the Harvard law professor says. “This is a catastrophic year, and the odds are not in our favor.”
Such a blunt warning carries the gravitas of its source. Lessig is a leading thinker on how public institutions c…

How to Steal a Presidential Election (Hardcover) | Copperfield’s Books Inc.
From two distinguished experts on election law, an alarming look at how the American presidency could be stolen—by entirely legal means   Even in the fast and loose world of the Trump White House, the idea that a couple thousand disorganized protestors storming the U.S. Capitol might actually prevent a presidential succession was farfetched.