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Filings in FTC lawsuit: Instagram had 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

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.

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.

"Rather than addressing food scarcity, genetically modified crops may render African farmers and scientists more, not less, reliant on global markets."
https://africasacountry.com/2020/07/gmos-for-africa

GMOs for Africa?
Rather than addressing food scarcity, genetically modified crops may render African farmers and scientists more, not less, reliant on global markets.

Man pleads guilty to threatening Michigan official over 2020 election (Praveena Somasundaram/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/27/andrew-nickels-michigan-election-2020-threats/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240227/p102#a240227p102

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

Yay 🙌 🔬 HIV cure breakthrough as virus eliminated from cells in laboratory
It is thanks to a gene-editing tool known as Crispr-Cas, which won the Nobel Prize in 2020
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/hiv-cure-cell-test-dna-b2515169.html<…

HIV cure breakthrough as virus eliminated from cells in laboratory
It is thanks to a gene-editing tool known as Crispr-Cas, which won the Nobel Prize in 2020

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OwainWynEvans
Baby D:
🎵 Let Me Be Your Fantasy
#BabyD
https://open.spotify.com/track/3x4skRSE10kW3hIpAQjtWY
https://bobsan.bandcamp.com/track/baby-d-let-me-be-your-fantasy-bobsan-2020-remix

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2020) - Learn how I became active observing and recording the various local bats... - https://www.earth.org.uk/bats-at-16WW-1.html

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2020)
Learn how I became active observing and recording the various local bats...

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HCI Papers Cite HCI Papers, Increasingly So
To measure how HCI papers are cited across disciplinary boundaries, we collected a citation dataset of CHI, UIST, and CSCW papers published between 2010 and 2020. Our analysis indicates that HCI papers have been more and more likely to be cited by HCI papers rather than by non-HCI papers.

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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 …

The law isn't "stupid." It's working exactly as designed. #HarveyWeinstein

Some founders say TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump tried banning it in 2020 (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/27/will

Will a TikTok ban impact creator economy startups? Not really, founders say | TechCrunch
President Biden signed a bill on Wednesday that could ban TikTok — for real this time. "Two years ago, this would have been devastating," one founder said.

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

ReproHum #0087-01: Human Evaluation Reproduction Report for Generating Fact Checking Explanations
Tyler Loakman, Chenghua Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17481

ReproHum #0087-01: Human Evaluation Reproduction Report for Generating Fact Checking Explanations
This paper presents a partial reproduction of Generating Fact Checking Explanations by Anatanasova et al (2020) as part of the ReproHum element of the ReproNLP shared task to reproduce the findings of NLP research regarding human evaluation. This shared task aims to investigate the extent to which NLP as a field is becoming more or less reproducible over time. Following the instructions provided by the task organisers and the original authors, we collect relative rankings of 3 fact-checking exp…

Here are the states where 2020 Trump electors have been charged
Republicans in four states are facing charges after submitting documents to Congress falsely claiming that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election in their states.
Investigations are ongoing and more charges could be filed.

Every four years, presidential electors in every state meet on the same day in December to submit electoral ballots to federal authorities so Congress can finalize the results.

Here are the states where 2020 Trump electors have been charged
Republicans around the country have been charged with forgery and other crimes for filing paperwork claiming to be presidential electors in states that Donald Trump lost.

Supreme Court to weigh Trump's immunity claim in D.C. 2020 election trial (Ann E. Marimow/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/02/28/trump-supreme-court-immunity-claim-dc-trial/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240228/p94#a240228p94

Spain.
Wolf population stable despite hunting ban.
"The wolf invasion that never happened".
#rewilding
La invasión del lobo que nunca ocurrió: la población se mantiene estable desde que se prohibió su caza

La invasión del lobo que nunca ocurrió: la población se mantiene estable desde que se prohibió su caza
Allí donde antes estaba permitido matarlos, la población de lobos en España se mantiene sin grandes cambios tras la prohibición de su caza en 2021. Lejos de una explosión, el número de manadas en Galicia, Asturias o Cantabria son similares a los de 2020, antes de que el lobo recibiera protección en todo el territorio, según los últimos datos oficiales de recuento de las propias comunidades autónomas. Cuando en septiembre de 2021 quedó prohibida la caza general de lobos, cuatro comuni…

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

#saytheirnames #hanau

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Classical Shadows for Quantum Process Tomography on Near-term Quantum Computers
Quantum process tomography is a powerful tool for understanding quantum channels and characterizing properties of quantum devices. Inspired by recent advances using classical shadows in quantum state tomography [H.-Y. Huang, R. Kueng, and J. Preskill, Nat. Phys. 16, 1050 (2020).], we have developed ShadowQPT, a classical shadow method for quantum process tomography. We introduce two related formulations with and without ancilla qubits. ShadowQPT stochastically reconstructs the Choi matrix of th…

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A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Extensions
This monograph, together with its accompanying first part Cattaneo, Idrobo and Titiunik (2020), collects and expands the instructional materials we prepared for more than $50$ short courses and workshops on Regression Discontinuity (RD) methodology that we taught between 2014 and 2023. In this second monograph, we discuss several topics in RD methodology that build on and extend the analysis of RD designs introduced in Cattaneo, Idrobo and Titiunik (2020). Our first goal is to present an altern…

A profile of Swedish accounting software maker Fortnox, valued at $4.6B after its stock rose 5x since 2020, as some analysts question its growth prospects (Financial Times)
https://t.co/Y4xOdW5xGE

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Information-Theoretic Equivalence of Entropic Multi-Marginal Optimal Transport: A Theory for Multi-Agent Communication
In this paper, we propose our information-theoretic equivalence of entropic multi-marginal optimal transport (MOT). This equivalence can be easily reduced to the case of entropic optimal transport (OT). Because OT is widely used to compare differences between knowledge or beliefs, we apply this result to the communication between agents with different beliefs. Our results formally prove the statement that entropic OT is information-theoretically optimal given by Wang et al. [2020] and generaliz…

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A comparative study of MOND and MOG theories versus the$κ$-model: An application to galaxy clusters
Many models have been proposed to minimize the dark matter (DM) content in various astronomical objects at every scale in the Universe. The most widely known model isMOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). MOND was first published by Mordehai Milgromin 1983 (Milgrom, 1983; 2015; see also Banik and Zhao, 2022 for a review). A second concurrent model is modified gravity (MOG), which is a covariant scalar-tensor-vector (STVG)extension of general relativity (Moffat, 2006; 2020). Other theories also exi…

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Timing and spectral analysis of HMXB 4U 1700-37 observed with Insight-HXMT
We report timing and spectral studies of the high mass X-ray binary 4U 1700-37 using Insight-HXMT observations carried out in 2020 during its out-of-eclipse state. We found significant variations in flux on a time-scale of kilo-seconds, while the hardness (count rate ratio between 10-30 keV and 2-10 keV) remains relatively stable. No evident pulsations were found over a frequency range of $10^{-3}$-2000 Hz. During the spectral analysis, for the first time we took the configuration of different …

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A quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for Bose-Hubbard models on arbitrary graphs
We propose a quantum Monte Carlo algorithm capable of simulating the Bose-Hubbard model on arbitrary graphs, obviating the need for devising lattice-specific updates for different input graphs. We show that with our method, which is based on the recently introduced Permutation Matrix Representation Quantum Monte Carlo [Gupta, Albash and Hen, J. Stat. Mech. (2020) 073105], the problem of adapting the simulation to a given geometry amounts to generating a cycle basis for the graph on which the mo…

A new approach for solving global optimization and engineering problems based on modified Sea Horse Optimizer
Fatma A. Hashim, Reham R. Mostafa, Ruba Abu Khurma, Raneem Qaddoura, P. A. Castillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14044 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.14044
arXiv:2402.14044v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Sea Horse Optimizer (SHO) is a noteworthy metaheuristic algorithm that emulates various intelligent behaviors exhibited by sea horses, encompassing feeding patterns, male reproductive strategies, and intricate movement patterns. To mimic the nuanced locomotion of sea horses, SHO integrates the logarithmic helical equation and Levy flight, effectively incorporating both random movements with substantial step sizes and refined local exploitation. Additionally, the utilization of Brownian motion facilitates a more comprehensive exploration of the search space. This study introduces a robust and high-performance variant of the SHO algorithm named mSHO. The enhancement primarily focuses on bolstering SHO's exploitation capabilities by replacing its original method with an innovative local search strategy encompassing three distinct steps: a neighborhood-based local search, a global non-neighbor-based search, and a method involving circumnavigation of the existing search region. These techniques improve mSHO algorithm's search capabilities, allowing it to navigate the search space and converge toward optimal solutions efficiently. The comprehensive results distinctly establish the supremacy and efficiency of the mSHO method as an exemplary tool for tackling an array of optimization quandaries. The results show that the proposed mSHO algorithm has a total rank of 1 for CEC'2020 test functions. In contrast, the mSHO achieved the best value for the engineering problems, recording a value of 0.012665, 2993.634, 0.01266, 1.724967, 263.8915, 0.032255, 58507.14, 1.339956, and 0.23524 for the pressure vessel design, speed reducer design, tension/compression spring, welded beam design, three-bar truss engineering design, industrial refrigeration system, multi-Product batch plant, cantilever beam problem, multiple disc clutch brake problems, respectively.

A member of Qatari royal family invested ~$50M in Newsmax in 2019, 2020; sources: before and after the deal, staffers were urged to soften coverage of Qatar (Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3xbV1FI

Qatari royal invested about $50 million in pro-Trump network Newsmax
Before and after the investment by a Qatari royal, senior newsroom leaders urged Newsmax staff to soften coverage of Qatar, current and former employees said.

A New York appeals court overturned Harvey Weinstein's 2020 felony sex crime convictions on Thursday and ordered a new trial.
The allegations of sexual assault and harassment against Weinstein helped reignite the global #MeToo movement.
Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years in prison in a separate rape case in Los Angeles, which isn't affected by this decision.
In the appeal, Weins…

Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction overturned by New York appeals court
Allegations of sexual assault against Weinstein helped reignite the #MeToo movement.

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Fate of dissipative hierarchy of timescales in the presence of unitary dynamics
The generic behavior of purely dissipative open quantum many-body systems with local dissipation processes can be investigated using random matrix theory, revealing a hierarchy of decay timescales of observables organized by their complexity as shown in [Wang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 100604 (2020)]. This hierarchy is reflected in distinct eigenvalue clusters of the Lindbladian. Here, we analyze how this spectrum evolves when unitary dynamics is present, both for the case of strongly and we…

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Cyclotron line evolution revealed with pulse-to-pulse analysis in the 2020 outburst of 1A 0535+262
We present a detailed analysis of the X-ray luminosity (Lx) dependence of the cyclotron absorption line energy (Ecyc) for the X-ray binary pulsar 1A 0535+262 during its 2020 giant outburst based on pulse-to-pulse analysis. By applying this technique to high cadence observations of Insight-HXMT, we reveal the most comprehensive Ecyc-Lx correlation across a broad luminosity range of ~(0.03-1.3)*10^38 erg/s. Apart from the positive and negative correlations between cyclotron line energy and lumino…

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The Great Dimming of Betelgeuse: the photosphere as revealed by tomography during the past 15 years
Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star of semi-regular variability, underwent a historical minimum of brightness in February 2020, the Great Dimming. Even though the brightness has returned to the values prior to the Great Dimming by now, it continues to exhibit highly unusual behavior. Understanding the long-term atmospheric motions of Betelgeuse and its variability could be a clue to the nature of the Great Dimming and the mass-loss process in red supergiants. Our goal is to study long-term dynami…

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The Multiple-Access Channel with Entangled Transmitters
Communication over a classical multiple-access channel (MAC) with entanglement resources is considered, whereby two transmitters share entanglement resources a priori before communication begins. Leditzky et al. (2020) presented an example of a classical MAC, defined in terms of a pseudo telepathy game, such that the sum rate with entangled transmitters is strictly higher than the best achievable sum rate without such resources. Here, we establish inner and outer bounds on the capacity region f…

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 …

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On the resolvent of $H+A^{*}+A$
We present a much shorter and streamlined proof of an improved version of the results previously given in [A. Posilicano: On the Self-Adjointness of $H+A^{*}+A$, Math. Phys. Anal. Geom. (2020)] concerning the self-adjoint realizations of formal QFT-like Hamiltonians of the kind $H+A^{*}+A$, where $H$ and $A$ play the role of the free field Hamiltonian and of the annihilation operator respectively. We give explicit representations of the resolvent and of the self-adjointness domain; the conseque…

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A Multi-wavelength Study on A Gamma-ray Bright AGN 1308+326 Using KVN at 22 and 43 GHz
In this paper, we conduct a multi-frequency analysis of the gamma-ray bright blazar 1308+326 from February 2013 to March 2020, using the Korean VLBI Network at 22 and 43 GHz and gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Our findings reveal spectral variations around the 2014 gamma-ray flare, aligning with the shock-in-jet model. A strong correlation is observed between gamma-ray and 43 GHz emissions, with a 27-day lag in the VLBI core light curve, indicating a 50-day delay from …