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Former Draft Bust Poised For Breakout With 'Higher' Confidence https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/former_draft_bust_poised_for_breakout_with_higher_confidence/s1_17198_40402416

Former Draft Bust Poised For Breakout With 'Higher' Confidence
Current Dallas Cowboys quarterback Trey Lance has had one of the most unique careers in recent memory. The North Dakota product originally broke out at the collegiate level in 2019 but never had a chance to follow up on that breakthrough performance. After the COVID-19 pandemic effectively wiped out his entire 2020, Lance declared for the 2021 NFL Draft. Despite the lack of tape, the 49ers chose to mortgage the future and trade up for a player they believed could be a superstar. This didn’t p…

It’s nauseating that the hyperscalers are crankin’ the carbon to inflate the AI bubble like there’s no tomorrow (which there won’t be, for my children, if we don’t cut back) but hey, don’t forget that Bitcoin is still in the running for the single most dangerous-to-the-planet use of computers.
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Microsoft’s AI obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions
Microsoft’s carbon footprint is growing as it chases its AI ambitions. Its climate pollution has ballooned since pledging to slash greenhouse gas emissions in 2020.

From the vault: 2020
When the wet bulb temperature gets around 35°C, even a physically fit person resting in the shade with plenty of water would die within hours.
Potentially Fatal Combinations of Humidity and Heat Are Emerging Across the Globe
https://news.climate.columbi…

Potentially Fatal Combinations of Humidity and Heat Are Emerging Across the Globe
A new study has identified thousands of incidents of previously rare or unprecedented extreme heat/humidity combinations in parts of Asia, Africa, Australia, South America and North America, including in the U.S. Gulf Coast region.

RIP Lynn Conway, an engineer credited, along with Carver Mead, with laying the foundations of VLSI. I learned in 2020 that she was trans after IBM, who had fired her for that decades earlier, issued an apology. Here is a reminiscence she penned in 2014. May her memory be a blessing.
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Tolle Studie:
➡️ Intelligente Leute sind häufiger geimpft
➡️ Frauen sind intelligenter¹
Was heisst das für unsere Bevölkerung?
Wieso sind intelligente Menschen so "dumm", sich impfen zu lassen? </Ironie>
Wie schaffen wir wieder einen besseren Umgang mit Fakten?
¹ Ok, die eigentliche Studienaussage ist: «Frauen mit hoher Intelligenz ließen sich besonders oft impfen»; aber ich konnte einfach nicht widerstehen

2/ Leider gibt es ein paar Fehler, die eigentlich bei Klimaberichterstattung nicht passieren dürfen. Im Beitrag steht, dass das klimaverträgliche Budget eines Menschen bei 1,5 Tonnen pro Jahr liegt. Das stimmt im Prinzip, nur dass wir Deutschen nach allen Maßstäben, die man so anlegen könnte, unser Budget bereits aufgebraucht haben. Historisch sind wir ohnehin schon jenseits von gut und böse. Aber selbst wenn man 1992 oder 2015 (Pariser Abkommen) als Startpunkt nimmt, ist unsere Restbudget seit Anfang diesen Jahres aufgebraucht.
Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen. 2024. Wo stehen wir beim CO2-Budget? Eine Aktualisierung. Berlin: Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen. (https://www.umweltrat.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/04_Stellungnahmen/2020_2024/2024_03_CO2_Budget.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=8)
Wir leben jetzt auf Pump und müssen deshalb SOFORT aus allem aussteigen, was wir nicht unbedingt brauchen. Wobei ICH festlege, was wir nicht unbedingt brauchen. (War ein Scherz, aber ich würde Euch als bessere Lösung Bürgerräte anbieten. Dann können wir das alles besprechen.)

https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2020/01/13/bit-twiddling-addition-with-unknown-bits/ - Bit-twiddling abstract addition with unknown bits.

Since 2020, California has installed more ⭐️giant batteries ⭐️than anywhere in the world apart from China.
They can soak up excess solar power during the day and store it for use when it gets dark.
Those batteries play a pivotal role in California’s electric grid,
partially replacing fossil fuels in the evening.
Between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. on April 30, for example, batteries supplied more than one-fifth of California’s electricity
and, for a few minutes, pumped…

Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity
They’re delivering solar power after dark in California and helping to stabilize grids in other states. And the technology is expanding rapidly.

Four microlensing giant planets detected through signals produced by minor-image perturbations
Cheongho Han, Ian A. Bond, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrew Gould, Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Youn Kil Jung, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Yossi Shvartzvald, In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Hongjing Yang, Weicheng Zang, Sang-Mok Cha, Doeon Kim, Dong-Jin Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, Fumio Abe, Ken Bando, Richard Barry, David P. Bennett, Aparna Bhatta…

Four microlensing giant planets detected through signals produced by minor-image perturbations
We investigated the nature of the anomalies appearing in four microlensing events KMT-2020-BLG-0757, KMT-2022-BLG-0732, KMT-2022-BLG-1787, and KMT-2022-BLG-1852. The light curves of these events commonly exhibit initial bumps followed by subsequent troughs that extend across a substantial portion of the light curves. We performed thorough modeling of the anomalies to elucidate their characteristics. Despite their prolonged durations, which differ from the usual brief anomalies observed in typic…

Sönke Neitzel über seine Schulzeit in der Oberstufe: "Wir hatten tolle Projektwochen ... 'Bundeswehr oder Friedensbewegung?' ... Von den 20 Schülerinnen und Schülern waren dann immer 19 für die Friedensbewegung und einer für die Bundeswehr ... (lacht) das war ich." - Nicht nur an dieser Stelle hatte ich beim Anhören dieser Sendung DéjŠ-vu-Gedanken. 🙂

"Man muss sich fragen, ob wir genügend Expertise haben, um Kriege sachlich zu analysieren."
Sönke Neitzel, geb. 1968, ist Lehrstuhl-Inhaber für Militärgeschichte und Kulturgeschichte der Gewalt am Historischen Institut der Universität Potsdam. 2020 erschien sein Buch "Deutsche Krieger", in dem er die Geschichte der deutschen Streitkräfte vom Kaiserreich bis zur Berliner Republik darstellt.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03925 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Word frequency and sentiment analysis of twitter messages during Coronavirus pandemic
The COVID-19 epidemic has had a great impact on social media conversation, especially on sites like Twitter, which has emerged as a hub for public reaction and information sharing. This paper deals by analyzing a vast dataset of Twitter messages related to this disease, starting from January 2020. Two approaches were used: a statistical analysis of word frequencies and a sentiment analysis to gauge user attitudes. Word frequencies are modeled using unigrams, bigrams, and trigrams, with power la…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19146 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_…

Computing Longest Common Subsequence under Cartesian-Tree Matching Model
Two strings of the same length are said to Cartesian-tree match (CT-match) if their Cartesian-trees are isomorphic [Park et al., TCS 2020]. Cartesian-tree matching is a natural model that allows for capturing similarities of numerical sequences. Oizumi et al. [CPM 2022] showed that subsequence pattern matching under CT-matching model can be solved in polynomial time. This current article follows and extends this line of research: We present the first polynomial-time algorithm that finds the lon…

Four microlensing giant planets detected through signals produced by minor-image perturbations
Cheongho Han, Ian A. Bond, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrew Gould, Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Youn Kil Jung, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Yossi Shvartzvald, In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Hongjing Yang, Weicheng Zang, Sang-Mok Cha, Doeon Kim, Dong-Jin Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, Fumio Abe, Ken Bando, Richard Barry, David P. Bennett, Aparna Bhatta…

Four microlensing giant planets detected through signals produced by minor-image perturbations
We investigated the nature of the anomalies appearing in four microlensing events KMT-2020-BLG-0757, KMT-2022-BLG-0732, KMT-2022-BLG-1787, and KMT-2022-BLG-1852. The light curves of these events commonly exhibit initial bumps followed by subsequent troughs that extend across a substantial portion of the light curves. We performed thorough modeling of the anomalies to elucidate their characteristics. Despite their prolonged durations, which differ from the usual brief anomalies observed in typic…

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The antiviral properties of Quercetin have also captured researchers' imaginations, especially in the wake of recent global health crises. Research emerging in 'Viruses' in 2020 shed light on how Quercetin could impede viral reproduction at various stages of infection. While more studies are necessary to fully understand its effectiveness and mechanism against different viruses, this flavonoid's potential to serve as an adjunct in antiviral therapy warrants further exploration.