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"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.

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

får man skriva att man är en "icke vinstdrivande" skola när man i regel gör 6-7 siffror plus och tar ut utdelningar mellan 300-750 kkr varje år?
Utdelningar senaste åren är 742 kkr (2022-12-19), 726 kkr (2021-10-29), 705 kkr (2020-10-28), 300 kkr (2019-11-08), 300 kkr (2018-12-10), 390 kkr (2017-11-30).
Vinster senaste åren:
19-20 1,5 mkr.
20-21 1,2 mkr.
21-22 700 kkr.
22-23 800 kkr.
Uppgifter från årsredovisningarna som ligger på

49ers flip script in 2nd half to land in Super Bowl https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39413785/niners-beat-lions-nfc-championship-game-reach-super-bowl

49ers rally vs. Lions in NFC title game to reach Super Bowl LVIII - ESPN
With a stunning come-from-behind win against the Lions in Sunday's NFC Championship Game -- a game in which they trailed by 17 points -- the 49ers are returning to the Super Bowl and looking to atone for their loss to the Chiefs in 2020.

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.

Meaning Biden should be able to send Donny to a black site forever w/o consequence, right?
The GUARDIAN: Presidents should have immunity for acts taken in office, Donny's lawyers say – including attempts to overturn 2020 election results
https://www.theguardian.…

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.

Ex-Twitter/X seems increasingly successful ....... in making the platform an exclusively far-right supremacist venue. I'm very glad I've left Twitter for good and exchanged it for Mastodon.
X owner replies to post by far-right Austrian linked to Christchurch terrorist after account restored

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…

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.

How Trump ends Social Security - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/social-security-trump/?utm_medium=email

How Trump ends Social Security
Want to end Social Security? Just vote for Donald Trump or pretty much any Republican this fall.Every year that Donald Trump was president he proposed budgets that would have cut Social Security funding and benefits; in 2020 he even campaigned on ending the payroll tax — that funds it and Medicare —...

An internal "traffic sheet" from a source shows the Washington Post website had ~55M monthly visits in February 2024, down 60% from ~140M visits in April 2020 (Vince Morris/Washington City Paper)
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/articl

Washington Post Web Traffic Numbers Keep Sinking
The Post stopped publishing its web traffic data online after a 60 percent drop since 2020.

#OTD on March 13th 2020 my school in San Jose, Willow Glen High School, announced a “two weeks break” in light of the Covid pandemic. Little did we know that this was the beginning of a nation wide lockdown causing this school to close for over a year.
In this video you can see us celebrating this decision as we thought all it would mean was less homework - be careful what you wish for!
…

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.

Smart Radiator Valves Video - Manchester Carbon Co-op 2020 webinar Radbot video clip. #cutCarbon #Radbot #TRV -

Smart Radiator Valves Video
Manchester Carbon Co-op 2020 webinar Radbot video clip. #cutCarbon #Radbot #TRV

3rd-party scripts in a web page are the 2020's spaghetti code.

Special counsel asks Supreme Court to let Trump's 2020 election case proceed to trial without delay (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-special-counsel-election-interference-january-6-c2dcc83e56a541804d4785f6bb6cd45c
http://www.memeorandum.com/240214/p85#a240214p85

Ogni volta che uso matrix ho come una sensazione di, come dire, 2020, di #marzo diciamo :matrix:

I'm looking for some example #DMP s for a workshop: Do you have any favourite publicly shared DMPs that you point people to? Ideally fairly recent? (After 2020)
I already have the BY-COVID project one: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6884815

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.

Rapid spin changes around a magnetar fast radio burst
Chin-Ping Hu, Takuto Narita, Teruaki Enoto, George Younes, Zorawar Wadiasingh, Matthew G. Baring, Wynn C. G. Ho, Sebastien Guillot, Paul S. Ray, Tolga Guver, Kaustubh Rajwade, Zaven Arzoumanian, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Alice K. Harding, Keith C. Gendreau
https://arxiv.org/abs/24…

Rapid spin changes around a magnetar fast radio burst
Magnetars are neutron stars with extremely high magnetic fields that exhibit various X-ray phenomena such as sporadic sub-second bursts, long-term persistent flux enhancements, and variable rates of rotation period change. In 2020, a fast radio burst (FRB), akin to cosmological millisecond-duration radio bursts, was detected from the Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154, confirming the long-suspected association between some FRBs and magnetars. However, the mechanism for FRB generation in magnetars …

Some wine discounter delivered six bottles of Spanish red, some kind of a sampler intro pack, to us. Except: we never ordered it. The putative addressee at our house was one Egon Mayer, who seems to have been a famous German Luftwaffe pilot in WWII.
We emailed the distributor, who had the package picked up today. We got to keep a bottle for our diligence.

Vyšší Brod, czechia 2020
Old house near by the monastery
#fensterfreitag #windowsfriday

Borel Complexity of the Isomorphism Relation of Archimedean Orders in Finitely Generated Groups
Antoine Poulin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11326 https://

Borel Complexity of the Isomorphism Relation of Archimedean Orders in Finitely Generated Groups
In 2020, Calderoni, Marker, Motto Ros and Shani asked what the Borel complexity of the isomorphism relation of Archimedean orders on $\mathbb{Q}^n$ is. We answer this question by proving that the isomorphism relation of Archimedean orders on $\mathbb{Z}^n$ is not hyperfinite when $n \geq 3$ and not treeable when $n \geq 4$. As a corollary, we get that the isomorphism relation of Archimedean orders on $\mathbb{Q}^n$ is not hyperfinite when $n \geq 3$ and not treeable when $n \geq 4$.

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

Exploring Estonia's Open Government Data Development as a Journey towards Excellence: Unveiling the Progress of Local Governments in Open Data Provision
Katrin Rajam\"ae-Soosaar, Anastasija Nikiforova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11952

Exploring Estonia's Open Government Data Development as a Journey towards Excellence: Unveiling the Progress of Local Governments in Open Data Provision
Estonia has a global reputation of a digital state or e-country. However, despite the success in digital governance, the country has faced challenges in the realm of Open Government Data (OGD) area, with significant advancements in its OGD ecosystem, as reflected in various open data rankings from 2020 and onwards, in the recent years being recognized among trend-setters. This paper aims to explore the evolution and positioning of Estonia's OGD development, encompassing national and local level…

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…

Three potential landing spots for former Seahawks safety Jamal Adams https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/three_potential_landing_spots_for_former_seahawks_safety_jamal_adams/s1_13132_40062986…

Three potential landing spots for former Seahawks safety Jamal Adams
After four injury-plagued seasons, safety Jamal Adams' time with the Seattle Seahawks has come to an unceremonious end.  On Tuesday, Seattle made the rather unsurprising move to release the three-time Pro Bowler as part of several cuts to prepare for the new league year. Not only was Adams — who was acquired from the New York Jets in 2020 — unable to stay on the field for Seattle, but he never came close to replicating his 9.5-sack debut season with the team. In fact, Adams hasn't recorded…

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

Faerie - complete series 🔍⚠️💼
Narrated fantasy thriller series | Total listening time: 6h 18m
Welcome to a world where fairy tales do exist, and “once upon a time” is closer, darker, and more dangerous than you imagined. Follow the investigation of Ryan Bailey—a young woman, who by happenstance, saves a man’s life and is thr...

Faerie - complete series 🔍⚠️💼
Narrated fantasy thriller series | Total listening time: 6h 18m Welcome to a world where fairy tales do exist, and “once upon a time” is closer, darker, and more dangerous than you imagined. Follow the investigation of Ryan Bailey—a young woman, who by happenstance, saves a man’s life and is thrust into a secret world of mythological creatures called “faeries." By the folks who brought you Rabbits and Tanis. 1 seasons, 12 episodes as of Jul 20, 2020.

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

Tasks People Prompt: A Taxonomy of LLM Downstream Tasks in Software Verification and Falsification Approaches
V\'ictor A. Braberman, Flavia Bonomo-Braberman, Yiannis Charalambous, Juan G. Colonna, Lucas C. Cordeiro, Rosiane de Freitas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09384

Tasks People Prompt: A Taxonomy of LLM Downstream Tasks in Software Verification and Falsification Approaches
Prompting has become one of the main approaches to leverage emergent capabilities of Large Language Models [Brown et al. NeurIPS 2020, Wei et al. TMLR 2022, Wei et al. NeurIPS 2022]. During the last year, researchers and practitioners have been playing with prompts to see how to make the most of LLMs. By homogeneously dissecting 80 papers, we investigate in deep how software testing and verification research communities have been abstractly architecting their LLM-enabled solutions. More precise…

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.

'We have to worry about physical violence': AZ elections chief preps for threats from MAGA - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/physical-violence-arizona/

'We have to worry about physical violence': AZ elections chief preps for threats from MAGA
With the exception of 2020, Arizona's electoral votes have gone to Republican presidential candidates in every election since 2000. Now, with the swing state seen as a must-win in 2024, its elections officials are having to prepare for the possibility of political violence from election deniers.The ...

Microlensing optical depth and event rate toward the Large Magellanic Cloud based on 20 years of OGLE observations
P. Mroz, A. Udalski, M. K. Szymanski, M. Kapusta, I. Soszynski, L. Wyrzykowski, P. Pietrukowicz, S. Kozlowski, R. Poleski, J. Skowron, D. Skowron, K. Ulaczyk, M. Gromadzki, K. Rybicki, P. Iwanek, M. Wrona, M. Ratajczak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02398 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.02398
arXiv:2403.02398v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Measurements of the microlensing optical depth and event rate toward the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) can be used to probe the distribution and mass function of compact objects in the direction toward that galaxy - in the Milky Way disk, Milky Way dark matter halo, and the LMC itself. The previous measurements, based on small statistical samples of events, found that the optical depth is an order of magnitude smaller than that expected from the entire dark matter halo in the form of compact objects. However, these previous studies were not sensitive to long-duration events with Einstein timescales longer than 2.5-3 years, which are expected from massive ($10-100\,M_{\odot}$) and intermediate-mass ($10^2-10^5\,M_{\odot}$) black holes. Such events would have been missed by the previous studies and would not have been taken into account in calculations of the optical depth. Here, we present the analysis of nearly 20-year-long photometric monitoring of 78.7 million stars in the LMC by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) from 2001 through 2020. We describe the observing setup, the construction of the 20-year OGLE dataset, the methods used for searching for microlensing events in the light curve data, and the calculation of the event detection efficiency. In total, we find 16 microlensing events (thirteen using an automated pipeline and three with manual searches), all of which have timescales shorter than 1 yr. We use a sample of thirteen events to measure the microlensing optical depth toward the LMC $\tau=(0.121 \pm 0.037)\times 10^{-7}$ and the event rate $\Gamma=(0.74 \pm 0.25)\times 10^{-7}\,\mathrm{yr}^{-1}\,\mathrm{star}^{-1}$. These numbers are consistent with lensing by stars in the Milky Way disk and the LMC itself, and demonstrate that massive and intermediate-mass black holes cannot comprise a significant fraction of dark matter.

Nielsen: the 96th Oscars averaged 19.5M viewers in the US, up 4% YoY, the biggest audience for any awards show since 2020, when the Oscars drew 23.64M viewers (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/2024-osc…

TV Ratings: Oscars Score Post-Pandemic Highs
The 96th Academy Awards draw 19.5 million viewers, the most for any awards show since 2020.

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

Crippled Black Phoenix - "Lost" (Official Music Video) 2020 #pouetradio

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.

GameDiscoverCo has a new Steam game data survey for 2024, with a particular focus on games released from 2020 onwards.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOJ2DKRM506Kyp7dt02QOQinDI-DGqLFpIPQy9ISDFMseOqQ/viewform…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges:
🎵 Texas Sun
#Khruangbin #LeonBridges
https://open.spotify.com/track/24ntSW3QVJzR79lHAAOTaY
https://supersounds.bandcamp.com/track/khruangbin-leon-bridges-texas-sun-2020-mixed-at-142857-hz-432-hz-concept

Rapid spin changes around a magnetar fast radio burst
Chin-Ping Hu, Takuto Narita, Teruaki Enoto, George Younes, Zorawar Wadiasingh, Matthew G. Baring, Wynn C. G. Ho, Sebastien Guillot, Paul S. Ray, Tolga Guver, Kaustubh Rajwade, Zaven Arzoumanian, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Alice K. Harding, Keith C. Gendreau
https://arxiv.org/abs/24…

Rapid spin changes around a magnetar fast radio burst
Magnetars are neutron stars with extremely high magnetic fields that exhibit various X-ray phenomena such as sporadic sub-second bursts, long-term persistent flux enhancements, and variable rates of rotation period change. In 2020, a fast radio burst (FRB), akin to cosmological millisecond-duration radio bursts, was detected from the Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154, confirming the long-suspected association between some FRBs and magnetars. However, the mechanism for FRB generation in magnetars …

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…

Very soon, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., is expected to issue a ruling that could expose key pieces of discovery that some lawyers say prove Donald Trump acted in his “private” capacity on Jan. 6, 2021
— not in his official role
— when whipping up a mob of his supporters at the Ellipse and urging them to descend on the Capitol where lawmakers were meeting to certify the 2020 election.

The Trump Docket: A window into Trump's 'private' acts on Jan. 6 may soon be opened by judge
It was a rocky week featuring significant losses for Donald Trump's many bids to dismiss his indictments or waylay longrunning civil litigation around Jan. 6.

“Das kündigte der bayerische Ministerpräsident 2020 an. Zwar hieß der Markus Söder, aber trotzdem durfte man davon ausgehen, dass seinem Amt eine gewisse Verlässlichkeit anhaftet”
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/verwalt

Verwaltungsgericht in Niederbayern: Eine Polit-Posse, die sich niemand ausdenken kann
Seit vier Jahren streiten Freie Wähler und CSU über den Standort eines Gerichts. Über eine Polit-Posse, die man sich nicht ausdenken kann.

Direct numerical simulation of transition under free-stream turbulence and the influence of large integral length scales
Kristina {\DJ}urovi\'c, Ardeshir Hanifi, Philipp Schlatter, Kenzo Sasaki, Dan S. Henningson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08543

Direct numerical simulation of transition under free-stream turbulence and the influence of large integral length scales
Under action of free-stream turbulence (FST), elongated streamwise streaky structures are generated inside the boundary layer, and their amplitude and wavelength are crucial for the transition onset. While turbulence intensity is strongly correlated with the transitional Reynolds number, characteristic length scales of the FST are often considered to have a slight impact on the transition location. However, a recent experiment by Fransson & Shahinfar (2020} shows significant effects of FST scal…

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.

A rightwing Christian lobby group that wants abortion to be banned has forged ties with an adviser to the British prime minister and is drawing up ­policy briefings for politicians.
The UK branch of the US-based Alliance Defending Freedom ( #ADF ) has more than doubled its spending since 2020 and been appointed a stakeholder in a parliamentary group on religious freedoms in a role that grants it direct a…

Possible and Impossible Inferences From Reconstructed Evolutionary Processes using Phylogenies as an Example
Niklas Hohmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03000

Possible and Impossible Inferences From Reconstructed Evolutionary Processes using Phylogenies as an Example
Our understanding of past evolutionary change is often based on reconstructions based on incomplete data, raising fundamental questions about the degree to which we can make reliable inferences about past evolutionary processes. This was demonstrated by Louca and Pennell (2020), who showed that each pure-birth process can be generated by an infinite number of birth-death processes. Here, I explore what it means to reconstruct past evolutionary change with three approaches from measure theory, g…

Upgrade of NaI(Tl) crystal encapsulation for the NEON experiment
J. J. Choi, E. J. Jeon, J. Y. Kim, K. W. Kim, S. H. Kim, S. K. Kim, Y. D. Kim, Y. J. Ko, B. C. Koh, C. Ha, B. J. Park, S. H. Lee, I. S. Lee, H. Lee, H. S. Lee, J. Lee, Y. M. Oh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03691

Upgrade of NaI(Tl) crystal encapsulation for the NEON experiment
The Neutrino Elastic-scattering Observation with NaI(Tl) experiment (NEON) aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering~(CE$ν$NS) in a NaI(Tl) crystal using reactor anti-electron neutrinos at the Hanbit nuclear power plant complex. A total of 13.3 kg of NaI(Tl) crystals were initially installed in December 2020 at the tendon gallery, 23.7$\pm$0.3\,m away from the reactor core, which operates at a thermal power of 2.8\,GW. Initial engineering operation was performed from May 2021…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09972 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Evidence for neutrino emission from the nearby active galaxy NGC 1068
We report three searches for high energy neutrino emission from astrophysical objects using data recorded with IceCube between 2011 and 2020. Improvements over previous work include new neutrino reconstruction and data calibration methods. In one search, the positions of 110 a priori selected gamma-ray sources were analyzed individually for a possible surplus of neutrinos over atmospheric and cosmic background expectations. We found an excess of $79_{-20}^{+22}$ neutrinos associated with the ne…

Comparison of three different camera systems monitoring the meteor activity over Hungary in 2020-2023
Livia Deme, Krisztian Sarneczky, Antal Igaz, Balazs Csak, Nandor Opitz, Nora Egei, Jozsef Vinko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09578

Der #Klimawandel bedroht Brasiliens #Kaffeeproduktion!
Bis zu 65% der #Anbauflächen für #Canephora

Climate change and its consequences on the climatic zoning of Coffea canephora in Brazil - Environment, Development and Sustainability
Coffee production has a large share in Brazilian agribusiness and a cultural and social importance in the country. Worldwide, Brazil is the largest producer of arabica coffee and the second largest of canephora species. In 2020, national production was 14.3 million bags of canephora coffee. Few studies on canephora coffee adaptation to climate changes can be found in the literature. Thus, our goal was to identify areas suitable for Coffea canephora cultivation in Brazil under CMIP-5 climate cha…

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…

Special counsel urges Supreme Court to reject Trump’s immunity claim

Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday urged the Supreme Court to reject Donald Trump’s “novel and sweeping” claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution on charges of conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

“The President’s constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed does not entail a general right to violate them,” Smith said in his office’s main brie…

Special counsel urges Supreme Court to reject Trump’s immunity claim
A president’s “constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed does not entail a general right to violate them,” Jack Smith writes in his office’s brief.

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

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15560 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXi…

WeatherBench 2: A benchmark for the next generation of data-driven global weather models
WeatherBench 2 is an update to the global, medium-range (1-14 day) weather forecasting benchmark proposed by Rasp et al. (2020), designed with the aim to accelerate progress in data-driven weather modeling. WeatherBench 2 consists of an open-source evaluation framework, publicly available training, ground truth and baseline data as well as a continuously updated website with the latest metrics and state-of-the-art models: https://sites.research.google/weatherbench. This paper describes the desi…

If Robert F. #Kennedy Jr. has a campaign theme
--beyond the appeal of his family name
--it’s his claim that Americans are the victims of massive, intertwining #conspiracies that he is uniquely qualified to unravel.
His paranoia politics is most pronounced, perhaps, on the matter of

RFK Jr. Is Doing a Tired Dance Around January 6
Even as his campaign walks back a downright Trumpian fundraising email, Kennedy is trying to legitimize baseless 2020 election doubts.

There's a #Python package called #WatchDog. It provides an API to "monitor file system events", and has a bunch of reverse dependencies. Historically these included #uvicorn.
In 2020, uvicorn replaced WatchDog with #WatchGod. If I recall correctly, it was the only package to use it in #Gentoo.
In 2022, WatchGod was abandoned, or rather rewritten in #RustLang as #WatchFiles. Uvicorn followed suit, removing WatchGod support (just like WatchDog support was removed before) in favor of WatchFiles.
Today, WatchFiles is used by 2 Gentoo packages: uvicorn and pelican. It has known incompatibilities with anyio >= 4 that hasn't gotten any upstream attention in 2 months now. WatchFiles seems pretty much unmaintained at this point.
In the meantime, WatchDog has had a release a few days ago and doesn't need any blockers.
#NIH

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…

Upgrade of NaI(Tl) crystal encapsulation for the NEON experiment
J. J. Choi, E. J. Jeon, J. Y. Kim, K. W. Kim, S. H. Kim, S. K. Kim, Y. D. Kim, Y. J. Ko, B. C. Koh, C. Ha, B. J. Park, S. H. Lee, I. S. Lee, H. Lee, H. S. Lee, J. Lee, Y. M. Oh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03691

Upgrade of NaI(Tl) crystal encapsulation for the NEON experiment
The Neutrino Elastic-scattering Observation with NaI(Tl) experiment (NEON) aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering~(CE$ν$NS) in a NaI(Tl) crystal using reactor anti-electron neutrinos at the Hanbit nuclear power plant complex. A total of 13.3 kg of NaI(Tl) crystals were initially installed in December 2020 at the tendon gallery, 23.7$\pm$0.3\,m away from the reactor core, which operates at a thermal power of 2.8\,GW. Initial engineering operation was performed from May 2021…

ROME/REA: Three-year, Tri-color Timeseries Photometry of the Galactic Bulge
R. A. Street, E. Bachelet, Y. Tsapras, M. P. G. Hundertmark, V. Bozza, D. M. Bramich, A. Cassan, M. Dominik, R. Figuera Jaimes, K. Horne, S. Mao, A. Saha, J. Wambsganss, Weicheng Zang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05987…

ROME/REA: Three-year, Tri-color Timeseries Photometry of the Galactic Bulge
The ROME/REA (Robotic Observations of Microlensing Events/Reactive Event Assessment) Survey was a Key Project at Las Cumbres Observatory (hereafter LCO) which continuously monitored 20 selected fields (3.76 sq.deg.) in the Galactic Bulge throughout their seasonal visibility window over a three-year period, between March 2017 and March 2020. Observations were made in three optical passbands (SDSS-g', -r', -i'), and LCO's multi-site telescope network enabled the survey to achieve a typical cadenc…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06724 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

DIAmante TESS AutoRegressive Planet Search (DTARPS): II. Hundreds of New TESS Candidate Exoplanets
The DIAmante TESS AutoRegressive Planet Search (DTARPS) project seeks to identify photometric transiting planets from 976,814 southern hemisphere stars observed in Year 1 of the TESS mission. This paper follows the methodology developed by Melton et al. (Paper I) using light curves extracted and pre-processed by the DIAmante project (Montalto et al. 2020). Paper I emerged with a list of 7,377 light curves with statistical properties characteristic of transiting planets but dominated by False Al…

A Multi-wavelength Study on A Gamma-ray Bright AGN 1308 326 Using KVN at 22 and 43 GHz
Shan Li, Sang-sung Lee, Whee Yeon Cheong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06882

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 …

There's a #Python package called #WatchDog. It provides an API to "monitor file system events", and has a bunch of reverse dependencies. Historically these included #uvicorn.
In 2020, uvicorn replaced WatchDog with #WatchGod. If I recall correctly, it was the only package to use it in #Gentoo.
In 2022, WatchGod was abandoned, or rather rewritten in #RustLang as #WatchFiles. Uvicorn followed suit, removing WatchGod support (just like WatchDog support was removed before) in favor of WatchFiles.
Today, WatchFiles is used by 2 Gentoo packages: uvicorn and pelican. It has known incompatibilities with anyio >= 4 that hasn't gotten any upstream attention in 2 months now. WatchFiles seems pretty much unmaintained at this point.
In the meantime, WatchDog has had a release a few days ago and doesn't need any blockers.
#NIH