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Time for a #Covid stats update! Aussie actuarials just dropped their annual update last week — big thanks to @… — your approach is a gold standard.
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Excess Mortality 5% Higher Than Pre-Pandemic Expectations for 2023 - Actuaries Digital
Total excess mortality for 2023 is 5% (95% confidence interval: 3% to 7%) or +8,400 deaths – i.e., there were 8,400 more deaths than expected if the pandemic had not happened.

Raiders Re-Signing C Andre James To Three-Year, $24M Deal https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_re_signing_c_andre_james_to_three_year_24m_deal/s1_17039_40086990

On vector parking functions and q-analogue
Wenkai Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04954 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.04954

On vector parking functions and q-analogue
In 2000, it was demonstrated that the set of $x$-parking functions of length $n$, where $x$=($a,b,...,b$) $\in \mathbbm{N}^n$, is equivalent to the set of rooted multicolored forests on [$n$]=\{1,...,$n$\}. In 2020, Yue Cai and Catherine H. Yan systematically investigated the properties of rational parking functions. Subsequently, a series of Context-free grammars possessing the requisite property were introduced by William Y.C. Chen and Harold R.L. Yang in 2021. %An Abelian-type identity is de…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01793 has been replaced.
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An Enhanced ADMM-based Interior Point Method for Linear and Conic Optimization
The ADMM-based interior point (ABIP, Lin et al. 2021) method is a hybrid algorithm that effectively combines interior point method (IPM) and first-order methods to achieve a performance boost in large-scale linear optimization. Different from traditional IPM that relies on computationally intensive Newton steps, the ABIP method applies the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to approximately solve the barrier penalized problem. However, similar to other first-order methods, this …

I wish I hadn't been so right about Tumlin's "make everyone equally unhappy" philosophy being a disaster.
Me in 2021: "A watered-down plan [like the Valencia center bikeway] can achieve the worst of both worlds. It makes driving harder, but fails to improve... safety enough to get drivers onto alternatives. The agency has indeed made everyone unhappy, but that’s not a sign it did its job. Quite the opposite."

Recommitting to Transit First in San Francisco
Time to get serious about this 48-year-old policy

@… Updated: GPU/MinKNOW basecalling server walkthrough:
https://gringer.gitlab.io/presentation-notes/2021/10/08/gpu-callin…

always a link to Russia lurking in the background #TraitorTrump #MoscowMarjorie #UsPoli

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

Edit and Alphabet-Ordering Sensitivity of Lex-parse
Yuto Nakashima, Dominik K\"oppl, Mitsuru Funakoshi, Shunsuke Inenaga, Hideo Bannai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19223

Edit and Alphabet-Ordering Sensitivity of Lex-parse
We investigate the compression sensitivity [Akagi et al., 2023] of lex-parse [Navarro et al., 2021] for two operations: (1) single character edit and (2) modification of the alphabet ordering, and give tight upper and lower bounds for both operations. For both lower bounds, we use the family of Fibonacci words. For the bounds on edit operations, our analysis makes heavy use of properties of the Lyndon factorization of Fibonacci words to characterize the structure of lex-parse.

Bahnausbau in Baden-Württemberg: Neuer Rückschlag für Fahrgäste an der Gäubahn
Seit Herbst 2021 versucht die Bahn auf einem knapp sechs Kilometer langen Abschnitt der Gäubahn ein zweites Gleis zu verlegen. Der mehrfach verschobene Inbetriebnahmetermin platzt jetzt ein weiteres Mal.

Bahnausbau in Baden-Württemberg - Neuer Rückschlag für Fahrgäste an der Gäubahn
Seit Herbst 2021 versucht die Bahn auf einem knapp sechs Kilometer langen Abschnitt der Gäubahn ein zweites Gleis zu verlegen. Der mehrfach verschobene Inbetriebnahmetermin platzt jetzt ein weiteres Mal.

[Reporterre] - 73 % des fruits non bio contaminés aux #pesticides.
Près de 94 % des cerises, 91 % des pamplemousses et 90 % des nectarines et pêches contiennent au moins un résidu de pesticide lorsque ces produits, non bio, sont vendus en France. C’est le résultat de l’« État des lieux sur les fruits et légumes non bio » qu’a publié l’ONG

73 % des fruits non bio contaminés aux pesticides
Près de 94 % des cerises, 91 % des pamplemousses et 90 % des nectarines et pêches contiennent au moins un résidu de pesticide lorsque ces produits, non bio, sont vendus en France. C’est le résultat de l’« État des lieux sur les fruits et légumes non bio » qu’a publié l’ONG Générations futures le 22 février. L’association a compilé les résultats des plans de surveillance relatifs aux résidus de pesticides réalisés par les autorités françaises sur cinq années (2…

Everton lose £124M to 2021-22, breaching the £105M limit, punished with a 10 point deduction (reduced to 6 on appeal.)
Wolves lose £113M to 2022-23, breaching the £105M limit, get no punishment.
Make it make sense, Premier League.
#Football #SportsBall

Did you know SFPD chases end in collisions 41% of the time, and arrests 39% of the time?
And that performance is much worse than most big cities in CA?
Maybe voting #NoOnPropE Is a good idea

San Francisco police chases top California crash list
An analysis by The Standard found that 41% of pursuits initiated by SFPD from 2018 to 2021 resulted in a collision. That was nearly twice the statewide average of 22%.

Did you know SFPD chases end in collisions 41% of the time, and arrests 39% of the time?
And that performance is much worse than most big cities in CA?
Maybe voting #NoOnPropE Is a good idea

San Francisco police chases top California crash list
An analysis by The Standard found that 41% of pursuits initiated by SFPD from 2018 to 2021 resulted in a collision. That was nearly twice the statewide average of 22%.

New Orleans signs: Gators edition (volume II).
1) Carrollton
2) Central Business District
3) Bayou St. John
4) Lakeview
Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans.
@…
#NOLA

Reminders
Trump = Netanyahu
‘Netanyahu is essentially an Israeli Republican’
By Marc Caputo, August 15, 2019
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/15/israel-trump-netanyahu-1465917
Netanyahu’s woes mirror those of his ally Trump
By Joseph Krauss, Associated Press, Nov 22, 2019
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/netanyahus-woes-mirror-those-of-his-ally-trump
Netanyahu... paints his Jewish opponents as weak ... “leftists,” and ... presents himself ... as the only person capable of leading the country.
By Asharq Al Awsat June 10, 2021
https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/3020331/israel’s-netanyahu-lashes-out-end-his-era-draws-near
Vote for Democracy!

The helpers, the doers, and the ones left behind: Reflections on the gendered dimension of academic citizenship in Dutch #academia #Gender #Inclusion

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05442 has been replaced.
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Testing Spreading Behavior in Networks with Arbitrary Topologies
Inspired by the works of Goldreich and Ron (J. ACM, 2017) and Nakar and Ron (ICALP, 2021), we initiate the study of property testing in dynamic environments with arbitrary topologies. Our focus is on the simplest non-trivial rule that can be tested, which corresponds to the 1-BP rule of bootstrap percolation and models a simple spreading behavior: Every "infected" node stays infected forever, and each "healthy" node becomes infected if and only if it has at least one infected neighbor. We show …

Roommate From Hell - complete series 😈👩🏻🏙️
Dramatized cozy-horror comedy | Total listening time: 5h 16m
The audio sitcom that spits in the face of God. Bea is a 10,000-year-old demon who fought in the rebellion against the tyrant god Yahweh. Claire is a 30-year-old atheist. They live together in Slope Hill, Brooklyn. And Hell is coming a...

Roommate From Hell - complete series 😈👩🏻🏙️
Dramatized cozy-horror comedy | Total listening time: 5h 16m The audio sitcom that spits in the face of God. Bea is a 10,000-year-old demon who fought in the rebellion against the tyrant god Yahweh. Claire is a 30-year-old atheist. They live together in Slope Hill, Brooklyn. And Hell is coming after them. 2 seasons, 28 episodes as of Jun 22, 2021.

Sep. 25, 2021: A samosa under a slice of Jarlsberg Lite cheese, with a sprinkling of shredded Cheddar and Monterrey Jack cheeses on top. All carefully microwaved.
(Back when I did eat the occasional samosa, had a by-then 7-year old Samsung Galaxy S5, and was a much more ignorant photographer. Like, where is the depth, what's with the background,... 🤦‍♂️)
#food

Pizza, meatballs, this wine, and Goodfellas with former Tenafly resident Paul Sorvino

Semialgebraic Range Stabbing, Ray Shooting, and Intersection Counting in the Plane
Timothy M. Chan, Pingan Cheng, Da Wei Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12303

Semialgebraic Range Stabbing, Ray Shooting, and Intersection Counting in the Plane
Polynomial partitioning techniques have recently led to improved geometric data structures for a variety of fundamental problems related to semialgebraic range searching and intersection searching in 3D and higher dimensions (e.g., see [Agarwal, Aronov, Ezra, and Zahl, SoCG 2019; Ezra and Sharir, SoCG 2021; Agarwal, Aronov, Ezra, Katz, and Sharir, SoCG 2022]). They have also led to improved algorithms for offline versions of semialgebraic range searching in 2D, via lens-cutting [Sharir and Zahl…

The helpers, the doers, and the ones left behind: Reflections on the gendered dimension of academic citizenship in Dutch #academia #Gender #Inclusion

Hubble Space Telescope images of SN 1987A: Evolution of the ejecta and the equatorial ring from 2009 to 2022
Sophie Rosu, Josefin Larsson, Claes Fransson, Peter Challis, Tuomas Kangas, Robert P. Kirshner, Stephen S. Lawrence, Peter Lundqvist, Mikako Matsuura, Jesper Sollerman, George Sonneborn, Linda Tenhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/…

Hubble Space Telescope images of SN 1987A: Evolution of the ejecta and the equatorial ring from 2009 to 2022
Supernova (SN) 1987A offers a unique opportunity to study how a spatially resolved SN evolves into a young supernova remnant (SNR). We present and analyze Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging observations of SN 1987A obtained in 2022 and compare them with HST observations from 2009 to 2021. These observations allow us to follow the evolution of the equatorial ring (ER), the rapidly expanding ejecta, and emission from the center over a wide range in wavelength from 2000 to 11 000 AA. The ER has …

Beyond the Dark - complete anthology 🌌🏙️👽
Dramatized and narrated scifi horror anthology | Total listening time: 6h 41m
Atmospheric sci-fi stories. You might find yourself in the heart of a cyberpunk metropolis, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, or an alien world. Each story features its own original music score for a truly immersive experi...

Beyond the Dark - complete anthology 🌌🏙️👽
Dramatized and narrated scifi horror anthology | Total listening time: 6h 41m Atmospheric sci-fi stories. You might find yourself in the heart of a cyberpunk metropolis, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, or an alien world. Each story features its own original music score for a truly immersive experience. 3 seasons, 14 episodes as of Jul 13, 2021.