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Francis Scott Key's "Hello, Dali" is going to take awhile.

Filing: FTX strikes deals worth $884M with buyers, including $500M from a Mubadala affiliate, to sell most of its Anthropic stake; FTX invested $500M in 2021 (Becky Yerak/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj…

Panthers interested in reunion with former Defensive Player of the Year https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/panthers_interested_in_reunion_with_former_defensive_player_of_the_year/s1_127_40159320<…

Panthers interested in reunion with former Defensive Player of the Year
The Carolina Panthers are reportedly interested in bringing back a player who made a Pro Bowl with them a few seasons ago. The Panthers have reached out to free-agent cornerback Stephon Gilmore to discuss a potential return to Carolina, according to Joe Person of The Athletic. Gilmore was with the Panthers for a brief period in 2021, but he made a big impact. Carolina acquired the former No. 10 overall pick in a trade with the New England Patriots midway through that season. Gilmore appeared in…

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

2021 retro-link! https://wjwh.eu/posts/2021-10-01-no-syscall-server-iouring.html - Stupid tricks with io_uring: a server that does zero syscalls per request.

Africans and the creation of the modern world
"Europe would have been a marginal player in world history without Africa's natural resources and centuries of cheap African labor."
Interview in 2021 with Howard French for his book "Born in Blackness"
https://

Africans and the creation of the modern world
Europe would have been a marginal player in world history without Africa's natural resources and centuries of cheap African labor.

Nielsen: US monthly TV viewership rose 1.4% YoY to a four-year high in January, which included three of the top 10 days with the most TV viewing since May 2021 (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/tv-usage-four-year-high-january-2024-niel…

History has shown us that, when left unchecked, hateful activity will grow and escalate.
That is clear when looking at the pattern of #Patriot #Front’s behavior.
The group has moved from flyering and stickering on college campuses,
to outright property destruction,
to in-person marches that have r…

Lawyers’ Committee Files Lawsuit Against Patriot Front Members for Vandalism & Intimidation | Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Credit: Unicorn Riot RICHMOND  – Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and partners filed suit against members of the Patriot Front, an alleged white supremacist group, to hold them accountable for vandalizing and destroying a mural honoring Black hometown tennis legend Arthur Ashe in Richmond, Virginia in October 2021. Plaintiffs are residents of […]

2021 retro-link! https://wjwh.eu/posts/2021-10-01-no-syscall-server-iouring.html - Stupid tricks with io_uring: a server that does zero syscalls per request.

Just-in-time: gaze guidance in natural behavior https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.29.428782v4 "natural behavior relies very little on working memory", "just-in-time planning by searching for action-relevant items in the moment"

Filing: Jeff Bezos sold 12M Amazon shares last week, netting just over $2B, his first Amazon stock sale since 2021; Amazon said Bezos plans to sell up to 50M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Jeff Bezos Sells $2 Billion of Amazon Shares in First Sale Since 2021
Jeff Bezos unloaded 12 million shares of Amazon.com Inc. this week, the first time the billionaire has sold the company’s stock since 2021.

Satire is officially dead. It has to be noted that both senators and members of congress are allowed to trade stocks — many of them criticize fore…

Senators Own up to $25 Million in Big Tech Stocks
Senators invested in tech stocks like Amazon, Apple, and Google may soon be voting on antitrust bills introduced in the Senate that would impact their portfolios.

Perfect silent sunday mix: Simon Huxtable aka Inhmost/Aural Imbalance mix of unreleased tracks of his alive, yet calm, fragile and ethereal sounds, harmonies, and ambiences reminscent of the early spring petrichor outside...
CVMIX003 - Inhmost (2021)
https://soundcloud.com/captured-vision

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

Selenskyj legt persönliche Einkünfte für 2021 und 2022 offen
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj hat seine persönlichen Einkünfte für die Jahre 2021 und 2022 offengelegt. In einem Beitrag auf der Internetseite des Präsidenten meldeten Selenskyj und seine Familie für 2021 ein Einkommen von 10,8 Millionen Griwna (263.000 Euro), zwölf Millionen Griwna weniger als im Jahr zuvor. Darin waren Einnahmen aus dem Verkauf von …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: + EU plant Nutzung russischer Gelder für Ukraine +
Die EU hat sich auf einen Plan verständigt, eingefrorene russische Gelder für die Ukraine zu nutzen. Der ukrainische Verteidigungsminister meldet "viele Verstöße" bei Versorgungslieferungen für das Militär. Der Liveblog vom Montag zum Nachlesen.

Jane McAlevey: "I have stopped all work to turn to home-based hospice for the remainder of my time."
😢
https://janemcalevey.com/writing/latest-news/

I've been thinking a lot about journals & special issues lately, likely because I find myself as an editor of a journal/magazine—whose entire program is thematic issues proposed & organized by guest editors—in the midst of a backlash against special issues.
This article does some nice theorizing about the changes we're seeing in editorship amidst the nexus of other transformations in scholarly publishing:

"De overheid trok in 2021 bijna 6 miljard euro uit om corona-achterstanden in het basis- en middelbaar onderwijs terug te dringen. De Algemene Rekenkamer waarschuwde meermaals dat de regeling te vaag was, maar het ministerie maakte het geld toch over. Drie jaar later is nauwelijks te achterhalen waar de miljarden zijn gebleven, maar een ding is duidelijk: commerciële onderwijsaanbieders hebben flink geprofiteerd."
Dat los van de vraag hoe echt die achterstanden waren...

Teleworking today.
And laughing with my 12 yo's dark sense of humor. Or maybe its just whats on his mind.
I was looking for something in his room and found this:
A sign :
“R.I.P.
#MechanicalKeyboard with custom caps.
2021-2024
My first #keyboard”…

“Costco has made it easier for members to shell out thousands of dollars on gold bars—and get a $1.50 hot dog while they are at it.”
https://press.coop/@WSJ/112215912230520704

The Wall Street Journal :_p: (@WSJ@press.coop)
The Costco Shoppers Putting $2,000 Gold Bars in Their Carts Young investors say the old-school store of value is a hedge against inflation and catastrophe. #press https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-costco-shoppers-putting-2-000-gold-bars-in-their-carts-d4e8aeb5?utm_source=press.coop

[Basta] - #Bilal, tasé et tué par balle : comment une expulsion locative a viré au drame.
Des loyers impayés, une expulsion demandée par huissier et Š l’issue de l’intervention des policiers, un homme mort, simultanément tasé et tué par balle. Que s’est-il passé chez Bilal M. en 2021 ?

Bilal, tasé et tué par balle : comment une expulsion locative a viré au drame
Des loyers impayés, une expulsion demandée par huissier et à l'issue de l'intervention des policiers, un homme mort, simultanément tasé et tué par balle. Que s'est-il passé chez Bilal M. en 2021 ? Enquête sur une violence policière létale.

A Pan-STARRS1 Search for Planet Nine: #PlanetNine with the characteristics of that predicted in Brown & Batygin (2021) to a 50% completion depth of V=21.5. This survey, along with previous analyses of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and Dark EnergySurvey (DES) data, rules out 78% of the Brown & Batygin parameter space."

What is the carbon impact of the fashion industry?
The figure of 10% of global carbon emissions has been cited in multiple secondary sources, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20…

The invisible black widow PSR J1720-0534: implications for the electron density towards the North Polar Spur
Karri I. I. Koljonen, Sindre S. Lindseth, Manuel Linares, Alice K. Harding, Marco Turchetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09010

The invisible black widow PSR J1720-0534: implications for the electron density towards the North Polar Spur
Radio emission from pulsars can be used to map out their distances through dispersion measure (DM), which quantifies the amount of radio pulse dispersion. However, this method relies on accurately modeling the free electron density in the line of sight. Here, we present a detailed study of the multi-wavelength emission from PSR J1720-0534, a black widow compact binary millisecond pulsar discovered in 2021, which the latest electron density model of the Galaxy (YMW16; Yao et al. 2017) places at …

I have severe depression and people tend to speculate about why, but I am generally horrified because my getting laid off from Zymergen in October 2021 and having WARN for two months (still employed but not an active employee) and then the two week gap between December 20 and Jan 10 when I was not employed is what most people assume makes me most sad, and they cannot fathom why I would be upset at friends I had known for a decade deciding to no longer talk to me (especially if there is any w…

"…we, in the #Arabworld, have known for a while that these #socialmedia platforms are a threat to #democracy. For far too long,

The social media myth about the Arab Spring
Social media networks did not trigger the Arab revolutions, but they did contribute to the counter-revolutions.

🔗 Listing Most Recent Git Branches
A couple very user-friendly git aliases for listing branches by last commit date. Where has this been all my career?
https://tekin.co.uk/2021/11/listing-most-recent-git-branches

List your Git branches by recent activity
Sometimes you just want to see your most recent branches. Here's a handy Git alias that will help you do just that.

\o/Ich habe meine erste 5⭐ Bewertung eingelocht!! Hanna Bervoets, Dieser Beitrag wurde gelöscht [2021].
Nur 100 Seiten [schnell in der Bib gelesen heute] und wahnsinnig gut, jede*r sollte es lesen; es geht um eine Social Media-Content-Moderatorin, um ihre Beziehung und die mit den Kolleg*innen.
Auch eine Autorin, die ich mir merke und von der ich definitiv mehr lesen möchte. [Im weitesten Sinne Parallelen im Stil zu Angela Lehner.]

Platão - Cšrmides
https://doi.org/10.34024/lelprat.2.2021.12321

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

Very useful read from @…
https://veronikach.com/progress-reports/hello-tenure/

Förlåt men svaret är väl nej? Det är klart att normer och taskiga kommentarer kan förstärka ett förtryck, men är väl inte ett förtryck i sig? Jag förstår inte vem den förtryckande parten är här? Har inte kollat statistiken men utgår från att barnlösa har mer tid, pengar och makt än sina jämnåriga föräldrar och inte det omvända. Då blir det jättekonstigt att tala om det som ett "förtryck". Folk kan vara taskiga utan att det är ett "förtryck".

Skryt gärna om era moderskap – men lämna de barnlösa i fred
Det må vara irriterande för dessa influencers, som förstås är mer än bara mammor, att reduceras till sina föräldraskap. Men det gör inte att argument om det kapitaliserade moderskapet faller.

#NowPlaying some SICK, grody death metal I just found that I won't even save til Thursday - MORTIFERUM. This is their first EP 'Altar of Decay' from 2017, but their 2021 full length is fantastic too.
That's up next.
https://…

Still and always will be the greatest Super Bowl halftime show EVER…
Disagree with me at your peril…🤣 https://me.dm/@anildash/111874422802012363

Krass: DII ist pleite. Das erklärt einiges (wobei da auch die Frage nach Henne und Ei auftaucht ...). In dem im Artikel genannten Haus (Ob. Rieselfeldgraben 11 - Wasser wird gedrosselt, weil DII Schulden bei Stadt/Badenova hat) habe ich bis letzten Herbst gewohnt - und kann den Ärger um fehlende Erreichbarkeit etc. nur unterstreichen. Ach ja ... und meine Kaution kann ich dann wohl auch vergessen ...

Investor von 303 Wohnungen in Freiburg-Rieselfeld ist pleite
Das erklärt so manchen Missstand der letzten Monate: Der Investor, der zum Januar 2021 mehrere hundert Wohnungen in Rieselfeld übernommen hat, ist zahlungsunfähig.

Vikings to sign former first-round pick https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/vikings_to_sign_former_first_round_pick/s1_14819_40109219

Vikings to sign former first-round pick
Continuing to reshape their front seven, the Vikings have a deal in place with Jerry Tillery.  The former first-round defensive tackle is set to join Minnesota on a one-year deal worth up to $3.25M, Tom Pelissero of NFL Network reports. Tillery had an underwhelming start to his career with the Chargers, despite seeing a full-time starting role in 2020 and 2021.  The 27-year-old saw his workload cut the following season, and he was ultimately waived midway through the 2022 campaign. He closed …

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.

Censored Essay: Peter Hessler Sells His Car https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/02/censored-essay-peter-hessler-sells-his-car/

Censored Essay: Peter Hessler Sells His Car
Acclaimed writer Peter Hessler is selling his car in Chengdu, after being forced to leave China in 2021. Online, the sale of his Honda CRV has spurred a series of reflections on Hessler’s impact on China and on the closing of a chapter in U.S.-China relations. Hessler wrote three famous books on China: “River Town,” […]

Selenskyj legt persönliche Einkünfte für 2021 und 2022 offen
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj hat seine persönlichen Einkünfte für die Jahre 2021 und 2022 offengelegt. In einem Beitrag auf der Internetseite des Präsidenten meldeten Selenskyj und seine Familie für 2021 ein Einkommen von 10,8 Millionen Griwna (263.000 Euro), zwölf Millionen Griwna weniger als im Jahr zuvor. Darin waren Einnahmen aus dem Verkauf von …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Kiew meldet Verstöße bei Militärversorgung ++
Der ukrainische Verteidigungsminister meldet "viele Verstöße" bei Versorgungslieferungen für das Militär. Der Bezirk Krementschuk ist ukrainischen Angaben zufolge erneut Ziel russischer Raketenangriffe. Die Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

Sources: Reddit is targeting a valuation in the mid-single-digit billions for its planned IPO in March; Reddit raised funds at a $10B valuation in 2021 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-28/re…

Reddit Advised to Target at Least $5 Billion Valuation in IPO
Reddit Inc. is weighing feedback from early meetings with potential investors in its initial public offering that it should consider a valuation of at least $5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, even as it is estimated below that figure in the volatile market for shares of private companies.

Teleworking today.
And laughing with my 12 yo's dark sense of humor. Or maybe its just whats on his mind.
I was looking for something in his room and found this:
A sign :
“R.I.P.
#MechanicalKeyboard with custom caps.
2021-2024
My first #keyboard”…

There were 40 consecutive rollovers in 2021 and 2022; tomorrow is the first ever 41st #Powerball draw. As per the law of very large numbers the odds of a #Powerball rollover continuing gradually decrease. The more trials, the more black swan.
10 draws, ~67%.
20 draws, ~45%. <…

2021 retro-link! https://github.com/plan9foundation/plan9 - Plan 9 history in git, from 1992-09-21 to 2015-01-10.

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%.

The invisible black widow PSR J1720-0534: implications for the electron density towards the North Polar Spur
Karri I. I. Koljonen, Sindre S. Lindseth, Manuel Linares, Alice K. Harding, Marco Turchetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09010

The invisible black widow PSR J1720-0534: implications for the electron density towards the North Polar Spur
Radio emission from pulsars can be used to map out their distances through dispersion measure (DM), which quantifies the amount of radio pulse dispersion. However, this method relies on accurately modeling the free electron density in the line of sight. Here, we present a detailed study of the multi-wavelength emission from PSR J1720-0534, a black widow compact binary millisecond pulsar discovered in 2021, which the latest electron density model of the Galaxy (YMW16; Yao et al. 2017) places at …

@… https://geeknews.chat/@theregister/112166393856728772

🔊 #NowPlaying on #fip
Passion Theatre:
🎵 Vacation day
#PassionTheatre

Vacation Day
Passion Theatre · Song · 2021

Clinical trial registration report 2022: data about clinical trial registration every year since 2015
https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-a…

Former Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney scorched former colleague Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., on Saturday for deleting her statement calling for Jan. 6 Capitol rioters to be arrested.
Cheney had shared the now-dead link to Stefanik's statement following the 2021 insurrection calling for those who stormed the Capitol to be "prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
"I fully condemn the dangerous violence and destruction that occurred today at the United St…

Liz Cheney Calls Out Elise Stefanik for Deleting Statement Demanding Arrest of Jan. 6 Rioters
Cheney is one of only two Republicans who participated in the January 6 Committee

The 17 April 2021 widespread solar energetic particle event: #SolarStorm: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/multiple-spacecraft-tell-the-story-of-one-giant-solar-storm/

Very useful read from @…
https://veronikach.com/progress-reports/hello-tenure/

As deep, multi-layered, grandiose and overwhelming as always and showing off the Buchla sound like no other. Each of his tracks is an absolute journey:
Alessandro Cortini - Chiaroscuro (2021)
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=mE27ezBt6Nc

Julia Breitwieser (27) - Dieses Politik-Talent geht bestimmt nicht baden #News #Nachrichten

2021 retro-link! https://furbo.org/2021/08/25/jsc-my-new-best-friend/ - jsc: JavaScript on the macOS command line.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14993 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_…

On k-Mer-Based and Maximum Likelihood Estimation Algorithms for Trace Reconstruction
The goal of the trace reconstruction problem is to recover a string $x\in\{0,1\}^n$ given many independent {\em traces} of $x$, where a trace is a subsequence obtained from deleting bits of $x$ independently with some given probability $p\in [0,1).$ A recent result of Chase (STOC 2021) shows how $x$ can be determined (in exponential time) from $\exp(\widetilde{O}(n^{1/5}))$ traces. This is the state-of-the-art result on the sample complexity of trace reconstruction. In this paper we consider …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17493 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

Prescribing Large Language Models for Perioperative Care: What's The Right Dose for Pre-trained Models?
Postoperative risk predictions can inform effective perioperative care management and planning. We aimed to assess whether clinical large language models (LLMs) can predict postoperative risks using clinical texts with various training strategies. The main cohort involved 84,875 records from Barnes Jewish Hospital (BJH) system between 2018 and 2021. Methods were replicated on Beth Israel Deaconess's MIMIC dataset. Both studies had mean duration of follow-up based on the length of postoperative …

"Analysis: New oil and gas projects since 2021 could emit 14bn tonnes of CO2"
#Oil #Gas #Energy #FossilFuels

Analysis: New oil and gas projects since 2021 could emit 14bn tonnes of CO2 - Carbon Brief
Burning all the oil and gas from new discoveries and newly approved projects since 2021 would emit at least 14.1bn tonnes of carbon dioxide

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…

In October 2021, Donald Trump announced that his media company, the owner of the platform Truth Social, had sealed an incredible deal:
👉 a merger with a “special purpose acquisition company” that would deliver to his firm $300 million toward his promise of giving “a voice to all.”
By then, however, the insider trading by investors in the #SPAC, 🔸Digital World Acquisition🔸, had already begun
…

2021 retro-link! https://blog.matthieud.me/2020/exploring-clang-llvm-optimization-on-programming-horror/ - Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on a programming horror.

Rapidly rotating radiatively driven convection: experimental and numerical validation of the `geostrophic turbulence' scaling predictions
Gabriel Hadjerci, Vincent Bouillaut, Benjamin Miquel, Basile Gallet
https://arXiv.org/abs/2401.16200

Rapidly rotating radiatively driven convection: experimental and numerical validation of the `geostrophic turbulence' scaling predictions
We experimentally and numerically characterize rapidly rotating radiatively driven thermal convection, beyond the sole heat transport measurements reported in Bouillaut et al. (2021). Based on a suite of direct numerical simulations (DNS) and additional processing of the experimental data collected by Bouillaut et al. (2021), we report the simultaneous validation of the scaling predictions of the `geostrophic turbulence' regime -- the diffusivity-free or `ultimate' regime of rapidly rotating co…

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…

Sources: Stripe and some investors agreed to buy $1B of current and ex-employees' shares, valuing it at $65B, up from $50B in 2023, but down from $95B in 2021 (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/stripe-valuati

Who will replace Dan Quinn following his departure from Cowboys? https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/who_will_replace_dan_quinn_following_his_departure_from_cowboys/s1_13132_39901668

Who will replace Dan Quinn following his departure from Cowboys?
The Dallas Cowboys must fill an enormous hole in their coaching staff after the Washington Commanders hired defensive coordinator Dan Quinn as their next head coach on Thursday.   Per ESPN's Adam Schefter, it remains to be seen if the 2021 Assistant Coach of the Year will bring Cowboys assistants to Washington, including defensive backs coach Al Harris or defensive line coach Aden Durde. Schefter added each could be a DC candidate for the Commanders if Dallas grants permission to interview the…

2021 retro-link! https://blog.matthieud.me/2020/exploring-clang-llvm-optimization-on-programming-horror/ - Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on a programming horror.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04841 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Unveiling Luminous Ly$α$ Emitters at $z\approx6$ through JWST/NIRCam Imaging in the COSMOS Field
We study a sample of 14 spectroscopically confirmed Ly$α$ Emitters (LAEs) in the late era of reionization (at redshift $z\approx6$) based on the JWST/NIRCam imaging dataset. These LAEs with high Ly$α$ luminosity of $L$(Ly$α$) $\sim10^{42.4-43.4}$ erg s$^{-1}$ have been covered by the (ongoing) COSMOS-Web survey (Kartaltepe et al. 2021; Casey et al. 2022) over $0.28$ deg$^2$ in four NIRCam bands (F115W, F150W, F277W, and F444W). With JWST imaging, we determine the UV continua with $M_{\rm UV}…

Chromatic number in $1.9999^n$ time? Fast deterministic set partitioning under the asymptotic rank conjecture
Andreas Bj\"orklund, Radu Curticapean, Thore Husfeldt, Petteri Kaski, Kevin Pratt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04987

Chromatic number in $1.9999^n$ time? Fast deterministic set partitioning under the asymptotic rank conjecture
In this paper we further explore the recently discovered connection by Björklund and Kaski [STOC 2024] and Pratt [STOC 2024] between the asymptotic rank conjecture of Strassen [Progr. Math. 1994] and the three-way partitioning problem. We show that under the asymptotic rank conjecture, the chromatic number of an $n$-vertex graph can be computed deterministically in $O(1.99982^n)$ time, thus giving a conditional answer to a question of Zamir [ICALP 2021], and questioning the optimality of the $…

Improved bounds on the interactive capacity via error pattern analysis
Mudit Aggarwal, Manuj Mukherjee
https://arXiv.org/abs/2401.15355 https://

Improved bounds on the interactive capacity via error pattern analysis
Any interactive protocol between a pair of parties can be reliably simulated in the presence of noise with a multiplicative overhead on the number of rounds (Schulman 1996). The reciprocal of the best (least) overhead is called the interactive capacity of the noisy channel. In this work, we present lower bounds on the interactive capacity of the binary erasure channel. Our lower bound improves the best known bound due to Ben-Yishai et al. 2021 by roughly a factor of 1.75. The improvement is d…

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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…

Dan Quinn leaves Cowboys and might immediately go to war with them https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dan_quinn_leaves_cowboys_and_might_immediately_go_to_war_with_them/s1_17313_39901429

Dan Quinn leaves Cowboys and might immediately go to war with them
The Dallas Cowboys are losing defensive coordinator Dan Quinn to a division rival, as he's set to take over the Washington Commanders as head coach, per ESPN's Adam Schefter. Quinn was considered a finalist for both Washington and the Seattle Seahawks, who went with Baltimore Ravens DC Mike Macdonald on Wednesday.  Since 2021 when Quinn took over the Cowboys defense, they ranked #1 on defensive EPA/play per RBSDM.com. However, fans were slowly souring on Quinn after a terrible showing versus …

Chromatic number in $1.9999^n$ time? Fast deterministic set partitioning under the asymptotic rank conjecture
Andreas Bj\"orklund, Radu Curticapean, Thore Husfeldt, Petteri Kaski, Kevin Pratt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04987

Chromatic number in $1.9999^n$ time? Fast deterministic set partitioning under the asymptotic rank conjecture
In this paper we further explore the recently discovered connection by Björklund and Kaski [STOC 2024] and Pratt [STOC 2024] between the asymptotic rank conjecture of Strassen [Progr. Math. 1994] and the three-way partitioning problem. We show that under the asymptotic rank conjecture, the chromatic number of an $n$-vertex graph can be computed deterministically in $O(1.99982^n)$ time, thus giving a conditional answer to a question of Zamir [ICALP 2021], and questioning the optimality of the $…

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…

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The impact of Covid-19 vaccination in Aotearoa New Zealand: a modelling study
Aotearoa New Zealand implemented a Covid-19 elimination strategy in 2020 and 2021, which enabled a large majority of the population to be vaccinated before being exposed to the virus. This strategy delivered one of the lowest pandemic mortality rates in the world. However, quantitative estimates of the population-level health benefits of vaccination are lacking. Here, we use a validated mathematical model to investigate counterfactual scenarios with differing levels of vaccine coverage in diffe…

Reports: Dan Quinn to be named head coach of Commanders https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/reports_dan_quinn_to_be_named_head_coach_of_commanders/s1_17049_39901439

Reports: Dan Quinn to be named head coach of Commanders
The Washington Commanders will name Dan Quinn as their head coach, multiple outlets reported Thursday. The Commanders, who fired Ron Rivera at the end of a 4-13 season in 2023, were the only team that had yet to hire a head coach among the eight openings this winter. Quinn, 53, will jump to Washington from the NFC East rival Dallas Cowboys, where he served as the defensive coordinator since 2021. He was the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons from 2015-20 and tallied a 43-42 record in five-plus s…