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Opinion: Ukraine may have no choice but to lower its fighting age: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/27/opinion-ukraine-may.html

I didn't realize so many Quick Build projects were failing this badly to reduce injury crashes. On some of these streets I *feel* safer since the changes, but the numbers don't lie. These are failures and SF must reevaluate its whole approach. Concrete > flex posts
https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/sf-vi

Vision Zero lacks a vision, experts say
As San Francisco hit the 10-year anniversary of its 2014 “Vision Zero” plan to eliminate all traffic fatalities, the effort has failed: Nearly as many

From the vault: 2021
The Nigerian dream is to leave #Nigeria
"In Nigeria, to be an emigrant is to possess illustrious social capital and a badge of honor that is not only reserved for you, but also for your family."

The Nigerian dream is to leave Nigeria
In Nigeria, to be an emigrant is to possess illustrious social capital and a badge of honor that is not only reserved for you, but also for your family.

But it's all Biden's fault - he was in charge during the pandemic, right?
Supermarket profits boomed thanks to the pandemic and inflation
https://qz.com/supermarket-prices-grocery-food-inflation-pandemic-1851369826

Supermarkets supersized their profits during the pandemic
Operating incomes at major grocery chains grew in 2021 — and are still climbing

Opinion: Ukraine may have no choice but to lower its fighting age: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/27/opinion-ukraine-may.html

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

I didn't realize so many Quick Build projects were failing this badly to reduce injury crashes. On some of these streets I *feel* safer since the changes, but the numbers don't lie. These are failures and SF must reevaluate its whole approach. Concrete > flex posts
https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/sf-vi

Vision Zero lacks a vision, experts say
As San Francisco hit the 10-year anniversary of its 2014 “Vision Zero” plan to eliminate all traffic fatalities, the effort has failed: Nearly as many

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…

France fines Google €250M for failing to broker deals with media outlets over content linking and using press content to train AI, after a €500M fine in 2021 (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Google (GOOGL) Fined €250 Million in French Clash With News Publishers
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has been fined €250 million ($271 million) by France’s competition watchdog for failing to broker agreements with media outlets for publishing links to their content and for plundering press content to train its AI technology.

France fines Google €250M for failing to broker deals with media outlets over content linking and using press content to train AI, after a €500M fine in 2021 (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Google (GOOGL) Fined €250 Million in French Clash With News Publishers
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has been fined €250 million ($271 million) by France’s competition watchdog for failing to broker agreements with media outlets for publishing links to their content and for plundering press content to train its AI technology.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05442 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

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 …

NFL Insider Drops Major Report On Cowboys, Dak Prescott https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_insider_drops_major_report_on_cowboys_dak_prescott/s1_17150_40159215

NFL Insider Drops Major Report On Cowboys, Dak Prescott
The Dallas Cowboys have firmly stood by quarterback Dak Prescott and head coach Mike McCarthy for another season following last year’s playoff disappointment against the Green Bay Packers. However, if their fortunes don’t improve, both Prescott and McCarthy could see their time in Dallas come to an end. Prescott is coming off a stellar season, arguably the best of his career, and he’s entering the final year of his 4-year, $160 million extension signed in 2021. Despite speculation about h…

On the same day he got his $483 million #bond reduced by a NY Court, #Trump announces he'd be selling shares with his initials #DJT as the trading symbol in his nascent

2021 retro-link! https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2021/12/03/tips-on-adding-json-output-to-your-cli-app/ - Tips on adding JSON output to your command line utility.

Donald Trump's Truth Social is set to become part of a publicly traded company after a long-delayed merger was approved.
On Friday, a shell company created solely to buy Truth Social's parent company, Trump Media & Technology Group, approved the merger, The New York Times reported.
👉Trump's net worth is set to jump more than $3 billion from the deal, based on his large stake in the social-media platform he helped create in the wake of his post-January 6, 2021, Cap…

Truth Social is going public, boosting Trump's wealth by $3 billion
A long-delayed merger between Truth Social's parent company and a shell company was approved on Friday, increasing Trump's worth by billions.

Würde Volker #Wissing nicht Gesetze brechen und stattdessen seinen Pflichten nachkommen, hätte er zumindest einen Plan, wie er seinen Linie - die graue - unter die gesetzliche Ziellinie - die blaue - bekommt.

New book:
Evaluating the Role of Media in the January 6 Attack on the US Capitol
https://www.techpolicy.press/evaluating-the-role-of-media-in-the-january-6-attack-on-the-us-capitol/
Editors: Khadijah Costle…

Evaluating the Role of Media in the January 6 Attack on the US Capitol | TechPolicy.Press
A new book from Oxford University Press examines the role of media and information in the bloody 2021 coup in Washington, DC.

Apple rolls out iMessage upgrade to withstand decryption by quantum computers
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/apple-rolls-out-imessage-upgrade-withstand-decryption-by-quantum-computers-2024-02-21/#:~:text=WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (Reuters),against future encryption-breaking technologies.

#Upcoming Speaking of… Recording and mixing of #Shellac’s sixth album took place at Electrical Audio over a bunch of long weekends in 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2022. Available via #TouchAndGoRecords, May …

SHELLAC To All Trains

In B.C.'s forests, a debate over watershed science with lives and billions at stake
Sunshine Coast logging plan highlights divide over best way to assess flooding risk
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-watersheds-disaste…

#MeerMittwoch #MerCredi #OceanWednesday
Sonnenuntergang auf Insel Poel, bei Wismar, Germany 2021
Sunset

Stop the cuts to walking and cycling https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-the-cuts-to-walking-and-cyc…

Stop the cuts to walking and cycling
We support local communities seeking better and more sustainable travel solutions. We also help people campaign against active travel and public transport cuts and oppose damaging road schemes

Tampon Rock - complete series 🎶🌈🤣
Dramady musical | Total listening time: 5h 03m
Follow the dating foibles of the two lead lesbian characters as they luckily and unluckily navigate the Oakland love and music scene. It’s music centered, it’s a comedy, it's Black, it’s queer, and it’s created by womxn and gets a little sexy - don’...

Tampon Rock - complete series 🎶🌈🤣
Dramady musical | Total listening time: 5h 03m Follow the dating foibles of the two lead lesbian characters as they luckily and unluckily navigate the Oakland love and music scene. It’s music centered, it’s a comedy, it's Black, it’s queer, and it’s created by womxn and gets a little sexy - don’t let your child listen to this. 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Jan 14, 2021.

Lions DE Romeo Okwara stepping away from NFL after 8 seasons https://theathletic.com/5355167/2024/03/19/romeo-okwara-stepping-away-nfl-lions/

Lions DE Romeo Okwara stepping away from NFL after 8 seasons
Okwara was viewed as Detroit's best pass-rusher and a valuable piece to its defensive puzzle before suffering a ruptured Achilles in 2021.

Okay, I have an early slab of death metal before Thursday.
Any of y'all into TERATOMA from Germany? Their debut full-length 'Purulent Manifestations' came out in 2021 and it SMOKES. Even some wild soloing in there. Crushing and heavy. It's a ride. I have it #NowPlaying.

Prestige or Perish: Publishing Decisions in Academic #Archaeology #ResearchAssessment #ScholComm

Isabella DeLuca, former intern to GOP representatives #LeeZeldin and #PaulGosar, has been arrested for her participation in the #January6th

Social media influencer is charged with joining the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol
A conservative social media influencer has been charged with storming the U.S. Capitol and passing a stolen table out of a broken window, allowing other rioters to use it as a weapon against police. Court records unsealed on Monday show that Isabella Maria DeLuca is charged with misdemeanors, including theft of government property, disorderly conduct and entering a restricted area. She was arrested last Friday in Irvine, California. DeLuca has more than 333,000 followers on the platform formerl…

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"

Guys! The transplanted Arbutus tree is almost as tall as me!
She has some dying leaves curling up I think from shock from the cold snap in January and/or a general lack of moisture, but overall I think she will be fine.
There is no black spot like when we first transplanted her (Nov 2020) and she continues to produce more leaves and branches! The bottom of her trunk is now a solid orange colour. It should peel for the first time soon!

Nobody in the USA will be able to say "wir haben es nicht gewußt".
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-jan-6-pardons-2024-campaign-2401ead35cb1402a7b289c2c99761373

Trump makes Jan. 6 attack a cornerstone of White House bid
Donald Trump is making the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol a cornerstone of his bid to return to the White House. Trump opened his first rally as the presumed Republican Party presidential nominee standing in salute with a recorded chorus of Jan. 6 prisoners singing the national anthem. It's not just rewriting the violent siege of the Capitol and the effort to overturn the 2020 election. It's an attempt to normalize their behavior — and his — as the indicted Trump faces charges stemming…

That's a wow from me:
Pence says he will not endorse #Trump in 2024 - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20<…

Mike Pence says he will not endorse Donald Trump for president in 2024
The former vice president served under Trump but has been critical of the former president after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

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 …

Würde Volker #Wissing nicht Gesetze brechen und stattdessen seinen Pflichten nachkommen, hätte er zumindest einen Plan, wie er seinen Linie - die graue - unter die gesetzliche Ziellinie - die blaue - bekommt.

"On November 10, 2021, bitcoin peaked at $68,990. The price tipped over that for two minutes, from 15:04 to 15:05 UTC yesterday, March 5, 2024.
The price promptly dropped $2,000 straight away, and then another $8,000 by 20:00 UTC, as the bagholders tried desperately to cash out — while they could, as Coinbase had yet another inexplicable outage, coincidentally with all the other exchanges."
Come one kids, we know this by know. Bitcoin price is pumped with stable coins …

Bitcoin hits a new all-time high! World reacts: “Wow, that thing’s still around?”
And Tether cracks 100 billion USDT. Probably just a coincidence.

Q&A: The global burden of nervous system disorders
Video Published March 18, 2024
https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/videos/qa-global-burden-nervous-system-disorders

Q&A: The global burden of nervous system disorders | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
In 2021, nervous system disorders like Alzheimer's disease, stroke, and epilepsy affected 40% of the population. Researcher Jaimie Steinmetz shares the latest findings from IHME's GBD study.

Loveville High - complete series ♥️🤣🥹
Musical theatre series | Total listening time: 2h 02m
Each ten-minute episode is a self-contained love story in the fictional town of Loveville, Ohio on prom night. New love, old love, romantic love, friend love, gay and straight, cis and genderqueer.
Features an all-star Broadway cast includin...

Loveville High - complete series ♥️🤣🥹
Musical theatre series | Total listening time: 2h 02m Each ten-minute episode is a self-contained love story in the fictional town of Loveville, Ohio on prom night. New love, old love, romantic love, friend love, gay and straight, cis and genderqueer. Features an all-star Broadway cast including Ali Stroker, Troy Iwata, Isaac Cole Powell, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Hailey Kilgore, Mason Alexander Park, Andrew Durand and others! 1 seasons, 9 episodes as of Oct 06, 2021.

For food originalists, this rerun is gospel: Opinion | America forgot how to make proper pie. Can we remember before it’s too late?
https://wapo.st/4912u7D
> Americans invented the dessert we call pie. Why are they letting it die?

Raducanu übt Kritik - Ärger um Bälle: „Nicht gut für die Handgelenke“ #News #Nachrichten

Kaiko: trading volume for the top crypto memecoins reached ~$80B in the past week, the highest since October 2021; total market value of memecoins topped $60B (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20<…

Memecoin Trading at Levels Last Seen Before Crypto Bubble Burst
The memecoin frenzy in the digital-asset market shows no signs of stopping, with trading volumes now at levels last seen just before the burst of the last crypto bubble more than two years ago.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.04090 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Quantiles, Ranks and Signs in Metric Spaces
Non-Euclidean data become more prevalent in practice, necessitating the development of a framework for statistical inference analogous to that for Euclidean data. Quantile is one of the most important concepts in traditional statistical inference; we introduce the counterpart, both locally and globally, for data objects in metric spaces. This is realized by expanding upon the metric distribution function proposed by Wang et al. (2021). Rank and sign are defined at local and global levels as a n…

49ers sign veteran OT as depth for offensive line https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/49ers_sign_veteran_ot_as_depth_for_offensive_line/s1_14819_40129711

49ers sign veteran OT as depth for offensive line
The 49ers are adding some depth to their offensive line. The team announced that they’ve signed offensive tackle Brandon Parker. The former third-round pick had spent his entire career with the Raiders. He had an inconsistent role through his six years with the organization, alternating between starter and backup.  Parker started a career-high 13 games for the Raiders in 2021, but his follow-up campaign was erased thanks to a triceps injury. During his comeback season in 2023, Parker bounced…

Former Haitian president's wife, police chief among those indicted in his assassination: report | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/moise-assassination-haiti-report-wife-1.7119678?cmp=rss

Former Haitian president's wife, police chief among those indicted in his assassination: report | CBC News
A judge investigating the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse issued a final report on Monday that indicts his widow, Martine Moïse, ex-prime minister Claude Joseph and the former chief of Haiti's National Police, Léon Charles, among others.

Nobody in the USA will be able to say "wir haben es nicht gewußt".
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-jan-6-pardons-2024-campaign-2401ead35cb1402a7b289c2c99761373

Trump makes Jan. 6 attack a cornerstone of White House bid
Donald Trump is making the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol a cornerstone of his bid to return to the White House. Trump opened his first rally as the presumed Republican Party presidential nominee standing in salute with a recorded chorus of Jan. 6 prisoners singing the national anthem. It's not just rewriting the violent siege of the Capitol and the effort to overturn the 2020 election. It's an attempt to normalize their behavior — and his — as the indicted Trump faces charges stemming…

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…

Rate-optimal higher-order adaptive conforming FEM for biharmonic eigenvalue problems on polygonal domains
Carsten Carstensen, Benedikt Gr\"a{\ss}le
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12577

Rate-optimal higher-order adaptive conforming FEM for biharmonic eigenvalue problems on polygonal domains
The a posteriori error analysis of the classical Argyris finite element methods dates back to 1996, while the optimal convergence rates of associated adaptive finite element schemes are established only very recently in 2021. It took a long time to realise the necessity of an extension of the classical finite element spaces to make them hierarchical. This paper establishes the novel adaptive schemes for the biharmonic eigenvalue problems and provides a mathematical proof of optimal convergence …

2021 retro-link! https://rclone.org/ - Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.01900 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Bayesian survival analysis with INLA
This tutorial shows how various Bayesian survival models can be fitted using the integrated nested Laplace approximation in a clear, legible, and comprehensible manner using the INLA and INLAjoint R-packages. Such models include accelerated failure time, proportional hazards, mixture cure, competing risks, multi-state, frailty, and joint models of longitudinal and survival data, originally presented in the article "Bayesian survival analysis with BUGS" (Alvares et al., 2021). In addition, we il…

The wife and I also went to Lowe's today and bought some new flowers.
We got a red rose in honor of her mother who passed away February 2023 due to cancer, since we already have a yellow rose in honor of my dad who passed away July 2021.
Celosia is the little plant with various colored flowers, then a dark orange and yellow pansy, and a white and purple dianthus.
#Plants

Just heard that hometown boys GATECREEPER from right in my backyard here in Arizona are going to announce their highly awaited new record soon, potentially this week. Gatecreeper rip. Even Corpsegrinder says so. Here's their last one from 2021.
https://gatecreeper.bandcamp.com/album

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16896 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

On Trojan Signatures in Large Language Models of Code
Trojan signatures, as described by Fields et al. (2021), are noticeable differences in the distribution of the trojaned class parameters (weights) and the non-trojaned class parameters of the trojaned model, that can be used to detect the trojaned model. Fields et al. (2021) found trojan signatures in computer vision classification tasks with image models, such as, Resnet, WideResnet, Densenet, and VGG. In this paper, we investigate such signatures in the classifier layer parameters of large la…

Weder die #Bundesrepublik noch die #Bundesländer scheinen fähig, schnell und wirksam mit den Auswirkungen von #Extremwetter umgehen zu können. Selbst Jahre nach der

Deutscher Bundestag - Abgeordnete debattieren Antrag zum Wiederaufbau im Ahrtal
Die Unionsfraktion will den „Wiederaufbau im Ahrtal durch Anpassungen bei der Aufbauhilfe 2021 beschleunigen“ und hat einen entsprechenden Antrag (20/10382) eingebracht. Nach einer...

Galaxies in the Zone of Avoidance: Misclassifications using machine learning tools
P. Marchant Cort\'es, J. L. Nilo Castell\'on, M. V. Alonso, L. Baravalle, C. Villal\'on, M. A. Sgr\'o, I. V. Daza-Perilla, M. Soto, F. Milla Castro, D. Minniti, N. Masetti, C. Valotto, M. Lares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03098 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.03098
arXiv:2403.03098v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Automated methods for classifying extragalactic objects in large surveys offer significant advantages compared to manual approaches in terms of efficiency and consistency. However, the existence of the Galactic disk raises additional concerns. These regions are known for high levels of interstellar extinction, star crowding, and limited data sets and studies. In this study, we explore the identification and classification of galaxies in the Zone of Avoidance (ZoA). In particular, we compare our results in the near-infrared with X-ray data. We analize the appearance of the objects classified as galaxies using machine learning by Zhang et al. (2021) in the Galactic disk and make a comparison with the visually confirmed galaxies from the VVV NIRGC (Baravalle et al. (2021). Our analysis, which includes the visual inspection of all sources catalogued as galaxies throughout the Galactic disk using machine learning techniques reveals significant differences. Only 4 galaxies were found in both the near-Infrared and X-ray data sets. Several specific regions of interest within the ZoA exhibit a high probability of being galaxies in X-ray data but closely resemble extended Galactic objects. The results indicate the difficulty of using machine learning methods for galaxy classification in the ZoA mainly due to the scarce information on galaxies behind the Galactic plane in the training set. They also stress the importance of considering specific factors that are present to improve the reliability and accuracy of future studies in this challenging region.

CoinShares: as bitcoin topped $72K, a record $2.7B flowed into crypto assets last week; in 2024 so far, $10.3B flowed to crypto assets, close to 2021's $10.6B (Elijah Nicholson-Messmer/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20<…

Crypto Product Inflows Soar to Record High, CoinShares Says
A wave of investor interest is driving billions of dollars into cryptocurrency assets this year, pushing inflows to record-breaking levels, according to CoinShares International Ltd.

This morning we went along to the Wimbledon Greyhound Welfare kennels for their Easter party.
First order of business though was to take a kennel hound out for a walk!
Here's Ronnie. He's such a character: very young, never raced, heaps of energy and the curliest tail you ever saw on a hound.
https://www.…

"Noch schlimmer finde ich, dass der Abstandshalter schafft, was die Behörden in Pforzheim nicht schaffen (wollen). Autofahrende dazu bringen, andere Verkehrsteilnehmende nicht absichtlich/fahrlässig zu gefährden."
https://natenom.de/2021/02/erste-fahrr

Erste Fahrradtour – entspannt dank Abstandshalter
Ich habe gestern eine kleine Fahrradtour gemacht, die erste in diesem Jahr. 64,29 km (mit Spikes, daher zählt das mehr) 929 Höhenmeter (nur hoch) 214 Überholvorgänge hat der OpenBikeSensor gezählt und nach Erinnerung war keiner davon unter 1,20 m (später in den Daten habe ich einen mit 0,95 m und einen mit 1,15 m gesehen). 3 h 53 m reine Fahrzeit

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17571 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…

Inside the black box: Neural network-based real-time prediction of US recessions
A standard feedforward neural network (FFN) and two specific types of recurrent neural networks, long short-term memory (LSTM) and gated recurrent unit (GRU), are used for modeling US recessions in the period from 1967 to 2021. The estimated models are then employed to conduct real-time predictions of the Great Recession and the Covid-19 recession in the US. Their predictive performances are compared to those of the traditional linear models, the standard logit model and the ridge logit model. …

Erfttalbahn noch später: Nachdem die Wiedereröffnung der Bahnstrecke nach Bad Münstereifel bereits letztes Jahr verschoben wurde, kommt es jetzt zu einer weiteren Verzögerung. Momentan lautet die Prognose der DB InfaGO AG auf Sommer 2024. Auch bei den anderen durch die Flutereignisse 2021 zerstörten Strecken kam es in der Vergangenheit zu Verzögerungen beim Wiederaufbau. Die DB-Seiten zum Flutaufbau sind ja ganz nett, liefern aber nur selten aktuelle und belastbare…

Erfttalbahn noch später
Erfttalbahn noch später

Livestock Leaders Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Livestock Leaders | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Livestock Leaders Podcast By: The Livestock Collective Category: Education Sub-Category: Agriculture & Primary Producers, Pets & Animals First Episode: 2021 Powered by The Livestock…

2021 retro-link! https://www.holistics.io/blog/olap-is-not-olap-cube/ - OLAP != OLAP Cube.

CoinShares: as bitcoin topped $72K, a record $2.7B flowed into crypto assets last week; in 2024 so far, $10.3B flowed to crypto assets, close to 2021's $10.6B (Elijah Nicholson-Messmer/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20<…

Crypto Product Inflows Soar to Record High, CoinShares Says
A wave of investor interest is driving billions of dollars into cryptocurrency assets this year, pushing inflows to record-breaking levels, according to CoinShares International Ltd.

Las Vegas Raiders' former head coach Jon Gruden with a new job in football https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/las_vegas_raiders_former_head_coach_jon_gruden_with_a_new_job_in_football/s1_17313_4…

Las Vegas Raiders' former head coach Jon Gruden with a new job in football
Not long ago, the Las Vegas Raiders ended another regime when Jon Gruden resigned from the Raiders on Oct. 11, 2021. Now, what happened is still being fought in court, so we will leave that out of the story, as most already know what happened or was said to have happened. But, it's no secret that the Raiders have had issues when it comes to keeping a coach or regime in place. One of the most historic franchises ever has had several different regimes, or coaches and general managers take over, o…

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."

Rate-optimal higher-order adaptive conforming FEM for biharmonic eigenvalue problems on polygonal domains
Carsten Carstensen, Benedikt Gr\"a{\ss}le
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12577

Rate-optimal higher-order adaptive conforming FEM for biharmonic eigenvalue problems on polygonal domains
The a posteriori error analysis of the classical Argyris finite element methods dates back to 1996, while the optimal convergence rates of associated adaptive finite element schemes are established only very recently in 2021. It took a long time to realise the necessity of an extension of the classical finite element spaces to make them hierarchical. This paper establishes the novel adaptive schemes for the biharmonic eigenvalue problems and provides a mathematical proof of optimal convergence …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.01900 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Bayesian survival analysis with INLA
This tutorial shows how various Bayesian survival models can be fitted using the integrated nested Laplace approximation in a clear, legible, and comprehensible manner using the INLA and INLAjoint R-packages. Such models include accelerated failure time, proportional hazards, mixture cure, competing risks, multi-state, frailty, and joint models of longitudinal and survival data, originally presented in the article "Bayesian survival analysis with BUGS" (Alvares et al., 2021). In addition, we il…

Determination of the number of $\psi(3686)$ events taken at BESIII
BESIII Collaboration, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06766 https://

Determination of the number of $ψ(3686)$ events taken at BESIII
The number of $ψ(3686)$ events collected by the BESIII detector during the 2021 run period is determined to be $(2259.3\pm 11.1)\times 10^6$ by counting inclusive $ψ(3686)$ hadronic events. The uncertainty is systematic and the statistical uncertainty is negligible. Meanwhile, the numbers of $ψ(3686)$ events collected during the 2009 and 2012 run periods are updated to be $(107.7\pm0.6)\times 10^6$ and $(345.4\pm 2.6)\times 10^6$, respectively. Both numbers are consistent with the previous m…

2021 retro-link! https://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/uk-flags/british-flag-protocol/ - British flag protocol: flying the union jack.

Quarterback class from 2021 NFL Draft hasn't given teams much of a return https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/quarterback_class_from_2021_nfl_draft_hasnt_given_teams_much_of_a_return/s1_13132_4008…

Quarterback class from 2021 NFL Draft hasn't given teams much of a return
The New England Patriots agreeing to trade quarterback Mac Jones to the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday for a sixth-round pick was another harsh reminder as to how difficult it can be to evaluate young quarterbacks entering the NFL.  Several teams are finding that out this offseason, including several of which that attempted to pick a quarterback in the 2021 class. The 2021 class saw five quarterbacks get picked within the top-15 picks, and it is possible — if not likely — that only one of …

Weder die #Bundesrepublik noch die #Bundesländer scheinen fähig, schnell und wirksam mit den Auswirkungen von #Extremwetter umgehen zu können. Selbst Jahre nach der

Deutscher Bundestag - Abgeordnete debattieren Antrag zum Wiederaufbau im Ahrtal
Die Unionsfraktion will den „Wiederaufbau im Ahrtal durch Anpassungen bei der Aufbauhilfe 2021 beschleunigen“ und hat einen entsprechenden Antrag (20/10382) eingebracht. Nach einer...

Bills releasing All-Pro safety Poyer, source says https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39667720/bills-releasing-veteran-safety-jordan-poyer-source-says

Bills releasing veteran safety Jordan Poyer, source says - ESPN
The Bills are releasing a key member of the defense in captain and 2021 All-Pro Jordan Poyer, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

2021 retro-link! https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/fuzzy-name-matching-in-postgresql - Fuzzy string matching in PostgreSQL.

Coinbase stock crosses the exchange's 2021 direct listing price of $250 after growing over 300% in the last 12 months, as bitcoin hovers around record highs (Carmen Reinicke/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Coinbase (COIN) Tops Direct Listing Price as Bitcoin Surges to Record
Coinbase Global Inc. has finally climbed back above its direct listing price Friday morning for the first time in more than two years.

My current laptop, a T470 (32G SSD, 4core i7) I love, but its almost 8 yrs old (?) and it runs VMs kinda badly. Everything else about it is great, so Im looking at replacement (referb) Thinkpads from 2021/2022. Any suggestions on things to look out for since I really can't say WHY vm's run kinda slow? I assume its CPU related, or thats what top tells me. I have a x230 that is awesomely portable, but even worse with VMs.Fedora SwayWM on both.

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."

„Komme kaum vor Tür“ - Christina Applegate lebt „wie in der Hölle“ #News #Nachrichten

Trump supporter sentenced for blindsiding Capitol officer and tossing him over a ledge
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/cowardly-a…

Judge has harsh words for Trump supporter sentenced for blindsiding U.S. Capitol officer
A Donald Trump supporter who "blind-sided" a U.S. Capitol police officer in a "football-type tackle" on Jan. 6, 2021, knocking him off a ledge learned his fate this week.

Las Vegas Raiders hiring Carnell 'Cadillac' Williams as new running backs coach further signals a physical play style https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/la

Las Vegas Raiders hiring Carnell 'Cadillac' Williams as new running backs coach further signals a physical play style
The Las Vegas Raiders learned from mistakes by chasing a big-name head coach (Josh McDaniels) over the interim Rich Bisaccia, who led the team to a 7-5 record in 2021. This time around, they did not put their hand on the hot stove. They hired interim coach Antonio Pierce and made him the full-time HC. Pierce led the Raiders to a 5-4 record after taking over the interim job. The Raiders took on a more physical mindset under Pierce's leadership. It was easy to spot during games and on film. This …

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

Bills releasing All-Pro safety Poyer, source says https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39667720/bills-releasing-veteran-safety-jordan-poyer-source-says

Bills releasing veteran safety Jordan Poyer, source says - ESPN
The Bills are releasing a key member of the defense in captain and 2021 All-Pro Jordan Poyer, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

AMD is unable to release an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation after the HDMI Forum rejected its proposal; the forum closed public specification access in 2021 (Michael Larabel/Phoronix)
https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-OSS-Rejected

HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD

The United States as a whole has 81 percent of African American children attending non-white majority schools, as compared to 77 percent in 1968.
Moreover, the concentration of African American children into non-white majority schools has increased in every region except the Midwest, which has been broadly stable.
We note that the data for the Border region reflects the broader Hispanic immigration, which complicates the comparison to some extent.
Nevertheless, it is dif…

Racial Integration of Schools in the United States
February is African American History Month, a time when the United States pays tribute to generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.

Trump supporter sentenced for blindsiding Capitol officer and tossing him over a ledge
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/cowardly-a…

Judge has harsh words for Trump supporter sentenced for blindsiding U.S. Capitol officer
A Donald Trump supporter who "blind-sided" a U.S. Capitol police officer in a "football-type tackle" on Jan. 6, 2021, knocking him off a ledge learned his fate this week.

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00783 has been replaced.
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XMM-Newton --NuSTAR monitoring campaign of the Seyfert 1 galaxy IC 4329A
We present the results of a joint {\it XMM-Newton} and {\it NuSTAR} campaign on the active galactic nucleus (AGN) IC 4329A, consisting of 9 $\times$ 20 ks {\it XMM-Newton} observations, and 5 $\times$ 20 ks {\it NuSTAR} observations within nine days, performed in August 2021. Within each observation, the AGN is not very variable, with the fractional variability never exceeding 5%. Flux variations are observed between the different observations, on timescales of days, with a 30% ratio between th…

Assessing the Global Natural Orbital Functional Approximation on Model Systems with Strong Correlation
Ion Mitxelena, Mario Piris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03554

Assessing the Global Natural Orbital Functional Approximation on Model Systems with Strong Correlation
In the past decade, natural orbital functional (NOF) approximations have emerged as prominent tools for characterizing electron correlation. Despite their effectiveness, these approaches, which rely on natural orbitals and their associated occupation numbers, often require hybridization with other methods to fully account for all correlation effects. Recently, a global NOF (GNOF) has been proposed [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 233001 (2021)] to comprehensively address both dynamic and static correlati…

The poker-chip experiments of synthetic elastomers
Farhad Kamarei, Aditya Kumar, Oscar Lopez-Pamies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06785 https://

The poker-chip experiments of synthetic elastomers
In a recent study, Kumar and Lopez-Pamies (J. Mech. Phys. Solids 150: 104359, 2021) have provided a complete quantitative explanation of the famed poker-chip experiments of Gent and Lindley (Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. A 249: 195--205, 1959) on natural rubber. In a nutshell, making use of the fracture theory of Kumar, Francfort, and Lopez-Pamies (J. Mech. Phys. Solids 112: 523--551, 2018), they have shown that the nucleation of cracks in poker-chip experiments in natural rubber is governed by the …

Source: Trubisky back to Bills as Allen's backup https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39670120/sources-mitch-trubisky-released-steelers-join-bills

Source - Mitch Trubisky, released by Steelers, to join Bills - ESPN
QB Mitch Trubisky, who was released by the Steelers, has agreed to return to the Bills, where he served as a backup for the 2021 season, a source told ESPN.

Man who bragged he 'stormed the Capitol' on Jan. 6 convicted
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/we-want-our-country-back-jan-6-rioter-who-br…

Jan. 6 rioter who bragged he'd 'be cleared' for storming Capitol is convicted
A former President Donald Trump supporter who posted to Facebook, "We want our country back," and admitted in an MSNBC interview he entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/11/24/the-truth-about-inflation/ - The truth about inflation.

The pandemic inflicted higher rates of excess deaths on both Republicans and Democrats. But after COVID-19 vaccines arrived, Republican voters in Florida and Ohio died at a higher rate than their counterparts, according to a new study.
Researchers from Yale University who studied the pandemic's effects on those two states say that from the pandemic's start in March 2020 through December 2021, "excess mortality was significantly higher for Republican voters than Democratic v…

How Ohio Republicans ignore voters – and the governor – in power grab to pass laws
In 2015, Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment to limit partisan gerrymandering.
Voting rights advocates and elections experts celebrated the measure’s passage as a major win.
But the state’s new redistricting commission still had a GOP majority, and as they drew legislative and congressional maps in 2021, they refused to abide by the constitutional amendment’s guidelines.
T…

Three potential landing spots for former No. 2 pick Zach Wilson https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/three_potential_landing_spots_for_former_no_2_pick_zach_wilson/s1_13132_40037103

Three potential landing spots for former No. 2 pick Zach Wilson
To little surprise, the Zach Wilson era in New York is officially drawing to a close this offseason.  Speaking at the NFL Scouting Combine on Wednesday, Jets GM Joe Douglas told reporters that Wilson — the second overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft — received permission from the team to seek a trade. There's no denying the quarterback never lived up to his draft position throughout his three tumultuous seasons with the Jets, during which he completed 57% of his passes for 6,293 yards, 23 to…

How Ohio Republicans ignore voters – and the governor – in power grab to pass laws
In 2015, Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment to limit partisan gerrymandering.
Voting rights advocates and elections experts celebrated the measure’s passage as a major win.
But the state’s new redistricting commission still had a GOP majority, and as they drew legislative and congressional maps in 2021, they refused to abide by the constitutional amendment’s guidelines.
T…

Amazon ends its $1.4B acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot after clashing with EU regulators and will pay a $94M fee; iRobot has $500M in net losses since 2021 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-29/amaz…

Amazon Drops iRobot Acquisition After EU Veto Threat
Amazon.com Inc. has abandoned its planned $1.4 billion acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot Corp. after clashing with European Union regulators who had threatened to block the deal.

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.

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…