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From the vault: 2021
The legacy of French colonial psychiatry
"French psychiatry in West Africa saw Black bodies as 'alien' to white ones. It hasn't changed much."
https://africasacountry.com/2021/06/the-legacy-of-fren…

The legacy of French colonial psychiatry
French psychiatry in West Africa saw Black bodies as “alien” to white ones. It hasn't changed much.

2021 retro-link! https://mht.wtf/post/tex/ - Expanding TeX's \newif.

A US appeals court reverses a 2021 ruling that prevented New York from enforcing a law requiring ISPs to offer low-cost broadband plans to low-income consumers (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband
New York obtains significant win for states' ability to regulate broadband.

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!

Tracking fifth-year options for 2021 first-rounders: Which have been picked up or declined? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39900614/fifth-year-option-tracker-nfl-players-2021-first-round-draft-class

NFL fifth-year option tracker: 2021 first round draft class - ESPN
The May 2 deadline is approaching for teams to pick up fifth-year options on rookie contracts. Which teams have made a decision?

Seit 2021 macht das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik mit der Kampagne #einfachaBSIchern auf die Risiken im Umgang mit IT-Systemen im Alltag aufmerksam. Im neuen Flight legt das BSI den Fokus auf Smart-Home-Geräte, schreibt #Horizont
Sind wirklich einige witzige Spo…

Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik: So witzig warnen KNSK und das BSI vor smarten Geräten
Seit 2021 macht das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik mit der Kampagne #einfachaBSIchern auf die Risiken im Umgang mit IT-Systemen im Alltag aufmerksam. Im neuen Flight legt das BSI zusammen mit KNSK den Fokus auf Smart-Home-Geräte - und zeigt, wie witzig Werbung für Cyber-Sicherheit sein kann.

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.

2021 retro-link! https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/automatic_video_editing.html - Automatic video editing for presentations.

The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing broadly conceived, published during the prior three years, i.e., books published in 2021, 2022, and 2023 are eligible for the 2024 prize.
https://www.sigcis.org/chmprize

The ‘fake news’-ification of local news—and what to do about it
from Doron Taussig @…
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/the-fa…

The ‘fake news’-ification of local news—and what to do about it
The Letter from the Editor that ran on March 23, 2021, did not shrink from acknowledging the challenges the Bucks County Courier Times faces reaching conservative readers in its politically diverse community. But Shane Fitzgerald, then the paper’s executive editor, still managed to take a hopeful tone. “We’ve been called biased, fake news, a liberal […]

From the vault: 2021
Israel and African Pentecostalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b4LWfKr2t8&t=86s
"Pentecostal movements are usually very open to endorsing Zionist theologies - because of the idea that whoever blesses Israel and does th…

Controllable suppression of Non-Hermitian skin effects
Xu Chao, Guan Zhiqiang, Xu Hongxing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16901 https://a…

Controllable suppression of Non-Hermitian skin effects
The Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a phenomenon in which the bulk states tends to the boundary in Non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, and has a wide range of application scenarios. The fully understanding of the skin mode anomalies in NHSEs is vital for the application. Recently, some innovative work reported the suppression [Phys. Rev. Lett 127, 256402 (2021)] and enhancement [Phys. Rev. Lett 131, 116601 (2023)] of NHSEs by magnetic field, respectively. In our work, we constructed magnetic field-l…

2021 retro-link! https://jfloren.net/b/2021/8/6/1 - A USB adapter for a Depraz mouse.

Revisiting Boehmer et al. (2021): Recent Period, Alternative Method, Different Conclusions
David Ardia, Cl\'ement Aymard, Tolga Cenesizoglu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17095

Revisiting Boehmer et al. (2021): Recent Period, Alternative Method, Different Conclusions
We reassess Boehmer et al. (2021, BJZZ)'s seminal work on the predictive power of retail order imbalance (ROI) for future stock returns. First, we replicate their 2010-2015 analysis in the more recent 2016-2021 period. We find that the ROI's predictive power weakens significantly. Specifically, past ROI can no longer predict weekly returns on large-cap stocks, and the long-short strategy based on past ROI is no longer profitable. Second, we analyze the effect of using the alternative quote midp…

My People - Cha Wa (2021)
New Orleans brass band-meets-Mardi Gras Indian outfit Cha Wa radiates the energy of the city’s street culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOwamJ99JEw

Fossil fuel companies are not good faith participants in democratic debates about climate change policies, they are purveyors of predatory delay. https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012138741/exxon-lobbyist-caught-on-video…

Raiders select versatile pass-catcher with No. 13 pick in draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_select_versatile_pass_catcher_with_no_13_pick_in_draft/s1_14819_40283256

Raiders select versatile pass-catcher with No. 13 pick in draft
The run on offensive players continues. The Raiders are out of options with respect to quarterbacks, so they have selected Georgia tight end Brock Bowers with the 13th pick. Bowers racked up 2,538 yards and 26 touchdowns during his three-year tenure with the Bulldogs. He played a key role in the team winning the national title in 2021 and 2022, and in the latter campaign he earned first-team All-American honors. Bowers took home the John Mackey award as the nation’s top tight end in each of t…

Viewership for Round 1 of 2024 NFL Draft surpasses 2023 https://www.nfl.com/news/viewership-for-round-1-of-2024-nfl-draft-surpasses-2023

Viewership for Round 1 of 2024 NFL Draft surpasses 2023
Round 1 coverage of the 2024 NFL Draft in Detroit was seen by an average audience of 12.1 million viewers last night -- up plus-6% versus Round 1 of the 2023 NFL Draft (11.4 million) and the highest Round 1 viewership since 2021.

2021 retro-link! https://openjdk.java.net/projects/valhalla/design-notes/state-of-valhalla/01-background - State of Valhalla, part 1: value types for the JVM.

Todays example of why you should always read forms… The US ESTA form added Cuba to the state sponsors of terrorism in 2021. My last ESTA expired in 2020, and I was in Cuba in the mid 2010s, so just clicking “No” to all the scary questions would have caused some issues getting into the US on my next trip because my passport still has my Cuban visa stamp 😬

Wonderful combination of touching mellowness, floating atop layers of skillful beat programming carpentry
Serge Geyzel — Quick Time Traveller (2021)
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=Bwdi7Nrj4sY

Beschwer dich noch EIN. MAL. über schlechte Radwege.
Footage: Hörður Krist­leifs­son

At a town hall, GB News CEO announced job cuts affecting 40 roles, its first major round of cuts after its 2021 launch; GB News had 295 staffers in May 2023 (Bron Maher/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/gb-news-redundancies/

GB News begins redundancy round, seeking to cut 40 roles
GB News chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos has announced a redundancy round at the opinion-led broadcaster, seeking to cut 40 roles at the company.

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Discretized sum-product type problems: Energy variants and Applications
In this paper, we provide estimates for the additive discretized energy of \[\sum_{c\in C} |\{(a_1, a_2, b_1, b_2)\in A^2\times B^2: |(a_1 +cb_1) - (a_2 + cb_2)|\le δ\}|_δ,\] that depend on non-concentration conditions of the sets. Our proof follows the Guth-Katz-Zahl approach (2021) with appropriate changes along the way clarifying and optimizing many of the steps. Several applications will also be discussed.

The Score
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The Score | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The Score Host: Samira Farah Category: Arts Sub-Category: Commentary & Conversations, Culture & Identity, Performing Arts & Music First Episode: 2021 A weekly in-depth exploration of arts…

«The main takeaway is that cannabis might be protective for our cognition, but it is really crucial to have longitudinal studies because this is just a snapshot of 2021. We do not know if non-medical cannabis leads to better cognition or the other way around if those with better cognition are more likely to use non-medical cannabis. We need longitudinal studies to see long term if non-medical cannabis use is protecting our cognition over time.»

THC vs. Dementia: Cannabis Linked to Lower Risk of Cognitive Decline
A study by Upstate Medical University suggests recreational cannabis might reduce the risk of cognitive decline, challenging earlier research and highlighting the need for longitudinal analysis. A new study by Upstate Medical University researchers shows that recreational cannabis use may offer p

I’ve been using a 16 GB Intel Core i9 MacBook Pro 16” as my work machine since 2019. Before that my work manchine was the dreaded scissor keyboard MacBook Pro 15”, also with 16GB and a Core i9 processor… and none of them were really satisfactory Macs.
Yesterday I got a 2021 MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro chip… and boy, is that an upgrade. Because of the ProMotion screen, it behaves even smoother than my M2 Pro Mac mini!
Good riddance to the constantly hot, constantly slow computer!…

2021 retro-link! https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-4.html - Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part IV.

Wieder Züge nach Lüdenscheid: Seit 2021 war die Bahnstrecke nach Lüdenscheid wegen Flutschäden gesperrt. Ursprünglich mal für Ende letzten Jahres geplant, begann heute wieder der reguläre Personenverkehr in die Kreisstadt. Die Verbindung Richtung Gummersbach und Köln hat die DB auf Dezember vertagt. Eine aktuelle DB-Meldung zur Volmetalbahn gibt es nicht. Die Webseiten der DB zum Wiederaufbau enthalten auch an andere Stelle Falschinformationen. Auf der Erfttalbahn fahren…

Wieder Züge nach Lüdenscheid
Wieder Züge nach Lüdenscheid

I unboosted this because it really seems like a young-earth creationist hoax. Elaborate, but a hoax. https://mendeddrum.org/@fanf/112286139924362803

Nyon Unchained: Forensic Analysis of Bosch's eBike Board Computers
Marcel Stachak, Julian Geus, Gaston Pugliese, Felix Freiling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12864

Nyon Unchained: Forensic Analysis of Bosch's eBike Board Computers
Modern eBike on-board computers are basically small PCs that not only offer motor control, navigation, and performance monitoring, but also store lots of sensitive user data. The Bosch Nyon series of board computers are cutting-edge devices from one of the market leaders in the eBike business, which is why they are especially interesting for forensics. Therefore, we conducted an in-depth forensic analysis of the two available Nyon models released in 2014 and 2021. On a first-generation Nyon dev…

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

Clarence Thomas Faces Backlash Over Jan. 6 Case Comments: 'What a Disgrace'
https://www.newsweek.com/clarence-thomas-faces-backlash-over-jan-6-case-comments-what-disgrace-1890966

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Fused Extended Two-Way Fixed Effects for Difference-in-Differences with Staggered Adoptions
To address the bias of the canonical two-way fixed effects estimator for difference-in-differences under staggered adoptions, Wooldridge (2021) proposed the extended two-way fixed effects estimator, which adds many parameters. However, this reduces efficiency. Restricting some of these parameters to be equal (for example, subsequent treatment effects within a cohort) helps, but ad hoc restrictions may reintroduce bias. We propose a machine learning estimator with a single tuning parameter, fuse…

Unlocking Insights: Enhanced Analysis of Covariance in General Factorial Designs through Multiple Contrast Tests under Variance Heteroscedasticity
Matthias Becher, Ludwig A. Hothorn, Frank Konietschke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13939

Unlocking Insights: Enhanced Analysis of Covariance in General Factorial Designs through Multiple Contrast Tests under Variance Heteroscedasticity
A common goal in clinical trials is to conduct tests on estimated treatment effects adjusted for covariates such as age or sex. Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) is often used in these scenarios to test the global null hypothesis of no treatment effect using an $F$-test. However, in several samples, the $F$-test does not provide any information about individual null hypotheses and has strict assumptions such as variance homoscedasticity. We extend the method proposed by Konietschke et al. (2021) …

2021 retro-link! https://mattferraro.dev/posts/caustics-engineering - Hiding images in plain sight: an acrylic magic window that can project a picture.

Teichtmeister geklagt - „Burgtheater hätte die Reißleine ziehen müssen“ #News #Nachrichten

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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 …

What can Hurricane SAM (2021) tell us about ocean waves under tropical cyclones?
Xiaolu Zhao, Ludivine Oruba, Dani\`ele Hauser, Biao Zhang, Emmanuel Dormy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13457

What can Hurricane SAM (2021) tell us about ocean waves under tropical cyclones?
We investigate the ocean wave field under Hurricane SAM (2021). Whilst measurements of waves under Tropical Cyclones (TCs) are rare, an unusually large number of quality in situ and remote measurements are available in that case. First, we highlight the good consistency between the wave spectra provided by the Surface Waves Investigation and Monitoring (SWIM) instrument onboard the China-France Oceanography Satellite (CFOSAT), the in situ spectra measured by National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) buo…

“Though the last Matrix movie was basically a warning about corporations sucking the life out of iconic pieces of subversive IP, Warner Bros. Discovery is already going back to the well.”
The Matrix is coming back for a fifth movie https://www.theverge.com/24120122/the-matr

The Matrix is coming back for a fifth movie
Following the release of The Matrix Resurrections in 2021, Warner Bros. Discovery is making a new film in the franchise with writer / director Drew Goddard.

Investigating the Properties of the Relativistic Jet and Hot Corona in AGN with X-ray Polarimetry
Dawoon E. Kim, Laura Di Gesu, Fr\'ed\'eric Marin, Alan P. Marscher, Giorgio Matt, Paolo Soffitta, Francesco Tombesi, Enrico Costa, Immacolata Donnarumma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14200<…

Investigating the Properties of the Relativistic Jet and Hot Corona in AGN with X-ray Polarimetry
X-ray polarimetry has been suggested as a prominent tool for investigating the geometrical and physical properties of the emissions from active galactic nuclei (AGN). The successful launch of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) on 9 December 2021 has expanded the previously restricted scope of polarimetry into the X-ray domain, enabling X-ray polarimetric studies of AGN. Over a span of two years, IXPE has observed various AGN populations, including blazars and radio-quiet AGN. In this…

USA senden beschlagnahmte iranische Waffen in die Ukraine
Die USA haben nach Angaben ihres Militärs der Ukraine iranische Kleinwaffen und Munition geliefert, die für die Huthi-Rebellen im Jemen bestimmt waren. Die Rüstungsgüter seien zwischen Mai 2021 und Februar 2023 von vier "staatenlosen Schiffen" beschlagnahmt worden, auf denen sie von den iranischen Revolutionsgarden an die jemenitische Miliz weitergeleitet werden sollte…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Selenskyj besucht Region Charkiw ++
Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj hat die von Russland zuletzt besonders stark angegriffene Region Charkiw besucht. Erneut ist ein Drohnenangriff auf das AKW Saporischschja gemeldet worden. Der Liveblog vom Dienstag zum Nachlesen.

On Wednesday, lawyers from the conservative group True the Vote admitted to a state judge in Georgia that they did not have evidence to back up their allegation about illegal “ballot trafficking” in the state during the 2020 election and the 2021 Senate runoffs.
And earlier this month, James O’Keefe, the former leader of Project Veritas, issued a statement after one of its sources recanted his story about fraud in Erie, Pa. “I am aware of no evidence or other allegation that election fr…

"2020 Election Lies Keep Unraveling as Courts Push for Evidence" #ELB
NYT: More than three years after a swirl of conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the originators of many of the false allegations are now being forced to … Continue reading “2020 Election Lies Keep Unraveling as Courts Push for Evidence” →

Cosmological Inflation and Dark Sector from 11D Supergravity
Jiaming Shi, Zehua Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11933 https://arxiv.o…

Cosmological Inflation and Dark Sector from 11D Supergravity
We explore compactifications of the form of three tori and one circle in the framework of 11D supergravity. By imposing suitable gauge conditions and boundary conditions, we find that the four-dimensional FRW universe emerges as a solution representing cosmological D3-branes in the eleven-dimensional bulk. These specific compactification methods can produce cosmological inflation that aligns with the observational constraints set by the 2021 BICEP/Keck and Planck 2018 results. In the cosmologic…

2021 retro-link! https://monster6502.com/ - MOnSter 6502

Algorithmic Changes Are Not Enough: Evaluating the Removal of Race Adjustment from the eGFR Equation
Marika M. Cusick, Glenn M. Chertow, Douglas K. Owens, Michelle Y. Williams, Sherri Rose
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12812

Algorithmic Changes Are Not Enough: Evaluating the Removal of Race Adjustment from the eGFR Equation
Changing clinical algorithms to remove race adjustment has been proposed and implemented for multiple health conditions. Removing race adjustment from estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) equations may reduce disparities in chronic kidney disease (CKD), but has not been studied in clinical practice after implementation. Here, we assessed whether implementing an eGFR equation (CKD-EPI 2021) without adjustment for Black or African American race modified quarterly rates of nephrology referr…

The USAGM names former Washington Post journalist Michael Abramowitz as the director of VOA, overseeing 48 language services reaching ~354M people weekly (Liam Scott/Voice of America)
https://www.voanews.com/a/usagm-names-freedom-hou…

USAGM names Freedom House president as new VOA director
Former Washington Post journalist Abramowitz to lead network as first permanent director since 2021

#OTD 2021: GENIET VAN HET LEKKERE WEER
Een boodschap die past bij de zomerse temperaturen van vandaag, maar die 3 jaar geleden minder toepasselijk leek met sneeuwval in april. Gemaakt tijdens een lockdownwandeling. Soms kunnen 3 jaar veel verder terug lijken dan decennia.

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Study on the accidental background of the JSNS$^2$ experiment
JSNS$^2$ (J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search at J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source) is an experiment which searches for sterile neutrinos via the observation of $\barν_μ \to \barν_{e}$ appearance oscillations using muon decay-at-rest neutrinos. The data taking of JSNS$^2$ have been performed from 2021. In this manuscript, a study of the accidental background is presented. The rate of the accidental background is (9.29$\pm 0.39) \times 10^{-8}$ / spill with 0.75 MW beam power and comparable to the …

#NowPlaying #TheSundayStarter A group of eight musicians and writers came together on the island of Vlieland in December, 2021. Filled with music, poetry, and field recordings, “Public Relations” is a languid soundtrack for daydreamers.

Armutsrate in #Uruguay.
Zur Erinnerung: In #Deutschland leben im Jahr 2021 15,8 % der Bevölkerung unterhalb der Armutsgrenze. Das entspricht rund 15,5 Millionen Menschen. Die Armutsquote der Haushalte in Schland lag hingegen bei 14,3 %.

Weiterhin hohe Armutsrate in Uruguay

Interview mit einer Autorin und Journalistin aus dem Wedding
https://weddingweiser.de/waltraud-schwab/

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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…

Yearly allergy post! Took my first Allegra today. Not feeling any of the usual itchy or sneezing but my sinuses have been clogged for days now.
2024: April 7
2023: April 16
2022: Jan 13
2021: Mar 4
2020: none?
2019: Feb 2

Impacting the dayside Martian ionosphere from above and below: Effects of the impact of CIRs and ICMEs close to aphelion (April 2021) and during dust storms (June-July 2022) seen with MAVEN ROSE
Marianna Felici, Jennifer Segale, Paul Withers, Christina O. Lee, Andrea Hughes, Ed Thiemann, Steve Bougher, Candace Grey, Shannon Curry
https://

Impacting the dayside Martian ionosphere from above and below: Effects of the impact of CIRs and ICMEs close to aphelion (April 2021) and during dust storms (June-July 2022) seen with MAVEN ROSE
We use 62 electron density profiles collected by the Radio Occultation Science Experiment (ROSE), on MAVEN, when Mars was hit by CIRs and ICMEs close to aphelion (April 2021) and during two dust storms (June-July 2022) to examine the response of the Martian ionosphere to solar events and to solar events hitting during dust storms. We do so through three proxies - variation in total electron content between 80 and 300 km altitude, peak density, and peak altitude - of the aforementioned 62 ROSE e…

I made the same joke that @… made about declarative infrastructure definitions, using a different set of tools, a few years ago—interested to learn that nixOS covers a lot of the same applications as tools like Puppet

Marketing Margaritas
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Marketing + Margaritas | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Marketing + Margaritas By: Rebel Nation Category: Business Sub-Category: Marketing & Social Media First Episode: 2021 If you are looking for some straight up marketing advice that’s super…

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Proving the stability estimates of variational least-squares Kernel-Based methods
Motivated by the need for the rigorous analysis of the numerical stability of variational least-squares kernel-based methods for solving second-order elliptic partial differential equations, we provide previously lacking stability inequalities. This fills a significant theoretical gap in the previous work [Comput. Math. Appl. 103 (2021) 1-11], which provided error estimates based on a conjecture on the stability. With the stability estimate now rigorously proven, we complete the theoretical fou…

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On the Constants of the Lang-Trotter Conjecture for CM Elliptic Curves
In 2021, Daqing Wan and Ping Xi studied the equivalence of the Lang-Trotter conjecture for CM elliptic curves and the Hardy-Littlewood conjecture for primes represented by a quadratic polynomial. Wan and Xi provided an alternative description of the Lang-Trotter conjecture under the Hardy-Littlewood conjecture. They obtained an explicit constant $\overlineω_{E,r}$ in the asymptotics of the Lang-Trotter conjecture. They further conjectured that this particular constant would be equal to the con…

Since the New York Times can’t quite bring themselves to say it … 39 months ago was January, 2021.
“U.S. Employers Added 303,000 Jobs in 39th Straight Month of Growth
“The March data increased confidence among economists and investors that robust hiring and rising wages can continue to coexist while inflation eases.”

U.S. Employers Added 303,000 Jobs in 39th Straight Month of Growth
The March data increased confidence among economists and investors that robust hiring and rising wages can continue to coexist while inflation eases.

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Fused Extended Two-Way Fixed Effects for Difference-in-Differences with Staggered Adoptions
To address the bias of the canonical two-way fixed effects estimator for difference-in-differences under staggered adoptions, Wooldridge (2021) proposed the extended two-way fixed effects estimator, which adds many parameters. However, this reduces efficiency. Restricting some of these parameters to be equal (for example, subsequent treatment effects within a cohort) helps, but ad hoc restrictions may reintroduce bias. We propose a machine learning estimator with a single tuning parameter, fuse…

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.

Gina Carano went full right-wing Republican with her lawsuit.
"Carano alleges [she was fired] over a post likening the treatment of American conservatives to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany.
"The lawsuit alleges she was fired because she 'dared voice her own opinions' against an 'online bully mob who demanded her compliance with their extreme progressive ideology.'"

Gina Carano sues Lucasfilm and Disney over her firing from 'The Mandalorian'
Actor Gina Carano has sued Lucasfilm and its parent The Walt Disney Co. over her 2021 firing from the TV series “The Mandalorian,” saying she was let go for expressing right-wing views on social media. Carano filed the suit in federal court on Tuesday. She was fired from the Disney+ show after posts likening the treatment of modern conservatives to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany. Carano's lawsuit says she was fired for daring to express her own views and stand up to the online mob. D…

Smartmatic and OANN say they have settled a defamation suit filed by the voting tech company, filed in 2021 (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/16/media/oan-smartmatic-settlement/

Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube's $28.8B in ad revenue that year (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-ads-revenue-y…

Instagram makes more ad money than YouTube, court filings show
Meta bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012. Now it's a giant part of Mark Zuckerberg's empire.

Gradient estimates for positive eigenfunctions of $ \mathcal{L} $-operator on conformal solitons and its applications
Guangwen Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10417

Gradient estimates for positive eigenfunctions of $ \mathcal{L} $-operator on conformal solitons and its applications
We prove a local gradient estimate for positive eigenfunctions of $ \mathcal{L} $-operator on conformal solitons given by a general conformal vector field. As an application, we obtain a Liouville type theorem for $ \mathcal{L} u = 0 $, which improves the one of Li--Sun (Acta Math. Sin. (Engl. Ser.), 37(11): 1768--1782, 2021.). We also consider applications where manifolds are special conformal solitons. Especially in the case of self-shrinkers, a better Liouville type theorem is obtained.

"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.

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Placebo:
🎵 Pure Morning
#NowPlaying #Placebo
https://open.spotify.com/track/32F0zqsDgqpIEYApk2b8sr
https://ecoli1.bandcamp.com/track/luka-magnoota-placebo-pure-morning-chopped-and-screwed-remix-2021

Heute mal mit was anderem als dem Black Monster unterwegs (nach etwas Service am Fahrzeug).
Black Monster bezieht sich auf https://www.instagram.com/p/COs5N9ztP5D/

@elba.13 on Instagram: "Black Monster."
8 likes, 1 comments - elba.13May 10, 2021 on : "Black Monster."

Study of the Balmer decrements for Galactic classical Be stars using the Himalayan Chandra Telescope of India
Gourav Banerjee, Blesson Mathew, Suman Bhattacharyya, Ashish Devaraj, Sreeja S Kartha, Santosh Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10339

Study of the Balmer decrements for Galactic classical Be stars using the Himalayan Chandra Telescope of India
In a recent study, Banerjee et al. (2021) produced an atlas of all major emission lines found in a large sample of 115 Galactic field Be stars using the 2-m Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT) facility located at Ladakh, India. This paper presents our further exploration of these stars to estimate the electron density in their discs. Our study using Balmer decrement values indicate that their discs are generally optically thick in nature with electron density (n_e) in their circumstellar envelope…

The MONUMENT Experiment: Ordinary Muon Capture studies for 0$\nu\beta\beta$ decay
Dhanurdhar Bajpai, Laura Baudis, Viacheslav Belov, Elisabetta Bossio, Thomas E. Cocolios, Hiroyasu Ejiri, Evgenii Sushenok, Maria Fomina, Izyan H. Hashim, Michael Heines, Konstantin Gusev, Sergej Kazartsev, Andreas Knecht, Elizabeth Mondragon, Ng Zheng Wei, Faiznur Othman, Igor Ostrovskiy, Gabriela R. Araujo, Nadyia Rumyantseva, Mario Schwarz, Stefan Schoenert, Mark Shirchenko, Egor Shevchik, Yury Shitov,…

The MONUMENT Experiment: Ordinary Muon Capture studies for 0$νββ$ decay
The MONUMENT experiment measures ordinary muon capture (OMC) on isotopes relevant for neutrinoless double-beta (0$νββ$) decay and nuclear astrophysics. OMC is a particularly attractive tool for improving the theoretical description of 0$νββ$ decay. It involves similar momentum transfers and allows testing the virtual transitions involved in 0$νββ$ decay against experimental data. During the 2021 campaign, MONUMENT measured OMC on $^{76}$Se and $^{136}$Ba, the isotopes relevant for next…

Unlocking Insights: Enhanced Analysis of Covariance in General Factorial Designs through Multiple Contrast Tests under Variance Heteroscedasticity
Matthias Becher, Ludwig A. Hothorn, Frank Konietschke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13939

Unlocking Insights: Enhanced Analysis of Covariance in General Factorial Designs through Multiple Contrast Tests under Variance Heteroscedasticity
A common goal in clinical trials is to conduct tests on estimated treatment effects adjusted for covariates such as age or sex. Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) is often used in these scenarios to test the global null hypothesis of no treatment effect using an $F$-test. However, in several samples, the $F$-test does not provide any information about individual null hypotheses and has strict assumptions such as variance homoscedasticity. We extend the method proposed by Konietschke et al. (2021) …

What can Hurricane SAM (2021) tell us about ocean waves under tropical cyclones?
Xiaolu Zhao, Ludivine Oruba, Dani\`ele Hauser, Biao Zhang, Emmanuel Dormy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13457

What can Hurricane SAM (2021) tell us about ocean waves under tropical cyclones?
We investigate the ocean wave field under Hurricane SAM (2021). Whilst measurements of waves under Tropical Cyclones (TCs) are rare, an unusually large number of quality in situ and remote measurements are available in that case. First, we highlight the good consistency between the wave spectra provided by the Surface Waves Investigation and Monitoring (SWIM) instrument onboard the China-France Oceanography Satellite (CFOSAT), the in situ spectra measured by National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) buo…

"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

Der Ministerialentwurf zum NIS-Gesetz 2024 (#NISG 2024) steht ab sofort auf der Homepage des österreichischen Parlaments zum Download bereit. https://www.parlament.gv.at/gegenstand/XXV

🎯 AgZen’s RealCoverage wants to keep pesticides only where they are needed
#startups

AgZen's RealCoverage wants to keep pesticides only where they are needed | TechCrunch
A 2021 study found that if farmers didn’t use pesticides, they would lose 78% of fruit production, 54% of vegetable production, and 32% of cereal

Ubuntu Voices
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Ubuntu Voices | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Ubuntu Voices Host: Ajak Kwai Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Culture & Identity, Language Learning & Diversity, Performing Arts & Music First Episode: 2021 Giving voice to the…

The RealHumanEval: Evaluating Large Language Models' Abilities to Support Programmers
Hussein Mozannar, Valerie Chen, Mohammed Alsobay, Subhro Das, Sebastian Zhao, Dennis Wei, Manish Nagireddy, Prasanna Sattigeri, Ameet Talwalkar, David Sontag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02806

The RealHumanEval: Evaluating Large Language Models' Abilities to Support Programmers
Evaluation of large language models (LLMs) for code has primarily relied on static benchmarks, including HumanEval (Chen et al., 2021), which measure the ability of LLMs to generate complete code that passes unit tests. As LLMs are increasingly used as programmer assistants, we study whether gains on existing benchmarks translate to gains in programmer productivity when coding with LLMs, including time spent coding. In addition to static benchmarks, we investigate the utility of preference metr…

Tracking fifth-year options for 2021 first-rounders: Which have been picked up or declined? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39900614/fifth-year-option-tracker-nfl-players-2021-first-round-draft-class

NFL fifth-year option tracker: 2021 first round draft class - ESPN
The May 2 deadline is approaching for teams to pick up fifth-year options on rookie contracts. Which teams have made a decision?

New report shines a light on how Antonio Pierce became the Las Vegas Raiders head coach https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/new_report_shines_a_light_on_how_antonio_pierce_became_the_la…

New report shines a light on how Antonio Pierce became the Las Vegas Raiders head coach
Looking back now, it seems like Antonio Pierce was always going to be the head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders when the team was deciding earlier this offseason. He fits the position well and could do some great things in 2024 and beyond. However, how he became the interim head coach is now looked at differently after a recent report. This report kind of shows that Pierce has integrity for the game. According to Chris Karpman, Arizona State University must vacate all eight of its 2021 football w…

ESA Science Programme Missions: Contributions and Exploitation -- XMM-Newton Observing Time Proposals
Arvind N. Parmar, Norbert Schartel, Maria Santos Lleo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14075

ESA Science Programme Missions: Contributions and Exploitation -- XMM-Newton Observing Time Proposals
We examine the outcomes of the regular announcements of observing opportunities for ESA's X-ray observatory XMM-Newton issued between 2001 and 2021. We investigate how success rates vary with the lead proposer's gender, academic age and the country where the proposer's institute is located. The large number of proposals (10,579) and more than 20 years operational lifetime enable the evolution of community proposing for XMM-Newton to be probed. We determine proposal success rates for high-priori…

The Impact of School and Family Networks on COVID-19 Infections Among Dutch Students: A Study Using Population-Level Registry Data
Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Christine Hedde-von Westernhagen, Tom Emery, Albert Jan van Hoek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08098

The Impact of School and Family Networks on COVID-19 Infections Among Dutch Students: A Study Using Population-Level Registry Data
Understanding the impact of different social interactions is key to improving epidemic models. Here, we use extensive registry data -- including PCR test results and population-level networks -- to investigate the impact of school, family, and other social contacts on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the Netherlands (June 2020--October 2021). We isolate and compare different contexts of potential SARS-CoV-2 transmission by matching pairs of students based on their attendance at the same or different …

ℹ️ Beitrag im Liveblog gelöscht oder nicht zuordenbar, es folgt die alte Version:
USA senden Ukraine beschlagnahmte Waffen
Die US-Regierung hat der von Russland angegriffenen Ukraine eigenen Angaben nach tausende beschlagnahmte Maschinengewehre aus dem Iran geschickt. Die Waffen seien vom US-Militär und den Streitkräften von Verbündeten auf vier Schiffen ohne Flagge zwischen 2021 und 2023 im Arabisc…
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Lieferung aus dem Iran: USA schicken beschlagnahmte Waffen in die Ukraine
Tausende Sturmgewehre und eine halbe Million Schuss Munition: Die USA haben nach eigenen Angaben beschlagnahmte Waffen aus dem Iran, die für die Huthi-Rebellen im Jemen bestimmt waren, in die Ukraine geschickt.

Filings in FTC lawsuit: Instagram had 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

Tracking fifth-year options for 2021 first-rounders: Which have been picked up or declined? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39900614/fifth-year-option-tracker-nfl-players-2021-first-round-draft-class

NFL fifth-year option tracker: 2021 first round draft class - ESPN
The May 2 deadline is approaching for teams to pick up fifth-year options on rookie contracts. Which teams have made a decision?

The US supreme court will hear oral argument on Thursday in one of the most high-stakes cases in American politics this century, thrusting a beleaguered court to the center of the 2024 election.
The court is considering whether Donald Trump is eligible to run for president.
The novel legal question at the heart of the case, 🔸Donald J Trump v Norma Anderson et al, 🔸 is whether the 14th amendment to the constitution prohibits Trump from holding office because of his conduct on 6 Ja…

Nielsen data from 2021 to 2023: nine of the ten most-watched streaming programs are reruns, but most of the 100 most popular titles are original series (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-04-07/…

These Are The Most Popular TV Shows of the Streaming Era
Netflix isn’t the most-watched streaming service in the US. But it does have the most hit shows.

Gina Carano went full right-wing Republican with her lawsuit.
"Carano alleges [she was fired] over a post likening the treatment of American conservatives to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany.
"The lawsuit alleges she was fired because she 'dared voice her own opinions' against an 'online bully mob who demanded her compliance with their extreme progressive ideology.'"

Gina Carano sues Lucasfilm and Disney over her firing from 'The Mandalorian'
Actor Gina Carano has sued Lucasfilm and its parent The Walt Disney Co. over her 2021 firing from the TV series “The Mandalorian,” saying she was let go for expressing right-wing views on social media. Carano filed the suit in federal court on Tuesday. She was fired from the Disney+ show after posts likening the treatment of modern conservatives to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany. Carano's lawsuit says she was fired for daring to express her own views and stand up to the online mob. D…

Nielsen data from 2021 to 2023: nine of the ten most-watched streaming programs are reruns, but most of the 100 most popular titles are original series (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-04-07/…

These Are The Most Popular TV Shows of the Streaming Era
Netflix isn’t the most-watched streaming service in the US. But it does have the most hit shows.

👍 Man who posted TikTok video on Jan. 6 is going to prison
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/petekrilldontgiveaf-man-in-trump-2020-sweatshirt-who-posted-tiktok-video-…

Man in 'Trump 2020' sweatshirt who posted TikTok video on Jan. 6 is going to prison
A man wearing a "Trump 2020" sweatshirt, a helmet, and goggles, who posted a video of himself on a scaffold at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, on TikTok is going to prison.

2021 retro-link! https://nullprogram.com/blog/2021/07/30/ - strcpy: a niche function you don't need.

From the vault...
The quote below is usually attributed to Einstein:
“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and smart. [Together they are powerful beyond imagination.]”
But it's real origin is quite different. Read here (09/2021): http…

Misquoting Einstein Is Fast And Stupid, But Not Accurate
I was writing something a while ago, and had reason to quote the famous aphorism ?Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and smart.? I?ll bet y…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04814 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

The Falsification Adaptive Set in Linear Models with Instrumental Variables that Violate the Exclusion or Conditional Exogeneity Restriction
Masten and Poirier (2021) introduced the falsification adaptive set (FAS) in linear models with a single endogenous variable estimated with multiple correlated instrumental variables (IVs). The FAS reflects the model uncertainty that arises from falsification of the baseline model. We show that it applies to cases where a conditional exogeneity assumption holds and invalid instruments violate the exclusion assumption only. We propose a generalized FAS that reflects the model uncertainty when so…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04814 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

The Falsification Adaptive Set in Linear Models with Instrumental Variables that Violate the Exclusion or Conditional Exogeneity Restriction
Masten and Poirier (2021) introduced the falsification adaptive set (FAS) in linear models with a single endogenous variable estimated with multiple correlated instrumental variables (IVs). The FAS reflects the model uncertainty that arises from falsification of the baseline model. We show that it applies to cases where a conditional exogeneity assumption holds and invalid instruments violate the exclusion assumption only. We propose a generalized FAS that reflects the model uncertainty when so…

2021 retro-link! https://plv.mpi-sws.org/refinedc/ - RefinedC: automating the foundational verification of C code with refined ownership types.

2021 retro-link! https://bottosson.github.io/posts/colorpicker/ - Okhsv and Okhsl: two new color spaces for color picking.

2021 retro-link! https://github.com/rui314/mold - mold: a modern linker, faster than cat.

2021 retro-link! http://www.cmyr.net/blog/keypaths.html - Type-checked keypaths in Rust.