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2021 retro-link! http://www.nextplatform.com/2021/03/22/why-julia-is-turning-heads-in-2021/ - Why Julia is turning heads in 2021.

Bitcoin surpassed $69K to hit a new all-time high, eclipsing the previous record set on November 10, 2021 (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/03/05/bitcoin-soars-to-new-all-time-high-above-69k/

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

L. Brent Bozell IV, son of right wing firebrand needs 12 years for Jan. 6: Feds
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/not-a-credible-witness-son-of-prominent-conservati…

Son of prominent conservative among first to invade Senate floor on Jan. 6 needs 12 years: Feds
Federal prosecutors say Leo Brent Bozell IV, son of a prominent right wing activist, deserves no less than 12 years in prison for what he did on Jan. 6, 2021.

🎯 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

Music From A Lifetime
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Music From A Lifetime | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Music From A Lifetime Host: Bill Peters Category: Music Sub-Category: Music Commentary, Music History First Episode: 2021 A middle-aged music lover expands his album reviewing from blog to…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicFestivalLive
Curtis Harding:
🎵 I Won't Let You Down
#CurtisHarding
https://open.spotify.com/track/7AlJWH45s6NgsfgsKxWOIM
https://vangelislolos.bandcamp.com/track/curtis-harding-i-wont-let-you-down-vangelis-lolos-remix-2021

Vielleicht suche ich mir doch besser woanders einen Job.
"The Economist’s glass-ceiling index
Our annual measure of the role and influence of women in the workforce"
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/glass-ceiling-index

2021 quarterback class sets worrisome precedent ahead of 2024 NFL Draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/2021_quarterback_class_sets_worrisome_precedent_ahead_of_2024_nfl_draft/s1_13132_40269141

2021 quarterback class sets worrisome precedent ahead of 2024 NFL Draft
NFL front offices and fans might want to wait on pumping their fists if their team drafts a quarterback on Thursday night. With as many as six quarterbacks in the running to be drafted in the first round this year, the miserable showing from 2021's first-round quarterbacks could be a cause for concern. Zach Wilson's trade from the Jets to the Broncos reinforced something we've known for a while: the 2021 quarterback class, which featured five first-round picks, wasn't that good. As ESPN's Adam …

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…

The Louisiana Supreme Court has decided to strip sexual assault survivors of an avenue of justice, ruling 3–4 that it’s the due process rights of priests and their enablers to not be held accountable in instances of sexual assault.
The Louisiana legislature passed the act in 2021 to establish a “#look-#back” window for se…

Louisiana High Court: It’s Priests’ “Right” Not to Be Sued for Abuse
The state Supreme Court ruled that priests have a “property right” not to be sued for sexually abusing children.

Interesting to see another example of a European social science organization transitioning its journal to diamond open access: this time, its the European Sociology Association. In 2021, the European Association of Social Anthropologists flipped their flagship by becoming part of the Berghahn OpenAnthro collection.
Meanwhile, the American associations twiddle their thumbs, in the face of disgruntled members.

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.

“Another problem I had with all my folder full o’ posts strategy was that I didn’t know whether a post was nearly done or a scrap of an idea. I was lost. Every two months or so I’d have to click through each file to repopulate my memory buffer with the statuses of each post. […]
I needed a tool to make sense of those words. […]
It’s overkill, but it’s my overkill, and I love it.”
@…

My Notion Blogging Kanban
Six years ago, I started a good blogging habit of writing down any idea I had as a draft post. This was a good practice because the idea was now out of my head and I wouldn’t stay up at night thinking about it. Over time that grew to about eighty posts in different states of completeness and it became overwhelming. 16,000+ words, terribly organized.

Earlier today, members of the community came out and installed a one-block road diet on Franklin Street between Green and Union in front of Sherman Elementary School. This is where Andrew Zieman was killed in 2021 and where the city has reneged on its promise to narrow the road.

#NowWatching #F1
Schumacher (2021)

#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

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03888 has been replaced.
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Full L- and M-band high resolution spectroscopy of the S CrA binary disks with VLT-CRIRES+
The Cryogenic IR echelle Spectrometer (CRIRES) instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) was in operation from 2006 to 2014. Great strides in characterizing the inner regions of protoplanetary disks were made using CRIRES observations in the L- and M-band at this time. The upgraded instrument, CRIRES+, became available in 2021 and covers a larger wavelength range simultaneously. Here we present new CRIRES+ Science Verification data of the binary system S Coronae Australis (S CrA). We aim to …

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

Cowboys star admits to dodging Eagles during 2021 pre-draft process https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_star_admits_to_dodging_eagles_during_2021_pre_draft_process/s1_17313_39962541

Cowboys star admits to dodging Eagles during 2021 pre-draft process
The 2024 NFL Draft is right around the corner which has Dallas Cowboys star Micah Parsons reminiscing on his draft process three years ago.  Parsons was selected 12th overall out of Penn State by the Cowboys in 2021, but had he not snubbed the Philadelphia Eagles during the pre-draft process -- things could have turned out differently for the three-time Pro Bowl edge.  Heading into the 2021 NFL Draft, the Eagles expressed a lot of interest in Parsons but the feeling wasn't mutual.  Parsons, …

An application of power indices for the family of weighted majority games in partition function form
Jos\'e M. Alonso-Meijide, Livino M. Armijos-Toro, Balbina V. Casas-M\'endez, Manuel A. Mosquera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06333

An application of power indices for the family of weighted majority games in partition function form
Based on Holler (1982) and Armijos-Toro et al. (2021) we propose two power indices to measure the influence of the players in the class of weighted majority games in partition function form. We compare these new power indices with their original versions on the class of games in characteristic function form. Finally, we use both pairs of power indices for games in partition function form to study the distribution of power in the National Assembly of Ecuador that emerged after the elections of F…

Portishead - SOS [Triphop] (2021)
#listentothis

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04673 has been replaced.
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Principles for Optimizing Quantum Transduction in Piezo-Optomechanical Systems
Two-way microwave-optical quantum transduction is an essential capability to connect distant superconducting qubits via optical fiber, and to enable quantum networking at a large scale. In Blésin, Tian, Bhave, and Kippenberg's article, ``Quantum coherent microwave-optical transduction using high overtone bulk acoustic resonances" (Phys. Rev. A, 104, 052601 (2021)), they lay out a quantum transduction system that accomplishes this by combining a piezoelectric interaction to convert microwave ph…

2021 retro-link! https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2021-09-03-golang-time-bugs/ - A nasty bit of implicit timezone behavior in Golang.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #fip
Les Pythons De La Fournaise:
🎵 Séga Trémolo
#LesPythonsDeLaFournaise

Séga Trémolo
Les Pythons de la Fournaise · Song · 2021

Die FDP hat so schlecht abgeschnitten, dass sie als einzige Partei real ein Mandat verloren hat.
Wahrscheinlich waren die anderen schuld.
https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2024-02/wahlwiederholung-bundestag-v…

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…

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…

Once high flying #media content play #BuzzFeed (#NASDAQ listing:#BZFD), which last yr shut down its once Pulitzer winning

BuzzFeed sells Complex for $108 million, announces job cuts
The struggling publisher is unloading a brand it acquired for $300 million in 2021.

Low-amplitude solar-like oscillations in the K5 V star $\varepsilon$ Indi A
Mia S. Lundkvist, Hans Kjeldsen, Timothy R. Bedding, Mark J. McCaughrean, R. Paul Butler, Ditte Slumstrup, Tiago L. Campante, Conny Aerts, Torben Arentoft, Hans Bruntt, C\'atia V. Cardoso, Fabien Carrier, Laird M. Close, Jo\~ao Gomes da Silva, Thomas Kallinger, Robert R. King, Yaguang Li, Simon J. Murphy, Jakob L. R{\o}rsted, Dennis Stello

Low-amplitude solar-like oscillations in the K5 V star $\varepsilon$ Indi A
We have detected solar-like oscillations in the mid K-dwarf $\varepsilon$ Indi A, making it the coolest dwarf to have measured oscillations. The star is noteworthy for harboring a pair of brown dwarf companions and a Jupiter-type planet. We observed $\varepsilon$ Indi A during two radial velocity campaigns, using the high-resolution spectrographs HARPS (2011) and UVES (2021). Weighting the time series, we computed the power spectra and established the detection of solar-like oscillations with a…

2021 retro-link! https://baturin.org/blog/life-before-unicode/ - Life before Unicode in Russia.

Dolphins to sign DL Neville Gallimore https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dolphins_to_sign_dl_neville_gallimore/s1_14819_40105128

Dolphins to sign DL Neville Gallimore
Neville Gallimore is heading to Miami. According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, the defensive lineman is expected to sign with the Dolphins. Gallimore spent his entire four-year career in Dallas after being selected in the third round of the 2020 draft. Once rated the top Canadian draft prospect, Gallimore got an extended look on defense as a rookie, starting nine of his 14 appearances. After an elbow injury limited him to only five contests in 2021, the defensive lineman has mostly seen a ba…

Characterization of Turbulent Fluctuations in the Sub-Alfvenic Solar Wind
Gary P. Zank, Lingling Zhao, Laxman Adhikari, Daniele Telloni, Prashant Baruwal, Prashrit Baruwal, Xingyu Zhu, Masaru Nakanotani, Alexander Pitna, Justin C. Kasper, Stuart D. Bale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14861 <…

Characterization of Turbulent Fluctuations in the Sub-Alfvenic Solar Wind
Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observed sub-Alfvenic solar wind intervals during encounters 8 - 14, and low-frequency magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in these regions may differ from that in super-Alfvenic wind. We apply a new mode-decomposition analysis (Zank et al 2023) to the sub-Alfvénic flow observed by PSP on 2021 April 28, identifying and characterizing entropy, magnetic islands, forward and backward Alfvén waves, including weakly/non-propagating Alfvén vortices, forward and backward fast an…

2021 retro-link! https://quickwit.io/blog/search-a-sorted-block/ - A cool Rust optimization story.

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.

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…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03822 has been replaced.
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Applications of the kinetic theory for a model of a confined quasi-two dimensional granular mixture: Stability analysis and thermal diffusion segregation
The Boltzmann kinetic theory for a model of a confined quasi-two dimensional granular mixture derived previously [Garzó, Brito and Soto, Phys. Fluids \textbf{33}, 023310 (2021)] is considered further to analyze two different problems. First, a linear stability analysis of the hydrodynamic equations with respect to the homogeneous steady state (HSS) is carried out to identify the conditions for stability as functions of the wave vector, the coefficients of restitution, and the parameters of the…