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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.

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…

Werte Wahlkämpfer in »social media«, ihr seid stinkende Spammer!
http://spam.tamagothi.de/2021/11/17/die-cdu-spd-fpd-gruenen-spam/

"It is plainly obvious to everyone that if you’re going to save the world, one of the first things you have to do is buy a 550-year-old British castle near the University of Oxford for about $15 million. This was the logic in 2021 when members of the so-called Effective Altruism movement’s signature institution bought a posh, 25-bedroom residence called Wytham Abbey as a place to have conferences and stage other various intellectual frolics."

There's a chaotic wealth of Met Éireann weather data available through the govt.ie Open Data portal at https://data.gov.ie/dataset/?q=met eireann
Here's a summary of monthly rainfall for the 25 "synoptic" stations. It seems it really has been raining a lot …

https://open.spotify.com/track/5axr5HmbZwBFHkc9mlU5aC?si=vLd_Gpd8SZSdU3vyTch_lQ

Cowboys’ Micah Parsons discloses the real reason for ‘purposely’ skipping pre-draft interview with the Eagles https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_micah_parson…

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/

SPIRou spectropolarimetry of the T Tauri star TW Hydrae: magnetic fields, accretion and planets
J. -F. Donati, P. I. Cristofari, L. T. Lehmann, C. Moutou, S. H. P. Alencar, J. Bouvier, L. Arnold, X. Delfosse, E. Artigau, N. Cook, \'A. K\'osp\'al, F. M\'enard, C. Baruteau, M. Takami, S. Cabrit, G. H\'ebrard, R. Doyon, the SPIRou science team

SPIRou spectropolarimetry of the T Tauri star TW Hydrae: magnetic fields, accretion and planets
In this paper we report near-infrared observations of the classical T Tauri star TW Hya with the SPIRou high-resolution spectropolarimeter and velocimeter at the 3.6-m Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. By applying Least-Squares Deconvolution (LSD) to our circularly polarized spectra, we derived longitudinal fields that vary from year to year from -200 to +100 G, and exhibit low-level modulation on the 3.6 d rotation period of TW Hya, despite the star being viewed almo…

«El "Ecce Homo" de Caravaggio, que ha adquirido un particular y serš exhibido en el Prado nueve meses, salió a la luz en abril de 2021 tras décadas oculto y olvidado en un piso de una familia de Madrid, salió a subasta por 1.500 euros revolucionando el mundo del arte.
»Según ha informado el Museo del Prado este lunes, el lienzo se expondrš en una instalación individual especial entre este 28 de mayo y octubre de 2024.»

MSN

Supreme Court keeps Trump on ballot, rejects Colorado voter challenge
The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously sided with Donald Trump, allowing the former president to remain on the election ballot and reversing a Colorado ruling that disqualified him from returning to office because of his conduct around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Supreme Court keeps Trump on ballot, rejects Colorado voter challenge
The unanimous decision to keep Donald Trump on the ballot leaves him as the leading candidate for the GOP nomination, even as the court weighs other Trump cases.

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

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 […]

Nana Kwame Ampadu – Yaa Amponsah
https://amf.didiermary.fr/nana-ampadu-african-brothers-band-yaa-amponsah/
Nana Kwame Ampadu (31 March 1945 – 28 September 2021) was a Ghanaian musician and composer credited with numerous popular highlife …

Nana Ampadu & African Brothers Band - African Music Forum
Nana Kwame Ampadu was the lead singer, chief songwriter, and founder of the "African Brothers Band (International)".

All-Pro Superstar Threatens Holdout Amist Contract Dispute https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/all_pro_superstar_threatens_holdout_amist_contract_dispute/s1_17198_40215435

All-Pro Superstar Threatens Holdout Amist Contract Dispute
Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb is entering the final year of his rookie contract and could holdout for a better deal. A first-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, the Oklahoma product quickly established himself as one of the most dangerous secondary options in the game. While playing behind Amari Cooper, the wide receiver recorded a combined 153 receptions for 2,037 yards and 11 touchdowns through his first two seasons. The Cowboys traded Amari Cooper following the 2021 season, leaving …

«El "Ecce Homo" de Caravaggio, que ha adquirido un particular y serš exhibido en el Prado nueve meses, salió a la luz en abril de 2021 tras décadas oculto y olvidado en un piso de una familia de Madrid, salió a subasta por 1.500 euros revolucionando el mundo del arte.
»Según ha informado el Museo del Prado este lunes, el lienzo se expondrš en una instalación individual especial entre este 28 de mayo y octubre de 2024.»

MSN

Ist also alles nur Mist und Elend rund um Gladbach zurzeit? Ist ein qualvolles sich dahinziehendes Saisonfinale völlig alternativlos? Nicht unbedingt, denn wie schnell sich die Stimmung im Fußball ändern kann, zeigte in der letzten Woche die deutsche Nationalmannschaft. Solch ein Umschwung mag aus der momentanen Gefühlslage heraus bei Borussia unwahrscheinlich erscheinen, aber ... @…

Will noch wer ein Stück Restsaison?
Frühling ist es und während die Natur energisch einen Neubeginn feiert, ist die Stimmung in Mönchengladbach eher verkatert bis depressiv. Und das nun schon zum vierten Mal in Folge in dieser Saisonphase. Schauen wir mal zurück: 2021: Nach 19 Spieltagen ist alles eigentlich noch prima. Borussia ist im Achtelfinale der Champions-League, in der Liga nur einen Punkt hinter Platz 4. Dann verzockt sich Marco Rose komplett im Heimderby, gibt seinen Abschied nach Dortmund bekannt und alles geht den…

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

De meeste mensen (denken dat ze) deugen.
https://www.derepublikein.nl/2021/04/22/de-zeven-zonden-van-rutger-bregman/

Zeven zonden in het denken van Rutger Bregman - De Republikein
Ricus van der Kwast ontleedt Rutger Bregmans veelbejubelde beststeller De meeste mensen deugen en tuit op zeven fundamentele denkfouten.

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.

Former Patriots QB defends Mac Jones amid rumors https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/former_patriots_qb_defends_mac_jones_amid_rumors/s1_13132_40025673

Former Patriots QB defends Mac Jones amid rumors
Former New England Patriots quarterback Brian Hoyer defended current New England signal-caller Mac Jones amid whispers suggesting the club could part ways with the 2021 first-round draft pick.  "The No. 1 question is always going to be with the quarterback," Hoyer said during a Tuesday appearance on the NFL Network "Good Morning Football" program about what the Patriots could do with the third pick in the draft, per Tim Crowley of NESN. "I’m going to stick up for my guy, Mac. I know he’s k…

Characterization of contaminants in the Lyman-alpha forest auto-correlation with DESI
J. Guy, S. Gontcho A Gontcho, E. Armengaud, A. Brodzeller, A. Cuceu, A. Font-Ribera, H. K. Herrera-Alcantar, N. G. Kara\c{c}ayl{\i}, A. Mu\~noz-Guti\'errez, M. Pieri, I. P\'erez-R\`afols, C. Ram\'irez-P\'erez, C. Ravoux, J. Rich, M. Walther, M. Abdul Karim, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen, A. Bault, D. Brooks, T. Claybaugh, R. de la Cruz, A. de la Macorra, P. Doel, K. Fanning, J. E. Forero-Romero…

Characterization of contaminants in the Lyman-alpha forest auto-correlation with DESI
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations can be measured with sub-percent precision above redshift two with the Lyman-alpha forest auto-correlation and its cross-correlation with quasar positions. This is one of the key goals of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) which started its main survey in May 2021. We present in this paper a study of the contaminants to the lyman-alpha forest which are mainly caused by correlated signals introduced by the spectroscopic data processing pipeline as well a…

🔊 #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

1984 "I buy tickets"
2021 I buy "tickets"
2024 I "buy" tickets

What happened to the 2021 NFL Draft QBs? Why Justin Fields and others are with new teams https://theathletic.com/5349014/2024/03/18/justin-fields-mac-jones-nfl-draft-2021-quarterback-problems/

What happened to the 2021 NFL Draft QBs? Why Justin Fields and others are with new teams
Organizations drafting QBs this year should take note of the mistakes made with Fields, Mac Jones, Trey Lance and Zach Wilson.

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!

Lower Bounds for Kernel Density Estimation on Symmetric Spaces
Dena Marie Asta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10480 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Lower Bounds for Kernel Density Estimation on Symmetric Spaces
We prove that kernel density estimation on symmetric spaces of non-compact type, whose L2-risk was bounded above in previous work (Asta,2021), in fact achieves a minimax rate of convergence. With this result, the story for kernel density estimation on all symmetric spaces is completed. The idea in adapting the proof for Euclidean space is to suitably abstract vector space operations on Euclidean space to both actions of symmetric groups and reparametrizations of Helgason-Fourier transforms and …

Jerry Jones says 'no decision' has been made on Michael Gallup https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/jerry_jones_says_no_decision_has_been_made_on_michael_gallup/s1_17100_40050502

Jerry Jones says 'no decision' has been made on Michael Gallup
Jerry Jones on Friday at the NFL Scouting Combine tried his hardest to downplay what the team has planned for wide receiver Michael Gallup. “We don't have a decision that we would like to talk about right now,” Jones said. As I'm sure most of you know, the production of Gallup has declined dramatically since his ACL injury he suffered near the end of the 2021 season. Gallup had a career low with 418 yards, and touchdowns, he only scored two. I really thought Gallup would thrive with Dallas,…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07080 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

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…

The Active Asteroids Citizen Science Program: Overview and First Results
Colin Orion Chandler, Chadwick A. Trujillo, William J. Oldroyd, Jay K. Kueny, William A. Burris, Henry H. Hsieh, Jarod A. DeSpain, Nima Sedaghat, Scott S. Sheppard, Kennedy A. Farrell, David E. Trilling, Annika Gustafsson, Mark Jesus Mendoza Magbanua, Michele T. Mazzucato, Milton K. D. Bosch, Tiffany Shaw-Diaz, Virgilio Gonano, Al Lamperti, Jos\'e A. da Silva Campos, Brian L. Goodwin, Ivan A. Terentev, Charles…

The Active Asteroids Citizen Science Program: Overview and First Results
We present the Citizen Science program Active Asteroids and describe discoveries stemming from our ongoing project. Our NASA Partner program is hosted on the Zooniverse online platform and launched on 2021 August 31, with the goal of engaging the community in the search for active asteroids -- asteroids with comet-like tails or comae. We also set out to identify other unusual active solar system objects, such as active Centaurs, active quasi-Hilda asteroids, and Jupiter-family comets (JFCs). Ac…

Raiders Re-Signing DT Adam Butler To One-Year Deal https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_re_signing_dt_adam_butler_to_one_year_deal/s1_17039_40119370

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…

Modified Steinberg-Guinan elasticity model to describe softening-hardening dual anomaly in vanadium
Hao Wang, Yuan-Chao Gan, Xiang-Rong Chen, Yi-Xian Wang, Hua Y. Geng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11179

Modified Steinberg-Guinan elasticity model to describe softening-hardening dual anomaly in vanadium
Constitutive models are essential for describing the mechanical behavior of materials under high temperatures and pressures, among which the Steinberg-Guinan (SG) model is widely adopted. Recent work has discovered a peculiar dual anomaly of compression-induced softening and heating-induced hardening in the elasticity of compressed vanadium [Phys. Rev. B 104, 134102 (2021)], which is beyond the capability of the SG model to describe. In this work, a modified SG constitutive model is proposed to…

#Pendulum, the #NIH #Python library for dates and times, has recently been rewritten in #RustLang. As part of the rewrite, they broke it completely for 32-bit architectures. The problem is, nobody really cares and technically the library is unmaintained since December 2021.
I mean, isn't it great? Let's write a NIH library, abandon it, then suddenly rewrite it in Rust, but leave it abandoned — and now also broken.
Fortunately, it's only used by #PgCLI in #Gentoo, and only in one place. Perhaps the author can be convinced to switch away from it?
[EDIT: Apparently it was introduced as a replacement for humanize, without a single word of rationale. Sigh.]
https://github.com/sdispater/pendulum/issues/784
https://github.com/sdispater/pendulum/issues/590
https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli/issues/1451

Just going to leave this here:
#Australia 2024, #Alonso vs. #Russell: 20sec penalty
#Silverstone 2021,