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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

Retro Grade: Cowboys 2021 draft class, three years later https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/lists/cowboys-2021-draft-class-grade-shadow-draft/

Retro Grade: Cowboys 2021 draft class, three years later
The Cowboys had a ton of picks in 2021 and hindsight is 20/20. They got a few right, but here’s the haul they could’ve ended up with. | From @ArmyChiefW3

Neurodiversity, scotpol
The Scottish Government has spent about two years consulting on how to consult about the Learning Disabilities, Autism and Neurodivergence Bill the SNP said they'd introduce in their 2021 manifesto.
So HOW have they managed to come back with a consultation featuring a 190-page full consultation document, with a 35-page "short guide" - that's 35 pages of A4, mind?
Where the education section alone is roughly a half-hour read?
Where they felt the need to include a request to "Please USE THIS GUIDE - _here_ - on How to complete your online response"... and then forgot to actually link to the guide?
Where the page on completing a written out recorded response instructs people to "please complete the Respondent Information Form and send with your completed questionnaire" but links to neither of those documents?
...anyway, so I'll be live on the SEMA YouTube tomorrow at 12:30 trying to be as constructive and helpful as possible about all this.
https://www.youtube.com/@SEMA_Scot?si=ct_IwgEMAJGoSzNB

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…

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

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.

Sources: UK digital bank Monzo is nearing a deal to raise £350M led by Alphabet's CapitalG at a £4B post-money valuation, up from £3.5B in December 2021 (Financial Times)
https://t.co/dQvaGOWrc6

Das Interessante am Wahlergebnis ist dies, nämlich der Unterschied zur eigentlichen Wahl 2021.
Das ist ein Zwischenergebnis, für die Zweitstimmen. Die Erststimmen sind so ähnlich und das Endergebnis wird sich nicht sehr unterscheiden.
Aus progressiver Perspektive ist das nicht gut.
Quelle: https://www.…

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

Decoding the Pulse of Community during Disasters: Resilience Analysis Based on Fluctuations in Latent Lifestyle Signatures within Human Visitation Networks
Junwei Ma, Ali Mostafavi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15434

Decoding the Pulse of Community during Disasters: Resilience Analysis Based on Fluctuations in Latent Lifestyle Signatures within Human Visitation Networks
Examining the impact of disasters on life activities of populations is critical for understanding community resilience dynamics, yet it remains insufficiently studied in the existing literature. In this study, we leveraged data from more than 1.2 million anonymized human mobility communications across 30 parishes in Louisiana to construct a temporal network that tracks visitation to places from which we characterized human lifestyle signatures before, during, and after Hurricane Ida in 2021. Ut…

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

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

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

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

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

In which I brush up and release (0.5.0) the “topfew” program I built back in 2021/22 and have been neglecting, but noticed that I was using it all the time so maybe others will too: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/12/Topfew-release

Topfew Release 0.5

Es sieht nicht gut aus für Pascal Meiser. Die Linke bräuchte 199.619 Zweitstimmen, damit es für ihn reicht. Bisher fehlen noch 7.000.
https://www.wahlen-berlin.de/wahlen/BU2024/AFSPRAES/btw/ergebnisse_gemeinde_11.html

Auszählungsstand Berlinwahlwiederholung übrigens hier: https://www.wahlen-berlin.de/wahlen/BU2024/AFSPRAES/btw/index.html (unten auf der Seite auch Vergleich aktuelle Ergebnisse zu 2021).

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…

The New York Times' The Daily ran a greenwashing BP ad on its January 31 podcast, despite a 2021 pledge by the NYT to ban sponsorships by oil and gas companies (HEATED)
https://heated.world/p/the-daily-runs-a-greenwashing-bp

“The Daily” runs a greenwashing BP ad
The Daily promised to end fossil fuel sponsorships in 2021. BP promised to stop “corporate reputation advertising” in 2020.

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 …

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…

"Supreme Court appears unlikely to allow Colorado to kick Trump off the ballot."
The central problem appears to be that section 3 of the 14th amendment would cause a "cascading" problem for the country to enforce.
Which begs the question why we continue to honor any tricky ones, like say the 2nd amendment. 🙃

CO₂ monitoring, useful explainer
Here's my own explainer about CO₂ monitoring.
It covers some of the same topics as the one above, but filling in more background knowledge. When I wrote it, I was thinking of e.g. a teacher with lots of knowledge about children and not much knowledge about science, who just wanted to make their classroom safer from covid.
#CovidIsAirborne #monitoring

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.15960 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Program Machine Policy: Addressing Long-Horizon Tasks by Integrating Program Synthesis and State Machines
Deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) excels in various domains but lacks generalizability and interpretability. On the other hand, programmatic RL methods (Trivedi et al., 2021; Liu et al., 2023) reformulate RL tasks as synthesizing interpretable programs that can be executed in the environments. Despite encouraging results, these methods are limited to short-horizon tasks. On the other hand, representing RL policies using state machines (Inala et al., 2020) can inductively generalize to long-…

SenseTime's stock rises 30% after the company unveiled the latest version of its SenseNova AI model; SenseTime's stock is down 80% since its 2021 HK IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024…

China’s SenseTime Soars 36% After Unveiling Latest Generative AI Model
SenseTime Group Inc.’s stock soared its most in more than two years after releasing the latest version of its SenseNova generative AI model, highlighting the intense interest surrounding China’s efforts to develop artificial intelligence.

"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

I recognize this tactic — drown the one you are suing in overly-broad discovery requests. It's combination fishing exercise, financial burden, and scare tactic to others. #AudioEye tried the same shit in its SLAPP against me (thankfully NY stays discovery when there is a motion to dismiss, not like AudioEye’s attorneys honored that).
“X filing ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ in Texas should be ‘fat…

X filing “thermonuclear lawsuit” in Texas should be “fatal,” Media Matters says
Musk’s attempt to venue-shop Media Matters lawsuit is not likely to end well.

In which I brush up and release (0.5.0) the “topfew” program I built back in 2021/22 and have been neglecting, but noticed that I was using it all the time so maybe others will too: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/12/Topfew-release

Topfew Release 0.5

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.

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…

Ach wie gut, dass ich bei meinem früheren Arbeitgeber als Mitarbeiter vergünstigt #Aktien kaufen konnte.
Nehmt es als Warnung (vor Christian #Lindner).

Falls Ihr euch fragt, wo es die Wahlergebnisse aus Berlin gibt: Hier https://www.wahlen-berlin.de/wahlen/BU2024/AFSPRAES/btw/index.html

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…

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. …

The Impact of Sanctions on GitHub Developers and Activities
Youmei Fan, Ani Hovhannisyan, Hideaki Hata, Christoph Treude, Raula Gaikovina Kula
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05489

The Impact of Sanctions on GitHub Developers and Activities
The GitHub platform has fueled the creation of truly global software, enabling contributions from developers across various geographical regions of the world. As software becomes more entwined with global politics and social regulations, it becomes similarly subject to government sanctions. In 2019, GitHub restricted access to certain services for users in specific locations but rolled back these restrictions for some communities (e.g., the Iranian community) in 2021. We conducted a large-scale…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00783 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

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…

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…

🎶Bolle reiste jüngst zu Pfingsten,
Nach Pankow war sein Ziel 🎶
"In einem anderen Wahllokal in Berlin-Pankow wurde ein Wahlvorstand gegen seine Stellvertreterin ausgewechselt, weil er möglicherweise angetrunken war."
Berlin: "Dit is uns völli' ejal, wat die von uns halten. Wir sind Eure Hauptstadt, Ihr Bauern."

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.

After Winning Only Four Playoff Games in the 21st Century, Are the Dallas Cowboys In Position to Give Their Fans Something to Cheer About in the 2024 Postseason? https://www.

After Winning Only Four Playoff Games in the 21st Century, Are the Dallas Cowboys In Position to Give Their Fans Something to Cheer About in the 2024 Postseason?
The Dallas Cowboys have not performed well in the postseason for a very long time. Throughout the past quarter-century, “America’s Team” has won a total of four playoff games. At no point during that period have they strung together two postseason wins. Will the Cowboys turn things around in 2024? The Cowboys have had impressive 12-5 records in each of the past three regular seasons, winning the NFC East in 2021 and 2023. Dallas has won the NFC East five other times in the 21st century �…

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

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.

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.

US-Medien berichten - Sorge um O. J. Simpson: Ex-Football-Star hat Krebs
https://www.krone.at/3246379