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General Staff: Russia has lost 408,240 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/23/general-staff-russia.html

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Here’s Hoping Older Starters Rediscover That 2022 Magic
#MLB #Baseball #Fangraphs

Gespräche über schwedischen NATO-Beitritt in Ungarn
Kurz vor der Abstimmung des ungarischen Parlaments über den schwedischen NATO-Beitritt ist Schwedens Ministerpräsidenten Ulf Kristersson nach Budapest gereist. Inhalt der Gespräche sei die Stärkung der "verteidigungs- und sicherheitspolitischen Zusammenarbeit" beider Länder, hieß es aus der schwedischen Regierung.
Schweden hatte im Mai 2022 als Reaktion auf den russischen An…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: + Ukraine meldet Abschuss von russischem Flugzeug +
Ukrainische Streitkräfte haben eigenen Angaben zufolge ein russisches Aufklärungsflugzeug abgeschossen. Außenministerin Baerbock hat bei den UN in New York dazu aufgerufen, die Ukraine weiter zu unterstützen. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

Reading Dante in Ukraine - Asymptote https://www.asymptotejournal.com/special-feature/reading-dante-in-ukraine-ilya-kaminsky/

Reading Dante in Ukraine - Asymptote
I have a friend who, before she ran from Kyiv as Russia bombarded the city in early 2022, spent weeks shivering in the bomb shelters as the city was shelled. At first, she first recited poems by heart, and then she began to translate the poems she remembered. That is how she

2D Matryoshka Sentence Embeddings
Xianming Li, Zongxi Li, Jing Li, Haoran Xie, Qing Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14776 https://arxiv…

2D Matryoshka Sentence Embeddings
Common approaches rely on fixed-length embedding vectors from language models as sentence embeddings for downstream tasks such as semantic textual similarity (STS). Such methods are limited in their flexibility due to unknown computational constraints and budgets across various applications. Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL) (Kusupati et al., 2022) encodes information at finer granularities, i.e., with lower embedding dimensions, to adaptively accommodate ad hoc tasks. Similar accuracy c…

On s'indigne du fait que les autorités de la prison où était Navalny ne donnent aucun renseignement sur les circonstances de sa mort, mais sait-on qu'au Québec, les services correctionnels ne fournissent aucune information sur les personnes décédées, ni sur les circonstances de leur décès et ce, alors que le nombre de décès dans nos prisons ont augmenté de 87 % Entre 2009 et 2022.

On the Curses of Future and History in Future-dependent Value Functions for Off-policy Evaluation
Yuheng Zhang, Nan Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14703 …

On the Curses of Future and History in Future-dependent Value Functions for Off-policy Evaluation
We study off-policy evaluation (OPE) in partially observable environments with complex observations, with the goal of developing estimators whose guarantee avoids exponential dependence on the horizon. While such estimators exist for MDPs and POMDPs can be converted to history-based MDPs, their estimation errors depend on the state-density ratio for MDPs which becomes history ratios after conversion, an exponential object. Recently, Uehara et al. (2022) proposed future-dependent value functions…

Menschenrechtlerin wirft Russland "stalinistische Methoden" vor
Die russische Menschenrechtlerin Irina Scherbakowa hat das Vorgehen des russischen Staats gegen den verstorbenen Kremlkritiker Alexej Nawalny mit stalinistischen Methoden verglichen. "Selbst wenn er nicht gezielt getötet wurde, war es doch Mord", sagte die Mitbegründerin der in Russland verbotenen und 2022 mit dem Friedensnobelpreis ausgezeichneten Menschenrechtso…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: + Ukraine meldet Abschuss von russischem Flugzeug +
Ukrainische Streitkräfte haben eigenen Angaben zufolge ein russisches Aufklärungsflugzeug abgeschossen. Außenministerin Baerbock hat bei den UN in New York dazu aufgerufen, die Ukraine weiter zu unterstützen. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

Inflation bleibt hoch - Seit 2022 gingen zehn Mrd. Euro Kaufkraft verloren #News #Nachrichten

Raiders Re-Signed DB Isaiah Pola-Mao https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_re_signed_db_isaiah_pola_mao/s1_17039_40144461

#CDFriday with #FloatingPoints, #PharoahSanders, and the #LondonSymphonyOrchestra.

Payroll error costs 49ers '25 pick, dip in 4th in '24 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39761321/payroll-error-2022-costs-49ers-25-pick-dip-4th-24

Payroll error in 2022 costs 49ers '25 pick, dip in 4th in '24 - ESPN
The 49ers have forfeited a 2025 draft choice and were penalized four spots for a selection in this year's draft as a result of administrative payroll accounting errors.

General Staff: Russia has lost 456,050 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/17/general-staff-russia.html

Daddy daughter weekend fun in the lab.
Samples were an epoxy embedded rough-polished cross section of a rock we found in the backyard and an old Pentium 4 Willamette die that's seen better days.
She's still learning but I think is starting to get the basics of using the joystick. I don't trust her to focus quite yet, but with 5-20x LWD optics there's plenty of margin between properly focused and an objective crash so I'm not worried about her accidentally bump…

General Staff: Russia has lost 430,740 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/17/general-staff-russia.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07523 has been replaced.
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Online Misogyny Against Female Candidates in the 2022 Brazilian Elections: A Threat to Women's Political Representation?
Technology-facilitated gender-based violence has become a global threat to women's political representation and democracy. Understanding how online hate affects its targets is thus paramount. We analyse 10 million tweets directed at female candidates in the Brazilian election in 2022 and examine their reactions to online misogyny. Using a self-trained machine learning classifier to detect Portuguese misogynistic tweets and a quantitative analysis of the candidates' tweeting behaviour, we invest…

Russia has faced a historic slew of penalties from Washington, Brussels and beyond since it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.
The punishments, chiefly economic sanctions, were designed in large part to drain Russia’s coffers so it would struggle to fund its war.
And more pain has been promised as both the U.S. and EU unveiled new sanctions against Russia this week, some tied to the death of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Yet, two ye…

All the talks from rstudio::conf 2022: https://www.rstudio.com/conference/2022/2022-conf-talks/ 👩‍🏫 Keynotes: https:/…

"In a regulatory filing on Monday, Trump Media said it lost $58.2 million in 2023, compared with a profit of $50.5 million in 2022.
The Truth Social owner generated just $4.1 million in revenue, although that was up from $1.5 million in 2022.”
Honest question: how do you have $50M profit on $1.5M revenue? I seem to misunderstand the terms.

Trump’s net worth plunges $1 billion as his media stock tumbles
Truth Social owner Trump Media & Technology Group disclosed Monday that it lost more than $58 million and generated very little revenue in 2023.

So if I’m understanding this correctly, the Sandy Hook families basically turned down a deal to make 5.5 million and leave Jones operational versus taking 1.5 million and nuking him.
🫡 https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/111965572407858540

Daddy daughter weekend fun in the lab.
Samples were an epoxy embedded rough-polished cross section of a rock we found in the backyard and an old Pentium 4 Willamette die that's seen better days.
She's still learning but I think is starting to get the basics of using the joystick. I don't trust her to focus quite yet, but with 5-20x LWD optics there's plenty of margin between properly focused and an objective crash so I'm not worried about her accidentally bump…

Crosses For Chaos: How Russian Ultranationalists Used 'Missile Markers' To Sow Panic In #Ukraine As Russia Invaded
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ultranation

Crosses For Chaos: How Russian Ultranationalists Used 'Missile Markers' To Sow Panic In Ukraine As Russia...
A Russian ultranationalist’s digital campaign for “chaos” in Ukraine may explain the photos of mysterious crosses on roads, rooftops, and other locations -- described as missile markers -- that appeared on Ukrainian social media as Russian soldiers stormed toward Kyiv in February 2022.

CLASS Angular Power Spectra and Map-Component Analysis for 40 GHz Observations through 2022: #galaxy and beyond: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1035656 - results demonstrate novel strategy to probe the physics and history of the universe.

How Ukraine recreated the Soledar Salt Mine in Minecraft to let players compete for prizes and donate to restore a school hit by a Russian missile (Justin Ling/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-soledar-salt-mine-minecraft-rebuilding-…

Europe’s Biggest Salt Mine Is Now in 'Minecraft,' and It’s Helping Ukraine Rebuild
The Soledar Salt Mine in eastern Ukraine shut down in early 2022 amidst the Russian invasion. The Ukrainian government recreated it in “Minecraft” to raise funds to restore a school hit during the war.

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The Shifting Landscape of Cybersecurity: The Impact of Remote Work and COVID-19 on Data Breach Trends
This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cybersecurity and data breaches, with a specific focus on the shift toward remote work. The study identifies trends and offers insights into cybersecurity incidents by analyzing data breaches two years before and two years after the start of remote work. Data was collected from the Montana Department of Justice Data Breach database and consisted of data breaches that occurred between April 2018 and April 2022. The findings inform best p…

OTD in 2022, #PutinWarCriminal invaded Ukraine for the second time. Despite the imbalance of respective forces, Ukrainian soldiers fought like lions and kept ruZZia from taking Kyiv.
If you care about your children, or even about yourself, don't let this happen, help Ukraine. Write to your representatives, send money, protest in the streets, side with Ukraine!
Ukraine paid …

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Let's play!
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50 years ago today, the final old & in the way gig, at the golden state #country #bluegrass festival in san rafael, where #JerryGarcia also joins a few other acts. poster by rick shubb, inventor of shu…

Old & In the Way – San Rafael, CA (04/27/74)
Old And In The WaySAT 04/27/74Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival – San Rafael, CA Download FLAC: Google Drive I posted the entire bluegrass festival here. This is flac encoded & tagg…

"This work shows that a #decentralized approach to #moderation can lead to higher content reliability on #socialmedia. This approach is also more efficient and scalable than centralized moderation…

Empowering social media users to assess content helps fight misinformation
MIT researchers built a prototype social media platform to study the effects of giving users more agency to assess content for accuracy and control the posts they see based on accuracy assessments from others. Users were able to make accurate assessments, despite having no prior training, and they valued and utilized the assessment and filtering tools they designed.

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #RylanOnSaturday
Black Legend:
🎵 You See The Trouble With Me
#BlackLegend
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ybxuYMCIKJMBfCIEWLTlc
https://blacklegend.bandcamp.com/track/black-legend-you-see-the-trouble-with-me-original-1999-bootleg-2022-remaster

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17210 has been replaced.
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Ordinals and recursively defined functions on the reals
Given a function $f:\mathbb R\to\mathbb R$, call a decreasing sequence $x_1>x_2>x_3>\cdots$ $f$-bad if $f(x_1)>f(x_2)>f(x_3)>\cdots$, and call the function $f$ "ordinal decreasing" if there exist no infinite $f$-bad sequences. We prove the following result, which generalizes results of Erickson et al. (2022) and Bufetov et al. (2024): Given ordinal decreasing functions $f,g_1,\ldots,g_k,s$ that are everywhere larger than $0$, define the recursive algorithm "$M(x)$: if $x<0$ return $f(x)$, else …

Does *this* Java SE runtime license (emphasis mine) mean *I* am prohibited from installing it on a *personal-use VM* in a commercial cloud? 🤔
"This version of the Java Runtime is licensed only for your personal (non-commercial) *desktop and laptop use*"
(IIUC running on local VM is OK because that'd be on my own desktop, laptop.)
PS: This part of Oracle license is not new; I just had not needed to question it.

General Staff: Russia has lost 470,870 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/general-staff-russia.html

Cowboys’ backup TE group fell short in 2023 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_backup_te_group_fell_short_in_2023/s1_17100_40030463

Cowboys’ backup TE group fell short in 2023
2024 Roster Review: Backup Tight Ends – Part 8 of 17. Click here to view all articles in this series. Tight end Jake Ferguson was targeted 102 times in the 2023 season. The other three tight ends on the Cowboys' roster were thrown at just 24 times all year. Among Dallas' tight ends, Ferguson drew 81 percent of the targets last season. By comparison, in 2022, Dalton Schultz had 89 targets (68.5% of total tight end targets) while the other three tight ends had a combined 41 targets (31.5%). Tha…

A vulnerability closed in 2022 has been in active use since 2019 and is still ongoing. 5 years, wow!
Please f*cking update your systems at least every two years (actually, much more often!)!!!
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/…

This Is Peak College Admissions Insanity
It started with a precipitous rise in the number of people clamoring to get in.
The so-called Ivy-Plus schools
— the eight members of the Ivy League plus M.I.T., Duke, Chicago and Stanford
— collectively received about 175,000 applications in 2002.
In 2022, the most recent year for which totals are available, they got more than 590,000, with only a few thousand more available spots.
The quality of the applicants ha…

Opinion | 2024 Was the Year That Broke College Admissions
This Is Peak College Admissions Insanity

Good news from The David Suzuki Foundation
To save a world in a grain of sand
Storage systems ensure wind and solar energy is available 24/7. Lithium batteries are good, but come with their own problems. As Euronews Green points out, “Grains of sand, it turns out, are surprisingly roomy when it comes to energy storage.” Following up on a smaller power station it built in Kankaanpää, Finland, in 2022, Polar Night Energy is now constructing the world’s biggest sand battery in Porna…

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's union comments violated labor laws, NLRB says
https://qz.com/amazon-ceos-anti-union-comments-threatened-employees-an-1851451854

Amazon CEO's anti-union comments 'threatened' employees and violated labor laws, judge rules
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in 2022 that a union would make the company less efficient

General Staff: Russia has lost 443,660 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/02/general-staff-russia.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.19277 has been replaced.
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Corrigendum to "On the monophonic rank of a graph" [Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci. 24:2 (2022) #3]
In this corrigendum, we give a counterexample to Theorem 5.2 in "On the monophonic rank of a graph" [Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci. 24:2 (2022) #3]. We also present a polynomial-time algorithm for computing the monophonic rank of a starlike graph.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at the 2022 BBC Proms
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein joins the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and conductor Andrew Gourlay in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. John Shea presents
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001y9g1

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14908 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_…

More Excitement Across the Horizon
An Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detector falling radially into a four-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole, coupled linearly to a massless scalar field that has been prepared in the Hartle-Hawking or Unruh state, has recently been shown to exhibit a local extremum in its transition probability near the black hole horizon [K.K. Ng et al., New J. Phys. 24 (2022) 103018]. We show that a similar phenomenon is present in the transition rate of a UDW detector falling radially into a spinless Bañados-Teitelboi…

General Staff: Russia has lost 413,760 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/29/general-staff-russia.html

Gazprom falls to first annual loss in 20 years as trade with Europe hit | Business and Economy News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/5/2/gazprom-falls-to-first-annual-loss-in-2…

Gazprom falls to first annual loss in 20 years as trade with Europe hit
Results highlight the dramatic decline of Gazprom since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17210 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Ordinals and recursively defined functions on the reals
Given a function $f:\mathbb R\to\mathbb R$, call a decreasing sequence $x_1>x_2>x_3>\cdots$ $f$-bad if $f(x_1)>f(x_2)>f(x_3)>\cdots$, and call the function $f$ "ordinal decreasing" if there exist no infinite $f$-bad sequences. We prove the following result, which generalizes results of Erickson et al. (2022) and Bufetov et al. (2024): Given ordinal decreasing functions $f,g_1,\ldots,g_k,s$ that are everywhere larger than $0$, define the recursive algorithm "$M(x)$: if $x<0$ return $f(x)$, else …

Does *this* Java SE runtime license (emphasis mine) mean *I* am prohibited from installing it on a *personal-use VM* in a commercial cloud? 🤔
"This version of the Java Runtime is licensed only for your personal (non-commercial) *desktop and laptop use*"
(IIUC running on local VM is OK because that'd be on my own desktop, laptop.)
PS: This part of Oracle license is not new; I just had not needed to question it.

General Staff: Russia has lost 411,550 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/27/general-staff-russia.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 409,820 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/25/general-staff-russia.html

Turning to the ancient reindeer for help on climate change - Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2022/climate-change-reindeer-habitats-deforestati…

Turning to the ancient reindeer for help on climate change
Pauliina Feodoroff is allying with conservationists and institutions to raise awareness about deforestation in reindeer habitats, which help regulate the planet’s temperatures.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at the 2022 BBC Proms
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein joins the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and conductor Andrew Gourlay in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. John Shea presents
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001y9g1

SPEKTAKULÄRER PROZESS - Der gequälte Bub aus NÖ: Zwei Mütter vor Gericht #News #Nachrichten

Former justice Stephen Breyer signals support for supreme court term limits
Former US supreme court justice Stephen #Breyer signaled his support for #term #limits in the country’s highest court following his retirement in 2022.
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Cowboys' 2024 draft strategy has changed, and not for the better https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_2024_draft_strategy_has_changed_and_not_for_the_better/s1_17313_40151713

Cowboys' 2024 draft strategy has changed, and not for the better
Take a look at the Cowboys' most recent draft selections, and which ones stand out.  2020 and 2021 stand out in a good way as the team got CeeDee Lamb and Micah Parsons in back-to-back years. 2017, 2019, and 2022 (as of right now) stand out in not such a good way. Now look back at 2020 and 2021 and tell me what they both have in common. If you guessed they drafted BPA, or "best player available," you would be correct. The Cowboys did not draft for need, they simply let the board work out and …

More Excitement Across the Horizon
Mar\'ia R. Preciado-Rivas, Manar Naeem, Robert B. Mann, Jorma Louko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14908 https://…

More Excitement Across the Horizon
An Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detector falling radially into a four-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole, coupled linearly to a massless scalar field that has been prepared in the Hartle-Hawking or Unruh state, has recently been shown to exhibit a local extremum in its transition probability near the black hole horizon [K.K. Ng et al., New J. Phys. 24 (2022) 103018]. We show that a similar phenomenon is present in the transition rate of a UDW detector falling radially into a spinless Bañados-Teitelboi…

Deputy Minister: Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy grid have led to $11.5 billion in losses: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/24/deputy-minister-russian.html

A #HardRight #WhiteNationalist #Xtian #Texas #Oil

8076 Euro Gesamtmiete - „Das ist ein blanker Horror mitten im Ortszentrum“ #News #Nachrichten