The Biden administration’s policies have the US economy dramatically outperforming the rest of the world.
https://wapo.st/4bbV6sC

Falling inflation, rising growth give U.S. the world’s best recovery
After posting faster annual growth last year than in 2022, the U.S. economy is quashing fears of a new recession while offering lessons for future crisis-fighting.

cloudalists: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2022/04/12/cloudalists-our-new-cloud-based-ruling-class-project-syndicate-op-ed/

Michigan leads all schools in 2024 NFL Draft with 13 players selected https://theathletic.com/5452993/2024/04/27/michigan-most-players-selected-nfl-draft/

Michigan leads all schools in 2024 NFL Draft with 13 players selected
Georgia's run of 15 players selected in 2022 remains the most a program has ever seen selected in a single draft.

#AntiTeenBigotry is insane.
and it is so deeply ingrained in our society that nobody even sees how evil it is.
https://news.wttw.com/2022/05/20/li…

Lightfoot’s Proposal to Expand, Extend Teen Curfew Advances; City Officials Can’t Provide Evidence It Will Stop Violence
The 14-3 vote by the Chicago City Council’s Public Safety Committee tees up a showdown over the controversial measure by the full City Council, which is set to meet twice next week on Monday and Wednesday. 

That's the way to do it!
Spain's public prosecutor demands 3 years for ex police officer who attributed most crime to immigration, at a far right meeting, calling on Spanish people to "stop being peaceful" about it.
https://www.els…

La fiscalía pide tres años de cárcel para el excomisario que vinculó migración y delincuencia
Ricardo Ferris, en un acto organizado por Vox en el Ateneo de València en 2022, incitó a los “españoles a dejar de ser pacíficos" después de haber equiparado la inmigración con la delincuencia.

Reading the story tells you why.
First, syphilis rates are at a 70-year high, nationally. Between 2018 and 2022, syphilis rates rose about 80%.
Second, because it has to be made separately (for allergy purposes), manufacturing penicillin is comparatively resource-intensive.
Erin Fox, associate chief pharmacy officer for the University of Utah health system says
"That means you can't make other drugs on that manufacturing line.”
From:

NPR :press: (@NPR@press.coop)
Attached: 1 image Surge in syphilis cases drives some doctors to ration penicillin The drug is the go-to treatment for syphilis and the only one recommended for pregnant people. But a shortage of the injectable drug has prompted some public health agencies to ration it. #press https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/02/26/1233049844/surge-in-syphilis-cases-drives-some-doctors-to-ration-penicillin?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

A reminder that back in 2022, the FCC could have tried to block Musk’s purchase of Twitter.
And Republican FCC commissioner Brandon Carr rejected calls for the FCC to act.
Twitter is now a rightwing cesspool, and Republicans want it that way. /1

The ICASSP 2024 Audio Deep Packet Loss Concealment Challenge
Lorenz Diener, Solomiya Branets, Ando Saabas, Ross Cutler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16927 htt…

The ICASSP 2024 Audio Deep Packet Loss Concealment Challenge
Audio packet loss concealment is the hiding of gaps in VoIP audio streams caused by network packet loss. With the ICASSP 2024 Audio Deep Packet Loss Concealment Grand Challenge, we build on the success of the previous Audio PLC Challenge held at INTERSPEECH 2022. We evaluate models on an overall harder dataset, and use the new ITU-T P.804 evaluation procedure to more closely evaluate the performance of systems specifically on the PLC task. We evaluate a total of 9 systems, 8 of which satisfy th…

Looks like I'm going to conduct three sessions on the #bcg24 #graz today:
Avoid the #news(?) as a discussion
How to use #tags

Do you (sometimes) use print() or message() for debugging your code? Next time you can use {icecream} instead: https://turtletopia.github.io/2022/07/28/ice-cream-for-r-programmers/

Ice Cream for R Programmers - Turtletopia: a blog about programming in R
Icecream is a tool which may serve as a more sophisticated replacement of using print while debugging.

Sensor Tower: in February 2024, X had 27M US DAUs of its mobile app, down 18% YoY, and the US user base has been flat or down every month since November 2022 (David Ingram/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/fewer…

Fewer people using Elon Musk’s X as it struggles to keep users
The number of people using X daily is falling, more than a year after tech billionaire Elon Musk bought the app formerly known as Twitter.

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…

General Staff: Russia has lost 421,430 troops in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/07/general-staff-russia.html

While the EU is forcing all social networks equally to become federated, protect user's data, delete misinformation, and stop monopolistic or gatekeeping behavior, the US is banning foreign social networks under the pretense of “national security”.
With members of congress enacting this ban only acting in their own financial interests, as they own the stock of the competing American big tech companies [

Congress’s Big Tech Stock Trading Makes Antitrust Regulation Awkward
A proposed antitrust bill has cast a spotlight on the immense portfolios of dozens of lawmakers.

Has anyone managed to successfully titrate whelming?
Everyone talks about being over- or underwhelmed but nobody ever gets the whelm level just right so everyone's happy.

Belastungsprobe bestanden: Mehr als 52 Millionen E-Rezepte eingelöst
Seit 2022 wurden 50 Millionen Verschreibungen elektronisch eingelöst, doch ein Teil der Bevölkerung fühlt sich übergangen.
https://www.

2022 retro-link! https://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2022/01/29/an-update-on-rust-coreutils - An update on rust/coreutils.

Hands up if you think public EU money being awarded by @… / @… should be subject to a transparent process where we can see all internal discussions/comments/reasoning concerning funding decisions including who made them.

ProTIp: You know that Synology you have sitting in a neglected corner that you haven't logged into the admin interface of since 2022? Go log in and take the updates. Synology people have been doing some work on their stuff.

It finally works! 🤞🏼
Here is a table of more than 1000 journalists on #Mastodon, that updates itself – showing the ones most active, most followed etc. I took the wonderful table by @… as foundation, but deleted some media organizations, so that it only c…

Police have also systematically failed domestic violence and sexual assault survivors while perpetrating those offenses themselves or enabling the violence in prisons. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/29/police-defund-abo…

On the Iwasawa theory of elliptic curves at Eisenstein primes
Francesc Castella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12644 https://arxiv.org/pd…

On the Iwasawa theory of elliptic curves at Eisenstein primes
These are expanded notes for the mini-course given by the author at the 2022 ICTS workshop `Elliptic curves and the special values of $L$-functions'.

Insights on the Optical and Infrared Nature of MAXI J0709-159: Implications for High-Mass X-ray Binaries
Suman Bhattacharyya, Blesson Mathew, Gourav Banerjee, Sindhu G, S. Muneer, S. Pramod Kumar, Santosh Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13303

Insights on the Optical and Infrared Nature of MAXI J0709-159: Implications for High-Mass X-ray Binaries
In our previous study (Bhattacharyya et al., 2022), HD~54786, the optical counterpart of the MAXI J0709-159 system, was identified to be an evolved star, departing from the main sequence, based on comparisons with non-X-ray binary systems. In this paper, using color-magnitude diagram (CMD) analysis for High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) and statistical t-tests, we found evidence supporting HD 54786's potential membership in both Be/X-ray binaries (BeXRBs) and supergaint X-ray binaries (SgXBs) pop…

Jimmy Garoppolo named a 'best fit' for San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl push next season https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/jimmy_garoppolo_named_a_best_fit_for_san_francisco_49ers_…

Jimmy Garoppolo named a 'best fit' for San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl push next season
The San Francisco 49ers could again look to a former New England Patriots quarterback to add to their roster for the 2024 season. Head coach Kyle Shanahan has been enamored with quarterbacks coached by Bill Belichick in recent years. The Patriots traded Garoppolo to the 49ers in the middle of the 2017 season. He would stay there for the 2022 season, leading the 49ers to a Super Bowl appearance for the 2019 season. Following Garoppolo’s departure to the Las Vegas Raiders last season, Shanahan …

Mamdani: "[...] you've also described yourself as a 'Law & Order' Mayor."
Adams: "I like to believe that *chuckles*"
[describes how Adams was legally required to build 20 miles of bus lanes in 2022 but did not, and 30 miles of bus lanes in 2023, but also did not.]
Mamdani: "How can you call yourself a law & order mayor when new yorkers can't trust you to follow the law?"

RFK Jr. blames young campaign staffer for TikTok thirst trap comment (Kelly Garrity/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/01/rfk-jr-tiktok-thirst-trap-00139139

AI Exposure and Strategic Positioning on an Online Work Platform
Shun Yiu, Rob Seamans, Manav Raj, Ted Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15262 https://…

AI Exposure and Strategic Positioning on an Online Work Platform
AI technologies have the potential to affect labor market outcomes by both increasing worker productivity and reducing the demand for certain skills or tasks. Such changes may have important implications for the ways in which workers seek jobs and position themselves. In this project, we examine how exposure to generative AI technologies affects the strategic behavior of freelancer workers on an online work platform following the launch of ChatGPT in December 2022. Relative to their less expose…

Esta merda é completamente absurda. Meter milhões de euros numa cagada de blockchain como parte do PRR seria só estúpido se não fosse um crime económico porque é dinheiro que se vai acabar por evaporar sem deixar rasto nem produzir rigorosamente NADA. E pior ainda é chamarem "verde" a uma merda que consome carradas de energia para coisa nenhuma.

Mais Transparência
O portal Mais Transparência é uma plataforma digital de informação sobre vários temas de gestão e recursos públicos da responsabilidade da AMA - Agência para a Modernização Administrativa.

Genesis - The Final Show (London O2 Arena | March 26. 2022)
#NowPlaying

A New You Tomorrow - Limited series ⭐☄️❤️
Dramatized musical sci-fi comedy | Total listening time: 1h 29m
A college drop-out, troubled by bad dreams, seeks answers at his aunt’s space-rock store in the Mojave desert. Maybe the universe is trying to tell us something?
#AudioFiction #FictionPodcast

A New You Tomorrow - Limited series ⭐☄️❤️
Dramatized musical sci-fi comedy | Total listening time: 1h 29m A college drop-out, troubled by bad dreams, seeks answers at his aunt’s space-rock store in the Mojave desert. Maybe the universe is trying to tell us something? 1 seasons, 7 episodes as of Jan 01, 2022.

Life Cycle Assessment of the Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit
Didier Barret (IRAP, France), Vincent Albouys (CNES, France), J\"urgen Kn\"odlseder (IRAP, France), Xavier Loizillon (Scalian, France), Matteo D'Andrea (IAPS, Italy), Florence Ardellier (APC, France), Simon Bandler (NASA, United States), Pieter Dieleman (SRON, Netherlands), Lionel Duband (CEA-SBT, France), Luc Dubbeldam (SRON, Netherlands), Claudio Macculi (IAPS, Italy), Eduardo Medinaceli (INAF, Italy), Franco…

Life Cycle Assessment of the Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit
The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) is the high-resolution X-ray spectrometer to fly on board the Athena Space Observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA). It is being developed by an international Consortium led by France, involving twelve ESA member states, plus the United States. It is a cryogenic instrument, involving state of the art technology, such as micro-calorimeters, to be read out by low noise electronics. As the instrument was undergoing its system requirement review (in 2022)…

Selenskyj legt persönliche Einkünfte für 2021 und 2022 offen
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj hat seine persönlichen Einkünfte für die Jahre 2021 und 2022 offengelegt. In einem Beitrag auf der Internetseite des Präsidenten meldeten Selenskyj und seine Familie für 2021 ein Einkommen von 10,8 Millionen Griwna (263.000 Euro), zwölf Millionen Griwna weniger als im Jahr zuvor. Darin waren Einnahmen aus dem Verkauf von …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: + EU plant Nutzung russischer Gelder für Ukraine +
Die EU hat sich auf einen Plan verständigt, eingefrorene russische Gelder für die Ukraine zu nutzen. Der ukrainische Verteidigungsminister meldet "viele Verstöße" bei Versorgungslieferungen für das Militär. Der Liveblog vom Montag zum Nachlesen.

Of course we end up where we expected to with this election, even though nobody wanted it. That's what plurality elections do.
All the more reason to get behind #RankedChoiceVoting
https://

Pledge To Support Ranked Choice Voting Across the U.S.
Ranked Choice Voting is taking off. Just last November, it passed in 10 places in 2022. Voters from all political backgrounds love it because it takes power away from politicians and puts it where it belongs: in the hands of voters.

Mystery solved!

#P4x #CyberSecurity #InfoSec @…

Inside tech billionaires’ push to reshape San Francisco politics: ‘a hostile takeover’
Since 2022, political groups like Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy, GrowSF, and TogetherSF Action have raised millions to influence political battles — and they have won several major victories.
In large part, their war chests are funded by extremely wealthy individuals with interests in tech or real estate.
The groups share many of the same donors and support many of the sa…

Business For Aligned Women
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods…

Business For Aligned Women | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Business For Aligned Women Host: Clara Category: Business Sub-Category: Entrepreneurship First Episode: 2022 Welcome to the podcast designed exclusively for visionary women business owners…

Q&A with Evan Smith, Texas Tribune CEO from 2009 to 2022, on earned income in nonprofit journalism, sponsorship to fund news for marginalized people, and more (Richard J. Tofel/Second Rough Draft)
https://dicktofel.substack.com/p/the-texas-tribune-examp…

The Texas Tribune, Example or Exception?: A Candid Talk with Evan Smith About Earned Income
Events, sponsorship-- and why one size doesn't fit all

Got some of the #JunCon 2024 swag, and wearing three years of Pretty Important Gamer pins.

Es ist ja toll, dass Deutschland schon deutlich mehr als 50% erneuerbare Energien im Strommix hat (Februar 2024: 63,6%). Aber wir sollten definitiv nicht nur auf den Strom schauen.
Die gesamte Primärenergie sieht anders aus. Da ist noch *SEEHR* viel zu tun / einzusparen / sektorzukoppeln. 🤫
Quelle: https://

Has anyone managed to successfully titrate whelming?
Everyone talks about being over- or underwhelmed but nobody ever gets the whelm level just right so everyone's happy.

This piece is about ostensibly about intellectual property—not my usual beat of climate, regeneration, ecology, business strategy, language, and belonging to the living world—but it holds a lesson about the processes of policy, legislation, and standards (aha, there's your clue) that may very much pertain to all the "sustainable business" and "ESG" people who are in the kitchen cooking up more alphabet soup.

Winding Down Our Latest Greenhouse Panel: The Lessons Learned From SOPA/PIPA
Ten years ago a coalition of strange bedfellows came together to thwart one of the most problematic pieces of legislation in tech policy history. In the process they made history, rekindled waning …

General Staff: Russia has lost 385,230 troops in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/01/31/general-staff-russia.html

Pro & Contra: Vernachlässigt Apple das iPad?
Neue iPads wurden zuletzt im Oktober 2022 vorgestellt. Verliert Apple seine Tablets aus dem Auge?
https://www.heise.de/meinung/Pro-Contra-Ve

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Siblings are our best friends, worst critics and sometime enemies. Today, we celebrate them. Let's play!
#SiblingAShowOrBook

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

[Le Monde] - #Métros parisiens : la fréquence s’est dégradée depuis 2019 sur la plupart des lignes.
La #RATP a redressé la barre sur les fréquences des métros par rapport Š la fin de l’année 2022, mais peine Š atteindre les objectifs fixés par la région.

Métros parisiens : la fréquence s’est dégradée depuis 2019 sur la plupart des lignes
La RATP a redressé la barre sur les fréquences des métros par rapport à la fin de l’année 2022, mais peine à atteindre les objectifs fixés par la région.

Taps the sign.
2022/2015(INI) para 39: Considers that the current way of finding MEPs’ voting histories – via PDF files covering hundreds of votes on Parliament’s website – [..] does not contribute to transparency; calls for Parliament’s Bureau to develop a [..] system in which, [..] roll-call vote results [..] be made available in machine-readable formats;

Calling Betteridge's Law on this one..
#BetteridgesLaw

The American Library Association's Graphic Novels and Comics Roundtable's 2023 Best Graphic Novels Reading List for Adults
https://www.ala.org/rt/gncrt/best-graphic-novels-reading-list-2023

"Die Zahl der registrierten Straftaten gegen queere Menschen hat sich in Bayern im Jahr 2023 verdoppelt, von 96 im Jahr 2022 auf 190 im vergangenen Jahr." - Bei der #CSU / FW Politik und den Politikern in Bayern (Söder, Aiwanger etc.) wundert es mich nicht. #Gewaltverbrechen

Anstieg der Straftaten gegen queere Menschen in Bayern
Die Zahl der registrierten Straftaten gegen queere Menschen hat sich in Bayern im Jahr 2023 verdoppelt, von 96 im Jahr 2022 auf 190 im vergangenen Jahr.

Sources: Founders Fund bought $100M in bitcoin and $100M in ether from late summer to early fall 2023; it sold its crypto portfolio in 2022 for $1.8B in returns (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/peter-t

Semialgebraic Range Stabbing, Ray Shooting, and Intersection Counting in the Plane
Timothy M. Chan, Pingan Cheng, Da Wei Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12303

Semialgebraic Range Stabbing, Ray Shooting, and Intersection Counting in the Plane
Polynomial partitioning techniques have recently led to improved geometric data structures for a variety of fundamental problems related to semialgebraic range searching and intersection searching in 3D and higher dimensions (e.g., see [Agarwal, Aronov, Ezra, and Zahl, SoCG 2019; Ezra and Sharir, SoCG 2021; Agarwal, Aronov, Ezra, Katz, and Sharir, SoCG 2022]). They have also led to improved algorithms for offline versions of semialgebraic range searching in 2D, via lens-cutting [Sharir and Zahl…

#Nashville PSA: There were no trolleys (streetcars) in the 'trolley barns' at Rolling Mill Hill. Nashville's Streetcars (which is what we called them) were phased out in early 1941, the same year those buildings were opened, for use by public works. The "trolley barns" are completely made up history. The actual streetcar barns were where the Municipal Auditorium sits today. …

The Trolley Barns That Never Were
Nashville History is a blog about the people, places and events of Nashville's and Davidson County's past.

Jimmy Garoppolo surprisingly named a 'best fit' for San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl push next season https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/jimmy_garoppolo_surprisingly_na…

Jimmy Garoppolo surprisingly named a 'best fit' for San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl push next season
The San Francisco 49ers could again look to a former New England Patriots quarterback to add to their roster for the 2024 season. Head coach Kyle Shanahan has been enamored with quarterbacks coached by Bill Belichick in recent years. The Patriots traded Garoppolo to the 49ers in the middle of the 2017 season. He would stay there for the 2022 season, leading the 49ers to a Super Bowl appearance for the 2019 season. Following Garoppolo’s departure to the Las Vegas Raiders last season, Shanahan …

Indrukwekkende documentaire "20 days in Mariuopol" , schokkende beelden. Burgerbevolking die lijdt onder de gerichte aanvallen van Rusland op burgerdoelen.
https://www.2doc.nl/documentaires/2024/02/20-days-in-mariupol.html

Bekijk de documentaire '20 Days in Mariupol' nu op 2Doc.nl
Verslag van de Russische inval in de Oekraïense stad Marioepol in 2022. De beelden zijn gemaakt door de Oekraïense Associated Press-journalist Mstyslav Chernov en zijn team. Terwijl zij vastzitten in de stad gaan zij door met hun werk en doen verslag van alle vreselijke gebeurtenissen. Met uiterste moeite weet Chernov de beelden uit de van internet en elektriciteit verstoken stad te versturen. Door de bombardementen zijn de beelden schokkerig, maar kraakhelder en in de voice-over geeft Cherno…

Russia stripped of 2022 Olympics gold medal for team figure skating after Valieva ban: https://benborges.xyz/2024/01/30/russia-stripped-of.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…

Life Cycle Assessment of the Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit
Didier Barret (IRAP, France), Vincent Albouys (CNES, France), J\"urgen Kn\"odlseder (IRAP, France), Xavier Loizillon (Scalian, France), Matteo D'Andrea (IAPS, Italy), Florence Ardellier (APC, France), Simon Bandler (NASA, United States), Pieter Dieleman (SRON, Netherlands), Lionel Duband (CEA-SBT, France), Luc Dubbeldam (SRON, Netherlands), Claudio Macculi (IAPS, Italy), Eduardo Medinaceli (INAF, Italy), Franco…

Life Cycle Assessment of the Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit
The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) is the high-resolution X-ray spectrometer to fly on board the Athena Space Observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA). It is being developed by an international Consortium led by France, involving twelve ESA member states, plus the United States. It is a cryogenic instrument, involving state of the art technology, such as micro-calorimeters, to be read out by low noise electronics. As the instrument was undergoing its system requirement review (in 2022)…

Clinical trial registration report 2022: data about clinical trial registration every year since 2015
https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-a…

Inside tech billionaires’ push to reshape San Francisco politics: ‘a hostile takeover’
Since 2022, political groups like Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy, GrowSF, and TogetherSF Action have raised millions to influence political battles — and they have won several major victories.
In large part, their war chests are funded by extremely wealthy individuals with interests in tech or real estate.
The groups share many of the same donors and support many of the sa…

Children of a British woman suspected of illegal abortion removed from her care - Tortoise https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/03/08/children-of-british-woman-suspected-of-illegal-abortion-removed-from-her-care/

Children of a British woman suspected of illegal abortion removed from her care - Tortoise
A British mother being investigated for a suspected illegal abortion under a Victorian-era law had her existing children removed from her care, Tortoise can reveal.  The mother is one of six women who have appeared in an English court since December 2022 for illegally ending their pregnancies under the Offence Against the Person Act (OAPA) …

Novara Media says the left-wing UK nonprofit opinion and news outlet has nearly 15K monthly donors, up from 10K in July 2022, and 25 staff, paid £19 per hour (Bron Maher/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Youtube drives increase in paying readers as Novara Media nears 15,000 donors
Craig Gent told Press Gazette that despite the cost of living crisis, 2023 was Novara Media's strongest year for supporter funding.

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…

Stylized Facts of High-Frequency Bitcoin Time Series
Yaoyue Tang, Karina Arias-Calluari, Michael S. Harr\'e, Fernando Alonso-Marroquin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11930

Stylized Facts of High-Frequency Bitcoin Time Series
This paper analyses the high-frequency intraday Bitcoin dataset from 2019 to 2022. During this time frame, the Bitcoin market index exhibited two distinct periods characterized by abrupt changes in volatility. The Bitcoin price returns for both periods can be described by an anomalous diffusion process, transitioning from subdiffusion for short intervals to weak superdiffusion over longer time intervals. The characteristic features related to this anomalous behavior studied in the present paper…

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

Amid mass tech layoffs, some workers with years of experience or deep technical expertise are having trouble getting hired again while some seek non-tech jobs (Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3Ssn0rC

The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers?
Google, Amazon, Microsoft and a raft of others fired thousands of workers in January, continuing a layoff wave that began in 2022.

Advancements and challenges in plasmon-exciton quantum emitters based on colloidal quantum dots
Adam Olejniczak, Yury Rakovich, Victor Krivenkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10613 <…

Advancements and challenges in plasmon-exciton quantum emitters based on colloidal quantum dots
The Nobel Prizes in Physics (2022) and Chemistry (2023) heralded the recognition of quantum information science and the synthesis of quantum dots, respectively. This acknowledgment has propelled colloidal quantum dots and perovskite nanocrystals to the forefront of quantum technologies. Their distinct emission properties, facilitating the efficient generation of both single photons and photon pairs, render them particularly captivating. Moreover, their adaptability to diverse structures, rangin…

Quantitative Reducibility of $C^k$ Quasi-Periodic Cocycles
Ao Cai, Huihui Lv, Zhiguo Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09132 https://ar…

Quantitative Reducibility of $C^k$ Quasi-Periodic Cocycles
This paper establishes an extreme $C^k$ reducibility theorem of quasi-periodic $SL(2, \mathbb{R})$ cocycles in the local perturbative region, revealing both the essence of Eliasson [Commun.Math.Phys.1992] and Hou-You [Invent.Math.2022] in respectively the non-resonant and resonant cases. By paralleling further the reducibility process with the almost reducibility, we are able to acquire the least initial regularity as well as the least loss of regularity for the whole KAM iterations. This, in r…

The "spread" of Thompson's group $F$
Gili Golan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19444 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.19444

The "spread" of Thompson's group $F$
Recall that a group $G$ is said to be $\frac{3}{2}$-generated if every non-trivial element $g\in G$ has a co-generator in $G$ (i.e., an element which together with $g$ generates $G$). Thompson's group $V$ was proved to be $\frac{3}{2}$-generated by Donoven and Harper in 2019. It was the first example of an infinite finitely presented non-cyclic $\frac{3}{2}$-generated group. In 2022, Bleak, Harper and Skipper proved that Thompson's group $T$ is also $\frac{3}{2}$-generated. Since the abelianiza…

Social media giants’ unbalanced fight with disinformation in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/01/30/social-media-giants.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11434 has been replaced.
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On the subgroup regular set in Cayley graphs
A subset $C$ of the vertex set of a graph $Γ$ is said to be $(a,b)$-regular if $C$ induces an $a$-regular subgraph and every vertex outside $C$ is adjacent to exactly $b$ vertices in $C$. In particular, if $C$ is an $(a,b)$-regular set of some Cayley graph on a finite group $G$, then $C$ is called an $(a,b)$-regular set of $G$ and a $(0,1)$-regular set is called a perfect code of $G$. In [Wang, Xia and Zhou, Regular sets in Cayley graphs, J. Algebr. Comb., 2022] it is proved that if $H$ is a n…

pdfplumber can convert pdfs to ascii text much more beautifully than pdftotext(1) - but getting it well parametered is a bit of a challenge. but now i have a wonderful conversion of plenary amendments to ascii text without footers or headers. it looks magnificent.
look at this beauty: https://ctrlc.hu/~s…

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Revisiting the work "Brownian motion with time-dependent friction and single-particle dynamics in liquids" by Lad, Patel, and Pratap [Phys. Rev. E 105, 064107 (2022)]
Recently, Lad, Patel, and Pratap (LP&P) [Phys. Rev. E 105, 064107 (2022)] revisited a microscopic theory of molecular motion in liquids, proposed by Glass and Rice [Phys. Rev. 176, 239 (1968)]. Coming from this theory, LP&P derived a new equation of motion for the velocity autocorrelation function (VAF) and argued that the friction coefficient of particles in liquids should exponentially depend on time. The numerical solution of this equation was fitted to the results of molecular dynamics simu…

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Mobile Health Text Misinformation Identification Using Mobile Data Mining
More than six million people died of the COVID-19 by April 2022. The heavy casualties have put people on great and urgent alert and people try to find all kinds of information to keep them from being inflected by the coronavirus. This research tries to find out whether the mobile health text information sent to peoples devices is correct as smartphones becoming the major information source for people. The proposed method uses various mobile information retrieval and data mining technologies inc…

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Auditing Elon Musk's Impact on Hate Speech and Bots
On October 27th, 2022, Elon Musk purchased Twitter, becoming its new CEO and firing many top executives in the process. Musk listed fewer restrictions on content moderation and removal of spam bots among his goals for the platform. Given findings of prior research on moderation and hate speech in online communities, the promise of less strict content moderation poses the concern that hate will rise on Twitter. We examine the levels of hate speech and prevalence of bots before and after Musk's a…

Computing Longest Common Subsequence under Cartesian-Tree Matching Model
Taketo Tsujimoto, Koki Shibata, Takuya Mieno, Yuto Nakashima, Shunsuke Inenaga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19146

Computing Longest Common Subsequence under Cartesian-Tree Matching Model
Two strings of the same length are said to Cartesian-tree match (CT-match) if their Cartesian-trees are isomorphic [Park et al., TCS 2020]. Cartesian-tree matching is a natural model that allows for capturing similarities of numerical sequences. Oizumi et al. [CPM 2022] showed that subsequence pattern matching under CT-matching model can be solved in polynomial time. This current article follows and extends this line of research: We present the first polynomial-time algorithm that finds the lon…

Clinical trial registration report 2022: data about clinical trial registration every year since 2015
https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-a…

Enhancing the Power of Gaussian Graphical Model Inference by Modeling the Graph Structure
Valentin KilianLPSM, Tabea RebafkaLPSM, Fanny VillersLPSM
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19021

Enhancing the Power of Gaussian Graphical Model Inference by Modeling the Graph Structure
For the problem of inferring a Gaussian graphical model (GGM), this work explores the application of a recent approach from the multiple testing literature for graph inference. The main idea of the method by Rebafka et al. (2022) is to model the data by a latent variable model, the so-called noisy stochastic block model (NSBM), and then use the associated ${\ell}$-values to infer the graph. The inferred graph controls the false discovery rate, that means that the proportion of falsely declared …

Analysis Facilities White Paper
D. Ciangottini, A. Forti, L. Heinrich, N. Skidmore, C. Alpigiani, D. Benjamin, B. Bockelman, L. Bryant, J. Catmore, M. D'Alfonso, C. Doglioni, G. Duckeck, P. Elmer, J. Eschle, M. Feickert, J. Frost, R. Gardner, V. Garonne, M. Giffels, J. Gooding, E. Gramstad, L. Gray, B. Hegner, A. Held, J. Hern\'andez, B. Holzman, F. Hu, B. K. Jashal, D. Kondratyev, E. Kourlitis, L. Kreczko, I. Krommydas, T. Kuhr, E. Lancon, C. Lange, D. Lange, J. Lange, P. Lenz…

Analysis Facilities White Paper
This white paper presents the current status of the R&D for Analysis Facilities (AFs) and attempts to summarize the views on the future direction of these facilities. These views have been collected through the High Energy Physics (HEP) Software Foundation's (HSF) Analysis Facilities forum, established in March 2022, the Analysis Ecosystems II workshop, that took place in May 2022, and the WLCG/HSF pre-CHEP workshop, that took place in May 2023. The paper attempts to cover all the aspects of an…

Officer Screamed ‘Stop Shooting Her’ While Police Killed Unarmed Teen After Car Chase https://www.404media.co/officer-screamed-stop-shooting-her-while-police-killed-unarmed-teen-after-car-chase/

A Big Problem:
Not that long ago more of the world’s people had too little to eat than ate too much.
Now the scales have tipped.
A study published on February 29th in the Lancet medical journal, shows that more than a #billion people were classified as #obese in 2022, the latest year for which data are a…

The obesity capitals of the world
A new study shows that waistlines are widening almost everywhere

Computational Synthetic Cohomology Theory in Homotopy Type Theory
Axel Ljungström, Anders Mörtberg
https://arXiv.org/abs/2401.16336 https://

Computational Synthetic Cohomology Theory in Homotopy Type Theory
This paper discusses the development of synthetic cohomology in Homotopy Type Theory (HoTT), as well as its computer formalisation. The objectives of this paper are (1) to generalise previous work on integral cohomology in HoTT by the current authors and Brunerie (2022) to cohomology with arbitrary coefficients and (2) to provide the mathematical details of, as well as extend, results underpinning the computer formalisation of cohomology rings by the current authors and Lamiaux (2023). With res…

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 14 nodes and 54 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Sources: fabless semiconductor startup Astera Labs is meeting with prospective investors ahead of a potential March IPO; Astera was valued at $3.15B in 2022 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-data-center-startup-…

AI Data Center Startup Astera Labs Plans March IPO
A little-known startup that sells crucial data center components to customers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft is aiming to become one of the first firms to go public off the back of the boom in generative artificial intelligence. Astera Labs, backed by Sutter Hill Ventures and Intel, has ...

Versatile mixed methods for compressible flows
Edward A. Miller, David M. Williams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18660 https://arxiv.org…

Versatile mixed methods for compressible flows
Versatile mixed finite element methods were originally developed by Chen and Williams for isothermal incompressible flows in "Versatile mixed methods for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations," Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Volume 80, 2020. Thereafter, these methods were extended by Miller, Chen, and Williams to non-isothermal incompressible flows in "Versatile mixed methods for non-isothermal incompressible flows," Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Volume 125, 2022. …

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

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Unveiling Luminous Ly$α$ Emitters at $z\approx6$ through JWST/NIRCam Imaging in the COSMOS Field
We study a sample of 14 spectroscopically confirmed Ly$α$ Emitters (LAEs) in the late era of reionization (at redshift $z\approx6$) based on the JWST/NIRCam imaging dataset. These LAEs with high Ly$α$ luminosity of $L$(Ly$α$) $\sim10^{42.4-43.4}$ erg s$^{-1}$ have been covered by the (ongoing) COSMOS-Web survey (Kartaltepe et al. 2021; Casey et al. 2022) over $0.28$ deg$^2$ in four NIRCam bands (F115W, F150W, F277W, and F444W). With JWST imaging, we determine the UV continua with $M_{\rm UV}…

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Connectivity keeping trees in 3-connected bipartite graphs with girth conditions
Luo, Tian and Wu conjectured in 2022 that for any tree $T$ with bipartition $X$ and $Y$, every $k$-connected bipartite graph $G$ with $δ(G) \geq k + t$, where $t = \max\{|X|,|Y |\}$, contains a subtree $T' \cong T$ such that $G-V(T')$ remains $k$-connected. This conjecture has been proved for caterpillars and spiders when $k\leq 3$; and for paths with odd order. In this paper, we prove that this conjecture holds if $G$ is a bipartite graph with $g(G)\geq diam(T)-1$ and $k\l…

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Mobile Health Text Misinformation Identification Using Mobile Data Mining
More than six million people died of the COVID-19 by April 2022. The heavy casualties have put people on great and urgent alert and people try to find all kinds of information to keep them from being inflected by the coronavirus. This research tries to find out whether the mobile health text information sent to peoples devices is correct as smartphones becoming the major information source for people. The proposed method uses various mobile information retrieval and data mining technologies inc…

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Metamagnetism in the high-pressure tetragonal phase of UTe$_2$
T. Thebault, D. Braithwaite, G. Lapertot, D. Aoki, G. Knebel, W. Knafo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20277

Metamagnetism in the high-pressure tetragonal phase of UTe$_2$
A structural orthorhombic-to-tetragonal phase transition was recently discovered in the heavy-fermion compound UTe$_2$ at a pressure $p^*\simeq3-8$~GPa [Honda \textit{et al.}, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. \textbf{92}, 044702 (2023); Huston \textit{et al.}, Phys. Rev. Mat. \textbf{6}, 114801 (2022)]. In the high-pressure tetragonal phase, a phase transition at $T_x=235$~K and a superconducting transition at $T_{sc}=2$~K have been revealed. In this work, we present an electrical-resistivity study of UTe$_2…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11596 has been replaced.
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Connectivity keeping trees in 3-connected bipartite graphs with girth conditions
Luo, Tian and Wu conjectured in 2022 that for any tree $T$ with bipartition $X$ and $Y$, every $k$-connected bipartite graph $G$ with $δ(G) \geq k + t$, where $t = \max\{|X|,|Y |\}$, contains a subtree $T' \cong T$ such that $G-V(T')$ remains $k$-connected. This conjecture has been proved for caterpillars and spiders when $k\leq 3$; and for paths with odd order. In this paper, we prove that this conjecture holds if $G$ is a bipartite graph with $g(G)\geq diam(T)-1$ and $k\l…

Computational Synthetic Cohomology Theory in Homotopy Type Theory
Axel Ljungström, Anders Mörtberg
https://arXiv.org/abs/2401.16336 https://

Computational Synthetic Cohomology Theory in Homotopy Type Theory
This paper discusses the development of synthetic cohomology in Homotopy Type Theory (HoTT), as well as its computer formalisation. The objectives of this paper are (1) to generalise previous work on integral cohomology in HoTT by the current authors and Brunerie (2022) to cohomology with arbitrary coefficients and (2) to provide the mathematical details of, as well as extend, results underpinning the computer formalisation of cohomology rings by the current authors and Lamiaux (2023). With res…

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Spectral Total-Variation Processing of Shapes -- Theory and Applications
We present an analysis of total-variation (TV) on non-Euclidean parameterized surfaces, a natural representation of the shapes used in 3D graphics. Our work explains recent experimental findings in shape spectral TV [Fumero et al., 2020] and adaptive anisotropic spectral TV [Biton and Gilboa, 2022]. A new way to generalize set convexity from the plane to surfaces is derived by characterizing the TV eigenfunctions on surfaces. Relationships between TV, area, eigenvalue, eigenfunctions and their …

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On 13-Crossing-Critical Graphs with Arbitrarily Large Degrees
A recent result of Bokal et al. [Combinatorica, 2022] proved that the exact minimum value of c such that c-crossing-critical graphs do not have bounded maximum degree is c=13. The key to that result is an inductive construction of a family of 13-crossing-critical graphs with many vertices of arbitrarily high degrees. While the inductive part of the construction is rather easy, it all relies on the fact that a certain 17-vertex base graph has the crossing number 13, which was originally verified…

[Libération] - #Cinéma : #DominiqueBoutonnat, le patron du #CNC, jugé en juin pour #AgressionSexuelle

Cinéma : Dominique Boutonnat, le patron du CNC, jugé en juin pour agressions sexuelles
Maintenu en juillet 2022 à la tête du Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée alors qu’une partie de la profession avait exprimé son désaccord, Dominique Boutonnat sera jugé pour agressions sexuelles sur son filleul de 21 ans.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.07517 has been replaced.
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Spectral Total-Variation Processing of Shapes -- Theory and Applications
We present an analysis of total-variation (TV) on non-Euclidean parameterized surfaces, a natural representation of the shapes used in 3D graphics. Our work explains recent experimental findings in shape spectral TV [Fumero et al., 2020] and adaptive anisotropic spectral TV [Biton and Gilboa, 2022]. A new way to generalize set convexity from the plane to surfaces is derived by characterizing the TV eigenfunctions on surfaces. Relationships between TV, area, eigenvalue, eigenfunctions and their …