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2022 retro-link! http://blog.ffwll.ch/2022/07/locking-engineering.html - Linux kernel lock engineering principles.

im buch "bibliomania – das buch in der kunst" gibt es auch ein kapitel zu bibliotheken. 😊
#buch

📖 Fatma Aydemir: Dschinns (2022)

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 8 nodes and 163 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

2022 retro-link! http://blog.ffwll.ch/2022/07/locking-engineering.html - Linux kernel lock engineering principles.

Fortschrittsbericht Beschleunigungskommission Schiene: Im Dezember 2022 hatte die vom Bund eingerichtete Beschleunigungskommission Schiene ein ganze Bündel von Handlungsempfehlungen gegeben (Pressemitteilung, Abschlussbericht). Jetzt hat das Bundesverkehrsministerium den zweiten Fortschrittsbericht über den Stand der Umsetzung der Empfehlungen abgeliefert. Das Urteil des Ministeriums über die erzielten Fortschritte fällt positiv aus. Auch der erste Fortschrittsbericht…

Fortschrittsbericht Beschleunigungskommission Schiene
Fortschrittsbericht Beschleunigungskommission Schiene

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…

Davante Adams reflects on trade request and talks about Love's performance with the Packers https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/davante_adams_reflects_on_trade_request_and_talks_…

https://maciej.codes/2022-06-09-local-async.html - Local async executors should be the default in Rust.

The Mathematical Foundation of Post-Quantum Cryptography
Chuanming Zong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19186 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.1…

The Mathematical Foundation of Post-Quantum Cryptography
On July 5, 2022, the National Institute of Standards and Technology announced four possible post-quantum cryptography standards, three of them are based on lattice theory and the other one is based on Hash function. It is well-known that the security of the lattice cryptography relies on the hardness of the shortest vector problem (SVP) and the closest vector problem (CVP). In fact, the SVP is a sphere packing problem and the CVP is a sphere covering problem. Furthermore, both SVP and CVP are e…

Analysis: Vietnam's share in global smartphone exports grew from less than 1% in 2010 to 12% in 2022, while India's grew from <1% to 2.5% over the same period (The Hindu)
https://www.thehindu.com/data/who-is-winni

Deneb is a Large Amplitude Polarimetric Variable
Daniel V. Cotton, Jeremy Bailey, Jean Perkins, Derek L. Buzasi, Ievgeniia Boiko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17707

Deneb is a Large Amplitude Polarimetric Variable
We write to report the discovery that Deneb is a large amplitude polarization variable. Over a ~400 d time span from August 2022 Deneb's polarization was typically around 3900 parts-per-million (ppm) in the SDSS g'-band. Yet, it varied by several hundred ppm in an irregular way on a timescale of weeks. The largest polarization change, amounting to 2500 ppm, occurred shortly after the last pulsation ``resumption'' event identified by Abt et al. (2023) in TESS photometry. The relationship between…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11580 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_…

A Characterization of Complexity in Public Goods Games
We complete the characterization of the computational complexity of equilibrium in public goods games on graphs. In this model, each vertex represents an agent deciding whether to produce a public good, with utility defined by a "best-response pattern" determining the best response to any number of productive neighbors. We prove that the equilibrium problem is NP-complete for every finite non-monotone best-response pattern. This answers the open problem of [Gilboa and Nisan, 2022], and complete…

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

Mobility Access Australia
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Mobility Access Australia | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Mobility Access Australia Host: Clint Deverson Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Health & Wellness, Places & Travel First Episode: 2022 A podcast talking about how accessible…

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…

Op de hele planeet zit er pfas in de regen. Dus ook in de bron van het drinkwater. https://phys.org/news/2022-08-rainwater-unsafe-due-chemicals.html

Rainwater unsafe to drink due to chemicals: study
Rainwater everywhere on the planet is unsafe to drink due to levels of toxic chemicals known as PFAS that exceed the latest guidelines, according to a new study by Stockholm University scientists.

General Staff: Russia has lost 463,930 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/general-staff-russia.html

An Invariance Principle of 1D KPZ with Robin Boundary Conditions
Yiming Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19215 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

An Invariance Principle of 1D KPZ with Robin Boundary Conditions
We consider a discrete one-dimensional random interface on the half-space whose height at any positive point is defined as a sum of an independent random noise and a function of the heights at its two closest neighbours. In 2022, Adhikari and Chatterjee proved for the full-space model that assuming the function is equivariant, symmetric, and at least six times differentiable in a neighbourhood of zero, as the variance of the noise variables goes to zero, the height function converges to the Col…

The rise of Indo-German collaborative research: 1990-2022
Aasif Ahmad Mir, Nina Smirnova, Jeyshankar Ramalingam, Philipp Mayr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17171 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.17171
arXiv:2404.17171v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The study aims to highlight the growth and development of Indo-German collaborative research over the past three decades. Moreover, this study encompasses an in-depth examination of funding acknowledgements to gain valuable insights into the financial support that underpins these collaborative endeavors. Together with this paper, we provide an openly accessible dataset of Indo-German research articles for further and reproducible research activities (the "Indo-German Literature Dataset"). The data were retrieved from the Web of Science (WoS) database from the year 1990 till the 30th of November 2022. A total of 36,999 records were retrieved against the employed query. Acknowledged entities were extracted using a NER model specifically trained for this task. Interrelations between the extracted entities and scientific domains, lengths of acknowledgement texts, number of authors and affiliations, number of citations, and gender of the first author, as well as collaboration patterns between Indian and German funders were examined. The study brings to light that Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Engineering prominently dominate the Indo-German collaborative research. The United States, followed by England and France, are the most active collaborators in Indian and German research. Additionally, relations between entity, entity type, and scientific domain, were discovered. The study highlights a deeper understanding of the composition of the Indo-German collaborative research landscape of the last 30 years and its significance in advancing scientific knowledge and fostering international partnerships. Furthermore, we provide an open version of the original WoS dataset. The Indo-German Literature Dataset consists of 22,844 articles from OpenAlex and is available for related studies like literature studies and Scientometrics.

Mobility Access Australia
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Mobility Access Australia | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Mobility Access Australia Host: Clint Deverson Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Health & Wellness, Places & Travel First Episode: 2022 A podcast talking about how accessible…

oh my gods i completely forgot that i was involved in this https://tomverbeure.github.io/2022/02/20/GDBWave-Post-Simulation-RISCV-SW-Debugging.html

#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. 

Recently, I’ve been listening to jazz music, and came across this… https://music.apple.com/gb/album/brontolo/1617320939?i=1617321180
If someone has asked me what category I would put this in, I would not have said Jazz. Pretty incredible and well worth…

Brontolo by Enrico Intra on Apple Music
Song · 2022 · Duration 3:07

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…

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

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…

Besonders die morgendlichen und nachmittäglichen Stauspitzen an Werktagen sind laut ADAC angestiegen, was auf die Rückkehr aus dem Homeoffice hindeutet.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-9620520?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_b…

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.

Pretty confident this was made by an AI https://notes.abhinavsarkar.net/2022/ghost-on-nixos.
The builder tries to use ghost-cli, which requires network access.
Builders do not have network access in nix.

In 2009, a Turkish graduate of the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, #Erdal #Arikan, published a paper that solved a fundamental problem in information theory, allowing for much faster and more accurate data transfers.
Unable to get an academic appointment or funding to …

The U.S. Needs a Million Talents Program to Retain Technology Leadership
Immigration is the United States’ secret sauce—including in its competition with China.

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.

Post.News, the news-focused social platform launched in 2022 that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow "fast enough" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-altern…

Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down
Post News, a Twitter alternative run by the former Waze CEO Noam Bardin, is shutting down. Bardin says the platform “is not growing fast enough.”

General Staff: Russia has lost 459,530 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/21/general-staff-russia.html

Ford’s F-100 truck inspires enthusiasts to build electric restomods - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/3/23049084/ford-f100-eluminator-restomod-electric-vehicle

Ford’s F-100 truck inspires enthusiasts to build electric restomods
Ford built an electric 1978 F-100 restomod that uses the company's new crate motor instead of donor Tesla motors like other restomods. It encourages enthusiasts and mod shops to build more, which is great for the environment and a model for the right to repair.

Following Judge Durkin's grant of summary judgment against their design patent infringement claims (https://mastodon.social/@design_law/111771619167432208), the "hoverboard"

Guest Post: We need to talk about the NDIL's Schedule-A cases
By Sarah Burstein, Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School ABC Corp. I v. Partnership & Unincorporated Associations Identified …

tl;dr: because everyone else is doing it, and it gooses up stock prices short-term. #layoffs
“The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers?”
https://www.

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.

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…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12514 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLO_…

Assume-guarantee contract algebras are bounded Sugihara monoids
In [Incer Romeo, I. X., \textit{The Algebra of Contracts}. Ph.D. Thesis, UC Berkeley (2022)] an algebraic perspective on assume-guarantee contracts is proposed. This proposal relies heavily on a construction involving Boolean algebras. However, the structures thus proposed lack a clearly prescribed set of basic operations, necessary if we want to see them as a class of algebras (in the sense of Universal Algebra). In this article, by prescribing a suitable set of basic operations on contracts, …

@… Hast du gesehen? Das scheint der Hintergrund zu den Layoffs zu sein:
https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/111171019429839700

Recently, I’ve been listening to jazz music, and came across this… https://music.apple.com/gb/album/brontolo/1617320939?i=1617321180
If someone has asked me what category I would put this in, I would not have said Jazz. Pretty incredible and well worth…

Brontolo by Enrico Intra on Apple Music
Song · 2022 · Duration 3:07

Kommenterar diskussionen om senaste terrorrankningen (för åren 2007-2022) i Komintern och det faktum att nummer 20 på listan bara gjort ett enda terrordåd på de 15 åren.

"Anteil des Güterverkehrs auf der #Schiene wächst nur leicht
Die #Eisenbahn hat ihren Anteil am #Güterverkehr 2022 ausgebaut – am meisten zulasten der

Anteil des Güterverkehrs auf der Schiene wächst nur leicht
Die Eisenbahn hat ihren Anteil am Güterverkehr 2022 ausgebaut – am meisten zulasten der Binnenschifffahrt.

Patriots sign S Kyle Dugger to 4-year deal worth $58 million: Source https://theathletic.com/5397352/2024/04/07/patriots-kyle-dugger-extension/

Patriots sign S Kyle Dugger to 4-year deal worth $58 million: Source
Dugger nabbed two pick sixes in a standout 2022 season and tallied a career-high 109 sacks in 2023.

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.

Quits rate past 23 years.
One explanation for big layoffs? Quits are down. But when you look: they're down compared to 2022, they're not down compared to 5 years ago.
Another explanation? Generative #AI is expensive and companies are laying people off to free up cash to spend on that.
Chart:

Quits: Total Nonfarm
Graph and download economic data for Quits: Total Nonfarm (JTSQUR) from Dec 2000 to Dec 2023 about quits, nonfarm, and USA.

Alibaba cut ~20K staff during 2023, ending December with 219,260 employees, after cutting roughly the same number in 2022, and bought $9.5B of its stock in 2023 (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Alibaba Layoffs Reduced Headcount by a Further 20,000 in 2023
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. cut its staff by roughly 20,000 over the course of 2023, adding to a spate of layoffs spanning global tech companies from Silicon Valley to Hangzhou.

„Auf TikTok wurde jedes Video der AfD-Bundestagsfraktion in den Jahren 2022 und 2023 im Durchschnitt 435 394 Mal aufgerufen. Zum Vergleich: Die CDU/CSU-Fraktion, die für diesen Zeitraum den zweitbesten Wert erzielt, kommt auf durchschnittlich 90 583 Aufrufe pro Clip,“ so Johannes Hillje
#NoAfd #Propaganda

Gegen die Flut der Desinformation: Die rechtsradikale Propaganda gemeinsam kontern
Die AfD setzt auf Propaganda, besonders auf Social Media. Mit Halbwahrheiten und Hasstiraden überschwemmen sie das Netz. Doch wie können wir dem Shitstorm entgegentreten? Ein Blick auf die Strategi…

Strand nördlich von Porto, Portugal 2022
Beach north of Porto, Portugal 2022
Praia de Memoria
#meermittwoch in the late afternoon

Lessons Learned in Performing a Trustworthy AI and Fundamental Rights Assessment
Marjolein Boonstra, Fr\'ed\'erick Bruneault, Subrata Chakraborty, Tjitske Faber, Alessio Gallucci, Eleanore Hickman, Gerard Kema, Heejin Kim, Jaap Kooiker, Elisabeth Hildt, Annegret Lamad\'e, Emilie Wiinblad Mathez, Florian M\"oslein, Genien Pathuis, Giovanni Sartor, Marijke Steege, Alice Stocco, Willy Tadema, Jarno Tuimala, Isabel van Vledder, Dennis Vetter, Jana Vetter, Magnus Westerlund…

Lessons Learned in Performing a Trustworthy AI and Fundamental Rights Assessment
This report shares the experiences, results and lessons learned in conducting a pilot project ``Responsible use of AI'' in cooperation with the Province of Friesland, Rijks ICT Gilde-part of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK) (both in The Netherlands) and a group of members of the Z-Inspection$^{\small{\circledR}}$ Initiative. The pilot project took place from May 2022 through January 2023. During the pilot, the practical application of a deep learning algorithm from the p…

#Big12
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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.

Spectacular climate news: EU-ETS emissions decreased by 15.5% in 2023, compared to 2022 levels!
Electricity emissions -24% (more renewables, less fossil)
Industry emissions -7% (less output efficiency gains)
Aviation emissions 10%
https:/…

Record reduction of 2023 ETS emissions due largely to boost in renewable energy
Last year’s emissions under the EU’s Emission Trading System (ETS) show the most significant annual emissions reductions since the ETS was launched in 2005. The main driver is the power sector’s significant progress in decarbonisation.

General Staff: Russia has lost 402,430 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/18/general-staff-russia.html

Yearly allergy post! Took my first Allegra today. Not feeling any of the usual itchy or sneezing but my sinuses have been clogged for days now.
2024: April 7
2023: April 16
2022: Jan 13
2021: Mar 4
2020: none?
2019: Feb 2

Plauen plant 9-Euro-Ticket für Straßenbahn
Mit einem preiswerten Monatsfahrschein den öffentlichen Nahverkehr häufiger nutzen. Das war die Idee des 9-Euro-Tickets. Und diese Idee kam sehr gut an. Nach dem bundesweiten Auslaufen des 9-Euro-Tickets denken die Plauener nun über eine Neuauflage nach.

Plauen plant 9-Euro-Ticket für Straßenbahn
Das 9-Euro-Ticket war im Jahr 2022 ein echter Renner. Inzwischen gibt es das 49-Euro-Ticket, mit dem man quer durch ganz Deutschland fahren kann. Das 9-Euro-Ticket ist damit Geschichte. Oder vielleicht doch nicht?

John's blow up examples and scattering solutions for semi-linear wave equations
Louie Bernhardt, Volker Schlue, Dongxiao Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12878

John's blow up examples and scattering solutions for semi-linear wave equations
In light of recent work of the third author, we revisit a classic example given by Fritz John of a semi-linear wave equation which exhibits finite in time blow up for all compactly supported data. We present the construction of future global solutions from asymptotic data given in arXiv:2204.12870(2022) for this specific example, and clarify the relation of this result of Yu to John's theorem. Furthermore we present a novel blow up result for finite energy solutions satisfying a sign condition …

Emma McIntosh, "Special project G*: Ontario government staff used code name for Greenbelt carveouts"
#onpoli <…

Special project G*: Ontario government staff used code name for Greenbelt carveouts
Ontario government staffers working on contentious changes to the Greenbelt in 2022 edited email chains to rem

Impacting the dayside Martian ionosphere from above and below: Effects of the impact of CIRs and ICMEs close to aphelion (April 2021) and during dust storms (June-July 2022) seen with MAVEN ROSE
Marianna Felici, Jennifer Segale, Paul Withers, Christina O. Lee, Andrea Hughes, Ed Thiemann, Steve Bougher, Candace Grey, Shannon Curry
https://

Impacting the dayside Martian ionosphere from above and below: Effects of the impact of CIRs and ICMEs close to aphelion (April 2021) and during dust storms (June-July 2022) seen with MAVEN ROSE
We use 62 electron density profiles collected by the Radio Occultation Science Experiment (ROSE), on MAVEN, when Mars was hit by CIRs and ICMEs close to aphelion (April 2021) and during two dust storms (June-July 2022) to examine the response of the Martian ionosphere to solar events and to solar events hitting during dust storms. We do so through three proxies - variation in total electron content between 80 and 300 km altitude, peak density, and peak altitude - of the aforementioned 62 ROSE e…

Large Language Models: A Survey
Shervin Minaee, Tomas Mikolov, Narjes Nikzad, Meysam Chenaghlu, Richard Socher, Xavier Amatriain, Jianfeng Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06196

Large Language Models: A Survey
Large Language Models (LLMs) have drawn a lot of attention due to their strong performance on a wide range of natural language tasks, since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022. LLMs' ability of general-purpose language understanding and generation is acquired by training billions of model's parameters on massive amounts of text data, as predicted by scaling laws \cite{kaplan2020scaling,hoffmann2022training}. The research area of LLMs, while very recent, is evolving rapidly in many different…

Serum samples from the fall of 2023 indicate a rise in protective antibodies in the youngest...This suggests that the children have regained some of protection lost after the pandemic. It also reflects the high prevalence of infection in the 2022/2023 season.

UN-Gericht entscheidet über Zuständigkeit für Klage gegen Russland
Das höchste Gericht der Vereinten Nationen (UN) soll heute über seine Zuständigkeit für eine von der Ukraine eingereichte Klage gegen Russland entscheiden. Die Ukraine hatte wenige Tage nach dem russischen Angriff im Februar 2022 beim Internationalen Gerichtshof (IGH) eine Klage eingereicht. Das Land wirft Russland vor, unter dem Vorwand der Verhinderung eines …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Selenskyj sieht klares Signal in EU-Hilfen ++
Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj sieht in den neuen EU-Hilfen für sein Land ein klares Signal an die USA und Russland. Laut Behörden sind bei einem russischen Angriff in der Ukraine zwei Franzosen getötet worden. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

Assessing Human Judgment Forecasts in the Rapid Spread of the Mpox Outbreak: Insights and Challenges for Pandemic Preparedness
Thomas McAndrew, Maimuna S. Majumder, Andrew A. Lover, Srini Venkatramanan, Paolo Bocchini, Tamay Besiroglu, Allison Codi, Gaia Dempsey, Sam Abbott, Sylvain Chevalier, Nikos I. Bosse, Juan Cambeiro, David Braun
https://

Assessing Human Judgment Forecasts in the Rapid Spread of the Mpox Outbreak: Insights and Challenges for Pandemic Preparedness
In May 2022, mpox (formerly monkeypox) spread to non-endemic countries rapidly. Human judgment is a forecasting approach that has been sparsely evaluated during the beginning of an outbreak. We collected -- between May 19, 2022 and July 31, 2022 -- 1275 forecasts from 442 individuals of six questions about the mpox outbreak where ground truth data are now available. Individual human judgment forecasts and an equally weighted ensemble were evaluated, as well as compared to a random walk, autoreg…

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…

Copper phone lines work, slow & ugly, but it works. During the ice storm of 98 and the storm of 2022 where we lost power for days the copper lines worked. If telcos ditch copper lines then what happens in a major disaster and there is extended power loss? Will the various towers have backup generators that can last days or even weeks?

Q&A with the CEO of Grindr, whose stock fell 75% since its SPAC merger in November 2022, on future plans, including an "Š la carte" travel payments service (Financial Times)
https://t.co/IM3W8eeNEk

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

Improved bass model using sales proportional average for one condition of mono peak curves
Ahmad Abu Sleem, Mohammed Alromema, Mohammad A. M. Abdel-Aal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08993

Improved bass model using sales proportional average for one condition of mono peak curves
"This study provides a modified Bass model to deal with trend curves for basic issues of relevance to individuals from all over the world, for which we collected 16 data sets from 2004 to 2022 and that are available on Google servers as "google trends". It was discovered that the Bass model did not forecast well for curves that have a mono peak with a sharp decrease to some level then have semi-stable with small decrement sales for a long time, thus a new parameter based on r1 and r2 (ratios of…

Oceanic influence on Large-Scale Atmospheric Convection during co-occurring La Nina and IOD events
Supriya Ovhal, Mujumdar M, Swapna P, Sreenivas P, Sandeep N, Ravichandran M
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11928

Oceanic influence on Large-Scale Atmospheric Convection during co-occurring La Nina and IOD events
The ISMR profoundly impacts over a billion people across the region. ISMR extremes have been linked to the ENSO and modulated by the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). ISMR of 2022 displayed intriguing spatial patterns: above-normal precipitation over the south peninsula and central India, normal over Northwest India, and below-normal over East and NE India. In 2022, La Nina conditions associated with a negative IOD (nIOD), were prevalent over the equatorial Pacific Ocean (PO) and IO. This study invest…

Quits rate past 23 years.
One explanation for big layoffs? Quits are down. But when you look: they're down compared to 2022, they're not down compared to 5 years ago.
Another explanation? Generative #AI is expensive and companies are laying people off to free up cash to spend on that.
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Quits: Total Nonfarm
Graph and download economic data for Quits: Total Nonfarm (JTSQUR) from Dec 2000 to Dec 2023 about quits, nonfarm, and USA.

Neil Young is bringing back his music to Spotify, after the removal in January 2022, saying "Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation" (Chris Eggertsen/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/business/streamin…

Neil Young Says His Music Is Returning to Spotify
Neil Young's music is returning to Spotify, says the singer-songwriter, who noted the end of the streamer's exclusive deal with Joe Rogan's podcast.

@… Hast du gesehen? Das scheint der Hintergrund zu den Layoffs zu sein:
https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/111171019429839700

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…

A note on the Fourier magnitude data and Sobolev embeddings
Jesse Railo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13329 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.1…

A note on the Fourier magnitude data and Sobolev embeddings
We study Sobolev $H^s(\mathbb{R}^n)$, $s \in \mathbb{R}$, stability of the Fourier phase problem to recover $f$ from the knowledge of $|\hat{f}|$ with an additional Bessel potential $H^{t,p}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ a priori estimate when $t \in \mathbb{R}$ and $p \in [1,2]$. These estimates are related to the ones studied recently by Steinerberger in "On the stability of Fourier phase retrieval" J. Fourier Anal. Appl., 28(2):29, 2022. While our estimates in general are different, they share so…

Q&A with the CEO of Grindr, whose stock fell 75% since its SPAC merger in November 2022, on future plans, including an "Š la carte" travel payments service (Financial Times)
https://t.co/IM3W8eeNEk

The discrete direct deconvolution model in the large eddy simulation of turbulence
Ning Chang, Zelong Yuan, Yunpeng Wang, Jianchun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08442

The discrete direct deconvolution model in the large eddy simulation of turbulence
The discrete direct deconvolution model (D3M) is developed for the large-eddy simulation (LES) of turbulence. The D3M is a discrete approximation of previous direct deconvolution model studied by Chang et al. ["The effect of sub-filter scale dynamics in large eddy simulation of turbulence," Phys. Fluids 34, 095104 (2022)]. For the first type model D3M-1, the original Gaussian filter is approximated by local discrete formulation of different orders, and direct inverse of the discrete filter is a…

Supervised Autoencoder MLP for Financial Time Series Forecasting
Bartosz Bieganowski, Robert Slepaczuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01866 https://

Supervised Autoencoder MLP for Financial Time Series Forecasting
This paper investigates the enhancement of financial time series forecasting with the use of neural networks through supervised autoencoders, aiming to improve investment strategy performance. It specifically examines the impact of noise augmentation and triple barrier labeling on risk-adjusted returns, using the Sharpe and Information Ratios. The study focuses on the S&P 500 index, EUR/USD, and BTC/USD as the traded assets from January 1, 2010, to April 30, 2022. Findings indicate that supervi…

Saints re-sign S Tyrann Mathieu to 2-year deal: Reports https://theathletic.com/5324591/2024/03/07/saints-sign-tyrann-mathieu/

Saints re-sign S Tyrann Mathieu to 2-year deal: Reports
The New Orleans Saints are re-signing safety Tyrann Mathieu to a two-year, $13 million deal, according to multiple reports. He’s spent the past two seasons with New Orleans after signing a three-year deal with the franchise in 2022. Mathieu, 31, is coming of the best season of his Saints tenure logging four interceptions in 2023. The three-time first-team All-Pro is a New Orleans native who played five seasons with the Cardinals, one with the Texans and three seasons with the Kansas City Chie…

General Staff: Russia has lost 450,890 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/11/general-staff-russia.html

Covariant formulation of electrodynamics in isotropic media revisited
D V Red\v{z}i\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01346 https://a…

Covariant formulation of electrodynamics in isotropic media revisited
We point out some problematic arguments in a recent paper by Pal (2022 Eur. J. Phys. 43 015204), Franklin's Comment on it (2024 Eur. J. Phys. 45 028002), and Pal's Reply (2024 Eur. J. Phys. 45 028001)

Measurements of All-Particle Energy Spectrum and Mean Logarithmic Mass of Cosmic Rays from 0.3 to 30 PeV with LHAASO-KM2A
The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Q. An, A. Axikegu, Y. X. Bai, Y. W. Bao, D. Bastieri, X. J. Bi, Y. J. Bi, J. T. Cai, Q. Cao, W. Y. Cao, Zhe Cao, J. Chang, J. F. Chang, A. M. Chen, E. S. Chen, Liang Chen, Lin Chen, Long Chen, M. J. Chen, M. L. Chen, Q. H. Chen, S. H. Chen, S. Z. Chen, T. L. Chen, Y. Chen, N. Cheng, Y. D. Cheng, M. Y. Cui, S. W. Cui,…

Measurements of All-Particle Energy Spectrum and Mean Logarithmic Mass of Cosmic Rays from 0.3 to 30 PeV with LHAASO-KM2A
We present the measurements of all-particle energy spectrum and mean logarithmic mass of cosmic rays in the energy range of 0.3-30 PeV using data collected from LHAASO-KM2A between September 2021 and December 2022, which is based on a nearly composition-independent energy reconstruction method, achieving unprecedented accuracy. Our analysis reveals the position of the knee at $3.67 \pm 0.05 \pm 0.15$ PeV. Below the knee, the spectral index is found to be -$2.7413 \pm 0.0004 \pm 0.0050$, while a…

„Auf TikTok wurde jedes Video der AfD-Bundestagsfraktion in den Jahren 2022 und 2023 im Durchschnitt 435 394 Mal aufgerufen. Zum Vergleich: Die CDU/CSU-Fraktion, die für diesen Zeitraum den zweitbesten Wert erzielt, kommt auf durchschnittlich 90 583 Aufrufe pro Clip,“ so Johannes Hillje
#NoAfd #Propaganda

Gegen die Flut der Desinformation: Die rechtsradikale Propaganda gemeinsam kontern
Die AfD setzt auf Propaganda, besonders auf Social Media. Mit Halbwahrheiten und Hasstiraden überschwemmen sie das Netz. Doch wie können wir dem Shitstorm entgegentreten? Ein Blick auf die Strategi…

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Spherically symmetric elastic bodies in general relativity
The purpose of this review it to present a renewed perspective of the problem of self-gravitating elastic bodies under spherical symmetry. It is also a companion to the papers [Phys. Rev. D105, 044025 (2022)], [Phys. Rev. D106, L041502 (2022)], and [arXiv:2306.16584 [gr-qc]], where we introduced a new definition of spherically symmetric elastic bodies in general relativity, and applied it to investigate the existence and physical viability, including radial stability, of static self-gravitating…

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

John's blow up examples and scattering solutions for semi-linear wave equations
Louie Bernhardt, Volker Schlue, Dongxiao Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12878

John's blow up examples and scattering solutions for semi-linear wave equations
In light of recent work of the third author, we revisit a classic example given by Fritz John of a semi-linear wave equation which exhibits finite in time blow up for all compactly supported data. We present the construction of future global solutions from asymptotic data given in arXiv:2204.12870(2022) for this specific example, and clarify the relation of this result of Yu to John's theorem. Furthermore we present a novel blow up result for finite energy solutions satisfying a sign condition …

Filings in FTC lawsuit: Instagram had revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Davante Adams discusses commitment to Raiders amid Jets rumors https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/davante_adams_discusses_commitment_to_raiders_amid_jets_rumors/s1_13132_40238194

Davante Adams discusses commitment to Raiders amid Jets rumors
Star wide receiver Davante Adams sounds committed to featuring for the Las Vegas Raiders until further notice despite constant whispers linking him with the New York Jets.  "If I wanted to be gone, I’d be gone by now," Adams said while speaking with a group of reporters on Sunday, per Tashan Reed of The Athletic. "This is where I want to be."  Adams agreed to a five-year, $141.25M contract to join the Raiders via a trade from the Green Bay Packers in March 2022, but his Vegas tenure thus fa…

The Startup Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

The Startup Podcast | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The Startup Podcast Hosts: Yaniv Bernstein and Chris Saad Category: Business Sub-Category: Entrepreneurship First Episode: 2022 A guide through the unique mindset and approach that drives…

Records show Apple's secretive auto unit almost quadrupled its self-driving miles on public roads in 2023, compared to 2022, jumping 2021's total by over 30x (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-ramped-up-autonomous-ve…

Apple Quadrupled Its Autonomous Driving Testing Miles Last Year
Government records show Apple’s secretive auto division almost quadrupled its self-driving miles in 2023.

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03146 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_…

Spherically symmetric elastic bodies in general relativity
The purpose of this review it to present a renewed perspective of the problem of self-gravitating elastic bodies under spherical symmetry. It is also a companion to the papers [Phys. Rev. D105, 044025 (2022)], [Phys. Rev. D106, L041502 (2022)], and [arXiv:2306.16584 [gr-qc]], where we introduced a new definition of spherically symmetric elastic bodies in general relativity, and applied it to investigate the existence and physical viability, including radial stability, of static self-gravitating…

Ransomware payments in 2023 reached a record $1.1B, up from $567M in 2022 and $983M in 2021, as the frequency, scope, and volume of attacks escalated (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/ransomware-2024/

Ransomware Hit $1 Billion in 2023
Ransomware attackers broke records in 2023, pulling in over $1 billion from victims. Learn how and get the trends you need to know for 2024.

YouTube says YouTube TV now has 8M subscribers, up from 5M in mid-2022, and that the YouTube Partner Program has 3M channels receiving ad revenue share (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/youtube-tv-number-subs…

How Many YouTube TV Subscribers? Service Tops 8 Million Subscribers
YouTube TV, Google's internet pay-TV service, now has more than 8 million subscribers, according to the video giant.

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

General Staff: Russia has lost 387,060 troops in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/02/general-staff-russia.html

Sources: Tencent plans to adapt acclaimed role-playing console game Elden Ring into a mobile version, after acquiring licensing rights from FromSoftware in 2022 (Josh Ye/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tencent

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.

Analysis: ByteDance spent $8.74M on US lobbying activities in 2023, up 77% YoY, and Shein spent $2.12M, up 7.6x from 2022, amid rising US-China trade tensions (Ryotaro Yamada/Nikkei Asia)
https://t.co/POk1p85v51

ByteDance, Shein sharply boost spending on lobbying in U.S.
Chinese firms seek to minimize effects of alarm over bilateral tensions