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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

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 …

#nordstadtblogger Das Bündnis „Genug ist Genug-#Dortmund“, welches aus den sozialen Bewegungen im Zuge der Energiekrise im Herbst 2022 hervorgegangen ist, ruft zur Kundgebung am 26. März 2024 um 17.30 Uhr gegen die geplanten

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Let's play!
#PersonalAssistantASongOrPoem

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

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.

Ukraine war latest: US reportedly prepared for potential Russian nuclear strike in Ukraine in 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/10/ukraine-war-latest.html

Flertall av (program)kode er koder? Og «README.me»?
#allheimen

Student ved Høyskolen Kristiania felt for fusk: Dommer reduserer straffen
En mannlig student ved Høyskolen Kristiania ble utestengt for fusk på en hjemmeeksamen i 2022. Oslo tingrett har nå redusert straffen til ett semester.

I assume most people reading this have seen Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022), and if not, please do so at your earliest possible convenience. Easily in my top 10 all time! So many academy awards, and it deserved every one. But. You probably haven't seen Swiss Army Man (2016). It is not quite as good, it is more obscure and overtly odd, but it is an absolutely astonishing work of art in its own right, and in many ways a thematic early iteration of EEAAO by the same directors.…

Checkr, a 10-year-old startup that offers employee background checks and was valued at $5B in April 2022, has laid off 382 employees, or 32% of its workforce (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/10/checkr-layoffs/

Exclusive: Checkr, the background-screening platform last valued at $5 billion, cuts 32% of workforce
Checkr, a 10-year-old startup that offers employee background checks, has laid off 382 employees — 32% of its workforce.

🛰️ The Amazon’s 2023 Drought: Sentinel-1 Reveals Extreme Rio Negro River Contraction
#amazon

The Amazon’s 2023 Drought: Sentinel-1 Reveals Extreme Rio Negro River Contraction
The Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, faces a severe historic drought. The Rio Negro River, one of the major Amazon River tributaries, reached its lowest level in a century in October 2023. Here, we used a U-net deep learning model to map water surfaces in the Rio Negro River basin every 12 days in 2022 and 2023 using 10 m spatial resolution Sentinel-1 satellite radar images. The accuracy of the water surface model was high, with an F1-score of 0.93. A 12-day mosaic time series of the w…

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

i had to look up the company that did the colourization on the tubi version. their website is confusing but i found this brochure (PDF). the brochure is also a mess but at least it's all in one file: #monsterdon

Could have been a nice short film
I rated Brightwood (2022) 3/10
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14736734/

The helpers, the doers, and the ones left behind: Reflections on the gendered dimension of academic citizenship in Dutch #academia #Gender #Inclusion

Satire is officially dead. It has to be noted that both senators and members of congress are allowed to trade stocks — many of them criticize fore…

Senators Own up to $25 Million in Big Tech Stocks
Senators invested in tech stocks like Amazon, Apple, and Google may soon be voting on antitrust bills introduced in the Senate that would impact their portfolios.

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 …

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

Amazon is very odd:
'From 24 Aug. 2022 to 25 Aug. 2030'
'Save 5% on any 4 qualifying items'
How do you have an offer for 8 years??

US Asked China and India to Help Prevent Russian Nuclear Strike: CNN
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-asked-non-allies-prevent-russia-using-nuclear-weapons-report-2024-3

US asked China and India to help prevent Russian nuclear strike: CNN
An official told CNN that input from the likes of India, China, and others in 2022 "may have had some effect" on Russia's thinking.

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 …

Baltische NOKs gegen Olympia-Teilnahme russischer und belarusischer Athleten
Die Nationalen Olympischen Komitees der baltischen Staaten haben sich entschieden gegen die Teilnahme russischer und belarusischer Athleten an den Olympischen Spielen 2024 in Paris ausgesprochen. "Gemeinsam bringen wir noch einmal unsere Ablehnung und Missbilligung der Entscheidung des Exekutivrats des Internationalen Olympi…
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Ukrainischer Skeleton-Profi Heraskewytsch übt Kritik am IOC
Bei den Olympischen Spielen 2022 sorgte der ukrainische Athlet Heraskewytsch mit seinem Protest gegen Krieg für Schlagzeilen. Heute warnt er davor, dass die nächsten Wettbewerbe nicht zu einer Show für russische Propaganda werden dürfen.

Very nice critique of temporal representations (or rather, the lack thereof) in standard models of reinforcement learning (RL).
Namboodiri (2022). How do real animals account for the passage of time during
associative learning?
#Neuroscience

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?

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

Vergessenwerden: 24.000 Löschanträge bei Google stammten 2022 aus Deutschland​ | heise online
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Vergessenwerden: 24.000 Löschanträge bei Google stammten 2022 aus Deutschland​
Franzosen und Deutsche fordern ihr Recht auf Vergessenwerden bei Suchmaschinen am häufigsten ein. Die Zahlen sind nach der Corona-Pandemie etwas rückläufig.​

TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 16.5% YoY to $18.5B and expects revenue to grow at least 20% in 2024, reversing 2023's slight decline, and budgets capex of $28B-$32B (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

TSMC’s Sales Surge Most Since 2022 After Riding AI Chip Boom
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s quarterly revenue grew at its fastest pace in more than a year, shoring up expectations that a global boom in AI development is fueling demand for high-end chips and servers.

The world’s five largest listed oil companies have made profits of more than a quarter of a trillion dollars since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to dramatic increases in energy prices and household bills.
The “super-majors” – BP, Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies – have made $281bn (£223bn) since the war began in February 2022, according to Global Witness.
The UK-based pair, BP and Shell, have made a combined $94.2bn (£75bn) in profits since the conflict began. Glob…

"On the Air: How a Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio Show Made Me a Better Librarian" by Charlie Bennett: #library

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 23.04.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 40. Atombombe "Muscovy". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

The Night's End - Season 3 finale 🎙️🌌🔥
Narrated horror anthology | Total listening time: 33h 49m
A short story podcast with a focus on dark fiction that will leave you screaming for the night‘s end before each story is through.
#AudioFiction #FictionPodcast

The Night's End - Season 3 finale 🎙️🌌🔥
Narrated horror anthology | Total listening time: 33h 49m A short story podcast with a focus on dark fiction that will leave you screaming for the night‘s end before each story is through. 3 seasons, 85 episodes as of Dec 16, 2022.

🛰️ The Amazon’s 2023 Drought: Sentinel-1 Reveals Extreme Rio Negro River Contraction
#amazon

The Amazon’s 2023 Drought: Sentinel-1 Reveals Extreme Rio Negro River Contraction
The Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, faces a severe historic drought. The Rio Negro River, one of the major Amazon River tributaries, reached its lowest level in a century in October 2023. Here, we used a U-net deep learning model to map water surfaces in the Rio Negro River basin every 12 days in 2022 and 2023 using 10 m spatial resolution Sentinel-1 satellite radar images. The accuracy of the water surface model was high, with an F1-score of 0.93. A 12-day mosaic time series of the w…

Another urgent request from the Maasai of Tanzania to sign and/or SHARE the petition "Tanzania: Stop the eviction of the Maasai". It has been running since 2022 and initially seemed successful: https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/maasai_evictions_sg_loc

Je vais essayer d'utiliser #Jsonnet pour générer des fichiers #Yaml de #fixtures, je suis curieux de voir si l'expérience développeur est agréable ou non.
Détail

Réaliser un POC de l'utilisation de Jsonnet pour générer des fichiers Yaml de fixtures · Issue #371 · stephane-klein/backlog
De 2018 à 2022, en suivant ma doctrine "enlever des couches", j'ai écrit mes fixtures directement en SQL (je souhaite écrire un billet à ce sujet). Depuis mi-2023, j'écris des fichiers Yaml pour gé...

Time for a #Covid stats update! Aussie actuarials just dropped their annual update last week — big thanks to @… — your approach is a gold standard.
Link here:

Excess Mortality 5% Higher Than Pre-Pandemic Expectations for 2023 - Actuaries Digital
Total excess mortality for 2023 is 5% (95% confidence interval: 3% to 7%) or +8,400 deaths – i.e., there were 8,400 more deaths than expected if the pandemic had not happened.

".. according to the stat-tracking website FanGraphs, the average fastball in Major League Baseball was about 89 mph in 2002. A decade later, it had jumped to 91.6 mph. In 2022, it was 93.6 mph. Last year, the Minnesota Twins reliever Jhoan Duran led the MLB with an average fastball velocity of 101.8 mph." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/are-pitchers-pitching-too-hard/678010/

He’s been moving slowly for quite a long while now …
From: @…
https://press.coop/@nytimes/112084583599139623

The New York Times :press: (@nytimes@press.coop)
Attached: 1 image Uvalde Police Chief Resigns After Robb Elementary School Shooting Investigation The news comes less than a week after an investigation by the city of Uvalde found that city police officers made mistakes during a 2022 mass shooting, but did not violate policy. #press https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/us/daniel-rodriguez-uvalde-police-resign.html?utm_source=press.coop

Member of 2022 NFL quarterback class surprisingly announces retirement at age 24

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/member-of-2022-nfl-qua…

Member of 2022 NFL quarterback class surprisingly announces retirement at age 24
Carson Strong is getting on with his life's work

Tweede Kamer wil vier grote kerncentrales in plaats van twee
https://nos.nl/l/2511577
Een brede meerderheid (PVV, VVD, BBB, Denk, Volt, CDA, ChristenUnie, SGP, FvD en JA21 ) gelooft dus in een sprookje dat je 2x zoveel kerncentrales over ruim 10 jaar draaiend kunt hebben. Plus het is aan een kom…

Guesty, a platform for accommodation managers to manage Airbnbs and more, raised $130M, sources say at a $900M valuation, after raising a $170M Series E in 2022 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/10/gues<…

Guesty snaps up $130M at $900M valuation to help property managers list on Airbnb and beyond | TechCrunch
Travel and tourism are very much back on the map for consumers and the business world. Now, to underscore that surge, one of the startups building

Poll: 70% of Ukrainians have friends or relatives with front-line experience: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/13/poll-of-ukrainians.html

How serious is Greater Manchester about traffic reduction?
How serious is Greater Manchester about traffic reduction?
Not very.
Read more:
#Manchester #Burnham #traffic

How serious is Greater Manchester about traffic reduction?
How serious is Greater Manchester about traffic reduction? The streets of Greater Manchester are groaning under the weight of traffic. Between 2012 and 2022, the number of cars on the road increase…

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.

UTA Filing Reveals It Paid $55M For UK Agency Curtis Brown, Fueling 12-Fold Surge In Sales
https://deadline.com/2024/03/uta-curtis-brown-deal-value-financial-earnings-1235844641/

UTA Filing Reveals It Paid $55M For UK Agency Curtis Brown, Fueling 12-Fold Surge In Sales
United Talent Agency (UTA) financial filing reveals it paid £43.3M ($55M) for Curtis Brown in 2022. The deal helped supercharge its sales.

A US judge finds WBD didn't overstate HBO Max streaming subscriber numbers prior to its 2022 merger and dismisses a proposed class action lawsuit from investors (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/warner-bros-

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…

This is why #regulation matters. Capital incentives, unchecked, do*not* produce suitable outcomes - no matter how clear the need
#environment #plastics
"The amount of plastic packagi…

Report: Raiders to release DT Jerry Tillery https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_raiders_to_release_dt_jerry_tillery/s1_17049_40081489

Report: Raiders to release DT Jerry Tillery
The Las Vegas Raiders will release defensive tackle Jerry Tillery with the start of the new league year on Wednesday, ESPN reported Saturday. Tillery was the No. 28 overall pick of the Los Angeles Chargers in 2019 and waived by the team and then-general manager Tom Telesco on Nov. 10, 2022. The Raiders claimed him off waivers days later and signed him to a two-year, $6.8 million contract in March 2023. Telesco is now in charge with the Raiders, hired as general manager in January. Tillery, 27, …

On optimal error rates for strong approximation of SDEs with a drift coefficient of fractional Sobolev regularity
Simon Ellinger, Thomas M\"uller-Gronbach, Larisa Yaroslavtseva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13732

On optimal error rates for strong approximation of SDEs with a drift coefficient of fractional Sobolev regularity
We study strong approximation of scalar additive noise driven stochastic differential equations (SDEs) at time point $1$ in the case that the drift coefficient is bounded and has Sobolev regularity $s\in(0,1)$. Recently, it has been shown in [arXiv:2101.12185v2 (2022)] that for such SDEs the equidistant Euler approximation achieves an $L^2$-error rate of at least $(1+s)/2$, up to an arbitrary small $\varepsilon$, in terms of the number of evaluations of the driving Brownian motion $W$. In the p…

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Vergessenwerden: 24.000 Löschanträge bei Google stammten 2022 aus Deutschland​
Franzosen und Deutsche fordern ihr Recht auf Vergessenwerden bei Suchmaschinen am häufigsten ein. Die Zahlen sind nach der Corona-Pandemie etwas rückläufig.​

A #HardRight #WhiteNationalist #Xtian #Texas #Oil

Online Misogyny Against Female Candidates in the 2022 Brazilian Elections: A Threat to Women's Political Representation?
Luise Kocha, Raji Ghawi, J\"urgen Pfeffer, Janina Isabel Steinert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07523

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…

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.

The world can no longer afford two things:
🔸the costs of economic inequality;
🔸and the rich.
Between 2020 and 2022, the world’s most affluent 1% of people captured nearly twice as much of the new global wealth created as did the other 99% of individuals put together
And in 2019 they emitted as much #carbon #dioxide

Why the world cannot afford the rich
Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ones.

Commutativity of involutive two-valued groups
Alexander A. Gaifullin
https://arXiv.org/abs/2401.15191 https://arXiv.org/pdf/2401.1519…

Commutativity of involutive two-valued groups
In 2022, V. M. Buchstaber, A. P. Veselov, and the author proved a number of classification results for involutive commutative two-valued groups, including a complete classification in the finitely generated case. In the present note, we prove that any involutive two-valued group is commutative, so all these results are valid without the assumption of commutativity.

How Ukraine found US startups' drones glitchy and pricey, turning instead to cheaper Chinese drones; PitchBook: ~300 US drone startups raised $2.5B since 2022 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/ho…

Maximally Forward-Looking Core Inflation
Philippe Goulet Coulombe, Karin Klieber, Christophe Barrette, Maximilian Goebel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05209 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.05209
arXiv:2404.05209v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Timely monetary policy decision-making requires timely core inflation measures. We create a new core inflation series that is explicitly designed to succeed at that goal. Precisely, we introduce the Assemblage Regression, a generalized nonnegative ridge regression problem that optimizes the price index's subcomponent weights such that the aggregate is maximally predictive of future headline inflation. Ordering subcomponents according to their rank in each period switches the algorithm to be learning supervised trimmed inflation - or, put differently, the maximally forward-looking summary statistic of the realized price changes distribution. In an extensive out-of-sample forecasting experiment for the US and the euro area, we find substantial improvements for signaling medium-term inflation developments in both the pre- and post-Covid years. Those coming from the supervised trimmed version are particularly striking, and are attributable to a highly asymmetric trimming which contrasts with conventional indicators. We also find that this metric was indicating first upward pressures on inflation as early as mid-2020 and quickly captured the turning point in 2022. We also consider extensions, like assembling inflation from geographical regions, trimmed temporal aggregation, and building core measures specialized for either upside or downside inflation risks.

These goddamn stupid olive shaped eyeballs! 🫒 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/10/kids-glasses-vision-increased-nearsightedness-myopia/671244/

Wenn man Huber richtig einschätzt, dann werden die #UnicornsFootball bis auf Weiteres der letzte #GermanBowl Champion bleiben. #ErimaGFL

"On the Air: How a Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio Show Made Me a Better Librarian" by Charlie Bennett: #library

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

Platform Science, which provides connected vehicle tools for enterprise fleets, raised $125M from 8VC, Prologis, and others, taking its total funding to $309M (Grace Sharkey/FreightWaves)
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/platform-science-s…

Platform Science secures $125M to grow OEM partnerships
The company last announced its Series C raise in 2022, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 for $115 million, valuing the company at $575 million. Platform Science has raised $309 million since 2017.

Combining a ground-based UV network with satellite maps: A case study for Germany
Barbara Klotz (Institute of Biomedical Physics, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria), Verena Schenzinger (Institute of Biomedical Physics, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria), Michael Schwarzmann (Institute of Biomedical Physics, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria), Axel Kreuter (Institute of Biomedical Physics, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, Luf…

Combining a ground-based UV network with satellite maps: A case study for Germany
A study for the comprehensive information of current UV exposure for the area of Germany, based on the method for near real time calculation of UV Index maps used in the framework of the Austrian UV Monitoring Network, is presented. For the area of Germany about 22.000 surface UV Index maps were calculated for the year 2022 via the radiative transfer model libRadtran by incorporating daily forecast data for ozone, albedo and aerosols from the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service and taking…

Batman Unburied - complete series 🦇🔍🏥
Dramatized murder mystery | Total listening time: 4h 48m
A serial killer known as The Harvester terrorizes Gotham City, but Batman is not coming to the rescue. With Batman missing in action, Detective Barbara Gordon is left with no other choice but to seek help from Gotham’s second smartest dete...

Batman Unburied - complete series 🦇🔍🏥
Dramatized murder mystery | Total listening time: 4h 48m A serial killer known as The Harvester terrorizes Gotham City, but Batman is not coming to the rescue. With Batman missing in action, Detective Barbara Gordon is left with no other choice but to seek help from Gotham’s second smartest detective: The Riddler. 1 seasons, 10 episodes as of May 31, 2022.

“The $14 million fine against Liberty University appears to be a small fraction of its total operating revenues, which were $1.2 billion without donor restrictions in fiscal year 2022, according to an annual report. The school’s net assets were $3.5 billion.”
Liberty has 15,800 students on campus (at $22K/year) and boasts another 115,000 students. This fine is what they’ll face for lying to their campus, community and breaking the law.
From: @…

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…

NFL Draft countdown: Focus on Cowboys' first-round pick at No. 24 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_draft_countdown_focus_on_cowboys_first_round_pick_at_no_24/s1_13132_40182631

NFL Draft countdown: Focus on Cowboys' first-round pick at No. 24
The 2024 NFL Draft is April 25-27 in Detroit. Last year, the Giants selected cornerback Deonte Banks 24th overall. This year, the Cowboys pick 24th.  Here's who the experts think they'll take. Pro Football Focus (Brad Spielberger): Laiatu Latu, Edge-rusher, UCLA Latu would have been a top-10 pick if not for a preseason neck injury with Washington in 2020. A medical retirement kept him off the field for two years until UCLA doctors cleared him to play in 2022. With the loss of defensive ends li…

Cybersecurity asset management service Axonius raised a $200M extension led by Lightspeed and Accel to its $200M Series E from 2022 at a flat $2.6B valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/05/axon

Axonius, a specialist in cyber asset managment, secures $200M at a flat $2.6B valuation | TechCrunch
Axonius, one of the bigger players in the world of enterprise asset management -- understanding and monitoring the digital assets and infrastructure that

Raiders to release former first-round pick https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_to_release_former_first_round_pick/s1_14819_40081613

Raiders to release former first-round pick
Jerry Tillery‘s stint with the Raiders has come to an end. The team informed the defensive end that they would release him following the start of the league year, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter. After spending the second half of the 2022 campaign in Las Vegas, Tillery re-signed with the Raiders last offseason, inking a two-year, $6.8M contract. Releasing the defensive lineman will free up around $3.8M in cap space for the organization. The former first-round pick was disappointed during his thre…

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…

Cybersecurity asset management service Axonius raised a $200M extension led by Lightspeed and Accel to its $200M Series E from 2022 at a flat $2.6B valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/05/axon

Axonius, a specialist in cyber asset managment, secures $200M at a flat $2.6B valuation | TechCrunch
Axonius, one of the bigger players in the world of enterprise asset management -- understanding and monitoring the digital assets and infrastructure that

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.

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 05.04.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 36. Atombombe "Kestrel". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Two teenagers were charged under a 2022 Florida law for allegedly creating deepfake nudes of classmates, in what appears to be the first such criminal case (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/florida-teens-arrested-deepfake-nudes-clas…

Florida Middle Schoolers Arrested for Allegedly Creating Deepfake Nudes of Classmates
In what appears to be the first criminal case of its kind, two teenage boys were charged under a 2022 Florida law for allegedly creating AI-generated images depicting middle school classmates.

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DB Arnold used Bama benching as motivation https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39625235/nfl-draft-prospect-terrion-arnold-says-benching-fueled-success

NFL draft prospect Terrion Arnold says benching fueled success - ESPN
Speaking Thursday at the NFL scouting combine, Terrion Arnold said that Alabama's decision to bench him in 2022 in favor of teammate Eli Ricks had an enormous impact on the trajectory of his career.

Raiders re-sign RB Ameer Abdullah https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-re-sign-ameer-abdullah-running-back-nfl-free-agency-2024

Raiders re-sign RB Ameer Abdullah
Over two seasons in Las Vegas, the running back has appeared in all 34 games, one of only 10 Raiders to appear in every game since 2022.

Basic properties of generalized $\psi$-estimators
Matyas Barczy, Zsolt Pšles
https://arXiv.org/abs/2401.16127 https://arXiv.org/pdf/2…

Basic properties of generalized $ψ$-estimators
We establish several properties of (weighted) generalized $ψ$-estimators introduced by Barczy and Páles in 2022: mean-type, monotonicity and sensitivity properties, bisymmetry-type inequality and some asymptotic and continuity properties as well. We also illustrate these properties by providing several examples including statistical ones as well.

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

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…

Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton says the company is in the early stages of planning a London IPO, appointing two banks, after considering a listing in early 2022 (Swetha Gopinath/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Raspberry Pi Picks Peel Hunt, Jefferies for IPO, Choosing London Over New York
Personal computer maker Raspberry Pi appointed bankers at Peel Hunt and Jefferies to prepare a London initial public offering, a listing that would be a win for the UK capital after an exodus of companies to the US.