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Peritas Brands v. Leaphigh Animals - Judge dismisses patent owner's motion to dismiss the patent claims, based on a covenant not to sue:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nvd.161575/gov.uscourts.nvd.161575.86.…

Raiders' Maxx Crosby breaks down the severity of his 2023 knee injury he played through https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_maxx_crosby_breaks_down_the_severity_of_his_2023_k…

US envoy to OSCE: Russian 'double-tap' attacks have killed at least 90 first responders since April 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/us-envoy-to.html

Today I saw my first GMC #HummerEV on the road.
I think it’s an abomination. A paragon of waste and excess, and distilled selfishness. 9000 lb of hubris and projection. It’s way too wide, and way too tall, and carries 2.5× the kinetic energy of any other vehicle traveling at the same speed.
It’s not as derisible as the

First drive review: 2022 GMC Hummer EV shows how electric off-roading can be
Outfitted with the full range of electric propulsion and off-road goodies, the 2022 GMC Hummer EV shows the full capability of GM’s future EVs.

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…

Kagan: in 2023, radio industry revenue totaled $15.15B, down 1.5% from $15.39B in 2022, and there were $212.5M worth of radio deals, down 35.6% YoY from $329.9M (Inside Radio)
https://www.insideradio.com/free/kagan-rad

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
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How Ukraine recreated the Soledar Salt Mine in Minecraft to let players compete for prizes and donate to restore a school hit by a Russian missile (Justin Ling/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-soledar-salt-mine-minecraft-rebuilding-…

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

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

US envoy to OSCE: Russian 'double-tap' attacks have killed at least 90 first responders since April 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/us-envoy-to.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10787 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Hybrid Online Certificate Status Protocol with Certificate Revocation List for Smart Grid Public Key Infrastructure
Hsu et al. (2022) proposed a cryptographic scheme within the public key infrastructure to bolster the security of smart grid meters. Their proposal involved developing the Certificate Management over CMS mechanism to establish Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol and Enrollment over Secure Transport protocol. Additionally, they implemented Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) services to independently query the status of certificates. However, their implementation featured a single OCSP …

Ukrainischer Landwirtschaftsminister soll in U-Haft
Der ukrainische Landwirtschaftsminister Mykola Solskyj muss wegen Korruptionsvorwürfen in Untersuchungshaft. Laut Gerichtsbeschluss müsste der Politiker rund 1,9 Millionen Dollar an Kaution zahlen, um einer Inhaftierung zu entgehen.
Solskyj soll in der Zeit vor seinem Amtsantritt 2022 an illegalem Erwerb von staatlichem Grund im Wert von insgesamt rund sieben Millionen Doll…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Neue US-Militärhilfe für die Ukraine ++
Die USA haben ein neues milliardenschweres Militärhilfepaket für die Ukraine zugesagt. Wegen befürchteter russischer Angriffe lässt Kiew zwei Krankenhäuser evakuieren. Alle Entwicklungen vom Freitag zum Nachlesen.

General Staff: Russia has lost 439,970 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/general-staff-russia.html

U.S. Pressure Helped Save Brazil’s Democracy
Biden’s stated commitment to defending democracy worldwide is often brushed off as mere rhetoric.
Yet, two weeks ago, Brazil’s federal police launched a high-profile raid against former President Jair Bolsonaro and more than 10 of his allies, including Brazil’s former navy chief, national security advisor, and ministers of defense and justice. Authorities accused the group of plotting a potential coup after Bolsonaro’s failed 2022 ree…

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

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine/Premature_death

I've been away since 2022 on Mastadon, didn't realize till now. Time goes by fast! Been in an out of the hospital with complications from congestive heart failure and even more importantly woke up and accepted my lord and savior Jesus Christ. All glory goes to god, without, we would not exist. God bless ya'll. Open to any questions. Still on Linux (Debian) in 2024.

Interpretable Machine Learning Models for Predicting the Next Targets of Activist Funds
Minwu Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16169 https://

Interpretable Machine Learning Models for Predicting the Next Targets of Activist Funds
This work develops a predictive model to identify potential targets of activist investment funds, which strategically acquire significant corporate stakes to drive operational and strategic improvements and enhance shareholder value. Predicting these targets is crucial for companies to mitigate intervention risks, for activists to select optimal targets, and for investors to capitalize on associated stock price gains. Our analysis utilizes data from the Russell 3000 index from 2016 to 2022. We …

“Russia has successfully relaunched its spy operations against the West after hundreds of its operatives were ejected following Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, according to analysts. They warn that the Kremlin is using a network of proxies to infiltrate European nations and carry out a range of intelligence operations.”

New study
Safeguarding the Peaceful Transfer of Power:
Pro-Democracy Electoral Frames and Journalist Coverage of Election Deniers During the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19401612241235819
Heesoo Jang a…

Generalised Epstein Semantics Characterization, Interpolation, Undefinability, and (In)Completeness
Krzysztof A. Krawczyk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12931 …

Generalised Epstein Semantics Characterization, Interpolation, Undefinability, and (In)Completeness
This paper is a continuation of investigations concerning Epstein semantics from (Krawczyk 2022). The main tool of the present paper is the model-theoretic S-set construction introduced in (Krawczyk 2022). We use it to prove several results: 1) that each Epstein model has uncountably many equivalent Epstein models, 2) that the logic of generalised Epstein models is the S-set invariant fragment of CPL (analogon of the celebrated van Benthem characterization theorem for modal logic), 3) that seve…

Netherlands-based Finom, a challenger bank aimed at SMEs and freelancers, raised a €50M Series B, after a €33M Series A in early 2022 and €16.8M seed in 2020 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/finom-a-european-challen…

Finom, a European challenger bank for SMEs, raises $54M | TechCrunch
Finom, a European challenger bank aimed at SMEs and freelancers, has raised €50 million in a Series B round of funding.

Puts a stop to this:
When anti-abortion activists sued the Food and Drug Administration in 2022 seeking to overturn the approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, they filed their suit in the federal court in Amarillo, Texas, where it was all but assured that the case would be heard by Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, an outspoken opponent of abortion.
New Federal Judiciary Rule Will Limit ‘Forum Shopping’ by Plaintiffs - The New York Times

New Federal Judiciary Rule Will Limit ‘Forum Shopping’ by Plaintiffs
For years, litigants have tried to cherry-pick the judges in sweeping cases on abortion and immigration. Random judge selection is about to make that harder.

Spectro-polarimetric study to constrain accretion-ejection properties of MCG-5-23-16 using IXPE and NuSTAR observations
Santanu Mondal, Rwitika Chatterjee, Vivek K. Agrawal, Anuj Nandi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14169

Spectro-polarimetric study to constrain accretion-ejection properties of MCG-5-23-16 using IXPE and NuSTAR observations
We conducted a study on the X-ray polarization properties of MGC-5-23-16 by analyzing long-term monitoring data from {\it NuSTAR} jointly with {\it IXPE} observations in May and November 2022. The re-analysis of {\it IXPE} data gives model-dependent polarization degree, PD (\%) = $1.55\pm0.99$ and $1.31\pm0.95$ in the energy band $2-8$ keV, agrees with previous studies within error bars. The model-independent analysis of PD poses an upper limit of $\leq3.8$ ($1σ$ level) for the same energy ban…

Dutch greenhouse gas #emissions down by 6% last year, to 34% below their 1990 level!
Emissions from electricity generation down 22% year-on-year thanks to more renewable, less fossil electricity.
Transport emissions up by 9% due to growth in aviation.

Greenhouse gas emissions 6 percent lower in 2023
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were 6 percent lower in 2023 than in 2022. This was mainly due to 22 percent lower emissions in the electricity sector. Less electricity was produced from coal and natural gas. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)/Emissions Register report this on the basis of provisional quarterly figures on GHG emissions, in accordance with the IPCC guidelines.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Katy J Pearson:
🎵 Talk Over Town (6 Music Session, 8 Aug 2022)
#KatyJPearson
https://open.spotify.com/track/3aoB09FhpvYOQ1MDj3P0kF
https://katyjpearson.bandcamp.com/track/talk-over-town

Despite supposed booming economy, #Paramount , owners of #CBS TV, who reported having more than 24,000 employees in 2022, are reportedly laying off approx 800 workers.
#Oracle honcho Larry Ellison's son has been in meetings at…

Paramount Global Layoffs Begin; CEO Bob Bakish Tells 800 Departing Employees, “Your Talents Have Helped Us Advance Our Mission”
Paramount Global has begun a planned round of layoffs, with an estimated 800 U.S.-based employees affected.

"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.

Multi-Center Fetal Brain Tissue Annotation (FeTA) Challenge 2022 Results
Kelly Payette, C\'eline Steger, Roxane Licandro, Priscille de Dumast, Hongwei Bran Li, Matthew Barkovich, Liu Li, Maik Dannecker, Chen Chen, Cheng Ouyang, Niccol\`o McConnell, Alina Miron, Yongmin Li, Alena Uus, Irina Grigorescu, Paula Ramirez Gilliland, Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee, Daguang Xu, Andriy Myronenko, Haoyu Wang, Ziyan Huang, Jin Ye, Mireia Aleny\`a, Valentin Comte, Oscar Camara, Jean-Baptiste Mass…

Multi-Center Fetal Brain Tissue Annotation (FeTA) Challenge 2022 Results
Segmentation is a critical step in analyzing the developing human fetal brain. There have been vast improvements in automatic segmentation methods in the past several years, and the Fetal Brain Tissue Annotation (FeTA) Challenge 2021 helped to establish an excellent standard of fetal brain segmentation. However, FeTA 2021 was a single center study, and the generalizability of algorithms across different imaging centers remains unsolved, limiting real-world clinical applicability. The multi-cent…

Abenteuer Bahnfahren: Unzuverlässig und selten pünktlich
Bahnkunden wissen davon ein trauriges Lied zu singen: Jeder dritte Zug im Fernverkehr kommt momentan nicht pünktlich an. Schlechtes Wetter, Personalmangel, marode Infrastruktur - alles bremst derzeit die Deutsche Bahn aus. Dennoch wurde der Bahn-Vorstand 2023 noch mit einer üppigen Bonuszahlung für das Jahr 2022 belohnt.

Abenteuer Bahnfahren: Unzuverlässig und selten pünktlich
Jeder dritte Zug im Fernverkehr kommt momentan nicht pünktlich an. Die Bahn wird zunehmend ausgebremst, was sind die Gründe?

Balancing the Norwegian regulated power market anno 2016 to 2022
P{\aa}l Forr Austnes, Signe Riemer-S{\o}rensen, David Andreas Bordvik, Christian Andre Andresen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09134

Balancing the Norwegian regulated power market anno 2016 to 2022
The balancing market for power is designed to account for the difference between predicted supply/demand of electricity and the realised supply/demand. However, increased electrification of society changes the consumption patterns, and increased production from renewable sources leads to larger un-predicted fluctuations in production, both effects potentially leading to increased balancing. We analyse public market data for the balancing market (manual Frequency Restoration Reserve) for Norway …

[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.

#iGAS
240 Fälle invasiver Gruppe-A-Streptokokken-Infektionen (iGAS) bei Kindern im 2023. Das sind gravierende Infektionen.
Wie wärs mit Impfen gegen Windpocken, Influenza, Covid, RSV?
2018: 48
2019: 41
2020: 18
2021: 17
2022: 112
2023: 240 (unvollständig)
Siehe auch:

Good morning friends!
That day in the #rofangebirge was a bit remarkable. I totally forgot that temperature decreases with increasing elevation and that "overcast" can also mean "light rain".
Well. Nothing serious happened but I learned to prepare better next time.

Close Call on the Trails: An Adventure Teetering on Trouble
Embarking on a hiking trip to Austria's Rofan Mountain range in September 2022, we underestimated the altitude's impact on weather. Cloudy forecasts turned to rain and plummeting temperatures. Ill-equipped, we trekked to the summit, captured stunning scenes, and learned the value of respecting natur

Immer mehr russische Deserteure und Asylsuchende
Seit September 2022 hat das unabhängige russische Medienprojekt Mediazona mehr als 7.300 Fälle vor Gericht dokumentiert, bei denen es um unerlaubtes Entfernen von Soldaten von der Truppe geht. Das meldet die Nachrichtenagentur AP. Beim härtesten Vorwurf, der Fahnenflucht, habe sich die Zahl der Fälle im vergangenen Jahr versechsfacht. Eine Rekordzahl …
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Selenskyj: "Protestiert. Kämpft. Lauft weg."
Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj hat die Russen nach der Teilmobilisierung zum Widerstand aufgerufen. Deutsche Politiker machen sich für die erleichterte Aufnahme russischer Kriegsdienstverweigerer und Deserteure stark.

So, und jetzt Pssssst!, ich werde nun "Fischers Frau" [2022] von Karin #Kalisa in einem Zug durchlesen, weil es von eine*r angefordert wurde und ich es also heute bis um 19 Uhr zurückgeben werde, weil ich zu geizig für die Strafzahlungen und gleichzeitig zu geil auf lesende Druckbetankung bin!
#bookstodon

Apropos of nothing:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2024/apr/11/evs-are-booming-but-electric-bikes-are-really-cutting-emissions

Faster Algorithms for Dual-Failure Replacement Paths
Shiri Chechik, Tianyi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13907 https://arxiv.org/p…

Faster Algorithms for Dual-Failure Replacement Paths
Given a simple weighted directed graph $G = (V, E, ω)$ on $n$ vertices as well as two designated terminals $s, t\in V$, our goal is to compute the shortest path from $s$ to $t$ avoiding any pair of presumably failed edges $f_1, f_2\in E$, which is a natural generalization of the classical replacement path problem which considers single edge failures only. This dual failure replacement paths problem was recently studied by Vassilevska Williams, Woldeghebriel and Xu [FOCS 2022] who designed a …

General Staff: Russia has lost 433,090 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/20/general-staff-russia.html

Some wine discounter delivered six bottles of Spanish red, some kind of a sampler intro pack, to us. Except: we never ordered it. The putative addressee at our house was one Egon Mayer, who seems to have been a famous German Luftwaffe pilot in WWII.
We emailed the distributor, who had the package picked up today. We got to keep a bottle for our diligence.

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??

Christmasuzannukkah Starring Amy Sedaris & Noah Galvin - complete series 🏳️‍🌈🎄🕎
Dramatized rom-com | Total listening time: 1h 30m
Noah is with his family for the holidays, and he knows what to expect. Arguments over the menorah. Insults instead of Christmas cheer. Then he meets sexy Eric, who is in an open relationship. Noah better let go of his hang ups around polyamory–es...

Christmasuzannukkah Starring Amy Sedaris & Noah Galvin - complete series 🏳️‍🌈🎄🕎
Dramatized rom-com | Total listening time: 1h 30m Noah is with his family for the holidays, and he knows what to expect. Arguments over the menorah. Insults instead of Christmas cheer. Then he meets sexy Eric, who is in an open relationship. Noah better let go of his hang ups around polyamory–especially when his own mother is making eyes at Eric. 1 seasons, 6 episodes as of Dec 23, 2022.

How the US CHIPS Act is helping boost the economy of Arizona's Maricopa County, with TSMC and other manufacturers building factories and creating high-tech jobs (Jeanne Whalen/Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3HSilKV

Welcome to Silicon Desert: How Biden helped boost an Arizona boomtown
The promise of the Chips and Science Act of 2022 funding has sparked some of the biggest investments in the nation’s history, transforming Maricopa County.

US high school papers are ditching digital only strategies for print, which has a retro appeal and offers students a respite from digital content overload (Belle Cushing/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/the-echo-high-school-print-…

How print got cool again
In 2022, on the day they met, Zoe Otto and Orlena Fella decided they wanted to start a newspaper at their school, Manhattan’s High School for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering. They would call it The Echo, and they hoped it would build some community pride at their specialized STEM school—a place otherwise lacking that conventional […]

Richard A. Litherland: A Brief Biography
Alison Litherland, Patrick Litherland, Sam Nelson, Steven Wallace
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13010 https://…

Richard A. Litherland: A Brief Biography
Richard A. Litherland was born in 1953 in England. He received his PhD at Trinity College in Cambridge in 1979 and moved to the USA in 1983. He had a lengthy and distinguished career as a professor of mathematics and researcher of low-dimensional topology, based primarily at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge until his untimely passing in November 2022. In this paper we (Rick's family and students) recount some memories of Rick, his life and his mathematics.

General Staff: Russia has lost 426,870 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/13/general-staff-russia.html

Craft Messages That Matter Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Craft Messages That Matter | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Craft Messages That Matter Podcast Host: Theo Kapodistrias Category: Education Sub-Category: Self-Improvement & Advice First Episode: 2022 Craft Messages That Matter Podcast by Theo…

Both Sides Now -- Joni Mitchell (2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxiluPSmAF8
@…

Optimal Pseudorandom Generators for Low-Degree Polynomials Over Moderately Large Fields
Ashish Dwivedi, Zeyu Guo, Ben Lee Volk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11915

Optimal Pseudorandom Generators for Low-Degree Polynomials Over Moderately Large Fields
We construct explicit pseudorandom generators that fool $n$-variate polynomials of degree at most $d$ over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$. The seed length of our generators is $O(d \log n + \log q)$, over fields of size exponential in $d$ and characteristic at least $d(d-1)+1$. Previous constructions such as Bogdanov's (STOC 2005) and Derksen and Viola's (FOCS 2022) had either suboptimal seed length or required the field size to depend on $n$. Our approach follows Bogdanov's paradigm while inc…

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

Arrow Relations in Lattices of Integer Partitions
Asma'a Almazaydeh, Mike Behrisch, Edith Vargas-Garc\'ia, Andreas Wachtel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07217

Arrow Relations in Lattices of Integer Partitions
We give a complete characterisation of the single and double arrow relations of the standard context $K(L_n)$ of the lattice $L_n$ of partitions of any positive integer $n$ under the dominance order, thereby addressing an open question of Ganter, 2022.

Persistent Upflows and Downflows at Active Region boundaries Observed by SUTRI and AIA
Yuchuan Wu, Zhenyong Hou, Wenxian Li, Xianyong Bai, Yongliang Song, Xiao Yang, Ziyao Hu, Yuanyong Deng, Kaifan Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07422

Persistent Upflows and Downflows at Active Region boundaries Observed by SUTRI and AIA
Upflows and downflows at active region (AR) boundaries have been frequently observed with spectroscopic observations at extreme ultraviolet (EUV) passbands. In this paper, we report the coexistence of upflows and downflows at the AR boundaries with imaging observations from the Solar Upper Transition Region Imager (SUTRI) and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA). With their observations from 2022 September 21 to 2022 September 30, we find 17 persistent opposite flows occurring along the AR co…

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/

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…

AstroSat View of Transient Low-mass X-ray Binary XTE J1701-462: Spectral and Temporal Evolution along the Z-track
Vivek K. Agrawal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07634

AstroSat View of Transient Low-mass X-ray Binary XTE J1701-462: Spectral and Temporal Evolution along the Z-track
AstroSat observed transient neutron star low-mass X-ray binary XTE J1701-462 for a total duration of 135 ks during its 2022 outburst. The source traced a complete 'Z' shaped structure in the hardness intensity diagram (HID) during the observation. The source exhibited an extended horizontal branch and a short-dipping flaring branch in the HID. We find that most suitable spectral model comprises emission from a standard multi-color accretion disk and Comptonized radiation from a hot central coro…

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
The Tudor period occurred between 1485 and 1603. The Reformation happened. Henry the 8th got married a few times. Let's play!

Simulations of galaxies in an expanding Universe with modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) and with modified gravitational attractions (MOGA)
S{\o}ren Toxvaerd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02848 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.02848
arXiv:2403.02848v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The stability of galaxies is either explained by the existence of dark matter or caused by a modification of Newtonian acceleration (MOND). Here we show that the modification of the Newtonian dynamics can equally well be obtained by a modification of Newton's law of universal gravitational attraction (MOGA), by which an inverse square attraction from a distant object is replaced with an inverse attraction. This modification is often proposed in the standard model, and with the modification of the attraction caused by dark matter. The recently derived algorithm, Eur. Phys. J. Plus 137, 99 (2022); Class. Quantum Grav. 39, 225006 (2022), for classical celestial dynamics is used to simulate models of the Milky Way in an expanding universe and with either MOND or MOGA. The simulations show that the galaxies with MOND dynamics are unstable whereas MOGA stabilizes the galaxies. The rotation velocities for objects in galaxies with classical Newtonian dynamics decline inversely proportional to the square root of the distance $r$ to the galaxy's center. However, the rotation velocities are relatively independent of $r$ for MOGA and qualitatively in agreement with experimentally determined rotation curves for galaxies in the Universe. The modification of the attractions may be caused by the masses of the objects in the central part of the galaxy by the lensing of gravitational waves from far-away objects in the galaxy.

LIEDER: Linguistically-Informed Evaluation for Discourse Entity Recognition
Xiaomeng Zhu, Robert Frank
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06301 https://

LIEDER: Linguistically-Informed Evaluation for Discourse Entity Recognition
Discourse Entity (DE) recognition is the task of identifying novel and known entities introduced within a text. While previous work has found that large language models have basic, if imperfect, DE recognition abilities (Schuster and Linzen, 2022), it remains largely unassessed which of the fundamental semantic properties that govern the introduction and subsequent reference to DEs they have knowledge of. We propose the Linguistically-Informed Evaluation for Discourse Entity Recognition (LIEDER…

Ai4Fapar: How artificial intelligence can help to forecast the seasonal earth observation signal
Filip Sabo, Martin Claverie, Michele Meroni, Arthur Hrast Essenfelder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06684

Ai4Fapar: How artificial intelligence can help to forecast the seasonal earth observation signal
This paper investigated the potential of a multivariate Transformer model to forecast the temporal trajectory of the Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) for short (1 month) and long horizon (more than 1 month) periods at the regional level in Europe and North Africa. The input data covers the period from 2002 to 2022 and includes remote sensing and weather data for modelling FAPAR predictions. The model was evaluated using a leave one year out cross-validation and c…

Now that’s capitalizing on the news cycle …
From: @…
https://press.coop/@NPR/112257440031203252

NPR :press: (@NPR@press.coop)
Attached: 1 image Ford expands a recall of thousands of its Bronco and Escape editions Nearly 43,000 vehicles are impacted by the recall, including the 2022 Escape and the 2022 and 2023 Bronco Sport editions that have 1.5L engines. #press https://www.npr.org/2024/04/12/1244267077/ford-bronco-escape-recall?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

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.

Second gadolinium loading to Super-Kamiokande
K. Abe, C. Bronner, Y. Hayato, K. Hiraide, K. Hosokawa, K. Ieki, M. Ikeda, J. Kameda, Y. Kanemura, R. Kaneshima, Y. Kashiwagi, Y. Kataoka, S. Miki, S. Mine, M. Miura, S. Moriyama, Y. Nakano, M. Nakahata, S. Nakayama, Y. Noguchi, K. Sato, H. Sekiya, H. Shiba, K. Shimizu, M. Shiozawa, Y. Sonoda, Y. Suzuki, A. Takeda, Y. Takemoto, H. Tanaka, T. Yano, S. Han, T. Kajita, K. Okumura, T. Tashiro, T. Tomiya, X. Wang, S. Yoshida, P. Fernandez, L. La…

Second gadolinium loading to Super-Kamiokande
The first loading of gadolinium (Gd) into Super-Kamiokande in 2020 was successful, and the neutron capture efficiency on Gd reached 50\%. To further increase the Gd neutron capture efficiency to 75\%, 26.1 tons of $\rm Gd_2(\rm SO_4)_3\cdot \rm 8H_2O$ was additionally loaded into Super-Kamiokande (SK) from May 31 to July 4, 2022. As the amount of loaded $\rm Gd_2(\rm SO_4)_3\cdot \rm 8H_2O$ was doubled compared to the first loading, the capacity of the powder dissolving system was doubled. We a…

A meshless and binless approach to compute statistics in 3D Ensemble PTV
Manuel Ratz, Miguel A. Mendez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11828 https://

A meshless and binless approach to compute statistics in 3D Ensemble PTV
We propose a method to obtain superresolution of turbulent statistics for three-dimensional ensemble particle tracking velocimetry (EPTV). The method is ''meshless'' because it does not require the definition of a grid for computing derivatives, and it is ''binless'' because it does not require the definition of bins to compute local statistics. The method combines the constrained radial basis function (RBF) formalism introduced Sperotto et al. (Meas Sci Technol, 33:094005, 2022) with a kernel …

General Staff: Russia has lost 431,550 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/18/general-staff-russia.html

Joint filing: Apple and Rivos say they reached a deal to settle Apple's 2022 lawsuit accusing the SoC startup of poaching 40 engineers to steal trade secrets (Rachel Graf/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Apple Is Settling Chip Secrets Theft Case Against Startup Rivos
Apple Inc. said it’s reached an agreement that potentially settles its 2022 lawsuit accusing startup Rivos Inc. of poaching engineers to steal trade secrets.

Tom Brady 'not opposed' to NFL return https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/tom_brady_not_opposed_to_nfl_return/s1_14819_40224757

Tom Brady 'not opposed' to NFL return
Joe Flacco won Comeback Player of the Year acclaim despite not debuting for the Browns until December. This came as Tom Brady, who memorably backtracked on his first retirement in 2022, remained out of the game. The all-time great, once again, maybe waffling on being fully retired. Appearing on an episode of DeepCut with VicBlends, Brady said he “wouldn’t be opposed to” coming back in the right situation. Given the number of quarterbacks who went down last season, opportunities opened la…

Shifting the Lens: Detecting Malware in npm Ecosystem with Large Language Models
Nusrat Zahan, Philipp Burckhardt, Mikola Lysenko, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Laurie Williams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12196

Shifting the Lens: Detecting Malware in npm Ecosystem with Large Language Models
The Gartner 2022 report predicts that 45% of organizations worldwide will encounter software supply chain attacks by 2025, highlighting the urgency to improve software supply chain security for community and national interests. Current malware detection techniques aid in the manual review process by filtering benign and malware packages, yet such techniques have high false-positive rates and limited automation support. Therefore, malware detection techniques could benefit from advanced, more au…

Ukraine fordert Olympia-Ausschluss für Russen und Belarusen
Die Ukraine hat den Ausschluss russischer sowie belarusischer Sportler und Sportlerinnen von den Olympischen Spielen in Paris gefordert. Man sei darüber informiert worden, dass einige der neutralen Athletinnen und Athleten, die sich für die Sommerspiele qualifiziert haben, den russischen Angriffskrieg auf die Ukraine unterstützen würden, hi…
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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.

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

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…

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Performance of SK-Gd's Upgraded Real-time Supernova Monitoring System
Among multi-messenger observations of the next galactic core-collapse supernova, Super-Kamiokande (SK) plays a critical role in detecting the emitted supernova neutrinos, determining the direction to the supernova (SN), and notifying the astronomical community of these observations in advance of the optical signal. On 2022, SK has increased the gadolinium dissolved in its water target (SK-Gd) and has achieved a Gd concentration of 0.033%, resulting in enhanced neutron detection capability, whic…

A Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index Decomposition of CO$_2$ Emissions from Energy Use in Romania
Mariana Carmelia Balanica-Dragomir, Gabriel Murariu, Lucian Puiu Georgescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04354

A Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index Decomposition of CO$_2$ Emissions from Energy Use in Romania
Carbon emissions have become a specific alarming indicators and intricate challenges that lead an extended argue about climate change. The growing trend in the utilization of fossil fuels for the economic progress and simultaneously reducing the carbon quantity has turn into a substantial and global challenge. The aim of this paper is to examine the driving factors of CO$_2$ emissions from energy sector in Romania during the period 2008-2022 emissions using the log mean Divisia index (LMDI) met…

Colorado Public Radio lays off 15, primarily in audio and podcast production, and spares the newsroom of cuts; staff grew from 48 in FY 2006 to 214 in FY 2022 (Ben Markus/Colorado Public Radio)
https://www.cpr.org/2024/03/06/cpr-institutes-…

CPR institutes layoffs in audio production, podcast units
Colorado Public Radio laid off 15 employees this week, the largest cut to the public broadcaster’s payroll in at least a quarter of a century.

A general class of iterative splitting methods for solving linear systems
Paolo Novati, Fulvio Tagliaferro, Marino Zennaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06800

A general class of iterative splitting methods for solving linear systems
Recently Ahmadi et al. (2021) and Tagliaferro (2022) proposed some iterative methods for the numerical solution of linear systems which, under the classical hypothesis of strict diagonal dominance, typically converge faster than the Jacobi method, but slower than the forward/backward Gauss-Seidel one. In this paper we introduce a general class of iterative methods, based on suitable splittings of the matrix that defines the system, which include all of the methods mentioned above and have the s…

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

New constraints on Triton's atmosphere from the 6 October 2022 stellar occultation
Ye Yuan, Chen Zhang, Fan Li, Jian Chen, Yanning Fu, Chunhai Bai, Xin Gao, Yong Wang, Tuhong Zhong, Yixing Gao, Liang Wang, Donghua Chen, Yixing Zhang, Yang Zhang, Wenpeng Xie, Shupi Zhang, Ding Liu, Jun Cao, Xiangdong Yin, Xiaojun Mo, Jing Liu, Xinru Han, Tong Liu, Yuqiang Chen, Zhendong Gao, Xiang Zeng, Guihua Niu, Xiansheng Zheng, Yuchen Lin, Peiyu Ye, Weitang Liang, Chengcheng Zhu, Zhiqiang Hu, Ji…

New constraints on Triton's atmosphere from the 6 October 2022 stellar occultation
The atmosphere of Triton was probed directly by observing a ground-based stellar occultation on 6 October 2022. This rare event yielded 23 positive light curves collected from 13 separate observation stations contributing to our campaign. The significance of this event lies in its potential to directly validate the modest pressure fluctuation on Triton, a phenomenon not definitively verified by previous observations, including only five stellar occultations, and the Voyager 2 radio occultation …

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Performance of SK-Gd's Upgraded Real-time Supernova Monitoring System
Among multi-messenger observations of the next galactic core-collapse supernova, Super-Kamiokande (SK) plays a critical role in detecting the emitted supernova neutrinos, determining the direction to the supernova (SN), and notifying the astronomical community of these observations in advance of the optical signal. On 2022, SK has increased the gadolinium dissolved in its water target (SK-Gd) and has achieved a Gd concentration of 0.033%, resulting in enhanced neutron detection capability, whic…

Investigation: Leading Polish fashion retailer fakes exit from Russian market: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/15/investigation-leading-polish.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

“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.
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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…

On tight $(k,\ell)$-stable graphs
Xiaonan Liu, Zi-Xia Song, Zhiyu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01639 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.01…

On tight $(k,\ell)$-stable graphs
For integers $k>\ell\ge0$, a graph $G$ is $(k,\ell)$-stable if $α(G-S)\geq α(G)-\ell$ for every $S\subseteq V(G)$ with $|S|=k$. A recent result of Dong and Wu [SIAM J. Discrete Math., 36 (2022) 229--240] shows that every $(k,\ell)$-stable graph $G$ satisfies $α(G) \le \lfloor ({|V(G)|-k+1})/{2}\rfloor+\ell$. A $(k,\ell)$-stable graph $G$ is tight if $α(G) = \lfloor ({|V(G)|-k+1})/{2}\rfloor+\ell$; and $q$-tight for some integer $q\ge0$ if $α(G) = \lfloor ({
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Maxx Crosby recognized in Pro Football Focus' list of top 101 players of 2023 https://www.raiders.com/news/maxx-crosby-recognized-in-pro-football-focus-list-of-top-101-players-of-2023

Maxx Crosby recognized in Pro Football Focus' list of top 101 players of 2023
The Raiders edge rusher earned a spot on PFF's annual player standings, climbing 11 spots from his 2022 season ranking.

General Staff: Russia has lost 444,370 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/03/general-staff-russia.html

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.

The influence of thermonuclear bursts on polar caps of accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar MAXI J1816-195
Long Ji, Mingyu Ge, Yupeng Chen, Zhaosheng Li, Peng-Ju Wang, Shu Zhang, Shuang-Nan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06747

The influence of thermonuclear bursts on polar caps of accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar MAXI J1816-195
We report accretion-powered pulsations for the first time during thermonuclear bursts in hard X-rays, which were observed with Insight-HXMT in 2022 during the outburst of the accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar MAXI J1816-195. By stacking 73 bursts, we detected pulse profiles in 8-30 keV and 30-100 keV during bursts, which are identical to those obtained from the persistent (non-burst) emission. On average, no significant phase lag was observed between burst and persistent pulse profiles. In add…

Statistik beweist - Die Gewalt lauert in den eigenen vier Wänden
https://www.krone.at/3241853

A profile of hacker P4x, aka Alejandro Caceres, who took down North Korea's internet in 2022 and says the US needs to wield its hacking powers more aggressively (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/p4x-north-korea-internet-hacker-iden…

Raiders Re-Signing C Andre James https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_re_signing_c_andre_james/s1_17039_40086990

Multirate Time-Integration based on Dynamic ODE Partitioning through Adaptively Refined Meshes for Compressible Fluid Dynamics
Daniel Doehring, Michael Schlottke-Lakemper, Gregor J. Gassner, Manuel Torrilhon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05144

Multirate Time-Integration based on Dynamic ODE Partitioning through Adaptively Refined Meshes for Compressible Fluid Dynamics
In this paper, we apply the Paired-Explicit Runge-Kutta (P-ERK) schemes by Vermeire et. al. (2019, 2022) to dynamically partitioned systems arising from adaptive mesh refinement. The P-ERK schemes enable multirate time-integration with no changes in the spatial discretization methodology, making them readily implementable in existing codes that employ a method-of-lines approach. We show that speedup compared to a range of state of the art Runge-Kutta methods can be realized, despite additiona…

On the association of GW190425 with its potential electromagnetic counterpart FRB 20190425A
Ignacio Maga\~na Hernandez, Virginia D'Emilio, Soichiro Morisaki, Mohit Bhardwaj, Antonella Palmese
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02496

On the association of GW190425 with its potential electromagnetic counterpart FRB 20190425A
Recent work by Moroianu et al. (2022) has suggested that the binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW190425 might have a potential fast radio burst (FRB) counterpart association, FRB 20190425A, at the 2.8$σ$ level of confidence with a likely host galaxy association, namely UGC10667. The authors argue that the observations are consistent with a long-lived hypermassive neutron star (HMNS) that formed promptly after the BNS merger and was stable for approximately 2.5 hours before promptly collapsing i…

Raiders Re-Signing C Andre James To Three-Year, $24M Deal https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_re_signing_c_andre_james_to_three_year_24m_deal/s1_17039_40086990

Top Free Agent Fits For Raiders RB Josh Jacobs https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/top_free_agent_fits_for_raiders_rb_josh_jacobs/s1_17039_40085230

Top Free Agent Fits For Raiders RB Josh Jacobs
Yet another brave soul is crossing swords with the running back market as Raiders RB Josh Jacobs heads to free agency. Jacobs played out a one-year deal with the Raiders last year that was slightly higher than the franchise tag after he held out all of training camp in protest.  Unfortunately, Jacobs couldn’t repeat his 2022 season where he led the NFL in rushing yards. 2023 was actually the worst year of his career, both in terms of total yards, scoring and efficiency. Las Vegas’ struggle…

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Yet Another Sunshine Mystery: Unexpected Asymmetry in GeV Emission from the Solar Disk
The Sun is one of the most luminous $γ$-ray sources in the sky and continues to challenge our understanding of its high-energy emission mechanisms. This study provides an in-depth investigation of the solar disk $γ$-ray emission, using data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope spanning 2008 August to 2022 January. We focus on $γ$-ray events with energies exceeding 5 GeV, originating from 0.5$^\circ$ angular aperture centered on the Sun, and implement stringent time cuts to minimize potential …