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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…

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad 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

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

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.

Da ich oft gefragt werde: Ich denke der einfachste Weg jetzt an #SCM Tickets zu kommen ist so:
- Zeitmaschine erfinden
- In den April 2010 reisen
- Platz 11 in der Liga “bewundern”
- Dauerkarte für “SCM Gladiators” Saison 2010/11 buchen
- 14 Jahre regelmäßig verlängern
- Dabei regelmäßig “Ich bin Fan vom SCM”-Hymne hören [1]
- Voila
💚❤️ :scm:
[1]

General Staff: Russia has lost 474,260 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/05/general-staff-russia.html

Connect the Dots: Russian Money, Trump Media, and MAGA blocking Ukraine Aid https://thedemlabs.org/2024/04/07/russian-investment-trump-media-maga-gop-block-ukraine-aid/

Follow the Russian money and election interfernce
Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation

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…

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…

Domestic Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

Domestic Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022)
A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

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

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

"Based on the journal flipping rates observed between
2018 – 2022 it would take at least 70 years for the big five
publishers to flip their Transformative Agreement titles to #OpenAccess."
😬
https://fediscience.org/@oatp/112078667689584665

Bundesnetzagentur: Beschwerden über Post-Dienste bleiben auf hohem Niveau
Die Zahl der Beschwerden über Brief- und Postdienste hat 2023 gegenüber 2022 zwar leicht abgenommen, bleibt aber auf hohem Niveau.
https:…

Wiener Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt gegen Ex-Chef der ukrainischen Zentralbank
Die Wiener Staatsanwaltschaft hat gegen den ehemaligen Präsidenten der ukrainischen Zentralbank, Kyrylo Schewtschenko, Ermittlungen wegen mutmaßlicher Korruption und Geldwäsche eingeleitet.
Nach zwei Jahren an der Spitze der ukrainischen Nationalbank war Schewtschenko im Oktober 2022 aus "gesundheitlichen" Gründen von seinem Amt zurückgetreten. Im …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ US-Senat lehnt neue Ukraine-Hilfe ab ++
Der US-Senat hat ein Milliarden-Paket abgelehnt, das unter anderem Hilfen für die Ukraine vorsieht. Das Ölunternehmen Rosneft Deutschland steht womöglich vor der Verstaatlichung. Die Entwicklungen vom Mittwoch zum Nachlesen.

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

Lipstick on a Pig: learning the most important lesson in design
https://ar.al/2022/08/17/lipstick-on-a-pig/
I wrote this a couple of years ago and I highly recommend that designers/developers read it. There’s also a talk I gave over a decade ago embedded in there that…

Lipstick on a Pig: learning the most important lesson in design
I just released a little tool called Lipstick on a Pig that helps keep the visual appearance of supported command-line applications in sync with the current light/dark mode setting (colour scheme) of your system in GNOME. But why is this tool even necessary to begin with? Let’s start at the beginning… Getting to GNOME you The GNOME display environment1, since version 42, implements support for light and dark appearance styles (aka colour schemes).

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad 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

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

Fascinating article: Shirley Tillotson, "Importing the Plantation: The Greater Caribbean Trade and Loyalist Nova Scotia’s Public Revenue, 1789–1835." It argues Nova Scotia's public expenditure was sustained by tariffs on goods produced by enslaved labour in the Caribbean. It undercuts trad narratives of small-scale fishing and farming as central to the colony's development while highlighting dependence on white supremacist modes of production.

Importing the Plantation: The Greater Caribbean Trade and Loyalist Nova Scotia’s Public Revenue, 1789–1835 – Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society
An article from Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, on Érudit.

Viaggione psichedelico pomeridiano con il disco dal vivo della Holy Family uscito venerdì, «Live Burning, Burning Live» [live at Roadburn Festival 2022]
https://theholyfamilyuk.bandcamp.com/album/live-burning-burning-live

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 …

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Fauré and Debussy in Switzerland
Mezzo soprano Isabel Pfefferkorn sings Fauré's La Bonne Chanson at the 2022 Meiringen Music Festival in Switzerland. Jonathan Swain presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xw7p

There were 40 consecutive rollovers in 2021 and 2022; tomorrow is the first ever 41st #Powerball draw. As per the law of very large numbers the odds of a #Powerball rollover continuing gradually decrease. The more trials, the more black swan.
10 draws, ~67%.
20 draws, ~45%. <…

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Poet in a Cupcake Day is celebrated annually on the Friday of the first full week in AprilLet's play!
#CupcakeASongOrPoem

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

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

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

Wake Of Corrosion 😱🔥🪖
Dramatized scifi series | Total listening time: 9h 45m
A UK-based audio drama set in a nightmare-ridden apocalyptic world. An unknown horror grips the country, forcing most of the remaining population into shelter. Tune into the broadcasts from Bunker A:12 and join Professor Ryan as he endeavour...
https://…

Wake Of Corrosion 😱🔥🪖
Dramatized scifi series | Total listening time: 9h 45m A UK-based audio drama set in a nightmare-ridden apocalyptic world. An unknown horror grips the country, forcing most of the remaining population into shelter. Tune into the broadcasts from Bunker A:12 and join Professor Ryan as he endeavours to find answers in the wreckage. The final season! 2 seasons, 21 episodes as of Jun 17, 2022.

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

Dune Analytics: decentralized exchange Uniswap tops $2T in all-time trading volume after breaching $1T in May 2022 and remains the largest DEX by trading volume (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/uniswap-tops-two-trillion-trading…

Uniswap tops $2T in trading volume, larger than Australia’s GDP
Uniswap has now processed more than $2 trillion in trading volume across several blockchains since it launched on Ethereum back in November 2018.

🌴 DRC’s 1 billion trees program makes progress, but hurdles remain
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/drcs-1-billion-trees-program-makes-progress-but-hurdles-remain/

DRC’s 1 billion trees program makes progress, but hurdles remain
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Every weekend between January 2022 and December 2023, members of the nongovernmental organization Ferme Don de Dieu (FDD) planted trees on farmland in Yolo and Kinzono, on the outskirts of Mbankana, more than 140 km (87 miles) from Kinshasa. With the help of technicians from the Congolese environment ministry’s […]

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Characterization for a generic construction of bent functions and its consequences
Recently, Li et al. presented a generic construction of bent functions in [IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 2735-2751, 2022]. In this paper, we give a characterization for their construction from another perspective. This characterization enables us to obtain another efficient construction of bent functions. Based on that, we derive several infinite families of concrete bent functions and give their duals. Our results show that many known bent functions are particular cases of our b…

In der BRD sind #Autos wie Religion, Religionsersatz oder Trägermedium von Religion. Lit. dazu: Conrad Kunze. Deutschland als Autobahn: Eine Kulturgeschichte von Männlichkeit, Moderne und Nationalismus, 2022.

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Homogeneous Second-Order Descent Framework: A Fast Alternative to Newton-Type Methods
This paper proposes a homogeneous second-order descent framework (HSODF) for nonconvex and convex optimization based on the generalized homogeneous model (GHM). In comparison to the Newton steps, the GHM can be solved by extremal symmetric eigenvalue procedures and thus grant an advantage in ill-conditioned problems. Moreover, GHM extends the ordinary homogeneous model (OHM) (Zhang et al. 2022) to allow adaptiveness in the construction of the aggregated matrix. Consequently, HSODF is able to re…

Sweden officially joins NATO: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/07/sweden-officially-joins.html

Former Dallas Cowboys Player Takes Shot At Old Team https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/former_dallas_cowboys_player_takes_shot_at_old_team/s1_17150_40071558

Former Dallas Cowboys Player Takes Shot At Old Team
After being franchise-tagged by the Dallas Cowboys in 2022, tight end Dalton Schultz hit the open market in 2023 and landed with the Houston Texans. While his market wasn’t as strong as he was hoping it would be, he eventually landed the multi-year deal he was seeking this offseason. Schultz agreed to a three-year, $36 million deal with the Texans after a very successful first season with the franchise. In 2023, he caught 59 passes for 635 yards and five touchdowns, becoming one of C.J. Strou…

Raiders have difficult decision to make on offensive star https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_have_difficult_decision_to_make_on_offensive_star/s1_13132_39931569

Raiders have difficult decision to make on offensive star
Las Vegas Raiders running back Josh Jacobs fell short of expectations in 2023, but it wouldn't be a surprise if the team tries to bring him back this offseason. "The Raiders tagged Jacobs in 2022 after he led the NFL in rushing yards and yards from scrimmage," wrote Pro Football Focus contributor Marcus Mosher. "Jacobs wasn't able to have the same type of season in 2023 with his numbers down across the board. The coaching staff loves Jacobs, but it would be a surprise if they franchised him aga…

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

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…

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.

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

If you missed the game post, you might be wondering what tonight's game is about?
#NewBeersEveTraditions
#HashTagGames
On April 7, 1933, the US government ended Prohibition due to the repeal of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that banned all intox…

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Automated Transparency: A Legal and Empirical Analysis of the Digital Services Act Transparency Database
The Digital Services Act (DSA) is a much awaited platforms liability reform in the European Union that was adopted on 1 November 2022 with the ambition to set a global example in terms of accountability and transparency. Among other obligations, the DSA emphasizes the need for online platforms to report on their content moderation decisions (`statements of reasons' - SoRs), which is a novel transparency mechanism we refer to as automated transparency in this study. SoRs are currently made avail…

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

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

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

Disney sells out of ad inventory for the 2024 Oscars; a source says Disney was seeking $1.7M to $2.2M for 30-second ads, similar to its 2022 pricing (Bill Bradley/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/disney-sells-out-ad-inventory-96th-oscars…

Disney Sells Out Ad Inventory for 96th Oscars With Pricing Back Up
The ceremony will have a broad range of sponsors across 17 categories.

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 12 nodes and 58 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Benediction
Last night we used Kanopy to watch this movie. The synopsis Kanopy provides is very brief. The link below takes you to a much more thorough review.
It deals with difficult subject matter
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/benediction-movi…

Benediction movie review & film summary (2022) | Roger Ebert
This is one of Davies’ best films, as equally detached as his earlier work yet brimming with emotions that are a little closer to the surface than we expect from him.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
On April 7, 1933, FDR signed the law that ended the US Government Prohibition due to the repeal of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that banned all intoxicating liquors, including beer. Let's play!<…

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Consequence of anisotropy on flocking: the discretized Vicsek model
We numerically study a discretized Vicsek model (DVM) with particles orienting in $q$ possible orientations in two dimensions. The study probes the significance of anisotropic orientation and microscopic interaction on the macroscopic behavior. The DVM is an off-lattice flocking model like the active clock model [ACM; EPL {\bf 138}, 41001 (2022)] but the dynamical rules of particle alignment and movement are inspired by the prototypical Vicsek model (VM). The DVM shows qualitatively similar pro…

Watch: Cowboys star finds out laughably late that Dan Quinn is with Commanders https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/watch_cowboys_star_finds_out_laughably_late_that_dan_quinn_is_with_commanders/s1…

Watch: Cowboys star finds out laughably late that Dan Quinn is with Commanders
It was first reported last Thursday that Dan Quinn was being hired as the Washington Commanders next head coach. Dallas Cowboys star running back Tony Pollard found out about the team's former defensive coordinator's departure on Wednesday, six days after nearly everyone else did. Pollard told "The Pat McAfee Show" on Wednesday that he got rid of his social media accounts during the 2023 season, so he was unaware of Quinn's move until his midweek appearance on the program. The 2022 Pro Bowler s…

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.

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On asymptotic stability on a center hypersurface at the soliton for even solutions of the NLKG when $2\ge p> \frac{5}{3}$
We extend the result M. Kowalczyk, Y. Martel, C. Muñoz, JEMS 2022, on the existence, in the context of spatially even solutions, of asymptotic stability on a center hypersurface at the soliton of the defocusing power Nonlinear Klein Gordon Equation with $p>3$, to the case $2\ge p> \frac{5}{3}$.

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Comments to the paper "Detailed study of the astrophysical direct capture reaction $^6$Li($p,γ$)$^7$Be in a potential model approach" by E. M. Tursunov, S. A. Turakulov, and K. I. Tursunmakhatov, PHYSICAL REVIEW C 108, 065801 (2023)
We explicitly present the comparison of the results for the astrophysical S-factor and reaction rate for the $^6$Li($p,γ$)$^7$Be capture process at astrophysical energies, presented in Phys. Rev. Phys. Rev. C 105, 065806 (2022) and Phys. Rev. C 108. 065801 (2023) obtained within the famework of potential models. We demonstrate that both potential model approaches describe successfully the astrophysical S-factor and reaction rate simultaneously and reproduce the LUNA Collaboration [Phys. Rev. C…

Wow 😲 Efficacy of a single low dose of esketamine after childbirth for mothers with symptoms of prenatal depression: randomised clinical trial
https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj-2023-078218

The elephant random walk in the triangular array setting
Rahul Roy, Masato Takei, Hideki Tanemura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02881 https://

The elephant random walk in the triangular array setting
Gut and Stadmüller (2021, 2022) initiated the study of the elephant random walk with limited memory. Aguech and El Machkouri (2024) published a paper in which they discuss an extension of results by Gut and Stadtmüller (2022) for an "increasing memory" version of the elephant random walk without stops. Here we present a formal definition of the process which has been hinted at Eq. (2.2) in Gut and Stadtmüller (2022). This definition is based on the triangular array setting. We give a positiv…

Deal faces calls for inquiry over alleged ‘influence peddling’
Democratic groups escalated calls on Thursday for Congress to investigate Donald Trump’s social media company Trump Media after a report that it relied partly on emergency loans in 2022 traced back to a Russian-American under federal criminal investigation to make it to its stock market debut.
The move increased political scrutiny into the merger between Trump Media Technology Group and the blank-check company Digita…

2022 retro-link! https://nolanlawson.com/2022/04/08/the-struggle-of-using-native-emoji-on-the-web/ - The struggle of using native emoji on the web.

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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…

Hackerangriffe auf Bahnunternehmen vermutet
Moskau stehe im Verdacht, seit dem Angriff auf die Ukraine im Februar 2022 "Tausende Versuche, unsere Systeme zu schwächen", unternommen zu haben, sagte der tschechische Verkehrsminister der "Financial Times". Dabei gehe es etwa um Angriffe auf Signalsysteme und die Netzwerke der tschechischen Eisenbahngesellschaft České dršhy.
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Russische Hacker sollen Europas Schienennetz angegriffen haben
Der tschechische Verkehrsminister wirft Russland groß angelegte Hackerangriffe auf Bahnunternehmen vor. Der Kreml weist dies zurück. Schon vor einem Jahr hatte eine EU-Behörde vor solchen Attacken gewarnt.

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

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A Robust Ensemble Algorithm for Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation: Generalizability and Clinical Utility Beyond the ISLES Challenge
Diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) is essential for stroke diagnosis, treatment decisions, and prognosis. However, image and disease variability hinder the development of generalizable AI algorithms with clinical value. We address this gap by presenting a novel ensemble algorithm derived from the 2022 Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation (ISLES) challenge. ISLES'22 provided 400 patient scans with ischemic stroke from various medical centers, facilitating the development of a wide range of cutting-edge…

Das wäre n Forschungsjob für mich: den ganzen Tag den Strand langlaufen und nach Seepferdchen Ausschau halten.
Kuckmal, @… https://ard.social/@NDR/11220224202263

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

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.

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

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Low-Temperature Transport Property of Spin-1/2 Random Heisenberg Chains
Quenched disorders can strongly influence the physical properties of quantum many-body systems. The real-space strong-disorder renormalization group (SDRG) analysis has shown that the spin-1/2 random Heisenberg chain is controlled by the infinite-randomness fixed point (IRFP) and forms a random singlet (RS) ground state. Motivated by recent thermal transport experiments on the quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet copper benzoate [B. Y. Pan et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 129}, 167201 (2022)], we …

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

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

“The plan was to build a $100 billion coastal city designed to house up to a million people.
However, it has now turned into a ghost town full of stray dogs, overgrown vegetation, day drinkers, and crocodile-infested waters.”
No, it’s not Florida. It’s…Singapore!? https://supe…

$100 billion eco-friendly 'Forest City' is now a ghost town
A $100 billion eco-friendly city known as "Forest City" that was supposed to be home to a million people is nothing but a ghost town now.

«Boris Johnson was turned away from his local polling station when trying to cast his vote in Thursday’s elections after forgetting to bring the required photo identity. […] The misstep was embarrassing for Johnson because the requirement to bring photo ID is a stipulation of the Elections Act which he introduced in 2022 while still in Downing Street.» 🍿🥤
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/minister-sorry-as-veterans-find-id-card-not-valid-for-english-elections

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Can You Learn Semantics Through Next-Word Prediction? The Case of Entailment
Do LMs infer the semantics of text from co-occurrence patterns in their training data? Merrill et al. (2022) argue that, in theory, probabilities predicted by an optimal LM encode semantic information about entailment relations, but it is unclear whether neural LMs trained on corpora learn entailment in this way because of strong idealizing assumptions made by Merrill et al. In this work, we investigate whether their theory can be used to decode entailment judgments from neural LMs. We find tha…

What is the U.S. oil agreement with Canada?

https://canadians.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/factsheet-nafta-energy.pdf

Federal judge in Texas rules congressional passage of 2022 spending bill unconstitutional (Reuters)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/federal-judge-texas-rules-congressional-passage-2022-spending-bill-unc-rcna140829
http://www.memeorandum.com/240227/p100#a240227p100

i learned this week that the amazing singer jimmie dale gilmore's 1st recorded appearance was this 1969 hub city movers 7-inch, setting a gilbert shelton comic to music, with jimmie dale singing lead on the cosmic c&w b-side. https://taylorjessen.blogspot.com/2022<…

Hub City Movers: The Chicken Song b/w I Can't Know Tomorrow
  A deathless classic from the Hub City Movers of Austin, Texas, one-time house band at the Vulcan Gas Company club and the first act to pl...

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Automorphic Forms on Unitary Groups
This manuscript provides a more detailed treatment of the material from my lecture series at the 2022 Arizona Winter School on Automorphic Forms Beyond $GL_2$. The main focus of this manuscript is automorphic forms on unitary groups, with a view toward algebraicity results. I also discuss related aspects of automorphic $L$-functions in the setting of unitary groups.

So, next: Katharina Adler, Iglhaut [2022], für das Lesedings am 14.3.

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Comments to the paper "Detailed study of the astrophysical direct capture reaction $^6$Li($p,γ$)$^7$Be in a potential model approach" by E. M. Tursunov, S. A. Turakulov, and K. I. Tursunmakhatov, PHYSICAL REVIEW C 108, 065801 (2023)
We explicitly present the comparison of the results for the astrophysical S-factor and reaction rate for the $^6$Li($p,γ$)$^7$Be capture process at astrophysical energies, presented in Phys. Rev. Phys. Rev. C 105, 065806 (2022) and Phys. Rev. C 108. 065801 (2023) obtained within the famework of potential models. We demonstrate that both potential model approaches describe successfully the astrophysical S-factor and reaction rate simultaneously and reproduce the LUNA Collaboration [Phys. Rev. C…

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

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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…

GB News reports year to May 2023 revenue up 80% YoY to £6.7M, losses up 38% YoY to £42.4M, for £76M in losses since 2021, and 295 staff, up from 175 in May 2022 (Bron Maher/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/gb-news-results-…

GB News losses up 38% to £42.4m giving channel total deficit of £76m since launch
GB News' operating losses grew 38% to £42.4m in the year to May 2023, the business has reported in its latest Companies House accounts.

https://www.fast.ai/2022/08/25/jupyter-git/ - The Jupyter git problem is now solved.

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Überwachung: Strafverfolger griffen 2022 deutlich häufiger zu Staatstrojanern
Die Zahl der Genehmigungen hat sich fast verdoppelt: 2022 erlaubten Gerichte 109 Mal das Hacken von IT-Geräten, während es im Vorjahr 55 Anordnungen gab.

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Can You Learn Semantics Through Next-Word Prediction? The Case of Entailment
Do LMs infer the semantics of text from co-occurrence patterns in their training data? Merrill et al. (2022) argue that, in theory, probabilities predicted by an optimal LM encode semantic information about entailment relations, but it is unclear whether neural LMs trained on corpora learn entailment in this way because of strong idealizing assumptions made by Merrill et al. In this work, we investigate whether their theory can be used to decode entailment judgments from neural LMs. We find tha…

As bitcoin rallies past $67K and nears its all-time high, Coinbase's stock, which hit $46.43 last year, soars to $229.15, nearly doubling in the past month (Niamh Rowe/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/04/coinbase-shares-double-crypto…

Coinbase shrugs off site crash as shares of the top U.S. crypto exchange surge
Shares in Coinbase were up 14% on Monday, the biggest daily jump since January 2022, thanks to crypto's latest bull run.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Time to get your spook on. Let's play!
#MakeASitcomParanormal

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Automorphic Forms on Unitary Groups
This manuscript provides a more detailed treatment of the material from my lecture series at the 2022 Arizona Winter School on Automorphic Forms Beyond $GL_2$. The main focus of this manuscript is automorphic forms on unitary groups, with a view toward algebraicity results. I also discuss related aspects of automorphic $L$-functions in the setting of unitary groups.

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 9 nodes and 56 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

General Staff: Russia has lost 442,170 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/31/general-staff-russia.html

2022 retro-link! https://blog.apnic.net/2022/03/08/authenticated-bootstrapping-of-dnssec-delegations/ - Authenticated bootstrapping of DNSSEC delegations.

CSET: global AI research more than doubled between 2017 and 2022; Chinese Academy of Sciences was the top producer of highly cited AI papers, followed by Google (Alison Snyder/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/03/ai-race-china-us-research

Exclusive: Inside the AI research boom
The findings reveal important nuances about the global AI race between the U.S. and China.

What to expect from Apple's May 7 event: new iPad Pros, possibly with M4 chips, updated iPad Air and Pencil, but AI features may not get a "formal unveiling" (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles…

Apple iPad Event 2024: New iPad Pro, Air, Magic Keyboard, Pencil Coming May 7
Company gears up to update its tablets for the first time since 2022

General Staff: Russia has lost 441,520 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/30/general-staff-russia.html

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Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes is a collection of over 100 fairytales, rhymes & poems. Let's play!
#FairyTaleASongOrMovie

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

Klarna claims its ChatGPT-powered AI chatbot handles two-thirds of all customer service chats and does the equivalent work of 700 full-time human agents (Christopher Zara/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91039401/klarn

Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people after it laid off 700 people
Klarna, the Swedish BNPL company, released new data from its OpenAI-powered virtual assistant, saying its AI chatbots do the work of 700 full-time human agents. In 2022, the company was criticized for its handling of layoffs.