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«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

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

Everton lose £124M to 2021-22, breaching the £105M limit, punished with a 10 point deduction (reduced to 6 on appeal.)
Wolves lose £113M to 2022-23, breaching the £105M limit, get no punishment.
Make it make sense, Premier League.
#Football #SportsBall

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.

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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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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Open Information Extraction from 2007 to 2022 -- A Survey
Open information extraction is an important NLP task that targets extracting structured information from unstructured text without limitations on the relation type or the domain of the text. This survey paper covers open information extraction technologies from 2007 to 2022 with a focus on new models not covered by previous surveys. We propose a new categorization method from the source of information perspective to accommodate the development of recent OIE technologies. In addition, we summari…

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...

Früherer Botschafter Melnyk räumt Fehler ein
Der frühere Botschafter der Ukraine in Deutschland, Andrij Melnyk, hat "viele Fehler" während seiner Tätigkeit in Berlin eingeräumt. Er zeigte sich aber stolz, die Berliner Politik nach der russischen Invasion in der Ukraine vor zwei Jahren "aus ihrer Lethargie" geholt zu haben, wie Melnyk dem Berliner "Tagesspiegel" sagte.
Melnyk war von 2015 bis 2022 ukrainischer Botschafter in D…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ USA planen neue Sanktionen gegen Russland ++
Die USA wollen Sanktionen gegen mehr als 500 Ziele in Russland verhängen. In der ukrainischen Hafenstadt Odessa ist nach Militärangaben ein Mensch bei einem russischen Drohnenangriff ums Leben gekommen. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

My first book review came out today! *Metadata for Digital Collections* by Steven Miller (2nd ed.). I really do like this book, and we use it to teach Digital Libraries here at IU and I think about its approach in my own stuff. Available here (https://utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/jelis-…

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Evaluating gesture generation in a large-scale open challenge: The GENEA Challenge 2022
This paper reports on the second GENEA Challenge to benchmark data-driven automatic co-speech gesture generation. Participating teams used the same speech and motion dataset to build gesture-generation systems. Motion generated by all these systems was rendered to video using a standardised visualisation pipeline and evaluated in several large, crowdsourced user studies. Unlike when comparing different research papers, differences in results are here only due to differences between methods, ena…

This will be Chrome’s fourth try since 2018 (third since September) to deploy keyboard support for scrolling regions:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/06/keyboard-only-scrolling-areas.html#Update06
Here’s to hoping they get it right this…

Keyboard-Only Scrolling Areas
I have spent a few years banging on about ensuring scrolling areas on a page are accessible to keyboard-only users. This is partly because the term “keyboard” maps to other input types that we distill to “keyboard” for ease of reference (speech input, sip-and-puff, on-screen keyboards, scanning software, etc.). When…

Das Dilemma mit TikTok lässt sich ganz gut an Joe Biden aufzeigen: Der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten darf die App nicht auf seinem Smartphone installieren. Er hat das entsprechende Gesetz 2022 selbst unterschrieben, ...
Derselbe Joe Biden hat nun seit Anfang Februar einen offiziellen TikTok-Account. Von welchem Endgerät er den betreiben lässt? Gute Frage!
Johanna Jürgens, #ZeitOnline

TikTok in den USA: TikTok weiß seine Nutzer zu mobilisieren
In Washington wächst das Unbehagen über TikTok. 180 Tage will die US-Regierung dem chinesischen Konzern ByteDance geben, um seine Plattform zu verkaufen – eigentlich.

This is wholesome. We need to do this to every coal power plant globally in coming years. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-coal-plant-demolition-batteries-renewable-energy/

Blowing Up a New Jersey Coal Plant to Make Way for Renewable Energy
New Jersey is shifting towards maximizing cheap, renewable energy. Watch the implosion of the Logan Generating Station.

Smartphones & Co.: Online-Händler ignorieren meist noch neue Update-Pflicht
Seit 2022 müssen Produkte mit digitalen Elementen fortlaufend mit Software-Aktualisierungen versorgt werden. Ein Test liefert aber ernüchternde Ergebnisse.

We’ve had a number of big retailers suffer widespread issues in th #uk. This makes me wonder how many went all-in on MS and Azure for critical sustems. 🤔 https://learn.microsoft.co…

Russia can only afford its war in Ukraine because Britain helped raise the cash
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/08/britain-war-in-ukraine-britain-putin-regime?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other…

2022 retro-link! https://grack.com/blog/2022/12/20/deriving-a-bit-twiddling-hack/ - Deriving a bit-twiddling hack: signed integer overflow.

Xiaolang Zhang, a former Apple engineer who pled guilty in August 2022 to IP theft of Apple's car project, is sentenced to 120 days in prison and a ~$147K fine (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/08/apple-engineer-project-titan-secre…

Former Apple engineer who stole Project Titan trade secrets sentenced to prison - 9to5Mac
For the last six years, we’ve been following the case of Xiaolang Zhang, a former Apple engineer who pled guilty...

FTW. Day's high is 72°F (22°C) and low is 39°F (4°C)? A swing of 33°F (18°C)? ☹️
That's just messed up.
PS: As bad as this is, it does not beat the 53°F (30°C) swing I experienced on New Year Day in 2022. In fact, that year at least thrice I observed wider swings than today's.
https://…

Sean Murthy 🇺🇦 @smurthys@hachyderm.io (@smurthys) on X
Interesting start to the new year: 53 F (30 C) swing from day's high temperature to day's low temperature

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Measuring Arbitrage Losses and Profitability of AMM Liquidity
This paper presents the results of a comprehensive empirical study of losses to arbitrageurs (following the formalization of loss-versus-rebalancing by [Milionis et al., 2022]) incurred by liquidity on automated market makers (AMMs). Through a systematic comparison between historical earnings from trading fees and losses to arbitrageurs, our findings indicate an insufficient compensation from fees for arbitrage losses across many of the largest AMM liquidity pools (on Uniswap). Remarkably, we i…

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another. On this day when we celebrate, praise, bless, extol, salute, extoll, & laud words, Let's play!

An analysis of the gender pay gap in UK media: 76% of the biggest media organizations increased the proportion of women in their top pay tier from 2022 to 2023 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-busin…

More women in top roles as media industry gender pay gap slowly narrows
UK media gender pay gap down from 12% to 11% between 2022 and 2023. But most companies increase % of women in highest-paid roles.

Visual Studio 17.10 Preview 3 is available! What's new you ask?
- GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio
- Copilot Generated Breakpoint Conditions
- Updates to our Copilot generated PR descriptions
- More SSDT support for Arm64 VS
#visualstudio

@… advocates for #degrowth?
Great, but please stick to that consistently and don't use growth as a shorthand for economic health.
Also recognise the contradictions of a growth-oriented GND.
Thanks.
I don’t believe in growth

Please don’t try to buy this book
This book, supposedly by me, is being advertised on Amazon: This comes from Amazon. There is only one problem. There is no such book. I cancelled the contract to write it in 2022 when I had long Covid and had no energy to work on it over very many months. Once I...

16WW Electricity Usage Manual Snapshot (2022-08) - A data sample for a research project into how to make best use of shared PV generation. - https://m.earth.org.uk/electricity-usage-snapshot-202208.html

16WW Electricity Usage Manual Snapshot (2022-08)
A data sample for a research project into how to make best use of shared PV generation.

We’re already looking at this backward, upside down and in a mirror.
“… 52 percent of Americans now use an ad blocker, up from 34 percent according to 2022 Statista data.
[…]
“For the general public, the rationale for doing so tends to be more about protecting privacy (20 percent) than blocking ads (18 percent), with another 9 percent wanting faster web page loading.”

Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know

❝I felt an anger that I hadn’t felt in his past films. Anger that felt directed towards the way humans work, the unfairness of this whole world.❞ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/08/eiko-ishibashi-film-co…

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.

From Aug 2022 but still ridiculous.
I don’t need a jab, i don’t need a mask and i don’t need a snip
to have save sex.
Why are people so stupid ?

får man skriva att man är en "icke vinstdrivande" skola när man i regel gör 6-7 siffror plus och tar ut utdelningar mellan 300-750 kkr varje år?
Utdelningar senaste åren är 742 kkr (2022-12-19), 726 kkr (2021-10-29), 705 kkr (2020-10-28), 300 kkr (2019-11-08), 300 kkr (2018-12-10), 390 kkr (2017-11-30).
Vinster senaste åren:
19-20 1,5 mkr.
20-21 1,2 mkr.
21-22 700 kkr.
22-23 800 kkr.
Uppgifter från årsredovisningarna som ligger på

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

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Dog Dancing World Championship 2022, Anastasiia Beaumont and border collie Yuki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtjY_YgZEzo

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

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

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An Exploration Study of Mixed-initiative Query Reformulation in Conversational Passage Retrieval
In this paper, we report our methods and experiments for the TREC Conversational Assistance Track (CAsT) 2022. In this work, we aim to reproduce multi-stage retrieval pipelines and explore one of the potential benefits of involving mixed-initiative interaction in conversational passage retrieval scenarios: reformulating raw queries. Before the first ranking stage of a multi-stage retrieval pipeline, we propose a mixed-initiative query reformulation module, which achieves query reformulation bas…

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The discrete adiabatic quantum linear system solver has lower constant factors than the randomized adiabatic solver
The solution of linear systems of equations is the basis of many other quantum algorithms, and recent results provided an algorithm with optimal scaling in both the condition number $κ$ and the allowable error $ε$ [PRX Quantum \textbf{3}, 0403003 (2022)]. That work was based on the discrete adiabatic theorem, and worked out an explicit constant factor for an upper bound on the complexity. Here we show via numerical testing on random matrices that the constant factor is in practice about 1,500…

Inflation bleibt hoch - Seit 2022 gingen zehn Mrd. Euro Kaufkraft verloren #News #Nachrichten

2022 retro-link! http://allsoftwaresucks.blogspot.com/2022/11/why-cve-2022-3602-was-not-detected-by.html - Why the OpenSSL punycode vulnerability was not detected by fuzz testing.

Menschenrechtlerin wirft Russland "stalinistische Methoden" vor
Die russische Menschenrechtlerin Irina Scherbakowa hat das Vorgehen des russischen Staats gegen den verstorbenen Kremlkritiker Alexej Nawalny mit stalinistischen Methoden verglichen. "Selbst wenn er nicht gezielt getötet wurde, war es doch Mord", sagte die Mitbegründerin der in Russland verbotenen und 2022 mit dem Friedensnobelpreis ausgezeichneten Menschenrechtso…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: + Ukraine meldet Abschuss von russischem Flugzeug +
Ukrainische Streitkräfte haben eigenen Angaben zufolge ein russisches Aufklärungsflugzeug abgeschossen. Außenministerin Baerbock hat bei den UN in New York dazu aufgerufen, die Ukraine weiter zu unterstützen. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

I still very clearly remember all the credulous vote blue people telling me 3 years ago how great Biden's climate plan was. Now, after the obvious bait-and-switch, US is producing more oil than any other country ever.
https://www.washingtonpost.c…

Analysis | The Civilian Climate Corps was dropped from the climate bill. Now what?
The federally funded initiative was hugely popular and aimed at hiring tens of thousands of young people to pursue climate-friendly projects.

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Automated Attack Synthesis for Constant Product Market Makers
Decentralized Finance enables many novel applications that were impossible in traditional finances. However, it also introduces new types of vulnerabilities, such as composability bugs. The composability bugs refer to issues that lead to erroneous behaviors when multiple smart contracts operate together. One typical example of composability bugs is those between token contracts and Constant Product Market Makers (CPMM), the most widely used model for Decentralized Exchanges. Since 2022, 23 expl…

The growing reality of climate refugees - a resonating article by Wambui Mbuthia.
Climate change is not a sudden eviction notice for millions of displaced people. It is a slow and relentless erosion, chipping away livelihoods and forcing difficult choices.
In 2022 alone, more than 7.4 million people across #Africa were displaced due to climate shocks, adding to existing conflicts and instabil…

The growing reality of climate refugees

More families are now forced to abandon their homes for sustenance

The federal regulator is investigating whether #Musk, or anyone else, committed securities fraud in 2022 as Musk began buying stock in #Twitter, ahead of his leveraged buyout of the company.
Elon Musk must testify in SEC probe of his Twitter takeover

Apparently I'm a "liberal airhead". What are you?
Try: https://www.anesi.com/fscale.htm
PS: This is Theodor Adorno's Authoritarian Personality Test. Try completing the questionnaire *before* reading about the test.

The F Scale: Final form
The Fscale: test of fascist receptivity at a personality level (T.W. Adorno et al., 1949)

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

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

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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…

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

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

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ICMC-ASR: The ICASSP 2024 In-Car Multi-Channel Automatic Speech Recognition Challenge
To promote speech processing and recognition research in driving scenarios, we build on the success of the Intelligent Cockpit Speech Recognition Challenge (ICSRC) held at ISCSLP 2022 and launch the ICASSP 2024 In-Car Multi-Channel Automatic Speech Recognition (ICMC-ASR) Challenge. This challenge collects over 100 hours of multi-channel speech data recorded inside a new energy vehicle and 40 hours of noise for data augmentation. Two tracks, including automatic speech recognition (ASR) and autom…

We’re already looking at this backward, upside down and in a mirror.
“… 52 percent of Americans now use an ad blocker, up from 34 percent according to 2022 Statista data.
[…]
“For the general public, the rationale for doing so tends to be more about protecting privacy (20 percent) than blocking ads (18 percent), with another 9 percent wanting faster web page loading.”

Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know

Gespräche über schwedischen NATO-Beitritt in Ungarn
Kurz vor der Abstimmung des ungarischen Parlaments über den schwedischen NATO-Beitritt ist Schwedens Ministerpräsidenten Ulf Kristersson nach Budapest gereist. Inhalt der Gespräche sei die Stärkung der "verteidigungs- und sicherheitspolitischen Zusammenarbeit" beider Länder, hieß es aus der schwedischen Regierung.
Schweden hatte im Mai 2022 als Reaktion auf den russischen An…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: + Ukraine meldet Abschuss von russischem Flugzeug +
Ukrainische Streitkräfte haben eigenen Angaben zufolge ein russisches Aufklärungsflugzeug abgeschossen. Außenministerin Baerbock hat bei den UN in New York dazu aufgerufen, die Ukraine weiter zu unterstützen. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

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

🔊 #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

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

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #TheZoeBallBreakfastShow
Corona:
🎵 The Rhythm Of The Night
#Corona
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ofMkI3jzmGCElAOgOLeo3
https://djmanumaelso.bandcamp.com/track/corona-the-rhythm-of-the-night-manu-maelso-edit-v-1-2022

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Many have side jobs or hustles. Let's play!
#LibrarianSideJobsOrHustles

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

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

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.

The Election Act 2022 provides a list of valid government-accepted photo IDs. This list has forms of ID targeted at the older generation, such as a 60 Oyster Card. However, almost none are for young people, not even the Young Persons Railcard. #GE2024 #ToryCorruption

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InPars-Light: Cost-Effective Unsupervised Training of Efficient Rankers
We carried out a reproducibility study of InPars, which is a method for unsupervised training of neural rankers (Bonifacio et al., 2022). As a by-product, we developed InPars-light, which is a simple-yet-effective modification of InPars. Unlike InPars, InPars-light uses 7x-100x smaller ranking models and only a freely available language model BLOOM, which -- as we found out -- produced more accurate rankers compared to a proprietary GPT-3 model. On all five English retrieval collections (used i…

2022 retro-link! https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/18/dun-dun-duuun-where-did-pop-cultures-most-dramatic-sound-come-from?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other - Dun, Dun Duuun! Where did pop cul…

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.

On Website Technicals (2022-12) - Tech updates: citationID, Mastostorm, server down, mail system move, dataset archive, database cross-check, static Gallery, Xmas slump. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-67.html

On Website Technicals (2022-12)
Tech updates: citationID, Mastostorm, server down, mail system move, dataset archive, database cross-check, static Gallery, Xmas slump.

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CLASS Angular Power Spectra and Map-Component Analysis for 40 GHz Observations through 2022
Measurement of the largest angular scale ($\ell < 30$) features of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization is a powerful way to constrain the optical depth to reionization and search for the signature of inflation through the detection of primordial $B$-modes. We present an analysis of maps covering 73.6\% of the sky made from the $40\,\mathrm{GHz}$ channel of the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) from 2016 August to 2022 May. Taking advantage of the measurement stabilit…

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Nuclear mass table in deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in continuum, II: Even-$Z$ nuclei
The mass table in the deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in continuum (DRHBc) with the PC-PK1 density functional has been established for even-$Z$ nuclei with $8\le Z\le120$, extended from the previous work for even-even nuclei [Zhang $\it{et al.}$ (DRHBc Mass Table Collaboration), At. Data Nucl. Data Tables 144, 101488 (2022)]. The calculated binding energies, two-nucleon and one-neutron separation energies, root-mean-square (rms) radii of neutron, proton, matter, and charge distr…

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Great American String Band – San Rafael, CA (04/26/74)
Great American String BandGolden State Country Bluegrass Festival(often incorrectly given as Marin County Bluegrass Festival)Marin County Veterans’ Auditorium Building and GroundsSan Rafael, …

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PEARLS: NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Extragalactic Survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field II
We present the second NuSTAR and XMM-Newton extragalactic survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Time-Domain Field (TDF). The first NuSTAR NEP-TDF survey (Zhao et al. 2021) had 681 ks total exposure time executed in NuSTAR cycle 5, in 2019 and 2020. This second survey, acquired from 2020 to 2022 in cycle 6, adds 880 ks of NuSTAR exposure time. The overall NuSTAR NEP-TDF survey is the most sensitive NuSTAR extragalactic survey to date, and a total of 60 sources were detected above the 95% …

2022 retro-link! https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2022/04/17/coherence-and-crate-level-where-clauses/#coherence-and-crate-level-where-clauses - Coherence and crate-level whe…

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 …

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)
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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.

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.

Let’s just say it: The Republican problem is metastasizing
You have to feel for Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), who was chosen by Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to negotiate the border deal precisely because he had tough immigration views.
Trump himself described Lankford in his 2022 endorsement as “Strong on the Border.”

But if Trump claims the right as president to break the law, he also asserts the right to lie with impunity.
He insisted, fa…

Let’s just say it: The Republican problem is metastasizing
Perhaps Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein need to write a new edition of their book.

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InfraRed Investigation in Singapore (IRIS) Observatory: Urban heat island contributors and mitigators analysis using neighborhood-scale thermal imaging
This paper studies heat fluxes from contributors and mitigators of urban heat islands using thermal images and weather data. Thermal images were collected from an observatory operating on the rooftop of a building between November 2021 and April 2022. Over the same period, an automatic weather station network was used to measure weather conditions at several locations on a university campus in Singapore. From data collected by the observatory and the automatic weather station network, a method …

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Evaluation of LLMs on Syntax-Aware Code Fill-in-the-Middle Tasks
We introduce Syntax-Aware Fill-In-the-Middle (SAFIM), a new benchmark for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) on the code Fill-in-the-Middle (FIM) task. This benchmark focuses on syntax-aware completions of program structures such as code blocks and conditional expressions, and includes 17,720 examples from multiple programming languages, sourced from recent code submissions after April 2022 to minimize data contamination. SAFIM provides a robust framework with various prompt designs and no…

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ChatGPT Can Predict the Future when it Tells Stories Set in the Future About the Past
This study investigates whether OpenAI's ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4 can accurately forecast future events using two distinct prompting strategies. To evaluate the accuracy of the predictions, we take advantage of the fact that the training data at the time of experiment stopped at September 2021, and ask about events that happened in 2022 using ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4. We employed two prompting strategies: direct prediction and what we call future narratives which ask ChatGPT to tell fictional…

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Optical and soft X-ray light-curve analysis during the 2022 eruption of U Scorpii: structural changes in the accretion disk
We present our optical photometric observations of the 2022 eruption of the recurrent nova U Scorpii (U Sco) using 49,152 data points over 70 d following the optical peak. We have also analyzed its soft X-ray (0.3--1 keV) light curve by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. During the 2022 eruption, the optical plateau stage started 13.8--15.0 d and ended 23.8--25.0 d after the optical peak. The soft X-ray stage started 14.6--15.3 d and ended 38.7--39.5 d after the optical peak. Both stages start…

2022 retro-link! https://mattferraro.dev/posts/geometric-algebra - Geometric algebra: what is the inverse of a vector?

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A lattice regularization of Weyl fermions in a gravitational background
We report on a lattice fermion formulation with a curved domain-wall mass term to nonperturbatively describe fermions in a gravitational background. In our previous work in 2022, we showed under the time-reversal symmetry that the edge-localized massless Dirac fermion appears on one and two-dimensional spherical domain-walls and the spin connection is induced on the lattice in a consistent way with continuum theory. In this work, we extend our study to the Shamir type curved domain-wall fermion…

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Automated Attack Synthesis for Constant Product Market Makers
Sujin Han, Jinseo Kim, Sung-Ju Lee, Insu Yun
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Automated Attack Synthesis for Constant Product Market Makers
Decentralized Finance enables many novel applications that were impossible in traditional finances. However, it also introduces new types of vulnerabilities, such as composability bugs. The composability bugs refer to issues that lead to erroneous behaviors when multiple smart contracts operate together. One typical example of composability bugs is those between token contracts and Constant Product Market Makers (CPMM), the most widely used model for Decentralized Exchanges. Since 2022, 23 expl…

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Klaus Lang & Miroslav Beinhauer:
🎵 Not One And Not Two (2022)
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Lions Signing OL Netane Muti To Futures Deal https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/lions_signing_ol_netane_muti_to_futures_deal/s1_17039_39926595

Lions Signing OL Netane Muti To Futures Deal
The Detroit Lions announced they have signed OL Netane Muti to a futures contract for the 2024 season.  Futures deals are essentially camp invites that will allow players to compete for roster spots during offseason workouts and training camp. Muti, 24, was selected by the Broncos in the sixth round of the 2020 draft out of Fresno State. He signed a four-year, $3,500,792 contract that included $205,792 guaranteed with Denver. The Broncos waived Muti coming out of training camp in 2022 but brou…

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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 …

Machine learning and economic forecasting: the role of international trade networks
Thiago C. Silva, Paulo V. B. Wilhelm, Diego R. Amancio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08712

Machine learning and economic forecasting: the role of international trade networks
This study examines the effects of de-globalization trends on international trade networks and their role in improving forecasts for economic growth. Using section-level trade data from nearly 200 countries from 2010 to 2022, we identify significant shifts in the network topology driven by rising trade policy uncertainty. Our analysis highlights key global players through centrality rankings, with the United States, China, and Germany maintaining consistent dominance. Using a horse race of supe…

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