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

Pro & Contra: Vernachlässigt Apple das iPad?
Neue iPads wurden zuletzt im Oktober 2022 vorgestellt. Verliert Apple seine Tablets aus dem Auge?
https://www.heise.de/meinung/Pro-Contra-Ve

A look at press freedoms in Guatemala, as pro-press freedom and anti-corruption activist Bernardo Arévalo becomes the country's new president (Jon Allsop/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/zamora_guatemala_journalists_a…

Guatemala has a new reformist president. Will he get a veteran muckraker out of jail?
In the summer of 2022, a unit of armed police officers in Guatemala raided the home of José Rubén Zamora, the founder of the independent newspaper elPeriódico, and arrested him on suspicion of money laundering and associated crimes while his grandchildren hid in a closet. This was not the first dramatic moment of Zamora’s life: […]

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

Why the Russian bear wants to influence the Asian tiger In 2022, according to official data, 15.3 million Russians lived below the poverty line, which was equal to the population of two European count Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/chomu-rosijskyj-vedm…

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.

Clowney ready to bring prove-it mode to Panthers https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39833854/jadeveon-clowney-ready-bring-prove-mode-hometown-panthers

Jadeveon Clowney ready to bring prove-it mode to hometown Panthers - ESPN
Edge rusher Jadeveon Clowney can't wait to bring the prove-it mode he's been in to his hometown Carolina Panthers since his falling out with the Cleveland Browns at the end of the 2022 season.

I didn't realize so many Quick Build projects were failing this badly to reduce injury crashes. On some of these streets I *feel* safer since the changes, but the numbers don't lie. These are failures and SF must reevaluate its whole approach. Concrete > flex posts
https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/sf-vi

Vision Zero lacks a vision, experts say
As San Francisco hit the 10-year anniversary of its 2014 “Vision Zero” plan to eliminate all traffic fatalities, the effort has failed: Nearly as many

Wozu eigentlich Regeln, wenn diese am Ende eh nichts gelten?
#Hilbert

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 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…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #DanceSoundsOfThe90sWithVernonKay
Groove Armada:
🎵 I See You Baby
#GrooveArmada
https://axelvicious.bandcamp.com/track/axel-vicious-ft-groove-armada-i-see-you-baby-2022-edition

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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…

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…

DemLabs explains how to Create your own Rapid Response GIF. He aims this at Dem candidates with low budgets, but we can all use these steps.
#BlueWaveRising #MTPol

How to create your own rapid response campaign GIF
GIFs work well for campaigns because condense your message and call to action into seconds. 

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Partial Mobilization: Tracking Multilingual Information Flows Amongst Russian Media Outlets and Telegram
In response to disinformation and propaganda from Russian online media following the invasion of Ukraine, Russian media outlets such as Russia Today and Sputnik News were banned throughout Europe. To maintain viewership, many of these Russian outlets began to heavily promote their content on messaging services like Telegram. In this work, we study how 16 Russian media outlets interacted with and utilized 732 Telegram channels throughout 2022. Leveraging the foundational model MPNet, DP-means cl…

Immediately booked a hotel (with free cancellation option!) for the @… 2024 now that dates and venue are official[1].
This is a lesson I learned in 2022, due to some concerts that happened in town in parallel all the hotel prices were stupendously high when I tried to book two or three month before the conference.
[1] see

Ni ne povas toleri la riĉulojn.
Egaleco necesas por daŭripovo. La popolo en pli egalaj societoj estas pli fidemaj kaj pli protektemaj de la medio, ol tiuj en neegalaj.
De 2020 al 2022, la plej riĉa 1% kaptis preskaŭ duoble el la nova monda riĉeco ol la alia 99 faris kune, kaj en 2019 ili elmetis tiom da karbona dioksido, kiom la plej malriĉaj du trionoj. En la jardeko ĝis 2022, la miliarduloj de la mondo pli ol duobligis iliajn riĉecon al US$ 12 mil miliardoj (12×10¹²)

How serious is Greater Manchester about traffic reduction? | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2024/02/08/how-serious-is-greater-manchester-about-traffic-reduction/

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

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

„Firmen brauchen nur ordentliches Gehalt zu bezahlen, dann haben sie auch keinen Fachkräftemangel.“ – Nein, so einfach ist es leider nicht. Es fehlen Menschen, und es werden in Zukunft noch mehr Menschen fehlen. https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitt…

Bevölkerung im Erwerbsalter wird in Ostdeutschland in den nächsten 20 Jahren um 0,6 bis 1,2 Millionen Menschen abnehmen
Die Zahl der Menschen im Erwerbsalter wird in den nächsten Jahren und Jahrzehnten vor allem im Osten Deutschlands abnehmen – trotz Zuwanderung. Zum Jahresende 2022 lebten 51,4 Millionen Menschen im Alter von 18 bis 64 Jahren in Deutschland, davon 7,2 Millionen in den ostdeutschen Ländern. In den nächsten 20 Jahren wird deren Zahl in Ostdeutschland um mindestens 560 000 (-8 %) bis 1,2 Millionen Menschen (-16 %) zurückgehen. Bis zum Jahr 2070 ist hier mit einem Rückgang um mindestens…

In case you missed it.
How serious is Greater #Manchester about traffic reduction? | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2024

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

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Time to get your Frogger out. Let's play!
#RetroVideoGameASong

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.

On 5th May 2022 I made a complaint to the DPC that the entire An Post/ GeoDirectory advertising database was in breach of GDPR.
On 17th July 2023, the DPC wrote to confirm it had opened a wideranging ‘own volition’ inquiry into the GeoDirectory database.
No further update has issued.

Mystery solved!

#P4x #CyberSecurity #InfoSec @…

A simple copy paste from 2022 to 2023.
Can’t wait to anal ize the 2024 one.
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1765956299081105625?s=61

MAZE (@mazemoore) on X
Biden's 2022 and 2023 SOTU speeches were almost identical. Tonight's speech was the exact same lines combined with saying "my predecessor is bad" 25 times.

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Measurement of vector boson production cross sections and their ratios using $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13.6$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
Fiducial and total $W^\pm$ and $Z$ boson cross sections, their ratios and the ratio of top-antitop-quark pair and $W$-boson fiducial cross sections are measured in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=13.6$ TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 29 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected in 2022 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The measured fiducial cross-section values for $W^+\to \ell^+ν$, $W^-\to \ell^-\barν$, and $Z\to \ell^+\ell^-$ ($\ell=e…

#Covid
Milde Verdoppelung der krankheitsbedingten Absenzen im Jahr 2022 in den USA, gemäss McKinsey.
Studie von vor einem Jahr.

Kosten der Pandemie: Auch „mild“ wird auf Dauer teuer
Es sind vor allem die harmlos wirkenden Verläufe einer Covid-Erkrankung, die Unternehmen zu schaffen machen. Eine McKinsey-Studie hat die ausgefallenen Arbeitstage berechnet.

This unreleased live track by Antonio Ruscito & Luigi Tozzi is just out of this world! The pads!!! Would love to experience that on a big system, but for now my AKG's will do... 😍🫠
The Memoir - Page 90: Antonio Ruscito & Luigi Tozzi (Live, 2022)
https://youtu.be/lNa6MwyVJPw?si=uaupu…

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On the Existence of Balancing Allocations and Factor Point Processes
In this article, we show that every stationary random measure on $\mathbb R^d$ that is essentially free (i.e., has no symmetries a.s.) admits a point process as a factor (i.e., as a measurable and translation-equivariant function of the measure). As a result, we improve the results of Last and Thorisson (2022) on the existence of a factor balancing allocation between ergodic pairs of stationary random measures $Φ$ and $Ψ$ with equal intensities. In particular, we prove that such an allocation…

Bill – January 2021 on the sofa <https://photos.app.goo.gl/K2prrkre49L6d2PP6>, 17th March 2022 in a cot.
This weekend seems to be the second anniversary of his homecoming from New Priory Vets. He was an in-patient for around eleven days, with hypocalcaemia – an extrao…

365-Tage-Bibliothek: Leitfaden "Open Library - so funktioniert's!" https://bibiuster-expert.jimdofree.com/365-tage-bibliothek/
Oha, das ist aber umfangreich. Wie praktisch, wo wir uns Dienstag auch zu dem Thema treffen :)

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Dirac walks on regular trees
The study of matter fields on an ensemble of random geometries is a difficult problem still in need of new methods and ideas. We will follow a point of view inspired by probability theory techniques that relies on an expansion of the two point function as a sum over random walks. An analogous expansion for Fermions on non-Euclidean geometries is still lacking. Casiday et al. [\textit{Laplace and Dirac operators on graphs}, Linear and Multilinear Algebra (2022) 1] proposed a classical "Dirac wal…

Got my new key fob today. A piece of history you can easily grasp, being a key fob.
#SlavaUkraini

"#Kohlekraftwerk #Mehrum geht endgültig vom Netz
Mehrum war das erste #Steinkohlekraftwerk, das im Zuge der

Kohlekraftwerk Mehrum geht nach Reservebetrieb endgültig vom Netz
Mehrum war das erste Steinkohlekraftwerk, das im Zuge der Energiekrise im August 2022 aus der Reserve zurückgeholt wurde, um Erdgas aus dem Markt zu verdrängen. Jetzt wird es endgültig stillgelegt.

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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…

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

Sommige bedrijven zijn wel heeeel smerig. In alle opzichten.
Follow The Money: Vervuilende pfas-fabriek Chemours betaalde geen winstbelasting dankzij ‘cynische constructie’

Vervuilende pfas-fabriek Chemours betaalde geen winstbelasting dankzij ‘cynische constructie’
De chemische fabriek van Chemours in Dordrecht betaalde de afgelopen jaren geen belasting in Nederland door winst te verschuiven naar Zwitserland. Volgens experts is dat niet per se illegaal, maar ook niet bepaald moreel: ‘Dit is een multinational die alleen geeft om maximale winst, zonder rekening te houden met de maatschappij.’

How serious is Greater Manchester about traffic reduction? | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2024/02/08/how-serious-is-greater-manchester-about-traffic-reduction/

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

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

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.

I wonder, with Russian influence being so great in Austria, what about this scenario: Russia offers Austria to keep troops in bases in Austria, to protect its “neutrality”. And a right-wing led government, in power thanks to Russia-induced refugee crisis, agrees. Slovakia provides airspace and land transport corridors. Could that happen within, say, five years? (And sure, until 2022 one might well have asked the same about Finland. But I am relatively sure it wouldn’t have been possible ther…

Internal Kremlin documents from May 2022 to August 2023 show an ongoing campaign to promote American isolationism via fabricated news articles and social media (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/08/russia-propaganda-us-ukra…

Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show
In a campaign stoking anti-Ukraine sentiment in the U.S., Russia-directed trolls have written thousands of fabricated news articles and social media posts.

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.

The Dak Prescott problem has no easy solution in Cowboys’ 2024 plans https://insidethestar.com/the-dak-prescott-problem-has-no-easy-solution-in-cowboys-2024-plans/

The Dak Prescott problem has no easy solution in Cowboys’ 2024 plans ⋆ Inside The Star
Roster review of the Dallas Cowboys' QB Dak Prescott. See how his 2023 season compares with the disaster film of 2022.

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Epstein Semantics: Characterization, Interpolation, Undefinability, and (In)Completeness
This paper is a mathematical investigation on Epstein semantics. One of the main tools 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 several sets of Epstein relat…

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.

🔊 #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

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

Pairing enhancement through the photography of the intermediate nucleus spectrum in a two-nucleon transfer process
G. Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14964

Pairing enhancement through the photography of the intermediate nucleus spectrum in a two-nucleon transfer process
While forming an ($A$+2) nucleus from a nucleus $A$ via a two-neutron transfer reaction, the constructive interference of the many possible reaction channels favors significant pairing enhancement through the continuum of the intermediate ($A$+1) nucleus [Phys. Lett. B 834, 137413 (2022)]. I analyse this situation in more detail, from the point of view of a varying pairing field leading to the formation of ($A$+2) nucleus $^6$He, described as housing two-neutrons in orbitals of $^5$He. The natu…

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Public Attitudes Toward ChatGPT on Twitter: Sentiments, Topics, and Occupations
ChatGPT sets a new record with the fastest-growing user base, as a chatbot powered by a large language model (LLM). While it demonstrates state-of-the-art capabilities in a variety of language-generation tasks, it also raises widespread public concerns regarding its societal impact. In this paper, we investigated public attitudes towards ChatGPT by applying natural language processing techniques such as sentiment analysis and topic modeling to Twitter data from December 5, 2022 to June 10, 2023…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Automated Attack Synthesis for Constant Product Market Makers
Sujin Han, Jinseo Kim, Sung-Ju Lee, Insu Yun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05297 https://…

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…

A simple copy paste from 2022 to 2023.
Can’t wait to anal ize the 2024 one.
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1765956299081105625?s=61

MAZE (@mazemoore) on X
Biden's 2022 and 2023 SOTU speeches were almost identical. Tonight's speech was the exact same lines combined with saying "my predecessor is bad" 25 times.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Every culture, region and even family has different food cuisines – different spices, styles, customs and methods. This game has lots of possibilites.
Let's play!

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Computing Tools for Effective Field Theories
In recent years, theoretical and phenomenological studies with effective field theories have become a trending and prolific line of research in the field of high-energy physics. In order to discuss present and future prospects concerning automated tools in this field, the SMEFT-Tools 2022 workshop was held at the University of Zurich from 14th-16th September 2022. The current document collects and summarizes the content of this workshop.

Protocols for Observational Studies: An Application to Regression Discontinuity Designs
Matias D. Cattaneo, Rocio Titiunik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11640

Protocols for Observational Studies: An Application to Regression Discontinuity Designs
In his 2022 IMS Medallion Lecture delivered at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Prof. Dylan S. Small eloquently advocated for the use of protocols in observational studies. We discuss his proposal and, inspired by his ideas, we develop a protocol for the regression discontinuity design.

Internal Kremlin documents from May 2022 to August 2023 show an ongoing campaign to promote American isolationism via fabricated news articles and social media (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/08/russia-propaganda-us-ukra…

Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show
In a campaign stoking anti-Ukraine sentiment in the U.S., Russia-directed trolls have written thousands of fabricated news articles and social media posts.

Cybertech Global and IVC: in 2023, Israeli cybersecurity exit deals grew by 65% YoY to $7.1B; total tech sector exits were ~$11B, down from $13.5B in 2022 (Steven Scheer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cyberse

@… 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...

Versuchte Morde - 18-Jährige zogen „Spur der Todesangst“ durch Graz #News #Nachrichten

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

SoPhAr: Solar Phased-Arrays to boost the range of electric, hydrogen and SAF airliners in a solar world
Christian Claudel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04779 …

SoPhAr: Solar Phased-Arrays to boost the range of electric, hydrogen and SAF airliners in a solar world
In late 2022, ICAO member states adopted a long-term global aspirational goal (LTAG) to achieve net zero carbon emissions from international aviation by 2050. To date however, no economically scalable solution to the aviation decarbonization problem has been proposed. Despite considerable research on potential alternative fuels including e-fuels, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), Hydrogen or Ammonia, and extensive research on purely electric propulsion, low-carbon propulsion methods are unable t…

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Product structure extension of the Alon--Seymour--Thomas theorem
Alon, Seymour and Thomas [1990] proved that every $n$-vertex graph excluding $K_t$ as a minor has treewidth less than $t^{3/2}\sqrt{n}$. Illingworth, Scott and Wood [2022] recently refined this result by showing that every such graph is a subgraph of some graph with treewidth $t-2$, where each vertex is blown up by a complete graph of order $O(\sqrt{tn})$. Solving an open problem of Illingworth, Scott and Wood [2022], we prove that the treewidth bound can be reduced to $4$ while keeping blowups…

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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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How open are hybrid journals included in transformative agreements?
The ongoing controversy surrounding transformative agreements, which aim to transition journal publishing to full open access, highlight the need for large-scale studies assessing the impact of these agreements on hybrid open access. By combining publicly available data from various sources, including cOAlition S Journal Checker, Crossref, and OpenAlex, this study presents a novel approach that analyses over 700 agreements. Results suggest a strong growth in open access between 2018 and 2022 fr…

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Towards Standardized Grid Emission Factors: Methodological Insights and Best Practices
Inconsistent calculation of grid emission factors (EF) can result in widely divergent corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reports. We dissect this issue through a comprehensive literature review, identifying nine key aspects - each with two to six methodological choices - that substantially influence the reported EF. These choices lead to relative effect variations ranging from 1.2% to 69%. Using Germany's 2019-2022 data as a case study, our method yields results that largely align with pr…

Falcons sign former second-round CB who has not played since 2021

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/falcons-sign-former-second-round-cb-who-has-not-play…

Falcons sign former second-round CB who has not played since 2021
Kevin King missed the 2022 and 2023 seasons due to personal reasons and an injury

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…

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

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

Christian McCaffrey explains why 49ers QB Brock Purdy had a 'massive advantage' in NFL rise https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/christian_mccaffrey_explains_why_49ers_qb_brock…

Christian McCaffrey explains why 49ers QB Brock Purdy had a 'massive advantage' in NFL rise
The San Francisco 49ers selected Brock Purdy as the last overall pick in the 2022 NFL Draft. Back then, with Trey Lance expected to start as quarterback and Nate Sudfeld as his backup, many likely doubted Purdy's ability to secure a roster spot. Even the 49ers admit to drafting Purdy with the hope of developing the young quarterback into a serviceable backup. They never anticipated the rookie's speedy NFL ascension. Fast forward to today, and Purdy is gearing up to lead the 49ers against the Ka…

Sources: Kenya's media giants are weighing a legal fight with the government for awarding a contract to The Star, a newspaper with only 3% market share in 2022 (Martin K.N Siele/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2024

Kenya’s media giants are plotting for a fight with the government over ad spending | Semafor
Kenya's government advertising accounts for around 30% of the revenues of major newspapers, but President Ruto's administration is keen to halve its spending.

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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…

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

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

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Posts breaking news of events that happen in movies... Let's play!
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Rätel um Starstürmer: - „Ich bin nicht mehr derselbe Benzema wie damals“ #News #Nachrichten

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

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

Evaluating the Cowboys’ Cornerbacks in 2023: Some Unexpected Results https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/evaluating_the_cowboys_cornerbacks_in_2023_some_unexpected_results/s1_17100_39935698

Evaluating the Cowboys’ Cornerbacks in 2023: Some Unexpected Results
Last offseason one of the focal points of the Cowboys' offseason strategies was to trade late-round picks for established veterans. A pair of 5th-round picks later WR Brandin Cooks and Stephon Gilmore were added to the roster for the 2023 Super Bowl push. Each player was an immediate fix to positions on the team where many felt the Cowboys were weak in 2022. Cooks is dynamic, but many fans were more excited at the prospect of former Defensive Player of the Year Gilmore lining up opposite of Tre…

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…

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The Shifting Landscape of Cybersecurity: The Impact of Remote Work and COVID-19 on Data Breach Trends
This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cybersecurity and data breaches, with a specific focus on the shift toward remote work. The study identifies trends and offers insights into cybersecurity incidents by analyzing data breaches two years before and two years after the start of remote work. Data was collected from the Montana Department of Justice Data Breach database and consisted of data breaches that occurred between April 2018 and April 2022. The findings inform best p…

Sources: e-commerce roll-up firm Kite, which was cofounded by Blackstone in 2022 and closed a $200M equity commitment, shut down earlier in 2024 (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/blackstone-f…

Blackstone-Founded E-Commerce ‘Roll-Up’ Firm Shuts Down
How bad is the slowdown in e-commerce growth? Ask Blackstone, one of the world’s largest investment firms. Two years ago, a division of Blackstone that invests in consumer brands such as Supergoop and Spanx joined a second investor to commit $200 million to an e-commerce startup they had founded ...

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

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

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.

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…

Three big names the Philadelphia Eagles should avoid in free agency https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/three_big_names_the_philadelphia_eagles_should_avoid_in_free_agency/s1_13132_40076009

Three big names the Philadelphia Eagles should avoid in free agency
With more than $40M available under the NFL's new salary cap, the Eagles can afford to add some big-name talent to their 2024 roster. Just not these guys. RB Austin Ekeler Ekeler’s Chargers career got off to a slow start after he went undrafted out of Western Colorado in 2017. Ekeler tallied just 1,901 yards and nine touchdowns in his first four seasons. But things changed in 2021 when he ran for 911 yards and 12 touchdowns, followed by 915 yards and 13 scores in 2022. Unfortunately, Ekeler�…

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…