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General Staff: Russia has lost 475,300 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/06/general-staff-russia.html

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

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

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

"E-waste is overflowing landfills. At one sprawling Vietnam market, workers recycle some of it"
#Vietnam #Technology #EWaste

How E-waste is recycled at this Vietnam market
The world is producing more electronic waste than ever — 62 million metric tons in 2022. And it's growing faster than formal efforts to recycle it. Some gets picked up by a web of low-paid workers who pull apart old laptops, scarred mobile phones, television remotes and other items to get valuable materials inside. In Vietnam, an army of mostly women waste collectors collect discarded electronic devices from homes and bins on street corners. But informal waste workers face health risks and in…

A Parameter-Masked Mock Data Challenge for Beyond-Two-Point Galaxy Clustering Statistics
2pt Collaboration, Elisabeth Krause, Yosuke Kobayashi, Andr\'es N. Salcedo, Mikhail M. Ivanov, Tom Abel, Kazuyuki Akitsu, Raul E. Angulo, Giovanni Cabass, Sofia Contarini, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, ChangHoon Hahn, Nico Hamaus, Donghui Jeong, Chirag Modi, Nhat-Minh Nguyen, Takahiro Nishimichi, Enrique Paillas, Marcos Pellejero Iba\~nez, Oliver H. E. Philcox, Alice Pisani, Fabian Schmidt, Satoshi T…

A Parameter-Masked Mock Data Challenge for Beyond-Two-Point Galaxy Clustering Statistics
The last few years have seen the emergence of a wide array of novel techniques for analyzing high-precision data from upcoming galaxy surveys, which aim to extend the statistical analysis of galaxy clustering data beyond the linear regime and the canonical two-point (2pt) statistics. We test and benchmark some of these new techniques in a community data challenge "Beyond-2pt", initiated during the Aspen 2022 Summer Program "Large-Scale Structure Cosmology beyond 2-Point Statistics," whose first…

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

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

Daily Inspiration: "Erratic leadership will always bring erratic results, but distracted leadership is guaranteed to bring even worse" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Jim Balsillie wanted to buy himself an NHL hockey team and wasted away precious time with his company RIM - the home of the Blackberry - while Apple was busy redefining the future with the iPhone. Elon Musk went and bought a once-popular social network so that he could feed his ego and pursue some grandiose ideas about f…

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…

General Staff: Russia has lost 476,460 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/07/general-staff-russia.html

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

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

Hab ich gerade mal wieder für jemanden rausgesucht. Ist schon zwei Jahre alt. Blog-Post zur Frage: Sind Fluggäste Mörder?
#AmBodenBleiben #StayGrounded

@… I don't think anyone is talking about Crimea. I meant that if in 2022 NATO would tell (via diplomatic channels, like they did with potential tactical nukes escalation) that if UA would ask for troops assistance NATO will provide it, Russia would finish the special operation indeed in three days.
By withdrawing.

Für Suche in Safari: Google zahlte Apple 2022 wohl 20 Milliarden US-Dollar
In einem Papier, das Google dem US-Justizministerium übergab, findet sich eine interessante Zahl. Bislang hatte man über die Milliarden an Apple nur spekuliert.

Of course we end up where we expected to with this election, even though nobody wanted it. That's what plurality elections do.
All the more reason to get behind #RankedChoiceVoting
https://

Pledge To Support Ranked Choice Voting Across the U.S.
Ranked Choice Voting is taking off. Just last November, it passed in 10 places in 2022. Voters from all political backgrounds love it because it takes power away from politicians and puts it where it belongs: in the hands of voters.

Vergessenwerden: 24.000 Löschanträge bei Google stammten 2022 aus Deutschland​ | heise online
https://heise.de/-9675711

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

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

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…

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

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

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.

2023 retro-link! https://thebrokenrail.com/2022/12/31/xfinity-stream-on-linux.html - How to get Xfinity Stream to work on Linux: a tale of Widevine, Chrome OS, and a patched glibc.

General Staff: Russia has lost 420,270 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/06/general-staff-russia.html

Bears repeating (from 2022)
The Religious Right and the Abortion Myth - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/10/abortion-history-right-white-evangelical-1970s-00031480

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%. <…

Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2024. Proceedings
Sebastian Baum, Patrick Huber, Patrick Stengel, Natsue Abe, Daniel G. Ang, Lorenzo Apollonio, Gabriela R. Araujo, Levente Balogh, Pranshu Bhaumik Yilda Boukhtouchen, Joseph Bramante, Lorenzo Caccianiga, Andrew Calabrese-Day, Qing Chang, Juan I. Collar, Reza Ebadi, Alexey Elykov, Katherine Freese, Audrey Fung, Claudio Galelli, Arianna E. Gleason, Mariano Guerrero Perez, Janina Hakenm\"uller, Takeshi Hanyu, Noriko Hase…

Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2024. Proceedings
The second "Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter" (MDvDM'24) meeting was held January 8-11, 2024 in Arlington, VA, USA, hosted by Virginia Tech's Center for Neutrino Physics. This document collects contributions from this workshop, providing an overview of activities in the field. MDvDM'24 was the second topical workshop dedicated to the emerging field of mineral detection of neutrinos and dark matter, following a meeting hosted by IFPU in Trieste, Italy in October 2022. Mineral detec…

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 …

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

Sources: ByteDance reports Q3 revenue up 43% YoY to $30.9B, $84.4B in January to September 2023 revenue, above 2022's $85.2B, and starts staff share buybacks (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02894 has been replaced.
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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…

On Thursday, the January 6 committee released two more transcripts of #Cassidy #Hutchinson’s testimony, which was given September 14, 2022 and September 15, 2022.
Former Trump staffer and important Jan. 6 witness #Cassidy

Cassidy Hutchinson Says Trump-Paid Lawyer Talked To Haberman After 3rd Deposition — Told Her ‘Don’t Worry, Maggie’s Friendly To Us’
Cassidy Hutchinson testified her lawyer Stefan Passantino took a call from Maggie Haberman above her objections, reassuring her "Maggie's friendly to us."

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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…

Für Suche in Safari: Google zahlte Apple 2022 wohl 20 Milliarden US-Dollar
In einem Papier, das Google dem US-Justizministerium übergab, findet sich eine interessante Zahl. Bislang hatte man über die Milliarden an Apple nur spekuliert.

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

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

Analysis Facilities White Paper
D. Ciangottini, A. Forti, L. Heinrich, N. Skidmore, C. Alpigiani, D. Benjamin, B. Bockelman, L. Bryant, J. Catmore, M. D'Alfonso, C. Doglioni, G. Duckeck, P. Elmer, J. Eschle, M. Feickert, J. Frost, R. Gardner, V. Garonne, M. Giffels, J. Gooding, E. Gramstad, L. Gray, B. Hegner, A. Held, J. Hern\'andez, B. Holzman, F. Hu, B. K. Jashal, D. Kondratyev, E. Kourlitis, L. Kreczko, I. Krommydas, T. Kuhr, E. Lancon, C. Lange, D. Lange, J. Lange, P. Lenz…

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…

Vergessenwerden: 24.000 Löschanträge bei Google stammten 2022 aus Deutschland​ | heise online
https://heise.de/-9675711

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

Remofirst, which helps remote teams manage payroll, taxes, hiring-related compliance, compensation, and more, raised a $25M Series A led by Octopus Ventures (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/06/remofirst-hr-tech-series-a/

Remofirst raises $25M to take on Deel and Rippling in the global HR tech space | TechCrunch
Remofirst says that its annual recurring revenue (ARR) has grown 10x since it raised its $14.1 million seed round in September 2022.

He will be missed. I love the hairy bikers shows 😢
"Hairy Bikers chef Dave Myers dies at 66"
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/feb/29/hairy-bikers-chef-dave-myers-dies-at-66?utm_source=pocket_mylist<…

D968,431 - issued to Netflix in 2022 for a design for a "display panel of a programmed computer system with a graphical user interface." #DesignPatents

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.

yes, a half-abandoned Mastodon branch with the revenue of a hot dog stand but the debt of a small country is definitely worth $6 billion

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04841 has been replaced.
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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}…

2022 retro-link! https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-02-22/dennis-meadows-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-publication-of-the-limits-to-growth/ - Dennis Meadows on the 50th anniversary of the p…

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

Computing Longest Common Subsequence under Cartesian-Tree Matching Model
Taketo Tsujimoto, Koki Shibata, Takuya Mieno, Yuto Nakashima, Shunsuke Inenaga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19146

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…

All the talks from rstudio::conf 2022: https://www.rstudio.com/conference/2022/2022-conf-talks/ 👩‍🏫 Keynotes: https:/…

Eben gleich 2 "wie toll ist das denn!?" Momente am #klexenhaus: Erst entdeckt, dass sich eine Wildbiene offenbar entschied, in nem Brett meines Holzschuppens leben zu wollen (hab nur noch den Po erwischt), dann blüht der 2022 von Sarah geschenkte gleichnamige Flieder erstmals!🤩
#bloomscrolling

Falls sich jemand mit dem #eBike Motor #Gboost V8 auskennen sollte: ich habe leider aktuell ein Problem damit: der Motor stottert arg schlimm, ist nicht mehr zu gebrauchen und die Android-App funktioniert nicht mehr.
Details auf:

Shaven Worm Orchestra
"Wormy Razor"
#alternative

Bearstone County - Season 1 finale 👻🤬🧑‍🌾
Narrated/dramatized mountain gothic series | Total listening time: 1h 39m
In the fictitious Bearstone County, citizens must weather the calamity of existence, and the darkest reaches of humanity in this mountain gothic podcast.
Luke Mott also provides many of the voices, is the producer, and pr...

Bearstone County - Season 1 finale 👻🤬🧑‍🌾
Narrated/dramatized mountain gothic series | Total listening time: 1h 39m In the fictitious Bearstone County, citizens must weather the calamity of existence, and the darkest reaches of humanity in this mountain gothic podcast. Luke Mott also provides many of the voices, is the producer, and provides the musical score for each episode. 1 seasons, 6 episodes as of Nov 22, 2022.

Clinical trial registration report 2022: data about clinical trial registration every year since 2015
https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-a…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.08053 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

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.

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

👷🏽 ‘Workers end up paying the price’: laborers call for safer building sites
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/23/construction-workers-safety-falls-unions

#climatechange
I’m reviewing the 2023 State of the #Climate report
I am just struck again (yes - intellectually I knew this) that my teen kids’ whole lives have only been hottest years.
It’s scary.
ERA5 (European reanalysis dataset version 5) top-ten Temperature anomaly years
Rank Year Global_Temperature_anomaly (℃) vs 1991-2020 baseline
1 2023 0.60
2 2016 0.44
3 2020 0.43
4 2019 0.40
5 2017 0.34
6 2022 0.30
7 2021 0.27
8 2018 0.26
9 2015 0.26
10 2010 0.13

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

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04281 has been replaced.
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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…

Glasfaser-Ausbau: Regulierer will Mietpreise für Leerrohre der Telekom drücken
Mitte 2022 verpflichtete die Bundesnetzagentur die Telekom grundsätzlich, ihre Leerrohre Wettbewerbern für Glasfaseranschlüsse zu öffnen. Nun geht es ums Geld.

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

Ukraine: Etwa 30 Tote bei Flucht vor Kriegsdienst
In der Ukraine sind nach Angaben des Grenzschutzes seit Kriegsbeginn 2022 etwa 30 Männer bei dem Versuch ums Leben gekommen, sich mit einer illegalen Flucht ins Ausland einer Einberufung zur Armee zu entziehen. Einige seien umgekommen, als sie einen Gebirgsfluss überqueren wollten, andere in den Bergen, sagte der Sprecher des ukrainischen Grenzschutz…
🔗

Debatte um Auslandsukrainer: "Jetzt kann man nicht einfach abhauen"
Wer ist geflohen? Wer hat gekämpft? Darüber diskutiert die Ukraine emotional. Für geflüchtete Männer im wehrfähigen Alter gibt es vorübergehend keine konsularische Dienstleistungen mehr - das sorgt für Aufruhr. Von R. Barth.

The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing broadly conceived, published during the prior three years, i.e., books published in 2021, 2022, and 2023 are eligible for the 2024 prize.
https://www.sigcis.org/chmprize

I have always been suspicious that the "EVs are too expensive" notion is a plant by Fossil Fuel companies and some car manufacturers to shift the blame to consumers for not transitioning to EVs.
So here's a comparison of the most popular vehicles in Canada in 2022 vs. most popular EVs in Canada in 2024.

Dak Prescott ‘super excited’ to have Ezekiel Elliott back with Cowboys https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dak_prescott_super_excited_to_have_ezekiel_elliott_back_with_cowboys/s1_17236_40314377…

Dak Prescott ‘super excited’ to have Ezekiel Elliott back with Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys are turning the clocks backwards, reuniting Ezekiel Elliot and Dak Prescott in the backfield after the two shared a successful stint from 2016 to 2022, when Elliot then decided to sign with the Patriots for 2023. Well, after one year playing for one of the worst offenses in the entire NFL, Elliot ultimately decided to come back and fill the open RB slot in Dallas after the Cowboys opted not to make a splashy free agent signing at running back, nor did they use a single one of…

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

Meta, Alphabet, and Snap beat analysts' estimates in their Q1 results, showing acceleration in advertising growth after struggling to rebound from a dismal 2022 (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/27/digital-ad

yes, a half-abandoned Mastodon branch with the revenue of a hot dog stand but the debt of a small country is definitely worth $6 billion

https://maciej.codes/2022-06-09-local-async.html - Local async executors should be the default in Rust.

This Is Peak College Admissions Insanity
It started with a precipitous rise in the number of people clamoring to get in.
The so-called Ivy-Plus schools
— the eight members of the Ivy League plus M.I.T., Duke, Chicago and Stanford
— collectively received about 175,000 applications in 2002.
In 2022, the most recent year for which totals are available, they got more than 590,000, with only a few thousand more available spots.
The quality of the applicants ha…

Opinion | 2024 Was the Year That Broke College Admissions
This Is Peak College Admissions Insanity

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A Faster Deterministic Approximation Algorithm for TTP-2
The traveling tournament problem (TTP) is to minimize the total traveling distance of all teams in a double round-robin tournament. In this paper, we focus on TTP-2, in which each team plays at most two consecutive home games and at most two consecutive away games. For the case where the number of teams $n\equiv2$ (mod 4), Zhao and Xiao (2022) presented a $(1+5/n)$-approximation algorithm. This is a randomized algorithm running in $O(n^3)$ time, and its derandomized version runs in $O(n^4)$ tim…

Sources: crypto VC firm Paradigm is in talks to raise $750M to $850M for a new fund, which would be the largest since the crash; a16z raised $4.5B in May 2022 (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Crypto VC Paradigm in Talks to Raise Over $750 Million for Fund
More venture capitalists are racing to raise new funds following a crypto comeback.

General Staff: Russia has lost 470,870 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/general-staff-russia.html

Moore v. Harper ARGUED: 12/7/2022
The Supreme Court Considers the **Independent State Legislature Theory**, shoots it down! #law
**DECISION**: 6/27/2023: In a 6-3 opinion from Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court's majority found that the Constitution's Elections Clause does not vest exclusive and independent authority in state legislatures to set the rules regarding federal elec…

How to Use #Tags
https://karl-voit.at/2022/01/29/How-to-Use-Tags/
Today, I added rules number 9 and 10 to the list.

2022 retro-link! https://sillycross.github.io/2022/11/22/2022-11-22/index.html - Building the fastest Lua interpreter.. automatically!

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.08053 has been replaced.
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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.

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

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

Cowboys should take a chance on recently released veteran WR https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_should_take_a_chance_on_recently_released_veteran_wr/s1_17100_40315431

Cowboys should take a chance on recently released veteran WR
On Tuesday, the Jaguars released veteran wide receiver Zay Jones. The second-round pick in 2017 has been a decent player in his role in his eight-year career. Jones first entered the NFL in the 2017 NFL draft as a second-round pick by the Buffalo Bills. He compiled 287 receptions for 3,028 receiving yards and 18 touchdowns. His best season came in 2022 when he started 15 games and had 121 targets for 823 yards and five touchdowns. As we all should know by now, Michael Gallup was released and si…

Klarna reports 2023 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$2.28B, a $241M net loss, down from $1.01B in 2022, with credit losses falling by 32% in 2023 to $369M (Financial Times)
https://t.co/NTUKa51q8c

Tighter Bounds for Local Differentially Private Core Decomposition and Densest Subgraph
Monika Henzinger, A. R. Sricharan, Leqi Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18020

Tighter Bounds for Local Differentially Private Core Decomposition and Densest Subgraph
Computing the core decomposition of a graph is a fundamental problem that has recently been studied in the differentially private setting, motivated by practical applications in data mining. In particular, Dhulipala et al. [FOCS 2022] gave the first mechanism for approximate core decomposition in the challenging and practically relevant setting of local differential privacy. One of the main open problems left by their work is whether the accuracy, i.e., the approximation ratio and additive erro…

2022 retro-link! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C26xJT4BT0E - Susie Dent's guide to swearing.

General Staff: Russia has lost 424,060 troops in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/10/general-staff-russia.html

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

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

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

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

General Staff: Russia has lost 439,190 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/27/general-staff-russia.html

Venture funding to Black-founded US startups in 2023 totaled $705M across 191 deals, or less than 0.5% of all venture funding, down from $2.4B in 2022 (Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/diversity/venture-funding-black-founded-star…

Drop In Venture Funding To Black-Founded Startups Greatly Outpaces Market Decline
Venture funding to Black-founded U.S. startups last year totaled only $705 million — marking the first time since 2016 that the figure failed to even reach $1 billion, Crunchbase data shows.

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

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

General Staff: Russia has lost 436,750 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/24/general-staff-russia.html

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

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

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.

Sources: Techstars has caused frustrations over missteps in deploying its JPMorgan-backed $80M fund, which aims to help underrepresented founders, since 2022 (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/08/tech

Exclusive: Techstars' $80 million partnership with J.P. Morgan is on the rocks, employees say
The fate of the Advancing Cities programs—and some of the around 20 people who work at Techstars in this program—is up in the air.

Google says it blocked or removed 5.5B ads and 12.7M advertiser accounts for violating its policies in 2023, up from 5.2B and 6.7M respectively in 2022 (Nicola Agius/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-ads-safety-report-2023-438796<…

Google suspended 12.7 million ad accounts and blocked 5.5 billion ads in 2023
The number of advertisers who were blocked or removed due to policy violations nearly doubled compared to the previous year.