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

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

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

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

Je kunt het qua beleidskeuzes erg oneens zijn met het vorige kabinet maar financieel gezien hebben Wopke en Kaag het prima achtergelaten blijkt ook nu weer. Maar ik vrees dat de PVV daar geen dankbaarheid voor gaat uitspreken. 😀
https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2024/13/…

Overheidstekort 2023 uitgekomen op 0,3 procent bbp
De overheid gaf 3,5 miljard euro meer uit in 2023 dan zij ontving. Dit komt overeen met 0,3 procent van het bruto binnenlands product (bbp). Dit is iets hoger dan het tekort over 2022 van 0,1 procent van het bbp. De schuld kwam eind 2023 uit op 481 miljard euro, nagenoeg evenveel als eind 2022. Als percentage van het bbp daalde de schuld in 2023 tot 46,5 procent. Een jaar eerder bedroeg die nog 50,1 procent. Dit meldt het CBS op basis van de eerste, voorlopige cijfers over de overheidsfinancië…

👷🏽 ‘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

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.

Nu kan het nog, mensen, voordat de machines alles overnemen.
*dispereert & wanhoopt*
https://idf.social/@djoerd/112155884327150522

2/ Weil es gerade passt. Vor einigen Monaten habe ich mal Aktivist*innen fotografiert, die gegen Ausbeutung entlang der Lieferketten protestiert haben. Ein Person hatte einen #Puma-Rucksack. Puma wird genau solche Ausbeutung vorgeworfen.
#NoLogo? Logo!
Man kann die Logos übermalen. Schwarzer permanent Marker oder eben Sachen ohne Logo kaufen.
Ich hatte ja mal hier gefragt, wo man logofreie Kleidung kaufen kann. Die Antwort war #Grundstoff. Hab's probiert und bin sehr zufrieden. (Sorry, jetzt gibt's hier doch noch Werbung, aber das ist das einzige Problem, das logo-freie Firmen haben: Niemand kann einfach herausfinden, wo es so tolle schwarze Pullover gibt.)
Hier mein Blog-Post zu Aktivismus, Gedankenlosigkeit und Logos. Puma ist ein schönes Beispiel, aber da gibt es noch mehr. Menschen vom BUND mit Jeep South Africa-Mütze usw. usf.
Auch ein paar lustige Positivbeispiele.
https://hot-climate-topics.net/2022/09/13/no-logo/

An analysis of ~65 NYT articles on US anti-trans legislation from the year to February 15, 2024: 66% did not quote a trans person, and 18% had misinformation (Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-time

Seen but not heard: The New York Times failed to quote trans people in over 60% of 2023 stories on anti-trans legislation
A new report from Media Matters and GLAAD finds that The New York Times excluded the perspectives of trans people from two-thirds of its stories about anti-trans legislation in the year following public criticism for its handling of the topic. Media Matters previously reported that the Times helped fuel a right-wing anti-trans panic in 2022 by platforming anti-trans extremists, painting rising transgender identification as a social contagion, and fearmongering about the costs of transgender acc…

#nordstadtblogger Das Bündnis „Genug ist Genug-#Dortmund“, welches aus den sozialen Bewegungen im Zuge der Energiekrise im Herbst 2022 hervorgegangen ist, ruft zur Kundgebung am 26. März 2024 um 17.30 Uhr gegen die geplanten

Payroll error costs 49ers '25 pick, dip in 4th in '24 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39761321/payroll-error-2022-costs-49ers-25-pick-dip-4th-24

Payroll error in 2022 costs 49ers '25 pick, dip in 4th in '24 - ESPN
The 49ers have forfeited a 2025 draft choice and were penalized four spots for a selection in this year's draft as a result of administrative payroll accounting errors.

Here's how media personalities talk about young adults. They openly describe them as emotional cripples.
"Teenagers don't understand how to actually interact with their feelings,... yeah, people basically under 25"
Michael Eisen, January 12, 2022

Pour un peu de beauté : MC Solaar Š la Philharmonie de Paris (2022).
https://inv.n8pjl.ca/watch?v=7Fz8eS4d5lw&listen=false

".. according to the stat-tracking website FanGraphs, the average fastball in Major League Baseball was about 89 mph in 2002. A decade later, it had jumped to 91.6 mph. In 2022, it was 93.6 mph. Last year, the Minnesota Twins reliever Jhoan Duran led the MLB with an average fastball velocity of 101.8 mph." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/are-pitchers-pitching-too-hard/678010/

Approximate Circular Pattern Matching under Edit Distance
Panagiotis Charalampopoulos, Solon P. Pissis, Jakub Radoszewski, Wojciech Rytter, Tomasz Wale\'n, Wiktor Zuba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14550

Approximate Circular Pattern Matching under Edit Distance
In the $k$-Edit Circular Pattern Matching ($k$-Edit CPM) problem, we are given a length-$n$ text $T$, a length-$m$ pattern $P$, and a positive integer threshold $k$, and we are to report all starting positions of the substrings of $T$ that are at edit distance at most $k$ from some cyclic rotation of $P$. In the decision version of the problem, we are to check if any such substring exists. Very recently, Charalampopoulos et al. [ESA 2022] presented $O(nk^2)$-time and $O(nk \log^3 k)$-time solut…

Precise Mass, Orbital motion and Stellar properties of the M-dwarf binary LP 349-25AB
Salvador Curiel (IAUNAM), Gisela N. Ortiz-Leon (NRAO), Amy J. Mioduszewski (INAOE), Anthony B. Arenas-Martinez (INAOE, Facultad de Ciencias)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16964

Precise Mass, Orbital motion and Stellar properties of the M-dwarf binary LP 349-25AB
LP~349$-$25 is a well studied close stellar binary system comprised of two late M dwarf stars, both stars close to the limit between star and brown dwarf. This system was previously identified as a source of GHz radio emission. We observed LP~349$-$25AB in 11 epochs in 2020$-$2022, detecting both components in this nearby binary system using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). We fit simultaneously the VLBA absolute astrometric positions together with existing relative astrometric observations…

NFL Draft countdown: Focus on Cowboys' first-round pick at No. 24 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_draft_countdown_focus_on_cowboys_first_round_pick_at_no_24/s1_13132_40182631

NFL Draft countdown: Focus on Cowboys' first-round pick at No. 24
The 2024 NFL Draft is April 25-27 in Detroit. Last year, the Giants selected cornerback Deonte Banks 24th overall. This year, the Cowboys pick 24th.  Here's who the experts think they'll take. Pro Football Focus (Brad Spielberger): Laiatu Latu, Edge-rusher, UCLA Latu would have been a top-10 pick if not for a preseason neck injury with Washington in 2020. A medical retirement kept him off the field for two years until UCLA doctors cleared him to play in 2022. With the loss of defensive ends li…

Ermittlungen beendet - Mordanklage gegen Vater im Fall um Leon (6) #News #Nachrichten

Google researchers observed 97 zero-day exploits in the wild in 2023, up 50% from 62 in 2022; 48 were used by espionage actors and 10 were financially-motivated (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/zero-day-exploits-jumped-in-2023-spyware…

Zero-days exploited in the wild jumped 50% in 2023, fueled by spyware vendors
Cybersecurity experts are warning that zero-day exploits, which can be used to compromise devices before anyone is aware they’re vulnerable, have become more common as nation-state hackers and cybercriminals find sophisticated ways to carry out their attacks.

i had to look up the company that did the colourization on the tubi version. their website is confusing but i found this brochure (PDF). the brochure is also a mess but at least it's all in one file: #monsterdon

"Konkret ermittelt die Oberstaatsanwaltschaft Düsseldorf gegen [AfD Politiker] Beck, weil er im Oktober 2022 in einem Kaufhaus in der nordrhein-westfälischen Stadt Neuss Proben von Testprodukten entwendet haben soll."
falls ihr euch das nächste mal beim dm fragt warum ihr das herrenparfüm marke "rammstein" nicht ausprobieren könnt

Amazon is very odd:
'From 24 Aug. 2022 to 25 Aug. 2030'
'Save 5% on any 4 qualifying items'
How do you have an offer for 8 years??

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.

US Asked China and India to Help Prevent Russian Nuclear Strike: CNN
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-asked-non-allies-prevent-russia-using-nuclear-weapons-report-2024-3

US asked China and India to help prevent Russian nuclear strike: CNN
An official told CNN that input from the likes of India, China, and others in 2022 "may have had some effect" on Russia's thinking.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04834 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Concerning S$H_0$ES Data: Discrepant $W_{0,VI}$ Absolute Magnitudes for Cepheids in the Keystone Galaxy NGC4258
S$H_0$ES $VI$-band photometry for classical Cepheids in the keystone galaxy NGC4258 yield discrepant absolute magnitudes. Specifically, the 2016 and 2022 published S$H_0$ES Cepheid data for NGC4258 exhibit a substantial offset of $ΔW_{0,VI}\simeq0^{\rm m}.3$. That adds to a suite of existing concerns associated with the S$H_0$ES analysis, which in sum imply that their relatively non-changing Hubble constant for nearly twenty years warrants scrutiny.

Strand nördlich von Porto, Portugal 2022
Beach north of Porto, Portugal 2022
Praia de Memoria
#meermittwoch in the late afternoon

Hubble Space Telescope images of SN 1987A: Evolution of the ejecta and the equatorial ring from 2009 to 2022
Sophie Rosu, Josefin Larsson, Claes Fransson, Peter Challis, Tuomas Kangas, Robert P. Kirshner, Stephen S. Lawrence, Peter Lundqvist, Mikako Matsuura, Jesper Sollerman, George Sonneborn, Linda Tenhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/…

Hubble Space Telescope images of SN 1987A: Evolution of the ejecta and the equatorial ring from 2009 to 2022
Supernova (SN) 1987A offers a unique opportunity to study how a spatially resolved SN evolves into a young supernova remnant (SNR). We present and analyze Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging observations of SN 1987A obtained in 2022 and compare them with HST observations from 2009 to 2021. These observations allow us to follow the evolution of the equatorial ring (ER), the rapidly expanding ejecta, and emission from the center over a wide range in wavelength from 2000 to 11 000 AA. The ER has …

Platform Science, which provides connected vehicle tools for enterprise fleets, raised $125M from 8VC, Prologis, and others, taking its total funding to $309M (Grace Sharkey/FreightWaves)
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/platform-science-s…

Platform Science secures $125M to grow OEM partnerships
The company last announced its Series C raise in 2022, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 for $115 million, valuing the company at $575 million. Platform Science has raised $309 million since 2017.

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.

Comparison of the disk precession models with the photometric behavior of TT Ari in 2021-2023
V. F. Suleimanov, K. V. Belyakov, J. M. Perales, V. V. Neustroev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15254

Comparison of the disk precession models with the photometric behavior of TT Ari in 2021-2023
We present a comparative analysis of photometric observations of the cataclysmic variable TT Ari in its bright state, obtained by the TESS orbital observatory in 2021 and 2023 and by ground-based amateur telescopes in 2022. The light curves from 2021 and 2022 are dominated by modulations with a period slightly shorter than the orbital one (negative superhumps), 0.13293 and 0.13273$\,$d respectively. In 2023, much stronger modulations appeared on a much longer time scale of a few days with an am…

Don't Mind: Sealskin Rock - Season 2 coming soon 🦭🇨🇦🕵️‍♂️
Dramatized mystery series | Total listening time: 8h 15m
After his brother, Colin, goes missing on a UK road trip, American Neal leaves his comfort zone in search of Colin at is last known location; Cruxmont, UK. There, Neal meets Dr. Kingston, a neurologist with her own goal in mind; finding th...

Don't Mind: Sealskin Rock - Season 2 coming soon 🦭🇨🇦🕵️‍♂️
Dramatized mystery series | Total listening time: 8h 15m After his brother, Colin, goes missing on a UK road trip, American Neal leaves his comfort zone in search of Colin at is last known location; Cruxmont, UK. There, Neal meets Dr. Kingston, a neurologist with her own goal in mind; finding the source of an unrecognizable miracle. 1 seasons, 14 episodes as of Nov 01, 2022.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17736 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_…

Learning-Based Algorithms for Graph Searching Problems
We consider the problem of graph searching with prediction recently introduced by Banerjee et al. (2022). In this problem, an agent, starting at some vertex $r$ has to traverse a (potentially unknown) graph $G$ to find a hidden goal node $g$ while minimizing the total distance travelled. We study a setting in which at any node $v$, the agent receives a noisy estimate of the distance from $v$ to $g$. We design algorithms for this search task on unknown graphs. We establish the first formal guara…

The definitive study of age-gap relationships was done by these UMass researchers
It is a thorough and comprehensive meta study.
They found nothing alarming about teens sometimes having sex partners 10 years older than themselves.
full text:

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...

Raiders Releasing WR Hunter Renfrow https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_releasing_wr_hunter_renfrow/s1_17039_40101835

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02935 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

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…

"Only 15% of [Antarctic ice shelf] pinning points [where floating ice shelves ground on topographic highs on the sea bed] reduced from 1973 to 1989, before increasing to 25% from 1989 to 2000 and 37% from 2000 to 2022. A continuation of this trend would further reduce the buttressing potential of ice shelves, enhancing ice discharge and accelerating the contribution of Antarctica to sea-level rise."
( Miles, B.W.J., Bingham, R.G. Progressive unanchoring of Antarctic ice shelves since 1973. Nature 626, 785–791 (2024). #Antarctic #IceShelves #cryology #climatecrisis

7/In der Klimagerechtigkeitsbewegung wird immer wieder über #Fußabdruck und #Handabdruck gesprochen. Der Fußabdruck wurde von BP entwickelt. Als Ablenkungsmanöver, mit dem wir uns alle selbst fertig machen. Wesentlich wirksamer als einen Flug einzusparen, wäre es, das Fliegen abartig teuer zu machen, so dass es eingeschränkt wird. Ein erster Schritt dafür wäre, das Fliegen nicht zu subventionieren. Der zweite wäre, die verursachten Schäden einzupreisen. Der dritte, zusätzlich für Limitierungen zu sorgen. Exponentiell ansteigende Preise in Abhängigkeit von geflogenen Meilen.
Dennoch ist für diese Veränderungen auch ein Umdenken auf individueller Ebene wichtig, denn Politiker*innen achten auf Massenkompatibilität ihrer Politik, da sie ja wiedergewählt werden wollen. Ich habe in Fußabdruck vs. Handabdruck darüber geschrieben:
#tazReisen organisieren, kommen in die Hölle, denn sie sind es, die Bedürfnisse wecken. #WerbeVerbot Das CO2 der Reisen geht auch auf ihr Konto.
Also: Wenn Ihr Euren Handabdruck verbessern wollt, tragt mit Genossenschaftanteilen dazu bei. Wir sind bei 23/40.
Ihr könnt auch der taz schreiben und sie fragen, was das soll und sie bitten, damit aufzuhören.
#FliegenTötet #Flugscham #tazscham
#hunniesForFuture
#tazReisen #fliegenTötet #stayGrounded #amBodenBleiben
#Heuchelei
#Presse #Medien #taz #Klimakatastrophe
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