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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

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

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

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…

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.

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

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

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

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12902 has been replaced.
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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…

🔭 Some photons that I rescued from crashing into my driveway back in 2022.
[Edit: added variant with popping colors]
#astrophotography

Statistisches Bundesamt: 2023 kamen weniger Ukrainer nach Deutschland
Aus der Ukraine ziehen deutlich weniger Menschen nach Deutschland als im Jahr der russischen Invasion 2022. Insgesamt wurden im vergangenen Jahr 277.000 Zuzüge aus der Ukraine und 156.000 Fortzüge erfasst, wie das Statistische Bundesamt mitteilte. Daraus ergibt sich eine Nettozuwanderung (Zuzüge abzüglich Fortzüge) von 121.000 Menschen.
Zum Vergleich: 2022 …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russische Truppen rücken weiter um Awdijiwka vor ++
Ukrainischen Angaben zufolge rücken russische Truppen weiter um Awdijiwka vor. EVP-Chef Weber fordert, die EU solle Munition nur noch für die Ukraine produzieren. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

2022 retro-link! https://www.pathsensitive.com/2022/09/bet-you-cant-solve-these-9-dependency.html - 9 puzzles to convince you you don't understand dependence.

Die Recherche zu "Gekaufte Politik? Europa in der #Korruptionskrise" und die kaltschnäuzige Art und Weise, wie zB Eva #Kaili versucht, sich herauszureden, ist schon heftig. Es gibt Menschen, die moralisch völlig korrumpiert sind. Lügen sind für sie probate Mittel zum Zweck. Sie sind schamlos.…

Gekaufte Politik? Europa in der Korruptionskrise - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
2022 erschüttert ein Korruptionsskandal Brüssel und das Europäische Parlament. Im Zentrum: Eva Kaili, Vizepräsidentin des Europäischen Parlaments. Es geht um Korruption, um mutmaßlich erkaufte politische Einflussnahme von Drittstaaten und Koffer voller Bargeld.

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

Sorry Charlie Miller - complete series 😂🕵🏽‍♀️🕵🏻
Dramatized comedy | Total listening time: trailer
A D-list reality TV star with a rabid fan base has just gone missing off the Florida coast and a deskbound police department employee with an encyclopedic knowledge of celebrity gossip and his no-nonsense colleague are on the case. It takes place...

Sorry Charlie Miller - complete series 😂🕵🏽‍♀️🕵🏻
Dramatized comedy | Total listening time: trailer A D-list reality TV star with a rabid fan base has just gone missing off the Florida coast and a deskbound police department employee with an encyclopedic knowledge of celebrity gossip and his no-nonsense colleague are on the case. It takes place in Florida, hello. 1 seasons, 10 episodes as of Sep 29, 2022.

Evidence for flare-accelerated particles in large scale loops in the behind-the-limb gamma-ray solar flare of September 29, 2022
Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Karl-Ludwig Klein, S\"am Krucker, Alexander Warmuth, M. Astrid Veronig, Nicola Omodei, Christian Monstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08380

Evidence for flare-accelerated particles in large scale loops in the behind-the-limb gamma-ray solar flare of September 29, 2022
We report on the detection of the gamma-ray emission above 100 MeV from the solar flare of September 29, 2022, by Fermi LAT with simultaneous coverage in HXR by Solar Orbiter STIX. The Solar Orbiter-Earth separation was 178$^{\circ}$ at the time of the flare as seen from Earth, with Solar Orbiter observing the east limb. Based on STIX imaging, the flare was located 16$^{\circ}$ behind the eastern limb as seen from Earth. The STIX and GBM non-thermal emission and the LAT emission above 100 MeV a…

Esta merda é completamente absurda. Meter milhões de euros numa cagada de blockchain como parte do PRR seria só estúpido se não fosse um crime económico porque é dinheiro que se vai acabar por evaporar sem deixar rasto nem produzir rigorosamente NADA. E pior ainda é chamarem "verde" a uma merda que consome carradas de energia para coisa nenhuma.

Mais Transparência
O portal Mais Transparência é uma plataforma digital de informação sobre vários temas de gestão e recursos públicos da responsabilidade da AMA - Agência para a Modernização Administrativa.

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.​

A 2020 Brennan Center report found that annual earnings for people with a misdemeanor conviction decrease on average by 16 percent. The harm falls disproportionately on communities of color, many of which already struggle with concentrated poverty and other forms of social disadvantage.
Misdemeanor Enforcement Trends in New York City, 2016–2022 | Brennan Center for Justice

Misdemeanor Enforcement Trends in New York City, 2016–2022
Cases have declined, yet low-income Black and Latino New Yorkers continue to disproportionately face charges.

2022 retro-link! https://chelseatroy.com/2022/08/03/how-i-do-and-dont-prepare-a-talk-for-a-technical-conference/ - How I do (and don’t) prepare a talk for a tech conference.

Pacific Change Makers
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Pacific Change Makers | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Pacific Change Makers By: Lowy Institute Category: Arts Sub-Category: Local News & Stories, Management & Leadership, Performing Arts & Music First Episode: 2022 Listen to episodes of the Aus…

Remember the cute blue 2008 webcomic commissioned by Google, announcing the Chrome browser? TIL there is a 2022 “sequel” describing how evil Chrome has become.
Contra Chrome – a webcomic – How Google's browser became a threat to privacy and democracy
https://contrachrome.com/

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 increased by 41 per cent (1.06 million to 1.46 million). Over that period the proportion of company cars (which would include leased vehicles) increased from 9.3 to 19.4 per cent.

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…

En hiervoor zullen we de ‘gangbare’ boerenstand eeuwig dankbaar blijven. Eeuwig? Nou zolang de mensheid nog bestaat, dan, daarna is er niemand meer die dankbaar kan zijn voor PFAS, alleen PFAS zelf is er nog steeds. https://mastodon.nl/@SandraDeHaan/112178044170188975

Since 2022, SBU has successfully defended against close to 10,000 cyberattacks. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1bfour3/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15276 has been replaced.
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Heuristic Approaches to Obtain Low-Discrepancy Point Sets via Subset Selection
Building upon the exact methods presented in our earlier work [J. Complexity, 2022], we introduce a heuristic approach for the star discrepancy subset selection problem. The heuristic gradually improves the current-best subset by replacing one of its elements at a time. While we prove that the heuristic does not necessarily return an optimal solution, we obtain very promising results for all tested dimensions. For example, for moderate point set sizes $30 \leq n \leq 240$ in dimension 6, we obt…

A note on the Fourier magnitude data and Sobolev embeddings
Jesse Railo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13329 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.1…

A note on the Fourier magnitude data and Sobolev embeddings
We study Sobolev $H^s(\mathbb{R}^n)$, $s \in \mathbb{R}$, stability of the Fourier phase problem to recover $f$ from the knowledge of $|\hat{f}|$ with an additional Bessel potential $H^{t,p}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ a priori estimate when $t \in \mathbb{R}$ and $p \in [1,2]$. These estimates are related to the ones studied recently by Steinerberger in "On the stability of Fourier phase retrieval" J. Fourier Anal. Appl., 28(2):29, 2022. While our estimates in general are different, they share so…

Measurement of vector boson production cross sections and their ratios using $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13.6$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
ATLAS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12902

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…

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.…

Le déficit des CHU a « triplé en un an », alertent les instances représentatives https://www.bienpublic.com/sante/2024/01/29/le-deficit-des-chu-qui-a-triple-en-un-an-alertent-les-instances-representatives…

Santé. Le déficit des CHU a « triplé en un an », alertent les instances représentatives
Directeurs, doyens et médecins ont annoncé que les CHU ont atteint un déficit cumulé de 1,2 milliard d'euros fin 2023, soit trois fois plus qu'en 2022.

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.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03958 has been replaced.
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Simple synthetic data reduces sycophancy in large language models
Sycophancy is an undesirable behavior where models tailor their responses to follow a human user's view even when that view is not objectively correct (e.g., adapting liberal views once a user reveals that they are liberal). In this paper, we study the prevalence of sycophancy in language models and propose a simple synthetic-data intervention to reduce this behavior. First, on a set of three sycophancy tasks (Perez et al., 2022) where models are asked for an opinion on statements with no cor…

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.

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<…

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones ordered to take paternity test in ongoing 2022 case https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/2024/02/29/jerry-jones-paternity-test/

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones ordered to take paternity test in ongoing 2022 case
From @ToddBrock24f7: Jones’s lawyers had appealed a recent call for DNA testing to determine if he is the biological father of 27-year-old Alexandra Davis.

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

2022 retro-link! https://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2022/01/29/an-update-on-rust-coreutils - An update on rust/coreutils.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01751 has been replaced.
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Text mining arXiv: a look through quantitative finance papers
This paper explores articles hosted on the arXiv preprint server with the aim to uncover valuable insights hidden in this vast collection of research. Employing text mining techniques and through the application of natural language processing methods, we examine the contents of quantitative finance papers posted in arXiv from 1997 to 2022. We extract and analyze crucial information from the entire documents, including the references, to understand the topics trends over time and to find out the…

DB Arnold used Bama benching as motivation https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39625235/nfl-draft-prospect-terrion-arnold-says-benching-fueled-success

NFL draft prospect Terrion Arnold says benching fueled success - ESPN
Speaking Thursday at the NFL scouting combine, Terrion Arnold said that Alabama's decision to bench him in 2022 in favor of teammate Eli Ricks had an enormous impact on the trajectory of his career.

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…

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.​

Selenskyj legt persönliche Einkünfte für 2021 und 2022 offen
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj hat seine persönlichen Einkünfte für die Jahre 2021 und 2022 offengelegt. In einem Beitrag auf der Internetseite des Präsidenten meldeten Selenskyj und seine Familie für 2021 ein Einkommen von 10,8 Millionen Griwna (263.000 Euro), zwölf Millionen Griwna weniger als im Jahr zuvor. Darin waren Einnahmen aus dem Verkauf von …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Kiew meldet Verstöße bei Militärversorgung ++
Der ukrainische Verteidigungsminister meldet "viele Verstöße" bei Versorgungslieferungen für das Militär. Der Bezirk Krementschuk ist ukrainischen Angaben zufolge erneut Ziel russischer Raketenangriffe. Die Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

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

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…

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.

Ein Forschungsinstitut setzt auf Pneumatit, um Beton zu beleben und so das Wohlbefinden in den Räumlichkeiten zu verbessern.
Biodynamischer Beton. Dort, wo unter anderem auch an biodynamischer Landwirtschaft geforscht wird.
Da kann man schon mal über den Grundsatz der ergebnisoffenen Forschung ins Grübeln geraten.
https://www.bioaktuell.ch/fileadmin/documents/ba/Zeitschrift/Archiv/2022/ba-d-2022-01-ar.pdf
(Seite 24)
Pneumatit "enthält" Nautilusschale, Gold, Schwefel etc., selbstverständlich potenziert (D7).
Disclaimer: Ich hab früher im FiBL gearbeitet.

Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton says the company is in the early stages of planning a London IPO, appointing two banks, after considering a listing in early 2022 (Swetha Gopinath/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Raspberry Pi Picks Peel Hunt, Jefferies for IPO, Choosing London Over New York
Personal computer maker Raspberry Pi appointed bankers at Peel Hunt and Jefferies to prepare a London initial public offering, a listing that would be a win for the UK capital after an exodus of companies to the US.

Magazine and newspaper subscription app Readly had 464K full-paying subscribers at the end of 2023, up 2.7% YoY, and a £9.10 ARPU, up from £7.80 in 2022 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/rea…

As subscriber growth flattens 'all you can read' magazine app Readly moves into profit
The chief executive of "all you can read" magazine and newspaper app Readly has set out a two-year plan for reaching long-term profitability.

Verteidiger spricht - Leon (6) qualvoll ertrunken: „Ermittlungspannen“ #News #Nachrichten

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08244 has been replaced.
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Effect of the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB 221009A) on low energy gamma-ray counts at sea level
A gamma-ray burst, named GRB 221009A, occurred on 9 October 2022 and is the brightest ever observed GRB, whose frequency is now estimated as once in 10,000 years. This GRB was reported to be observed from many space missions, VLF receivers, and ground observations in optical and radio data. Additionally, a strikingly large number of very high energy (VHE) photons associated with this GRB were observed by the gamma-ray and cosmic ray observatory LHAASO. Though gamma rays of cosmic origin usually…

So schön. Wir sind hier mit der Bahn und dem Rad und alle anderen stehen noch im Stau. Die Menschen sind halt doof. Die meisten. Hier ein Video von 2022. Wir sind mit dem Rad an einer Bahnstrecke langgefahren. Am Stau vorbei, der da so Schritttempo fuhr.
#Ostern #Stau #Bahn
#autofrei und Spaß dabei.

Schärferes Vorgehen - „Schweinerei!“ Dem Torten-Pfusch droht nun Saures #News #Nachrichten