Wordle 1,035 1/6
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🎉FINALLY! 🎉 After almost 2 years (since July 2022) of using the same starter word, it finally was the word of the day! My first and only first-guess win.
(The side effect is that now I need a new starter word! 😃)
#Wordle

General Staff: Russia has lost 482,290 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/12/general-staff-russia.html

"In November 2022, the FTC published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking asking for your input about unfair or deceptive practices relating to fees. We received 12,000 comments from consumers, businesses, law enforcers, and others.”
https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/10/ftc-proposes-junk-fee-rule-put-stop-bogus-hidden-charges

#Lees Klaus Wiegandt, samensteller: 3 Grad mehr, Oekom Verlag 2022. Mooi, somber realistisch, maar met natuurinclusieve oplossingsideeën en ook met plaatjes!

"Italy adds 2,022 MW/3,836 MWh of distributed storage capacity in 2023"
#Italy #Batteries #Energy

Italy adds 2,022 MW/3,836 MWh of distributed storage capacity in 2023
Italy hit 3,367 MW/6,645 MWh of cumulative distributed storage capacity at the end of December. The new figures indicate that lithium-ion technology powers most storage systems, at 516,475 units in total.

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

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

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.

#Big12
Via Bunkie Perkins @BunkiePerkins
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2m
Ahem…UNIQUE BEAVER

Sources detail Beijing's Document 79, issued in September 2022, directing state-owned companies to replace foreign email, HR, and other enterprise software (Liza Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/chin…

It’s 4/11 for North Americans, which is excuse enough to share this post:
“The 411 on 4.1.1”
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/12/the-411-on-4-1-1.html
WCAG 2.1/2.2 obsoleting SC 4.1.1 Parsing has made a lot of people frowny, but the more I dig the more …

The 411 on 4.1.1
There is a non-zero chance that WCAG Success Criterion 4.1.1 Parsing will go away in WCAG 2.2. This isn’t a problem for users, regardless of the problems it may pose for the WCAG process, ACT rules, automated testing tools, or ossified testing processes. The joke here is using an antique…

By 2022, COVID pandemic had shaved 1.6 years from global life expectancy, research reveals:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/2022-covid-pandemic-had-shaved-16-years-global-life-expectancy-research-reveals

Cichocka, Aleksandra, Marchlewska, Marta & Biddlestone, Mikey. 2022. Why do narcissists find conspiracy theories so appealing?. Current Opinion in Psychology 47: 101386. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101386.

Connect the Dots: Russian Money, Trump Media, and MAGA blocking Ukraine Aid https://thedemlabs.org/2024/04/07/russian-investment-trump-media-maga-gop-block-ukraine-aid/

Follow the Russian money and election interfernce
Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation

Wenn jetzt wieder die üblichen Jahresunfallstatistiken der Vision-Zero-Gescheiterten erscheinen, ist nicht zu vergessen, dass wir jedes Jahr wieder an der großen Unfalllotterie unserer schlecht gemachten Verkehrsinfrastruktur teilnehmen.
Hier die Karte von Lüneburg mit allen Unfallorten von 2017 bis 2022 zur Veranschaulichung.
#verkehr

Wordle 1,035 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🎉FINALLY! 🎉 After almost 2 years (since July 2022) of using the same starter word, it finally was the word of the day! My first and only first-guess win.
(The side effect is that now I need a new starter word! 😃)
#Wordle

There was a large, global surge in prices in 2021 and 2022 as the economy restarted following the COVID-19 pandemic.
That inflation surge left Joe Biden, like leaders in almost every major democracy, deeply unpopular. Biden, like his global peers, has yet to recover.
Is it possible that Biden’s standing can recover as the economy returns to health and the inflation surge recedes further into the past?
Sure.
But as every month goes by, that prospect gets a bit less …

The Invisible War: Ukraine, Russia locked in dizzying electronic warfare arms race shaping the battlefield: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/12/the-invisible-war.html

Children of a British woman suspected of illegal abortion removed from her care - Tortoise https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/03/08/children-of-british-woman-suspected-of-illegal-abortion-removed-from-her-care/

Children of a British woman suspected of illegal abortion removed from her care - Tortoise
A British mother being investigated for a suspected illegal abortion under a Victorian-era law had her existing children removed from her care, Tortoise can reveal.  The mother is one of six women who have appeared in an English court since December 2022 for illegally ending their pregnancies under the Offence Against the Person Act (OAPA) …

Immer mehr russische Deserteure und Asylsuchende
Seit September 2022 hat das unabhängige russische Medienprojekt Mediazona mehr als 7.300 Fälle vor Gericht dokumentiert, bei denen es um unerlaubtes Entfernen von Soldaten von der Truppe geht. Das meldet die Nachrichtenagentur AP. Beim härtesten Vorwurf, der Fahnenflucht, habe sich die Zahl der Fälle im vergangenen Jahr versechsfacht. Eine Rekordzahl …
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Selenskyj: "Protestiert. Kämpft. Lauft weg."
Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj hat die Russen nach der Teilmobilisierung zum Widerstand aufgerufen. Deutsche Politiker machen sich für die erleichterte Aufnahme russischer Kriegsdienstverweigerer und Deserteure stark.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
O. Henry Pun-off Day is held on the day before Mother’s Day each year in the United States. Let's play!
#PunAnything

Dreamers 💤👧🏽🍆
Dramatized scifi horror series | A young woman’s nightmares and fantasies are manufactured by a dream factory called the Reverie.
2 seasons, 18 episodes as of Mar 12, 2024.
https://www.theend.fyi/shows/dreamers

Dreamers - Season 1 finale 💤👧🏽🍆
Dramatized scifi horror | Nightmares and fantasies are manufactured by Reverie. Jonah is the rising star of the Nightmare department and it’s been his job to torment a young woman, Lily. But he suddenly gets promoted and now he’d risk everything to become Lily’s Prince Charming, but Lily starts falling for him in real life. 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Dec 09, 2022.

Stress relaxation and thermo-visco-elastic effects in fluid-filled slits and fluid-loaded plates
Erik Garc\'ia Neefjes, David Nigro, Rapha\"el C. Assier, William J. Parnell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11089

Stress relaxation and thermo-visco-elastic effects in fluid-filled slits and fluid-loaded plates
In this paper, we theoretically analyse wave propagation in two canonical problems of interest: fluid-filled thermo-visco-elastic slits and fluid-loaded thermo-visco-elastic plates. We show that these two configurations can be studied via the same pair of dispersion equations with the aid of the framework developed in [https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2022.0193], which incoporates thermal effects. These two problems are further interrelated, since in the short wavelength limit (relative to the slit…

Mystery solved!

#P4x #CyberSecurity #InfoSec @…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #TheZoeBallBreakfastShow
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark:
🎵 Enola Gay
#OrchestralManoeuvresintheDark
https://open.spotify.com/track/7bJSbd2Upa4iYVHlbRKEJm
https://djludomusic.bandcamp.com/track/orchestral-manoeuvres-in-the-dark-enola-gay-1980-dj-ludo-extended-edit-redrum-2022

The Prime Geodesic Theorem for the Picard Manifold
Ikuya Kaneko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.06626

The Prime Geodesic Theorem for the Picard Manifold
We prove the prime geodesic theorem for the Picard manifold whose error term shrinks as the hybrid subconvex exponent $θ$ for quadratic Dirichlet $L$-functions over Gaussian integers decreases. Our rate of decay is faster than that of Balkanova-Frolenkov (2022) and Kaneko (2022), and leads to the exponent $\frac{202}{139}+\varepsilon$ in the prime geodesic theorem under the generalised Lindelöf hypothesis $θ= 0$, improving upon the existing conditional results. This provides further solid ev…

LIEDER: Linguistically-Informed Evaluation for Discourse Entity Recognition
Xiaomeng Zhu, Robert Frank
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06301 https://

LIEDER: Linguistically-Informed Evaluation for Discourse Entity Recognition
Discourse Entity (DE) recognition is the task of identifying novel and known entities introduced within a text. While previous work has found that large language models have basic, if imperfect, DE recognition abilities (Schuster and Linzen, 2022), it remains largely unassessed which of the fundamental semantic properties that govern the introduction and subsequent reference to DEs they have knowledge of. We propose the Linguistically-Informed Evaluation for Discourse Entity Recognition (LIEDER…

Q&A with Evan Smith, Texas Tribune CEO from 2009 to 2022, on earned income in nonprofit journalism, sponsorship to fund news for marginalized people, and more (Richard J. Tofel/Second Rough Draft)
https://dicktofel.substack.com/p/the-texas-tribune-examp…

The Texas Tribune, Example or Exception?: A Candid Talk with Evan Smith About Earned Income
Events, sponsorship-- and why one size doesn't fit all

Lyft reports Q1 revenue up 28% YoY to $1.3B, a $31.5M net loss, gross bookings up 21%, active riders growing at the fastest pace since 2022, up 12% YoY to 21.9M (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05…

General Staff: Russia has lost 454,420 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/15/general-staff-russia.html

Investigating the Soft X-ray Spectra of Solar Flare Onsets
Anant Telikicherla, Thomas N. Woods, Bennet D. Schwab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05992 https://<…

Investigating the Soft X-ray Spectra of Solar Flare Onsets
In this study we present the analysis of six solar flare events that occurred in 2022, using new data from the third-generation Miniature X-Ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS), also known as the Dual-zone Aperture X-ray Solar Spectrometer (DAXSS). The primary focus of this study is on the flare's "onset phase", which is characterized by elevated soft X-ray emissions even before the flare's impulsive phase. We analyze the temporal evolution of plasma temperature, emission measure, and elemental abun…

Impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the international staple agrifood trade networks
Yin-Ting Zhang, Mu-Yao Li, Wei-Xing Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12496

Impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the international staple agrifood trade networks
The Russia-Ukraine conflict is a growing concern worldwide and poses serious threats to regional and global food security. Using monthly trade data for maize, rice, and wheat from 2016/1 to 2022/12, this paper constructs three international crop trade networks (iCTNs) and an aggregate international food trade network (iFTN). We aim to examine the structural changes following the occurrence of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. We find significant shifts in the number of edges, average degree, density…

🔊 #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

cloudalists: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2022/04/12/cloudalists-our-new-cloud-based-ruling-class-project-syndicate-op-ed/

Former Cowboys TE discusses team focus amid culture criticisms https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/former_cowboys_te_discusses_team_focus_amid_culture_criticisms/s1_13132_40070016

Former Cowboys TE discusses team focus amid culture criticisms
Houston Texans tight end Dalton Schultz was featured on the Dallas Cowboys from 2018 to 2022 and compared the clubs during a Wednesday appearance on "The Pat McAfee Show."  "That was one of the first things that kind of stuck out to me, is like, it feels like much more — I don’t want to say college because it’s not — but the focus is just football, you know what I mean?" Schultz explained about joining Houston in 2023, per Ryan Morik of Fox News Digital. "Going back and telling some pe…

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

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

🌴 DRC’s 1 billion trees program makes progress, but hurdles remain
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/drcs-1-billion-trees-program-makes-progress-but-hurdles-remain/

DRC’s 1 billion trees program makes progress, but hurdles remain
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Every weekend between January 2022 and December 2023, members of the nongovernmental organization Ferme Don de Dieu (FDD) planted trees on farmland in Yolo and Kinzono, on the outskirts of Mbankana, more than 140 km (87 miles) from Kinshasa. With the help of technicians from the Congolese environment ministry’s […]

Estimating the Jet Power from Broadband SED modeling of Mkn 501 for different particle distributions
Hritwik Bora, Rukaiya Khatoon, Ranjeev Misra, Rupjyoti Gogoi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06111

Estimating the Jet Power from Broadband SED modeling of Mkn 501 for different particle distributions
We consider the broadband spectral energy distribution of the high energy peaked (HBL) blazar Mkn 501 using $\textit{Swift}$-XRT/UVOT, NuSTAR and $\textit{Fermi}$-LAT observations taken between 2013 and 2022. The spectra were fitted with a one-zone leptonic model using synchrotron and synchrotron self-Compton emission from different particle energy distributions such as a broken power-law, log-parabola, as well as distributions expected when the diffusion or the acceleration time scale are ener…

Es ist ja toll, dass Deutschland schon deutlich mehr als 50% erneuerbare Energien im Strommix hat (Februar 2024: 63,6%). Aber wir sollten definitiv nicht nur auf den Strom schauen.
Die gesamte Primärenergie sieht anders aus. Da ist noch *SEEHR* viel zu tun / einzusparen / sektorzukoppeln. 🤫
Quelle: https://

A profile of Bolt founder Ryan Breslow, who raised a $355M Series E in 2022, setting off 18 months of acrimonious lawsuits and a showdown with an early backer (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahemerson/2024/03/11/the-bill…

The Billion-Dollar Unraveling Of The 'King' Of Silicon Valley
The Silicon Valley wunderkind rode his fintech unicorn Bolt to the bank. Then came the lawsuits and money squabbles — and a brutal valuation crash that wiped out much of his fortune.

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...
https://…

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.

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

Mobility Access Australia
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Mobility Access Australia | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Mobility Access Australia Host: Clint Deverson Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Health & Wellness, Places & Travel First Episode: 2022 A podcast talking about how accessible…

Heute vor 2 Jahren: Am 14. April 2022 sank das russische Kriegsschiff #Moskva nach ukrainischen Beschuss. Laut ukrainischen Angaben war die Moskva in der Lage, #Atomsprengköpfe zu tragen und hatte zum Zeitpunkt ihres Untergangs möglicherweise zwei Atomsprengköpfe bei sich gehabt.

General Staff: Russia has lost 481,030 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/11/general-staff-russia.html

The Prime Geodesic Theorem for the Picard Manifold
Ikuya Kaneko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.06626

The Prime Geodesic Theorem for the Picard Manifold
We prove the prime geodesic theorem for the Picard manifold whose error term shrinks as the hybrid subconvex exponent $θ$ for quadratic Dirichlet $L$-functions over Gaussian integers decreases. Our rate of decay is faster than that of Balkanova-Frolenkov (2022) and Kaneko (2022), and leads to the exponent $\frac{202}{139}+\varepsilon$ in the prime geodesic theorem under the generalised Lindelöf hypothesis $θ= 0$, improving upon the existing conditional results. This provides further solid ev…

2022 retro-link! http://blog.ffwll.ch/2022/07/locking-engineering.html - Linux kernel lock engineering principles.

Investigating the Soft X-ray Spectra of Solar Flare Onsets
Anant Telikicherla, Thomas N. Woods, Bennet D. Schwab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05992 https://<…

Investigating the Soft X-ray Spectra of Solar Flare Onsets
In this study we present the analysis of six solar flare events that occurred in 2022, using new data from the third-generation Miniature X-Ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS), also known as the Dual-zone Aperture X-ray Solar Spectrometer (DAXSS). The primary focus of this study is on the flare's "onset phase", which is characterized by elevated soft X-ray emissions even before the flare's impulsive phase. We analyze the temporal evolution of plasma temperature, emission measure, and elemental abun…

A New Hotplug Coded Caching Scheme Using PDAs
Mallikharjuna Chinnapadamala, Charul Rajput, B. Sundar Rajan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06433 https://…

A New Hotplug Coded Caching Scheme Using PDAs
In the original coded caching model introduced by Maddah-Ali and Niesen in 2014, the server starts broadcasting only after it receives demands from all the users. So, all the users must be active during the delivery phase. In this work, we consider a coded caching model called hotplug coded caching in which some of the users are offline during the delivery phase. This model was first introduced by Ma and Tuninetti (``On Coded Caching Systems with Offline Users," 2022 IEEE International Symposiu…

@… there was a toot going around about only searching from before 2022. It feels more and more a need recently to find credible information. It also drives me more and more to technical documentation.

A meshless and binless approach to compute statistics in 3D Ensemble PTV
Manuel Ratz, Miguel A. Mendez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11828 https://

A meshless and binless approach to compute statistics in 3D Ensemble PTV
We propose a method to obtain superresolution of turbulent statistics for three-dimensional ensemble particle tracking velocimetry (EPTV). The method is ''meshless'' because it does not require the definition of a grid for computing derivatives, and it is ''binless'' because it does not require the definition of bins to compute local statistics. The method combines the constrained radial basis function (RBF) formalism introduced Sperotto et al. (Meas Sci Technol, 33:094005, 2022) with a kernel …

Covariant formulation of electrodynamics in isotropic media revisited
D V Red\v{z}i\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01346 https://a…

Covariant formulation of electrodynamics in isotropic media revisited
We point out some problematic arguments in a recent paper by Pal (2022 Eur. J. Phys. 43 015204), Franklin's Comment on it (2024 Eur. J. Phys. 45 028002), and Pal's Reply (2024 Eur. J. Phys. 45 028001)

Algorithmic Misjudgement in Google Search Results: Evidence from Auditing the US Online Electoral Information Environment
Brooke Perreault, Johanna Lee, Ropafadzo Shava, Eni Mustafaraj
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04684

Algorithmic Misjudgement in Google Search Results: Evidence from Auditing the US Online Electoral Information Environment
Google Search is an important way that people seek information about politics, and Google states that it is ``committed to providing timely and authoritative information on Google Search to help voters understand, navigate, and participate in democratic processes''. In this paper, we interrogate the extent to which government-maintained web domains are represented in the online environment of electoral information of the 2022 US midterm elections, as captured through Google Search results in 3.…

Concerning S$H_0$ES Data: Discrepant $W_{0,VI}$ Absolute Magnitudes for Cepheids in the Keystone Galaxy NGC4258
Daniel Majaess
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04834

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 should be viewed with caution.

Detectability of Solar Panels as a Technosignature
Ravi Kopparapu, Vincent Kofman, Jacob Haqq-Misra, Vivaswan Kopparapu, Manasvi Lingam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04560

Detectability of Solar Panels as a Technosignature
In this work, we assess the potential detectability of solar panels made of silicon on an Earth-like exoplanet as a potential technosignature. Silicon-based photovoltaic cells have high reflectance in the UV-VIS and in the near-IR, within the wavelength range of a space-based flagship mission concept like the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). Assuming that only solar energy is used to provide the 2022 human energy needs with a land cover of ~2.4%, and projecting the future energy demand assum…

Modem Prometheus 🌕👻📡
Narrated urban fantasy | A podcast of modern folktales. These are the stories of the kerbside, the transmitter mast, the shadows between buildings
LGBT, POC, Mental health-focused
1 seasons, 12 episodes as of Sep 09, 2022.
https://www.theend.fyi/shows/modem-prometh

Modem Prometheus 🌕👻📡
Narrated urban fantasy | A podcast of modern folktales. These are the stories of the kerbside, the transmitter mast, the shadows between buildings LGBT, POC, Mental health-focused 1 seasons, 12 episodes as of Sep 10, 2022.

Internet sentiment exacerbates intraday overtrading, evidence from A-Share market
Peng Yifeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12001 https://

Internet sentiment exacerbates intraday overtrading, evidence from A-Share market
Market fluctuations caused by overtrading are important components of systemic market risk. This study examines the effect of investor sentiment on intraday overtrading activities in the Chinese A-share market. Employing high-frequency sentiment indices inferred from social media posts on the Eastmoney forum Guba, the research focuses on constituents of the CSI 300 and CSI 500 indices over a period from 01/01/2018, to 12/30/2022. The empirical analysis indicates that investor sentiment exerts a…

Second gadolinium loading to Super-Kamiokande
K. Abe, C. Bronner, Y. Hayato, K. Hiraide, K. Hosokawa, K. Ieki, M. Ikeda, J. Kameda, Y. Kanemura, R. Kaneshima, Y. Kashiwagi, Y. Kataoka, S. Miki, S. Mine, M. Miura, S. Moriyama, Y. Nakano, M. Nakahata, S. Nakayama, Y. Noguchi, K. Sato, H. Sekiya, H. Shiba, K. Shimizu, M. Shiozawa, Y. Sonoda, Y. Suzuki, A. Takeda, Y. Takemoto, H. Tanaka, T. Yano, S. Han, T. Kajita, K. Okumura, T. Tashiro, T. Tomiya, X. Wang, S. Yoshida, P. Fernandez, L. La…

Second gadolinium loading to Super-Kamiokande
The first loading of gadolinium (Gd) into Super-Kamiokande in 2020 was successful, and the neutron capture efficiency on Gd reached 50\%. To further increase the Gd neutron capture efficiency to 75\%, 26.1 tons of $\rm Gd_2(\rm SO_4)_3\cdot \rm 8H_2O$ was additionally loaded into Super-Kamiokande (SK) from May 31 to July 4, 2022. As the amount of loaded $\rm Gd_2(\rm SO_4)_3\cdot \rm 8H_2O$ was doubled compared to the first loading, the capacity of the powder dissolving system was doubled. We a…

#Gaming

Exploring orbital angular momentum and spin-orbit correlation for gluons at the Electron-Ion Collider
Shohini Bhattacharya, Renaud Boussarie, Yoshitaka Hatta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04209

Exploring orbital angular momentum and spin-orbit correlation for gluons at the Electron-Ion Collider
In our previous work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 182002 (2022)], we introduced a pioneering observable aimed at experimentally detecting the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of gluons. Our focus was on the longitudinal double spin asymmetry observed in exclusive dijet production during electron-proton scattering. We demonstrated the sensitivity of the $\cos ϕ$ angular correlation between the scattered electron and proton as a probe for gluon OAM at small-$x$ and its intricate interplay with gluon hel…

Performance of SK-Gd's Upgraded Real-time Supernova Monitoring System
Kamiokande collaboration, Y. Kashiwagi, K. Abe, C. Bronner, Y. Hayato, K. Hiraide, K. Hosokawa, K. Ieki, M. Ikeda, J. Kameda, Y. Kanemura, R. Kaneshima, Y. Kataoka, S. Miki, S. Mine, M. Miura, S. Moriyama, Y. Nakano, M. Nakahata, S. Nakayama, Y. Noguchi, K. Sato, H. Sekiya, H. Shiba, K. Shimizu, M. Shiozawa, Y. Sonoda, Y. Suzuki, A. Takeda, Y. Takemoto, H. Tanaka, T. Yano, S. Han, T. Kajita, K. Okumura, T. Tashir…

Performance of SK-Gd's Upgraded Real-time Supernova Monitoring System
Among multi-messenger observations of the next galactic core-collapse supernova, Super-Kamiokande (SK) plays a critical role in detecting the emitted supernova neutrinos, determining the direction to the supernova (SN), and notifying the astronomical community of these observations in advance of the optical signal. On 2022, SK has increased the gadolinium dissolved in its water target (SK-Gd) and has achieved a Gd concentration of 0.033%, resulting in enhanced neutron detection capability, whic…

Subfitness in distributive (semi)lattices
Guram Bezhanishvili, James Madden, M. Andrew Moshier, Marcus Tressl, Joanne Walters-Wayland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06071

Subfitness in distributive (semi)lattices
We investigate whether the set of subfit elements of a distributive semilattice is an ideal. This question was raised by the second author at the BLAST conference in 2022. We show that in general it has a negative solution, however if the semilattice is a lattice, then the solution is positive. This is somewhat unexpected since, as we show, a semilattice is subfit if and only if so is its distributive lattice envelope.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17516 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Homogeneous Second-Order Descent Framework: A Fast Alternative to Newton-Type Methods
This paper proposes a homogeneous second-order descent framework (HSODF) for nonconvex and convex optimization based on the generalized homogeneous model (GHM). In comparison to the Newton steps, the GHM can be solved by extremal symmetric eigenvalue procedures and thus grant an advantage in ill-conditioned problems. Moreover, GHM extends the ordinary homogeneous model (OHM) (Zhang et al. 2022) to allow adaptiveness in the construction of the aggregated matrix. Consequently, HSODF is able to re…

Prompt engineering paradigms for medical applications: scoping review and recommendations for better practices
Jamil Zaghir, Marco Naguib, Mina Bjelogrlic, Aur\'elie N\'ev\'eol, Xavier Tannier, Christian Lovis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01249

Prompt engineering paradigms for medical applications: scoping review and recommendations for better practices
Prompt engineering is crucial for harnessing the potential of large language models (LLMs), especially in the medical domain where specialized terminology and phrasing is used. However, the efficacy of prompt engineering in the medical domain remains to be explored. In this work, 114 recent studies (2022-2024) applying prompt engineering in medicine, covering prompt learning (PL), prompt tuning (PT), and prompt design (PD) are reviewed. PD is the most prevalent (78 articles). In 12 papers, PD, …

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

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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…

Supervised Autoencoder MLP for Financial Time Series Forecasting
Bartosz Bieganowski, Robert Slepaczuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01866 https://

Supervised Autoencoder MLP for Financial Time Series Forecasting
This paper investigates the enhancement of financial time series forecasting with the use of neural networks through supervised autoencoders, aiming to improve investment strategy performance. It specifically examines the impact of noise augmentation and triple barrier labeling on risk-adjusted returns, using the Sharpe and Information Ratios. The study focuses on the S&P 500 index, EUR/USD, and BTC/USD as the traded assets from January 1, 2010, to April 30, 2022. Findings indicate that supervi…

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

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Dramatized Afrofuturism | A race of highly advanced, two-legged extraterrestrials has come to Earth and taken over without saying a word. Humans are now their pets.
It falls under the category of Afrofuturism, was created by a WOC and features a POC cast in a story that explores existential sci-...
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DOMESTICATED 🛸👽🤯
Dramatized Afrofuturism | A race of highly advanced, two-legged extraterrestrials has come to Earth and taken over without saying a word. Humans are now their pets. It falls under the category of Afrofuturism, was created by a WOC and features a POC cast in a story that explores existential sci-fi themes, namely the question: 'Are we alone?' 1 seasons, 12 episodes as of Mar 11, 2022.

Introducing Quantum Information and Computation to a Broader Audience with MOOCs at OpenHPI
Gerhard Hellstern, J\"org Hettel, Bettina Just
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07241

Introducing Quantum Information and Computation to a Broader Audience with MOOCs at OpenHPI
Quantum computing is an exciting field with high disruptive potential, but very difficult to access. For this reason, numerous concepts are being developed worldwide on how quantum computing can be taught. This always raises questions about the didactic concept, the content actually taught, and how to measure the success of the teaching concept. In 2022 and 2023, the authors gave a total of nine two-week MOOCs (massive open online courses) with different possible learning paths on the Hasso Pla…

General Staff: Russia has lost 473,400 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/04/general-staff-russia.html

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Phase transition of the long range Ising model in lower dimensions, for $d < α\leq d + 1$, with a Peierls argument
We extend previous results due to Ding and Zhuang in order to prove that a phase transition occurs for the long range Ising model in lower dimensions. By making use of a recent argument due to Affonso, Bissacot and Maia from 2022 which establishes that a phase transition occurs for the long range, random-field Ising model, from a suggestion of the authors we demonstrate that a phase transition also occurs for the long range Ising model, from a set of appropriately defined contours for the long …

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

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�…

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.

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 07.05.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 41. Atombombe "Tee". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Potentialisations of a class of fully-nonlinear symmetry-integrable evolution equations
Marianna Euler, Norbert Euler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05722 http…

Potentialisations of a class of fully-nonlinear symmetry-integrable evolution equations
We consider here the class of fully-nonlinear symmetry-integrable third-order evolution equations in 1+1 dimensions that were proposed recently in {\it Open Communications in Nonlinear Mathematical Physics}, vol. 2, 216--228 (2022). In particular, we report all zero-order and higher-order potentialisations for this class of equations using their integrating factors (or multipliers) up to order four. Chains of connecting evolution equations are also obtained by multi-potentialisations.

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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}…

NEOMOD 3: The Debiased Size Distribution of Near Earth Objects
David Nesvorny, David Vokrouhlicky, Frank Shelly, Rogerio Deienno, William F. Bottke, Carson Fuls, Robert Jedicke, Shantanu Naidu, Steven R. Chesley, Paul W. Chodas, Davide Farnocchia, Marco Delbo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18805…

NEOMOD 3: The Debiased Size Distribution of Near Earth Objects
Our previous model (NEOMOD2) for the orbital and absolute magnitude distribution of Near Earth Objects (NEOs) was calibrated on the Catalina Sky Survey observations between 2013 and 2022. Here we extend NEOMOD2 to include visible albedo information from the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer. The debiased albedo distribution of NEOs can be approximated by the sum of two Rayleigh distributions with the scale parameters p_V,dark=0.03 and p_V,bright=0.17. We find evidence for smaller NEOs having …

Fulmar's Folly 😱😢💀
Dramatized scifi series | Two years after civilisation has collapsed from a zombie-like pandemic, the Cooper family aboard the Fulmar's Folly fights extreme pressures to survive against hostile survivors, the infected, and the sea itself.
1 seasons, 9 episodes as of Mar 12, 2022.
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Fulmar's Folly 😱😢💀
Dramatized scifi series | Two years after civilisation has collapsed from a zombie-like pandemic, the Cooper family aboard the Fulmar's Folly fights extreme pressures to survive against hostile survivors, the infected, and the sea itself. 1 seasons, 9 episodes as of Mar 13, 2022.

A statistical model to identify excess mortality in Italy in the period 2011-2022
Antonino Bella, Gianluca Bonifazi, Luca Lista, Dario Menasce, Mauro Mezzetto, Daniele Pedrini, Patrizio Pezzotti, Maria Cristina Rota, Roberto Spighi, Antonio Zoccoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06111

A statistical model to identify excess mortality in Italy in the period 2011-2022
Excess mortality is defined as an increase in the number of deaths above what is expected based on historical trends, hereafter called baseline. In a previous paper, we introduced a statistical method that allows an unbiased and robust determination of the baseline to be used for the computation of excesses. A good determination of the baseline allows us to efficiently evaluate the excess of casualties that occurred in Italy in the last 12 years and in particular in the last 3 years due to the …

Statistical theory of the broadband two plasmon decay instability
Rusko T. Ruskov, Robert Bingham, Luis O. Silva, Max Harper, Ramy Aboushelbaya, Jason F. Myatt, Peter A. Norreys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17384

Statistical theory of the broadband two plasmon decay instability
There is renewed interest in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion, following the milestone December 2022 3.15 MJ ignition result on the National Ignition Facility. A key obstacle is the control of the two plasmon decay instability. Here, recent advances in inhomogeneous turbulence theory are applied to the broadband parametric instability problem for the first time. A novel dispersion relation is derived for the two plasmon decay in a uniform plasma valid under broad-bandwidth laser fields …

Multicolor photometry of LEO mega-constellations Starlink and OneWeb
Hui Zhi, Xiaojun Jiang, Jianfeng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05150 https://…

Multicolor photometry of LEO mega-constellations Starlink and OneWeb
The development of low earth orbit (LEO) mega-constellation fundamentally threatens ground-based optical astronomical observations. To study the photometric properties of the LEO mega-constellations, we used the Xinglong 50 cm telescope to conduct a large-sample, high-precision, and multicolor target-tracking photometry of two typical LEO Mega-constellations: Starlink and OneWeb. Over a three-month observation period starting on 2022 January 1st, we collected 1,447 light curves of 404 satellite…

US envoy to OSCE: Russian 'double-tap' attacks have killed at least 90 first responders since April 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/us-envoy-to.html

Fulmar's Folly 😱😢💀
Dramatized scifi series | Two years after civilisation has collapsed from a zombie-like pandemic, the Cooper family aboard the Fulmar's Folly fights extreme pressures to survive against hostile survivors, the infected, and the sea itself.
1 seasons, 9 episodes as of Mar 12, 2022.
https://www.

Fulmar's Folly 😱😢💀
Dramatized scifi series | Two years after civilisation has collapsed from a zombie-like pandemic, the Cooper family aboard the Fulmar's Folly fights extreme pressures to survive against hostile survivors, the infected, and the sea itself. 1 seasons, 9 episodes as of Mar 13, 2022.

Taralino is a JS library designed for educational purposes, e.g. as an introduction in OOP, graphic objects and. vector graphics, data visualiisation and analysis.
I used it to design a cookie-machine inspired by the the movie "2022 - Die überleben wollen...":
http://t…

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

Quantum asymptotic amplitude for quantum oscillatory systems from the Koopman operator viewpoint
Yuzuru Kato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19297 https://

Quantum asymptotic amplitude for quantum oscillatory systems from the Koopman operator viewpoint
We have recently proposed a fully quantum-mechanical definition of the asymptotic phase for quantum nonlinear oscillators, which is also applicable in the strong quantum regime [Kato and Nakao 2022 Chaos 32 063133]. In this study, we propose a definition of the quantum asymptotic amplitude for quantum oscillatory systems, which extends naturally the definition of the asymptotic amplitude for classical nonlinear oscillators on the basis of the Koopman operator theory. We introduce the asymptotic…

How I Died 🕵️‍♂️👻🧩
Dramatized horror series | Bodies are piling up in the strange town of Springfield, and forensic pathologist Jonathan Spacer intends to find out why. But, Jon isn’t without his own secrets…He can talk to the dead, for starters.
3 seasons, 39 episodes as of Oct 11, 2022.
https://www.theend.fyi/sh…

How I Died 🕵️‍♂️👻🧩
Dramatized horror series | Bodies are piling up in the strange town of Springfield, and forensic pathologist Jonathan Spacer intends to find out why. But, Jon isn’t without his own secrets…He can talk to the dead, for starters. 3 seasons, 39 episodes as of Oct 12, 2022.

Functions on a convex set which are both $ \omega $-semiconvex and $ \omega $-semiconcave II
V\'aclav Kry\v{s}tof
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14901 http…

Functions on a convex set which are both $ ω$-semiconvex and $ ω$-semiconcave II
In a recent article (2022) we proved with L. Zajíček that if $ G\subset\R^n $ is an unbounded open convex set that does not contain a translation of a convex cone with non-empty interior, then there exist $ f:G\to\R $ and a concave modulus $ ω$ such that $ \lim_{t\to\infty}ω(t)=\infty $, $ f $ is both semiconvex and semiconcave with modulus $ ω$ and $ f\notin C^{1,ω}(G) $. Here we improve the previous result as follows: If $ G $ is as above and $ ω(t)=t^α $ for some $ α\in(0,1) $, then…

How I Died 🕵️‍♂️👻🧩
Dramatized horror series | Bodies are piling up in the strange town of Springfield, and forensic pathologist Jonathan Spacer intends to find out why. But, Jon isn’t without his own secrets…He can talk to the dead, for starters.
3 seasons, 39 episodes as of Oct 11, 2022.
https://www.theend.fyi/sh…

How I Died 🕵️‍♂️👻🧩
Dramatized horror series | Bodies are piling up in the strange town of Springfield, and forensic pathologist Jonathan Spacer intends to find out why. But, Jon isn’t without his own secrets…He can talk to the dead, for starters. 3 seasons, 39 episodes as of Oct 12, 2022.

Crooked River 🍸🛻🔪
Dramatized historical fiction | It's post-Prohibition Cleveland, Ohio at the height of the Great Depression. An elusive killer has claimed thirteen victims all under the watch of newly appointed Public Safety Director, Eliot Ness. True crimes, true events.
Crimes, the setting, and the peripheral...
https://www.…

Crooked River 🍸🛻🔪
Dramatized historical fiction | It's post-Prohibition Cleveland, Ohio at the height of the Great Depression. An elusive killer has claimed thirteen victims all under the watch of newly appointed Public Safety Director, Eliot Ness. True crimes, true events. Crimes, the setting, and the peripheral characters, suspects and cops are real. 1 seasons, 6 episodes as of Jul 04, 2022.

Crooked River 🍸🛻🔪
Dramatized historical fiction | It's post-Prohibition Cleveland, Ohio at the height of the Great Depression. An elusive killer has claimed thirteen victims all under the watch of newly appointed Public Safety Director, Eliot Ness. True crimes, true events.
Crimes, the setting, and the peripheral...
https://www.…

Crooked River 🍸🛻🔪
Dramatized historical fiction | It's post-Prohibition Cleveland, Ohio at the height of the Great Depression. An elusive killer has claimed thirteen victims all under the watch of newly appointed Public Safety Director, Eliot Ness. True crimes, true events. Crimes, the setting, and the peripheral characters, suspects and cops are real. 1 seasons, 6 episodes as of Jul 04, 2022.

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…

Observation of a Fully-formed Forward--Reverse Shock Pair Due to the Interaction Between Two Coronal Mass Ejections at 0.5 au
D. Trotta, A. Dimmock, X. Blanco-Cano, R. Forsyth, H. Hietala, N. Fargette, A. Larosa, N. Lugaz, E. Palmerio, S. W. Good, E. K. J. Kilpua, E. Yordanova, O. Pezzi, G. Nicolaou, T. S. Horbury, R. Vainio, N. Dresing, C. J. Owen, R. Wimmer-Schweingruber
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Observation of a Fully-formed Forward--Reverse Shock Pair Due to the Interaction Between Two Coronal Mass Ejections at 0.5 au
We report direct observations of a fast magnetosonic forward--reverse shock pair observed by Solar Orbiter on March 8, 2022 at the short heliocentric distance of 0.5 au. The structure, sharing some features with fully-formed stream interaction regions (SIRs), is due to the interaction between two successive coronal mass ejections (CMEs), never previously observed to give rise to a forward--reverse shock pair. The scenario is supported by remote observations from the STEREO-A coronographs, where…

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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…