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#NowPlaying ❝…it didn't occur to me that someone would not get back on the bus. Or also, I think, I had a bit of an attitude like, well, if they don't, then I guess they should bring some water and take care of themselves.❞

Little Snitch 6: Outbound-Firewall bekommt Blocklisten und DNS-Verschlüsselung
Die beliebte macOS-Sicherheitssoftware aus Österreich erhält ein großes Update. Ein TCP-Leak-Problem bleibt in Little Snitch 6 bestehen – auch wegen Apple.

"Call of Duty: Black Ops 6" wird am 9. Juni vorgestellt
Bisher gab es nur den Termin, jetzt ist sind die Reihe und das Studio bekannt. Auch Hinweise auf den historischen Zeitraum des nächsten CoD-Shooters gibt es.

Microsoft releases MS-DOS as Open Source:
“This repo contains the original source-code and compiled binaries for MS-DOS v1.25 and MS-DOS v2.0, plus the source-code for MS-DOS v4.00 jointly developed by IBM and Microsoft. (…) All files within this repo are released under the MIT License as per the LICENSE file stored in the root of this repo.”
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Blaming MS-DOS/v4.0/src/DOS/ALLOC.ASM at 2d04cacc5322951f187bb17e017c12920ac8ebe2 · microsoft/MS-DOS
The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25, 2.0, and 4.0 for reference purposes - Blaming MS-DOS/v4.0/src/DOS/ALLOC.ASM at 2d04cacc5322951f187bb17e017c12920ac8ebe2 · microsoft/MS-DOS

While frantically preparing for my vacation after just coming back from PyCon (don’t ask), I’ve pushed out https://github.com/hynek/build-and-inspect-python-package/releases/tag/v2.6.0 that adds support for the new ubuntu-24.04 builders and the n…

Release v2.6.0 · hynek/build-and-inspect-python-package
Added Support for ubuntu-24.04 builders. #126 New output: artifact-name is the name of the uploaded artifact. #125

Stripe will let customers accept crypto payments, starting with USDC on Solana, Ethereum, and Polygon, the first time it has taken crypto payments since 2018 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/afte

After 6-year hiatus, Stripe to start taking crypto payments, starting with USDC stablecoin | TechCrunch
The company announced that it would start to let customers accept cryptocurrency payments, starting with USDC stablecoins, initially only on Solana, Ethereum and Polygon

US to allocate additional $6 billion in military aid to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/us-to-allocate.html

Automotive advertising was so much cooler in the 1970s.

🎯 ESP32-S3 1.69-inch touch display features 6-axis IMU, RTC, UART, and more
(… I am still an AVR-8 man but I am more and more impressed with what you get for a little money with ESP32)
https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/05/17/es

ESP32-S3 1.69-inch touch display features 6-axis IMU, RTC, UART, and more - CNX Software
The Waveshare ESP32-S3 1.69-inch touch display is a development board that uses an ESP32-S3 as the main controller. The board features a 240×280

Harry Dunn talks about protecting voting rights, women’s reproductive rights, and affordable health care and housing, and then veers, as most of his speeches do, toward Trump.
He says that if anyone here is afraid of the prospect of the former president regaining the White House, he wants to give you a hug.
The towering six-foot-seven-inch, 325-pound man is known by some supporters and friends as “Teddy Bae” — and he is a hugger. 

Harry Dunn Fought Rioters on Jan. 6. Now He Wants to Go to Congress
Harry Dunn Fought Rioters on Jan. 6. Now He Wants to Go to Congress

dbpedia_all: DBpedia network (v3.6)
A network among all entries in DBpedia, a project that extracts structured information from Wikipedia. Nodes represent entities in DBpedia and an edge connects two entities based on DBpedia's notion of their relatedness. The data is extracted from the version 3.6 of the database.
This network has 3966924 nodes and 13820853 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Multigraph

Two-Start Pitchers: 5/27 – 6/2
#MLB #FantasyBaseball #PitcherList

IBM moves deeper into hybrid cloud management with $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition. https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/24/ibm-moves-deeper-into-hybrid-cloud-management-with-6-4b-hashicorp-acquisition/

Ex-Boston K-9 officer who used chair as weapon on Jan. 6 gets 20-month sentence
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4685834-boston-former-officer-sentenced-20-months-jan-6-charges/

Justice Clarence Thomas chooses not to recuse himself from another January 6-related case (Devan Cole/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/25/politics/clarence-thomas-january-6-case/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240425/p29#a240425p29

Cowboys' 6 biggest remaining needs heading into Day 2 of NFL Draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_6_biggest_remaining_needs_heading_into_day_2_of_nfl_draft/s1_17313_40284383

Cowboys' 6 biggest remaining needs heading into Day 2 of NFL Draft
With the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft officially in the books, the Dallas Cowboys still have a lot of needs to attend to entering the second and third rounds. The good news is they've picked up an additional third rounder to address them.  These picks will be crucial for their success as they still have a legit shot at landing starters or significant contributors to the roster. Let's take a look at the team's biggest remaining needs after picking Tyler Guyton at 29th overall on Thursday n…

#Wordle 1,072 6/6* starting word & more
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So from guess 2, the bot was proposing words with 2 E's, 2nd & 4th
on guess 2: deter
on guess 3: lever
on guess 4: bevel
on guess 5: bevel
on guess 6: rebel
funny how it switched from the answer it proposed on guess 4&5 to something else...ah I see, in it's estimation bevel is less likely to be the answer and guess 6 is the last shot.

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"Australia targets 6 GW of new renewables in ‘largest ever’ tender"
#Australia #Renewables #Energy

Australia targets 6 GW of new renewables in ‘largest ever’ tender
Australia’s “largest-ever” tender for renewable energy will open in May, with the federal government targeting 6 GW of new solar and wind projects.

#Linux 6.10-rc1 is out: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjQv_CSPzhjOMoOjGO3FmuHe5hzm6Ds69zZSFPa4PeuCA@mail.gmail.com/
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Starter words were no help. Got to guess 6 and had two options. I guessed wisely. #Wordle
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AA/WARC report: UK ad spend grew 6.1% YoY to £36.6B in 2023, with search advertising up 11.9% to £14.7B and national newsbrands spending down 6.3% to £774M (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/g

Google takes lion's share of growing UK ad market as publishers lose out
New data reveals the UK ad market had a bumper year in 2023, but news publishers had a poor one with declining ad spend.

Hello to the #bird #birding folks, can anyone positively ID this little guy? Spotted in #Memphis, TN.
I've tentatively landed on yellow-rumped myrtle warbler, but I'm not certain. It looks like a baby…

Stripe will let customers accept crypto payments, starting with USDC on Solana, Ethereum, and Polygon, the first time it has taken crypto payments since 2018 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/afte

After 6-year hiatus, Stripe to start taking crypto payments, starting with USDC stablecoin | TechCrunch
The company announced that it would start to let customers accept cryptocurrency payments, starting with USDC stablecoins, initially only on Solana, Ethereum and Polygon

Game #103
Shortest path: 4 (Avg. 6.3)
Total words: 6 (Avg. 17.9)
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#Linxicon

Linxicon
Link 2 random words together by creating a chain of meaning!

US to allocate additional $6 billion in military aid to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/us-to-allocate.html

Are you a Linux Wayland user who has hit an issue where #VivaldiBrowser is just black on startup after the 6.7 update?
We now have added a potential fix in the latest Vivaldi snapshot. In addition, there are pre-release versions of an update to the stable stream for you to try.

IBM buys HashiCorp for 6,4 billion USD.
It probably was a good idea, that some of the most important Open Source products were already forked some time ago.
Sigh.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc. Creating a Comprehensive End-to-End Hybrid Cloud Platform
$6.4 billion acquisition adds suite of leading hybrid and multi-cloud lifecycle management products to help clients grappling with today's AI-driven...

Y'know, the whole point of having USB-C for phones/laptops was universal compatibility. Instead, I find that various devices seem to randomly not work w/ various cables/wall warts. I understand voltage issues (a 0.5A wall wart w/ a USB-A plug obviously can't power a laptop), but the cables themselves being incompatible is super frustrating. A Dell USB-C charger will charge laptops & Switches and a Oneplus 6, but not a Oneplus 3. This random cable will charge Oneplus 6 but not Pix…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13709 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Absolute moments of the variance-gamma distribution
We obtain exact formulas for the absolute raw and central moments of the variance-gamma distribution, as infinite series involving the modified Bessel function of the second kind and the modified Lommel function of the first kind. When the skewness parameter is equal to zero (the symmetric variance-gamma distribution), the infinite series reduces to a single term. Moreover, for the case that the shape parameter is a half-integer (in our parameterisation of the variance-gamma distribution), we o…

Harry Dunn talks about protecting voting rights, women’s reproductive rights, and affordable health care and housing, and then veers, as most of his speeches do, toward Trump.
He says that if anyone here is afraid of the prospect of the former president regaining the White House, he wants to give you a hug.
The towering six-foot-seven-inch, 325-pound man is known by some supporters and friends as “Teddy Bae” — and he is a hugger. 

Harry Dunn Fought Rioters on Jan. 6. Now He Wants to Go to Congress
Harry Dunn Fought Rioters on Jan. 6. Now He Wants to Go to Congress

Two-Start Pitchers: 5/27 – 6/2
#MLB #FantasyBaseball #PitcherList

Im wilden Westen Berlins werden jetzt auch analoge Alternativen zum Digitaltool Wahl-o-mat im öffentlichen Raum erprobt.

It’s *still* the #MonthOfMayhem folks!
#CHEWSDAY, Mayhem 28th
Is it jazz or modern classical? Traveling between the years, DJ Oly Gark will explore a selection of #AnthonyBraxton’s cata…

IBM moves deeper into hybrid cloud management with $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition. https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/24/ibm-moves-deeper-into-hybrid-cloud-management-with-6-4b-hashicorp-acquisition/

Politico: US to announce new $6 billion weapons contract for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/25/politico-us-to.html

#CDFriday with #Dadawah. I have “Peace and Love” on vinyl, reissued by #SuperiorViaduct, but this new double CD from

AA/WARC report: UK ad spend grew 6.1% YoY to £36.6B in 2023, with search advertising up 11.9% to £14.7B and national newsbrands spending down 6.3% to £774M (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/g

Google takes lion's share of growing UK ad market as publishers lose out
New data reveals the UK ad market had a bumper year in 2023, but news publishers had a poor one with declining ad spend.

Game #103
Shortest path: 4 (Avg. 6.3)
Total words: 6 (Avg. 17.9)
🟦🟦🟥🟥 | 🔥 1
#Linxicon

Linxicon
Link 2 random words together by creating a chain of meaning!

#Wordle 1,072 6/6*
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Well that's known as squeaking it out! I used an eliminated letter on guess 4 😞 which meant I was really kicking myself when it got to guess 6.
Bot says: "Extremely lucky, but good for you." I agree.

Are you a Linux Wayland user who has hit an issue where #VivaldiBrowser is just black on startup after the 6.7 update?
We now have added a potential fix in the latest Vivaldi snapshot. In addition, there are pre-release versions of an update to the stable stream for you to try.

Ukraine war latest: US announces additional $6 billion in weapons for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/ukraine-war-latest.html

#CDFriday with #Dadawah. I have “Peace and Love” on vinyl, reissued by #SuperiorViaduct, but this new double CD from

Roku reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $882M, vs. $848.62M est., a net loss of $50.9M, compared to $193.6M YoY, and 81.6M active accounts, up 1.6M from Q4 2023 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/streaming/news/roku-q1-2024-earnings-re…

Roku Q1 2024 Earnings: Reaches 81.6 Million Active Accounts
Roku reported its first-quarter 2024 earnings Thursday, revealing the company reached 81.6 million active accounts

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16268 has been replaced.
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Road layout in the KPZ class
We propose a road layout and traffic model, based on last passage percolation (LPP). An easy naive argument shows that coalescence of traffic trajectories is essential to be considered when observing traffic networks around us. This is a fundamental feature in first passage percolation (FPP) models where nearby geodesics naturally coalesce in search of the easiest passage through the landscape. Road designers seek the same in pursuing cost savings, hence FPP geodesics are straightforward candid…

Als jemand, der organisiertem Sport ein leidenschaftliches aktives Desinteresse entgegenbringt, muss ich gar nicht selbst verfolgen, wer die türkische Meisterschaft im Männerfußball gewonnen hat. Die Straße informiert mich auch so über den Triumph von Galatasaray.

Ukraine war latest: US announces additional $6 billion in weapons for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/ukraine-war-latest.html

Supreme Court seems poised to allow Trump Jan. 6 trial, but not soon enough.

Conservative and liberal justices grappled with the historic significance of a case that will primarily immediately impact the 2024 election
https://www.washingtonpost.co…

Supreme Court seems poised to allow Trump Jan. 6 trial, but not immediately
Conservative and liberal justices grappled with the historic significance of the case, which will impact presidential power and Donald Trump’s D.C. trial.

Roku reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $882M, vs. $848.62M est., a net loss of $50.9M, compared to $193.6M YoY, and 81.6M active accounts, up 1.6M from Q4 2023 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/streaming/news/roku-q1-2024-earnings-re…

Roku Q1 2024 Earnings: Reaches 81.6 Million Active Accounts
Roku reported its first-quarter 2024 earnings Thursday, revealing the company reached 81.6 million active accounts

Roku reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $882M, vs. $848.62M est., a net loss of $50.9M, compared to $193.6M YoY, and 81.6M active accounts, up 1.6M from Q4 2023 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/streaming/news/roku-q1-2024-earnings-re…

Roku Q1 2024 Earnings: Reaches 81.6 Million Active Accounts
Roku reported its first-quarter 2024 earnings Thursday, revealing the company reached 81.6 million active accounts

“Kabosu, Shiba Inu Who Helped Define the Doge Meme, Dies at 18”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/world/asia/kabosu-doge-meme-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare…

Kabosu, Shiba Inu Dog Who Helped Define the Doge Meme, Dies at 18
The dog, whose face helped spread the popular doge meme and later became the logo of the Dogecoin cryptocurrency, died on Friday.

#PirateCatRadio ❝I want people not to just hear a lot of miscreants on the air, something raw and straightforward. Here in Silicon Valley we hear about big tech names, yet equally impactful are the folks who do not get the light of day.❞ https://

A Pirate Cat Radio story... | Los Gatan | Los Gatos, California
Pirate Cat Radio, at the 92.9 FM frequency, is the “work in progress” of Los Gatos resident Daniel Roberts. KPCR was switched on in 2020 and relocated here this past December, as first reported by the Los Gatan. For Pirate Cat Radio founder Roberts, that move was a homecoming—the culmination of a journey that began […]

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01658 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Noise sensitivity and stability on groups
We discuss finitely generated infinite groups on which natural random walks are noise sensitive in total variation as well as ones on which natural random walks are noise stable in total variation.

Supreme Court seems poised to allow Trump Jan. 6 trial, but not soon enough.

Conservative and liberal justices grappled with the historic significance of a case that will primarily immediately impact the 2024 election
https://www.washingtonpost.co…

Supreme Court seems poised to allow Trump Jan. 6 trial, but not immediately
Conservative and liberal justices grappled with the historic significance of the case, which will impact presidential power and Donald Trump’s D.C. trial.

Roku reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $882M, vs. $848.62M est., a net loss of $50.9M, compared to $193.6M YoY, and 81.6M active accounts, up 1.6M from Q4 2023 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/streaming/news/roku-q1-2024-earnings-re…

Roku Q1 2024 Earnings: Reaches 81.6 Million Active Accounts
Roku reported its first-quarter 2024 earnings Thursday, revealing the company reached 81.6 million active accounts

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07811 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Asymptotic shape for subadditve processes on groups of polynomial growth
This study delves into the exploration of the limiting shape theorem for subadditive processes on finitely generated groups with polynomial growth, commonly referred to as virtually nilpotent groups. Investigating the algebraic structures underlying these processes, we present a generalized form of the asymptotic shape theorem within this framework. Extending subadditive ergodic theory in this context, we consider processes which exhibit both at most and at least linear random growth. We conclu…

In zwei größeren Asia-Märkten gewesen, in beiden war Lao Gan Ma ausverkauft und man wisse auch nicht, wann das wieder geliefert werde. Was ist da los? Wann handelt Habeck?

#Upcoming Originally released in 1983, "Japanese Whispers" by #TheCure is up next for reissue on clear vinyl, and housed in a special “transclear” paper sleeve which has to be hand packed to avoid tearing. Remastered by Robert Smith and cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road studios. Available via …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06541 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Stochastic Nash evolution
This paper introduces a probabilistic formulation for the isometric embedding of a Riemannian manifold $(M^n,g)$ into Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^q$. Given $α\in ]\tfrac{1}{2},1]$, we show that a $C^{1,α}$ embedding $u: M \to \mathbb{R}^q$ is isometric if and only if the intrinsic and extrinsic constructions of Brownian motion on $u(M)\subset \mathbb{R}^q$ yield processes with the same law. The equivalence is first established for smooth embeddings; this is followed by a renormalization proce…

Oh Mann, den ganzen Vormittag schon einen Ohrwurm von diesem L’Amour-toujours-Lied mit „Nazis aufs Maul, Nazis aufs Maul. AfD verbieten, Nazis aufs Maul.“

Russia strikes critical infrastructure facility in Cherkasy Oblast, 6 reportedly injured: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/25/russia-strikes-critical.html

Random Idea: Spargel-Kimchi

#CDFriday with #GastrDelSol. Really lovely collection of previously unreleased live performances and previously released studio recordings which were available in limited edition releases.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17543 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

On invariant distributions of Feller Markov chains with applications to dynamical systems with random switching
We introduce simple conditions ensuring that invariant distributions of a Feller Markov chain on a compact Riemannian manifold are absolutely continuous with a lower semi-continuous, continuous or smooth density with respect to the Riemannian measure. This is applied to Markov chains obtained by random composition of maps and to piecewise deterministic Markov processes obtained by random switching between flows.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14828 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Divisibility and primality in random walks
In this paper we study the divisibility and primality properties of the Bernoulli random walk. We improve or extend some of our divisibility results to wide classes of iid or independent non iid random walks. We also obtain new primality results for the Rademacher random walk. We study the value distribution of divisors of the random walk in the Cramér model, and obtain a general estimate of a similar kind to that of the Bernouilli model. Earlier results on divisors and quasi-prime numbers in …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08142 has been replaced.
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Latent mutations in the ancestries of alleles under selection
We consider a single genetic locus with two alleles $A_1$ and $A_2$ in a large haploid population. The locus is subject to selection and two-way, or recurrent, mutation. Assuming the allele frequencies follow a Wright-Fisher diffusion and have reached stationarity, we describe the asymptotic behaviors of the conditional gene genealogy and the latent mutations of a sample with known allele counts, when the count $n_1$ of allele $A_1$ is fixed, and when either or both the sample size $n$ and the …

Like, if this was an album, I would totally buy it.
https://mastodon.xyz/@soundclamp/112510845132406178

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05137 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

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

#NowPlaying Originally released in 1981, “Punkanachrock” is a unique artifact of Japanese music counterculture from the 1970s. #AnodeCathode were an anonymous group, associated with #TheFifthColumn

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05885 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Quantitative and stable limits of high-frequency statistics of Lévy processes: a Stein's method approach
We establish inequalities for assessing the distance between the distribution of errors of partially observed high-frequency statistics of multidimensional Lévy processes and that of a mixed Gaussian random variable. Furthermore, we provide a general result guaranteeing stable functional convergence. Our arguments rely on a suitable adaptation of the Stein's method perspective to the context of mixed Gaussian distributions, specifically tailored to the framework of high-frequency statistics.

#ListeningClub And another after party pick with Daniel Johnston singing with Yo La Tengo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bRvi8Zmmys

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04162 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Fractional Boundary Value Problems and elastic sticky Brownian motions, II: The bounded domain
Sticky diffusion processes spend finite time (and finite mean time) on a lower-dimensional boundary. Once the process hits the boundary, then it starts again after a random amount of time. While on the boundary it can stay or move according to dynamics that are different from those in the interior. Such processes may be characterized by a time-derivative appearing in the boundary condition for the governing problem. We use time changes obtained by right-inverses of suitable processes in order t…

#ListeningClub For the after party, here’s what I wanted to pick but, rightfully, the upload link wouldn’t let me. Enjoy some spacey, Japanese psych rock. https://marbleshhepkent…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05837 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Stability and chaos in dynamical last passage percolation
Many complex statistical mechanical models have intricate energy landscapes. The ground state, or lowest energy state, lies at the base of the deepest valley. In examples such as spin glasses and Gaussian polymers, there are many valleys; the abundance of near-ground states (at the base of valleys) indicates the phenomenon of chaos, under which the ground state alters profoundly when the model's disorder is slightly perturbed. In this article, we compute the critical exponent that governs the o…

#ListeningClub And thank you @… for making it all work together, masterful job sir!

The Directed Landscape is a Black Noise
Zoe Himwich, Shalin Parekh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16801 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.16801<…

The Directed Landscape is a Black Noise
We show that the directed landscape is a black noise in the sense of Tsirelson and Vershik. As a corollary, we show that for any microscopic system in which the height profile converges in law to the directed landscape, the driving noise is asymptotically independent of the height profile. This decoupling result provides one answer to the question of what happens to the driving noise in the limit under the KPZ scaling, and illustrates a type of noise sensitivity for systems in the KPZ universal…

#ListeningClub Wow, thank you everybody for such amazeball picks. This was so much fun!

Complementary asymptotic analysis for a minimal random walk
Cristian F. Coletti, Manuel Gonz\'alez-Navarrete, V\'ictor Hugo V\'azquez Guevara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16800

Complementary asymptotic analysis for a minimal random walk
We discuss a complementary asymptotic analysis of the so called minimal random walk. More precisely, we present a version of the almost sure central limit theorem as well as a generalization of the recently proposed quadratic strong laws. In addition, alternative demonstrations of the functional limit theorems will be supplied based on a Pólya urn scheme instead of a martingale approach.

#ListeningClub Okay, that was an awkward segue haha.

Concentration inequalities for Poisson $U$-statistics
Gilles Bonnet, Anna Gusakova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16756 https://arxiv.org…

Concentration inequalities for Poisson $U$-statistics
In this article we obtain concentration inequalities for Poisson $U$-statistics $F_m(f,η)$ of order $m\ge 1$ with kernels $f$ under general assumptions on $f$ and the intensity measure $γΛ$ of underlying Poisson point process $η$. The main result are new concentration bounds of the form \[ \mathbb{P}(|F_m ( f , η) -\mathbb{E} F_m ( f , η)| \ge t)\leq 2\exp(-I(γ,t)), \] where $I(γ,t)$ satisfies $I(γ,t)=Θ(t^{1\over m}\log t)$ as $t\to\infty$ and $γ$ is fixed. The function…

#ListeningClub Yay!

Martin boundary of a space-time Brownian motion with drift killed at the boundary of a moving cone
Sandro Franceschi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16679 https…

Martin boundary of a space-time Brownian motion with drift killed at the boundary of a moving cone
We study a space-time Brownian motion with drift B(t)=(t_0+t,y_0+W(t)+t) killed at the moving boundary of the cone {(t,x):0

#ListeningClub Perfect segue.

Gaussian free field and Liouville quantum gravity
Nathana\"el Berestycki, Ellen Powell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16642 https://…

Gaussian free field and Liouville quantum gravity
Over fourty years ago, the physicist Polyakov proposed a bold framework for string theory, in which the problem was reduced to the study of certain "random surfaces". He further made the tantalising suggestion that this theory could be explicitly solved. Recent breakthroughs from the last fifteen years have not only given a concrete mathematical basis for this theory but also verified some of its most striking predictions, as well as Polyakov's original vision. This theory, now known in the mat…

#ListeningClub Omg I love this mashup!

#ListeningClub Headbanger’s ball. 🤘

#ListeningClub Oh, those opening chords fooled me!

#ListeningClub Just realized I forgot to pick Speeding Motorcycle. 🤦‍♂️

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#ListeningClub Turn up the volume!

#ListeningClub You just heard “Cooking” by beloved San Jose, California slowcore band Duster. They were mostly a local thing, just three mellow dudes recording with cheap equipment, but after the Chicago-based public radio show This American Life used a couple of songs, their popularity grew. They got a fresh round of attention when Numero Group worked with them to remaster and re-release the…

#ListeningClub This is so gosh darn pleasant.

#Upcoming “Second Hand” is a lovingly curated selection of remarkable book covers found by designer #JesseReed while browsing the stacks at local book shops in NYC and around the world. Available via #Vernacular

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For this week’s #SalvoNewsletter,
@… chatted with the one and only #Fenriz about all kinds of things, including the new

Hey Hey! FENRIZ Is Still Ready to Metal
The Norwegian black metal icon goes long on his listening habits, the new Darkthrone album, his gardening skills, and much more.

Day four of Pesach and I’ve reached the stage where eating cardboard doesn’t feel novel anymore. 😭😂

Day four of Pesach and I’ve reached the stage where eating cardboard doesn’t feel novel anymore. 😭😂