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Of course, I can't start a day without being awfully angry about some shit.
So #Gentoo suddenly undoes USE=lzma [and USE=zstd] that used to be enabled by default in 23.0 profiles, apparently based on "consensus" on the mailing lists. The "consensus" boils down to one conspiracy theorist developer complaining, and being supported by 3 users whose Gentoo contributions boil down to having to express their opinions on everything on the mailing list.
This isn't only a problem, because Gentoo is letting itself be controlled by a vocal minority. This is a problem, because we've enabled something that can affect program output, told everyone to upgrade and rebuild their systems, then pulled the carpet from under them.
Wait, did that random app start using LZMA compression now that you've enabled it? Well, bad luck, you won't be able to open your files anymore. Surely, there's no better #security than not being able to do anything!
Unfortunately, sys-apps/kmod had explicit IUSE= lzma by default for a while now, so there's still a risk that you'll be able to boot your system. That's not good for security at all!
#xz

Monotonicity of Recurrence in Random Walks
Rupert Li, Elchanan Mossel, Benjamin Weiss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04108 https://arxiv.…

Monotonicity of Recurrence in Random Walks
We consider non-homogeneous random walks on the positive quadrant in two dimensions. In the 1960's the following question was asked: is it true if such a random walk $X$ is recurrent and $Y$ is another random walk that at every point is more likely to go down and more likely to go left than $Y$, then $Y$ is also recurrent? We provide an example showing that the answer is negative. We also show that if either the random walk $X$ or $Y$ is sufficiently homogeneous then the answer is in fact pos…

On linear-combinatorial problems associated with subspaces spanned by $\{\pm 1\}$-vectors
Anwar A. Irmatov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05082 https://…

On linear-combinatorial problems associated with subspaces spanned by $\{\pm 1\}$-vectors
A complete answer to the question about subspaces generated by $\{\pm 1\}$-vectors, which arose in the work of I.Kanter and H.Sompolinsky on associative memories, is given. More precisely, let vectors $v_1, \ldots , v_p,$ $p\leq n-1,$ be chosen at random uniformly and independently from $\{\pm 1\}^n \subset {\bf R}^n.$ Then the probability ${\mathbb P}(p, n)$ that $$span \ \langle v_1, \ldots , v_p \rangle \cap \left\{ \{\pm 1\}^n \setminus \{\pm v_1, \ldots , \pm v_p\}\right\} \ne \emptyset \ …

Talked my wife, who has resisted getting her own ham license for years (in spite of being a solo backcountry hiker) into trying a practice test for the Technician license. She beat 50%, which is double what a random distribution of answers would be. She needed 8 more correct answers to pass. This is someone who has refused to study or even look at the material.
I'll keep up the fight, but EVERYONE who ventures further than their own neighborhood should get a license and carry a ch…

Not getting into an argument over a #RandomPedantry point, but as a matter of objective fact, we are leaving our kids cleaner air on a global basis than we inherited with the exception of CO2 levels. Sulfur, fine particulates, NOx, etc. are all *down* in a multi-decadal scope.
Which is part of why we seeing a tipping point in temperatures. Fuel oil used in large ships has gotten much c…

Mehr als 340 beschädigte Kulturstätten in der Ukraine
Seit Beginn des russischen Angriffskriegs auf die Ukraine sind in dem osteuropäischen Land 341 Kulturstätten beschädigt worden. Zu den am stärksten beschädigten Gebäuden gehöre die Verklärungskathedrale in der zum Weltkulturerbe gehörenden Altstadt von Odessa, teilte die UNESCO mit. Die Kathedrale wurde 1936 unter dem sowjetischen Machthaber Josef Stalin zerstört und zwisch…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ UNESCO: Mehr als 340 Kulturstätten beschädigt ++
341 Kulturstätten sind laut Angabe der UNESCO in der Ukraine seit Beginn des Krieges beschädigt worden. Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj hat sich beim US-Senat für die Bewilligung eines Hilfspakets bedankt. Die Entwicklungen vom Dienstag zum Nachlesen.

#AngieHarmon #EdwardMulhare
Baywatch Nights 2x12 - Frozen Out Of Time
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx

Can humans teach machines to code?
C\'eline Hocquette, Johannes Langer, Andrew Cropper, Ute Schmid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19397 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19397
arXiv:2404.19397v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The goal of inductive program synthesis is for a machine to automatically generate a program from user-supplied examples of the desired behaviour of the program. A key underlying assumption is that humans can provide examples of sufficient quality to teach a concept to a machine. However, as far as we are aware, this assumption lacks both empirical and theoretical support. To address this limitation, we explore the question `Can humans teach machines to code?'. To answer this question, we conduct a study where we ask humans to generate examples for six programming tasks, such as finding the maximum element of a list. We compare the performance of a program synthesis system trained on (i) human-provided examples, (ii) randomly sampled examples, and (iii) expert-provided examples. Our results show that, on most of the tasks, non-expert participants did not provide sufficient examples for a program synthesis system to learn an accurate program. Our results also show that non-experts need to provide more examples than both randomly sampled and expert-provided examples.

Mehr als 340 beschädigte Kulturstätten in der Ukraine
Seit Beginn des russischen Angriffskriegs auf die Ukraine sind in dem osteuropäischen Land 341 Kulturstätten beschädigt worden. Zu den am stärksten beschädigten Gebäuden gehöre die Verklärungskathedrale in der zum Weltkulturerbe gehörenden Altstadt von Odessa, teilte die UNESCO mit. Die Kathedrale wurde 1936 unter dem sowjetischen Machthaber Josef Stalin zerstört und zwisch…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ UNESCO: Mehr als 340 Kulturstätten beschädigt ++
341 Kulturstätten sind laut Angabe der UNESCO in der Ukraine seit Beginn des Krieges beschädigt worden. Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj hat sich beim US-Senat für die Bewilligung eines Hilfspakets bedankt. Die Entwicklungen vom Dienstag zum Nachlesen.

#DavidHasselhoff #AngieHarmon
Baywatch Nights 2x12 - Frozen Out Of Time
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx