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Does the West Still Allow Russia to Make Weapons? The Answer Lies in Sanctions Circumvention: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/11/does-the-west.html

AQuA: Automated Question-Answering in Software Tutorial Videos with Visual Anchors
Saelyne Yang, Jo Vermeulen, George Fitzmaurice, Justin Matejka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05213 …

AQuA: Automated Question-Answering in Software Tutorial Videos with Visual Anchors
Tutorial videos are a popular help source for learning feature-rich software. However, getting quick answers to questions about tutorial videos is difficult. We present an automated approach for responding to tutorial questions. By analyzing 633 questions found in 5,944 video comments, we identified different question types and observed that users frequently described parts of the video in questions. We then asked participants (N=24) to watch tutorial videos and ask questions while annotating t…

At the hospital ER today some angry dude walked out of the waiting room and up to the nurse at the triage desk:
“I've been here for 25 minutes! How long is this going to take? ____ is not feeling any better!!”.
The nurse, who was very nicely helping us check in, and had helped the dozen or so others there, turned off the smile and just looked at him... dead pan stare… and said.
"Yes?”
Angry-dude said some other stuff, then turned around and went back to the w…

A note on Seshadri constants, Gromov widths of toric surfaces and lattice widths of polygons
Atsushi Ito
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06026 https://

A note on Seshadri constants, Gromov widths of toric surfaces and lattice widths of polygons
In this note, we study Seshadri constants and Gromov widths of toric surfaces via lattice widths of their moment polygons. We give the sharp lower bound of the ratio between the Gromov width of a symplectic toric $4$-fold and the lattice width of the moment polygon, which answers to a question raised by Codenotti, Hall and Hofscheier.

Cw: discussion of #transphobia; JKR; politics and power
Someone in a Facebook group I'm in asked:
"What the f☆☆k has JK Rowling got to do with removing the appalling Zionist Keir Starmer & the rest of our neoliberal NATO supporting warmongering parliamentary representatives from power?
Asking for a very angry feminist socialist lesbian disabled 70 year old."
I thought this was actually a deceptively good question, so I thought I'd share my answer here...
The thing to understand is that trans rights and trans healthcare are being used as a 'wedge issue' by the right wing: something to divide and distract us while they get on with their usual business of plundering everybody.
Rowling, as a billionaire with a huge platform and a great deal of time on her hands, has done more than practically anybody else to drive this wedge deeper.
Like every scapegoating campaign used by the right - against gay people, immigrants, minorities, benefits claimants and so on - the anti-trans moral panic has serious, material consequences for its targets.
The ones who benefit from these hate campaigns (and often fund them, directly or indirectly) are largely indifferent to the harm caused; the distraction and division are the main points, but stoking fear and hatred are time-worn methods of achieving those.
Hope this helps!

What's in a Ukrainian Easter basket? The answer isn't chocolate: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/03/whats-in-a.html

Q&A with Sam Altman on the OpenAI board saga, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk's lawsuit, Sora, Q*, GPT-5, raising $7T, Google and Gemini, AGI, aliens, and more (Lex Fridman)
https://lexfridman.com/sam-altman-2-transcript

Cw: discussion of #transphobia; JKR; politics and power
Someone in a Facebook group I'm in asked:
"What the f☆☆k has JK Rowling got to do with removing the appalling Zionist Keir Starmer & the rest of our neoliberal NATO supporting warmongering parliamentary representatives from power?
Asking for a very angry feminist socialist lesbian disabled 70 year old."
I thought this was actually a deceptively good question, so I thought I'd share my answer here...
The thing to understand is that trans rights and trans healthcare are being used as a 'wedge issue' by the right wing: something to divide and distract us while they get on with their usual business of plundering everybody.
Rowling, as a billionaire with a huge platform and a great deal of time on her hands, has done more than practically anybody else to drive this wedge deeper.
Like every scapegoating campaign used by the right - against gay people, immigrants, minorities, benefits claimants and so on - the anti-trans moral panic has serious, material consequences for its targets.
The ones who benefit from these hate campaigns (and often fund them, directly or indirectly) are largely indifferent to the harm caused; the distraction and division are the main points, but stoking fear and hatred are time-worn methods of achieving those.
Hope this helps!

Raiders have met with best cornerback at NFL Combine https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_have_met_with_best_cornerback_at_nfl_combine/s1_17313_40036680

Raiders have met with best cornerback at NFL Combine
During the 2024 NFL Draft Combine, the Las Vegas Raiders and every other team are in Indianapolis to watch the players perform drills, get their measurables done, and answer questions in front of media and that the teams ask. One of the Raiders' biggest needs, outside of quarterback, of course, is cornerback, in which the Raiders will have plenty of guys to choose from. In this case, they could end up with the best cornerback in the draft at pick No. 13 in, Terrion Arnold, who is amazing everyo…

Scaramucci's 11 days in Trump's Whitehouse are obviously hilarious, but this interview is actually quite interesting
[Leading] 60. Anthony Scaramucci: What it's like to be Donald Trump's Communications Director #leading

Leading - 60. Anthony Scaramucci: What it's like to be Donald Trump's Communications Director - Podcast Addict
Would a second Trump presidency be far more right wing? What drives the former US president? Is he trying to do a deal with Taylor Swift?In this week's episode of Leading, Rory and Alastair are joined by Anthony Scaramucci, Trump's former spin doctor, where he answers all these questions and more.Buy tickets now for our October TRIP Election Tour:https://www.aegpresents.co.uk/event