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Woohoo! My old ppscsi scanner scans:
# scanimage -d hp:/dev/sg3 -v -p --mode color -o /tmp/g.jpg
scanimage: scanning image of size 2550x3507 pixels at 24 bits/pixel
scanimage: acquiring RGB frame
scanimage: min/max graylevel value = 11/255
scanimage: read 26828550 bytes in total
# uname -a
Linux ood 6.5.0-28-generic #29~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Apr 4 14:39:20 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
And the scan, a 1946 radio amateur intr…

Woohoo! My old ppscsi scanner scans:
# scanimage -d hp:/dev/sg3 -v -p --mode color -o /tmp/g.jpg
scanimage: scanning image of size 2550x3507 pixels at 24 bits/pixel
scanimage: acquiring RGB frame
scanimage: min/max graylevel value = 11/255
scanimage: read 26828550 bytes in total
# uname -a
Linux ood 6.5.0-28-generic #29~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Apr 4 14:39:20 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
And the scan, a 1946 radio amateur intr…

January 4, 2024 NYT crossword puzzle spoiler and petty gripe
NYT crosswords are usually so precise, but this one has a mistake, which I think is the first one I ever found after doing thousands of them over the years.
The clue is "36:1, for snake-eyes" and the correct answer is "ODDS". But the odds for snake-eyes are 1:35. Argh!
#NYTCrossword #Math #Probability

Einigung bei Agrar-Exporten mit Polen in Sicht
Im Streit mit Polen um Agrarexporte aus der Ukraine auf den EU-Binnenmarkt steht offenbar eine Einigung bevor. "Wir sind nah daran, das Problem im gemeinsamen Dialog zu lösen", sagte der Parteivorsitzende der polnischen PSL, Krzysztof Paszyk, der staatlichen Nachrichtenagentur PAP. Er sehe den Gesprächen heute und morgen optimistisch entgegen.
Der polnische Agararminister Czeslaw…
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Liveblog: ++ Nobelpreisträger fordern mehr Ukraine-Hilfe ++
Per offenem Brief warnen 39 Nobelpreisträger Staats- und Regierungschefs: Putins Regime stelle "eine Bedrohung für die Menschheit" dar. Ukrainische Behörden melden Angriffe auf Charkiw. Die Entwicklungen vom Mittwoch zum Nachlesen.

January 4, 2024 NYT crossword puzzle spoiler and petty gripe
NYT crosswords are usually so precise, but this one has a mistake, which I think is the first one I ever found after doing thousands of them over the years.
The clue is "36:1, for snake-eyes" and the correct answer is "ODDS". But the odds for snake-eyes are 1:35. Argh!
#NYTCrossword #Math #Probability

Puzzle game: Prediction and Classification of Wordle Solution Words
Haidong Xin, Fang Wu, Zhitong Zhou, Dongping Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19433 https…

Puzzle game: Prediction and Classification of Wordle Solution Words
With the popularity of the Wordle game launched by the New York Times, more and more players are getting involved in this challenging game. Submitting the correct answer not only requires your luck, but is also influenced by various attributes of the word. For question 1, we preprocessed the original data by removing and replacing the abnormal data firstly. Then, we established an ARIMA-based prediction model for the number of reported results, with the parameters p=0, d=1, q=1 of the model d…

I remember when this happened so well. #math

The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman - Priceonomics
In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant correctly answered a probability puzzle in her column for Parade Magazine. And then, the world called her an idiot.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08198 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_nuc…

Emerging Spherical-like spectra for the description of the normal states of $^{108-120}$Cd in the SU3-IBM
Spherical nucleus puzzle implies that the phonon excitation of a spherical shape should be questioned and refuted. For understanding this spherical-like $γ$-soft mode newly found experimentally, a possible answer was proposed recently in the SU3-IBM. In this paper, the evolutions of the normal states in $^{108-120}$Cd are investigated and compared with the experimental results. For better explaining the nearly zero B(E2) values between the $0_{2}^{+}$ state and the $2_{1}^{+}$ state, except fo…

Towards Linear Spanners in All Temporal Cliques
Sebastian Angrick, Ben Bals, Tobias Friedrich, Hans Gawendowicz, Niko Hastrich, Nicolas Klodt, Pascal Lenzner, Jonas Schmidt, George Skretas, Armin Wells
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13624

Towards Linear Spanners in All Temporal Cliques
Many real-world networks, like transportation networks and social networks, are dynamic in the sense that the edge set may change over time, but these changes are known in advance. This behavior is captured by the temporal graphs model, which has recently become a trending topic in theoretical computer science. A core open problem in the field is to prove the existence of linear-size temporal spanners in temporal cliques, i.e., sparse subgraphs of complete temporal graphs that ensure all-pairs …