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"Linus Torvalds is just a manager, just check #Linux' commit history, he hardly contributes any changes these days."
There is some truth in statements like that which one bumps into occasionally on the net. Nevertheless they are not drawing an accurate picture at all, as Linus is still heavily involved and every week or two influences development a great deal with insightful and …

Exploring Time Delay Interferometry Ranging as a Practical Ranging Technique in the Bayesian Framework
Minghui Du, Pengzhan Wu, Ziren Luo, Peng Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03060

Exploring Time Delay Interferometry Ranging as a Practical Ranging Technique in the Bayesian Framework
Knowledge on the inter-spacecraft optical paths (i.e. delays) is one of the key elements of time delay interferometry (TDI). Conventional method for inter-spacecraft ranging mainly relies on the pseudo-random noise (PRN) code signal modulated onto the lasers. To ensure the reliability and robustness of this ranging information, it would be highly beneficial to develop other methods which could serve as cross-validations or backups. This paper explores the practical implementation of an alternat…

Trump’s bond benefactor 'illegally' repo’d 'dozens of vehicles belonging to military employees': report - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/billionaire-trump-bond/

Trump’s bond benefactor 'illegally' repo’d 'dozens of vehicles belonging to military employees': report
Don Hankey, the billionaire who put up Donald Trump's $175 million bond last week for the MAGA hopeful's New York civil fraud trial judgment, was once sued by the former president's Department of Justice, according to an exclusive Daily Beast report. Hankey gained much of his $7.4 billion net worth,...

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Trust in AI: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions
The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in our daily life through various applications, services, and products explains the significance of trust/distrust in AI from a user perspective. AI-driven systems (as opposed to other technologies) have ubiquitously diffused in our life not only as some beneficial tools to be used by human agents but also are going to be substitutive agents on our behalf, or manipulative minds that would influence human thought, decision, and agency. T…

Trump’s bond benefactor 'illegally' repo’d 'dozens of vehicles belonging to military employees': report - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/billionaire-trump-bond/

Trump’s bond benefactor 'illegally' repo’d 'dozens of vehicles belonging to military employees': report
Don Hankey, the billionaire who put up Donald Trump's $175 million bond last week for the MAGA hopeful's New York civil fraud trial judgment, was once sued by the former president's Department of Justice, according to an exclusive Daily Beast report. Hankey gained much of his $7.4 billion net worth,...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03060 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Exploring Time Delay Interferometry Ranging as a Practical Ranging Technique in the Bayesian Framework
Knowledge on the inter-spacecraft optical paths (i.e. delays) is one of the key elements of time delay interferometry (TDI). Conventional method for inter-spacecraft ranging mainly relies on the pseudo-random noise (PRN) code signal modulated onto the lasers. To ensure the reliability and robustness of this ranging information, it would be highly beneficial to develop other methods which could serve as cross-validations or backups. This paper explores the practical implementation of an alternat…

Using `--load-average` in MAKEOPTS is fun.
Some build systems (like make and ninja) respect it but always run at least one job. Most of the time this keeps my CPUs nicely saturated without having too many jobs spawned when multiple packages build in parallel. At times, when only a single package is being built, it leads to short periods where a spike in load causes suboptimal CPU utilization but that's not a big deal.
Some tools (like pytest) do not support `--load-average` at all. This means they always run the full set of jobs. As a result, the tools that do respect it end up running just one job for the time. This usually turns out reasonably convenient during my Python bumps since the test suites finish quicker without being slowed down by other package builds.
Some tools (like CTest from CMake) do not spawn any jobs if `--load-average` is exceeded. This is quite confusing at first, because it looks like it just hanged — and I suppose if you may end up having high background load, the test suite may never actually start running.
#Gentoo

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14680 has been replaced.
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Trust in AI: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions
The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in our daily life through various applications, services, and products explains the significance of trust/distrust in AI from a user perspective. AI-driven systems (as opposed to other technologies) have ubiquitously diffused in our life not only as some beneficial tools to be used by human agents but also are going to be substitutive agents on our behalf, or manipulative minds that would influence human thought, decision, and agency. T…

Geometric Burn Control For Tokamaks
J. F. Parisi, J. W. Berkery, A. Sladkomedova, S. Guizzo, M. R. Hardman, J. R. Ball, A. O. Nelson, S. M. Kaye, M. Anastopoulos-Tzanis, S. A. M. McNamara, J. Dominski, S. Janhunen, M. Romanelli, D. Dickinson, A. Diallo, A. Dnestrovskii, W. Guttenfelder, C. Hansen, O. Myatra, H. R. Wilson
https://

Geometric Burn Control For Tokamaks
A new burn control scheme for tokamaks is described where the total fusion power is controlled by adjusting the plasma volume fraction that is packed into power dense regions. In an example spherical tokamak burning plasma, by modifying the plasma edge squareness the total fusion power is doubled at almost constant total plasma volume and fusion power density. Therefore, increased plasma squareness could be extremely beneficial to a fusion reactor and squareness control could be desirable for p…

Trust in AI: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions
Saleh Afroogh, Ali Akbari, Evan Malone, Mohammadali Kargar, Hananeh Alambeigi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14680

Trust in AI: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions
The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in our daily life through various applications, services, and products explains the significance of trust/distrust in AI from a user perspective. AI-driven systems (as opposed to other technologies) have ubiquitously diffused in our life not only as some beneficial tools to be used by human agents but also are going to be substitutive agents on our behalf, or manipulative minds that would influence human thought, decision, and agency. T…