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A shift from agricultural employment to manufacturing accelerated a century before the steam engine & the boom in coal usage: intriguing findings from 20 years of archival research in England & Wales.
If it wasn't the energy... new techniques, in process or organisation? (eg printing?) Hard-working immigrants? Ideas thus spread? Any ideas here re the past, or for our future?

‘Nation of makers’: Britain industrialised over a century earlier than history books claim
Millions of historical employment records show the British workforce turned sharply towards manufacturing jobs during the 1600s – suggesting the birth of the industrial age has much deeper roots.   

Auch Frankreich, aber ganz schlecht:
Seit gestern wird 'algorithmische #Videoüberwachung' der frz. Firma #Wintics getestet, die bei den Olympischen Spielen im Sommer zum Einsatz kommen soll, und zwar bei Depeche Mode-Konzerten gestern und morgen.
Die nächsten Test…

Snake Learning: A Communication- and Computation-Efficient Distributed Learning Framework for 6G
Xiaoxue Yu, Xingfu Yi, Rongpeng Li, Fei Wang, Chenghui Peng, Zhifeng Zhao, Honggang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03372

Snake Learning: A Communication- and Computation-Efficient Distributed Learning Framework for 6G
In the evolution towards 6G, integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) with advanced network infrastructure emerges as a pivotal strategy for enhancing network intelligence and resource utilization. Existing distributed learning frameworks like Federated Learning and Split Learning often struggle with significant challenges in dynamic network environments including high synchronization demands, costly communication overheads, severe computing resource consumption, and data heterogeneity across n…

Dain Bramage – “I Scream Not Coming Down” (1986)
Bob Fartblossom, aka Bob Durkee, was a kind of local underground celeb where I grew up. After putting out releases from his own band (Pillsbury Hardcore) he started his own label and put out bands like Justice League, Three Day Stubble, and Subculture. I’d buy pretty much anything on the label in the mid to late 80s.
This has become a bit of a novelty item since it’s Dave Grohl’s first band.
Comes with glossy fold-out inser…

Many GOP billionaires balked at Jan. 6. They’re coming back to Trump.
Trump’s team has used a soft touch with the billionaires and has shown more sophistication than some expected
At the center of some of the discussions has been top Trump aide #Susie #Wiles, who often comes armed with data and is viewed as “imp…

Many GOP billionaires balked at Jan. 6. They’re coming back to Trump.
Elite donors are rediscovering their affinity for the former president over taxes — even as he vows to free Jan. 6 defendants, promises mass deportations and faces 88 felony charges.

Bills to sign veteran offensive tackle https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/bills_to_sign_veteran_offensive_tackle/s1_14819_40196420

Bills to sign veteran offensive tackle
The Bills hosted La’el Collins on a visit during last season, but the veteran tackle — whom the Bengals released from their reserve/PUP list in September — did not end up signing. After briefly catching on with the Cowboys last year, Collins is coming back to New York. Collins has a one-year deal in place with Buffalo, according to Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio. After visiting the Bills in late December, Collins will have a chance to resume his career. The veteran right tackle has no…

baloney moccasins: when 23-year-old laurie anderson illustrated a very #psychedelic underground comic written by leo dicaprio's father, 1970. https://archive.org/details/baloney-mo

Baloney Moccasins Comics : George DiCaprio, Laurie Anderson, M. Trainer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a 1970 one-shot from Half-Ass Press. The brainchild of Leo DiCaprio's daddy, George DiCaprio.

Search for a sub-eV sterile neutrino using Daya Bay's full dataset
F. P. An, W. D. Bai, A. B. Balantekin, M. Bishai, S. Blyth, G. F. Cao, J. Cao, J. F. Chang, Y. Chang, H. S. Chen, H. Y. Chen, S. M. Chen, Y. Chen, Y. X. Chen, Z. Y. Chen, J. Cheng, Y. C. Cheng, Z. K. Cheng, J. J. Cherwinka, M. C. Chu, J. P. Cummings, O. Dalager, F. S. Deng, X. Y. Ding, Y. Y. Ding, M. V. Diwan, T. Dohnal, D. Dolzhikov, J. Dove, K. V. Dugas, H. Y. Duyang, D. A. Dwyer, J. P. Gallo, M. Gonchar, G. H. Go…

Search for a sub-eV sterile neutrino using Daya Bay's full dataset
This Letter presents results of a search for the mixing of a sub-eV sterile neutrino based on the full data sample of the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, collected during 3158 days of detector operation, which contains $5.55 \times 10^{6}$ reactor \anue candidates identified as inverse beta-decay interactions followed by neutron-capture on gadolinium. The result was obtained in the minimally extended 3+1 neutrino mixing model. The analysis benefits from a doubling of the statistics of our…

When Digital Twin Meets Generative AI: Intelligent Closed-Loop Network Management
Xinyu Huang, Haojun Yang, Conghao Zhou, Xuemin Shen, Weihua Zhuang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03025

When Digital Twin Meets Generative AI: Intelligent Closed-Loop Network Management
Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) and digital twin (DT) are advanced data processing and virtualization technologies to revolutionize communication networks. Thanks to the powerful data processing capabilities of GAI, integrating it into DT is a potential approach to construct an intelligent holistic virtualized network for better network management performance. To this end, we propose a GAI-driven DT (GDT) network architecture to enable intelligent closed-loop network management. In the…