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So Casio fans, there is often talk about how module 593's major failing is its backlight. And yes, it is pretty weak and uneven. I too have thrown shade at it and yet, if I am totally honest I don't recall ever having struggled to read it in real life.
While in photos it often comes out looking totally unreadable, I find that with the naked eye (in the dark at night), I have always read the entire display just fine.
Is this just me?

About life and feelings, gloomy and private
The feelings we get from the activities we do could be classified as neutral, positive and negative.
Let's take developing #Gentoo as an example. It's something that makes me happy — but you can't (or at least I can't) just get the happiness and reject everything else. Most of the Gentoo work is basically neutral, even bland — a duty that takes a lot of time and effort, and probably a little of your health. It's statistically probable that you're going to get some positive feelings out of it — the joy of success, satisfaction, appreciation, awareness that you've done something good. But you also get negative feelings — from failures, frustration, negative interactions.
My hiking trips are like that too. My family believes that "I do it for pleasure" — but it's a harmful oversimplification and it only tells me that they even aren't trying to understand me. In fact, it's mostly a necessity, a way of solving specific problems that works for me — halting diabetes-related problems, coping with emotions. Of course there's a positive side to it — good mood, energy to survive another day, something the joy of visiting a new place, seeing something beautiful, finding a solution to a vexatious problem, positive interactions with people. But there are also negative feelings — anger and sadness from failure, stress from problems, negative contacts with people. Sometimes you end up slowly charging your social battery for a whole week, just to have one person destroy it all.
If you think about it, life's something like that. It's mostly a bland effort to survive every following day, sometimes interspersed with positive or negative moments.
#ActuallyAutistic

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.05904 has been replaced.
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Small Schwarzschild de Sitter black holes, the future boundary and islands
We continue the study of 4-dimensional Schwarzschild de Sitter black holes in the regime where the black hole mass is small compared with the de Sitter scale, following arXiv:2207.10724 [hep-th]. The de Sitter temperature is very low compared with that of the black hole. We consider the future boundary as the location where the black hole Hawking radiation is collected. Using 2-dimensional tools, we find unbounded growth of the entanglement entropy of radiation as the radiation region approache…

Filings: Roku reveals a breach that compromised 15K accounts between December 2023 and February 2024 and tells users hackers didn't get sensitive personal info (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/roku-accounts-hacked-data-breach/

Over 15,000 Roku Accounts Compromised in Data Breach - TheWrap
Hackers gained access through login credentials obtained by third party sources and, in a limited number of cases, attempted to purchase streaming subscriptions

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03571 has been replaced.
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Model-free Reinforcement Learning of Semantic Communication by Stochastic Policy Gradient
Following the recent success of Machine Learning tools in wireless communications, the idea of semantic communication by Weaver from 1949 has gained attention. It breaks with Shannon's classic design paradigm by aiming to transmit the meaning, i.e., semantics, of a message instead of its exact version, allowing for information rate savings. In this work, we apply the Stochastic Policy Gradient (SPG) to design a semantic communication system by reinforcement learning, separating transmitter and …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07080 has been replaced.
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Kazhdan-Lusztig map and Langlands duality
Let $G$ be a connected reductive group over $\mathbb{C}$ with Weyl group $W$. Following a suggestion of Bezrukavnikov, we define a map from two-sided cells to conjugacy classes in $W$ using the geometry of the affine flag variety. This is an affine analog of the classical story of two-sided cells of $W$, special nilpotent orbits and special representations of $W$. The proof involves studying Springer representations appearing in the cohomology of affine Springer fibers. This relies on tools dev…

Aaron Rodgers worried injury was ‘career-ending’; calls out ‘attacks’ following VP talks https://theathletic.com/5410816/2024/04/12/aaron-rodgers-achilles-vp/

Aaron Rodgers worried injury was ‘career-ending’; calls out ‘attacks’ following VP talks
"I was really thinking, 'This is it,'” Rodgers said after suffering an Achilles injury. “You don't come back from this injury.”

PreConfig: A Pretrained Model for Automating Network Configuration
Fuliang Li, Haozhi Lang, Jiajie Zhang, Jiaxing Shen, Xingwei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09369

PreConfig: A Pretrained Model for Automating Network Configuration
Manual network configuration automation (NCA) tools face significant challenges in versatility and flexibility due to their reliance on extensive domain expertise and manual design, limiting their adaptability to diverse scenarios and complex application needs. This paper introduces PreConfig, an innovative NCA tool that leverages a pretrained language model for automating network configuration tasks. PreConfig is designed to address the complexity and variety of NCA tasks by framing them as te…

So Casio fans, there is often talk about how module 593's major failing is its backlight. And yes, it is pretty weak and uneven. I too have thrown shade at it and yet, if I am totally honest I don't recall ever having struggled to read it in real life.
While in photos it often comes out looking totally unreadable, I find that with the naked eye (in the dark at night), I have always read the entire display just fine.
Is this just me?