Tootfinder

"Australia’s spending on consultancy services is proportionally greater than any other country."
‘Disregard for truth’: inquiry calls for greater scrutiny of private consultants following PwC tax scandal | PwC | The Guardian
https://www…

Dallas Cowboys sign second-round pick Marshawn Kneeland following minicamp https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_sign_second_round_pick_marshawn_kneeland_following_minicamp/s1_17236_404…

Dallas Cowboys sign second-round pick Marshawn Kneeland following minicamp
The Dallas Cowboys sealed the deal on the last of the 2024 draftees this week, inking rookie Marshawn Kneeland to a four-year deal on Tuesday. Kneeland’s was the final signature the team needed after mandatory minicamp wrapped up last week. The other seven rookies signed their deals before rookie minicamp last month. Per Spotrac, Kneeland is expected to earn $6.79 million over his first four seasons, or just shy of $1.7 million per year. His deal comes with a signing bonus estimated at $1.75 …

Its good to have many tests in your R package, but it can be a pain to debug some failing tests when it happens. {lazytest} for the rescue: only rerun the failing tests, until they pass: #RStats

This day six years ago was the last time I boarded an aircraft, on my way back home from Berlin Buzzwords. Today, I am instead flying through the German countryside on the night train to Stockholm.
Last year was the first time I had to sacrifice something to avoid air travel, when I couldn't make it to my friends 50th birthday party and also arrive in time for the conference. Other than that, I enjoy travel more than I did when I travelled by plane. I am looking forward to new carr…

Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment: Initial Operations and Flight Results
Justin Kruger, Soon S. Hwang, Simone D'Amico
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06748

Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment: Initial Operations and Flight Results
This paper presents initial flight results for distributed optical angles-only navigation of a swarm of small spacecraft, conducted during the Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment (StarFOX). StarFOX is a core payload of the NASA Starling mission, which consists of four CubeSats launched in 2023. Prior angles-only flight demonstrations have only featured one observer and target and have relied upon a-priori target orbit knowledge for initialization, translational maneuvers to resolve tar…

Some friend told me that learning to program was a waste of time since AI would write all perfect code for us and make most developers obsolete within 3 years...
It is now exactly 3 years ago, how are my developer homies holding up? Feeling obsolete yet? :yay:

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04606 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_…

Probabilistic Byzantine Fault Tolerance (Extended Version)
Consensus is a fundamental building block for constructing reliable and fault-tolerant distributed services. Many Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus protocols designed for partially synchronous systems adopt a pessimistic approach when dealing with adversaries, ensuring safety in a deterministic way even under the worst-case scenarios that adversaries can create. Following this approach typically results in either an increase in the message complexity (e.g., PBFT) or an increase in the number o…

So, the webhooks were failing and it was kicking my ass for a bit. Come to find out, embedded fields in Discord webhooks are limited to 1,024 characters and some of the watch/warning descriptions managed to go over. The only reason I put two-and-two together was just random chance as I captured the embed JSON and toss it into an online Discord embed editor.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06280 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_…

Optimal sensing policy with interference-model uncertainty
Assume that an interferer behaves according to a parametric model but one does not know the value of the model parameters. Sensing enables to improve the model knowledge and therefore perform a better link adaptation. However, we consider a half-duplex scenario where, at each time slot, the communication system should decide between sensing and communication. We thus propose to investigate the optimal policy to maximize the expected sum rate given a finite-time communication. % the following qu…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01674 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

PRISM-TopoMap: Online Topological Mapping with Place Recognition and Scan Matching
Mapping is one of the crucial tasks enabling autonomous navigation of a mobile robot. Conventional mapping methods output dense geometric map representation, e.g. an occupancy grid, which is not trivial to keep consistent for the prolonged runs covering large environments. Meanwhile, capturing the topological structure of the workspace enables fast path planning, is less prone to odometry error accumulation and does not consume much memory. Following this idea, this paper introduces PRISM-TopoM…