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Two of the best films I’ve seen of Jaclyn Jose in a leading role, one dramatic, the other comedic.
#RestInPeace #GoneTooSoon #JaclynJose

From Global Carbon Budget 2023 report. USA per capita emissions remain approx double China's. Despite failing to account for the portion of China's emissions for products exported to US. Real average Chinese per capita CO2 emissions (minus exports) are likely a quarter or less of the typical American's.
Remember this everytime you hear someone moaning about "but China!" wrt emissions reductions. USA can lead the way or shut the fuck up.

Yandex plans to sell its entire Russian business, including its popular search engine, to a group led by Yandex management in a deal valued at about $5.2B (Sylvia Westall/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Yandex Strikes Record $5.2 Billion Wartime Deal to Exit Russia
Yandex NV reached an agreement to sell its Russian business, including the nation’s most popular search engine, for about $5.2 billion, the highest-valued deal yet to exit Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.

#NatureNotes
Was feeling lethargic yesterday & really had to drag myself out for a trip to the marshes. So glad I did! Highlights included:
A bittern booming from the reeds
My 1st singing chiffchaff of the year
Numerous signs of otter activity (spraints, fish scales) on the duckboards
An encounter with a northern pike, that swam towards me on a flooded path, pa…

What the absolute hell. 850 freakin' people follow me!
Every single one of you are crazy as fuck for following a crazy fuck like me.
SO many talented people here. I am so grateful.

34 arrested at UW-Madison protests
• UCLA Chancellor Gene Block said administrators will investigate an outbreak of violence at UCLA on Wednesday, during which counterprotesters attacked the encampment’s barricade. He added that the investigation could lead to arrests or expulsions.

• Columbia University said all exams and academic activities will be remote for the rest of the semester following an overnight police operation to clear a building occupied by protesters and encampme…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01504 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Gauge preheating with full general relativity
We study gauge preheating following pseudoscalar-driven inflation in full general relativity. We implement the Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura (BSSN) scheme to solve the full nonlinear evolution of the metric alongside the dynamics of the pseudoscalar and gauge fields. The dynamics of the background and emission of gravitational waves are broadly consistent with simulations in a Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetime. We find large, localized overdensities in the BSSN simulati…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09391 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Establishing accretion flares from massive black holes as a source of high-energy neutrinos
The origin of cosmic high-energy neutrinos remains largely unexplained. For high-energy neutrino alerts from IceCube, a coincidence with time-variable emission has been seen for three different types of accreting black holes: (1) a gamma-ray flare from a blazar (TXS 0506+056), (2) an optical transient following a stellar tidal disruption event (TDE; AT2019dsg), and (3) an optical outburst from an active galactic nucleus (AGN; AT2019fdr). For the latter two sources, infrared follow-up observatio…

Human-Robot Interaction Conversational User Enjoyment Scale (HRI CUES)
Bahar Irfan, Jura Miniota, Sofia Thunberg, Erik Lagerstedt, Sanna Kuoppam\"aki, Gabriel Skantze, Andr\'e Pereira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01354

Human-Robot Interaction Conversational User Enjoyment Scale (HRI CUES)
Understanding user enjoyment is crucial in human-robot interaction (HRI), as it can impact interaction quality and influence user acceptance and long-term engagement with robots, particularly in the context of conversations with social robots. However, current assessment methods rely solely on self-reported questionnaires, failing to capture interaction dynamics. This work introduces the Human-Robot Interaction Conversational User Enjoyment Scale (HRI CUES), a novel scale for assessing user enj…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01504 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Gauge preheating with full general relativity
We study gauge preheating following pseudoscalar-driven inflation in full general relativity. We implement the Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura (BSSN) scheme to solve the full nonlinear evolution of the metric alongside the dynamics of the pseudoscalar and gauge fields. The dynamics of the background and emission of gravitational waves are broadly consistent with simulations in a Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetime. We find large, localized overdensities in the BSSN simulati…