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It's fuckin'-late o'clock, I'm wasting my sleep on some irrelevant thing and having our local equivalent of CNN on in the background.
I distinctly remember watching TV news as a kid and hearing about some military operation in late 1990s. I suppose it was NATO bombing Yugoslavia, not sure any more.
I understood jackshit, but I remembered that weird feeling watching bombers taking off on TV, nearly in real time.
Now I'm watching Iran striking Israel with …

Another great example of (charitably) Kruger-Dunning (or more realistically, towering naivity) among the vljmstoligy community.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair
The reason GHG emissions still aren't falling far or fast enough to avoid global catastrophe is "lack of political will" and "corporate vested interests". The fact is that governments of even nations with undemocratic and tyrannical regimes are in the hands of the populace in the medium to long term. How long would, say, Putin remain in power if he announced a ten year programme to tax meat to the point it's a rare luxury reserved for the wealthy, to transition from petrol and diesel fuels, a crash programme to dump coal and gas for power generation and heating and roll out renewables, abolishing hidden subsidies for concrete manufactures to ensure the the emission externalities are priced in, virtual bans on civilian aviation and so on? Certainly there'd be an interesting Keynesian multiplier effect from all the expenditure and investment*, but he'd still be dangling from a metaphorical lamppost within a few years.
*actually the debt incurred would cause huge inflation.
The other big problem, still, is lack of public understanding. There's "awareness", but here are still huge misapprehension. Eg., many people still seem to think thst net zero would mean a return to mid-20thC climates; people still don't grasp the consequences of passing major tipping thresholds, or that many climate elements (ice sheet melting, ocean circulations,..) have multi-decadal or multi-century lags before reaching a final equilibrium. And they still have no clue how fragile civilisation is, or what life in 2100 -- or 2050! - will be like.
I remain more optimistic than I was 25y ago when I first started taking an interest, though. 2.5°C still looks plausible to me, if current reductions continue to accelerate, given a few weather megadisasters to chivvy us along.

It's fuckin'-late o'clock, I'm wasting my sleep on some irrelevant thing and having our local equivalent of CNN on in the background.
I distinctly remember watching TV news as a kid and hearing about some military operation in late 1990s. I suppose it was NATO bombing Yugoslavia, not sure any more.
I understood jackshit, but I remembered that weird feeling watching bombers taking off on TV, nearly in real time.
Now I'm watching Iran striking Israel with …

I think I really dislike the term “technical debt”.
Sometimes you definitely need to upgrade things e.g. because of failing hardware or software no one can fix anymore; however if something is working fine and can be reasonably expected to not fail anytime soon, there’s simply no reason to spend time and money to replace it.

Trump says GOP is the
‘party of fertilization,’
and seems unaware of Michigan’s abortion amendment
In an interview with FOX-2, Trump said
abortion is ‘not that big of an issue’
https://michiganadvance.com/…

Trump says GOP is the 'party of fertilization,' seems unaware of Michigan’s abortion amendment • Michigan Advance
Calling the Republican Party the “party of fertilization,” former President Trump continues to make false claims in a recent interview with a Detroit TV station, while simultaneously taking credit for the overturning of Roe vs. Wade. In an interview last week with FOX-2 Detroit following his Wednesday rally in Saginaw County, anchor Roop Raj asked […]

The effect of turbulence on the minimum thickness of a liquid film flowing down a vertical tube
David T. Hughes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06142 https://…

The effect of turbulence on the minimum thickness of a liquid film flowing down a vertical tube
When a liquid flows down a vertical tube at a low flowrate, it may not be able to completely cover the surface as a film, and the flow will comprise a number of rivulets separated by unwetted areas. Predictions of the minimum film thickness and corresponding minimum flowrate below which films cannot be sustained are needed in many industrial heat and mass transfer operations. In this paper a model is developed using the minimum energy method to calculate the minimum film thicknesses that can be…

The technical achievement of road racing will never not be impressive. This would add another element to that production, of course.
My guess is we may see it in select places in select stages. I’d think batteries, fleet and safety dictate that. (Which are both hinted at here.)
Alternatively, imagine drones flying over Dutch Corner.
“Tour de France Eyes Drones for a New Perspective in Race Coverage”

Tour de France Eyes Drones for a New Perspective in Race Coverage
The Tour de France broadcast team explores using drones for dynamic race coverage, promising an immersive viewing experience this summer.

Today's Letterboxd newsletter reasserts the issue of digital preservation in the modern "ownershipless" economy (text in alt). It works with movies disappearing left and right as we speak, as with everything else.
As usual, digital content preservation is on the shoulders of a couple of guys hosting their index on some obscure BitTorrent magnet link or on people getting obliterated by lawsuits. It should not be like this.

OmniMatch: Effective Self-Supervised Any-Join Discovery in Tabular Data Repositories
Christos Koutras, Jiani Zhang, Xiao Qin, Chuan Lei, Vasileios Ioannidis, Christos Faloutsos, George Karypis, Asterios Katsifodimos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07653

OmniMatch: Effective Self-Supervised Any-Join Discovery in Tabular Data Repositories
How can we discover join relationships among columns of tabular data in a data repository? Can this be done effectively when metadata is missing? Traditional column matching works mainly rely on similarity measures based on exact value overlaps, hence missing important semantics or failing to handle noise in the data. At the same time, recent dataset discovery methods focusing on deep table representation learning techniques, do not take into consideration the rich set of column similarity sign…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02599 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Comparative analysis of diverse methodologies for portfolio optimization leveraging quantum annealing techniques
Portfolio optimization (PO) is extensively employed in financial services to assist in achieving investment objectives. By providing an optimal asset allocation, PO effectively balances the risk and returns associated with investments. However, it is important to note that as the number of involved assets and constraints increases, the portfolio optimization problem can become increasingly difficult to solve, falling into the category of NP-hard problems. In such scenarios, classical algorithms…