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This Ford commercial on Twitter has high praise for strategies that are failing in practice: healthcare, housing, environment, education, etc.
But he fails to point out where his government excels - building wait lists. Need a family doctor, join a list. Need support for an autistic child, join 10s of thousands. Wait lists for surgery, complaining about landlord abuse, child care spots or public housing all have impressive growth rates.

Doug Ford (@fordnation) on X
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Bifurcations and explicit unfoldings of grazing loops connecting one high multiplicity tangent point
Zhihao Fang, Xingwu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19455

Bifurcations and explicit unfoldings of grazing loops connecting one high multiplicity tangent point
For piecewise-smooth differential systems, in this paper we focus on crossing limit cycles and sliding loops bifurcating from a grazing loop connecting one high multiplicity tangent point. For the low multiplicity cases considered in previous publications, the method is to define and analyze return maps following the classic idea of Poincaré. However, high multiplicity leads to that either domains or properties of return maps are unclear under perturbations. To overcome these difficulties, we …

This Mothers' Day (Sunday May 12)... join us for a Special Edition Slow Ride to a truly-car-free space in our own back yard: Angel Island!
Meet at the Ferry Building Gate B at 11:30AM, roll at 12PM (SHARP!). The ferry costs $9.50 each way and accepts clipper card.

This article by a former OpenAI employee makes a powerful case that AI exploits the same clever game design that can make Furbies, dinosaurs, and even triangles seem sentient. It's not about modeling a brain's complexity; simpler systems can ironically feel more intelligent.
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The Reservoir of the Per-emb-2 Streamer
Kotomi Taniguchi, Jaime E Pineda, Paola Caselli, Tomomi Shimoikura, Rachel K. Friesen, Dominique M. Segura-Cox, Anika Schmiedeke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19099

The Reservoir of the Per-emb-2 Streamer
Streamers bring gas from outer regions to protostellar systems and could change the chemical composition around protostars and protoplanetary disks. We have carried out mapping observations of carbon-chain species (HC$_3$N, HC$_5$N, CCH, and CCS) in the 3mm and 7mm bands toward the streamer flowing to the Class 0 young stellar object (YSO) Per-emb-2 with the Nobeyama 45m radio telescope. A region with a diameter of $\sim0.04$ pc is located north with a distance of $\sim 20,500$ au from the YSO.…

Hey friends!
We are just back from another nice 42km #cycling loop. Lots of headwind, lots of up and down and a little mistake in starting the tour at the highest point of the loop. The final, long ascent was a bit... Not so much fun.
But the views were just ace, more streets than yesterday but very few traffic! I was rather happy to have sun cream today.
Just a great Sunday!

Latest report provides hint on Cowboys' feelings about Ezekiel Elliott reunion https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/latest_report_provides_hint_on_cowboys_feelings_about_ezekiel_elliott_reunio…

Latest report provides hint on Cowboys' feelings about Ezekiel Elliott reunion
A report from last month indicated a mutual interest existed between the Cowboys and running back Ezekiel Elliott. On the eve of the draft, Dallas’ actions continue to point in that direction. CBS Sports’ Josina Anderson reports the Cowboys are currently meeting with Elliott’s agent. The two-time rushing champion has been linked to a new Dallas deal, and no known interest has been shown by other teams to date. Like many veterans, Elliott will likely have to wait until the post-draft wav…

This slipped my mind, but there's something that crossed my mind after Main Story III.2 about Kamlanage. #clae_ae
Thing is, while we know Hollow Chronos' goal to some degree (to release the Hollow Time Layer from its seal), we don't know yet exactly *how* he plans to use Kamlanage.
But that's beside the point. The main point is: see how suspiciously similar Kamlanage's designated role and situation is with Eden? Which comes to the following...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08649 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

A decomposition theorem for balanced measures
Let $G = (V,E)$ be a connected graph. A probability measure $μ$ on $V$ is called "balanced" if it has the following property: if $T_μ(v)$ denotes the "earth mover's" cost of transporting all the mass of $μ$ from all over the graph to the vertex $v$, then $T_μ$ attains its global maximum at each point in the support of $μ$. We prove a decomposition result that characterizes balanced measures as convex combinations of suitable "extremal" balanced measures that we call "basic." An upper bound…

Hey friends!
We are just back from another nice 42km #cycling loop. Lots of headwind, lots of up and down and a little mistake in starting the tour at the highest point of the loop. The final, long ascent was a bit... Not so much fun.
But the views were just ace, more streets than yesterday but very few traffic! I was rather happy to have sun cream today.
Just a great Sunday!