Tootfinder

Mostly good win. Kind of shows who #LFC really are. Streaky and turbulent, but overall capable of some beautiful play. For 70 minutes Liverpool looked outstanding and free-flowing in attack. Sadly, still guilty of some defensive narcolepsy at times.
Richarlison and Maddison coming on changed the game, while Liverpool’s subs weren’t at all impactful.

Personal, dreams, sad
I don't know if I am capable of dreaming anymore. What are dreams, anyway? How are they different from desires, aspirations and efforts?
But I can consider what I could dream of.
I could dream of not being angry all the time. Of not being filled with hatred.
I could dream of feeling secure. Of not worrying all the time about food and shelter. Of losing health insurance and access to medicine.
I could dream of having someone to rely on, of someone who'd take care of me and the things I can't handle. Of not feeling guilty of not meeting the expectations of others and my own, all the time.
I could dream of being able to experience all that stuff that I read about in books and see in movies. Of it not being too late for me anymore.
#ActuallyAutistic

"... the flames of the #McConnell Fire jumped from place to place, fanned by the gale-force winds of autocracy and intolerance. In almost every soul-crushing story, I could practically smell the senator’s presence amid the rubble and ashes."
#mitchmcconnell

Mitch McConnell is the arsonist who set America on fire and ran away
A corrupt Supreme Court, looming dictatorship and a "Handmaid's Tale" society is the America Mitch McConnell created and runs away from.

I've had a little process running for the past year or so, totting up Mastodon "active monthly users". Occasional bumps up (one outstanding one last summer when Elon did something particularly idiotic) followed by long slow declines.
Was somewhat disappointed to see recent growth of about 250k turning out to be a phantom instance (telling lies via the API).
#mastostats

Search for a $\mu^ \mu^-$ resonance in four-muon final states at Belle II
Collaboration, Adachi, Adamczyk, Aggarwal, Ahmed, Aihara, Akopov, Aloisio, Ky, Asner, Atmacan, Aushev, Aversano, Ayad, Babu, Bae, Bahinipati, Bambade, Banerjee, Bansal, Barrett, Baudot, Baur, Beaubien, Becherer, Becker, Bennett, Bernlochner, Bertacchi, Bertemes, Bertholet, Bessner, Bettarini, Bhuyan, Bianchi, Bilka, Bilokin, Biswas, Bobrov, Bodrov, Bolz, Bozek, Bra\v{c}ko, Branchini, Browder, Budano, Bussino, Campajola, Cao, Casarosa, Cecchi, Cerasoli, Chang, Chang, Cheaib, Cheema, Cheon, Chilikin, Chirapatpimol, Cho, Cho, Cho, Choi, Choudhury, Corona, Cremaldi, Das, Dattola, De La Cruz-Burelo, De La Motte, De Nardo, De Nuccio, De Pietro, de Sangro, Destefanis, Dhamija, Di Canto, Di Capua, Dingfelder, Dole\v{z}al, Dong, Dorigo, Dort, Dreyer, Dubey, Dujany, Ecker, Eliachevitch, Epifanov, Feichtinger, Ferber, Ferlewicz, Fillinger, Finck, Finocchiaro, Fodor, Forti, Frey, Fulsom, Gabrielli, Ganiev, Garcia-Hernandez, Garg, Gaudino, Gaur, Gaz, Gellrich, Ghevondyan, Ghosh, Ghumaryan, Giakoustidis, Giordano, Giri, Glazov, Gobbo, Godang, Gogota, Goldenzweig, Gradl, Grammatico, Graziani, Greenwald, Gruberov\'a, Gu, Gudkova, Halder, Han, Hara, Hayashii, Hazra, Hearty, Hedges, Heidelbach, de la Cruz, Villanueva, Higuchi, Hoek, Hohmann, Horak, Hsu, Humair, Iijima, Inguglia, Ipsita, Ishikawa, Itoh, Iwasaki, Jackson, Jacobs, Jang, Ji, Jia, Jin, Joo, Junkerkalefeld, Kalita, Kandra, Kang, Karyan, Kawasaki, Keil, Kiesling, Kim, Kim, Kim, Kim, Kindo, Kinoshita, Kody\v{s}, Koga, Kohani, Kojima, Korobov, Korpar, Kovalenko, Kowalewski, Kraetzschmar, Kri\v{z}an, Krokovny, Kuhr, Kumar, Kumar, Kumar, Kumara, Kunigo, Kuzmin, Kwon, Lacaprara, Lai, Lam, Lanceri, Lange, Laurenza, Lautenbach, Leboucher, Le Diberder, Lee, Levit, Lewis, Li, Li, Li, Li, Libby, Liu, Liu, Liu, Liventsev, Longo, Lueck, Lyu, Ma, Maggiora, Maharana, Maiti, Maity, Mancinelli, Manfredi, Manoni, Mantovano, Marcantonio, Marcello, Marinas, Martel, Martellini, Martini, Martinov, Massaccesi, Masuda, Matsuoka, Matvienko, Maurya, McKenna, Mehta, Meier, Merola, Metzner, Milesi, Miller, Mirra, Miyabayashi, Miyake, Mizuk, Mohanty, Molina-Gonzalez, Mondal, Moneta, Moser, Mrvar, Mussa, Nakamura, Nakao, Nakazawa, Charan, Naruki, Narwal, Natkaniec, Natochii, Nayak, Nayak, Nazaryan, Niebuhr, Nishida, Ogawa, Onishchuk, Ono, Onuki, Oskin, Otani, Pakhlova, Panta, Pardi, Parham, Park, Park, Paschen, Passeri, Patra, Paul, Pedlar, Peschke, Pestotnik, Piccolo, Piilonen, Angioni, Podesta-Lerma, Podobnik, Pokharel, Praz, Prell, Prencipe, Prim, Purwar, Rados, Raeuber, Raiz, Rauls, Reif, Reiter, Remnev, Ripp-Baudot, Rizzo, Robertson, Roehrken, Roney, Rostomyan, Rout, Russo, Sanders, Sandilya, Santelj, Sato, Savinov, Scavino, Schmitt, Schwanda, Schwickardi, Seino, Selce, Senyo, Serrano, Sevior, Sfienti, Shan, Shen, Shi, Shillington, Shimasaki, Shiu, Shtol, Sibidanov, Simon, Singh, Skorupa, Sobie, Sobotzik, Soffer, Sokolov, Solovieva, Spataro, Spruck, Stari\v{c}, Stavroulakis, Stefkova, Stroili, Sumihama, Sumisawa, Sutcliffe, Svidras, Takizawa, Tamponi, Tanaka, Tanida, Tenchini, Tittel, Tiwary, Tonelli, Torassa, Trabelsi, Tsaklidis, Uchida, Ueda, Unger, Unno, Uno, Uno, Urquijo, Ushiroda, Vahsen, van Tonder, Varvell, Veronesi, Vinokurova, Vismaya, Vitale, Vobbilisetti, Volpe, Wach, Wakai, Wallner, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang, Warburton, Watanuki, Wessel, Won, Xu, Yabsley, Yamada, Yan, Yang, Yelton, Yin, Yoshihara, Yuan, Yusa, Zani, Zhang, Zhilich, Zhou, Zhou, Zhukova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02841 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.02841
arXiv:2403.02841v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We report on a search for a resonance $X$ decaying to a pair of muons in $e^{ }e^{-}\rightarrow \mu^ \mu^- X$ events in the 0.212-9.000 GeV/$c^{2}$ mass range, using 178 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected by the BelleII experiment at the SuperKEKB collider at a center of mass energy of 10.58 GeV. The analysis probes two different models of $X$ beyond the standard model: a $Z^{\prime}$ vector boson in the $L_{\mu}-L_{\tau}$ model and a muonphilic scalar. We observe no evidence for a signal and set exclusion limits at the 90\% confidence level on the products of cross section and branching fraction for these processes, ranging from 0.046 fb to 0.97 fb for the $L_{\mu}-L_{\tau}$ model and from 0.055 fb to 1.3 fb for the muonphilic scalar model. For masses below 6 GeV/$c^{2}$, the corresponding constraints on the couplings of these processes to the standard model range from 0.0008 to 0.039 for the $L_{\mu}-L_{\tau}$ model and from 0.0018 to 0.040 for the muonphilic scalar model. These are the first constraints on the muonphilic scalar from a dedicated search.

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…

PRISM-TopoMap: Online Topological Mapping with Place Recognition and Scan Matching
Kirill Muravyev, Alexander Melekhin, Dmitriy Yudin, Konstantin Yakovlev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01674

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…

Peter Gabriel's complete catalogue, since 1977, is up on #Bandcamp - includes some German releases...
https://petergabriel.bandcamp.com/music

Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel is best known as a musician. He started his solo work in 1975 after leaving his old school group: Genesis. He has released eleven solo albums and written soundtracks for three films. Peter is now writing and recording, and working on a plan to create a streaming service for digital medicine and an Interspecies Internet.

EDZARD ERNST: World-renowned expert on alternative medicine warns anti-vaxx nonsense risks fuelling measles crisis
https://www.msn.com/en-au/health/other/edzard-er…

Internal Pattern Matching in Small Space and Applications
Gabriel Bathie, Panagiotis Charalampopoulos, Tatiana Starikovskaya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17502

Internal Pattern Matching in Small Space and Applications
In this work, we consider pattern matching variants in small space, that is, in the read-only setting, where we want to bound the space usage on top of storing the strings. Our main contribution is a space-time trade-off for the Internal Pattern Matching (IPM) problem, where the goal is to construct a data structure over a string $S$ of length $n$ that allows one to answer the following type of queries: Compute the occurrences of a fragment $P$ of $S$ inside another fragment $T$ of $S$, provide…