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#30DaysOfBiking, Day 28 = #SPEZI24, Day 2: Rode my KMX recumbent trike to #SPEZI (2x 4km) and rode each of the following bikes at least once through the 750m test course: A

US inflation increases nearly 3% yr to date foretelling unlikelihood of #Fed cutting ever creeping #InterestRates anytime soon as borrowing costs are at a 23-year high.
#Oil prices up 18% this yr, and Govt bond yields falling as …

Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation metric rose to 2.7% in March
Figures come day after US first-quarter growth data prompt investors to push back interest rate cut expectations

Anisotropic Photon Emission Enhancement near Carbon Nanotube Metasurfaces
Michael D. Pugh, SK Firoz Islam, Igor V. Bondarev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17102

Anisotropic Photon Emission Enhancement near Carbon Nanotube Metasurfaces
We present a theoretical study of the directionality effects in spontaneous emission and resonance fluorescence of a quantum two-level dipole emitter near an ultrathin closely packed periodically aligned single-wall carbon nanotube film. Such films present an example of highly anisotropic flexible metasurfaces that are now available experimentally. The nanotube alignment is shown to provide an extra measure for quantum control of dipolar spontaneous emission and resonance fluorescence in such s…

Osibisa, the “Flying Elephants”
https://amf.didiermary.fr/osibisa-flying-elephants/
Osibisa is a British Afro-pop band, founded by Teddy Osei in London in 1969 by four expatriate African (Ghana) and three Caribbean musicians. Osibisa were one of the first Afri…

Osibisa, the "Flying Elephants" - African Music Forum
Osibisa, the "Flying Elephants" - Founded in London in 1969, they were one of the first African bands to become widely popular

Last week I bought myself an Adafruit CO2 sensor and wired it up to a spare Raspberry Pi which is running in my "home office" (oh OK then, the spare bedroom).
It's astonishing how quickly CO2 builds up when I shut the door because I'm on a Zoom call.
So protip if you work at home: if you find yourself feeling sleepy, or getting headaches, it may simply be that the carbon dioxide has built up in the room you're sitting in. Try opening a window, even for 5 minutes, to see if it helps.

Assassin's Creed III: completed!
To be honest, the feeling of being overwhelmed by choice never really left me, and I spent many hours wandering around the American countryside chasing nothing in particular. After the initial twist in the story, and the urgency created by the village being burnt to the ground, there was no real impetus to hurry through the game - not helped by the fact that your main enemy keeps on cropping up and you keep on having to watch cutscenes…

PitchBook: in 2021, 223 male-founded video game startups raised $4.1B, five women-founded startups raised $1.2M, and 62 mixed-gender startups raised $400.9M (Nicole Carpenter/Polygon)
https://www.polygon.com/24058266/video-game-industry-funding-gap

The video game funding gap: How investors are failing marginalized developers
‘There is a massive disparity on how funding is allocated in the industry,’ according to industry experts. Companies led by marginalized leaders get way, way less funding.

CO₂ monitoring, useful explainer
Here's my own explainer about CO₂ monitoring.
It covers some of the same topics as the one above, but filling in more background knowledge. When I wrote it, I was thinking of e.g. a teacher with lots of knowledge about children and not much knowledge about science, who just wanted to make their classroom safer from covid.
#CovidIsAirborne #monitoring

"Deeds are the field; [[consciousness]] is the seed; and craving is the moisture."

CheckMate: Evaluating Checkpointing Protocols for Streaming Dataflows
George Siachamis, Kyriakos Psarakis, Marios Fragkoulis, Arie van Deursen, Paris Carbone, Asterios Katsifodimos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13629

CheckMate: Evaluating Checkpointing Protocols for Streaming Dataflows
Stream processing in the last decade has seen broad adoption in both commercial and research settings. One key element for this success is the ability of modern stream processors to handle failures while ensuring exactly-once processing guarantees. At the moment of writing, virtually all stream processors that guarantee exactly-once processing implement a variant of Apache Flink's coordinated checkpoints - an extension of the original Chandy-Lamport checkpoints from 1985. However, the reasons b…