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DOJ v. Google: Microsoft invested in OpenAI over fears of falling behind Google; Kevin Scott said he was "very, very worried" in a 2019 email to Satya Nadella (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Microsoft Concern About Google’s Lead Drove Investment in OpenAI
Microsoft Corp.’s motivation for investing heavily and partnering with OpenAI came from a sense of falling badly behind Google, according to an internal email released Tuesday as part of the Justice Department’s antitrust case against the search giant.

Dang it to heck! My cousin, with whom I was visiting (east coast, USA) this past week prior to flying back to NZ just sent me this picture of one of the great local critters I was most hoping to see (and spent hours actively looking for!) while there... a big black rat snake. Missed it by a few days.

Can we please use #MetaCrisis as hashtag for the current outage of #facebook #messenger #instagram

Hi friends, here's the last #photo from my recent blog post (from my cold #photography - #hiking trip).
This spot was a perfect opportunity to apply ND Filters and some longexposure. I loved …

Second Chances: Finding Beauty Beyond Expectations
In this blog post, I recount a journey of redemption and unexpected beauty. After a failed attempt to capture the perfect photo at a frozen waterfall, a second chance arises. Armed with newfound determination and experience, I embark on a photographic adventure, discovering hidden opportunities and

A dark standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant following LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA O4a
C. R. Bom, V. Alfradique, A. Palmese, G. Teixeira, L. Santana-Silva, A. Santos, P. Darc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16092

A dark standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant following LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA O4a
We present a new constraint on the Hubble constant ($H_0$) from the standard dark siren method using a sample of $5$ well-covered gravitational wave (GW) alerts reported during the first part of the fourth LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observing runs in combination with standard dark sirens from the first three runs. Our methodology relies on the galaxy catalog method alone. We use the full probability density estimation of photometric redshifts derived by a deep learning method using the DESI Legacy Survey…

Me: *finished a task that took many days to complete, feeling great, pushing to the feature branch happily*
Feature branch: *bazillion of conflicts to resolve*
😡 😭

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10856 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Partial Mobilization: Tracking Multilingual Information Flows Amongst Russian Media Outlets and Telegram
In response to disinformation and propaganda from Russian online media following the invasion of Ukraine, Russian media outlets such as Russia Today and Sputnik News were banned throughout Europe. To maintain viewership, many of these Russian outlets began to heavily promote their content on messaging services like Telegram. In this work, we study how 16 Russian media outlets interacted with and utilized 732 Telegram channels throughout 2022. Leveraging the foundational model MPNet, DP-means cl…

Correctly Communicating Software: Distributed, Asynchronous, and Beyond (extended version)
Bas van den Heuvel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09595 https://

Correctly Communicating Software: Distributed, Asynchronous, and Beyond (extended version)
Much of the software we use in everyday life consists of distributed components (running on separate cores or even computers) that collaborate through communication (by exchanging messages). It is crucial to develop robust methods that can give reliable guarantees about the behavior of such message-passing software. With a focus on session types as communication protocols and their foundations in logic, this thesis revolves around the following question: How can we push the boundaries of the lo…

Isochrone Fitting of Galactic Globular Clusters -- VI. High-latitude Clusters NGC5024 (M53), NGC5053, NGC5272 (M3), NGC5466, and NGC7099 (M30)
G. A. Gontcharov, S. S. Savchenko, A. A. Marchuk, C. J. Bonatto, O. S. Ryutina, M. Yu. Khovritchev, V. B. Il'in, A. V. Mosenkov, D. M. Poliakov, A. A. Smirnov
https://arxiv.org/abs/24…

Isochrone Fitting of Galactic Globular Clusters -- VI. High-latitude Clusters NGC5024 (M53), NGC5053, NGC5272 (M3), NGC5466, and NGC7099 (M30)
We fit various colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of the high-latitude Galactic globular clusters NGC\,5024 (M53), NGC\,5053, NGC\,5272 (M3), NGC\,5466, and NGC\,7099 (M30) by isochrones from the Dartmouth Stellar Evolution Database and Bag of Stellar Tracks and Isochrones for $α$-enrichment [$α$/Fe]$=+0.4$. For the CMDs, we use data sets from {\it Hubble Space Telescope}, {\it Gaia}, and other sources utilizing, at least, 25 photometric filters for each cluster. We obtain the following charact…

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC