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5% of California is currently without electricity. Wouldn't it be neat to have a first world power infrastructure? https://poweroutage.us/area/state/california

CORE-BEHRT: A Carefully Optimized and Rigorously Evaluated BEHRT
Mikkel Odgaard, Kiril Vadimovic Klein, Sanne M{\o}ller Thysen, Espen Jimenez-Solem, Martin Sillesen, Mads Nielsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15201

CORE-BEHRT: A Carefully Optimized and Rigorously Evaluated BEHRT
BERT-based models for Electronic Health Records (EHR) have surged in popularity following the release of BEHRT and Med-BERT. Subsequent models have largely built on these foundations despite the fundamental design choices of these pioneering models remaining underexplored. To address this issue, we introduce CORE-BEHRT, a Carefully Optimized and Rigorously Evaluated BEHRT. Through incremental optimization, we isolate the sources of improvement for key design choices, giving us insights into the…

I have an electronic badge from the Nullcon security conference. It has LEDs to play tetris, I don't know if it can do anything else. I don't need it, does anyone collect such things and wants it for free?

A Blotto Game Approach to Ride-hailing Markets with Electric Vehicles
Marko Maljkovic, Gustav Nilsson, Nikolas Geroliminis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16755

A Blotto Game Approach to Ride-hailing Markets with Electric Vehicles
When a centrally operated ride-hailing company considers to enter a market already served by another company, it has to make a strategic decision about how to distribute its fleet among different regions in the area. This decision will be influenced by the market share the company can secure and the costs associated with charging the vehicles in each region, all while competing with the company already operating in the area. In this paper, we propose a Colonel Blotto-like game to model this dec…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15836 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Position dependence of Nielsen complexity for the Thermofield double state
In this paper, the Nielsen geometric method is used to study the position dependence of the Nielsen complexity for the thermofield double state of a harmonic oscillator. We present the state shift under the influence of an external electric field and demonstrate its importance for the construction of the corresponding circuit. By numerical analysis, we investigate the effect of the frequency and the external field on the dynamics of complexity. Our observation reveals that the system's complexi…

Approximation and bounding techniques for the Fisher-Rao distances
Frank Nielsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10089 https://arxiv.org/p…

Approximation and bounding techniques for the Fisher-Rao distances
The Fisher-Rao distance between two probability distributions of a statistical model is defined as the Riemannian geodesic distance induced by the Fisher information metric. In order to calculate the Fisher-Rao distance in closed-form, we need (1) to elicit a formula for the Fisher-Rao geodesics, and (2) to integrate the Fisher length element along those geodesics. We consider several numerically robust approximation and bounding techniques for the Fisher-Rao distances: First, we report generic…

Today in Tesla news, two headlines
Elon Musk says in email that Tesla sent ‘incorrectly low’ severance packages to some laid-off employees
Tesla launches website to convince shareholders to vote for Elon’s $55 billion payday

Port-Hamiltonian modeling and control of a curling HASEL actuator
Nelson Cisneros, Yongxin Wu, Kanty Rabenorosoa, Yann Le Gorrec
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11970

Port-Hamiltonian modeling and control of a curling HASEL actuator
This paper is concerned with the modeling and control of a curling Hydraulically Amplified Self-healing Electrostatic (HASEL) actuator using the port-Hamiltonian (PH) approach. For that purpose, we use a modular approach and consider the HASEL actuator as an interconnection of elementary subsystems. Each subsystem is modeled by an electrical component consisting of a capacitor in parallel with an inductor connected through the conservation of volume of the moving liquid to a mechanical structur…

"Drill and bass", an electronica subgenre consisting of Autechre, Squarepusher, µ-Ziq, Venetian Snares, etc. https://everynoise.com/engenremap-drillandbass.html

#uspol
I admire Katie Porter and her work in Congress. I do not admire her aggressive fundraising. Now that she's strategized herself out of elected office she's got a new hat out for money, the Truth to Power PAC. It is a PAC to raise money to give to candidates so they don't take money from PACs.
Naturally I've been subscribed to the various new spam mailing lists.