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Seven organizations the far right is targeting after the supreme court ban affecting admissions
2. Last August, #Hello #Alice, an online platform which 🌟offers grants to Black small-business owners, 🌟was
💥 sued by America First Legal 💥( #AFL

Macron's Action Plan: France's Commitment to Boost Ukraine's Defence: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/09/macrons-action-plan.html

Palestine Action slash painting of Lord Balfour #PalestineAction

In October 2022, a month before #ChatGPT was released, the U.S. State Department commissioned the first-ever assessment of proliferation and security risk from weaponized and misaligned #AI.
In February 2024, #Gladstone …

Action Plan to increase the safety and security of advanced AI
The first U.S. government-commissioned assessment on catastrophic national security risks from advanced AI on the path to AGI.

Breaking the Silence — Interrupting Criminalization | Research In Action https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-all/breaking-the-silence

Breaking the Silence — Interrupting Criminalization | Research In Action
This is a curriculum for sexual assault service providers intended to accompany Interrupting Criminalization’s report Shrouded in Silence: Police Sexual Violence - What We Know and What We Can Do About It. Facilitators and participants are strongly encouraged to review the report before using any of

I was hired by the Brand, Design and Communications Agency Whistlejacket to produce a variety of illustrations for the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), which developed a "nudging strategy for reducing consumption of single-use disposable cups" in collaboration with the Swedish EPA.
https://www.

WRAP Green Nudges - Andy Carolan Illustration and Design
I was hired by the Brand, Design and Communications Agency Whistlejacket to produce a variety of illustrations for the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), which developed a "nudging strategy for reducing consumption of single-use disposable cups" in collaboration with the Swedish EPA.

Yet again, a reminder that there is no such thing as a "flushable" wipe. These must never be disposed of in a toilet - they get only pee, poo and (t)paper.
🟨💩🧻
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-court-confirms-national-cl…

B.C. court confirms national class action after flushable wipes recall
B.C.'s Supreme Court has confirmed a national class action lawsuit against Kimberly-Clark Corporation following a 2020 recall of flushable wipes over possible bacteria contamination.

Customizable Avatars with Dynamic Facial Action Coded Expressions (CADyFACE) for Improved User Engagement
Megan A. Witherow, Crystal Butler, Winston J. Shields, Furkan Ilgin, Norou Diawara, Janice Keener, John W. Harrington, Khan M. Iftekharuddin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07314

Customizable Avatars with Dynamic Facial Action Coded Expressions (CADyFACE) for Improved User Engagement
Customizable 3D avatar-based facial expression stimuli may improve user engagement in behavioral biomarker discovery and therapeutic intervention for autism, Alzheimer's disease, facial palsy, and more. However, there is a lack of customizable avatar-based stimuli with Facial Action Coding System (FACS) action unit (AU) labels. Therefore, this study focuses on (1) FACS-labeled, customizable avatar-based expression stimuli for maintaining subjects' engagement, (2) learning-based measurements tha…

And another sideline project, co-chairing the JSONPath IETF Working Group, wraps itself up: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf-announce/Wq_opZlpOxZZxlv8yj3E5pJvn0E/
Result: Two RFCs,

In gewisser Hinsicht sind LLMs weniger eine Erfindung als eine Entdeckung. Eine Entdeckung, die manche ideengeschichtliche Tradition (von Platonismus bis linugistic turn) bestätigt: dass menschliche Sprache (durch ihren sozialen Gebrauch) einen quasi-universalen Zugang zur Wirklichkeit darstellt.
Die "Werkzeughaftigkeit" von Sprache scheint dabei aber paradoxerweise fundamentaler zu sein, als sich "nur" auf die explizite Kommunikation von Konzepten zu erstrecken. Ic…

Makerspace in action

Pour la philosophe Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), le mensonge, l'illusion et l'erreur sont des éléments intrinsèquement liés Š l'action politique. Faut-il être habile dans l’art d’arranger les faits quitte Š dire ce que l’on sait ne pas être vrai pour faire de la politique?
https://mimo.blog/illusion-me…

Illusion, mensonge et politique
Pour la philosophe Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), le mensonge, l'illusion et l'erreur sont des éléments intrinsèquement liés à l'action polit...

Three-loop renormalization of the quantum action for a five-dimensional scalar cubic model with the usage of the background field method and a cutoff regularization
A. V. Ivanov, N. V. Kharuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07513

Three-loop renormalization of the quantum action for a five-dimensional scalar cubic model with the usage of the background field method and a cutoff regularization
The paper studies the quantum action for the five-dimensional real $ϕ^3$-theory in the case of a general formulation using the background field method. The three-loop renormalization is performed with the usage of a cutoff regularization in the coordinate representation. The explicit form of the first three coefficients for the renormalization constants is presented. The absence of non-local singular contributions and partial results for the fourth correction are discussed.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05426 has been replaced.
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Test-Time Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization
Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization (ZS-TAL) seeks to identify and locate actions in untrimmed videos unseen during training. Existing ZS-TAL methods involve fine-tuning a model on a large amount of annotated training data. While effective, training-based ZS-TAL approaches assume the availability of labeled data for supervised learning, which can be impractical in some applications. Furthermore, the training process naturally induces a domain bias into the learned model, which may adversely …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02683 has been replaced.
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The linear $\SL_2(\Z)$-action on $\T^n$: ergodic and von Neumann algebraic aspects
The unique irreducible representation of $\SL_2(\R)$ on $\R^n$ induces an action, called the \textit{linear action}, of $\SL_2(\Z)$ on the torus $\T^n$ for every $n\geq 2$. For $n$ odd, it factors through $\PSL_2(\Z)$, so we denote by $G_n$ the group $\SL_2(\Z)$ for $n$ even, and $\PSL_2(\Z)$ for $n$ odd. We prove that the action is free and ergodic for every $n\geq 2$, that if $h\in \SL_2(\Z)$ is a hyperbolic element and if $n$ is even, then the action of the subgroup generated by $h$ is still…

Interested in more #Aurora action you can track it here: X-class Flares Continue to Occur | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/x-class-fla

The Hidden People 🧚‍♀️👊✨
Urban Fantasy | A creepy modern fantasy that begins as a murder mystery and becomes a dark fantasy adventure filled with action, Irish and Norse folklore, and fae. Come for the creepy mysteries and stay for the fantasy action.
Female-led cast, LGBTQ performers and characters
3 seasons, 66 epis...
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The Hidden People 🧚‍♀️👊✨
Urban Fantasy | A creepy modern fantasy that begins as a murder mystery and becomes a dark fantasy adventure filled with action, Irish and Norse folklore, and fae. Come for the creepy mysteries and stay for the fantasy action. Female-led cast, LGBTQ+ performers and characters 3 seasons, 66 episodes as of Mar 02, 2023.

It annoys me that a US non-profit group called the "Southeast Asia Resource Action Center" is actually only focused on immigrant communities from 3 #Mekong countries.
The focus is fine and good - its just the name that annoys me.

Klischees des Action-Kinos sind oft bizarr. So gibt es in "Dune 2" Schlachtszenen im übelsten "Braveheard-Stil": Im Laufschritt stürmen, dann Gemetzel ohne nennenswerte Taktik.
Nun ja, nachdem in Ridley Scotts "Napoleon" sogar die Schlacht von Waterloo im "Lauf- & Schnetzel-Stil" inszeniert wurde, wundert mich nichts mehr.
Ein Trinkspiel, bei dem bei jedem historischen Fehler ein "Kurzer" gekippt wird, müsste bei "Napole…

US will require background checks for gun shows and online firearm sales
‘Historic’ action by justice department closes dangerous loophole in Biden administration’s fight against gun violence
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/…

Why do delivery companies hate me so?
In total this package has been in Norway (probably Oslo) for over 2 weeks without any real action.

@… Maybe I should be scared now that I have watched Beth in action but so far I am not. 😉 @…

For Trump, a Blizzard of Court Action Is Just Another Monday (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/nyregion/trump-carroll-bond.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/240311/p81#a240311p81

got a lot out of this 2-part interview (by @…'s creamo coyl) with jim mchugh about the '00s southern punk/DIY/psychedelic nexus in greensboro/chapel hill/athens & PIT, his music-centered anarchist space in brooklyn. buried inside is the sad news that jim's great band sunwatchers is no more.
part 1:

A.Cave #4 — BRAVE MOVES
Talking with Jim McHugh [The P.I.T. - Sunwatchers - Eugene Chadbourne - Arthur Doyle - Dark Meat]

Daily Inspiration: "World-class innovators refuse to accept the way things were" - Futurist Jim Carroll
How do you become a world-class innovator? Not someone who merely pokes around the edges of innovative thinking and explores a few ideas here and there, but someone who truly tries to infuse the mindset of everything you do, or into every goal and action that your organization pursues.
I head to Orlando tomorrow, where I've got a repeat engagement with a client; t…

Daily Inspiration: Mastering Innovation – “World class innovators refuse to accept the way things were.”

Multi-Robot Communication-Aware Cooperative Belief Space Planning with Inconsistent Beliefs: An Action-Consistent Approach
Tanmoy Kundu, Moshe Rafaeli, Vadim Indelman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05962

Multi-Robot Communication-Aware Cooperative Belief Space Planning with Inconsistent Beliefs: An Action-Consistent Approach
Multi-robot belief space planning (MR-BSP) is essential for reliable and safe autonomy. While planning, each robot maintains a belief over the state of the environment and reasons how the belief would evolve in the future for different candidate actions. Yet, existing MR-BSP works have a common assumption that the beliefs of different robots are consistent at planning time. Such an assumption is often highly unrealistic, as it requires prohibitively extensive and frequent communication capabili…

Tim Berners-Lee: Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday.
"Call For Action
Realising this emergent movement won’t just happen - it requires support for the people leading the reform, from researchers to inventors to advocates. We must amplify and promote these positive use cases, and work to shift the collective mindset of global citizens."

Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter - Tim Berners-Lee - Medium
Three and a half decades ago, when I invented the web, its trajectory was impossible to imagine. There was no roadmap to predict the course of its evolution, it was a captivating odyssey filled with…

Sign the petition for stronger privacy protections
#Privacy

Sign the petition for stronger privacy protections | CHOICE
We all want to know our personal information is protected, but our outdated privacy laws are letting businesses get away with using our data in ways that are unfair or even unsafe. Will you sign the petition for strong privacy laws that create an even playing field between people and businesses?

This is very problematic. Alarming data from 1979 to 2024 shows sea surface temperatures reaching historic highs. Recent years have shattered all previous records, indicating a dire escalation in our climate crisis. This threatens vital marine ecosystems and our global climate stability. We need leadership in action now.
#ClimateCrisis

From David Suzuki Foundation
Add your name in support of environmental justice in Canada.
Join me in signing the petition for a Canadian environmental justice law. Canada needs to tackle environmental racism and environmental injustice.
https://nwmd.io/s/email/ZBc7CzjEHQ==/r

Support a Canadian environmental justice law
Environmental justice is a gap in Canadian law and governance. Tell Senate to move forward with Bill C-226.

Just understood why all those anti-Shell billboards cropped up close to home: On 21st May there'll be mass mobilisation outside Shell’s AGM (happening at the InterContinental @ O2). Organised by Fossil Free London, War on Want, Climate Justice Coalition, XR, The People’s Health Tribunal, Christian Climate Action & others https://www.instagram.com/p/C6qMFCGI1pE/

Spectral invariants for non-compactly supported Hamiltonians on the disc, and an application to the mean action spectrum
Barney Bramham, Abror Pirnapasov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07863

Spectral invariants for non-compactly supported Hamiltonians on the disc, and an application to the mean action spectrum
For a symplectic isotopy on the two-dimensional disc we show that the classical spectral invariants of Viterbo [20] can be extended in a meaningful way to {\it non-compactly} supported Hamiltonians. We establish some basic properties of these extended invariants and as an application we show that Hutchings' inequality in [8] between the Calabi invariant and the mean action spectrum holds without any assumptions on the isotopy; in [8] it is assumed that the Calabi invariant is less than the rota…

"European leaders ‘outpaced’ by increasing risk from climate change, environment watchdog warns"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange

European leaders ‘outpaced’ by increasing risk from climate change
The situation is already critical as climate change leads to increasingly frequent and severe flooding, drought and rising sea levels. Without urgent action by governments and EU leaders the impact is likely to become 'catastrophic' over the coming years, the European Environment Agency warns.

Following yesterday's interest rate announcement, it's worth a reminder that our collective fixation on inflation only reflects one aspect of the Bank's remit under the Bank of Canada Act (1985).
The BoC is tasked with mitigating "fluctuations in the general level of production, trade, prices and employment" - that is, using interest rates not only to influence inflation, but employment, etc. The obsession with 2% came later and isn't reflected in the law.

Some time has elapsed since I first (and last) used the ALMA Helpdesk… #ALMA #AlmaHelpdesk #AlmaObservatory

Marjorie Taylor Greene to federal election regulators: get bent over ‘MTG’ - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/marjorie-taylor-greene-election/

Marjorie Taylor Greene to federal election regulators: get bent
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) all but raised a middle finger to the Federal Election Commission when responding to an inquiry about her new political action committee’s name.The dispute is over a seemingly simple question: What does “MTG” mean?The FEC contends that MTG is a name, and therefore,...

Gelukkig komt dit overeen met mijn lijstje. https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox/112426730374252113

GeofCox (@GeofCox@climatejustice.social)
Attached: 1 image The Guardian asked hundreds of the world’s top climate scientists for their views on the most effective actions combating climate-ecological breakdown. The top 5 actions were: 1. Vote for representatives who pledge strong climate action. 2. Reduce flying and fossil fuel-powered transport in favour of electric and public transport. 3. Reduce meat consumption. 4. Reduce home heating or cooling emissions. 5. Join a campaign or protest group.

ASD, emotional memory, fears
Emotional memory is a bitch, and people in the spectrum are particularly vulnerable to it.
Let's say that something triggers the emotion of fear in you. You may be consciously recalling some bad memories, you may be imagining a possible outcome. However, when emotional memory comes into action, things are much worse. Your nervous system immediately brings the deep feeling of fear that is associated with the memory. You may even no longer be able to recall the memory, forget it entirely, yet your mind will ceaselessly keep hitting you with a whole set of emotions that you can't control, every single time it happens.
What's even worse, these things add up. Bad memories create fear. Fear creates more bad memories. These memories amplify the emotional reaction — and the wheel turns.
But the worst is the lack of understanding. People telling you that you are being irrational, that you are being an embarrassment to your family, that they have to give stuff up because of you. So the emotional memory becomes richer with the feelings of embarrassment, guilt and low self-esteem. All coalescing into a huge ball of emotion.
Today, you know it's not true. The fear wasn't irrational at all, it's pretty understandable in people who are #ActuallyAutistic, even "typical". Yet, what's the point of knowing that, if these emotions are deeply seated in your memory, and they will haunt you forever, and prevent you from ever having an illusion of normal life?

Jetzt #EmanuelMacron auffordern: Blockieren Sie das EU-Mercosur-Abkommen!
Alle zweieinhalb Tage stirbt ein Mensch in Brasilien an den Folgen giftiger #Pestizide, die aus der #EU stammen.
Das

Jetzt Macron auffordern: Blockieren Sie das EU-Mercosur-Abkommen!
Alle zweieinhalb Tage stirbt ein Mensch in Brasilien an den Folgen giftiger Pestizide, die aus der EU stammen.Das Mercosur-Handelsabkommen zwischen Europa und Brasilien, Argentinien, Paraguay und Urug

I was just on the phone with my mother.
The flaming hell of computerized and AI driving "customer support" is subjecting older people to almost impossible and definitely inhumane hurdles.
(In my mother's case she is merely trying to cash a class-action settlement check issued to her late husband's name.)
These systems turn into vehicles of fraud when combined with the tsunami of phishing and other fraud - there's literally no one listening to help.

An unsparing report on Massachusetts' administration of public housing, from #ProPublica and #WBUR. More than 180,000 people are on the wait list, while more than 2,000 apartments sit empty.
The fact that the wait list for public housing is so large is also a reminder that many people have no we…

Massachusetts’ Highly-Touted Push to “Significantly Reduce” Affordable Housing Vacancies Barely Made a Dent
After a 2023 WBUR and ProPublica investigation found that 2,300 state-funded apartments were sitting empty, the state promised action within 90 days. But it failed to fix key problems, leaving many families still waiting for a home.

Devil's Valley
An action adventure with a quirky battle system that uses an inclined railway to carry and seal devils to a sacred boundary. Robbed of his weapons, the unarmed hero must keep dodging devil attacks in the cargo bed of an inclined railway until he reaches the sacred boundary at top floor of village!
https://

Braided coproduct, antipode and adjoint action for $U_q(sl_2)$
Pavle Pand\v{z}i\'c, Petr Somberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06871 https://

Braided coproduct, antipode and adjoint action for $U_q(sl_2)$
Motivated by our attempts to construct an analogue of the Dirac operator in the setting of $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_n)$, we write down explicitly the braided coproduct, antipode, and adjoint action for quantum algebra $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$. The braided adjoint action is seen to coincide with the ordinary quantum adjoint action, which also follows from the general results of S. Majid.

What do we think they did?
This Service Request has been closed by the New York City Police Department, NYPD.

Your request details are:
Service Request Number: 311-17898289
Type: Illegal Parking - License Plate Obscured
Location: 446 WEST 167 STREET, MANHATTAN (NEW YORK), NY, 10032
Date Submitted: 3/11/2024 1:14:46 PM

NYPD provided the following information:

The Police Department responded to the complaint and took action to …

Jeremy Corbyn launches legal action against Nigel Farage | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/jeremy-corbyn-launches-legal-action-against-nigel-farage

disclaimer: i did watch #eurovision. so i am, in some way, complicit with its (in)action towards israel and the censorship of pro-palestinian voices.
that said: it feels incredibly hollow to see how The Gays are celebrating their win in the face of this monstrous inequality. holding a pride parade for all the people who Just Wanna Have A Party while out in front people are getting arrested for speaking up about the grotesque injustice that's being entirely ignored throughout the evening

Everything you need to know about our latest filing with the FCC regarding FOX and WTXF is in our latest Substack.
"Media and Democracy Project Supports Pennsylvania Senators' Request for Swift Action on WTXF License Renewal"
Read it here 👉https://med…

Media and Democracy Project Supports Pennsylvania Senators' Request for Swift Action on WTXF License Renewal
Urges FCC to Grant Access to Key Non-Public Discovery from Recent Litigation to Ensure Fair and Neutral Review as Senators Request

The US SEC sends decentralized crypto exchange Uniswap a Wells notice warning that the agency intends to bring an enforcement action against the company (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/04/10/sec-…

SEC moves to sue Uniswap in bid to hobble fast-growing DeFi sector
The SEC's impending lawsuit against Uniswap Labs will be a major test for the emerging DeFi sector.

A monoidal category viewpoint for translation functors for finite $W$-algebras
Elisabetta Masut
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07859 https://

A monoidal category viewpoint for translation functors for finite $W$-algebras
We re-interpret Goodwin's translation functors for a finite $W$-algebra $H_\ell$ as an action of a monoidal subcategory of $U(\mathfrak{g})$-mod on the category of finitely generated $H_\ell$-modules. This action is obtained by transporting the tensor product of $U(\mathfrak{g})$-modules through Skryabin's equivalence. We apply this interpretation to show that the Skryabin equivalence by stages introduced by Genra and Juillard is an equivalence of $U(\mathfrak{g})$-module categories.

Ukrainian fighter jet pilot reportedly killed in action in Donetsk Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/10/ukrainian-fighter-jet.html

The Role of Learning Algorithms in Collective Action
Omri Ben-Dov, Jake Fawkes, Samira Samadi, Amartya Sanyal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06582 https://

email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…

The Flapping Birds in the Pentagram Zoo
Richard Evan Schwartz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05735 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.05735

The Flapping Birds in the Pentagram Zoo
We study the $(k+1,k)$ diagonal map for $k=2,3,4,...$. We call this map $Δ_k$. The map $Δ_1$ is the pentagram map and $Δ_k$ is a generalization. $Δ_k$ does not preserve convexity, but we prove that $Δ_k$ preserves a subset $B_k$ of certain star-shaped polygons which we call $k$-birds. The action of $Δ_k$ on $B_k$ seems similar to the action of $Δ_1$ on the space of convex polygons. We show that some classic geometric results about $Δ_1$ generalize to this setting.

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IA2: Leveraging Instance-Aware Index Advisor with Reinforcement Learning for Diverse Workloads
This study introduces the Instance-A}ware Index A}dvisor (IA2), a novel deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based approach for optimizing index selection in databases facing large action spaces of potential candidates. IA2 introduces the Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient - Temporal Difference State-Wise Action Refinery (TD3-TD-SWAR) model, enabling efficient index selection by understanding workload-index dependencies and employing adaptive action masking. This method includes a com…

In this Saturday afternoon I am playing a classical game as it is «Diablo». Thanks to DevilutionX is possible to playing it in GNU/Linux.
#linux

Daily Nous || APA-led Class Action Lawsuit Prevails
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/08/apa-led-class-action-lawsuit-prevails/

I doubt this lawsuit will succeed, but #Apple charges hugely over the odds for #iCloud storage. Pricing has hardly changed since the product was launched despite storage and bandwidth being much, much cheaper. 🤨

Ghost Martin-Siggia-Rose (MSR) applications to Kardar-Parizi-Zhang (KPZ) equation with non-linear noise
Garry Goldstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06481 ht…

Ghost Martin-Siggia-Rose (MSR) applications to Kardar-Parizi-Zhang (KPZ) equation with non-linear noise
In this work we modify the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation for growing surfaces to include the effect of surface tilt on the noise (that is have non-linearly coupled noise). We introduce ghost Martin-Siggia-Rose (gMSR) action for the KPZ equation with Faddeev-Popov ghosts to compute an auxiliary functional determinant. We integrate out the Faddeev-Popov ghosts to leading order and the auxiliary MSR Lagrange multiplierexactly to obtain and action for the height. We analyze it within the gauss…

Daily Inspiration: "World-class innovators refuse to accept the way things were" - Futurist Jim Carroll
How do you become a world-class innovator? Not someone who merely pokes around the edges of innovative thinking and explores a few ideas here and there, but someone who truly tries to infuse the mindset of everything you do, or into every goal and action that your organization pursues.
I head to Orlando tomorrow, where I've got a repeat engagement with a client; t…

Daily Inspiration: Mastering Innovation – “World class innovators refuse to accept the way things were.”

Multi-Robot Communication-Aware Cooperative Belief Space Planning with Inconsistent Beliefs: An Action-Consistent Approach
Tanmoy Kundu, Moshe Rafaeli, Vadim Indelman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05962

Multi-Robot Communication-Aware Cooperative Belief Space Planning with Inconsistent Beliefs: An Action-Consistent Approach
Multi-robot belief space planning (MR-BSP) is essential for reliable and safe autonomy. While planning, each robot maintains a belief over the state of the environment and reasons how the belief would evolve in the future for different candidate actions. Yet, existing MR-BSP works have a common assumption that the beliefs of different robots are consistent at planning time. Such an assumption is often highly unrealistic, as it requires prohibitively extensive and frequent communication capabili…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06488 has been replaced.
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Operationally independent events can influence each other in quantum theory
In any known description of nature, two physical systems are considered independent of each other if any action on one of the systems does not change the other system. From our classical intuitions about the world, we further conclude that these two systems are not affecting each other in any possible way, and thus these two systems are causally disconnected or they do not influence each other. Building on this idea, we show that in quantum theory such a notion of classical independence is not …

Tom Brady 'not opposed' to Michael Jordan-like comeback https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/tom_brady_not_opposed_to_michael_jordan_like_comeback/s1_13132_40224544

Tom Brady 'not opposed' to Michael Jordan-like comeback
Tom Brady has been retired for just one season, and now it sounds like he misses being a part of the action every Sunday in the fall. Brady, who turns 47 in August, was asked on the "Deep Cuts" podcast if he'd answer the call should a starting quarterback go down and a team needs a new QB1 for a playoff push. Brady mentioned the New England Patriots and Las Vegas Raiders, saying, "You never know." Brady even dropped a Michael Jordan reference, who came out of retirement twice in his career.  "…

Spectral invariants for non-compactly supported Hamiltonians on the disc, and an application to the mean action spectrum
Barney Bramham, Abror Pirnapasov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07863

Spectral invariants for non-compactly supported Hamiltonians on the disc, and an application to the mean action spectrum
For a symplectic isotopy on the two-dimensional disc we show that the classical spectral invariants of Viterbo [20] can be extended in a meaningful way to {\it non-compactly} supported Hamiltonians. We establish some basic properties of these extended invariants and as an application we show that Hutchings' inequality in [8] between the Calabi invariant and the mean action spectrum holds without any assumptions on the isotopy; in [8] it is assumed that the Calabi invariant is less than the rota…

When did the word “performative” acquire its current disapproving meaning, to describe empty words or gestures, done just for show? Merriam-Webster has this as the 2nd of 4 meanings, the 4th being what I considered more significant: words that perform an action, that themselves do something. Like wedding vows—saying those words is how you marry someone. Or, precisely the opposite of meaninglessly or hypocritically “performative.”

Since I was working on Photo Stream at the time, I remember when the decision was made to budget 5 GB to each device sold for iCloud storage (excluding Photo Stream storage—that was free). We nodded along since it was only for email, contacts, and calendar at the time.
Then Apple launched with iCloud backup, and the free tier stayed at 5 GB.
Then Apple added iCloud photos, and…still 5 GB.
We’re now a decade later and…it’s still 5 GB. It’s damn near comedic at this point.

Orbifold Classifying Spaces and Quotients of complex Tori
Fabrizio CataneseUniversitaet Bayreuth,KIAS Seoul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06044 https://

Orbifold Classifying Spaces and Quotients of complex Tori
In this paper we characterize the quotients $ X = T/G$ of a complex torus $T$ by the action of a finite group $G$ as the Kähler orbifold classifying spaces of the even Euclidean cristallographic groups $Γ$, and we prove other similar and stronger characterizations.

Pentagon Asks Watchdog to Investigate Abuse Issues in Base Day Care Centers After Military.com Report | Military.com
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/04/11/pentagon-asks-watc…

Pentagon Asks Watchdog to Investigate Abuse Issues in Base Day Care Centers After Military.com Report
The inspector general's office told Military.com in an email that it was reviewing the request "to determine the appropriate course of action" and had no further comment.

📣 Only a few days left until the #SCaLE21x! Don't miss out on all the FOSS action happening in Pasadena this week. Register for your passes today before it's too late! https://register.socallinuxexpo.org/re<…

RL-CFR: Improving Action Abstraction for Imperfect Information Extensive-Form Games with Reinforcement Learning
Boning Li, Zhixuan Fang, Longbo Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04344

RL-CFR: Improving Action Abstraction for Imperfect Information Extensive-Form Games with Reinforcement Learning
Effective action abstraction is crucial in tackling challenges associated with large action spaces in Imperfect Information Extensive-Form Games (IIEFGs). However, due to the vast state space and computational complexity in IIEFGs, existing methods often rely on fixed abstractions, resulting in sub-optimal performance. In response, we introduce RL-CFR, a novel reinforcement learning (RL) approach for dynamic action abstraction. RL-CFR builds upon our innovative Markov Decision Process (MDP) for…

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The majorant method for the fermionic effective action
Wilhelm Kroschinsky, Domingos H. U. Marchetti, Manfred Salmhofer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06099 ht…

The majorant method for the fermionic effective action
We revisit the problem of controlling Polchinski's equation by the solution of an associate Hamilton-Jacobi equation which determines a norm majorant for the fermionic effective action. This method, referred to as the Majorant Method, was first introduced by D. Brydges and J. Wright in 1988, but its original formulation contains a gap which has never been addressed. We overcome this gap and show that the majorant equation and its existence condition are analogous to the ones originally obtained…

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Hyperhydrodynamics: Relativistic Viscous Fluids Emerging from Hypermomentum
We explore a new action formulation of hyperfluids, fluids with intrinsic hypermomentum. Brown's Lagrangian for a relativistic perfect fluid is generalised by incorporating the degrees of freedom encoded in the hypermomentum tensor, namely by including connection-matter couplings. Quite interestingly, generic hyperfluids are imperfect, since hypermomentum induces such effects as bulk and shear viscosities as well as heat fluxes. The various coefficients that appear in the first order expansion …

Braided coproduct, antipode and adjoint action for $U_q(sl_2)$
Pavle Pand\v{z}i\'c, Petr Somberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06871 https://

Braided coproduct, antipode and adjoint action for $U_q(sl_2)$
Motivated by our attempts to construct an analogue of the Dirac operator in the setting of $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_n)$, we write down explicitly the braided coproduct, antipode, and adjoint action for quantum algebra $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$. The braided adjoint action is seen to coincide with the ordinary quantum adjoint action, which also follows from the general results of S. Majid.

DBR: Criminal case against anti-corruption activist Shabunin in accordance with court's decision: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/12/dbr-criminal-case.html

Inside tech billionaires’ push to reshape San Francisco politics: ‘a hostile takeover’
Since 2022, political groups like Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy, GrowSF, and TogetherSF Action have raised millions to influence political battles — and they have won several major victories.
In large part, their war chests are funded by extremely wealthy individuals with interests in tech or real estate.
The groups share many of the same donors and support many of the sa…

Cops Don't Stop Violence — Interrupting Criminalization | Research In Action https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/cops-dont-stop-violence

Cops Don't Stop Violence — Interrupting Criminalization | Research In Action

Multi-scale Dynamic and Hierarchical Relationship Modeling for Facial Action Units Recognition
Zihan Wang, Siyang Song, Cheng Luo, Songhe Deng, Weicheng Xie, Linlin Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06443

Multi-scale Dynamic and Hierarchical Relationship Modeling for Facial Action Units Recognition
Human facial action units (AUs) are mutually related in a hierarchical manner, as not only they are associated with each other in both spatial and temporal domains but also AUs located in the same/close facial regions show stronger relationships than those of different facial regions. While none of existing approach thoroughly model such hierarchical inter-dependencies among AUs, this paper proposes to comprehensively model multi-scale AU-related dynamic and hierarchical spatio-temporal relatio…

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3D Diffuser Actor: Policy Diffusion with 3D Scene Representations
We marry diffusion policies and 3D scene representations for robot manipulation. Diffusion policies learn the action distribution conditioned on the robot and environment state using conditional diffusion models. They have recently shown to outperform both deterministic and alternative state-conditioned action distribution learning methods. 3D robot policies use 3D scene feature representations aggregated from a single or multiple camera views using sensed depth. They have shown to generalize b…

BetterHelp customers begin receiving refund notices from $7.8M data privacy settlement, FTC says (WCNC-TV)
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/betterhelp-therapy-class-action-settlement-refund/507-b4ef5e0f-c722-4562-95e9-c3cdd7738d1a
http://www.memeorandum.com/240509/p52#a240509p52

Efficient Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning via Task-Specific Action Correction
Jinyuan Feng, Min Chen, Zhiqiang Pu, Tenghai Qiu, Jianqiang Yi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05950

Efficient Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning via Task-Specific Action Correction
Multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL) demonstrate potential for enhancing the generalization of a robot, enabling it to perform multiple tasks concurrently. However, the performance of MTRL may still be susceptible to conflicts between tasks and negative interference. To facilitate efficient MTRL, we propose Task-Specific Action Correction (TSAC), a general and complementary approach designed for simultaneous learning of multiple tasks. TSAC decomposes policy learning into two separate polic…

FDA head pushes for mandated lead testing by food manufacturers | The Hill
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4589376-fda-head-pushes-mandated-lead-testing-food-manufacturers/

FDA head pushes for mandated lead testing by food manufacturers
The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Robert Califf, pushed lawmakers on Thursday to pass a bill that would mandate that food manufacturers perform testing for lead in their products that are getting imported into the country from overseas.  Califf’s call to action came while he was answering questions from Rep.…

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A contact McKay correspondence for links of simple singularities
We compute the cylindrical contact homology of the links of the simple singularities. These manifolds are contactomorphic to $S^3/G$ for finite subgroups $G\subset SU(2)$. We perturb the degenerate contact form on $S^3/G$ with a Morse function, which is invariant under the corresponding $H\subset SO(3)$ action on $S^2$, to achieve nondegeneracy up to an action threshold. The cylindrical contact homology is recovered by taking a direct limit of the action filtered homology groups. The ranks of t…

This Week in Fascism 136: Hundreds Run Kyle Rittenhouse Off Campus in the South, Musk Removes Exposé of Neo-Nazi #fascism

Inside tech billionaires’ push to reshape San Francisco politics: ‘a hostile takeover’
Since 2022, political groups like Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy, GrowSF, and TogetherSF Action have raised millions to influence political battles — and they have won several major victories.
In large part, their war chests are funded by extremely wealthy individuals with interests in tech or real estate.
The groups share many of the same donors and support many of the sa…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06488 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Operationally independent events can influence each other in quantum theory
In any known description of nature, two physical systems are considered independent of each other if any action on one of the systems does not change the other system. From our classical intuitions about the world, we further conclude that these two systems are not affecting each other in any possible way, and thus these two systems are causally disconnected or they do not influence each other. Building on this idea, we show that in quantum theory such a notion of classical independence is not …

NFL betting: Three early winners from the start of free agency https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_betting_three_early_winners_from_the_start_of_free_agency/s1_13132_40095701

NFL betting: Three early winners from the start of free agency
The dust is far from settled on NFL free agency, but the first day of legal tampering brought with it a bevy of moves that are already shaping the season to come. As we consider Monday's action and the impact it has on some futures bets, we're drawn to the NFC here with a trio of teams you might want to consider getting a piece of now. The Packers were already a team we had our eye on for 2024-25 thanks to a strong season from Jordan Love and the entirety of their offense seemingly on their roo…

Motivic Lefschetz theorem for twisted Milnor hypersurfaces
Rui Xiong, Kirill Zainoulline
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07314 https://arx…

Motivic Lefschetz theorem for twisted Milnor hypersurfaces
We show that the Grothendieck-Chow motive of a smooth hyperplane section $Y$ of an inner twisted form $X$ of a Milnor hypersurface splits as a direct sum of shifted copies of the motive of the Severi-Brauer variety of the associated cyclic algebra $A$ and the motive of its maximal commutative subfield $L\subset A$. The proof is based on the non-triviality of the (monodromy) Galois action on the equivariant Chow group of $Y_L$.

President Biden on Friday warned about the “#extreme #voices” in the country he said are targeting Black Americans.
During virtual remarks at the National Action Network Convention, the president said there are threats to turn back the clock on civil rights
"This is 2024, banning books, attempting to eras…

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Anti-corruption activist accuses authorities of fabricating political cases against him: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/11/anticorruption-activist-accuses.html

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Climate action: eight ways to include people with disabilities - Light for the World International https://www.light-for-the-world.org/news/climate-action-eight-ways-to-include-people-with-disabilities/

Climate action: eight ways to include people with disabilities - Light for the World International
With the UN climate talks – COP28 – currently taking place, learn eight ways to involve people with disabilities in climate action.

Motivic Lefschetz theorem for twisted Milnor hypersurfaces
Rui Xiong, Kirill Zainoulline
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07314 https://arx…

Motivic Lefschetz theorem for twisted Milnor hypersurfaces
We show that the Grothendieck-Chow motive of a smooth hyperplane section $Y$ of an inner twisted form $X$ of a Milnor hypersurface splits as a direct sum of shifted copies of the motive of the Severi-Brauer variety of the associated cyclic algebra $A$ and the motive of its maximal commutative subfield $L\subset A$. The proof is based on the non-triviality of the (monodromy) Galois action on the equivariant Chow group of $Y_L$.

Are Large Language Models Aligned with People's Social Intuitions for Human-Robot Interactions?
Lennart Wachowiak, Andrew Coles, Oya Celiktutan, Gerard Canal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05701

Are Large Language Models Aligned with People's Social Intuitions for Human-Robot Interactions?
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in robotics, especially for high-level action planning. Meanwhile, many robotics applications involve human supervisors or collaborators. Hence, it is crucial for LLMs to generate socially acceptable actions that align with people's preferences and values. In this work, we test whether LLMs capture people's intuitions about behavior judgments and communication preferences in human-robot interaction (HRI) scenarios. For evaluation, we reproduce …

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Are Large Language Models Aligned with People's Social Intuitions for Human-Robot Interactions?
Lennart Wachowiak, Andrew Coles, Oya Celiktutan, Gerard Canal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05701

Are Large Language Models Aligned with People's Social Intuitions for Human-Robot Interactions?
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in robotics, especially for high-level action planning. Meanwhile, many robotics applications involve human supervisors or collaborators. Hence, it is crucial for LLMs to generate socially acceptable actions that align with people's preferences and values. In this work, we test whether LLMs capture people's intuitions about behavior judgments and communication preferences in human-robot interaction (HRI) scenarios. For evaluation, we reproduce …

This summer’s Democratic National Convention could be hit by protests and scenes of chaos that undermine Joe Biden's reelection campaign.
Already, 65-plus organizations in Chicago and elsewhere have formed a coalition to “March on the DNC” when it opens there on Aug. 19.
Activists have sued in federal court, alleging First Amendment violations because the city has only offered permits for demonstrations miles from the United Center, where Biden is scheduled to accept the Dem…

Noting campus protests, Democrats are preparing for intense action at their summer convention
As pro-Palestinian demonstrations escalate on college campuses around the country, critics of President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war suggest this summer’s Democratic National Convention could be hit by protests and scenes of chaos that undermine his reelection. Already, more than 65 organizations in Chicago and elsewhere have formed a coalition to “March on the DNC” when it opens there on Aug. 19. Protesters preparing for the convention hope to channel the anger on many …

Seven states, including Michigan, that were the focal points of Republican efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election have
👉more than 200 legislators labeled in a new report as being “#election #deniers.”
States United Action, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with a mission to protect elections,…

Report classifies one-fifth of Michigan Legislature as ‘election deniers’ • Michigan Advance
Seven states, including Michigan, that were the focal points of Republican efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election have more than 200 legislators labeled in a new report as being “election deniers.” States United Action, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with a mission to protect elections, issued the report Thursday using data collected  with the assistance […]