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Atención las buenas y buenos pa'l vinacho 🍷
https://www.elmostrador.cl/revista-jengibre/gastronomia/2025/09/03/dia-nacional-del-vino-experiencias-y-descuentos-para-celebrar/

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Discounted-Sum Automata with Multiple Discount Factors
Discounting the influence of future events is a key paradigm in economics and it is widely used in computer-science models, such as games, Markov decision processes (MDPs), reinforcement learning, and automata. While a single game or MDP may allow for several different discount factors, nondeterministic discounted-sum automata (NDAs) were only studied with respect to a single discount factor. It is known that every class of NDAs with an integer as the discount factor has good computational prop…

35-year-old former U.S. Army sergeant, Bajun “Baji” Mavalwalla II,
faces up to six years in prison
for protesting against ICE deportations
in what legal experts are calling a test case for the
Trump administration’s attempts to criminalize and punish dissent.
Mavalwalla was arrested and charged with “conspiracy to impede or injure officers”
after he was identified in a video taken at the protest and shared on Instagram.
Mavalwalla, who survived a ro…

Army Vet Charged with “Conspiracy” for ICE Protest as Trump Expands War on Dissent
A 35-year-old former U.S. Army sergeant, Bajun “Baji” Mavalwalla II, faces up to six years in prison for protesting against ICE deportations in what legal experts are calling a test case for the Trump administration’s attempts to criminalize and punish dissent. Mavalwalla was arrested and charged with “conspiracy to impede or injure officers” after he was identified in a video taken at the protest and shared on Instagram. Mavalwalla, who survived a roadside bomb blast while serving in…

Roughly 140 EPA staffers who signed 'dissent' letter are put on leave (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/03/epa-dissent-letter-employees-leave/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p98#a250703p98

A Parameter-free Decentralized Algorithm for Composite Convex Optimization
Xiaokai Chen, Ilya Kuruzov, Gesualdo Scutari, Alexander Gasnikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01466 http…

A Parameter-free Decentralized Algorithm for Composite Convex Optimization
The paper studies decentralized optimization over networks, where agents minimize a composite objective consisting of the sum of smooth convex functions--the agents' losses--and an additional nonsmooth convex extended value function. We propose a decentralized algorithm wherein agents ${\it adaptively}$ adjust their stepsize using local backtracking procedures that require ${\it no}$ ${\it global}$ (network) information or extensive inter-agent communications. Our adaptive decentralized method …

Dissenter Headlines For August 4 https://thedissenter.org/dissenter-headlines-for-august-4/

Florida’s Everglades National Park is often referred to as the most endangered national park in the United States.
In 1968, developers tried to construct the largest airport in the world in the middle of the park,
which was already suffering from a multitude of environmental crises:
disrupted water flow, a drastic decline in the bird population, human development, invasion of exotic species, and the endangerment of the Florida panther.
After an upswell of public outcry…

DeSantis Races to Open Immigrant Detention Camp in Swamp Amid Hurricane Season
Even before “Alligator Alcatraz,” Ron DeSantis had defined his political legacy by gleeful cruelty against immigrants.

Florida working to end all vaccine mandates, DeSantis and Ladapo announce (Ari Odzer/NBC 6 South Florida)
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/florida-working-to-end-all-vaccine-mandates-desantis-and-ladapo-announce/3686373/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250903/p173#a250903p173

On the Perturbed Projection-Based Distributed Gradient-Descent Algorithm: A Fully-Distributed Adaptive Redesign
Tarek Bazizi, Mohamed Maghenem, Paolo Frasca, Antonio Lor\`ia, Elena Panteley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03443

On the Perturbed Projection-Based Distributed Gradient-Descent Algorithm: A Fully-Distributed Adaptive Redesign
In this work, we revisit a classical distributed gradient-descent algorithm, introducing an interesting class of perturbed multi-agent systems. The state of each subsystem represents a local estimate of a solution to the global optimization problem. Thereby, the network is required to minimize local cost functions, while gathering the local estimates around a common value. Such a complex task suggests the interplay of consensus-based dynamics with gradient-descent dynamics. The latter descent d…

The first group of immigrants has arrived at a new concentration camp deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have cynically dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”
The facility, at an abandoned airport, will have an initial capacity of about 3,000 detainees, DeSantis said.
The center was built in eight days and features more than 200 security cameras,
28,000-plus feet of barbed wire and 400 security personnel

First immigration detainees arrive at Florida center in the Everglades
The first group of immigrants has arrived at a new detention center deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” Florida Republican Attorney General James Uthmeier said on social media Wednesday that “hundreds” of immigration detainees were to arrive at the center. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis says the facility will have a capacity of about 3,000 detainees when fully operational. The center was built in eight days and features more than 200 security ca…