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SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing
Eric J. Korpela (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), David P. Anderson (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Jeff Cobb (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Matt Lebofsky (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Wei Liu (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Dan Werthimer (Space Sciences Laboratory, Univ…

SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing
SETI@home is a radio Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, looking for technosignatures in data recorded at multiple observatories from 1998 to 2020. Most radio SETI projects analyze data using dedicated processing hardware. SETI@home uses a different approach: time-domain data is distributed over the Internet to $\gt 10^{5}$ volunteered home computers, which analyze it. The large amount of computing power this affords ($\sim 10^{15}$ floating-point operations per second (FPO…

The Telegraph withdraws a story about a rich banker hit by the cost of UK school fee rises after being deceived by a source and publishes a home page apology (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/faked-telegraph-a…

Telegraph withdraws banker school fees story after being deceived by source
Fake Telegraph article about rich banker struggling to afford school fees was result of deception by a source.

The Redundancy of Full Nodes in Bitcoin: A Network-Theoretic Demonstration of Miner-Centric Propagation Topologies
Dr Craig S Wright
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14197

The Redundancy of Full Nodes in Bitcoin: A Network-Theoretic Demonstration of Miner-Centric Propagation Topologies
This paper formally examines the network structure of Bitcoin CORE (BTC) and Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) using complex graph theory to demonstrate that home-hosted full nodes are incapable of participating in or influencing the propagation topology. Leveraging established models such as scale-free networks and small-world connectivity, we demonstrate that the propagation graph is dominated by a densely interconnected miner clique, while full nodes reside on the periphery, excluded from all tra…

I updated my website's list of links to add @USERNAME@WEBSITE to every social media account I own.
This way, it’s clearer what my name is and which site it belongs to. It might look like federation, but it’s not on most sites; it just works as a placeholder.
Read more here: https://midtsveen.codeberg.page

ShelterBox
To ensure no one is without shelter after disaster
We often work in places that others don’t,
making sure that we reach families who need support to take the next step in resuming their livelihoods and rebuilding their communities
https://www.shelterboxusa.org/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18675 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…

Can MLLMs Guide Me Home? A Benchmark Study on Fine-Grained Visual Reasoning from Transit Maps
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently achieved significant progress in visual tasks, including semantic scene understanding and text-image alignment, with reasoning variants enhancing performance on complex tasks involving mathematics and logic. However, their capacity for reasoning tasks involving fine-grained visual understanding remains insufficiently evaluated. To address this gap, we introduce ReasonMap, a benchmark designed to assess the fine-grained visual understanding …

SETI@home: Data Analysis and Findings
David P. Anderson (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Eric J. Korpela (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Dan Werthimer (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Jeff Cobb (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Bruce Allen (Max Planck Institut f\"ur Gravitationsphysik)

SETI@home: Data Analysis and Findings
SETI@home is a radio Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project that looks for technosignatures in data recorded at the Arecibo Observatory. The data were collected over a period of 14 years and cover almost the entire sky visible to the telescope. The first stage of data analysis found billions of detections: brief excesses of continuous or pulsed narrowband power. The second stage removed detections that were likely radio frequency interference (RFI), then identified and ranked s…

Error-Guided Pose Augmentation: Enhancing Rehabilitation Exercise Assessment through Targeted Data Generation
Omar Sherif, Ali Hamdi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09833

Error-Guided Pose Augmentation: Enhancing Rehabilitation Exercise Assessment through Targeted Data Generation
Effective rehabilitation assessment is essential for monitoring patient progress, particularly in home-based settings. Existing systems often face challenges such as data imbalance and difficulty detecting subtle movement errors. This paper introduces Error-Guided Pose Augmentation (EGPA), a method that generates synthetic skeleton data by simulating clinically relevant movement mistakes. Unlike standard augmentation techniques, EGPA targets biomechanical errors observed in rehabilitation. Comb…

Yeah, another insurance company hit by what is likely a ransomware attack.

Time-Varying Home Field Advantage in Football: Learning from a Non-Stationary Causal Process
Minhao Qi, Hengrui Cai, Guanyu Hu, Weining Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11399

Time-Varying Home Field Advantage in Football: Learning from a Non-Stationary Causal Process
In sports analytics, home field advantage is a robust phenomenon where the home team wins more games than the away team. However, discovering the causal factors behind home field advantage presents unique challenges due to the non-stationary, time-varying environment of sports matches. In response, we propose a novel causal discovery method, DYnamic Non-stAtionary local M-estimatOrs (DYNAMO), to learn the time-varying causal structures of home field advantage. DYNAMO offers flexibility by integ…

02:13—Good Night #Fediverse! 😴💤
I added some more autistic flare at #Night

Experience Paper: Scaling WiFi Sensing to Millions of Commodity Devices for Ubiquitous Home Monitoring
Guozhen Zhu, Yuqian Hu, Chenshu Wu, Wei-Hsiang Wang, Beibei Wang, K. J. Ray Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04322

Experience Paper: Scaling WiFi Sensing to Millions of Commodity Devices for Ubiquitous Home Monitoring
WiFi-based home monitoring has emerged as a compelling alternative to traditional camera- and sensor-based solutions, offering wide coverage with minimal intrusion by leveraging existing wireless infrastructure. This paper presents key insights and lessons learned from developing and deploying a large-scale WiFi sensing solution, currently operational across over 10 million commodity off-the-shelf routers and 100 million smart bulbs worldwide. Through this extensive deployment, we identify four…

see also the #Anduril corporatese home page http://www.anduril.com for a slick peek at all the kewl weapons tech our #Instagram and #Facebook friends now power with their loyal attention.
Trouble is, telling them doesn't work. This frustration feels maybe something like what the kids say they feel like when their parents watch Fox?

Amazing. #Gemini just wrote this #LAMP app for me to keep notes in folders with formatting in #markdown.
"Write a LAMP app for keeping notes. Include the ability to create, edit, and delete n…

Ventura County's (CA) preparedness website is featuring #ARRLFieldDay on their front page...take a look 👍
https://www.readyventuracounty.org/
I'm a member of all three clubs…

Counterculture Stars: Slow and Retrograde Stars with Low-Alpha Disk Abundances
Carrie Filion, Michael S. Petersen, Danny Horta, Kathryne J. Daniel, Madeline Lucey, Adrian M. Price-Whelan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09927

Counterculture Stars: Slow and Retrograde Stars with Low-Alpha Disk Abundances
The Milky Way is home to a thin disk that can be defined via kinematics and/or elemental abundances. The elemental abundance-defined thin disk, also called the low-alpha disk, is generally thought to be comprised of stars on planar, circular orbits that approximate the circular velocity curve. While this is an apt description for the majority of stars with thin-disk-like abundances, there are a number of interesting exceptions. In this analysis, we identify and investigate $\sim 70$ stars with …

Law enforcement official on Hortman shooting:
"It was knocking on the door and asking the person to come out.
Absolutely impersonating a police officer ... we have the suspect's car. The suspect is on foot."
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:4

HMPC-assisted Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Smart Home Energy Management
Jiadong He, Liang Yu, Zhiqiang Chen, Dawei Qiu, Dong Yue, Goran Strbac, Meng Zhang, Yujian Ye, Yi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00898

HMPC-assisted Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Smart Home Energy Management
This letter proposes an Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning (AIRL)-based energy management method for a smart home, which incorporates an implicit thermal dynamics model. In the proposed method, historical optimal decisions are first generated using a neural network-assisted Hierarchical Model Predictive Control (HMPC) framework. These decisions are then used as expert demonstrations in the AIRL module, which aims to train a discriminator to distinguish expert demonstrations from transit…

Tru-POMDP: Task Planning Under Uncertainty via Tree of Hypotheses and Open-Ended POMDPs
Wenjing Tang, Xinyu He, Yongxi Huang, Yunxiao Xiao, Cewu Lu, Panpan Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02860

Tru-POMDP: Task Planning Under Uncertainty via Tree of Hypotheses and Open-Ended POMDPs
Task planning under uncertainty is essential for home-service robots operating in the real world. Tasks involve ambiguous human instructions, hidden or unknown object locations, and open-vocabulary object types, leading to significant open-ended uncertainty and a boundlessly large planning space. To address these challenges, we propose Tru-POMDP, a planner that combines structured belief generation using Large Language Models (LLMs) with principled POMDP planning. Tru-POMDP introduces a hierarc…

Added a link to nsf-iaa.org with some autistic flair: #Anarchism #Syndicalism

Whoever greenlit this _focus-stealing_ nag on the #Google home page, where it routinely interrupts whatever I'm typing into the search box: know that you're helping to drive me _away_ from Google, and that I hope you develop some sort of horrific incurable body odor to which your own nose never becomes acclimated.

Facial Appearance Capture at Home with Patch-Level Reflectance Prior
Yuxuan Han, Junfeng Lyu, Kuan Sheng, Minghao Que, Qixuan Zhang, Lan Xu, Feng Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03478

Facial Appearance Capture at Home with Patch-Level Reflectance Prior
Existing facial appearance capture methods can reconstruct plausible facial reflectance from smartphone-recorded videos. However, the reconstruction quality is still far behind the ones based on studio recordings. This paper fills the gap by developing a novel daily-used solution with a co-located smartphone and flashlight video capture setting in a dim room. To enhance the quality, our key observation is to solve facial reflectance maps within the data distribution of studio-scanned ones. Spec…

Balanced Area Deprivation Index (bADI): Enhancing social determinants of health indices to strengthen their association with healthcare clinical outcomes, utilization and costs
Mohammad Amin Morid, Robert E Tillman, Eran Halperin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08131

Balanced Area Deprivation Index (bADI): Enhancing social determinants of health indices to strengthen their association with healthcare clinical outcomes, utilization and costs
Background: As value-based care expands across the U.S. healthcare system, reducing health disparities has become a priority. Social determinants of health (SDoH) indices, like the widely used Area Deprivation Index (ADI), guide efforts to manage patient health and costs. However, the ADI's reliance on housing-related variables (e.g., median home value) may reduce its effectiveness, especially in high-cost regions, by masking inequalities and poor health outcomes. Methods: To overcome these l…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14124 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

The APX-hardness of the Traveling Tournament Problem
The Traveling Tournament Problem (TTP-$k$) is a well-known benchmark problem in sports scheduling, which asks us to design a double round-robin schedule such that each pair of teams plays one game in each other's home venue, no pair of teams plays each other on two consecutive days, each team plays at most $k$ consecutive home games or away games, and the total traveling distance of all the $n$ teams is minimized. TTP-$k$ allows a polynomial-time approximation scheme when $k=2$ and becomes APX-…

Paired comparison models with strength-dependent ties and order effects
Mark E. Glickman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24783 https://arx…

Paired comparison models with strength-dependent ties and order effects
Paired comparison models, such as the Bradley-Terry (1952) model and its variants, are commonly used to measure competitor strength in games and sports. Extensions have been proposed to account for order effects (e.g., home-field advantage) as well as the possibility of a tie as a separate outcome, but such models are rarely adopted in practice due to poor fit with actual data. We propose a novel paired comparison model that accounts not only for ties and order effects, but recognizes two pheno…

Applied Astrobiology: An Integrated Approach to the Future of Life in Space
Robin Wordsworth, Collin Cherubim, Shannon Nangle, Aaron Berliner, Esther Dyson, Peter Girguis, David Grinspoon, Rachel Harris, Ken Liu, Adam Marblestone, Christopher Mason, Ryan Morhard, Dimitar Sasselov, Sara Seager, Robert Wood, Peter Worden
https://a…

Applied Astrobiology: An Integrated Approach to the Future of Life in Space
Searching for extraterrestrial life and supporting human life in space are traditionally regarded as separate challenges. However, there are significant benefits to an approach that treats them as different aspects of the same essential inquiry: How can we conceptualize life beyond our home planet?

Fuck it, im all on the style #anarchist,

From
"A forever home for your collection #Pocket becomes your permanent library—so even if a page you’ve saved is taken down, you’ll still have a copy of it in Pocket."
to
"Your export file will include links (URLs) of your saved items. The export does not extract the text of saved links."
Thanks for nothing,

https://midtsveen.codeberg.page

A Bayesian analysis of home advantage in professional squash
Philip Greengard, Samer Takriti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09287 https://

A Bayesian analysis of home advantage in professional squash
We estimate the effect of playing in one's home country in professional squash using a Bayesian hierarchical model applied to men's and women's Professional Squash Association matches from 2018-2024. The model incorporates players' world rankings and whether they are competing in their home country. Using margin of victory in games as our outcome, we estimate that home advantage adds 0.4 games for men and 0.3 games for women to the expected margin, with standard errors of 0.1. For evenly matche…

Interpretable reinforcement learning for heat pump control through asymmetric differentiable decision trees
Toon Van Puyvelde, Mehran Zareh, Chris Develder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01641

Interpretable reinforcement learning for heat pump control through asymmetric differentiable decision trees
In recent years, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms have gained traction in home energy management systems. However, their adoption by energy management companies remains limited due to the black-box nature of DRL, which fails to provide transparent decision-making feedback. To address this, explainable reinforcement learning (XRL) techniques have emerged, aiming to make DRL decisions more transparent. Among these, soft differential decision tree (DDT) distillation provides a promisin…

Updated and done for the day, added some more #Buttons #Button

#ActuallyAutistic logging offline, lmao!
https://midtsveen.codeberg.page

I made this a while ago and wanted to share it with you.
If you have epilepsy, please be careful before visiting because it has lots of rainbow spinning effects. It’s that duck spinning to Geometry Dash Practice Mode, with rainbow-colored text overlaid.
https://midtsveen.codeberg.page/duck.h

I recently added the Anarchist flag as my website’s background, and although it looks better on desktop, you can go take a look at: #Anarchy

Ihastus, vaan ei uusi. Joku luonnehti transsijatsiksi. En kiistä. Tutustukaa, ellei ole jo kuultu
#Music #musadontti #musiikki #Jazz

Is http://libcom.org down for anyone else?
#WorkingClassHistory #WorkingClass

Looks like my #propaganda is working. When I switched from #GitHub to #Codeberg, I made some #stickers