Tootfinder

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/unitedhealth-hackers-took-advantage-citrix-vulnerabilty-break-ceo-says-2024-04-29/
UnitedHealth hackers took advantage of Citrix vulnerabilty to break in, CEO says

ALLT kommer att bli bäst med AI
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unitedhealth-lawsuit-ai-deny-claims-medicare-advantage-health-insurance-denials/

"The Anglosphere has an advantage on immigration"
In the Financial Times. Full article:
https://www.ft.com/content/c6bb7307-484c-4076-a0f3-fc2aeb0b6112 ($)

This is fun.
Login to Ubuntu
Be told there is a really cool management tool named Landscape
Follow instructions for install
Instructions fail
Go to GitHub page for Landscape and find it has been depricated
Wheeeeeeee
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Welcome to Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.0-102-generic x86_64)
* Documentation: #Linux #Ubuntu

In Congressional testimony, UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty plans to say that hackers exploited a Citrix vulnerability to breach UnitedHealth on February 12 (Zeba Siddiqui/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cyberse…

UK Defense Ministry: 'Territory west of Avdiivka remains focal effort of Russian offensive': https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/29/uk-defense-ministry.html

From Mammoth to Tahoe, powerful blizzard could sock Sierra with up to 12 feet of snow
Forecasters urged people to take advantage of calm weather through Wednesday to prepare ahead of the incoming storm. They warned travel is expected to be nearly impossible from about 4 a.m. Thursday through Sunday morning. “If you attempt to travel, be prepared for whiteout conditions & extended road closures. Bring extra food, water, & warm clothing,” the National Weather Service office in Sa…

From Mammoth to Tahoe, powerful blizzard could sock California
A powerful storm taking aim at California starting Thursday could bring the strongest blizzard of the winter for the Sierra Nevada.

Corporate Crime Wave!
https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/2024032679/medicare-advantage-is-overbilling-medicare-by-22
Seriously, this is much more money than the cost of shoplifting and other proper…

So let me get this straight; Elon Musk just laid off the head of & pretty much entire group of the SINGLE greatest advantage Tesla has over any competitor?
The Supercharger network?
The thing that I’ve heard people gush about for years?
Masterful stroke, sir (as Musk lops own head off)

i have the power to change the minds of other beings
i should use this to my advantage
idk, take over the world or sth instead of arguing about minecraft food
oh well
https://tech.lgbt/@stella/112183650584554551

The table shows how much of the web is being broken with the release of iOS 17.4.
via https://infrequently.org/2024/02/home-screen-advantage/

My ex wife abused me for 20 years. I’m naturally conflict avoidant - a learned behaviour from my parents - and that enabled her to take advantage. I finally escaped 3 years ago but am still tied to her through our kids. I’ve managed to become less conflict avoidant since leaving her, but still find it particularly difficult standing up to her, even when she’s grossly abusing me through the kids. It’s a #trauma

Harnessing Geothermal Energy Potential from High-Level Nuclear Waste Repositories
#nuclear

Harnessing Geothermal Energy Potential from High-Level Nuclear Waste Repositories
The disposal of high-level nuclear waste (HLW) has been one of the most challenging issues for nuclear energy utilization. In this study, we have explored the potential of extracting decay heat from HLW, taking advantage of recent advances in the technologies to utilize low-temperature geothermal resources for the co-generation of electricity and heat. Given that geothermal energy entails extracting heat from natural radioactivity within the Earth, we may consider that our approach is to augmen…

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Is Mamba Effective for Time Series Forecasting?
In the realm of time series forecasting (TSF), it is imperative for models to adeptly discern and distill hidden patterns within historical time series data to forecast future states. Transformer-based models exhibit formidable efficacy in TSF, primarily attributed to their advantage in apprehending these patterns. However, the quadratic complexity of the Transformer leads to low computational efficiency and high costs, which somewhat hinders the deployment of the TSF model in real-world scenar…

Why the Cowboys hold a massive advantage after NFL approves new kickoff format https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/why_the_cowboys_hold_a_massive_advantage_after_nfl_approves_new_kickoff_format/…

Why the Cowboys hold a massive advantage after NFL approves new kickoff format
NFL owners approved a rule change on Tuesday at the annual league meetings that will significantly impact how we experience football as kickoffs will look drastically different in 2024. The league owners voted on a re-imagined kickoff play that will ensure two goals are achieved: More returns after high touchback rates essentially made the play meaningless and fewer injuries. The rule proposal was put together by Dallas Cowboys special teams coordinator John Fassel and a couple more coaches, wh…

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Frosty: Bringing strong liveness guarantees to the Snow family of consensus protocols
Snowman is the consensus protocol implemented by the Avalanche blockchain and is part of the Snow family of protocols, first introduced through the original Avalanche leaderless consensus protocol. A major advantage of Snowman is that each consensus decision only requires an expected constant communication overhead per processor in the `common' case that the protocol is not under substantial Byzantine attack, i.e. it provides a solution to the scalability problem which ensures that the expected…

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False Claims against Model Ownership Resolution
Deep neural network (DNN) models are valuable intellectual property of model owners, constituting a competitive advantage. Therefore, it is crucial to develop techniques to protect against model theft. Model ownership resolution (MOR) is a class of techniques that can deter model theft. A MOR scheme enables an accuser to assert an ownership claim for a suspect model by presenting evidence, such as a watermark or fingerprint, to show that the suspect model was stolen or derived from a source mod…

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Competitive advantage of URLLC vs. eMBB for supporting timeliness-relevant services
5G specifications promise a common and flexible-enough network infrastructure capable of satisfying diverse requirements of both current and future use cases. Two service types standardized in 5G are eMBB, without stringent delay guarantee, and URLLC, with stringent delay guarantee. We focus on a use case where data timeliness is the relevant quality parameter. We provide an economic rationale for the support of data-based services, that is, from the point of view of the profits attained by the…

How Biden Can Press His Ukraine Advantage (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-biden-can-press-his-ukraine-advantage
http://www.memeorandum.com/240422/p28#a240422p28

Tänk om svenska myndigheter var lika djärva, experimentella och nyfikna på hur öppna, icke-kommersiella sociala medier kan bidra till våra demokratiska samtal. Det skulle stärka vår opinionsbildning och myndigheternas digitala rådighet.
https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_C

Quasi particle model vs lattice QCD thermodynamics: extension to $N_f=2 1 1$ flavors and momentum dependent quark masses
Maria Lucia Sambataro (Department of Physics and Astronomy 'E. Majorana', University of Catania, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, INFN-LNS), Vincenzo Greco (Department of Physics and Astronomy 'E. Majorana', University of Catania, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, INFN-LNS), Gabriele Parisi (Department of Physics and Astronomy 'E. Majorana', Universi…

Quasi particle model vs lattice QCD thermodynamics: extension to $N_f=2+1+1$ flavors and momentum dependent quark masses
In the last decade a Quasi-Particle Model ($QPM$) has supplied the basis for the study of HQ production in ultra-relativistic AA collisions, allowing for a phenomenological estimate of the HQ diffusion coefficient $D_s(T)$. Taking advantage of the new lattice QCD results for the Equation of State (EoS) with 2+1+1 dynamical flavors, we extend our $QPM$ approach from $N_f=2+1$ to $N_f=2+1+1$, in which the charm quark is included. Given an effective coupling $g(T)$ fixed by a fit to the lQCD energ…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19046 has been replaced.
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Large Language Models as Evolutionary Optimizers
Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have achieved remarkable success in tackling complex combinatorial optimization problems. However, EAs often demand carefully-designed operators with the aid of domain expertise to achieve satisfactory performance. In this work, we present the first study on large language models (LLMs) as evolutionary combinatorial optimizers. The main advantage is that it requires minimal domain knowledge and human efforts, as well as no additional training of the model. This app…

Bella more interested in chomping Mr Dinosaur than walkies. She lives in an apartment though so it's important she gets regular walkies. Also this day was very rainy so we had to take advantage of a break in the weather.
You may notice a slight limp. After 3 weeks of unproductive visits to the vet, her human managed to dig out a small shard of glass from her pad themselves. Poor pupper.
#Greyhounds

Trolling IBM’s Quantum Processor Advantage With a Commodore 64
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-77232f6d-202e122ff3322bbc
Trolling IBM’s Quantum Processor Advantage With a Commodore 64

I wonder - do data centre providers move out of safe harbours for hosting/processing user content once they start to gain commercial advantage?
For example, imagine a user privately stores (but doesnt use) other's patent/copyright protected content or trade secrets. If a third party unilaterally changes their practice to use the stored content, surely the third party is liable for the damage.

Performance limits of information engines
Johan du Buisson, David A. Sivak, John Bechhoefer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17860 https://…

Performance limits of information engines
We review recent studies of a colloidal information engine that consists of a bead in water and held by an optical trap. The bead is ratcheted upward without any apparent external work, by taking advantage of favorable thermal fluctuations. Much of the previous work on such engines aimed to show that accounting for information-processing costs can reconcile the observed motion with the second law of thermodynamics. By contrast, we focus on the factors that limit the performance of such engines …

Preparing for a China war, the Marines are retooling how they’ll fight
The military’s latest concept for fighting adversaries like China from remote, strategic islands in the western Pacific:
These units are designed to be smaller, lighter, more mobile
— and, their leaders argue, more lethal.
Coming out of 20 years of land combat in the Middle East, the Marines are striving to adapt to a maritime fight that could play out across thousands of miles of islands and coas…

An analysis of the effects of sharing research data, code, and preprints on citations
Giovanni Colavizza, Lauren Cadwallader, Marcel LaFlamme, Gr\'egory Dozot, St\'ephane Lecorney, Daniel Rappo, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16171 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.16171
arXiv:2404.16171v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Calls to make scientific research more open have gained traction with a range of societal stakeholders. Open Science practices include but are not limited to the early sharing of results via preprints and openly sharing outputs such as data and code to make research more reproducible and extensible. Existing evidence shows that adopting Open Science practices has effects in several domains. In this study, we investigate whether adopting one or more Open Science practices leads to significantly higher citations for an associated publication, which is one form of academic impact. We use a novel dataset known as Open Science Indicators, produced by PLOS and DataSeer, which includes all PLOS publications from 2018 to 2023 as well as a comparison group sampled from the PMC Open Access Subset. In total, we analyze circa 122'000 publications. We calculate publication and author-level citation indicators and use a broad set of control variables to isolate the effect of Open Science Indicators on received citations. We show that Open Science practices are adopted to different degrees across scientific disciplines. We find that the early release of a publication as a preprint correlates with a significant positive citation advantage of about 20.2% on average. We also find that sharing data in an online repository correlates with a smaller yet still positive citation advantage of 4.3% on average. However, we do not find a significant citation advantage for sharing code. Further research is needed on additional or alternative measures of impact beyond citations. Our results are likely to be of interest to researchers, as well as publishers, research funders, and policymakers.

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An Actionable Framework for Understanding and Improving Talent Retention as a Competitive Advantage in IT Organizations
In the rapidly evolving global business landscape, the demand for software has intensified competition among organizations, leading to challenges in retaining highly qualified IT members in software organizations. One of the problems faced by IT organizations is the retention of these strategic professionals, also known as talent. This work presents an actionable framework for Talent Retention (TR) used in IT organizations. It is based on our findings from interviews performed with 21 IT manage…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11521 has been replaced.
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The Brownian transport map
Contraction properties of transport maps between probability measures play an important role in the theory of functional inequalities. The actual construction of such maps, however, is a non-trivial task and, so far, relies mostly on the theory of optimal transport. In this work, we take advantage of the infinite-dimensional nature of the Gaussian measure and construct a new transport map, based on the Föllmer process, which pushes forward the Wiener measure onto probability measures on Euclid…

At a DC event on May 1, over 100 tech CEOs and investors plan to lobby against AI regulation, ask to relax immigration rules, and drum up hawkishness on China (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/…

A.I. Leaders Press Advantage With Congress as China Tensions Rise
Silicon Valley chiefs are swarming the Capitol to try to sway lawmakers on the dangers of falling behind in the artificial intelligence race.

Magnetization fluctuations and magnetic aftereffect probed via the anomalous Hall effect
Nadine Nabben, Giacomo Sala, Ulrich Nowak, Matthias Kr\"uger, Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18436

Magnetization fluctuations and magnetic aftereffect probed via the anomalous Hall effect
Taking advantage of the anomalous Hall effect, we electrically probe low-frequency magnetization fluctuations at room temperature in a thin ferromagnetic Pt/Co/AlO$_x$ layer stack with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. We observe a strong enhancement of the Hall voltage fluctuations within the hysteretic region of the magnetization loop. Analyzing both the temporal evolution of the anomalous Hall voltage and its frequency-dependent noise power density, we identify two types of magnetic noise: …

Interesting.
https://www.profgalloway.com/prof-k/

Prof K | No Mercy / No Malice
I experienced ketamine therapy a few weeks ago and, after discussing it on Pivot and Prof G pods, I’ve received a great deal of inquiries from friends, strangers, and media. I wanted to let the experience settle as my perception continues to evolve/mature/unfurl (couldn’t find the right word), and to take advantage of Daniel Kahneman’s […]

Fast Lithium Ion Diffusion in Brownmillerite $\mathrm{Li}_{x}\mathrm{{Sr}_{2}{Co}_{2}{O}_{5}}$
Xin Chen, Xixiang Zhang, Jie-Xiang Yu, Jiadong Zang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17557

Fast Lithium Ion Diffusion in Brownmillerite $\mathrm{Li}_{x}\mathrm{{Sr}_{2}{Co}_{2}{O}_{5}}$
Ionic conductors have great potential for interesting tunable physical properties via ionic liquid gating and novel energy storage applications such as all-solid-state lithium batteries. In particular, low migration barriers and high hopping attempt frequency are the keys to achieve fast ion diffusion in solids. Taking advantage of the oxygen-vacancy channel in $\mathrm{Li}_{x}\mathrm{{Sr}_{2}{Co}_{2}{O}_{5}}$, we show that migration barriers of lithium ion are as small as 0.28~0.17eV depending…

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An improved Quantum Max Cut approximation via matching
Finding a high (or low) energy state of a given quantum Hamiltonian is a potential area to gain a provable and practical quantum advantage. A line of recent studies focuses on Quantum Max Cut, where one is asked to find a high energy state of a given antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Hamiltonian. In this work, we present a classical approximation algorithm for Quantum Max Cut that achieves an approximation ratio of 0.584 given a generic input, and a ratio of 0.595 given a triangle-free input, outper…

Ukraine's Naval Advantage: Russian Ships Ousted from Black Sea. Ukraine in Flames #585: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/14/ukraines-naval-advantage.html

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Time-Frequency Jointed Imperceptible Adversarial Attack to Brainprint Recognition with Deep Learning Models
EEG-based brainprint recognition with deep learning models has garnered much attention in biometric identification. Yet, studies have indicated vulnerability to adversarial attacks in deep learning models with EEG inputs. In this paper, we introduce a novel adversarial attack method that jointly attacks time-domain and frequency-domain EEG signals by employing wavelet transform. Different from most existing methods which only target time-domain EEG signals, our method not only takes advantage o…

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A-PSRO: A Unified Strategy Learning Method with Advantage Function for Normal-form Games
Solving Nash equilibrium is the key challenge in normal-form games with large strategy spaces, where open-ended learning frameworks offer an efficient approach. In this work, we propose an innovative unified open-ended learning framework A-PSRO, i.e., Advantage Policy Space Response Oracle, as a comprehensive framework for both zero-sum and general-sum games. In particular, we introduce the advantage function as an enhanced evaluation metric for strategies, enabling a unified learning objective…

This is where working at #Microsoft offers no advantage when you are not directly in an org. I found out about this from public sources.
"Windows and Surface teams merge under new boss"

A Comprehensive Overview of the Lebesgue Differentiation Theorem in Coq
Reynald Affeldt, Zachary Stone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18229 https://

A Comprehensive Overview of the Lebesgue Differentiation Theorem in Coq
Formalization of real analysis offers a chance to rebuild traditional proofs of important theorems as unambiguous theories that can be interactively explored. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the Lebesgue Differentiation Theorem formalized in the Coq proof assistant, from which the first Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (FTC) for the Lebesgue integral is obtained as a corollary. Proving the first FTC in this way has the advantage of decomposing into loosely-coupled theories of mod…

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Hydrodynamic Attractor in Ultracold Atoms
The hydrodynamic attractor is a concept that describes universal equilibration behavior in which systems lose microscopic details before hydrodynamics becomes applicable. We propose a setup to observe hydrodynamic attractors in ultracold atomic gases, taking advantage of the fact that driving the two-body $s$-wave scattering length causes phenomena equivalent to isotropic fluid expansions. We specifically consider two-component fermions with contact interactions in three dimensions and discuss …

Preparing for a China war, the Marines are retooling how they’ll fight
The military’s latest concept for fighting adversaries like China from remote, strategic islands in the western Pacific:
These units are designed to be smaller, lighter, more mobile
— and, their leaders argue, more lethal.
Coming out of 20 years of land combat in the Middle East, the Marines are striving to adapt to a maritime fight that could play out across thousands of miles of islands and coas…

Quasi particle model vs lattice QCD thermodynamics: extension to $N_f=2 1 1$ flavors and momentum dependent quark masses
Maria Lucia Sambataro (Department of Physics and Astronomy 'E. Majorana', University of Catania, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, INFN-LNS), Vincenzo Greco (Department of Physics and Astronomy 'E. Majorana', University of Catania, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, INFN-LNS), Gabriele Parisi (Department of Physics and Astronomy 'E. Majorana', Universi…

Quasi particle model vs lattice QCD thermodynamics: extension to $N_f=2+1+1$ flavors and momentum dependent quark masses
In the last decade a Quasi-Particle Model ($QPM$) has supplied the basis for the study of HQ production in ultra-relativistic AA collisions, allowing for a phenomenological estimate of the HQ diffusion coefficient $D_s(T)$. Taking advantage of the new lattice QCD results for the Equation of State (EoS) with 2+1+1 dynamical flavors, we extend our $QPM$ approach from $N_f=2+1$ to $N_f=2+1+1$, in which the charm quark is included. Given an effective coupling $g(T)$ fixed by a fit to the lQCD energ…

"There's no daylight between the two of us, the Trump campaign and the RNC"
Autotuned Party chair says all RNC efforts "to advantage of Donald" - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2024/04/04/au

New #RustLang projects are popping up all over the place. Many of them quickly reach feature parity with their non-Rust predecessors, then beat them both in functionality and performance. Seeing all this, it's hard not to think of Rust as a language that makes rapid development and deployment possible, and that outperforms other programming languages.
While I won't argue that Rust has its advantages, that's not the real reason here. In my opinion, it's all about its popularity. All the cool kids use Rust nowadays, and cool kids are precisely the kind of people who have time and energy to develop stuff rapidly. Add to that corporations investing in the next boom, and delivering a full-time paid workforce and funding, the culture of code reuse (i.e. sharing lots of crates), and last but not least, the benefit of starting from scratch.
Old folk like us, who barely manage enough energy to keep things alive, can't compete with that. However, we have one advantage. We don't care about being cool anymore. We aren't going to pack our bags and run after the next shiny thing, whenever the next best thing since sliced bread gets invented.
#Gentoo #OpenSource

" I’d had this idea in the back of my head for years, ever since I read “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency,” a novel by Douglas Adams, when I was about 15 years old. In one part of the book, a software programmer describes a program that converts a company’s financial data into music."

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Contact Energy Based Hindsight Experience Prioritization
Multi-goal robot manipulation tasks with sparse rewards are difficult for reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms due to the inefficiency in collecting successful experiences. Recent algorithms such as Hindsight Experience Replay (HER) expedite learning by taking advantage of failed trajectories and replacing the desired goal with one of the achieved states so that any failed trajectory can be utilized as a contribution to learning. However, HER uniformly chooses failed trajectories, without tak…

> If objections to trans women’s participation in sports are due to clear, proven, scientific evidence that shows trans women retain a biological advantage over cisgender women athletes after hormone therapy, then those who wish to ban them from women’s sports ought to simply present this evidence. If such evidence does not exist, then in a fair political environment they’d be asked to articulate the basis on which they are arguing against trans women’s inclusion.
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Face it, you’ll never be this cool.
#retroComputing #hacker #nintendo

So we’ve had a couple really warm days this week and I thought I’d take advantage and grill some steaks.😀 But the gas grill wouldn’t start.😕 Replaced the tank. Still no go.☹️ Checked connections.🫤 Held start button down for a bit. Then💥 Just a small one, but enough to lift the lid a bit and singe the hairs off the back of my hand holding the button down. That was exciting. But we’re good to go now. 😆

Complex generalized Gauss-Radau quadrature rules for Hankel transforms of integer order
Haiyong Wang, Menghan Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19328 https://<…

Complex generalized Gauss-Radau quadrature rules for Hankel transforms of integer order
Complex Gaussian quadrature rules for oscillatory integral transforms have the advantage that they can achieve optimal asymptotic order. However, their existence for Hankel transform can only be guaranteed when the order of the transform belongs to $[0,1/2]$. In this paper we consider the construction of generalized Gauss-Radau quadrature rules for Hankel transform. We show that, if adding certain value and derivative information at the left endpoint, then complex generalized Gauss-Radau quadra…

US State Department: 'We do not believe Putin has advantage in the war': https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/us-state-department.html

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Fast Lithium Ion Diffusion in Brownmillerite $\mathrm{Li}_{x}\mathrm{{Sr}_{2}{Co}_{2}{O}_{5}}$
Ionic conductors have great potential for interesting tunable physical properties via ionic liquid gating and novel energy storage applications such as all-solid-state lithium batteries. In particular, low migration barriers and high hopping attempt frequency are the keys to achieve fast ion diffusion in solids. Taking advantage of the oxygen-vacancy channel in $\mathrm{Li}_{x}\mathrm{{Sr}_{2}{Co}_{2}{O}_{5}}$, we show that migration barriers of lithium ion are as small as 0.28~0.17eV depending…

A diverse set of two-qubit gates for spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots
Ming Ni, Rong-Long Ma, Zhen-Zhen Kong, Ning Chu, Sheng-Kai Zhu, Chu Wang, Ao-Ran Li, Wei-Zhu Liao, Gang Cao, Gui-Lei Wang, Guang-Can Guo, Xuedong Hu, Hai-Ou Li, Guo-Ping Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18689

A diverse set of two-qubit gates for spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots
To realize large-scale quantum information processes, an ideal scheme for two-qubit operations should enable diverse operations with given hardware and physical interaction. However, for spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots, the common two-qubit operations, including CPhase gates, SWAP gates, and CROT gates, are realized with distinct parameter regions and control waveforms, posing challenges for their simultaneous implementation. Here, taking advantage of the inherent Heisenberg interacti…

My understanding of the current #spam issues is that it is people taking advantage of open registration instances. Essentially hijacking.. which is causing small-instance admins like me to domain-block those instances for sanity.
Question: Assuming the spammers will eventually be removed from the victim instances, is there a 'whitelist’ somewhere that

Black cats are very difficult to take pictures of, but the one advantage is their eyes pop like crazy. Example. This is Blake's CRAZY EYES. I'm still experiencing a little residual fear looking at this TBH 😬

HotStuff-2 vs. HotStuff: The Difference and Advantage
Siyuan Zhao, Yanqi Wu, Zheng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18300 https://arxi…

HotStuff-2 vs. HotStuff: The Difference and Advantage
Byzantine consensus protocols are essential in blockchain technology. The widely recognized HotStuff protocol uses cryptographic measures for efficient view changes and reduced communication complexity. Recently, the main authors of HotStuff introduced an advanced iteration named HotStuff-2. This paper aims to compare the principles and analyze the effectiveness of both protocols, hoping to depict their key differences and assess the potential enhancements offered by HotStuff-2.

Fast Algorithms for Quantile Regression with Selection
Santiago Pereda-Fern\'andez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16693 https://arxiv…

Fast Algorithms for Quantile Regression with Selection
This paper addresses computational challenges in estimating Quantile Regression with Selection (QRS). The estimation of the parameters that model self-selection requires the estimation of the entire quantile process several times. Moreover, closed-form expressions of the asymptotic variance are too cumbersome, making the bootstrap more convenient to perform inference. Taking advantage of recent advancements in the estimation of quantile regression, along with some specific characteristics of th…

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Stochastic Control Barrier Functions for Economics
Control barrier functions (CBFs) and safety-critical control have seen a rapid increase in popularity in recent years, predominantly applied to systems in aerospace, robotics and neural network controllers. Control barrier functions can provide a computationally efficient method to monitor arbitrary primary controllers and enforce state constraints to ensure overall system safety. One area that has yet to take advantage of the benefits offered by CBFs is the field of finance and economics. This…

A good management system doesn’t rely on heroic efforts to save the day. The organization is designed to succeed. It is robust. It will succeed with all the variation thrown at it by the outside world. A good management system takes advantage of the contributions people offer, but it will not perform poorly when others are relied on.
A well run organization has graceful degradation (when one component fails or one person is missing...

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An On-demand Photonic Ising Machine with Simplified Hamiltonian Calculation by Phase encoding and Intensity Detection
The photonic Ising machine is a new paradigm of optical computing that takes advantage of the unique properties of light wave propagation, parallel processing, and low-loss transmission. Thus, the process of solving combinatorial optimization problems can be accelerated through photonic/optoelectronic devices. In this work, we have proposed and demonstrated the Phase Encoding and Intensity Detection Ising Annealer (PEIDIA) capable of solving arbitrary Ising problems on demand. The PEIDIA employ…

A Comprehensive Overview of the Lebesgue Differentiation Theorem in Coq
Reynald Affeldt, Zachary Stone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18229 https://

A Comprehensive Overview of the Lebesgue Differentiation Theorem in Coq
Formalization of real analysis offers a chance to rebuild traditional proofs of important theorems as unambiguous theories that can be interactively explored. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the Lebesgue Differentiation Theorem formalized in the Coq proof assistant, from which the first Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (FTC) for the Lebesgue integral is obtained as a corollary. Proving the first FTC in this way has the advantage of decomposing into loosely-coupled theories of mod…

FLAASH: Flexible Accelerator Architecture for Sparse High-Order Tensor Contraction
Gabriel Kulp, Andrew Ensinger, Lizhong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16317

FLAASH: Flexible Accelerator Architecture for Sparse High-Order Tensor Contraction
Tensors play a vital role in machine learning (ML) and often exhibit properties best explored while maintaining high-order. Efficiently performing ML computations requires taking advantage of sparsity, but generalized hardware support is challenging. This paper introduces FLAASH, a flexible and modular accelerator design for sparse tensor contraction that achieves over 25x speedup for a deep learning workload. Our architecture performs sparse high-order tensor contraction by distributing sparse…

McClay, Cowboys stay true to form on day 2 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mcclay-cowboys-stay-true-to-form-on-day-2

McClay, Cowboys stay true to form on day 2
Will McClay and Mike McCarthy have preached the advantage of having players that give the Cowboys versatility, and even when staring in the face of flashing needs, the War Room stayed true to that strategy.

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Unconditional Quantum Advantage for Sampling with Shallow Circuits
Recent work by Bravyi, Gosset, and Koenig showed that there exists a search problem that a constant-depth quantum circuit can solve, but that any constant-depth classical circuit with bounded fan-in cannot. They also pose the question: Can we achieve a similar proof of separation for an input-independent sampling task? In this paper, we show that the answer to this question is yes when the number of random input bits given to the classical circuit is bounded. We introduce a distribution $D_{n…

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No distributed quantum advantage for approximate graph coloring
We give an almost complete characterization of the hardness of $c$-coloring $χ$-chromatic graphs with distributed algorithms, for a wide range of models of distributed computing. In particular, we show that these problems do not admit any distributed quantum advantage. To do that: 1) We give a new distributed algorithm that finds a $c$-coloring in $χ$-chromatic graphs in $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(n^{\frac{1}α})$ rounds, with $α= \bigl\lfloor\frac{c-1}{χ- 1}\bigr\rfloor$. 2) We prove that any di…

A Bayesian Committee Machine Potential for Organic Nitrogen Compounds
Hyun Gyu Park, Soohaeng Yoo Willow, D. ChangMo Yang, Chang Woo Myung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17132

A Bayesian Committee Machine Potential for Organic Nitrogen Compounds
Large-scale computer simulations of chemical atoms are used in a wide range of applications, including batteries, drugs, and more. However, there is a problem with efficiency as it takes a long time due to the large amount of calculation. To solve these problems, machine learning interatomic potential (ML-IAP) technology is attracting attention as an alternative. ML-IAP not only has high accuracy by faithfully expressing the density functional theory (DFT), but also has the advantage of low com…

Right-wingers claim trans women have unfair advantage in hot dog-eating contests - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/04/right-wingers-claim-trans-women-have-unfair-advantage-in-hot-dog-eating-contest…

Right-wingers claim trans women have unfair advantage in hot dog-eating contests - LGBTQ Nation
The kicker: The champion they targeted for "stealing" the victory isn't even trans.

How Palantir, which doesn't have a traditional salesforce, is using software boot camps to attract customers, hosting an average of about five per day in 2024 (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Inside Palantir’s AI Sales Secret Weapon: Software Boot Camp
The company is averaging five boot camps a day this year to try to take advantage of the AI craze.

Syrskyi calls unmanned systems 'priority,' seeks solutions for advantage over Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/18/syrskyi-calls-unmanned.html

🏈 ‘It’s a huge advantage’: Could soccer skills help decide the Super Bowl?
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/feb/05/its-a-huge-advantage-could-soccer-skills-help-decide-the-super-bowl

Cowboys' John Fassel: New kickoffs will 'feel like a real football play'; KaVontae Turpin could explode https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/2024/03/28/john-fassel-kickoff-kavontae-turpin/

Cowboys' John Fassel: New kickoffs will 'feel like a real football play'; KaVontae Turpin could explode
From @ToddBrock24f7: Fassel called kickoffs “a dying play.” New rules should give a speedy return man- like the Cowboys’ KaVontae Turpin- a huge advantage.

Zelensky: Russia 'taking advantage' of delays in aid to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/20/zelensky-russia-taking.html

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False Claims against Model Ownership Resolution
Deep neural network (DNN) models are valuable intellectual property of model owners, constituting a competitive advantage. Therefore, it is crucial to develop techniques to protect against model theft. Model ownership resolution (MOR) is a class of techniques that can deter model theft. A MOR scheme enables an accuser to assert an ownership claim for a suspect model by presenting evidence, such as a watermark or fingerprint, to show that the suspect model was stolen or derived from a source mod…

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Stochastic Control Barrier Functions for Economics
Control barrier functions (CBFs) and safety-critical control have seen a rapid increase in popularity in recent years, predominantly applied to systems in aerospace, robotics and neural network controllers. Control barrier functions can provide a computationally efficient method to monitor arbitrary primary controllers and enforce state constraints to ensure overall system safety. One area that has yet to take advantage of the benefits offered by CBFs is the field of finance and economics. This…

Exposing the hidden layers and interplay in the quantum software stack
Vlad Stirbu, Arianne Meijer-van de Griend, Jake Muff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16545

Exposing the hidden layers and interplay in the quantum software stack
Current and near-future quantum computers face resource limitations due to noise and low qubit counts. Despite this, effective quantum advantage can still be achieved due to the exponential nature of bit-to-qubit conversion. However, optimizing the software architecture of these systems is essential to utilize available resources efficiently. Unfortunately, the focus on user-friendly quantum computers has obscured critical steps in the software stack, leading to ripple effects into the stack's …

Business Leaders Are Saying ChatGPT Experience Is More Important Than A College Degree—Here's How To Use That To Your Advantage | Essence
https://www.essence.com/news/money-career/business-leaders-chatgpt/

Business Leaders Are Saying ChatGPT Experience Is More Important Than A College Degree—Here’s How To Use That To Your Advantage 
A recent report from Intelligent.com found that job candidates' knowledge of the tool significantly increases the 'hireability' of applicants.

U.S. Republicans, following orders from ex-President Donald Trump, are blocking arms deliveries to Ukraine, subjecting troops to “ammo starvation” with immediate, deleterious effects on the battlefield.
After taking Bakhmut and Avdiivka, Russian troops are now trying to press their advantage in the directions of Marinka, Robotyne and Kreminna, according to battlefield observers.
European leaders, despite having become Ukraine’s chief material backers, are failing to fill the ga…

Why the West is losing Ukraine
U.S. Republicans blocking aid. European right-wingers pushing to abandon Kyiv. Ultra-cautious leaders. What is the West’s real strategy?

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Frosty: Bringing strong liveness guarantees to the Snow family of consensus protocols
Snowman is the consensus protocol implemented by the Avalanche blockchain and is part of the Snow family of protocols, first introduced through the original Avalanche leaderless consensus protocol. A major advantage of Snowman is that each consensus decision only requires an expected constant communication overhead per processor in the `common' case that the protocol is not under substantial Byzantine attack, i.e. it provides a solution to the scalability problem which ensures that the expected…

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Tensor decompositions with applications to LU and SLOCC equivalence of multipartite pure states
We introduce a broad lemma, one consequence of which is the higher order singular value decomposition (HOSVD) of tensors defined by DeLathauwer, DeMoor and Vandewalle (2000). By an analogous application of the lemma, we find a complex orthogonal version of the HOSVD. Kraus' (2010) algorithm used the HOSVD to compute normal forms of almost all $n$-qubit pure states under the action of the local unitary group. Taking advantage of the double cover $\operatorname{SL}_2(\mathbb{C}) \times \operatorn…

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Coherence-enhanced thermodynamic performance in a periodically-driven inelastic heat engine
Quantum thermodynamics with microscopic inelastic scattering processes has been intensively investigated in recent years. Here, we apply quantum master equation combined with full counting statistics approach to investigate the role of quantum coherence on the periodically-driven inelastic heat engine. We demonstrate that the inelastic quantum heat engine exhibits dramatic advantage of thermodynamic performance compared to their elastic counterpart. Moreover, it is found that inelastic currents…

Memo: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says health insurers cannot use AI to determine care or deny coverage to members on Medicare Advantage plans (Beth Mole/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/0

AI cannot be used to deny health care coverage, feds clarify to insurers
CMS worries AI could wrongfully deny care for those on Medicare Advantage plans.

Twitter reacts to Cowboys trade back, selection of Tyler Guyton https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/lists/cowboys-twitter-tyler-guyton-trade-2024-nfl-draft-reactions/

Twitter reacts to Cowboys trade back, selection of Tyler Guyton
In 2023, the Lions announced they couldn’t care less about group think. In 2024, the Cowboys appeared to take advantage of that fact. Dallas’ trade back and selection of the Oklahoma ta…

Vets can tell you how well that works for them; bad idea...very bad.
Inside the deadly new GOP plan to rapidly privatize #Medicare - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-…

Inside the deadly new GOP plan to rapidly privatize Medicare
Want to invest in a scam that lets you make billions with virtually no risk? If you’re morbidly rich, all you have to do is to open or buy an insurance company that’s offering Medicare Advantage plans. And now, Republicans are saying that if they retake the White House they will change the Medicare ...

The pandemic hardened voter distrust in government, a sentiment Trump and his allies are using to their advantage.
Fears of political violence, even civil war, are at record highs, and rankings of the nation’s happiness at record lows.
And views of the nation’s economy and confidence in the future remain bleak, even as the Biden administration has defied expectations of a recession.
The truth is Joe Biden delivers where Trump failed, from the pandemic to building an econom…

How a Pandemic Malaise Is Shaping American Politics
Four years later, the shadow of the pandemic continues to play a profound role in voters’ pessimism and distrust amid a presidential rematch.

Ukraine war latest: Ukrainian military says strike kills around 60 Russian soldiers in occupied Kherson Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/ukraine-war-latest.html

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Parallel Self-Avoiding Walks for a Low-Autocorrelation Binary Sequences Problem
A low-autocorrelation binary sequences problem with a high figure of merit factor represents a formidable computational challenge. An efficient parallel computing algorithm is required to reach the new best-known solutions for this problem. Therefore, we developed the $\mathit{sokol}_{\mathit{skew}}$ solver for the skew-symmetric search space. The developed solver takes the advantage of parallel computing on graphics processing units. The solver organized the search process as a sequence of par…

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Transition of Anticoncentration in Gaussian Boson Sampling
Gaussian Boson Sampling is a promising method for experimental demonstrations of quantum advantage because it is easier to implement than other comparable schemes. While most of the properties of Gaussian Boson Sampling are understood to the same degree as for these other schemes, we understand relatively little about the statistical properties of its output distribution. The most relevant statistical property, from the perspective of demonstrating quantum advantage, is the anticoncentration of…

Vets can tell you how well that works for them; bad idea...very bad.
Inside the deadly new GOP plan to rapidly privatize #Medicare - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-…

Inside the deadly new GOP plan to rapidly privatize Medicare
Want to invest in a scam that lets you make billions with virtually no risk? If you’re morbidly rich, all you have to do is to open or buy an insurance company that’s offering Medicare Advantage plans. And now, Republicans are saying that if they retake the White House they will change the Medicare ...

Ukraine war latest: Ukrainian military says strike kills around 60 Russian soldiers in occupied Kherson Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/ukraine-war-latest.html

The Deadly New GOP Plan to Rapidly Privatize Medicare
#Medicare #Advantage is not Medicare:
it’s private health insurance for seniors that’s largely paid for with our tax dollars.
They make their money by routinely denying claims

The Deadly New GOP Plan to Rapidly Privatize Medicare
Medicare Advantage is not Medicare: it’s private health insurance for seniors that’s largely paid for with our tax dollars. They make their money by routinely denying claims…

Christian McCaffrey explains why 49ers QB Brock Purdy had a 'massive advantage' in NFL rise https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/christian_mccaffrey_explains_why_49ers_qb_brock…

Christian McCaffrey explains why 49ers QB Brock Purdy had a 'massive advantage' in NFL rise
The San Francisco 49ers selected Brock Purdy as the last overall pick in the 2022 NFL Draft. Back then, with Trey Lance expected to start as quarterback and Nate Sudfeld as his backup, many likely doubted Purdy's ability to secure a roster spot. Even the 49ers admit to drafting Purdy with the hope of developing the young quarterback into a serviceable backup. They never anticipated the rookie's speedy NFL ascension. Fast forward to today, and Purdy is gearing up to lead the 49ers against the Ka…

A profile of server maker Supermicro, whose flexibility in offering custom servers has been an advantage in the AI boom, as the company joins S&P 500 on Monday (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/super-micro-co<…

Ukraine’s Naval Advantage: Russian Ships Ousted from Black Sea Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine is taking place in a massive number of dimensions. Still, the struggle in the Black Sea is one of Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/ukraine-in-flames-585

'He was used to getting his way': Stormy Daniels recalls Trump pressuring her - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/stormy-daniels-trump-pressure/

'He was used to getting his way': Stormy Daniels recalls Trump pressuring her
In a new documentary, adult film star and producer Stormy Daniels remarked that even before former President Donald Trump was elected to office, he took advantage of the imbalance of power between the two when they first met.The Daily Beast's Laura LeMoon wrote Saturday that Daniels (whose governmen...

Kirby: Putin taking advantage of delays in US aid: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/05/kirby-putin-taking.html

Hitler’s Establishment Enablers
Ryback details, week by week, day by day, and sometimes hour by hour, how a country with a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery handed absolute power over to someone who could never claim a majority in an actual election and whom the entire conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following.
Ryback shows how major players thought they could find some ulterior advantage in managing him.
Each was sure that…