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At least one 2023 Cowboys’ backup will start on the offensive line in 2024 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/at_least_one_2023_cowboys_backup_will_start_on_the_offensive_line_in_2024/s1_17100_40054…

Sources: Chinese AI startup MiniMax raised $600M led by Alibaba at a $2.5B valuation; the round remains in progress and HongShan has committed funds (Jane Zhang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Alibaba Backs $2.5 Billion AI Startup in Second Major 2024 Deal
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is leading a financing round of at least $600 million for Chinese AI startup MiniMax, spearheading its second major deal in the space this year as it deploys capital in pursuit of growth.

Russian glide bomb attack injures 10 in downtown Kharkiv: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/05/russian-glide-bomb.html

Kamala Harris says there must be an ‘immediate [temporary] ceasefire’ in Gaza
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kamala-harris-bloody-sunday-biden-gaza-ceasefire-b2506384.html…

Kamala Harris says there must be an ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza
Vice president says pause in fighting ‘for at least six weeks’ needed to save hostages, ensure aid for besieged civilians

I take everything back, generative AI has at least as much self-awareness as some people https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112381049612473414

@… oh no, I assume you had them backed up on the blockchain at least

Scientists developing water-based 'aqueous metal-ion batteries' that should be cheaper, recyclable and won't explode -- but they think it will be at least 10 years before they're ready for widespread use https://www.sciencealert.com/new-water-bat

New 'Water Batteries' Are Cheaper, Recyclable, And Won't Explode
Water and electronics don't usually mix, but as it turns out, batteries could benefit from some H2O.

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

Photo lessons: If you've got a wallet of developed photos, there's no actual indication that the pack of negatives in it are in any related; sigh that at least doubles the work of flicking through them, looking through negatives is damn hard.

It continues to lie that I haven't set the alias even after deleting from user_profile, and apparently there is some sort of rate-limit I've hit and dunno how to clear too.
:(
Presumably nobody here knows how to clear that cache or check if the alias is right or reset that rate-limit.
So I guess I'll have to wait at least 1 day 20 minutes before I can even try again.

If you can't take a mental health day, you can at least have a mental health milkshake.

Kirk Cousins aims to finish career with Falcons, avoid Shaquille O'Neal-like end https://www.nfl.com/news/kirk-cousins-aims-to-finish-career-with-falcons-avoid-shaquille-o-neal-like-end

Kirk Cousins aims to finish career with Falcons, avoid Shaquille O'Neal-like end
Kirk Cousins' move to Atlanta should be the final one of his NFL career. At least, that's how the 35-year-old quarterback envisions it when speaking recently with NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O'Neal. 

Sources: Chinese AI startup MiniMax raised $600M led by Alibaba at a $2.5B valuation; the round remains in progress and HongShan has committed funds (Jane Zhang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Alibaba Backs $2.5 Billion AI Startup in Second Major 2024 Deal
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is leading a financing round of at least $600 million for Chinese AI startup MiniMax, spearheading its second major deal in the space this year as it deploys capital in pursuit of growth.

Damnmnmn, Hideo Kojima is also on Threads @hideo_kojima@threads.net (don't bother, he hasn't shared his posts to the Fediverse)
Also, I am almost sure at least 1mil. of the 130 mil. users on Threads are Bulgarian life coaches.

I think it’s time to re-read (listen) to all of Jane Austin’s novels again. I’ve read Pride and Prejudice at least three times but suspect I may have missed one of the others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvaZwwhmX6Y

As much distain as I have for these machines, I just spent $100 on gifts for them. New backup usb keyboard, a pack of replacement fans, a can of air-spray, a rare vintage ddr3 1333 so-dimm, heck even a modern (temp adjustable) soldering iron! It's all for them, for helping them cope with old age in a modern world 😅
They better appreciate it, or at least be nicer to me.
#thanklessmachines

#RustLang is the perfect language for the "move fast, break things" era. No, I'm not implying it encourages you to break stuff. All I'm saying is that all these modern languages are specifically designed for that mindset. They optimize for corporate greed — nicely dressed as "valuing developer's time".
Developers aren't supposed to slow down and think things over. They should finish feature after feature, project after project, profit after profit. When things break, that's bad for profit. However, putting an effort to prevent things from breaking is not cost-effective.
People love to point out memory safety problems with C. However, there are two other important problems affecting C libraries — ABI and API stability. An uncontrolled ABI breakage means that existing programs suddenly breaks. An uncontrolled API breakage means that programs don't build anymore. Combine both and you're in a tight fit.
There are reasonably good solutions to both these problems. However, they require conscious effort, they require thinking — and that is costly. There are also cheap workarounds. If you link libraries statically, you don't need to worry about their ABI changes. If you vendor dependencies, you don't even need to worry about API changes. That's much cheaper for the company — though in reality, it just moves the burden down the line, to distribution developers and users, who end up fighting old, broken or even vulnerable vendored dependencies.
The problem with Rust and #Cargo is that it embraces these hacks into glorified 20M executables. Everything is linked statically, everything is vendored. You can move fast without actually breaking things — at least for the significant majority of users. To the minority, you always have the usual excuse — "we're sorry, we're just volunteers, we can't spend more energy on this, and you should get newer hardware anyway". Not that doing things better wouldn't benefit all users.
#Gentoo

Media: At least 8 injured in latest police crackdown on protests in Georgia: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/media-at-least.html

#Netlify's Hosted DNS service is apparently under maintenance which is fully preventing edits since at least 3 hours ago and they have not yet had the courtesy to put it up on their status page. Maybe this is the final straw to cut over to #Porkbun for DNS since I already use them as my regi…

A remark on omega limit sets for non-expansive dynamics
Alon Duvall, Eduardo D. Sontag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02352 https://arxiv…

A remark on omega limit sets for non-expansive dynamics
In this paper, we study systems of time-invariant ordinary differential equations whose flows are non-expansive with respect to a norm, meaning that the distance between solutions may not increase. Since non-expansiveness (and contractivity) are norm-dependent notions, the topology of $ω$-limit sets of solutions may depend on the norm. For example, and at least for systems defined by real-analytic vector fields, the only possible $ω$-limit sets of systems that are non-expansive with respect t…

If I had to live only on Free Culture, I'd go insane. The only thing I could find comfort in is the Free Software movement. I'd have books from the public domain, sure, but what about music? What about videos? What's even worth reading? Are people still talking about books from the public domain? Perhaps we need a culture forge. A means of creating new free cultural works, or at least setting up some kind of repository to track objects other than source code.

The Probability to Hit Every Bin with a Linear Number of Balls
Stefan Walzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00736 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

The Probability to Hit Every Bin with a Linear Number of Balls
Assume that $2n$ balls are thrown independently and uniformly at random into $n$ bins. We consider the unlikely event $E$ that every bin receives at least one ball, showing that $\Pr[E] = Θ(b^n)$ where $b \approx 0.836$. Note that, due to correlations, $b$ is not simply the probability that any single bin receives at least one ball. More generally, we consider the event that throwing $αn$ balls into $n$ bins results in at least $d$ balls in each bin.

An analysis of Hollywood's grim status in 2024, recovering from a year of downsizing and strikes; supply lines will take at least a year to flow at capacity (Mark Harris/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…

Opinion | The Oscars Give Hollywood a Chance to Celebrate. After That? It’s Grim.
It’s time to find out what the film industry’s new normal looks like.

On Covering Simplices by Dilations in Dimensions 3 and 4
Lei Song, Huanqi Wen, Zhixian Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02495 https://a…

On Covering Simplices by Dilations in Dimensions 3 and 4
We propose a conjecture regarding the integrally closedness of lattice polytopes with large lattice lengths. We demonstrate that a lattice simplex in dimension 3 (resp. 4) with lattice length of at least 2 (resp. 3 and no edge has lattice length 5) can be covered by dilated simplices of the form $sQ$, where integer $s\ge 2$ (resp. 3) and $Q$ is a lattice simplex. The covering property implies these simplices are integrally closed. As an application, we derive a simple criterion for the projecti…

Closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces with few intersections
Wujie Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00243 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403…

Closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces with few intersections
We prove that, if a closed geodesic $Γ$ on a complete finite type hyperbolic surface has at least 2 self-intersections, then the length of $Γ$ has an lower bound $2\log(5+2\sqrt6)$, and the lower bound is sharp, attained on a corkscrew geodesic on a thrice punctured sphere.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05797 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_sta…

Global Convergence Rate of Deep Equilibrium Models with General Activations
In a recent paper, Ling et al. investigated the over-parametrized Deep Equilibrium Model (DEQ) with ReLU activation. They proved that the gradient descent converges to a globally optimal solution for the quadratic loss function at a linear convergence rate. This paper shows that this fact still holds for DEQs with any generally bounded activation with bounded first and second derivatives. Since the new activation function is generally non-homogeneous, bounding the least eigenvalue of the Gram m…

high-stepping across the free airwaves of @… on the frow show with a fun pile of new/old/wonderful #music, prepped for (at least) 3 hours of #freeform

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09630 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Embedding loose spanning trees in 3-uniform hypergraphs
In 1995, Komlós, Sárközy and Szemerédi showed that every large $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree at least $(1/2 + γ)n$ contains all spanning trees of bounded degree. We consider a generalization of this result to loose spanning hypertrees in 3-graphs, that is, linear hypergraphs obtained by successively appending edges sharing a single vertex with a previous edge. We show that for all $γ$ and $Δ$, and $n$ large, every $n$-vertex 3-uniform hypergraph of minimum vertex degree $(5/9 + γ…

D67,992 - issued in 1925 for a design for an "Easter basket." #DesignPatents

"A person in Texas caught bird flu after exposure to cows that were thought to be ill
Livestock at multiple dairy farms across the U.S. have tested positive for bird flu — also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI — in an outbreak that's likely spread to at least five states."
#birdflu

Revealed: at least 22 Californians have died while being held
face down by police since 2016
Police have long known the dangers of holding people in prone restraint.
So why do so many keep dying
https://www.theguardian.…

Lemmy is the coolest thing on the fediverse. For me that's despite all the memes and the people that are there just to chat. I'm not alone in my thoughts - whereas the rest of the fediverse is shrinking, lemmy is growing. And it will stay this way at least until mastodon grows enough to become the community of choice of at least a 100 times more people. Anyway, the thing about Lemmy that really annoys me is that I have to create a new account just to create a community at the insta…

Headlines should be: Poor turnout for hyped protest.
Only a couple of dozen people of 41 million Canadians bothered to protest carbon pricing (and their rebate) increase. Not surprising there are almost no shots of crowds protesting in the news - because it would look pathetic showing half a dozen people screaming at traffic and everyone ignoring them. Opposition staffers got to wear their custom printed shirts though, so at least they seem happy.

Ingraham Blames Migrants For #Measles Outbreak Caused By Anti-Vaxxers - National Memo
https://www.nationalmemo.com/measles-outbreak

Ingraham Blames Migrants For Measles Outbreak Caused By Anti-Vaxxers
On the February 26 edition of The Ingraham Angle, host Laura Ingraham weaponized a recent measles outbreak in Florida to baselessly malign migrants.At least eight children in Broward County have contracted the virus, at least six of them at one elementary school, and an additional adult case was confirmed in Polk County.

Not a fan of #Erdogan but he at least admits defeat in a democratic election.
#turkiye

10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:
Robert Lynn Asprin
Somtow Sucharitkul
Jo Clayton
Tanith Lee
John Varley
Diane Duane
Stephen Brust
Nancy Collins
Lemony Snickett
Barbara Hambly
(That was made trickier by my self imposed not wanting to duplicate any of the authors in @… list, wh…

kept my attention more than i was expecting at least! thanks @… for the fun pick! #MondayActionMovie

Teleworking today.
And laughing with my 12 yo's dark sense of humor. Or maybe its just whats on his mind.
I was looking for something in his room and found this:
A sign :
“R.I.P.
#MechanicalKeyboard with custom caps.
2021-2024
My first #keyboard”…

RIP silk oak tree at 18th & Valencia https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/the-50-foot-oak-that-towered-over-valencia-and-18th-for-at-least-30-years-is-now-a-stump/

The 50-foot oak that towered over Valencia and 18th for at least 30 years is now a stump
A massive tree stump now sits at Valencia & 18th. Around it, a flow of pedestrians stream through the intersection hardly noticing the stump.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15900 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Each friend of 10 has at least 10 nonidentical prime factors
For each positive integer n, if the sum of the factors of n is divided by n, then the result is called the abundancy index of n. If the abundancy index of some positive integer m equals the abundancy index of n but m is not equal to n, then m and n are called friends. A positive integer with no friends is called solitary. The smallest positive integer that is not known to have a friend and is not known to be solitary is 10. It is not known if the number 6 has odd friends, that is, if odd perf…

Hashtag gira:
#10authors5booksEach (10 authors you’ve read at least 5 books by)
Deixa cš ver:
1. José Saramago
2. Ursula K. LeGuin
3. George R. R. Martin (por dever de ofício conta, certo?)
4. Enid Blyton
5. Jules Verne
6. Stanislaw Lem
7. Rui Zink
8. Irmãos Strugatsky
9. Stephen King
10. Robin Hobb
E muitos, muito…

"At least two dozen countries worldwide have already made the sensible transition to some form of automatic tax filing, not necessarily just for low-income citizens, but in many cases for everyone. The UK, Japan, Australia, Denmark, Chile, and Portugal have implemented some version of an automated, digital tax system, and none of them have turned back."
How the tax industry is keeping automatic filing out of reach – Canadian Dimension

How the tax industry is keeping automatic filing out of reach
In the unfair fight for automatic tax filing, Canadians need to get behind the underdog. While many of us might welcome and benefit from this service, it’s our vulnerable friends and neighbours who need it the most. We must come together to join the chorus calling for this crucial tax reform—and be louder than those motivated by nothing more than greed.

Up until now, I've stayed out of the Meta Threads discussion. I'll just say that in the last few months, I've discovered at least 3 folks that I had previously followed on Twitter, and now I'm very happy I can now follow them here on Mastodon. Being able to read their posts here greatly increases my satisfaction on Mastodon.
FWIW, I get the concern about a possible Embrace, Extend, Extinguish play by Meta.

Taking the morning AVE to Spain. Ideally to Madrid. Will see how far we get. The conductor said seats are available only till Girona, which would be better than nothing. From there we could get to Barcelona at least.
As well documented by Seat61, it is *impossible* to purchase just a reservation for this train outside Spain. So booking accommodation for tonight is unclear until we know for sure where we will end up…

I keep running into fics that are super interesting from the summary, but then I open them and they're written in first person even though the summary was in third.
It's so jarring to expect one thing and get another.
Please at least add a "first person POV" tag so I know what to expect instead of immediately getting jumpscared by a "I" in the first sentence. :(

Bloomberg: At least $488 million in sanctioned goods entered Russia from EU in 2023: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/26/bloomberg-at-least.html

Start #HTML (at least) as early as possible...

I mean, at least if it had been like... MD5 or something you could pre-image or compute a second ciphertext for or something
public key cryptography is fun

At least with snake oil you got a nice decorative bottle https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/112015420983180387

Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (@emilymbender@dair-community.social)
Attached: 1 image The level of magical thinking here is astonishing: /7

Computing Minimal Absent Words and Extended Bispecial Factors with CDAWG Space
Shunsuke Inenaga, Takuya Mieno, Hiroki Arimura, Mitsuru Funakoshi, Yuta Fujishige
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18090

Computing Minimal Absent Words and Extended Bispecial Factors with CDAWG Space
A string $w$ is said to be a minimal absent word (MAW) for a string $S$ if $w$ does not occur in $S$ and any proper substring of $w$ occurs in $S$. We focus on non-trivial MAWs which are of length at least 2. Finding such non-trivial MAWs for a given string is motivated for applications in bioinformatics and data compression. Fujishige et al. [TCS 2023] proposed a data structure of size $Θ(n)$ that can output the set $\mathsf{MAW}(S)$ of all MAWs for a given string $S$ of length $n$ in $O(n + …

Measurement of double-differential cross sections for mesonless charged-current muon neutrino interactions on argon with final-state protons using the MicroBooNE detector
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, O. Alterkait, D. Andrade Aldana, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, G. Barr, D. Barrow, J. Barrow, V. Basque, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, A. Bhat, M. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, B. Bogart, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, M. B.…

Measurement of double-differential cross sections for mesonless charged-current muon neutrino interactions on argon with final-state protons using the MicroBooNE detector
Charged-current neutrino interactions with final states containing zero mesons and at least one proton are of high interest for current and future accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments. Using the Booster Neutrino Beam and the MicroBooNE detector at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, we have obtained the first double-differential cross section measurements of this channel for muon neutrino scattering on an argon target with a proton momentum threshold of 0.25 GeV/c. We also repo…

is hoping to hear back about at least one (hopefully more) of three job prospects this week.

Best spam call yet from "The Immigration Bureau" because "there's a problem with my visa". At least the "you've been in an accident" ones have a veneer of plausibility.

j'aime beaucoup `Security updates until at least (YYYY-MM-DD)`
Garmin eTrex® Solar | GPS portable de randonnée
https://www.garmin.com/fr-FR/p/869859/pn/010-02782-00#specs

Garmin eTrex® Solar | GPS portable de randonnée
L'eTrex Solar est un GPS portable doté de la technologie GPS multi-bandes, d'un compas numérique, d'un écran à contraste élevé et d'une autonomie illimitée par temps ensoleillé (75 000 lux).

Nieuwe olie en gasprojecten goed voor 14 miljard ton CO2
Daar halen we de klimaatdoelen niet mee https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-new-oil-and-gas-projects-since-2021-could-emit-14bn-tonnes-of-co2/

Analysis: New oil and gas projects since 2021 could emit 14bn tonnes of CO2 - Carbon Brief
Burning all the oil and gas from new discoveries and newly approved projects since 2021 would emit at least 14.1bn tonnes of carbon dioxide

Unitally nondistributive quantales
Javier Guti\'errez Garc\'ia, Ulrich H\"ohle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17284 https://…

Unitally nondistributive quantales
Unitally nondistributive quantales are unital quantales such that the unit is approximable by the totally below relation and does not meet-distribute over arbitrary joins. This special class of nondistributive complete lattices is characterized and each of its members contains at least $7$ elements. Moreover, under mild conditions, every quantale has an extension to a unitally nondistributive quantale by the addition of an isolated unit. As a byproduct of this construction we prove that there e…

Automorphism groups of parafermion vertex operator algebras: general case
Ching Hung Lam, Xingjun Lin, Hiroki Shimakura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17096 ht…

Automorphism groups of parafermion vertex operator algebras: general case
We complete the program for determining the full automorphism groups of all parafermion vertex operator algebras associated with simple Lie algebras and positive integral levels. We show that the full automorphism group of the parafermion vertex operator algebra is isomorphic to the automorphism group of the associated root system for the remaining cases: (i) the level is at least $3$; (ii) the level is $2$ and the simple Lie algebra is non simply laced.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04776 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distances with JWST: An Absolute Calibration in NGC 4258 and First Applications to Type Ia Supernova Hosts
The tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) allows for the measurement of precise and accurate distances to nearby galaxies, based on the brightest ascent of low-mass red giant branch stars before they undergo the helium flash. With the advent of JWST, there is great promise to utilize the technique to measure galaxy distances out to at least 50 Mpc, significantly further than HST's reach of 20 Mpc. However, with any standard candle, it is first necessary to provide an absolute reference. Here we us…

Teleworking today.
And laughing with my 12 yo's dark sense of humor. Or maybe its just whats on his mind.
I was looking for something in his room and found this:
A sign :
“R.I.P.
#MechanicalKeyboard with custom caps.
2021-2024
My first #keyboard”…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12373 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csPL_…

LTL learning on GPUs
Linear temporal logic (LTL) is widely used in industrial verification. LTL formulae can be learned from traces. Scaling LTL formula learning is an open problem. We implement the first GPU-based LTL learner using a novel form of enumerative program synthesis. The learner is sound and complete. Our benchmarks indicate that it handles traces at least 2048 times more numerous, and on average at least 46 times faster than existing state-of-the-art learners. This is achieved with, among others, novel…

Shocker: Chesebro has been lying to investigators in his cooperation interviews. I hope this means his cooperation is void and they get to try him in both GA and MI.
I also hope they make him wear a “BadgerPundit” costume for the trial. Or at least, the sketch artist draws him that way. htt…

Not a dog whisperer, but German Shepherds are herding dogs and in the controlled chaos of the White House, with all that's going on, and the fact that some of them are def not fond of #Biden to begin with - perfect storm.
Biden dog Commander bit Secret Service personnel at least 24 times, documents show | The Hill

Biden dog Commander bit Secret Service personnel at least 24 times, documents show
President Biden’s dog, Commander, bit Secret Service personnel at least 24 times before he was removed from the White House, new documents reportedly show. According to hundreds of pages of newly released documents — obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by researcher John Greenewald — Commander was involved in at least two…

On the complexity of strong approximation of stochastic differential equations with a non-Lipschitz drift coefficient
T. M\"uller-Gronbach, L. Yaroslavtseva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00637

On the complexity of strong approximation of stochastic differential equations with a non-Lipschitz drift coefficient
We survey recent developments in the field of complexity of pathwise approximation in $p$-th mean of the solution of a stochastic differential equation at the final time based on finitely many evaluations of the driving Brownian motion. First, we briefly review the case of equations with globally Lipschitz continuous coefficients, for which an error rate of at least $1/2$ in terms of the number of evaluations of the driving Brownian motion is always guaranteed by using the equidistant Euler-Mar…

Russian attacks against Ukraine kill 7, injure at least 36 over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/30/russian-attacks-against.html

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…

A Harris theorem for enhanced dissipation, and an example of Pierrehumbert
William Cooperman, Gautam Iyer, Seungjae Son
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19858 ht…

A Harris theorem for enhanced dissipation, and an example of Pierrehumbert
In many situations, the combined effect of advection and diffusion greatly increases the rate of convergence to equilibrium -- a phenomenon known as enhanced dissipation. Here we study the situation where the advecting velocity field generates a random dynamical system satisfying certain Harris conditions. If $κ$ denotes the strength of the diffusion, then we show that with probability at least $1 - o(κ^N)$ enhanced dissipation occurs on time scales of order $|\ln κ|$, a bound whic…

It's not at all hard for a Shakespeare fan to be at least somewhat familiar with all 38 plays
— even the ones that, objectively speaking, are really not that great (ahem, Cymbeline).
And it's possible for an enterprising data journalist, like the ones at the Telegraph (UK), to compile every single death in a Shakespeare play into a single chart

Lots of stabbings and 2 deaths by pie: every death in Shakespeare, in one chart
Shakespeare killed off a lot of characters — and some of them died in pretty ridiculous ways.

HRW: Russia executes surrendering Ukrainian soldiers in possible war crimes: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/hrw-russia-executes.html

Start #HTML (at least) as early as possible...

I kinda think the timeserver on #bitmessage was pretty cool
or at least would be useful as a test node
wonder what other test nodes are useful.
like both as single nodes, and as groups with predictable or probabilistic interactions.
#redecentralize #p2p
like maybe a node that logs when the other test nodes are online/offline, or logs that a peer came online and this is the state of all the others (for debugging purposes)
or a fizz/buzz node.
or a waring wiki editor node
or a node that tries to vote twice (plaintext STV)

Tesla's FSD is set to face tough competition in China, after at least 10 automakers and suppliers announced driver-assistance systems over the past two years (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-tra

Source: Commanders release tackle Leno Jr. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39632657/commanders-release-charles-leno-jr-save-7m -cap

Source: Commanders release Charles Leno Jr., save $7M+ cap - ESPN
A source confirms to ESPN that the Washington Commanders have informed tackle Charles Leno Jr. of his release, which will save the team at least $7.280 million in salary cap space.

Hashtag gira:
#10authors5booksEach (10 authors you’ve read at least 5 books by)
Deixa cš ver:
1. José Saramago
2. Ursula K. LeGuin
3. George R. R. Martin (por dever de ofício conta, certo?)
4. Enid Blyton
5. Jules Verne
6. Stanislaw Lem
7. Rui Zink
8. Irmãos Strugatsky
9. Stephen King
10. Robin Hobb
E muitos, muito…

What I imagined would happen: I enable #DistCC on my weak laptop, it will pour compilation jobs on my Ryzen PC like crazy, keeping all 12 threads on boost 100% busy and finish webkit-gtk in no time.
What actually happened: the 4 laptop cores are 100% busy preprocessing and can't keep up delivering jobs to the Ryzen, and it is eating through them so fast it's barely busy.
Well, at least preprocessing doesn't take as much memory as the compiler, so things are actually progressing rather than getting stuck on swapping.
#Gentoo

"Heavy rains and flooding kill dozens as #ExtremeWeather racks #Kenya
Devastating #floods during Kenya’s rainy season, aggravated by

Heavy rains and flooding kill dozens as extreme weather racks Kenya
The Red Cross reported at least 38 dead and almost 12,000 displaced after weeks of heavy rains swamped the country and caused rivers to burst their banks.

NGO alleges Russia bombed Syrian hospital in new UN complaint: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/ngo-alleges-russia.html

Scalable Identification of Minimum Undesignable RNA Motifs on Loop-Pair Graphs
Tianshuo Zhou, Wei Yu Tang, David H. Mathews, Liang Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17206

Scalable Identification of Minimum Undesignable RNA Motifs on Loop-Pair Graphs
Motivation: RNA design aims to find at least one sequence that folds with the highest probability into a designated target structure, but some structures are undesignable in the sense that no sequence folds into them. Identifying undesignable structures is useful in delineating and understanding the limit of RNA designability, but has received little attention until recently. In addition, existing methods on undesignability are not scalable and not interpretable. Results: We introduce a novel…

From the BBC replays just now, at least two of Haaland’s goals yesterday were offside. Shonky officiating in favour of the Oil Barons as per.
#Football #SportsBall #FACup

Russia attacks 9 communities in Sumy Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/233240.html

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

Mayor: Russian attack on Kharkiv residential area kills 1, injures at least 10, including children: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/27/mayor-russian-attack.html

Whenever I walk through some backwater towns, I'm surprised how many young people walk on the right side of the road. Do schools no longer teach pupils to walk on the left side?
At least I think I was taught that at school. We've also gotten the reasonable explanation: you're walking on the left side, because cars drive on the right side, so you see the cars driving on the same side of the road coming from the front, and you can jump away before they hit you. If you walk on the right side, you either have to look behind you all the time, or you won't even notice when a car drives into your arse.
Curious enough, much time later I've heard a myth. Apparently, soldiers traditionally walked on the right side of the road, but Napoleon Bonaparte sent his troops walking on the left side, to confuse the enemies who were listening to the foot traffic. In my opinion, that's absurd, but what do I know?
#CarFree

Authorities: Russian attack on Kharkiv Oblast town injures 6 children, elderly man: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/authorities-russian-attack.html

"Australia’s big electricity generators say #nuclear not viable for at least a decade
#AGLEnergy, #Alinta,

Fitbit goals and analysis
But for democracy and environmentalism reminders
Would gamifying the environment be abused?
At least it would be community lead..

Tight Inapproximability of Target Set Reconfiguration
Naoto Ohsaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15076 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.15076<…

Tight Inapproximability of Target Set Reconfiguration
Given a graph $G$ with a vertex threshold function $τ$, consider a dynamic process in which any inactive vertex $v$ becomes activated whenever at least $τ(v)$ of its neighbors are activated. A vertex set $S$ is called a target set if all vertices of $G$ would be activated when initially activating vertices of $S$. In the Minmax Target Set Reconfiguration problem, for a graph $G$ and its two target sets $X$ and $Y$, we wish to transform $X$ into $Y$ by repeatedly adding or removing a single ve…

Tesla Autopilot feature was involved in 13 fatal crashes, US regulator says
US auto-safety regulators said on Friday that their investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot had identified at least 13 fatal crashes in which the feature had been involved.
The investigation also found the electric carmaker’s claims did not match up with reality.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) disclosed on Friday that during its three-year Autopilot safety investigation, <…

TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 16.5% YoY to $18.5B and expects revenue to grow at least 20% in 2024, reversing 2023's slight decline, and budgets capex of $28B-$32B (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

TSMC’s Sales Surge Most Since 2022 After Riding AI Chip Boom
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s quarterly revenue grew at its fastest pace in more than a year, shoring up expectations that a global boom in AI development is fueling demand for high-end chips and servers.

Russia attacks 8 communities in Sumy Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/02/russia-attacks-communities.html

Russian attacks on Donetsk, Kherson oblasts kill 2, injure at least 3: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/163412.html

UK Defense Ministry: Russia might lose at least 10% of its refinery capacity after drone attacks: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/23/uk-defense-ministry.html

Media: Greece preparing to give Ukraine at least 1 Patriot system, possibly 2: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/23/media-greece-preparing.html

Ukraine war latest: Mass attack on Kyiv injures at least 13, including child: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/21/ukraine-war-latest.html

Russian forces again execute surrendered Ukrainian soldiers: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/26/russian-forces-again.html

Russian missile strike in Odesa kills at least 14, including Emergency Service worker and paramedic, injures over 40: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/16/russian-missile-strike.html

Update: Death toll in Russian missile strike on Odesa rises to 21, at least 73 injured: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/16/update-death-toll.html