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Florida Supreme Court upholds state's 15-week abortion ban, but voters will soon have a say (Brendan Farrington/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/florida-abortion-ban-supreme-court-ruling-6a4949fc7459afe9b5e298086a793126
http://www.memeorandum.com/240401/p60#a240401p60

My last few years on Twitter were very marked by being exposed to evidence of Brexit idiocy, day after day, year after year. I really don't miss that here, even though the UK isn't actually in a better place.
OTOH, here half of what I'm exposed to is about the US Presidential Election (2-years on, 2-years off) and Trumps trials.
Read a book, Brendan!

MAC: Maximizing Algebraic Connectivity for Graph Sparsification
Kevin Doherty, Alan Papalia, Yewei Huang, David Rosen, Brendan Englot, John Leonard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19879

MAC: Maximizing Algebraic Connectivity for Graph Sparsification
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a critical capability in autonomous navigation, but memory and computational limits make long-term application of common SLAM techniques impractical; a robot must be able to determine what information should be retained and what can safely be forgotten. In graph-based SLAM, the number of edges (measurements) in a pose graph determines both the memory requirements of storing a robot's observations and the computational expense of algorithms deploye…

TIL that Brendan Fraser gender swapped the character Anck-Su-Namun on the set of “The Mummy” as a prank and my love for him grows.
https://channels.im/@fxoxo/111660568668910336

F*XOXO (@fxoxo@channels.im)
Attached: 1 image Petition to put Brendan Fraser in films again https://www.fxoxo.com/31854/ #BehindTheScenes #Movie #Movies #MoviesInTheMaking

An ordinary differential equation for entropic optimal transport and its linearly constrained variants
Joshua Zoen-Git Hiew, Luca Nenna, Brendan Pass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20238

An ordinary differential equation for entropic optimal transport and its linearly constrained variants
We characterize the solution to the entropically regularized optimal transport problem by a well-posed ordinary differential equation (ODE). Our approach works for discrete marginals and general cost functions, and in addition to two marginal problems, applies to multi-marginal problems and those with additional linear constraints. Solving the ODE gives a new numerical method to solve the optimal transport problem, which has the advantage of yielding the solution for all intermediate values of …

Interested in holding Elon Musk accountable for his damage to democracy?
Yesterday a big Ukrainian non-profit asked our media regulator, the FCC, to investigate his fitness to hold Starlink licenses.
Guess what? Republican FCC commish Carr says no.
We should support this.

My Worst Leadership Moment
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods…

My Worst Leadership Moment | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: My Worst Leadership Moment Host: Brendan Rogers Category: Business Sub-Category: Management & Leadership First Episode: 2024 We love hearing about mistakes people have made…

Current laboratory performance of starlight suppression systems, and potential pathways to desired Habitable Worlds Observatory exoplanet science capabilities
Bertrand Mennesson, Ruslan Belikov, Emiel Por, Eugene Serabyn, Garreth Ruane, A. J. Eldorado Riggs, Dan Sirbu, Laurent Pueyo, Remi Soummer, Jeremy Kasdin, Stuart Shaklan, Byoung-Joon Seo, Christopher Stark, Eric Cady, Pin Chen, Brendan Crill, Kevin Fogarty, Alexandra Greenbaum, Olivier Guyon, Roser Juanola-Parramon, Brian Kern, J…

Current laboratory performance of starlight suppression systems, and potential pathways to desired Habitable Worlds Observatory exoplanet science capabilities
We summarize the current best polychromatic (10 to 20 % bandwidth) contrast performance demonstrated in the laboratory by different starlight suppression approaches and systems designed to directly characterize exoplanets around nearby stars. We present results obtained by internal coronagraph and external starshade experimental testbeds using entrance apertures equivalent to off-axis or on-axis telescopes, either monolithic or segmented. For a given angular separation and spectral bandwidth, t…

Brendan Gregg: "Linux Crisis Tools"
http://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2024-03-24/linux-crisis-tools.html
#Linux

'Lost touch with reality': How TikTok's vaunted lobbying operation went wrong (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/24/tiktok-china-lobbying-washington-00154232
http://www.memeorandum.com/240424/p102#a240424p102