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New-type military recruitment center to open in Zaporizhzhia: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/15/newtype-military-recruitment.html

Important: https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/people-trust-themselves-more-than-they-trust-the-news-they-shouldnt.php

People trust themselves more than they trust the news. They shouldn’t.
There is a growing disconnect between how journalists see themselves and how people see journalists.

Texas county at center of border fight is overwhelmed by migrant deaths - Washington Post
https://www.

Texas county at center of border fight is overwhelmed by migrant deaths
A Texas county that is ground zero in the feud between Gov. Greg Abbott and the Biden administration over the border has been overwhelmed responding to migrant deaths.

Grateful Dead Live at Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center on 1988-03-16
#GratefulDead #TIGDH #LiveMusic

🥸 Union advocate 'salts' quietly take jobs inside NC Amazon warehouse
#union

Union advocate 'salts' quietly take jobs inside NC Amazon warehouse
Around 5,000 people work at RDU1, Amazon's sprawling four-floor fulfillment center in the Wake County town of Garner. A few clock in harboring covert intentions.

Did some more brainstorming about a title for this project/piece and have settled on STRATA for now — these emerging structures/fragments very much remind me of them (rock strata and/or thin section microscopy) and the many folds & cross-stratifications observed on my hikes over the past few years have been a regular inspiration to keep working on this project...
Also see:
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Multi-Center Fetal Brain Tissue Annotation (FeTA) Challenge 2022 Results
Kelly Payette, C\'eline Steger, Roxane Licandro, Priscille de Dumast, Hongwei Bran Li, Matthew Barkovich, Liu Li, Maik Dannecker, Chen Chen, Cheng Ouyang, Niccol\`o McConnell, Alina Miron, Yongmin Li, Alena Uus, Irina Grigorescu, Paula Ramirez Gilliland, Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee, Daguang Xu, Andriy Myronenko, Haoyu Wang, Ziyan Huang, Jin Ye, Mireia Aleny\`a, Valentin Comte, Oscar Camara, Jean-Baptiste Mass…

Multi-Center Fetal Brain Tissue Annotation (FeTA) Challenge 2022 Results
Segmentation is a critical step in analyzing the developing human fetal brain. There have been vast improvements in automatic segmentation methods in the past several years, and the Fetal Brain Tissue Annotation (FeTA) Challenge 2021 helped to establish an excellent standard of fetal brain segmentation. However, FeTA 2021 was a single center study, and the generalizability of algorithms across different imaging centers remains unsolved, limiting real-world clinical applicability. The multi-cent…

Today, at least one staff member of the UNRWA humanitarian aid organization was killed and 22 were injured in an Israeli air strike on a food and basic resources distribution center in Gaza.
“[...] food supplies are running out, hunger is widespread and, in some areas, turning into famine.”
“The Israeli Army received the coordinates including of this facility yesterday.”

Report: Raiders sign OL Cody Whitehair to 1-year deal https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_raiders_sign_ol_cody_whitehair_to_1_year_deal/s1_17049_40238789

Report: Raiders sign OL Cody Whitehair to 1-year deal
The Las Vegas Raiders have signed free-agent guard/center Cody Whitehair to a one-year, $2.5 million contract, Pro Football Network reported Monday. The deal includes $1.4 million guaranteed and is worth up to $3 million with incentives, per the report. The Chicago Bears released Whitehair, 31, on Feb. 15 after eight seasons and 124 games (118 starts). He played all 17 games last season, with 11 starts. Chicago drafted the 6-foot-3, 316-pound lineman out of Kansas State in the second round in 2…

Software-defined optical networking applications enabled by programmable integrated photonics
Zhenyun Xie, David S\'anchez-J\'acome, Luis Torrijos-Mor\'an, Daniel P\'erez-L\'opez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08648

Software-defined optical networking applications enabled by programmable integrated photonics
Data center networks are experiencing unprecedented exponential growth, mostly driven by the continuous computing demands in machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms. Within this realm, optical networking offers numerous advantages, including low latency, energy efficiency, and bandwidth transparency, positioning it as a compelling alternative to its electronic counterparts. In this work, we showcase a range of software-defined optical networking applications deployed on a genera…

Is Cowboys’ early focus on offensive line in the draft a must? https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/is_cowboys_early_focus_on_offensive_line_in_the_draft_a_must/s1_17100_40239214

Additionality is the key to emissions reductions. Just repurposing existing clean power is “resources shuffling” that has little to no benefit. https://x.com/JesseJenkins/status/1768246891936948303?s=20

Jesse D. Jenkins (@JesseJenkins) on X
This new @Amazon data center will claim it is powered by zero emissions electricity, but it fails 1 of the 3 key tests to actually prove that: incrementality. The result: INCREASED emissions, as ZERO Lab demonstrates in this recent article in @joule_cp https://t.co/5lYCV1QZdO

Efficient End-to-End Detection of 6-DoF Grasps for Robotic Bin Picking
Yushi Liu (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Renningen, Germany), Alexander Qualmann (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Renningen, Germany), Zehao Yu (University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen AI Center, Germany), Miroslav Gabriel (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Renningen, Germany), Philipp Schillinger (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Renningen, Germany), Markus Spies (Bosch Center for …

Nice to see this fantastic follow up from Stephane @… clarifying the role of dFB in #Drosophila #sleep,
Via @…

Four center integrals for Coulomb interactions in small molecules
Garry Goldstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09813 https://arxiv.org/…

Four center integrals for Coulomb interactions in small molecules
In this work we make some progress on studying four center integrals for the Coulomb energy for both Hartree Fock (HF) and Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations for small molecules. We consider basis wave functions of the form of an arbitrary radial wave function multiplied by a spherical harmonic and study four center Coulomb integrals for them. We reformulated these Coulomb four center integrals in terms of some derivatives of integrals of nearly factorable functions which then depend …

Been slacking posting more art here, so time for a teensy selection of an old generative/evolutionary system from 2014 (then used for my HOLO 2 magazine guest design). Originally written in Clojure, meanwhile ported to TypeScript & Zig, I've kept working on & experimenting with it ever since... 1000s of screenshots and 100s of versions to sift through. Loosely based on research done by Barricelli[1] since the early 1950s, conceptually and aesthetically it sits nicely between my C…

Rebooting East St. Louis with Jackie Joyner-Kersee
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/they-built-new-housing-in-east-st-louis-now-they-need-people-to-buy-it-42292736

In Dresden, 4 National Socialists knocked down a Social Democrat, injuring him so seriously that he needed emergency surgery. A Green Party campaign worker was also punched and kicked. 2 other Nazis verbally harassed a Green politician accompanied by a #DW camera team. In Berlin, another Social Democrat was hospitalised due to head and neck pain after a violent attack.
Sounds like Weimar Repub…

Milky Way-est: Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations with Large Magellanic Cloud and Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus Analogs
Deveshi Buch, Ethan O. Nadler, Risa H. Wechsler, Yao-Yuan Mao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08043

Milky Way-est: Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations with Large Magellanic Cloud and Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus Analogs
We present Milky Way-est, a suite of 20 cosmological cold-dark-matter-only zoom-in simulations of Milky Way (MW)-like host halos. Milky Way-est hosts are selected such that they: ($i$) are consistent with the MW's measured halo mass and concentration, ($ii$) accrete a Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)-like ($\approx 10^{11}~M_{\odot}$) subhalo within the last $1.3~\mathrm{Gyr}$ on a realistic orbit, placing them near $50~\mathrm{kpc}$ from the host center at $z\approx 0$, and ($iii$) undergo a $>$1:…

A Global Data-Driven Model for The Hippocampus and Nucleus Accumbens of Rat From The Local Field Potential Recordings (LFP)
Maedeh Sadeghi (Fault Detection and Identification), Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli (Fault Detection and Identification), Shole jamali (Neuroscience Research Center, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran), Abbas Haghparast (Neuroscience Research Center, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14097 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_nuc…

Modification of charged-particle jets in event-shape engineered Pb$-$Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV
Charged-particle jet yields have been measured in semicentral Pb$-$Pb collisions at center-of-mass energy per nucleon-nucleon collision $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV with the ALICE detector at the LHC. These yields are reported as a function of the jet transverse momentum, and further classified by their angle with respect to the event plane and the event shape, characterized by ellipticity, in an effort to study the path-length dependence of jet quenching. Jets were reconstructed at midrapidi…

👉United States v. Price 👈deals with the 🔸federal ban on knowingly possessing a firearm with a removed or obliterated serial number. 🔸
Randy Price was pulled over in a traffic stop in 2019 in Charleston, West Virginia, and officers discovered a handgun in his car with the serial number #scraped #off. 
Price was in…

Fourth Circuit En Banc Report Part II: Serial Numbers and Common Use | Duke Center for Firearms Law

@… OMG I rely on you for the news because I can't walk three blocks down to the Town Center. Our toilet has finally been installed delivered. Several weeks before it's operating. https://www.ktvu.com/news/1-7m-public-toilet-project-finally-installed-in-noe-valley

Multi-center decomposition of molecular densities: A numerical perspective
YingXing Cheng, Eric Canc\`es, Virginie Ehrlacher, Alston J. Misquitta, Benjamin Stamm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08455

Using AI Assistants in Software Development: A Qualitative Study on Security Practices and Concerns
Jan H. Klemmer (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Stefan Albert Horstmann (Ruhr University Bochum), Nikhil Patnaik (University of Bristol), Cordelia Ludden (Tufts University), Cordell Burton Jr (Tufts University), Carson Powers (Tufts University), Fabio Massacci (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Trento), Akond Rahman (Auburn University), Daniel Votipka (Tufts U…

Fun with rectangles

Here's the advice Jason Kelce gave the Eagles new rookie center as he begins his NFL career

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/heres-t

Here's the advice Jason Kelce gave the Eagles new rookie center as he begins his NFL career
Dylan McMahon is looking to become the next Eagles sixth-round center to make a name for himself

Mitarbeitende durch #KI ersetzt: Sind #CallCenter am Ende?
Bei einem Call-Center-Betreiber stürzte die Aktie drastisch ab – weil Klarna, einer der größten Kunden, künftig lieber auf einen Chatbot setzt. Was bedeutet das für das Geschäftsmodell Kundenservice?

Activists cry foul over Bush-era policy to ignore greenhouse gas emissions in offshore drilling | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/activists-cry-foul-over-bush-era-policy-to-ignor…

Activists cry foul over Bush-era policy to ignore greenhouse gas emissions in offshore drilling
The Center for Biological Diversity argues that the Fish and Wildlife Service has turned a blind eye to the effects of drilling on threatened manatees, sea turtles, beach mice and birds in the Gulf of Mexico.

The data center industry is struggling to meet its self-imposed sustainability goals as AI's booming growth increases electricity demand and strains power grids (Patrick Sisson/New York Times)
https://www.

A.I. Frenzy Complicates Efforts to Keep Power-Hungry Data Sites Green
Artificial intelligence’s booming growth is radically reshaping an already red-hot data center market, raising questions about whether these sites can be operated sustainably.

Cave of wonders.
2 Free wallpapers for you to use.
Also uploaded to my Ko-fi completely uncompressed for free here: #AIart

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Milky Way-est: Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations with Large Magellanic Cloud and Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus Analogs
Deveshi Buch, Ethan O. Nadler, Risa H. Wechsler, Yao-Yuan Mao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08043

Milky Way-est: Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations with Large Magellanic Cloud and Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus Analogs
We present Milky Way-est, a suite of 20 cosmological cold-dark-matter-only zoom-in simulations of Milky Way (MW)-like host halos. Milky Way-est hosts are selected such that they: ($i$) are consistent with the MW's measured halo mass and concentration, ($ii$) accrete a Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)-like ($\approx 10^{11}~M_{\odot}$) subhalo within the last $1.3~\mathrm{Gyr}$ on a realistic orbit, placing them near $50~\mathrm{kpc}$ from the host center at $z\approx 0$, and ($iii$) undergo a $>$1:…

I don't know what I did but my website's <hr> tags now render in a really fun off-center way that I think is really neat.
Unfortunately, because I don't know what caused that effect, they probably won't stay that way forever, and may one day return to center suddenly and without warning :blobfoxsad:

Monocentric or polycentric city? An empirical perspective
R\'emi Lemoy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07624 https://arxiv.org/pdf/240…

Monocentric or polycentric city? An empirical perspective
Do cities have just one or several centers? Studies performing radial or monocentric analyses of cities are usually criticised by researchers stating that cities are actually polycentric, and this has been well known for a long time. Reversely, when cities are studied independently of any center, other researchers will wonder how the variables of interest evolve with the distance to the center, because this distance is known to be a major determinant at the intra-urban scale. Both monocentric a…

Time for another fun #osint #geolocation puzzle!
1) Where am I?
2) What building is pictured at the center of the frame?
3) What are all of the antennas for?
CW guesses or solutions to avoid spoilers, as usual.

National Resistance Center: Ukrainian partisans blow up Putin's party office in occupied Nova Kahkovka: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/27/national-resistance-center.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03501 has been replaced.
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Evidence for the Higgs boson decay to a $Z$ boson and a photon at the LHC
The first evidence for the Higgs boson decay to a $Z$ boson and a photon is presented, with a statistical significance of 3.4 standard deviations. The result is derived from a combined analysis of the searches performed by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations with proton-proton collision data sets collected at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) from 2015 to 2018. These correspond to integrated luminosities of around 140 fb$^{-1}$ for each experiment, at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The meas…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04465 has been replaced.
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High fidelity optical readout of a nuclear spin qubit in Silicon Carbide
Quantum state readout is a key requirement for a successful qubit platform. In this work we demonstrate a high fidelity quantum state readout of a V2 center nuclear spin based on a repetitive readout technique. We demonstrate up to 99.5$\,\%$ readout fidelity and 99$\,\%$ for state preparation. Using this efficient readout we initialise the nuclear spin by measurement and demonstrate its Rabi and Ramsey nutation. Finally, we use the nuclear spin as a long lived memory for quantum sensing applic…

Accretion Flares from Stellar Collisions in Galactic Nuclei
Betty X. Hu, Avi Loeb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07255 https://arxiv.org/…

Accretion Flares from Stellar Collisions in Galactic Nuclei
The strong tidal force in a supermassive black hole's (SMBH) vicinity, coupled with a higher stellar density at the center of a galaxy, make it an ideal location to study the interaction between stars and black holes. Two stars moving near the SMBH could collide at a very high speed, which can result in a high energy flare. The resulting debris can then accrete onto the SMBH, which could be observed as a separate event. We simulate the light curves resulting from the fallback accretion in the a…

#fensterFreitag #WindowFriday #BirdsOfMastodon
A bird flew into my window and apparently lived to tell of it.

What Condition the Position is in: Assessing Raiders level of need at IOL heading into the Draft https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/2024/04/11/condition-position-nfl-draft-needs-raiders-interior-offensive-line-gu…

What Condition the Position is in: Assessing Raiders level of need at IOL heading into the Draft
What Condition Raiders interior offensive line is in heading into the Draft

WSJ EIC Emma Tucker says the paper is "shifting our center of gravity [in Asia] from Hong Kong to Singapore", leading to layoffs of "some" staff (Lucia Moses/@lmoses)
https://twitter.com/lmoses/status/1786010264015454260

Lucia Moses (@lmoses) on X
More changes at @wsj since I wrote this, with restructuring and layoffs in Asia

How Many Clicks Does It Take To Get to the Center of Diablo? [A Franchise Retrospective] #Retrospective

The lesson from the #ValenciaStreet center bikeway debacle: when you "compromise" in such a way that you lose the confidence of the people you're building FOR—cyclists, in this case—you fail.
While some of us now defend this bike lane as a partial improvement, no one loved it. It didn't boost bike riding, and made it hard for cyclists to pull over and stop at a busine…

More businesses join legal fight against Valencia center bike lane
Four additional businesses have joined the legal battle opposing the Valencia Street center bike lane and filed claims against the city.

“[…] a median of 31% across 24 nations are supportive of authoritarian systems” “[…] people on the ideological right are more likely than those in the center or on the left to support authoritarian systems.”
https://www.pewresearch.or…

Who likes authoritarianism, and how do they want to change their government?
The share of the public that supports authoritarian systems ranges from 85% in India to 8% in Sweden.

FulFillment - Season 1 finale 🤣😜😉
Dramatized comedy series | Total listening time: 2h 33m
Two energetic co-workers navigate the ever changing landscape of their Boston-area fulfillment center. Their mishaps and adventures help them cope with the future of the modern work space.
#AudioFiction #FictionPodcast

FulFillment - Season 1 finale 🤣😜😉
Dramatized comedy series | Total listening time: 2h 33m Two energetic co-workers navigate the ever changing landscape of their Boston-area fulfillment center. Their mishaps and adventures help them cope with the future of the modern work space. 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Apr 12, 2024.

Combinatorial p-th Calabi Flows for Total Geodesic Curvatures in hyperbolic background geometry
Guangming Hu, Ziping Lei, Yi Qi, Puchun Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05777

Combinatorial p-th Calabi Flows for Total Geodesic Curvatures in hyperbolic background geometry
In hyperbolic background geometry, we investigate a generalized circle packing (including circles, horocycles and hypercycles) with conical singularities on a surface with boundary, which has a total geodesic curvature on each generalized circle of this circle packing and a discrete Gaussian curvature on the center of each dual circle. The purpose of this paper is to find this type of circle packings with prescribed total geodesic curvatures on generalized circles and discrete Gaussian curvatur…

Justice Department Launches the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-launches-national-extreme-risk-protection-order-resource-center
http://www.memeorandum.com/240323/p24#a240323p24

Great news for #Dublin, whose attractive city centre is blighted by traffic. https://apple.news/Ai_UoqGU6RjeDSQYSmk0dNg

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Detectability of axisymmetric magnetic fields from the core to the surface of oscillating post-main sequence stars
Shatanik Bhattacharya (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India), Srijan Bharati Das (Center for Astrophysics - Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, USA, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria), Lisa Bugnet (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria), Subrata Panda (Tata Institute of Fundamental Researc…

Detectability of axisymmetric magnetic fields from the core to the surface of oscillating post-main sequence stars
Magnetic fields in the stellar interiors are key candidates to explain observed core rotation rates inside solar-like stars along their evolution. Recently, asteroseismic estimates of radial magnetic field amplitudes near the hydrogen-burning shell (H-shell) inside about 24 red-giants (RGs) have been obtained by measuring frequency splittings from their power spectra. Using general Lorentz-stress (magnetic) kernels, we investigated the potential for detectability of near-surface magnetism in a …

#goodmorning friends! Today we are visiting friends. Since a couple of years we do this by train. Yes it takes longer but it's cheaper and ways more relaxing. We can both sleep, watch videos, read books, surf the Web, watch people,...
Anyways, I hope you have a great day! Spread some joy, give somebody a smile, get outside 😉

Join MARP next Saturday, March 16th!

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50% off sale for the month of May
(Includes bonus free digital Annotated Edition ✍️ 2,000 footnotes, 1,900 item bibliography)
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Cardinals Notes: Gray, Middleton, Center Field
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

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Note from #YogiBerra to #TonyBennett, part of the big upcoming auction at Lincoln Center. (Note the classy stationery. I expect the Hall gives you that?) If I had any money I'd buy it 🤪

Cowboys defensive end Dante Fowler Jr. signing new deal with Commanders https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_defensive_end_dante_fowler_jr_signing_new_deal_with_commanders/s1_17236_40098264

Cowboys defensive end Dante Fowler Jr. signing new deal with Commanders
Dallas Cowboys defensive end Dante Fowler Jr. is signing a new contract with the Washington Commanders this week amid free agency. Fowler just wrapped up his second season in Dallas and his ninth in the NFL. He’ll now follow former Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn to D.C., along with defensive end Dorance Armstrong Jr. and center Tyler Biadasz. Though he had just 13 tackles on the year in 17 games played, four of them were sacks and another five were tackles for loss. He also came up w…

Physical and Chemical Properties of Galactic Molecular Gas toward QSO J1851 0035
Kanako Narita, Seiichi Sakamoto, Jin Koda, Yuki Yoshimura, Kotaro Kohno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09984

Physical and Chemical Properties of Galactic Molecular Gas toward QSO J1851+0035
ALMA data toward QSO J1851+0035 ($l$=$33.498^{\circ}$, $b$=$+0.194^{\circ}$) were used to study absorption lines by Galactic molecular gas. We detected 17 species (CO, $^{13}$CO, C$^{18}$O, HCO$^+$, H$^{13}$CO$^+$, HCO, H$_2$CO, C$_2$H, $c$-C$_3$H, $c$-C$_3$H$_2$, CN, HCN, HNC, CS, SO, SiO, and C) and set upper limits to 18 species as reference values for chemical models. About 20 independent velocity components at 4.7-10.9 kpc from the Galactic Center were identified. Their column density and …

It's funny that the 'Cloud' is anything but: it's rather a set of very concrete basements full of computers connected by lots of underground and underwater cabling.
I wonder whether a different name would have made more evident the energetic and infrastructural costs of all this.
Hat tip: @…

Check out this show by Grateful Dead from Sat, Apr 17, 1982 at Hartford Civic Center on Live Music Archive!
#GratefulDead #TIGDH #LiveMusic

Grateful Dead Live at Hartford Civic Center on 1982-04-17
Minglewood Blues-> Sugaree-> El Paso, Jack A Roe-> Little Red Rooster, Tennessee Jed, It's All Over Now, Bird Song-> Women Are Smarter Shakedown Street-> Lost Sailor-> Saint Of Circumstance-> Drums-> Spanish Jam*-> Uncle John's Band-> Not Fade Away-> Wharf Rat-> Around & Around-> One More Saturday Night, E: It's All Over Now Baby Blue

Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things @ tonsky.me
https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/

Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things
Somehow we forgot how to center rectangles and must find our way back

This https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08987 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Self-gravitating razor-thin disks around black holes via multi-hole seeds
We construct self-gravitating razor-thin disks of counterrotating dust around Schwarzschild black holes (BHs) by applying the "displace, cut, and reflect" method to known seed solutions representing multi-holes. All but one of the sources of the seed solution generate the surrounding annular disk, whereas the remaining BH is kept unaltered and lies at the disk center after the transformation. The disks are infinite in extent, have annular character, and are linearly stable up to the innermost s…

Cloudscape.
#photography

New Orleans signs: Yesterday's Coffee edition.
1) Kaldi's - sign in Molly's at the Market.
2) Coffee & Company, Lakeview - while Lakeview did come back after the Federal Flood, alas they did not.
3)Luzianne - the brand is still around, but this sign can no longer be seen Uptown on Marengo Street.
4) Closed corner shop sign, Gentilly - Roastivated.
Photographed by Infrogmation of New Orleans.
@…

I'm happy to announce I will be speaking at #RustFestZurich this year. My talk is about Linon, a graphical #RustLang application I began writing during my MSc studies at @…

Interactive Exploration of Nonlinear Ray Casting with Rust and wgpu
Speaker: Niklas Korz Description Light is commonly assumed to travel linearly from source to destination. There are however cases where the path of light can be bent or distorted. In the case of black holes for example, the light is attracted by a very strong gravitational center. Heated air can change the direction of light through the varying refraction caused by the temperature transition from heat source to environment. Creating an interactive environment for exploration of such phenomena m…

Lightcone and quasi distribution amplitudes for light octet and decuplet baryons
Chao Han (NPAC, Key Laboratory for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology), Wei Wang (NPAC, Key Laboratory for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Southern Center for Nuclear-Science Theory), Jun Zeng (NPAC, Key Laboratory for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology), Jia-Lu Zhang (NPAC, Key Laboratory for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology)

Lightcone and quasi distribution amplitudes for light octet and decuplet baryons
We present a comprehensive investigation of leading-twist lightcone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) and quasi distribution amplitudes (quasi-DAs) for light octet and decuplet baryons within large momentum effective theory. In LaMET, LCDAs can be factorized in terms of a hard kernel and quasi-DAs that are defined as spatial correlators and calculable on Lattice QCD. To renormalize quasi-DAs and eliminate the singular terms $\ln(μ^2 z_i^2)'s$ in them, which undermine the efficacy in perturbative…

Just 5 days until #scale21x and @…. Join us March 14-17 at the Pasadena Convention Center.

Rather amazing what people can do with a little help from #AI systems…
From: @…
https://

‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/15/recycling-plastics-producers-report

Important conference April 7-9 organized by the Rev. William Barber and the Center for Public Theology/Public Policy at YDS!
What are the moral and spiritual issues of the 2024 presidential election? #YaleTheologyConference
https://…

Public Theology & Public Policy Conference
This conference aims to train and empower religious leaders, scholars, theologians, and biblicists to delve into the crucial moral issues confronting our nation. We are committed to addressing issues outlined in biblical texts, transcending political affiliations.

Dataset and Models for Item Recommendation Using Multi-Modal User Interactions
Simone Borg Bruun, Krisztian Balog, Maria Maistro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04246

Dataset and Models for Item Recommendation Using Multi-Modal User Interactions
While recommender systems with multi-modal item representations (image, audio, and text), have been widely explored, learning recommendations from multi-modal user interactions (e.g., clicks and speech) remains an open problem. We study the case of multi-modal user interactions in a setting where users engage with a service provider through multiple channels (website and call center). In such cases, incomplete modalities naturally occur, since not all users interact through all the available ch…

Measurement of the Born cross section for $e^{ }e^{-}\to \eta h_c $ at center-of-mass energies between 4.1 and 4.6\,GeV
BESIII Collaboration, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06718

Measurement of the Born cross section for $e^{+}e^{-}\to ηh_c $ at center-of-mass energies between 4.1 and 4.6\,GeV
We measure the Born cross section for the reaction $e^{+}e^{-} \rightarrow ηh_c$ from $\sqrt{s} = 4.129$ to $4.600$~GeV using data sets collected by the BESIII detector running at the BEPCII collider. A resonant structure in the cross section line shape near 4.200~GeV is observed with a statistical significance of 7$σ$. The parameters of this resonance are measured to be \MeasMass\ and \MeasWidth, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second systematic.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04800 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hept…

Phases of theories with $\mathbb{Z}_N$ 1-form symmetry and the roles of center vortices and magnetic monopoles
We analyze the phases of theories which only have a microscopic $\mathbb{Z}_N$ 1-form symmetry, starting with a topological BF theory and deforming it in accordance with microscopic symmetry. These theories have a well-defined notion of confinement. Prototypical examples are pure $SU(N)$ gauge theories and $\mathbb{Z}_N$ lattice gauge theories. Our analysis shows that the only generic phases are in $d=2$, only the confined phase; in $d=3$, both the confined phase and the topological BF phase; a…

Daily Nous || New: Conversations at the Center
https://dailynous.com/2024/03/20/new-conversations-at-the-center/

“Rather than a blip on the radar, this should be a come-to-Jesus moment for Boeing — a moment when it puts engineering back at the center of its culture…
The transition from an obsession with engineering to an obsession with financial engineering at Boeing, Lazonick told me, wasn’t just the case of one company suddenly changing strategy; it “reflected what was going on in the US.””

Boeing disaster proves Americans businesses greedy mentality is broken
Boeing is a quintessential example of America's rotting business culture. After 40 years of mistakes, companies need a philosophical revolution.

Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are a planning a new "Stargate" US-based supercomputer that could cost $100B to power OpenAI products (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-and-openai-plot…

Microsoft and OpenAI Plot $100 Billion Stargate AI Supercomputer
Executives at Microsoft and OpenAI have been drawing up plans for a data center project that would contain a supercomputer with millions of specialized server chips to power OpenAI’s artificial intelligence, according to three people who have been involved in the private conversations about the ...

FulFillment - Season 1 finale 🤣😜😉
Dramatized comedy series | Total listening time: 2h 33m
Two energetic co-workers navigate the ever changing landscape of their Boston-area fulfillment center. Their mishaps and adventures help them cope with the future of the modern work space.
#AudioFiction #FictionPodcast

FulFillment - Season 1 finale 🤣😜😉
Dramatized comedy series | Total listening time: 2h 33m Two energetic co-workers navigate the ever changing landscape of their Boston-area fulfillment center. Their mishaps and adventures help them cope with the future of the modern work space. 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Apr 12, 2024.

A coalition of collegiate and professional press freedom groups urges campus administrators to respect the rights of student journalists covering protests (College Media Association)
https://collegemedia.org/release-colle

RELEASE: Collegiate Media Associations, Supporters Urge Campus Administrators to Support Student Journalists - College Media Association
College Media Association, Associated Collegiate Press, Society of Professional Journalists, Student Press Law Center and Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression have joined together to urge campus administrators to be supportive of student journalists covering current events.

Should Ukraine restore its nuclear status?: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/03/should-ukraine-restore.html

Third Alabama IVF clinic halts operation after state high court ruling
A third Alabama in vitro fertilization clinic has halted treatment as the fallout from last week’s state Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are legally children continues to disrupt IVF access across the state.

The Center for Reproductive Medicine in Mobile, one of just seven IVF clinics statewide, announced Thursday that it had paused IVF procedures in light of the court ruling.
Mark Nix, presi…

Third Ala. IVF clinic halts operation after state high court ruling
The Center for Reproductive Medicine in Mobile, one of seven IVF clinics in the state, announced Thursday it had paused IVF procedures.

It's funny that the 'Cloud' is anything but: it's rather a set of very concrete basements full of computers connected by lots of underground and underwater cabling.
I wonder whether a different name would have made more evident the energetic and infrastructural costs of all this.
Hat tip: @…

Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things @ tonsky.me
https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/

Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things
Somehow we forgot how to center rectangles and must find our way back

This https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08987 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Self-gravitating razor-thin disks around black holes via multi-hole seeds
We construct self-gravitating razor-thin disks of counterrotating dust around Schwarzschild black holes (BHs) by applying the "displace, cut, and reflect" method to known seed solutions representing multi-holes. All but one of the sources of the seed solution generate the surrounding annular disk, whereas the remaining BH is kept unaltered and lies at the disk center after the transformation. The disks are infinite in extent, have annular character, and are linearly stable up to the innermost s…

Grateful Dead Live at Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center on 1988-03-17
#GratefulDead #TIGDH #LiveMusic

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Russian attack on village near Kherson targets school, cultural center: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/25/russian-attack-on.html

Center of Attention: Top prospects at the pivot on Cowboys radar https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/lists/cowboys-2024-draft-center-rankings/

Center of Attention: Top prospects at the pivot on Cowboys radar
A look at the best center prospects in the 2024 draft, as the Cowboys haven’t ruled out the possibility of using a first-year player to fill the need. | From @Larimore_Ben

A survey of 10,133 US adults: 43% of those aged 18-29 used ChatGPT in February 2024, up from 33% in July 2023, compared to 27% of 30-49 and 23% of all adults (Colleen McClain/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-…

Americans’ use of ChatGPT is ticking up, but few trust its election information
About one-in-five U.S. adults have used ChatGPT to learn something new (17%) or for entertainment (17%).

So, yes! to DEI, etc.,: "Scientists at CANDLE have discovered that adolescents who grapple with the bigger meaning of social situations experience greater brain growth, which predicts stronger identity development and life satisfaction years later."
Scientists Discover That “Transcendent” Thinking May Grow Teens’ Brains

Scientists Discover That “Transcendent” Thinking May Grow Teens’ Brains
Scientists at CANDLE have discovered that adolescents who grapple with the bigger meaning of social situations experience greater brain growth, which predicts stronger identity development and life satisfaction years later. Scientists at the USC Rossier School of Education’s Center for Affective

There is an election rapidly approaching that compels us to confront the moral issues facing this nation.
The Center for Public Theology & Public Policy at YDS is convening an important conference around these critical issues April 7-9 in New Haven.
Learn more & register here! https://buff.ly/3VEIa94…

Public Theology & Public Policy Conference
This conference aims to train and empower religious leaders, scholars, theologians, and biblicists to delve into the crucial moral issues confronting our nation. We are committed to addressing issues outlined in biblical texts, transcending political affiliations.

An afternoon of environmentally themed events centered around “‘Nature’s Sanctuary’: Ethiopian Church Forests and the Interplay of Religion and Ecology.”
The focal point of “Nature’s Sanctuary” is a month-long exhibition of photographs by Scottish non-fiction photographer Kieran Dodds, depicting a story of ecological crisis and of hope, as a local nonprofit partners with communities to preserve some of the last remaining ancient forests of the Ethiopian highlands
"Within the…

Insights of South-Asian journalists after their trip to Ukraine. Ukraine in Flames #580: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/02/insights-of-southasian.html

Why is it called Helsinki Bus Station Theory and not Maastricht Bus Station Theory?

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11190 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Wahlquist Metric Revisited
Here we continue studying the Wahlquist metric. We know that the wave equation written for a zero mass scalar particle in the background of this metric gives Heun type solutions. To be able to use the existing literature on Heun functions, we try to put our wave equation to the standard form for these functions. Then we calculate the reflection coefficient of a wave coming from infinity and scattered at the center using this formalism using two independent methods.

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Can Cowboys trust Brock Hoffman at Center in 2024? https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/can_cowboys_trust_brock_hoffman_at_center_in_2024/s1_17100_40146721

Can Cowboys trust Brock Hoffman at Center in 2024?
The Dallas Cowboys offensive line will look significantly different in 2024, and we have no choice but to try and trust a guy like Brock Hoffman, who means the center position. They will probably draft someone, but it should be in a different round. That should be a tackle. Brock Hoffman was undrafted in the 2022 NFL Draft. He signed with the Cleveland Browns following the draft but ended up on the practice squad during the season. He was released midway through his first season and has been on…

There is an election rapidly approaching that compels us to confront the moral issues facing this nation.
The Center for Public Theology & Public Policy at YDS is convening an important conference around these critical issues April 7-9 in New Haven.
Learn more & register here! https://buff.ly/3VEIa94…

Public Theology & Public Policy Conference
This conference aims to train and empower religious leaders, scholars, theologians, and biblicists to delve into the crucial moral issues confronting our nation. We are committed to addressing issues outlined in biblical texts, transcending political affiliations.

Zelensky visits Sumy Oblast, inspects fortifications: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/27/zelensky-visits-sumy.html

Cowboys rookie Cooper Beebe points out two of his nastiest career highlights https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_rookie_cooper_beebe_points_out_two_of_his_nastiest_career_highlights/s1_173…

Kyiv: Russia lost nearly 50,000 troops in battle for Avdiivka: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/18/kyiv-russia-lost.html