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The Mechanical Turkness: Tactical Media Art and the Critique of Corporate AI
Dejan Grba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17490 https://arxi…

The Mechanical Turkness: Tactical Media Art and the Critique of Corporate AI
The extensive industrialization of artificial intelligence (AI) since the mid-2010s has increasingly motivated artists to address its economic and sociopolitical consequences. In this chapter, I discuss interrelated art practices that thematize creative agency, crowdsourced labor, and delegated artmaking to reveal the social rootage of AI technologies and underline the productive human roles in their development. I focus on works whose poetic features indicate broader issues of contemporary AI-…

La banda canadiense Mother Mother también publicó hoy su nuevo disco titulado «Grief Chapter»
🎧🔗 #MotherMother

Considering Fundamental Rights in the European Standardisation of Artificial Intelligence: Nonsense or Strategic Alliance?
Marion Ho-DacUA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16869

Considering Fundamental Rights in the European Standardisation of Artificial Intelligence: Nonsense or Strategic Alliance?
In the European context, both the EU AI Act proposal and the draft Standardisation Request on safe and trustworthy AI link standardisation to fundamental rights. However, these texts do not provide any guidelines that specify and detail the relationship between AI standards and fundamental rights, its meaning or implication. This chapter aims to clarify this critical regulatory blind spot. The main issue tackled is whether the adoption of AI harmonised standards, based on the future AI Act, sho…

Adventures in Andromeda: The Interplay of Interstellar Dust and Gas in our Big Neighbour
Gayathri Eknath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19798 https://

Adventures in Andromeda: The Interplay of Interstellar Dust and Gas in our Big Neighbour
In this thesis, we examine the interplay of interstellar dust and gas in the Andromeda galaxy (M31). In Chapter 2, we use $^{12}$CO CARMA observations of M31 and dust mass surface density measurements from the Bayesian algorithm PPMAP to investigate whether the dust emissivity index ($β$) is different inside and outside molecular clouds. We find little difference between the average $β$ inside molecular clouds compared to outside molecular clouds, in disagreement with models which predict an …

Society for Professional Journalism and Prison Journalism Project Announce Inaugural Prison Journalism Awards
Nominations due by March 31
https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2024/01/30/spj-pjp-stillwater-prison-journalism-awards/…

Society for Professional Journalism and Prison Journalism Project Announce Inaugural Prison Journalism Awards
The Florida Chapter of SPJ and Prison Journalism Project are proud to announce the inaugural SPJ Florida-PJP Stillwater Prison Journalism Awards.

AME in Huddersfield east yorkshire is a lovely important creator of space for art music experiments, and needs some financial support for its next chapter if you have some spare https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/ame2024/

Here's their press release from this morning:
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NEWS RELEASE Embargoed until April 24, 7:00am PST
Divest From Death USA
Media Contact: Media Liaisons, USC Divest From Death Coalition USCSolidarityOccupation@protonmail.com
USC Divest From Death Coalition to Begin Gaza Solidarity Occupation in University of
Southern California Campus
LOS ANGELES. (April 24, 2023) — USC Divest From Death Coalition today announced theit occupation of USC's Alumni Park, where the increasingly controversial 2024 Commencement is currently set to take place. The students taking part in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation are planning to occupy USC until their demands are met. The coalition joins other students groups across the country in the National Students for Justice in Palestine's "Popular University for Gaza," a coordinated mass movement of students, faculty and staff that disrupts universities, creating climates that push universities to answer community and international calls for full divestment from the Zionist entity, and all of the industries that sustain it.
1. End War Profiteering and Investment in Genocide. USC must fully disclose and divest its finances and endowment from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and occupation in Palestine, including the US Military and weapons manufacturing. USC must comumit to accountability through full transparency of their financial investments.
2. Complete Academic Boycott of Israel. USC must end its study abroad programs at Hebrew University's Rothenberg International School and Reichman University and sever all academic ties and research cooperation with Israeli universities.
3. Protect free speech on campus and provide full amnesty to all students, staff, and faculty disciplined, penalized, or fired for their pro-Palestine ackivism. USC must abide by their self- proclaimed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion values and implement material policies protecting the safety of its marginalized students.
4. Stop the Displacement, from South Central to Palestine. No land grabs, whether in South Central, Tongva territory, or Palestine. Cease expansion, provide reparations, and support housing for low-income South Central residents. No development by USC without genuine community control.
5. No Policing on Campus. End the targeted repression and harassment of Black, Brown, and Palestinian students and their allies on and off campus, including through university disciplinary processes. Defund the Department of Public Safety and disclose and sever all ties with the LAPD.
6. End the Silence on the Genocide in Palestine. Release a public statement calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza, denouncing the ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, and call on government officials o do so too.
"I'm participating in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation at USC to highlight and amplify the anti- zionist Jewish voice at USC and be in solidarity with the Palestinian fight for liberation," says a student organizer from USC's chapter of Jewish Voices for Palestine (JVP). "JVP USC feels our voice is especially important right now as many people at USC and across the country are equating zionism and Judaism, but we are here to say they are not the same! We stand by our belief of free speech, resistance to oppressive systems and solidarity with our valedictorian Asna and all other college campuses where pro-Palestine voices have been silenced."
The USC Divest From Death Coalition establishes the occupation mo st fundamentally in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they resist genocide and continue in their struggle for liberation. The occupation is also in resistance to attempts by USC and other universities to suppress the student movement for Palestine on its campuses, in resistance to the silencing of students that criticize the state of Israel, in resistance to the university administrators and boards of trustees who profit off the genocide of Palestinians; The students taking part are firm in their commitment to speaking out against the university's complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
"USC's funding of the ongoing genocide perpetuated by the zionist entity is reflective of maintaining imperialist interests abroad, as well as solidifying the shared ideology of amerikan and zionist institutions in preserving racialized oppression," says a student organizer of the Gaza Solidarity Occupation. "To not stand in opposition to the expressly racist violence here and abroad is to ignore the calls for solidarity demanded by the majority of the world. USC acts in accordance with these oppressions, and to call against this is to recognize both the inhumanity of these systems and our own humanity in opposing them."
We have chosen to use the word "occupation” instead of "encampment" to draw attention to USC as an occupying force on unceded Gabrieleno/Tongva land, an occupying force in South Central through its expansion into, gentrification of, and destruction of the existing community, and as a complicit power in Israeli occupation of Palestine.
About USC Divest From Death
In joining the national "Cut Ties with Genocide: Divest from Death" campaign, USC Divest From Death pushes our institutions to divest from companies complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, in all its iterations, alongside thousands of campuses. The coalition's push for the advancement of the key demand points on campus is the first steps towards the liberation of all people by ending the complicity of the University of Southern California in the violence enacted on our communities. Through the intentional act of coalition building, the students of USC realize that we are part of an interconnected fight for freedom taking place on campus, in our communities and homelands. We envision campuses free from militarism, occupation, and war through the implementation of divestment at USC
About Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
The student movement for the liberation of Palestine first began in the 1950s through the formation of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS). From the U.S. to Palestine, GUPS chapters galvanized thousands of students towards a liberated Palestine. The 90s” wave of corrupt politicians and faulty deals changed the liberation movement as we knew it and many institutions, including the student movement, collapsed. In the absence of a Palestinian student movement, organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine emerged across occupied Turtle Island (U.S. and Canada) as a way to educate, advocate, and mobilize in support for Palestinian liberation. Nearly two decades after the formation of the first Students for Justice in Palestine, the movement for Palestine has taken colleges and universities across North America by storm. With over 200 campus Palestine solidarity organizations across the continent, students have been leaders in uplifting demands for freedom, Justice, and equality for the Palestinian people.

Spoke to the vets, our local chapter of Cats Protection has taken over her care. She's going to be OK. If you'd like to contribute to her vet bills, they're running a fundraiser: https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/92czju4SBG

Maybe this will get them to pay more attention to what crafters need instead of all the decor crap
Joann files for bankruptcy but fabrics retailer's stores will stay open
https://qz.com/fabric-retailer-joann-chapter-11-bankruptcy-1851344239…

Fabrics and crafts retailer Joann files for bankruptcy
The company plans to keep its website and more than 800 U.S. stores open

Earth Rangers Underground - Complete series 🐿🦎😂
Dramatized ecology adventure comedy for kids | Total listening time: 1h 12m
For generations, a shadowy agency of four-legged investigators has been working to protect planet earth from environmental disaster. Desperate to save their failing local chapter, Agent Saul the squirrel and Phoebe the l...

Earth Rangers Underground - Complete series 🐿🦎😂
Dramatized ecology adventure comedy for kids | Total listening time: 1h 12m For generations, a shadowy agency of four-legged investigators has been working to protect planet earth from environmental disaster. Desperate to save their failing local chapter, Agent Saul the squirrel and Phoebe the leopard gecko, have broken the cardinal rule and teamed up with (GASP) …Humans! 1 seasons, 5 episodes as of Apr 15, 2024.

You know someone lost control of their life when the author's notes of chapter 2 of a fic says "just a couple more chapters and we're done" but the chapter total is over 50. 😆

Many experts believe that tests which analyze substances in the blood represent a remarkable new chapter in cancer detection.
The tests may be especially useful finding “silent” cancers
— such as pancreatic or ovarian cancer
— which often don’t cause symptoms until the disease is advanced and more difficult to treat.
“It opens up a whole new world,” said Eric Klein, a scientist at the health-care company Grail who developed Galleri, a multi-cancer detection test.

Cancer could soon be detected by blood tests, even before symptoms
New blood tests measure “signals” in the blood to help detect cancer. Experts say more study is needed to determine if the new tests save lives.

How normal people watch #anime:
1. Fetch a random version and watch it.
How I watch anime:
1. Find a particularly good quality version and fetch it.
2. Discover that subtitles are HDMV PGS, and my TV probably can't handle that. Try writing a 5-minute sample to my pendrive to confirm, and check whether video and audio work fine.
3. Discover that my TV can't handle exFAT. Try again with NTFS.
4. Video and audio work fine, subtitles don't. Look for other subtitles.
5. Discover that the other subtitles don't sync well with my video. Try to find matching subtitles.
6. Give up and resync the previous subtitles instead. Remux a 5-minute sample to my pendrive.
7. The sample worked fine. Remux the whole movie to the pendrive.
8. Get an I/O error. Reconnect the pendrive to a different USB port and try again.
9. Discover that you've connected it to a slow port. Abort and try again.
10. Discover that the movie lags now. Perhaps it's because the file is large. Try splitting it by chapter. Use mpv to confirm that subtitles adjust fine to the split version.
11. Discover that the movie still lags. Try rebooting the TV.
12. The movie plays smoothly now. However, the TV can't handle subtitles from the second file. Remux as a single file again.
13. Watch the movie. Discover that it starts lagging again at end credits.
14. Watch the end credits on the PC.

Good Morning #Canada
On February 16th, 1934, the Dominion of Newfoundland ceases to be self-governing. Newfoundland remained a dominion in name for the next 15 years as Britain assigned a governor to rule the colony, and they reported to the Colonial Secretary in London. The legislature was suspended and all elections ceased until Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949.

Should Lewis Caroll be entered into the firmament of SemWeb?
From the Introduction to Symbolic Logic.
"In Book I, Chapter II, I have adopted a new definition of ‘Classification’, which enables me to regard the whole Universe as a ‘Class,’ and thus to dispense with the very awkward phrase ‘a Set of Things.’"
#SymbolicLogic

Naked singularities and black hole Killing horizons
Daniela Pugliese, Hernando Quevedo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07512 https://arxiv…

Naked singularities and black hole Killing horizons
In this chapter, we study special photon orbits defined by means of Killing vectors and present a framework based on the properties of such null orbits. For concreteness, we restrict ourselves to the case of axially symmetric spacetimes describing either black holes with Killing horizons or naked singularities. The null-orbits framework is then applied to analyze properties of naked singularities and concepts of black hole thermodynamics.

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Effective String Theories (EST) of Yang-Mills Flux Tubes
This chapter explains the concept of \emph{Effective String Theories}(EST), and their success in explaining the results that Yang-Mills flux tubes behave, to a high degree of accuracy, like Bosonic Strings(BST). It describes EST's of Lüscher and Weisz, and their principal conclusions. It then discusses the Polchinski-Strominger EST's. which are valid in all dimensions. It then describes the works by Drummond, and, the author and Peter Matlock, which extended the analysis to $R^{-3}$ order and …

Combinatorics of Complex Maximal Determinant Matrices
Guillermo Nu\~nez Ponasso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09040 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Combinatorics of Complex Maximal Determinant Matrices
This doctoral thesis covers several topics related to the construction and study of maximal determinant matrices with complex entries. The first three chapters are devoted to number-theoretic tools to prove the non-solvability of Gram matrix equations over certain fields, with a focus on combinatorial applications. Chapter 4 gives a survey on Butson-type Hadamard matrices, and shows an improved lower bound on primes $p$ for the existence of $BH(12p, p)$ matrices. Chapter 5 contains the main con…

Kast Media, which was accused by Theo Von and other podcasters last year of missing payments, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, listing $6.3M in liabilities (Jonathan Randles/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Kast, Podcast Firm That Theo Von Accused of Missing Payments, Files Bankruptcy
A podcast production company that was accused by comedian Theo Von and others of owing content creators millions of dollars has filed bankruptcy in California.

An Introduction to Deligne Categories
Serina Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08689 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.08689

An Introduction to Deligne Categories
This work hopes to be an introduction to Deligne categories for someone familiar with classical representation theory and some category theory. In the first chapter, we motivate and define (symmetric) tensor categories, construct the Deligne categories, and prove their universal properties. In the second chapter, we define ultraproducts and use them to construct the Deligne categories in a different way; in particular, this construction works in positive characteristic. In the third chapter, we…

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Bohmian Mechanics as a Practical Tool
In this chapter, we will take a trip around several hot-spots where Bohmian mechanics and its capacity to describe the microscopic reality, even in the absence of measurements, can be harnessed as computational tools, in order to help in the prediction of phenomenologically accessible information (also useful for the followers of the Copenhagen theory). As a first example, we will see how a Stochastic Schrödinger Equation, when used to compute the reduced density matrix of a non-Markovian open…

Digital models and sensory substitution devices: An inclusive communication of architecture through sound https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-57575-4_40

Digital Models and Sensory Substitution Devices: An Inclusive Communication of Architecture Through Sound
The singular nature of architecture, compared to other types of artistic experience, admits the spatial component as the main reference for understanding an object. While scientific advances in the production of digital models have allowed for more and more...

Hydrodynamization and resummed viscous hydrodynamics
Michael Strickland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09571 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.09571
arXiv:2402.09571v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this contributed chapter, I review our current understanding of the applicability of hydrodynamics to modeling the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), focusing on the question of hydrodynamization/thermalization of the QGP and the anisotropic hydrodynamics (aHydro) far-from-equilibrium hydrodynamic framework. I discuss the existence of far-from-equilibrium hydrodynamic attractors and methods for determining attractors within different hydrodynamical frameworks. I also discuss the determination of attractors from exact solutions to the Boltzmann equation in relaxation time approximation and effective kinetic field theory applied to quantum chromodynamics. I then present comparisons of the kinetic attractors with the attractors obtained in standard second-viscous hydrodynamics frameworks and anisotropic hydrodynamics. I demonstrate that, due to the resummation of terms to all orders in the inverse Reynolds number, the anisotropic hydrodynamics framework can describe both the weak- and strong-interaction limits. I then review the phenomenological application of anisotropic hydrodynamics to relativistic heavy-ion collisions using both quasiparticle aHydro and second-order viscous aHydro. The phenomenological results indicate that aHydro provides a controlled extension of dissipative relativistic hydrodynamics to the early-time far-from-equilibrium stage of heavy-ion collisions. This allows one to better describe the data and to extract the temperature dependence of transport coefficients at much higher temperatures than linearized second-order viscous hydrodynamics.

The Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distance Ladder and the Hubble Constant
Siyang Li, Rachael L. Beaton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17048 https://

The Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distance Ladder and the Hubble Constant
While the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) has been used as a distance indicator since the early 1990's, its application to measure the Hubble Constant as a primary distance indicator occurred only recently. The TRGB is also currently at an interesting crossroads as results from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are beginning to emerge. In this chapter, we provide a review of the TRGB as it is used to measure the Hubble constant. First, we provide an essential review of the physical and o…

Data-driven turbulence modeling
Paola Cinnella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09074 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.09074

Data-driven turbulence modeling
This chapter provides an introduction to data-driven techniques for the development and calibration of closure models for the Reynolds-Averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) equations. RANS models are the workhorse for engineering applications of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and are expected to play an important role for decades to come. However, RANS model inadequacies for complex, non-equilibrium flows and uncertainties in modeling assumptions and calibration data are still a major obstacle to …

Presentation: OpenView plans to return ~75% of a $571M fund it raised in 2023 to its LPs by Q3 and use the remaining capital to back ~30 portfolio companies (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/em

Embattled Venture Firm OpenView to Give Back 75% of Capital to Investors
OpenView Venture Partners, the Boston-based venture capital firm whose abrupt decision to wind down late last year epitomized the challenges facing startup investors in the aftermath of the tech funding boom, has figured out its final chapter. The 18-year-old firm plans to return the majority of ...

Earth Rangers Underground - Complete series 🐿🦎😂
Dramatized ecology adventure comedy for kids | Total listening time: 1h 12m
For generations, a shadowy agency of four-legged investigators has been working to protect planet earth from environmental disaster. Desperate to save their failing local chapter, Agent Saul the squirrel and Phoebe the l...

Earth Rangers Underground - Complete series 🐿🦎😂
Dramatized ecology adventure comedy for kids | Total listening time: 1h 12m For generations, a shadowy agency of four-legged investigators has been working to protect planet earth from environmental disaster. Desperate to save their failing local chapter, Agent Saul the squirrel and Phoebe the leopard gecko, have broken the cardinal rule and teamed up with (GASP) …Humans! 1 seasons, 5 episodes as of Apr 15, 2024.

Generative Information Retrieval Evaluation
Marwah Alaofi, Negar Arabzadeh, Charles L. A. Clarke, Mark Sanderson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08137 https://<…

Generative Information Retrieval Evaluation
In this chapter, we consider generative information retrieval evaluation from two distinct but interrelated perspectives. First, large language models (LLMs) themselves are rapidly becoming tools for evaluation, with current research indicating that LLMs may be superior to crowdsource workers and other paid assessors on basic relevance judgement tasks. We review past and ongoing related research, including speculation on the future of shared task initiatives, such as TREC, and a discussion on t…

Congrats Tennessee, you just passed a bill that bans parasols.
https://infosec.exchange/@bhawthorne/112213694817677936

User-Centric Cell-Free (UCCF) Wireless Systems: Principles and Optimization
Lie-Liang Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12752 https://a…

User-Centric Cell-Free (UCCF) Wireless Systems: Principles and Optimization
User-centric cell-free (UCCF) wireless networks have a range of distinguished characteristics, which can be exploited for meeting some challenges that the conventional cellular systems are hard to. This chapter is devoted to delivering the fundamentals of wireless communications in UCCF systems, including channel modeling and estimation, uplink (UL) detection, downlink (DL) transmission, and resource optimization. Specifically, the advantages of cell-free networking are examined in contrast to …

Designing Complexity? The Role of Self-Organization in Urban planning and Design
Anat Goldman, Efrat Blumenfeld-Lieberthal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14175

Designing Complexity? The Role of Self-Organization in Urban planning and Design
This chapter explores the concept of self-organization in urban planning and design, highlighting its role in shaping the unique characteristics of cities. It examines how various socio-economic, cultural, and political factors contribute to the development of distinct architectural styles, emphasizing the morphological patterns and self-organization principles. The chapter addresses the emergence of scaling laws and fractal geometry in urban forms, using historical and contemporary examples to…

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Chapter: Vulnerability of Quantum Information Systems to Collective Manipulation
The highly specialist terms `quantum computing' and `quantum information', together with the broader term `quantum technologies', now appear regularly in the mainstream media. While this is undoubtedly highly exciting for physicists and investors alike, a key question for society concerns such systems' vulnerabilities -- and in particular, their vulnerability to collective manipulation. Here we present and discuss a new form of vulnerability in such systems, that we have identified based on det…

NLP4RE Tools: Classification, Overview, and Management
Julian Frattini, Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Davide Fucci, Daniel Mendez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06685

NLP4RE Tools: Classification, Overview, and Management
Tools constitute an essential contribution to natural language processing for requirements engineering (NLP4RE) research. They are executable instruments that make research usable and applicable in practice. In this chapter, we first introduce a systematic classification of NLP4RE tools to improve the understanding of their types and properties. Then, we extend an existing overview with a systematic summary of 126 NLP4RE tools published between April 2019 and June 2023 to ease reuse and evoluti…

Fast Pulsars, Neutron Stars, and Astrophysical Strange Quark Matter Objects
Delaney Farrell, Fridolin Weber, Milva G. Orsaria, Ignacio F. Ranea-Sandoval, Mart\'in Canull\'an, Rodrigo Negreiros, Takashi Katayama, Ian Wagaman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08835

Fast Pulsars, Neutron Stars, and Astrophysical Strange Quark Matter Objects
This book chapter explores key aspects of neutron stars, pulsar glitches, tidal deformability, fast pulsars, the equation of state, and strange quark matter stars. Challenges in directly measuring neutron star radius have led to reliance on spectroscopic and timing techniques, with uncertainties addressed through careful source selection and theoretical modeling. Pulsar glitches reveal insights into the equation of state through angular momentum transfer within the neutron star. Tidal deformabi…

Infinite Translation Surfaces in the Wild
Vincent Delecroix, Pascal Hubert, Ferr\'an Valdez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05424 https://

Infinite Translation Surfaces in the Wild
This book explores infinite-type translation surfaces and is intended as an introductory text for graduate and PhD students, as well as a reference for more advanced researchers. Chapter 1 introduces the three definitions of translation surfaces and meticulously proves their equivalence. It is enriched with numerous examples that are revisited throughout the book. Chapter 2 provides a detailed examination of the topological classification of infinite-type surfaces, the construction of infin…

Sacramento Diocese Files For Bankruptcy Amid Lawsuits - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/04/sacramento-diocese-files-for-bankruptcy-amid-lawsuits/

Sacramento Diocese Files For Bankruptcy Amid Lawsuits
CBS News reports: The Diocese of Sacramento announced that they had officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It comes months after the diocese announced its intentions to file for bankru

Entropy and the City: Origins, trajectories and explorations of the concept in urban science
Vinicius M. Netto, Otavio Peres, Caio Cacholas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15199

Entropy and the City: Origins, trajectories and explorations of the concept in urban science
Entropy is arguably one of the most powerful concepts to understand the world, from the behavior of molecules to the expansion of the universe, from how life emerges to how hybrid complex systems like cities come into being and continue existing. Yet, despite its widespread application, it is also one of the most misunderstood concepts across the sciences. This chapter seeks to demystify entropy and its main interpretations, along with some of its explorations in the context of cities. It first…

Good Morning #Canada
It's World Cancer Day, a day to share the story of a personal Canadian hero. Ellen Winters-Robinson is the inspiration, marketing guru & voice behind AskEllen.ai. The OpenAI & ChatGPT tool allows breast cancer patients to find answers using the voice of a cancer survivor. I worked with Ellen decades ago and this latest chapter of her life just makes me respect h…

Client Spotlight: Ellyn Winters-Robinson, Founder and CEO of AskEllyn | The Accelerator Centre - Startups Built to Scale - Waterloo
AskEllyn is a Conversational AI tool that has captured the thoughts, feelings, experiences, and voice of Ellyn Winters-Robinson on her journey with breast cancer. A shining example of AI for good, AskEllyn aims that no one diagnosed—or their loved ones—will ever walk alone.

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Building the First Galaxies -- Chapter 2. Starbursts Dominate The Star Formation Histories of 6 < z <12 Galaxies
We use SEDz* -- a code designed to chart star formation histories (SFHs) of 6

Astrometric detection of exoplanets
Fabo Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08226 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.08226

Astrometric detection of exoplanets
As the most ancient branch of astronomy, astrometry has been developed for thousands of years. However, it has only recently become possible to utilize astrometry for the detection of exoplanets. Gaia, an astrometric surveyor of 1 billion stars, is capable of measuring the position of stars with a precision as high as 20 $μ$as. Gaia is expected to discover more than 10,000 exoplanets by the end of its mission, surpassing the productivity of most exoplanet surveys. In this chapter, I will int…

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Building the First Galaxies -- Chapter 2. Starbursts Dominate The Star Formation Histories of 6 < z <12 Galaxies
We use SEDz* -- a code designed to chart star formation histories (SFHs) of 6