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Daylight Savings Time starts this weekend. I’m tired just thinking about it 😩 #daylightsavingstime #weird

Hey! As I was just recently thinking about this photo so often, I just wanted to bring it back to you as well.
Just on sunday we were standing on a mountain, looking toward both the mountain in the back and the spot on the photo and planning to go there together - and all the time I had THIS photo and this day in my mind. Just 🥰🥰
Image:

Late Autumn by Franz Graf
Late Autumn Photograph by Franz Graf

Hey! As I was just recently thinking about this photo so often, I just wanted to bring it back to you as well.
Just on sunday we were standing on a mountain, looking toward both the mountain in the back and the spot on the photo and planning to go there together - and all the time I had THIS photo and this day in my mind. Just 🥰🥰
Image:

Late Autumn by Franz Graf
Late Autumn Photograph by Franz Graf

Generally, I think delegating your login to another provider (e.g. “Log in with Facebook”) is dangerously awful short-term thinking, but for phone-specific applications like buying an eSIM, the combination of logging in with Apple and then using Apple Pay, is delightful to me as an end user.

Egypt has stepped up mediation efforts for a cease-fire deal in hopes of averting an Israeli ground assault on Rafah, which sits on Gaza’s border with Egypt.
A Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Monday for talks over the new proposal.
Talks have centered on a two-phase deal that would bring an initial halt in fighting with the release of some of the around 100 hostages Hamas is believed to still hold in return for the freeing of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, while talks are hel…

Israeli officials concerned about ICC warrants: Mideast tensions
The United States has stepped up pressure for a cease-fire deal in Gaza. Hamas officials are in Egypt to discuss the new proposal. Ahead of a new visit to Israel this week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he pushed Hamas to accept the latest proposal, calling it “extraordinarily generous” on the part of Israel. Terms of the proposal were not made public, and it was not known if anything had changed on a main roadblock that mediators have repeatedly crashed against: the question …

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Long-time fractalisation of liquid films undergoing thermocapillary instability
Steven A Kedda, Michael C Dallaston, Scott W McCue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00301

Long-time fractalisation of liquid films undergoing thermocapillary instability
The study of viscous thin film flow has led to the development of highly nonlinear partial differential equations that model how the evolution of the film height is affected by different forces. We investigate a model of interaction between surface tension and the thermocapillary Marangoni effect, with a particular focus on the long-time limit. In this limit, the model predicts patterns that repeat on successively smaller spatial scales near points where the film thickness vanishes. By solving …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12410 has been replaced.
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Self-pulsing of Dielectric Barrier Discharges at Low Driving Frequencies
This paper investigates the self-pulsing of Dielectric Barrier Discharges (DBDs) at low driving frequencies. In particular, (a) the dependence of current on the product pd of gas pressure p and the gas gap length d, (b) the effects of lossy dielectrics (in resistive discharges) and large dielectric permittivity (in ferroelectrics) on current dynamics, (c) the transition from Townsend to a dynamic Capacitively Coupled Plasma (CCP) discharge with changing pd values, and (d) the transition from To…

Late-time transition of $M_B$ inferred via neural networks
Purba Mukherjee, Konstantinos F. Dialektopoulos, Jackson Levi Said, Jurgen Mifsud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10502

Late-time transition of $M_B$ inferred via neural networks
The strengthening of tensions in the cosmological parameters has led to a reconsideration of fundamental aspects of standard cosmology. The tension in the Hubble constant can also be viewed as a tension between local and early Universe constraints on the absolute magnitude $M_B$ of Type Ia supernova. In this work, we reconsider the possibility of a variation of this parameter in a model-independent way. We employ neural networks to agnostically constrain the value of the absolute magnitude as w…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06831 has been replaced.
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Slab percolation for the Ising model revisited
In this note, we give a new and short proof for a theorem of Bodineau stating that the slab percolation threshold $\hat{p}_c$ for the FK-Ising model coincides with the standard percolation critical point $p_c$ in all dimensions $d\geq3$. Both proofs rely on the positivity of the surface tension for $p>p_c$ proved by Lebowitz & Pfister. The key difference is that while Bodineau's proof is based on a delicate dynamic renormalization inspired by the work of Barsky, Grimmett & Newman, our proof uti…