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An introduction to quaternions.
http://www.euclideanspace.com/maths/algebra/realNormedAlgebra/quaternions/index.htm
saved 2020-11-26

Omar says she won’t ‘be silenced’ by search of her home and blasts Trump’s ‘intimidation’ campaign
Ilhan Omar called the search an “attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement.”
“For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns.
This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation,” she said.
“I will not be silenced.”
The search of the Minnesota congresswoman’s home
so close…

Omar says she won't 'be silenced’ by search of her home and blasts Trump’s 'intimidation' campaign
Omar said she will “not be silenced” and called the search of her home the “latest escalation” in President Trump’s '‘intimidation" campaign.

„Das eklatante Versagen des Verfassungsschutzes in allen schweren politischen Krisen der Bundesrepublik hat […] eindrücklich gezeigt, dass er schon mit den Machtmitteln, die er bisher erhalten hatte, nicht verantwortungsvoll umgehen konnte. Ihm neue in die Hand zu drücken, wo eine Übernahme der Staatsgeschäfte durch eine faschistische Partei kein unrealistisches Szenario mehr ist, würde den „Instrumentenkasten” der Demokratie vollends gegen Demokrat*innen richten.“

50 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in #SanFrancisco, their 2nd show of 6 at the orpheum. the band must’ve read fans bitching on social media about the lack of jamming the night before because things escalate quickly.
soundboard:

Auf nach Hamburg #prüf und morgen dann Kiel

Empirical likelihood confidence regions for ordered bivariate means
Naresh Garg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12174 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12174 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.12174
arXiv:2608.12174v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Let $\boldsymbol{X}_i=(X_{1i},X_{2i})^\top$ be independent and identically distributed observations with mean $\boldsymbol{\mu}=(\mu_1,\mu_2)^\top$ constrained by $\mu_1\leq\mu_2$. We study empirical-likelihood inference for a fixed mean vector and distinguish it from the previously known test of equality against an ordered alternative. At a fixed interior point, the constrained empirical likelihood ratio has the usual $\chi^2_2$ limit. At a fixed boundary point $(m,m)^\top$, its limit is the chi-bar-square distribution $\tfrac12\chi^2_1 \tfrac12\chi^2_2$. By contrast, profiling the unknown common mean in the equality-versus-order test yields $\tfrac12\chi^2_0 \tfrac12\chi^2_1$, the $k=2$ ordered-mean case of El Barmi (1996). We give an exact reduction of the latter statistic to the empirical likelihood of the paired differences, establish the localization step needed for the fixed-boundary expansion, and derive a local-to-boundary limit showing that interior calibration is not uniform over $n^{-1/2}$-neighborhoods of the boundary. Monte Carlo experiments under Gaussian, Student $t_5$, and shifted log-normal sampling examine fixed, boundary, and local regimes with explicit numerical-failure accounting. Illustrative paired-data analyses show the practical distinction between fixed-candidate confidence regions, directional equality tests, and ordinary scalar empirical-likelihood intervals truncated to the nonnegative parameter space.
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Car drives over book because it's too hard to stop and pick it up (or maybe the driver hates books, can't exclude that possibility), guy on bike picks it up because it's not hard. Big choices shape little choices.
https://vimeo.com/1226279482?fl=pl&fe=sh

In DRC, Virunga deforestation escalates as fighting sends refugees into park
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/in-drc-virunga-deforestation-escalates-as-fighting-sends-refugees-into-park/

In DRC, Virunga deforestation escalates as fighting sends refugees into park
According to Global Forest Watch Virunga National Park, the oldest protected area in the DRC, has lost 964 hectares (2,382 acres) of forest since June. “The Nyiragongo volcanic eruption in May and the recent war that has broken out between M23 and the Congolese government have forced many people to flee into the park,” Depaul […]

DOJ investigating five TV networks over White House pool coverage

The agency said the probe seeks to determine whether
Fox News, CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC
violated antitrust laws.
It marks a sharp escalation in the Trump administration’s use of its powers against perceived enemies in the press.
The Pentagon has fired staff members from the military newspaper Stars and Stripes who have criticized political influence on the outlet.
The Defense Department also …

DOJ investigating five TV networks over White House pool coverage
The agency said the probe seeks to determine whether Fox News, CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC violated antitrust laws. It marks a sharp escalation in the Trump administration’s use of its powers against perceived enemies in the press.

‘Part of the fascist playbook’: Ilhan Omar condemns Trump DHS raid on her home
US Rep. Ilhan Omar on Monday forcefully condemned the
Department of Homeland Security’s raid on her Washington, DC home
as part of a broader effort to weaponize federal law enforcement
against progressives who oppose Donald Trump’s agenda.
“This is part of the fascist playbook
to rile up Trump’s die-hard supporters
and give them a big distraction in advance of the midterm…

‘Part of the fascist playbook’: Ilhan Omar condemns Trump DHS raid on her home
“For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.”