Tootfinder

Let's just say that I find it hard to square that outcome with a process that was a “free and fair competition and on the basis of merit”: «Staff at Alan Turing Institute speak out after four men given top roles»
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/11/staff-at-alan-turing-institute-speak-out-after-four-men-given-top-roles

Magic market words
In tech-related discourse "decentralization", "Open Source", "democratization", "federation" have become weird terms. Not because of the specific architectural or technological concept they are describing but as a way to hide the fact that the speaker thinks that "markets" are the cure-all to anything. Anything is seen as an issue of needing "more competition", "more choice" which - given how many …

Soooo....I'm doing a thing...🤭😏
As a lot of you know, Tooters shut down recently and the way it was handled in the end is regrettable.
However, I felt for longest time while it was up, that it was consistently one of the BEST run instances on Fedi with how they protected their users from some of the insanity that happens here.
That being said, with Tooters being gone, it leaves a bit of a hole in my Fedi heart and I know a lot of others as well.
So, I'm creating a new, very limited for now, politically-light (as little politics as possible locally), AI friendly (AI art welcome), Sharkey instance for some folks within my circle that I've grown to consider my friends.
The Social Zone is meant to be a place to escape the very political society we currently all live in and just be social with one another about our hobbies, interests, and day to day lives.
I'm still working out all the details but when I launch it, it's going to be invite only because I'm new to something like this and I want to get it right. Especially because those I will invite are people that are close to me and I don't want to disappoint them.
Depending on how things go for the next few months, including if I can even get this thing started correctly, I MIGHT be open to allowing more members in, down the line.
But, this is just getting started. I registered the domain yesterday and just started researching Sharkey today and how hard it would be to spin something up. Then, of course, there's configuration settings and administration with Sharkey that I have to familiarize myself with.
All in all, I'm very nervous, but excited that I decided to take this next step in my Fedi adventure and hope to eventually "give back" to the entire community, the same positive energy that you've all given me over the past wonderful year of being on this amazing platform.
Please do not ask for invites. I will not be handing them out anytime soon. I've already asked about 5 of you along with some IRL folks and I feel I would like some time to get this right for them first.
Thanks for reading. I hope you understand why I'm choosing to do this and hope you're as excited as me to see where things can go and understand why I feel it's important to have these types of "politically-light" spaces so people can escape such topics from time to time.
Keep on keeping on, Fedi. The future is bright and I'm ready to learn along with you. More info about TheSocial.Zone coming soon!
Your friend,
B.A.

Got #AARP membership because Mother kept nagging me about discounts. Being on 100% disability, only Denny’s, Bonefish Grill, Outback Steak house, and LensCrafters are pertinent (given hot dates).

In tech-related discourse "decentralization", "Open Source", "democratization", "federation" have become weird terms. Not because of the specific architectural or technological concept they are describing but as a way to hide the fact that the speaker thinks that "markets" are the cure-all to anything.
Anything is seen as an issue of needing "more competition", "more choice" which - given how many of us have been tra…

If I edit a file in a terminal with vim and it needs sudo to write it, vim caches my sudo password the same way the terminal would, so I don't have to keep typing it.
In gvim this doesn't seem to happen, I guess because there is no pty associated with the GUI app that is gvim?
Is there any way around this?
#vim

Matroidal polynomials, their singularities, and applications to Feynman diagrams
Daniel Bath, Uli Walther
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07885 https://<…

Matroidal polynomials, their singularities, and applications to Feynman diagrams
Given a matroid or flag of matroids we introduce several broad classes of polynomials satisfying Deletion-Contraction identities, and study their singularities. There are three main families of polynomials captured by our approach: matroidal polynomials on a matroid (including matroid basis polynomials, configuration polynomials, Tutte polynomials); flag matroidal polynomials on a flag matroid; and Feynman integrands. The last class includes under general kinematics the inhomogeneous Feynman …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11425 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Remarks on effects of projective phase on eigenstate thermalization hypothesis
The existence of $p$-form symmetry in $(d+1)$-dimensional quantum field is known to always lead to the breakdown of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) for certain $(d-p)$-dimensional operators other than symmetry operators under some assumptions. The assumptions include the mixing of symmetry sectors within a given energy shell, which is rather challenging to verify because it requires information on the eigenstates in the middle of the spectrum. We reconsider this assumption from t…

If I edit a file in a terminal with vim and it needs sudo to write it, vim caches my sudo password the same way the terminal would, so I don't have to keep typing it.
In gvim this doesn't seem to happen, I guess because there is no pty associated with the GUI app that is gvim?
Is there any way around this?
#vim

Matroidal polynomials, their singularities, and applications to Feynman diagrams
Daniel Bath, Uli Walther
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07885 https://<…

Matroidal polynomials, their singularities, and applications to Feynman diagrams
Given a matroid or flag of matroids we introduce several broad classes of polynomials satisfying Deletion-Contraction identities, and study their singularities. There are three main families of polynomials captured by our approach: matroidal polynomials on a matroid (including matroid basis polynomials, configuration polynomials, Tutte polynomials); flag matroidal polynomials on a flag matroid; and Feynman integrands. The last class includes under general kinematics the inhomogeneous Feynman …