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"The average modern person, by one calculation, spends more than 1,600 hours a year to pay for their cars, their insurance, fuel and repairs. We go to jobs partly to pay for the cars, and we need the cars mostly to get to jobs. We spend four of our sixteen waking hours on the road or gathering the resources for the car."
The hidden potential of bicycles - resilience

The hidden potential of bicycles
We tend to forget three important things about the bicycle. First, it remains the most efficient method of using our bodies, allowing us to attain higher machine speeds for longer than we would on muscle power alone ...

Why Swiss maps are full of hidden secrets
Cartography is serious business in Switzerland — but once in a while, the occasional map gag slips through.
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/swiss-maps/

The official opening of Mr #Dambo's #trolls
- colossal installations that have been dotted throughout the world by the artist and climate activist
- took place, with state-wide excitement and unusual creatures already being spotted, and shared on social media.
The 12-month long exhibition not only brin…

Magic, hidden in Mandurah
"There's so much magic here already, so much story about what has happened."

Dorktales Storytime - Season 4 finale 📚🤓🥹
Narrated kids stories with a geekish twist | Total listening time: 23h 22m
Enter the Once Upon a Time world for a storytelling journey of curiosity and acceptance. You’ll explore reimagined fairytales and fables with social emotional themes, discover inspiring stories of history’s hidden heroes,...

Dorktales Storytime - Season 4 finale 📚🤓🥹
Narrated kids stories with a geekish twist | Total listening time: 23h 22m Enter the Once Upon a Time world for a storytelling journey of curiosity and acceptance. You’ll explore reimagined fairytales and fables with social emotional themes, discover inspiring stories of history’s hidden heroes, and experience imaginary tales of boundless possibilities. A Signal Award winning podcast by neurodivergent creators selected by Common Sense Media and Apple Podcasts for “outstanding enterta…

Cowboys to pay whole lot of money to land hidden gem post-draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_to_pay_whole_lot_of_money_to_land_hidden_gem_post_draft/s1_17313_40296483

Cowboys to pay whole lot of money to land hidden gem post-draft
The Dallas Cowboys are building their undrafted free agency rookie class and still have a handful of roster spots to fill to reach 90 players as of Sunday afternoon.  But one name in particular stands out among their post-draft signings: Tight end Brevyn Spann-Ford. The Cowboys showed how much they love the prospect out of Minnesota by paying him big-time money. Per Michael Gehlken from Dallas Morning News, the Cowboys signed Spann-Ford to a guaranteed salary of $225,000 with a $20,000 signing…

A screenshot seems to show TikTok circumventing Apple's App Store fees by showing some users a link to a site for buying digital coins, instead of using IAPs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/30/scre

Screenshots suggest TikTok is circumventing Apple App Store commissions | TechCrunch
The feature may be hidden from most users, either by design or because it's only shown to users in a specific group, like testers or high spenders.

Incredible find. I hope this music is finally made available to the world. #MarvinGaye https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68674814

#China #navalny
If you make it impossible for there to be any opposition, then there won't be an opposition leader. #Russia, you can be sure, is learning this lesson.

China Has Thousands of Navalnys, Hidden From the Public
China has no dissident with the kind of public profile that Aleksei A. Navalny had. The government has many critics, but they all disappear from view.

Struggling to keep your Word documents organized? Forget the tedious copy-paste shuffle and repetitive formatting tweaks.
The Spike command is your hidden weapon for rearranging text and images with ease. This built-in tool acts like a super-powered clipboard, letting you cut and paste multiple elements in their exact order – saving you tons of time and frustration. ✨
If you are looking for a faster, cleaner way to rearrange text and images in your docs, then check out my quick…

LinkShare: AI Literacy Day: https://tceajmg.micro.blog/2024/04/29/linkshare-ai-literacy.html

Wondering when the US will use the tactics they used against TikTok, against every corp. Breaking the law...
I bet if companies were being forced to sell because they broke the law, less of them would break the law...
Just so I'm clear, I am 100% against banning ANY app with hidden keyloggers and trackers. It's a good thing that TikTok is being banned, but let's use that energy for everything, yes?👍
#TikTok #Privacy

Nice to present our paper in progress at 'Education Policy in India: contexts, texts, and institutions', conference at the Indira Mahindra School of Education, India.
We ask: Who goes to 'better quality' government and private schools in Delhi? Who accesses free private school seats? Who knows about them?
We find income and caste criteria, used to implement access, aren't enough. Using multi-dimensional deprivation indicators we find a hidden group.

🎵Let's talk about #SOCs baby🎵 How are we connecting the #planet? United or divided: How will our #community be working together by 2040? These are only a few snippets of what's to come during

Hi friends, here's the last #photo from my recent blog post (from my cold #photography - #hiking trip).
This spot was a perfect opportunity to apply ND Filters and some longexposure. I loved …

Second Chances: Finding Beauty Beyond Expectations
In this blog post, I recount a journey of redemption and unexpected beauty. After a failed attempt to capture the perfect photo at a frozen waterfall, a second chance arises. Armed with newfound determination and experience, I embark on a photographic adventure, discovering hidden opportunities and

"Access & use of #publicsector documents & political speeches are key to a thriving #democracy and civil society as they ensure transparency and accountability. Copyright & paywalls, however, can render access to these materials difficult or expensive.
Today we are proposing EU …

Access to and use of public sector documents and public speeches – new policy paper
Despite the importance of public sector documents as well as public speeches, they are not necessarily publicly available as they can be protected under copyright and hidden behind paywalls. Where this is the case, access to, and use of, these materials can be difficult or prohibitively expensive. This paper addresses many areas where existing European legislation, notably the Open Data Directive, falls short, and presents European-level policy options to remove copyright barriers and ensure th…

Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State, by Byron Tau, to be published February 27, 2024 sounds like a blast to read, here's an excerpt: https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-l

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03802 has been replaced.
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Elucidating the nature of hidden-charm pentaquark states with spin-$\frac{3}{2}$ through their electromagnetic form factors
We perform a systematic study of the electromagnetic properties of exotic states to shed light on their nature, which is still controversial and not fully understood. The magnetic dipole and higher multipole moments of a hadronic state are as fundamental a dynamical quantity as its mass, and they contain valuable information about the deep structure underlying it. In the present work, we have explored the magnetic dipole and higher multipole moments of the hidden-charm pentaquarks with quantum …

Trump defense: FBI failed to search 'hidden' Mar-a-Lago room
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/a-hidden-room-trump-complains-fbis-mar-a-lago-search-wasnt-i…

A 'hidden room'? Trump now argues FBI's Mar-a-Lago search wasn't intrusive enough
Trump's defense is now arguing as part of a bid to compel discovery in the Espionage Act case that the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago didn't go far enough.

Stunned Couple Finds 14th-Century Medieval Gargoyle Hidden Behind Their Toilet https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/stunned-couple-finds-14th-century-medieval-gargoyle-hidden-behind-their-toilet/

Stunned Couple Finds 14th-Century Medieval Gargoyle Hidden Behind Their Toilet
A British couple was left stunned when they found a medieval gargoyle hidden inside the bathroom in their 700-year-old home.

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Is Mamba Effective for Time Series Forecasting?
In the realm of time series forecasting (TSF), it is imperative for models to adeptly discern and distill hidden patterns within historical time series data to forecast future states. Transformer-based models exhibit formidable efficacy in TSF, primarily attributed to their advantage in apprehending these patterns. However, the quadratic complexity of the Transformer leads to low computational efficiency and high costs, which somewhat hinders the deployment of the TSF model in real-world scenar…

In case you missed it, go read this investigation into stolen and trafficked artifacts making their way to the Met by @… (from 2023):

More than 1000 artifacts in Metropolitan Museum of Art catalog linked to alleged looting and trafficking figures - ICIJ
Reporters pinpointed the pieces, from India to Italy to Egypt, in North America’s largest museum. What do the findings mean for the Met’s future – and the future of all museums?

Dear mastodon.social, why are you hiding/limiting @…’s account?
Is it policy on mastodon.social to hide/limit pro-Palestinian / anti-genocide accounts?
(Someone there wanna check my account also, just in case?)
CC @…

#ReturnToOffice
Good read, well said.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3712843/the-hidden-high-cost-of-return-to…

The hidden high cost of return-to-office mandates
If you force employees to commute and work in an office every day, you can expect to lose your best employees.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14057 has been replaced.
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Bored to Death: Artificial Intelligence Research Reveals the Role of Boredom in Suicide Behavior
Background: Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) contributed significantly to suicide assessment, however, our theoretical understanding of this complex behavior is still limited. Objective: This study aimed to harness AI methodologies to uncover hidden risk factors that trigger or aggravate suicide behaviors. Method: The primary dataset included 228,052 Facebook postings by 1,006 users who completed the gold-standard Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale. This dataset was analy…

Limits on Early Matter Domination from the Isotropic Gamma-Ray Background
Himanish Ganjoo, M. Sten Delos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18893 https://

Limits on Early Matter Domination from the Isotropic Gamma-Ray Background
In cosmologies with hidden sector dark matter, the lightest hidden sector species can come to dominate the energy budget of the universe and cause an early matter-dominated era (EMDE). EMDEs amplify the matter power spectrum on small scales, leading to dense, early-forming microhalos which massively boost the dark matter annihilation signal. We use the Fermi-LAT measurement of the isotropic gamma-ray background to place limits on the parameter space of hidden sector models with EMDEs. We calcul…

Opinion: Sexual violence is not a hidden war crime in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/23/opinion-sexual-violence.html

Agent-Designed Contracts: How to Sell Hidden Actions
Martino Bernasconi, Matteo Castiglioni, Andrea Celli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16547 https://<…

Agent-Designed Contracts: How to Sell Hidden Actions
We study the problem faced by a service provider that has to sell services to a user. In our model the service provider proposes various payment options (a menu) to the user which may be based, for example, on the quality of the service. Then, the user chooses one of these options and pays an amount to the service provider, contingent on the observed final outcome. Users are not able to observe directly the action performed by the service provide to reach the final outcome. This might incentivi…

🌲 Hidden giants: how the UK’s 500,000 redwoods put California in the shade
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/16/hidden-giants-how-the-uks-500000-redwoods-put-california-in-the-shade

Living-off-The-Land Reverse-Shell Detection by Informed Data Augmentation
Dmitrijs Trizna, Luca Demetrio, Battista Biggio, Fabio Roli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18329

Living-off-The-Land Reverse-Shell Detection by Informed Data Augmentation
The living-off-the-land (LOTL) offensive methodologies rely on the perpetration of malicious actions through chains of commands executed by legitimate applications, identifiable exclusively by analysis of system logs. LOTL techniques are well hidden inside the stream of events generated by common legitimate activities, moreover threat actors often camouflage activity through obfuscation, making them particularly difficult to detect without incurring in plenty of false alarms, even using machine…

Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State, by Byron Tau, to be published February 27, 2024 sounds like a blast to read, here's an excerpt: https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-l

On Identification of Dynamic Treatment Regimes with Proxies of Hidden Confounders
Jeffrey Zhang, Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14942 ht…

On Identification of Dynamic Treatment Regimes with Proxies of Hidden Confounders
We consider identification of optimal dynamic treatment regimes in a setting where time-varying treatments are confounded by hidden time-varying confounders, but proxy variables of the unmeasured confounders are available. We show that, with two independent proxy variables at each time point that are sufficiently relevant for the hidden confounders, identification of the joint distribution of counterfactuals is possible, thereby facilitating identification of an optimal treatment regime.

Does anyone here contribute to projects on #zooniverse? I took part in the Foundling Hospital project a few years ago, then recently digitisation of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery accession records, being of a historical bent. It does help having a bit of inside knowledge on that sort of thing.
I'm now working on Connect with Arctic Archives: Unraveling Greenland's Weather …

Arctic Archives: Unraveling Greenland's Weather History | Zooniverse - People-powered research
Calling all data detectives! Uncover the secrets hidden in old weather archives from Greenland and help us understand past, present and future Arctic climate.

Trinity Rodman on waiting for Emma Hayes, hidden talents, and TikTok trends - The Women's Game #nwsl

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The “Hidden” Purple Memorial in Your Web Browser | by Victor Algaze | Medium https://medium.com/@valgaze/the-hidden-purple-memorial-in-your-web-browser-7d84813bb416

The “Hidden” Purple Memorial in Your Web Browser - Victor Algaze - Medium
I recently encountered a visual bug where the style I was attempting to apply to an SVG element just wasn’t working. My first instinct when debugging a tricky styling issue is to fire up Chrome Dev…

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Hidden Markov Models and the Bayes Filter in Categorical Probability
We use Markov categories to develop generalizations of the theory of Markov chains and hidden Markov models in an abstract setting. This comprises characterizations of hidden Markov models in terms of local and global conditional independences as well as existing algorithms for Bayesian filtering and smoothing applicable in all Markov categories with conditionals. We show that these algorithms specialize to existing ones such as the Kalman filter, forward-backward algorithm, and the Rauch-Tung-…

Including accessible routes: 7 hidden Google Maps features and how to use them
https://qz.com/google-maps-features-tips-tricks-1851434612

7 hidden Google Maps features and how to use them
Did you know you can go back in time using Google Maps?

“The best data to date shows that the reasons and justifications for RTO mandates are largely misguided. Such mandates do not generally lead to higher productivity, better performance or improved corporate values in the short term.
It also shows that the reasons and justifications for WFH are largely real and serious. Remote work does improve schedule flexibility and work-life balance, and it saves employees a lot of time and money.
In other words: Forcing employees to work in an…

The hidden high cost of return-to-office mandates
If you force employees to commute and work in an office every day, you can expect to lose your best employees.

We know the world is biased, the Internet even more so. Training #AI on biased data naturally leads to biased AI models.
Trying to remove these biases is laudable. But trying to remove it superficially (after all these biased steps) is hard, maybe even impossible.
We need to remove them everywhere to succeed.

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Search for Hidden Neutrinos at the European Spallation Source: the SHiNESS experiment
The upcoming European Spallation Source (ESS) will soon provide the most intense neutrino source in the world. We propose the Search for Hidden Neutrinos at the ESS (SHiNESS) experiment, highlighting its unique opportunities to search for the existence of sterile neutrinos across a wide range of scales: anomalous oscillations at short baselines; non-unitarity mixing in the active neutrino sector; or an excess of events with multiple leptons in the final state, produced in the decay of heavy neu…

girl who only trusts those who clearly have an agenda because anything else implies a risk of a hidden agenda and she's had enough of that

Learning-Based Algorithms for Graph Searching Problems
Adela Frances DePavia, Erasmo Tani, Ali Vakilian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17736 https://

Learning-Based Algorithms for Graph Searching Problems
We consider the problem of graph searching with prediction recently introduced by Banerjee et al. (2022). In this problem, an agent, starting at some vertex $r$ has to traverse a (potentially unknown) graph $G$ to find a hidden goal node $g$ while minimizing the total distance travelled. We study a setting in which at any node $v$, the agent receives a noisy estimate of the distance from $v$ to $g$. We design algorithms for this search task on unknown graphs. We establish the first formal guara…

The Fifth Elephant - #TerryPratchett
>He knew he had hidden depths. There was nothing in them that he’d like to see float to the surface. They contained things that should be left to lie.
>
> - Sam Vimes (inner monologue)
#OlisQuoteFile

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Interplay of superexchange and vibronic effects in the hidden order of Ba$_2$MgReO$_6$ unravelled from first principles
The origin of the "hidden" quadrupolar and unconventional magnetic low-temperature orders observed in the spin-orbit double perovskite Ba$_2$MgReO$_6$ defies explanation through standard experimental and theoretical techniques. Here we address this problem by deriving and solving an ab initio low-temperature effective Hamiltonian including inter-site electronic exchange and vibronic (electron-lattice) couplings between $J_{eff}=3/2$ Jahn-Teller-active Rhenium states. Our findings disclose the n…

The role of hidden-color components in the tetraquark mixing model
Hungchong Kim, K. S. Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18411 https://…

The role of hidden-color components in the tetraquark mixing model
Multiquarks can have two-hadron components and hidden-color components in their wave functions. The presence of two-hadron components in multiquarks introduces a potential source of confusion, particularly with respect to their resemblance to hadronic molecules. On the other hand, hidden-color components are essential for distinguishing between multiquarks and hadronic molecules. In this work, we study the hidden-color components in the wave functions of the tetraquark mixing model, a model tha…

These Swiss Maps Are Full of Easter Eggs and Hidden Secrets - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/swiss-map-secrets

Swiss Maps Are Full of Hidden Secrets
Find the Easter eggs—or the naked lady.

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Semantic Cells: Evolutional Process to Acquire Sense Diversity of Items
Previous models for learning the semantic vectors of items and their groups, such as words, sentences, nodes, and graphs, using distributed representation have been based on the assumption that an item corresponds to one vector composed of dimensions corresponding to hidden contexts in the target. Multiple senses of an item are represented by assigning a vector to each of the domains where the item may appear or reflecting the context to the sense of the item. However, there may be multiple dis…

TIL https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1aq7vii/hidden_easter_egg_in_old_hp_digital_sampling/?utm_source=share&…

Not a recent blog post, but still very relevant. I regret to announce it really does seem to be going as planned.
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stea…

Meet the Hidden Architect Behind America's Racist Economics
Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean

#ReturnToOffice
Good read, well said.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3712843/the-hidden-high-cost-of-return-to…

The hidden high cost of return-to-office mandates
If you force employees to commute and work in an office every day, you can expect to lose your best employees.

Understanding the training of PINNs for unsteady flow past a plunging foil through the lens of input subdomain level loss function gradients
Rahul Sundar, Didier Lucor, Sunetra Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17346

Understanding the training of PINNs for unsteady flow past a plunging foil through the lens of input subdomain level loss function gradients
Recently immersed boundary method-inspired physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) including the moving boundary-enabled PINNs (MB-PINNs) have shown the ability to accurately reconstruct velocity and recover pressure as a hidden variable for unsteady flow past moving bodies. Considering flow past a plunging foil, MB-PINNs were trained with global physics loss relaxation and also in conjunction with a physics-based undersampling method, obtaining good accuracy. The purpose of this study was to …

The best thing I have done in terms of my financial, climate, and moral well being over the last few years, has been removing myself from the big banks. My first bank account was at Bank of Montreal as a kid and I got my first mortgage from CIBC.
A few years ago, as it became clear how deep into fossil fuels the Canadian big banks especially were, I decided that I would find a banking institution that respected the Climate (VanCity). It was very satisfying to tell the banks why I ca…

Godot on iPad, now debugging side-by-side the game.
The SwiftUI UI is mostly hidden in this one:

A frequent topic in #quantifiedself is how wearables tend to be black boxes – and how it’s hard to understand how a hidden change of algorithm can influence how the same raw sensor signal means differently processed data over time.
Turns out Apple Health records the algorithm version that processes “surface temperature” data from an Apple Watch into “skin temperature”. Unfortunately it’s limited to this one variable as far as I can see. Would love this to be the default for all data!

ALMA, as part of the Event Horizon Telescope, is unveiling a new image of our Milky Way's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, in which strong magnetic fields can be seen…
The most exciting part is that this hints to a jet that would be hidden from our vantage point in our galaxy… but imagine that! We might be like M87, just at a smaller scale!

Astronomers unveil strong magnetic fields spiraling at the edge of Milky Way’s central black hole | ALMA
A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has uncovered strong and organized magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Seen in polarised light for the first time, this new view of the monster lurking at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy has revealed...

An 11 kW home EV-charger on offer for €199 (in Germany). Good news for EV owners but in the Netherlands, existing low-voltage grids are designed for ~1-2 kW of simultaneous demand per home. The incredible ease with which such loads can be added brings major, hidden challenges.
Via Marc Klaver on the birdsite.

From Wired: "Here Are the Secret Locations of #ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors"
"The locations of microphones used to detect gunshots have been kept hidden from police and the public. A WIRED analysis of leaked coordinates confirms arguments critics have made against the technology."
Second link goes directly to the map.

Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors
The locations of microphones used to detect gunshots have been kept hidden from police and the public. A WIRED analysis of leaked coordinates confirms arguments critics have made against the technology.

Exposing the hidden layers and interplay in the quantum software stack
Vlad Stirbu, Arianne Meijer-van de Griend, Jake Muff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16545

Exposing the hidden layers and interplay in the quantum software stack
Current and near-future quantum computers face resource limitations due to noise and low qubit counts. Despite this, effective quantum advantage can still be achieved due to the exponential nature of bit-to-qubit conversion. However, optimizing the software architecture of these systems is essential to utilize available resources efficiently. Unfortunately, the focus on user-friendly quantum computers has obscured critical steps in the software stack, leading to ripple effects into the stack's …

🌲 Hidden giants: how the UK’s 500,000 redwoods put California in the shade
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/16/hidden-giants-how-the-uks-500000-redwoods-put-california-in-the-shade

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Bootstrapping AdS$_2 \times$ S$^2$ hypermultiplets: hidden four-dimensional conformal symmetry
We bootstrap the $4$-point amplitude of $\mathcal{N}=2$ hypermultiplets in $\text{AdS}_2 \times \text{S}^2$ at tree-level and for arbitrary external weights. We hereby explicitly demonstrate the existence of a hidden four-dimensional conformal symmetry that was used as an assumption in previous studies to derive this result.

Hidden-Bottom Pentaquarks: Mass Spectrum, Magnetic Moments and Partial Widths
Ankush Sharma, Alka Upadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14885 https://…

Hidden-Bottom Pentaquarks: Mass Spectrum, Magnetic Moments and Partial Widths
By taking into light the discovery of pentaquark structures like $P_{ψs}^Λ(4338)^0$, $P_c(4380)$ and $P_c(4450)$, we performed the spectroscopic analysis of hidden-bottom pentaquarks. By using the special unitary representations, we classified the hidden bottom pentaquarks into octet and decuplet configurations of SU(3) flavor representation. We used the extension of the Gursey-Radicati mass formula and the effective mass scheme to estimate the masses of hidden-bottom pentaquarks. Also, magne…

Interesting breakdown re plastics and clothing - even "100% cotton" or other natural fabric clothes: https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/feb/12/the-hidden-plastics-in-our-clothes-and-how-t…

Current mood.
#streetphotography #vietnam #wildlife
#academicchatter…

So, all those people who don’t want their content to be fucking read by those cunts at #threads have to fucking do, is throw in a few expletives. That’s fucking easy! https://mastodon.social/@verge/1123331

A look at the data center economy of Ireland, which had 82 data centers in 2023, amid concerns about rolling blackouts due to pressure on the electrical grid (Jessica Traynor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/…

Does anyone here contribute to projects on #zooniverse? I took part in the Foundling Hospital project a few years ago, then recently digitisation of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery accession records, being of a historical bent. It does help having a bit of inside knowledge on that sort of thing.
I'm now working on Connect with Arctic Archives: Unraveling Greenland's Weather …

Arctic Archives: Unraveling Greenland's Weather History | Zooniverse - People-powered research
Calling all data detectives! Uncover the secrets hidden in old weather archives from Greenland and help us understand past, present and future Arctic climate.

The FCC votes to make cable and satellite TV providers show the total cost of services, including fees for TV station signals and regional sports programming (Todd Shields/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Cable, Satellite-TV Firms to Show Single Price, No Hidden Fees Under FCC Rule
Cable and satellite-TV providers will need to make sure bills and ads clearly display a total price for video subscribers, including extra fees that can amount to hundreds of dollars a year, under a rule adopted Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission.

Detecting stellar flares in photometric data using hidden Markov models
J. Arturo Esquivel, Yunyi Shen, Vianey Leos-Barajas, Gwendolyn Eadie, Joshua Speagle, Radu V Craiu, Amber Medina, James Davenport
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13145

Detecting stellar flares in photometric data using hidden Markov models
We present a hidden Markov model (HMM) for discovering stellar flares in light curve data of stars. HMMs provide a framework to model time series data that are not stationary; they allow for systems to be in different states at different times and consider the probabilities that describe the switching dynamics between states. In the context of stellar flares discovery, we exploit the HMM framework by allowing the light curve of a star to be in one of three states at any given time step: Quiet, …

New blog post (not April fools!):
“Hidden models and latent compression in community detection”
This an overdue post on a joint work with Alec Kirkley published last year.
https://skewed.de/tiago/posts/hidden-models/

Las Vegas Raiders: The 1 Hidden X-Factor That Could Lead Or Stop Potential Justin Fields Trade https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/las_vegas_raiders_the_1_hidden_x_factor_that_cou…

Las Vegas Raiders: The 1 Hidden X-Factor That Could Lead Or Stop Potential Justin Fields Trade
The Chicago Bears are a team to watch out for in the 2024 NFL offseason, largely because of quarterback Justin Fields. There is not a shortage of trade rumors — including scenarios involving the Las Vegas Raiders — surrounding Fields, who has yet to blossom into the talent the Bears expected him to become when they selected him first overall at the 2021 NFL Draft. Sure, Fields has shown flashes of brilliance, but he’s yet to have one consistently strong campaign in the pros. Still, some b…

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Divides and hyperbolic volumes
A divide is the image of a proper and generic immersion of a compact $1$-manifold into the $2$-disk. Due to A'Campo's theory, each divide is associated with a link in the 3-sphere. In this paper, we reveal a hidden hyperbolic structure in the theory of links of divides. More precisely, we show that the complement of the link of a divide can be obtained by Dehn filling a hyperbolic $3$-manifold that admits a decomposition into several ideal regular tetrahedra, octahedra and cuboctahedra, where t…

We know the world is biased, the Internet even more so. Training #AI on biased data naturally leads to biased AI models.
Trying to remove these biases is laudable. But trying to remove it superficially (after all these biased steps) is hard, maybe even impossible.
We need to remove them everywhere to succeed.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07617 has been replaced.
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Measurement of Upward-going Milli-charged particles at the Pierre Auger Observatory
It is assumed that superheavy dark matter particles with O(EeV) mass may decay to relativistic milli-charged particles (MCPs). The upward-going MCPs passing through the Earth could be measured by the fluorescence detectors (FD) of the Pierre Auger observatory (Auger). The massless hidden photon model was taken for MCPs to interact with nuclei, so that the numbers and fluxes of expected MCPs and neutrinos may be evaluated at the FD of Auger. Based on the assumption that no events are observed at…

Democrat says green pin ditched by GOP had hidden message (Emma Dumain/E&E News by POLITICO)
https://www.eenews.net/articles/democrat-says-green-pin-ditched-by-gop-had-hidden-message/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240314/p61#a240314p61

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07019 has been replaced.
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Unveiling the hidden reaction kinetic network of carbon in water with unsupervised machine learning
Dissolution of CO$_2$ in water followed by the subsequent hydrolysis reactions is of great importance to the global carbon cycle, and carbon capture and storage. Despite enormous previous studies, the reactions are still not fully understood at the atomistic scale. Here, we combined ab initio molecular dynamics simulations with Markov state models to elucidate the reaction mechanisms and kinetics of CO$_2$ in supercritical water both in the bulk and nanoconfined states. The integration of unsup…

Primordial dust rings, hidden dust mass, and the first generation of planetesimals in gravitationally unstable protoplanetary disks
Eduard I. Vorobyov (University of Vienna, Department of Astrophysics, Vienna, Austria, Research Institute of Physics, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia), Aleksandr M. Skliarevskii (Research Institute of Physics, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia), Manuel Guedel (Research Institute of Physics, Southern Federal University, R…

Primordial dust rings, hidden dust mass, and the first generation of planetesimals in gravitationally unstable protoplanetary disks
Aims. A new mechanism of dust accumulation and planetesimal formation in a gravitationally unstable disk with suppressed magnetorotational instability is studied and compared with the classical dead zone in a layered disk model. Methods. We use numerical hydrodynamics simulations in the thin-disk limit FEOSAD code to model the formation and long-term evolution of gravitationally unstable disks, including dust dynamics and growth. Results. We found that in gravitationally unstable disks with a r…

Understanding the genetic mechanism fueling SARS-CoV-2's ability to generate variants can go a long way in keeping COVID at bay.
In this study published in Nature Microbiology, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions developed a new technology called
tARC-seq that revealed a genetic mechanism affecting SARS-CoV-2 divergence
and enabled the team to calculate SARS-CoV-2's mutation rate.
Using tARC-seq, the researchers also capt…

Study discovers hidden mechanism behind rapid COVID variants
The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID has the unsettling ability of often generating variants of itself. Other viruses also mutate, but as SARS-CoV-2 quickly spread throughout the entire human population during the pandemic, killing millions, the virus' dynamic evolution posed a serious problem: it repeatedly challenged our bodies' immune response fighting the virus and hindered the process of getting updated vaccines ready.

"The Hidden Environmental Cost of Our Digital Lifestyle"
#Environment #Technology #Emissions

The Hidden Environmental Cost of Our Digital Lifestyle | Happy Eco News
The Metaverse industry is booming around the globe, with countries like the US, Japan, China, Canada and New Zealand leading the way in terms of user

Relatively Universal ROM Programmer Makes Retro Tech Hacking Accessible
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-016bc1d8-5ddacf21c5be1da2
Relatively Universal ROM Programmer Makes Retro Tech Hacking Accessible There’s treasures hidden in old technolo…

🗼 Hidden billions in Tokyo real estate lure activist hedge funds
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/04/16/companies/headge-funds-urge-japan-real-estate-sales/

Hidden billions in Tokyo real estate lure activist hedge funds
Billions in value can be unlocked by pressuring companies to sell off holdings, a tactic that activist funds are now employing.

A look at the data center economy of Ireland, which had 82 data centers in 2023, amid concerns about rolling blackouts due to pressure on the electrical grid (Jessica Traynor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/…

Contracts with Inspections
Tomer Ezra, Stefano Leonardi, Matteo Russo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16553 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.165…

Contracts with Inspections
In the classical principal-agent hidden-action model, a principal delegates the execution of a costly task to an agent for which he can choose among actions with different costs and different success probabilities to accomplish the task. To incentivize the agent to exert effort, the principal can commit to a contract, which is the amount of payment based on the task's success. A crucial assumption of this model is that the principal can only base the payment on the outcome but not on the agent'…

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Hidden-flavour four-quark states in the charm and bottom region
We discuss the spectrum and the internal composition of ground and excited four-quark states in the charm and bottom energy region. To this end we extend previous calculations within the framework of the relativistic four-body Faddeev-Yakubovsky equation to include quantum numbers with $J^{P C} = 0^{++} , 0^{-+} , 1^{--} , 1^{+-}$ and $1^{+ +}$ and study their internal composition in terms of heavy-light meson pairs, hadroquarkonia and diquark-antidiquark clusters. We observe similar patterns i…

The locations of microphones used to detect gunshots have been kept hidden from police and the public.
A WIRED analysis of leaked coordinates confirms arguments critics have made against the technology
https://www.wired.com/story/shotspotter-secret-sen…

Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors
The locations of microphones used to detect gunshots have been kept hidden from police and the public. A WIRED analysis of leaked coordinates confirms arguments critics have made against the technology.

Interesting breakdown re plastics and clothing - even "100% cotton" or other natural fabric clothes: https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/feb/12/the-hidden-plastics-in-our-clothes-and-how-t…

So, all those people who don’t want their content to be fucking read by those cunts at #threads have to fucking do, is throw in a few expletives. That’s fucking easy! https://mastodon.social/@verge/1123331

I believe this could lead to #92.
Watchdog group sues Trump over mystery $50M loan
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-loan-appears-to-have-never-existed-watchdog-…

'The loan appears to have never existed': Watchdog sues Trump over mystery $50M 'hidden debt'
A federal watchdog group has filed a complaint against Donald Trump involving a mystery $50 million loan, raising questions to the FBI and Justice Department about "materially false statements."

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Hidden subsystem symmetry protected states in competing topological orders
We reveal the connection between two-dimensional subsystem symmetry-protected topological (SSPT) states and two-dimensional topological orders via a self-dual frustrated toric code model. This model, an enrichment of the toric code (TC) with its dual interactions, can be mapped to a model defined on the dual lattice with subsystem symmetries and subextensive ground state degeneracy. The map connects exactly the frustrated TC to two copies of the topological plaquette Ising model (TPIM), as a st…

“If approved, members of class-action lawsuit may be able to claim $15 gift card “
That's 15 trips to Dollarama!
*looks at last receipt from Dollarama*
Oh wait, no.
#Affordability #Consumerism

Hidden Gems in the Rough: Computational Notebooks as an Uncharted Oasis for IDEs
Sergey Titov, Konstantin Grotov, Ashwin Prasad S. Venkatesh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13739

Hidden Gems in the Rough: Computational Notebooks as an Uncharted Oasis for IDEs
In this paper, we outline potential ways for the further development of computational notebooks in Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). We discuss notebooks integration with IDEs, focusing on three main areas: facilitating experimentation, adding collaborative features, and improving code comprehension. We propose that better support of notebooks will not only benefit the notebooks, but also enhance IDEs by supporting new development processes native to notebooks. In conclusion, we sugge…

Threads expands Hidden Words to let users filter out words, phrases, or emoji, and tests the option to mute notifications and ways to select who can quote posts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/thre

Threads launches custom mute filters, teases controls for quote posts | TechCrunch
Threads said today it is launching a new control for users to filter out words and phrases from their feeds and mentions.

Mike McClelland proposes a 1 penny charge for email messages, in response to an article on the downside of Ireland’s datacentre boom.
This long read highlights the enormous cost in terms of energy consumption and carbon emissions of our collective love affair with the seemingly free ability to send emails, text and WhatsApp messages every minute of the day.
There is an enormous cost to us all in terms of data storage – a fact of which we are barely cognisant.
Think how mu…

Threads expands Hidden Words to let users filter out words, phrases, or emoji, and tests the option to mute notifications and ways to select who can quote posts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/thre

Threads launches custom mute filters, teases controls for quote posts | TechCrunch
Threads said today it is launching a new control for users to filter out words and phrases from their feeds and mentions.

Hidden-charm pentaquark states $qqqc\bar{c}$ $(q = u,d)$ in the chiral SU(3) quark model
Du Wang, Wen-Ling Wang, Fei Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17756

Hidden-charm pentaquark states $qqqc\bar{c}$ $(q = u,d)$ in the chiral SU(3) quark model
In this work, we systematically calculate the spectrum of hidden-charm pentaquark states $qqqc\bar{c}$ $(q = u,d)$ in the chiral SU(3) quark model, which has been quite successful in reproducing consistently the energies of octet and decuplet baryon ground states, the binding energy of deuteron, and the nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) scattering phase shifts and mixing parameters for partial waves with total angular momentum up to $J=6$. The Hamiltonian contains the one-gluon-exchange (OGE) potential, t…

Hidden Danger: Researchers Warn That Climate Change Can Put the Planet’s Largest Reserves of Drinking Water at Risk
https://scitechdaily.com/hidden-danger-researchers-warn-that-climate-chan…

Hidden-charm pentaquark states $qqqc\bar{c}$ $(q = u,d)$ in the chiral SU(3) quark model
Du Wang, Wen-Ling Wang, Fei Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17756

Hidden-charm pentaquark states $qqqc\bar{c}$ $(q = u,d)$ in the chiral SU(3) quark model
In this work, we systematically calculate the spectrum of hidden-charm pentaquark states $qqqc\bar{c}$ $(q = u,d)$ in the chiral SU(3) quark model, which has been quite successful in reproducing consistently the energies of octet and decuplet baryon ground states, the binding energy of deuteron, and the nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) scattering phase shifts and mixing parameters for partial waves with total angular momentum up to $J=6$. The Hamiltonian contains the one-gluon-exchange (OGE) potential, t…

🧃 Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-01-29/prisoners-in-the-us-are-part-of-a-hidden-workforce-l…

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
Enshrined in the Constitution by the 13th Amendment, slavery and involuntary servitude are banned – except as punishment for a crime

How the UK’s 500,000 redwoods put California in the shade
The Victorians were so impressed with Redwoods that they brought seeds and seedlings from the US in such large numbers that there are now approximately 500,000 in Britain.
California has about 80,000 giant sequoias, the official name for giant redwoods, as well as coastal redwoods and a few ornamental dawn redwoods imported from China.
When researchers at Kew and University College London highlighted the numbers la…