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The one interesting thing about living only 45 minutes south of the Canadian border is that our daughters now have a lot of experience going back and forth through border crossings, presenting passports, answering questions from serious border people, etc.
Not something they might have experienced as frequently if we lived in, say, Nebraska, or somewhere else more in the middle of the country.
#Vermont

“Supreme Court questions Florida and Texas social media laws on First Amendment grounds”
This is interesting, and quite a tough knot. Add the fediverse into the mix, where there is no “social media platform” per se, but where non-social companies might expose fediverse endpoints, and I have no idea where that leaves us.

Interesting thinking from @… 's data lifeboat project - lots of questions, some suggestions! https://www.flickr.org/data-lifeboat-blog-update-3-march/

Data Lifeboat blog update 3 - March - Flickr Foundation

On the probability of a Pareto record
James Allen FillThe Johns Hopkins University, Ao SunThe Johns Hopkins University
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17220 htt…

On the probability of a Pareto record
Given a sequence of independent random vectors taking values in ${\mathbb R}^d$ and having common continuous distribution $F$, say that the $n^{\rm \scriptsize th}$ observation sets a (Pareto) record if it is not dominated (in every coordinate) by any preceding observation. Let $p_n(F) \equiv p_{n, d}(F)$ denote the probability that the $n^{\rm \scriptsize th}$ observation sets a record. There are many interesting questions to address concerning $p_n$ and multivariate records more generally, bu…

Very interesting summary of this workshop. Excellent questions for us all to consider as we continue building decentralized social media…
From: @…
https://hci.social/@axz/11213074054215

The space debris that hit a home in Naples was from a pallet discarded from ISS. This creates some interesting liability questions as more than one country made components of the battery pallet.
#Space #Law #LawFedi

Did Space Junk Strike a Home in Florida?
Three years ago astronauts threw out the largest piece of trash ever tossed from the International Space Station. Now some of it has punched a hole through a house in Naples, Fla.

Perhaps the most interesting article I've read on Europe's efforts to decarbonise road transport, the controversy over electrification, the proposed alternatives, Chinese manufacturing and a way forward for Europe.
(article in French, screenshots translated with DeepL)
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Fin du véhicule thermique : pourquoi et comment y parvenir ? | Terra Nova
Dans le cadre de la campagne pour les élections européennes 2024, nous avons demandé à différents experts de formuler des recommandations sur plusieurs questions stratégiques pour l’avenir de l’Union européenne. Nous ouvrons cette série avec une contribution de Jean-Philippe Hermine, directeur de l’Institut Mobilités en Transition (IMT), à qui nous avons posé la question de la fin du véhicule thermique. Alors que certains émettent des doutes sur les orientations du Green Deal…

Interesting remarks by Strevens in response to Kitcher's book on the aims and methods of philosophy
> philosophy’s most influential counterexamples are intended ... to play the same role as anomalies in Kuhnian science: to serve as the brave little facts that bring down great theories and make progress possible. If philosophical thought-experimenters conduct themselves ... as empirical scientists... it might be no bad thing for the enterprise of philosophy

Philosophy as a Science and as a Humanity? - Philosophia
This commentary on Philip Kitcher’s book What’s the Use of Philosophy? addresses two questions. First, must philosophers be methodologically self-conscious to do good work? Second, is there value in the questions pursued in the traditional areas of analytic philosophy?

The eternal saga of the 1968 Apollo 8 #Earthrise photographs continues ... in the new video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7KR1nCA4Js that has interesting stuff about pre-Apollo photography from space but still doesn't answer many questions like why the OTHER TWO EARTHRISES of Apollo 8 I found - https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2023/12/24/vor-55-jahren-die-3-erdaufgange-von-apollo-8 - were shot with a much shorter focal length when the astronauts had actually gotten interested in this subject after the thrilling experience of unexpectedly seeing the first. Next video please!

Multiple testing in game-theoretic probability: pictures and questions
Vladimir Vovk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11767 https://arxiv.o…

Multiple testing in game-theoretic probability: pictures and questions
The usual way of testing probability forecasts in game-theoretic probability is via construction of test martingales. The standard assumption is that all forecasts are output by the same forecaster. In this paper I will discuss possible extensions of this picture to testing probability forecasts output by several forecasters. This corresponds to multiple hypothesis testing in statistics. One interesting phenomenon is that even a slight relaxation of the requirement of family-wise validity leads…

-Are you a High Caliber Man?
-Do you want to be the most interesting man in the room?
These and other important questions and videos were coming my way as I strayed back into ‘normal’ social media to greet old friends.

Scaramucci's 11 days in Trump's Whitehouse are obviously hilarious, but this interview is actually quite interesting
[Leading] 60. Anthony Scaramucci: What it's like to be Donald Trump's Communications Director #leading

Leading - 60. Anthony Scaramucci: What it's like to be Donald Trump's Communications Director - Podcast Addict
Would a second Trump presidency be far more right wing? What drives the former US president? Is he trying to do a deal with Taylor Swift?In this week's episode of Leading, Rory and Alastair are joined by Anthony Scaramucci, Trump's former spin doctor, where he answers all these questions and more.Buy tickets now for our October TRIP Election Tour:https://www.aegpresents.co.uk/event

Cooking Poisons: Thinking Laterally with Game Theory
Timothy Y. Chow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05053 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.0505…

Cooking Poisons: Thinking Laterally with Game Theory
We revive an old lateral-thinking puzzle by Michael Rabin, involving poisons with strange properties. We show that the puzzle admits several unintended solutions that are just as interesting as the intended solution. Analyzing these alternative solutions using game theory yields surprisingly subtle results and several unanswered questions.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02068 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Well-posedness and numerical analysis of an elapsed time model with strongly coupled neural networks
The elapsed time equation is an age-structured model that describes dynamics of interconnected spiking neurons through the elapsed time since the last discharge, leading to many interesting questions on the evolution of the system from a mathematical and biological point of view. In this work, we first deal with the case when transmission after a spike is instantaneous and the case when there exists a distributed delay that depends on previous history of the system, which is a more realistic as…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02739 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Shapes as Product Differentiation: Neural Network Embedding in the Analysis of Markets for Fonts
Many differentiated products have key attributes that are unstructured and thus high-dimensional (e.g., design, text). Instead of treating unstructured attributes as unobservables in economic models, quantifying them can be important to answer interesting economic questions. To propose an analytical framework for these types of products, this paper considers one of the simplest design products-fonts-and investigates merger and product differentiation using an original dataset from the world's l…

If you are in #infosec / #cybersecurity and looking for an easier way to follow interesting infosec accounts that are relatively high signal-to-noise without having to scour the Fediverse, consider checking out the #mammoth Mastodon client and subscribing to the new #indiesec Smart List! Smart Lists are a unique feature pioneered by Mammoth which offers curated lists of accounts in a number of different subject areas.
To start, the IndieSec Smart List (curated by yours truly) features 50 independent security researchers /professionals across many infosec sub-disciplines. I will continue to maintain this list and add new accounts in the coming weeks (I have a whole backlog of accounts I'd like to see added). Over time, this list will seek to feature many accounts that are lower-volume, but high-quality in terms of content. Surfacing harder-to-find accounts (by doing hours of scrolling and curation) is one more way we as a community are improving #discoverability across the network.
Thanks to the @… team and @… for working with me on this new list. If you have any questions about the list feel free to drop me a message!
Edit: I should add - you can see everyone who is featured on this list here https://github.com/shellsharks/assorted/blob/master/resources/mammoth-indiesec.csv. When new accounts are added, they too will be represented there.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04645 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

The origin and evolution of wide Jupiter Mass Binary Objects in young stellar clusters
The recently observed population of 540 free-floating Jupiter-mass objects, including 40 dynamically soft pairs in the Trapezium cluster have raised interesting questions on their formation and evolution. We test various scenarios for the origin and survivability of these free floating Jupiter-mass objects and Jupiter-mass Binary Objects (JuMBOs) in the Trapezium cluster. The numerical calculations are performed by direct N-body integration of the stars and planets in the Trapezium cluster star…