Tootfinder

Day 804: Ukraine’s Security Service arrests two Ukrainian colonels involved in Russian plot to assassinate Zelenskyi Ukraine’s Security Service arrests two Ukrainian colonels involved in a Russian plo Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/804

Subregions of the fusiform gyrus are differentially involved in the attentional mechanism supporting visual mental imagery in depression https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11682-024-00885-8 "Impaired visual mental imagery is an important symptom of d…

Subregions of the fusiform gyrus are differentially involved in the attentional mechanism supporting visual mental imagery in depression - Brain Imaging and Behavior
Background Impaired visual mental imagery is an important symptom of depression and has gradually become an intervention target for cognitive behavioral therapy. Methods Our study involved a total of 25 healthy controls (HC) and 23 individuals with moderate depressive symptoms (MD). This study explored the attentional mechanism supporting visual mental imagery impairments in depression using the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ), attentional network test (ANT), and resting-state …

Y’a reckon? “We need to avoid replicating the experience of the 1990s, when taming inflation involved destroying the economy”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogo

Project 2025: Trump advocate calls surrogacy ‘evil’ and says anyone involved ‘should be imprisoned for life’
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/06/trump-advocate-calls-surrogacy-evil-project-2025/

Israeli drone startup Xtend, which lets operators orchestrate teams of drones and robots, raised $40M led by Chartered Group at a ~$110M post-money valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/08/controversial-drone-com…

Controversial drone company Xtend leans into defense with new $40M round | TechCrunch
Xtend, a drone company heavily involved with defense customers, has raised a new round of capital to expand its operations.

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

Smartphones play an important role in modern warfare. In this video I have a conversation with Matthew Ford from the Swedish Defence University about the ways that soldiers use smartphones on the battlefield, and how we are seeing a new level of participatory warfare where civilians can be personally involved in the war fighting through their digital devices.
#Ukraine

Russia tortures captured terrorists and let them falsely testify about Ukraine being involved.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/08/crocus-attack-suspects-claim-ukraine-link-in-new-interrogation-clips-a8476…

Crocus Attack Suspects Claim Ukraine Link in New Interrogation Clips
The four suspected gunmen in last month’s deadly Moscow concert hall attack said they were promised safe passage to and a financial award in Ukraine in new interrogation clips aired on state television.

Caps Lock

It'd be impossible to come up with any sort of definitive list, especially a short one, of great songs in which Steve Albini was involved. But below are a few, in no particular order that have long appealed to me.
1. The Jesus Lizard, "Then Comes Dudley" (1991)
https://inv.n8pjl.ca/watch?v=cPA9kcVf…

#BikeStreak, Day 37 (yesterday): It was raining more or less all day. Of course it was day with quite some bicycle riding involved. 🙄 But there's no bad weather, just wrong clothing. 😉
5 rides with 15km overall (2× 1.5km, 3× ca. 4km): Normal morning commute, ran an errand over noon, joined others in the evening for the local Debian meetup at the restaurant DaPizi, and of course I also …

And then, quite simply, some of the people involved just want to be able to sleep at night.
They aren't so much playing to an external audience as convincing themselves they are doing everything possible.
(I'm not convinced that is true, unless there is a lot of pressure on Hamas and Iran that is being kept startlingly secret, but that's not how people work.)

Sometimes I feel like 95% of the work involved in helping this charity with their Facebook is reminding them that if they're gonna ask me to post something, there is no formulation of words I can come up with that is as impactful as A PHOTO OF AN ACTUAL DOG.
Give me a photo of a dog.
People want dog.
#greyhounds

Xcel Energy admits it was ‘involved in ignition’ of Smokehouse Creek fire
The electric utility company Xcel Energy admitted on Thursday that it appeared to have played a role in Texas’s Smokehouse Creek fire, the largest wildfire in modern US history.
“Based on currently available information, Xcel Energy acknowledges that its facilities appear to have been involved in an ignition of the Smokehouse Creek fire,” it said in a statement on Thursday.

Over 3100 houses retrofitted in #Galway last year, up a third on 2022. Comhgairdeas to all involved, we are exceeding targets by 30% - crucial in cutting energy costs.

Today is the beginning of British Science Week and for the next 10 days, we will be celebrating diverse people and careers in science and engineering.
This year's theme is 'Smashing Stereotypes' to encourage more young people, from all backgrounds, to see themselves as scientists.
If you want to inspire others share and tag us in your story.
Click here on how to get involved

An der Küste von Casablanca-Mohammedia in #Marokko häufen sich #Überschwemmungen, die durch steigenden #Meeresspiegel und

Assessing coastal flood risk under extreme events and sea level rise in the Casablanca-Mohammedia coastline (Morocco) - Natural Hazards
In the Casablanca-Mohammedia corridor (Morocco), flooding episodes have happened frequently over the past 20 years, damaging coastal settlements through overtopping and overflowing processes. In this context, a realistic assessment of the flood risk on this coastline is required. For this, the marine water level variations were computed by combining the involved variables (astronomical tide, storm surge, wave run-up, and sea level rise) during energetic events. They were compared with the seafr…

Millions of Americans are involved in a hacking scheme orchestrated by China. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1byyh60/

Dallas Cowboys Involved In Suggested QB Trade With NFC Contender https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_involved_in_suggested_qb_trade_with_nfc_contender/s1_17150_40195087

Dallas Cowboys Involved In Suggested QB Trade With NFC Contender
The Dallas Cowboys experienced a familiar disappointment in the 2023 season despite Dak Prescott’s standout performance, leaving fans once again questioning their ability to clinch the Super Bowl. Yet, there was a palpable sense of promise last year. Prescott’s stellar season placed him at the forefront of the NFL MVP discussion, marking one of the highlights of his career. Finishing the regular season ranked among the top five quarterbacks in key statistical categories, Prescott entered th…

discogs_label: Discogs label affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical labels and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. Edges represent that a label was involved in a production of a musical release of a given genre or given style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 270786 nodes and 4147665 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Multigraph

Rice leased Lamborghini involved in Dallas crash https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39862563/chiefs-rashee-rice-was-leasing-lamborghini-involved-dallas-crash-car-company-attorney-says

Rashee Rice was leasing Lamborghini involved in Dallas crash - ESPN
Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice was leasing a Lamborghini sport utility vehicle that authorities say was one of two speeding sports cars that caused a chain-reaction crash on a Dallas highway, an attorney for the company that owns the vehicle said Tuesday.

“The story opens on OpenAI which, desperate for training data, reportedly developed its Whisper audio transcription model to get over the hump, transcribing over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4, its most advanced large language model. That’s according to The New York Times, which reports that the company knew this was legally questionable but believed it to be fair use. OpenAI president Greg Brockman was personally involved in collecting videos that were used, the Times writ…

OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4
A new report details how OpenAI, Google, and Meta have tried to get over the limits of good data available online — for OpenAI, that includes generating YouTube transcripts.

Maxx Crosby talks NFL draft rumors claiming the Las Vegas Raiders will be taking QB Jayden Daniels https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/maxx_crosby_talks_nfl_draft_rumors_clai…

Maxx Crosby talks NFL draft rumors claiming the Las Vegas Raiders will be taking QB Jayden Daniels
Like many teams, the Las Vegas Raiders are involved in a ton of NFL Draft rumors. In the Raiders' case, the rumors involve the team taking a quarterback, either by trading up or staying put. One of the most heard rumors involving the Raiders is that they are trying to do everything they can to grab quarterback Jayden Daniels. Daniels and Antonio Pierce have had a long-term relationship since Daniels was 14 years old. Pierce was the defensive coordinator at Arizona State when Daniels was there b…

Study finds that we could lose science if publishers go bankrupt
Back when scientific publications came in paper form, libraries played a key role in ensuring that knowledge didn't disappear. Copies went out to so many libraries that any failure—a publisher going bankrupt, a library getting closed—wouldn't put us at risk of losing information.
But, as with anything else, scientific content has gone digital, which has changed what's involved with preservation.
O…

Study finds that we could lose science if publishers go bankrupt
A scan of archives shows that lots of scientific papers aren't backed up.

Iwasawa theory for branched $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$-towers of finite graphs
Rusiru Gambheera, Daniel Valli\`eres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05131 https://<…

Iwasawa theory for branched $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$-towers of finite graphs
We initiate the study of Iwasawa theory for branched $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$-towers of finite connected graphs. These towers are more general than what have been studied so far, since the morphisms of graphs involved are branched covers, a particular kind of harmonic morphisms of graphs. We prove an analogue of Iwasawa's asymptotic class number formula for the $p$-part of the number of spanning trees in this setting. Moreover, we find an explicit generator for the characteristic ideal of the torsion I…

I Did Not Notice: A Comparison of Immersive Analytics with Augmented and Virtual Reality
Xiaoyan Zhou, Anil Ufuk Batmaz, Adam S. Williams, Dylan Schreiber, Francisco Ortega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03814

I Did Not Notice: A Comparison of Immersive Analytics with Augmented and Virtual Reality
Immersive environments enable users to engage in embodied interaction, enhancing the sensemaking processes involved in completing tasks such as immersive analytics. Previous comparative studies on immersive analytics using augmented and virtual realities have revealed that users employ different strategies for data interpretation and text-based analytics depending on the environment. Our study seeks to investigate how augmented and virtual reality influences sensemaking processes in quantitativ…

This take on solar power is correct. And the same reasoning applies to batteries, which if anything are dropping in price even faster than PVs (it’s a less mature industry). https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/10/11/radical-energy-abundance/

Radical Energy Abundance
Originally published at Roots of Progress, based on this thread. Everyone knows the industrial revolution occurred centuries ago and involved steam engines. That was just the warm up. We are now a …

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

Good morning #PyCascades! It's fun to be in Seattle for a change. Yesterday's itinerary involved Morsel, MOHAI, the Space Needle (finally!), Din Tai Fung, and SAM, and then an urgently needed nap before the PyCascades social. :) Excited to dig in for the next couple of days.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03554 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Explicit Formula for Partial Information Decomposition
Mutual information between two random variables is a well-studied notion, whose understanding is fairly complete. Mutual information between one random variable and a pair of other random variables, however, is a far more involved notion. Specifically, Shannon's mutual information does not capture fine-grained interactions between those three variables, resulting in limited insights in complex systems. To capture these fine-grained interactions, in 2010 Williams and Beer proposed to decompose t…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14939 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_…

Macro Graph Neural Networks for Online Billion-Scale Recommender Systems
Predicting Click-Through Rate (CTR) in billion-scale recommender systems poses a long-standing challenge for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) due to the overwhelming computational complexity involved in aggregating billions of neighbors. To tackle this, GNN-based CTR models usually sample hundreds of neighbors out of the billions to facilitate efficient online recommendations. However, sampling only a small portion of neighbors results in a severe sampling bias and the failure to encompass the full…

Join Northeast Arizona Native Democrats Native Voting Power Tour 2024 April 9th-16th!
#BidenHarris4More #BidenHarris2024
Support Jonathan Nez for US House!
#Arizona

me: (five minute long rant about [redacted] that involved the words "↵₁ amount of effort")
@…: "..."
me: "am I describing something incredibly depressing?"
Wanda: "you are describing several incredibly depressing things!"
me: "but I think of this as a positive development!"
Wanda: "I know! t…

Strangeness $ 1$ light multiquark baryons: a jinx?
Brenda B. Malabarba, K. P. Khemchandani, A. Martinez Torres, Seung-il Nam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04078

Strangeness $+1$ light multiquark baryons: a jinx?
In view of the renewing experimental interest for searching strangeness $+1$ baryons at J-PARC, we study the existence of light baryon resonances with strangeness +1 generated in the $K$-$(N^*/Δ^*)$ system, where $N^*$ represents either $N^*(1535)$/$N^*(1650)$/$N^*(1700)$, and $Δ^*$ corresponds to $Δ(1620)$. The description of the properties of the aforementioned states requires considering the dynamics involved in the coupled pseudoscalar-baryon and vector-baryon systems with strangeness $S…

Particle production and entropy measurement in ALICE
Alek Hutson (On behalf of the ALICE collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03698 https://

Particle production and entropy measurement in ALICE
One of the main goals in the study of hadronic interactions at LHC energies is the attempt to characterize the mechanisms involved in particle production in different regimes. The charged-particle multiplicity is one of the most interesting observables in these kind of studies. Measurements of charged-particle pseudorapidity densities in pp collisions at $\sqrt{\textit{s}}$ = 13.6 TeV are presented, for the first time. Furthermore, we present a method for better understanding the collision dyna…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13678 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

A note on Teissier problem for nef classes
Teissier problem aims to characterize the equality case of Khovanskii-Teissier type inequality for $(1,1)$-classes on a compact Kähler manifold. When each of the involved $(1,1)$-classes is assumed to be nef and big, this problem has been solved by the previous works of Boucksom-Favre-Jonsson, Fu-Xiao and Li. In this note, we shall settle the case that the involved $(1,1)$-classes are just assumed to be nef. We also extend the results to some settings where some of the $(1,1)$-classes are not …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03206 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

5G-CT: Automated Deployment and Over-the-Air Testing of End-to-End Open Radio Access Networks
Deploying and testing cellular networks is a complex task due to the multitude of components involved -- from the core to the Radio Access Network (RAN) and User Equipment (UE) -- all of which requires integration and constant monitoring. Additional challenges are posed by the nature of the wireless channel, whose inherent randomness hinders the repeatability and consistency of the testing process. Consequently, existing solutions for both private and public cellular systems still rely heavily …

imagine: paying ordinary people $25/hour to research history/news
just because I wanna see people get more involved and learn and get paid

Were Allied prisoners of war involved in the Great Escape betrayed? https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/were-allied-prisoners-of-war-involved-in-the-great-escape-were-betrayed/

Were Allied prisoners of war involved in the Great Escape were betrayed? - The National Archives
An extraordinary claim that Allied prisoners of war involved in the Great Escape were betrayed by two of their own side has come to light in files at The National Archives. Seventy-six prisoners escaped from Stalag Luft III camp 80 years ago this week on the night of 24-25 March, 1944 after spending almost a […]

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02750 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXi…

Direct in-situ observations of wave-induced floe collisions in the deeper Marginal Ice Zone
Ocean waves propagating through the Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) and the pack ice are strongly attenuated. This attenuation is critical for protecting sea ice from energetic wave events that could otherwise lead to sea ice break-up and dislocation over large areas. Despite the importance of waves-in-ice attenuation, the exact physical mechanisms involved, and their relative importance, are still uncertain. Here we present for the first time direct in situ measurements of floe-floe interactions under…

A Gaussian integral that counts regular graphs
Oleg Evnin, Weerawit Horinouchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04242 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

A Gaussian integral that counts regular graphs
In a recent article J. Phys. Compl. 4 (2023) 035005, Kawamoto evoked statistical physics methods for the problem of counting graphs with a prescribed degree sequence. This treatment involved truncating a particular Taylor expansion at the first two terms, which resulted in the Bender-Canfield estimate for the graph counts. This is surprisingly successful since the Bender-Canfield formula is asymptotically accurate for large graphs, while the series truncation does not a priori suggest a similar…

Military intelligence: Russian officials, suspects in Ukraine involved in 'Maidan-3' destabilizing campaign: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/01/141330.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03223 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

English Prompts are Better for NLI-based Zero-Shot Emotion Classification than Target-Language Prompts
Emotion classification in text is a challenging and subjective task, due to the involved cognitive inference processes that are required to interpret a textual stimulus. In addition, the set of emotion categories is highly domain-specific. For instance, literature analysis might require the use of aesthetic emotions (e.g., finding something beautiful), and social media analysis could benefit from fine-grained sets (e.g., separating anger from annoyance) in contrast to basic emotion categories. …

I wish I knew why backup connectivity that Just Worked for months broke only one client host following an OS update and concomitant reboots on the evil backup server from hell. Also, why did it ever work, i.e. why was my ugly hack that makes it work NOW not needed 2 weeks ago?
There are a mess of vlans and netmasks involved. Many physical interfaces. And I will probably find the answer somewhere in the update notes for

"Linus Torvalds is just a manager, just check #Linux' commit history, he hardly contributes any changes these days."
There is some truth in statements like that which one bumps into occasionally on the net. Nevertheless they are not drawing an accurate picture at all, as Linus is still heavily involved and every week or two influences development a great deal with insightful and …

A tale of four headlines.
Only the ABC affiliate really gets to the point: "Officer shoots, kills man after traffic stop."
Channel 5's headline doesn't even mention the police!

Sources: ByteDance, which was directly involved in countering US efforts to ban TikTok in 2020, has let the US TikTok team lead the response this time around (South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tec…

TikTok gets more aggressive to counter US ban as ByteDance stays hands-off
Beijing-based ByteDance has left the US TikTok team lead its own response in countering legislation that would kick it out of domestic app stores, sources say.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08095 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

DurFlex-EVC: Duration-Flexible Emotional Voice Conversion with Parallel Generation
Emotional voice conversion (EVC) seeks to modify the emotional tone of a speaker's voice while preserving the original linguistic content and the speaker's unique vocal characteristics. Recent advancements in EVC have involved the simultaneous modeling of pitch and duration, utilizing the potential of sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models. To enhance reliability and efficiency in conversion, this study shifts focus towards parallel speech generation. We introduce Duration-Flexible EVC (DurFlex-…

@… wrote:
「… All centralized, single vendor and single provider, SaaS-only - solutions are bad.」
You're quite correct.
Microsoft Teams enabled the organisation for which I work to function as effectively as possible — with minimal disruption to the tens of thousands of users involved — during and long after the critical period when the first C…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02039 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

The Projected Covariance Measure for assumption-lean variable significance testing
Testing the significance of a variable or group of variables $X$ for predicting a response $Y$, given additional covariates $Z$, is a ubiquitous task in statistics. A simple but common approach is to specify a linear model, and then test whether the regression coefficient for $X$ is non-zero. However, when the model is misspecified, the test may have poor power, for example when $X$ is involved in complex interactions, or lead to many false rejections. In this work we study the problem of testi…

Making barricades is taught to 7-year olds in our schools, because our society loves guns more than children, you absolute chucklefuck fartwaffle

It's that time of the year again: if you support users online, and more so if you're part of an open source community, please take a deep breath and read @… "How to be helpful online" guide

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04314 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

JWST observations of $^{13}$CO$_{2}$ ice: Tracing the chemical environment and thermal history of ices in protostellar envelopes
The structure and composition of simple ices can be modified during stellar evolution by protostellar heating. Key to understanding the involved processes are thermal and chemical tracers that can diagnose the history and environment of the ice. The 15.2 $μ$m bending mode of $^{12}$CO$_2$ has proven to be a valuable tracer of ice heating events but suffers from grain shape and size effects. A viable alternative tracer is the weaker $^{13}$CO$_2$ isotopologue band at 4.39 $μ$m which has now be…

Opinion | Jail for the Chief? There’s a Better Punishment. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/opinion/trump-contempt-jail-punishment.html

Opinion | Jail for the Chief? There’s a Better Punishment.
Trump shouldn’t be allowed to use his punishment to play the martyr.

Secret Service agent assigned to Kamala Harris detail involved in fight with other agents (Tom Rogan/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/2976729/secret-service-agent-protecting-kamala-harris-involved-in-fight-with-other-agents/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240425/p39#a240425p39

A High-order Nystr\"om-based Scheme Explicitly Enforcing Surface Density Continuity for the Electric Field Integral Equation
Jin Hu, Constantine Sideris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04334

A High-order Nyström-based Scheme Explicitly Enforcing Surface Density Continuity for the Electric Field Integral Equation
This paper introduces an efficient approach for solving the Electric Field Integral Equation (EFIE) with high-order accuracy by explicitly enforcing the continuity of the impressed current densities across boundaries of the surface patch discretization. The integral operator involved is discretized via a Nyström-collocation approach based on Chebyshev polynomial expansion within each patch and a closed quadrature rule is utilized such that the discretization points inside one patch coincide wi…

Towards Neural Synthesis for SMT-Assisted Proof-Oriented Programming
Saikat Chakraborty, Gabriel Ebner, Siddharth Bhat, Sarah Fakhoury, Sakina Fatima, Shuvendu Lahiri, Nikhil Swamy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01787

Towards Neural Synthesis for SMT-Assisted Proof-Oriented Programming
Proof-oriented programs mix computational content with proofs of program correctness. However, the human effort involved in programming and proving is still substantial, despite the use of Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers to automate proofs in languages such as F*. Seeking to spur research on using AI to automate the construction of proof-oriented programs, we curate a dataset of 600K lines of open-source F* programs and proofs, including software used in production systems rangin…

Hey if you are Jewish like me and know it is absolutely abhorrent what Israel is doing to Palestinians now (and for decades, but the scale and speed of slaughter is now unsurpassed, and thus so is the urgency to stop it), i've very recently been reminded of @… and hope you will take the same step of finally reaching out to get involved &a…

Interested in joining or starting a JVP chapter?
JVP chapters are the foundation of our grassroots power. Join your local community of activists today!

The #ActiveAsteroids Citizen Science Program - Overview and First Results: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad1de2 -> NASA Volunteers Find Fifteen Rare “Active Asteroids”: https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/nasa-volunteers-find-fifteen-rare-active-asteroids/

Bounds on the Statistical Leakage-Resilience of Shamir's Secret Sharing
Utkarsh Gupta, Hessam Mahdavifar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04622 https://

Bounds on the Statistical Leakage-Resilience of Shamir's Secret Sharing
Secret sharing is an instrumental tool for sharing secret keys in distributed systems. In a classical threshold setting, this involves a dealer who has a secret/key, a set of parties/users to which shares of the secret are sent, and a threshold on the number of users whose presence is needed in order to recover the secret. In secret sharing, secure links with no leakage are often assumed between the involved parties. However, when the users are nodes in a communication network and all the links…

Broadcom tinkers with VMware licencing terms as EU gets involved
Trade groups concerned over unilateral changes to licencing conditions
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4197637/broadcom-tinkers-vmware-licencing-terms-eu-involved…

Broadcom tinkers with VMware licencing terms as EU gets involved
US chipmaker Broadcom is under scrutiny by EU antitrust regulators over alterations to the licencing conditions of its recently acquired cloud computing company VMware, following complaints from several EU business users and trade groups. On the same day Broadcom announced licencing changes.

G4-Attention: Deep Learning Model with Attention for predicting DNA G-Quadruplexes
Shrimon Mukherjee, Pulakesh Pramanik, Partha Basuchowdhuri, Santanu Bhattacharya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02765

G4-Attention: Deep Learning Model with Attention for predicting DNA G-Quadruplexes
G-Quadruplexes are the four-stranded non-canonical nucleic acid secondary structures, formed by the stacking arrangement of the guanine tetramers. They are involved in a wide range of biological roles because of their exceptionally unique and distinct structural characteristics. After the completion of the human genome sequencing project, a lot of bioinformatic algorithms were introduced to predict the active G4s regions \textit{in vitro} based on the canonical G4 sequence elements, G-\textit{r…

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, his Super Bowl rings get involved on WWE 'Monday Night Raw' https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-quarterback-patrick-mahomes-his-super-bowl-rings-get-involved-on-wwe-monday-night…

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, his Super Bowl rings get involved on WWE 'Monday Night Raw'
Patrick Mahomes, who was bookended by Chiefs center Creed Humphrey and guard Trey Smith, bestowed social media megastar and WWE United States champion Logan Paul with all three of his Super Bowl rings to use as some very expensive brass knucks against fan favorite Jey Uso, but the plan went awry in vintage pro wrestling form.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04613 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Shallow Encounters' Impact on Asteroid Deflection Prediction and Implications on Trajectory Design
Analytical approximations are commonly employed in the initial trajectory design phase of a mission to rapidly explore a broad design space. In the context of an asteroid deflection mission, accurately predicting deflection is crucial to determining the spacecraft's trajectory that will produce the desired outcome. However, the dynamics involved are intricate, and simplistic models may not fully capture the system's complexity. This study assesses the precision and limitations of analytical mod…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08063 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Towards Code Generation for Octree-Based Multigrid Solvers
This paper presents a novel method designed to generate multigrid solvers optimized for octree-based software frameworks. Our approach focuses on accurately capturing local features within a domain while leveraging the efficiency inherent in multigrid techniques. We outline the essential steps involved in generating specialized kernels for local refinement and communication routines, integrating on-the-fly interpolations to seamlessly transfer information between refinement levels. For this pur…

Las Vegas Raiders announce innovative way to get fans involved https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/las_vegas_raiders_announce_innovative_way_to_get_fans_involved/s1_17313_40306259

Las Vegas Raiders announce innovative way to get fans involved
The Las Vegas Raiders are doing something a little different with their fans. On Tuesday, the Raiders unveiled an unprecedented event for their fans-the inaugural Raiders Fan Cruise. This exclusive voyage, scheduled to depart from the Port of Los Angeles in March, promises a 7-night adventure on the luxurious Norwegian Bliss, cruising the Mexican Riviera. For the vast community of Raiders fans in Los Angeles, a golden opportunity is on the horizon. With Las Vegas just a four-hour drive away, re…

Were Allied prisoners of war involved in the Great Escape betrayed? https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/were-allied-prisoners-of-war-involved-in-the-great-escape-were-betrayed/

Were Allied prisoners of war involved in the Great Escape were betrayed? - The National Archives
An extraordinary claim that Allied prisoners of war involved in the Great Escape were betrayed by two of their own side has come to light in files at The National Archives. Seventy-six prisoners escaped from Stalag Luft III camp 80 years ago this week on the night of 24-25 March, 1944 after spending almost a […]

House Republicans won’t take ‘no evidence’ for an answer in impeachment inquiry
“To quote Congressman Issa, who was there, it was a big nothing,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the committee.
“Although I would amend it by saying it was a little nothing.
Everything that we learned was what we knew before, which was that President Biden is not involved and has never been involved in his son’s businesses.”

Much of the hearing, he said, involved “pi…

Analysis | House Republicans won’t take ‘no evidence’ for an answer in impeachment inquiry
The closed-door deposition of Hunter Biden involved a lot of denials from someone Republicans refuse to believe.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02750 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXi…

Direct in-situ observations of wave-induced floe collisions in the deeper Marginal Ice Zone
Ocean waves propagating through the Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) and the pack ice are strongly attenuated. This attenuation is critical for protecting sea ice from energetic wave events that could otherwise lead to sea ice break-up and dislocation over large areas. Despite the importance of waves-in-ice attenuation, the exact physical mechanisms involved, and their relative importance, are still uncertain. Here we present for the first time direct in situ measurements of floe-floe interactions under…

I wish I knew why backup connectivity that Just Worked for months broke only one client host following an OS update and concomitant reboots on the evil backup server from hell. Also, why did it ever work, i.e. why was my ugly hack that makes it work NOW not needed 2 weeks ago?
There are a mess of vlans and netmasks involved. Many physical interfaces. And I will probably find the answer somewhere in the update notes for

Join the #TeamJoe Reproductive Freedom Week of Action organizing call on Wednesday, May 1st.
#BidenHarris4More #RoeYourVote

National Call: Reproductive Freedom Week of Action · Joe Biden for President
Join Team Biden-Harris for a national organizing call with Cecile Richards to learn about our Reproductive Freedom Week of Action and how you can get involved! On this call, we’ll hear from Cecile and others on the front lines of the fight for our fundamental rights. And we’ll talk about how to get involved during this week of action and beyond. Have friends who are ready to get to work? Ask them to join you!

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12848 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_…

On the Direct Construction of MDS and Near-MDS Matrices
The optimal branch number of MDS matrices makes them a preferred choice for designing diffusion layers in many block ciphers and hash functions. Consequently, various methods have been proposed for designing MDS matrices, including search and direct methods. While exhaustive search is suitable for small order MDS matrices, direct constructions are preferred for larger orders due to the vast search space involved. In the literature, there has been extensive research on the direct construction of…

Ole Miss opens probe over hostile protest that involved racist taunt : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/05/1249263609/university-of-mississippi-protest-racism-gaza

Making barricades is taught to 7-year olds in our schools, because our society loves guns more than children, you absolute chucklefuck fartwaffle

In the @galwaycoco Climate and Biodiversity SPC we're discussing Rights of Nature, what they mean, what laws might be involved at EU level and what we should be doing. So thanks OneFuture and CELT, we will be interested to hear opinions.
#ireland #biodiversity #rightsofnature

Chiefs’ Rashee Rice was driving Lamborghini involved in crash, lawyer says https://theathletic.com/5392617/2024/04/04/chiefs-rashee-rice-car-crash/

Chiefs’ Rashee Rice was driving Lamborghini involved in crash, lawyer says
When asked why Rice left the accident scene Saturday, Rice's lawyer said that's "a good question that's still being investigated."

User queries if reporting phishing emails to authorities at phishing-report@us-cert.gov and reportphishing@apwg.org is worthwhile, and if more agencies should be involved. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1bwqev2/

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Sources: Bill Gates remains intimately involved in Microsoft's operations, advising on strategy, nurturing Microsoft's relationship with Sam Altman, and more (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates

Bill Gates is still pulling strings at Microsoft, overseeing AI ideas
Insiders say he's Microsoft's secret weapon in the AI wars

Ethics Commission alleges Trump joint fundraising committee, Brandtjen involved in campaign finance scheme to benefit Vos challenger (WisPolitics)
https://www.wispolitics.com/2024/ethics-commission-alleges-trump-joint-fundraising-committee-brandtjen-involved-in-campaign-finance-scheme-to-benefit-vos-challenger/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240223/p54#a240223p54

Hicks testimony describes Trump at center of news about him to control narrative
Hope Hicks’ testimony is putting Donald Trump at the center of news about him
– specifically, how he worked actively to control the narrative around him.
This speaks to how Trump would have knowledge of any hush money plot that involved a media strategy.
Prosecutors are trying to show that Trump was involved, and in control, of media during his campaign.
“How frequently did you speak wi…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12848 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_…

On the Direct Construction of MDS and Near-MDS Matrices
The optimal branch number of MDS matrices makes them a preferred choice for designing diffusion layers in many block ciphers and hash functions. Consequently, various methods have been proposed for designing MDS matrices, including search and direct methods. While exhaustive search is suitable for small order MDS matrices, direct constructions are preferred for larger orders due to the vast search space involved. In the literature, there has been extensive research on the direct construction of…

2024 NFL Draft: Six logical first-round trades teams should make to benefit all parties involved https://www.nfl.com/news/2024-nfl-draft-six-logical-first-round-trades-teams-should-make-to-benefit-all-parties-invol…

2024 NFL Draft: Six logical first-round trades teams should make to benefit all parties involved
Are the Broncos going to chase a QB prospect? Might the Cardinals be involved in multiple early pick swaps? Will the Eagles move up for a cornerback? Chad Reuter provides six logical first-round trades for 2024 NFL Draft. 

There are commercial reasons why some newsrooms focus on spectacle and confrontation
– the old journalism adage of “if it bleeds, it leads” still prevails in many newsroom decisions.
For the initial weeks of the campus protests, this penchant for sensationalism has shown up in the focus on chaos, clashes and arrests.
But it is a decision that delegitimizes protest aims.
This delegitimization is aided by the sourcing routines journalists often fall back on to tell stor…

Media coverage of campus protests tends to focus on the spectacle, rather than the substance
Analysis shows news stories on pro-Palestinian demonstrations at US universities spiked when they involved clashes.

Military intelligence: Damaged Russian steel plant 'directly involved' in weapons production: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/25/military-intelligence-damaged.html

Indictment of Trump's 'consigliere' signals ex-president was 'personally involved': expert - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-boris-consigliere-arizona/

Indictment of Trump's 'consigliere' signals ex-president was 'personally involved': expert
Donald Trump was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in a recent Arizona indictment of false electors, but his right-hand man was charged, which could signal prosecutors think Trump is "personally involved" in the scheme and they want to get the goods on him, according to a Florida prosecutor. ...

I'm attending The Democratic National Committee's event, “Biden-Harris Reproductive Freedom Week of Action National Kickoff Call” - sign up now to join me! https://events.democrats.org/event/622

Biden-Harris Reproductive Freedom Week of Action National Kickoff Call · The Democratic National Committee
**Join us for a national organizing call this Sunday evening at 8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT with Cecile Richards to learn about our Reproductive Freedom Week of Action and how you can get involved – RSVP now to save your spot.** Trump and MAGA Republicans continue to attack our reproductive freedom, from abortion access to IVF and even birth control. It’s all on the line, and it’s why this election is so important. Now is the time to get involved – with our Reproductive Freedom Week of Ac…

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

LOOK: Cam Newton involved in wild brawl at 7-on-7 football tournament

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/look-cam-newton-involved-in-wild-brawl-at-7-o…

LOOK: Cam Newton involved in wild brawl at 7-on-7 football tournament
Newton's role in the skirmish is currently unclear

Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel (Thomas Barrabi/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2024/04/17/business<…

Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract
In a companywide memo obtained by The Post, Google vice president of global security Chris Rackow said their “behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel threatened.”…

Tesla Autopilot feature was involved in 13 fatal crashes, US regulator says
US auto-safety regulators said on Friday that their investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot had identified at least 13 fatal crashes in which the feature had been involved.
The investigation also found the electric carmaker’s claims did not match up with reality.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) disclosed on Friday that during its three-year Autopilot safety investigation, <…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03554 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Explicit Formula for Partial Information Decomposition
Mutual information between two random variables is a well-studied notion, whose understanding is fairly complete. Mutual information between one random variable and a pair of other random variables, however, is a far more involved notion. Specifically, Shannon's mutual information does not capture fine-grained interactions between those three variables, resulting in limited insights in complex systems. To capture these fine-grained interactions, in 2010 Williams and Beer proposed to decompose t…

This Modern World by Tomorrow
REFLEXIVE AUTHORITARIANISM
IS ALWAYS THE FIRST BEST OPTION!
THERE WAS NO CHOICE BUT TO CALL IN THE RIOT COPS AT ALL THOSE SCHOOLS!
THE STUDENTS WERE BREAKING SOME RULES!
AS SOMEONE WHO HAS NEVER MET A YOUNG ADULT, I'M CONFIDENT THEY WILL PROMPTLY ACQUIESCE NOW!

Video appears to show Newton in Atlanta scuffle https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39601186/video-appears-show-cam-newton-involved-scuffle-youth-football-tournament-atlanta

Video appears to show Cam Newton in scuffle at youth football event - ESPN
A video surfaced Sunday that appeared to show 2015 NFL MVP Cam Newton being involved in a scuffle at a 7-on-7 youth football tournament in Atlanta.

discogs_label: Discogs label affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical labels and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. Edges represent that a label was involved in a production of a musical release of a given genre or given style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 270786 nodes and 4147665 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Multigraph

China will use AI to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India, Microsoft warns
China will attempt to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India this year with artificial intelligence-generated content after making a dry run with the presidential poll in Taiwan, Microsoft has warned.
The US tech firm said it expected Chinese state-backed cyber groups to target high-profile elections in 2024, with North Korea also involved, according to a report by the company’s t…