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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.”
— Steve Jobs
Agree, disagree — be inspired or not.
QOTD is fuel for conversation, and food for thought.
#QOTD
#QuoteOfTheDay

Superior Parallel Big Data Clustering through Competitive Stochastic Sample Size Optimization in Big-means
Rustam Mussabayev, Ravil Mussabayev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18766

Superior Parallel Big Data Clustering through Competitive Stochastic Sample Size Optimization in Big-means
This paper introduces a novel K-means clustering algorithm, an advancement on the conventional Big-means methodology. The proposed method efficiently integrates parallel processing, stochastic sampling, and competitive optimization to create a scalable variant designed for big data applications. It addresses scalability and computation time challenges typically faced with traditional techniques. The algorithm adjusts sample sizes dynamically for each worker during execution, optimizing performa…

Did you know? The German for “Nate Silver” is Dampfplauderer which means “steam chatter”.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112355281152423448

2024 NFL Draft: Why the Cowboys didn't draft a running back and what that means for an Ezekiel Elliott reunion

https://www.cbssports.com/…

2024 NFL Draft: Why the Cowboys didn't draft a running back and what that means for an Ezekiel Elliott reunion
Cowboys COO and EVP Stephen Jones said they are 'on the phone trying to get our numbers right with a vet

The Oz government’s digital ID bill has become a lightning rod for conspiracy theories and fearmongering, despite it being “world’s best practice” and “completely sane,” privacy and security experts say.
Several Coalition and crossbench politicians claimed the bill was an attempt to introduce a Chinese Communist Party-style social credit score and a measure to control the public, despite no evidence or factual basis, after it passed the Senate.

How the digital ID bill became a lightning rod for conspiracies
The Albanese government's digital ID Bill has become a lightning rod for conspiracy theories, despite it being “completely sane”.

“Tecno Spark 8C, a low-spec phone that can hit 40 FPS in Battle Royale PUBG but lags below 1 FPS on social media”
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry

Where “concerns over CCS technology” means “doesn’t work” and “costs too much to be viable”
https://press.coop/@FT/112346923496797975

Financial Times :press: (@FT@press.coop)
Attached: 1 image Dutch kick-start European attempts at carbon capture Success of Rotterdam project would help assuage concerns over CCS technology #press https://www.ft.com/content/6a7636e7-40b4-46bd-8bd1-16e3b3d50875?utm_source=press.coop

It'll soon be summer which means that Hollywood location scouts are out in force. Do I work at a university or on set?
#academia #AcademicChatter

Tip: Firefox gives placeholder text an opacity of .54 (so black text passes WCAG contrast checks at 4.5:1 with #767676).
Which means if you use placeholder and you choose to set a color, you need to also set opacity:
```
::placeholder {
opacity: 1;
color: #777391;
}
```
Alternatively (and preferably), never use placeholder text.

So to let me explain, this is a Very Normal Typesetting task for a book. Make two column text, with an embedded figure. Keep the baseline rhythm uniform. That means the two columns next to each other will always have the same baselines.
Make the figure full column width.
Until this became available, I could not find a way to do this. It's a subtle reason that multicolumn layouts for text on the web never really took off. (horizontal scrolling and snapping is perhaps another reason, but the fact that it looked like crap is part of it.)
I've been hand-solving variations using context-specific hacks for my whole career: text under e-commerce product cards. Images on a product page with a caption with text next to them that don't have funky gaps where the text goes underneath. Images with captions inset in text, too. Marketing pages with two bits of copy next to each other.
Lack of little nuances like this is why the whole web lands on "well I guess we'll set it in 16 pixel Helvetica with one line margins between paragraphs”. It stifles making anything but Browser Default Text or variations on it look good.
Remember how fresh Medium looked when it came out? Even its relatively small shake-up of the dominant formula felt good. Of course now, big easy to read serifed type in a single column is the brand of "this is a newsletter”

Ooof. "Free transit means less money to improve service", they say. "Fares are good," they say.
https://hellgatenyc.com/the-mtas-farebeating-crackdown-on-buses-is-a-mess

The MTA's Farebeating Crackdown on Buses Is a Mess - Hell Gate
When paying your bus fare isn't enough to make sure you don't get kicked off the bus.

It's Thursday, so you know what that means. #ThursDeath.
SEPTAGE is from Copenhagen, Denmark and they have a pretty cool, grody sound. Their new record 'Septic Worship (Intolerant Spree of Infesting Forms)' comes out tomorrow.
It's messy and weird, but to me, it's also instantly likable. Kinda OSDM, kinda other kinds of metal maybe. Check the first released title track a…

Dodgers’ domestic Opening Day blowout win feels like a return to normal — whatever that means
#Baseball #Dodgers #TheAthletic

As announced earlier, TechCrunch ends paid subscriptions for TechCrunch on March 1, and all previously paywalled articles will be publicly available (Jacquelyn Melinek/@jacqmelinek)
https://twitter.com/jacqmelinek/status/1763267151899594776

Jacquelyn Melinek (@jacqmelinek) on X
Reminder: TechCrunch is ending its subscription-based TechCrunch+ This means all previously paywalled articles will be publicly available as of March 1

Nice to meet you. Continued felicitations be yours. https://mastodon.social/@fixiemama/112354987434908190

I saw a posting for a "Full Stack Front End Developer" and I'm not sure they even know what that means.

"…a November judgment from the UK Court of Appeal means #museums can’t go on claiming #copyright in photographs of #publicdomain art works. Museums have used this claim to create costly licensing scheme…

Trump benefits from an unequal system. Still, he can’t outrun justice.
To the surprise of many pundits, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s state prosecution alleging falsification of business records has withstood Trump’s antics better than the others.
Justice Juan Merchan has demonstrated what equal justice under the law really means.
He rejected Trump’s baseless immunity claims and attempt to block probative evidence; he disallowed Trump’s specious defenses such…

Trump benefits from an unequal system. Still, he can’t outrun justice.
Yes, the former president has gotten some breaks — but not enough to dodge accountability.

A nice graph from a Finnish report published today showing what #SmartCharging means: shifting the actual charging of an #EV to cheaper times - on average four hours later. It's stress-free for the user, good for the wallet and good for the grid, thanks to the automation provided by smart charg…

Ah, but what I didn't try was cladding all the windows and starting again, which in the Linux world means take away your attempts to fix the font and hope that the subsequent Save fills in those missing defaults.
And lo…

Remi on modularity:
"'"I'm disappointed with the bad Fedora community feedback on solutions proposed to solve Enterprise-only needs.
And what a waste of developer energy on these features (SCL and Modularity)"'"
I sometimes feel something (or many somethings?) somewhere went wrong with modularity in general and within in Fedora.
I hope some solution sooner or later emerges to make the things easy that modularity promised to deliver…

So some simple math...
~30 carousel riders per astrological sign * 12 astrological signs * 30 years means a total population around 10k?
That seems like a very small domed city.
#monsterdon

The "u" and "i" are found together on the keyboard. In informal farewells in Spanish (from Spain) emails, the expression "un saludo" is often used. I often end up writing "un salido" by mistake, in my haste. "Un salido" in Spanish means something similar to "a horny". I have said goodbye by email to countless women (the last one, just now) with "a horny, Alejandro".

i am girl
(translators note: the fact that i post this means im currently experiencing higher than usual levels of dysphoria and have to remind myself consciously of my girlness)

Watching the iJustine YT video of the Rabbit R1 and she just said “(The interface) is quite intuitive, once you figure it out!” which made me snortlaugh. Because it’s both completely contradictory but I know what she means.

His final message on Facebook read, “Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”
https://www.newy…

Aaron Bushnell’s Act of Political Despair
Masha Gessen asks what it means for an American to self-immolate, as Aaron Bushnell did to protest U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

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

The countdown clock is back. Odd that it just doesn't reset at the beginning of each drawing. And someone during the night the jackpot bumped up from $835M to $935, which ipso facto means that the winning numbers were not drawn (the "Results Pending", I presume).
#Powerball
#neurotYpo

1984 (Orwell):
"There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator."
Versificator - auch nen schöner Name dafür.…

Friday, 5/3:
The Future of Press Freedom,
a @knightcolumbia symposium.
Co-sponsored with Columbia Law School & Columbia Journalism School, will examine what it means to safeguard the role of the #press in the U.S. today.
Free In NYC and online!
Great speakers!
Agenda,, more info, RSVP:

#WordWeavers Feb 29
What’s one of the weirdest things that happens in your story?
In a tale that's weird from the first page, nothing is the strange.
Maybe The Mad God qualifies though, he's pretty weird, and he's (as the name suggests) mad, which means he can and will do anything that strikes his fancy. Like when he, in the shape of a huge fox, jumped between the stars a…

Q: "What would vacuum decay look like if it occurred far away and spread towards us?"
A: "If a patch of spacetime anywhere in the universe were to change state, the change would radiate from there to the rest of the universe as a sort of “shock front” that propagated at the speed of light. That means we wouldn’t see it coming. We wouldn’t see any effect from it at all, and when it washed over us, we’d simply cease to exist."
God: ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

Final call of my on-call week, 4 hours before it finishes means I'm up a little early for my return to work. Coffee and some Jazz will soon make that time disappear.

Did you know? The German for “Nate Silver” is Dampfplauderer which means “steam chatter”.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112355281152423448

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01274 has been replaced.
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Using k-means assistant event selection strategy to study anomalous quartic gauge couplings at muon colliders
The search for new physics beyond the Standard Model is one of the central problems of current high energy physics interest. As the luminosities of current and near-future colliders continue to increase, the search for new physics has increased the requirements for processing large amounts of data. Meanwhile, quantum computing which is rapidly evolving, has great potential to become a powerful tool to help search for new physics signals. Since the k-means algorithm is known to be able to be acc…

First, buses don’t land. Well, the one in “Speed” did, but that was special effects. Otherwise, buses don’t land. But that’s on The Hill, and that’s dumb.
Which means everything about this — including this ridiculous fear stoking, hot button spewing, bulk mailer distributing, send-me-money-because-I’ve-scared-you state rep — is dumb.
Except Gonzaga. #Gonzaga is usually awesome. Poor Go…

Aiming for tiny goals means you're not setting yourself up to see yourself, your endeavours, and your entire life as a failure, as can happen if you set a big goal that you're not in a position to achieve https://www.overcomecompulsiveho…

Logic and focus can be pursuits in and of themselves, or they can be a means of obtaining tasty treats.
#Sims4 #TheSims4 #SWLRP

Just replace #measles with #SARS2 and it's still all true and ironic.
#CovidIsNotOver
HuffPost: Florida Has A Measles Outbreak. Here's What That Actually Means For You.

Florida Has A Measles Outbreak. Here's What That Actually Means For You.
Experts predict what dropping vaccination rates may do and why these cases aren't something to dismiss.

Turns out you can read the old LVM configuration using strings on the raw devices. Hilariously turns out that it was apparently running as a volume across the two disks, not the RAID 1 that mdadm claimed and subsequently “repaired”. Which means half the data (4TB) is gone and also explains why I can’t find partitions because it’s synced the back half to the front half.
Somewhat annoying.

"Dixon looked through his old Twitter threads and blog posts and said, effectively “Boom. Nailed it. No notes. People just need to hear what I have to say.”
He’s a venture capitalist who lacks the capacity to imagine a problem cause by Silicon Valley’s techno-capital machine that can’t best be solved by Silicon Valley’s techno-capital machine. I don’t doubt that he means well. But there are no new ideas in this book. It’s just a rehash of the applause lines he formulated during th…

Read Write Own, Reviewed
Chris Dixon's Read Write Own has a few problems. And the biggest problem is Dixon himself.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03418 has been replaced.
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Permissible Knowledge Pooling
Information pooling has been extensively formalised across various logical frameworks in distributed systems, characterized by diverse information-sharing patterns. These approaches generally adopt an intersection perspective, aggregating all possible information, regardless of whether it is known or unknown to the agents. In contrast, this work adopts a unique stance, emphasising that sharing knowledge means distributing what is known, rather than what remains uncertain. This paper introduces …

Process Mining Embeddings: Learning Vector Representations for Petri Nets
Juan G. Colonna, Ahmed A. Fares, M\'arcio Duarte, Ricardo Sousa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17129

Process Mining Embeddings: Learning Vector Representations for Petri Nets
Process mining offers powerful techniques for discovering, analyzing, and enhancing real-world business processes. In this context, Petri nets provide an expressive means of modeling process behavior. However, directly analyzing and comparing intricate Petri net presents challenges. This study introduces PetriNet2Vec, a novel unsupervised methodology based on Natural Language Processing concepts inspired by Doc2Vec and designed to facilitate the effective comparison, clustering, and classificat…

If you repeat "semantic satiation" enough it means *anything you want it to*.

Council of Europe Development Bank lends almost $110 million to Ukraine for housing: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/27/council-of-europe.html

AT&T's outage showed the downside of having all your communication go through one device.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/the-perils-of-having-a-smartphone-as-your-main-means-of-connection/

The Perils of Having a Smartphone as Your Main Means of Connection
Commentary: What AT&T's outage means in an era when your whole life is routed through your phone.

An article I've written on playtesting for innovation has just been published in the "Game Developer" Magazine.
It's about how we can facilitate more innovation in games, but also applies to films, TV shows, novels, plays, non-fiction writing, anything in life! :)
https…

Last week the account from @… on #Flipboard was federated, which means that I can add up #traffic from @…

Wow, I’m super stressed today. Yesterday’s bout of extra caretaking cost me a ton of lost sleep, which caused a migraine to appear today, which cost me a day’s work, which meant I was absent for a handful of important decision-making live sessions, which means I’m now behind…etc.
My brain is shot to hell. I have ADHD, and my careful planning to ensure focus management has been shattered by a string of unexpected caretaking duties for something like three weeks in a row. I’m exhausted a…

3 best first round options for the Cowboys in 2024 NFL Draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/3_best_first_round_options_for_the_cowboys_in_2024_nfl_draft/s1_17100_40167610

3 best first round options for the Cowboys in 2024 NFL Draft
The 2024 NFL Draft is under a month away. That means we can finally start to accurately speculate on who the Dallas Cowboys draft picks will be. At this point, the Senior Bowl, the NFL Scouting Combine, and the rush of free agency are in the rearview mirror. The positional needs of teams are all but set and the prospects have been seen. As things get closer, it becomes harder for teams to keep their player interest internal, so we are getting a look behind the curtain at which organizations lik…

Telling them that their brains are deficient means that right from the start they have no chance at the self-confidence they need, and deserve. They've been told they will fail, before they even started.
#RespectYoungAdults

Good morning and happy Wednesday to everyone here in this awesome #Fediverse
It's Wednesday, which means the week is half over. Let's talk about our plans for the day today and what we all hope to accomplish.
Not much here outside of the usual work stuff. I played a bit of Enshrouded this morning since it got its first content update yesterday. It's so damn good t…

Japan honeymoon flight booking:
1. AUS-LAX AA via AS miles, status match means Main Cabin Extra for free
2. Overnight w/IHG points near LAX
3. LAX-HND and back on DL, miles for one, flight credit and cash for the other, both in Main Cabin
4. LAX-AUS on DL, cash fare (partially flight credit) in Main, maybe w/upgrade
We've done LHR-AUS on a 787 in E (and I've done TLV-ATL in a 35L in E) so a 330-900neo in E should be fine, and give more $$$ for fun at the de…

Not sure the word “bachelor” means what Pecker thinks it means. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112321734734683254

If you've never been, Mississauga's "city centre" is a gargantuan parking lot outside a mall that's gigantic, but still smaller than the parking lot. It is close to the city's geographic centre, so that must be what it means, eh?

Improved Soft-k-Means Clustering Algorithm for Balancing Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks
Botao Zhu, Ebrahim Bedeer, Ha H. Nguyen, Robert Barton, Jerome Henry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15700

Improved Soft-k-Means Clustering Algorithm for Balancing Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks
Energy load balancing is an essential issue in designing wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Clustering techniques are utilized as energy-efficient methods to balance the network energy and prolong its lifetime. In this paper, we propose an improved soft-k-means (IS-k-means) clustering algorithm to balance the energy consumption of nodes in WSNs. First, we use the idea of ``clustering by fast search and find of density peaks'' (CFSFDP) and kernel density estimation (KDE) to improve the selection o…

There is a Facebook group for this area called “Everything Sunshine Coast”. The description/rules say, “No irrelevant posts.”
The admins either don’t know what “everything” means or they don’t know what “irrelevant” means. 😂

It's almost the end of the month and that means new bills for the servers! We have various expenses and moderation work unfortunately eats up a lot of time :blobcatnotlikethis:
:liberapay: LiberaPay
:paypal:

MastodonDE's profile - Liberapay
You can find a complete and detailed explanation of our maintenance costs here: English German

Cocoa beans are in short supply: what this means for farmers, businesses and chocolate lovers
https://theconversation.com/cocoa-beans-are-in-short-supply-what-this-means-for-farmers-businesses-and-choco…

Cocoa beans are in short supply: what this means for farmers, businesses and chocolate lovers
Major African cocoa plants in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana have stopped or cut processing because they cannot afford to buy beans.

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!

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09268 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Chemically Motivated Simulation Problems are Efficiently Solvable by a Quantum Computer
Simulating chemical systems is highly sought after and computationally challenging, as the simulation cost exponentially increases with the system size. Quantum computers have been proposed as a computational means to overcome this bottleneck. Most efforts recently have been spent on determining the ground states of chemical systems. Hardness results and the lack of efficient heuristics for initial-state generation sheds doubt on the feasibility. Here we propose an inherently efficient approach…

Antonio Pierce Gets Brutally Honest On Raiders’ Quarterback Situation https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/antonio_pierce_gets_brutally_honest_on_raiders_quarterback_situation/s1_17150_40033336<…

Antonio Pierce Gets Brutally Honest On Raiders’ Quarterback Situation
Antonio Pierce is making it clearer and clearer that he does not view Aidan O’Connell as the Las Vegas Raiders‘ quarterback moving forward. When discussing what a franchise quarterback means to an organization, Pierce all but dismissed O’Connell without actually saying it. “You don’t want to put a Band-Aid at that position,” Pierce said, via Vincent Bonsignore of The Las Vegas Review-Journal. “That’s old, man. I think the Raiders, we’ve seen that enough in this organization. A…

Reducing multivariate independence testing to two bivariate means comparisons
Kai Xu, Yeqing Zhou, Liping Zhu, Runze Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16053 ht…

Reducing multivariate independence testing to two bivariate means comparisons
Testing for independence between two random vectors is a fundamental problem in statistics. It is observed from empirical studies that many existing omnibus consistent tests may not work well for some strongly nonmonotonic and nonlinear relationships. To explore the reasons behind this issue, we novelly transform the multivariate independence testing problem equivalently into checking the equality of two bivariate means. An important observation we made is that the power loss is mainly due to c…

your consoles were hacked by tweezers and paperclips sit the fuck down nintendo

@… @… “Take control” only really means “submit a bad PR and hope it gets approved without much scrutiny” which is a much lower bar to clear than it probably should be.

Dak Prescott set to play out contract year: What it means, plus five early 2025 landing spots for Cowboys QB

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…

Dak Prescott set to play out contract year: What it means, plus five early 2025 landing spots for Cowboys QB
This is a pivotal point in Prescott's relationship with Dallas

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09829 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

On a conjecture on shifted primes with large prime factors, II
Let $\mathcal{P}$ be the set of primes and $π(x)$ the number of primes not exceeding $x$. Let also $P^+(n)$ be the largest prime factor of $n$ with convention $P^+(1)=1$ and $$ T_c(x)=\#\left\{p\le x:p\in \mathcal{P},P^+(p-1)\ge p^c\right\}. $$ Motivated by a 2017 conjecture of Chen and Chen, we show that for any $8/9\le c<1$ $$ \limsup_{x\rightarrow\infty}T_c(x)/π(x)\le 8(1/c-1), $$ which clearly means that $$ \limsup_{x\rightarrow\infty}T_c(x)/π(x)\rightarrow 0, \quad \text{as}~c\rightarro…

Towards sensory substitution and augmentation: Mapping visual distance to audio and tactile frequency https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0299213

Towards sensory substitution and augmentation: Mapping visual distance to audio and tactile frequency
Multimodal perception is the predominant means by which individuals experience and interact with the world. However, sensory dysfunction or loss can significantly impede this process. In such cases, cross-modality research offers valuable insight into how we can compensate for these sensory deficits through sensory substitution. Although sight and hearing are both used to estimate the distance to an object (e.g., by visual size and sound volume) and the perception of distance is an important el…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01579 has been replaced.
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With Trail to Follow: Measurements of Real-world Non-fungible Token Phishing Attacks on Ethereum
With the popularity of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), NFTs have become a new target of phishing attacks, posing a significant threat to the NFT trading ecosystem. There has been growing anecdotal evidence that new means of NFT phishing attacks have emerged in Ethereum ecosystem. Most of the existing research focus on detecting phishing scam accounts for native cryptocurrency on the blockchain, but there is a lack of research in the area of phishing attacks of emerging NFTs. Although a few studies …

Shower thought - I'd like to watch a show called "Our Flag Means Convenience".
Don't know what it would be about. Might just be diatribe against consumerism.

Lower numbers in Flensburg🇩🇪 are always desirable - whether it's points for German drivers (traffic fines) - or district heating temperatures. By reducing the need for 95°C heat from 10 > 1%, it's much easier to let heat pumps take over most of the heat supply. That's what the local utility will do.

Transformation in Flensburg: low temperatures for efficient heat pumps
As an innovative public utility company, Stadtwerke Flensburg is committed to decarbonisation and CO2 neutrality. To achieve this goal, the municipal utility company is working with Gradyent to reduce temperatures in the district heating system. As part of the partnership, the two companies have found a way to reduce the necessary annual heat share with a temperature above 95°C from around 10% to 1%. This means that heat pumps can be used to a higher extent and operated efficiently.

This seems too good to be true. I hope it's real though.
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/04/15/vaccine-breakthrough-means-no-more-chasing-strains

Craft 5 has just been released! 🎉
Which also means that I’ll have to upgrade my personal site from Craft 2 to Craft 3 to Craft 4 to Craft 5 now… 😂✌️
https://craftcms.com/blog/craft-5

Craft 5 Released—with New Team Edition! | Craft CMS
Craft 5 is out of Beta, and we’re introducing a new Team edition.

“The simplest way of outlining the ideal university policy toward protest is to say that it should protect free speech, respect civil disobedience and uphold the rule of law. That means universities should protect the rights of students and faculty on a viewpoint-neutral basis, and they should endeavor to make sure that every member of the campus community has the same access to campus facilities and resources.”

Opinion | How to Reboot Free Speech on Campus
How do we find our way to a campus culture in which everyone can be heard?

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

So the @… is going to be jumping to another instance as they cannot maintain/fund their own server.
Their Mastodon and PeerTube server will close on May 18th.
I'm sure the EU Commission to spend a few euros for a Masto.host instance, no? (Even if it means to have a single user instance... idk)
https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/112338626558805977

I am constantly seeing "MLA" in different context and I never have any idea what it means at first because it can mean so many different things in my profession.
I've decided I will now just assume it stands for Major League Archery. (No this does not exist.)

Mental Models of Meeting Goals: Supporting Intentionality in Meeting Technologies
Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18526

Mental Models of Meeting Goals: Supporting Intentionality in Meeting Technologies
Ineffective meetings due to unclear goals are major obstacles to productivity, yet support for intentionality is surprisingly scant in our meeting and allied workflow technologies. To design for intentionality, we need to understand workers' attitudes and practices around goals. We interviewed 21 employees of a global technology company and identified contrasting mental models of meeting goals: meetings as a means to an end, and meetings as an end in themselves. We explore how these mental mode…

I (free-)subscribe to “Bloomberg Energy Daily” which is sort of the enemy headquarters: Oil is great, rising consumption is what we need, decarbonization is the enemy, etc. Anyhow, from today: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

From AI to Oil to EVs, Power Demand Dominates Houston's CERAWeek
The outlook was robust at CERAWeek, and that may have profound implications for the energy transition.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04665 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

AdS$_3$ Einstein Gravity and Boundary Description: Pedagogical Review
We review the various aspects of the 3D Einstein gravity theory with a negative cosmological constant and its boundary description. We also explore its connections to CFTs, modular symmetry, and holography. It is worth noting that this particular theory is topological in nature, which means that all the physical degrees of freedom are located on the boundary. Additionally, we can derive the boundary description on a torus, which takes the form of a 2D Schwarzian theory. This observation suggest…

kʷiisaḥiʔis is FREE! She swam out of the lagoon at high tide last night on her own! ❤️❤️
Yay. This brings me actual joy.
(Her name is pronounced “Kwii-sa-heat-eess” it means ‘Brave Little Hunter’)
""With this part of the challenge solved by kʷiisaḥiʔis herself, every opportunity needs to be afforded to have her back with her family with as little human interaction as possible," he said.”
I hope she finds her family soon!

Social policy – in the United States, this means achieving one of three goals:
protecting Americans from risk,
promoting equal opportunity,
or assisting the poor.
Many Americans strongly believe in individualism, which is self-reliance, but since the Great Depression and the New Deal, the government’s role has increased significantly.
We’re going to focus on two social policies that came out of the New Deal
– Social Security and what we tend to think …

Logic and focus can be pursuits in and of themselves, or they can be a means of obtaining tasty treats.
#Sims4 #TheSims4 #SWLRP

If you've never been, Mississauga's "city centre" is a gargantuan parking lot outside a mall that's gigantic, but still smaller than the parking lot. It is close to the city's geographic centre, so that must be what it means, eh?

An article I've written on playtesting for innovation has just been published in the "Game Developer" Magazine.
It's about how we can facilitate more innovation in games, but also applies to films, TV shows, novels, plays, non-fiction writing, anything in life! :)
https…

Imbalanced Data Clustering using Equilibrium K-Means
Yudong He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14490 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.14490

Imbalanced Data Clustering using Equilibrium K-Means
Imbalanced data, characterized by an unequal distribution of data points across different clusters, poses a challenge for traditional hard and fuzzy clustering algorithms, such as hard K-means (HKM, or Lloyd's algorithm) and fuzzy K-means (FKM, or Bezdek's algorithm). This paper introduces equilibrium K-means (EKM), a novel and simple K-means-type algorithm that alternates between just two steps, yielding significantly improved clustering results for imbalanced data by reducing the tendency of …

3 best first round options for the Cowboys in 2024 NFL Draft https://insidethestar.com/3-best-first-round-options-for-the-cowboys-in-2024-nfl-draft/

3 best first round options for the Cowboys in 2024 NFL Draft ⋆ Inside The Star
Mar 28, 2024 -- The 2024 NFL Draft is under a month away. That means we can finally start to accurately speculate on who the Dallas Cowboys draft picks will be. At this

Improved Soft-k-Means Clustering Algorithm for Balancing Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks
Botao Zhu, Ebrahim Bedeer, Ha H. Nguyen, Robert Barton, Jerome Henry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15700

Improved Soft-k-Means Clustering Algorithm for Balancing Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks
Energy load balancing is an essential issue in designing wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Clustering techniques are utilized as energy-efficient methods to balance the network energy and prolong its lifetime. In this paper, we propose an improved soft-k-means (IS-k-means) clustering algorithm to balance the energy consumption of nodes in WSNs. First, we use the idea of ``clustering by fast search and find of density peaks'' (CFSFDP) and kernel density estimation (KDE) to improve the selection o…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06764 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Dimensional Reduction in Quantum Optics
One-dimensional quantum optical models usually rest on the intuition of large scale separation or frozen dynamics associated with the different spatial dimensions, for example when studying quasi one-dimensional atomic dynamics, potentially resulting in the violation of $3+1D$ Maxwell's theory. Here, we provide a rigorous foundation for this approximation by means of the light-matter interaction. We show how the quantized electromagnetic field can be decomposed $-$ exactly $-$ into an infinite …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15906 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Mean Estimation with User-Level Privacy for Spatio-Temporal IoT Datasets
This paper considers the problem of the private release of sample means of speed values from traffic datasets. Our key contribution is the development of user-level differentially private algorithms that incorporate carefully chosen parameter values to ensure low estimation errors on real-world datasets, while ensuring privacy. We test our algorithms on ITMS (Intelligent Traffic Management System) data from an Indian city, where the speeds of different buses are drawn in a potentially non-i.i.d…

This seems too good to be true. I hope it's real though.
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/04/15/vaccine-breakthrough-means-no-more-chasing-strains

Cowboys exec Stephen Jones discusses team’s top needs in 2024 NFL Draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_exec_stephen_jones_discusses_teams_top_needs_in_2024_nfl_draft/s1_17236_40166673

Cowboys exec Stephen Jones discusses team’s top needs in 2024 NFL Draft
The Dallas Cowboys let the vast majority of their free agents walk when the league new year hit on March 13, which means they have an uphill battle to re-stock before training camp. The upcoming 2024 NFL Draft gives Jerry Jones and his front office plenty of opportunities to bring in new talent or even leverage picks for more selections or to make trades. Discussing the team’s needs, which now include a starting left tackle, a starting center, and a starting defensive tackle, executive vice p…

Making sense of NFL’s new kickoff rule and what it means for next season https://theathletic.com/5366260/2024/03/26/nfl-hybrid-kickoff-rules/

Cowboys set to reunite with RB Ezekiel Elliott for 2024 season https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_set_to_reunite_with_rb_ezekiel_elliott_for_2024_season/s1_17100_40298880

Cowboys set to reunite with RB Ezekiel Elliott for 2024 season
The latest news out of The Star will split the fanbase right down the middle like most controversial decisions tend to do. According to Dallas Morning News Reporter Michael Gehlken, the Cowboys and RB Ezekiel Elliott are set to sign a contract to bring him back to Dallas for 2024, agreeing to terms early Monday morning. In short, it means they failed to upgrade the running back position for the second consecutive offseason, leaving the room with big questions. Elliott was released as a cap casu…

Will Zach Wilson start in Denver? Are the Broncos still trying to draft a quarterback? What the trade means https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39998672/zach-wilson-trade-new-york-jets-broncos-means

What the Zach Wilson trade means for Broncos' QB picture - ESPN
After acquiring Zach Wilson from the New York Jets, the Denver Broncos added some insurance at quarterback.

Cowboys show serious interest in draft target expected to light the NFL Scouting Combine on fire https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_show_serious_interest_in_draft_targ…

Cowboys show serious interest in draft target expected to light the NFL Scouting Combine on fire
As the NFL Scouting Combine continues to heat up, the Dallas Cowboys talked with multiple cornerbacks in both informal and formal meetings. Since each NFL team is limited to 45 formal meetings at Indianapolis, which are limited to 18 minutes. Heading into the 2024 NFL Draft, the Cowboys formally met with a consensus top three cornerback: Clemson cornerback Nate Wiggins.  Wiggins is currently ranked as the 16th best overall prospect per the consensus board, which means it'll be complicated for …

Why the Chiefs traded L'Jarius Sneed to the Titans https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39794007/what-ljarius-sneed-trade-means-kansas-city-chiefs

What the L'Jarius Sneed trade means for the Kansas City Chiefs - ESPN
The Chiefs will receive a 2025 third-round pick and a 2024 seventh-round pick swap for the cornerback.

Making sense of NFL’s new kickoff rule and what it means for next season https://theathletic.com/5366260/2024/03/26/nfl-hybrid-kickoff-rules/