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A Large Scale Survey of Motivation in Software Development and Analysis of its Validity
Idan Amit, Dror G. Feitelson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08303 https…

A Large Scale Survey of Motivation in Software Development and Analysis of its Validity
Context: Motivation is known to improve performance. In software development in particular, there has been considerable interest in the motivation of contributors to open source. Objective: We identify 11 motivators from the literature (enjoying programming, ownership of code, learning, self use, etc.), and evaluate their relative effect on motivation. Since motivation is an internal subjective feeling, we also analyze the validity of the answers. Method: We conducted a survey with 66 questions…

Fulton Co., which failed to keep its citizens informed about a major data breach for weeks, suddenly jumped on the ball yesterday.
https://www.11alive.com/video/news/local/evidence-suggests-fulton-county-cybersecurity-incident-source-of-ransomware-attack-motivated-by-money-officials-say/85-6515d91c-7a7c-4e50-9259-5aecde2f1ce7

Cohomologies of modified Rota-Baxter Lie algebras with derivations and applications
Basdouri Imed, Benabdelhafidh Sami, Sadraoui Mohamed Amin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08095

Cohomologies of modified Rota-Baxter Lie algebras with derivations and applications
In this paper, first, we introduce a notion of modified Rota-Baxter Lie algebras of weight $\mathrmλ$ with derivations (or simply modified Rota-Baxter LieDer pairs) and their representations. Moreover, we investigate cohomologies of a modified Rota-Baxter LieDer pairs with coefficients in a suitable representation. As applications, we study formal one-parameter deformations and abelian extensions of modified Rota-Baxter LieDer pairs.

Utah Senator Mitt Romney revealed the motivation for the bipartisan consensus to ban TikTok, and it has little to do with protecting users’ data.
Speaking at the McCain Institute on Friday alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Romney lamented Israel’s inability to control the flow of information out of and about Gaza, despite its best efforts to restrict press access.

Mitt Romney Reveals Twisted Reason Why Congress Moved to Ban TikTok
It’s not about national security, after all.

The problem with sharing your stuff free/open source, is that it only takes one entitled person to destroy any motivation or joy you have for it. They're super rare but they do come along from time to time.

Energy-modified Leverage Sampling for Radio Map Construction via Matrix Completion
Hao Sun, Junting Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08286 https://

Energy-modified Leverage Sampling for Radio Map Construction via Matrix Completion
This paper explores an energy-modified leverage sampling strategy for matrix completion in radio map construction. The main goal is to address potential identifiability issues in matrix completion with sparse observations by using a probabilistic sampling approach. Although conventional leverage sampling is commonly employed for designing sampling patterns, it often assigns high sampling probability to locations with low received signal strength (RSS) values, leading to a low sampling efficienc…

A modified Polak-Ribiere-Polyak type conjugate gradient method with two stepsize strategies for vector optimization
Yushan Bai, Jiawei Chen, Kaiping Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08503

A modified Polak-Ribiere-Polyak type conjugate gradient method with two stepsize strategies for vector optimization
In this paper, in order to find critical points of vector-valued functions with respect to the partial order induced by a closed, convex, and pointed cone with nonempty interior, we propose a nonlinear modified Polak-Ribiere-Polyak type conjugate gradient method with a nonnegative conjugate parameter. We show that the search direction in our method satisfies the sufficient descent condition independent of any line search. Furthermore, under mild assumptions, we obtain the results of global conv…

I like to minimize the size of binaries I build. Unremovable debugging strings annoyed me, so I've added an option to completely neuter `Debug::fmt` in #Rustlang
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull

debug-fmt-detail option by kornelski · Pull Request #123940 · rust-lang/rust
I'd like to propose a new option that makes #[derive(Debug)] generate no-op implementations that don't print anything, and makes {:?} in format strings a no-op. There are a couple of motivations fo...

Energy-modified Leverage Sampling for Radio Map Construction via Matrix Completion
Hao Sun, Junting Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08286 https://

Energy-modified Leverage Sampling for Radio Map Construction via Matrix Completion
This paper explores an energy-modified leverage sampling strategy for matrix completion in radio map construction. The main goal is to address potential identifiability issues in matrix completion with sparse observations by using a probabilistic sampling approach. Although conventional leverage sampling is commonly employed for designing sampling patterns, it often assigns high sampling probability to locations with low received signal strength (RSS) values, leading to a low sampling efficienc…

A modified Polak-Ribiere-Polyak type conjugate gradient method with two stepsize strategies for vector optimization
Yushan Bai, Jiawei Chen, Kaiping Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08503

A modified Polak-Ribiere-Polyak type conjugate gradient method with two stepsize strategies for vector optimization
In this paper, in order to find critical points of vector-valued functions with respect to the partial order induced by a closed, convex, and pointed cone with nonempty interior, we propose a nonlinear modified Polak-Ribiere-Polyak type conjugate gradient method with a nonnegative conjugate parameter. We show that the search direction in our method satisfies the sufficient descent condition independent of any line search. Furthermore, under mild assumptions, we obtain the results of global conv…