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Dramatized romantic comedy | Kit Morland, true crime podcaster and wannabe heroine, is dying for some excitement. When her neighbours offer to take her on a trip to Bath, site of the famous Chawton Murders, she knows this is her chance to investigate the unsolved mystery. But Kit’s new environmen...
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As China has become deeply enmeshed in strategic competition with the US
– while edging towards outright hostilities with other regional neighbours
– Washington’s alarm at the pace of its advancement in space is growing ever-louder.
Beijing has made no secret over its ambitions and a spate of recent successful space missionshas shown that the government’s rhetoric is backed by technological advances.
On Friday, China launched a robotic spacecraft on a round trip to the…
Further Understanding of a Local Gaussian Process Approximation: Characterising Convergence in the Finite Regime
Anthony Stephenson, Robert Allison, Edward Pyzer-Knapp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06200
Estimating the mass of galactic components using machine learning algorithms
Jessica N. Lopez Sanchez, Erick Munive Villa, Ana A. Avilez Lopez, Oscar M. Martinez Bravo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06178
Jasper, our neighbour's cat who is allowed outside, came by to say good morning to our pack. Casper and Harley are always interested in hearing what he has to say.
#CatsOfMastadon #DogsOfMastadon #Neighbours
We've never owned a car and this week finally got around to ripping up the parking pad in front of the house. Soon it'll be a garden!
Our neighbours, despite at least talking a good game re: the climate crisis, think we're nuts. "You're throwing away equity!!" I don't buy liberal individualist explanations for the problems we face, but this sort of attitude, held by just about everyone we've spoken with, really won't help get us to the collective s…
One of the neighbours' cats has a thing for the mealworms in the bird food and grazes on the ground trays.
Feeding the predator prey cycle.
Now the cat has gone a small cloud of starlings have swooped down. They haven't yet consolidated into the large cloud that comes twice a day. I don't know whether the rain and variable temperatures are affecting the eggs and hatching.
#GardenBirds
"At least two dozen countries worldwide have already made the sensible transition to some form of automatic tax filing, not necessarily just for low-income citizens, but in many cases for everyone. The UK, Japan, Australia, Denmark, Chile, and Portugal have implemented some version of an automated, digital tax system, and none of them have turned back."
How the tax industry is keeping automatic filing out of reach – Canadian Dimension
And while I've been a small part in helping on the committee, the real work has been done by the people on the ground in the community talking with their neighbours, organising meetings, and getting petitions signed, and if needed in the future, protest.
People power can work.
Having fun chatting with a few neighbours about the condo newsletter. I pick their brains to find out subject areas that are of interest or concern and draft the text for the next newsletter or a draft in the one following that.
With spring coming around there will be a few articles on the local farmers markets and craft shows.
Still debating about a short article about best practices for home computer users & security though.
I’m late to this but, in honour of my friend @…’s beloved Jack, today is officially international Ice Cream and Loud Music Day.
Celebrate irresponsibly. Piss off your neighbours. :)
“The problem with investing in defence is that, of course, for leaders who have much better neighbours than we do, it is very hard to explain to the people when it is peacetime," she added. “But the problem with defence is that when you need it, then it's already too late to take any further steps."
"We want to have peace, but we want to have a sustainable peace. And the peace on Russia's terms is not a sustainable. That means that we are going to have a pause of some years, and it's going to go even further because they can."
QT: https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/112134331362445798
My monthly vege garden update. The heritage tomatoes have finished and the cherry tomatoes are on their last legs. The two cucumber vines are producing a couple of cucumbers a day so luckily the neighbours have three kids to munch through the excess. The potatoes have finished but the celery is almost ready for harvest. The new parsley plants are big enough we have started cutting them. We've put in a lemongrass plant to complement the thyme, sage, oregano, basil and mint.
From Sightline
It’s (Past) Time for British Columbia to Legalize Roommates
Another piece of the puzzle to make housing more affordable in the province—and keep up with southern neighbours Washington and Oregon.
Author: Daniel Oleksiuk
(@dannyoleksiuk) on April 15, 2024 at 7:00 am
Private graph colouring with limited defectiveness
Aleksander B. G. Christiansen, Eva Rotenberg, Teresa Anna Steiner, Juliette Vlieghe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18692 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.18692
arXiv:2404.18692v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Differential privacy is the gold standard in the problem of privacy preserving data analysis, which is crucial in a wide range of disciplines. Vertex colouring is one of the most fundamental questions about a graph. In this paper, we study the vertex colouring problem in the differentially private setting.
To be edge-differentially private, a colouring algorithm needs to be defective: a colouring is d-defective if a vertex can share a colour with at most d of its neighbours. Without defectiveness, the only differentially private colouring algorithm needs to assign n different colours to the n different vertices. We show the following lower bound for the defectiveness: a differentially private c-edge colouring algorithm of a graph of maximum degree {\Delta} > 0 has defectiveness at least d = {\Omega} (log n / (log c log {\Delta})).
We also present an {\epsilon}-differentially private algorithm to {\Theta} ( {\Delta} / log n 1 / {\epsilon})-colour a graph with defectiveness at most {\Theta}(log n).
Temporal segmentation of motion propagation in response to an external impulse
Sina Feldmann, Thomas Chatagnon, Juliane Adrian, Julien Pettr\'e, Armin Seyfried
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19024
“The problem with investing in defence is that, of course, for leaders who have much better neighbours than we do, it is very hard to explain to the people when it is peacetime," she added. “But the problem with defence is that when you need it, then it's already too late to take any further steps."
"We want to have peace, but we want to have a sustainable peace. And the peace on Russia's terms is not a sustainable. That means that we are going to have a pause …