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I wrote up my initial thoughts on Dune Part Two, what I liked and disliked about it.
Review contains so many spoilers I can't even count, you have been warned.
#DunePartTwo

A ★★★★ review of Dune: Part Two (2024)
This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

very into musicians publishing #comix with their origin stories, pretty sure this is the most i've ever wanted to listen to canned heat. kanned korn, via the canned heat fan club, 1969 (with a few unfortunate cartoon-depicted racisms inside, surely inadvertently relevant to the story of a white blues band).

Kanned Korn Komix : Bo Shnepf, Neal Aberman : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
from comixjoint:There were several underground comic books that were about rock and roll musicians or financed by musicians or their labels, but Kanned Korn...

LessWrong || Social status part 1/2: negotiations over object-level preferences
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SPBm67otKq5ET5CWP/social-status-part-1-2-negotiations-over-object-level

#PamelaAnderson #JeremyJackson
Season 4 Episode 2 "Race Against Time: part 2"
#RandomBaywatch

Beyond Endoscopy via Poisson Summation for GL(2,K)
Melissa Emory, Malors Espinosa-Lara, Debanjana Kundu, Tian An Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10139 http…

Beyond Endoscopy via Poisson Summation for GL(2,K)
In the early 2000's, R. Langlands proposed a strategy called Beyond Endoscopy to attack the principle of functoriality, which is one of the central questions of present day mathematics. A first step was achieved by A. Altug who worked with the group $GL(2,\mathbb{Q})$ in a series of three papers. We generalize the first part of this result to a class of totally real number fields. In particular, we cancel the contribution of the trivial and special representations to the trace formula using an …

It'll probably just be a season 1 / season 2 part 1 kind of deal because s2 is longer than s1 so it can't keep the pattern going the whole way, but it was a fun detail to notice.
3/3

Denied care, part 2: #Racism in today’s health care and how to fight back
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/10

Denied care, part 2: Racism in today’s health care and how to fight back
This is part two�of a two-part series on racism in health care. Read part one here. The first article in this series highlighted the long history that deep-rooted racism has had in shaping our ...

I got a new toy today. The WEP 882D soldering iron/hot air station. Tested it out this evening on an Xbox 360 controller PCB, one of a few I happen to have stashed in a toolbox in the shed. First attempt at taking off an analog stick didn't quite work as hoped. 2nd attempt I was able to remove it in one piece. Without flux, I might add. That's due Fri, along with 4 sets of hall effect sticks. Feeling fairly confident I'll have 4 Dual Senses modded soon.

#IONOS UK #hosting brand Fasthosts announces a migration away from select #VMWare (presumably to KVM):
"Our partner VMware, who provides the virtualisation software for our VPS platform, was acquired by Broadcom at the end of 2023. As part of that acquisition, the cost of licenses for service providers, such as ourselves, have been significantly increased. We don't want to increase the cost of our services to you unnecessarily. To avoid that we've decided to migrate all servers on our VPS Edition 1 platform to our latest VPS Edition 2 platform [...]"

I'm looking for an Eyemodule 2 for the Handspring Visor PDA... anyone have one and wants to part with it? (DM me!)
#retrocomputing

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Fossil 2.0: Formal Certificate Synthesis for the Verification and Control of Dynamical Models
This paper presents Fossil 2.0, a new major release of a software tool for the synthesis of certificates (e.g., Lyapunov and barrier functions) for dynamical systems modelled as ordinary differential and difference equations. Fossil 2.0 is much improved from its original release, including new interfaces, a significantly expanded certificate portfolio, controller synthesis and enhanced extensibility. We present these new features as part of this tool paper. Fossil implements a counterexample-gu…

A study of 2,414,294 people in 168 countries between 2006 and 2021 finds 84.9% of associations between internet connectivity and wellbeing were positive (University of Oxford)
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-05-14-inter

Internet use statistically associated with higher wellbeing, finds new global Oxford study | University of Oxford
Links between internet adoption and wellbeing are likely to be positive, despite popular concerns to the contrary, according to a major new international study from researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford.

So, I now have two working "prototypes": a rev 0.1 and a rev 0.2...and I have 351 bright amber LEDs. The schematic for this part of the badge is good, now it's time to write a library to turn pixels off and on. Adafruit has a library for the LED matrix IC, but it only supports RGB for some odd reason. However, first win of the project. #electronics

The gendered part of this is interesting, but it's also a good management and leadership lesson for everyone, period.
https://youtube.com/shorts/3Y0Yl61BCcw

New Invariants for Partitioning a Graph into 2-connected Subgraphs
Michitaka Furuya, Masaki Kashima, Katsuhiro Ota
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08465 https:/…

New Invariants for Partitioning a Graph into 2-connected Subgraphs
A vertex partition in which every part induces a 2-connected subgraph is called a 2-proper partition. This concept was introduced by Ferrara et al. in 2013, and Borozan et al. gave the best possible minimum degree condition for the existence of a 2-proper partition in 2016. Later, in 2022, Chen et al. extended the result by showing a minimum degree sum condition for the existence of 2-proper partition. In this paper, we introduce two new invariants of graph, denoted by $σ^*(G)$ and $α^*(G)$. …

#PamelaAnderson #DavidHasselhoff
Season 5 Episode 2 "Livin' on the Fault Line: part 2"
#RandomBaywatch

As part of the Advanced North Atlantic (ANA) collaboration, CANARIE, ESnet, @… , and @… , unveil today a major expansion of 400Gbps transoceanic circuit capacity dedicated to transferring research & education data.
This marks a…

CANARIE, ESnet, GÉANT, and Internet2 Unveil Highest Capacity Transoceanic Connectivity for Research and Education | GÉANT CONNECT Online
400 Gbps Spectrum-based Circuits Deployed on New Subsea Cable System to Advance Global Scientific Collaboration and Innovation WASHINGTON, D.C., March 14, 2024 – Internet2, in a joint effort with CANARIE, the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), and GÉANT, announced today a major expansion of 400 gigabits per second (Gbps) transoceanic circuit capacity dedicated to transferring research

Part 2: Pac-Man's Wacky 90s Reboot! Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures [SNES] 🚀👻
LIVE NOW 🔴🕹️ #Twitch

90s_Craig - Twitch
Welcome to the '90s_Craig Show'! Dive into nostalgia with retro gaming Mon-Thurs, 9PM EST. Not just games, we chat about all things '90s. Join us off-air on Discord and Instagram for more fun and a trip down memory lane. Your home for '90s love awaits!

Inversion formula, Unique continuation property, and range characterization of the mixed ray transform in $\mathbb{R}^2$
Rohit Kumar Mishra, Suman Kumar Sahoo, Chandni Thakkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10753

Inversion formula, Unique continuation property, and range characterization of the mixed ray transform in $\mathbb{R}^2$
In this article, we study various aspects of the mixed ray transform of $(k + \ell)$-tensor fields that are symmetric in its first $k$ and last $\ell$ indices. As a first result, we derive an inversion algorithm to recover the solenoidal part of the unknown tensor field using the normal operator of the mixed ray transform. Next, we establish a set of unique continuation results. In addition to these, we discuss the range characterization of the mixed ray transform as the final result.

Practical and Theoretical Attacks in the Industrial Landscape (Part 2) https://claroty.com/team82/research/practical-and-theoretical-attacks-in-the-industrial-landscape-part-2

2021 retro-link! https://blog.urth.org/2021/03/14/writing-a-postgres-sql-pretty-printer-in-rust-part-1/ - Writing a PostgreSQL formatter / pretty printer in Rust.

Assembly code shown as part of a joke in Leisure Suit Larry 2 was an excerpt of disassembly of COMMAND.COM
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/29565/does-this-8088-code-in-the-leisure-suit-larry-2-g…

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Size-consistency and orbital-invariance issues revealed by VQE-UCCSD calculations with the FMO scheme
The fragment molecular orbital (FMO) scheme is one of the popular fragmentation-based methods and has the potential advantage of making the circuit flat in quantum chemical calculations on quantum computers. In this study, we used a GPU-accelerated quantum simulator (cuQuantum) to perform the electron correlation part of the FMO calculation as unitary coupled-cluster singles and doubles (UCCSD) with the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) for hydrogen-bonded (FH)$_3$ and (FH)$_2$-H$_2$O syste…

Are my cats part of a secret society? If they wouldn't tell me, why would they tell you?

R\'enyi entropy of the permutationally invariant part of the ground state across a quantum phase transition
Yuki Miyazaki, Giacomo Marmorini, Nobuo Furukawa, Daisuke Yamamoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08389

Rényi entropy of the permutationally invariant part of the ground state across a quantum phase transition
We investigate the role of the permutationally invariant part of the density matrix (PIDM) in capturing the properties of the ground state of the system during a quantum phase transition. In the context of quantum state tomography, PIDM is known to be obtainable with only a low number of measurement settings, namely $\mathcal{O}(L^2)$, where $L$ is the system size. Considering the transverse-field Ising chain as an example, we compute the second-order Rényi entropy of PIDM for the ground state…

By allowing corporations to flout antimonopoly laws,
we set the stage for monopolies.
The fault lay with regulators and the corporate leaders and finance barons who captured them
– not with "consumers" who made the wrong choices.
What's more, as the biggest businesses' monopoly power grew, your ability to choose grew ever narrower:
once every mom-and-pop restaurant in your area fires their delivery drivers and switches to Doordash, your choic…

Ich habe eine ganz verrückte Idee: eine Empathie-Partnerschaft.
Oder anders: Die Idee ist nicht von mir, sondern ein Vorschlag der Trainerin für Gewaltlose Kommunikation. Wie es funktioniert, steht im Anhang.
Ich würde das Gespräch gern um den Part ergänzen, dass man auch über die andere Konfliktpartei spricht (wenn es denn um einen Konflikt geht) …
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#kommunikation

At The Zoo
Season 4 Episode 15 "Coronado Del Soul: part 2"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch

Get fun ideas for coding and robotics in grades K-8, like making games, creating stories, programming robots, and solving problems! https://blog.tcea.org/scope-and-sequence-computational-thinking-part-2/

Matrix invertible extensions over commutative rings. Part I: general theory
Grigore C\u{a}lug\u{a}reanu, Horia F. Pop, Adrian Vasiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05780

Matrix invertible extensions over commutative rings. Part I: general theory
A unimodular $2\times 2$ matrix with entries in a commutative $R$ is called extendable (resp.\ simply extendable) if it extends to an invertible $3\times 3$ matrix (resp.\ invertible $3\times 3$ matrix whose $(3,3)$ entry is $0$). We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for a unimodular $2\times 2$ matrix to be extendable (resp.\ simply extendable) and use them to study the class $E_2$ (resp.\ $SE_2$) of rings $R$ with the property that all unimodular $2\times 2$ matrices with entries in …

Cloud GPU provider CoreWeave opens its European HQ in London and plans two UK data centers this year as part of a £1B investment, after raising $1.1B last week (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/10/core

CoreWeave, a $19B AI compute provider, opens European HQ in London with plans for 2 UK data centers | TechCrunch
CoreWeave has formally opened an office in London, which will serve as its European headquarters and home to two new data centers.

got a lot out of this 2-part interview (by @…'s creamo coyl) with jim mchugh about the '00s southern punk/DIY/psychedelic nexus in greensboro/chapel hill/athens & PIT, his music-centered anarchist space in brooklyn. buried inside is the sad news that jim's great band sunwatchers is no more.
part 1:

A.Cave #4 — BRAVE MOVES
Talking with Jim McHugh [The P.I.T. - Sunwatchers - Eugene Chadbourne - Arthur Doyle - Dark Meat]

Inversion formula, Unique continuation property, and range characterization of the mixed ray transform in $\mathbb{R}^2$
Rohit Kumar Mishra, Suman Kumar Sahoo, Chandni Thakkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10753

Inversion formula, Unique continuation property, and range characterization of the mixed ray transform in $\mathbb{R}^2$
In this article, we study various aspects of the mixed ray transform of $(k + \ell)$-tensor fields that are symmetric in its first $k$ and last $\ell$ indices. As a first result, we derive an inversion algorithm to recover the solenoidal part of the unknown tensor field using the normal operator of the mixed ray transform. Next, we establish a set of unique continuation results. In addition to these, we discuss the range characterization of the mixed ray transform as the final result.

#TGIQF – Das Quiz rund um Frank Herberts Dune
In dieser Woche kam Dune Part 2 in die Kinos. Wir würdigen das mit einem kleinen Quiz rund um die Saga des Wüstenplaneten.

#otherPeoplesBlogs
I really want to play #stonetop. I also have a rule of not reading the PDF of a book I got a physical copy of until I got the physical copy
Unfortunately the game doesn't seem quite the style that my usual PbtA/FitD group is into

Stonetop AP Part 3: The Eternal Grasslands - The Indie Game Reading Club
This is part 3 of our 10-part text AP of Stonetop. We posted part 2 last week. If you want to see what all the fuss is about, here’s the deep dive on Stonetop I posted a few weeks ago. Enjoy! Our heroes finally, finally got to deal with their gwead-spirit problem and all it took was a… Continue reading Stonetop AP Part 3: The Eternal Grasslands →

Rebel Mom, Part 2: The Scargiver
It starts out sounding like a sci-fi documentary. The whole movie should be this.
#RebelMoon

After 123 years of measurements at the Netherlands' main meteorological station De Bilt, the past three days all feature in the top-10 of the warmest days in the first part of April, as #1, #3, and #10 out of 1238. Pretty extreme.

@… good luck! Currently yanking everything to 8.2, sometime next year going to 8.4. It is a never ending cycle. But I have centralised my GitHub Actions Workflows, so that part should be easy next round.

Do road diets really cost what DOTs say they do?
Because a Baltimore streetscape project was changed in midstream, we know the price of the road diet part. Converting the 4-lane road to 2 car lanes 2 bike lanes cost $182,432 out of a total project cost of $61,200,000.

After 8 years of construction and 31% over budget, the Central Avenue Streetscape is almost done | Baltimore Brew
The Board of Estimates is expected to approve another $6.5 million today to finish a project bogged down in cost overruns.

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On the Submodule Structure of Hook Specht Modules in Characteristic 2
The submodule structure of general Specht modules in prime characteristic is a difficult open problem. Kleshchev and Sheth [Journal of Algebra, 221(2), pp.705-722] gave a combinatorial description of the submodule structure of Specht modules labelled by $2$-part partitions in prime characteristic. Using this result, as well as filtrations of Specht modules labelled by hook partitions via $2$-part Specht modules in characteristic $2$, one can study the submodule structure of hook Specht modules.…

Watched part 2 of Rebel Moon last night - the scene in the bowels of the spaceship where the guys were shovelling coal made me laugh 🤣
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Moon_–_Part_Two:_The_Scargiver?wprov=sfla1

Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver - Wikipedia

Denied care: How #racism caused America's expensive health care crisis
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/01/17/2217847/-

Denied care: How racism caused America's expensive health care crisis
This is part one of a two-part series on racism in health care. Part 2 is here. Despite being the sole high-income nation in the world without universal health care, the United States government refuses to recognize basic medical care as a fundamental...

I didn’t even know that Yahoo News still was a thing. Kind of unfortunate for Artifact to end there …
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24118436/yahoo-news-artifact-acquisition

This https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08946 has been replaced.
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Lectures on 4d N=1 dynamics and related topics
This lecture series consists of mostly independent three parts: Part 1: a tour of basic 4d N=1 supersymmetric dynamics, covering the pure super Yang-Mills, the Seiberg duality for classical groups, the supersymmetric index on S^3, and the a-maximization. Part 2: a brief look at 2d N=(2,2) and N=(0,2) dynamics, covering the Landau-Ginzburg and Calabi-Yau models, the elliptic genera on T^2, and the triality of Gadde-Gukov-Putrov. Appendix: a review of basic properties of supersymmetries in variou…

Yahoo plans to acquire Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom's Artifact for an undisclosed sum; Yahoo is buying the news app's tech, not the team (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24118436/yahoo-news-artifact-acquisition<…

Yahoo is acquiring Artifact to bring its AI features to Yahoo News
Artifact’s personalized “TikTok for news” app never quite caught on, but its recommendations and personalization will now be part of Yahoo News.

Iceland joins Czech ammunition initiative, commits 2 million euros: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/26/iceland-joins-czech.html

"Like 3 people will understand this, but it's worth it"
#Comics #Cassette #Tape

"Kingspan slashes operational emissions by two-thirds in four years"
#Kingspan #Emissions
h…

Kingspan slashes operational emissions by two-thirds in four years
Building materials and design giant Kingspan has announced a 65% reduction in its Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions since 2020 as part of its 10-year sustainability programme, ‘Planet Passionate.’

I was looking at implementing #ActivityPub with #dasblog a while back, and I admittedly struggled and lost my enthusiasm for the project. However, I have found @… explanati…

Megan McArdle: Google's Gemini AI Said the Quiet Part Out Loud (John Sexton/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/02/27/megan-mcardle-googles-gemini-ai-said-the-quiet-part-out-loud-n3783699
http://www.memeorandum.com/240227/p73#a240227p73

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The 95.4 GeV di-photon excess at ATLAS and CMS
The ATLAS collaboration has recently reported the results of a low-mass Higgs-boson search in the di-photon final state based on the full Run 2 data set. The results are based on an improved analysis w.r.t. the previous analysis, which included a part of the Run 2 data, with a substantially better sensitivity. The ``model-dependent'' search carried out by ATLAS shows an excess of events at a mass of about 95.4 GeV with a local significance of $1.7\,σ$. The results are compatible with a previou…

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Leonard Cohen:
🎵 Nevermind
#NowPlaying #LeonardCohen
https://open.spotify.com/track/454DinyN4ouKpOrtEIIYQU
https://ihatemusicradioshow.bandcamp.com/track/i-hate-music-radio-show-vol-2-nevermind-gospeland-part-2

Nowadays part of my daily routine: get out of bed in the morning, drink 2 cups of strong coffee, do The vOICe exercise for the sighted while lying down again, streaming desktop video to Meta Quest 2 but soundscapes via wired headphones (Sennheiser HD 599) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihSbdGjB3B

Neutron scattering off spherical nuclei with global nonlocal dispersive optical model
B. Morillon, G. Blanchon, P. Romain, H. F. Arellano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05843

Neutron scattering off spherical nuclei with global nonlocal dispersive optical model
We present a global nonlocal and dispersive optical model potential for neutron scattering off spherical nuclei with incident energies up to 250 MeV. This optical model is an extension of the non-dispersive Perey-Buck potential. The imaginary components are chosen energy-dependent and the dispersive constraints are taken into account. The surface imaginary part is nonlocal, whereas the volume imaginary part above 10 MeV is local, allowing to reproduce total cross sections and scattering data fo…

Fine-tuning Large Language Models with Sequential Instructions
Hanxu Hu, Pinzhen Chen, Edoardo M. Ponti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07794 https://

Fine-tuning Large Language Models with Sequential Instructions
Large language models (LLMs) struggle to follow a sequence of instructions in a single query as they may ignore or misinterpret part of it. This impairs their performance in complex problems whose solution requires multiple intermediate steps, such as multilingual (translate then answer) and multimodal (caption then answer) tasks. We empirically verify this with open-source LLMs as large as LLaMA-2 70B and Mixtral-8x7B. Targeting the scarcity of sequential instructions in present-day data, we p…

#DavidHasselhoff #MichaelNewman
Season 9 Episode 2 "Crash: part 2"
#RandomBaywatch

Welp. I screwed that up.
I was planning to watch Dune part 2 tonight, because I saw something on social about it streaming early. It does stream early. April 15 though. Grrr.
#Dune

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Exact values for unbalanced Zarankiewicz numbers
For positive integers $s$, $t$, $m$ and $n$, the Zarankiewicz number $Z_{s,t}(m,n)$ is defined to be the maximum number of edges in a bipartite graph with parts of sizes $m$ and $n$ that has no complete biparitite subgraph containing $s$ vertices in the part of size $m$ and $t$ vertices in the part of size $n$. A simple argument shows that, for each $t \geq 2$, $Z_{2,t}(m,n)=(t-1)\binom{m}{2}+n$ when $n \geq (t-1)\binom{m}{2}$. Here, for large $m$, we determine the exact value of $Z_{2,t}(m,n)$…

Lagrangian subvarieties of hyperspherical varieties related to $G_2$
Nikolay Kononenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19033 https://arxiv…

Lagrangian subvarieties of hyperspherical varieties related to $G_2$
We consider two $S$-dual hyperspherical varieties of the group $G_2 \times \text{SL}(2)$: an equivariant slice for $G_2$, and the symplectic representation of $G_2 \times \text{SL}_2$ in the odd part of the basic classical Lie superalgebra $\mathfrak{g}(3)$. For these varieties we check the equality of numbers of irreducible components of their Lagrangian subvarieties (zero levels of the moment maps of Borel subgroups' actions) conjectured in arXiv:2310.19770.

Chemical Potentials and the One-Electron Hamiltonian of the Second-Order Perturbation Theory from the Functional Derivative Approach
Jiachen Li, Weitao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06405

Chemical Potentials and the One-Electron Hamiltonian of the Second-Order Perturbation Theory from the Functional Derivative Approach
We develop a functional derivative approach to calculate the chemical potentials of the second-order perturbation theory (MP2). In the functional derivative approach, the correlation part of the MP2 chemical potential, which is the derivative of the MP2 correlation energy with respect to the occupation number of frontier orbitals, is obtained from the chain rule via the non-interacting Green's function. First, the MP2 correlation energy is expressed in terms of the non-interacting Green's funct…

Optimal parametric control of transport across a Josephson junction
Hannah Kleine-Pollmann, Guido Homann, Ludwig Mathey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06229 ht…

Optimal parametric control of transport across a Josephson junction
We present optimal control strategies for the DC transport across a Josephson junction. Specifically, we consider a junction in which the Josephson coupling is driven parametrically, with either a bichromatic or a trichromatic driving protocol, and optimize the prefactor of the 1/$ω$ divergence of the imaginary part of the conductivity. We demonstrate that for an optimal bichromatic protocol an enhancement of 70 can be reached, and for an optimal trichromatic protocol an enhancement of 135. Th…

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A Scintillator Beam Monitor for Real-Time FLASH Radiotherapy
FLASH Radiotherapy (RT) is a potentially new cancer radiotherapy technique where an entire therapeutic dose is delivered in about 0.1 s and at ~1000 times higher dose rate than in conventional RT. For clinical trials to be conducted safely, precise and fast beam monitoring that can generate an out-of-tolerance beam interrupt is required. A FLASH Beam Scintillator Monitor (FBSM) is being developed based in part on a novel proprietary inorganic hybrid scintillator material. The FBSM provides larg…

Last week, we listed 16 practices to help secure one’s APIs and described how to implement 7 of them with #ApacheAPISIX.
This week, we will look at the remaining practices.
https://blog.frankel.ch/se…

The Community Hub at #TNC24 is part of the programme this year which will provide brand new sessions! The sessions will cover a wide range of topics including the SIG-Marketplace, the GÉANT Mentoring Programme, and public procurement!
Take a look at the programme to find out more about the sessions available
👉

This discussion of the burden of proof and design patent damages is good so I'll forgive the "patent design" part. Kyjen v. ScheduleA, 2024 WL 1421126, at *7. #ScheduleA #Remedies

The custom #spam-fighting PBX @… made broke Ikea's delivery service call system fantastically.
Transcript:
"To continue in English, please press 1️⃣."
[𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗹𝘆 rapid DTMF spam string]
"Your delivery is scheduled for Tuesday. Five. [A burst of digital static plays out here for about a quarter of a second.] $DeliveryDate between the hours of 2pm and 6pm.
If an adult will not be available within the timeframe provided, or you have any other conflicts, please contact us at 88888888888888… Message repeat. ⚠️. Your delivery is scheduled for-" [total system breakdown occurs here... followed by dead line noise.] ............. [blerp] ............. [blerp] ............. [blerp] ............. [blerp]
Warning: sirocyl did normalize the volume to limit loud spikes, but the glitch sounds may be jarring. Be ready with your volume knob.
H/T @…, part 2/3

So much for buying XTool, their support is *HORRIFIC*.
First an AI that's completely missing the plot, this get escelated to a human who is SO MUCH worse than the AI was. Literally refuses to read any email. Took numerous emails just to get this person to read past the first sentence and reply with a form response.
Best part of a week just to get my VAT registered. Hard pass.
Will get a Creality Falcon 2 Pro I guess, can get that literally in my street.

🌞🌑🌎PSA: just one month now to the total solar eclipse that will be visible (at least partially) from most of the US!
Before, during and after the eclipse, use proper protective glasses to watch the show. (No, sunglasses or DIY stuff will injure your eyes, permanently.)🧪🔭
It’s OK to look at eclipse during totality (only) without protective eyewear. (Because you literally can’t see any part of the sun).
Buy these👇

Baader Solar Viewer AstroSolar Silver/Gold Eclipse Glasses / Shades # 2459294 - Pack of 5
Made in Germany No reflections: The anti-reflective, UV-absorbing film mounted inside guarantees a most comfortable viewing experience. Also blocks IR, thus no unpleasant feeling of warmth in the eyeball. Optical Density OD=5.0. Absolutely safe: 100% UV-protection, 100% IR-protection, sun light intensity reduced by 99.999%. Meets and largely exceeds the latest EN ISO 12312-2:2015 standard for eclipse viewers. Each and Every Viewer is tested to ensure its safety Crystal clear and tack sharp…

>2 weeks worth of delays because of unforeseen circumstances.
>Install temporary new fan to get car through MOT.
>Valve that makes air flow to windshield is closed.
>It can only be electronically controlled.
>The entire electronic control system of my AC was removed last year.
>The mechanical part is deep inside the unit and cannot be opened manually.
Yet again, I'm getting screwed over by thing trying to be "smart" and "tig…

Minimal Lagrangian surfaces in $\mathbb{C}P^2$ via the loop group method Part II: The general case
Josef F. Dorfmeister, Hui Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03246

Minimal Lagrangian surfaces in $\mathbb{C}P^2$ via the loop group method Part II: The general case
We extend the techniques introduced in \cite{DoMaB1} for contractible Riemann surfaces to construct minimal Lagrangian immersions from arbitrary Riemann surfaces into $\mathbb{C}P^2$ via the loop group method. Based on the potentials of translationally equivariant minimal Lagrangian surfaces, we introduce perturbed equivariant minimal Lagrangian surfaces in $\mathbb{C}P^2$ and construct a class of minimal Lagrangian cylinders. Furthermore, we show that these minimal Lagrangian cylinders approxi…

Five Stages of K-12 Ed Tech Adoption: Part 2 #tcea #tceajmg: https://tceajmg.micro.blog/2024/05/05/

Balanced triple product $p$-adic $L$-functions and Stark points
Luca Dall'Ava, Aleksander Horawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05183 https://

Balanced triple product $p$-adic $L$-functions and Stark points
Let $E$ be an elliptic curve over $\mathbb{Q}$ and $\varrho_1, \varrho_2 \colon \mathrm{Gal}(H/\mathbb{Q}) \to \mathrm{GL}_2(L)$ be two odd Artin representations. We use $p$-adic methods to investigate the part of the Mordell-Weil group $E(H) \otimes L$ on which the Galois group acts via $\varrho_1 \otimes \varrho_2$. When the rank of the group is two, Darmon-Lauder-Rotger used a dominant triple product $p$-adic $L$-function to study this group, and gave an Elliptic Stark Conjecture which relat…

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Before, during and after the eclipse, use proper protective glasses to watch the show. (No, sunglasses or DIY stuff will injure your eyes, permanently.)🧪🔭
It’s OK to look at eclipse during totality (only) without protective eyewear. (Because you literally can’t see any part of the sun).
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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02039 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

On the Submodule Structure of Hook Specht Modules in Characteristic 2
The submodule structure of general Specht modules in prime characteristic is a difficult open problem. Kleshchev and Sheth [Journal of Algebra, 221(2), pp.705-722] gave a combinatorial description of the submodule structure of Specht modules labelled by $2$-part partitions in prime characteristic. Using this result, as well as filtrations of Specht modules labelled by hook partitions via $2$-part Specht modules in characteristic $2$, one can study the submodule structure of hook Specht modules.…

2022 retro-link! https://sillycross.github.io/2022/11/22/2022-11-22/index.html - Building the fastest Lua interpreter.. automatically!

#PamelaAnderson
Season 5 Episode 12 "Silent Night Baywatch Night: part 2"
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SSL/TLS, part 3: Toy TLS 1.2 client in ~1600 SLOC of Python. https://yurichev.com/n/TLS3/

Sources: Microsoft is testing a new AI-powered Xbox chatbot that can automate support tasks via an "embodied AI character", as part of larger Xbox AI efforts (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24118728/microsoft-xbox-ai-…

Microsoft is working on an Xbox AI chatbot
Microsoft has been testing a new Xbox AI chatbot internally for several weeks. The chatbot is designed to help with Xbox support requests.

Fine-tuning Large Language Models with Sequential Instructions
Hanxu Hu, Pinzhen Chen, Edoardo M. Ponti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07794 https://

Fine-tuning Large Language Models with Sequential Instructions
Large language models (LLMs) struggle to follow a sequence of instructions in a single query as they may ignore or misinterpret part of it. This impairs their performance in complex problems whose solution requires multiple intermediate steps, such as multilingual (translate then answer) and multimodal (caption then answer) tasks. We empirically verify this with open-source LLMs as large as LLaMA-2 70B and Mixtral-8x7B. Targeting the scarcity of sequential instructions in present-day data, we p…

Cygnus X - Kinderlied Part 1&2 (Remastered) Feeling a bit "old school" today.
#Music #Electronic https://youtu.be/GliTSot…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03356 has been replaced.
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$L^2$-type invariants and cohomology jump loci for complex smooth quasi-projective varieties
Let X be a complex smooth quasi-projective variety with a fixed epimorphism $ν\colonπ_1(X)\twoheadrightarrow \mathbb{Z}$. In this paper, we consider the asymptotic behaviour of invariants such as Betti numbers with all possible field coefficients and the order of the torsion part of singular integral homology associated to $ν$, known as the $L^2$-type invariants. At homological degree one, we give concrete formulas for these limits by the geometric information of $X$ when $ν$ is orbifold ef…

>2 weeks worth of delays because of unforeseen circumstances.
>Install temporary new fan to get car through MOT.
>Valve that makes air flow to windshield is closed.
>It can only be electronically controlled.
>The entire electronic control system of my AC was removed last year.
>The mechanical part is deep inside the unit and cannot be opened manually.
Yet again, I'm getting screwed over by thing trying to be "smart" and "tig…

from snore comix #2, 1970. #toronto publisher coach house, blurring the lines b…

Snore Comix 2 : Anonymouse, Michael Tims, bpNichol, Marc Chinoy, Jerry 000, Ken Coupland, D.M. Price, Andrew Robinson, Maryrose Coleman, Ken McRitchie, Edd Benton, Becka, Suomynona, Robert : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Published by Coach House Press 1970Great write up on the publishing company can be read...

Yahoo plans to acquire Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom's Artifact for an undisclosed sum; Yahoo is buying the news app's tech, not the team (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24118436/yahoo-news-artifact-acquisition<…

Yahoo is acquiring Artifact to bring its AI features to Yahoo News
Artifact’s personalized “TikTok for news” app never quite caught on, but its recommendations and personalization will now be part of Yahoo News.

tfw you realize your paraplegic ex-boyfriend is going to go hang-gliding on a very windy day
#VanessaAngel as Megan
Season 2 Episode 10 "The Trophy: part 2"
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On the Submodule Structure of Hook Specht Modules in Characteristic 2
Zain Ahmed Kapadia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02039 https://arx…

On the Submodule Structure of Hook Specht Modules in Characteristic 2
The submodule structure of general Specht modules in prime characteristic is a difficult open problem. Kleshchev and Sheth [Journal of Algebra, 221(2), pp.705-722] gave a combinatorial description of the submodule structure of Specht modules labelled by $2$-part partitions in prime characteristic. Using this result, as well as filtrations of Specht modules labelled by hook partitions via $2$-part Specht modules in characteristic $2$, one can study the submodule structure of hook Specht modules.…

Cygnus X - Kinderlied Part 1&2 (Remastered) Feeling a bit "old school" today.
#Music #Electronic https://youtu.be/GliTSot…

#JenniferCampbell
Season 9 Episode 2 "Crash: part 2"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch

The old aspect ratio was better
#KellyPackard as Beth Campfield
Season 6 Episode 2 "Trapped beneath the Sea: part 2"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx

Q&A with Sam Altman on the OpenAI board saga, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk's lawsuit, Sora, Q*, GPT-5, raising $7T, Google and Gemini, AGI, aliens, and more (Lex Fridman)
https://lexfridman.com/sam-altman-2-transcript

Harvey sells T-shirts
#TomMcTigue
Season 2 Episode 2 "Nightmare Bay: part 2"
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X adds blue checks to some large accounts as part of its plan to give free Premium memberships to those with at least 2,500 "verified subscriber followers" (Amrita Khalid/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24120602/x-free-premi…

X’s ‘complimentary’ Premium push gives people blue checks they didn’t ask for
Tagging X Premium subscriptions to accounts with enough paying followers is re-applying the “verified” checkmark logo on some accounts that don’t pay for it.

#StephenHeld #NicoleEggert
Season 4 Episode 15 "Coronado Del Soul: part 2"
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#AlexandraPaul
Season 4 Episode 7 "Tentacles: part 2"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch

#AlexandraPaul
Season 4 Episode 7 "Tentacles: part 2"
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#DavidChokachi
Season 6 Episode 2 "Trapped beneath the Sea: part 2"
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