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After nurturing this plant for the last 13 years, (acquired no higher than 30cm, it's now well over 2 metres tall) for the first time ever, it has flowered, producing 7 flowering spikes. This one opened this morning.
Many years ago I saw bird of paradise flowers blooming in the magnificent Kirstenbosch botanical gardens in Cape Town. I have coveted them ever since. It is bringing much joy and a touch of South African sun to the cold northern February

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that: "The manufacturing sector was responsible for 12% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2021. **About 75% of those emissions came from burning fuel to create heat**, and the rest were by-products of industrial processes that transform materials into products."
Note: Most low to moderate temperature heat demands could be satisfied with heat pumps rather than burning fuel.

Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the Manufacturing Sector
At a Glance When producing goods, the manufacturing sector emits carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that cause global warming, both by burning fossil fuels and through certain industrial processes.

Pizzlyberen! Ik ben meteen fan. https://social.rebellion.global/@ExtinctionR/112352762245271137

Extinction Rebellion Global (@ExtinctionR@social.rebellion.global)
Attached: 1 image A melting Arctic is driving polar bears South in search of food while grizzly bears are moving North. In some cases they have mated producing a fertile hybrid called a "pizzly" bear. #climate #ClimateCollapse #environment https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=21-P13-00041&segmentID=5

This is incredibly cool - https://newatlas.com/medical/gut-bacteria-enzyme-universal-donor-blood/
If this works, there will be less wasted blood at the blood bank, and it'll be easier to give transfusions to people with rare blood types.

Bacterial enzyme strips away blood types to create universal donor blood
Using enzymes produced by a bacteria that almost everyone has in their gut, researchers have removed the antigens from red blood cells that determine blood type, putting us within reach of producing universal donor blood.

so apparently k3s was crashing badly, producing torrents of stacktraces where the only clue I found so far is “fatal error: invalid g status", which led me to an issue in the Go repo https://github.com/golang/go/issues/52560 that vaguely hints at memory corruption.
yay, I…

process crash in go runtime with "fatal error: invalid g status" · Issue #52560 · golang/go
What version of Go are you using (go version)? $ go version go version go1.17.2 linux/amd64 Does this issue reproduce with the latest release? What operating system and processor architecture are y...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01341 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Block-Diagonal Guided DBSCAN Clustering
Cluster analysis plays a crucial role in database mining, and one of the most widely used algorithms in this field is DBSCAN. However, DBSCAN has several limitations, such as difficulty in handling high-dimensional large-scale data, sensitivity to input parameters, and lack of robustness in producing clustering results. This paper introduces an improved version of DBSCAN that leverages the block-diagonal property of the similarity graph to guide the clustering procedure of DBSCAN. The key idea …

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that: "The manufacturing sector was responsible for 12% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2021. **About 75% of those emissions came from burning fuel to create heat**, and the rest were by-products of industrial processes that transform materials into products."
Note: Most low to moderate temperature heat demands could be satisfied with heat pumps rather than burning fuel.

Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the Manufacturing Sector
At a Glance When producing goods, the manufacturing sector emits carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that cause global warming, both by burning fossil fuels and through certain industrial processes.

TV-TREES: Multimodal Entailment Trees for Neuro-Symbolic Video Reasoning
Kate Sanders, Nathaniel Weir, Benjamin Van Durme
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19467 …

TV-TREES: Multimodal Entailment Trees for Neuro-Symbolic Video Reasoning
It is challenging to perform question-answering over complex, multimodal content such as television clips. This is in part because current video-language models rely on single-modality reasoning, have lowered performance on long inputs, and lack interpetability. We propose TV-TREES, the first multimodal entailment tree generator. TV-TREES serves as an approach to video understanding that promotes interpretable joint-modality reasoning by producing trees of entailment relationships between simpl…

Counterexamples to generalizations of the Erd\H{o}s $B B t$ problem
Ethan Ackelsberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17383 https://arxiv.o…

Counterexamples to generalizations of the Erdős $B+B+t$ problem
Following their resolution of the Erdős $B+B+t$ problem, Kra Moreira, Richter, and Robertson posed a number of questions and conjectures related to infinite configurations in positive density subsets of the integers and other amenable groups. We give a negative answer to several of these questions and conjectures by producing families of counterexamples based on a construction of Ernst Straus. Included among our counterexamples, we exhibit, for any $\varepsilon > 0$, a set $A \subseteq \math…

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