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You can't actually buy the original root beer anymore because of corporate mergers and stupidity.
I'm lucky enough to have lived in the Philadelphia area while this was still available, but it's sad that nobody can share in that experience anymore.
https://

Killing A Product – The Demise of Hires Root Beer
Hires Root Beer has slowly been vanishing off the shelves of supermarkets in an ever widening circle over the past 20 years. How did this demise happen?

Berlin-based finmid, which makes embedded fintech solutions for SMBs, raised a €23M Series A at a €100M post money valuation, bringing total raised to €35M (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/15/finmid-wolt-smbs-loans/

Finmid raises $24.7M to help SMBs access loans through platforms like Wolt | TechCrunch
finmid is building an embedded finance product that targets that relationship between marketplaces and sellers, and raised a Series A round to further build out its product and enter new markets.

This should be worth reading.
By Isaac Rose.
The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis - Repeater Books
https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-rentier-city-manchester-and-the-making-…

The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis - Repeater Books
In cities across the world, gentrification and the housing crisis are facts of life. But how did we get to this point? And is there any way we can fight back? A good place to begin answering these questions is Manchester, England. Over the last thirty years, corporate developers, rentier capitalists and boosterist politicians have reshaped Manchester in their image, replacing its working-class communities, public spaces and affordable housing with skyscrapers, luxury developments and a private…

How #Google Blew Up Its Open Culture and Compromised Its Product
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/how-google-blew-up-its-open-culture/

Politico rolls out its first consumer registration wall, as part of Axel Springer's plans to gather more reader data to use for ad and product strategies (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/politico-registration-wall/

Politico Gets Access to More Reader Data, Launching Its First Consumer Registration Wall
The publisher will use the data to inform its advertising and product strategies

epinions: Epinions product ratings (2005)
A bipartite network of users and the products they rated on the website Epinions.com. A user connects to all products on which that user entered a rating. Edge weight represents the rating score, and edges are timestamped.
This network has 876252 nodes and 13668320 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Timestamps, Weighted

Product Calculus and Stokes Theorem
M. G. Naber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08784 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.08784

Product Calculus and Stokes Theorem
In this paper the analogy between differential forms arising from integrals in additive calculus and forms arising from the integrals in product calculus is investigated. It is found that with an appropriate definition of scalar multiplication and vector addition a set of vector spaces can be constructed analogous to what is found in exterior calculus. A product differential is defined which allows for the product derivative version of closed and exact forms. The product differential also allow…

Semantic In-Domain Product Identification for Search Queries
Sanat Sharma, Jayant Kumar, Twisha Naik, Zhaoyu Lu, Arvind Srikantan, Tracy Holloway King
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09091

Semantic In-Domain Product Identification for Search Queries
Accurate explicit and implicit product identification in search queries is critical for enhancing user experiences, especially at a company like Adobe which has over 50 products and covers queries across hundreds of tools. In this work, we present a novel approach to training a product classifier from user behavioral data. Our semantic model led to >25% relative improvement in CTR (click through rate) across the deployed surfaces; a >50% decrease in null rate; a 2x increase in the app cards sur…

All cars are privacy violations on wheels.
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-pri…

*Privacy Not Included: A Buyer’s Guide for Connected Products
All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed

Unfortunately Sony didn’t release its first floppy disk camera as a product, it was made as a prototype only in 1981.

"By attaching the new product to a popular speculation, especially one with built-in dramatic tension, the founders can elevate a buggy, unproven, or partially conceived technology into the cultural firmament, even if only briefly. It’s a cheat code, a way of getting us to relate to a future that’s already been culturally prototyped, and it can be quite successful."
(Original title: For tech CEOs, the dystopia is the point)

For tech CEOs, the dystopia is the point
We mock Musk, Altman and Zuck for using bleak sci-fi references to market products — but these 'useful dystopias' might just be the point

We wrote an article about using @posthog with Rust to improve your product analytics!
Check it out: https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/03/14/using-posthog-rust

Using PostHog with Rust
Exploring how to use PostHog in a Rust application to be able to improve product analytics.

Stability conditions on crepant resolutions of quotients of product varieties
Alexander Perry, Saket Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09121 https://<…

Stability conditions on crepant resolutions of quotients of product varieties
We construct stability conditions on crepant resolutions of quotients of certain product varieties, giving as a special case the first examples of stability conditions on strict Calabi-Yau varieties of arbitrary dimension. Along the way, we prove the crepant resolutions are derived equivalent to the corresponding quotient stacks, verifying an instance of a conjecture of Bondal and Orlov.

Here is a cyberpunk/robot mask I assembled recently from various plastic parts.
the main shape/idea is a copy of this : https://www.hypebrother.com/product-cyberpunk-mask-anubis.html
with some changes inspired by other type of mask. (ears attachement)
and I des…

Computer models based on text have no visual sense. They are not- in the manner of the output of actual artists- the product of a visual imagination.
They are database entries combined in an image file. Their antecedent is not art but Excel spreadsheet charts.

The first version of a dutch NL ID wallet is available, it's a minimal viable product version, planning to go live is 2026. You can find the code here:
https://github.com/MinBZK/nl-wallet/releases/tag/v0.1.25-beta-20240326
More information…

Release Wallet 0.1.25 · MinBZK/nl-wallet
All commits in this release: v0.1.24-beta-20240305...v0.1.25-beta-20240326 Features Implement issuance with OpenID4VCI protocol Drop openid dependency in favour of our own code Remove mock PID is...

KestRel: Relational Verification Using E-Graphs for Program Alignment
Robert Dickerson, Prasita Mukherjee, Benjamin Delaware
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08106

KestRel: Relational Verification Using E-Graphs for Program Alignment
Many interesting program properties involve the execution of multiple programs, including observational equivalence, noninterference, co-termination, monotonicity, and idempotency. One popular approach to reasoning about these sorts of relational properties is to construct and verify a product program: a program whose correctness implies that the individual programs exhibit the desired relational property. A key challenge in product program construction is finding a good alignment of the origin…

Modeling wood product carbon flows in southern us pine plantations: implications for carbon storage
https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13021-024-00254-4

Modeling wood product carbon flows in southern us pine plantations: implications for carbon storage - Carbon Balance and Management
Background Wood products continue to store carbon sequestered in forests after harvest and therefore play an important role in the total carbon storage associated with the forest sector. Trade-offs between carbon sequestration/storage in wood product pools and managed forest systems exist, and in order for forest sector carbon modeling to be meaningful, it must link wood product carbon with the specific forest system from which the products originate and have the ability to incorporate in situ …

Amazon rolls out a generative AI feature that creates a product page, including a description and images, using information from a seller's external website (Emilia David/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/13/24099685/amazon-generative…

Amazon will let sellers paste a link so AI can make a product page
Amazon will begin rolling out the new AI tool that lets sellers paste a link to generate product pages to US users soon.

A small grill for small meals: #1 or #2?

"Air pollution can make insects mate with the wrong species"
#Pollution #AirPollution #Insects

Air pollution can make insects mate with the wrong species
Ground-level ozone, a product of pollution from cars, degrades insect pheromones, and this can result in mismatched mating and sterile offspring

Daily Inspiration: "One day soon, you'll need an AI to know how to use Al!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
It's been just over a year and a half since OpenAI announced ChatGPT, and since then, the AI floodgates have been opened. That company, along with Google and Microsoft, is locked in an artificial intelligence arms race, regularly offering up new features, new ways of integrating into existing product lines, and new fronts in the AI software wars. At the same time, Apple …

Daily Inspiration: Knowledge and AI – “One day soon, you’ll need an AI to know how to use Al!”

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10928 has been replaced.
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A p-adic analog of Hasse-Davenport product relation involving epsilon-factors
In this paper we prove some generalizations of the classical Hasse-Davenport product relation for certain arithmetic factors defined on p-adic fields, among them one finds the epsilon-factors appearing in Tate's thesis. We then show that these generalizations are equivalent to some representation theoretic identities relating the determinant of ramified local coefficients matrices defined for coverings of SL(2,F) to Plancherel measures and gamma-factors.

The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework
#productmanagement

I look forward to the Tesla fixed caravan product, formed of cardboard and painted in Airstream Aluminium finish using 400 kilo battery packs as ballast.
That the battery packs represent 93% of the $47,500 dollar cost of the caravan only shows the true value of Tesla the corporation.
Waterproofing is an aftermarket option.
Find my Caravan is in development.
#Tesla

Radio number for the Cartesian product of a tree and a complete graph
Payal Vasoya, Devsi Bantva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08400 https://

Radio number for the Cartesian product of a tree and a complete graph
A radio labelling of a graph $G$ is a mapping $f : V(G) \rightarrow \{0, 1, 2,\ldots\}$ such that $|f(u)-f(v)|\geq diam(G) + 1 - d(u,v)$ for every pair of distinct vertices $u,v$ of $G$, where $diam(G)$ is the diameter of $G$ and $d(u,v)$ is the distance between $u$ and $v$ in $G$. The radio number $rn(G)$ of $G$ is the smallest integer $k$ such that $G$ admits a radio labelling $f$ with $\max\{f(v):v \in V(G)\} = k$. In this paper, we give a lower bound for the radio number of the Ca…

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Privacy-Preserving Traceable Functional Encryption for Inner Product
Functional encryption introduces a new paradigm of public key encryption that decryption only reveals the function value of encrypted data. To curb key leakage issues and trace users in FE-IP, a new primitive called traceable functional encryption for inner product (TFE-IP) has been proposed. However, the privacy protection of user's identities has not been considered in the existing TFE-IP schemes. In order to balance privacy and accountability, we propose the concept of privacy-preserving tra…

Without intentional synthesis, "data driven" always means validating the biases baked into your semantic environment.
Data points that don't fit an org's established assumptions are easily swept under the rug.
Anyone interested in real insights needs to go data gathering and adopt a synthesis process that allows them to holistically inhabit that data, and intentionally curate a receptive semantic environment.

Don’t make “data-driven product decisions” — build a data-driven semantic environment
Like “growth mindset” or “agile development,” data-driven decision making has snuck its way into the way almost every product org describes itself. The trouble is that it doesn’t mean anything —…

fun how a product
- adds a new feature,
- marks it as beta with limited capacity/use,
- suggests contacting support for more capacity, and
- support tries convincing you not to use the new feature.

Tobias and Syd 😲🚬💗
Dramatized time travel romance series | In this time travel romance, Syd is at once seduced by and suspicious of the shape shifting Tobias, as he launches his new product. Hot and Smoking drama about why we still use tobacco.
Wins! 3rd in the Audio Fiction World Cup 2023 and the top UK podcast! ...
https://www.…

Tobias and Syd 😲🚬💗
Dramatized time travel romance series | In this time travel romance, Syd is at once seduced by and suspicious of the shape shifting Tobias, as he launches his new product. Hot and Smoking drama about why we still use tobacco. Wins! 3rd in the Audio Fiction World Cup 2023 and the top UK podcast! Winner Best Audio Fiction Standalone, Sydney Webfest 2023, Winner Best Audio Fiction Standalone Apulia Web fest 2023; Winner Best Narration Baltimore Next Media Fest... Ell Potter. 1 seasons, 4 epi…

“Raspberry Pi is hoping to use that cash to pay more engineers, bring aspects of its semiconductor design process in-house, and introduce new, more expensive product variants that better serve Raspberry Pi’s customers’ needs.”
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/2415735

Raspberry Pi is going public to expand its range of tiny computers
Raspberry Pi plans to file for a UK stock market listing, saying the IPO would help it to enable young people to “realize their potential through the power of computing.”

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On Strong Bounds for Trotter and Zeno Product Formulas with Bosonic Applications
The Trotter product formula and the quantum Zeno effect are both indispensable tools for constructing time-evolutions using experimentally feasible building blocks. In this work, we discuss assumptions under which quantitative bounds can be proven in the strong operator topology on Banach spaces and provide natural bosonic examples. Specially, we assume the existence of a continuously embedded Banach space, which relatively bounds the involved generators and creates an invariant subspace of the…

Raiders’ QB options in 2024 draft: Is Pac-12 product fallback option? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-qb-options-in-2024-draft-is-pac-12-product-fallback-option-3032834/

Raiders’ QB options in 2024 draft: Is Pac-12 product fallback option?
The Review-Journal’s weeklong series on the Raiders’ quarterback options in the 2024 NFL draft concludes with a look at an Oregon alum.

The electromagnetic scalar product in spatially-bounded domains
Maxim Vavilin, Carsten Rockstuhl, Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09031 …

The electromagnetic scalar product in spatially-bounded domains
Many physically interesting quantities of the electromagnetic field can be computed using the electromagnetic scalar product. However, none of the existing expressions for such scalar product are directly applicable when the fields are only known in a spatially-bounded domain, as is the case for many numerical Maxwell solvers. In here, we derive an expression for the electromagnetic scalar product between radiation fields that only involves integrals over closed spatial surfaces. The expression…

Come join us for @… Unwrapped Day 2 🙌
I'm especially excited about the last talk of the day!
https://datawrapper.de/unwrapped

Datawrapper: Create charts, maps, and tables
Create interactive, responsive & beautiful data visualizations with the online tool Datawrapper — no code required.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01078 has been replaced.
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Low Acceptance Agreement Tests via Bounded-Degree Symplectic HDXs
We solve the derandomized direct product testing question in the low acceptance regime, by constructing new high dimensional expanders that have no small connected covers. We show that our complexes have swap cocycle expansion, which allows us to deduce the agreement theorem by relying on previous work. Derandomized direct product testing, also known as agreement testing, is the following problem. Let X be a family of k-element subsets of [n] and let $\{f_s:s\toΣ\}_{s\in X}$ be an ensemble o…

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Locally conformally product structures on solvmanifolds
We study left invariant locally conformally product structures on simply connected Lie groups and give their complete description in the solvable unimodular case. Based on previous classification results, we then obtain the complete list of solvable unimodular Lie algebras up to dimension 5 which carry LCP structures, and study the existence of lattices in the corresponding simply connected Lie groups.

If you want to start a new #socialmedia network, you not only need a catchy name but also verbs for the most important activities on that network. If you later rename your product you may run into problems if no such verbs exist or can't be renamed.
Let me give you an example:
Let's say your new or renamed social service is called

This https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13562 has been replaced.
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The Reduced Tensor Product of Braided Tensor Categories Containing a Symmetric Fusion Category
We detail a construction of a symmetric monoidal structure, called the reduced tensor product on the 2-category of braided tensor categories $\mathbf{BTC}(\mathcal{A})$ containing a fixed symmetric fusion subcategory $\mathcal{A}$. The construction only depends on the braiding and monoidal structure of the categories involved. The main tool in the construction is an enriching procedure that is shown to give an equivalence between $\mathbf{BTC}(\mathcal{A})$ and a 2-category of so-called Drinfel…

what’s the name for that feeling when a SaaS product has a delayed workflow that takes such an inconsistent and unpredictable amount of time that you suspect the automation is fake and a human is behind the scenes configuring things manually

remember bcc32? well, it still exists https://www.embarcadero.com/free-tools/ccompiler

Für die coolen Op Art Hänger habe ich jetzt neu auch abstrakte Karrees in grün-gold und pfauenblau-gold gemalt, damit sind 5 Farbschläge für diesen handgemalten #wandklexschmuck auswählbar auf #artjewellery #artShop

This Uber Go-Get is so bizarre. Almost no actual product announcements worth anything, and now a weird attempt to tie in mental health with using Uber.
Also a bizarre attempt to joke/not really joke about Return to Office policies at Uber. Just…so strange.

Much enjoying talk by Joon Park (whose PhD I supervised in @UCL in 2012) on Marx and land rent

Topological product of modal logics with the McKinsey axiom
Andrey Kudinov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06334 https://arxiv.org/pdf/240…

Topological product of modal logics with the McKinsey axiom
In this paper we consider the topological products of modal logics of S4.1 and S4. We prove that it is equal to the fusion of logics S4.1 and S4 plus one additional axiom. We also show that this product is decidable. This is an example of a topological product of logics that is greater than the fusion but less than the expanding product of the corresponding logics.

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Incremental Extractive Opinion Summarization Using Cover Trees
Extractive opinion summarization involves automatically producing a summary of text about an entity (e.g., a product's reviews) by extracting representative sentences that capture prevalent opinions in the review set. Typically, in online marketplaces user reviews accumulate over time, and opinion summaries need to be updated periodically to provide customers with up-to-date information. In this work, we study the task of extractive opinion summarization in an incremental setting, where the und…

On the structure of graph product von Neumann algebras
Ian Charlesworth, Rolando de Santiago, Ben Hayes, David Jekel, Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Brent Nelson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08150

On the structure of graph product von Neumann algebras
We undertake a comprehensive study of structural properties of graph products of von Neumann algebras equipped with faithful, normal states, as well as properties of the graph products relative to subalgebras coming from induced subgraphs. Among the technical contributions in this paper include a complete bimodule calculation for subalgebras arising from subgraphs. As an application, we obtain a complete classification of when two subalgebras coming from induced subgraphs can be amenable relati…

Ich finde ja Vampire eher langweilig (und spiele daher auch das zur WoD gehörige System nicht). Aber "Eat the Reich" hat was ... https://rowanrookanddecard.com/product-category/game-systems/eat-the-reich/
(They had me at: Kill Hitle…

Mal'tsev products of varieties, I
Tomasz Penza, Anna B. Romanowska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08841 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.08…

Mal'tsev products of varieties, I
We investigate the Mal'tsev product $\mathcal{V} \circ \mathcal{W}$ of two varieties $\mathcal{V}$ and $\mathcal{W}$ of the same similarity type. Such a product is usually a quasivariety but not necessarily a variety. We give an equational base for the variety generated by $\mathcal{V} \circ \mathcal{W}$ in terms of identities satisfied in $\mathcal{V}$ and $\mathcal{W}$. Then the main result provides a new sufficient condition for $\mathcal{V} \circ \mathcal{W}$ to be a variety: If $\mathcal{W…

Modeling wood product carbon flows in southern us pine plantations: implications for carbon storage
https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13021-024-00254-4

Modeling wood product carbon flows in southern us pine plantations: implications for carbon storage - Carbon Balance and Management
Background Wood products continue to store carbon sequestered in forests after harvest and therefore play an important role in the total carbon storage associated with the forest sector. Trade-offs between carbon sequestration/storage in wood product pools and managed forest systems exist, and in order for forest sector carbon modeling to be meaningful, it must link wood product carbon with the specific forest system from which the products originate and have the ability to incorporate in situ …

An Umbrella Can Teach a Thing or Two About Product Longevity
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-0331f5e5-13c2746b0776e2bb
An Umbrella Can Teach a Thing or Two About Product Longevity This time of year always brings a few gems from outside Hackad…

Daily Inspiration: "World class innovators focus on customer-oriented innovation" - Futurist Jim Carroll
When I started compiling my list of 'world-class innovation,' I knew that I had to include the fact that I was seeing a significant shift in the source of innovation within many of my global clients.
What was the shift? Rather than pursuing an innovation pathway in which their internal R&D or leadership teams were always the origin of most new product and…

Daily Inspiration: Mastering Innovation – “World class innovators focus on customer-oriented innovation”

Exact matrix product state representations for a type of scale-invariant states
Huan-Qiang Zhou, Qian-Qian Shi, Ian P. McCulloch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09458

Exact matrix product state representations for a type of scale-invariant states
Exact matrix product state representations for a type of scale-invariant states are presented, which describe highly degenerate ground states arising from spontaneous symmetry breaking with type-B Goldstone modes in one-dimensional quantum many-body systems. As a possible application, such a representation offers a convenient but powerful means for evaluating the norms of highly degenerate ground states. This in turn allows us to perform a universal finite system-size scaling analysis of the en…

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A Secure Quantum Key Distribution Protocol Using Two-Particle Transmission
The evolution of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) relies on innovative methods to enhance its security and efficiency. Unextendible Product Bases (UPBs) hold promise in quantum cryptography due to their inherent indistinguishability, yet they are underutilized in QKD protocols. This work introduces a protocol utilizing UPBs to establish quantum keys between distant parties. Specifically, we propose a protocol utilizing a $3\times 3$ tile UPB, where Alice sequentially transmits subsystem states to…

Looking forward to talking at this event next week on the subject of ‘Hearing Things in Spaces’. #philosophy #perception #hearing

Anthropic hires Instagram and Artifact co-founder Mike Krieger as its chief product officer, after the startup released an iOS app for its Claude chatbot (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157240/mike-krieger-anthropic-ins…

Anthropic’s new CPO is Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger, formerly a co-founder of Instagram and recently the co-founder of AI news reader Artifact, will oversee all of Anthropic’s Claude-related products.

Wie lange es wohl dauern wird, bis #Apple unter #iOS die Verwendung von PiP-Videos zur Statusanzeige verbietet? https://blog.iconfactory.co…

Former Apple and Hulu executive Peter Distad is named CEO of the sports-focused streaming joint venture backed by Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/03/pete-dist

Pete Distad Named CEO Of ESPN, Fox & Warner Bros. Discovery’s Sports Streaming Service
The upcoming sports streaming service from ESPN, Fox & Warner Bros. Discovery has found its boss. The service, which doesn’t have a name yet, has appointed Pete Distad, a former Apple and Hulu exec as CEO. “This is an incredible opportunity to build and grow a differentiated product that will serve passionate sports fans in […]

Jeff Minter hat ein PSVR2-Spiel gemacht https://store.playstation.com/de-de/product/EP0182-PPSA10084_00-3651066137094003

Without intentional synthesis, "data driven" always means validating the biases baked into your semantic environment.
Data points that don't fit an org's established assumptions are easily swept under the rug.
Anyone interested in real insights needs to go data gathering and adopt a synthesis process that allows them to holistically inhabit that data, and intentionally curate a receptive semantic environment.

Don’t make “data-driven product decisions” — build a data-driven semantic environment
Like “growth mindset” or “agile development,” data-driven decision making has snuck its way into the way almost every product org describes itself. The trouble is that it doesn’t mean anything —…

Today Dropbox's paper, my favorite tool to write and share documents lost two documents that I had been editing for hours.
I can reproduce at will. No trace left of them.
I suspect this loved product is falling into neglect.
I tried Notion, but god it is slow. Are there other alternatives, for shared document editing that are fast and use Markdown for their backend?

To provoke such a conflict, all one has to do is state a technical opinion supported by part of the group as obviously the right choice while at the same time using language lightly coded to be hostile to the other faction on identity grounds. Make a technical argument and mention 'woke gender’ and you've now turned a technical argument into an anti-trans identity argument, and watch the group dissolve under infighting. The people who aren't trans or staunchly trans-supportive will be stuck trying to advocate for their technical opinion but shouted down because of the transphobia now implied by their lack of saying something about the original conflation; and since being indifferent to trans issues is a pretty safe mainstream choice for them, they’ll be supported in this, mostly by the worst people.
The trans folks and supporters will be largely unable to talk about the technical opinion they disagree with without the transphobia being addressed, the group will split, the project will die or become Yet Another One With White Guys Who Don't Particularly Care at the helm, or maybe the trans folks will bail and make something great but it’ll be divorced from any power and be yet another great technical product that few people use.

I love portraits. So many ppl don’t—as #artwork goes, they typically just don’t sell—but I love them. We have #paintings of ppl we don’t know hanging all over our house.

Contemporary portrait "Feast" (2023) Acrylic painting by Nataliya Bagatskaya
Happy New Year! The last painting of 2023. Managed to do it!) In this painting, I've poured my soul into capturing the essence of tranquility interwoven with mystery. The subject stands contemplativ...

Stolen valor guy, too:
Busted: GOP Senate candidate running on rural roots grew up 'three miles from a Trader Joe’s' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/gop-senate-candidate-rural/

Busted: GOP Senate candidate running on rural roots grew up 'three miles from a Trader Joe’s'
Businessman Tim Sheehy, who is running for US Senate in Montana, has been hyping his rural connections to voters on the campaign trail. But a new report suggests Sheehy is actually a product of suburbia. Farm life is a mainstay of Montana. US Census records show that the Big Sky State has the nation...

Text-Based Product Matching -- Semi-Supervised Clustering Approach
Alicja Martinek, Szymon {\L}ukasik, Amir H. Gandomi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10091 htt…

fun how a product
- adds a new feature,
- marks it as beta with limited capacity/use,
- suggests contacting support for more capacity, and
- support tries convincing you not to use the new feature.

FreeBSD-vm · Actions · GitHub Marketplace · GitHub
#freebsd when using github …

FreeBSD-vm - GitHub Marketplace
Run CI in FreeBSD for GitHub Actions

Nachdem die große OGL-Krise weitgehend abgeklungen ist - hat sich mal jemand mit CRACK!, dem Creative Commons- W20 Regelwerk von den Merry Mushmen auseinandergesetzt? So übel scheint mir das gar nicht zu sein und ggf. zu Unrecht etwas vergessen.
https://www.themerrymushmen.com/product-ca

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Signal Recovery From Product of Two Vandermonde Matrices
In this work, we present some new results for compressed sensing and phase retrieval. For compressed sensing, it is shown that if the unknown $n$-dimensional vector can be expressed as a linear combination of $s$ unknown Vandermonde vectors (with Fourier vectors as a special case) and the measurement matrix is a Vandermonde matrix, exact recovery of the vector with $2s$ measurements and $O(\mathrm{poly}(s))$ complexity is possible when $n \geq 2s$. Based on this result, a new class of measureme…

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Low Acceptance Agreement Tests via Bounded-Degree Symplectic HDXs
We solve the derandomized direct product testing question in the low acceptance regime, by constructing new high dimensional expanders that have no small connected covers. We show that our complexes have swap cocycle expansion, which allows us to deduce the agreement theorem by relying on previous work. Derandomized direct product testing, also known as agreement testing, is the following problem. Let X be a family of k-element subsets of [n] and let $\{f_s:s\toΣ\}_{s\in X}$ be an ensemble o…

The EU opens a formal DSA investigation into Alibaba's AliExpress over illegal content concerns, product recommendations, and more, the third DSA investigation (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/14/eu-opens-i

This https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13562 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

The Reduced Tensor Product of Braided Tensor Categories Containing a Symmetric Fusion Category
We detail a construction of a symmetric monoidal structure, called the reduced tensor product on the 2-category of braided tensor categories $\mathbf{BTC}(\mathcal{A})$ containing a fixed symmetric fusion subcategory $\mathcal{A}$. The construction only depends on the braiding and monoidal structure of the categories involved. The main tool in the construction is an enriching procedure that is shown to give an equivalence between $\mathbf{BTC}(\mathcal{A})$ and a 2-category of so-called Drinfel…

epinions: Epinions product ratings (2005)
A bipartite network of users and the products they rated on the website Epinions.com. A user connects to all products on which that user entered a rating. Edge weight represents the rating score, and edges are timestamped.
This network has 876252 nodes and 13668320 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Timestamps, Weighted

Daily Inspiration: "World class innovators focus on customer-oriented innovation" - Futurist Jim Carroll
When I started compiling my list of 'world-class innovation,' I knew that I had to include the fact that I was seeing a significant shift in the source of innovation within many of my global clients.
What was the shift? Rather than pursuing an innovation pathway in which their internal R&D or leadership teams were always the origin of most new product and…

Daily Inspiration: Mastering Innovation – “World class innovators focus on customer-oriented innovation”

Much enjoying talk by Joon Park (whose PhD I supervised in @UCL in 2012) on Marx and land rent

Du liebst kunstvolle Überraschungen?
Klex, Spaß, Spannung, Ui und Aww das ganze Jahr über und nicht nur im Advent?
Dann guck mal da, ich pack Dir ne klexorbitante Wundertüte mit handgemaltem Miniatur-#Buntfug (und hab ein paar Erlkönige dafür im Lager ☺): https://www.wandklex.art/product/die-klexorbitante-ganzjahres-kunst-wundertuete-der-handgemalte-klexklusive-und-streng-geheime-inhalt-wird-extra-fuer-dich-kuratiert-199189.

CoinShares: as bitcoin topped $72K, a record $2.7B flowed into crypto assets last week; in 2024 so far, $10.3B flowed to crypto assets, close to 2021's $10.6B (Elijah Nicholson-Messmer/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20<…

Crypto Product Inflows Soar to Record High, CoinShares Says
A wave of investor interest is driving billions of dollars into cryptocurrency assets this year, pushing inflows to record-breaking levels, according to CoinShares International Ltd.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06747 has been replaced.
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MetaSplit: Meta-Split Network for Limited-Stock Product Recommendation
Compared to business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce systems, consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce platforms usually encounter the limited-stock problem, that is, a product can only be sold one time in a C2C system. This poses several unique challenges for click-through rate (CTR) prediction. Due to limited user interactions for each product (i.e. item), the corresponding item embedding in the CTR model may not easily converge. This makes the conventional sequence modeling based approaches cannot…

ViCAR: Visualizing Categories with Automated Rewriting in Coq
Bhakti Shah, William Spencer, Laura Zielinski, Ben Caldwell, Adrian Lehmann, Robert Rand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08163

ViCAR: Visualizing Categories with Automated Rewriting in Coq
We present ViCAR, a library for working with monoidal categories in the Coq proof assistant. ViCAR provides definitions for categorical structures that users can instantiate with their own verification projects. Upon verifying relevant coherence conditions, ViCAR gives a set of lemmas and tactics for manipulating categorical structures. We also provide a visualizer that can display any composition and tensor product of morphisms as a string diagram, showing its categorical structure. This enabl…

The average commercial cleaning product is made up of 80% water and 20% chemicals. But how are these chemicals affecting our health? Find out more on my latest blog post.
#Cleaning #Sustainable #Sustainability

The Joys Of Cleaning Ecologically
The average commercial cleaning product is made up of 80% water and 20% chemicals. But how are these chemicals affecting our health?

Mal'tsev products of varieties, II
Tomasz Penza, Anna B. Romanowska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08843 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.0…

Mal'tsev products of varieties, II
The Mal'tsev product of two varieties of the same similarity type is not in general a variety, because it can fail to be closed under homomorphic images. In the previous paper we provided a new sufficient condition for such a product to be a variety. In this paper we extend that result by weakening the assumptions regarding the two varieties. We also explore the various special cases of our new result and provide a number of examples of its application.

✒️ Evaluating Large Language Models for Material Selection
(... actually a very nice example of an evaluation project for a generative AI)
#ai

Evaluating Large Language Models for Material Selection
Material selection is a crucial step in conceptual design due to its significant impact on the functionality, aesthetics, manufacturability, and sustainability impact of the final product. This study investigates the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for material selection in the product design process and compares the performance of LLMs against expert choices for various design scenarios. By collecting a dataset of expert material preferences, the study provides a basis for evaluating how w…

Meh

Looking forward to talking at this event next week on the subject of ‘Hearing Things in Spaces’. #philosophy #perception #hearing

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02130 has been replaced.
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Using LLMs for the Extraction and Normalization of Product Attribute Values
Product offers on e-commerce websites often consist of a textual product title and a textual product description. In order to provide features such as faceted product filtering or content-based product recommendation, the websites need to extract attribute-value pairs from the unstructured product descriptions. This paper explores the potential of using large language models (LLMs), such as OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, to extract and normalize attribute values from product titles and product des…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00796 has been replaced.
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Scalable entanglement certification via quantum communication
Harnessing the advantages of shared entanglement for sending quantum messages often requires the implementation of complex two-particle entangled measurements. We investigate entanglement advantages in protocols that use only the simplest two-particle measurements, namely product measurements. For experiments in which only the dimension of the message is known, we show that robust entanglement advantages are possible, but that they are fundamentally limited by Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering. …

CoinShares: as bitcoin topped $72K, a record $2.7B flowed into crypto assets last week; in 2024 so far, $10.3B flowed to crypto assets, close to 2021's $10.6B (Elijah Nicholson-Messmer/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20<…

Crypto Product Inflows Soar to Record High, CoinShares Says
A wave of investor interest is driving billions of dollars into cryptocurrency assets this year, pushing inflows to record-breaking levels, according to CoinShares International Ltd.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07539 has been replaced.
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Crepant resolutions of stratified varieties via gluing
Let $X$ be a variety with a stratification $\mathcal{S}$ into smooth locally closed subvarieties such that $X$ is locally a product along each stratum (e.g., a symplectic singularity). We prove that assigning to each open subset $U \subset X$ the set of isomorphism classes of locally projective crepant resolutions of $U$ defines an $\mathcal{S}$-constructible sheaf of sets. Thus, for each stratum $S$ and basepoint $s \in S$, the fundamental group acts on the set of germs of projective crepant r…

I love portraits. So many ppl don’t—as #artwork goes, they typically just don’t sell—but I love them. We have #paintings of ppl we don’t know hanging all over our house.

Contemporary portrait "Feast" (2023) Acrylic painting by Nataliya Bagatskaya
Happy New Year! The last painting of 2023. Managed to do it!) In this painting, I've poured my soul into capturing the essence of tranquility interwoven with mystery. The subject stands contemplativ...

Palo Alto Networks alerts customers that hackers are exploiting a zero-day in its popular GlobalProtect VPN product and promises a patch by April 14 (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/vpn-zero-day-palo-alto-networks

Palo Alto Networks warns of zero-day in VPN product
The company released an advisory about a vulnerability in the popular GlobalProtect VPN product that was unknown to security researchers until this week.

Palo Alto Networks alerts customers that hackers are exploiting a zero-day in its popular GlobalProtect VPN product and promises a patch by April 14 (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/vpn-zero-day-palo-alto-networks

Palo Alto Networks warns of zero-day in VPN product
The company released an advisory about a vulnerability in the popular GlobalProtect VPN product that was unknown to security researchers until this week.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07823 has been replaced.
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Recursive expansion of Tanner graph: a method to construct stabilizer codes with high coding rate
Quantum stabilizer codes face the problem of low coding rate. In this article, following the idea of recursively expanding Tanner graph proposed in our previous work, we try to construct new stabilizer codes with high coding rate, and propose XZ-type Tanner-graph-recursive-expansion (XZ-TGRE) code and Tanner-graph-recursive-expansion hypergraph product (TGRE-HP) code. XZ-TGRE code have zero asymptotic coding rate, but its coding rate tends to zero extremely slowly with the growth of code length…

Apple is no longer including stickers with their computers (probably a good thing, they’ve been working for a while to really reduce packaging waste).
Here’s how the unboxing experience was like with an Apple IIgs and the beautiful classic 1980s Apple rainbow stickers. :apple_old_logo:
#retrocomputing

Total Variation Distance for Product Distributions is $\#\mathsf{P}$-Complete
Arnab Bhattacharyya, Sutanu Gayen, Kuldeep S. Meel, Dimitrios Myrisiotis, A. Pavan, N. V. Vinodchandran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08255

OpenAI announces GPT-4o, its new flagship generative AI model, which is faster and cheaper, natively multimodal, and is available for free to all ChatGPT users (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/13/openais-newest-model-is-gpt-4o/<…

OpenAI debuts GPT-4o 'omni' model now powering ChatGPT | TechCrunch
During its "Spring Update" event, OpenAI debuted a number of upgrades and enhancements to its generative AI product portfolio.

A deep dive into Vision Pro by Meta's ex-VP of VR Hugo Barra: the audacity of Apple's hardware decisions, a dull software story, how Meta can respond, and more (Hugo Barra/Hugo's Blog)
https://hugo.blog/2024/03/11/vision-pro/

Vision Pro is an over-engineered “devkit” // Hardware bleeds genius & audacity but software story is disheartening // What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right // Why Meta could finally have its Android moment
Friends and colleagues have been asking me to share my perspective on the Apple Vision Pro as a product. Inspired by my dear friend Matt Mullenweg’s 40th post, I decided to put pen to paper. …

Google partners with Bayer on an AI product that can flag anomalies within images for radiologists and summarize information from a patient's medical history (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/09/google-partners…

Google tests removing links to CA news sites to measure the impact of the California Journalism Preservation Act and pauses investments in the CA news ecosystem (Jaffer Zaidi/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/products/news/calif…

Why the California Journalism Preservation Act is putting support of the news ecosystem at risk
CJPA is unworkable and may result in changes to our services in California. As a result, we’re testing potential product implementations.

Google tests removing links to CA news sites to measure the impact of the California Journalism Preservation Act and pauses investments in the CA news ecosystem (Jaffer Zaidi/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/products/news/calif…

Why the California Journalism Preservation Act is putting support of the news ecosystem at risk
CJPA is unworkable and may result in changes to our services in California. As a result, we’re testing potential product implementations.