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Sad truth. "The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend" https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/devaluing-frontend

The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend
I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals, and executive assistants. Our work is seen as important, certainly, but just not the same as, or as important as, the “real” work.

Living rurally raises the risk of intimate partner violence for women. The main risk factors are the same as in the city, but there are issues specific to the bush that have to be addressed: In rural Australia, everyone knows your business – so it’s harder for victims of violence to get help [ie everyone knows but nobody wants to intervene]

Short blog post with a very short history of #datascience based on my hands-on Data Science Introduction --> https://medium.com/@f.huber/ver…

Very short history of Data Science: Why now? (and no, is not the same as Statistics!)
For Data Science to appear many factors were needed. Here a short introduction to what Data Science is and what it is based on.

Refutability as Recursive as Provability
Paola Cattabriga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04038 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.04038

Refutability as Recursive as Provability
Godel numbering is an arithmetization of sintax which defines provability by coding a primitive recursive predicate, Pf(x,v). A multiplicity of researches and results all around this well-known recursive predicate are today widespread in many areas of logic and AI. Not equally investigated is the refutability predicate defined by Godel numbering within the same primitive recursive status. Rf(x,v) can be defined as a recursive predicate meaning that x is the Godel number of a refutation in PA of…

“Why asking our media to get it right on Trump’s threat to democracy is not remotely the same as being in the tank for Biden.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/181353/new-york-times-editor-joe-kahn-defense-coverage-trump

Top New York Times Editor Offers Stunning Defense of Coverage of Trump
Why asking our media to get it right on Trump’s threat to democracy is not remotely the same as being in the tank for Biden

New blog post: Streaming HTML
https://ar.al/2024/03/08/streaming-html/
Let me show you how easy it is to create a simple counter web app using the new Streaming HTML workflow in Kitten before peeling away the magic layer by layer so you learn how to make the same app usi…

World Health Org air quality mismatch/hypocrisy
It's now come out that when the World Health Org did its own "return to office" in May 2020, they upgraded air quality! while telling _us_ "covid isn't airborne, that's a myth"!
Maaaybe the department talking to the world wasn't the same department as sorted out the precautions and wrote that document.
But still extremely "do as I say, not as I do".
Info & image via Maarten De Cock on Twitter.
#CovidIsAirborne #WHO

"As far as I know, there are no laws against eating broken glass. You’re free to doomscroll through your cabinets, smash your favorite water cup, then scarf down the shards. A ban on eating broken glass would be overwhelmingly irrelevant, since most people just don’t do it, and for good reason. Unfortunately, you can’t say the same about another dangerous habit: TikTok." Forget a Ban — Why Are Journalists Using TikTok in the First Place?

Leaving Corvat 🍔🐦‍⬛😴
Dramatized surreal post-modern urban fantasy travelogue | They call me Sleeper. I worked the same brain dead job, at the same fast food place, all of my life. And I’ve always lived in the same town. No one that lives in Corvat, ever leaves. Until today. Today I leave. Join my on my adventure.
2 ...
https://www.…

Leaving Corvat 🍔🐦‍⬛😴
Dramatized surreal post-modern urban fantasy travelogue | They call me Sleeper. I worked the same brain dead job, at the same fast food place, all of my life. And I’ve always lived in the same town. No one that lives in Corvat, ever leaves. Until today. Today I leave. Join my on my adventure. 2 seasons, 20 episodes as of Dec 10, 2023.

Aaaaaa idk what to do

• Delete my current WiiU user so I can login my Pretendo account with the same username as my NNID
  • Pros: use the same username, easier for people to find me
  • Cons: no longer able to log into the parts of nintendo network which are still working, risking losing my mk8 save if I didn’t use savemii correctly
• Create a pretendo account with a different username
  • Cons: harder for people to find me
  • Pros: don’t have to delete my current account (which is also kinda a con since you can’t reorder accounts on the wiiu)

Followup on `tokio-tar`. As expected, nothing happened so far.
Apparently there is also a `tokio-tar-up2date` crate which is exactly the same thing as `tokio-tar` right now. Probably it was created as a temporary hack while `tokio-tar` was unresponsive.
Then, there is a `krata-tokio-tar` crate that's more recent. However, this one really seems like fork of a fork that was created for the same of some specific project and still without any hope of long-term maintenance. I've refiled my pull request there as well.
I've also filed a bug for #UV, since using dead dependencies is not a good practice.
#RustLang #Gentoo
https://crates.io/search?q=tokio-tar
https://github.com/edera-dev/tokio-tar/pull/1
https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/3423

Interesting remarks by Strevens in response to Kitcher's book on the aims and methods of philosophy
> philosophy’s most influential counterexamples are intended ... to play the same role as anomalies in Kuhnian science: to serve as the brave little facts that bring down great theories and make progress possible. If philosophical thought-experimenters conduct themselves ... as empirical scientists... it might be no bad thing for the enterprise of philosophy

Philosophy as a Science and as a Humanity? - Philosophia
This commentary on Philip Kitcher’s book What’s the Use of Philosophy? addresses two questions. First, must philosophers be methodologically self-conscious to do good work? Second, is there value in the questions pursued in the traditional areas of analytic philosophy?

First school run by bike since we moved to the forest last year!
Kiddo was stoked. (As was I.)
School run by e-bike vs. by e-car:
Distance: about the same
Travel time: about the same
Cost of electricity: $1.50 round trip by car, vs. $0.20 round trip by e-bike. (Car route goes around a mountain, whereas bike route goes over a mountain each way.)
Exercise benefit of biking: Immense. Looking forward to getting back in shape!
Benefit of not using fossil…

Super interesting video about #yeg and #yyc. A few tidbits:
1) they're both the same size as Nashville or Raleigh but twice as dense.
2) LRT in Edmonton is more riders than SF Muni or Max in Portland
3) Calgary's LRT has higher ridership than SF's total system (Muni Bart CalTra…

Apple announces an Apple Pencil Pro, adding a squeeze gesture, haptic feedback, Find My support, and more, available for $129, the same as Pencil 2 (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/07/apple-pe…

Apple Pencil Pro launches, with swappable tips, eraser, squeeze gesture, and FindMy support - 9to5Mac
Alongside the new iPads, a new Apple Pencil Pro has been announced, priced at $129 – the same price as...

Today I bought some new cocktail making tools that are branded “Barfly”.
As someone who was very active on the web in the ‘10s, it takes some effort to not have my brain jump to the same syntax as bit.ly
🤮
They do seem like good bar tools though…

At 35% we still have a long way to go on women’s representation https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/at-35-we-still-have-a-long-way-to-go-on-womens-representation/ n

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.

Naive homotopy theories in cartesian closed categories
Enrique Ruiz Hern\'andez, Pedro Sol\'orzano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03793 https://…

Naive homotopy theories in cartesian closed categories
An elementary notion of homotopy can be introduced between arrows in a cartesian closed category $E$. The input is a finite-product-preserving endofunctor $Π_0$ with a natural transformation $p$ from the identity which is surjective on global elements. As expected, the output is a new category $E_p$ with objects the same objects as $E$. Further assumptions on $E$ provide a finer description of $E_p$ that relates it to the classical homotopy theory where $Π_0$ could be interpreted as the ``p…

Even as U.S. President Joe Biden flew to Israel after the Oct. 7 catastrophe to show his complete support
—the Biden administration began warning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government not to make the same mistakes the United States did after its own 9/11.
https://

Israel's 9/11: How Its Invasion of Gaza Is Becoming Iraq-Like
Six months in, there’s still no plan for after the war, U.S. officials say.

I use the same small trick as @… to bookend my days: https://everythingchanges.us/blog/bookending/

Bookending | everything changes
Here’s a small trick that worked for me over the dozen years I led remote teams: at the end of your working day, shut down every app on your machine. Yes, all of them.

"but PeaceNotWar is the same as #xzbackdoor "
no, no they're not.
one is a secretive RCE.
one is a protest.
"why did that dev get off Scott free?"
they edited their protest to make just a text file instead of wiping files.
#cybersecurity

The NY Times is a mess, episode 1,000,000. https://newrepublic.com/article/181353/new-york-times-editor-joe-kahn-defense-coverage-trump

Top New York Times Editor Offers Stunning Defense of Coverage of Trump
Why asking our media to get it right on Trump’s threat to democracy is not remotely the same as being in the tank for Biden

"France moves to ban ‘forever chemicals’ in products - but lobbyists fight to keep nonstick pans"
#France #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

Could ‘forever chemicals’ soon be banned in France?
Forever chemicals are the 'health scandal of the century’ on the same level as asbestos, say French politicians.

I will be streaming in 6 hours, and practicing my skills as an octopus by playing Elite Dangerous and Hackmud at the same time while programming on the side

IT’S CICADA TIME!
“2024 is a special year for periodical cicadas:
- For the first time since 2015 a 13-year brood will emerge in the same year as a 17-year brood.
- For the first time since 1998 adjacent 13-and 17-year broods will emerge in the same year.
- For the first time since 1803 Brood XIX and XIII will co-emerge.
- You will be able to see all seven named periodical cicada species as adults in the same year, which will not happen again until 2037. You wil…

The 2024 Periodical Cicada Emergence | Periodical Cicada Information Pages
In 2024, 13-year Brood XIX, which is the largest of all periodical cicada broods, will co-emerge with 17-year Brood XIII; these two broods are adjacent (but ...

Millions of small coffee growers vs. central monitoring from 7000 km away: a classic #commons governance story?
https://www.theguardian.com/global-de…

Felt rather unproductive today, so I decided to check out some games instead. So, this is where you come in: Tell me why I'm dead wrong – and why those are your favorite games ever! 😜 (Both are rated as "Overwhelmingly Positive")
#BuckshotRoulette #SheepyAShortAdventure

I am so glad I didn't absolutely *have* to buy an RTX card from this generation. At least in my opinion, the prices were the right indicator that even the lower tier Nvidia RT-capable cards are an early adopter thing dressed as a mass product. You don't *need* to play games with RT, unless you love paying more for lower resolution upscaled to an extrapolated image, at lower FPS and higher lag. Today's mass technology could give you 100-200 FPS native QHD without robbing you blin…

#Requiescat One last nugget, I promise. In 2009, #SteveAlbini wrote this for Record Store Day and the #ChicagoReader published it as an ad for

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A Fixed-Parameter Tractable Algorithm for Counting Markov Equivalence Classes with the same Skeleton
Causal DAGs (also known as Bayesian networks) are a popular tool for encoding conditional dependencies between random variables. In a causal DAG, the random variables are modeled as vertices in the DAG, and it is stipulated that every random variable is independent of its ancestors conditioned on its parents. It is possible, however, for two different causal DAGs on the same set of random variables to encode exactly the same set of conditional dependencies. Such causal DAGs are said to be Marko…

Former Rolling Stone EIC Noah Shachtman is returning to Wired as a contributing editor, where he worked in the same capacity from 2006 to 2013 (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/shachtman-returning-to-wir…

Shachtman returning to Wired as contributing editor - Talking Biz News
Katie Drumm, global editor in chief of Wired, send out the following on Tuesday: Hi All — I’m very, very excited to share that the one and only Noah Shachtman is returning to WIRED as contributing editor. Noah was most recently the Editor-in-Chief of Rolling Stone, which he reinvigorated over two-and-a-half years, leaning hard into […]

PCH-EM: A solution to information loss in the photon transfer method
Aaron J. Hendrickson, David P. Haefner, Stanley H. Chan, Nicholas R. Shade, Eric R. Fossum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04498

PCH-EM: A solution to information loss in the photon transfer method
Working from a Poisson-Gaussian noise model, a multi-sample extension of the Photon Counting Histogram Expectation Maximization (PCH-EM) algorithm is derived as a general-purpose alternative to the Photon Transfer (PT) method. This algorithm is derived from the same model, requires the same experimental data, and estimates the same sensor performance parameters as the time-tested PT method, all while obtaining lower uncertainty estimates. It is shown that as read noise becomes large, multiple d…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07952 has been replaced.
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Theoretical proposal for the experimental realization of realignment operation
Realignment operation has a significant role in detecting bound as well as free entanglement. Just like partial transposition, it is also based on permutations of the matrix elements. However, the physical implementation of realignment operation is not known yet. In this letter, we address the problem of experimental realization of realignment operation and to achieve this aim, we propose a theoretical proposal for the same. We first show that after applying the realignment operation on a bipar…

'Literally a zoo,' Dalton Schultz blasts Jerry Jones’ Cowboys culture and claims he’s glad to be on Texans, where focus is ‘only on football’ https://www.yardbarker.c…

'Literally a zoo,' Dalton Schultz blasts Jerry Jones’ Cowboys culture and claims he’s glad to be on Texans, where focus is ‘only on football’
Last off-season, the Dallas Cowboys decided to part ways with Dalton Schultz. The tight end later ended up making a move to Houston, a different city but within the same State of Texas. After a successful season with the Houston Texans, Schultz has decided to stick with the team as he signed a contract extension with the team. The tight end appeared on The Pat McAfee Show recently and he expressed his gratitude for playing for the Texans. Furthermore, he also did not spare the Cowboys as he exp…

I’ve also seen someone being able to unlink their NNID from their user by emailing nintendo, which would have the same pros of both above options not having to transfer saves, but the same cons as the delete account option I have to wait for a response

Deliver Us Mars (Multi, XP'd on PS5)
Sequel to Deliver Us the Moon, venture to Mars as Kathy in search of her father and the people that abandoned Earth to its fate a decade ago.
It's more of the same from the 1st game, puzzle out traversal routes, watch holograms of the past to discover what happened, find collectibles. The plastic char models don't do justice to the great voice acting/the emotions they convey. Good game, tho.

Common Trends and Long-Run Multipliers in Nonlinear Structural VARs
James A. Duffy, Sophocles Mavroeidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05349 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.05349
arXiv:2404.05349v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While it is widely recognised that linear (structural) VARs may omit important features of economic time series, the use of nonlinear SVARs has to date been almost entirely confined to the modelling of stationary time series, because of a lack of understanding as to how common stochastic trends may be accommodated within nonlinear VAR models. This has unfortunately circumscribed the range of series to which such models can be applied -- and/or required that these series be first transformed to stationarity, a potential source of misspecification -- and prevented the use of long-run identifying restrictions in these models. To address these problems, we develop a flexible class of additively time-separable nonlinear SVARs, which subsume models with threshold-type endogenous regime switching, both of the piecewise linear and smooth transition varieties. We extend the Granger-Johansen representation theorem to this class of models, obtaining conditions that specialise exactly to the usual ones when the model is linear. We further show that, as a corollary, these models are capable of supporting the same kinds of long-run identifying restrictions as are available in linear cointegrated SVARs.

I finished my first audio book today and not sure I enjoyed the experience as much as actually reading a book. At the same time, if you have a commute or something like that in your life, I can see it being excellent option next to podcasts.
And I can't imagine reading a serious non-fiction book that way. I highlight and take notes a lot, losing that seems like not ideal.

G\"odel Number based Clustering Algorithm with Decimal First Degree Cellular Automata
Vicky Vikrant, Narodia Parth P, Kamalika Bhattacharjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04881 …

Gödel Number based Clustering Algorithm with Decimal First Degree Cellular Automata
In this paper, a decimal first degree cellular automata (FDCA) based clustering algorithm is proposed where clusters are created based on reachability. Cyclic spaces are created and configurations which are in the same cycle are treated as the same cluster. Here, real-life data objects are encoded into decimal strings using Gödel number based encoding. The benefits of the scheme is, it reduces the encoded string length while maintaining the features properties. Candidate CA rules are identifie…

Earlier this week, I rode on the BART train (light rail in the San Francisco Bay Area) for the first time since 2019. I've avoided it throughout the pandemic so far because I don't want to get sick, but thanks to their air quality upgrades and my extremely effective PAPR, I decided to give it a try.
I'm glad I did!
Compared to driving:
* much less stressful,
* same total travel time,
* lower climate impact,
* much cheaper - saving me $35 for the d…

I have decided, as a #selfhost with just two other people on my instance, that I'm going to limit threads.net following the example of @… quoted below. I didn't know that you can “unlimit” specific accounts! This is an interesting option.
For other a…

Some people have the same #name as their first name and as their last name. Like Ahmed Ahmed.
Are there jurisdictions that prohibit duplicating the first name of a child as their middle name? Think Daniel Daniel Smith.
What about hyphenated first names, such as Jean-Pierre. Why not Pierre-Pierre?
After all, there are people with first name "Dee Dee".

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07275 has been replaced.
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Coarse-graining black holes out of equilibrium with boundary observables on time slice
In black hole thermodynamics, defining coarse-grained entropy for dynamical black holes has long been a challenge, and various proposals, such as generalized entropy, have been explored. Guided by the AdS/CFT, we introduce a new definition of coarse-grained entropy for a dynamical black hole in Lorentzian Einstein gravity. On each time slice, this entropy is defined as the horizon area of an auxiliary Euclidean black hole that shares the same mass, (angular) momenta, and asymptotic normalizable…

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Exact Cluster Dynamics of Indirect Reciprocity in Complete Graphs
Heider's balance theory emphasizes cognitive consistency in assessing others, as is expressed by ``The enemy of my enemy is my friend.'' At the same time, the theory of indirect reciprocity provides us with a dynamical framework to study how to assess others based on their actions as well as how to act toward them based on the assessments. Well-known are the `leading eight' from L1 to L8, the eight norms for assessment and action to foster cooperation in social dilemmas while resisting the inva…

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Age Determination of LAMOST Red Giant Branch stars based on the Gradient Boosting Decision Tree method
In this study we estimate the stellar ages of LAMOST DR8 Red Giant Branch (RGB) stars based on the Gradient Boosting Decision Tree algorithm (GBDT). We used 2,643 RGB stars extracted from the APOKASC-2 astero-seismological catalog as training data-set. After selecting the parameterses ([$α$/Fe], [C/Fe], T$_{eff}$, [N/Fe], [C/H], log g) highly correlated with age using GBDT, we apply the same GBDT method to the new catalog of more than 590,000 stars classified as RGB stars. The test data-set sh…

Same story.
Left: WaPo headline
Right: NYT headline
The Times is correct on this one, as the Post admits grudgingly in the second paragraph of its story, which goes on to read like an editorial for cutting social security.

Memetic Differential Evolution Methods for Semi-Supervised Clustering
Pierluigi Mansueto, Fabio Schoen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04322 https://

Memetic Differential Evolution Methods for Semi-Supervised Clustering
In this paper, we deal with semi-supervised Minimum Sum-of-Squares Clustering (MSSC) problems where background knowledge is given in the form of instance-level constraints. In particular, we take into account "must-link" and "cannot-link" constraints, each of which indicates if two dataset points should be associated to the same or to a different cluster. The presence of such constraints makes the problem at least as hard as its unsupervised version: it is no more true that each point is associ…

An unoriented analogue of slice-torus invariant
Kouki Sato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04056 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.04056

An unoriented analogue of slice-torus invariant
A slice-torus invariant is an $\mathbb{R}$-valued homomorphism on the knot concordance group whose value gives a lower bound for the 4-genus such that the equality holds for any positive torus knot. Such invariants have been discovered in many of knot homology theories, while it is known that any slice-torus invariant does not factor through the topological concordance group. In this paper, we introduce the notion of "unoriented slice-torus invariant", which can be regarded as the same as slice…

"France moves to ban ‘forever chemicals’ in products - but lobbyists fight to keep nonstick pans"
#France #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

Could ‘forever chemicals’ soon be banned in France?
Forever chemicals are the 'health scandal of the century’ on the same level as asbestos, say French politicians.

uTNT: Unikernels for Efficient and Flexible Internet Probing
Maxime Letemple, Gaulthier Gain, Sami Ben Mariem, Laurent Mathy, Benoit Donnet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04036

uTNT: Unikernels for Efficient and Flexible Internet Probing
The last twenty years have seen the development and popularity of network measurement infrastructures. Internet measurement platforms have become common and have demonstrated their relevance in Internet understanding and security observation. However, despite their popularity, those platforms lack of flexibility and reactivity, as they are usually used for longitudinal measurements. As a consequence, they may miss detecting events that are security or Internet-related. During the same period, o…

Regularization for multiple Eisenstein series of level $N$
Hayato Kanno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04770 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.0…

Regularization for multiple Eisenstein series of level $N$
Bachmann and Tasaka discovered a relationship between multiple Eisenstein series (MES) of level 1 and formal iterated integrals corresponding to multiple zeta value (MZV). They also constructed shuffle regularized MES of level 1, which satisfies the shuffle relation that is same as multiple zeta values. Bachmann also constructed harmonic regularized MES. In this paper, we expand their results for arbitrary level and give some linear relations among MES of level N.

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Bethe subalgebras in Yangians and the wonderful compactification
We study the family of Bethe subalgebras in the Yangian $Y(\mathfrak{g})$ parameterized by the corresponding adjoint Lie group $G$. We describe their classical limits as subalgebras in the algebra of polynomial functions on the formal Lie group $G_1[[t^{-1}]]$. In particular we show that, for regular values of the parameter, these subalgebras are free polynomial algebras with the same Poincare series as the Cartan subalgebra of the Yangian. Next, we extend the family of Bethe subalgebras to the…

Levin's and Prucnal's theorems on Medvedev's logic of finite problems
Adam P\v{r}enosil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04349 https://

Levin's and Prucnal's theorems on Medvedev's logic of finite problems
The purpose of this note is to provide a transparent and unified retelling of both Skvortsov's proof of the structural completeness of Medvedev's logic of finite problems, which is a classical result originally due to Prucnal, and of Levin's proof that Medvedev's logic of finite problems is the largest extension of the (weak) Kreisel-Putnam logic with the disjunction property. Presenting both results together allows us to simplify their presentation, as they both hinge on the same lemma. There …

Bijections on pattern avoiding inversion sequences and related objects
JiSun Huh, Sangwook Kim, Seunghyun Seo, Heesung Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04091

Bijections on pattern avoiding inversion sequences and related objects
The number of inversion sequences avoiding two patterns $101$ and $102$ is known to be the same as the number of permutations avoiding three patterns $2341$, $2431$, and $3241$. This sequence also counts the number of Schröder paths without triple descents, restricted bicolored Dyck paths, $(101,021)$-avoiding inversion sequences, and weighted ordered trees. We provide bijections to integrate them together by introducing $F$-paths. Moreover, we define three kinds of statistics for each of the …

If we met today at #MarioKart8 on #WiiU, pls let me know y’all pretendo usernames!
I’m Luana and my Nintendo ID is LuanaNeder
I’m still figuring out what username I’ll choose in pretendo (rn I have an account with the same username as my nintendo one, but apparently you can login if you use the same username so I’ll pro have to make a new pretendo account). Lmk y’all usernames and I’ll follow you when I’ve figured it out!

We got the cats some cardboard scratchers. They said, "Hey, thanks for the comfy beds!" (and proceeded to scratch things right next to the scratchers instead of the scratchers themselves) 🙄
#CatsOfMastodon

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Cumulative differences between paired samples
The simplest, most common paired samples consist of observations from two populations, with each observed response from one population corresponding to an observed response from the other population at the same value of an ordinal covariate. The pair of observed responses (one from each population) at the same value of the covariate is known as a "matched pair" (with the matching based on the value of the covariate). A graph of cumulative differences between the two populations reveals differen…

“God said: ‘I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, fix this country, work all day, fight the Marxists, eat supper, then go to the Oval Office and stay up past midnight at a meeting of the heads of state.’ So God made Trump.”
To some, it is a baffling pairing. Evangelicals, who typically adhere to a literal reading of the Bible and, theoretically, follow a strict code that opposes infidelity, immorality and abortion and is critical of same-sex relationships, seem an odd match-up…

Dammit, the ATmega328s I ordered were the standard `P` version and not the `PB` version. So, just grabbed 25 ATmega328PB MCUs from Mouser and they should be in at the same time as the "Barduino" PCBs. #electronics

Tamanoi equation for orbifold Euler characteristics: revisited
Sabir M. Gusein-Zade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03843 https://arxiv.or…

Tamanoi equation for orbifold Euler characteristics: revisited
Tamanoi equation is a Macdonald type equation for the orbifold Euler characteristic and for its analogues of higher orders. It claims that the generating series of the orbifold Euler characteristics of a fixed order of analogues of the symmetric powers for a space with a finite group action can be represented as a certain unified (explicitly written) power series in the exponent equal to the orbifold Euler characteristic of the same order of the space itself. In the paper, in particular, we exp…

I loathe Paul Tierney as much as anyone, but the "controversy" around the wrongful awarding of the drop ball after a head injury is some serious blame-shifting from a team who had possession a full two-minutes later and coughed up the ball at the edge of the box to even allow the game-winner.
As many have pointed out, the more incompetent decision on the very same play is ignoring Yates' extremely reckless attempt. I would like to understand any VAR review on that.

I've been pretty upset about the FMA being bought out, and so much stuff becoming locked away, requiring users to sign up to access The Free Music Archive. I feel as though I cannot trust Peertube or Funkwhale to distribute exclusively free cultural works the same way the FMA did. I want to ensure I can do the same.
I also think I want to avoid scientific works, as they're already easy to access and widely distributed.

Earlier this week, I rode on the BART train (light rail in the San Francisco Bay Area) for the first time since 2019. I've avoided it throughout the pandemic so far because I don't want to get sick, but thanks to their air quality upgrades and my extremely effective PAPR, I decided to give it a try.
I'm glad I did!
Compared to driving:
* much less stressful,
* same total travel time,
* lower climate impact,
* much cheaper - saving me $35 for the d…

I am so glad I didn't absolutely *have* to buy an RTX card from this generation. At least in my opinion, the prices were the right indicator that even the lower tier Nvidia RT-capable cards are an early adopter thing dressed as a mass product. You don't *need* to play games with RT, unless you love paying more for lower resolution upscaled to an extrapolated image, at lower FPS and higher lag. Today's mass technology could give you 100-200 FPS native QHD without robbing you blin…

I made the same joke that @… made about declarative infrastructure definitions, using a different set of tools, a few years ago—interested to learn that nixOS covers a lot of the same applications as tools like Puppet

Reminder that alt text should aspire to give the same info as is conveyed by the graphic - as if you were on the phone to a friend, describing the picture or reading out text.
What you're aiming for is that the people who _can't_ see the graphic are then on the same footing as the ones who _did_ see it - able to appreciate the joke firsthand, or participate in the ensuing conversation.
(If there's text, most times that means copying the text.)
#access #inclusion

Gay couple makes history as first to marry in Greece
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/05/gay-wedding-greece/

FAIR 2.0: Extending the FAIR Guiding Principles to Address Semantic Interoperability
Lars Vogt, Philip Str\"omert, Nicolas Matentzoglu, Naouel Karam, Marcel Konrad, Manuel Prinz, Roman Baum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03345

FAIR 2.0: Extending the FAIR Guiding Principles to Address Semantic Interoperability
FAIR data presupposes their successful communication between machines and humans while preserving their meaning and reference, requiring all parties involved to share the same background knowledge. Inspired by English as a natural language, we investigate the linguistic structure that ensures reliable communication of information and draw parallels with data structures, understanding both as models of systems of interest. We conceptualize semantic interoperability as comprising terminological a…

Extensive-Form Game Solving via Blackwell Approachability on Treeplexes
Darshan Chakrabarti, Julien Grand-Cl\'ement, Christian Kroer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04680

Extensive-Form Game Solving via Blackwell Approachability on Treeplexes
In this paper, we introduce the first algorithmic framework for Blackwell approachability on the sequence-form polytope, the class of convex polytopes capturing the strategies of players in extensive-form games (EFGs). This leads to a new class of regret-minimization algorithms that are stepsize-invariant, in the same sense as the Regret Matching and Regret Matching$^+$ algorithms for the simplex. Our modular framework can be combined with any existing regret minimizer over cones to compute a N…

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Orbital angular momentum spectrum and entanglement in a rotating accelerated reference frame
The particle definition varies across different theories. The quantum field theory in curved spacetime shows that from the perspective of a linearly accelerated observer, an inertial empty space may be full of thermal particles. This effect is known as the Unruh effect. When the degrees of freedom of orbital angular momentum (OAM) are considered, all OAM modes share the same expected particle number. Here, we examine the OAM spectrum in a rotating accelerated reference frame to see how the spec…

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Universality in the 2d quasi-periodic Ising model and Harris-Luck irrelevance
We prove that in the 2d Ising Model with a weak bidimensional quasi-periodic disorder in the interaction, the critical behavior is the same as in the non-disordered case, that is the critical exponents for the specific heat and energy-energy correlations are identical and no logarithmic corrections are present. The disorder produces a quasi-periodic modulation of the amplitude of the correlations and a renormalization of the velocities, that is the coefficients of the rescaling of positions, an…

Soft-in Soft-out Decoding of Spherical Codes from Cartesian Powers of PAM Constellations
Reza Rafie Borujeny, Susanna E. Rumsey, Stark C. Draper, Frank R. Kschischang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04776

Soft-in Soft-out Decoding of Spherical Codes from Cartesian Powers of PAM Constellations
For applications in concatenated coding for optical communications systems, we examine the encoding and soft-decoding of short spherical codes constructed as constant-energy shells of the Cartesian power of pulse amplitude modulation constellations. These are unions of permutation codes having the same average power. We construct a list decoder for permutation codes by adapting Murty's algorithm, which is then used to determine mutual information curves for these permutation codes. In the proce…

While I might not have been selected for WWDC, I have reached the same conclusion as the Fox, those grapes were sour.

Advice for science writers: pretend, just for a moment, that you actually respect your readers' time. Stop telling rambling stories. So much of climate science writing is horrific to wade through bcs it's written using the same old rules for writing fiction novels: a hook, building energy, climax, etc. It's garbage. Don't do that shit. No one even knows how to write a useful abstract. Pretend your reader is busy doing smth important and u need to get the key points across as …

Just as any organization should know when it has fulfilled its purpose and should disband the same applies to hosting, especially you for example hosting something for yourself or others: What's your exit strategy? How can you or the people you host for migrate away from your platform? Should you no longer want to do the work how do you manage the migration of people away from your service?

So, I lost like 10 followers over the last few hours. Weird as hell.
I mean, it's fine if it was organic. I'm not everyone's cup of tea, but it seems sus that 10 people would all say "fuck that guy" all around the same time, for seemingly no reason? I didn't say anything controversial, AFAIK?🤔
I'm confused as hell.

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Quantum repeater node with free-space coupled trapped ions
The quantum repeater cell is a basic building block for a quantum network, as it allows to overcome the distance limitations due to unavoidable fiber loss in direct transmission. We demonstrate the implementation of a quantum repeater cell, based on two free-space coupled $^{40}$Ca$^+$ ions in the same trap that act as quantum memories. We demonstrate the asynchronous generation of atom-photon and photon-photon entanglement by controlled emission of single photons from the individually addresse…

Common Trends and Long-Run Multipliers in Nonlinear Structural VARs
James A. Duffy, Sophocles Mavroeidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05349 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.05349
arXiv:2404.05349v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While it is widely recognised that linear (structural) VARs may omit important features of economic time series, the use of nonlinear SVARs has to date been almost entirely confined to the modelling of stationary time series, because of a lack of understanding as to how common stochastic trends may be accommodated within nonlinear VAR models. This has unfortunately circumscribed the range of series to which such models can be applied -- and/or required that these series be first transformed to stationarity, a potential source of misspecification -- and prevented the use of long-run identifying restrictions in these models. To address these problems, we develop a flexible class of additively time-separable nonlinear SVARs, which subsume models with threshold-type endogenous regime switching, both of the piecewise linear and smooth transition varieties. We extend the Granger-Johansen representation theorem to this class of models, obtaining conditions that specialise exactly to the usual ones when the model is linear. We further show that, as a corollary, these models are capable of supporting the same kinds of long-run identifying restrictions as are available in linear cointegrated SVARs.

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#MemeWorthy

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Dramatized thriller series | While traveling through Europe, newly-wed influencer couple, Karlie and Tre, notice an almost identical couple is following them and posting the same content - imitating their photos, poses, filters, and tags. Their inquiry snowballs into a double homicide and an infl...
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TAGGED 👨‍❤️‍👨🏝️📲
Dramatized thriller series | While traveling through Europe, newly-wed influencer couple, Karlie and Tre, notice an almost identical couple is following them and posting the same content - imitating their photos, poses, filters, and tags. Their inquiry snowballs into a double homicide and an influencer-targeted cult. 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of May 22, 2023.

This is a good point. I’m a big proponent of *provider diversity*. Every cloud service you use should have a different login. Every piece of data you create should have an easily-accessible copy in your local file system. Everything on your computer should be backed up offsite with a separate cloud backup.
Do not put all your eggs into one cloud service basket. Do not use the same login for unrelated services. This rules out most of Apple’s cloud products for me.

Cooperative Evolutionary Pressure and Diminishing Returns Might Explain the Fermi Paradox: On What Super-AIs Are Like
Daniel Vallstrom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03685

Cooperative Evolutionary Pressure and Diminishing Returns Might Explain the Fermi Paradox: On What Super-AIs Are Like
With an evolutionary approach, the basis of morality can be explained as adaptations to problems of cooperation. With 'evolution' taken in a broad sense, evolving AIs that satisfy the conditions for evolution to apply will be subject to the same cooperative evolutionary pressure as biological entities. Here the adaptiveness of increased cooperation as material safety and wealth increase is discussed -- for humans, for other societies, and for AIs. Diminishing beneficial returns from increased a…

Latest Cowboys roster move sets the table for potential Zay Jones signing ahead of 2024 NFL season https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/latest_cowboys_roster_move_sets_the_tab…

Latest Cowboys roster move sets the table for potential Zay Jones signing ahead of 2024 NFL season
On the same day it was reported the Dallas Cowboys were hosting free agent wide receiver Zay Jones on a visit, veteran Martavis Bryant was released from the team, per NFL Network's Tom Pelissero. Bryant, who was reinstated from suspension by the NFL in 2023, signed with the Cowboys last season but never got to see playing time. In his first two years in the NFL, Bryant averaged over 60 yards per game and I even listed him as a potential 53-man roster surprise if he was able to turn back the han…

Inside "Are We Dating The Same Guy?" Facebook groups, which have a reported 3.5 million members, as some users say the dating forums cause more harm than good (Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/49QvRui

Are we dating the same guy? Facebook groups offer intel but upend lives.
The network has sometimes turned toxic for the men who are the subjects of posts and the women writing them.

Equivalence Testing: The Power of Bounded Adaptivity
Diptarka Chakraborty, Sourav Chakraborty, Gunjan Kumar, Kuldeep S. Meel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04230

Equivalence Testing: The Power of Bounded Adaptivity
Equivalence testing, a fundamental problem in the field of distribution testing, seeks to infer if two unknown distributions on $[n]$ are the same or far apart in the total variation distance. Conditional sampling has emerged as a powerful query model and has been investigated by theoreticians and practitioners alike, leading to the design of optimal algorithms albeit in a sequential setting (also referred to as adaptive tester). Given the profound impact of parallel computing over the past dec…

Trail Trap: a variant of Partizan Edge Geography
Calum Buchanan, MacKenzie Carr, Alexander Clifton, Stephen G. Hartke, Vesna Ir\v{s}i\v{c}, Nicholas Sieger, Rebecca Whitman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05195

Trail Trap: a variant of Partizan Edge Geography
We introduce a two-player game played on undirected graphs called Trail Trap, which is a variant of a game known as Partizan Edge Geography. One player starts by choosing any edge and moving a token from one endpoint to the other; the other player then chooses a different edge and does the same. Alternating turns, each player moves their token along an unused edge from its current vertex to an adjacent vertex, until one player cannot move and loses. We present an algorithm to determine which pl…

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Dramatized scifi comedy series | Meaney and Llewellyn are cadets in Lead Service, an organization established to police and protect the ever-expanding multiverse. They soon learn that things don’t always go by the book. JUMP LEADS is a science fiction comedy audiodrama series based on the webcomi...
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Jump Leads 🚀🤣🎭
Dramatized scifi comedy series | Meaney and Llewellyn are cadets in Lead Service, an organization established to police and protect the ever-expanding multiverse. They soon learn that things don’t always go by the book. JUMP LEADS is a science fiction comedy audiodrama series based on the webcomic of the same name. Based on the webcomic of the same name. 1 seasons, 6 episodes as of May 31, 2023.

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Yukawa Couplings at Infinite Distance and Swampland Towers in Chiral Theories
We study limits of vanishing Yukawa couplings of 4d chiral matter fields in Quantum Gravity, using as a laboratory type IIA orientifolds with D6-branes. In these theories chiral fermions arise at brane intersections, where an infinite tower of charged particles dubbed gonions are localised. We show that in the limit $Y\rightarrow 0$ some of these towers become asymptotically massless, while at the same time the kinetic term of some chiral fields becomes singular and at least two extra dimension…

What Cannot be Skipped About the Skiplist: A Survey of Skiplists and Their Applications in Big Data Systems
Venkata Sai Pavan Kumar Vadrevu, Lu Xing, Walid G. Aref
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04582

What Cannot be Skipped About the Skiplist: A Survey of Skiplists and Their Applications in Big Data Systems
Skiplists have become prevalent in systems. The main advantages of skiplists are their simplicity and ease of implementation, and the ability to support operations in the same asymptotic complexities as their tree-based counterparts. In this survey, we explore skiplists and their many variants. We highlight many scenarios of how skiplists are useful and fit well in these usage scenarios. We study several extensions to skiplists to make them fit for more applications, e.g., their use in the mult…

I love videos like this. 2 PCs, one $1300 USD more than the other. Same CPUs, GPUs, cases. Not as much performance difference as you'd think. #PC #Tech

FGS people, get yourself and your kids vaccinated and tell, don't ask, your friends and family to do the same!
There is no excuse for Measles to be making the rounds again!
#Health #Canada #World

This take on solar power is correct. And the same reasoning applies to batteries, which if anything are dropping in price even faster than PVs (it’s a less mature industry). https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/10/11/radical-energy-abundance/

Radical Energy Abundance
Originally published at Roots of Progress, based on this thread. Everyone knows the industrial revolution occurred centuries ago and involved steam engines. That was just the warm up. We are now a …

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Telling different unravelings apart via nonlinear quantum-trajectory averages
The Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad master equation (ME) governs the density matrix of open quantum systems (OQSs). When an OQS is subjected to weak continuous measurement, its state evolves as a stochastic quantum trajectory, whose statistical average solves the ME. The ensemble of such trajectories is termed an unraveling of the ME. We propose a method to operationally distinguish unravelings produced by the same ME in different measurement scenarios, using nonlinear averages of observa…

Gaza / thoughts
The cruelty of how people in Gaza are being treated is hard to get my head around.
At one level I do understand it. Humans are able to think of other humans as not mattering & different from them. And a lot of people in Israel are _intentionally_ brought up to think of Palestinians as different from them & not mattering. Plus Israeli news doesn't show them the same things we're seeing. But still.
Dreading what's going to happen next in Rafah.
#Gaza

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Magic squares, the symmetric group and Möbius randomness
Diaconis and Gamburd computed moments of secular coefficients in the CUE ensemble. We use the characteristic map to give a new combinatorial proof of their result. We also extend their computation to moments of traces of symmetric powers, where the same result holds but in a wider range. Our combinatorial proof is inspired by gcd matrices, as used by Vaughan and Wooley and by Granville and Soundararajan. We use these CUE computations to suggest a conjecture about moments of characters sums tw…

FGS people, get yourself and your kids vaccinated and tell, don't ask, your friends and family to do the same!
There is no excuse for Measles to be making the rounds again!
#Health #Canada #World

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Directed Acyclic Outerplanar Graphs Have Constant Stack Number
The stack number of a directed acyclic graph $G$ is the minimum $k$ for which there is a topological ordering of $G$ and a $k$-coloring of the edges such that no two edges of the same color cross, i.e., have alternating endpoints along the topological ordering. We prove that the stack number of directed acyclic outerplanar graphs is bounded by a constant, which gives a positive answer to a conjecture by Heath, Pemmaraju and Trenk [SIAM J. Computing, 1999]. As an immediate consequence, this show…