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Nova Group sets up new electricity generation company amid Russian attacks on infrastructure: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/12/nova-group-sets.html

Patriots' plan for Drake Maye: Here's how New England aims to set up rookie QB for success in Year 1

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/patriot<…

Patriots' plan for Drake Maye: Here's how New England aims to set up rookie QB for success in Year 1
The defensive-minded Jerod Mayo will hand his quarterback room off to his OC

People set up a Mastodon account, set to accept all valid follower-requests by default, don't turn on follow-request vetting, then they get mad when some services submit follow requests on behalf of users and their Mastodon server doesn't block it?
And the entity they get mad at isn't Mastodon for accepting follow-requests by default, but software running a service which allowed a user to submit a follow request.
It's Mastodon that made your follow-requests be accept-by-default, and you can switch it if you prefer to vet everyone!

Chess set's lost a black rook, so we're improvising

Just a reminder: You should have your own site, with your own links, on a domain that you control. We'll give you that for free on @… (just bring your own domain) and you can set it up in a few minutes. https://

Glitch: The friendly community where everyone builds the web
Simple, powerful, free tools to create and use millions of apps.

The Evergreen Web section in Kitten’s¹ settings now has its own page too (and uses Kitten’s new Streaming HTML² workflow).
If you have the previous version of your site up somewhere, you can use the 404-to-307 technique³ to forward missing pages to your old site so as not to break the Web.
I’ll add local static archive support later.
¹ https://…

app
A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

ASD, emotional memory, fears
Emotional memory is a bitch, and people in the spectrum are particularly vulnerable to it.
Let's say that something triggers the emotion of fear in you. You may be consciously recalling some bad memories, you may be imagining a possible outcome. However, when emotional memory comes into action, things are much worse. Your nervous system immediately brings the deep feeling of fear that is associated with the memory. You may even no longer be able to recall the memory, forget it entirely, yet your mind will ceaselessly keep hitting you with a whole set of emotions that you can't control, every single time it happens.
What's even worse, these things add up. Bad memories create fear. Fear creates more bad memories. These memories amplify the emotional reaction — and the wheel turns.
But the worst is the lack of understanding. People telling you that you are being irrational, that you are being an embarrassment to your family, that they have to give stuff up because of you. So the emotional memory becomes richer with the feelings of embarrassment, guilt and low self-esteem. All coalescing into a huge ball of emotion.
Today, you know it's not true. The fear wasn't irrational at all, it's pretty understandable in people who are #ActuallyAutistic, even "typical". Yet, what's the point of knowing that, if these emotions are deeply seated in your memory, and they will haunt you forever, and prevent you from ever having an illusion of normal life?

NOTICE: CALL FOR PROPOSALS:
AP, Lenfest Institute issue an open call for presenters at Democracy Demo Day forum in NYC.
Nonpartisan organizations working on projects to make news more secure and accessible during the 2024 election are invited to apply to share their ideas with industry leaders and funders.
Apply by March 22:

AP, Lenfest Institute open call for Democracy Demo Day presenters - Lenfest Institute
Projects working to make news more accessible during the 2024 election: Apply to present at Democracy Demo Day on May 1 in New York.

tired: being annoyed that a website/publication doesn't have a mastodon presence.
wired: just following that site directly with RSS using @….
i've set up relays for my 2 favorite #nyc news outlets, @…

Abrahamic Religion
Man sees other man as a threat. Man invents God, heaven, hell, and commandments to control other man.
Man expands on commandments to set man up as superior to women and any others that won't go along with the man's God and beliefs.
Man doesn't follow own commandments, so invents second God that is a man to forgive him. Man now behaves with impunity.
Man declares immunity from all law.

This path has been a hard packed clay mess alongside our house forever. This week I got $29 worth of sand, about $5 (of a $40 load) worth of lawn soil and $150 worth of slate stones and a path is born. We have a whole bunch of clover seed we will seed it with. I also need to get a load of round stones for the edge. Drainage is an issue here, which is why I built it up so much with sand.
#gardening

My favorite example of inclusive architecture in the Mission. People sit on these steps since it’s close to BART, and sometimes it got loud. The residents could have installed an iron gate or put up a scary No Trespassing sign. Instead they just set some ground rules: not after 10 so we can sleep, and pack out trash. So reasonable and neighborly! They built a tree bench as well. #sfPol

A trove of documents details many of the conversations among Trump campaign lawyers, and the theories offered by Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who worked with the campaign in the months leading up to Jan. 6. 
Within weeks of Trump denouncing the election itself and claiming that he had won, Chesebro and Trump campaign attorneys around him began to explore exotic legal theories in which endless chaos in Congress would prove that the legislature could not certify a winner.
That sta…

New Docs Reveal How Trump Lawyers Sought ‘Chaos’ to Force SCOTUS to Anoint Trump
In late 2020, a group of conservative movement attorneys set out to build a legal pathway by which Donald Trump could stay in power, having lost the election. We’ve known about the outcome of their…

What is and isn't acceptable for businesses to do in the #Fediverse?
Lots of opinions, many strongly held. The fact of the matter, of course, is that businesses *are* connecting to the Fediverse, from news organizations to Meta and everything in between.
Would be useful to come up with a set of acceptable things to do for businesses and unacceptable ones. Or maybe a scale.
I…

FediForum
The unconference for the people who move the Fediverse forward

One of the very first punk rock shows I attended. 1985.
This place was basically a rec center just north of the Burbank airport that would put on all ages shows.
Very typical venue for all ages punk shows back then. The acoustics were horrible, but we didn’t care. We just wanted to hear loud and fast music and watch all the hardcore punks get crazy.
This was when DRI was still attracting mostly punks. Their set was awesome because they mostly played from “Dealing With It…

Nicht nur bei #Tornados muss die Sturmkategorie erweitert werden, sondern auch bei den Alarmen für ozeanische #Hitzewellen:
"Global Coral Reef Monitor Adds New Heat Stress Alerts Amid Rise in Climate Change-Driven Mass Bleaching Events"

Coral Reef Monitor Adds New Heat Alerts Amid Rising Temperatures | Earth.Org
Scientists and conservationists have long relied on the alert system set up by the CRW to monitor the conditions of corals around the world.

If any1 of you #icecubesapp users recognize a similar behaviour, that #notifications are just empty, just give a small feedback ;-)
http…

Bug: Filter context not respected (post filtered where it shouldn't be) · Issue #639 · Dimillian/IceCubesApp
Not a huge deal, but just something I noticed. I have a filter set up to hide matching posts completely, but only on home/lists and public timelines. I happened to make a post containing one of the...

Emails: Xbox President Sarah Bond establishes a game preservation team, and reiterates plans for the next Xbox to aim for the "biggest technical leap ever" (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
https://www.

EXCLUSIVE: Xbox President Sarah Bond has set up a new team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibility
The backward compatibility program will continue to future Xbox hardware.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Breakfast
- Classical music to set you up for the day
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wywn

Speeding up 6-DoF Grasp Sampling with Quality-Diversity
Johann Huber, Fran\c{c}ois H\'el\'enon, Mathilde Kappel, Elie Chelly, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Fa\"iz Ben Amar, St\'ephane Doncieux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06173

Speeding up 6-DoF Grasp Sampling with Quality-Diversity
Recent advances in AI have led to significant results in robotic learning, including natural language-conditioned planning and efficient optimization of controllers using generative models. However, the interaction data remains the bottleneck for generalization. Getting data for grasping is a critical challenge, as this skill is required to complete many manipulation tasks. Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms optimize a set of solutions to get diverse, high-performing solutions to a given problem…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11675 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Preprocessing to Reduce the Search Space: Antler Structures for Feedback Vertex Set
The goal of this paper is to open up a new research direction aimed at understanding the power of preprocessing in speeding up algorithms that solve NP-hard problems exactly. We explore this direction for the classic Feedback Vertex Set problem on undirected graphs, leading to a new type of graph structure called antler decomposition, which identifies vertices that belong to an optimal solution. It is an analogue of the celebrated crown decomposition which has been used for Vertex Cover. We dev…

Raiders to release one-time Pro Bowl WR https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_to_release_one_time_pro_bowl_wr/s1_14819_40101758

Raiders to release one-time Pro Bowl WR
The Silver and Black are moving on from an offensive cog who has not lived up to his contract. They are set to release Hunter Renfrow, NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport reports. Given a two-year, $32M deal during the 2022 offseason, Renfrow strangely fell out of favor while on that contract and the team explored trade possibilities last season. Renfrow was set to earn an $11.2M base salary next season. The Raiders did not get much out of the Clemson alum following his 1,000-yard season — which played …

Nice to see that the UK #LabourParty nationally has caught up on bus regulation. They won't spend money but say they will end the anarchy of the market and allow councils to set up new municipal bus companies, something that, incredibly, has been ilgal since Thatcher's deregulation and privatisation of buses in the 1980s.

Shame, shame. U of C President Ed McCauley should resign immediately.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/university-calgary-palestinian-protest-police-removal-1.7199937?cmp=rss

Police in riot gear use flash-bang explosives to clear campus protesters in Calgary | CBC News
Using shields, batons and flash-bang explosives, Calgary police officers forcibly removed a group of protesters Thursday night from an encampment set up on the University of Calgary campus.

We are having some fun now!
This the same type of computer and manual I first used to learn programming in 1981. The Wayback Machine is set to "80s nerd."
#trs80 #radioshack #retrocomputing

Excellent article on pitfalls in Domain Driven Design. It even manages to avoid the word CRUD: “A “Bounded Context” is an area of the business where certain processes and rules apply. It’s where the Central Concept shows up repeatedly under different set of rules that make sense for each Bounded Context“
Read this story from Hany Elemary on Medium:

The Most Common Domain-Driven Design Mistake - navalia - Medium
I have made countless architectural mistakes while working in technology. But I’ve found that mistakes made with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) are specially unforgiving. Wrong abstractions in DDD have…

Andy Dalton: Panthers' improvements will set up Bryce Young 'to have a better year' in 2024 https://www.nfl.com/news/andy-dalton-panthers-improvements-will-set-up-bryce-young-to-have-a-better-year-in-2024

Andy Dalton: Panthers' improvements will set up Bryce Young 'to have a better year' in 2024
Veteran quarterback Andy Dalton says he expects Carolina Panthers signal-caller Bryce Young "to have a better year" heading into his second season.

Buying a replacement CPAP mask. The whole system is set up to require a yearly prescription and an insurance middleman for what is a piece of plastic and a fabric strap you have to replace every few months. Or you can buy them on Amazon but the gimmick is you can only buy the mask by itself, you have to buy the strap separately. Then there's no prescription involved (and no insurance.)

tired: being annoyed that a website/publication doesn't have a mastodon presence.
wired: just following that site directly with RSS using @….
i've set up relays for my 2 favorite #nyc news outlets, @…

Oof. Normally I set my pedal-assist level to 1 (~75 watts) and just ride. Or 0 if I'm not in a rush and want more exercise.
With today's 20-50mph winds, I was going all the way up to PAS level 4 when I basically wasn't moving due to headwinds! #BikeNYC

Interest rate on mortgage set to go up from 2.09% to 4.84% (for a 2 year fix) when the deal expires this year…
Lower rates available for longer fixes, so I assume they think interest rates will go lower soon!

An Effective Way to Determine the Separability of Quantum State
Ma-Cheng Yang, Cong-Feng Qiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07351 https://

An Effective Way to Determine the Separability of Quantum State
We propose in this work a practical approach, by virtue of correlation matrices of the generic observables, to study the long lasting tough issue of quantum separability. Some general separability conditions are set up through constructing a measurement-induced Bloch space. In essence, these conditions are established due to the self constraint in the space of quantum states. The new approach can not only reproduce many of the prevailing entanglement criteria, but also lead to even stronger res…

Critical metrics of eigenvalue functionals via Clarke subdifferential
Romain Petrides, David Tewodrose
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07841 https://

Critical metrics of eigenvalue functionals via Clarke subdifferential
We set up a new framework to study critical points of functionals defined as combinations of eigenvalues of operators with respect to a given set of parameters: Riemannian metrics, potentials, etc. Our setting builds upon Clarke's differentiation theory to provide a novel understanding of critical metrics. In particular, we unify and refine previous research carried out on Laplace and Steklov eigenvalues. We also use our theory to tackle original examples such as the conformal GJMS operators, t…

Whee... #LinkDing can now save a web archive of the links you add. Sweet!
https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding

GitHub - sissbruecker/linkding: Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.
Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker. - sissbruecker/linkding

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.05377 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hept…

Holographic transport beyond the supergravity approximation
We set up a unified framework to efficiently compute the shear and bulk viscosities of strongly coupled gauge theories with gravitational holographic duals involving higher derivative corrections. We consider both Weyl$^4$ corrections, encoding the finite 't Hooft coupling corrections of the boundary theory, and Riemann$^2$ corrections, responsible for non-equal central charges $c\ne a$ of the theory at the ultraviolet fixed point. Our expressions for the viscosities in higher derivative hologr…

Thinking of someone we know @…
“Politics requires changing minds — and changing minds doesn't happen by presenting a set of ostensibly neutral, indisputable facts. Minds are changed by telling a gripping, cogent story that opens up the possibility of a new reality that voters choose to inhabit.”
Old but still relevant https://theweek.com/articles/854892/what-karl-rove-right-about-realitybased-community

Polylog-Competitive Deterministic Local Routing and Scheduling
Bernhard Haeupler, Shyamal Patel, Antti Roeyskoe, Cliff Stein, Goran Zuzic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07410

Polylog-Competitive Deterministic Local Routing and Scheduling
This paper addresses point-to-point packet routing in undirected networks, which is the most important communication primitive in most networks. The main result proves the existence of routing tables that guarantee a polylog-competitive completion-time $\textbf{deterministically}$: in any undirected network, it is possible to give each node simple stateless deterministic local forwarding rules, such that, any adversarially chosen set of packets are delivered as fast as possible, up to polylog f…

Both my wife and I have a #LEGO set with a light kit hooked up to our #gaming #PC's. So that when our PC's are on the light kit in the hooked up set is on. Due to the motherboard dur…

Three French defence companies to set up weapon production in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/08/three-french-defence.html

On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Off-grid PV-Powered Server (2014) - How I set up a Raspberry Pi (Model B then B ) after the SheevaPlug. ~1.6W consumption typical, 400x less than my original server rack! #RPi #frugal #offGrid

On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Off-grid PV-Powered Server (2014)
How I set up a Raspberry Pi (Model B then B+) after the SheevaPlug. 1.6W consumption typical, 400x less than my original server rack! #RPi #frugal #offGrid

Speeding up 6-DoF Grasp Sampling with Quality-Diversity
Johann Huber, Fran\c{c}ois H\'el\'enon, Mathilde Kappel, Elie Chelly, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Fa\"iz Ben Amar, St\'ephane Doncieux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06173

Speeding up 6-DoF Grasp Sampling with Quality-Diversity
Recent advances in AI have led to significant results in robotic learning, including natural language-conditioned planning and efficient optimization of controllers using generative models. However, the interaction data remains the bottleneck for generalization. Getting data for grasping is a critical challenge, as this skill is required to complete many manipulation tasks. Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms optimize a set of solutions to get diverse, high-performing solutions to a given problem…

My apologies, this is an old & obvious mainstream meets Stockhausen thing, but I can never not laugh at the set up from 1:49...the question, Stockhausen's face, and then the "no".
https://youtu.be/mrzi4YNhvig?t=109
"Could you tell me what the most beautiful soun…

Can One Hear the Shape of a Decision Problem?
Mark Whitmeyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06344 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.06344…

Can One Hear the Shape of a Decision Problem?
We explore the connection between an agent's decision problem and her ranking of information structures. We find that a finite amount of ordinal data on the agent's ranking of experiments is enough to identify her (finite) set of undominated actions (up to relabeling and duplication) and the beliefs rendering each such action optimal. An additional smattering of cardinal data, comparing the relative value to the agent of finitely many pairs of experiments, identifies her utility function up to …

Hypersurface data: General properties and Birkhoff theorem in spherical symmetry
Marc Mars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07482 https://a…

Hypersurface data: General properties and Birkhoff theorem in spherical symmetry
The notions of (metric) hypersurface data were introduced in [Mars,2013] as a tool to analyze, from an abstract viewpoint, hypersurfaces of arbitrary signature in pseudo-riemannian manifolds. In this paper, general geometric properties of these notions are studied. In particular, the properties of the gauge group inherent to the geometric construction are analyzed and the metric hypersurface connection and its corresponding curvature tensor are studied. The results set up the stage for various …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02901 has been replaced.
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Charged-current non-standard neutrino interactions at Daya Bay
The full data set of the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment is used to probe the effect of the charged current non-standard interactions (CC-NSI) on neutrino oscillation experiments. Two different approaches are applied and constraints on the corresponding CC-NSI parameters are obtained with the neutrino flux taken from the Huber-Mueller model with a $5\%$ uncertainty. Both approaches are performed with the analytical expressions of the effective survival probability valid up to all orders in…

NFL Draft bets: AFC West betting odds for each team's first pick https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_draft_bets_afc_west_betting_odds_for_each_teams_first_pick/s1_13132_40227196

NFL Draft bets: AFC West betting odds for each team's first pick
We've been going division-by-division to find our favorite NFL Draft bets for each team's first selection later this month. We close the study today with the AFC West, and diverse set of teams. We have the Chargers sitting at No. 5 in the draft, the Chiefs bringing up the rear at No. 32, and the Broncos and Raiders in the early teens with plenty of needs throughout. We've got four bets for each team's first pick, all at plus-money. The first round is set for Thursday, April 25. Odds are courtes…

Yesterday, in a jammed up parking lot at Lowe’s, I found a lone spot right up front. What luck as I had to return a large item. But when I got out to unload, I noticed I had run over a cheeseburger someone had set on the ground. Gross dude. 🤢

Bored, setting up an old pc as server to have something to learn hacking on

A single text file as a Task Manager <https://alpo.gitlab.io/jots/posts/2024/04/a-single-text-file-as-task-manager/>: this system Jeff Huang has been using for years to track all his work.

Migration of two Interacting Micro-Confined Deformable Drops Under an Imposed Temperature Gradient
Sayak Ray, Sudipta Ray, Prof. Suman Chakraborty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07361

Migration of two Interacting Micro-Confined Deformable Drops Under an Imposed Temperature Gradient
A tiny drop of one liquid, suspended within another, may be set into motion aligned with an imposed thermal gradient, as influenced by thermocapillary action stemming from the gradients in interfacial tension due to the local variations in temperature. In real-world situations, however, such drops do not remain in isolation, as they interact with their neighbouring entities including other drops in the proximity as well as a nearby solid boundary, setting up a complex interplay between the conf…

Hot New Early Dark Energy bridging cosmic gaps: Supercooled phase transition reconciles (stepped) dark radiation solutions to the Hubble tension with BBN
Mathias Garny, Florian Niedermann, Henrique Rubira, Martin S. Sloth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07256

Hot New Early Dark Energy bridging cosmic gaps: Supercooled phase transition reconciles (stepped) dark radiation solutions to the Hubble tension with BBN
We propose a simple model that can alleviate the $H_0$ tension while remaining consistent with big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). It is based on a dark sector described by a standard Lagrangian featuring a $SU(N)$ gauge symmetry with $N\geq3$ and a massive scalar field with a quartic coupling. The scalar acts as dark Higgs leading to spontaneous symmetry breaking $SU(N)\to SU(N\!-\!1)$ via a first-order phase transition à la Coleman-Weinberg. This set-up naturally realizes previously proposed sce…

Cowboys pick up Micah Parsons' 5-year option, but at a different position https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-pick-up-micah-parsons-5-year-option-but-at-a-different-position/

Cowboys pick up Micah Parsons' 5-year option, but at a different position ⋆ Inside The Star
Mar 6, 2024 -- The Dallas Cowboys are set to pick up Micah Parsons's fifth-year option, first reported last night by Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News. Yet, it

I’ve set up the #GalaxyWatch6. And now I #sleep.

Intel debuts its Gaudi 3 AI chips, set for Q3 mass production, saying they offer up to 1.7x the training performance and 40% better efficiency than Nvidia H100s (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.t…

Intel details Guadi 3 at Vision 2024 — new AI accelerator sampling to partners now, volume production in Q3
Intel announced its new Gaudi 3 AI processors at its Vision 2024 event, claiming they offer up to 1.7X the training performance, 50% better inference, and 40% better efficiency than Nvidia’s market-leading H100 processors, but for significantly less money.

Experimental set-up for thermal measurements at the nanoscale using an SThM probe with niobium nitride thermometer
R. Swami, G. Julie, S. Le-Denmat, G. Pernot, D. Singhal, J. Paterson, J. Maire, J. F. Motte, N. Paillet, H. Guillou, S. Gomes, O. Bourgeois
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05405 …

Experimental set-up for thermal measurements at the nanoscale using an SThM probe with niobium nitride thermometer
Scanning Thermal Microscopy (SThM) has become an important measurement tool for characterizing the thermal properties of materials at the nanometer scale. This technique requires a SThM probe that combines an Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) probe and a very sensitive resistive thermometry; the thermometer being located at the apex of the probe tip allows the mapping of temperature or thermal properties of nanostructured materials with very high spatial resolution. The high interest of the SThM te…

#Requiescat For #BarbaraStauffacherSolomon. She was still doing exhibitions and publishing zines filled with her visionary supergraphics up until last year.

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Visionary Artist Who Invented Supergraphics, Dies at 95
The San Francisco-born designer and landscape architect was known for her colorful, oversized work.

My experience with Signal was that when I migrated from one country to another and got a new phone number then I lost access to everything.
That was traumatic enough for me to never go back.
#Signal
From: @…

@… Right, this is actually one of the issues that have held me back from posting everything to my private server as well. The institutional git forge would allow me to set up repositories that are only accessible with an eduID login. This would solve the problem without requiring a new login.
Alternatively, I’ve actually considered using MS Teams…

@… Right, this is actually one of the issues that have held me back from posting everything to my private server as well. The institutional git forge would allow me to set up repositories that are only accessible with an eduID login. This would solve the problem without requiring a new login.
Alternatively, I’ve actually considered using MS Teams…

Just the other day I suggested a sport, environment and climate class.
“As well as the triathlon, the river is also set to be used in marathon swimming and paratriathlon events, and play host to a flotilla-based opening ceremony.
“It’s part of an ambitious plan to open up the river to public swimmers by 2025, something that’s been illegal for 100 years because of the dangerously high pollution levels.”

Paris Olympics: River Seine pollution could cancel triathlon swimming
Paris' Seine river pollution could cancel triathlon swimming at the Paris 2024 Olympics, Games President Tony Estanguet said.

For a long time, I was convinced that I've set my #Android phone to dark theme. And I kept wondering why app after app doesn't respect that, and I kept setting apps to dark theme explicitly.
Recently, it occurred to me that perhaps the light theme would work better in sunlight (and it does!). After digging up the deeply hidden color theme option, I've discovered… that it was set to automatic, which apparently… is based on wallpaper. Whatever that means. So I've set light mode explicitly, and went to reset all apps to use system theme again, or "automatic".
Well, apparently not all apps actually support using system theme, or do it correctly. For example, for Element, "system theme" actually means automatically switching between light and dark theme based on the clock. Sigh.

Metric Distortion of Line-up Elections: The Right Person for the Right Job
Christopher Jerrett, Yue Han, Elliot Anshelevich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04020

Metric Distortion of Line-up Elections: The Right Person for the Right Job
We provide mechanisms and new metric distortion bounds for line-up elections. In such elections, a set of $n$ voters, $k$ candidates, and $\ell$ positions are all located in a metric space. The goal is to choose a set of candidates and assign them to different positions, so as to minimize the total cost of the voters. The cost of each voter consists of the distances from itself to the chosen candidates (measuring how much the voter likes the chosen candidates, or how similar it is to them), as …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12667 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Error Estimates for Finite Element Approximations of Viscoelastic Dynamics: The Generalized Maxwell Model
We prove error estimates for a finite element approximation of viscoelastic dynamics based on continuous Galerkin in space and time, both in energy norm and in $L^2$ norm. The proof is based on an error representation formula using a discrete dual problem and a stability estimate involving the kinetic, elastic, and viscoelastic energies. To set up the dual error analysis and to prove the basic stability estimates, it is natural to formulate the problem as a system involving evolution equations …

Donald Trump sues two co-founders of Trump Media & Technology Group, claiming they set the company up wrong and shouldn't get stock; the two earlier sued Trump (Jef Feeley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump Media (DJT) Stock: Trump Sues Co-Founders Over Shares
Donald Trump has ramped up a battle over shares in his newly public Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. with a lawsuit against his co-founders, claiming they violated an agreement setting up the social media company and shouldn’t get any stock in it at all.

From @… for @… :
https://

Google Won’t Say Anything About Israel Using Its Photo Software to Create Gaza “Hit List”
Google prohibits using its tech for “immediate harm,” but Israel is harnessing its facial recognition to set up a dragnet of Palestinians.

Daily Inspiration: "Your potential lies on the other side of your inaction!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
I regularly meet people who are stuck.
Often they are trapped in situations in which they are doing things they don't want to do and are chasing the same excuses every day about why they want to escape and set themselves free.
Yet they never do. They end up defining their future by their inaction rather than their initiative.
One of the worst things you ca…

My niece is adorable and just turned 15; she got a new phone but she needs to set up [[family link]] in it. Is this normal nowadays or over-protective you would think (if you want to share)?
I ask because at late 15-16 I was using icq98 and full internet access (after a period having access only to local IRC) and loving it

I have a son turning 18 tomorrow. He is #autistic, #aspie, #bipolar, and has #tourettes. It's a beautiful combination of conditions, but as you can imagine, it doesn't set him up for success in the social skills department.
Now he's turning 18 and has very few people turning up as his party. What can I do as a dad to help? There's the "fix it" side of me that wants to get creative on ways to get people to his party. But I don't know if that will make things worse.
I'd love to hear from others #neurdivergent and #actuallyautistic folks.
EDIT... Sorry I forgot to mention that my son has complained about how few people are coming. So I do know he wants more people.

New video: Is uv the future of Python Packaging?
I’ve set out with a yes/no question to keep it short, but somehow ended up contextualizing Python’s packaging problems and the video ended up 18 mins long.
Enjoy, like, subscribe, etc!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FdjW47Au3

So... Yesterday I went out with the intention of buying a record player. I came home with one and 4 records to start my meager collection. I just set it up and it sounds great (although I have very little to go on). The first record I had to buy and therefore play was, of course Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis.
Once I get my own place set up, I'll be able to enjoy this and Jazz Geek out.
#jazz

Georgia Republicans are dead set on erecting a statue to honor the corrupt Clarence Thomas.
https://thecurrentga.org/2024/03/25/lawmakers-take-up-proposal-to-honor-clarence-thomas-in-state-capitol/

I give up trying to understand what the use is of Content Warnings here. People use them for just anything and most of it doesn’t seem like something sensitive or requiring warning.
Will set all my clients to ignore this silly setting.

Wrote a blog post showing how to set up https://networkupstools.org/ (and https://github.com/Brandawg93/PeaNUT

Trump to sue judge in effort to avert hush-money trial
Donald Trump will sue the judge overseeing his hush money trial, which is over allegations that Trump forged financial records in an attempt to cover up a sex scandal and influence the 2016 election.
The latest lawsuit from Trump is a last-minute attempt to delay the trial, which is set to begin 15 April in New York City.
According to the Times, Trump’s legal team has now filed an action against Judge Juan Merchan, though…

Patriots Signing TE Austin Hooper To One-Year, $4.25M Deal https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/patriots_signing_te_austin_hooper_to_one_year_425m_deal/s1_17039_40100422

Patriots Signing TE Austin Hooper To One-Year, $4.25M Deal
According to Ian Rapoport, the Patriots are expected to sign TE Austin Hooper to a one-year deal worth up to $4.25 million.  Hooper, 29, was drafted in the third round by the Falcons out of Stanford in 2016. He played out the final year of a four-year, $3.165 million rookie contract and made a base salary of $720,000 for the 2019 season.  Hooper was testing the market as an unrestricted free agent when he signed a four-year, $42 million deal with the Browns. He was set to make a base salary o…

Cowboys pick up Micah Parsons’ 5-year option, but at a different position https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_pick_up_micah_parsons_5_year_option_but_at_a_different_position/s1_17100_40065484…

Cowboys pick up Micah Parsons’ 5-year option, but at a different position
The Dallas Cowboys are set to pick up Micah Parsons's fifth-year option, first reported last night by Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News. Yet, it is not as simple as it sounds. Dallas is placing his option as a defensive end instead of a linebacker, by doing so the team will save about $2.7 million. According to Over The Cap , the fifth-year option for linebackers who have made more than one Pro Bowl is projected to be $24,007,000. For comparison, a defensive end who's played in at leas…

Single Family Algebra Operation on ZDDs Leads To Exponential Blow-Up
Kengo Nakamura, Masaaki Nishino, Shuhei Denzumi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05074 https…

Single Family Algebra Operation on ZDDs Leads To Exponential Blow-Up
Zero-suppressed binary decision diagram (ZDD) is a data structure to represent a family of (sub)sets compactly, and it can be used as a succinct index for a family of sets. To build ZDD representing a desired family of sets, there are many transformation operations that take ZDDs as inputs and output ZDD representing the resultant family after performing operations such as set union and intersection. However, except for some basic operations, the worst-time complexity of taking such transformat…

#Upcoming 7-CD limited edition box set with all the classic 1963-70 #BlueNote #BobbyHutcherson-led small group sessions. Swept up in an era of change, he contributed to the evolution of jazz music thro…

Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963 - 1970 Limited Edition Box Set (#278 - 7 CDs) -
An exceptional writer, Hutcherson had a wonderful approach and there is never an doubt when you are hearing Hutcherson, his style is that distinctive.

The boss wants me to set up 2fa on the work gmail account, which is fair enough, but it turns out to be impossible to do so.
In order to set up 2fa with Gmail you must first associate a phone number with your account because Google are greedy data-hoarders.
But I don't have any business phone number and I am unwilling to associate my personal phone number with my employers gmail account.
So we had to do the dance where I give it his phone number and he forwards the sms confirmation to me and then I set up 2fa and then delete the phone number.
Every other one of the services he's asked me to set up 2fa for didn't require a phone number.
It's mostly just Google that Sucks.
#google #sucks #googleSucks

Google announces its new Arm-based Axion chips for AI, with up to 30% better performance over Arm-based rivals, set to launch to cloud customers later in 2024 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/google…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12667 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Error Estimates for Finite Element Approximations of Viscoelastic Dynamics: The Generalized Maxwell Model
We prove error estimates for a finite element approximation of viscoelastic dynamics based on continuous Galerkin in space and time, both in energy norm and in $L^2$ norm. The proof is based on an error representation formula using a discrete dual problem and a stability estimate involving the kinetic, elastic, and viscoelastic energies. To set up the dual error analysis and to prove the basic stability estimates, it is natural to formulate the problem as a system involving evolution equations …

Trump to sue judge in effort to avert hush-money trial
Donald Trump will sue the judge overseeing his hush money trial, which is over allegations that Trump forged financial records in an attempt to cover up a sex scandal and influence the 2016 election.
The latest lawsuit from Trump is a last-minute attempt to delay the trial, which is set to begin 15 April in New York City.
According to the Times, Trump’s legal team has now filed an action against Judge Juan Merchan, though…

I have a son turning 18 tomorrow. He is #autistic, #aspie, #bipolar, and has #tourettes. It's a beautiful combination of conditions, but as you can imagine, it doesn't set him up for success in the social skills department.
Now he's turning 18 and has very few people turning up as his party. What can I do as a dad to help? There's the "fix it" side of me that wants to get creative on ways to get people to his party. But I don't know if that will make things worse.
I'd love to hear from others #neurdivergent and #actuallyautistic folks.
EDIT... Sorry I forgot to mention that my son has complained about how few people are coming. So I do know he wants more people.

Let's say you set up a ticket vending machine for public transport, and you feel very ... not sure, maybe bureaucratic?
What should you call that machine? What about:
Passenger Operated Machine (POM).
The domain/object modelers among us just died a little.

How TfL’s simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales
Transport for London (TfL) has seen a drop in the sale of paper tickets after it made a small change to the ticket machines in London Underground stations.

Report: Cowboys to pick up Micah Parsons 5th-year option as DE, save $2.7 million in salary cap space https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_cowboys_to_pick_up_micah_parso…

Report: Cowboys to pick up Micah Parsons 5th-year option as DE, save $2.7 million in salary cap space
The Dallas Cowboys are set to pick up Micah Parsons’ fifth-year option, according to The Dallas Morning News’ Michael Gehlken. It’s not a surprise considering the former Penn State star’s performance to start his career. But there’s a catch. The Cowboys are placing his option as a defensive end instead of a linebacker, Gehlken reported. By doing so, the franchise will save about $2.7 million. According to Over The Cap, the fifth-year option for linebackers who have made more than one …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02901 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepp…

Charged-current non-standard neutrino interactions at Daya Bay
The full data set of the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment is used to probe the effect of the charged current non-standard interactions (CC-NSI) on neutrino oscillation experiments. Two different approaches are applied and constraints on the corresponding CC-NSI parameters are obtained with the neutrino flux taken from the Huber-Mueller model with a $5\%$ uncertainty. Both approaches are performed with the analytical expressions of the effective survival probability valid up to all orders in…

So... Yesterday I went out with the intention of buying a record player. I came home with one and 4 records to start my meager collection. I just set it up and it sounds great (although I have very little to go on). The first record I had to buy and therefore play was, of course Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis.
Once I get my own place set up, I'll be able to enjoy this and Jazz Geek out.
#jazz

Raiders set expectations for starting RB, CB https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_set_expectations_for_starting_rb_cb/s1_14819_40337951

Raiders set expectations for starting RB, CB
One of the more eventful days in running back history, transactionally speaking, occurred March 11. More than a third of the league either signed a veteran starter or lost one, with several clubs in both camps.  The Raiders ended up only in the first section, losing Josh Jacobs to the Packers hours into the legal tampering period. More moves affecting 2023 starters occurred soon after, as the Raiders added primary Vikings first-stringer Alexander Mattison a week into free agency.  While Matti…

Me yesterday: I plan to go to Drawiny, I set the alarm clock to 4:00 AM, I wonder if I'm going to actually feel like getting up.
Me today at 3:30 AM: I've woken up and don't feel like sleeping anymore. I change the plan to go Piła.
Me in Dziembówko (a station earlier): Oh, let's get out at Piła Kalina instead.

Have the Bears and Patriots set up QBs for success? Ranking best situations for rookies since 2000

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/h

Have the Bears and Patriots set up QBs for success? Ranking best situations for rookies since 2000
Chicago and New England have set their future rookie QB up for success

Since pleading guilty in November 2023, Changpeng Zhao has networked across the US to set up his next act; sources say CZ and Sam Altman exchanged text messages (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/t…

Binance’s Founder Plans a Comeback Even as He Faces Prison Time
Since pleading guilty to violating money-laundering rules, Changpeng Zhao, who ran the giant crypto exchange Binance, has networked across the United States to set up his next act.

California : A land of flaming liberalism?
Senate primary results contradict state stereotype
By choosing Adam #Schiff, a Burbank congressman who is the most moderate of the major Democratic candidates — and thus most Feinstein-like — voters passed up the two more liberal alternatives, Reps. Katie #Porter of I…

Schiff and familiarity win California's marquee Senate race
By choosing Schiff over his fellow Democrats, voters rejected the leftward swerve promised by more liberal alternatives. By advancing Steve Garvey to November, they set up a conventional partisan runoff