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Age 68. 12 pike push-ups in set one today! And another 12 reps in set two! Head touches stair below. Video is sped up 8x! It's now a mere 28 seconds long. 😉 ('Like' appreciated.)
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From Sightline
British Columbia Just Took First Place in Pro-Housing Policy
In just one month in 2023, the province legalized fourplexes, allowed apartment buildings up to 20 stories near all #transit stations, eliminated public hearings for plan-compliant buildings, ended parking requirements in transit-oriented districts, and announced that it is considering single-stair reform.

British Columbia Just Took First Place in Pro-Housing Policy
In just one month in 2023, the province legalized fourplexes, allowed apartment buildings up to 20 stories near all transit stations, eliminated public hearings for plan-compliant buildings, ended parking requirements in transit-oriented districts, and announced that it is considering single-stair reform.

Multimodal Learned Sparse Retrieval with Probabilistic Expansion Control
Thong Nguyen, Mariya Hendriksen, Andrew Yates, Maarten de Rijke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17535

Multimodal Learned Sparse Retrieval with Probabilistic Expansion Control
Learned sparse retrieval (LSR) is a family of neural methods that encode queries and documents into sparse lexical vectors that can be indexed and retrieved efficiently with an inverted index. We explore the application of LSR to the multi-modal domain, with a focus on text-image retrieval. While LSR has seen success in text retrieval, its application in multimodal retrieval remains underexplored. Current approaches like LexLIP and STAIR require complex multi-step training on massive datasets. …

Find The Warmest Spots
Happy Caturday!
It’s a cold winter day. If you want to find the warmest spots in the house, look for the cats. Badger prefers to sit in the warmest place in the house, right at the top of the logpile next to the woodstove. She is the kindest and most caring, gentlest of all, always wearing this look of sincere concern. Read about them all on the post here:

Find The Warmest Spots - Ellie Kennard
It’s a cold winter day. If you want to find the warmest spots in the house, look for the cats. Badger prefers to sit in the warmest place in the house, right at the top of the logpile next to the woodstove. She is the kindest and most caring, gentlest of all, always wearing this […]

Reinforcement Learning for Blind Stair Climbing with Legged and Wheeled-Legged Robots
Simon Chamorro, Victor Klemm, Miguel de la Iglesia Valls, Christopher Pal, Roland Siegwart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06143

Reinforcement Learning for Blind Stair Climbing with Legged and Wheeled-Legged Robots
In recent years, legged and wheeled-legged robots have gained prominence for tasks in environments predominantly created for humans across various domains. One significant challenge faced by many of these robots is their limited capability to navigate stairs, which hampers their functionality in multi-story environments. This study proposes a method aimed at addressing this limitation, employing reinforcement learning to develop a versatile controller applicable to a wide range of robots. In co…

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https://mstdn.social/@ppatel/111896701

Specifying and Verifying the Convergence Stairs of the Collatz Program
Ali Ebnenasir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04777 https://arxiv.o…

Specifying and Verifying the Convergence Stairs of the Collatz Program
This paper presents an algorithmic method that, given a positive integer $j$, generates the $j$-th convergence stair containing all natural numbers from where the Collatz conjecture holds by exactly $j$ applications of the Collatz function. To this end, we present a novel formulation of the Collatz conjecture as a concurrent program, and provide the general case specification of the $j$-th convergence stair for any $j > 0$. The proposed specifications provide a layered and linearized orientatio…

#DisabilityDongle @… ?
https://mstdn.social/@ppatel/111896701

I did 3 in a row today.
The adventure continues...
#SeniorFitness #calisthenics (Age 68)

Resonant Quantum Magnetodielectric Effect in Multiferroic Metal-Organic Framework [CH3NH3]Co(HCOO)3
Na Su, Shuang Liu, Yingjie He, Yan Liu, Huixia Fu, Yi-Sheng Chai, Young Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04244

Resonant Quantum Magnetodielectric Effect in Multiferroic Metal-Organic Framework [CH3NH3]Co(HCOO)3
We report the observation of both resonant quantum tunneling of magnetization (RQTM) and resonant quantum magnetodielectric (RQMD) effect in the perovskite multiferroic metal-organic framework [CH3NH3]Co(HCOO)3. An intrinsic magnetic phase separation emerges at low temperatures due to hydrogen-bond-modified long range super-exchange interaction, leading to the coexistence of canted antiferromagnetic order and single-ion magnet. Subsequently, a stair-shaped magnetic hysteresis loop along the [10…