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

Attend The Democratic National Committee's event, “Countering Disinformation Online for Online Communities” - sign up now! https://events.democrats.org/event/620800/

Countering Disinformation Online for Online Communities · The Democratic National Committee
Join us for a training with our Disinformation Team on how you can combat online disinformation. In the training, we will discuss the different types of disinformation, platforms, and the best way to respond - or not respond. The training will take place on Zoom, and the link will be emailed upon RSVPing.

Marta Barandiy: Ten years of Promote Ukraine today: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/09/marta-barandiy-ten.html

2024 NFL Draft: Here's how sportsbooks see the top of the draft unfolding weeks before the event

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-nf

2024 NFL Draft: Here's how sportsbooks see the top of the draft unfolding weeks before the event
This is how Vegas sees the draft starting

How local US news outlets in the total solar eclipse's path are covering the event, using it as an opportunity to broaden their appeal beyond current audiences (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/04/dateline<…

Dateline Totality: How local news outlets in the eclipse’s path are covering the covering
“Celestial events tend to draw highly engaged audiences, and this one is no exception.”

Just a few tickets left for Monday's event on 'The impact of AI in media & information industries' https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/safeguarding-tomorrow-the-impact-of-ai-in-media-information-industries-tickets-81…

The $91.63 million #Trump posted in the E Jean #Carroll settlement includes the full $83.3 million judgment, along with a 9% statutory interest the State of New York tacks onto surety bonds.
That money has been set aside in a court-managed account to be paid to Carroll in the event Trump loses his appeal.
The…

'Matter of national security': Mysterious entity that guaranteed Trump’s $91M bond questioned
After US District Judge Lewis F. Kaplan denied his petition for a stay, former President Donald Trump finally posted a $91.6 million bond for his appeal of writer E. Jean Carroll's judgment on Friday.That $91.63 million includes the full $83.3 million judgment, along with a 9% statutory interest the...

Attend The Democratic National Committee's event, “Countering Disinformation Online for Online Communities” - sign up now! https://events.democrats.org/event/620800/

Countering Disinformation Online for Online Communities · The Democratic National Committee
Join us for a training with our Disinformation Team on how you can combat online disinformation. In the training, we will discuss the different types of disinformation, platforms, and the best way to respond - or not respond. The training will take place on Zoom, and the link will be emailed upon RSVPing.

Evaluation of the performance of the event reconstruction algorithms in the JSNS$^2$ experiment using a $^{252}$Cf calibration source
D. H. Lee, M. K. Cheoun, J. H. Choi, J. Y. Choi, T. Dodo, J. Goh, K. Haga, M. Harada, S. Hasegawa, W. Hwang, T. Iida, H. I. Jang, J. S. Jang, K. K. Joo, D. E. Jung, S. K. Kang, Y. Kasugai, T. Kawasaki, E. J. Kim, J. Y. Kim, S. B Kim, W. Kim, H. Kinoshita, T. Konno, I. T. Lim, C. Little, E. Marzec, T. Maruyama, S. Masuda, S. Meigo, D. H. Moon, T. Nakano, …

Evaluation of the performance of the event reconstruction algorithms in the JSNS$^2$ experiment using a $^{252}$Cf calibration source
JSNS$^2$ searches for short baseline neutrino oscillations with a baseline of 24~meters and a target of 17~tonnes of the Gd-loaded liquid scintillator. The correct algorithm on the event reconstruction of events, which determines the position and energy of neutrino interactions in the detector, are essential for the physics analysis of the data from the experiment. Therefore, the performance of the event reconstruction is carefully checked with calibrations using $^{252}$Cf source. This manuscr…

We did it!
#11tyConf has wrapped and I am so humbled by the response to this event. The incredible speakers, the incredible audience, the incredible organizers — y’all are amazing.
Thank you so much for letting me be a part of this community.

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…

I loved Tracy Chapman's performance at the Grammys. The story behind how it came to be made me love it every more.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/tracy-chapman-fast-car-grammys-how-it-happen…

Always fun to see Pro apps being featured (even as cameos) in an Apple Event. @… and @… were in a lot of good company this week!

A live blog of Apple's "Let Loose" event, where OLED iPad Pros, a bigger iPad Air, a more laptop-esque Magic Keyboard, and a "pro" style Pencil are expected (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/7/24151030/…

Apple’s ‘Let Loose’ event live blog: iPads all the way down
Apple is expected to announce a new iPad Pro and iPad Air at its “Let Loose” event, and we’re live blogging all the news.

Birds of Empire 🦅🐻🐺🐏
Dramatized post-apocalyptic fantasy series | New Dakota: 15,000 CE, thousands of years after the fall of civilization. Having barely survived, humanity has returned to a way of life more closely resembling civilizations of the ancient past: The Bears, The Rams, The Birds, and The Wolves.
A drama...
https://www…

Birds of Empire 🦅🐻🐺🐏
Dramatized post-apocalyptic fantasy series | New Dakota: 15,000 CE, thousands of years after the fall of civilization. Having barely survived, humanity has returned to a way of life more closely resembling civilizations of the ancient past: The Bears, The Rams, The Birds, and The Wolves. A dramatized cinematic fantasy event in audio. 2 seasons, 28 episodes as of Feb 22, 2024.

Gaia21blx: Complete resolution of a binary microlensing event in the Galactic disk
P. Rota, V. Bozza, M. Hundertmark, E. Bachelet, R. Street, Y. Tsapras, A. Cassan, M. Dominik, R. Figuera Jaimes, K. A. Rybicki, J. Wambsganss, L. Wyrzykowski, P. Zielinski, M. Bonavita, T. C. Hinse, U. G. Jorgensen, E. Khalouei, H. Korhonen, P. Longa-Pena, N. Peixinho, S. Rahvar, S. Sajadian, J. Skottfelt, C. Snodgrass, J. Tregolan-Reed

Gaia21blx: Complete resolution of a binary microlensing event in the Galactic disk
Context. Gravitational microlensing is a method that is used to discover planet-hosting systems at distances of several kiloparsec in the Galactic disk and bulge. We present the analysis of a microlensing event reported by the Gaia photometric alert team that might have a bright lens. Aims. In order to infer the mass and distance to the lensing system, the parallax measurement at the position of Gaia21blx was used. In this particular case, the source and the lens have comparable magnitudes and …

#WTF #News #Australia

Sports club defends use of Bluey and Bingo to promote greyhound and harness racing event
The Tasmanian Trotting Club defends the use of cartoon dog duo Bluey and Bingo to promote a Good Friday family racing event — and denies it's in breach of any copyright law.

IMU-Aided Event-based Stereo Visual Odometry
Junkai Niu, Sheng Zhong, Yi Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04071 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

IMU-Aided Event-based Stereo Visual Odometry
Direct methods for event-based visual odometry solve the mapping and camera pose tracking sub-problems by establishing implicit data association in a way that the generative model of events is exploited. The main bottlenecks faced by state-of-the-art work in this field include the high computational complexity of mapping and the limited accuracy of tracking. In this paper, we improve our previous direct pipeline \textit{Event-based Stereo Visual Odometry} in terms of accuracy and efficiency. To…

Family Bike Ride has just announced our spring events! We will be hosting a Cargo Bike Test Drive on April 7th, and a Family Bike Ride Group Ride on April 28th. Find out more on our website:
https://communitypedalpower.org/blog/2024/03/family-bike-ride…

Family Bike Ride Spring Events
Family Bike Ride is inviting you to join two events in April: the Family Bike Ride Spring Ride on Sunday, April 28th, and the Cargo Bike Test Drive Event on Sunday, April 7th. Spring Ride Family Bike Ride’s Spring Ride on April 28th is a 2.1 mile family-friendly group ride, featuring a cookie potluck. The ride will begin at the Sekler Playground along Memorial Drive, then proceed along a route with no car crossings or conflicts to Artesani Playground in Brighton.

How local US news outlets in the total solar eclipse's path are covering the event, using it as an opportunity to broaden their appeal beyond current audiences (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/04/dateline<…

Dateline Totality: How local news outlets in the eclipse’s path are covering the covering
“Celestial events tend to draw highly engaged audiences, and this one is no exception.”

Machine Learning-based NLP for Emotion Classification on a Cholera X Dataset
Paul Jideani, Aurona Gerber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04897 https://

Machine Learning-based NLP for Emotion Classification on a Cholera X Dataset
Recent social media posts on the cholera outbreak in Hammanskraal have highlighted the diverse range of emotions people experienced in response to such an event. The extent of people's opinions varies greatly depending on their level of knowledge and information about the disease. The documented re-search about Cholera lacks investigations into the classification of emotions. This study aims to examine the emotions expressed in social media posts about Chol-era. A dataset of 23,000 posts was ex…

The 2024 #Trends on #CloudComputing
https://www.netris.io/the-2024-tr…

Proceedings 12th International Workshop on Theorem proving components for Educational software
Julien Narboux (University of Strasbourg, France), Walther Neuper (JKU, Johannes Kepler University), Pedro Quaresma (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03709

Proceedings 12th International Workshop on Theorem proving components for Educational software
The ThEdu series pursues the smooth transition from an intuitive way of doing mathematics at secondary school to a more formal approach to the subject in STEM education, while favouring software support for this transition by exploiting the power of theorem-proving technologies. What follows is a brief description of how the present volume contributes to this enterprise. The 12th International Workshop on Theorem Proving Components for Educational Software(ThEdu'23), was a satellite event of …

In 1985, the University of Toronto invited the South African ambassador to Canada to a debate on investment in the country. The event was cancelled when a speaker from the floor threw the ceremonial mace at the diplomat. #encampments #divestment

Neuromorphic Control of a Pendulum
Raphael Schmetterling, Fulvio Forni, Alessio Franci, Rodolphe Sepulchre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05339 https://…

Neuromorphic Control of a Pendulum
We illustrate the potential of neuromorphic control on the simple mechanical model of a pendulum, with both event-based actuation and sensing. The controller and the pendulum are regarded as event-based systems that occasionally interact to coordinate their respective rhythms. Control occurs through a proper timing of the interacting events. We illustrate the mixed nature of the control design: the design of an automaton, able to generate the right sequence of events, and the design of a regula…

Finished my Picolibc presentation for the Embedded Open Source Summit next week. I've still got time to practice and refine it. Looking forward to seeing people in Seattle. https://eoss24.sched.com/event/1aBGa/using-picolibc-in-embedded-s…

Embedded Open Source Summit 2024: Using Picolibc in Embedded Systems - Kei...
View more about this event at Embedded Open Source Summit 2024

One of my pet peeves when it comes to conferences. I know that sometimes you just add something last minute but don't celebrate creating your presentation the evening before.
I don't even give a shit about professionalism it's just a big "fuck you" to your audience who invested money, time, etc. to see you. https://

Results of the event “Breakfast with the Prosecutor General of Ukraine”: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/07/results-of-the.html

Impacts of non-thermal emission on the images of black hole shadow and extended jets in two-temperature GRMHD simulations
Mingyuan Zhang, Yosuke Mizuno, Christian M. Fromm, Ziri Younsi, Alejandro Cruz-Osorio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04033

Impacts of non-thermal emission on the images of black hole shadow and extended jets in two-temperature GRMHD simulations
The recent 230 GHz observations from the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration are able to image the innermost structure of the M87 galaxy showing the shadow of the black hole, photon ring, and a ring-like structure that agrees with thermal synchrotron emission from the accretion disc. However, at lower frequencies, M87 is characterized by a large-scale jet with clear signatures of non-thermal emission. It is necessary to explore the impacts of non-thermal emission on black hole shadow images a…

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Limit Order Book Dynamics and Order Size Modelling Using Compound Hawkes Process
Hawkes Process has been used to model Limit Order Book (LOB) dynamics in several ways in the literature however the focus has been limited to capturing the inter-event times while the order size is usually assumed to be constant. We propose a novel methodology of using Compound Hawkes Process for the LOB where each event has an order size sampled from a calibrated distribution. The process is formulated in a novel way such that the spread of the process always remains positive. Further, we cond…

On this holy day of The #Apple Event, I find myself writing the following comment in my code after trying to run my app on a #Mac:
/**
Metadata about the database itself.
This is inlined here instead of being kept in its own Database.js file like all the other model classes so as not to…

Last day of #deRSE24
My brain is full of new information, I had wonderful conversations and, as always, have been feeling very comfortable in this welcoming community 🫶
Session materials are linked in the timetable ( @… is cool!):

deRSE24 - Conference for Research Software Engineering in Germany
Further information on how we deal with the current train strikes will be published on the news page. Use the pad to coordinate travel plans. FactsWhat: 4th conference for Research Software Engineering in GermanyBegin: 05.03.24End: 07.03.24Organized and hosted by Julius-Maximilians-Universität WürzburgLocation: Lecture Hall of the Natural Sciences(NWHS)Call for Contributions: See this link or the left side bar.Registration: Is openFees: 175 € full price, 145 € for GI & de-RSE e.V....

BayesPPDSurv: An R Package for Bayesian Sample Size Determination Using the Power and Normalized Power Prior for Time-To-Event Data
Yueqi Shen, Matthew A. Psioda, Joseph G. Ibrahim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05118

BayesPPDSurv: An R Package for Bayesian Sample Size Determination Using the Power and Normalized Power Prior for Time-To-Event Data
The BayesPPDSurv (Bayesian Power Prior Design for Survival Data) R package supports Bayesian power and type I error calculations and model fitting using the power and normalized power priors incorporating historical data with for the analysis of time-to-event outcomes. The package implements the stratified proportional hazards regression model with piecewise constant hazard within each stratum. The package allows the historical data to inform the treatment effect parameter, parameter effects fo…

Here’s a VOA correspondent. Let’s see who does and doesn’t report on this.
From: @…
https://journa.host/@w7voa/112068665528937168

Microlensing optical depth and event rate toward the Large Magellanic Cloud based on 20 years of OGLE observations
P. Mroz, A. Udalski, M. K. Szymanski, M. Kapusta, I. Soszynski, L. Wyrzykowski, P. Pietrukowicz, S. Kozlowski, R. Poleski, J. Skowron, D. Skowron, K. Ulaczyk, M. Gromadzki, K. Rybicki, P. Iwanek, M. Wrona, M. Ratajczak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02398 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.02398
arXiv:2403.02398v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Measurements of the microlensing optical depth and event rate toward the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) can be used to probe the distribution and mass function of compact objects in the direction toward that galaxy - in the Milky Way disk, Milky Way dark matter halo, and the LMC itself. The previous measurements, based on small statistical samples of events, found that the optical depth is an order of magnitude smaller than that expected from the entire dark matter halo in the form of compact objects. However, these previous studies were not sensitive to long-duration events with Einstein timescales longer than 2.5-3 years, which are expected from massive ($10-100\,M_{\odot}$) and intermediate-mass ($10^2-10^5\,M_{\odot}$) black holes. Such events would have been missed by the previous studies and would not have been taken into account in calculations of the optical depth. Here, we present the analysis of nearly 20-year-long photometric monitoring of 78.7 million stars in the LMC by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) from 2001 through 2020. We describe the observing setup, the construction of the 20-year OGLE dataset, the methods used for searching for microlensing events in the light curve data, and the calculation of the event detection efficiency. In total, we find 16 microlensing events (thirteen using an automated pipeline and three with manual searches), all of which have timescales shorter than 1 yr. We use a sample of thirteen events to measure the microlensing optical depth toward the LMC $\tau=(0.121 \pm 0.037)\times 10^{-7}$ and the event rate $\Gamma=(0.74 \pm 0.25)\times 10^{-7}\,\mathrm{yr}^{-1}\,\mathrm{star}^{-1}$. These numbers are consistent with lensing by stars in the Milky Way disk and the LMC itself, and demonstrate that massive and intermediate-mass black holes cannot comprise a significant fraction of dark matter.

I know very few of the artists listed in the #Coachella lineup; however, I do know the best back to back artists of the entire event!
#TheAdicts #TheAquabats

My Saturday was a bit different from usual: we first bought flowers for the balcony, FINALLY.
Later we cycled to a #STIHL#Timbersports event in #Lenggries (no need for going by car with this great weather!). It was really fun to see it live in action. And we combined it with some cycling 😉

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Prolonging The Inevitable: Maximising survival time of an engine-equipped spacecraft between spatial hypersurfaces, as applied to the Schwarzschild spacetime
The fate of an astronaut unfortunate -- or foolish -- enough to find themselves hurtling towards spaghettification after passing the event horizon of a black hole is a common anecdote told by scientists to the regular population. However, despite the fact the Schwarzschild spacetime has been discovered over a century ago, the simple question of how long can such a space traveller live has not been fully elaborated on since. In fact, a few textbooks even give a mistaken or easily misread descrip…

Not your #MomentOfZen
For those not local to me in North Carolina, we’re presently experiencing a remarkable event. The cycle of two separate cicada broods, one emerging every 17 years, the other every 12 years, has converged. It’s awesome in every sense of the word.

Dallas Cowboys Star Micah Parsons Has Fiery Take On Myles Garrett’s DPOY Win https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_star_micah_parsons_has_fiery_take_on_myles_garretts_dpoy_win/s1_17068…

Dallas Cowboys Star Micah Parsons Has Fiery Take On Myles Garrett’s DPOY Win
For the third season in a row, Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons fell short of the NFL Defensive Player of the Year award. But Parsons was far from a sore lose and even came to the defense of the winner, Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett. Garrett won his first DPOY award on Thursday during the NFL Honors event, besting runner-ups Parsons and Pittsburgh Steelers standout TJ Watt. Garrett received 21 first-place votes, while Watt and Parsons received 19 and 7, respectively. Watt …

Flink's SQL engine is the workhorse behind many event processing platforms. Join Timo Walther at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to learn how to track event-time operations when declaring a watermark, manage state when using different types of joins, and move changelog modes and upsert keys through topology when reading a Change Data Capture connector. #bbuzz

Huge star explosion to appear in sky in once-in-a-lifetime event
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-huge-star-explosion-sky-lifetime.html

Huge star explosion to appear in sky in once-in-a-lifetime event
Sometime between now and September, a massive explosion 3,000 light years from Earth will flare up in the night sky, giving amateur astronomers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to witness this space oddity.

Just chuckled slightly at an advert for a The Rest Is History live event next autumn. Sandbrook said
"We will be diving into the lives of Mozart and Beethoven, arguably the two greatest composers in history, if you discount Bach"
#TheRestIsHistory

🏀 @… #CollegeBasketball #CBB
Via Front Office Sports 🤖 @…

I'm attending Northeast Arizona Native Organizing Campaign's event, “Meet Cardzilla! Virtual Event” - sign up now to join me! #NativeVoteAZ #BlueWaveRising

Meet Cardzilla! Virtual Event · Northeast Arizona Native Organizing Campaign
We're excited to see you this Saturday for a virtual event on Zoom to meet Cardzilla! Our expert team will give you a tour of Cardzilla, and a chance to ask our team your questions. Cardzilla lets you download the same Northeast Arizona Native Democrats postcard addresses and scripts you know and love, and you even get a weekly newsletter with inspirations from the field, just like you do now. Plus, you can get addresses any time, day or night, any day of the week; and, you decide exactly how…

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Deterministic Identification Codes for Fading Channels
Many communication applications incorporate event-triggered behavior, where the conventional Shannon capacity may not effectively gauge performance. Consequently, we advocate for the concept of identification capacity as a more suitable metric for assessing these systems. We consider deterministic identification codes for the Gaussian AWGN, the slow fading, and the fast fading channels with power constraints. We prove lower bounds on capacities for the slow and the fast fading channels with sid…

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Measurement of the centrality dependence of the dijet yield in $p$+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_\text{NN}}}$ = 8.16 TeV with the ATLAS detector
The measurement of hard scatterings in proton-nucleus collisions has resulted in a greater understanding of both the proton and nuclear structure. ATLAS measured the centrality dependence of the dijet yield using 165 nb$^{-1}$ of $p$+Pb data collected at $\sqrt{s_{_\text{NN}}}$ = 8.16 TeV in 2016. The event centrality, which reflects the $p$+Pb impact parameter, is characterized by the total transverse energy registered in the Pb-going side of the forward calorimeter. The central-to-peripheral …

Modern ants evolved alongside their ancient ancestors, study suggests

All of the nearly 16,000 species of modern ants share a common extinct ancestor, and a new analysis suggests modern ants once shared the planet with their ancient ant relatives
— and that their distinctive body structure remained consistent across 100 million years of evolution.

The research, published in the journal Current Biology, focuses on the youngest known stem ants, which were preserved in 77 m…

Modern ants evolved alongside their ancient ancestors, study suggests
Unlike most species, ants managed to avoid extinction during the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event about 66 million years ago.

Good idea to wait after the event.
The iPad Air looks like a good deal.

This couldn't be more relevant with the #xzbackdoor being discovered just recently.
Please note there will be a panel discussion on the XZ event this evening at 18:00 in the ring arena. #javaland
Correction: this panel will take place at 18:00 CET.

What is this bullshit!
https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/local/kyle-rittenhouse-memphis-university-speaking-stop-tour-recap/522-ec68cddb-9f47-4d3f-8445-490c046867af…

The Ghent Hybrid Model in NuWro: a new neutrino single-pion production model in the GeV regime
Qiyu Yan, Kajetan Niewczas, Alexis Nikolakopoulos, Ra\'ul Gonz\'alez-Jim\'enez, Natalie Jachowicz, Xianguo Lu, Jan Sobczyk, Yangheng Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05212

The Ghent Hybrid Model in NuWro: a new neutrino single-pion production model in the GeV regime
Neutrino-induced single-pion production constitutes an essential interaction channel in modern neutrino oscillation experiments, with its products building up a significant fraction of the observable hadronic final states. Frameworks of oscillation analyses strongly rely on Monte Carlo neutrino event generators, which provide theoretical predictions of neutrino interactions on nuclear targets. Thus, it is crucial to integrate state-of-the-art single-pion production models with Monte Carlo simul…

Presented without comment.
#MemeWorthy

"It’s disheartening to watch PEN make misstep after misstep, getting in its own way again and again when we urgently need to combat, among other things, the book bans that are plaguing this country."
https://lithub.com/whats-wrong-with-pen-…

What’s Wrong With PEN America, and Why We Need It To Survive
“Harry got into an altercation with the New Yorker fiction writer Jamacia Kincaid, who came over to Gayfryd and with an air of hoity-toity bemusement said, ‘I am puzzled by this event. Why are ther…

The state of global press freedom and the threats to democracy
Web event: from Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2024/05/03/state-global-press-freedom-threats-democracy/…

The state of global press freedom and the threats to democracy
Journalists around the world are risking their safety and their lives to cover everything from the ongoing threats to democracy to the wars in Gaza and Ukraine to other consequential global stories. On Friday, May 3 at 10:00 a.m. ET, join The Washington Post on World Press Freedom Day for conversations about the role of an independent media in a democracy, what’s at stake as billions of people head to the polls this year and the technological shifts reshaping the industry. We will also reveal…

Big news: We'll have one more reason to celebrate at our May 15 event, the news that Cathay Smith will be joining the #ChicagoKentIP faculty this fall!
If you are (or will be) in Chicago, you can register here by May 8:

C-K May 15 IP Celebration RSVP
A Celebration of Chicago-Kent’s IP Tradition and Continued Excellence Please join us for a program and reception to celebrate Chicago-Kent’s IP Program. We will recognize the contributions of Professor Ed Lee, who will be leaving the Chicago-Kent IP faculty at the end of the academic year. We will also welcome Professors Sarah Burstein and Cathay Smith, who will join the Chicago-Kent IP faculty this summer, and Professor Jordana Goodman, who joined the Chicago-Kent IP faculty in summer 20…

🏉 ‘Fast, brutal, brilliant’: NRL’s Las Vegas gamble comes up trumps
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/mar/03/fast-brutal-brilliant-nrls-las-vegas-gamble-comes-up-trumps

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Radon Concentration Measurement with a High-Sensitivity Radon Detector at the Yemilab
The radiation emitted from radon is a critical background in rare event search experiments conducted at the Yemi Underground Laboratory (Yemilab) in Jeongseon, Korea. A Radon Reduction System(RRS) has been developed and installed in Yemilab to reduce radon concentration in the air. The RRS primarily provides a purified air of 50 m3/h to the cleanroom used to assemble crystal detectors in the AMoRE, a neutrinoless double beta decay search experiment. RRS can reduce the radon level by a factor of…

Still thinking about the “AI is amazing” example in the iPad event today, that isolated a moving person from a static background.
Something that any video chat app has been doing for years without AI.

📢 Hey, #dotnet folks! We are accepting presentations for #JetBrains .NET Days 2024. This is always a fun event, and you can submit talks of 30, 45, or 60 minutes.
As a presenter, you're not alone. We're here to support you every step of the way. You'll receive assistance from our …

Underlying-event studies with strange hadrons in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
ATLAS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05048

Underlying-event studies with strange hadrons in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
Properties of the underlying-event in $pp$ interactions are investigated primarily via the strange hadrons $K_{S}^{0}$, $Λ$ and $\barΛ$, as reconstructed using the ATLAS detector at the LHC in minimum-bias $pp$ collision data at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV. The hadrons are reconstructed via the identification of the displaced two-particle vertices corresponding to the decay modes $K_{S}^{0}\rightarrowπ^+π^-$, $Λ\rightarrowπ^-p$ and $\barΛ\rightarrowπ^+\bar{p}$. These are used in the constructio…

Machine Learning-based NLP for Emotion Classification on a Cholera X Dataset
Paul Jideani, Aurona Gerber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04897 https://

Machine Learning-based NLP for Emotion Classification on a Cholera X Dataset
Recent social media posts on the cholera outbreak in Hammanskraal have highlighted the diverse range of emotions people experienced in response to such an event. The extent of people's opinions varies greatly depending on their level of knowledge and information about the disease. The documented re-search about Cholera lacks investigations into the classification of emotions. This study aims to examine the emotions expressed in social media posts about Chol-era. A dataset of 23,000 posts was ex…

Ready to level up your knowledge? Mark your calendars for 17th April and join us at the #phpugmrn pre-event of Sylius Days at the @… office in Mannheim. @…

The utility of infrasound in global monitoring of extraterrestrial impacts: A case study of the 23 July 2008 Tajikistan bolide
Elizabeth A. Silber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04127

The utility of infrasound in global monitoring of extraterrestrial impacts: A case study of the 23 July 2008 Tajikistan bolide
Among various observational techniques used for detection of large bolides on a global scale is a low frequency sound known as infrasound. Infrasound, which is also one of the four sensing modalities used by the International Monitoring System (IMS), offers continuous global monitoring, and can be leveraged towards planetary defense. Infrasonic records can provide an additional dimension for event characterization and a distinct perspective that might not be available through any other observat…

"Trump is telling the same lies that every wave of migrants who came to the United States has always been subjected to," he said. "When the Jews came, when the Germans came, when the Italians came. Irish. We were told the same thing, lose our culture, lose our language, drive down wages, and the crime will go up. And exactly the opposite has happened."
'It's a loser': Republican strategist torches Trump's latest 'inhumane' argument - Raw Stor…

'It's a loser': Republican strategist torches Trump's latest 'inhumane' argument
Longtime Republican strategist Rick Tyler slammed former President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant vision for the future in an MSNBC panel on Wednesday, following a political event in Michigan the previous day in which Trump warned that immigrants would invade people's houses if he's not elected.In pa...

Got zoom reinstalled and think it works (had some problems the last few times) and ready for my womensday event this evening on surrealist women, a online panel. They have a neat countdown on their website so I can just sit here, watch the seconds go by😉

Finished my Picolibc presentation for the Embedded Open Source Summit next week. I've still got time to practice and refine it. Looking forward to seeing people in Seattle. https://eoss24.sched.com/event/1aBGa/using-picolibc-in-embedded-s…

Embedded Open Source Summit 2024: Using Picolibc in Embedded Systems - Kei...
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Google launches Google Wallet for Android in India and partners with 20 brands to let users store boarding passes, loyalty cards, event tickets, and more (Aamir Siddiqui/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-wallet-indi…

Google Wallet and Google Pay will co-exist in this country
Google has launched the Google Wallet app in India to store boarding passes, tickets, and more. The app will co-exist alongside Google Pay.

A high-resolution radio morphology and polarization of the kpc-scale X-ray jet of PKS 1127-145
M. Orienti, A. Siemiginowska, F. D'Ammando, G. Migliori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04935

A high-resolution radio morphology and polarization of the kpc-scale X-ray jet of PKS 1127-145
We report on new multi-frequency Very Large Array (VLA) radio observations and Chandra X-ray observations of a radio-loud quasar with a ~300 kpc long jet, PKS 1127-145, during a flaring event detected in $γ$-rays by the Fermi Large Area Telescope in 2020 December. The high angular resolution of the new radio images allows us to disentangle for the first time the inner kpc-scale jet from the core contribution. The inner radio jet, up to 15 kpc from the core, is highly polarized (33 per cent) an…

I read the article this morning and my first reaction was:
What the absolute fuck?!
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/people/2024/04/08/bruce-lehrmann-bettina-arndt

Bruce Lehrmann headlines $100-a-ticket speakers' event
Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann will be a speaker at an event organised by men's right activist Bettina Arndt, it has been revealed.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00446 has been replaced.
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Towards a Semantic Characterisation of Global Type Well-formedness
We address the question of characterising the well-formedness properties of multiparty session types semantically, i.e., as properties of the semantic model used to interpret types. Choosing Prime Event Structures (PESs) as our semantic model, we present semantic counterparts for the two properties that underpin global type well-formedness, namely projectability and boundedness, in this model. As a first step towards a characterisation of the class of PESs corresponding to well-formed global t…

My Saturday was a bit different from usual: we first bought flowers for the balcony, FINALLY.
Later we cycled to a #STIHL#Timbersports event in #Lenggries (no need for going by car with this great weather!). It was really fun to see it live in action. And we combined it with some cycling 😉

CeeDee Lamb says he’ll be in Dallas this season amid potential holdout https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/ceedee_lamb_says_hell_be_in_dallas_this_season_amid_potential_holdout/s1_17236_40212239…

CeeDee Lamb says he’ll be in Dallas this season amid potential holdout
Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb expects to be with the team when the 2024 season begins despite a potential holdout looming. TMZ Sports recently caught up with Lamb at a CSA sports memorabilia event in Chantilly, Virginia and was asked if Cowboys fans should expect him back on the field with the team this fall. “Yeah, I’ll be in Dallas!” Lamb said. Lamb also told TMZ Sports he’s looking forward to winning with quarterback Dak Prescott and the rest of his temmates. Lamb is enter…

A few weeks ago, a Russian autocrat addressed millions of Western citizens in a propaganda event that would have been unthinkable a generation ago
—yet is so normal today as to be almost unremarkable.
Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin has now been viewed more than 120 million times on YouTube and X.
Despite the tedium of Putin’s two-hour-long lecture about an imaginary Russian and Ukrainian history, the streaming and promotion of the interview …

The West Is Still Oblivious to Russia's Information War
Paralyzed by free speech concerns, Western governments are loath to act.

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.

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A Rationale-centric Counterfactual Data Augmentation Method for Cross-Document Event Coreference Resolution
Based on Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs), event coreference resolution (ECR) systems have demonstrated outstanding performance in clustering coreferential events across documents. However, the existing system exhibits an excessive reliance on the `triggers lexical matching' spurious pattern in the input mention pair text. We formalize the decision-making process of the baseline ECR system using a Structural Causal Model (SCM), aiming to identify spurious and causal associations (i.e., ration…

I read the article this morning and my first reaction was:
What the absolute fuck?!
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/people/2024/04/08/bruce-lehrmann-bettina-arndt

Bruce Lehrmann headlines $100-a-ticket speakers' event
Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann will be a speaker at an event organised by men's right activist Bettina Arndt, it has been revealed.

Copas-Heckman-type sensitivity analysis for publication bias in rare-event meta-analysis under the framework of the generalized linear mixed model
Yi Zhou, Taojun Hu, Xiao-Hua Zhou, Satoshi Hattori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03603

Copas-Heckman-type sensitivity analysis for publication bias in rare-event meta-analysis under the framework of the generalized linear mixed model
Publication bias (PB) is one of the serious issues in meta-analysis. Many existing methods dealing with PB are based on the normal-normal (NN) random-effects model assuming normal models in both the within-study and the between-study levels. For rare-event meta-analysis where the data contain rare occurrences of event, the standard NN random-effects model may perform poorly. Instead, the generalized linear mixed effects model (GLMM) using the exact within-study model is recommended. However, no…

Multiwavelength observations of a breakout jet at an active region periphery
Pradeep Kayshap, Judith T. Karpen, Pankaj Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04766

Multiwavelength observations of a breakout jet at an active region periphery
We analysed Interface-Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) and the Solar Dynamics Observatory/Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (SDO/AIA) observations of a small coronal jet that occurred at the solar west limb on 2014 August 29. The jet source region, a small bright point, was located at an active-region periphery and contains a fan-spine topology with a mini-filament. Our analysis has identified key features and timings that motivate the following interpretation of this event. As the stressed core f…

🦋 At a Long Beach pro-democracy rally, Cambodians grapple with their country's political past and future
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-03/at-a-pro-dem…

At a Long Beach pro-democracy rally, Cambodians grapple with their country's political past and future
Survivors of the Khmer Rouge are some of the most vocal opponents to the Cambodian People's Party that has ruled the country for almost 40 years.

Search for Neutrino Emission from GRB 221009A using the KM3NeT ARCA and ORCA detectors
S. Aiello, A. Albert, M. Alshamsi, S. Alves Garre, A. Ambrosone, F. Ameli, M. Andre, E. Androutsou, M. Anguita, L. Aphecetche, M. Ardid, S. Ardid, H. Atmani, J. Aublin, F. Badaracco, L. Bailly-Salins, Z. Barda\v{c}ov\'a, B. Baret, A. Bariego-Quintana, S. Basegmez du Pree, Y. Becherini, M. Bendahman, F. Benfenati, M. Benhassi, D. M. Benoit, E. Berbee, V. Bertin, S. Biagi, M. Boettcher, D. Bonanno,…

Search for Neutrino Emission from GRB 221009A using the KM3NeT ARCA and ORCA detectors
Gamma-ray bursts are promising candidate sources of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. The recent GRB 221009A event, identified as the brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected, provides a unique opportunity to investigate hadronic emissions involving neutrinos. The KM3NeT undersea neutrino detectors participated in the worldwide follow-up effort triggered by the event, searching for neutrino events. In this letter, we summarize subsequent searches, in a wide energy range from MeV up to a few P…

What impact will technology have on genealogy?
Jarrett Ross will discuss the tools and technology being developed today which may have a big impact on the future of genealogy and genetic genealogy. This talk will discuss AI, Facial Recognition Software, low SNP artifact testing, and much more.
“The Future of Genealogy” is a collaboration between the Jewish Genealogy Society of Pittsburgh and the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center.
Please register online

The Future of Genealogy
What impact will technology have on genealogy?

Software Compensation for Highly Granular Calorimeters using Machine Learning
S. Lai, J. Utehs, A. Wilhahn, O. Bach, E. Brianne, A. Ebrahimi, K. Gadow, P. G\"ottlicher, O. Hartbrich, D. Heuchel, A. Irles, K. Kr\"uger, J. Kvasnicka, S. Lu, C. Neub\"user, A. Provenza, M. Reinecke, F. Sefkow, S. Schuwalow, M. De Silva, Y. Sudo, H. L. Tran, E. Buhmann, E. Garutti, S. Huck, G. Kasieczka, S. Martens, J. Rolph, J. Wellhausen, G. C. Blazey, A. Dyshkant, K. Francis, V. Zutshi, B.…

Software Compensation for Highly Granular Calorimeters using Machine Learning
A neural network for software compensation was developed for the highly granular CALICE Analogue Hadronic Calorimeter (AHCAL). The neural network uses spatial and temporal event information from the AHCAL and energy information, which is expected to improve sensitivity to shower development and the neutron fraction of the hadron shower. The neural network method produced a depth-dependent energy weighting and a time-dependent threshold for enhancing energy deposits consistent with the timescale…

"Trump is telling the same lies that every wave of migrants who came to the United States has always been subjected to," he said. "When the Jews came, when the Germans came, when the Italians came. Irish. We were told the same thing, lose our culture, lose our language, drive down wages, and the crime will go up. And exactly the opposite has happened."
'It's a loser': Republican strategist torches Trump's latest 'inhumane' argument - Raw Stor…

'It's a loser': Republican strategist torches Trump's latest 'inhumane' argument
Longtime Republican strategist Rick Tyler slammed former President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant vision for the future in an MSNBC panel on Wednesday, following a political event in Michigan the previous day in which Trump warned that immigrants would invade people's houses if he's not elected.In pa...

Euroday is an annual event in Brussels when all the European Institutions open their doors to visitors: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/06/euroday-is-an.html

'I feel attacked!' Dak Prescott delivers resounding endorsement of Cowboys’ culture amidst controversial comments from Micah Parsons and teammates https://www.

'I feel attacked!' Dak Prescott delivers resounding endorsement of Cowboys’ culture amidst controversial comments from Micah Parsons and teammates
The new father, Dak Prescott, can digest any sort of criticism thrown at him. However, he will not tolerate anyone blaming the Dallas Cowboys culture. While attending the Children’s Cancer Fund event at NorthPark Centre on Monday afternoon, the current Cowboys quarterback and Hall of Famer Troy Aikman were speaking to the media about their community efforts, along with the state of the franchise. One of the topics of the offseason has been the locker room culture inside the Cowboys facility. …

Search for production of a single vector-like quark decaying to tH or tZ in the all-hadronic final state in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
CMS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05071

Search for production of a single vector-like quark decaying to tH or tZ in the all-hadronic final state in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
A search for electroweak production of a single vector-like T quark in association with a bottom (b) quark in the all-hadronic decay channel is presented. This search uses proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC during 2016-2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{-1}$ The T quark is assumed to have charge 2/3 and decay to a top (t) quark and a Higgs (H) or Z boson. Event kinematics and the presence of jets containin…

😡 Brazil’s dictatorship: Repression, torture, slaughter of Indigenous people and censorship
https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-04-01/brazils-dictatorship-repression-torture-sl…

Brazil’s dictatorship: Repression, torture, slaughter of Indigenous people and censorship
Sixty years have passed since the 1964 military coup, an event that current President Lula would rather not mark with any ceremony so as not to further strain his relationship with the military

A Multi-Peak Solar Flare with a High Turnover Frequency of The Gyrosynchrotron Spectra from the Loop-Top Source
Zhao Wu, Alexey Kuznetsov, Sergey Anfinogentov, Victor Melnikov, Robert Sych, Bing Wang, Ruisheng Zheng, Xiangliang Kong, Baolin Tan, Zongjun Ning, Yao Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03116

A Multi-Peak Solar Flare with a High Turnover Frequency of The Gyrosynchrotron Spectra from the Loop-Top Source
The origin of multiple peaks in lightcurves of various wavelengths remains illusive during flares. Here we discuss the flare of SOL2023-05-09T03:54M6.5 with six flux peaks as recorded by a tandem of new microwave and Hard X-ray instruments. According to its microwave spectra, the flare represents a high-turnover frequency (>15 GHz) event. The rather-complete microwave and HXR spectral coverage provides a rare opportunity to uncover the origin of such event together with simultaneous EUV images.…

A fundraising event hosted by a charitable organization and linked to Donald Trump may have broken the law if it explicitly benefited his campaign, as an IRS rule bars charities from endorsing candidates for elections.
#Border911, a Trump-backed charitable organization led by Tom Homan, his former Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief, hosted a gala on April 4 that Trump attended.
Other …

Donald Trump Fundraiser May Have Broken the Law
An organization that has limits on its political activities held a fundraiser last week where Donald Trump spoke.

A look at Apple's hubris that doomed the electric car project, spring hardware updates without a dedicated event, and Dan Riccio's retirement plans (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Why Was Apple Car Canceled? The Hubris in Apple Thinking It Could Outdo Tesla
Apple’s belief that it could create a better car than Tesla and the rest of the automotive industry ultimately led to the downfall of the project. Also: The company’s next Macs and iPads get closer, AppleCare is told not to speculate about app side loading in the US, and Apple’s longtime hardware engineering chief nears retirement.

Spanish, Belgian, Latvian, Finnish leaders confirm participation in peace summit: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/07/spanish-belgian-latvian.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13105 has been replaced.
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Photon Classification with Gradient Boosted Trees at CLAS12
Dihadron semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) of 10.6 GeV longitudinally polarized electrons off the proton has been measured using the CLAS12 detector at Jefferson Lab. Two separate channels, $π^+π^0$ and $π^-π^0$, were analyzed, requiring the reconstruction of diphoton pairs. In this analysis, we addressed the problem of false neutral particles being reconstructed by CLAS12's event builder, polluting the otherwise physical combinatorial background underneath the $π^0$ peak. A…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03841 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Everything everywhere all at once: A detailed study of GW230529
This study investigates the origins of GW230529, delving into its formation from massive stars within isolated binary systems. Utilizing population synthesis models, we present compelling evidence that the neutron star component forms first. However, the event's low signal-to-noise ratio introduces complexities in identifying the underlying physical mechanisms driving its formation. Augmenting our analysis with insights from numerical relativity, we estimate the final black hole mass and spin t…

Keyshawn Johnson claims the Cowboys will be ‘foolish’ to not restructure Dak Prescott’s contract amid Jerry Jones’ resistance https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/ke

Keyshawn Johnson claims the Cowboys will be ‘foolish’ to not restructure Dak Prescott’s contract amid Jerry Jones’ resistance
The contract extension of the Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott is becoming a big issue for the team. The quarterback is set to take a massive cap hit of $59.5 million. It can certainly create a heavy problem for the Cowboys. The team has to maintain the players’ salaries under the cap, but they have to address a lot, including an extension for the wide receiver CeeDee Lamb. In a recent interview at the Children’s Cancer Fund Event, the quarterback said that he believes the contr…

‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe
On 18 March, 2022, scientists at the Concordia research station on the #east #Antarctic #plateau documented a remarkable event.
…

Apple announces new 11" and 13" iPad Pros, with M4, an OLED "Ultra Retina XDR" display with up to 1,600 nits of brightness, and new 5.1mm and 5.3mm thin designs (Chris Welch/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/7/24146276

Apple announces new iPad Pros with OLED displays and thinnest design ever
Apple’s new OLED iPad Pro comes in 13-inch and 11-inch sizes and offers more power than ever in an even thinner design. And there are new accessories, too, of course.

Imaging the event horizon of M87* from space on different timescales
Anastasia Shlentsova, Freek Roelofs, Sara Issaoun, Jordy Davelaar, Heino Falcke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03327

Imaging the event horizon of M87* from space on different timescales
The concept of a new space very long baseline interferometry system named the Event Horizon Imager (EHI) has been proposed to dramatically improve black hole imaging and provide precise tests of the theory of general relativity. We investigate the ability to make high-resolution movies of the black hole shadow and jet launching region around the supermassive black hole M87* and other black hole jets with a three-satellite EHI configuration. We aim to identify orbital configurations to optimize …

Keyshawn Johnson claims the Cowboys will be ‘foolish’ to not restructure Dak Prescott’s contract amid Jerry Jones’ resistance https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/ke

Keyshawn Johnson claims the Cowboys will be ‘foolish’ to not restructure Dak Prescott’s contract amid Jerry Jones’ resistance
The contract extension of the Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott is becoming a big issue for the team. The quarterback is set to take a massive cap hit of $59.5 million. It can certainly create a heavy problem for the Cowboys. The team has to maintain the players’ salaries under the cap, but they have to address a lot, including an extension for the wide receiver CeeDee Lamb. In a recent interview at the Children’s Cancer Fund Event, the quarterback said that he believes the contr…