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Leah's Gals 🎰💔🔥
Dramatized slice-of-life series | Total listening time: 2h 12m
Leah’s won the state lottery’s biggest prize, and while her three daughters are elated by her good fortune, when one of them dares to speak truth to power it sets off a devastating chain of events. Long-held grievances and newfound w...
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Leah's Gals 🎰💔🔥
Dramatized slice-of-life series | Total listening time: 2h 12m Leah’s won the state lottery’s biggest prize, and while her three daughters are elated by her good fortune, when one of them dares to speak truth to power it sets off a devastating chain of events. Long-held grievances and newfound wealth lead to familial treachery, violence and death. Loosely based on Shakespeare's epic tragedy King Lear, set in the present day American South. 1 seasons, 5 episodes as of Apr 24, 2024.

I've been reading Ray Dailo's "Principles for dealing with the changing world order" in which he charts the rise and fall of empires and kingdoms and dynasties.
The main cycle, he reckons is:
1) Winner of a war consolidates power, unites the population (often through oppression)
2) A smart cooperative equitable educated society with meritocracy means good societal progress and wide sharing of the wealth.
3) Long period of peace, building good tech and military and financial systems.
4) Leadership corrupts: Excessive debt, money-printing, inequality, financial ruin, no sense of solidarity, then a natural disaster pushes it over the edge
5) The fall: Escalating rebellions, very bad inequality, internal conflicts
6) Civil war, revolution, eventually a strong leader proves the winner and back to 1.
We in the western civilization are very clearly in the late states of this kind of cycle, and it's frankly terrifying with the weapons we have these days when it comes to a war.
The leadership is too corrupt to try and fix the inequality or invest in that well educated, equitable, cooperative society.
He explicitly agrees with Marx and implicitly with me a lot more than I'd have expected from the rabid capitalist that Ray Dailo is.
It's interesting to hear his emphasis on inequality and how a prosperous society depends upon sharing the gains of prosperity widely. You tend to hear hyper-capitalists mostly emphasizing that capital's gains should go to capital, and Ray is certainly suggesting the opposite here. That if that happens, it corrupts the leadership and ends with cronyism and debt and revolution.
We seem to basically agree what creates good prosperous peaceful civil society, and that capitalism in the Anglican world isn't doing it, and that fucked up corrupt government is why we aren't doing it.
We'd offer fairly different prescriptions though I think.
#reading #books #economics

Don't let any denier or fossil fuel apologist ever tell you that renewables are "unreliable" or that batteries are "unsustainable”.
You can make batteries from water, sand, and other material to store electricity as heat. This is centuries-old technology that can power the 21st century and beyond.
No more excuses.
#EndFossilFuels

When I want my mind blown, I compare former world's largest supercomputers to the tech I have around.
ASCI Red, the world's fastest supercomputer until the year 2000, was 150m² large, consumed 850,000W of power …and was slower than an iPhone 14 Pro, which uses ~6W.
ASCI Red had over 1TB of RAM, which may still sound impressive, except that RAM was 2× slower than the iPhone's 1TB SSD.

On bursty star formation during cosmological reionization - how does it influence the baryon mass content of dark matter halos?
Anand Menon (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research at The University of Western Australia), Chris Power (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research at The University of Western Australia)
https://

On bursty star formation during cosmological reionization - how does it influence the baryon mass content of dark matter halos?
The baryon mass content of dark matter halos in the early Universe depends on global factors - e.g. ionising ultraviolet (UV) radiation background - and local factors - e.g. star formation efficiency and assembly history. We use a lightweight semi-analytical model to investigate how local and global factors impact halo baryon mass content at redshifts of $z\geq 5$. Our model incorporates a time delay between when stars form and when they produce feedback, which drive bursts of star formation, a…

> Taken together, PACER and PRESS would save Pennsylvania ratepayers $252 million over the next five years, create 14,500 jobs, and once again position Pennsylvania as a leader in the energy industry.
Go Governor Shapiro!!
https://triblive.com…

Gov. Josh Shapiro: My commonsense plan for a new era of energy leadership in Pa.
Pennsylvania’s energy industry has long created good-paying jobs and ensured consumers have reliable, affordable power. The coal mines and oil fields of Northeastern and Western Pennsylvania fueled the Industrial Revolution, which powered the middle class and led to the creation of the American labor movement. When fascism threatened freedom overseas,

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16527 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

On asymptotic stability on a center hypersurface at the soliton for even solutions of the NLKG when $2\ge p> \frac{5}{3}$
We extend the result M. Kowalczyk, Y. Martel, C. Muñoz, JEMS 2022, on the existence, in the context of spatially even solutions, of asymptotic stability on a center hypersurface at the soliton of the defocusing power Nonlinear Klein Gordon Equation with $p>3$, to the case $2\ge p> \frac{5}{3}$.

A Federated Deep Learning Approach for Privacy-Preserving Real-Time Transient Stability Predictions in Power Systems
Maeshal Hijazi, Payman Dehghanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03126

A Federated Deep Learning Approach for Privacy-Preserving Real-Time Transient Stability Predictions in Power Systems
Maintaining the privacy of power system data is essential for protecting sensitive information and ensuring the operation security of critical infrastructure. Therefore, the adoption of centralized deep learning (DL) transient stability assessment (TSA) frameworks can introduce risks to electric utilities. This is because these frameworks make utility data susceptible to cyber threats and communication issues when transmitting data to a central server for training a single TSA model. Additional…

I've been reading "On Green” (https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/03/21/on-green) and its following article, “On Attunement” with some interest today. I am uninterested in the ways he is focused on “AGI”, but that might actually be part of what he's saying and missing.
They talk about the philosophy of green in the "magic the gathering" sense, which has five core modes of things, and being a game, designed to balance. It's an attractive system and not without merit as a philosophical labeling system. In short: white, moral; blue, knowledge and rationality; red, passion and desire; black, power and achievement. And green. Green is the subject they can't identify clearly.
I don't think they really understand green. (They come from a very rationalist place, and that's not a good mode to understand Green)
Green is the domain of systems thinking and of ecology. It's one of flexible boundaries and hierarchies that vanish when you look at them for long. They talk about philosophical agents and try to fit a green philosophical stance into that framework, but it misses: the very idea of a self is nebulous in a green philosophy. Yes, it obviously exists, we are all separate from each other. But also we are inseparable from each other. Green is a philosophy of relationality and multiple perspectives and ever shifting viewpoints. It's not just yin, passive, permissive, but holistic. It's not that it lets the Other in, it's that it actively is in relation with the Other. The other is the self, the self is the other.
The essays also label green as conservative, and this is not quite true. It is not about being slow or regressive or traditional, but about being whole. They can't quite see that green's willingness to accept death and pain as things that happen and also its strong preservationist stance are not opposed to each other. It seems incoherent, but it's not: death and pain are things that happen to living parts of an ecosystem. They matter, but so too does the whole matter. Where so many blue rationalists see statistical and demographic counts of deaths and "sentient beings harmed”, green sees a whole ecosystem where some of that is deeply natural. It's unnatural, ecosystem-harming deaths that are disasters in the green philosophy. Wholesale extinctions. Protracted, painful deaths, as much for the wound they cause outside the individual as the individual suffering as well. But we all come to an end, and to change that wholesale would end so many kinds of relationship, so many things.
Green revels in the illegible, the incomplete, and the connected. It's easy to be green-blind, to ignore the subtle systemic effects. So many of us want simple cause and effect, rather than action and plurality of reactions.
Green's ability to embrace the illegible lets it deal with Red chaos; its resilience tempers red passion. It can ally with White philosophies into a pastoral, conservative, moralistic framework. It ends up at odds with the rationalist Blue and the power-hungry Black, because they drive disequilibrium, but more than just transition to new stable ecologies, they drive systems permanently out of stability, destroying relationships in their path. When confronted with this, they will deny it because the objects are still there. Preserved. Catalogued. Legible and accounted for. Perhaps used instrumentally. Perhaps wrecked for some "greater purpose” but only acknowledged as objects. The relationships between things remain illegible.

The Role of Torsion in Trans-Planckian Physics
Elham Arabahmadi, Siamak Akhshabi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03141 https://arxiv.org/p…

The Role of Torsion in Trans-Planckian Physics
The torsion of spacetime, if exists, plays an important role at the very early universe when the spin density of particles was very high. It is generally believed that in extremely high energies of the early universe a new physics called trans-Planckian physics should be considered. Since the initial conditions for inflation are probably a result of this new physics, here we consider spin and torsion as trans- Planckian effects and analyze their influence on the power spectrum of scalar and ten…

Any recommendations for a #zigbee vibration sensor that isn't Aqara? The Aqara in my garage keeps falling out of my mesh though it's less than 10ft from a router. I don't want one with an audible alarm unless I can disable it.
I want to put the sensor on my sump pump to detect when it's running. I don't want to use a smart plug. If the sump spikes the power draw when it sta…

Good news from The David Suzuki Foundation
To save a world in a grain of sand
Storage systems ensure wind and solar energy is available 24/7. Lithium batteries are good, but come with their own problems. As Euronews Green points out, “Grains of sand, it turns out, are surprisingly roomy when it comes to energy storage.” Following up on a smaller power station it built in Kankaanpää, Finland, in 2022, Polar Night Energy is now constructing the world’s biggest sand battery in Porna…

So I was rereading @…'s piece on neural network-created knitting patterns and wondered if ChatGPT could create cross stitch patterns for me. Sort of? Maybe?
(Bing CoPilot could not produce anything usable.)

SkyKnit: When knitters teamed up with a neural network
[Make Caows and Shapcho - MeganAnn] [Pitsilised Koekirjad Cushion Sampler Poncho - Maeve] [Lacy 2047 - michaela112358] I use algorithms called neural networks to write humor. What’s fun about neural networks is they learn by example - give them a bunch of some sort of data, and they’ll try to figure out rules that let them imitate it. They power corporate finances, recognize faces, translate text, and more. I, however, like to give them silly datasets. I’ve trained neural networks to gene…

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/27/the-vice-media-collapse-was-entirely-the-fault-of-incompetent-fail-upward-brunchlords/
“But as the recent collapse of outlets like Sports Illustrated and The Messenger illustrate, the real culprit often isn’t that journalism isn’t profitable, it’s that U.S. media is predominantly run by utterly incompetent individuals who fail upward into positions of power.”
No truer words.
Years ago I found myself reporting to a publisher who didn’t know the difference between the words quantitative and qualitative. I once gently corrected her and she asked “there’s a difference?” This person went on to a succession of higher and higher level publishing jobs even after she was ultimately pushed out of the job she held when I (briefly) worked for her.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10825 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

On the power of one pure steered state for EPR-steering with a pair of qubits
As originally introduced, the EPR phenomenon was the ability of one party (Alice) to steer, by her choice between two measurement settings, the quantum system of another party (Bob) into two distinct ensembles of pure states. As later formalized as a quantum information task, EPR-steering can be shown even when the distinct ensembles comprise mixed states. Consider the scenario where Alice and Bob each have a qubit and Alice performs dichotomic projective measurements. In this case, the states …

"reboot the train, which takes ca. 10 minutes" is so cursed

Wildest Dreams: Reproducible Research in Privacy-preserving Neural Network Training
Tanveer Khan, Mindaugas Budzys, Khoa Nguyen, Antonis Michalas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03592 …

Wildest Dreams: Reproducible Research in Privacy-preserving Neural Network Training
Machine Learning (ML), addresses a multitude of complex issues in multiple disciplines, including social sciences, finance, and medical research. ML models require substantial computing power and are only as powerful as the data utilized. Due to high computational cost of ML methods, data scientists frequently use Machine Learning-as-a-Service (MLaaS) to outsource computation to external servers. However, when working with private information, like financial data or health records, outsourcing …

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The case of One Laptop per Child shows us why it is dangerous to ignore the origins of charisma: one risks being perpetually entranced by the newest charismatic technology. This is not to say that cultural change with a technology-centric project is impossible. Still, even more realistic reforms grounded in the realities of their intended beneficiaries sometimes have difficulty gaining broad popular support outside the school unless they add a charismatic gloss of rapid, revolutionary change.
This charismatic pressure can put even open-eyed reformers in a catch-22. They must promise dramatic results to gain the social and financial support for reforms, and then they must either admit to not achieving their goals or pretend that they did achieve them. Either way, funders will declare that the project is finished and withdraw financial support, and then researchers and other observers will begin to note the discrepancies between reformers’ promises and their own observations. Thus, projects that rely on charismatic technologies are often short lived; their resources are cut off before charisma recedes into the background and before the technology becomes part of everyday classroom experience. This catch-22 has dogged efforts for educational reform, development, and cultural change — especially those funded through grants or other short-term funding — for well over a century. As the technology community moves on to the next charismatic device without learning from its failures, this will continue to hamper the possibility of real, if incremental, change.
[…] After all, charisma is ultimately a conservative social force. Even when charismatic technologies promise to quickly and painlessly transform our lives for the better, they appeal precisely because they echo existing stereotypes, confirm the value of existing power relations, and reinforce existing ideologies. Meanwhile, they may divert attention and resources from more complicated, expensive, or politically charged reforms that do not promise a quick fix and are thus less charismatic.
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(Morgan G. Ames, The Charisma Machine)

"10000000mAh USB Portable Charger Solar Power Bank"
Sure buddy, a *10 million* mAh portable power bank with solar panel, in a package that is roughly the size of a phone in a rugged case. For $17.59. 🤦‍♂️
Maybe 10 million mAh over the life of the unit. 😉
https://www.ebay.com/itm/385399232918

2023 Super 10000000mAh USB Portable Charger Solar Power Bank For Cell Phone | eBay
Hot Sales ! Solar Panel: 1.2W. Stylish, portable ,user-friendly and durable for on the go use. 1 x Micro USB Cable. The iPhone Adapter and the A/C plug are not included with this device! Press once to open the SOS distress signal when the flashlight is turned on.

A Federated Deep Learning Approach for Privacy-Preserving Real-Time Transient Stability Predictions in Power Systems
Maeshal Hijazi, Payman Dehghanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03126

A Federated Deep Learning Approach for Privacy-Preserving Real-Time Transient Stability Predictions in Power Systems
Maintaining the privacy of power system data is essential for protecting sensitive information and ensuring the operation security of critical infrastructure. Therefore, the adoption of centralized deep learning (DL) transient stability assessment (TSA) frameworks can introduce risks to electric utilities. This is because these frameworks make utility data susceptible to cyber threats and communication issues when transmitting data to a central server for training a single TSA model. Additional…

Robust estimators for the log-logistic model based on ranked set sampling
\'Angel Felipe, Mar\'ia Jaenada, Pedro Miranda, Leandro Pardo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03346

Robust estimators for the log-logistic model based on ranked set sampling
In this paper we introduce a new family of estimators for the parameters of shape and scale of the log-logistic distribution being robust when rank set sample method is used to select the data. Rank set sampling arises as a way to reduce the impact of extremal data. Log-logistic distribution is an important distribution suitable for modeling many different situations ranging from Economy to Engineering and Hydrology. This new family of estimators is based on density power divergences. The choic…

Exploring the Connection Between the Normalized Power Prior and Bayesian Hierarchical Models
Yueqi Shen, Matthew A. Psioda, Luiz M. Carvalho, Joseph G. Ibrahim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02453

Exploring the Connection Between the Normalized Power Prior and Bayesian Hierarchical Models
The power prior is a popular class of informative priors for incorporating information from historical data. It involves raising the likelihood for the historical data to a power, which acts as a discounting parameter. When the discounting parameter is modeled as random, the normalized power prior is recommended. Bayesian hierarchical modeling is a widely used method for synthesizing information from different sources, including historical data. In this work, we examine the analytical relations…

The Role of Torsion in Trans-Planckian Physics
Elham Arabahmadi, Siamak Akhshabi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03141 https://arxiv.org/p…

The Role of Torsion in Trans-Planckian Physics
The torsion of spacetime, if exists, plays an important role at the very early universe when the spin density of particles was very high. It is generally believed that in extremely high energies of the early universe a new physics called trans-Planckian physics should be considered. Since the initial conditions for inflation are probably a result of this new physics, here we consider spin and torsion as trans- Planckian effects and analyze their influence on the power spectrum of scalar and ten…

okay ive told you about this strange archlinux bug that happened to me few weeks ago when my laptop couldnt power on?
at this thursday, i turned it on. it was laggy and hanged on, so i turned it off with the button. wanted to reboot. but it didnt turned on. panic! the issue returned! i opened it and started reconnecting random wires in MB (bad idiea dont do that) - it didnt help
today, ive finally returned the forgotten charger - laptop occured to be just... out of power
dont …

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland - Season 3 coming soon 🐶🚀🎉
Narrated stories for kids | Total listening time: 15h 38m
What would dogs do? Come visit Licktopolis and Question Mark Mountain, and stay for the jokes, mindfulness-based problem-solving techniques, and delicious Dogland bananas that open when you boop them with your nose.
These stories are co-...

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland - Season 3 coming soon 🐶🚀🎉
Narrated stories for kids | Total listening time: 15h 38m What would dogs do? Come visit Licktopolis and Question Mark Mountain, and stay for the jokes, mindfulness-based problem-solving techniques, and delicious Dogland bananas that open when you boop them with your nose. These stories are co-written by a mom & kid team who love to ask themselves "What would dogs do?" 2 seasons, 36 episodes as of Apr 23, 2023.

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) and the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ).
“The Intersections of Press Freedom and the Environment,” a virtual discussion and Q&A on Thursday, May 2, 12 p.m. ET
https://www.sej.org/calendar/sej-webinar-i

SEJ Webinar: The Intersections of Press Freedom and the Environment
Join Freedom of the Press Foundation and SEJ for a virtual discussion on obstacles U.S. journalists face when reporting urgent climate change and environmental issues for their communities — whether violence or arrest when covering environmental protests or denials of access and legal obstructions when investigating centers of political and corporate power. Q&A to follow. 12pm ET/9am PT.

I smell the smell of grassroots energy building as Israel continues to slaughter the innocents. Historically, those in power consistently fail to notice this kind of energy while it’s still building.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/april/at-columbia

Bruce Robbins | At Columbia
When Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, testified before the House of Representatives on 17 April,...

Engine-fed Kilonovae (Mergernovae) -- II. Radiation
Shunke Ai, He Gao, Bing Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00638 https://arxiv.org/…

Engine-fed Kilonovae (Mergernovae) -- II. Radiation
The radioactive power generated by materials within the ejecta of a binary-neutron-star (BNS) merger powers an optical transient known as a kilonova. When the central remnant of a BNS merger is a long-lived magnetar, it continuously produces a highly magnetized wind, altering both the dynamics and temperature of the ejecta, leading to the expected emergence of an engine-fed kilonova. In the first paper of this series, we conducted a detailed study of the dynamics of wind-ejecta interaction and …

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I ended up writing code that I am pretty damn proud of! The original code was really simple, but I've added code to configure the device, which just has a rotary controller with a button...
When you power it on it will check if you are holding down the button, then go into config mode so you can set the channel and then saves it to EEPROM.
There's twice as much code now, but it's still pretty minimal...
(And I though of a way to make it even more versatile as we…

Cyclic sieving on permutations -- an analysis of maps and statistics in the FindStat database
Ashleigh Adams, Jennifer Elder, Nadia Lafreni\`ere, Erin McNicholas, Jessica Striker, Amanda Welch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16251

Cyclic sieving on permutations -- an analysis of maps and statistics in the FindStat database
We perform a systematic study of permutation statistics and bijective maps on permutations using SageMath to search the FindStat combinatorial statistics database to identify apparent instances of the cyclic sieving phenomenon (CSP). Cyclic sieving occurs on a set of objects, a statistic, and a map of order $n$ when the evaluation of the statistic generating function at the $d$th power of the primitive $n$th root of unity equals the number of fixed points under the $d$th power of the map. Of th…

If you want to see what happens when an criminal defendent gets in power with the support of rightwing extremists there are a few examples around.
Vote for Democracy!

One of my favorite games is EABA. Like many people, I have never run it but I've built things with it. Especially with EABA2, everything is a power, even attributes.
It looks crunchy, but after you get used to the learning curve, it is pretty straightforward and forgiving.
When I want to be decoupled from WOTC/PAIZO/D20 as I design spells & magic items, EABA feels good.
Anyway, that is my ramble for the evening.

Filtered Boolean powers of finite simple non-abelian Mal'cev algebras
Peter Mayr, Nik Ru\v{s}kuc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17322 https://

Filtered Boolean powers of finite simple non-abelian Mal'cev algebras
Let $\mathbf{A}$ be a finite simple non-abelian Mal'cev algebra (e.g. a group, loop, ring). We investigate the Boolean power $\mathbf{D}$ of $\mathbf{A}$ by the countable atomless Boolean algebra $\mathbf{B}$ filtered at some idempotents $e_1,\dots,e_n$ of $\mathbf{A}$. When $e_1,\dots,e_n$ are all idempotents of $\mathbf{A}$ we establish two concrete representations of $\mathbf{D}$: as the Fraïssé limit of the class of finite direct powers of $\mathbf{A}$, and as congruence classes of the co…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02647 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

Ultrastable lasers: investigations of crystalline mirrors and closed cycle cooling at 124 K
We have investigated crystalline AlGaAs/GaAs optical coatings with three ultra-stable cavities operating at 4 K, 16 K, 124 K and 297 K. The response of the resonance frequencies of cavities to variations in optical power indicates effects beyond the photo-thermo-optic effect observed in dielectric coatings. These effects are strongly dependent on the intensity of the intracavity light at 1.5~\textmu m. When the rear side of the mirrors is illuminated with external light, we observe a prominent …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13869 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_…

A More Scalable Sparse Dynamic Data Exchange
Parallel architectures are continually increasing in performance and scale, while underlying algorithmic infrastructure often fail to take full advantage of available compute power. Within the context of MPI, irregular communication patterns create bottlenecks in parallel applications. One common bottleneck is the sparse dynamic data exchange, often required when forming communication patterns within applications. There are a large variety of approaches for these dynamic exchanges, with optimiz…

A neuroergonomics model to evaluating nuclear power plants operators' performance under heat stress driven by ECG time-frequency spectrums and fNIRS prefrontal cortex network: a CNN-GAT fusion model
Yan Zhang, Ming Jia, Meng Li, JianYu Wang, XiangMin Hu, ZhiHui Xu, Tao Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02439

A neuroergonomics model to evaluating nuclear power plants operators' performance under heat stress driven by ECG time-frequency spectrums and fNIRS prefrontal cortex network: a CNN-GAT fusion model
Operators experience complicated physiological and psychological states when exposed to extreme heat stress, which can impair cognitive function and decrease performance significantly, ultimately leading to severe secondary disasters. Therefore, there is an urgent need for a feasible technique to identify their abnormal states to enhance the reliability of human-cybernetics systems. With the advancement of deep learning in physiological modeling, a model for evaluating operators' performance dr…

Separate and Detailed Treatment of Absolute Signal and Noise Enables NMR Under Adverse Circumstances
A Guinness, AA Beaton, JM Franck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03943

Separate and Detailed Treatment of Absolute Signal and Noise Enables NMR Under Adverse Circumstances
When deploying a spectrometer in an adverse environment, such as during a typical ODNP experiment or experiments that require low-volume low-field measurements, a clear and modern protocol for characterizing and quantifying the absolute signal and noise levels proves essential. This paper provides such a protocol. It also highlights the clarity and insight that comes from (1) discussing NMR signal intensities in (conserved) units of square root instantaneous power that are derived from a theory…

"What if your computer made a little noise each time it sends data to #Google?
It's not only about the data transfer itself. Imagine the amount of network traffic required when this happens to everyone active online. And the storage and CPU power required to process it all. Yeah, you get it."
#privacy

The creepy sound of online trackers
I can't get the noise out of my head. People who watch the video express awe and disgust. And that is why Dutch software developer Bert Hubert's experiment is so powerful. It doesn't really uncover something that we shouldn't already know. Something we often choose to ignore. The brilliance is

Baltimore bridge collapse
Two of the most informative videos so far.
1. Run-up to the crash, showing how the ship's lights went off when it lost power:
#Baltimore #BridgeCollapse

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01815 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

Neuromorphic Split Computing with Wake-Up Radios: Architecture and Design via Digital Twinning
Neuromorphic computing leverages the sparsity of temporal data to reduce processing energy by activating a small subset of neurons and synapses at each time step. When deployed for split computing in edge-based systems, remote neuromorphic processing units (NPUs) can reduce the communication power budget by communicating asynchronously using sparse impulse radio (IR) waveforms. This way, the input signal sparsity translates directly into energy savings both in terms of computation and communica…

I've worked on community groups for a long long time, and the only good thing I can say about most codes of conduct is that their existence proves the group fought past the army of dudes who think they get in the way of important things like letting them dominate the group.
But seriously, most codes of conduct are worth about one bit of information: "has cared at all (y/n)”
There's a single code of conduct document that was extremely influential by being designed to be copy-and-pastable: the document was given a specific name, work was done to propagate the idea that all you had to do was adopt it as-is. Drop in and ready to go!
The only problem there is that doesn't work. A long, legalistic set of rules about what's Not Allowed with no actual policy for enforcement invites a bunch of problems: a long list can be treated as exhaustive, so people will do things not on the list then cry foul when you tell them to stop. A lack of enforcement policy invites a binary approach: is a person good (did nothing on the list) or bad (did something on the list)? If they're bad, kick them out, if they're good, keep them.
This is bad.
The actual rules that will be enforced will be much more subtle, will favor people in positions of power, and will not yield results consistent with the stated values of various factions of the group. Arguments will ensue about whether or not something "really counts" as an item on the list, because often the actual decision being made but not explicitly stated is “do we kick out some important person to the group for some broken way they relate to others in the group?”
The other way they get used is "here's a person doing something some part of the group doesn't like, which rule can we use to kick them out?”
These are both broken approaches that don't actually reflect the relations of the group, and they lead to punitive and destructive methods of enforcement, rather than healing and reparative methods. This leads to conflict within the group being turned into a code of conduct violation while at the same time allowing outsiders to weaponize the code of conduct by provoking those conflicts.

Everyone loves a story involving the Coast Guard and a happy reunion.
https://www.al.com/news/2024/03/chris-smelley-former-south-carolina-qb-on-his-day-lost-in-florida-waters-from-bad-…

Chris Smelley, former South Carolina QB, on his day lost in Florida waters: From bad sushi to power of prayer
The coach and former Alabama baseball player was lost for 12 hours. He was about to clean and eat a fish he caught when he was rescued.

We’re getting to that point with personal computers and phones too.
We've largely reached the point of most people having quite enough computing power at the ready for their personal use and entertainment. Even if hardware and software can keep advancing as it has in recent decades, we don't have the capacity to do anything directly with that extra power. …

Please call your reps (especially if they’re democrats) to vote NO on KOSA (trojan horse law to remove LGBTQ and abortion content from the Internet).
Here’s a script.

Remember that night back in January when AESO issued grid alerts in #YEG?
I kept on talking about the Western Interconnection and how we're not a power island.
Yeeeahh, about that.
'BHE accused the AESO of engaging in “discriminatory and anti-competitive behaviour.” '
...
'Instead, it curtailed imports from Montana, as well as British Columbia, to deal wi…

Alberta power grid operator under investigation by watchdog
The investigation follows a lengthy complaint lodged about the AESO by an energy company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11970 has been replaced.
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Two-sample Test using Projected Wasserstein Distance
We develop a projected Wasserstein distance for the two-sample test, a fundamental problem in statistics and machine learning: given two sets of samples, to determine whether they are from the same distribution. In particular, we aim to circumvent the curse of dimensionality in Wasserstein distance: when the dimension is high, it has diminishing testing power, which is inherently due to the slow concentration property of Wasserstein metrics in the high dimension space. A key contribution is to …

Riesz Energy with a Radial External Field: When is the Equilibrium Support a Sphere?
Djalil Chafa\"i, Ryan W. Matzke, Edward B. Saff, Minh Quan H. Vu, Robert S. Womersley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00120

Riesz Energy with a Radial External Field: When is the Equilibrium Support a Sphere?
We consider Riesz energy problems with radial external fields. We study the question of whether or not the equilibrium is the uniform distribution on a sphere. We develop general necessary as well as general sufficient conditions on the external field that apply to powers of the Euclidean norm as well as certain Lennard--Jones type fields. Additionally, in the former case, we completely characterize the values of the power for which dimension reduction occurs in the sense that the support of th…

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Enabling discovery of materials through enhanced generalisability of deep learning models
The road towards the discovery of new, useful materials is full of imperfections. Machine learning, which is currently the power horse of material discovery when it works in concert with density functional theory, has been able to accelerate the discovery of new materials for various applications by learning the properties of known, stable materials to infer the properties of unknown, deformed materials. Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is particularly believed to bridge the gap between…

Lattices in rigid analytic representations
Andrea Conti, Emiliano Torti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20232 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.2…

Lattices in rigid analytic representations
For a profinite group $G$ and a rigid analytic space $X$, we study when an $\mathcal O_X(X)$-linear representation $V$ of $G$ admits a lattice, i.e. an $\mathcal O_{\mathcal X}(\mathcal X)$-linear model for a formal model $\mathcal X$ of $X$ in the sense of Berthelot. We give a positive answer, under mild assumptions, when $X$ is a "wide open" space. Via such a result, we are able to describe explicit subdomains of $X$ over which $V$ is constant after reduction modulo a power of $p$. As an appl…

On the web's 35th birthday, there are two issues to address: power concentration, which contradicts decentralization, and exploitation of personal data (Tim Berners-Lee/World Wide Web Foundation)
https://webfoundation.org/2024/03/marking-the-we…

Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter - World Wide Web Foundation
Original Hope Three and a half decades ago, when I invented the web, its trajectory was impossible to imagine. There was no roadmap to predict the course of its evolution, it was a captivating odyssey filled with unforeseen opportunities and challenges. Underlying its whole infrastructure was the intention to allow for collaboration, foster compassion and

"April's eclipse will mean interruptions in solar power generation, which could strain electrical grids"
#Solar #SolarPower #Energy

April's eclipse will mean interruptions in solar power generation, which could strain electrical grids
During the most recent total solar eclipse visible in the U.S., on Aug. 21, 2017, the skies darkened as the moon crossed in front of the sun. It blocked out all sunlight—except for that from a golden ring visible around the moon's shape, called the corona. Not surprisingly, solar power generation across North America plummeted for several hours, from the first moment the moon began to obscure the sun to when the sun's disk was clear again.

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Cover and Hitting Times of Hyperbolic Random Graphs
We study random walks on the giant component of Hyperbolic Random Graphs (HRGs), in the regime when the degree distribution obeys a power law with exponent in the range $(2,3)$. In particular, we first focus on the expected time for a random walk to hit a given vertex or visit, i.e. cover, all vertices. We show that, a.a.s. (with respect to the HRG), and up to multiplicative constants: the cover time is $n(\log n)^2$, the maximum hitting time is $n\log n$, and the average hitting time is $n$. W…

When Economics and Great-Power Foreign Policy Collide
Dale C. Copeland’s new history of commerce, "A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy From the Revolution to the Rise of China"
In a democracy, competing voices theoretically act as a counterweight to any one economic interest, But in an oligarchy, they might not.
For many liberal democracies, the bargain between governments and people means that what is most prioritized is not specifically trade, but …

A World Safe for Commerce: Dale C. Copeland’s Economic History of the United States
Dale C. Copeland’s new history of commerce is magisterial—and prescient.

The EU’s new digital police force has around 80 people to check whether some of the world’s richest tech firms (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, TikTok’s Bytedance, Meta and Microsoft) are complying with rules of the Digital Markets Act #DMA designed to make them cede some ground to their smaller competitors.
"The credibility of the EU as a regulator hinges on it being able to actually entrench th…

The EU’s uphill battle against Big Tech power
The bloc finds itself outmatched against corporate resources when it comes to enforcing the Digital Markets Act.

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Resolving power: A general approach to compare the distinguishing ability of threshold-free evaluation metrics
Selecting an evaluation metric is fundamental to model development, but uncertainty remains about when certain metrics are preferable and why. This paper introduces the concept of resolving power to describe the ability of an evaluation metric to distinguish between binary classifiers of similar quality. This ability depends on two attributes: 1. The metric's response to improvements in classifier quality (its signal), and 2. The metric's sampling variability (its noise). The paper defines reso…

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I ended up writing code that I am pretty damn proud of! The original code was really simple, but I've added code to configure the device, which just has a rotary controller with a button...
When you power it on it will check if you are holding down the button, then go into config mode so you can set the channel and then saves it to EEPROM.
There's twice as much code now, but it's still pretty minimal...
(And I though of a way to make it even more versatile as we…

"Tech is better when power is distributed between multiple, competing companies. Living under the absolute rule of a single king is absolutely awful. Even if that king still does make very nice phones and very nice computers!" via: https://world.hey.com/dhh/switching-to-andr…

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Long Solution Times or Low Solution Quality: On Trade-Offs in Choosing a Power Flow Formulation for the Optimal Power Shutoff Problem
The Optimal Power Shutoff (OPS) problem is an optimization problem that makes power line de-energization decisions in order to reduce the risk of igniting a wildfire, while minimizing the load shed of customers. This problem, with DC linear power flow equations, has been used in many studies in recent years. However, using linear approximations for power flow when making decisions on the network topology is known to cause challenges with AC feasibility of the resulting network, as studied in th…

One of my favorite games is EABA. Like many people, I have never run it but I've built things with it. Especially with EABA2, everything is a power, even attributes.
It looks crunchy, but after you get used to the learning curve, it is pretty straightforward and forgiving.
When I want to be decoupled from WOTC/PAIZO/D20 as I design spells & magic items, EABA feels good.
Anyway, that is my ramble for the evening.

Do You Trust Your Cheap Fuses?
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-08209971-02888dde4eb0cc6d
Do You Trust Your Cheap Fuses? When a fuse is fitted in a power rail, it gives the peace of mind that the circuit is protected. But in the case of some c…

Watching an episode of Simon Schama’s The Face of Britain. We had recorded this series on the set-top box back in the days when it was broadcast here. Now with most of our streaming service subscriptions paused, there is finally reason to browse our recordings. (Not to mention the DVD and Blu-ray collection…) This is a bit newer than his Power of Art series, it is even in HD. #SimonSchama…

The Face of Britain with Simon Schama (TV Series 2015– ) ⭐ 7.1 | Documentary
1h

Personally I find the play by play tweeting of genocide in pretty poor taste when it comes from any person not currently actively organizing a revolutionary militia to overthrow the US govt. If you want the genocide to stop there's only one way to make that happen.
See the excerpt below from Chomsky's Understanding Power for your guide. The oligarch class must believe they are in personal danger before they change their behavior.

I find it really amazing to see how quickly new types of demand response are becoming mainstream. Here: Windows enabling access to the ⚡️Grid Forecast API for all apps.
Soon any device with 🔌&🛜 will be grid smart. Now we 'just' need the right regulations & markets to reward flexibility.
(source:

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052 (Canary and Dev Channels)
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052 to the Canary and Dev Channels. Insiders in the Canary Channel will receive Build 26052.1000 while Insiders in the Dev Channel will receive Build

The Feasibility of Implementing Large-Scale Transformers on Multi-FPGA Platforms
Yu Gao, Juan Camilo Vega, Paul Chow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16158 https…

The Feasibility of Implementing Large-Scale Transformers on Multi-FPGA Platforms
FPGAs are rarely mentioned when discussing the implementation of large machine learning applications, such as Large Language Models (LLMs), in the data center. There has been much evidence showing that single FPGAs can be competitive with GPUs in performance for some computations, especially for low latency, and often much more efficient when power is considered. This suggests that there is merit to exploring the use of multiple FPGAs for large machine learning applications. The challenge with …

The Primordial Black Hole Abundance: The Broader, the Better
A. Ianniccari, A. J. Iovino, A. Kehagias, D. Perrone, A. Riotto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11033

The Primordial Black Hole Abundance: The Broader, the Better
We show that the abundance of primordial black holes, if formed through the collapse of large fluctuations generated during inflation and unless the power spectrum of the curvature perturbation is very peaked, is always dominated by the broadest profile of the compaction function, even though statistically it is not the most frequent. The corresponding threshold is therefore 2/5. This result exacerbates the tension when combining the primordial black hole abundance with the signal seen by pulsa…

Post .news recently announced they are shutting down.
Back in 2022, when they launched, I predicted this.
Specifically, Post’s business plan was news micropayments. And I said that if they didn’t achieve monopoly power they couldn’t be profitable.
That proved true.

'He was used to getting his way': Stormy Daniels recalls Trump pressuring her - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/stormy-daniels-trump-pressure/

'He was used to getting his way': Stormy Daniels recalls Trump pressuring her
In a new documentary, adult film star and producer Stormy Daniels remarked that even before former President Donald Trump was elected to office, he took advantage of the imbalance of power between the two when they first met.The Daily Beast's Laura LeMoon wrote Saturday that Daniels (whose governmen...

As I came of age in the mid 70s, I "learned" that the markets drove innovation and provided solutions - while government was "the problem". WHen I look at utilities I see the opposite - rent seeking, and a failure to copy - not even invest in R&D, just copy - demonstrated solutions to problems. Maybe we need to rethink the role of private utilities? Because they seen incapable of solving the critical problems we face, while charging more and more to replace infras…

The U.S. Urgently Needs a Bigger Grid. Here’s a Fast Solution.
A rarely used technique to upgrade old power lines could play a big role in fixing one of the largest obstacles facing clean energy, two reports found.

As I came of age in the mid 70s, I "learned" that the markets drove innovation and provided solutions - while government was "the problem". WHen I look at utilities I see the opposite - rent seeking, and a failure to copy - not even invest in R&D, just copy - demonstrated solutions to problems. Maybe we need to rethink the role of private utilities? Because they seen incapable of solving the critical problems we face, while charging more and more to replace infras…

The U.S. Urgently Needs a Bigger Grid. Here’s a Fast Solution.
A rarely used technique to upgrade old power lines could play a big role in fixing one of the largest obstacles facing clean energy, two reports found.

Directed High-Energy Infrared Laser Beams for Photovoltaic Generation of Electric Power at Remote Locations
Richard Soref, Francesco De Leonardis, Gerard Daligou, Oussama Moutanabbir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00034

Directed High-Energy Infrared Laser Beams for Photovoltaic Generation of Electric Power at Remote Locations
Transferring energy without transferring mass is a powerful paradigm to address the challenges faced when the access to, or the deployment of, the infrastructure for energy conversion is locally impossible or impractical. Laser beaming holds the promise of effectively implementing this paradigm. With this perspective, this work evaluates the optical-to-electrical power conversion that is created when a collimated laser beam illuminates a silicon photovoltaic solar cell that is located kilometer…

The relationship between the turnover frequency and photo-ionisation in radio sources
S. J. Curran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00257 https://

The relationship between the turnover frequency and photo-ionisation in radio sources
We investigate the connection between the turnover frequency in the radio spectrum, $ν_{\rm TO}$, and the rate of ionising ultra-violet photons, $Q_{\rm HI}$, in extragalactic sources. From a large, optically selected, sample we find $ν_{\rm TO}$ to be correlated with $Q_{\rm HI}$ in sources which exhibit a turnover. The significance of the correlation decreases when we include power-law radio sources as limits, by assuming that the turnover frequency occurs below the lowest value observed. H…

Synchronization Dynamics in the Spatial Evolution of Optical Power in Optical Oligomer
J. P. Deka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00976 https://

Synchronization Dynamics in the Spatial Evolution of Optical Power in Optical Oligomer
In this work, we investigated the spatial evolution of optical power in a closed-form optical waveguide configuration consisting of six passive waveguides and each of the waveguides exhibits equal strength of Kerr nonlinearity. We considered only nearest neighbor interaction between the waveguides. We found that in the case of low Kerr nonlinearity, evolution of optical power shows synchronization behavior. But when we increased the strength of Kerr nonlinearity, we discovered that spatial evol…

Please call your reps (especially if they’re democrats) to vote NO on KOSA (trojan horse law to remove LGBTQ and abortion content from the Internet).
Here’s a script.

Anomalous acousto-current within the quantum Hall plateaus
Renfei Wang, Xiao Liu, Mengmeng Wu, Yoon Jang Chung, Adbhut Gupta, Kirk W. Baldwin, Mansour Shayegan, Loren Pfeiffer, Xi Lin, Yang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17197

Anomalous acousto-current within the quantum Hall plateaus
We systematically study the acousto-current of two-dimensional electron systems in the integer and fractional quantum Hall regimes using surface acoustic waves. We are able to separate the co-existing acoustic scattering and drag, when phonons induce drag current and tune the electron conductivity, respectively. At large acoustic power, the drag current is finite when the system is compressible and exhibits minima when incompressible quantum Hall effects appear. Surprisingly, it exhibits anomal…

Neuromorphic Split Computing with Wake-Up Radios: Architecture and Design via Digital Twinning
Jiechen Chen, Sangwoo Park, Petar Popovski, H. Vincent Poor, Osvaldo Simeone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01815

Neuromorphic Split Computing with Wake-Up Radios: Architecture and Design via Digital Twinning
Neuromorphic computing leverages the sparsity of temporal data to reduce processing energy by activating a small subset of neurons and synapses at each time step. When deployed for split computing in edge-based systems, remote neuromorphic processing units (NPUs) can reduce the communication power budget by communicating asynchronously using sparse impulse radio (IR) waveforms. This way, the input signal sparsity translates directly into energy savings both in terms of computation and communica…

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Power Distribution Grid Enhancement via Online Feedback Optimization
The rise in residential photovoltaics and other distributed energy sources poses unprecedented challenges for the operation of power distribution grids. When high amounts of active power are injected into the grid by such power sources, the overall power flow is often limited because of voltages reaching their upper acceptable limits. Volt/VAr control aims to raise this power flow limit by controlling the voltage using reactive power. This way, more active power can be transmitted safely withou…

"April's eclipse will mean interruptions in solar power generation, which could strain electrical grids"
#Solar #SolarPower #Energy

April's eclipse will mean interruptions in solar power generation, which could strain electrical grids
During the most recent total solar eclipse visible in the U.S., on Aug. 21, 2017, the skies darkened as the moon crossed in front of the sun. It blocked out all sunlight—except for that from a golden ring visible around the moon's shape, called the corona. Not surprisingly, solar power generation across North America plummeted for several hours, from the first moment the moon began to obscure the sun to when the sun's disk was clear again.

I am doing more complex than "connect this form to that database" work, but the core point I want to make here is that getting those things right keeps software from being slow. We can sweat the details and that's what lets our software deal with 10000 entries where we might normally only use 100 — but there's always That One User. A power user. A user who will recommend the software to their whole organization.
It means that we spend a lot less time asking "Why the !@#!@#!@# is it slow?" when someone does something bigger than we expect.
We do a lot less middle of the night debugging because we take the time to do things well and understand them down to both the metal and the algorithms.
Good computer engineering lets you actually take the time to understand things both theoretically and in the implementation.

You did what?
When I tell people about the mishmash game I used to run, the question is how.
I had a Marauder buried for thousands of years in our D&D world. It had just enough power to fire the ppc one time. I put it there in case the party ever faced the tarrasque.
I had an Orion agent stuck in the Forgotten Realms still making reports. He figured out how to make bullets, so he became a mercenary/alchemist. He was stated for both systems. 1/

Distribution of cycles in supersingular $\ell$-isogeny graphs
Eli Orvis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14831 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.1…

Distribution of cycles in supersingular $\ell$-isogeny graphs
Recent work by Arpin, Chen, Lauter, Scheidler, Stange, and Tran counted the number of cycles of length $r$ in supersingular $\ell$-isogeny graphs. In this paper, we extend this work to count the number of cycles that occur along the spine. We provide formulas for both the number of such cycles, and the average number as $p \to \infty$, with $\ell$ and $r$ fixed. In particular, we show that when $r$ is not a power of $2$, cycles of length $r$ are disproportionately likely to occur along the spin…

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Long Solution Times or Low Solution Quality: On Trade-Offs in Choosing a Power Flow Formulation for the Optimal Power Shutoff Problem
The Optimal Power Shutoff (OPS) problem is an optimization problem that makes power line de-energization decisions in order to reduce the risk of igniting a wildfire, while minimizing the load shed of customers. This problem, with DC linear power flow equations, has been used in many studies in recent years. However, using linear approximations for power flow when making decisions on the network topology is known to cause challenges with AC feasibility of the resulting network, as studied in th…

Do you remember the "turbo" button from the 90s? The one that switched the CPU between two clock settings. For those who don't: its purpose wasn't to save energy or overclock your CPU — rather, it was used to preserve better compatibility with old programs, that expected specific CPU frequency.
We're talking about the times of DOS here, when programs could usually assume they've got the exclusive access to the CPU. So when a game was synchronized to the CPU clock, it would run twice as fast on a CPU that's got twice the clock. And I don't mind it ran more fluently — it literally went in fast forward. A few times faster CPU, and you couldn't play it anymore. You can still see the traces of that in DOSBox.
Of course, programs stopped relying on a specific clock, and the button eventually went extinct. The progress brought overclocking, and CPU scaling (#CPUFreq) to save energy and reduce noise. And finally, #PStates arrived as a more fancy kind of CPU scaling.
What's really interesting, that PStates brings a "boost" option. When it's off, the CPU is scaled as usual, up to the nominal frequency. However, when it's on, PStates can "overclock" individual cores, as long as it can get the necessary power and it doesn't cause the CPU to overheat.
And so, the history has come full circle, and the "turbo" button has returned:
cd /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq
echo "$(( ! $(cat policy0/boost) ))" > boost
#Gentoo #Linux

Ultrastable lasers: investigations of crystalline mirrors and closed cycle cooling at 124 K
C. Y. Ma, J. Yu, T. Legero, S. Herbers, D. Nicolodi, M. Kempkes, F. Riehle, D. Kedar, J. M. Robinson, J. Ye, U. Sterr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02647

Ultrastable lasers: investigations of crystalline mirrors and closed cycle cooling at 124 K
We have investigated crystalline AlGaAs/GaAs optical coatings with three ultra-stable cavities operating at 4 K, 16 K, 124 K and 297 K. The response of the resonance frequencies of cavities to variations in optical power indicates effects beyond the photo-thermo-optic effect observed in dielectric coatings. These effects are strongly dependent on the intensity of the intracavity light at 1.5~\textmu m. When the rear side of the mirrors is illuminated with external light, we observe a prominent …

Personally I find the play by play tweeting of genocide in pretty poor taste when it comes from any person not currently actively organizing a revolutionary militia to overthrow the US govt. If you want the genocide to stop there's only one way to make that happen.
See the excerpt below from Chomsky's Understanding Power for your guide. The oligarch class must believe they are in personal danger before they change their behavior.

Uncertainty Quantification in Anomaly Detection with Cross-Conformal $p$-Values
Oliver Hennh\"ofer, Christine Preisach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16388

Uncertainty Quantification in Anomaly Detection with Cross-Conformal $p$-Values
Given the growing significance of reliable, trustworthy, and explainable machine learning, the requirement of uncertainty quantification for anomaly detection systems has become increasingly important. In this context, effectively controlling Type I error rates ($α$) without compromising the statistical power ($1-β$) of these systems can build trust and reduce costs related to false discoveries, particularly when follow-up procedures are expensive. Leveraging the principles of conformal predi…

What do you do when you need power, but you don't have any? Then you get that where there is plenty of it. Nottinghamshire, the region known for Robin Hood, is starting a trial of cable ducts under the pavement so that EV drivers can use their home electricity to charge.
A growing number of councils in the UK are allowing this option - cheap charging for many, pavements remain barrier-free.

Nottinghamshire CC trials kerbside charging channel - transportandenergy
Nottinghamshire County Council is the latest local authority to trial a through-pavement channel developed by Kerbo Charge, which will allow residents without a driveway to charge their electric vehicle right from their home. 

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Power-of-$d$ Choices Load Balancing in the Sub-Halfin Whitt Regime
We consider the load balancing system under Poisson arrivals, exponential services, and homogeneous servers. Upon arrival, a job is to be routed to one of the servers, where it is queued until service. We consider the Power-of-$d$ choices routing algorithm, which chooses the queue with minimum length among $d$ randomly sampled queues. We study this system in the many-server heavy-traffic regime where the number of servers goes to infinity simultaneously when the load approaches the capacity. In…

Demystifying Quantum Power Flow: Unveiling the Limits of Practical Quantum Advantage
Parikshit Pareek, Abhijith Jayakumar, Carleton Coffrin, Sidhant Misra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08617

Demystifying Quantum Power Flow: Unveiling the Limits of Practical Quantum Advantage
Quantum computers hold promise for solving problems intractable for classical computers, especially those with high time and/or space complexity. The reduction of the power flow (PF) problem into a linear system of equations, allows formulation of quantum power flow (QPF) algorithms, based on quantum linear system solving methods such as the Harrow-Hassidim-Lloyd (HHL) algorithm. The speedup due to QPF algorithms is claimed to be exponential when compared to classical PF solved by state-of-the-…

Insights into the 21 cm field from the vanishing cross-power spectrum at the epoch of reionization
Kana Moriwaki, Angus Beane, Adam Lidz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08266

Insights into the 21 cm field from the vanishing cross-power spectrum at the epoch of reionization
The early stages of the Epoch of Reionization, probed by the 21 cm line, are sensitive to the detailed properties and formation histories of the first galaxies. We use 21cmFAST and a simple, self-consistent galaxy model to examine the redshift evolution of the large-scale cross-power spectrum between the 21 cm field and line-emitting galaxies. A key transition in redshift occurs when the 21 cm field shifts from being positively correlated with the galaxy distribution to being negatively correla…

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Power Savings for Counting (Twisted) Abelian Extensions of Number Fields
We prove significant power savings for the error term when counting abelian extensions of number fields (as well as the twisted version of these results for nontrivial Galois modules). In some cases over $\mathbb{Q}$, these results reveal lower order terms following the same structure as the main term that were not previously known. Assuming the generalized Lindelöf hypothesis for Hecke $L$-functions, we prove square root power savings for the error compared to the order of the main term.

Stabilization of hyperbolic reaction-diffusion systems on directed networks through the generalized Routh-Hurwitz criterion for complex polynomials
Riccardo Muolo, Anthony Hastir, Hiroya Nakao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16252

Stabilization of hyperbolic reaction-diffusion systems on directed networks through the generalized Routh-Hurwitz criterion for complex polynomials
The study of dynamical systems on complex networks is of paramount importance in engineering, given that many natural and artificial systems find a natural embedding on discrete topologies. For instance, power grids, chemical reactors and the brain, to name a few, can be modeled through the network formalism by considering elementary units coupled via the links. In recent years, scholars have developed numerical and theoretical tools to study the stability of those coupled systems when subjecte…

Evidence for Planck Luminosity Bound in Quantum Gravity
Wolfgang Wieland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12578 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.…

Evidence for Planck Luminosity Bound in Quantum Gravity
Recently, we introduced a non-perturbative quantization of impulsive gravitational null initial data. In this note, we investigate an immediate physical implication of the model. One of the quantum numbers is the total luminosity carried to infinity. We show that a transition happens when the luminosity reaches the Planck power $\mathcal{L}_{\mathrm{P}}$. Below $\mathcal{L}_{\mathrm{P}}$, the spectrum of the radiated power is discrete. Above the Planck power, the spectrum is continuous and cont…

Insights into the 21 cm field from the vanishing cross-power spectrum at the epoch of reionization
Kana Moriwaki, Angus Beane, Adam Lidz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08266

Insights into the 21 cm field from the vanishing cross-power spectrum at the epoch of reionization
The early stages of the Epoch of Reionization, probed by the 21 cm line, are sensitive to the detailed properties and formation histories of the first galaxies. We use 21cmFAST and a simple, self-consistent galaxy model to examine the redshift evolution of the large-scale cross-power spectrum between the 21 cm field and line-emitting galaxies. A key transition in redshift occurs when the 21 cm field shifts from being positively correlated with the galaxy distribution to being negatively correla…