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Write down your passwords.
Use a password manager for this.
And if this does not work for you write them down on paper, put it in an envelope, seal it and store it in a save place.¹ Hackers will not come and break into your bedroom to get access to your tinder account.
Writing it on paper is better than using the same simple password all over.
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¹You should not write it on a post-it and pin it at your monitor at work. And no, also not on the back of your keyboard…

A nice concise and clear tutorial on async Javascript Promises
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/javascript/promises/?from=newsletter#should-i-keep-going-10

Promises From The Ground Up
The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it doesn’t make much sense at all! In this tutorial, you’ll build an intuition for how Promises work by getting a deeper understanding of JavaScript and its limitations.

as i used geojson.io again for work yesterday, i said to a coworker "I should really figure out how to pay whoever is behind this." then i looked (which I hadn't done before) and I think it's actually run by Mapbox, who we are paying for service, so that's nice.
anyway, I saw @…'s name on some of the stu…

Donald Trump, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, wants to kneecap the Federal Reserve.
💥This should be a five-alarm fire for anyone who claims to care about inflation.💥

The former president and his advisers keep finding new ways to outdo themselves on bad economic ideas.
Should Trump be granted a second term,
🔸he plans to slash the labor supply by ratcheting down immigration
(including legal, work-authorized immigration).
🔸He wants to devalue…

This should be a 5-alarm fire for anyone who cares about inflation
With the 2024 election approaching, the central bank’s independence is on the line.

Disengagement From Games: Characterizing the Experience and Process of Exiting Play Sessions
Dmitry Alexandrovsky, Kathrin Gerling, Merlin Steven Opp, Christopher Benjamin Hahn, Max V. Birk, Meshaiel Alsheail
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00189

Disengagement From Games: Characterizing the Experience and Process of Exiting Play Sessions
The games research community has developed substantial knowledge on designing engaging experiences that draw players in. Surprisingly, less is known about player \textit{dis}engagement, with existing work predominantly addressing disengagement from the perspective of problematic play, and research exploring player disengagement from a constructive designer perspective is lacking. In this paper, we address this gap and argue that disengagement from games should be constructively designed, allowi…

Benchmarking the Communication Competence of Code Generation for LLMs and LLM Agent
Jie JW Wu, Fatemeh H. Fard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00215 https://

Benchmarking the Communication Competence of Code Generation for LLMs and LLM Agent
Large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved their ability to perform tasks in the field of code generation. However, there is still a gap between LLMs being capable coders and being top-tier software engineers. Based on the observation that top-level software engineers often ask clarifying questions to reduce ambiguity in both requirements and coding solutions, we argue that the same should be applied to LLMs for code generation tasks. In this work, we conducted an empirical stud…

On the equilibrium measure for the Lukyanov integral
Charlie Dworaczek Guera, Karol K. Kozlowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00145 https://

On the equilibrium measure for the Lukyanov integral
In 2000, Lukyanov conjectured that a certain ratio of $N$-fold integrals should provide access, in the large-$N$ regime, to the ground state expectation value of the exponential of the Sinh-Gordon quantum field in 1+1 dimensions and finite volume $R$. This work aims at rigorously constructing the fundamental objects necessary to address the large-$N$ analysis of such integrals. More precisely, we construct and establish the main properties of the the equilibrium measure minimising a certain $N$…

First time plastic welding since shop class at RPI in like 2011.
Definitely not my prettiest work but it looks like it'll hold, and should be way better than the epoxy I used before (this is polypropylene so annoyingly low surface energy for adhesives).

Good morning and happy Thursday everyone!
How are we all doing today and what is on your agenda for the day?
For me, it's work stuff and it's super, super busy due to the stable release of Nova. We're only at a 66% staged roll out, but I woke up to over 230 emails this morning and have received more than 200 new ones since.
I have a meeting at 12pm but that should be a nice break from the emails for a bit.

To compensate for the atrocious experience of the “3 Body Problem”, I had the good idea of pressing “play” on “Poor Things” and I am positive I just experienced a work of art. Disclaimer: I’m no artist, but it felt like bliss flowed through me and felt beauty and shivers and joy and thirst. I cannot explain such emotions without resorting to the ever fleeting idea of art. This rambling should compel you to watch this movie and hope to experience a similar heart fibrillation with tears and aw…

Disengagement From Games: Characterizing the Experience and Process of Exiting Play Sessions
Dmitry Alexandrovsky, Kathrin Gerling, Merlin Steven Opp, Christopher Benjamin Hahn, Max V. Birk, Meshaiel Alsheail
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00189

Disengagement From Games: Characterizing the Experience and Process of Exiting Play Sessions
The games research community has developed substantial knowledge on designing engaging experiences that draw players in. Surprisingly, less is known about player \textit{dis}engagement, with existing work predominantly addressing disengagement from the perspective of problematic play, and research exploring player disengagement from a constructive designer perspective is lacking. In this paper, we address this gap and argue that disengagement from games should be constructively designed, allowi…

If you're annoyed by #DST, spare a thought for Montaigne, who found Italian cities disagreed on whether mechanical clocks should start from 0 at sunrise or noon.
#JacquesLeGoff, "Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages": a classic I often think about.

Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages : Jacques Le Goff : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

I must admit I am rooting for Windows on Arm to take off this year.
Full disclosure I have been working on Arm64 native support for Visual Studio for a couple years. :visualstudio:
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/299924/qu

”It doesn’t have to be like this. We can control our own behaviour, and envision and build better forms of organisation. Through deliberative, participatory democracy, both in politics and in the workplace, we can create systems that work for everyone. There is no natural law that states that playground bullies should continue exacting tribute for the rest of their lives.”

MoMa-Pos: Where Should Mobile Manipulators Stand in Cluttered Environment Before Task Execution?
Beichen Shao, Yan Ding, Xingchen Wang, Xuefeng Xie, Fuqiang Gu, Jun Luo, Chao Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19940

MoMa-Pos: Where Should Mobile Manipulators Stand in Cluttered Environment Before Task Execution?
Mobile manipulators always need to determine feasible base positions prior to carrying out navigation-manipulation tasks. Real-world environments are often cluttered with various furniture, obstacles, and dozens of other objects. Efficiently computing base positions poses a challenge. In this work, we introduce a framework named MoMa-Pos to address this issue. MoMa-Pos first learns to predict a small set of objects that, taken together, would be sufficient for finding base positions using a gra…

This Cowboys 7-round mock draft should get fans excited https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/this_cowboys_7_round_mock_draft_should_get_fans_excited/s1_17100_40154912

This Cowboys 7-round mock draft should get fans excited
NFL fans can rejoice now that we are within a calendar month of the next big event on the offseason calendar: the 2024 NFL Draft. We are exactly 31 days away from the Chicago Bears deciding which college prospect will be the newest number one pick. Members of the Dallas Cowboys' front office have to be rubbing their hands together at this point in anticipation of the draft, one where VP of Player Personnel Will McClay will need to do his best work yet. McClay has been brilliant since taking mor…

'I’m too interested in wealth inequality, public ownership and Palestine to be welcomed in today’s Labour party."
And #Faiza was the choice of the CLP selection committee - trampled underfoot by the right wing clique now in control of #UKLabour.
I was mistreated – and that’s why hundre…

The reviews are in!
* "No, this piece didn't work"
* "Not clever"
* "He should stay away from journalism"
* "Utter nonsense."

For the #PocketPortal workshop, I wanted to include a clickable SMS link in one of the page examples. Clicking it would open the texting app with text and phone number set, inspired by moonshine.mu's "SMS for location".
You may have encountered similar links which use mailto: (for email) and tel: (for telephone) in the site's

How to pre-populate the sms body text via an html link
How to use an html link to open the sms app with a pre-filled body? Everything I have read seems to indicate that sms:18005555555?body=bodyTextHere Should work, but on the iPhone, this doesn't wo...

re: #ukpol #sicknote
👩‍⚕️: This patient is too sick to work, working may worsen their condition, they should be off sick.
😡: No.
👩‍⚕️: What?
😡: No. You're lying. The patient is just a bit sad. They're perfectly fine to work.
👩‍⚕️: But, all my medical expertise and training...
😡: No. You're a woke liar. Hey, Craptia.
🕴️: Yes?
😡: Is this person well enough to work?
🕴️: Ahem.
😡: Oh, sorry, of course. Here's thousands of pounds given to you so that you will deny claims. Are they fit for work.
🕴️: [Counting money, barely looks up], Oh, sure, they'll be fine. Couple of Apsrin. Call me in the morning if their head doesn't reattach.
👩‍⚕️: I don't think this is....
😡: Shut up you, fuck off to Australia. We don't need no woke medical staff here. Have a pay cut. After Brexit there's no drugs left to prescribe anyway.
👩‍⚕️: [Packs bags, goes to a country that appreciates medical expertise]

Pumpkin pies have neither of these issues. They are made from three separately farmable ingredients, which incentivizes the construction of unique farming infrastructure, but can also be farmed manually early on. The chickens don't die, they only get exploited for their eggs :3 and all three farms can eventually be automated - and with the autocrafter, you can even fully automate pie production now! Of course you can also buy them from villagers, but again, tedious.
I think this is how good food should work in Minecraft - made from multiple ingredients that can't be eaten by themselves, and providing a truly rewarding experience. Pumpkin pies are nutritionally just barely below steaks and carrots, but so much more fun to play with. This is why I believe they are the best food source in the game.
Honorary mention: Suspicious stew with saturation is the only nonstackable food that's worth considering and I highly recommend playing with it for a while if you have the mooshrooms available :3

The Width of an Electron-Capture Neutrino Wave Packet
B. J. P. Jones, E Marzec, J. Spitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19746 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19746
arXiv:2404.19746v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We expand on the methodology outlined in previous work that predicted the width of an antineutrino wave packet emerging from a beta-decaying nucleus, to the case of a neutrino from electron capture decay. Based on this result, we also respond to a recent Beryllium Electron capture in Superconducting Tunnel junctions Experiment (BeEST) paper which utilizes this previous work in forming their measurement of the neutrino wave packet width. According to our interpretation, the direct limit on the neutrino wave packet width from electron capture decay ($e^- \mathrm{^{7}Be}\rightarrow\mathrm{^{7}Li \nu_e}$) using the BeEST analysis should map to $\sigma_{\nu,x}>6.2\,\mathrm{pm}$ while our theoretical prediction is $\sigma_{\nu,x}\sim2.7\,\mathrm{nm}$.

@victorwynne@tooters.org This is a bad take. Everyone *should* care how their work is being used. Everyone *should* have a voice in their places of employment. Unthinking and amoral scientists are how we got so, *so* many unethical experiments and outcomes.
I am saying this as a scientist who absolutely cares where my funding is coming from and how my work will be used.

@… ah, absolutely. I appreciate the de-escalation and I’m sorry you got put in the middle here. I understood this as an engineer to engineer discussion (which is why I tried to deflect with a joke). You absolutely should not feel the need to apologize to me.
I definitely think very highly of your work! I am 100% happy to consider this resolved as long as you and I …

Sometimes #conservation work involves rectifying previous conservation work.
In this case a previous archivist and/or conservator thought "closed" items should be removed from this volume. There is even skimmed paper remaining on some of the guards.
Now that the records are open, I've hinged the material back to their original locations.
We no longer do thi…

A very Danish protest: Tomorrow should be public holiday "Big Prayer day" - created originally by gathering up previous saints holy days into just one. Last year the government decided to remove it, in order, allegedly, to pay for more defence after invasion of #Ukraine. (I'm still not sure how that's supposed to work). This year although no holiday tomorrow, Danes are buying record numbers of wheat buns ("hvede") traditionally eaten on #StoreBededag
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/danskere-protesterer-med-sproed-skorpe-og-smeltet-smoer-bagere-venter-rekordsalg-af

I've been thinking, and I suppose someone already had this idea, but… how about we introduce a product tax that's inversely proportional to manufacturer's warranty?
The idea is roughly this:
1. If they continue making crappy products with short warranty, the extra tax is going to make them more expensive.
2. If they continue making crappy products, but extend warranty, they're going to invest more in replacements — and therefore the products should become more expensive implicitly.
3. If they make better products with extended warranty, we win.
Not saying this will actually work — but as long as crappy products become more expensive, people would buy less.

I finally have a job. I always visit the mall across before going to work.
There's this "Flying Tiger" store with random cute stuff in it. They also have small and cheap instruments, exactly what I catches my attention. I'm being really tempted and I don't even have my first salary yet.
Should I give in?
#instruments

Determining the chemical composition of diamagnetic mixed solids via measurements of the magnetic susceptibility
Miao Miao Zhao, Yang Yang, Na Du, Yu Ying Zhu, Peng Ren, Fei Yen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02012

Determining the chemical composition of diamagnetic mixed solids via measurements of the magnetic susceptibility
Mixed solid compounds are employed in a vast array of applications so an accurate determination of their chemical compositions is of crucial importance. All current characterization methods require specially-treated samples so the availability of a more practical method with similar accuracy should alleviate the quantification process. In this work, we show how the doping concentration $δ$ (or isotope concentration) of a mixed solid compound in powdered form, where both parent compounds are di…

Longitudinal Mammogram Risk Prediction
Batuhan K. Karaman, Katerina Dodelzon, Gozde B. Akar, Mert R. Sabuncu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19083 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19083
arXiv:2404.19083v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality among women worldwide. Early detection and risk assessment play a crucial role in improving survival rates. Therefore, annual or biennial mammograms are often recommended for screening in high-risk groups. Mammograms are typically interpreted by expert radiologists based on the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS), which provides a uniform way to describe findings and categorizes them to indicate the level of concern for breast cancer. Recently, machine learning (ML) and computational approaches have been developed to automate and improve the interpretation of mammograms. However, both BI-RADS and the ML-based methods focus on the analysis of data from the present and sometimes the most recent prior visit. While it is clear that temporal changes in image features of the longitudinal scans should carry value for quantifying breast cancer risk, no prior work has conducted a systematic study of this. In this paper, we extend a state-of-the-art ML model to ingest an arbitrary number of longitudinal mammograms and predict future breast cancer risk. On a large-scale dataset, we demonstrate that our model, LoMaR, achieves state-of-the-art performance when presented with only the present mammogram. Furthermore, we use LoMaR to characterize the predictive value of prior visits. Our results show that longer histories (e.g., up to four prior annual mammograms) can significantly boost the accuracy of predicting future breast cancer risk, particularly beyond the short-term. Our code and model weights are available at https://github.com/batuhankmkaraman/LoMaR.

There should be newspapers that we work at where we do this -- Katie Britt, the Republican ... (Maria Bustillos/Flaming Hydra)
https://flaminghydra.com/there-should-be-newspapers-that-we-work-at-where-we-do-this/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240310/p46#a240310p46

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06495 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_…

Mechanism Design for ZK-Rollup Prover Markets
In ZK-Rollups, provers spend significant computational resources to generate validity proofs. Their costs should be compensated properly, so a sustainable prover market can form over time. Existing transaction fee mechanisms (TFMs) such as EIP-1559, however, do not work in this setting, as EIP-1559 only generates negligible revenue because of burning, while provers often create or purchase specialized hardware in hopes of creating long-term revenue from proving, somewhat reminiscent of proof-of…

My two are Geany and notepad . I use Notepad for my one Win10 machine and work. Geany I use on my Win10 machine and linux boxes when doing coding. Geany I have it set to do FreeBasic, Rust and COBOL compiles.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/my-favorite-

"Thus, you should never employ ldd on an untrusted executable, since this may result in the execution of arbitrary code." (ldd man page)
(From Stephan Berger on X)
https://jmmv.dev/2023/07/ldd-untrusted-binaries.html

ldd(1) and untrusted binaries - Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)
While diagnosing a non-determinism Bazel issue at work, I had to compare the dynamic libraries used by two builds of the same binary. To do so, I used ldd(1) and I had to refer to its manual page to understand details of the output I had never paid attention to before. What I saw will surprise you: ldd can end up running the binary given to it, thus making it unsafe against untrusted binaries. Read on for the history I could find around this issue and what alternatives you have.

Alrighty, this is starting to look like it could actually be a puzzle! I'm happy with how this code is turning out - should be able to activate all sorts of things, and I don't need to simulate power flow - it's all signals. What sorts of machines should I add? #screenshotsaturday

It might not seem like a huge thing, but it's time to fix the power distribution for my Raspberry Pi 4B servers. This should do a perfect job of distributing the 24V going to each one pretty well, and 1A fuses should work out perfectly for keeping the amount of fire to a minimum. #homelab #raspberryPi

This is a very neat trick to unset max-height when an HTML element with resize='vertical' set in CSS is resized. So you can have elements initially displayed with a max-height but then resized beyond it:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/60286469
(Should work as is for resize='…

Allow resize to ignore max-height?
I have some code like the first snippet - I am curious if there is a way to use resize and allow it to ignore max-height? The reason I don't just use height is I want the div to fit the first piec...

My current take on the #xz situation, not having read the actual source backdoor commits yet (thanks a lot #Github for hiding the evidence at this point...) besides reading what others have written about it (cf. #rustlang for such central library dependencies would maybe (really big maybe) have made it a bit harder to push a backdoor like this because - if and only if the safety features are used idiomatically in an open source project - reasonably looking code is (a bit?) more limited in the sneaky behavior it could include. We should still very much use those languages over C/C for infrastructure code because the much larger class of unintentional bugs is significantly mitigated, but I believe (without data to back it up) that even such "bugdoor" type changes will be harder to execute. However, given the sophistication in this case, it may not have helped at all. The attacker(s) have shown to be clever enough.
6. Sandboxing library code may have helped - as the attacker(s) explicitly disabled e.g. landlock, that might already have had some impact. We should create better tooling to make it much easier to link to infrastructure libraries in a sandboxed way (although that will have performance implications in many cases).
7. Automatic reproducible builds verification would have mitigated this particular vector of backdoor distribution, and the Debian team seems to be using the reproducibility advances of the last decade to verify/rebuild the build servers. We should build library and infrastructure code in a fully reproducible manner *and* automatically verify it, e.g. with added transparency logs for both source and binary artefacts. In general, it does however not prevent this kind of supply chain attack that directly targets source code at the "leaf" projects in Git commits.
8. Verifying the real-life identity of contributors to open source projects is hard and a difficult trade-off. Something similar to the #Debian #OpenPGP #web-of-trust would potentially have mitigated this style of attack somewhat, but with a different trade-off. We might have to think much harder about trust in individual accounts, and for some projects requiring a link to a real-world country-issued ID document may be the right balance (for others it wouldn't work). That is neither an easy nor a quick path, though. Also note that sophisticated nation state attackers will probably not have a problem procuring "good" fake IDs. It might still raise the bar, though.
9. What happened here seems clearly criminal - at least under my IANAL naive understanding of EU criminal law. There was clear intent to cause harm, and that makes the specific method less important. The legal system should also be able to help in mitigating supply chain attacks; not in preventing them, but in making them more costly if attackers can be tracked down (this is difficult in itself, see point 8) and face risk of punishment after the fact.
H/T @… @… @… @… @…

Test 3 of the full Superbooster Starship stack was fully loaded with fuel, it carried no payload, and its engines all seemed to work perfectly during ascent. (The engine failures affected only the reentry of the two stages.)
Yet Starship reached only low LEO altitude, with sub-orbital speed and with its fuel tanks essentially empty.
So, why should we expect this result to improve in the future? Namely, reaching a stable orbit with many tons of payload, or fuel for Artemis?

Explaining Grover's algorithm with a colony of ants: a pedagogical model for making quantum technology comprehensible
Merel A Schalkers, Kamiel Dankers, Michael Wimmer, Pieter Vermaas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00014

Explaining Grover's algorithm with a colony of ants: a pedagogical model for making quantum technology comprehensible
The rapid growth of quantum technologies requires an increasing number of physicists, computer scientists, and engineers who can work on these technologies. For educating these professionals, quantum mechanics should stop being perceived as incomprehensible. In this paper we contribute to this change by presenting a pedagogical model for explaining Grover's search algorithm, a prominent quantum algorithm. This model visualizes the three main steps of Grover's algorithm and, in addition to expla…

@… ah, absolutely. I appreciate the de-escalation and I’m sorry you got put in the middle here. I understood this as an engineer to engineer discussion (which is why I tried to deflect with a joke). You absolutely should not feel the need to apologize to me.
I definitely think very highly of your work! I am 100% happy to consider this resolved as long as you and I …

Social revolution, a how-to by @… (i know, it's NOT a how-to, fool), i loved reading this and was happy the campfire metaphor was not taken to a place i feared, the pissing on the embers before moving to the next campground:
"Social movements have an uphill battle. You’ve survived the initial repression, then you’ve survived the constant one-two punch of repression and recuperation. You’ve survived splintering by refusing to let the more radical elements within your movement be isolated and picked off. You’ve become a full-fledged revolution, combining mass social movements with militant actors who are redistributing property and defending the gains of the revolution.
The final recuperative force generally comes from within the revolutionary movement itself: authoritarianism. It’s Boromir grabbing the ring of power, it’s the Bolsheviks declaring themselves in charge of a pluralistic movement and killing everyone who disagrees with them.
The purpose of a social revolution is to redistribute power horizontally, but there will always be people who say “yes, and I should be given all of the power so that I can better redistribute it,” rather than continuing to work from the bottom-up model that built the revolution in the first place."
#revolution #anarchism

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02498 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Honest Students from Untrusted Teachers: Learning an Interpretable Question-Answering Pipeline from a Pretrained Language Model
Explainable question answering systems should produce not only accurate answers but also rationales that justify their reasoning and allow humans to check their work. But what sorts of rationales are useful and how can we train systems to produce them? We propose a new style of rationale for open-book question answering, called \emph{markup-and-mask}, which combines aspects of extractive and free-text explanations. In the markup phase, the passage is augmented with free-text markup that enables…

Had a long chat with my eldest today. He's struggling a little at Uni, getting overwhelmed by the amount of work to do. ☹️
All I can do is offer advice and calm him down. It sucks, but I guess this is part of us both growing as people. I think his main issue is not having an outlet. All he does is school work and gaming. There is nothing else he does, and I think he's struggling because of it.
But try and tell a teenager they should spend less time on their screens 😆

Symbolic Dynamic Formulation for the Collatz Conjecture: I. Local and Quasi-global Behavior
Eric Sakk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19699 https://

Symbolic Dynamic Formulation for the Collatz Conjecture: I. Local and Quasi-global Behavior
In this work, a symbolic dynamical formulation based upon discrete iterative mappings derived from the Collatz conjecture is introduced. It is demonstrated that this formulation naturally induces a ternary alphabet useful for characterizing the expansive and dissipative behavior of generated itineraries. Furthermore, local and quasi-global analyses indicate cyclic behaviors that should prove useful for describing global stability properties of itineraries. Additionally, techniques for generatin…

I've been thinking, and I suppose someone already had this idea, but… how about we introduce a product tax that's inversely proportional to manufacturer's warranty?
The idea is roughly this:
1. If they continue making crappy products with short warranty, the extra tax is going to make them more expensive.
2. If they continue making crappy products, but extend warranty, they're going to invest more in replacements — and therefore the products should become more expensive implicitly.
3. If they make better products with extended warranty, we win.
Not saying this will actually work — but as long as crappy products become more expensive, people would buy less.

Incel CS lecturer at Waterloo
$2.4.1 DIFFICULTIES OF HUNTING AT WORK"
I don't know what to say
"In academia, dating and romantic/sexual relationship between professors and students is controversial"
Yes. Yes it is.
"There is clearly a world-wide bias in judgmental decisions for accusing males, compared to females, in harassments. It may be because males usually ask out and show interest in females and females may take it as an offense."
Okay so has anyone explained to you the concept of power dynamics and unethical abuse of authority roles?
"A funny thing is that once, in a seminar for teaching assistants in the University of Waterloo, they told us that teaching
assistants should not date students. I asked about the case of John Nash. The professor answered me that they married
after the student graduated (which I think is not true). Then, I answered even if that is true, did they suddenly get
married without any dating? Of course, they dated before that, while she was a student! I think they themselves know
that this rule is nonfunctional because if the professor/instructor and the student are both single, they may like each
other or fall in love as they interact frequently in the school. This rule was even criticised in the American comedy show "Friends" (season 6, episode 18)."
Ok, there's a lot to unpack here, but the main bit is this: Do you understand that the sitcom "Friends" is not a good source for understanding ethics?

We're moving to a new building at work this summer and I am super excited that there's an Ace Hardware right across the street...
While I enjoy the work I do, I really miss being downtown or in Bay View where I could actually walk to places.
Working outside the city can be really depressing, which should be obvious by the fact that I'm excited about a hardware store nearby.

Are queries and keys always relevant? A case study on Transformer wave functions
Riccardo Rende, Luciano Loris Viteritti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18874 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.18874
arXiv:2405.18874v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The dot product attention mechanism, originally designed for natural language processing (NLP) tasks, is a cornerstone of modern Transformers. It adeptly captures semantic relationships between word pairs in sentences by computing a similarity overlap between queries and keys. In this work, we explore the suitability of Transformers, focusing on their attention mechanisms, in the specific domain of the parametrization of variational wave functions to approximate ground states of quantum many-body spin Hamiltonians. Specifically, we perform numerical simulations on the two-dimensional $J_1$-$J_2$ Heisenberg model, a common benchmark in the field of quantum-many body systems on lattice. By comparing the performance of standard attention mechanisms with a simplified version that excludes queries and keys, relying solely on positions, we achieve competitive results while reducing computational cost and parameter usage. Furthermore, through the analysis of the attention maps generated by standard attention mechanisms, we show that the attention weights become effectively input-independent at the end of the optimization. We support the numerical results with analytical calculations, providing physical insights of why queries and keys should be, in principle, omitted from the attention mechanism when studying large systems. Interestingly, the same arguments can be extended to the NLP domain, in the limit of long input sentences.

I'm a bad person.
We recently had some work done in our backyard, which resulted in a PVC hole that goes somewhere, but I have no idea where.
I pointed this out to my spouse, who was running the project, and said we should ask the builders where it went.
I then started singing "🎶Mystery Hole. Are you ready for your Mystery Hole?🎶" And promptly got that ear worm stuck in her head.

Learning Human Preferences Over Robot Behavior as Soft Planning Constraints
Austin Narcomey (Yale University), Nathan Tsoi (Yale University), Ruta Desai (Meta AI), Marynel V\'azquez (Yale University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19795

Learning Human Preferences Over Robot Behavior as Soft Planning Constraints
Preference learning has long been studied in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) in order to adapt robot behavior to specific user needs and desires. Typically, human preferences are modeled as a scalar function; however, such a formulation confounds critical considerations on how the robot should behave for a given task, with desired -- but not required -- robot behavior. In this work, we distinguish between such required and desired robot behavior by leveraging a planning framework. Specifically, w…

"Thus, you should never employ ldd on an untrusted executable, since this may result in the execution of arbitrary code." (ldd man page)
(From Stephan Berger on X)
https://jmmv.dev/2023/07/ldd-untrusted-binaries.html

ldd(1) and untrusted binaries - Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)
While diagnosing a non-determinism Bazel issue at work, I had to compare the dynamic libraries used by two builds of the same binary. To do so, I used ldd(1) and I had to refer to its manual page to understand details of the output I had never paid attention to before. What I saw will surprise you: ldd can end up running the binary given to it, thus making it unsafe against untrusted binaries. Read on for the history I could find around this issue and what alternatives you have.

This 👇👇👇👇
https://social.chinwag.org/@mike/112430301747132673

If someone said to you, "democracy is about freedom, and freedom means I can behave however I want" you would think of that as a childish view. Yet so many people are willing to say:
"This software project is free software, and freedom means I should be able to do things any way I like in this project."
I see it over and over, and I still don't know how anyone can be that reductive.
At most it means freedom to work on YOUR stuff how you want. Communi…

Alrighty, this is starting to look like it could actually be a puzzle! I'm happy with how this code is turning out - should be able to activate all sorts of things, and I don't need to simulate power flow - it's all signals. What sorts of machines should I add? #screenshotsaturday

Checked off another small repair on the Yamaha this morning. Previously, in order to start this bike I had to jump the contacts with something metal, a screwdriver or a key would work. It's a common enough problem on old Yamaha bikes that there's a couple sellers on eBay for reproduction buttons. Kinda fiddly to take the old switch apart and fit the new button and spring, but well worth the time.

This is a very neat trick to unset max-height when an HTML element with resize='vertical' set in CSS is resized. So you can have elements initially displayed with a max-height but then resized beyond it:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/60286469
(Should work as is for resize='…

Allow resize to ignore max-height?
I have some code like the first snippet - I am curious if there is a way to use resize and allow it to ignore max-height? The reason I don't just use height is I want the div to fit the first piec...

My current take on the #xz situation, not having read the actual source backdoor commits yet (thanks a lot #Github for hiding the evidence at this point...) besides reading what others have written about it (cf. #rustlang for such central library dependencies would maybe (really big maybe) have made it a bit harder to push a backdoor like this because - if and only if the safety features are used idiomatically in an open source project - reasonably looking code is (a bit?) more limited in the sneaky behavior it could include. We should still very much use those languages over C/C for infrastructure code because the much larger class of unintentional bugs is significantly mitigated, but I believe (without data to back it up) that even such "bugdoor" type changes will be harder to execute. However, given the sophistication in this case, it may not have helped at all. The attacker(s) have shown to be clever enough.
6. Sandboxing library code may have helped - as the attacker(s) explicitly disabled e.g. landlock, that might already have had some impact. We should create better tooling to make it much easier to link to infrastructure libraries in a sandboxed way (although that will have performance implications in many cases).
7. Automatic reproducible builds verification would have mitigated this particular vector of backdoor distribution, and the Debian team seems to be using the reproducibility advances of the last decade to verify/rebuild the build servers. We should build library and infrastructure code in a fully reproducible manner *and* automatically verify it, e.g. with added transparency logs for both source and binary artefacts. In general, it does however not prevent this kind of supply chain attack that directly targets source code at the "leaf" projects in Git commits.
8. Verifying the real-life identity of contributors to open source projects is hard and a difficult trade-off. Something similar to the #Debian #OpenPGP #web-of-trust would potentially have mitigated this style of attack somewhat, but with a different trade-off. We might have to think much harder about trust in individual accounts, and for some projects requiring a link to a real-world country-issued ID document may be the right balance (for others it wouldn't work). That is neither an easy nor a quick path, though. Also note that sophisticated nation state attackers will probably not have a problem procuring "good" fake IDs. It might still raise the bar, though.
9. What happened here seems clearly criminal - at least under my IANAL naive understanding of EU criminal law. There was clear intent to cause harm, and that makes the specific method less important. The legal system should also be able to help in mitigating supply chain attacks; not in preventing them, but in making them more costly if attackers can be tracked down (this is difficult in itself, see point 8) and face risk of punishment after the fact.
H/T @… @… @… @… @…

So, yeah, it's pretty clear that some journals are poorly (if at all) edited. Please don't assume the LLM absurdities making the rounds are representative of scholarly journals as a whole (though, by now we probably should assume that Elsevier is only in it for the money). As associate editor of a history journal, I don't yet do too much (that will change when I become co-editor in a few months), but the current editors work very hard for little glory. I suspect this is far more …

I don't think @… should have skipped coffee this morning… she said “goodnight" as she left for work 😂
#WakeUp

This is a great tip! I didn’t even know about the `place-` properties until @… showed me, super helpful!
https://front-end.social/@kizu/1124338963…

This April, I walked/hiked ~161Kms and biked ~32Kms. I had at least one workout on 23 days; weather and work preventing workout on seven days.
I should have done better but still I'd say I accomplished the "Active April" goal. 😀 🚶🏽‍♂️🥾🚲
BTW I covered ~40Kms more distance last April, when I had at least one work out every day of the month. The weather and my own commitment were both much better then. 😳
2023 activity:

Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures
Bhaskar Mitra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17901 https://arxiv.o…

Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures
Information retrieval (IR) technologies and research are undergoing transformative changes. It is our perspective that the community should accept this opportunity to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community sho…

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No more optimization rules: LLM-enabled policy-based multi-modal query optimizer (version 1)
Large language model (LLM) has marked a pivotal moment in the field of machine learning and deep learning. Recently its capability for query planning has been investigated, including both single-modal and multi-modal queries. However, there is no work on the query optimization capability of LLM. As a critical (or could even be the most important) step that significantly impacts the execution performance of the query plan, such analysis and attempts should not be missed. From another aspect, exi…

Boss has a lot of work, and I should test something.
For that, I need rpms from the build server built from a specific branch.
I asked him to grant me the rights to that build server...and he answered me today (after 3 days) that he would do it.🤦‍♂️
I am not paid enough to care.🤬
Well, that's not true. It still piss me a lot because when sh*t hits the fan, I will be the one responsible for delay. 🤬
But I have saved this conversation with my boss, and I will p…

Many times I read something about #scrum and how the process should work, I can not help myself to remember this quote from #DnD "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" movie:
Doric: What is it exactly that you bring to this?
Edgin: Me? I'm, I'm a planner. I make p…

What is the role of #care #platforms in digital capitalism? Will they transform markets as in delivery or ride-hailing? This seems not to be the case, new research by @… shows:

I need some help solving this problem:
2 raspberry pis, 1 hosting home assistant the other with pi-hole and storage stuff. I need a way to connect storage to home assistant media and be able to add to the storage from random devices.
Network drivers are being annoying rn and not working but one is so as long as the method doesn't need a dedicated NIC then should work.
#homelab

Learning to Defer to a Population: A Meta-Learning Approach
Dharmesh Tailor, Aditya Patra, Rajeev Verma, Putra Manggala, Eric Nalisnick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02683

Learning to Defer to a Population: A Meta-Learning Approach
The learning to defer (L2D) framework allows autonomous systems to be safe and robust by allocating difficult decisions to a human expert. All existing work on L2D assumes that each expert is well-identified, and if any expert were to change, the system should be re-trained. In this work, we alleviate this constraint, formulating an L2D system that can cope with never-before-seen experts at test-time. We accomplish this by using meta-learning, considering both optimization- and model-based vari…

How #Dev and #QA works at my work:
Developer branches off, does the work, commits dev branch. (nothing too unusual thus far) Developer creates merge request in Gitlab.
At this stage, it should be noted that Gitlab has support for 1) automatic build automation and verifica…

So @… sent me a photo that should make the skin of all artists crawl.
A new business. AI Artworks… Manifest your dreams is the slogan. You name it, we frame it as the sign says.
I’m sorry but this is so clearly a business that will be profiting off the work of artists who actually will be working hard to then have their art trained illegally …

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Turning Noises to Fingerprint-Free "Credentials": Secure and Usable Drone Authentication
Drones have been widely used in various services, such as delivery and surveillance. Authentication forms the foundation of the security of these services. However, drones are expensive and may carry important payloads. To avoid being captured by attackers, drones should keep a safe distance from the verifier before authentication succeeds. This makes authentication methods that only work in very close proximity not applicable. Our work leverages drone noises for authentication. While using sou…

Quantum group deformations and quantum $ R $-(co)matrices vs. Quantum Duality Principle
Gast\'on Andr\'es Garc\'ia, Fabio Gavarini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15096

Quantum group deformations and quantum $ R $-(co)matrices vs. Quantum Duality Principle
In this paper we describe the effect on quantum groups - namely, both QUEA's and QFSHA's - of deformations by twist and by 2-cocycles, showing how such deformations affect the semiclassical limit. As a second, more important task, we discuss how these deformation procedures can be "stretched" to a new extent, via a formal variation of the original recipes, using quasi-twists and quasi-2-cocycles. These recipes seemingly should make no sense at all, yet we prove that they actually work, thus p…

Part-time Work Manifesto
Employers, you should really consider hiring more people part-time. Rather than hiring one person full-time, hire two people part-time. The costs are roughly the same, yet the benefits are clear.
• People working fewer hours are better rested. They are more efficient and less frustrated.
• Pondering about problems in free time and approaching them the next day with a clear head is generally a better way of solving them than staring at the screen.
• More employees bring more diverse skills, experiences, mindsets — and again, this is beneficial to solving problems.
• More employees provide better redundancy. If one becomes unavailable (say, goes on a sick leave), you lose half a position, not a whole one. It's easier for others to take the load over.
• In some cases, more employees can provide easy coverage for different timezones.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04952 has been replaced.
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Metrics on Markov Equivalence Classes for Evaluating Causal Discovery Algorithms
Many state-of-the-art causal discovery methods aim to generate an output graph that encodes the graphical separation and connection statements of the causal graph that underlies the data-generating process. In this work, we argue that an evaluation of a causal discovery method against synthetic data should include an analysis of how well this explicit goal is achieved by measuring how closely the separations/connections of the method's output align with those of the ground truth. We show that e…

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Imaging dark matter at the smallest scales with lensed stars
Observations of caustic-crossing galaxies at redshift $0.7

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04697 has been replaced.
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Optical system for extremely large spectroscopic survey telescope
This article presents research work on a spectroscopic survey telescope. Our idea is as follows: for such a telescope, a pure reflecting optical system is designed, which should have an aperture and a field of view (FOV) both as large as possible and excellent image quality, and then a strip lensm (lens-prism) atmospheric dispersion corrector (S-ADC) is added, only for correcting the atmospheric dispersion. Given the fund limitation and the simplicity of scaling up, some 12-m telescopes are des…

The more I hear about¹ extremely long interview processes like this the more I think that jurisdictions should make them a salaried process. Not just for the health of the applicant but also so that they get reflected on the company's financial reports so that shareholders and/or decision makers inside can get a handle on the true cost.
At some point it's got to be cheaper to hire a person and pay them and fire them if it doesn't work out.

Thinking about switching my personal tech #blog from #hashnode to #ghost / Ghost(Pro), as this seems to be what all the cool kids are using these days. However, I don’t want to self-host Ghost, as I don’t want to deal with running updates and signing up to a bunch of extra services to get newsletter sending etc. to work. As I am not planning to introduce any premium tiers or anything like that, I wonder if any of the advantages of ghost over Hashnode are even relevant to me, especially considering the price of at least $9 a month for Ghost.
What do people recommend these days? Should I stick to what I already have with hashnode (at least until they inevitably turn evil one day, as apparently all services must), or is there a compelling reason to switch to ghost today?

Oddly I've been nominated to sit on the Open Source Initiative's board.
Elections close 18-Mar and you should (from tomorrow) be able to ask me awkward on-the-record questions about how I plan to make the world a better place through this link:
https://opensource.org/board-member/mi

Miles Goodhew
Miles has worked in the US, UK and Australia in both civil service and private industry roles. Taking a break from work, Miles is now looking to contribute to the open source community.

Part-time Work Manifesto
Employers, you should really consider hiring more people part-time. Rather than hiring one person full-time, hire two people part-time. The costs are roughly the same, yet the benefits are clear.
• People working fewer hours are better rested. They are more efficient and less frustrated.
• Pondering about problems in free time and approaching them the next day with a clear head is generally a better way of solving them than staring at the screen.
• More employees bring more diverse skills, experiences, mindsets — and again, this is beneficial to solving problems.
• More employees provide better redundancy. If one becomes unavailable (say, goes on a sick leave), you lose half a position, not a whole one. It's easier for others to take the load over.
• In some cases, more employees can provide easy coverage for different timezones.

I don't remember if I posted images about the electrical work required. Basically it appears that almost all work was NOT done by a licensed electrician. About 100 junction boxes, switches, plugs, appliance plugs and ceiling fans checked. About 39 errors in wiring, especially on how aluminum and copper wires are secured.
This is why you really should hire a licensed electrician for your work. Expensive, but well worth knowing it was done properly.

So @… sent me a photo that should make the skin of all artists crawl.
A new business. AI Artworks… Manifest your dreams is the slogan. You name it, we frame it as the sign says.
I’m sorry but this is so clearly a business that will be profiting off the work of artists who actually will be working hard to then have their art trained illegally …

Arizona Governor Strikes Down Age Verification Bill, Says It Violates First Amendment https://www.404media.co/arizona-governor-veto-age-verification-bill/

#RustLang / Cargo support in #Gentoo has received a lot of optimizations over time.
Does that sound like a good thing? I'm afraid it isn't: it's just saying how *bad* the ecosystem is, that we have to keep adding hacks to make it even remotely usable.
For a start, we immediately gave up on packaging the dependencies separately. After all, we're talking about a humongous effort, creating thousands of Gentoo packages whose only purpose would be delivering sources that would be only linked statically into executables. Lot of effort, lot of space waste, no gain. Instead, every Rust package carries a huge list of crates it needs, and a humongous Manifest listing yet another set of copies of checksums for these crates.
We are strongly relying on mirroring crates on Gentoo mirror infrastructure. Why? Because crates.io is uselessly slow. On top of that, Portage normally does fetching in series, so grabbing hundreds of crates takes half an eternity. In fact, I've even made #PyCargoEbuild use aria2 to fetch new crates from crates.io in parallel to work around this.
I have recently added a hack to unpack crates in parallel, because even unpacking all of them is awfully slow. Ironically, the crates that seem to take most of the time to unpack are these responsible for Windows support.
PyCargoEbuild also has a function to repack all dependent crates into a single tarball that we redistribute. Why? Because some packages have so many dependencies that listing them all makes ebuilds and their Manifests humongous. For every package like that, *all* Gentoo users suffer a significant growth in repository size, even if they are never going to use the package in question. So instead of listing and fetching crates, we fetch a ready-made crate tarball. Which is also much smaller than all crates combined, and therefore faster to fetch and unpack (though I haven't compared this to parallel unpacking).
Oh, perhaps I should have mentioned first that Cargo is one of the few ecosystems that simply cannot be packaged without creating dedicated tools to prepare and update the ebuilds.
But yeah, Rust is awesome.

"It Is Easy Using My Apps:" Understanding Technology Use and Needs of Adults with Down Syndrome
Hailey L. Johnson, Audra Sterling, Bilge Mutlu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16311

"It Is Easy Using My Apps:" Understanding Technology Use and Needs of Adults with Down Syndrome
Assistive technologies for adults with Down syndrome (DS) need designs tailored to their specific technology requirements. While prior research has explored technology design for individuals with intellectual disabilities, little is understood about the needs and expectations of adults with DS. Assistive technologies should leverage the abilities and interests of the population, while incorporating age- and context-considerate content. In this work, we interviewed six adults with DS, seven pare…

Cubature scheme for spatio-temporal Poisson point processes estimation
Nicoletta D'Angelo, Giada Adelfio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10878 https://

Cubature scheme for spatio-temporal Poisson point processes estimation
This work presents the cubature scheme for the fitting of spatio-temporal Poisson point processes. The methodology is implemented in the R Core Team (2024) package stopp (D'Angelo and Adelfio, 2023), published on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) and available from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=stopp. Since the number of dummy points should be sufficient for an accurate estimate of the likelihood, numerical experiments are currently under development to give guidelines on this asp…

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initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Quantum group deformations and quantum $ R $-(co)matrices vs. Quantum Duality Principle
In this paper we describe the effect on quantum groups -- namely, both QUEA's and QFSHA's -- of deformations by twist and by 2-cocycles, showing how such deformations affect the semiclassical limit. As a second, more important task, we discuss how these deformation procedures can be "stretched" to a new extent, via a formal variation of the original recipes, using "quasi-twists" and "quasi-2-cocycles". These recipes seemingly should make no sense at all, yet we prove that they actually work, th…

A Design Space of Control Coordinate Systems in Telemanipulation
Yeping Wang, Pragathi Praveena, Michael Gleicher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05757 https://…

A Design Space of Control Coordinate Systems in Telemanipulation
Teleoperation systems map operator commands from an input device into some coordinate frame in the remote environment. This frame, which we call a control coordinate system, should be carefully chosen as it determines how operators should move to get desired robot motions. While specific choices made by individual systems have been described in prior work, a design space, i.e., an abstraction that encapsulates the range of possible options, has not been codified. In this paper, we articulate a …

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The Normal Distributions Indistinguishability Spectrum and its Application to Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
To achieve differential privacy (DP) one typically randomizes the output of the underlying query. In big data analytics, one often uses randomized sketching/aggregation algorithms to make processing high-dimensional data tractable. Intuitively, such machine learning (ML) algorithms should provide some inherent privacy, yet most if not all existing DP mechanisms do not leverage this inherent randomness, resulting in potentially redundant noising. The motivating question of our work is: (How)…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04697 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Optical system for extremely large spectroscopic survey telescope
This article presents research work on a spectroscopic survey telescope. Our idea is as follows: for such a telescope, a pure reflecting optical system is designed, which should have an aperture and a field of view (FOV) both as large as possible and excellent image quality, and then a strip lensm (lens-prism) atmospheric dispersion corrector (S-ADC) is added, only for correcting the atmospheric dispersion. Given the fund limitation and the simplicity of scaling up, some 12-m telescopes are des…

Mechanism Design for ZK-Rollup Prover Markets
Wenhao Wang, Lulu Zhou, Aviv Yaish, Fan Zhang, Ben Fisch, Benjamin Livshits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06495 …

Mechanism Design for ZK-Rollup Prover Markets
In ZK-Rollups, provers spend significant computational resources to generate validity proofs. Their costs should be compensated properly, so a sustainable prover market can form over time. Existing transaction fee mechanisms (TFMs) such as EIP-1559, however, do not work in this setting, as EIP-1559 only generates negligible revenue because of burning, while provers often create or purchase specialized hardware in hopes of creating long-term revenue from proving, somewhat reminiscent of proof-of…

A Design Space of Control Coordinate Systems in Telemanipulation
Yeping Wang, Pragathi Praveena, Michael Gleicher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05757 https://…

A Design Space of Control Coordinate Systems in Telemanipulation
Teleoperation systems map operator commands from an input device into some coordinate frame in the remote environment. This frame, which we call a control coordinate system, should be carefully chosen as it determines how operators should move to get desired robot motions. While specific choices made by individual systems have been described in prior work, a design space, i.e., an abstraction that encapsulates the range of possible options, has not been codified. In this paper, we articulate a …

Cosmology from one galaxy in voids?
Bonny Y. Wang, Alice Pisani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04447 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.04447

Cosmology from one galaxy in voids?
Understanding galaxy properties may be the key to unlocking some of the most intriguing mysteries of modern cosmology. Recent work relied on machine learning to extract cosmological constraints on $Ω_\mathrm{m}$ using only $\textit{one}$ galaxy. But if this is true, how should we select $\textit{the}$ galaxy to use for cosmology inference? In this paper, we consider selecting a galaxy that lies in cosmic voids, the underdense regions of the cosmic web, and compare the constraints obtained with…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15096 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Quantum group deformations and quantum $ R $-(co)matrices vs. Quantum Duality Principle
In this paper we describe the effect on quantum groups -- namely, both QUEA's and QFSHA's -- of deformations by twist and by 2-cocycles, showing how such deformations affect the semiclassical limit. As a second, more important task, we discuss how these deformation procedures can be "stretched" to a new extent, via a formal variation of the original recipes, using "quasi-twists" and "quasi-2-cocycles". These recipes seemingly should make no sense at all, yet we prove that they actually work, th…

Personal, waiting through your life, ASD, sad
I suppose many people in the spectrum didn't have an easy childhood, especially if they lived in rural areas. Having difficulties bonding with peers, problems, solitude, bullying. However, the worst that you could have is having your parents tell the child that you just need to survive and wait, because one day you'll go a different school, meet new people and things will miraculously "be better". Because the child will take that literally, and make a point of their childhood to wait for this better day. It will believe that the problem is just a matter time, and then it will be solved.
Then comes the time for a higher grade school. And perhaps it will be a little better. But it won't be as great as it was promised. Perhaps you will cope better, perhaps you will find a better company, but you will never be neurotypical. And you will hear, once again, that you need to wait, and at the university things will definitely be just great.
Then comes the time for university. And again, it will be a little better, but never as good as it was promised. On the other hand, you will start realizing even more that you can't fit — that you've missed an important part of your life, that you lack the experiences that other people have, that you're a child that's suddenly ended up an adult between adults. And what will you hear? Of course, when you finally go to work, things will be even better.
And what's the truth? The future never brings anything better of its own accord. What it brings instead, is the realization that you've wasted the best years of your life waiting to be an adult. And then you are old, unhealthy and surrounded by people who sorted out their lives a long time ago. And people expect from you that you will work hard 5 days a week, and somehow manage to find more energy to sort out your own life at that.
And yes, as the old maxim says, you should just cope all these years and wait for retirement. Presuming you'll actually qualify for pension, that you'll be reasonably healthy and that the world won't burn completely by the time.
#ActuallyAutistic