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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19214 has been replaced.
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BTS: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Tie Strength Prediction
The rapid rise of online social networks underscores the need to understand the heterogeneous strengths of online relationships. Yet, efforts to assess tie strength (TS) are hindered by the lack of ground-truth labels, differing research perspectives, and limited model performance in real-world settings. To address this gap, we introduce BTS, a comprehensive Benchmark for Tie Strength prediction, aiming to establish a standardized foundation for evaluating and advancing TS prediction methodolog…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LoudAndProud
Grace Petrie:
🎵 Black Tie
#GracePetrie
https://gracepetrie.bandcamp.com/track/black-tie
https://open.spotify.com/track/7IrdjFDrsMH9NkNnZ2oUGq

“J.D., does this tie make me look like a robot clone?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/trump-portrait-white-house.html

White House Unveils a New Official Portrait of President Trump
The official portrait, released on Monday by the White House, features a somber Mr. Trump against a dark backdrop.

"The most effective countermeasure is simple: tariffs for oligarchs. Countries should tie market access for foreign multinationals and billionaires to fair taxation. As soon as Trump follows through with tariffs on Canada and Mexico, those countries should retaliate by taxing US oligarchs."
https://

"MAPPED: 70 Percent of Trump’s Cabinet Tied to Project 2025 Groups"
#US #USA #America #Climate

MAPPED: 70 Percent of Trump’s Cabinet Tied to Project 2025 Groups
More than 50 high-level Trump administration officials have links to groups behind the Heritage Foundation-backed plan, a DeSmog analysis found.

Percheron Driven Cart Sponsored by Wegmans Supermarket in Ithaca Festival Parade
#photo #photography #ithaca

Paired comparison models with strength-dependent ties and order effects
Mark E. Glickman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24783 https://arx…

Paired comparison models with strength-dependent ties and order effects
Paired comparison models, such as the Bradley-Terry (1952) model and its variants, are commonly used to measure competitor strength in games and sports. Extensions have been proposed to account for order effects (e.g., home-field advantage) as well as the possibility of a tie as a separate outcome, but such models are rarely adopted in practice due to poor fit with actual data. We propose a novel paired comparison model that accounts not only for ties and order effects, but recognizes two pheno…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14485 has been replaced.
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On Sybil-proof Mechanisms
We show that in the single-parameter mechanism design environment, the only non-wasteful, symmetric, incentive compatible and Sybil-proof direct mechanism is a second price auction with symmetric tie-breaking. Thus, if there is private information, lotteries or other mechanisms that do not always allocate to a highest-value bidder are not Sybil-proof or not incentive compatible. Moreover, we show that our main (im)possibility result extends beyond linear valuations, but not to multi-unit object…

Thanks to everyone who recommended La Residencia to me a week or two ago. Yesterday, I witnessed amazing band Oust playing live. Seriously, one of the best fucking bands I've heard live in a long time. @…
#laResidencia

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01487 has been replaced.
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EDEN: Exploring Disks Embedded in N-body simulations of Milky-Way-mass halos from Symphony
We investigate the impact of galactic disks on the tidal stripping of cold dark matter subhalos within Milky Way (MW)-mass halos ($M_{\rm vir}\sim 10^{12}\mathrm{M_{\odot}}$) using a new simulation suite, EDEN. By re-simulating 45 MW-mass zoom-in halos from the N-body Symphony compilation with embedded disk potentials, which evolve according to star formation histories predicted by the UniverseMachine model, we self-consistently tie disk growth to halo accretion rate and significantly expand th…

I started working on a new doggie bow tie for a dog named Oakley. And managed to sew the elastic backwards. Oops. Giving up for tonight. The machine is running smoothly now so that's good!

Mi ĵus komencis ankaŭ anglan konton ĉe @… La afiŝoj tie estos en la angla kaj temos pri aliaj aferoj ol ĉi tie.

I've never written a novel or any other intensely-plotted work of fiction, but anyone who has read or watched it played a lot of stories can probably also recognize that some authors just aren't good at endings. They're great at setting things in motion, at keeping the twists and turns coming, at the soap opera style of drama. But they just don't have the craft necessary to tie things together into a satisfying conclusion. I imagine it's much harder than the process of getting things going out keeping them moving, since you both have to wind down all the various threads you've spun up and balance satisfaction with believability.
I just finished Girl Gone Viral by Arvin Ahmadi, and it has a bad ending. The beginning is fine, the middle has plenty of drama to keep you wanting to see what happens, but the ending is murky, unsatisfying, and manages neither veracity nor satisfaction (even discounting the biggest next step that might reasonably have been left there to make room for a sequel).
Given the other issues with the book, from poor politics, to inauthentic characters, to a techno-optimism that feels as bitter in this moment as it is far from the mark in its predictions, I can't recommended it, despite having read through to the end.
#AmReading

Keyoxide's(a lot of different projects that tie together into the entire keyoxide project ❕ ) source code is here...
https://codeberg.org/keyoxide
keyoxide-web is AGPL3
aspe-server-rs is AGPL3
keyoxide-chat-bot is Apache License Version 2.0
Also the F-Droid app is here(AGPL3):

Keyoxide
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Sonnet 117 - CXVII
Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all,
Wherein I should your great deserts repay,
Forgot upon your dearest love to call,
Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day;
That I have frequent been with unknown minds,
And given to time your own dear-purchased right;
That I have hoisted sail to all the winds
Which should transport me farthest from your sight.
Book both my wilfulness and errors down,
And on just proof surmis…

Andrew Sheer is currently spinning a conspiracy theory that “ties” Carney while in the UK to lobbying for “rules" to "force" aviation companies to use "non-conventional" fuel and then “he invests in that company and makes millions”.
And that, folks, is how the Conservatives are going to tie "New World Order" conspiracies to any kind of climate action, even very weak action like Sustainable Airline Fuel.
God I hate this guy's gross smile.
#canPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency
#CanPoli #CdnPoli