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How #Google Blew Up Its Open Culture and Compromised Its Product
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/how-google-blew-up-its-open-culture/

Report: New York Giants Shot Down Dallas Cowboys’ Attempt to Win Assistant https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_new_york_giants_shot_down_dallas_cowboys_attempt_to_win_assistant/s1_17068_3996334…

Friday Night Music (UK).
This might appeal more to the #6Music crowd than the Top of the Pops crowd.
This Friday, BBC Four, 10pm. "The Story of Microdisney: The Clock Comes Down the Stairs".
"To their fans, Microdisney were one of the greatest bands of all time. But most people have never heard of them. This is the story of a huge talent that went larg…

BBC Four - The Story of Microdisney: The Clock Comes Down the Stairs
The story of trailblazers Microdisney, one of the most talented bands never to make it.

Paramount is shutting down Showtime's streaming service on April 30, after it integrated Showtime's programming into the top-tier Paramount plan in June 2023 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/showtime-str…

Showtime App Shutting Down at the End of April
After nearly nine years, Showtime's streaming apps are fading to black after its programming has been integrated into Paramount+.

Breaking down the Commanders' eventful start to free agency https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/breaking_down_the_commanders_eventful_start_to_free_agency/s1_13132_40104248

Breaking down the Commanders' eventful start to free agency
When the NFL's legal tampering period began Monday, few teams worked faster than the Washington Commanders. In their first full offseason at the helm, owner Josh Harris and Co. brought in 11 new additions to the roster within the first two days of free agency. (Tight end Zach Ertz, who had been released by Arizona, was added March 6.) There are notable names on the list, starting with the top one, Ertz, who had 27 catches for 187 yards and one TD catch in 2023. Although past his prime as a play…

Me: Draw for me C portrayed as a safe language.
Copilot:
https://www.bing.com/images/create/c2b2b-portrayed-as-a-safe-language/1-65f113c2d25f4cd289ac3463b9954602
(see reply 👇 for another version)

Bing
Mit der intelligenten Bing-Suche können Sie die gewünschten Informationen schneller und einfacher finden und dabei Punkte sammeln.

Paramount is shutting down Showtime's streaming service on April 30, after it integrated Showtime's programming into the top-tier Paramount plan in June 2023 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/showtime-str…

Showtime App Shutting Down at the End of April
After nearly nine years, Showtime's streaming apps are fading to black after its programming has been integrated into Paramount+.

Could trade packages intrigue the Patriots at No. 3? Why they'd likely want 'a bag' in return https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39933585/2024-nfl-draft-new-england-patriots-trade-third-overall-pick

Could the Patriots trade the No. 3 draft pick in Round 1? - ESPN
Would the Patriots be willing to trade down for the right package? Plus, notes on Michigan QB J.J. McCarthy and New England's top defenders.

Breaking down the Commanders' eventful start to free agency https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/breaking_down_the_commanders_eventful_start_to_free_agency/s1_13132_40104248

Breaking down the Commanders' eventful start to free agency
When the NFL's legal tampering period began Monday, few teams worked faster than the Washington Commanders. In their first full offseason at the helm, owner Josh Harris and Co. brought in 11 new additions to the roster within the first two days of free agency. (Tight end Zach Ertz, who had been released by Arizona, was added March 6.) There are notable names on the list, starting with the top one, Ertz, who had 27 catches for 187 yards and one TD catch in 2023. Although past his prime as a play…

Substack shooting itself in the foot again.
Substack Writers Concerned as Subscriptions ‘Plummet’ Due to Follow Feature
https://www.thewrap.com/substack-follow-feature-problems-subscriptions-down/
p.s. Toward the end of Metacurity's time on Substack, I was adding around 300 new free subscribers per month. Because of the switch away from Substack and moving to a new domain (Google was actually the top source of new subscribers, and it's taking time to regain that search engine growth), new subscriber growth has dropped dramatically. Please consider signing up for our free daily emails at Metacurity.com.

#LinkedIn down, I repeat, #LinkedIn down.
This is not an exercise!

Picked up a truck load of mulch and a truck load of top soil and refreshed each of them in our planters around the house.
Looks so much nicer that it's fresh and full. Some plants were already coming up in the planter in the back with the metal sunflower, but they will push through the new dirt.
Going to try and plant some new stuff in the round planter around the tree in the front.
This took us about 5 hours total.

Experts say the weakening of LockBit and BlackCat marks a significant milestone in efforts to thwart cybercriminals, but ransomware hackers are not going away (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

BlackCat, LockBit Ransomware Gangs In Disarray as Global Authorities Crack Down
Two of the most notorious ransomware gangs in the world are imploding, leaving high-profile victims in their wake and creating chaos in the cybercriminal underworld.

#SeniorFitness
Today is 20.00000% of the way through 2024.
It's chin-up day. It’s well before the Ides of March, let alone the end of Q1. I just surpassed the total number for all pulls in 2020.
Forget that what I was doing in 2020 barely qualified for pulls: they weren’t all the way down, and on top of that, my form was otherwise abysmal.
I've done 1190 pu…

Time Series Analysis of Key Societal Events as Reflected in Complex Social Media Data Streams
Andy Skumanich, Han Kyul Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07090

Time Series Analysis of Key Societal Events as Reflected in Complex Social Media Data Streams
Social media platforms hold valuable insights, yet extracting essential information can be challenging. Traditional top-down approaches often struggle to capture critical signals in rapidly changing events. As global events evolve swiftly, social media narratives, including instances of disinformation, become significant sources of insights. To address the need for an inductive strategy, we explore a niche social media platform GAB and an established messaging service Telegram, to develop metho…

Back in September 2021 there was a shortage of petrol “at the pumps” which resulted in people using up their remaining fuel driving around looking for petrol stations with availability. Some were checking the “busy” signifier in Google Maps for possible clues, Waze was crowd-sourcing the info.
Government currently has a consultation for publishing petrol prices as Open Data, but there’s nothing about publishing *availability*.

Tech leaders to make latest fuel prices available on top apps
Tech companies collaborate on the government's Pumpwatch scheme to bring down road fuel prices for drivers.

Side porch seen through window, Woodland Plantation House, LaPlace, Louisiana.
Photo by Infrogmation of New Orleans.
#Lousiana #LaPlace #WindowFriday

Raiders assistant GM ‘can’t confirm’ if decision to draft Brock Bowers over Terrion Arnold came down to a ‘coin toss’ https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raider…

Raiders assistant GM ‘can’t confirm’ if decision to draft Brock Bowers over Terrion Arnold came down to a ‘coin toss’
A mini drama unfolded in the middle of the first round of the NFL Draft. Specifically, who would the Las Vegas Raiders select at pick No. 13? The Raiders were in the market for a quarterback, but there were no more first-round options, with six already off the board. So do you select the best tight end in the draft (Brock Bowers) or maybe the top cornerback (Terrion Arnold)? It was an Alabama versus Georgia kind of thing. So flip that coin, right? Arnold said the Lions knew that the Raiders cou…

Trump has just one answer when asked how he will bring food prices down - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/send/trump-drill/?utm_medium=email

Trump has just one answer when asked how he will bring food prices down
As Republicans in 15 states cast their ballots on this Super Tuesday, Donald Trump called in to Fox News, and when asked how he will bring down the price of food at the grocery store, which is Americans’ number one “beef” when asked about their top concerns, he served up just one answer: “drill ...

I truly dislike Windows 11. We're in the process of updating the umpteen thousand computers at work to it, and as a test, I did mine first. Not only did it clear some of my needed programs, but it forces me to use a UI I dislike.
Win10 allowed me to have the taskbar at the top, where I'm used to it from KDE and Gnome.
Win11 doesn't let you move it. I keep trying to find things, and it's slowing me down so much!

Free 1000L water tank? YES PLEASE!
Pickup? No problem!
#gardening #PortAlberni #Drought

you heard of top-down and bottom-up, now get ready for front-backwards.

3 smaller features got reviewed and merged into the next #Jellyfin on #Roku release last night
1. We will now move the selected subtitle option to the top of the list, just below None. Saving you from needing to scroll down to find the current selection if you have a long list of subtitles…

It wasn’t so long ago that the uneven distribution of wealth had distributed itself somewhat evenly across the Mountain West:
Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Sun Valley, Idaho; Telluride, Colorado.
But as Nick Bowlin sketches out in this Harper’s feature, nothing quite stacks up to Big Sky, Montana.
A private resort socked away above the town counts numerous billionaires among its members,
and even down below the average home price clocks in at $2.5 million.
Boom times f…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07259 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

On ${\cal M}$-Theory Dual of Large-$N$ Thermal QCD-Like Theories up to ${\cal O}(R^4)$ and $G$-Structure Classification of Underlying Non-Supersymmetric Geometries
Construction of a top-down holographic dual of thermal QCD-like theories (equivalence class of theories which are UV-conformal, IR-confining and have fundamental quarks) {\it at intermediate 't Hooft coupling} and the $G$-structure (torsion classes) classification of the underlying geometries (in the Infra Red (IR)/non-conformal sector in particular) of the {\it non-supersymmetric} string/${\cal M}$-theory duals, have been missing in the literature. We take the first important steps in this dir…

Every NFL team's best draft class since 2000: Revealing top 32 drafts of 21st century

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/e

Every NFL team's best draft class since 2000: Revealing top 32 drafts of 21st century
Several draft classes helped lay down the foundation for a championship

The Angry Samoans – “Inside My Brain” (1980)
US pressing on Bad Trip Records
12", 45 RPM
Certainly in my top 5 punk bands. They were a great representation of the punk ethos of their time. Angry, snotty, divisive, offensive, and raw.
Lots of infighting with the scene, best demonstrated by their diss track about Rodney Biggenheimer.
Lee Ving is alleged to have produced this album but asked not to have his name credited because of “Get Off The Air”.
I…

I truly believe that there will come a day in a "successful" person's life that they'll learn that the toes you step on, on the way to the top, are connected to the same asses you'll have to kiss on the way back down.
Some have this foresight, others will learn it the hard way. But it will be learned.

Felt like making a batch of the old chicken noodle
#Food #Cooking

#SilentSunday
#BirdsOfMastodon #birdphotography
A Western Meadowlark. May 2024

Hang on to your hats, kids, this is going to be a ride:
> To mark the passing of Stephen Hawking, we gathered together his 55 papers in Physical Review D and Physical Review Letters. They probe the edges of space and time, from "Black holes and thermodynamics” to "Wave function of the Universe."
Phys. Rev. D 73, 123527 (2006) - Populating the landscape: A top-down approach

Memo: Business Insider Global Editor-in-Chief Nic Carlson is stepping down, and will become an editor-at-large focused on longer-term projects (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/07/2024/business-insi…

Business Insider's editor-in-chief is stepping down | Semafor
Nicholas Carlson is leaving his position as the top editor of the business-focused digital news outlet, and will become an editor-at-large focused on longer-term projects.

Trump has just one answer when asked how he will bring food prices down - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/send/trump-drill/?utm_medium=email

Trump has just one answer when asked how he will bring food prices down
As Republicans in 15 states cast their ballots on this Super Tuesday, Donald Trump called in to Fox News, and when asked how he will bring down the price of food at the grocery store, which is Americans’ number one “beef” when asked about their top concerns, he served up just one answer: “drill ...

The state of the MS 365 UI:
So, Outlook kludged in emoji "reactions" at the extreme top right.
Everyone starts doing "thumbs up" emoji instead of replying "yes".
But 99% of users use a table layout where the messages are listed on the left, and there's only a tiny bell icon extreme top right handling those, so emoji reactions are routinely overlooked.
So... they doubled down and default you into a "reaction digest" subscription …

Astro Duel 2
Astro Duel 2 is a sci-fi combat game combining top-down space dog fights with up-close platforming action. Whether versus or co-op, battle through space and on foot at the same time! Strike within the fully-destructible arenas or just nuke ‘em from orbit.
https://store.epicgames.com/e…

2024 NFL Mock Draft: J.J. McCarthy sneaks into top 3 as 4 QBs go top 5; AFC contender trades up for WR

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

2024 NFL Mock Draft: J.J. McCarthy sneaks into top 3 as 4 QBs go top 5; AFC contender trades up for WR
The Seahawks trade down, then take a passer

The Angry Samoans – “Inside My Brain” (1980)
US pressing on Bad Trip Records
12", 45 RPM
Certainly in my top 5 punk bands. They were a great representation of the punk ethos of their time. Angry, snotty, divisive, offensive, and raw.
Lots of infighting with the scene, best demonstrated by their diss track about Rodney Biggenheimer.
Lee Ving is alleged to have produced this album but asked not to have his name credited because of “Get Off The Air”.
I…

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 4 (and maybe also already 5): The initial plan was to #BikeToWork, but I didn't feel well in the morning and decide to work from home instead. After a longer after-lunch nap I felt much better again and worked far into the evening. It was nearly midnight when I mounted t…

Sometime when you're playing in an online Pathfinder 2E game, you gotta breakout the camera and keep rolling real dice. Pretty proud of the cobbled together setup, but needed additional light which I had to order. However, the dice are readable now and the honeycomb filter helps keep the light out of my eyes for the campaign. #ttrpg

Incredible example of lying with graphs from Caltrans. The bike lane pilot on the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge reduced collisions, but they made it look like collisions increased.
Specifically, they divided collisions by vehicle miles traveled. But California's goal is to reduce vehicle miles traveled. So they took two good things achieved by the pilot, and made them cancel out to look like a bad thing. #BikeTooter

Poorly shot #BirbyCrap for @…

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/11/24/the-truth-about-inflation/ - The truth about inflation.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01416 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Biologically Plausible Training of Deep Neural Networks Using a Top-down Credit Assignment Network
Despite the widespread adoption of Backpropagation algorithm-based Deep Neural Networks, the biological infeasibility of the BP algorithm could potentially limit the evolution of new DNN models. To find a biologically plausible algorithm to replace BP, we focus on the top-down mechanism inherent in the biological brain. Although top-down connections in the biological brain play crucial roles in high-level cognitive functions, their application to neural network learning remains unclear. This st…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02555 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCC_…

Top-Down Lower Bounds for Depth-Four Circuits
We present a top-down lower-bound method for depth-$4$ boolean circuits. In particular, we give a new proof of the well-known result that the parity function requires depth-$4$ circuits of size exponential in $n^{1/3}$. Our proof is an application of robust sunflowers and block unpredictability.

Rawktapus - Season 2 coming soon 🐙🎸🔥
Dramatized musical rock opera comedy | Total listening time: 2h 06m
Can Rawktapus and his band, The Down Belows, rock their way to the top? Or will they face the wrath of pompous pop stars, killer musicians, and evil record labels? Tune in to this thrilling musical adventure and find out!
#Audi...

Rawktapus - Season 2 coming soon 🐙🎸🔥
Dramatized musical rock opera comedy | Total listening time: 2h 06m Can Rawktapus and his band, The Down Belows, rock their way to the top? Or will they face the wrath of pompous pop stars, killer musicians, and evil record labels? Tune in to this thrilling musical adventure and find out! 1 seasons, 5 episodes as of Oct 10, 2023.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14665 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Illuminating the Unseen: A Framework for Designing and Mitigating Context-induced Harms in Behavioral Sensing
With the advanced ability to capture longitudinal sensed data and model human behavior, behavioral sensing technologies are progressing toward numerous wellbeing applications. However, the widespread use of top-down design approaches, often based on assumptions made by technology builders about user goals, needs, and preferences, can result in a lack of context sensitivity. Such oversights may lead to technologies that do not fully support the diverse needs of users and may even introduce poten…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14817 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…

Cameras as Rays: Pose Estimation via Ray Diffusion
Estimating camera poses is a fundamental task for 3D reconstruction and remains challenging given sparsely sampled views (<10). In contrast to existing approaches that pursue top-down prediction of global parametrizations of camera extrinsics, we propose a distributed representation of camera pose that treats a camera as a bundle of rays. This representation allows for a tight coupling with spatial image features improving pose precision. We observe that this representation is naturally suited …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11016 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

SNI-SLAM: Semantic Neural Implicit SLAM
We propose SNI-SLAM, a semantic SLAM system utilizing neural implicit representation, that simultaneously performs accurate semantic mapping, high-quality surface reconstruction, and robust camera tracking. In this system, we introduce hierarchical semantic representation to allow multi-level semantic comprehension for top-down structured semantic mapping of the scene. In addition, to fully utilize the correlation between multiple attributes of the environment, we integrate appearance, geometry…

Never mind @…, I found my solution!
I was able to massage my notional hierarchy into MindMap by starting from the Greyscale style, and then using the manual layout and the compact style, using the top-down approach, and styling things like I wanted.
Later, I used Format > Extract Theme to create my own version of the sytle for later application.<…

"Can you take a look at my bike? My chain was skipping almost all the way home."
"Sure. The drivetrain's pretty old, it's probably time.." *looks* "What the fuck?? How did..?!"
#BikeTooter #CatBikeMechanicsOfMastodon…

Every Friday we run down the top Food Network stories of the week on "The Regurge."

Stunning. 34% of the population in Chinese prisons are #Uyghurs, who make up ~1-2% of the population.
China has a top-down strategy to, basically, criminalize an entire ethnic group and, with time, eliminate their unique cultural, religious, and social identity.
Partnering or working with the Chinese government means supporting these genocidal policies. That includes

UHRP Analysis Finds 1 in 26 Uyghurs Imprisoned in Region With World’s Highest Prison Rate - Uyghur Human Rights Project
An estimated 1 in 26 Uyghurs and other non-Han people in the Uyghur Region are imprisoned, making up a third of China’s total prison population April 25, 2024 A UHRP Insights column by Ben Carrdus, UHRP Senior Researcher, and Peter Irwin, UHRP Associate Director for Research & Advocacy A new UHRP analysis of official figures…

Penny's been with me since May 2006. She stayed with me when I was sleeping rough. She's been my most constant and most loyal companion for eighteen years. She's now unable to walk, unable to keep herself clean, in pain and incontinent. I am going to take her to the vets today to be put down. It's a hard decision.

I mean, what?
“the newspaper carries its own singular obsession with the president, aggrieved over his refusal to give the paper a sit-down interview that Publisher AG Sulzberger and other top editors believe to be its birthright”
https://www.politico.com/news/…

Odometers in non-compact spaces
Godofredo Iommi, Mario Ponce
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03768 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.03768…

Odometers in non-compact spaces
We define an odometer in the Baire space. That is the non-compact space of one sided sequences of natural numbers. We go on to prove that it is topologically conjugated to the dyadic odometer restricted to an appropriate non-compact subset of the space of one sided sequences on two symbols. We extend the action of the odometer to finite words. It turns out that, arranging the finite words in appropriate binary tree, this extension runs through the tree from left-right and top-down. Several well…

Probably the first good decision by Boeing's management in a very long time.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/25/boeing_leadership_exits/

Boeing top brass stand down amid safety turbulence
They were all planning on leaving anyway, company claims

Best-in-class modeling: A novel strategy to discover constitutive models for soft matter systems
Kevin Linka, Ellen Kuhl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06725 h…

Best-in-class modeling: A novel strategy to discover constitutive models for soft matter systems
The ability to automatically discover interpretable mathematical models from data could forever change how we model soft matter systems. For convex discovery problems with a unique global minimum, model discovery is well-established. It uses a classical top-down approach that first calculates a dense parameter vector, and then sparsifies the vector by gradually removing terms. For non-convex discovery problems with multiple local minima, this strategy is infeasible since the initial parameter v…

NFL.com identifies Dallas Cowboys’ top five needs in 2024 NFL Draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nflcom_identifies_dallas_cowboys_top_five_needs_in_2024_nfl_draft/s1_17236_40190205

NFL.com identifies Dallas Cowboys’ top five needs in 2024 NFL Draft
Though the Dallas Cowboys’ 2024 NFL Draft needs are plentiful, NFL.com writers have managed to narrow them down to the top five this week. According to draft analyst Chad Reuter, the Cowboys’ top needs this year are at offensive tackle, running back, interior offensive line, defensive tackle and wide receiver. The Dallas Cowboys let the vast majority of their free agents walk when the league new year hit on March 13, which means they have an uphill battle to re-stock before training camp. T…

The difference between day-0, day-1, and day-2 #operations
https://octopus.com/blog/difference-between-day-0-1-2-operations

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04326 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csFL_…

Deciding whether an Attributed Translation can be realized by a Top-Down Transducer
We prove that for a given partial functional attributed tree transducer with monadic output, it is decidable whether or not an equivalent top-down transducer (with or without look-ahead) exists. We present a procedure that constructs an equivalent top-down transducer (with or without look-ahead) if it exists.

Is WaPo even pretending to cover local news any more? Fairfax Connector buses, which carry 26,000 riders a day, are completely shut down due to strike. Not a word about it on WaPo website. The most recent article on the WaPo local transportation page is dated February 9.
But at top of front page, this breaking news: "Biden's dog bit Secret Service agents 24 times, new records show."

While Google paused Gemini's image generation, its text generation tool also offers some absurd responses, highlighting the need for flourishing open source AI (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2024/gemini-and-googles-culture/

Gemini and Google’s Culture
The Google Gemini fiasco shows that the biggest challenge for Google in AI is not business model but rather company culture; change is needed from the top down.

#SilentSunday

Will the NFL Draft bring mayhem? How league coaches, execs expect top 10 picks to unfold https://theathletic.com/5439557/2024/04/24/nfl-mock-draft-coaches-top-10/

Will the NFL Draft bring mayhem? How league coaches, execs expect top 10 picks to unfold
Caleb Williams to the Bears. Jayden Daniels to the Commanders. But then what? Will the Patriots draft Drake Maye or trade down for a haul?

Weathered windows, Uptown New Orleans.
Photographs by Infrogmation of New Orleans.
@…
#Windows #NOLA

Breaking down the Top 100 draft prospects https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/breaking-down-the-top-100-draft-prospects

Breaking down the Top 100 draft prospects
Taking a look at the top 100 prospects in the 2024 NFL Draft, as ranked by DallasCowboys.com.

Never a slow day in cybersecurity. Check out today's Metacurity for a crush of top infosec developments you should know today, including
--International operation shuts down phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost
--GRU-linked Cyber Army of Russia attacked water utilities in Texas,
--Russian election disinfo campaigns kicking in at a slower pace,
--House passes data broker bill over Biden's objections,
--FISA provision could turn tech workers into informants,
--Cyberattack slows down NY legislature,
--Ransomware group stole Void Interactive's source code,
--Violent Russian propaganda transmitted over Disney-owned Dutch children's channel,
--Moldovan botnet operator busted,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/international-operation-shuts-phishingasaservice-platform-labhost

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14817 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…

Cameras as Rays: Pose Estimation via Ray Diffusion
Estimating camera poses is a fundamental task for 3D reconstruction and remains challenging given sparsely sampled views (<10). In contrast to existing approaches that pursue top-down prediction of global parametrizations of camera extrinsics, we propose a distributed representation of camera pose that treats a camera as a bundle of rays. This representation allows for a tight coupling with spatial image features improving pose precision. We observe that this representation is naturally suited …

NFL Draft 2024: Drake Maye breaks down Commanders unorthodox interview process with top draft picks

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-dra

NFL Draft 2024: Drake Maye breaks down Commanders unorthodox interview process with top draft picks
The Commanders took quarterbacks to TopGolf

OMG LUPINES!!!!!!!!!!11 😍😍😍
#BloomScrolling #CaliforniaNatives #NatureyCrap

A rare pineapple from the garden.
This calls for pineapple upside down cake.

SO CUTE
#jupiter #catsodon #CatsOfMastodon

RSF publishes its World Press Freedom Index and places Norway, Denmark, and Sweden in the top three, the US down 10 spots at 55, and Eritrea in last place (Tom McArthur/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy73gq39219o

World Press Freedom Day: Journalism not being protected, report says
Governments are failing to protect journalism from political attacks, according to Reporters Without Borders.

fucking cops, man
#OfficerAdams #FuckEricAdams
https://www.nytimes.c…

Mayor Adams Pushes Out Chairwoman of Police Oversight Board
Arva Rice was asked to resign after she criticized police handling of a fatal shooting investigation and requested more money and power to investigate misconduct.

Memo: Thrasio CEO Greg Greeley plans to resign and five other senior executives will "step down when Thrasio emerges from Chapter 11 in the coming weeks" (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/amazon-agg…

Admins, remember, it's YOUR decision if you decide to defederate, block or mute Threads on YOUR server, or if you choose to NOT do any of those.
There are many others out there that will try and force their opinion(s) down your throat as much as possible, but in the end, the server is YOUR SERVER, not theirs.
You run your server how YOU want, not how others would like for you to run your server.
As they say, YOU DO YOU!

NFL analyst breaks down what a draft day trade for the Raiders could look like https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_analyst_breaks_down_what_a_draft_day_trade_for_the_raiders_could_look_like/…

Will the NFL Draft bring mayhem? How league coaches, execs expect top 10 picks to unfold https://theathletic.com/5439557/2024/04/24/nfl-mock-draft-coaches-top-10/

Will the NFL Draft bring mayhem? How league coaches, execs expect top 10 picks to unfold
Caleb Williams to the Bears. Jayden Daniels to the Commanders. But then what? Will the Patriots draft Drake Maye or trade down for a haul?

#BloomScrolling #Mosstodon #LichenSubscribe

New Orleans signs: Birds edition
1) Bayou St. John
2) City Park
3) Uptown 13th Ward
4) Faubourg Maringy
Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans.
@…
#NOLA #NewOrleans

Top 5 trade down scenarios for Cowboys https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/lists/cowboys-2024-draft-trade-down-options/

Top 5 trade down scenarios for Cowboys
The Cowboys need more currency in the 2024 NFL draft, and these are five trades that could help them address their team needs. | From @BenGrimaldi

What are the top positions the Raiders could target in the draft? https://www.raiders.com/news/top-positions-of-need-target-for-the-raiders-nfl-draft-2024

What are the top positions the Raiders could target in the draft?
Raiders.com's Levi Edwards breaks down viable draft prospects for the Silver and Black based off his views of the team's positions of need.

2024 NFL Draft: JJ McCarthy a top-five pick, Falcons trade down and more reading of betting market tea leaves

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2024 NFL Draft: JJ McCarthy a top-five pick, Falcons trade down and more reading of betting market tea leaves
Jim Harbaugh's new team decides his former QB's fate and more on what the betting market is saying around the draft

Dallas Cowboys Favored To Sign Superstar Running Back In Massive Free Agency Move https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_favored_to_sign_superstar_running_back_in_massive_free_age…

Dallas Cowboys Favored To Sign Superstar Running Back In Massive Free Agency Move
The Dallas Cowboys have had one of the league’s top offenses for the last few seasons, especially in the passing game. However, even with a plethora of weapons for quarterback Dak Prescott, the rushing attack is an area of concern for the team this offseason as running back Tony Pollard is set to hit the open market. With many great backs testing free agency this offseason, one of them stands out the most to sign with Dallas, and it would flip the NFL world upside down if it goes through. The…

2024 NFL Draft: JJ McCarthy a top-five pick, Falcons trade down and more reading of betting market tea leaves

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2024 NFL Draft: JJ McCarthy a top-five pick, Falcons trade down and more reading of betting market tea leaves
Jim Harbaugh's new team decides his former QB's fate and more on what the betting market is saying around the draft

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1) Bayou St. John
2) City Park
3) Uptown 13th Ward
4) Faubourg Maringy
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Raiders Draft Radar: Top cornerback fits by round https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/lists/raiders-draft-radar-top-cornerback-fits-by-round/

Raiders Draft Radar: Top cornerback fits by round
It seems like every year the Raiders head into the draft with a need at the cornerback position. This year is no exception. While they had Nate Hobbs locking down the slot, the boundaries were a re…

An analysis of the gender pay gap in UK media: 76% of the biggest media organizations increased the proportion of women in their top pay tier from 2022 to 2023 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
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More women in top roles as media industry gender pay gap slowly narrows
UK media gender pay gap down from 12% to 11% between 2022 and 2023. But most companies increase % of women in highest-paid roles.

Jerry Jones might've given away Cowboys' top second round target of 2024 NFL Draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/jerry_jones_mightve_given_away_cowboys_top_second_round_target_of…

2024 NFL Draft: What teams inside top 10 are saying about picks entering draft week, including Bears, Patriots

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2024 NFL Draft: What teams inside top 10 are saying about picks entering draft week, including Bears, Patriots
Will New England stand pat or trade down? What will Chicago do with its two picks?

Grading the Cowboys, Lions trade: Front office surprisingly passes on top NFL Draft target https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/grading_the_cowboys_lions_trade_front_office_surprisingly…

Grading the Cowboys, Lions trade: Front office surprisingly passes on top NFL Draft target
The Dallas Cowboys were expected to want to get back the fourth rounder they have away when they traded for quarterback Trey Lance in August.  They got an even better return: A third rounder is going to the Cowboys while Stephen Jones and company drop down to 29th overall. The news was a bit surprising considering Duke center Graham Barton was on the board, a plug-and-play weapon that is considered a menace in the run game and the best center of this year's class. They were expected to be heav…

Rich Eisen anoints Trey Lance as potential ‘solve’ at quarterback for Minnesota Vikings https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/rich_eisen_anoints_trey_lance_as_potential_solve_at_quarterback…

Rich Eisen anoints Trey Lance as potential ‘solve’ at quarterback for Minnesota Vikings
Nobody does the NFL Combine quite like Rich Eisen. Not only does he broadcast the entire event but Eisen also has time to have conversations with some of the league’s coaches and executives. This leads him to break down some of the top rumors to come out of Indianapolis, with one potentially catching the eye of Cowboys and Vikings fans. Minnesota head coach Kevin O’Connell believes Kirk Cousins will go through the free agency process, potentially leaving the franchise without a quarterback.…

Mayor Eric Johnson wants the Chiefs to move to Dallas from Kansas City despite already having Cowboys in the city https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/mayor_eri…

Mayor Eric Johnson wants the Chiefs to move to Dallas from Kansas City despite already having Cowboys in the city
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson has a special proposal for the reigning Super Bowl champions, after the voters in Jackson County, Missouri rejected the ballot measure for renovating the Arrowhead Stadium for the Kansas City Chiefs. However, this doesn’t mean in any way a relocation for the Dallas Cowboys.  Johnson sat down in an interview with the Dallas Morning News. He claimed that Dallas is ‘big enough’ to support another NFL team, especially when it comes to the Chiefs. Dallas was named th…