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Good Morning #Canada
The forecast for today in my tiny section of Canada is sunny skies and peak temperature of 16°C. No shoveling for me in the near future, but around this same time of year in 1888, one of the worst blizzards in history struck the northeast. Our cold artic air (sorry) slammed into a relatively warm gulf weather system. Canada suffered far less than most of the U.S. east coas…

Today, at least one staff member of the UNRWA humanitarian aid organization was killed and 22 were injured in an Israeli air strike on a food and basic resources distribution center in Gaza.
“[...] food supplies are running out, hunger is widespread and, in some areas, turning into famine.”
“The Israeli Army received the coordinates including of this facility yesterday.”

Between higher rents and Republican opposition to funding basic government services, FBI agents can't afford to live in the cities where they work.
"Natalie Bara, president of the FBI Agents Association, said she's heard from two or three agents sharing an apartment near New York City, and others who commute four hours each day, back and forth to their field offices. Some circumstances are even more extreme, she added."

Many FBI agents are struggling to make ends meet. Housing costs are to blame
FBI agents in high-cost areas can face long commutes and trouble paying the bills. Their advocates are asking for a housing allowance to lighten the load.

Algorithmic Information Disclosure in Optimal Auctions
Yang Cai, Yingkai Li, Jinzhao Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08145 https://arxi…

Algorithmic Information Disclosure in Optimal Auctions
This paper studies a joint design problem where a seller can design both the signal structures for the agents to learn their values, and the allocation and payment rules for selling the item. In his seminal work, Myerson (1981) shows how to design the optimal auction with exogenous signals. We show that the problem becomes NP-hard when the seller also has the ability to design the signal structures. Our main result is a polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) for computing the optimal joint…

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard boarded and seized MSC Aries, an Israeli-affiliated shipping vessel, near the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday morning local time.
No government other than the gov't of Israel have straight-up called this an "act of piracy" in violation of int'l law.

Goed om te weten voor mensen in #Gent:
Je kan gratis van de stad hellende vlakken aanvragen om een winkel of horecazaak toegankelijker te maken
https://go.stad.gent/hellendvlakhandelaars

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08347 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Beyond Privacy Trade-offs with Structured Transparency
Successful collaboration involves sharing information. However, parties may disagree on how the information they need to share should be used. We argue that many of these concerns reduce to 'the copy problem': once a bit of information is copied and shared, the sender can no longer control how the recipient uses it. From the perspective of each collaborator, this presents a dilemma that can inhibit collaboration. The copy problem is often amplified by three related problems which we term the bu…

Intersection of a Moran type Sierpinski carpet and a line with rational slope
Simin Bao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08415 https://arxi…

Intersection of a Moran type Sierpinski carpet and a line with rational slope
In 2005, Liu et al. calculated the dimensionality of the intersection of Sierpinski carpet and a straight line with rational slope in the sense of Lebesgue measure.Sierpinski carpet is a self-similar set in two-dimensional planes obtained by an iterative function system, so each layer has the same structure. While the Sierpinski carpet set with Moran structure is the limit set obtained by the action of two iterative function systems in the two-dimensional plane, which we denote as ~$F_σ$~. And…

Algorithmic Information Disclosure in Optimal Auctions
Yang Cai, Yingkai Li, Jinzhao Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08145 https://arxi…

Algorithmic Information Disclosure in Optimal Auctions
This paper studies a joint design problem where a seller can design both the signal structures for the agents to learn their values, and the allocation and payment rules for selling the item. In his seminal work, Myerson (1981) shows how to design the optimal auction with exogenous signals. We show that the problem becomes NP-hard when the seller also has the ability to design the signal structures. Our main result is a polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) for computing the optimal joint…