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Discrimination cases unravel as Trump scraps core civil rights tenet
For decades, the federal government has used data analysis to ferret out race and sex discrimination
-- winning court cases and reaching settlements in housing, education, policing and across American life.
Now the Trump administration is working to unwind those same cases.
The administration is unwinding settlements built on “disparate impact,” -- which holds that even neutral policies can lead to …

Discrimination cases unravel as Trump scraps core civil rights tenet
The administration is dismissing cases and unwinding settlements built on « disparate impact, » which holds that even neutral policies can lead to biased outcomes.

Zum vorhin geboosteten Beitrag des Volksverpetzers zum Gebäudeenergiegesetz: was mir echt Sorgen bereitet, sind die verlogenen Kampagnen (die dann auch von seriösen Medien unreflektiert aufgenommen werden) - und Destruktion als Handlungsweise innerhalb von Koalitionen (dazu könnte ich auch die eine oder andere Geschichte erzählen). Beides macht Politik handlungsunfähig. Was gerade in diesen Zeiten fatal ist.

'This is tantamount to claiming not merely that “when the president does it, that means it’s not illegal,” but also that every campaign promise becomes an unreviewable legal mandate. '
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/20

Schottenheimer Called Out for ‘Unnerving’ Comments on $240 Million Cowboys QB Dak Prescott https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/schottenheimer-comments-qb-dak-prescott/?adt_ei=[email]

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThisClassicalLife
Björk:
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#Björk
https://open.spotify.com/track/6JrmglKffvzzCZCtMEdUtk

Auf der Spazierrunde in der #Gartenanlage fällt inzwischen das #Obst auf. Die #Obstblüte ist ja noch gar nicht so lange her. Hier entwickeln sich leckere

Don't Unwrap Options: There Are Better Ways #Rust
https://corrode.dev/blog/rust-option-handling-best-practices/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17285 has been replaced.
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Unraveling the Interplay between Carryover Effects and Reward Autocorrelations in Switchback Experiments
A/B testing has become the gold standard for policy evaluation in modern technological industries. Motivated by the widespread use of switchback experiments in A/B testing, this paper conducts a comprehensive comparative analysis of various switchback designs in Markovian environments. Unlike many existing works which derive the optimal design based on specific and relatively simple estimators, our analysis covers a range of state-of-the-art estimators developed in the reinforcement learning (R…

Topological Machine Learning for Protein-Nucleic Acid Binding Affinity Changes Upon Mutation
Xiang Liu, Junjie Wee, Guo-Wei Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22786

Topological Machine Learning for Protein-Nucleic Acid Binding Affinity Changes Upon Mutation
Understanding how protein mutations affect protein-nucleic acid binding is critical for unraveling disease mechanisms and advancing therapies. Current experimental approaches are laborious, and computational methods remain limited in accuracy. To address this challenge, we propose a novel topological machine learning model (TopoML) combining persistent Laplacian (from topological data analysis) with multi-perspective features: physicochemical properties, topological structures, and protein Tran…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14230 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXi…

Unravelling how winds and surface heat fluxes control the Atlantic Oceans meridional heat transport
The North Atlantic Ocean circulation, fuelled by winds and surface buoyancy fluxes, carries 1.25 PettaWatts of heat poleward in the subtropics, and helps in regulating global weather and climate patterns. Here, we assess the relative impacts of changes in winds and surface heat fluxes on the Atlantic Ocean circulation and heat transport on short timescales (<10 years) and long timescales (>50 years) using ocean simulations. We decompose the circulation and heat transport into warm and cold cell…