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I would say that it's a good time to not be in #Milwaukee but #Glendale is having their own issues with funding.
"In an audit from 2022, Baker Tilly, which was hired by MPS, found "material weaknesses" in the district's budgeting. The audit shows the district was deficient in preparing financial statements, budgeting state and federal money, adjusting entries in the budget after issues were identified by the auditors, and had no independent review of financial reports."
https://www.tmj4.com/news/milwaukee-county/mps-own-documents-show-board-of-directors-knew-about-financial-woes-for-years

Vacarme matinal

Mpemba effects in open nonequilibrium quantum systems
Andrea Nava, Reinhold Egger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03521 https://arxiv.org/…

Mpemba effects in open nonequilibrium quantum systems
We generalize the classical thermal Mpemba effect (where an initially hot system relaxes faster to the final equilibrium state than a cold one) to open quantum systems coupled to several reservoirs. We show that, in general, two different types of quantum Mpemba effects are possible. They may be distinguished by quantum state tomography. However, the existence of a quantum Mpemba effect (without determining the type) can already be established by measuring simpler observables such as currents o…

Wen wählt ihr zum Goldenen Windbeutel?
https://www.foodwatch.org/fileadmin/-DE/Themen/Windbeutel/Video/2024_Windbeutel_Video-Statements.mp4

AC4MPC: Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
Rudolf Reiter, Andrea Ghezzi, Katrin Baumg\"artner, Jasper Hoffmann, Robert D. McAllister, Moritz Diehl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03995

AC4MPC: Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
\Ac{MPC} and \ac{RL} are two powerful control strategies with, arguably, complementary advantages. In this work, we show how actor-critic \ac{RL} techniques can be leveraged to improve the performance of \ac{MPC}. The \ac{RL} critic is used as an approximation of the optimal value function, and an actor roll-out provides an initial guess for primal variables of the \ac{MPC}. A parallel control architecture is proposed where each \ac{MPC} instance is solved twice for different initial guesses. B…

Dishonoring D‑Day: MAGA Republicans Choose Putin Over Patriots
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/06/06/dishonoring-d-day-maga-republicans-choose-putin-over-patriots/

Dishonoring D-Day: MAGA Republicans Choose Putin Over Patriots
Republicans claim to be patriotic, but dishonor the families of the brave who have fallen and cut veterans' benefits.

Es folgt die Ohrwurmzusammenfassung: Pedro Pedro Pedro Chipi Chipi Chapa Chapa Aberakadabera, dieser Kuchen war geradezu bombastisch.

Self-tunable approximated explicit MPC: Heat exchanger implementation and analysis
Lenka Gal\v{c}\'ikov\'a, Juraj Oravec
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04048

Self-tunable approximated explicit MPC: Heat exchanger implementation and analysis
The tunable approximated explicit model predictive control (MPC) comes with the benefits of real-time tunability without the necessity of solving the optimization problem online. This paper provides a novel self-tunable control policy that does not require any interventions of the control engineer during operation in order to retune the controller subject to the changed working conditions. Based on the current operating conditions, the autonomous tuning parameter scales the control input using …

Baking in the heat? Check to see if you are you in a HEAT DOME!
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/06/06/heat-domes-fossil-fuel-donations-fund-republican-efforts-to-fight-climate-change/

Are you baking in a Heat Dome?
Fossil fuel donations fund Republican opposition to efforts to fight the climate change causing Heat Domes and extreme heat.

Gun Violence Awareness Day is a reminder of all that is at stake this November when it comes to keeping our communities safe.
#DyingForGunSafety #GunSense #GunSenseNow