Bob Geldof - Wikipedia
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DMR API: Improving cluster productivity by turning applications into malleable
Adaptive workloads can change on--the--fly the configuration of their jobs, in terms of number of processes. In order to carry out these job reconfigurations, we have designed a methodology which enables a job to communicate with the resource manager...
Difficulty Getting NCI Appointment -Moffitt
My husband had a colonoscopy in December 2024, which showed cancer. Because of the severity of this illness (T3C2N with possible bone metastasis), we started treatment locally with the intent of work...
P-wave Cooper pair splitting
Splitting of Cooper pairs has recently been realized experimentally for s-wave Cooper pairs. A split Cooper pair represents an entangled two-electron pair state which has possible application in on-chip quantum computation. Likewise the spin-activity...
Signatures in the conductance for phase transitions in excitonic systems
We analyse two phase transitions in exciton bilayer systems: a topological phase transition to a phase which hosts Majorana fermions and a phase transition to a Wigner crystal. Using generic simple models for the different phases we discuss the condu...
Is Soller too far from all the good beaches?
If I make Soller as my home-base, is it too far of a drive from all the nice beaches? I tried checking on google maps and it seems that it’s a 1 hour average to get to anywhere which I think is fin...
Demi-linear Analysis II -- Demi-distributions
In this paper, we establish a demi-distributions theory which develops the usual distribution theory, in particular, we show that many conclusions as differentiations, Fourier transforms and convolutions can be generalized to the demi-distributions t...
Maximizing the Egalitarian Welfare in Friends and Enemies Games
We consider the complexity of maximizing egalitarian welfare in Friends and Enemies Games -- a subclass of hedonic games in which every agent partitions other agents into friends and enemies. We investigate two classic scenarios proposed in the liter...
LEARNet Dynamic Imaging Network for Micro Expression Recognition
Unlike prevalent facial expressions, micro expressions have subtle, involuntary muscle movements which are short-lived in nature. These minute muscle movements reflect true emotions of a person. Due to the short duration and low intensity, these micr...
A Survey on Masked Autoencoder for Self-supervised Learning in Vision and Beyond
Masked autoencoders are scalable vision learners, as the title of MAE \cite{he2022masked}, which suggests that self-supervised learning (SSL) in vision might undertake a similar trajectory as in NLP. Specifically, generative pretext tasks with the ma...
Probing the Early Universe with the S-Z Effect
The cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) is providing important clues into the evolution of the early universe. In this Science Perspective, Joy and Carlstrom discuss one feature of the CMBR, the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, which can be used...
On dynamical systems of quadratic stochastic operators constructed for bisexual…
For two classes of bisexual populations we give a constructive description of quadratic stochastic operators which act to the Cartesian product of standard simplexes. We consider a bisexual population such that the set of females can be partitioned i...
Emotion Recognition in the Wild using Deep Neural Networks and Bayesian Classifi…
Group emotion recognition in the wild is a challenging problem, due to the unstructured environments in which everyday life pictures are taken. Some of the obstacles for an effective classification are occlusions, variable lighting conditions, and im...
Book Report Guy, with "Life Is Fighting," by Karrion Kross, which covered much o…
Hey y'all, this post focuses on "Life Is Fighting" written by Kevin "Karrion Kross" Kesar and released just a few months ago in 2025. I'll be honest, this book wasn't at all what I expected (hoped) ...
Towards Optimal Grammars for RNA Structures
In past work (Onokpasa, Wild, Wong, DCC 2023), we showed that (a) for joint compression of RNA sequence and structure, stochastic context-free grammars are the best known compressors and (b) that grammars which have better compression ability also sh...
Book Report Guy, with "Life Is Fighting," by Karrion Kross, which covered much o…
Hey y'all, this post focuses on "Life Is Fighting" witten by Kevin "Karrion Kross" Kesar, and released just a few months ago in 2025. I'll be honest, this book wasn't at all what I expected (hoped) i...
Toronto ravine system - Wikipedia
The Toronto ravine system is a distinctive feature of the city's geography, consisting of a network of deep ravines, which forms a large urban forest that
Multiway Powersort
We present a stable mergesort variant, Multiway Powersort, that exploits existing runs and finds nearly-optimal merging orders for k-way merges with negligible overhead. This builds on Powersort (Munro & Wild, ESA2018), which has recently replaced Ti...
Full Lecture: I am the True Vine
I couldn't find the text for this lecture so had it transcribed myself too. Let me know if there are other lectures which have only audio available and no text. I will transcribe those too. Working on...
12 unlikely-but-plausible predictions (what are yours?)
Zach Lowe (I hope we see him again soon!) used to do a column called "Crazy Predictions," which were exactly what they sounded like. He eventually gave up the idea after deciding the NBA had gotten to...