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[ot][spam][crazy][wrong] Reading a Book from Library Genesis
by Karl 05 Dec '21

05 Dec '21

Library genesis can be found at https://libgen.is/ right now, it can move. It has books for download, for example that textbook you paid $300 for, there is a very good chance some revision of it, or a book with the same content, is on library genesis. I've downloaded this book, "Deep Learning on Graphs", by Yao Ma and Jiliang Tang, from library genesis. You could download it for example from http://library.lol/main/1BEBBF5A91CE94A5F2D5C50935BBAC9E . Let's read it! Even better, let's skim through it. I'll start with section 2.4: Spectral Graph Theory ---- Spectral graph theory studies the properties of a graph through analyzing the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of its Laplacian matrix. In this section, we first introduce the Laplacian matrix of a graph and then discuss the key properties of the Laplacian matrix and its eigenvalues and eigenvectors. 2.4.1 Laplacian Matrix In this subsection, we introduce the Laplacian matrix of a graph, which is another matrix representation for graphs in addition to the adjacency matrix. Defintion 2.28 (Laplacian Matrix) For a given graph G = {V,E} with A as its adjacency matrix, its Laplacian matrix is defined as L = D - A, (2.18) where D is a diagonal degree matrix D = diag(d(v_1),...,d(v_|V|)) Another definition of the Laplacian matrix is a normalized version of Eq. (2.18). Definition 2.29 (Normalized Laplacian Matrix) For a given graph G= {V,E} with A as its adjacency matrix, its normalized Laplacian matrix is defined as L = D^(-1/2)(D - A)D^(-1/2) = I - D^(-1/2)AD^(-1/2). (2.19) Next, we focus on the discussion of the (unnormalized) Laplacian matrix as defined in Definition 2.28. However, in some later chapters of this book, the normalized Laplacian matrix will also be utilized. Unless specifically mentioned, we refer to the Laplacian matrix as the unnormalized one defined in Definition 2.28. ---- That was the top of doc page 27, pdf page 46. The Laplacian matrix is defined in terms of the adjacency matrix, so let's search the document for the first occurences of the phrase "adjacency matrix", to see what that is. Now I'm in section 2.2 Graph Representations, document page 18, pdf page 37. ---- 2.2 Graph Representations In this section, we introduce the definition of graphs. We focus on simple unweighted graphs and will discuss more complex graphs in the following sections. Definition 2.1 (Graph) A graph can be denoted as G = {V,E}, where V= {v_1,...,v_N} is a set of N = |V| nodes and E = {e_1,...,e_M} is a set of M edges. Nodes are essential entities in a graph. In social graphs, users are viewed as nodes, whereas in chemical compound graphs, chemical atoms are treated as nodes. The size of a given graph G is defined by its number of nodes; i.e., N = |V|. The set of edges E describes the connections between nodes. An edge e_i connects two nodes v^1_ei and v^2_ei; thus, the edge e_i can be also represented as (v^1_ei, v^2_ei). In directed graphs, the edge is directed from node v^1_ei to node v^2_ei. In undirected graphs, the order of the two nodes does not make a difference; i.e., e_i = (v^1_ei, v^2_ei) = (v^2_ei, v^1_ei). Note that without specific mention, we limit our discussion to undirected graphs in this chapter. The nodes v^1_ei and v^2_ei are incident to the edge e_i. A node v_i is said to be adjacent to another node v_j if and only i there exists and edge between them. In social graphs, different relations such as friendship can be viewed as edges between nodes, whereas chemical bonds are considered as edges in chemical compound graphs (we simply regard all chemical bonds as edges while ignoring their different types). A graph G = {V, E} can be equivalently represented as an adjacency matrix, which describes the connectivity between the nodes. Definition 2.2 (Adjacency Matrix) For a given graph G = {V, E}, the corresponding adjacency matrix is denoted as A of {0, 1}^NxN. The i, jth entry of the adjacency matrix A, indicated as A_i,j, represents the connectivity between two nodes v_i and v_j. More specifically, A_i,j = 1 if v_i is adjacent to v_j; otherwise, A_i,j = 0. In an undirected graph, a node v_i is adjacent to v_j if and only if v_j is adjacent to v_i; thus, A_i,j = A_j,i holds for all v_i and v_j in the graph. Hence, for an undirected graph, its corresponding adjacency matrix is symmetric. ---- Okay! An adjacency matrix is a 2-dimensional boolean array, with dimension length equal to the number of nodes (vertices) in the graph. Each cell in the array is 1 or True if the coordinates of the cell represent a connection from one node to another, and 0 or False if there is no such connection. This could be expanded to represent 3- or n- -ended edged graphs with arbitrary directionality, by adding further dimensions. Cool! If this state of mind continues I might type more in.

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House expects to hear from Gramps, Batshit and Karl
by professor rat 05 Dec '21

05 Dec '21

Sorry - House expects to hear from Roger Stone, Alex Jones and Michael Flynn. https://www.npr.org/2021/12/05/1061600362/house-expects-to-hear-from-roger-…

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BGR: FBI document shows how easy it is to access your encrypted chat data
by jim bell 05 Dec '21

05 Dec '21

BGR: FBI document shows how easy it is to access your encrypted chat data. https://bgr.com/tech/an-fbi-document-shows-how-easy-it-can-access-your-encr…

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Do Sonic Weapons Affect St. Bernards?
by Gunnar Larson 05 Dec '21

05 Dec '21

Cognitive liberty is not currently recognized as a human right by any international human rights treaty.[11] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_liberty#cite_note-Bublitz_and_Mer…> While freedom of thought <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_thought> is recognized by Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights> (UDHR), freedom of thought can be distinguished from cognitive liberty in that the former is concerned with protecting an individual's freedom to think *whatever* they want, whereas cognitive liberty is concerned with protecting an individual's freedom to think *however* they want.[29] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_liberty#cite_note-29> Cognitive liberty seeks to protect an individual's right to determine their own state of mind and be free from external control over their state of mind, rather than just protecting the content of an individuals’ thoughts.[30] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_liberty#cite_note-Boire,_Part_II-…> It has been suggested that the lack of protection of cognitive liberty in previous human rights instruments was due to the relative lack of technology capable of directly interfering with mental autonomy at the time the core human rights treaties were created.[21] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_liberty#cite_note-Boire,_Part_I-21>

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Re: Fuck Square / Block and fuck Bitcoin
by professor rat 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

You keep telling us you're a pathetic eunuch, Steve. But we already knew that.

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Fuck Square / Block and fuck Bitcoin
by professor rat 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

So LETS failed - So? Fail - Fail again - Fail Better. If you don't think a global crypto UBI from-below is coming you must be too stupid to be an activist let alone any kind of anarchist. The takeaway from this post is Jack Dorsey and any dollar-collaborating Bitcoin ( any ' Dorseydollar ') are both failures beyond redemption. I'm glad that - at least - seems uncontroversial.

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Hacker-Behörde ZITiS prüft Staatstrojaner aus Österreich
by zeynepaydogan 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

https://netzpolitik.org/2021/subzero-hacker-behoerde-zitis-prueft-staatstro…

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Geometrization of the local Langlands correspondence
by professor rat 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.13459 New Shape Opens 'Wormhole' Between Numbers and Geometry https://www.quantamagazine.org › Mathematics 19 July 2021 — At the center of Fargues and Scholze's work is a revitalized geometric object called the Fargues-Fontaine curve.

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Encryption enters early into the Langlands Program
by professor rat 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

https://www.msri.org/system/cms/files/270/files/original/Frenkel-NHK-3.pdf Frenkel's latest book gets a plug early on here . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDDJFvuFXdc Peter Woit: Theories of Everything & Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong | Lex Fridman

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Edward Frenkel talks about “elliptic curve cryptography "
by professor rat 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

https://www.edwardfrenkel.com/videos/

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