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I will again remind you this is how I answer phone calls:
Hello this is Pete, how can I assist you today?
(wait 2 seconds)
Please state the nature of your call.
(wait 2 seconds)
This call is being monitored.
* At this point 90% of the callers hang up. If they do not, I keep going.
We require all participants of the call to speak...
(wait 2 seconds)
If you do not speak now, the call will terminate.
* I then hang up.
* I almost …

A weekend off! Work laptop is off! Hopefully no one calls the cell phone as I will ignore everyone except two and only two people. They will only call if there is an emergency. Received a call on my personal phone yesterday from a person asking questions on why a FTP failed. First mistake was answering the call. I was rather blunt telling them at that time I was NOT AVAILABLE. I am on call 1 week out of 3 and this week I AM NOT ON CALL.

Japan’s answer to seasonal allergies: A subsidized tropical escape
Spring is a miserable time for millions of Japanese.
One of them is Naoki Shigihara, whose hay fever symptoms make it difficult to focus at work.
Luckily for him, his employer, an IT company called Aisaac, offers a “tropical escape” program, allowing employees to work remotely from other parts of the country with low pollen counts.
It even offers to subsidize the temporary relocation to the tune of…

Japan’s answer to seasonal allergies: A subsidized tropical escape
So many people call in sick with hay fever during the peak pollen season that Japanese companies are taking novel steps to allow them to continue to work.

I've revised my requirements for a successful #Helsinki spring MVP. There's only one left: no snow or ice on Kaivopuisto on vappu (May 1st). Acceptance testing is going to be easy but I have no clue about the team's velocity. Nature's PO won't answer my calls, email is set to autoreply: "#ClimateChange

@… How do we achieve that? People much smarter than me have failed to answer that question.
But at the root of the matter, I think democracy is part of the answer. As messy and inefficient as it is compared to central planning, we have to make sure the whole populace has a say, an equal say.
In that sense, I think democracy and communism are cl…

Libs don't answer pollsters when they call.
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UQA: Corpus for Urdu Question Answering
Samee Arif, Sualeha Farid, Awais Athar, Agha Ali Raza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01458 https://

UQA: Corpus for Urdu Question Answering
This paper introduces UQA, a novel dataset for question answering and text comprehension in Urdu, a low-resource language with over 70 million native speakers. UQA is generated by translating the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD2.0), a large-scale English QA dataset, using a technique called EATS (Enclose to Anchor, Translate, Seek), which preserves the answer spans in the translated context paragraphs. The paper describes the process of selecting and evaluating the best translation m…

How significant is Russia’s apparent interception of military talks on Ukraine?
The main benefit to Moscow is to try to publicly exploit the leaks against the German chancellor, who will nevertheless continue to come under western and Ukrainian pressure to donate the Taurus missiles, not least because in the leaked call the German experts say they believe 10-20 might be able to blow up the Kerch Bridge.
“The UK was the first country to provide long-range precision strike missile…