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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17231 has been replaced.
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MATHSENSEI: A Tool-Augmented Large Language Model for Mathematical Reasoning
Tool-augmented Large Language Models (TALM) are known to enhance the skillset of large language models (LLM), thereby, leading to their improved reasoning abilities across many tasks. While, TALMs have been successfully employed in different question-answering benchmarks, their efficacy on complex mathematical reasoning benchmarks, and the potential complimentary benefits offered by tools for knowledge retrieval and mathematical equation solving, are open research questions. In this work, we pr…

So, today, a lot of folk are talking about how a very bad man named Sean Hastings has been violently threatening Adam Shostack for years and years.
 
I know Adam and think of him as a friend and we are connected professionally and personally, and of course I knew about Sean Hastings, but I was unaware that today was the day that Adam was going to finally talk about his nightmare, and he didn't ask me to say anything about my own experiences with Sean or coordinate with me on this.
 
I can't speak to Adam's experience but I do feel the need to tell people what Sean Hastings did to me.
 
The first thing Sean Hastings did to me was give me money in 2015. I didn't know him. You can actually see his name right in the front of the acknowledgements to my book on women in tech - because he contributed $500 to the 2015 Kickstarter I ran to fund it.
 
This is before I'd met Adam Shostack; Adam and I met in early 2016 when we sat on a Federal Trade Commission panel together in Seattle on startup cybersecurity. Adam's a major nerd and we bonded immediately over game design and his incorrect preference of Star Wars over Star Trek.
 
But soon, I would find out that there were strings attached to Sean's contribution. Apparently he thought that by contributing to a Kickstarter, he could turn guilt screws on me about who I could talk to, and demanded my time to help him publish books on girls in tech.
 
He began sending me harassing messages and emails after I'd probably RTed something from Adam, demanding that I pay attention to his claims about Adam Shostack. I did what any normal femme in tech does, which is go do the grey network check on Adam. In 2016, I spoke to several extremely prominent and trusted friends and members of the infosec community. The “Good Guy vs. Creeper” check on Adam came back from my folk with a resounding "Adam's the victim here". And I know some serious operators in the "keeping women in the infosec world safe" space.
 
Sean subsequently began publicly and privately bombarding my social accounts and email with demands and guilt and claiming that he was behind my success and funded me. This looked to me like a man who tries to control women and others with money, and I would wear out the red flag emoji if I tried to properly emphasize that. There's plenty more on Xitter if you want to go searching.
 
I didn't and don't want to think about this, any more than anyone else wants to think about awful things, but violent angry dangerous men like Sean do seem to operate on their own schedule, and I anticipate that Adam's public statement may trigger Sean Hastings making another outburst against me and the many other people I'm now seeing coming forward.
 
One last thing. I've experienced some of the same kinds of horrific stalker behavior that Adam and others in the community have, and while it's not relevant to this here, Adam was a profound support to me when my life was getting torn apart by two very dangerous, angry, violent people making false claims about me several years ago. He knows exactly what it feels like, because I think he's lived it for a couple of decades.
 
So, it occurs to me that I've actually continued to benefit from that $500 that Sean Hastings contributed to that Kickstarter. In my experience, it makes people apoplectic to learn that their money went to something that they hate. So, below, you'll find some screenshots, and the last image is my proof pic for a $500 donation just now to Operation: Safe Escape, which supports victims of cyber stalking and domestic tech abuse like those Sean Hastings has targeted. That makes me feel a lot better and I didn't even realize I was carrying any guilt over it until just now.
 
https://safeescape.org/ I strongly urge you to donate there as well if you were affected by this.

Selenskyj: "Das ist ihre erste Welle"
Die russische Offensive in der Region Charkiw im Nordosten der Ukraine könnte nach Angaben des ukrainischen Präsidenten Wolodymyr Selenskyj eine "erste Welle" russischer Angriffe sein. "Sie haben ihre Operation gestartet, sie könnte aus mehreren Wellen bestehen. Und das ist ihre erste Welle", sagte Selenskyj in einem Exklusivinterview mit der Nachrichtenagentur AFP.
Er bezeichnete die Si…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Selenskyj klagt über fehlende Ausrüstung ++
Die Ukraine verfügt nach Angaben von Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj nur über ein Viertel der für die Verteidigung gegen Russland benötigten Flugabwehrsysteme. Sein Land brauche außerdem 120 bis 130 F16-Kampfflugzeuge. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

Trump Angrily Demanded Mike Johnson Help Overturn Conviction: Report (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-demanded-mike-johnson-overturn-conviction-1235039437/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240613/p71#a240613p71

A Comparison of Joint Species Distribution Models for Percent Cover Data
Pekka Korhonen, Francis K. C. Hui, Jenni Niku, Sara Taskinen, Bert van der Veen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11562

A Comparison of Joint Species Distribution Models for Percent Cover Data
1. Joint species distribution models (JSDMs) have gained considerable traction among ecologists over the past decade, due to their capacity to answer a wide range of questions at both the species- and the community-level. The family of generalized linear latent variable models in particular has proven popular for building JSDMs, being able to handle many response types including presence-absence data, biomass, overdispersed and/or zero-inflated counts. 2. We extend latent variable models to h…

“Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT”
Yet another amazing the-not-exploitative-alternative business opportunity.

Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT
Stack Overflow is overflowing with salt.

So, today, a lot of folk are talking about how a very bad man named Sean Hastings has been violently threatening Adam Shostack for years and years.
 
I know Adam and think of him as a friend and we are connected professionally and personally, and of course I knew about Sean Hastings, but I was unaware that today was the day that Adam was going to finally talk about his nightmare, and he didn't ask me to say anything about my own experiences with Sean or coordinate with me on this.
 
I can't speak to Adam's experience but I do feel the need to tell people what Sean Hastings did to me.
 
The first thing Sean Hastings did to me was give me money in 2015. I didn't know him. You can actually see his name right in the front of the acknowledgements to my book on women in tech - because he contributed $500 to the 2015 Kickstarter I ran to fund it.
 
This is before I'd met Adam Shostack; Adam and I met in early 2016 when we sat on a Federal Trade Commission panel together in Seattle on startup cybersecurity. Adam's a major nerd and we bonded immediately over game design and his incorrect preference of Star Wars over Star Trek.
 
But soon, I would find out that there were strings attached to Sean's contribution. Apparently he thought that by contributing to a Kickstarter, he could turn guilt screws on me about who I could talk to, and demanded my time to help him publish books on girls in tech.
 
He began sending me harassing messages and emails after I'd probably RTed something from Adam, demanding that I pay attention to his claims about Adam Shostack. I did what any normal femme in tech does, which is go do the grey network check on Adam. In 2016, I spoke to several extremely prominent and trusted friends and members of the infosec community. The “Good Guy vs. Creeper” check on Adam came back from my folk with a resounding "Adam's the victim here". And I know some serious operators in the "keeping women in the infosec world safe" space.
 
Sean subsequently began publicly and privately bombarding my social accounts and email with demands and guilt and claiming that he was behind my success and funded me. This looked to me like a man who tries to control women and others with money, and I would wear out the red flag emoji if I tried to properly emphasize that. There's plenty more on Xitter if you want to go searching.
 
I didn't and don't want to think about this, any more than anyone else wants to think about awful things, but violent angry dangerous men like Sean do seem to operate on their own schedule, and I anticipate that Adam's public statement may trigger Sean Hastings making another outburst against me and the many other people I'm now seeing coming forward.
 
One last thing. I've experienced some of the same kinds of horrific stalker behavior that Adam and others in the community have, and while it's not relevant to this here, Adam was a profound support to me when my life was getting torn apart by two very dangerous, angry, violent people making false claims about me several years ago. He knows exactly what it feels like, because I think he's lived it for a couple of decades.
 
So, it occurs to me that I've actually continued to benefit from that $500 that Sean Hastings contributed to that Kickstarter. In my experience, it makes people apoplectic to learn that their money went to something that they hate. So, below, you'll find some screenshots, and the last image is my proof pic for a $500 donation just now to Operation: Safe Escape, which supports victims of cyber stalking and domestic tech abuse like those Sean Hastings has targeted. That makes me feel a lot better and I didn't even realize I was carrying any guilt over it until just now.
 
https://safeescape.org/ I strongly urge you to donate there as well if you were affected by this.

Compressed Sensor Caching and Collaborative Sparse Data Recovery with Anchor Alignment
Yi-Jen Yang, Ming-Hsun Yang, Jwo-Yuh Wu, Y. -W. Peter Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10137 …

Compressed Sensor Caching and Collaborative Sparse Data Recovery with Anchor Alignment
This work examines the compressed sensor caching problem in wireless sensor networks and devises efficient distributed sparse data recovery algorithms to enable collaboration among multiple caches. In this problem, each cache is only allowed to access measurements from a small subset of sensors within its vicinity to reduce both cache size and data acquisition overhead. To enable reliable data recovery with limited access to measurements, we propose a distributed sparse data recovery method, ca…

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GenSERP: Large Language Models for Whole Page Presentation
The advent of large language models (LLMs) brings an opportunity to minimize the effort in search engine result page (SERP) organization. In this paper, we propose GenSERP, a framework that leverages LLMs with vision in a few-shot setting to dynamically organize intermediate search results, including generated chat answers, website snippets, multimedia data, knowledge panels into a coherent SERP layout based on a user's query. Our approach has three main stages: (1) An information gathering pha…

Selenskyj fordert nach Angriff mehr Unterstützung
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj hat nach dem russischen Raketenangriff auf die Stadt Tschernihiw mehr Entschlossenheit und Unterstützung der westlichen Partner gefordert. "Dies wäre nicht passiert, wenn die Ukraine ausreichend Luftabwehrausrüstung erhalten hätte und wenn die Welt entschlossen genug gewesen wäre, dem russischen Terror en…
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) on X
Chernihiv. A rescue operation is underway following a Russian missile strike. There are people under the rubble. As of now, 20 people are reported to have been injured and ten killed. My condolences to their close ones. Unfortunately, the death toll may still rise. This would…