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Millions to protect some of Australia's most fragile and flammable film treasures
More than 10,000 reels of delicate film, including some of Australia's oldest movies, are packed to the rafters of the National Film and Sound Archive's Canberra storage facility.

Evaluating Uncertainty-based Failure Detection for Closed-Loop LLM Planners
Zhi Zheng, Qian Feng, Hang Li, Alois Knoll, Jianxiang Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00430

Evaluating Uncertainty-based Failure Detection for Closed-Loop LLM Planners
Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have witnessed remarkable performance as zero-shot task planners for robotic manipulation tasks. However, the open-loop nature of previous works makes LLM-based planning error-prone and fragile. On the other hand, failure detection approaches for closed-loop planning are often limited by task-specific heuristics or following an unrealistic assumption that the prediction is trustworthy all the time. As a general-purpose reasoning machine, LLMs or Multimodal…

Evaluating Uncertainty-based Failure Detection for Closed-Loop LLM Planners
Zhi Zheng, Qian Feng, Hang Li, Alois Knoll, Jianxiang Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00430

Evaluating Uncertainty-based Failure Detection for Closed-Loop LLM Planners
Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have witnessed remarkable performance as zero-shot task planners for robotic manipulation tasks. However, the open-loop nature of previous works makes LLM-based planning error-prone and fragile. On the other hand, failure detection approaches for closed-loop planning are often limited by task-specific heuristics or following an unrealistic assumption that the prediction is trustworthy all the time. As a general-purpose reasoning machine, LLMs or Multimodal…

Hi friends! I was just out for a quick hike with my wife. Lovely sunny weather with just some snow at the top. It's weird because I feel so tired. That's also why I haven't been posting for a couple of days. But I'm sure things are going to be better soon!
Enjoy your Saturday!
#nature

CheckMate: Evaluating Checkpointing Protocols for Streaming Dataflows
George Siachamis, Kyriakos Psarakis, Marios Fragkoulis, Arie van Deursen, Paris Carbone, Asterios Katsifodimos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13629

CheckMate: Evaluating Checkpointing Protocols for Streaming Dataflows
Stream processing in the last decade has seen broad adoption in both commercial and research settings. One key element for this success is the ability of modern stream processors to handle failures while ensuring exactly-once processing guarantees. At the moment of writing, virtually all stream processors that guarantee exactly-once processing implement a variant of Apache Flink's coordinated checkpoints - an extension of the original Chandy-Lamport checkpoints from 1985. However, the reasons b…

Another great example of (charitably) Kruger-Dunning (or more realistically, towering naivity) among the vljmstoligy community.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair
The reason GHG emissions still aren't falling far or fast enough to avoid global catastrophe is "lack of political will" and "corporate vested interests". The fact is that governments of even nations with undemocratic and tyrannical regimes are in the hands of the populace in the medium to long term. How long would, say, Putin remain in power if he announced a ten year programme to tax meat to the point it's a rare luxury reserved for the wealthy, to transition from petrol and diesel fuels, a crash programme to dump coal and gas for power generation and heating and roll out renewables, abolishing hidden subsidies for concrete manufactures to ensure the the emission externalities are priced in, virtual bans on civilian aviation and so on? Certainly there'd be an interesting Keynesian multiplier effect from all the expenditure and investment*, but he'd still be dangling from a metaphorical lamppost within a few years.
*actually the debt incurred would cause huge inflation.
The other big problem, still, is lack of public understanding. There's "awareness", but here are still huge misapprehension. Eg., many people still seem to think thst net zero would mean a return to mid-20thC climates; people still don't grasp the consequences of passing major tipping thresholds, or that many climate elements (ice sheet melting, ocean circulations,..) have multi-decadal or multi-century lags before reaching a final equilibrium. And they still have no clue how fragile civilisation is, or what life in 2100 -- or 2050! - will be like.
I remain more optimistic than I was 25y ago when I first started taking an interest, though. 2.5°C still looks plausible to me, if current reductions continue to accelerate, given a few weather megadisasters to chivvy us along.

CheckMate: Evaluating Checkpointing Protocols for Streaming Dataflows
George Siachamis, Kyriakos Psarakis, Marios Fragkoulis, Arie van Deursen, Paris Carbone, Asterios Katsifodimos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13629

CheckMate: Evaluating Checkpointing Protocols for Streaming Dataflows
Stream processing in the last decade has seen broad adoption in both commercial and research settings. One key element for this success is the ability of modern stream processors to handle failures while ensuring exactly-once processing guarantees. At the moment of writing, virtually all stream processors that guarantee exactly-once processing implement a variant of Apache Flink's coordinated checkpoints - an extension of the original Chandy-Lamport checkpoints from 1985. However, the reasons b…

Mechanical effects of carboxymethylcellulose binder in hard carbon electrodes
Anne Sawhney (Swansea University, SPECIFIC Information and Knowledge Centre), Emmanuel Shittu (Swansea University, SPECIFIC Information and Knowledge Centre), Ben Morgan (Swansea University), Elizabeth Sackett (Swansea University), Jenny Baker (Swansea University, SPECIFIC Information and Knowledge Centre)

Mechanical effects of carboxymethylcellulose binder in hard carbon electrodes
Electrodes in sodium-ion batteries endure mechanical stress during production and application, which can damage these fragile coatings, causing performance inefficiencies and early failure. Binder material provides elasticity in electrode composites to resist fracture, but evaluating the effectiveness of binder is complicated by substrate dependency of these films, while conventional cell tests are beset by multiple electrochemical variables. This work introduces a practical low-cost indentatio…