Racism is always a national issue in the US, and it's a major force in presidential elections.
But it plays out locally in all sorts of other ways; in communities, relationships, and individual lives.
Springfield's superintendent of schools is resigning after being recorded on an answering machine calling local black families scumbags, thieves, stupid, etc.
His targets included the high school principal and a school committee member.
Gaining Cross-Platform Parallelism for HAL's Molecular Dynamics Package using SYCL
Viktor Skoblin, Felix H\"ofling, Steffen Christgau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04210
Large Language Models as Evaluators for Recommendation Explanations
Xiaoyu Zhang, Yishan Li, Jiayin Wang, Bowen Sun, Weizhi Ma, Peijie Sun, Min Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03248
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03248 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_…
This is part of the iron-fisted control that pharmacies have over our meds - from denying you refills to denying you meds at all, something's gotta give
Pharmacy caused veteran's death by not giving meds: Lawsuit
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Feeling so welcomed at our regular neighborhood spot because they were playing Prince when I came in, but then also apologized to me when they turned it off because “it’s just, like… too much sexual energy for 10am.”
Great 🧵 about Apple’s Private Cloud Compute system to handle tasks beyond what can be done on device. I have mixed feelings about so-called “artificial intelligence”. I don’t like how data gets scraped without permission, and is displacing jobs. But, when it comes to using large language models as a tool, like better organizing my inbox, I’m okay with that. Obviously, when the rubber meets the road, I’m likely to change my mind.