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I am increasingly feeling like this has to be a bad dream.
The entire #GOP has been falling in line behind #Trump and openly promising increasingly unhinged anti-American behaviors as a group both now in reaction to the convictions and in their fever dream future of a “trifecta" in January.
The…

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.

Springfield superintendent resigns amid criticism over disparaging remarks made against an elected official | WBUR News
Springfield Superintendent Daniel Warwick has resigned following backlash over disparaging remarks he made about a member of the Springfield School Committee. The announcement came after a Thursday morning press conference at which the main target of the comments, Latonia Monroe Naylor, defended herself and her family.

I am increasingly feeling like this has to be a bad dream.
The entire #GOP has been falling in line behind #Trump and openly promising increasingly unhinged anti-American behaviors as a group both now in reaction to the convictions and in their fever dream future of a “trifecta" in January.
The…

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

Gaining Cross-Platform Parallelism for HAL's Molecular Dynamics Package using SYCL
Molecular dynamics simulations are one of the methods in scientific computing that benefit from GPU acceleration. For those devices, SYCL is a promising API for writing portable codes. In this paper, we present the case study of "HAL's MD package" that has been successfully migrated from CUDA to SYCL. We describe the different strategies that we followed in the process of porting the code. Following these strategies, we achieved code portability across major GPU vendors. Depending on the actual…

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

Large Language Models as Evaluators for Recommendation Explanations
The explainability of recommender systems has attracted significant attention in academia and industry. Many efforts have been made for explainable recommendations, yet evaluating the quality of the explanations remains a challenging and unresolved issue. In recent years, leveraging LLMs as evaluators presents a promising avenue in Natural Language Processing tasks (e.g., sentiment classification, information extraction), as they perform strong capabilities in instruction following and common-s…

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Large Language Models as Evaluators for Recommendation Explanations
The explainability of recommender systems has attracted significant attention in academia and industry. Many efforts have been made for explainable recommendations, yet evaluating the quality of the explanations remains a challenging and unresolved issue. In recent years, leveraging LLMs as evaluators presents a promising avenue in Natural Language Processing tasks (e.g., sentiment classification, information extraction), as they perform strong capabilities in instruction following and common-s…

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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Pharmacy caused military vet's fatal heart attack by not filling his prescription: Lawsuit
The family of a 79-year-old military vet alleges in a lawsuit that a Texas-based grocery story chain and pharmacy caused a fatal heart attack because they refused to give him his blood thinner meds.

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.”

good thread on Biden's failings w.r.t covid
See e.g. this story of the flipflop from $2000 promised to $1400 delivered:
#Biden #covid

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.