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"Europa wird immer heißer
#Europa ist der Kontinent, der sich weltweit am schnellsten erwärmt. 2023 gab es eine Rekordzahl von Tagen mit extremer #Hitzebelastung. Dabei ist die #Hitze nur…

"Electric and hybrid car sales to rise to new global record in 2024"
#EV #ElectricVehicles #Cars #Vehicles

Te weinig ruimte voor nieuwe kerncentrales bij Borssele | #StichtingLaka
https://www.laka.org/nieuws/2023/te-weinig-ruimte-voor-nieuwe-…

Curiosity Crisis Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Curiosity Crisis | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Curiosity Crisis Podcast Host: Khush Dodhia-Shah and Luke McElroy Category: Business Sub-Category: Business News & Insights, Commentary & Conversations First Episode: 2023 We all live in…

Filings: X is still working on Venmo-like payments features, with a 2024 US launch target; X had $1.48B in revenue in first six months of 2023, down ~40% YoY (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-1…

Hypocrisie heeft *nog* een naam.
Deze mevrouw komt nu namens #NSC in de Tweede Kamer.
Gezellig samen met o.a. #CasparVeldkamp fijn ‘t eigen land verwonden, haatdragende en discriminerende standpunten wit wassen, de wankele positie van Europa ondergraven.

Bund: Lizenzkosten für Microsoft auf hohem Niveau, insgesamt neuer Rekord
Das Finanzministerium wollte die Zahlen für 2023 zunächst geheim halten, doch der Protest war zu groß. Ein Haushaltspolitiker spricht von explodierenden Kosten.

Listening to an on-demand CLE about the EU Unitary Patent System.
They mentioned that not all of the member states signed on, so of course I was curious about why.
Per the Kluwer Patent Blog, Spain is out because of language issues (i.e. you can't file in español). Okay.
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This is how we get rapid scattered systemic collapse. We elect lawless people to positions which a large fraction of them believe to be the only legitimate law enforcement authorities and effectively above the law.
There are counties in #Michigan that I would be unsurprised to see openly reject the authority of state or federal law enforcement.

On May 22-29, 2024 Ukrainian veterans will visit Brussels, providing a vital platform to discuss veteran affairs : https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/30/on-may-ukrainian.html

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Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics with ChatGPT: Year One Review
The year 2023 marked a significant surge in the exploration of applying large language model (LLM) chatbots, notably ChatGPT, across various disciplines. We surveyed the applications of ChatGPT in bioinformatics and biomedical informatics throughout the year, covering omics, genetics, biomedical text mining, drug discovery, biomedical image understanding, bioinformatics programming, and bioinformatics education. Our survey delineates the current strengths and limitations of this chatbot in bioi…

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Interoperability of the Metaverse: A Digital Ecosystem Perspective Review
The Metaverse is at the vanguard of the impending digital revolution, with the potential to significantly transform industries and lifestyles. However, in 2023, skepticism surfaced within industrial and academic spheres, raising concerns that excitement may outpace actual technological progress. Interoperability, recognized as a major barrier to the Metaverse's full potential, is central to this debate. CoinMarketCap's report in February 2023 indicated that of over 240 metaverse initiatives, mo…

How GM is scrambling to save Cruise, which has become a liability after one of its automated vehicles hit and dragged a pedestrian 20 feet in October 2023 (Jessica Mathews/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2024/05/16/inside-…

In a single night, self-driving startup Cruise went from sizzling startup to cautionary tale. Here’s what really happened—and how GM is scrambling to save its $10B bet
Before October 2, Cruise was the coolest part of GM’s driverless, eco-friendly future. Now it’s a rescue mission.

Wer wird Spieler des Jahres 2023 der U16 (m)? In diesem Jahr stehen zur Wahl: Marius Deuer, Christian Glöckler, Alfred Nemitz, Leonardo Costa.
Hier geht es zur Vorstellung der Kandidaten und zur Abstimmung in dieser und drei anderen Kategorien: https://www.deutsche-schachjugend.de/spiel

Dallas Cowboys Receive Mediocre Grade For 2024 NFL Offseason https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_receive_mediocre_grade_for_2024_nfl_offseason/s1_17355_40366423

Dallas Cowboys Receive Mediocre Grade For 2024 NFL Offseason
Given how the 2023 NFL season ended for the Dallas Cowboys, many people were expecting fireworks during the 2024 NFL offseason. The Cowboys became the first team in NFL history to lose to a No. 7 seed in the playoffs, getting blown out of AT&T Stadium by the Green Bay Packers during Super Wild Card Weekend. Despite the loss, Jerry Jones didn’t go scorched Earth on the franchise. This was a very quiet offseason for the Dallas Cowboys, who didn’t make many moves during free agency. The only v…

Company that assists health care insurers discloses 2023 data breach https://therecord.media/company-webtpa-discloses-data-breach

Company that assists health care insurers discloses 2023 data breach
Texas-based WebTPA says it was the victim of a “data security incident” that potentially affected more than 2.4 million people.

I've got some things coming up this month of June >>
A couple of talks:
8th - talk at Zurihac about my Haskell journey https://zfoh.ch/zurihac2024/
10th - ethnomathematics seminar in Paris about algorithmic patterns

A look at Runway's second International AI Film Festival, which it says grew from 300 short-video submissions in 2023 to 3,000 in 2024 with 10 finalists chosen (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Runway, Sora, and Hollywood: AI Films Actually Get Good
Artificial intelligence has changed filmmaking a lot over the past year, even though the technology is just getting started. But first…

Iterative Reasoning Preference Optimization
Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Weizhe Yuan, Kyunghyun Cho, He He, Sainbayar Sukhbaatar, Jason Weston
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19733 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19733
arXiv:2404.19733v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Iterative preference optimization methods have recently been shown to perform well for general instruction tuning tasks, but typically make little improvement on reasoning tasks (Yuan et al., 2024, Chen et al., 2024). In this work we develop an iterative approach that optimizes the preference between competing generated Chain-of-Thought (CoT) candidates by optimizing for winning vs. losing reasoning steps that lead to the correct answer. We train using a modified DPO loss (Rafailov et al., 2023) with an additional negative log-likelihood term, which we find to be crucial. We show reasoning improves across repeated iterations of this scheme. While only relying on examples in the training set, our approach results in increasing accuracy for Llama-2-70B-Chat from 55.6% to 81.6% on GSM8K (and 88.7% with majority voting out of 32 samples), from 12.5% to 20.8% on MATH, and from 77.8% to 86.7% on ARC-Challenge, which outperforms other Llama-2-based models not relying on additionally sourced datasets.

Watch Taylor Swift destroy the planet with her 2023 flights:
#ClimateChange

Reminder dat deze #CasparVeldkamp nu zelfs minister wordt in een kabinet met de racistische complotdenkers van de PVV.
En hoe hij daarover *voor* de verkiezingen gelogen heeft. Ze zouden niet eens aan tafel gaan!!
Laten we deze tweet (die nog steeds op TwiX staat, hij heeft nooit gereageerd op vragen hierover) nog maar heel vaak delen.
Al net zo onbetrouwbaar dus als

2023 Steelers Season Recall: Pittsburgh defends home turf on Monday Night Football against Cleveland https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/2023_steelers_season_recall_pittsbur…

2023 Steelers Season Recall: Pittsburgh defends home turf on Monday Night Football against Cleveland
Steel City Underground presents our 2023 Steelers Recall: a look back at Pittsburgh Steelers games and storylines from last season. Following an embarrassing 30-7 home defeat in the first week of the 2023 NFL regular season, the Steelers were once again back to business at Acrisure Stadium in Week 2. Pittsburgh would have their first AFC North division game, hosting the Cleveland Browns on Monday Night Football. Cleveland came into the game 1-0, following an impressive 23-3 win over the Cincinn…

Analysis of the BraTS 2023 Intracranial Meningioma Segmentation Challenge
Dominic LaBella, Ujjwal Baid, Omaditya Khanna, Shan McBurney-Lin, Ryan McLean, Pierre Nedelec, Arif Rashid, Nourel Hoda Tahon, Talissa Altes, Radhika Bhalerao, Yaseen Dhemesh, Devon Godfrey, Fathi Hilal, Scott Floyd, Anastasia Janas, Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, John Kirkpatrick, Collin Kent, Florian Kofler, Kevin Leu, Nazanin Maleki, Bjoern Menze, Maxence Pajot, Zachary J. Reitman, Jeffrey D. Rudie, Rachit Saluja, Y…

This is how we get rapid scattered systemic collapse. We elect lawless people to positions which a large fraction of them believe to be the only legitimate law enforcement authorities and effectively above the law.
There are counties in #Michigan that I would be unsurprised to see openly reject the authority of state or federal law enforcement.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15274 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbi…

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics with ChatGPT: Year One Review
The year 2023 marked a significant surge in the exploration of applying large language model (LLM) chatbots, notably ChatGPT, across various disciplines. We surveyed the applications of ChatGPT in bioinformatics and biomedical informatics throughout the year, covering omics, genetics, biomedical text mining, drug discovery, biomedical image understanding, bioinformatics programming, and bioinformatics education. Our survey delineates the current strengths and limitations of this chatbot in bioi…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05205 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Interoperability of the Metaverse: A Digital Ecosystem Perspective Review
The Metaverse is at the vanguard of the impending digital revolution, with the potential to significantly transform industries and lifestyles. However, in 2023, skepticism surfaced within industrial and academic spheres, raising concerns that excitement may outpace actual technological progress. Interoperability, recognized as a major barrier to the Metaverse's full potential, is central to this debate. CoinMarketCap's report in February 2023 indicated that of over 240 metaverse initiatives, mo…

"#Asien am stärksten von #Klimakatastrophen betroffen
In Asien gab es 2023 die meisten Wetter- und #Klima-Katastrophen.

Asien 2023 am stärksten von Klimakatastrophen betroffen
In Asien gab es 2023 die meisten Wetter- und Klima-Katastrophen. Dürren nahmen zu, gleichzeitig ertranken Menschen in Sturzfluten. Sebastian Vesper über den Asien-Bericht der Weltorganisation für Meteorologie.

Boeing confirms that LockBit attempted to extort a $200M ransom in October 2023; the company reportedly didn't pay any ransom after ~43GB of its data was posted (AJ Vicens/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/boeing-confirms-attempted-2…

Boeing confirms attempted $200 million ransomware extortion attempt
That attempt was one of multiple “extremely large” ransom demands made by LockBit over the years, authorities said.

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Towards Risk Analysis of the Impact of AI on the Deliberate Biological Threat Landscape
The perception that the convergence of biological engineering and artificial intelligence (AI) could enable increased biorisk has recently drawn attention to the governance of biotechnology and artificial intelligence. The 2023 Executive Order, Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, requires an assessment of how artificial intelligence can increase biorisk. Within this perspective, quantitative and qualitative frameworks for evaluati…

2024 NFL Predictions: Who Will Be This Year’s Breakout Quarterbacks? https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/2024_nfl_predictions_who_will_be_this_years_breakout_quarterbacks/s1_17304_40356205

2024 NFL Predictions: Who Will Be This Year’s Breakout Quarterbacks?
There was no shortage of breakout quarterbacks from the 2023 season. The biggest was Jordan Love, who finally got his shot as a starter and nearly took the Green Bay Packers to the NFC Championship Game. Love overcame a slow start to catch fire while leading the Packers to a 6-3 record down the stretch and a wild-card victory at Dallas. Most didn't expect that impact in Year 1 as a starter. But Love wasn’t the only quarterback who broke out during the 2023 season. Baker Mayfield, Gardner Mins…

Dutch agencies: 20K FortiGate systems were hacked in a Chinese cyber-espionage campaign in 2022 and 2023, at least two months before FortiGate noted the flaw (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Formation of the first halos, galaxies and magnetic fields
M. Demia\'nski, A. Doroshkevich, T. Larchenkova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19910 https://

Formation of the first halos, galaxies and magnetic fields
Cosmic objects with magnetic fields (quasars, radiogalaxies) are observed at redshifts $z\geq 7$ (Wang et al., 2021, Fan et al., 2023, Yang et al., 2024) and more (for instance, for $z = 10.073\pm 0.002$, Goulding et al., 2023) indicates the early creation of magnetic fields. The observations of the cosmic telescope JWST show that the first galaxies were formed at redshifts $z\simeq$ 15 -- 20. We link the transformation of the low mass dark matter halos into galaxies with the creation of the fi…

In a UK compliance statement, Apple revealed that the iPhone 15 Pro Max will receive security updates for a minimum of five years from September 2023 (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/iphone-software-support-commitment…

Apple finally confirms how long it will support iPhones, and it's less than Samsung and Google
Apple has confirmed they’ll provide security updates for a minimum of 5 years since the iPhone 15 went on sale.

Report from the Workshop on Xenon Detector $0\nu\beta\beta$ Searches: Steps Towards the Kilotonne Scale
A. Anker, A. Avasthi, M. Brodeur, T. Brunner, N. K. Byrnes, N. R. Catarineu, A. Cottle, P. Englezos, W. Fairbank, D. Gonz\'alez D\'iaz, R. Guenette, S. J. Haselschwardt, S. Hedges, M. Heffner, J. D. Holt, A. Jamil, B. J. P. Jones, N. Kawada, S. Leardini, B. G. Lenardo, A. Marc, J. Masbou, K. Mistry, B. Mong, B. Monreal, D. C. Moore, D. R. Nygren, I. Olcina, J. L. Orrell, A. P…

Report from the Workshop on Xenon Detector $0νββ$ Searches: Steps Towards the Kilotonne Scale
These proceedings summarize the program and discussions of the ``Workshop on Xenon Detector $0νββ$ Searches: Steps Towards the Kilotonne Scale'' held on October 25-27 2023 at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. This workshop brought together experts from the communities of neutrinoless double-beta decay and dark matter detection, to discuss paths forward for the realization of monolithic experiments with xenon approaching the kilotonne scale.

Public Computing Intellectuals in the Age of AI Crisis
Randy Connolly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00860 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.008…

Public Computing Intellectuals in the Age of AI Crisis
The belief that AI technology is on the cusp of causing a generalized social crisis became a popular one in 2023. Interestingly, some of these worries were voiced from within the tech sector itself. While there was no doubt an element of hype and exaggeration to some of these accounts, they do reflect the fact that there are troubling ramifications to this technology stack. This conjunction of shared concerns about social, political, and personal futures presaged by current developments in mach…

Las Vegas Raiders Urged To Pursue Former Pro Bowl Pass Rusher https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/las_vegas_raiders_urged_to_pursue_former_pro_bowl_pass_rusher/s1_17150_40336355

Las Vegas Raiders Urged To Pursue Former Pro Bowl Pass Rusher
The Las Vegas Raiders could use some depth at edge rusher behind Maxx Crosby and Malcolm Koonce, and Bleacher Report’s Kristopher Knox sees a perfect target for them: Yannick Ngakoue. Ngakoue is one of the top remaining free agents available and can probably be had on an affordable one-year deal. After all, he has played for five different teams since 2020. The 29-year-old spent the 2023 campaign with the Chicago Bears, playing in 13 games and logging 22 tackles and four sacks. Ngakoue, who p…

How a series of hacks, starting with BlackCat in June 2023, show the challenges facing the UK's NHS, which employs 1.7M workers and cares for 68M UK residents (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

reading & rereading #PaulAuster ...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/18/paul-auster-on-cancer-connection-and-the-fallacy-of-closure

Public Computing Intellectuals in the Age of AI Crisis
Randy Connolly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00860 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.008…

Public Computing Intellectuals in the Age of AI Crisis
The belief that AI technology is on the cusp of causing a generalized social crisis became a popular one in 2023. Interestingly, some of these worries were voiced from within the tech sector itself. While there was no doubt an element of hype and exaggeration to some of these accounts, they do reflect the fact that there are troubling ramifications to this technology stack. This conjunction of shared concerns about social, political, and personal futures presaged by current developments in mach…

Shutterstock CEO Paul Hennessy says the company's licensing business with AI companies made $104M in revenue in 2023 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-04/shutterstock-s…

Raiders walk away from the draft with one of the best athletes, and the league doesn't know it yet https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_walk_away_from_the_draft_with…

Raiders walk away from the draft with one of the best athletes, and the league doesn't know it yet
In 2023, the Las Vegas Raiders' defense emerged as a formidable top-five unit, a testament to their potential under the guidance of their new head coach. This success, however, was not solely due to an abundance of talent on the field, but also the strategic playstyle implemented. The team's decision to invest four draft picks in defensive positions further underscores their commitment to maintaining this high standard. The one position group that desperately needed an upgrade—one we thought …

Enterprise browser startup Island raised $175M led by Sequoia and Coatue at a $3B valuation, up from $1.5B in October 2023, taking its total funding to $487M (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Enterprise Browser Island Receives Capital at $3 Billion Value
Island, a startup that makes secure internet browsers for businesses, has raised fresh capital at $3 billion valuation.