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The House Rules Committee's schedule for next week consists entirely of a half dozen bills to 😮prohibit the Energy Department from setting energy use standards for home appliances.😮
The Liberty in Laundry Act, the Refrigerator Freedom Act and the Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards, or SUDS, Act😂 are among the bills.
There is no sign, however, of legislation to provide military aid to 🇺🇦Ukraine, 🇮🇱Israel or 🇹🇼Taiwan, which some lawmakers have said they expect to come up…

House Republicans fume over "messaging" votes
"Those post offices aren't going to name themselves," a conservative lawmaker quipped.

Low emission zones (up to 'zero emission') and traffic calming measures may anger some. But they are helping to improve urban life and the health of citizens. While London and Brussels still allow those who pay to enter, other cities are imposing increasingly strict rules on all polluting vehicles.

Why are Europe's Low Emission Zones fuelling unrest? | Context
Clean air seems like a no-brainer benefit but across Europe restrictions on polluting cars have sparked anger and protests

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06394 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…

Detecting and Preventing Hallucinations in Large Vision Language Models
Instruction tuned Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have significantly advanced in generalizing across a diverse set of multi-modal tasks, especially for Visual Question Answering (VQA). However, generating detailed responses that are visually grounded is still a challenging task for these models. We find that even the current state-of-the-art LVLMs (InstructBLIP) still contain a staggering 30 percent of the hallucinatory text in the form of non-existent objects, unfaithful descriptions, and…

I am so angry at how certain politicians are combining with misinformation/disinformation sources to create huge confusion and misplaced anger and media hyperbole about the carbon tax in BC and Canada, especially when it comes to fuel for "normal" cars and trucks driven by "normal" people.
If you believe the carbon tax is the only or even largest reason gas prices are rising, then you have been lied to.
Here are some carbon tax and fuel facts in BC:
1) F…

Improving Retrieval for RAG based Question Answering Models on Financial Documents
Spurthi Setty, Katherine Jijo, Eden Chung, Natan Vidra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07221

Improving Retrieval for RAG based Question Answering Models on Financial Documents
The effectiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs) in generating accurate responses relies heavily on the quality of input provided, particularly when employing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques. RAG enhances LLMs by sourcing the most relevant text chunk(s) to base queries upon. Despite the significant advancements in LLMs' response quality in recent years, users may still encounter inaccuracies or irrelevant answers; these issues often stem from suboptimal text chunk retrieval by …

This is sadly entirely accurate, and the whole problem...
(Edit: Original is here. Go follow the artist. https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/112417993863156684)

Authorship Attribution in Bangla Literature (AABL) via Transfer Learning using ULMFiT
Aisha Khatun, Anisur Rahman, Md Saiful Islam, Hemayet Ahmed Chowdhury, Ayesha Tasnim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05519

Authorship Attribution in Bangla Literature (AABL) via Transfer Learning using ULMFiT
Authorship Attribution is the task of creating an appropriate characterization of text that captures the authors' writing style to identify the original author of a given piece of text. With increased anonymity on the internet, this task has become increasingly crucial in various security and plagiarism detection fields. Despite significant advancements in other languages such as English, Spanish, and Chinese, Bangla lacks comprehensive research in this field due to its complex linguistic featu…

Jonathan Coulton's "Still Alive" (from Portal) is an Easter song, and the lyrics don't even require that much tweaking to work. Imagine Jesus singing it to all of humanity:
This was a triumph
I'm making a note here
"Huge success"
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction
My Father's Kingdom
We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are dead
But there's no sense crying over every missed line
You just keep on trying till you run out of wine
And the tombstone grows moss and you make a neat cross
For the people who are still alive
I'm not even angry
I'm being so sincere right now
Even though you broke my heart
And killed me
And tore me to pieces
And threw every piece into a fire
As they burned it hurt because
I was so happy for you
Now, these points of data make a beautiful line
And we're out of beta, we're releasing on time
So I'm glad I got burned, think of all the things we learned
For the people who are still alive
Go 'head and leave me
I think I'd prefer to stay inside
Maybe you'll find someone else
To help you
Maybe Ron Hubbard?
That was a joke, ha-ha, fat chance
Anyway, this wine is great
It's so delicious and moist
Look at me, still talking when there's religion to do
When I look out there, it makes me glad I'm not you
I've experiments to run, there's salvation to be done
On the people who are still alive
And believe me, I am still alive
I'm doing preaching and I'm still alive
I feel fantastic and I'm still alive
While you're dying, I'll be still alive
And when you're dead, I will be still alive
Still alive
Still alive

Authorship Attribution in Bangla Literature (AABL) via Transfer Learning using ULMFiT
Aisha Khatun, Anisur Rahman, Md Saiful Islam, Hemayet Ahmed Chowdhury, Ayesha Tasnim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05519

Authorship Attribution in Bangla Literature (AABL) via Transfer Learning using ULMFiT
Authorship Attribution is the task of creating an appropriate characterization of text that captures the authors' writing style to identify the original author of a given piece of text. With increased anonymity on the internet, this task has become increasingly crucial in various security and plagiarism detection fields. Despite significant advancements in other languages such as English, Spanish, and Chinese, Bangla lacks comprehensive research in this field due to its complex linguistic featu…