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I will again remind you this is how I answer phone calls:
Hello this is Pete, how can I assist you today?
(wait 2 seconds)
Please state the nature of your call.
(wait 2 seconds)
This call is being monitored.
* At this point 90% of the callers hang up. If they do not, I keep going.
We require all participants of the call to speak...
(wait 2 seconds)
If you do not speak now, the call will terminate.
* I then hang up.
* I almost …

“Professors like me … should be part of the embodied change we seek: turning off our computers and phones, taking all our annual leave, refusing to answer emails out of hours and only scheduling meetings within work hours everyone—including colleagues with caring responsibilities—can make.” #HigherEducation

Turning off the radio during #pmq these days. I can't bare to hear that wanker asking pointless questions that the other wanker then doesn't even answer.
Intellectual debate on the level of pre-schoolers blowing raspberries.

RNC chair Whatley sidesteps question on if 2020 election was stolen | The Hill
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4579323-rnc-chair-whatley-sidesteps-question-on-if-2020-election-was-stolen/

RNC chair Whatley sidesteps question on if 2020 election was stolen
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Whatley appeared to sidestep questions over whether the 2020 election was stolen, instead turning his focus to ensuring election integrity in this cycle. NewsNation’s “The Hill” anchor Chris Stirewalt, in an interview with Whatley, referenced reports from last month that the RNC was asking potential rehires if the 2020…

Model Parallelism on Distributed Infrastructure: A Literature Review from Theory to LLM Case-Studies
Felix Brakel, Uraz Odyurt, Ana-Lucia Varbanescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03699

Model Parallelism on Distributed Infrastructure: A Literature Review from Theory to LLM Case-Studies
Neural networks have become a cornerstone of machine learning. As the trend for these to get more and more complex continues, so does the underlying hardware and software infrastructure for training and deployment. In this survey we answer three research questions: "What types of model parallelism exist?", "What are the challenges of model parallelism?", and "What is a modern use-case of model parallelism?" We answer the first question by looking at how neural networks can be parallelised and e…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00867 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Gradient Cuff: Detecting Jailbreak Attacks on Large Language Models by Exploring Refusal Loss Landscapes
Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming a prominent generative AI tool, where the user enters a query and the LLM generates an answer. To reduce harm and misuse, efforts have been made to align these LLMs to human values using advanced training techniques such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). However, recent studies have highlighted the vulnerability of LLMs to adversarial jailbreak attempts aiming at subverting the embedded safety guardrails. To address this challenge, t…

Mem-elements based Neuromorphic Hardware for Neural Network Application
Ankur Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03002 https://arxiv.or…

Mem-elements based Neuromorphic Hardware for Neural Network Application
The thesis investigates the utilization of memristive and memcapacitive crossbar arrays in low-power machine learning accelerators, offering a comprehensive co-design framework for deep neural networks (DNN). The model, implemented through a hybrid Python and PyTorch approach, accounts for various non-idealities, achieving exceptional training accuracies of 90.02% and 91.03% for the CIFAR-10 dataset with memristive and memcapacitive crossbar arrays on an 8-layer VGG network. Additionally, the t…

Multipath-based SLAM with Cooperation and Map Fusion
Erik Leitinger, Lukas Wielandner, Alexander Venus, Klaus Witrisal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02126 htt…

Multipath-based SLAM with Cooperation and Map Fusion
Multipath-based simultaneous localization and mapping (MP-SLAM) is a promising approach in wireless networks for obtaining position information of transmitters and receivers as well as information on the propagation environment. MP-SLAM models specular reflections of radio frequency (RF) signals at flat surfaces as virtual anchors (VAs), the mirror images of base stations (BSs). Conventional methods for MP-SLAM consider a single mobile terminal (MT) which has to be localized. The availability o…

USPol
Today really is the day I realized that Trump is going to win the US presidency.
It was as I was watching Joe Biden slander peace protesters and accuse them of the violence which was committed by the fash mob raiding the protester's camps.
That whole scene has fucked Biden, and his response has fucked him more.
His base aren't turning up, and Trump's supporters are rabidly angry. They are turning up.
#upsol

USPol
Today really is the day I realized that Trump is going to win the US presidency.
It was as I was watching Joe Biden slander peace protesters and accuse them of the violence which was committed by the fash mob raiding the protester's camps.
That whole scene has fucked Biden, and his response has fucked him more.
His base aren't turning up, and Trump's supporters are rabidly angry. They are turning up.
#upsol