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Polen will seine Ostgrenze stärker befestigen
Polen will seine Ostgrenze stärker befestigen. Regierungschef Donald Tusk begründete dies am Samstag mit dem Druck, den das Regime im benachbarten Belarus mit organisierter Migration erzeuge, und der wachsenden Gefahr durch Russlands Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine. "Wir haben mit intensiven Arbeiten an einer modernen Befestigung begonnen, die entlang der gesamten polnischen Ostgr…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russland meldet Abwehr ukrainischer Angriffe ++
Russland hat nach eigenen Angaben mehrere ukrainische Angriffe auf sein Territorium abgewehrt - aus Belgorod wird ein Toter gemeldet. Ein ukrainischer Beamter warnt, die Russen wollten Wowtschansk zerstören. Die Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

Bhavish Aggarwal of Ola Cabs has started a boycott #Azure campaign over on Twitter due to Microsoft's LLM answering a question about who he is with an non-gendered "they", which according to him is "imposing a political ideology on Indian users that's unsafe, sinister".
Of all the reasons to not use

This summer’s Democratic National Convention could be hit by protests and scenes of chaos that undermine Joe Biden's reelection campaign.
Already, 65-plus organizations in Chicago and elsewhere have formed a coalition to “March on the DNC” when it opens there on Aug. 19.
Activists have sued in federal court, alleging First Amendment violations because the city has only offered permits for demonstrations miles from the United Center, where Biden is scheduled to accept the Dem…

Noting campus protests, Democrats are preparing for intense action at their summer convention
As pro-Palestinian demonstrations escalate on college campuses around the country, critics of President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war suggest this summer’s Democratic National Convention could be hit by protests and scenes of chaos that undermine his reelection. Already, more than 65 organizations in Chicago and elsewhere have formed a coalition to “March on the DNC” when it opens there on Aug. 19. Protesters preparing for the convention hope to channel the anger on many …

JFC, job references going the way of grad school applications.
Grad schools, employers, HR departments: a form like this is an invitation for me not to think carefully about my answers. Quantity over quality? Fine, ask and ye shall receive.

Bhavish Aggarwal of Ola Cabs has started a boycott #Azure campaign over on Twitter due to Microsoft's LLM answering a question about who he is with an non-gendered "they", which according to him is "imposing a political ideology on Indian users that's unsafe, sinister".
Of all the reasons to not use

Fine-tuning Pre-trained Named Entity Recognition Models For Indian Languages
Sankalp Bahad, Pruthwik Mishra, Karunesh Arora, Rakesh Chandra Balabantaray, Dipti Misra Sharma, Parameswari Krishnamurthy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04829

Fine-tuning Pre-trained Named Entity Recognition Models For Indian Languages
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a useful component in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. It is used in various tasks such as Machine Translation, Summarization, Information Retrieval, and Question-Answering systems. The research on NER is centered around English and some other major languages, whereas limited attention has been given to Indian languages. We analyze the challenges and propose techniques that can be tailored for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition for Indian Lang…

Indonesia's Vidio, a local streaming competitor to Netflix, aims to double its paid subscribers to 8M in the next two to three years ahead of an IPO (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Indonesia’s Vidio Aims to Double Streaming Subscribers Ahead of IPO
Vidio, Indonesia’s answer to Netflix Inc., is aiming to double its paid subscribers to 8 million in the next two to three years ahead of plans to go public in a market where streaming still has much room to grow.

Stormy Daniels testifies, Trump curses in an angry day in court
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan called Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche to a sidebar during a midday break
to say that Trump was “cursing audibly” and possibly intimidating Daniels,
who had begun testifying, according to a trial transcript.

“I understand that your client is upset at this point,” Merchan said to the defense attorney, according to the transcript,
“but he is cursing audibly and…

Stormy Daniels testifies, Trump curses in an angry day in court
Stormy Daniels, the adult-film actress at the center of Donald Trump’s hush money trial, testified about a sexual encounter she says she had with him.

Fine-tuning Pre-trained Named Entity Recognition Models For Indian Languages
Sankalp Bahad, Pruthwik Mishra, Karunesh Arora, Rakesh Chandra Balabantaray, Dipti Misra Sharma, Parameswari Krishnamurthy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04829

Fine-tuning Pre-trained Named Entity Recognition Models For Indian Languages
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a useful component in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. It is used in various tasks such as Machine Translation, Summarization, Information Retrieval, and Question-Answering systems. The research on NER is centered around English and some other major languages, whereas limited attention has been given to Indian languages. We analyze the challenges and propose techniques that can be tailored for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition for Indian Lang…

KIWI: A Dataset of Knowledge-Intensive Writing Instructions for Answering Research Questions
Fangyuan Xu, Kyle Lo, Luca Soldaini, Bailey Kuehl, Eunsol Choi, David Wadden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03866

KIWI: A Dataset of Knowledge-Intensive Writing Instructions for Answering Research Questions
Large language models (LLMs) adapted to follow user instructions are now widely deployed as conversational agents. In this work, we examine one increasingly common instruction-following task: providing writing assistance to compose a long-form answer. To evaluate the capabilities of current LLMs on this task, we construct KIWI, a dataset of knowledge-intensive writing instructions in the scientific domain. Given a research question, an initial model-generated answer and a set of relevant papers…