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❝I felt an anger that I hadn’t felt in his past films. Anger that felt directed towards the way humans work, the unfairness of this whole world.❞ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/08/eiko-ishibashi-film-co…

"The state of the [#ScottishIndependence] movement in 2024 reminds me of 2017 when Sturgeon decided to “take independence off the table” at the Scottish Parliamentary elections and totally scunnered SNP members.
I remember hearing reports of “indy-free” leaflets arriving from HQ and being binned by angry activists" -- Lesley Riddoch

Angry protests
calling for a deal to free the captives
erupted
in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem late Monday
as families of hostages held in Gaza and anti-government activists took to the streets to
rally against the government’s rejection of a Hamas ceasefire offer.
Police forces twice dispersed hundreds of protesters blocking traffic on Tel Aviv’s Ayalon highway,
with demonstrators banging drums, blowing on bullhorns, and lighting fires.
“The time h…

Protesters block roads, demand halt to Rafah push after Israel rejects Hamas proposal
Families of captives and other demonstrators gather in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and elsewhere to accuse Netanyahu of 'abandoning the hostages,' insisting that Israel take deal on table

But! But! But the polls!
There are just enough declarative answers to softball questions to make this seem legitimate, but this is a farce, an unfunny bit that didn’t get beyond SNL table reads, which definitely lands high for Semafor and makes the right offices of the Times feel vindicated.
From: @…

An illustration that the angry voices shouting that “Taxation is Theft” or “The Goverment Does Nothing for the People” are often just that, voices. In a town of 10,000, on the issue of funding for our aging and degrading sewer system, our fire department and our swimming pool, the issue was decided by 546 people. Glad at the results, but a bit disheartened, but not surprised, by the indifference.
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Training Table Question Answering via SQL Query Decomposition
Rapha\"el Mouravieff, Benjamin Piwowarski, Sylvain Lamprier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13288

Training Table Question Answering via SQL Query Decomposition
Table Question-Answering involves both understanding the natural language query and grounding it in the context of the input table to extract the relevant information. In this context, many methods have highlighted the benefits of intermediate pre-training from SQL queries. However, while most approaches aim at generating final answers from inputs directly, we claim that there is better to do with SQL queries during training. By learning to imitate a restricted portion of SQL-like algebraic ope…

Suddenly conservative America cares an awful lot about deadnaming

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Large Language Models on Tabular Data -- A Survey
Recent breakthroughs in large language modeling have facilitated rigorous exploration of their application in diverse tasks related to tabular data modeling, such as prediction, tabular data synthesis, question answering, and table understanding. Each task presents unique challenges and opportunities. However, there is currently a lack of comprehensive review that summarizes and compares the key techniques, metrics, datasets, models, and optimization approaches in this research domain. This sur…

Is Table Retrieval a Solved Problem? Join-Aware Multi-Table Retrieval
Peter Baile Chen, Yi Zhang, Dan Roth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09889 https://…

Is Table Retrieval a Solved Problem? Join-Aware Multi-Table Retrieval
Retrieving relevant tables containing the necessary information to accurately answer a given question over tables is critical to open-domain question-answering (QA) systems. Previous methods assume the answer to such a question can be found either in a single table or multiple tables identified through question decomposition or rewriting. However, neither of these approaches is sufficient, as many questions require retrieving multiple tables and joining them through a join plan that cannot be d…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17944 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

Large Language Models on Tabular Data -- A Survey
Recent breakthroughs in large language modeling have facilitated rigorous exploration of their application in diverse tasks related to tabular data modeling, such as prediction, tabular data synthesis, question answering, and table understanding. Each task presents unique challenges and opportunities. However, there is currently a lack of comprehensive review that summarizes and compares the key techniques, metrics, datasets, models, and optimization approaches in this research domain. This sur…