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My studio feels a bit lonely now @… has finished their residency here, it's been a fun and inspiring couple of weeks!

"Israel is killing Palestinian journalists, banning foreign media from reporting on Gaza – and losing credibility." Watching the watchdogs: Israel’s attacks on journalists are backfiring https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/4/

This is what #cryptocurrency is all about: money laundering for organized crime.
"Changpeng Zhao, founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, was sentenced Tuesday to four months in prison for looking the other way as criminals used the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking, and terrorism."

Binance founder sentenced to 4 months for allowing money laundering
Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has been sentenced to four months in prison for allowing rampant money laundering on the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. Tuesday's sentence came after Zhao pleaded guilty in November to one count of failing to take required anti-money-laundering measures. He also stepped down as Binance agreed to pay $4.3 billion to settle related allegations. U.S. officials said Zhao deliberately looked the other way as people conducted transactions that supported c…

Laat haar er niet mee wegkomen!!
Laat Yesilgöz niet wegkomen met haar schaamteloze leugens over nareis-op-nareis https://decorrespondent.nl/15143/laat-yesilgoz-niet-wegkomen-met-…

Laat Yesilgöz niet wegkomen met haar schaamteloze leugens over nareis-op-nareis
De ‘duizenden’ asielzoekers die volgens Dilan Yesilgöz via nareis-op-nareis Nederland binnenkomen, blijken er hooguit enkele tientallen. Maar het kwaad is al geschied: na de val van het kabinet werd migratie hét verkiezingsthema en won de PVV groots. De ‘nareis’-feiten zijn nu boven water, maar doen er blijkbaar niet meer toe. Dat is onbestaanbaar.

Lots of criticism from the west about China was due to their control or ban of western social media platforms and websites.
Now that the USA has a precedent of banning social networks, don't you think this will happen en masse?
With so many members of congress owning American big tech stock, don't you think them looking after their own financial interests will lead to banning more social networks, platforms, and websites?
The USA is shutting itself…

This story of interviewing for a #devrel position at #canonical is bananas. I know hiring is hard, but this is terrible.
The interview process gives a lot of signal about the company you may be joining. It shows what they value. These are not the values I’m looking for.

Modelling crypto markets by multi-agent reinforcement learning
Johann Lussange, Stefano Vrizzi, Stefano Palminteri, Boris Gutkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10803

Modelling crypto markets by multi-agent reinforcement learning
Building on a previous foundation work (Lussange et al. 2020), this study introduces a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) model simulating crypto markets, which is calibrated to the Binance's daily closing prices of $153$ cryptocurrencies that were continuously traded between 2018 and 2022. Unlike previous agent-based models (ABM) or multi-agent systems (MAS) which relied on zero-intelligence agents or single autonomous agent methodologies, our approach relies on endowing agents with rei…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08777 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbi…

DNABERT-S: Learning Species-Aware DNA Embedding with Genome Foundation Models
Effective DNA embedding remains crucial in genomic analysis, particularly in scenarios lacking labeled data for model fine-tuning, despite the significant advancements in genome foundation models. A prime example is metagenomics binning, a critical process in microbiome research that aims to group DNA sequences by their species from a complex mixture of DNA sequences derived from potentially thousands of distinct, often uncharacterized species. To fill the lack of effective DNA embedding models…

DNABERT-S: Learning Species-Aware DNA Embedding with Genome Foundation Models
Zhihan Zhou, Winmin Wu, Harrison Ho, Jiayi Wang, Lizhen Shi, Ramana V Davuluri, Zhong Wang, Han Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08777

DNABERT-S: Learning Species-Aware DNA Embedding with Genome Foundation Models
Effective DNA embedding remains crucial in genomic analysis, particularly in scenarios lacking labeled data for model fine-tuning, despite the significant advancements in genome foundation models. A prime example is metagenomics binning, a critical process in microbiome research that aims to group DNA sequences by their species from a complex mixture of DNA sequences derived from potentially thousands of distinct, often uncharacterized species. To fill the lack of effective DNA embedding models…