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Filing: Meta rejects the FTC's bid to amend its 2020 privacy settlement, saying it voluntarily disclosed two Messenger Kids bugs and had no parent complaints (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta Pushes Back on FTC Bid to Amend Privacy Accord Over Kids Chat App
Meta Platforms Inc. pushed back on the US Federal Trade Commission’s bid to amend its 2020 privacy settlement, saying that the company voluntarily disclosed two flaws in its kids chat app to the agency and received no complaints from parents.

Complete and Near-Optimal Robotic Crack Coverage and Filling in Civil Infrastructure
Vishnu Veeraraghavan, Kyle Hunte, Jingang Yi, Kaiyan Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00613

Complete and Near-Optimal Robotic Crack Coverage and Filling in Civil Infrastructure
We present a simultaneous sensor-based inspection and footprint coverage (SIFC) planning and control design with applications to autonomous robotic crack mapping and filling. The main challenge of the SIFC problem lies in the coupling of complete sensing (for mapping) and robotic footprint (for filling) coverage tasks. Initially, we assume known target information (e.g., crack) and employ classic cell decomposition methods to achieve complete sensing coverage of the workspace and complete robot…

*When* are they going to make this illegal???
Busted: MTG's new stock portfolio shows a lot of potential conflicts of interest - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusiv

Busted: MTG's new stock portfolio shows a lot of potential conflicts of interest
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is back playing the stock market after an extended absence — and she just purchased stock in two companies whose business dealings potentially conflict with her congressional committee assignments.In a public filing released today and reviewed by Raw Story, Greene ...

One year ago on May 5th at around 5 in the afternoon my mother died. She was 90.
I wasn't there as I was flying north when it happened, but other family members were with her and she was surrounded by love. Today I bought a lobster/cray and Peter Mallon and I had a lovely, quiet, lunch on the new deck, followed by a drink in Jane's honour. It was delicious, but I did weep a bit afterwards.
A completed meal. A completed life. A complete year of coming to terms with grief …

@… look I agree with the toot but I am also having complex feelings about web fonts over here

I'm getting a lot of mileage out of following the podcast "Prosecuting Donald Trump." I don't get half of the legal detail, but it sure makes it clear what to expect.
For example, today's verdict was no big surprise, whereas SCOTUS taking the immunity case, was a bit of an unexpected blow (if I understood correctly).
If you just looked at (left-wing) social media, you would get the complete opposite impression.

I could use a nice big design project to get my teeth into... 🤔
#fedihired #getfedihired

Andy Carolan
Andy Carolan is an illustrator and designer living in the UK. His work is playful and fun with a bold and bright style.He can be discovered flying solo or as part of a distributed team completing missions globally, spanning illustration, design and creative direction.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01052 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_…

SCTc-TE: A Comprehensive Formulation and Benchmark for Temporal Event Forecasting
Temporal complex event forecasting aims to predict the future events given the observed events from history. Most formulations of temporal complex event are unstructured or without extensive temporal information, resulting in inferior representations and limited forecasting capabilities. To bridge these gaps, we innovatively introduce the formulation of Structured, Complex, and Time-complete temporal event (SCTc-TE). Following this comprehensive formulation, we develop a fully automated pipelin…

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Predictive processing also sheds considerable light on a wide range of typical and atypical forms of human experience. A good starting point is to notice that there are two very broad ways for such processing to go wrong. The first is for the brain to underweight predictions and expectations. This will make it hard to detect faint but predictable patterns in a noisy or ambiguous environment. But the second general way to go wrong is for the brain to overweight expectations. In extreme cases, overweighting results in hallucinations. You seem to see and hear things that aren't there, just because […] they are at some level strongly expected.
Autism spectrum condition was initially thought to reflect a specific imbalance of the first kind — a systematic underweighting of prior expectations. […] Underweighting prior knowledge would make weak or elusive patterns hard to detect, and hard to learn too. Such patterns would include things like facial expressions, intonation, or body language, things that delicately hint, in context, at other people's mental states and attitudes. An imbalance of that kind would also make it very hard to learn these patterns in the first place, and even harder to recognize them in situations that are complicated or ambiguous. Recent evidence casts subtle doubt, however, on this bald initial hypothesis. Rather than weakened predictions, intriguing evidence is emerging that suggests that the core issue involves (not underweighting knowledge-based predictions but) actively overweighting the incoming sensory evidence.
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She doesn't just feel "hunger," instead the more fine-grained specifics of the bodily signals dominate. You are feeling a whole lot of something — but what is it? According to the overweighted sensory information theory, autism spectrum condition individuals constantly encounter an excess of highly detailed and apparently very salient sensory information of this kind, coming from both inside their own body and the outside world. This sensory excess impedes the moment-by-moment identification of the broader context or scenario (in this case, hunger). In other words, the emphasis on every aspect of sensory detail effectively makes it impossible to spot the larger forest for the trees.
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(Andy Clark, The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality)
#ActuallyAutistic

#Boids are fun! #Boids are beautiful! They are an incredibly simplified model of the interaction between elementary agents, yet the macroscopic organization is always tantalizing...
Based on an existing implementation by Ben Eater, which is openly available on his website