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Filing: OpenAI rebuts Elon Musk's lawsuit, saying OpenAI didn't violate its founding agreement because "there is no founding agreement, or any agreement at all" (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

OpenAI Calls Elon Musk’s Claims ‘Incoherent’ in Court Filing
OpenAI rebutted Elon Musk’s claims against it in a court filing, saying that the Tesla Inc. billionaire’s claims “rest on convoluted — often incoherent — factual premises.”

About life and feelings, gloomy and private
The feelings we get from the activities we do could be classified as neutral, positive and negative.
Let's take developing #Gentoo as an example. It's something that makes me happy — but you can't (or at least I can't) just get the happiness and reject everything else. Most of the Gentoo work is basically neutral, even bland — a duty that takes a lot of time and effort, and probably a little of your health. It's statistically probable that you're going to get some positive feelings out of it — the joy of success, satisfaction, appreciation, awareness that you've done something good. But you also get negative feelings — from failures, frustration, negative interactions.
My hiking trips are like that too. My family believes that "I do it for pleasure" — but it's a harmful oversimplification and it only tells me that they even aren't trying to understand me. In fact, it's mostly a necessity, a way of solving specific problems that works for me — halting diabetes-related problems, coping with emotions. Of course there's a positive side to it — good mood, energy to survive another day, something the joy of visiting a new place, seeing something beautiful, finding a solution to a vexatious problem, positive interactions with people. But there are also negative feelings — anger and sadness from failure, stress from problems, negative contacts with people. Sometimes you end up slowly charging your social battery for a whole week, just to have one person destroy it all.
If you think about it, life's something like that. It's mostly a bland effort to survive every following day, sometimes interspersed with positive or negative moments.
#ActuallyAutistic

What in the flying fuck are these fucking fartwaffles on.
If you don’t want social consequences then don’t be a fucking asshole.
The constitution or “waaa tolerance includes Nazis” doesn’t protect you from finding out when you fuck around.

Byzantine Reliable Broadcast with Low Communication and Time Complexity
Thomas Locher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08070 https://arxiv.…

Byzantine Reliable Broadcast with Low Communication and Time Complexity
Byzantine reliable broadcast is a fundamental problem in distributed computing, which has been studied extensively over the past decades. State-of-the-art algorithms are predominantly based on the approach to share encoded fragments of the broadcast message, yielding an asymptotically optimal communication complexity when the message size exceeds the network size, a condition frequently encountered in practice. However, algorithms following the standard coding approach incur an overhead factor …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04631 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…

Hole Flying Qubits in Quantum Dot Arrays
Quantum information transfer is fundamental for scalable quantum computing in any potential platform and architecture. Hole spin qubits, owing to their intrinsic spin-orbit interaction (SOI), promise fast quantum operations which are fundamental for the implementation of quantum gates. Yet, the influence of SOI in quantum transfer protocols remains an open question. Here, we investigate hole flying qubits using shortcuts to adiabaticity protocols, i.e., the long-range transfer of hole spin stat…

Efficiently Computing Similarities to Private Datasets
Arturs Backurs, Zinan Lin, Sepideh Mahabadi, Sandeep Silwal, Jakub Tarnawski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08917

Efficiently Computing Similarities to Private Datasets
Many methods in differentially private model training rely on computing the similarity between a query point (such as public or synthetic data) and private data. We abstract out this common subroutine and study the following fundamental algorithmic problem: Given a similarity function $f$ and a large high-dimensional private dataset $X \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, output a differentially private (DP) data structure which approximates $\sum_{x \in X} f(x,y)$ for any query $y$. We consider the cases wh…

WOW was A View To A Kill awful. That was one of the worst #JamesBond #films yet. I'm having a difficult time finding the will to go on in the series...

Deterministic identification over channels with finite output: a dimensional perspective on superlinear rates
Pau Colomer, Christian Deppe, Holger Boche, Andreas Winter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09117

Deterministic identification over channels with finite output: a dimensional perspective on superlinear rates
Following initial work by JaJa and Ahlswede/Cai, and inspired by a recent renewed surge in interest in deterministic identification via noisy channels, we consider the problem in its generality for memoryless channels with finite output, but arbitrary input alphabets. Such a channel is essentially given by (the closure of) the subset of its output distributions in the probability simplex. Our main findings are that the maximum number of messages thus identifiable scales super-exponentially as…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02215 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_…

On 2-strong connectivity orientations of mixed graphs and related problems
A mixed graph $G$ is a graph that consists of both undirected and directed edges. An orientation of $G$ is formed by orienting all the undirected edges of $G$, i.e., converting each undirected edge $\{u,v\}$ into a directed edge that is either $(u,v)$ or $(v,u)$. The problem of finding an orientation of a mixed graph that makes it strongly connected is well understood and can be solved in linear time. Here we introduce the following orientation problem in mixed graphs. Given a mixed graph $G$, …

Yes, I am feeling dumb tonight:
https://youtu.be/S653O_iCL58
"It's been playing on my mind
I don't want to waste your time
And the thought of you is tearing me apart
Take me back to what I know
Cos I don't know where to go
And I'm finding it s…