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"#Wildfire grows into one of largest in #Texas history as flames menace multiple small towns
A cluster of wildfires scorched the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history, as flames moved with alarming speed and blackened the landsca…

Texas wildfires: Fire grows to second-largest in state history
A cluster of wildfires is scorching the Texas Panhandle, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history. The flames blackened the landscape across a vast stretch of small towns and cattle ranches. Authorities warned that the damage to communities on the high plains could be extensive. The largest fire expanded to nearly 800 square miles (2,072 square kilometers). It jumped into parts of neighboring Oklahoma and was completely uncontained as dawn broke. No deaths or injurie…

@… I feel like this is how it will be. We will all have multiple accounts and the only ones using it cross-platform will be us, following each other on each account multiple times...because it's opt-in and nobody knows what it is their opting into....🤦‍♂️

On a Conjecture Concerning the Roots of Ehrhart Polynomials of Symmetric Edge Polytopes from Complete Multipartite Graphs
Max K\"olbl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02136

On a Conjecture Concerning the Roots of Ehrhart Polynomials of Symmetric Edge Polytopes from Complete Multipartite Graphs
In [7], Higashitani, Kummer, and Michałek pose a conjecture about the symmetric edge polytopes of complete multipartite graphs and confirm it for a number of families in the bipartite case. We confirm that conjecture for a number of new classes following the authors' methods and we present a more general result which suggests that the methods in their current form might not be enough to prove the conjecture in full generality.

ISW: Kremlin has yet to signal its response following Transnistria's appeal for 'protection': https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/29/isw-kremlin-has.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11893 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Quantum Coordination Rates in Multi-Partite Networks
The optimal coordination rates are determined in three primary settings of multi-partite quantum networks, thus characterizing the minimal resources required in order to simulate a joint quantum state among multiple parties. We study the following models: (1) a cascade network with limited entanglement, (2) a broadcast network, which consists of a single sender and two receivers, (3) a multiple-access network with two senders and a single receiver. We establish the necessary and sufficient cond…

Bifurcations and explicit unfoldings of grazing loops connecting one high multiplicity tangent point
Zhihao Fang, Xingwu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19455

Bifurcations and explicit unfoldings of grazing loops connecting one high multiplicity tangent point
For piecewise-smooth differential systems, in this paper we focus on crossing limit cycles and sliding loops bifurcating from a grazing loop connecting one high multiplicity tangent point. For the low multiplicity cases considered in previous publications, the method is to define and analyze return maps following the classic idea of Poincaré. However, high multiplicity leads to that either domains or properties of return maps are unclear under perturbations. To overcome these difficulties, we …

Do Large Language Models Understand Conversational Implicature -- A case study with a chinese sitcom
Shisen Yue, Siyuan Song, Xinyuan Cheng, Hai Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19509 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19509
arXiv:2404.19509v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Understanding the non-literal meaning of an utterance is critical for large language models (LLMs) to become human-like social communicators. In this work, we introduce SwordsmanImp, the first Chinese multi-turn-dialogue-based dataset aimed at conversational implicature, sourced from dialogues in the Chinese sitcom $\textit{My Own Swordsman}$. It includes 200 carefully handcrafted questions, all annotated on which Gricean maxims have been violated. We test eight close-source and open-source LLMs under two tasks: a multiple-choice question task and an implicature explanation task. Our results show that GPT-4 attains human-level accuracy (94%) on multiple-choice questions. CausalLM demonstrates a 78.5% accuracy following GPT-4. Other models, including GPT-3.5 and several open-source models, demonstrate a lower accuracy ranging from 20% to 60% on multiple-choice questions. Human raters were asked to rate the explanation of the implicatures generated by LLMs on their reasonability, logic and fluency. While all models generate largely fluent and self-consistent text, their explanations score low on reasonability except for GPT-4, suggesting that most LLMs cannot produce satisfactory explanations of the implicatures in the conversation. Moreover, we find LLMs' performance does not vary significantly by Gricean maxims, suggesting that LLMs do not seem to process implicatures derived from different maxims differently. Our data and code are available at https://github.com/sjtu-compling/llm-pragmatics.

@… There’s multiple distinct ways in which I miss the “good old days”:
1. The feeling of the web not being “serious”, in the sense that nothing in the world seemed to truly *depend* on the web. You could hang out with friends, turn in homework, do banking (Although I wasn’t old enough that it mattered to me yet), all without the web. The web was an *addi…

Military: Russian drone flew across Moldovan border: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/27/military-russian-drone.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.02833 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Uniform syndeticity in multiple recurrence
The main theorem of this paper establishes a uniform syndeticity result concerning the multiple recurrence of measure-preserving actions on probability spaces. More precisely, for any integers $d,l\geq 1$ and any $\varepsilon > 0$, we prove the existence of $δ>0$ and $K\geq 1$ (dependent only on $d$, $l$, and $\varepsilon$) such that the following holds: Consider a solvable group $Γ$ of derived length $l$, a probability space $(X, μ)$, and $d$ pairwise commuting measure-preserving $Γ$-act…