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34 arrested at UW-Madison protests
• UCLA Chancellor Gene Block said administrators will investigate an outbreak of violence at UCLA on Wednesday, during which counterprotesters attacked the encampment’s barricade. He added that the investigation could lead to arrests or expulsions.

• Columbia University said all exams and academic activities will be remote for the rest of the semester following an overnight police operation to clear a building occupied by protesters and encampme…

"Most of the customers flying on #Odysseus are getting the data they paid for," Intuitive Machines told a visitor today: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/it-turns-out-that-odysseus-landed-on-the-moon-without-any-altimetry-data/ - "Odysseus flew all the way to the Moon on its very first time out and made a soft landing. It has been phoning home ever since, sending a rich stream of data." Oh, and contrary to earlier reports NASA's Navigation Doppler Lidar played *no* role in the landing as in the end its data could not be processed in real-time by Nova-C's computer.

Ex-NFL CB Sherman's bail set at $5K after arrest https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39604572/ex-nfl-cb-richard-sherman-bail-set-5k-weekend-arrest

Ex-NFL CB Richard Sherman's bail set at $5K after weekend arrest - ESPN
Bail was set at $5,000 on Monday for Richard Sherman following his weekend arrest for suspicion of driving under the influence.

I’ve been following the Social Media Sameness Singularity since 2016.
It’s sometimes also corporate espionage!
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@arstechni…

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say Zuckerberg told execs to “figure out” how to spy on encrypted Snapchat traffic. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/facebook-secretly-spied-on-snapchat-usage-to-confuse-advertisers-court-docs-say/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Probing the Information Encoded in Neural-based Acoustic Models of Automatic Speech Recognition Systems
Quentin Raymondaud, Mickael Rouvier, Richard Dufour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19443

Probing the Information Encoded in Neural-based Acoustic Models of Automatic Speech Recognition Systems
Deep learning architectures have made significant progress in terms of performance in many research areas. The automatic speech recognition (ASR) field has thus benefited from these scientific and technological advances, particularly for acoustic modeling, now integrating deep neural network architectures. However, these performance gains have translated into increased complexity regarding the information learned and conveyed through these black-box architectures. Following many researches in n…

Hey WaPo, here is how you cover the news instead of regurgitating police reports.
It takes maybe 3 minutes of research.
https://www.ffxnow.com/2024/02/21/just-in-man-arrested-for-allegedly-fleeing-crash-in-…

Man arrested for allegedly fleeing crash in Woodlawn that killed pedestrian | FFXnow

Even the cops are swatting now...
https://www.wsfa.com/2024/02/15/prattville-police-arrest-montgomery-officer-multiple-swatting-charges/

Prattville police arrest Montgomery officer on multiple ‘swatting’ charges
The Prattville Police Department arrested and charged a law enforcement officer on multiple counts of filing false reports of an incident.

Snowflake announces Arctic, an LLM optimized for enterprise tasks such as SQL generation, coding, and instruction following, with an Apache 2.0 license (Shubham Sharma/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/data-infrastru

Laut Beschreibung ist dies eine ehemalige "Mietskasernen" und das Gerichtsgebäude in der sehenswerten Stadt #Bamberg. #Reise

Neural Architecture Search for Sentence Classification with BERT
Philip Kenneweg, Sarah Schr\"oder, Barbara Hammer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18547 ht…

Neural Architecture Search for Sentence Classification with BERT
Pre training of language models on large text corpora is common practice in Natural Language Processing. Following, fine tuning of these models is performed to achieve the best results on a variety of tasks. In this paper we question the common practice of only adding a single output layer as a classification head on top of the network. We perform an AutoML search to find architectures that outperform the current single layer at only a small compute cost. We validate our classification architec…