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Prosecutor aims to show Trump at center of personal and company finances as Trump Organization controller testifies – live
Trump lawyer McConney acknowledged that Cohen’s reimbursement for $180,000
– which prosecutors allege was falsely recorded as “legal expenses”
– was the only expense in his roughly 35 years at Trump Org he knew of that was grossed up for tax purposes.

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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)
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How Allegro reduced latency outliers by 82% by switching to #XFS:
https://blog.allegro.tech/2024/03/kafka-performance-analysis.html
"'Using a com…

Unlocking Kafka's Potential: Tackling Tail Latency with eBPF
At Allegro, we use Kafka as a backbone for asynchronous communication between microservices. With up to 300k messages published and 1M messages consumed every second, it is a key part of our infrastructure. A few months ago, in our main Kafka cluster, we noticed the following discrepancy: while median response times for produce requests were in single-digit milliseconds, the tail latency was much worse. Namely, the p99 latency was up to 1 second, and the p999 latency was up to 3 seconds. This w…

Raiders Re-Signed DB Isaiah Pola-Mao https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_re_signed_db_isaiah_pola_mao/s1_17039_40144461

Very excited to see this collaboration between 2 of the most interesting research & scholarly communication infrastructure initiatives out there. This stellar cast of scholars & infrastructure builders will undoubtedly be pushing the limits in fascinating ways. This is a project worth following. Bravo!
From: @…

COPIM (@copim@hcommons.social)
The second pilot project is: Database as Book and Lively Community Archive: https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/database-book-launch which will build a “database as book” to support an emergent collective of critical STS scholars in Kenya in collaboration with the Research Data Share Collective, African Minds, and Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE).

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Can AI and humans genuinely communicate?
Can AI and humans genuinely communicate? In this article, after giving some background and motivating my proposal (sections 1 to 3), I explore a way to answer this question that I call the "mental-behavioral methodology" (sections 4 and 5). This methodology follows the following three steps: First, spell out what mental capacities are sufficient for human communication (as opposed to communication more generally). Second, spell out the experimental paradigms required to test whether a behavior …

Excitement to Disinterest in 30 Seconds
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NFL Insider Drops Major Report On Cowboys, Dak Prescott https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_insider_drops_major_report_on_cowboys_dak_prescott/s1_17150_40159215

NFL Insider Drops Major Report On Cowboys, Dak Prescott
The Dallas Cowboys have firmly stood by quarterback Dak Prescott and head coach Mike McCarthy for another season following last year’s playoff disappointment against the Green Bay Packers. However, if their fortunes don’t improve, both Prescott and McCarthy could see their time in Dallas come to an end. Prescott is coming off a stellar season, arguably the best of his career, and he’s entering the final year of his 4-year, $160 million extension signed in 2021. Despite speculation about h…

Infrared resonance-lattice device technology
Robert Magnusson, Yeong H. Ko, Kyu J. Lee, Fairooz A. Simlan, Pawarat Bootpakdeetam, Renjie Chen, Debra Wawro Weidanz, Susanne Gimlin, Soroush Ghaffari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13167

Infrared resonance-lattice device technology
We present subwavelength resonant lattices fashioned as nano- and microstructured films as a basis for a host of device concepts. Whereas the canonical physical properties are fully embodied in a one-dimensional periodic lattice, the final device constructs are often patterned in two-dimensionally-modulated films in which case we may refer to them as photonic crystal slabs, metamaterials, or metasurfaces. These surfaces can support lateral modes and localized field signatures with propagative a…