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Japan’s answer to seasonal allergies: A subsidized tropical escape
Spring is a miserable time for millions of Japanese.
One of them is Naoki Shigihara, whose hay fever symptoms make it difficult to focus at work.
Luckily for him, his employer, an IT company called Aisaac, offers a “tropical escape” program, allowing employees to work remotely from other parts of the country with low pollen counts.
It even offers to subsidize the temporary relocation to the tune of…

Japan’s answer to seasonal allergies: A subsidized tropical escape
So many people call in sick with hay fever during the peak pollen season that Japanese companies are taking novel steps to allow them to continue to work.

#3goodThings #rebs3Things
1 I gave a very short presentation today at work concerning the inner structure of my department in the context of our company and realized, that I am more comfortable now with small glitches [that I can only prevent from happening with an immense load of mindwill and c…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- 100th anniversary of death of composer Dora Pejačević
Chamber and orchestral works by Dora Pejačević with mezzo-soprano Martina Mikelić, Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra and conductor Pascal Rophé. John Shea presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wqtj

Let's wait for more reliable and empirical data before we believe this although no doubt AI will help customer service.
"The app-based AI chatbot already handles two-thirds of all customer service chats, the company said Tuesday—some 2.3 million conversations so far—with the virtual assistant earning customer satisfaction ratings at the same level as human agents."

Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people after it laid off 700 people
Klarna, the Swedish BNPL company, released new data from its OpenAI-powered virtual assistant, saying its AI chatbots do the work of 700 full-time human agents. In 2022, the company was criticized for its handling of layoffs.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01758 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

GEARS: Local Geometry-aware Hand-object Interaction Synthesis
Generating realistic hand motion sequences in interaction with objects has gained increasing attention with the growing interest in digital humans. Prior work has illustrated the effectiveness of employing occupancy-based or distance-based virtual sensors to extract hand-object interaction features. Nonetheless, these methods show limited generalizability across object categories, shapes and sizes. We hypothesize that this is due to two reasons: 1) the limited expressiveness of employed virtual…

This post by @… inspired me to hunt down this photo I had saved off Twitter a couple years ago:
I hope TJ is having a great day. https://toot.cat/@DaywalkingRed…

DaywalkingRedhead 😷 (@DaywalkingRedhead@toot.cat)
Attached: 3 images Apparently, I’ve decided to share many of my favorite Star Wars memes. I know so much of the SW fandom is toxic and hateful. That said, I’ve been a fan since I saw Star Wars (later renamed A New Hope) in theaters in 1977. It has meant a lot to me, over the years. So here. Have some!

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06627 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Device-independent certification of desirable properties with a confidence interval
In the development of quantum technologies, a reliable means for characterizing quantum devices is crucial. However, the conventional approach based on, e.g., quantum state tomography or process tomography relies on assumptions often not necessarily justifiable in a realistic experimental setting. While the device-independent approach to this problem bypasses the shortcomings above by making only minimal, justifiable assumptions, most of the theoretical proposals to date only work in the ideali…

Algorithmic Decision-Making under Agents with Persistent Improvement
Tian Xie, Xuwei Tan, Xueru Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01807 https://

Algorithmic Decision-Making under Agents with Persistent Improvement
This paper studies algorithmic decision-making under human's strategic behavior, where a decision maker uses an algorithm to make decisions about human agents, and the latter with information about the algorithm may exert effort strategically and improve to receive favorable decisions. Unlike prior works that assume agents benefit from their efforts immediately, we consider realistic scenarios where the impacts of these efforts are persistent and agents benefit from efforts by making improvemen…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01758 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

GEARS: Local Geometry-aware Hand-object Interaction Synthesis
Generating realistic hand motion sequences in interaction with objects has gained increasing attention with the growing interest in digital humans. Prior work has illustrated the effectiveness of employing occupancy-based or distance-based virtual sensors to extract hand-object interaction features. Nonetheless, these methods show limited generalizability across object categories, shapes and sizes. We hypothesize that this is due to two reasons: 1) the limited expressiveness of employed virtual…

This post by @… inspired me to hunt down this photo I had saved off Twitter a couple years ago:
I hope TJ is having a great day. https://toot.cat/@DaywalkingRed…

DaywalkingRedhead 😷 (@DaywalkingRedhead@toot.cat)
Attached: 3 images Apparently, I’ve decided to share many of my favorite Star Wars memes. I know so much of the SW fandom is toxic and hateful. That said, I’ve been a fan since I saw Star Wars (later renamed A New Hope) in theaters in 1977. It has meant a lot to me, over the years. So here. Have some!