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Just heard on NPR Weekend Edition that Will Shortz (NYT puzzle editor and W.E. “puzzle master” for decades) had a stroke and has been in rehab for the past month. They had a voice message from him promising a return. His voice was a little rough, but he didn't sound seriously impaired.
I know that probably seems like a very random note, but Will has lots of fan/friends in the broader nerdy world who may follow the

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.

#Obsidian Sync, lots of message notifications, almost every 5 seconds, how can I fix it?
https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-sync-lots-…

On my way to #Darklands! There were many guys wearing leather at Amsterdam Central Station, giving off a fetish vibe. When I got on the train, @… sat down next to me, and we started chatting. Turns out he’s very interested in hypnosis, too! I think this will be…

Die ePetition 165992 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Wohnungsbau und Siedlungswesen mit dem Titel
Umwandlung von Büro- und Industrieflächen nach drei Jahren ohne nachweisbare Nutzung zu Wohnraum
kann bis zum Dienstag 28. Mai 2024 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, dass Büro- und Industrieflächen nach drei Jahren ohne nachweisbare Nutzung automatisch zu Wohnraum umgewandelt werden.
und wird begründet
Wohnungen müssen vor s…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17187 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

PE-MVCNet: Multi-view and Cross-modal Fusion Network for Pulmonary Embolism Prediction
The early detection of a pulmonary embolism (PE) is critical for enhancing patient survival rates. Both image-based and non-image-based features are of utmost importance in medical classification tasks. In a clinical setting, physicians tend to rely on the contextual information provided by Electronic Medical Records (EMR) to interpret medical imaging. However, very few models effectively integrate clinical information with imaging data. To address this shortcoming, we suggest a multimodal fusi…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01534 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Skeletal Cut Loci on Convex Polyhedra
On a convex polyhedron P, the cut locus C(x) with respect to a point x is a tree of geodesic segments (shortest paths) on P that includes every vertex. We say that P has a skeletal cut locus if there is some x in P such that C(x) is a subset of Sk(P), where Sk(P) is the 1-skeleton of P . At a first glance, there seems to be very little relation between the cut locus and the 1-skeleton, as the first one is an intrinsic geometry notion, and the second one specifies the combinatorics of P. In th…

Hey!
believe it or not - I'll have a relax evening today. My muscles are still a bit sore and tomorrow it will be nice as well. So maybe I just have a rest today.
BUT I found a nice clip taken in January that I wanted to share with you. Just a bit of walking a snowy mountain here ;-)
Well equipped with good boots, micro spikes and being very careful, as theres a bit of a drop on the right.

Olika syn på våren. Jag : tennisdojor, jeans, hoodie dragen över keps och bombarjacka när jag går ut med hunden. Mötande: flip-flops, shorts och wife beater.
Vi stannade tittade på varandra, nickade vänligt och tänkte nog båda att vi måste berätta för nån vilken knaskastrull vi nyss träffat.

Die ePetition 165992 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Wohnungsbau und Siedlungswesen mit dem Titel
Umwandlung von Büro- und Industrieflächen nach drei Jahren ohne nachweisbare Nutzung zu Wohnraum
kann bis zum Dienstag 28. Mai 2024 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, dass Büro- und Industrieflächen nach drei Jahren ohne nachweisbare Nutzung automatisch zu Wohnraum umgewandelt werden.
und wird begründet
Wohnungen müssen vor s…