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Solar Eclipse Activities, Resources, and Safety Information • TechNotes Blog #tceajmg

Solar Eclipse Activities, Resources, and Safety Information • TechNotes Blog #tceajmg

Midnight on Mercy Mountain 🌌🎤🏳️‍🌈
Dramatized comedy series | Local Mercy Mountain radio show host Julian Glass broadcasts the late-night activities of the residents of a small, supposedly normal, Appalachian town.
Produced by a queer creator.
1 seasons, 17 episodes as of Nov 12, 2023.
https://www.

Midnight on Mercy Mountain 🌌🎤🏳️‍🌈
Dramatized comedy series | Local Mercy Mountain radio show host Julian Glass broadcasts the late-night activities of the residents of a small, supposedly normal, Appalachian town. Produced by a queer creator. 1 seasons, 17 episodes as of Nov 13, 2023.

For those wondering about the speed of a penny farthing. These are some Strava segments from my commute in today. This is not racing, just cycling to work.
https://www.strava.com/activities/11139701438
[As it happens a couple of these came in as section personal bes…

Enrichment activities with cats helps with your printer's sense of wellbeing, and gives it purpose outside of work...
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7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

Russia to withdraw troops from border posts and military bases in Armenia: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/09/russia-to-withdraw.html

NO ONE NEEDS AN INTERNET CONNECTED TOILET. 🤦🏼‍♂️ https://bsd.network/@faehnrich/112249178219424356

faehnrich (@faehnrich@bsd.network)
The wife was astounded at the smart toilet Kohler posted on Instagram costing $25,000 (!) She put her journalist hat on and commented on the post, "With this being an internet-connected device used for our most private activities, what's your privacy policy, and how do you protect users from getting hacked?" Kohler reported her comment to Instagram and it was removed from the post.

Ismail Prada: “When Machine Meets Scribe: NLP and the Historical Land Records of Basel.” A report on his PhD work in the context of the SNSF project “Economies of Space“ https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/208093 (happy to be a partner of this project co-lead by Lucas Burkart and

Take advantage of cosmic phenomena to teach science? Let’s take a look at a few available resources. Safety concerns and safety precautions appear below, as well as instructional activities, apps, and music playlists. https://blog.tcea.org/solar-eclipse-activities-resou…

@… Die Live Activities der Öffi-Routing-App »Citymapper« ist ziemlich gut. Gerade beim U-Bahn-fahren. Gibt nen Blogbeitrag zur Einführung selbiger: https://c…

Citymapper introduces iOS Lock Screen Navigation
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Gaining or losing perspective for convex multivariate functions on box domains
Luze Xu, Jon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07010 https://

Gaining or losing perspective for convex multivariate functions on box domains
MINLO (mixed-integer nonlinear optimization) formulations of the disjunction between the origin and a polytope via a binary indicator variable is broadly used in nonlinear combinatorial optimization for modeling a fixed cost associated with carrying out a group of activities and a convex cost function associated with the levels of the activities. The perspective relaxation of such models is often used to solve to global optimality in a branch-and-bound context, but it typically requires suitabl…

The Impact of Sanctions on GitHub Developers and Activities
Youmei Fan, Ani Hovhannisyan, Hideaki Hata, Christoph Treude, Raula Gaikovina Kula
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05489

The Impact of Sanctions on GitHub Developers and Activities
The GitHub platform has fueled the creation of truly global software, enabling contributions from developers across various geographical regions of the world. As software becomes more entwined with global politics and social regulations, it becomes similarly subject to government sanctions. In 2019, GitHub restricted access to certain services for users in specific locations but rolled back these restrictions for some communities (e.g., the Iranian community) in 2021. We conducted a large-scale…

A fundraising event hosted by a charitable organization and linked to Donald Trump may have broken the law if it explicitly benefited his campaign, as an IRS rule bars charities from endorsing candidates for elections.
#Border911, a Trump-backed charitable organization led by Tom Homan, his former Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief, hosted a gala on April 4 that Trump attended.
Other …

Donald Trump Fundraiser May Have Broken the Law
An organization that has limits on its political activities held a fundraiser last week where Donald Trump spoke.

Did you know NASA published a free table top RPG called "The Lost Universe"?
"A dark mystery has settled over the city of Aldastron on the rogue planet of Exlaris. Researchers dedicated to studying the cosmos have disappeared, and the Hubble Space Telescope has vanished from Earth’s timeline. Only an ambitious crew of adventurers can uncover what was lost. Are you up to the challenge?"

The Lost Universe - NASA Science
Download NASA's tabletop role-playing game adventure, The Lost Universe.

Good to see the NTMA (managing the Irish Strategic Investment Fund) has divested from companies that have activities in the Occupied Territories:
#BDS
https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/af66f-minister-mcgrath-notes-ntma-confirmation-of-divestment-from-certain-activities-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory/

Iowa CB Cooper DeJean (leg) cleared for football activities, to hold pro day April 8 https://www.nfl.com/news/iowa-cb-cooper-dejean-leg-cleared-for-football-activities-to-hold-pro-day-april-8

Iowa CB Cooper DeJean (leg) cleared for football activities, to hold pro day April 8
Iowa CB Cooper DeJean, who has been cleared for football activities after suffering a broken leg in college, will have his Pro Day on Monday, April 8, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported.

Reverse Divisors and Magic Numbers
Eudes Antonio Costa, Ronaldo Ant\^onio Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06656 https://arxiv.org/p…

Reverse Divisors and Magic Numbers
The study examines the relationship between Ball's magic numbers and reverses divisors. These numbers are the source of beautiful and curious properties. Activities related to numbers can be a fun way to motivate mathematics students, while also enabling surprising analysis and connections.

A Survey on Visualization Approaches in Political Science for Social and Political Factors: Progress to Date and Future Opportunities
Dongyun Han, Abdullah-Al-Raihan Nayeem, Jason Windett, Yaoyao Dai, Benjamin Radford, Isaac Cho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05947

A Survey on Visualization Approaches in Political Science for Social and Political Factors: Progress to Date and Future Opportunities
Politics is the set of activities related to strategic decision-making in groups. Political scientists study the strategic interactions between states, institutions, politicians, and citizens; they seek to understand the causes and consequences of those decisions and interactions. While some decisions might alleviate social problems, others might lead to disasters such as war and conflict. Data visualization approaches have the potential to assist political scientists in their studies by provid…

That's a topic for me again, #FotoVorschlag "radausflug" / "Cycling trip"
As I'm a fan of #mountainbiking my trips sometimes include quite an incline. That day it was about 1000m incline. On some parts we decided to push the bikes because we were jus…

A King's House
Going to places with the bike has several advantages but also some disadvantages for a photo experience. This hike to a king's house was worthful experience with impressive results ...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13138 has been replaced.
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Visibility into AI Agents
Increased delegation of commercial, scientific, governmental, and personal activities to AI agents -- systems capable of pursuing complex goals with limited supervision -- may exacerbate existing societal risks and introduce new risks. Understanding and mitigating these risks involves critically evaluating existing governance structures, revising and adapting these structures where needed, and ensuring accountability of key stakeholders. Information about where, why, how, and by whom certain AI…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04662 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

The Devil Behind the Mirror: Tracking the Campaigns of Cryptocurrency Abuses on the Dark Web
The dark web has emerged as the state-of-the-art solution for enhanced anonymity. Just like a double-edged sword, it also inadvertently becomes the safety net and breeding ground for illicit activities. Among them, cryptocurrencies have been prevalently abused to receive illicit income while evading regulations. Despite the continuing efforts to combat illicit activities, there is still a lack of an in-depth understanding regarding the characteristics and dynamics of cryptocurrency abuses on th…

re: ukpol defecting mps
Ladies and genetlemen, your newest #Labour MP:
Voted against greater regulation of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract shale gas
Consistently voted against improving environmental water quality
Consistently voted against improving air quality
Generally voted against measures to prevent climate change
Consistently voted against improving biodiversity
Consistently voted against reducing the rate of corporation tax
Consistently voted against raising the threshold at which people start to pay income tax
Voted for reducing capital gains tax
Consistently voted against higher taxes on banks
Consistently voted for more restrictive regulation of trade union activity
Almost always voted for stronger laws and enforcement of immigration rules
Consistently voted for making it easier to remove someone's British citizenship
Voted for mass surveillance of people’s communications and activities
Consistently voted for authorising criminal conduct by undercover officers and covert sources
Consistently voted for a stricter asylum system
FFS
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/25831/natalie_elphicke/dover/votes

Modeling Methane Intensity of Oil and Gas Upstream Activities by Production Profile
Quentin Peyle, Imene Ben Rejeb-Mzah, Baptiste Piofret, Antoine Benoit, Alexandre d'Aspremont, Adil El Yaalaoui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04479

Modeling Methane Intensity of Oil and Gas Upstream Activities by Production Profile
We propose a methodology for modelling methane intensities of Oil and Gas upstream activities for different production profiles with diverse combinations of region of operation and production volumes associated. This methodology leverages different data sources, including satellite measurements and public estimates of methane emissions but also country-level oil and gas production data and company reporting. The obtained methane intensity models are compared to the reference companies' own repo…

Convex Geometry of Building Sets
Spencer Backman, Rick Danner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05514 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.05514

Convex Geometry of Building Sets
Building sets were introduced in the study of wonderful compactifications of hyperplane arrangement complements and were later generalized to meet-semilattices. Convex geometries, the duals of antimatroids, offer a robust combinatorial abstraction of convexity. Supersolvable convex geometries and antimatroids make appearances in the study of poset closure operators, Coxeter groups, and matroid activities. We prove that the building sets on a meet-semilattice form a supersolvable convex geometry.

As of 2 May 2024, GÉANT will cease activities on its main profiles on #X (FKA #Twitter).
If you aren't already doing it, follow us on LinkedIn or here on Mastodon, where you can also find @…

GÉANT is ceasing activities on X (FKA Twitter) | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Today we announce our decision to stop activities on the main GÉANT profiles on the X social media platform (Formerly Known As Twitter) as of 2 May 2024. Our announcement follows thorough considerations and discussions within the organisation, consultations with the community and particularly with Marcomms teams across NRENs, as well as almost two years

Association between centrality and flourishing trait: analyzing student co-occurrence networks drawn from dining activities
Yi Cao, Shimin Cai, Xiaorong Shen, Tao Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03946

Association between centrality and flourishing trait: analyzing student co-occurrence networks drawn from dining activities
Comprehending the association between social capabilities and individual psychological traits is paramount for educational administrators. Presently, many studies heavily depend on online questionnaires and self-reported data, while analysis of the connection between offline social networks and mental health status remains scarce. By leveraging a public dataset encompassing on-campus dining activities over 21 weeks, we establish student co-occurrence networks and closely observe the changes in …

Visa and Allium Labs: less than 10% of stablecoin transactions are "organic payments activity", which excludes activities from bots and large-scale traders (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

La solidarité envers le peuple palestinien interdite en Égypte.
Authorities conduct home arrests in Alexandria targeting seven people who expressed #solidarity with #Palestine

Authorities conduct home arrests in Alexandria targeting seven people who expressed solidarity with Palestine
Seven people who took part in activities to express political support for Palestine were arrested abruptly from their homes by authorities in Alexandria over the past week. The arrests are the latest in a series of security responses to individuals participating in protests or showing other forms

Liebe Nerds! Liebe Eltern!
Nicht mehr ganz frisch, aber das macht es nicht schlechter: Kennt ihr "Ada & Zangemann - Ein Märchen über Software, Skateboards und Himbeereis", von @… und Sandra Brandstätter?
Wunderbare Einführung in die etwas andere Sicht auf die Welt, die wir hoffentlich alle teilen, vorlesegeeignet.

"Deep-sea mining’s future still murky as negotiations end on mixed note"
#Mining #Industry #DeepSeaMining

Deep-sea mining’s future still murky as negotiations end on mixed note
Deep-sea mining could begin in international waters as early as next year, yet policymakers are still disputing how to govern such activities. Between March 18 and 29, representatives from the 36 member states of the council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the U.N.-affiliated regulator of deep-sea mining activities in international waters, met for talks […]

The official confirmation that Russia is waging a hybrid war across Europe, doesn't get the attention it's deserves
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_225230.htm

Statement by the North Atlantic Council on recent Russian hybrid activities
NATO Allies are deeply concerned about recent malign activities on Allied territory, including those resulting in the investigation and charging of multiple individuals in connection with hostile state activity affecting Czechia, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and the United Kingdom.

Report: Cowboys WR CeeDee Lamb to skip OTAs https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_cowboys_wr_ceedee_lamb_to_skip_otas/s1_17049_40211476

Report: Cowboys WR CeeDee Lamb to skip OTAs
Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb is not expected to attend offseason training activities barring a lucrative contract extension, the Dallas Morning News reported Monday. The Cowboys begin the voluntary portion of their spring workout program on April 15. Lamb, who turned 25 on Monday, is due to earn $17.99 million under a fifth-year team option in 2024. That's a bargain-basement price for a player coming off a record-setting All-Pro season in 2023. Lamb broke Michael Irvin's single-seas…

Update on Kenya’s investigation into Worldcoin (Sam Altman’s dystopian eyeball scanning crypto scheme-scam) for serious violations of Data Protection laws and much more. #privacy https:…

Five Things to Learn from Kenya's Inquiry into Worldcoin's Activities in the Country | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press fellow Carlos Mureithi reports on a document released by a committee established by Kenya’s National Assembly.

Impact of Extensions on Browser Performance: An Empirical Study on Google Chrome
Bihui Jin, Heng Li, Ying Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06827 https://

Impact of Extensions on Browser Performance: An Empirical Study on Google Chrome
Web browsers have been used widely by users to conduct various online activities, such as information seeking or online shopping. To improve user experience and extend the functionality of browsers, practitioners provide mechanisms to allow users to install third-party-provided plugins (i.e., extensions) on their browsers. However, little is known about the performance implications caused by such extensions. In this paper, we conduct an empirical study to understand the impact of extensions on …

"too many cowardly university leaders are responding to largely peaceful, outdoor protests by inviting law enforcement in riot gear to campus & condoning violent arrests. [They] are failing in their duty to their institutions, their faculty, their students, &... our democratic society. When university administrators limit when, where, and how free speech may be exercised, and require... applications for permission of... expression, they effectively gut the right itself."

Detecting Refactoring Commits in Machine Learning Python Projects: A Machine Learning-Based Approach
Shayan Noei, Heng Li, Ying Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06572

Detecting Refactoring Commits in Machine Learning Python Projects: A Machine Learning-Based Approach
Refactoring enhances software quality without altering its functional behaviors. Understanding the refactoring activities of developers is crucial to improving software maintainability. With the increasing use of machine learning (ML) libraries and frameworks, maximizing their maintainability is crucial. Due to the data-driven nature of ML projects, they often undergo different refactoring operations (e.g., data manipulation), for which existing refactoring tools lack ML-specific detection capa…

A Survey on Visualization Approaches in Political Science for Social and Political Factors: Progress to Date and Future Opportunities
Dongyun Han, Abdullah-Al-Raihan Nayeem, Jason Windett, Yaoyao Dai, Benjamin Radford, Isaac Cho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05947

A Survey on Visualization Approaches in Political Science for Social and Political Factors: Progress to Date and Future Opportunities
Politics is the set of activities related to strategic decision-making in groups. Political scientists study the strategic interactions between states, institutions, politicians, and citizens; they seek to understand the causes and consequences of those decisions and interactions. While some decisions might alleviate social problems, others might lead to disasters such as war and conflict. Data visualization approaches have the potential to assist political scientists in their studies by provid…

Study warns of cybersecurity professionals turning to criminal activities, as reported by Cybernews. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1b8z2p7/

Good Morning #JavaLand!
Final preparations this morning. In the afternoon we will kick off the #community activities with our unconference sessions
Speakers dinner in the evening. I am thrilled to explore this new venue today!

Why Europe has high hopes for Ukrainian civil society: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/07/why-europe-has.html

A Reinforcement Learning based Reset Policy for CDCL SAT Solvers
Chunxiao Li (John), Charlie Liu (John), Jonathan Chung (John), Zhengyang (John), Lu, Piyush Jha, Vijay Ganesh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03753

A Reinforcement Learning based Reset Policy for CDCL SAT Solvers
Restart policy is an important technique used in modern Conflict-Driven Clause Learning (CDCL) solvers, wherein some parts of the solver state are erased at certain intervals during the run of the solver. In most solvers, variable activities are preserved across restart boundaries, resulting in solvers continuing to search parts of the assignment tree that are not far from the one immediately prior to a restart. To enable the solver to search possibly "distant" parts of the assignment tree, we …

We produced controversy maps on the chip rush in #Vietnam.
26th floor.
A timeline representing corporate, legal and public activities. A timelapse of rural change. A bit artsy.
To be translated into a digital format.
#semiconductors

BOLD v4: A Centralized Bioinformatics Platform for DNA-based Biodiversity Data
Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Catherine Wei, Dean Chan, Jireh Agda, Josh Agda, Liliana Ballesteros-Mejia, Hamza Ait Boutou, Zak Mohammad El Bastami, Eddie Ma, Ramya Manjunath, Dana Rea, Chris Ho, Angela Telfer, Jaclyn McKeowan, Miduna Rahulan, Claudia Steinke, Justin Dorsheimer, Megan Milton, Paul D. N. Hebert

BOLD v4: A Centralized Bioinformatics Platform for DNA-based Biodiversity Data
BOLD, the Barcode of Life Data System, supports the acquisition, storage, validation, analysis, and publication of DNA barcodes, activities requiring the integration of molecular, morphological, and distributional data. Its pivotal role in curating the reference library of DNA barcodes, coupled with its data management and analysis capabilities, make it a central resource for biodiversity science. It enables rapid, accurate identification of specimens and also reveals patterns of genetic divers…

"Google LLC on Monday agreed to delete billions of data records that reflect certified class members' private browsing activities as part of a nonmonetary eve-of-trial settlement to resolve allegations that the tech giant surreptitiously tracks Chrome users running the browser's incognito mode."
In the meantime, of course, they used that data to train their LLMs. So the violation persists inside the LLM and is available for further discrimination.

Google Agrees To Delete Data To End 'Incognito' Class Claims - Law360
Google LLC on Monday agreed to delete billions of data records that reflect certified class members' private browsing activities as part of a nonmonetary eve-of-trial settlement to resolve allegations that the tech giant surreptitiously tracks Chrome users running the browser's incognito mode.

So, holy shit. There's a text chat mod for the steam version of Fallout 76 and it's a game changer.
Players can easily announce trades or notify others of specific activities on each server...
This should be built-in!
#Fallout #Fallout76

💔 In Brazil, the intelligence services spied on over 300,000 citizens during the military dictatorship
https://globalvoices.org/2024/04/25/in-brazil-the-intelligence-services-spied-on-over-3000…

In Brazil, the intelligence services spied on over 300,000 citizens during the military dictatorship
SNI, the predecessor of the current Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) sought to continue illegal activities after the end of the military dictatorship, according to previously unpublished records

The section heading on #Wikipedia sometimes give us quite a glimpse into a person's life:
3 Personal life
3.1 Activities
3.2 Alcoholism
#WikiWeird

Navigating Hallucinations for Reasoning of Unintentional Activities
Shresth Grover, Vibhav Vineet, Yogesh S Rawat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19405 https://…

Navigating Hallucinations for Reasoning of Unintentional Activities
In this work we present a novel task of understanding unintentional human activities in videos. We formalize this problem as a reasoning task under zero-shot scenario, where given a video of an unintentional activity we want to know why it transitioned from intentional to unintentional. We first evaluate the effectiveness of current state-of-the-art Large Multimodal Models on this reasoning task and observe that they suffer from hallucination. We further propose a novel prompting technique,term…

Out of sight, out of mind DOES NOT MEAN it's not going to cause unexpected problems ( but might enable #FalseSolutions )
https://www.earth.com/news/human-activitie

Human activities also greatly harm Earth’s subsurface, not just the landmass
The impact of human intervention reaches hundreds of meters to several kilometers beneath the planet's surface into Earth's deep subsurface.

Facebook is SO broken. I have to hide dozens of these accounts daily. None of them have anything to do with me, my activities, my location, my preferences…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00712 has been replaced.
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SoK: Behind the Accuracy of Complex Human Activity Recognition Using Deep Learning
Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a well-studied field with research dating back to the 1980s. Over time, HAR technologies have evolved significantly from manual feature extraction, rule-based algorithms, and simple machine learning models to powerful deep learning models, from one sensor type to a diverse array of sensing modalities. The scope has also expanded from recognising a limited set of activities to encompassing a larger variety of both simple and complex activities. However, there …

Multi-objective Optimal Trade-off Between V2G Activities and Battery Degradation in Electric Mobility-as-a-Service Systems
Fabio Paparella, Pim Labee, Steven Wilkins, Theo Hofman, Soora Rasouli, Mauro Salazar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01916

Multi-objective Optimal Trade-off Between V2G Activities and Battery Degradation in Electric Mobility-as-a-Service Systems
This paper presents optimization models for electric Mobility-as-a-Service systems, whereby electric vehicles not only provide on-demand mobility, but also perform charging and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) operations to enhance the fleet operator profitability. Specifically, we formulate the optimal fleet operation problem as a mixed-integer linear program, with the objective combining of operational costs and revenues generated from servicing requests and grid electricity sales. Our cost function exp…

2024 NFL Draft: Iowa's Cooper DeJean cleared for football activities five months after broken leg, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl…

2024 NFL Draft: Iowa's Cooper DeJean cleared for football activities five months after broken leg, per report
The DB/punt returner let all 32 NFL teams know he's good to go and will hold an individual workout this week

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15345 has been replaced.
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RoboFiSense: Attention-Based Robotic Arm Activity Recognition with WiFi Sensing
Despite the current surge of interest in autonomous robotic systems, robot activity recognition within restricted indoor environments remains a formidable challenge. Conventional methods for detecting and recognizing robotic arms' activities often rely on vision-based or light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors, which require line-of-sight (LoS) access and may raise privacy concerns, for example, in nursing facilities. This research pioneers an innovative approach harnessing channel state in…

How do I have so much time? For starters, I don't participate in any activities requiring a "base layer."

Topological conditions drive stability in meta-ecosystems
Johannes Nauta, Manlio De Domenico
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05390 https://

Topological conditions drive stability in meta-ecosystems
On a global level, ecological communities are being perturbed at an unprecedented rate by human activities and environmental instabilities. Yet, we understand little about what factors facilitate or impede long-term persistence of these communities. While observational studies indicate that increased biodiversity must, somehow, be driving stability, theoretical studies have argued the exact opposite viewpoint instead. This encouraged many researchers to participate in the ongoing diversity-stab…

EVE: Enabling Anyone to Train Robot using Augmented Reality
Jun Wang, Chun-Cheng Chang, Jiafei Duan, Dieter Fox, Ranjay Krishna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06089

EVE: Enabling Anyone to Train Robot using Augmented Reality
The increasing affordability of robot hardware is accelerating the integration of robots into everyday activities. However, training a robot to automate a task typically requires physical robots and expensive demonstration data from trained human annotators. Consequently, only those with access to physical robots produce demonstrations to train robots. To mitigate this issue, we introduce EVE, an iOS app that enables everyday users to train robots using intuitive augmented reality visualization…

Today is the @… spring meeting. Just had a quick look at this game and it's so cool. Can't wait to try out at home...
#Education | Embark on Expedition Sea Level, a digital interactive activity to learn about the links between #SeaLevelRise, #glacier and ice sheet melting, and human activities
Play! https://protect-slr.eu/expedition-sea-level/

@… I know we’ve had this discussion before but: What about write only servers? Nothing that I can see in the AP spec mandates that a server actually accepts incoming activities.
If the gov had a server that only supports publishing messages, never receiving any (from anyone, hence not discriminating), is that still a problem?

Court dismisses all charges against Elokapina. Police confiscated the money of the organization saying that it was for illegal activities (demonstrations), and court dismissed this now because protesting is not a crime
https://yle.fi/a/74-20082277

Helsinki court dismisses all charges against Elokapina
The climate group had been accused of fundraising irregularities and fraud, with the prosecutor demanding that Yle delete part of a published story on the case.

Scholarships or not, this is not as strong an argument as they’d like to believe.
“Dartmouth … argued that the control it exerts over athletes is also common in other student activities and even in high school sports. Moreover, Dartmouth noted its basketball.
"’In three or fewer years, the entire team will be composed of Student-Athletes who had no part in these proceedings, and who had no voice in the election,’ the Trustees wrote in their motion.”
From:

press.coop
A mirror of Twitter press accounts.

This app is all about finding and dealing with People.
We have associated People with some of the #Activities they have engaged in and assigned a weight to each activity that is used to caculate their #Traitor #Score.
He…

#cycling loop done! I never rode my #MTB up this particular forest road to the #mountain and maybe I now know why: Some part of it is really steep - or I'm just unfit. But woah did I drive on my person…

Safeguarding People's Financial Health in Metaverse with Emotionally Intelligent Virtual Buddy
Syed Ali Asif, Emma Cao, Hang Chen, Chien-Chung Shen, Yan-Ming Chiou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05918

Safeguarding People's Financial Health in Metaverse with Emotionally Intelligent Virtual Buddy
The Metaverse, an immersive virtual world, has emerged as a shared space where people engage in various activities ranging from social interactions to commerce. Cryptocurrencies [3] and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) [6] play pivotal roles within this virtual realm, reshaping interactions and transactions. Cryptocurrencies, utilizing cryptographic techniques for security, enable decentralized and secure transactions, and NFTs represent ownership or proof of authenticity of unique digital assets thr…

2024 NFL Scouting Combine: What We Learned during Thursday's activities in Indianapolis https://www.nfl.com/news/2024-nfl-scouting-combine-what-we-learned-during-thursday-s-activities-in-indianapolis

2024 NFL Scouting Combine: What We Learned during Thursday's activities in Indianapolis
Is a star emerging at the NFL Scouting Combine before even taking the field at Lucas Oil Stadium? How is one of the draft's top prospects progressing in his return from injury? See the answers to those questions and more of What We Learned on Thursday in Indianapolis.

Decisioning Workshop 2023
Mario Lezoche (CRAN), Sanabria Freddy Mu\~noz (LIFIA, UNQ), Collazos Cesar (LIFIA, UNQ), Torres Diego (LIFIA, UNQ), Agredo Vanessa (LILPA), Ruiz Pablo (LILPA), Hurtado Julio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05495

Decisioning Workshop 2023
In a knowledge society, the term knowledge must be considered a core resource for organizations. So, beyond being a medium to progress and to innovate, knowledge is one of our most important resources: something necessary to decide.Organizations that are embracing knowledge retention activities are gaining a competitive advantage. Organizational rearrangements from companies, notably outsourcing, increase a possible loss of knowledge, making knowledge retention an essential need for them. When …

BOLD v4: A Centralized Bioinformatics Platform for DNA-based Biodiversity Data
Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Catherine Wei, Dean Chan, Jireh Agda, Josh Agda, Liliana Ballesteros-Mejia, Hamza Ait Boutou, Zak Mohammad El Bastami, Eddie Ma, Ramya Manjunath, Dana Rea, Chris Ho, Angela Telfer, Jaclyn McKeowan, Miduna Rahulan, Claudia Steinke, Justin Dorsheimer, Megan Milton, Paul D. N. Hebert

BOLD v4: A Centralized Bioinformatics Platform for DNA-based Biodiversity Data
BOLD, the Barcode of Life Data System, supports the acquisition, storage, validation, analysis, and publication of DNA barcodes, activities requiring the integration of molecular, morphological, and distributional data. Its pivotal role in curating the reference library of DNA barcodes, coupled with its data management and analysis capabilities, make it a central resource for biodiversity science. It enables rapid, accurate identification of specimens and also reveals patterns of genetic divers…

"Google LLC on Monday agreed to delete billions of data records that reflect certified class members' private browsing activities as part of a nonmonetary eve-of-trial settlement to resolve allegations that the tech giant surreptitiously tracks Chrome users running the browser's incognito mode."
In the meantime, of course, they used that data to train their LLMs. So the violation persists inside the LLM and is available for further discrimination.

Google Agrees To Delete Data To End 'Incognito' Class Claims - Law360
Google LLC on Monday agreed to delete billions of data records that reflect certified class members' private browsing activities as part of a nonmonetary eve-of-trial settlement to resolve allegations that the tech giant surreptitiously tracks Chrome users running the browser's incognito mode.

Safeguarding People's Financial Health in Metaverse with Emotionally Intelligent Virtual Buddy
Syed Ali Asif, Emma Cao, Hang Chen, Chien-Chung Shen, Yan-Ming Chiou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05918

Safeguarding People's Financial Health in Metaverse with Emotionally Intelligent Virtual Buddy
The Metaverse, an immersive virtual world, has emerged as a shared space where people engage in various activities ranging from social interactions to commerce. Cryptocurrencies [3] and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) [6] play pivotal roles within this virtual realm, reshaping interactions and transactions. Cryptocurrencies, utilizing cryptographic techniques for security, enable decentralized and secure transactions, and NFTs represent ownership or proof of authenticity of unique digital assets thr…

Out of sight, out of mind DOES NOT MEAN it's not going to cause unexpected problems ( but might enable #FalseSolutions )
https://www.earth.com/news/human-activitie

Human activities also greatly harm Earth’s subsurface, not just the landmass
The impact of human intervention reaches hundreds of meters to several kilometers beneath the planet's surface into Earth's deep subsurface.

Tether says it is working with Chainalysis to identify crypto wallets that could be used for bypassing sanctions or illicit activities like terrorist financing (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/polic…

This app is all about finding and dealing with People.
We have associated People with some of the #Activities they have engaged in and assigned a weight to each activity that is used to caculate their #Traitor #Score.
He…

Solar Eclipse Tracking Apps: https://tceajmg.micro.blog/2024/04/07/solar-eclipse-tracking.html

VoicePilot: Harnessing LLMs as Speech Interfaces for Physically Assistive Robots
Akhil Padmanabha, Jessie Yuan, Janavi Gupta, Zulekha Karachiwalla, Carmel Majidi, Henny Admoni, Zackory Erickson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04066

VoicePilot: Harnessing LLMs as Speech Interfaces for Physically Assistive Robots
Physically assistive robots present an opportunity to significantly increase the well-being and independence of individuals with motor impairments or other forms of disability who are unable to complete activities of daily living. Speech interfaces, especially ones that utilize Large Language Models (LLMs), can enable individuals to effectively and naturally communicate high-level commands and nuanced preferences to robots. Frameworks for integrating LLMs as interfaces to robots for high level …

#cycling loop done! I never rode my #MTB up this particular forest road to the #mountain and maybe I now know why: Some part of it is really steep - or I'm just unfit. But woah did I drive on my person…

Requirements Elicitation in Government Projects: A Preliminary Empirical Study
Anqi Ren, Lin Liu, Yi Wang, Xiao Liu, Hailong Wang, Kaijia Xu, Xishuo Zhang, Chetan Arora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05425

Requirements Elicitation in Government Projects: A Preliminary Empirical Study
Government development projects vary significantly from private sector initiatives in scope, stakeholder complexity, and regulatory requirements. There is a lack of empirical studies focusing on requirements engineering (RE) activities specifically for government projects. We addressed this gap by conducting a series of semi-structured interviews with 12 professional software practitioners working on government projects. These interviewees are employed by two types of companies, each serving di…

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VIVID: Human-AI Collaborative Authoring of Vicarious Dialogues from Lecture Videos
The lengthy monologue-style online lectures cause learners to lose engagement easily. Designing lectures in a "vicarious dialogue" format can foster learners' cognitive activities more than monologue-style. However, designing online lectures in a dialogue style catered to the diverse needs of learners is laborious for instructors. We conducted a design workshop with eight educational experts and seven instructors to present key guidelines and the potential use of large language models (LLM) to …

Beyond the Bridge: Contention-Based Covert and Side Channel Attacks on Multi-GPU Interconnect
Yicheng Zhang, Ravan Nazaraliyev, Sankha Baran Dutta, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Andres Marquez, Kevin Barker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03877

Beyond the Bridge: Contention-Based Covert and Side Channel Attacks on Multi-GPU Interconnect
High-speed interconnects, such as NVLink, are integral to modern multi-GPU systems, acting as a vital link between CPUs and GPUs. This study highlights the vulnerability of multi-GPU systems to covert and side channel attacks due to congestion on interconnects. An adversary can infer private information about a victim's activities by monitoring NVLink congestion without needing special permissions. Leveraging this insight, we develop a covert channel attack across two GPUs with a bandwidth of 4…

I really hope we can get some good people from Threads to move over before Meta starts to do even more untrustworthy things.
Besides the absolutely absurdly move of following and pushing a fake"Fediverse" account that makes people think Fediverse is a single entity or organization, they've already started discussions about expansions to AP to allow platforms to support ads and other shitty ways of monetization.
Fedi needs to make money to survive, I know that. I am behind that, but ads are the shadiest of all the monetization methods because of tracking. Nobody wants to be tracked no matter how "innocent" their activities are.
They've been REALLY quiet since activating AP on their end in a seemingly bad faith move to make the Fediverse seem "useless and pointless to use" by forcing users to educate themselves on the Fediverse if they even know it exists while also making the option to turn it on obscenely hard to locate from normal use.
All in all, I'm VERY skeptical of Meta's intentions and don't really think they'll end up fully federating in the end becuase "why enable a feature that a wide number of our users think is a useless feature?". I feel right now is as far as they're gonna go with it, maybe worldwide, but still one way because that benefits them, not us, and they won't push a feature that people think is useless.
Obviously this is intentional bad faith tactics, but they still have time to prove me wrong and I really hope they do. I really really hope one day we get full federation, but I would be very delusional to have high hopes that such a thing will ever occur given this week's revelations.🤦‍♂️
#Fediverse #Fedi #Meta #Threads #Mastodon

PEN Ukraine published the report on the organization’s activities in 2023: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/27/pen-ukraine-published.html

Darkverse -- A New DarkWeb?
Raymond Chan, Benjamin W. J. Kwok, Adriel Yeo, Kan Chen, Jeannie S. Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05923 https://

Darkverse -- A New DarkWeb?
The "Darkverse" could be the negative harmful area of the Metaverse; a new virtual immersive environment for the facilitation of illicit activity such as misinformation, fraud, harassment, and illegal marketplaces. This paper explores the potential for inappropriate activities within the Metaverse, and the similarities between the Darkverse and the Dark Web. Challenges and future directions for investigation are also discussed, including user identification, creation of privacy-preserving frame…

VoicePilot: Harnessing LLMs as Speech Interfaces for Physically Assistive Robots
Akhil Padmanabha, Jessie Yuan, Janavi Gupta, Zulekha Karachiwalla, Carmel Majidi, Henny Admoni, Zackory Erickson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04066

VoicePilot: Harnessing LLMs as Speech Interfaces for Physically Assistive Robots
Physically assistive robots present an opportunity to significantly increase the well-being and independence of individuals with motor impairments or other forms of disability who are unable to complete activities of daily living. Speech interfaces, especially ones that utilize Large Language Models (LLMs), can enable individuals to effectively and naturally communicate high-level commands and nuanced preferences to robots. Frameworks for integrating LLMs as interfaces to robots for high level …

Technology-assisted Journal Writing for Improving Student Mental Wellbeing: Humanoid Robot vs. Voice Assistant
Batuhan Sayis, Hatice Gunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05083

Technology-assisted Journal Writing for Improving Student Mental Wellbeing: Humanoid Robot vs. Voice Assistant
Conversational agents have a potential in improving student mental wellbeing while assisting them in self-disclosure activities such as journalling. Their embodiment might have an effect on what students disclose, and how they disclose this, and students overall adherence to the disclosure activity. However, the effect of embodiment in the context of agent assisted journal writing has not been studied. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the viability of using social robots (SR) and voice…

Get fun ideas for coding and robotics in grades K-8, like making games, creating stories, programming robots, and solving problems! https://blog.tcea.org/scope-and-sequence-computational-thinking-part-2/

Free-agent RB J.K. Dobbins to visit Chargers Thursday after being cleared for football activities https://www.nfl.com/news/free-agent-rb-j-k-dobbins-to-visit-chargers-thursday-after-being-cleared-for-football-acti…

Free-agent RB J.K. Dobbins to visit Chargers Thursday after being cleared for football activities
Free-agent running back J.K Dobbins could be in for a reunion with offensive coordinator Greg Roman. Dobbins is scheduled to visit the Los Angeles Chargers on Thursday, NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero reported, per a source informed of the plan.

A significant wildfire in Texas has resulted in one fatality, prompted evacuations, disrupted electrical services, and temporarily halted activities at a nuclear facility. The fire has consumed 1.1 million acres near Amarillo, ranking as the second-largest in U.S. history.
Governor Greg Abbott has declared a state of disaster in 60 counties. The fire, fueled by dry vegetation, high temperatures, and strong winds, is only 3% contained.
In Hutchinson County, an 83-year-old woman, J…

Texas under fire: The wildfire is already the second largest in US history - International Monitor
A significant wildfire in Texas has resulted in one fatality, prompted evacuations, disrupted electrical services, and temporarily halted activities at a nuclear facility.

Codexity: Secure AI-assisted Code Generation
Sung Yong Kim, Zhiyu Fan, Yannic Noller, Abhik Roychoudhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03927 https://

Codexity: Secure AI-assisted Code Generation
Despite the impressive performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software development activities, recent studies show the concern of introducing vulnerabilities into software codebase by AI programming assistants (e.g., Copilot, CodeWhisperer). In this work, we present Codexity, a security-focused code generation framework integrated with five LLMs. Codexity leverages the feedback of static analysis tools such as Infer and CppCheck to mitigate security vulnerabilities in LLM-generated prog…

ToolEENet: Tool Affordance 6D Pose Estimation
Yunlong Wang, Lei Zhang, Yuyang Tu, Hui Zhang, Kaixin Bai, Zhaopeng Chen, Jianwei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04193

ToolEENet: Tool Affordance 6D Pose Estimation
The exploration of robotic dexterous hands utilizing tools has recently attracted considerable attention. A significant challenge in this field is the precise awareness of a tool's pose when grasped, as occlusion by the hand often degrades the quality of the estimation. Additionally, the tool's overall pose often fails to accurately represent the contact interaction, thereby limiting the effectiveness of vision-guided, contact-dependent activities. To overcome this limitation, we present the in…

J.K. Dobbins' surgeon tells teams RB is cleared for football activities, looks 'outstanding', per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…

J.K. Dobbins' surgeon tells teams RB is cleared for football activities, looks 'outstanding', per report
Dobbins tore his Achilles in Week 1 of the 2023 season

sqlelf: a SQL-centric Approach to ELF Analysis
Farid Zakaria, Zheyuan Chen, Andrew Quinn, Thomas R. W. Scogland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03883 https://…

sqlelf: a SQL-centric Approach to ELF Analysis
The exploration and understanding of Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) objects underpin various critical activities in computer systems, from debugging to reverse engineering. Traditional UNIX tooling like readelf, nm, and objdump have served the community reliably over the years. However, as the complexity and scale of software projects has grown, there arises a need for more intuitive, flexible, and powerful methods to investigate ELF objects. In this paper, we introduce sqlelf, an innovat…

ToolEENet: Tool Affordance 6D Pose Estimation
Yunlong Wang, Lei Zhang, Yuyang Tu, Hui Zhang, Kaixin Bai, Zhaopeng Chen, Jianwei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04193

ToolEENet: Tool Affordance 6D Pose Estimation
The exploration of robotic dexterous hands utilizing tools has recently attracted considerable attention. A significant challenge in this field is the precise awareness of a tool's pose when grasped, as occlusion by the hand often degrades the quality of the estimation. Additionally, the tool's overall pose often fails to accurately represent the contact interaction, thereby limiting the effectiveness of vision-guided, contact-dependent activities. To overcome this limitation, we present the in…

LLMs in the Heart of Differential Testing: A Case Study on a Medical Rule Engine
Erblin Isaku, Christoph Laaber, Hassan Sartaj, Shaukat Ali, Thomas Schwitalla, Jan F. Nyg{\aa}rd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03664

LLMs in the Heart of Differential Testing: A Case Study on a Medical Rule Engine
The Cancer Registry of Norway (CRN) uses an automated cancer registration support system (CaReSS) to support core cancer registry activities, i.e, data capture, data curation, and producing data products and statistics for various stakeholders. GURI is a core component of CaReSS, which is responsible for validating incoming data with medical rules. Such medical rules are manually implemented by medical experts based on medical standards, regulations, and research. Since large language models (L…

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Never Skip Leg Day Again: Training the Lower Body with Vertical Jumps in a Virtual Reality Exergame
Virtual Reality (VR) exergames can increase engagement in and motivation for physical activities. Most VR exergames focus on the upper body because many VR setups only track the users' heads and hands. To become a serious alternative to existing exercise programs, VR exergames must provide a balanced workout and train the lower limbs, too. To address this issue, we built a VR exergame focused on vertical jump training to explore full-body exercise applications. To create a safe and effective tr…

ChoreoVis: Planning and Assessing Formations in Dance Choreographies
Samuel Beck, Nina Doerr, Kuno Kurzhals, Alexander Riedlinger, Fabian Schmierer, Michael Sedlmair, Steffen Koch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04100

ChoreoVis: Planning and Assessing Formations in Dance Choreographies
Sports visualization has developed into an active research field over the last decades. Many approaches focus on analyzing movement data recorded from unstructured situations, such as soccer. For the analysis of choreographed activities like formation dancing, however, the goal differs, as dancers follow specific formations in coordinated movement trajectories. To date, little work exists on how visual analytics methods can support such choreographed performances. To fill this gap, we introduce…

Perception in Pixels: Understanding Avatar Representation in Video-Mediated Collaborative Interactions
Pitch Sinlapanuntakul, Mark Zachry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03844

Perception in Pixels: Understanding Avatar Representation in Video-Mediated Collaborative Interactions
Despite the abundance of research concerning virtual reality (VR) avatars, the impact of screen-based or augmented reality (AR) avatars for real-world applications remain relatively unexplored. Notably, there is a lack of research examining video-mediated collaborative interaction experiences using AR avatars for goal-directed group activities. This study bridges this gap with a mixed-methods, quasi-experimental user study that investigates video-based small-group interactions when employing AR…