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Just noticed today that MacOS puts a little bit of resistance when you are pushing a window towards another, or when you align them on the sides/edges.
Makes it so that it is easy to get your windows aligned or perfectly side-by-side.
Not sure when this first came up, but it is such a nice touch.

The stars are aligned for accelerated growth in the UK’s space economy, thanks to an active venture capital community, close collaboration, and a government that’s increasingly cognizant of quantum computing’s potential.
Already, startups in the home-grown space industry are pioneering research that demonstrates the sector’s cutting-edge and world-leading capabilities.
Just take aerospace #Space…

Amplifying space’s potential with quantum

Aligned With Kell Quarrell
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Aligned With Kell Quarrell | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Aligned With Kell Quarrell Host: Kell Quarrell Category: Business Sub-Category: Entrepreneurship First Episode: 2024 A podcast for all things business, mindset…

Small #PhanpySocial update before the new features 😉
👀 Show lists containing account in the menu
🍽️ Redesigned context menu
🐛 Bug fixes
🔗 https://phanpy.social/
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Phanpy
Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

Doppelgänger | Russia-Aligned Influence Operation Targets Germany
https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/doppelganger-russia-aligned-influence-operation-targets-germany/

@… it's not just you, and it's not search results alone. My sidebar is given a bizarre mix of loathsome content that's certainly not aligned with my viewing/listening preferences.

Just noticed today that MacOS puts a little bit of resistance when you are pushing a window towards another, or when you align them on the sides/edges.
Makes it so that it is easy to get your windows aligned or perfectly side-by-side.
Not sure when this first came up, but it is such a nice touch.

It seems quite strange to me that some here claim to be SO supportive of making your own choices....until that choice isn't aligned with their own....🤦‍♂️

Small #PhanpySocial update before the new features 😉
👀 Show lists containing account in the menu
🍽️ Redesigned context menu
🐛 Bug fixes
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Phanpy
Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.13400 has been replaced.
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Parabolic Tamari Lattices in Linear Type B
We study parabolic aligned elements associated with the type-$B$ Coxeter group and the so-called linear Coxeter element. These elements were introduced algebraically in (Mühle and Williams, 2019) for parabolic quotients of finite Coxeter groups and were characterized by a certain forcing condition on inversions. We focus on the type-$B$ case and give a combinatorial model for these elements in terms of pattern avoidance. Moreover, we describe an equivalence relation on parabolic quotients of t…

PRP: Propagating Universal Perturbations to Attack Large Language Model Guard-Rails
Neal Mangaokar, Ashish Hooda, Jihye Choi, Shreyas Chandrashekaran, Kassem Fawaz, Somesh Jha, Atul Prakash
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15911

PRP: Propagating Universal Perturbations to Attack Large Language Model Guard-Rails
Large language models (LLMs) are typically aligned to be harmless to humans. Unfortunately, recent work has shown that such models are susceptible to automated jailbreak attacks that induce them to generate harmful content. More recent LLMs often incorporate an additional layer of defense, a Guard Model, which is a second LLM that is designed to check and moderate the output response of the primary LLM. Our key contribution is to show a novel attack strategy, PRP, that is successful against sev…

The Paradox of Industrial Involvement in Engineering Higher Education
Srinjoy Mitra, Jean-Pierre Raskin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16766 https://

The Paradox of Industrial Involvement in Engineering Higher Education
This paper discusses the importance of reflective and socially conscious education in engineering schools, particularly within the EE/CS sector. While most engineering disciplines have historically aligned themselves with the demands of the technology industry, the lack of critical examination of industry practices and their impact on justice, equality, and sustainability is self-evident. Today, the for-profit engineering/technology companies, some of which are among the largest in the world, a…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01744 has been replaced.
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NoteLLM: A Retrievable Large Language Model for Note Recommendation
People enjoy sharing "notes" including their experiences within online communities. Therefore, recommending notes aligned with user interests has become a crucial task. Existing online methods only input notes into BERT-based models to generate note embeddings for assessing similarity. However, they may underutilize some important cues, e.g., hashtags or categories, which represent the key concepts of notes. Indeed, learning to generate hashtags/categories can potentially enhance note embedding…

Spin Doctors: How to diagnose a hierarchical merger origin
Ethan Payne, Kyle Kremer, Michael Zevin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15066 https://

Spin Doctors: How to diagnose a hierarchical merger origin
Gravitational-wave observations provide the unique opportunity of studying black hole formation channels and histories -- but only if we can identify their origin. One such formation mechanism is the dynamical synthesis of black hole binaries in dense stellar systems. Given the expected isotropic distribution of component spins of binary black hole in gas-free dynamical environments, the presence of anti-aligned or in-plane spins with respect to the orbital angular momentum is considered a tell…

Revisiting thermoelectric effects in the crust of neutron stars
Dionysios Gakis, Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14911 https://

Revisiting thermoelectric effects in the crust of neutron stars
Context. Large thermal variations have been observed in neutron stars that typically are not aligned with density gradients. Such terms may activate the Biermann battery effect, leading to thermo-electric interactions and the generation of electromotive force. Aims. We aim to identify the impact a temperature anisotropy on a neutron star's crust can have in the evolution of its magnetic field, through the thermo-electric terms. Methods. We consider a neutron star crust with large temperature gr…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06891 has been replaced.
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Unsupervised Representation Learning for 3D MRI Super Resolution with Degradation Adaptation
High-resolution (HR) magnetic resonance imaging is critical in aiding doctors in their diagnoses and image-guided treatments. However, acquiring HR images can be time-consuming and costly. Consequently, deep learning-based super-resolution reconstruction (SRR) has emerged as a promising solution for generating super-resolution (SR) images from low-resolution (LR) images. Unfortunately, training such neural networks requires aligned authentic HR and LR image pairs, which are challenging to obtai…

B-fields And dust in interstelLar fiLAments using Dust POLarization (BALLAD-POL): II. Testing the Radiative Torque Paradigm in Musca and OMC-1
Nguyen Bich Ngoc, Thiem Hoang, Pham Ngoc Diep, Le Ngoc Tram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16857

B-fields And dust in interstelLar fiLAments using Dust POLarization (BALLAD-POL): II. Testing the Radiative Torque Paradigm in Musca and OMC-1
Polarization of starlight and thermal dust emission caused by aligned dust grains is a valuable tool to characterize magnetic fields (B-fields) and constrain dust properties. However, the physics of grain alignment is not fully understood. To test the popular paradigm of radiative torque (RAT) theory, including RAT alignment (RAT-A) and disruption (RAT-D), we use dust polarization data observed by {\it Planck} and SOFIA/HAWC+ toward two filaments with contrasting physical conditions: Musca, a q…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03923 has been replaced.
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Return-Aligned Decision Transformer
Traditional approaches in offline reinforcement learning aim to learn the optimal policy that maximizes the cumulative reward, also known as return. However, as applications broaden, it becomes increasingly crucial to train agents that not only maximize the returns, but align the actual return with a specified target return, giving control over the agent's performance. Decision Transformer (DT) optimizes a policy that generates actions conditioned on the target return through supervised learnin…

Flexibility Pricing in Distribution Systems: A Direct Method Aligned with Flexibility Models
Yilin Wen, Yi Guo, Zechun Hu, Gabriela Hug
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14386

Flexibility Pricing in Distribution Systems: A Direct Method Aligned with Flexibility Models
Effective quantification of costs and values of distributed energy resources (DERs) can enhance the power system's utilization of their flexibility. This paper studies the flexibility pricing of DERs in distribution systems. We first propose a flexibility cost formulation based on adjustment ranges in both power and accumulated energy consumption. Compared with traditional power range-based approaches, the proposed method can quantify the potential inconvenience caused to DER users by flexibili…

Deep Learning Approach to Forecasting COVID-19 Cases in Residential Buildings of Hong Kong Public Housing Estates: The Role of Environment and Sociodemographics
E. Leung (JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong), J. Guan (JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong), KO. Kwok (JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong), CT. Hung (JC School of Public Health and Primary Ca…

Deep Learning Approach to Forecasting COVID-19 Cases in Residential Buildings of Hong Kong Public Housing Estates: The Role of Environment and Sociodemographics
Introduction: The current study investigates the complex association between COVID-19 and the studied districts' socioecology (e.g. internal and external built environment, sociodemographic profiles, etc.) to quantify their contributions to the early outbreaks and epidemic resurgence of COVID-19. Methods: We aligned the analytic model's architecture with the hierarchical structure of the resident's socioecology using a multi-headed hierarchical convolutional neural network to structure the vast…

GraphMatcher: A Graph Representation Learning Approach for Ontology Matching
Sefika Efeoglu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14450 https://…

GraphMatcher: A Graph Representation Learning Approach for Ontology Matching
Ontology matching is defined as finding a relationship or correspondence between two or more entities in two or more ontologies. To solve the interoperability problem of the domain ontologies, semantically similar entities in these ontologies must be found and aligned before merging them. GraphMatcher, developed in this study, is an ontology matching system using a graph attention approach to compute higher-level representation of a class together with its surrounding terms. The GraphMatcher ha…

“The compounding non-obvious value from doing exceptional work.”
https://randsinrepose.com/archives/crazy-charlies-window/

Crazy Charlie's Window
Second year of UCSC. Decades ago. A predilection for Domino's Pizza and a fundamental misunderstanding of how credit cards worked left me in a financial hole. I needed a job, any job, and the School of Social Sciences offered a job aligned with my computer science degree, lab technician. A solid in

Russia-aligned hackers target European and Iranian embassies in new espionage campaign
https://therecord.media/russia-aligned-hackers-target-european-and-iranian-embassies-cyber-espionage

There's definitely a possible future where Moscow positions itself as the heavy weapons manufacturer in Eastasia, as Oceania and Eurasia drift apart... A relatively minor alteration to Orwell's map. Brexit kept Airstrip One aligned with Oceania.
https://www.

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) XIII: Aligned Disks with Non-Settled Dust Around the Newly Resolved Class 0 Protobinary R CrA IRAS 32
Frankie J. Encalada (Insa Choi), Leslie W. Looney (Insa Choi), Shigehisa Takakuwa (Insa Choi), John J. Tobin (Insa Choi), Nagayoshi Ohashi (Insa Choi), Jes K. J{\o}rgensen (Insa Choi), Zhi-Yun Li (Insa Choi), Yuri Aikawa (Insa Choi), Yusuke Aso (Insa Choi), Patrick M. Koch (Insa Choi), Woojin Kwon (Insa Choi), Shih-Ping Lai (Insa Choi), …

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) XIII: Aligned Disks with Non-Settled Dust Around the Newly Resolved Class 0 Protobinary R CrA IRAS 32
Young protostellar binary systems, with expected ages less than $\sim$10$^5$ years, are little modified since birth, providing key clues to binary formation and evolution. We present a first look at the young, Class 0 binary protostellar system R CrA IRAS 32 from the Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) ALMA large program, which observed the system in the 1.3 mm continuum emission, $^{12}$CO (2-1), $^{13}$CO (2-1), C$^{18}$O (2-1), SO (6$_5$-5$_4$), and nine other molecular lines th…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12650 has been replaced.
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When Federated Recommendation Meets Cold-Start Problem: Separating Item Attributes and User Interactions
Federated recommendation system usually trains a global model on the server without direct access to users' private data on their own devices. However, this separation of the recommendation model and users' private data poses a challenge in providing quality service, particularly when it comes to new items, namely cold-start recommendations in federated settings. This paper introduces a novel method called Item-aligned Federated Aggregation (IFedRec) to address this challenge. It is the first r…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17558 has been replaced.
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A Channel to Form Fast-spinning Black Hole-Neutron Star Binary Mergers as Multimessenger Sources. II. Accretion-induced Spin-up
In this work, we investigate an alternative channel for the formation of fast-spinning black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binaries, in which super-Eddington accretion is expected to occur in accreting BHs during the stable mass transfer phase within BH-stripped helium (BH--He-rich) star binary systems. We evolve intensive \texttt{MESA} grids of close-orbit BH--He-rich star systems to systematically explore the projected aligned spins of BHs in BHNS binaries, as well as the impact of different accre…

Business For Aligned Women
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Business For Aligned Women | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Business For Aligned Women Host: Clara Category: Business Sub-Category: Entrepreneurship First Episode: 2022 Welcome to the podcast designed exclusively for visionary women business owners…

Andy Googling — ethically-aligned illustration and design jobs

Alignment Transport Between Ultracold Polar Molecules
Jonathan Smucker, Jesus P\'erez-R\'ios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15626 https://

Alignment Transport Between Ultracold Polar Molecules
We propose an array of ultracold polar molecules as a platform to study alignment transport between molecules. We envision a polar molecule being aligned with an intense off-resonant laser field whose alignment migrates to a nearby molecule due to dipole-dipole interactions. Our results show that the transport of the alignment is due to a complex interplay between electric field-driven excitations and dipole-dipole interactions. All mechanisms for transfer are elucidated and analyzed, and using…

"Just move to Matrix, Discord is insecure”
I mean, yes*. But also: the community will cease to exist if you try to move it. Communication technology is situated. Community is in its connections, and if you bifurcate it, it becomes two different communities.
If you wholesale shut down the old and start the new, you'll have a very different community when it arrives.
Maybe, if you get a bulk of people together and organized, you can pull it off. It means the slow careful work of mapping enough relationships so that you know you have a coherent cluster of people aligned to do the move.
* I have a whole rant about what "secure" means in the context of community but you'll have to wait or ask for that.

'Bloodbath at the RNC': GOP staffers to be purged as Trump-aligned leaders take over - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/bloodbath-at-the-rnc/

'Bloodbath at the RNC': GOP staffers to be purged as Trump-aligned leaders take over
Newly-elected Republican Party officials loyal to former President Donald Trump are planning a mass purge of staffers at the Republican National Committee, with as many as 60 officials on the chopping block, a new report shows.Politico reporter Sam Stein dubbed it a "bloodbath at the RNC."Some of ax...

"No oil and gas majors aligned with climate targets: Report"
#Oil #Gas #FossilFuels #Climate

No oil and gas majors aligned with climate targets: Report
All major oil and gas companies plan fossil fuel expansion incompatible with limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a new report said Wednesday.

Researchers detail ArtPrompt, a jailbreak that uses ASCII art to elicit harmful responses from aligned LLMs such as GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Gemini, Claude, and Llama2 (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/

ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots
LLMs are trained to block harmful responses. Old-school images can override those rules.

Filter Bubble or Homogenization? Disentangling the Long-Term Effects of Recommendations on User Consumption Patterns
Md Sanzeed Anwar, Grant Schoenebeck, Paramveer S. Dhillon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15013

Filter Bubble or Homogenization? Disentangling the Long-Term Effects of Recommendations on User Consumption Patterns
Recommendation algorithms play a pivotal role in shaping our media choices, which makes it crucial to comprehend their long-term impact on user behavior. These algorithms are often linked to two critical outcomes: homogenization, wherein users consume similar content despite disparate underlying preferences, and the filter bubble effect, wherein individuals with differing preferences only consume content aligned with their preferences (without much overlap with other users). Prior research assu…

Swarm-Based Trajectory Generation and Optimization for Stress-Aligned 3D Printing
Xavier Guidetti, Efe C. Balta, John Lygeros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10686

Swarm-Based Trajectory Generation and Optimization for Stress-Aligned 3D Printing
In this study, we present a novel swarm-based approach for generating optimized stress-aligned trajectories for 3D printing applications. The method utilizes swarming dynamics to simulate the motion of virtual agents along the stress produced in a loaded part. Agent trajectories are then used as print trajectories. With this approach, the complex global trajectory generation problem is subdivided into a set of sequential and computationally efficient quadratic programs. Through comprehensive ev…

GDTM: An Indoor Geospatial Tracking Dataset with Distributed Multimodal Sensors
Ho Lyun Jeong, Ziqi Wang, Colin Samplawski, Jason Wu, Shiwei Fang, Lance M. Kaplan, Deepak Ganesan, Benjamin Marlin, Mani Srivastava
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14136

GDTM: An Indoor Geospatial Tracking Dataset with Distributed Multimodal Sensors
Constantly locating moving objects, i.e., geospatial tracking, is essential for autonomous building infrastructure. Accurate and robust geospatial tracking often leverages multimodal sensor fusion algorithms, which require large datasets with time-aligned, synchronized data from various sensor types. However, such datasets are not readily available. Hence, we propose GDTM, a nine-hour dataset for multimodal object tracking with distributed multimodal sensors and reconfigurable sensor node place…

"Asked about the measure’s impact on privacy, Breed told reporters that 'there’s no privacy anymore.'" Yikes. That'll be a NOPE on Prop E from me.
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/a

Why Safai stands out by standing against Prop E
Breed and Lurie support SF’s public safety ballot measure, but Safai despises it.

Differently Aligned - For Neurodivergent Business Owners
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/differently-aligned-for-neurodivergent-business-owners/

Differently Aligned | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Differently Aligned – For Neurodivergent Business Owners Host: Adina Levy Category: Business Sub-Category: Entrepreneurship First Episode: 2024 A podcast full of support, ideas…

LinkShare: Learning.com's TechApps: State-Adopted and 100% Aligned #tceajmg #tcea: https://

Fun with rectangles

Stable matching as transportation
Federico Echenique, Joseph Root, Fedor Sandomirskiy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13378 https://arxiv.…

Stable matching as transportation
We study matching markets with aligned preferences and establish a connection between common design objectives -- stability, efficiency, and fairness -- and the theory of optimal transport. Optimal transport gives new insights into the structural properties of matchings obtained from pursuing these objectives, and into the trade-offs between different objectives. Matching markets with aligned preferences provide a tractable stylized model capturing supply-demand imbalances in a range of setting…

Fine Structure-Aware Sampling: A New Sampling Training Scheme for Pixel-Aligned Implicit Models in Single-View Human Reconstruction
Kennard Yanting Chan, Fayao Liu, Guosheng Lin, Chuan Sheng Foo, Weisi Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19197

Fine Structure-Aware Sampling: A New Sampling Training Scheme for Pixel-Aligned Implicit Models in Single-View Human Reconstruction
Pixel-aligned implicit models, such as PIFu, PIFuHD, and ICON, are used for single-view clothed human reconstruction. These models need to be trained using a sampling training scheme. Existing sampling training schemes either fail to capture thin surfaces (e.g. ears, fingers) or cause noisy artefacts in reconstructed meshes. To address these problems, we introduce Fine Structured-Aware Sampling (FSS), a new sampling training scheme to train pixel-aligned implicit models for single-view human re…

Letta’s report aligns with views of major telecoms on market integration
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-2137ea19-7d4e160aafff8a6a
Letta’s report aligns with views of major telecoms on market integrationLaying out his vision of a harmonised s…

Cowboys' Dak Prescott 'not trying to be highest-paid necessarily'; addresses possibility of leaving Dallas

https://www.cbssports.com/nf…

Cowboys' Dak Prescott 'not trying to be highest-paid necessarily'; addresses possibility of leaving Dallas
Prescott would like to remain with Dallas on a new deal, is 'aligned' on where he stands with Jerry Jones

armchair activist: "you can't be working with housing contractors and realtors to try to make stuff affordable"
meanwhile, sweat equity programs where one foreman helps people build their houses
or: "you work with the moderates? how dare you"
or: "you work with the progressives and not the anarchists? you obviously aren't aligned with mutual aid"
or: "you work with a politician for the dems? how are you going to change things?"
approximately: "you must forego all systems of organized support, you must do this thing entirely keto"
my friend,
reality of it is, you need money to buy land, or you need the city council to donate the sewer
you need friends
as you advocate for better things
we can't do /everything/ as principled standoffish jerks
there's definitely things we can be punk about
but it really damn helps when you have a super awesome city council member you helped get elected
yeah, the system is busted
but it'll take time and **friends** to change it.

Random-Order Online Interval Scheduling and Geometric Generalizations
Mohit Garg, Debajyoti Kar, Arindam Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14201 https://

Random-Order Online Interval Scheduling and Geometric Generalizations
In the Maximum Independent Set of Hyperrectangles problem, we are given a set of $n$ (possibly overlapping) $d$-dimensional axis-aligned hyperrectangles, and the goal is to find a subset of non-overlapping hyperrectangles of maximum cardinality. For $d=1$, this corresponds to the classical Interval Scheduling problem, where a simple greedy algorithm returns an optimal solution. In the offline setting, for $d$-dimensional hyperrectangles, polynomial time $(\log n)^{O(d)}$-approximation algorithm…

Identifying and interpreting non-aligned human conceptual representations using language modeling
Wanqian Bao, Uri Hasson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06204 …

Identifying and interpreting non-aligned human conceptual representations using language modeling
The question of whether people's experience in the world shapes conceptual representation and lexical semantics is longstanding. Word-association, feature-listing and similarity rating tasks aim to address this question but require a subjective interpretation of the latent dimensions identified. In this study, we introduce a supervised representational-alignment method that (i) determines whether two groups of individuals share the same basis of a certain category, and (ii) explains in what res…

The Trump lumpen baseless have aligned themselves through the Republican, Conservative, and Christo fascists with the creepy psycho endlessly greedy billionaires that use their mass media to spread their propaganda.
Support other media.
Vote for Democracy!

Differently Aligned - For Neurodivergent Business Owners
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/differently-aligned-for-neurodivergent-business-owners/

Differently Aligned | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Differently Aligned – For Neurodivergent Business Owners Host: Adina Levy Category: Business Sub-Category: Entrepreneurship First Episode: 2024 A podcast full of support, ideas…

Active microrheology of fluids with orientational order
J. S. Lintuvuori, A. W\"urger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14850 https://a…

Active microrheology of fluids with orientational order
We study the dynamics of a driven spherical colloidal particle moving in a fluid with a broken rotational symmetry. Using a nematic liquid crystal as a model, we demonstrate that when the applied force is not aligned along or perpendicular to the orientational order, the colloidal velocity does not align with the force, but forms an angle with respect to the pulling direction. This leads to blue an anisotropic hydrodynamic drag tensor which depends on the material parameters. In the case of nem…

Rufus and Oliver aligned on a new board
#Caturday

I was just looking at the #collective tag to see if there's any design/development collectives, doing important work in an ethically aligned direction.
It's something I've wanted to be a part of for a while. My work is 100% remote/distributed already and I strongly believe that I have the experience to make me valuable. If I had the confidence to do so, I would build my own colle…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07903 has been replaced.
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Competing charge and magnetic order in the candidate centrosymmetric skyrmion host EuGa$_2$Al$_2$
Eu(Ga$_{1-x}$Al$_x$)$_4$ are centrosymmetric systems that have recently been identified as candidates to stabilise topologically non-trivial magnetic phases, such as skyrmion lattices. In this Letter, we present a high-resolution resonant x-ray and neutron scattering study on EuAl2Ga2 that provides new details of the complex coupling between the electronic ordering phenomena. Our results unambiguously demonstrate that the system orders to form a spin density wave with moments aligned perpendicu…

#WestSeattle street-name planning has, uh, incurred a persistent cognitive load tax on pedestrian and automotive street users alike

Trump Considers Adding Paul Manafort
—a “Grave Counterintelligence Threat”
—to His Campaign
Paul Manafort is a disgraced political operator and lobbyist who was pushed out as Trump’s campaign manager in 2016 after allegations emerged that he had received millions of dollars in secret payments from a Russia-aligned leader of Ukraine. He was subsequently found guilty of assorted crimes, including bank fraud, tax evasion, and obstruction of justice and sentenced to more than se…

Trump considers adding Paul Manafort—a "grave counterintelligence threat"—to his campaign.
What could possibly go wrong?

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05357 has been replaced.
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Dynamic Geometric Connectivity in the Plane with Constant Query Time
We present the first fully dynamic connectivity data structures for geometric intersection graphs achieving constant query time and sublinear amortized update time for most types of geometric objects in 2D. Our data structures can answer connectivity queries between two objects, as well as "global" connectivity queries (e.g., deciding whether the entire graph is connected). Previously, the data structure by Afshani and Chan (ESA'06) achieved such bounds only in the special case of axis-aligned …

Development of a gyrokinetic-MHD energetic particle simulation code Part II: Linear simulations of Alfv\'en eigenmodes driven by energetic particles
Z. Y. Liu, P. Y. Jiang, S. Y. Liu, L. L. Zhang, G. Y. Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14357

Development of a gyrokinetic-MHD energetic particle simulation code Part II: Linear simulations of Alfvén eigenmodes driven by energetic particles
We have developed a hybrid code GMEC: Gyro-kinetic Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Energetic-particle Code that can numerically simulate energetic particle-driven Alfvén eigenmodes and energetic particle transport in tokamak plasmas. In order to resolve the Alfvén eigenmodes with high toroidal numbers effectively, the field-aligned coordinates and meshes are adopted. The extended MHD equations are solved with five-points finite difference method and fourth order Runge-Kutta method. The gyrokinetic…

@… any chance OpenCollective might start offering a lightweight equivalent of Stripe Atlas? Aimed strictly at commons-aligned, public benefit corporations and the like.
I find myself wanting a super simple way to get small OSS startups and coops off the ground with a paid product.
I collaborate with some people who are unbank…

GDTM: An Indoor Geospatial Tracking Dataset with Distributed Multimodal Sensors
Ho Lyun Jeong, Ziqi Wang, Colin Samplawski, Jason Wu, Shiwei Fang, Lance M. Kaplan, Deepak Ganesan, Benjamin Marlin, Mani Srivastava
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14136

GDTM: An Indoor Geospatial Tracking Dataset with Distributed Multimodal Sensors
Constantly locating moving objects, i.e., geospatial tracking, is essential for autonomous building infrastructure. Accurate and robust geospatial tracking often leverages multimodal sensor fusion algorithms, which require large datasets with time-aligned, synchronized data from various sensor types. However, such datasets are not readily available. Hence, we propose GDTM, a nine-hour dataset for multimodal object tracking with distributed multimodal sensors and reconfigurable sensor node place…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15419 has been replaced.
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Updated global fit of the aligned two-Higgs-doublet model with heavy scalars
An updated global fit on the parameter-space of the Aligned Two-Higgs-Doublet model has been performed with the help of the open-source package HEPfit, assuming the Standard-Model Higgs to be the lightest scalar. No new sources of CP violation, other than the phase in the CKM matrix of the Standard Model, have been considered. A similar global fit was previously performed in Ref. [JHEP 05 (2021) 005] with a slightly different set of parameters. Our updated fit incorporates improved analyses of …

DNC accuses RFK Jr. campaign and super PAC of illegal coordination (Filip Timotija/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4459038-dnc-accuses-rfk-jr-campaign-super-pac-of-illegal-coordination/

DNC accuses RFK Jr. campaign and super PAC of illegal coordination
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) accused independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign and his aligned super PAC of illegal coordination, alleging he is receiving improper benefits from the group supporting his push to get his name on the ballot in all 50 states.  The complaint, filed Friday with the Federal Election Commission (FEC),…

Reality Bites: Assessing the Realism of Driving Scenarios with Large Language Models
Jiahui Wu, Chengjie Lu, Aitor Arrieta, Tao Yue, Shaukat Ali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09906 <…

Reality Bites: Assessing the Realism of Driving Scenarios with Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) are demonstrating outstanding potential for tasks such as text generation, summarization, and classification. Given that such models are trained on a humongous amount of online knowledge, we hypothesize that LLMs can assess whether driving scenarios generated by autonomous driving testing techniques are realistic, i.e., being aligned with real-world driving conditions. To test this hypothesis, we conducted an empirical evaluation to assess whether LLMs are effective…

I rarely have the opportunity to actually talk to “young people” nowadays but a guy at work brought his daughter (22 ) into the break room. She started talking about the eclipse to her boyfriend.
“Make sure you fill up on gas before tomorrow because the eclipse will mess up the electronics on the gas pumps…"
“All the planets will be aligned for the eclipse tomorrow….”
Etc….
I gently asked her, “Where did you wear all of this?"
“Social media…"

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On blow-up conditions for solutions of systems of quasilinear second-order elliptic inequalities
We study systems of the differential inequalities $$ \left\{ \begin{aligned} & - \operatorname{div} A_1 (x, \nabla u_1) \ge F_1 (x, u_2) & \mbox{in } {\mathbb R}^n, & - \operatorname{div} A_2 (x, \nabla u_2) \ge F_2 (x, u_1) & \mbox{in } {\mathbb R}^n, \end{aligned} \right. $$ where $n \ge 2$ and $A_i$ are Caratheodory functions such that $$ C_1 |ξ|^{p_i} \le ξ A_i (x, ξ), \quad |A_i (x, ξ)| \le C_2 |ξ|^{p_i …

Influence of strain and point defects on the electronic structure and related properties of (111)NiO epitaxial films
Bhabani Prasad Sahu, Poonam Sharma, Santosh Kumar Yadav, Alok Shukla, Subhabrata Dhar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13007

Influence of strain and point defects on the electronic structure and related properties of (111)NiO epitaxial films
(111)NiO epitaxial films are grown on c-sapphire substrates at various growth temperatures ranging from room-temperature to 600C using pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique. Two series of samples, where different laser fluences are used to ablate the target, are studied here. Films grown with higher laser fluence, are found to be embedded with Ni-clusters crystallographically aligned with the (111)NiO matrix. While the layers grown with lower laser energy density exhibit p-type conductivity s…

Stable matching as transportation
Federico Echenique, Joseph Root, Fedor Sandomirskiy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13378 https://arxiv.…

Stable matching as transportation
We study matching markets with aligned preferences and establish a connection between common design objectives -- stability, efficiency, and fairness -- and the theory of optimal transport. Optimal transport gives new insights into the structural properties of matchings obtained from pursuing these objectives, and into the trade-offs between different objectives. Matching markets with aligned preferences provide a tractable stylized model capturing supply-demand imbalances in a range of setting…

I finally got all the pieces aligned to archive all the jobs from our Fiery to a network volume and was about 87% done and the Fiery died... dead... will not boot up again. So that's good and bad all at once. Hopefully our service guy has that backup he made last week.

Polish PM Donald Tusk says state authorities under the previous government used Pegasus spyware illegally against a "very long" list of hacking victims (Vanessa Gera/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/poland-gove

Poland's prime minister says authorities widely used spyware under the previous government
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says he has documentation proving that state authorities under the previous government used powerful Pegasus spyware illegally and targeted a “very long” list of victims. Tusk made the comment during a news briefing alongside President Andrzej Duda, a political opponent. The use of Pegasus was alleged to have occurred under a government led by Law and Justice, a right-wing party with which Duda is aligned. Tusk said he was sharing information with Duda that…

Band gap formation in commensurate twisted bilayer graphene/hBN moir\'e lattices
Alexander Rothstein, Christoph Schattauer, Robin J. Dolleman, Stefan Trellenkamp, Florian Lentz, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Dante M. Kennes, Bernd Beschoten, Christoph Stampfer, Florian Libisch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14393

Band gap formation in commensurate twisted bilayer graphene/hBN moiré lattices
We report on the investigation of periodic superstructures in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) van-der-Waals heterostructures, where one of the graphene layers is aligned to hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Our theoretical simulations reveal that if the ratio of the resulting two moiré unit cell areas is a simple fraction, the graphene/hBN moiré lattice acts as a staggered potential, breaking the degeneracy between tBLG AA sites. This leads to additional band gaps at energies where a subset of t…

(Source: emperorsofmischief on Instagram: #rats

I don’t see Pelosi’s words as Trumpy, as much as Pelosi is trying to square a circle:
“Israel is a democracy like America!” but “Israel is ruled by a far right government aligned with Putin!”
The only answer is for Dems to reject Netanyahu and ally with the Israeli opposition.

Aligned And Thriving Podcast | Strategies For Achieving Work Life Balance
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/aligned-and-thriving-podcast-strategies-for-achieving-work-life-bal…

Aligned And Thriving | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Aligned And Thriving Podcast | Strategies For Achieving Work Life Balance Host: Judith Bowtell Category: Business Sub-Category: Careers, Self-Improvement & Advice First Episode: 2023 Welcome…

'Trump in 2028': GOP-aligned organization calls for abolition of presidential term limits - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-term-limits/

'Trump in 2028': GOP-aligned organization calls for abolition of presidential term limits
One of the coalition members of the far-right Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025" presidential transition plan is proposing to overhaul the US Constitution to keep former President Donald Trump in power beyond the eight-year limit.The American Conservative — one of the 100 advisory groups to Projec...

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Effective-one-body waveform model for non-circularized, planar, coalescing black hole binaries: the importance of radiation reaction
We present an updated version of the TEOBResumS-Dali effective-one-body (EOB) waveform model for spin aligned binaries on non-circularized orbits. Recently computed 4PN (nonspinning) terms are incorporated in the waveform and radiation reaction. The model is informed by a restricted sample ($\sim60$) of spin-aligned, quasi-circular, Numerical Relativity (NR) simulations. In the quasi-circular limit, the model displays EOB/NR unfaithfulness ${\bar{\cal F}}^{\rm max}_{\rm EOBNR}\lesssim 10^{-2}$ …

Alfv\'en Pulse Driven Spicule-like Jets in the Presence of Thermal Conduction and Ion-Neutral Collision in Two-Fluid Regime
A. K. Srivastava, Anshika Singh, Balveer Singh, K. Murawski, T. V. Zaqarashvili, D. Yuan, E. Scullion, Sudheer K. Mishra, B. N. Dwivedi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14603

Alfvén Pulse Driven Spicule-like Jets in the Presence of Thermal Conduction and Ion-Neutral Collision in Two-Fluid Regime
We present the formation of quasi-periodic cool spicule-like jets in the solar atmosphere using 2.5-D numerical simulation in two-fluid regime (ions+neutrals) under the presence of thermal conduction and ion-neutral collision. The non-linear, impulsive Alfvénic perturbations at the top of the photosphere trigger field aligned magnetoacoustic perturbations due to ponderomotive force. The transport of energy from Alfvén pulse to such vertical velocity perturbations due to ponderomotive force is…

Provably Sample Efficient RLHF via Active Preference Optimization
Nirjhar Das, Souradip Chakraborty, Aldo Pacchiano, Sayak Ray Chowdhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10500

Provably Sample Efficient RLHF via Active Preference Optimization
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is pivotal in aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences. While these aligned generative models have demonstrated impressive capabilities across various tasks, the dependence on high-quality human preference data poses a costly bottleneck in practical implementation of RLHF. Hence better and adaptive strategies for data collection is needed. To this end, we frame RLHF as a contextual preference bandit problem with prompts as co…

this isn't about whether such a small number could solve it, no team is an island
the question is whether if you covered a large enough set of problems,
would the solutions of each team manager be aligned?

Jailbreaking Leading Safety-Aligned LLMs with Simple Adaptive Attacks
Maksym Andriushchenko, Francesco Croce, Nicolas Flammarion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02151

Jailbreaking Leading Safety-Aligned LLMs with Simple Adaptive Attacks
We show that even the most recent safety-aligned LLMs are not robust to simple adaptive jailbreaking attacks. First, we demonstrate how to successfully leverage access to logprobs for jailbreaking: we initially design an adversarial prompt template (sometimes adapted to the target LLM), and then we apply random search on a suffix to maximize the target logprob (e.g., of the token "Sure"), potentially with multiple restarts. In this way, we achieve nearly 100\% attack success rate -- according t…

Strong-lensing and kinematic analysis of CASSOWARY 31: can strong lensing constrain the masses of multi-plane lenses?
H. Wang, R. Canameras, S. H. Suyu, A. Galan, C. Grillo, G. B. Caminha, L. Christensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13205

Strong-lensing and kinematic analysis of CASSOWARY 31: can strong lensing constrain the masses of multi-plane lenses?
We present a mass measurement for the secondary lens along the line of sight (LoS) in the multi-plane strong lens modeling of the group-scale lens CASSOWARY 31 (CSWA 31). The secondary lens at redshift $z = 1.49$ is a spiral galaxy well aligned along the LoS with the main lens at $z = 0.683$. Using the MUSE integral-field spectroscopy of this spiral galaxy, we measure its rotation velocities and determine the mass from the gas kinematics. We compare the mass estimation of the secondary lens fro…

A Spatio-temporal Aligned SUNet Model for Low-light Video Enhancement
Ruirui Lin, Nantheera Anantrasirichai, Alexandra Malyugina, David Bull
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02408

A Spatio-temporal Aligned SUNet Model for Low-light Video Enhancement
Distortions caused by low-light conditions are not only visually unpleasant but also degrade the performance of computer vision tasks. The restoration and enhancement have proven to be highly beneficial. However, there are only a limited number of enhancement methods explicitly designed for videos acquired in low-light conditions. We propose a Spatio-Temporal Aligned SUNet (STA-SUNet) model using a Swin Transformer as a backbone to capture low light video features and exploit their spatio-tempo…

Reasons Republicans might start to panic about increasingly Trump-centric RNC
Trump’s pick to be the new #RNC co-chair, his daughter-in-law #Lara Trump, said on Tuesday that the committee’s “only job” is getting Trump elected in November...
and that she will use “every single penny” from the RNC to do so if elected.…

Five reasons Republicans might start to panic about increasingly Trump-centric RNC - Washington Examiner
The Republican National Committee has closely aligned itself with Donald Trump for years but may want to question closer ties after a mixed record.

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TE-TAD: Towards Full End-to-End Temporal Action Detection via Time-Aligned Coordinate Expression
In this paper, we investigate that the normalized coordinate expression is a key factor as reliance on hand-crafted components in query-based detectors for temporal action detection (TAD). Despite significant advancements towards an end-to-end framework in object detection, query-based detectors have been limited in achieving full end-to-end modeling in TAD. To address this issue, we propose \modelname{}, a full end-to-end temporal action detection transformer that integrates time-aligned coord…

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On blow-up conditions for solutions of systems of quasilinear second-order elliptic inequalities
We study systems of the differential inequalities $$ \left\{ \begin{aligned} & - \operatorname{div} A_1 (x, \nabla u_1) \ge F_1 (x, u_2) & \mbox{in } {\mathbb R}^n, & - \operatorname{div} A_2 (x, \nabla u_2) \ge F_2 (x, u_1) & \mbox{in } {\mathbb R}^n, \end{aligned} \right. $$ where $n \ge 2$ and $A_i$ are Caratheodory functions such that $$ C_1 |ξ|^{p_i} \le ξ A_i (x, ξ), \quad |A_i (x, ξ)| \le C_2 |ξ|^{p_i …

Are Large Language Models Aligned with People's Social Intuitions for Human-Robot Interactions?
Lennart Wachowiak, Andrew Coles, Oya Celiktutan, Gerard Canal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05701

Are Large Language Models Aligned with People's Social Intuitions for Human-Robot Interactions?
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in robotics, especially for high-level action planning. Meanwhile, many robotics applications involve human supervisors or collaborators. Hence, it is crucial for LLMs to generate socially acceptable actions that align with people's preferences and values. In this work, we test whether LLMs capture people's intuitions about behavior judgments and communication preferences in human-robot interaction (HRI) scenarios. For evaluation, we reproduce …

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Take a Look at it! Rethinking How to Evaluate Language Model Jailbreak
Large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly integrated with various applications. To ensure that LLMs do not generate unsafe responses, they are aligned with safeguards that specify what content is restricted. However, such alignment can be bypassed to produce prohibited content using a technique commonly referred to as jailbreak. Different systems have been proposed to perform the jailbreak automatically. These systems rely on evaluation methods to determine whether a jailbreak attem…

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Can Large Language Models Transform Natural Language Intent into Formal Method Postconditions?
Informal natural language that describes code functionality, such as code comments or function documentation, may contain substantial information about a programs intent. However, there is typically no guarantee that a programs implementation and natural language documentation are aligned. In the case of a conflict, leveraging information in code-adjacent natural language has the potential to enhance fault localization, debugging, and code trustworthiness. In practice, however, this information…

Melania Gets Paid To Campaign For Her Husband – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2024/02/13/melania-gets-paid-to-campaign-for-her-husband/

Melania Gets Paid To Campaign For Her Husband - Digby's Hullabaloo
I guess she hasn't received her check recently Melania has been conspicuously absent from the campaign trail since Trump announced. Maybe that's why. She used to get paid for it: A super PAC aligned with former President Donald Trump paid his wife, former first lady Melania Trump, $155,000 in 2021, according to new financial filings. The New York Times first reported that the group, Make America Great

Identification of a Single Plasma Parcel during a Parker Solar Probe-Solar Orbiter radial alignment
Etienne BerriotLESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Universit\'e PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Universit\'e, Universit\'e Paris Cit\'e, Meudon, France, Pascal D\'emoulinLESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Universit\'e PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Universit\'e, Universit\'e Paris Cit\'e, Meudon, France, Laboratoire Cogitamus, Paris, France, Olga AlexandrovaLESIA, Observatoire de Paris…

Identification of a Single Plasma Parcel during a Parker Solar Probe-Solar Orbiter radial alignment
Configurations where two spacecraft, such as Parker Solar Probe (PSP) and Solar Orbiter (SolO), are radially aligned provide opportunities to study the evolution of a single solar wind parcel during so called plasma line-ups. The most critical part of such studies is arguably the identification of what can be considered a same plasma crossing both spacecraft. We present here a method that allowed us to find what we believe to be the same plasma parcel passing through PSP ($\sim 0.075$ au) and S…

Iran accelerates cyber ops against Israel from chaotic start
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2024/02/06/iran-accelerates-cyber-ops-against-israel/

Iran accelerates cyber ops against Israel from chaotic start - Microsoft On the Issues
Since Hamas attacked Israel in October 2023, Iranian government-aligned actors have launched a series of cyberattacks and influence operations (IO) intended to help the Hamas cause and weaken Israel and its political allies and business partners. Amid the rising potential of a widening war, Iranian influence operations and cyberattacks are expected to become more targeted, more collaborative and more destructive as the Israel-Hamas conflict drags on.

Are Large Language Models Aligned with People's Social Intuitions for Human-Robot Interactions?
Lennart Wachowiak, Andrew Coles, Oya Celiktutan, Gerard Canal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05701

Are Large Language Models Aligned with People's Social Intuitions for Human-Robot Interactions?
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in robotics, especially for high-level action planning. Meanwhile, many robotics applications involve human supervisors or collaborators. Hence, it is crucial for LLMs to generate socially acceptable actions that align with people's preferences and values. In this work, we test whether LLMs capture people's intuitions about behavior judgments and communication preferences in human-robot interaction (HRI) scenarios. For evaluation, we reproduce …

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Effective-one-body waveforms for extreme-mass-ratio binaries: Consistency with second-order gravitational self-force quasicircular results and extension to nonprecessing spins and eccentricity
We present a first complete implementation of an effective-one-body (EOB) model for extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) that incorporates aligned spins (on both the primary and the secondary) as well as orbital eccentricity. The model extends TEOBResumS-Dalí for these binaries by (i) recasting conservative first-order gravitational self-force (1GSF) information in the resummed EOB potentials; (ii) employing a post-Newtonian (PN) $3^{+19}$PN-accurate (3PN comparable-mass terms hybridized with …

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TE-TAD: Towards Full End-to-End Temporal Action Detection via Time-Aligned Coordinate Expression
In this paper, we investigate that the normalized coordinate expression is a key factor as reliance on hand-crafted components in query-based detectors for temporal action detection (TAD). Despite significant advancements towards an end-to-end framework in object detection, query-based detectors have been limited in achieving full end-to-end modeling in TAD. To address this issue, we propose \modelname{}, a full end-to-end temporal action detection transformer that integrates time-aligned coord…

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Bergeron: Combating Adversarial Attacks through a Conscience-Based Alignment Framework
Research into AI alignment has grown considerably since the recent introduction of increasingly capable Large Language Models (LLMs). Unfortunately, modern methods of alignment still fail to fully prevent harmful responses when models are deliberately attacked. These attacks can trick seemingly aligned models into giving manufacturing instructions for dangerous materials, inciting violence, or recommending other immoral acts. To help mitigate this issue, we introduce Bergeron: a framework desig…

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Can Large Language Models Transform Natural Language Intent into Formal Method Postconditions?
Informal natural language that describes code functionality, such as code comments or function documentation, may contain substantial information about a programs intent. However, there is typically no guarantee that a programs implementation and natural language documentation are aligned. In the case of a conflict, leveraging information in code-adjacent natural language has the potential to enhance fault localization, debugging, and code trustworthiness. In practice, however, this information…

if you open up a decision forum for "anybody in utah" to talk about "what matters to them"
then I worry it runs the line of like...
I personally wouldn't want transphobic stuff even up for debate
but what you have up for a vote or on the forum (especially if it allows republican and democratic ideas) is...
...aaaaaaaaarrrrggg
neutrality
politeness
actually making a difference...
erg
how do .gov sites approach it differently from like, .political-party sites?
obviously if you're progressives then you have no qualms about the TOS and COC being aligned with you
that's your in-group, that's grand
but it doesn't help with split web
but at the same time, deplatforming dicks works
but also echo chambers
yes there's talk about how it's fine to be in an echo chamber of progressives... maybe...
but if your echo chamber is Hillary-level deluded,
or RMS-level stalking / toe-picking...
don't defend assholes...
what ideas are allowed for discussion?
socialist vs libertarian vs anarchist taxes?
healthcare?

A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Social Norms in Bollywood and Hollywood Movies
Sunny Rai, Khushang Zilesh Zaveri, Shreya Havaldar, Soumna Nema, Lyle Ungar, Sharath Chandra Guntuku
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11333

A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Social Norms in Bollywood and Hollywood Movies
Understanding how social norms vary across cultures can help us build culturally aligned NLP systems. We propose a culture agnostic approach to norm discovery, using moral emotions, shame and pride, to identify examples of normative expectations and extract corresponding social norms. We present the first cross cultural self-conscious emotions dataset, obtained from 5.4K Bollywood and Hollywood movies, along with over 10K extracted social norms. We validate our dataset using native speakers and…

Did Trump commit insurrection on Jan. 6?
As the Supreme Court weighs whether Donald Trump is eligible to again serve as president, the justices will confront a politically fraught and fractious question:
Did he engage in insurrection before and during the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021?

The issue looms over both the case they will hear this month and the 2024 campaign.
President Biden and other critics of the Republican presidential front-runner say tha…

Did Trump commit insurrection on Jan. 6? The Supreme Court could decide.
The Supreme Court could decide if Donald Trump committed insurrection, but even experts aren’t aligned on the 14th Amendment case.

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Learning Adaptive Multi-Objective Robot Navigation with Demonstrations
Preference-aligned robot navigation in human environments is typically achieved through learning-based approaches, utilizing demonstrations and user feedback for personalization. However, personal preferences are subject to change and might even be context-dependent. Yet traditional reinforcement learning (RL) approaches with a static reward function often fall short in adapting to these varying user preferences. This paper introduces a framework that combines multi-objective reinforcement lear…