Tootfinder

Not even #Apple is immune to using #AI to get rid of workers.
“AppleCare Support Advisors Testing New ChatGPT-Like Tool 'Ask'”

AppleCare Support Advisors Testing New ChatGPT-Like Tool 'Ask'
Apple is internally testing a new ChatGPT-like generative AI tool that will enable employees to offer faster technical support going forward. Apple...

There are so many accounts by the #news media on #Threads, that could but do not yet federate. Doesn't make much sense to ask here for them to do that, so I posted something over there.
If you have an account and want more of the media federating, feel free to share the post:

Russian prosecutors ask for 6-year prison term for activist's social media comments on death of propagandist Tatarsky: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/26/russian-prosecutors-ask.html

"I’ve seen much of #AcademicTwitter coordinating a move to #Mastodon. Other communities might already simultaneously exist on Discord servers and subreddits, & can just let participation on #Twitter

Mass migration from Twitter is likely to be an uphill battle – just ask ex-Tumblr users
The communities that call Twitter home might decide to pack their bags. If they do, they are unlikely to be able to completely reconstitute themselves elsewhere.

Epistemic injustice: an invitation to ask new questions – PIRC https://publicinterest.org.uk/epistemic-injustice-an-invitation-to-ask-new-questions/?mc_cid=ea9608deba&mc_eid=fe3615d311

Epistemic injustice: an invitation to ask new questions – PIRC
Who is allowed to know things in our society? Why we need to ensure narrative change is led by those currently excluded from that work.

Bumble redesigns its app and adds Opening Moves, to let women ask a question men can answer, a major shift that ends the requirement that women message first (Valeriya Safronova/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/style/bumble-dating-apps.html

Bumble Tells Women They No Longer Have to Make the First Move
As dissatisfaction with online dating grows, the app that put women in control is shifting course.

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Alabaster DePlume:
🎵 Not my ask
#AlabasterDePlume
https://open.spotify.com/track/10utsgr8cBd95yJbSXblI3
https://alabasterdeplume.bandcamp.com/track/not-my-ask

Please sign this petition to help convince Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick of #PA01, a Co-Chair of the House #Ukraine Caucus, to support HR 815, for aid to Ukraine and other allies!
#DefendDemocracyAidUkraine

Ask Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick to support the Ukraine funding bill that passed the Senate
PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION TO REPRESENTATIVE BRIAN FITZPATRICK OF PA-01 TO PUSH THROUGH AID FOR UKRAINE AND OTHER ALLIES!! Ukraine is fighting for its very survival as a democracy against the unprovoked aggression of Russia and its dictator, Vladimir Putin. Aid to Ukraine and other allies has been languishing in Congress because of the actions of MAGA extremists as well as their leadership chaos and incompetence for over 5 months. In that time, Ukraine has had to abandon territory because the…

My parents warned me about people who would aggressively ask me for money… they didn’t mention it would be politicians.

That's a nope: Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers ask federal appeals court to toss hate crime convictions | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/ahmaud-arberys-murderers-ask-federal-appeals-court-to-t…

Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers ask federal appeals court to toss hate crime convictions
The three white men found guilty of murdering the 25-year-old Black man after chasing him in their trucks through a Georgia neighborhood claim the incident had no racial motive.

If you could ask Carli Lloyd a question while also not embarrassing your employer what would it be?
#uswnt #GothamFC

This sounds legit and it's an awesome sample if true. Someone should ask the band about this.
#music #sampling

Knock me down with a feather - I've just heard all 17 minutes and four seconds of Iron Butterfly's 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida' ON THE RADIO 🤪 🔊
Go on, ask me which radio station has the guts to do that at prime time of 9pm?
Only France Inter Paris - or FIP, from Radio France
https://en…

FIP (radio station) - Wikipedia

A look at The Financial Times' Claude-powered AI chatbot Ask FT, which is trained on FT's articles and available to some subscribers in the FT Professional tier (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/23/24106296/ask-ft-generative-…

Financial Times tests Ask FT, a chatbot trained on decades of its own articles
The Financial Times is launching a new chatbot, Ask FT, that provides subscribers with answers using two decades of content from its archives.

Surprised to see the best answer on this is from Danny Sauter. None of them explicitly urge a No vote (boo), but Sauter, Sharon Lai, and Moe Jamil say kind of critical things about it, with Sauter being the most strongly critical.
https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/meet-

Meet the District 3 candidates: ‘Do you support Proposition F? Why or why not?’
Up until the November election, Mission Local will ask each candidate one question per week, and candidates will get 100 words to respond.

@… - how long has the new UI been running on GSC? i spotted it a few days ago but forgot to ask!
#seo

@… has now forced me to ask a hard question of #Firefox - how to translate hoverover text in Firefox translations.[Edit: Turns out ff are on it and expect it to be in Nightly by next week!]

Making Them Ask and Answer: Jailbreaking Large Language Models in Few Queries via Disguise and Reconstruction
Tong Liu, Yingjie Zhang, Zhe Zhao, Yinpeng Dong, Guozhu Meng, Kai Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18104

Making Them Ask and Answer: Jailbreaking Large Language Models in Few Queries via Disguise and Reconstruction
In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated notable success across various tasks, but the trustworthiness of LLMs is still an open problem. One specific threat is the potential to generate toxic or harmful responses. Attackers can craft adversarial prompts that induce harmful responses from LLMs. In this work, we pioneer a theoretical foundation in LLMs security by identifying bias vulnerabilities within the safety fine-tuning and design a black-box jailbreak method named DR…

Nice to present our paper in progress at 'Education Policy in India: contexts, texts, and institutions', conference at the Indira Mahindra School of Education, India.
We ask: Who goes to 'better quality' government and private schools in Delhi? Who accesses free private school seats? Who knows about them?
We find income and caste criteria, used to implement access, aren't enough. Using multi-dimensional deprivation indicators we find a hidden group.

"Ask not for whom the mmm bops.
It bops for thee."

@… Dare I ask what neccesitated this post?

🇬🇧 I have recently taken a stronger interest in #finance (mortgage, saving, investing, etc.). I created two polls related to this to see how #Fediverse users approach this topic. Can I ask you for a

I just heard the bad news that I am probably going to need a new job starting in July.
So, before beginning the regular search, I wanted to ask my Fedi friends if anyone could use a capable C programmer with lots of graphics and networking experience. I wouldn't mind a change, so I'm open to anything. Even other programming languages! It would be awesome if I could use Linux to do the work. 🐧
Locations I would consider are: Central Europe, Melbourne, Sydney or Remote<…

His final message on Facebook read, “Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”
https://www.newy…

Aaron Bushnell’s Act of Political Despair
Masha Gessen asks what it means for an American to self-immolate, as Aaron Bushnell did to protest U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

What I wrote yesterday, you ask? Not much, not much. Just this micro prose thing. But I've translated it in English for you:
Bulgarian: "Малката сянка до вратата на банята потрепна и изчезна, преди да е успяла да обърне напълно глава към нея."
English: "The tiny shadow by the bathroom door wavered briefly and disappeared before she could fully turn her head and look at it."
[Spoiler: It's the sad ghost of one of her many dead cats.]

#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 29th
Instead of picking one, I'd rather ask you all if you still remember your first story? Do you keep all your old stuff?

Scientists certainly can be good managers but many, probably most, seriously underrate the skills and knowledge needed to be a good manager.
Ask managing scientists (or lawyer BTW), the last few course they went on most will skip the management course or list them with some snide comment about how their workplace forced them to attend.
Any manager I had who was great worked hard to become that way. If you think you are naturally a good manager, that's probably just your ego shining through.

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland - Season 3 coming soon 🐶🚀🎉
Narrated stories for kids | Total listening time: 15h 38m
What would dogs do? Come visit Licktopolis and Question Mark Mountain, and stay for the jokes, mindfulness-based problem-solving techniques, and delicious Dogland bananas that open when you boop them with your nose.
These stories are co-...

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland - Season 3 coming soon 🐶🚀🎉
Narrated stories for kids | Total listening time: 15h 38m What would dogs do? Come visit Licktopolis and Question Mark Mountain, and stay for the jokes, mindfulness-based problem-solving techniques, and delicious Dogland bananas that open when you boop them with your nose. These stories are co-written by a mom & kid team who love to ask themselves "What would dogs do?" 2 seasons, 36 episodes as of Apr 23, 2023.

#NowPlaying #TheMonkees Dreamt I wired $10,000 to a very small hacker group led by a ginger-haired woman determined to solve a murder which the government was covering up or the trail had gone cold, depending who you ask.

“hesitating to give chemotherapy to cancer patients”
Again I ask you to ostracize your Republican family and “friends” unless they extract themselves from this death cult.

Remember kids, it's not only The Company that #interviews you, You are also interviewing The Company.
One very valid question to ask is
"Why did the previous #employee run screaming away from this position?"

Weekly thread for career and education advice in cybersecurity. Users can ask about certifications, degrees, job requirements and other career-related questions. Prior weeks' content is available for reference. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1cfl2u7/

Someone do an FOI request to the PRS to ask how many of the hideous pedicabs in London have a license for public performance of music.

And then ban them for violating that.

But also just ban them entirely. They are a scrofulant plague.

A look at The Financial Times' Claude-powered AI chatbot Ask FT, which is trained on FT's articles and available to some subscribers in the FT Professional tier (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/23/24106296/ask-ft-generative-…

Financial Times tests Ask FT, a chatbot trained on decades of its own articles
The Financial Times is launching a new chatbot, Ask FT, that provides subscribers with answers using two decades of content from its archives.

qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…

NFL Draft Recap: What you should know from Rounds 2-7, plus Zeke returns https://theathletic.com/5457877/2024/04/29/nfl-draft-recap-what-you-should-know-from-rounds-2-7-plus-zeke-returns/

NFL Draft Recap: What you should know from Rounds 2-7, plus Zeke returns
This is the digital version of Scoop City. If you want it earlier, start every morning with Scoop City delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. The first round gets the hype, but rounds 2-7 can be just as important. Just ask the Raiders, who haven’t hit on a first round pick since 2019. Today, we cover everything you should know from the other rounds of the 2024 NFL Draft. 🔬 Examining later rounds 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 49ers’ WR situation 📃 Zeke returns to Dallas After dis…

A link went down in the Cisco UCS cluster at 10:20. Part of the uplink port group so I wont see anything in VMware (the dmark, I think, for my responsibility), this is lower layer stuff. I find out at 17:30 when an outside monitoring company gets me on a WebEx. Ask network group if they knew/did anything/will do anything. "Yeah, we saw that." What is that expression, there is no I in team? Then why is it I seem to be doing everything?

Bhanu look just like Flula if you ask me.
#Survivor

Update: I’m apparently not.
See: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/111999407825147928
(Not deleting this so we don’t lose the conversation in the comments. Just don’t want new folks getting tripped up by it.)
* * *
Sounds like I’m shadow-banned on mastodon.…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #Radio2LovesEurovision
Journey:
🎵 Ask the Lonely
#Journey
https://open.spotify.com/track/5KUfM9sjoGogDnrBulbVcW
https://virtualjourneyband.bandcamp.com/track/ask-the-lonely-virtual-journey-band

Join the #TeamJoe Reproductive Freedom Week of Action organizing call on Wednesday, May 1st.
#BidenHarris4More #RoeYourVote

National Call: Reproductive Freedom Week of Action · Joe Biden for President
Join Team Biden-Harris for a national organizing call with Cecile Richards to learn about our Reproductive Freedom Week of Action and how you can get involved! On this call, we’ll hear from Cecile and others on the front lines of the fight for our fundamental rights. And we’ll talk about how to get involved during this week of action and beyond. Have friends who are ready to get to work? Ask them to join you!

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14872 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

Semantic Mirror Jailbreak: Genetic Algorithm Based Jailbreak Prompts Against Open-source LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs), used in creative writing, code generation, and translation, generate text based on input sequences but are vulnerable to jailbreak attacks, where crafted prompts induce harmful outputs. Most jailbreak prompt methods use a combination of jailbreak templates followed by questions to ask to create jailbreak prompts. However, existing jailbreak prompt designs generally suffer from excessive semantic differences, resulting in an inability to resist defenses that use sim…

Most Richmond thing ever… 2500 people signing a petition to ask Whole Foods to stay open. https://www.change.org/p/prevent-the-closure-of-wholefoods-in-richmond

🇬🇧 I have recently taken a stronger interest in #finance (mortgage, saving, investing, etc.). I created two polls related to this to see how #Fediverse users approach this topic. Can I ask you for a

This https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11880 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

On the zeros of sum from n=1 to 00 of lambda_P(n)/n^s
Our main result is to answer a question of Michel Balazard by giving a Dirichlet series with only one zero in its half-plane of convergence. At the end of the paper we also give several sufficient conditions for the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis and ask if any of them are true.

'The Seattle Police Dept. (SPD) came to City Hall Tuesday to help Council Pres. Nelson shut up her political enemies, which included asylum-seekers & lefty allies. The groups attended the public comment period of the meeting to ask the City once again to fund housing for 100s of refugees who will face homelessness if they do not win more funding.'
Police Arrest Six of Sara Nelson’s Political Enemies After She Refuses to Hear Concerns of Asylum-Seekers - The Stranger
…

Police Arrest Six of Sara Nelson’s Political Enemies After She Refuses to Hear Concerns of Asylum-Seekers
It is becoming more and more clear everyday that Nelson and her cronies are opposed to hearing from the left, even through the so-called appropriate channels.

Raiders have met with best cornerback at NFL Combine https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_have_met_with_best_cornerback_at_nfl_combine/s1_17313_40036680

Raiders have met with best cornerback at NFL Combine
During the 2024 NFL Draft Combine, the Las Vegas Raiders and every other team are in Indianapolis to watch the players perform drills, get their measurables done, and answer questions in front of media and that the teams ask. One of the Raiders' biggest needs, outside of quarterback, of course, is cornerback, in which the Raiders will have plenty of guys to choose from. In this case, they could end up with the best cornerback in the draft at pick No. 13 in, Terrion Arnold, who is amazing everyo…

Brave launches its AI-powered assistant Leo, which can create real-time summaries of webpages or videos, generate long form content, and more, on Android (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/29/braves-leo-ai-assistant…

Brave's Leo AI assistant is now available to Android users | TechCrunch
The assistant allows users to ask questions, translate pages, summarize pages, create written content and more.

@… Don’t know if it’s of any value to you, but I’m finally reading “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”, and in the context of Masto, maybe a question to ask ourselves isn’t only: Do I agree with the current direction?, but more generally: Do I agree with the idea of a small group of people fairly tightly controlling the direction (whichever direction that may be).

If you find yourself interacting with someone waterlogged from all the AI Kool-Aid, assuming they're old enough, ask them: "Would you say it's the most excited you've been about technology since the peak of the dot-com bubble?", then let them twig on this...
#ai

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11421 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Transference for loose Hamilton cycles in random $3$-uniform hypergraphs
A loose Hamilton cycle in a hypergraph is a cyclic sequence of edges covering all vertices in which only every two consecutive edges intersect and do so in exactly one vertex. With Dirac's theorem in mind, it is natural to ask what minimum $d$-degree condition guarantees the existence of a loose Hamilton cycle in a $k$-uniform hypergraph. For $k=3$ and each $d \in \{1,2\}$, the necessary and sufficient such condition is known precisely. We show that these results adhere to a `transference princ…

browser stuff
The reason I'm so passionate about proper bookmark management in browsers suddenly becomes very clear once you know I have over 1100 bookmarks, all painstakingly organized into various folders and subfolders.
No I don't have a problem, why do you ask--

#NowPlaying #TheMonkees Dreamt I wired $10,000 to a very small hacker group led by a ginger-haired woman determined to solve a murder which the government was covering up or the trail had gone cold, depending who you ask.

Americans may ask: What happens to laws passed under the previous masters of the house: the courts, state media, and business and other institutions stuffed by supporters of one side?
Rightwing populists have many countries in their grip.
Come to Poland to see how they can be pushed back
👉Poland, in the wake of an election last year that ended eight years of rule by the rightwing Law and Justice party in favour of a coalition headed by Donald Tusk’s Civil Platform, is in t…

heh. LinkedIn decided it was a good idea to ask my "expert opinion" about #Blockchain.
Oh you sweet summer child...

Wikidata & AI, together again – Wikimedia Tech News https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/en/2024/02/19/wikidata-ai-together-again/

Wikidata & AI, together again - Wikimedia Tech News
The recently launched LangChain is an open-source framework for constructing applications with LLM backends; users can ask ChatGPT a question and have it reference data from the Wikidata knowledge graph before responding.

Oh, who's to come is
where we'll be.
What will happen to
you and me?
How's to blame
is another ask.
When will we take us all to task?
Why is what
we ask of the sky.
When and where
are the flutters by?

Weekly thread for career and education advice in cybersecurity. Users can ask about certifications, degrees, job requirements and other career-related questions. Prior weeks' content is available for reference. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1cfl2u7/

It’s way past the time to be taxing the billionaires back to the Stone Age
America’s Richest Men Ask the Courts to Make Unions Illegal
Lawyers for Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Amazon say the Court erred in 1937 by letting workers have rights on the job.

Meyerson on TAP: America’s Richest Men Ask the Courts to Make Unions Illegal
The Latest from the...

@… That reminds me of something I wanted to ask the assembled Fediverse: why don't adult sheep gambol? Lambs really seem to enjoy it, but at some point they just stop? What's that all about?

#Generative AI Conversations using #LangChain4j ChatMemory
https://www.sivalabs.…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06524 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDM_…

A heuristic search algorithm for discovering large Condorcet domains
The study of large Condorcet domains (CD) has been a significant area of interest in voting theory. In this paper, our goal is to search for large CDs that are hitherto unknown. With a straightforward combinatorial definition, searching for large CDs is naturally suited for algorithmic optimisations. For each value of n>2, one can ask for the size of the largest CD, thus finding the largest CDs provides an important benchmark for heuristic-based combinatorial optimisation algorithms. Despite ex…

Tight Lower Bounds for Block-Structured Integer Programs
Christoph Hunkenschr\"oder, Kim-Manuel Klein, Martin Kouteck\'y, Alexandra Lassota, Asaf Levin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17290

Tight Lower Bounds for Block-Structured Integer Programs
We study fundamental block-structured integer programs called tree-fold and multi-stage IPs. Tree-fold IPs admit a constraint matrix with independent blocks linked together by few constraints in a recursive pattern; and transposing their constraint matrix yields multi-stage IPs. The state-of-the-art algorithms to solve these IPs have an exponential gap in their running times, making it natural to ask whether this gap is inherent. We answer this question affirmative. Assuming the Exponential Tim…

Odd viscosity suppresses intermittency in direct turbulent cascades
Sihan Chen, Xander M. de Wit, Michel Fruchart, Federico Toschi, Vincenzo Vitelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18894

Odd viscosity suppresses intermittency in direct turbulent cascades
Intermittency refers to the broken self-similarity of turbulent flows caused by anomalous spatio-temporal fluctuations. In this Letter, we ask how intermittency is affected by a non-dissipative viscosity, known as odd viscosity, which appears in parity-breaking fluids such as magnetized polyatomic gases, electron fluids under magnetic field and spinning colloids or grains. Using a combination of Navier-Stokes simulations and theory, we show that intermittency is suppressed by odd viscosity at s…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02685 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_sta…

Testing for no effect in regression problems: a permutation approach
Often the question arises whether $Y$ can be predicted based on $X$ using a certain model. Especially for highly flexible models such as neural networks one may ask whether a seemingly good prediction is actually better than fitting pure noise or whether it has to be attributed to the flexibility of the model. This paper proposes a rigorous permutation test to assess whether the prediction is better than the prediction of pure noise. The test avoids any sample splitting and is based instead on …

Lavrov dismisses Zelensky’s peace plan, says those pushing it are ‘not serious’: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/29/lavrov-dismisses-zelenskys.html

The need to build housing bumps up against NIMBYism and growth concerns in my community. We're a rural area on the edge of Toronto so there's tremendous pressure to start paving farmland (HWY 413 will cut through the southern portion of Caledon) and increase the population. I worry about sprawl, because that's the majority of approved projects, and not creating walkable, livable towns with GO connections.
#Caledon #HousingCrisis
https://www.caledonenterprise.com/news/council/mzo-on-crack-caledon-residents-ask-mayor-to-slow-down-fast-tracked-housing-for-35/article_b81727a7-fed4-5459-a74d-885acc4d87b3.html

A friend of my mom's helped organize a technology expo (meant to inspire the youth and such), and my mom got invited to it, but she couldn't attend. So me and my dad went. We arrive, we follow the first crowd that we see but that lends us at a building for an educational course on safety management. So we try and follow a different crowd to a different building. While we go in that different direction we pass two stewards there and ask them if they knew where it was, they didn't …

Urysohn 1-width for 4 and 5 manifolds with positive biRicci curvature
Junyu Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18141 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Urysohn 1-width for 4 and 5 manifolds with positive biRicci curvature
It was proved by Gromov-Lawson\cite{gl83} that complete three manifold with positive scalar curvature bounded below has finite Urysohn 1-width only depends on the uniform positive scalar curvature bounds. It is natural to ask the same question for the four manifolds. In this paper, we can show that closed four and five manifolds with positive biRicci curvature has finite Urysohn 1-width only depends on the curvature bounds. During the proof we can also observe that the fundamental group of thos…

Sorry but ask anyone in the Pacific Northwest and we ALL know that Coeur d'Alene, Idaho is a nasty place full of White Nationalists. The NCAA shouldn’t have had *anything* to do with that racist, bigoted town. 🤬 https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/112162955170468662

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #Radio2LovesEurovision
Journey:
🎵 Ask the Lonely
#Journey
https://open.spotify.com/track/5KUfM9sjoGogDnrBulbVcW
https://virtualjourneyband.bandcamp.com/track/ask-the-lonely-virtual-journey-band

'Where's Cricket?' Don't Ask. Kristi Noem Defends Killing Her Dog. (Anjali Huynh/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/us/politics/kristi-noem-dog-killing.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/240426/p59#a240426p59

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07968 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

Think, Act, and Ask: Open-World Interactive Personalized Robot Navigation
Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) enables agents to navigate towards open-vocabulary objects in unknown environments. The existing works of ZSON mainly focus on following individual instructions to find generic object classes, neglecting the utilization of natural language interaction and the complexities of identifying user-specific objects. To address these limitations, we introduce Zero-shot Interactive Personalized Object Navigation (ZIPON), where robots need to navigate to personalized go…

surprisingly good answers from Adlah Chisti, E.J. Jones and Chyanne Chen, all calling for protected bike lanes!
be nice if the current D11 supervisor who's running for mayor would give as good of an answer as those three. #sfPol

Meet the District 11 candidates: ‘Do you think Vision Zero has failed SF?’
阅读中文版 Welcome back to “Meet the Candidates” series for District 11, where we ask each candidate to answer one question per week leading up to the

Q-Learning to navigate turbulence without a map
Marco Rando, Martin James, Alessandro Verri, Lorenzo Rosasco, Agnese Seminara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17495

Q-Learning to navigate turbulence without a map
We consider the problem of olfactory searches in a turbulent environment. We focus on agents that respond solely to odor stimuli, with no access to spatial perception nor prior information about the odor location. We ask whether navigation strategies to a target can be learned robustly within a sequential decision making framework. We develop a reinforcement learning algorithm using a small set of interpretable olfactory states and train it with realistic turbulent odor cues. By introducing a t…

As I keep getting images and videos of scantily clad young women in my feed I ask myself:
Who goes on #Facebook to look at sexy stuff?
I kind of understand doing this on #Instagram (though I personally avoid the site - not because of the sexiness) but ... Facebook?

Trepidations but I ask for own #learning: Why does fmt require casting ptr to void*? I assume there are technical reasons (or it wouldn't be required) which I'm just failing to see. Are there links where I can learn more? 🙏🏽
BTW I dabbled a bit to *convince myself* that arbitrary ptr types can be recognized without casting in client code:

Compiler Explorer - C++
//f is highly simplified proxy for fmt

browser stuff
The reason I'm so passionate about proper bookmark management in browsers suddenly becomes very clear once you know I have over 1100 bookmarks, all painstakingly organized into various folders and subfolders.
No I don't have a problem, why do you ask--

The Mozilla Foundation and 90 research and advocacy groups urge Meta to support CrowdTangle through January 2025 to track election misinformation globally (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/researchers-ask-m

Researchers ask Meta to keep CrowdTangle online until after 2024 elections
The Mozilla Foundation and dozens of other research and advocacy groups are pushing back on Meta’s decisions to shut down its research tool, CrowdTangle...

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Inger Nordvik:
🎵 Ask you
#IngerNordvik
https://open.spotify.com/track/7AiYvN0YgNKUOmUvf6LoxR
https://ingernordvik.bandcamp.com/track/ask-you

Belgium, Czechia ask EU to step in against Russia's elections interference: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/17/belgium-czechia-ask.html

surprisingly good answers from Adlah Chisti, E.J. Jones and Chyanne Chen, all calling for protected bike lanes!
be nice if the current D11 supervisor who's running for mayor would give as good of an answer as those three. #sfPol

Meet the District 11 candidates: ‘Do you think Vision Zero has failed SF?’
阅读中文版 Welcome back to “Meet the Candidates” series for District 11, where we ask each candidate to answer one question per week leading up to the

Odd viscosity suppresses intermittency in direct turbulent cascades
Sihan Chen, Xander M. de Wit, Michel Fruchart, Federico Toschi, Vincenzo Vitelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18894

Odd viscosity suppresses intermittency in direct turbulent cascades
Intermittency refers to the broken self-similarity of turbulent flows caused by anomalous spatio-temporal fluctuations. In this Letter, we ask how intermittency is affected by a non-dissipative viscosity, known as odd viscosity, which appears in parity-breaking fluids such as magnetized polyatomic gases, electron fluids under magnetic field and spinning colloids or grains. Using a combination of Navier-Stokes simulations and theory, we show that intermittency is suppressed by odd viscosity at s…

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Testing for no effect in regression problems: a permutation approach
Often the question arises whether $Y$ can be predicted based on $X$ using a certain model. Especially for highly flexible models such as neural networks one may ask whether a seemingly good prediction is actually better than fitting pure noise or whether it has to be attributed to the flexibility of the model. This paper proposes a rigorous permutation test to assess whether the prediction is better than the prediction of pure noise. The test avoids any sample splitting and is based instead on …

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The need to build housing bumps up against NIMBYism and growth concerns in my community. We're a rural area on the edge of Toronto so there's tremendous pressure to start paving farmland (HWY 413 will cut through the southern portion of Caledon) and increase the population. I worry about sprawl, because that's the majority of approved projects, and not creating walkable, livable towns with GO connections.
#Caledon #HousingCrisis
https://www.caledonenterprise.com/news/council/mzo-on-crack-caledon-residents-ask-mayor-to-slow-down-fast-tracked-housing-for-35/article_b81727a7-fed4-5459-a74d-885acc4d87b3.html

Sorry but ask anyone in the Pacific Northwest and we ALL know that Coeur d'Alene, Idaho is a nasty place full of White Nationalists. The NCAA shouldn’t have had *anything* to do with that racist, bigoted town. 🤬 https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/112162955170468662

The Mozilla Foundation and 90 research and advocacy groups urge Meta to support CrowdTangle through January 2025 to track election misinformation globally (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/researchers-ask-m

Researchers ask Meta to keep CrowdTangle online until after 2024 elections
The Mozilla Foundation and dozens of other research and advocacy groups are pushing back on Meta’s decisions to shut down its research tool, CrowdTangle...

'Where's Cricket?' Don't Ask. Kristi Noem Defends Killing Her Dog. (Anjali Huynh/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/us/politics/kristi-noem-dog-killing.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/240426/p59#a240426p59

Our readers’ questions about the war, answered. Vol. 5: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/26/our-readers-questions.html

At a DC event on May 1, over 100 tech CEOs and investors plan to lobby against AI regulation, ask to relax immigration rules, and drum up hawkishness on China (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/…

A.I. Leaders Press Advantage With Congress as China Tensions Rise
Silicon Valley chiefs are swarming the Capitol to try to sway lawmakers on the dangers of falling behind in the artificial intelligence race.

Freight railroads ask courts to throw out new rule requiring two-person crews on trains | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/freight-railroads-ask-courts-to-throw-out-new-rule…

Ahmaud Arbery's killers ask appeals court to overturn their hate crime convictions (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ahmaud-arbery-killers-gregory-travis-mcmichael-william-bryan-hate-crime-conviction-appeal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240327/p34#a240327p34

Also, “Providence trained staff to aggressively ask for payment from patients who were likely eligible for financial assistance, or simply billed them without determining if they qualified.”
Providence Catholic health care system to pay more than $200 million for unpaid wages

Providence Catholic health care system to pay more than $200 million for unpaid wages
(RNS) — A jury awarded Providence hourly employees in Washington about $98 million in damages, but King County Superior Court Judge Averil Rothrock found that the violations were willful, doubling the total.

#Trump Lawyers Ask #SCOTUS To Do Us A Favor Though - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.co…

Trump Lawyers Ask SCOTUS To Do Us A Favor Though
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New York City-based Fabric, which uses AI to automate clinical and administrative work in health care, raised a $60M Series A led by General Catalyst (Priya Anand/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Health Care AI Startup Raises $60 Million From General Catalyst, Thrive, GV
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