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Sports Illustrated's operators told staff the magazine would end its print edition after May; the message runs counter to owner Authentic Brands' earlier stance (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/busines

Sports Illustrated’s Future in Print Is Thrown Into Question
Its operators told employees that the last print edition would be in May, but its owner has signaled that it wants the magazine to endure.

Many images, videos, and recordings being spread by social media are generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). But some are generated by Authentic Ignorance (AI).

A post from the archive 📫:
Real music and authentic voices
#artificialintelligence

Authentic Sex With Juliet Allen
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Authentic Sex | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Authentic Sex With Juliet Allen Host: Juliet Allen Category: Health & Fitness Sub-Category: Sexuality & Relationships First Episode: 2017 Authentic sex is a podcast about all-things sex…

A post from the archive 📫:
Real music and authentic voices
#artificialintelligence

tracking inauthentic activity vs tracking authentic stuff...
or really just... exploring things for the purpose of exploration and understanding

Exploring the Necessity of Visual Modality in Multimodal Machine Translation using Authentic Datasets
Zi Long, Zhenhao Tang, Xianghua Fu, Jian Chen, Shilong Hou, Jinze Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06107

Exploring the Necessity of Visual Modality in Multimodal Machine Translation using Authentic Datasets
Recent research in the field of multimodal machine translation (MMT) has indicated that the visual modality is either dispensable or offers only marginal advantages. However, most of these conclusions are drawn from the analysis of experimental results based on a limited set of bilingual sentence-image pairs, such as Multi30k. In these kinds of datasets, the content of one bilingual parallel sentence pair must be well represented by a manually annotated image, which is different from the real-w…

The saddest eBay listing I've seen in a while #retrocomputing

Authentic Sex With Juliet Allen
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Authentic Sex | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Authentic Sex With Juliet Allen Host: Juliet Allen Category: Health & Fitness Sub-Category: Sexuality & Relationships First Episode: 2017 Authentic sex is a podcast about all-things sex…

Fact Check: It's NOT Authentic, That Viral Image of A Candidate Putin 'Stability' Billboard Surrounded By Flames: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/20/fact-check-its.html

tracking inauthentic activity vs tracking authentic stuff...
or really just... exploring things for the purpose of exploration and understanding

For anyone interested in playing around with Internet based private CB radio outside of ETS and ATS, check out Zello, either use your existing phone or an old spare phone you have lying around. You can even turn on extra sound effects for that extra authentic sound.
Zello | The Most Reliable Push-to-Talk Walkie Talkie App
https://zello.com/…

1-bit Quantized On-chip Hybrid Diffraction Neural Network Enabled by Authentic All-optical Fully-connected Architecture
Yu Shao, Haiqi Gao, Yipeng Chen, Yujie liu, Junren Wen, Haidong He, Yuchuan Shao, Yueguang Zhang, Weidong Shen, Chenying Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07443

1-bit Quantized On-chip Hybrid Diffraction Neural Network Enabled by Authentic All-optical Fully-connected Architecture
Optical Diffraction Neural Networks (DNNs), a subset of Optical Neural Networks (ONNs), show promise in mirroring the prowess of electronic networks. This study introduces the Hybrid Diffraction Neural Network (HDNN), a novel architecture that incorporates matrix multiplication into DNNs, synergizing the benefits of conventional ONNs with those of DNNs to surmount the modulation limitations inherent in optical diffraction neural networks. Utilizing a singular phase modulation layer and an ampli…

Hot Take
Taco Bell is a better approximation of authentic Mexican food than Panda Express is of Chinese food.
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A post from the archive 📫:
Real music and authentic voices
#music

Authentic says it has recouped its ~$90M SI purchase via licensing; sources: SI has 1M print subs, breaks even, and Minute Media is a potential new publisher (Ben Strauss/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/02/27/sports…

As Sports Illustrated sputters, its owners throw a party for ‘the brand’
They own the rights to celebrities dead (Elvis), alive (Guy Fieri) and in between (Reebok). They insist they’re the executives to keep the Sports Illustrated brand breathing.

Raiders say sweatshirt worn by Gardner Minshew was not authentic https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-say-sweatshirt-worn-by-gardner-minshew-was-not-authentic-3036606/

Raiders say sweatshirt worn by Gardner Minshew was not authentic
A photo that showed Gardner Minshew wearing a black sweatshirt with the phrase “Lil Ass Boy” across the chest was the top trending Raiders topic on social media Tuesday and Wednesday.

Hack In Style With This Fallout Cyberdeck
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-352b25c8-ee3948b0cab3b98e
Hack In Style With This Fallout Cyberdeck There’s always an appeal to a cool-looking computer case or cyberdeck – and with authentic-looking V…

Nu wil ik dit: Mario Kart met een live jazzband: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/feb/19/mario-kart-live-jazz-bande-oklahoma-tournaments

Authentic says it has recouped its ~$90M SI purchase via licensing; sources: SI has 1M print subs, breaks even, and Minute Media is a potential new publisher (Ben Strauss/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/02/27/sports…

As Sports Illustrated sputters, its owners throw a party for ‘the brand’
They own the rights to celebrities dead (Elvis), alive (Guy Fieri) and in between (Reebok). They insist they’re the executives to keep the Sports Illustrated brand breathing.

FYI #Nashville, this is what 'authentic street tacos' look like. Tijuana, 1964

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If It's Not Enough, Make It So: Reducing Authentic Data Demand in Face Recognition through Synthetic Faces
Recent advances in deep face recognition have spurred a growing demand for large, diverse, and manually annotated face datasets. Acquiring authentic, high-quality data for face recognition has proven to be a challenge, primarily due to privacy concerns. Large face datasets are primarily sourced from web-based images, lacking explicit user consent. In this paper, we examine whether and how synthetic face data can be used to train effective face recognition models with reduced reliance on authent…

@… an *incredibly* honest and authentic post. We all know you’d be amazing at the job—what we don’t know is if they deserve you!

Aerial_Knight's Never Yield
Survive a futuristic Tokyo style Detroit in this 3D runner that tells the story of Wally who has uncovered the evidence that can change his city forever. Explore a game world with a dope-tastic soundtrack featuring the authentic sounds of Detroit Artist.
https://

Who is Authentic Speaker
Qiang Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00248 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.00248…

Who is Authentic Speaker
Voice conversion (VC) using deep learning technologies can now generate high quality one-to-many voices and thus has been used in some practical application fields, such as entertainment and healthcare. However, voice conversion can pose potential social issues when manipulated voices are employed for deceptive purposes. Moreover, it is a big challenge to find who are real speakers from the converted voices as the acoustic characteristics of source speakers are changed greatly. In this paper we…

that fact that Nancy is Robert's real-life daughter does not help with the father/daughter interactions feeling authentic at all #MondayActionMovie

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Key-Point-Driven Data Synthesis with its Enhancement on Mathematical Reasoning
Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in complex reasoning tasks, yet their performance is often hampered by the scarcity of high-quality and reasoning-focused training datasets. Addressing this challenge, we propose Key-Point-Driven Data Synthesis (KPDDS), a novel data synthesis framework that synthesizes question-answer pairs by leveraging key points and exemplar practices from authentic data sources. KPDDS ensures the generation of novel questions with rigorous quality cont…

It was probably accidentally leaked by the NSA or FBI or one other of ATT&Ts lucrative government spy contracts. https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/112140873412979355

Authentic Brands sues Arena Group and CEO Manoj Bhargava, says they owe $48.75M in missed payments and damages for infringing on Sports Illustrated's copyright (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/busines

Sports Illustrated’s Owner Sues Energy Drink Mogul After Chaos at Magazine
Authentic Brands Group, which owns Sports Illustrated, is accusing Manoj Bhargava of failing to pay millions of dollars for the rights to publish the magazine.

New Orleans signs: Gators edition (volume I).
1)Bourbon Street, French Quarter
2)Mid-City
3)French Market
4)Bayou St. John
Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans.
@…
#NOLA

“Project 4K77 is available at 1080p or UHD 4K resolution, with and without grain. I’m afraid we can’t give you any direct download links, however, the best place to find it is in the newsgroup alt.binaries.Starwars.”
NNTP lives on! https://mastodon.social/@Richard_Littl

What I Found Inside the MAGAverse on the Eve of Trump’s Trial
They aren’t merely opportunities to celebrate Mr. Trump,
though lord knows folks throw themselves into that with abandon.
They are alternate-reality bubbles where his trials and tribulations are fake news and the self-affirming nature of community reigns supreme.
No matter how unsettling things get in Joe Biden’s America,
Trump rallies are the happy place where MAGA fans can be their authentic selve…

Opinion | Inside a Trump Rally on the Eve of His Trial
Rallying the faithful in the political battleground of eastern Pennsylvania, the former president made everyone else the bad guy.

On lived experience, from the Romantics to identity politics | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/on-lived-experience-from-the-romantics-to-identity-politics

On lived experience, from the Romantics to identity politics | Aeon Essays
The term is ubiquitous and double-edged. It is both a key source of authentic knowledge and a danger to true solidarity

SNIFFER: Multimodal Large Language Model for Explainable Out-of-Context Misinformation Detection
Peng Qi, Zehong Yan, Wynne Hsu, Mong Li Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03170

SNIFFER: Multimodal Large Language Model for Explainable Out-of-Context Misinformation Detection
Misinformation is a prevalent societal issue due to its potential high risks. Out-of-context (OOC) misinformation, where authentic images are repurposed with false text, is one of the easiest and most effective ways to mislead audiences. Current methods focus on assessing image-text consistency but lack convincing explanations for their judgments, which is essential for debunking misinformation. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have rich knowledge and innate capability for visual …

Yeah, lawyers, looks like a really real candid totally authentic and accurate photo from lawyering in your office in your email newsletter.
Is that how you do your cases as well?
*unsubscribe*

Sellable Art That Feels Like Me
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Sellable Art That Feels Like Me | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Sellable Art That Feels Like Me Host: Michele Luminato Category: Arts Sub-Category: Visual Arts First Episode: 2024 This podcast is for artists who want to create their most authentic work…

TrustRate: A Decentralized Platform for Hijack-Resistant Anonymous Reviews
Rohit Dwivedula, Sriram Sridhar, Sambhav Satija, Muthian Sivathanu, Nishanth Chandran, Divya Gupta, Satya Lokam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18386

TrustRate: A Decentralized Platform for Hijack-Resistant Anonymous Reviews
Reviews and ratings by users form a central component in several widely used products today (e.g., product reviews, ratings of online content, etc.), but today's platforms for managing such reviews are ad-hoc and vulnerable to various forms of tampering and hijack by fake reviews either by bots or motivated paid workers. We define a new metric called 'hijack-resistance' for such review platforms, and then present TrustRate, an end-to-end decentralized, hijack-resistant platform for authentic, a…

Eternagram: Probing Player Attitudes in Alternate Climate Scenarios Through a ChatGPT-Driven Text Adventure
Suifang Zhou, Latisha Besariani Hendra, Qinshi Zhang, Jussi Holopainen, RAY LC
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18160

Eternagram: Probing Player Attitudes in Alternate Climate Scenarios Through a ChatGPT-Driven Text Adventure
Conventional methods of assessing attitudes towards climate change are limited in capturing authentic opinions, primarily stemming from a lack of context-specific assessment strategies and an overreliance on simplistic surveys. Game-based Assessments (GBA) have demonstrated the ability to overcome these issues by immersing participants in engaging gameplay within carefully crafted, scenario-based environments. Concurrently, advancements in AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) show promise i…

Who is Authentic Speaker
Qiang Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00248 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.00248…

Who is Authentic Speaker
Voice conversion (VC) using deep learning technologies can now generate high quality one-to-many voices and thus has been used in some practical application fields, such as entertainment and healthcare. However, voice conversion can pose potential social issues when manipulated voices are employed for deceptive purposes. Moreover, it is a big challenge to find who are real speakers from the converted voices as the acoustic characteristics of source speakers are changed greatly. In this paper we…

RealDex: Towards Human-like Grasping for Robotic Dexterous Hand
Yumeng Liu, Yaxun Yang, Youzhuo Wang, Xiaofei Wu, Jiamin Wang, Yichen Yao, S\"oren Schwertfeger, Sibei Yang, Wenping Wang, Jingyi Yu, Xuming He, Yuexin Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13853

RealDex: Towards Human-like Grasping for Robotic Dexterous Hand
In this paper, we introduce RealDex, a pioneering dataset capturing authentic dexterous hand grasping motions infused with human behavioral patterns, enriched by multi-view and multimodal visual data. Utilizing a teleoperation system, we seamlessly synchronize human-robot hand poses in real time. This collection of human-like motions is crucial for training dexterous hands to mimic human movements more naturally and precisely. RealDex holds immense promise in advancing humanoid robot for automa…

Prequestioning Enhances Undergraduate Students Learning in an Environmental Chemistry Course
Steven C. PanNational University of Singapore, Jia Yi HanNational University of Singapore, Fun Man FungNational University of Singapore
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02788

Prequestioning Enhances Undergraduate Students Learning in an Environmental Chemistry Course
Prequestioning is an instructional strategy that involves taking practice tests on to-be-learned information followed by studying the correct answers. Despite promising results in laboratory studies, it has rarely been examined in authentic educational settings. The current study investigated the pedagogical benefits of prequestioning as a learning intervention in an undergraduate environmental chemistry course. In each of 10 lecture sessions, the course lecturer administered four prequestions …

Numerical evaluation of code live-load models for estimating the forces caused by actual vehicles that act on bridge substructures
Alejandro Hernandez-Martinez, Adrian D. Garcia-Soto, Jesus G. Valdes-Vazquez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18825

Numerical evaluation of code live-load models for estimating the forces caused by actual vehicles that act on bridge substructures
The present paper assesses the efficacy of code live-load models in accurately estimating the vehicular loads transferred to bridge substructures, such as abutments, piers, and foundations. Realistic traffic vehicle data are represented using four Weigh-in-Motion databases, which provide an authentic representation of vehicle information, thus providing a realistic basis for the examination of the bridges studied. The evaluation includes various bridge models, such as single-span girder bridges…

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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…

New Orleans signs: Birds edition
1) Bayou St. John
2) City Park
3) Uptown 13th Ward
4) Faubourg Maringy
Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans.
@…
#NOLA #NewOrleans

Generative Modeling for Tabular Data via Penalized Optimal Transport Network
Wenhui Sophia Lu, Chenyang Zhong, Wing Hung Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10456

Generative Modeling for Tabular Data via Penalized Optimal Transport Network
The task of precisely learning the probability distribution of rows within tabular data and producing authentic synthetic samples is both crucial and non-trivial. Wasserstein generative adversarial network (WGAN) marks a notable improvement in generative modeling, addressing the challenges faced by its predecessor, generative adversarial network. However, due to the mixed data types and multimodalities prevalent in tabular data, the delicate equilibrium between the generator and discriminator, …

Don't Stop Us Now! Podcast
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Don’t Stop Us Now! | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Don’t Stop Us Now! Podcast Hosts: Claire Hatton and Greta Thomas Category: Business Sub-Category: Careers, Entrepreneurship First Episode: 2018 Authentic stories and practical advice from…

NELA-PS: A Dataset of Pink Slime News Articles for the Study of Local News Ecosystems
Benjamin D. Horne, Maur\'icio Gruppi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13657

NELA-PS: A Dataset of Pink Slime News Articles for the Study of Local News Ecosystems
Pink slime news outlets automatically produce low-quality, often partisan content that is framed as authentic local news. Given that local news is trusted by Americans and is increasingly shutting down due to financial distress, pink slime news outlets have the potential to exploit local information voids. Yet, there are gaps in understanding of pink slime production practices and tactics, particularly over time. Hence, to support future research in this area, we built a dataset of over 7.9M ar…

Don't Stop Us Now! Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods…

Don’t Stop Us Now! | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Don’t Stop Us Now! Podcast Hosts: Claire Hatton and Greta Thomas Category: Business Sub-Category: Careers, Entrepreneurship First Episode: 2018 Authentic stories and practical advice from…

New Orleans signs: Birds edition
1) Bayou St. John
2) City Park
3) Uptown 13th Ward
4) Faubourg Maringy
Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans.
@…
#NOLA #NewOrleans

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14998 has been replaced.
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Synthetic images aid the recognition of human-made art forgeries
Previous research has shown that Artificial Intelligence is capable of distinguishing between authentic paintings by a given artist and human-made forgeries with remarkable accuracy, provided sufficient training. However, with the limited amount of existing known forgeries, augmentation methods for forgery detection are highly desirable. In this work, we examine the potential of incorporating synthetic artworks into training datasets to enhance the performance of forgery detection. Our investig…

Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/business/sports-i…

Sports Illustrated’s Print Edition to Continue Under New Operator
Minute Media, owner of The Players’ Tribune, has struck a deal to operate Sports Illustrated for at least 10 years.

Generative Modeling for Tabular Data via Penalized Optimal Transport Network
Wenhui Sophia Lu, Chenyang Zhong, Wing Hung Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10456

Generative Modeling for Tabular Data via Penalized Optimal Transport Network
The task of precisely learning the probability distribution of rows within tabular data and producing authentic synthetic samples is both crucial and non-trivial. Wasserstein generative adversarial network (WGAN) marks a notable improvement in generative modeling, addressing the challenges faced by its predecessor, generative adversarial network. However, due to the mixed data types and multimodalities prevalent in tabular data, the delicate equilibrium between the generator and discriminator, …

Shining Light into the Tunnel: Understanding and Classifying Network Traffic of Residential Proxies
Ronghong Huang, Dongfang Zhao, Xianghang Mi, Xiaofeng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10610

Shining Light into the Tunnel: Understanding and Classifying Network Traffic of Residential Proxies
Emerging in recent years, residential proxies (RESIPs) feature multiple unique characteristics when compared with traditional network proxies (e.g., commercial VPNs), particularly, the deployment in residential networks rather than data center networks, the worldwide distribution in tens of thousands of cities and ISPs, and the large scale of millions of exit nodes. All these factors allow RESIP users to effectively masquerade their traffic flows as ones from authentic residential users, which …

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A Challenge Dataset and Effective Models for Conversational Stance Detection
Previous stance detection studies typically concentrate on evaluating stances within individual instances, thereby exhibiting limitations in effectively modeling multi-party discussions concerning the same specific topic, as naturally transpire in authentic social media interactions. This constraint arises primarily due to the scarcity of datasets that authentically replicate real social media contexts, hindering the research progress of conversational stance detection. In this paper, we introd…