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Colts GM Chris Ballard on young CBs: 'We think these guys are gonna continue to get better' https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-gm-chris-ballard-on-young-cbs-we-think-these-guys-are-gonna-continue-to-get-better<…

Colts GM Chris Ballard on young CBs: 'We think these guys are gonna continue to get better'
Indianapolis general manager Chris Ballard is focused on strengthening the Colts' secondary with the young defensive backs they already have. "We think these guys are gonna continue to get better," Ballard said.

"I'm Not Sure, But...": Examining the Impact of Large Language Models' Uncertainty Expression on User Reliance and Trust
Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Q. Vera Liao, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Stephanie Ballard, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00623

"I'm Not Sure, But...": Examining the Impact of Large Language Models' Uncertainty Expression on User Reliance and Trust
Widely deployed large language models (LLMs) can produce convincing yet incorrect outputs, potentially misleading users who may rely on them as if they were correct. To reduce such overreliance, there have been calls for LLMs to communicate their uncertainty to end users. However, there has been little empirical work examining how users perceive and act upon LLMs' expressions of uncertainty. We explore this question through a large-scale, pre-registered, human-subject experiment (N=404) in whic…

Colts GM Chris Ballard expects Michael Pittman Jr. to remain with Indianapolis https://theathletic.com/5306393/2024/02/28/michael-pittman-jr-free-agency-franchise-tag-colts/

Colts GM Chris Ballard expects Michael Pittman Jr. to remain with Indianapolis
The Colts GM didn’t rule it using the franchise tag on Michael Pittman and effectively dismissed the possibility of him playing elsewhere.

Colts' Chris Ballard lambasts reports on WR Adonai Mitchell's character: 'That's such (expletive)' https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-chris-ballard-lambasts-reports-on-wr-adonai-mitchell-s-character

Colts' Chris Ballard lambasts reports on WR Adonai Mitchell's character: 'That's such (expletive)'
Wide receiver Adonai Mitchell's fall to the Indianapolis Colts was apparently caused by reports of character concerns, something general manager Chris Ballard not only shirked off but vehemently attacked in his Friday news conference with Indy's local media.

LowTRAMON – Rongo Rongo
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Helvetsi Järkeä.
.i mi'e xirka poi jikca
I am a social person named Xirka.
#Lojban
#aiconfab
#Surrealism

reading now: Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard
It took me a long time to discover Ballard as a sci-fi fan but now I am hooked. I won’t be spoiling it for you if I told you it has one of the best pretenses of any novel set in the modern world, a veritable Robinson Cruose set in a forgotten spot in the middle of London.
#books

There are "I love watching my favorite MLS team" American soccer fans, and there are "I'm watching Ballard FC play Spokane Velocity in Round 1 of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup" soccer fans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZRbPSxvzDo

A paper-based multiplexed serological test to monitor immunity against SARS-CoV-2 using machine learning
Merve Eryilmaz, Artem Goncharov, Gyeo-Re Han, Hyou-Arm Joung, Zachary S. Ballard, Rajesh Ghosh, Yijie Zhang, Dino Di Carlo, Aydogan Ozcan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17774

A paper-based multiplexed serological test to monitor immunity against SARS-CoV-2 using machine learning
The rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 caused the COVID-19 pandemic and accelerated vaccine development to prevent the spread of the virus and control the disease. Given the sustained high infectivity and evolution of SARS-CoV-2, there is an ongoing interest in developing COVID-19 serology tests to monitor population-level immunity. To address this critical need, we designed a paper-based multiplexed vertical flow assay (xVFA) using five structural proteins of SARS-CoV-2, detecting IgG and IgM antibodi…

Colts general manager intends to keep WR Michael Pittman with extension or franchise tag https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-general-manager-intends-to-keep-wr-michael-pittman-with-extension-or-franchise-tag

Colts general manager intends to keep WR Michael Pittman with extension or franchise tag
One way or another, Michael Pittman will remain a member of the Indianapolis Colts in 2024, according to general manager Chris Ballard. 

"Gardens all wet with rain", can be elegiac in a Van Morrison song but tedious after what seems like six months.
Ballard promised me as a young boy tropical heat and London as Aquarium and river delta; not damp and mildew.
#Climate

🐟 Removing Washington salmon barriers surges to $1M a day, but results are murky
#environment

Removing Washington salmon barriers surges to $1M a day, but results are murky
The coho salmon has already conquered the Ballard Locks fish ladder, swum 17 miles through urban Seattle waterways and powered through a tunnel under nine lanes of Interstate 405.

zoomies: A tool to infer stellar age from vertical action in Gaia data
Sheila Sagear (Lucy), Adrian M. Price-Whelan (Lucy), Sarah Ballard (Lucy), Yuxi (Lucy), Lu, Ruth Angus, David W. Hogg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09878

zoomies: A tool to infer stellar age from vertical action in Gaia data
Stellar age measurements are fundamental to understanding a wide range of astronomical processes, including galactic dynamics, stellar evolution, and planetary system formation. However, extracting age information from Main Sequence stars is complicated, with techniques often relying on age proxies in the absence of direct measurements. The Gaia data releases have enabled detailed studies of the dynamical properties of stars within the Milky Way, offering new opportunities to understand the rel…

Colts GM defends rookie Mitchell in profane rant https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40033982/adonai-mitchell-colts-nfl-draft-backed-gm-profane-rant

Adonai Mitchell to Colts in NFL draft, backed by GM in profane rant - ESPN
Colts GM Chris Ballard fiercely defended Adonai Mitchell against criticisms of his character, calling the condemnations of the rookie wide receiver "bulls---" during a lengthy rant.

Colts GM defends in-house free agent strategy https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39815959/nfl-free-agency-colts-michael-pittman

Colts GM defends in-house free agent strategy - ESPN
Chris Ballard rejects the notion the Colts weren't active in free agency, they just invested in-house.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03700 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Generalized Pseudospectral Shattering and Inverse-Free Matrix Pencil Diagonalization
We present a randomized, inverse-free algorithm for producing an approximate diagonalization of any $n \times n$ matrix pencil $(A,B)$. The bulk of the algorithm rests on a randomized divide-and-conquer eigensolver for the generalized eigenvalue problem originally proposed by Ballard, Demmel, and Dumitriu [Technical Report 2010]. We demonstrate that this divide-and-conquer approach can be formulated to succeed with high probability provided the input pencil is sufficiently well-behaved, which i…