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This is why you don't play footsie with fascists!
Ronna Romney is, thankfully, gone from NBC. But details of her contract are leaking out. It turns out MSNBC prez Rashida Jones was directly involved in recruiting and hiring Ronna, and executives had indeed intended for her to appear on MSNBC in addition to NBC -- even agreeing to pay her extra for it.
Now, Ronna is gearing up to sue NBC for breach of contract.

NBC offered Ronna McDaniel a better contract to appear on MSNBC
The cable channel was part of the broad push to clinch a contributor deal for McDaniel, whose hiring caused an uproar.

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Broad Recommender System: An Efficient Nonlinear Collaborative Filtering Approach
Recently, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been widely introduced into Collaborative Filtering (CF) to produce more accurate recommendation results due to their capability of capturing the complex nonlinear relationships between items and users.However, the DNNs-based models usually suffer from high computational complexity, i.e., consuming very long training time and storing huge amount of trainable parameters. To address these problems, we propose a new broad recommender system called Broad C…

Took a couple days last week to drive out to Joshua Tree National Park with the lab, to see what the spring flowering season looks like so far.
We had gorgeous, cool, clear weather, and some very nice hikes, but didn't see a single Joshua tree in flower.
https://flic.kr/p/2pAhjeh

A Monte Carlo Simulation of the Broad Band X-ray Emission of the Accreting Millisecond X-ray pulsar MAXI J1816-195
Yuan You (Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China), Shuang-Nan Zhang (Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China), Zhaosheng Li (Key Laboratory of Stars and Interstellar Medium, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan University, …

A Monte Carlo Simulation of the Broad Band X-ray Emission of the Accreting Millisecond X-ray pulsar MAXI J1816-195
MAXI J1816-195 is an accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar (AMXP) discovered in 2022. According to the Insight-HXMT data, the pulsations of this source extend all the way to over 100 keV, and its pulse profiles change from a single peak in low-energy range to double peaks in high-energy range. In this work, we simulate its energy spectra and pulse profiles with a Compton scattering Monte Carlo program. The simulation results suggest that the low energy X-ray source on the neutron star surface shou…

New class of antivirals works against broad range of RNA viruses including SARS-CoV-2: study
https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2024/02/new-class-of-antivirals-works-against-broad-range-of-rna-viruses.html

ALISA: Accelerating Large Language Model Inference via Sparsity-Aware KV Caching
Youpeng Zhao, Di Wu, Jun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17312 https://

ALISA: Accelerating Large Language Model Inference via Sparsity-Aware KV Caching
The Transformer architecture has significantly advanced natural language processing (NLP) and has been foundational in developing large language models (LLMs) such as LLaMA and OPT, which have come to dominate a broad range of NLP tasks. Despite their superior accuracy, LLMs present unique challenges in practical inference, concerning the compute and memory-intensive nature. Thanks to the autoregressive characteristic of LLM inference, KV caching for the attention layers in Transformers can eff…

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Tensor decompositions with applications to LU and SLOCC equivalence of multipartite pure states
We introduce a broad lemma, one consequence of which is the higher order singular value decomposition (HOSVD) of tensors defined by DeLathauwer, DeMoor and Vandewalle (2000). By an analogous application of the lemma, we find a complex orthogonal version of the HOSVD. Kraus' (2010) algorithm used the HOSVD to compute normal forms of almost all $n$-qubit pure states under the action of the local unitary group. Taking advantage of the double cover $\operatorname{SL}_2(\mathbb{C}) \times \operatorn…

The United States imposed sanctions on #Chinese #hackers on Monday and accused them of working as a front for Beijing’s top spy agency, part of a broad effort to place #malware in American electric grids, water systems and other

U.S. Accuses Chinese Hackers of Targeting Critical Infrastructure in America
The Treasury Department imposed sanctions on the hackers, who they said were working as a front for Beijing’s top spy agency.

First detection of outflowing gas in the outskirts of the broad line region in 1H-0707-495
Alberto Rodriguez-Ardila (Laboratorio Nacional de Astrofisica- Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais - Brazil), Marcos Antonio Fonseca-Faria (Laboratorio Nacional de Astrofisica- Brazil), Denimara Dias dos Santos (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais - Brazil, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica), Swayamtrupta Panda (Laboratorio Nacional de Astrofisica- Brazil), Murilo Marinello (L…

First detection of outflowing gas in the outskirts of the broad line region in 1H-0707-495
We use near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy covering simultaneously the $zJHK$ bands to look for outflowing gas from the nuclear environment of 1H0707-495 taking advantage that this region is dominated by low-ionization broad line region (BLR) lines, most of them isolated. We detect broad components in HI, FeII and OI, at rest to the systemic velocity, displaying full width at half maximum (FWHM) values of ~500 km s$^{-1}$, consistent with its classification as a narrow-line Seyfert~1 AGN. Moreover…