Tootfinder

kwh, wealth, old age,
examining something reminds me diverse backgrounds can uncover weird discrepancies in averages of data, or in what you yourself consider "typical".
asked contact list about how much power they use.
one of them made an order of magnitude more kwh than the rest (they're also a c-level executive)
talked about how 3 fridges, a pool, and a hot-tub "stuff comes with age" (but also that they're "trying to be energy efficient")
I mean... not all of the old people on the list have big houses like that. I think that might just be an executive thing?
but it's also like...
I think comparison is a useful tool to realize some parts of our lives go unchallenged.
also, some mistakes in my methodology:
- heating/cooling in different regions vastly changes
- not including power usage from gas heaters vs all electric houses
- not controlling for heating/location
I actually don't think the point would be to get grumpy at them, but to understand that they had zero clue they were 10x energy users

InternLM-XComposer2-4KHD: A Pioneering Large Vision-Language Model Handling Resolutions from 336 Pixels to 4K HD
Xiaoyi Dong, Pan Zhang, Yuhang Zang, Yuhang Cao, Bin Wang, Linke Ouyang, Songyang Zhang, Haodong Duan, Wenwei Zhang, Yining Li, Hang Yan, Yang Gao, Zhe Chen, Xinyue Zhang, Wei Li, Jingwen Li, Wenhai Wang, Kai Chen, Conghui He, Xingcheng Zhang, Jifeng Dai, Yu Qiao, Dahua Lin, Jiaqi Wang

InternLM-XComposer2-4KHD: A Pioneering Large Vision-Language Model Handling Resolutions from 336 Pixels to 4K HD
The Large Vision-Language Model (LVLM) field has seen significant advancements, yet its progression has been hindered by challenges in comprehending fine-grained visual content due to limited resolution. Recent efforts have aimed to enhance the high-resolution understanding capabilities of LVLMs, yet they remain capped at approximately 1500 x 1500 pixels and constrained to a relatively narrow resolution range. This paper represents InternLM-XComposer2-4KHD, a groundbreaking exploration into ele…

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05823 https://

Exploiting CPU Clock Modulation for Covert Communication Channel
Covert channel attacks represent a significant threat to system security, leveraging shared resources to clandestinely transmit information from highly secure systems, thereby violating the system's security policies. These attacks exploit shared resources as communication channels, necessitating resource partitioning and isolation techniques as countermeasures. However, mitigating attacks exploiting modern processors' hardware features to leak information is challenging because successful atta…

APrompt4EM: Augmented Prompt Tuning for Generalized Entity Matching
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04820 https://…

APrompt4EM: Augmented Prompt Tuning for Generalized Entity Matching
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Antiferroelectric Nanodomains Stabilized by Chemical Disorder at Anti-phase Boundaries
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04904

Antiferroelectric Nanodomains Stabilized by Chemical Disorder at Anti-phase Boundaries
Antiferroelectric perovskite oxides exhibit exceptional dielectric properties and high structural/chemical tunability, making them promising for a wide range of applications from high energy-density capacitors to solid-state cooling. However, tailoring the antiferroelectric phase stability through alloying is hampered by the complex interplay between chemistry and the alignment of dipole moments. In this study, correlations between chemical order and the stability of the antiferroelectric phase…

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05248

JWST's first glimpses of a z > 2 forming cluster reveals a top-heavy stellar mass function
Clusters and their progenitors (protoclusters) at z = 2-4, the peak epoch of star formation, are ideal laboratories to study the formation process of both the clusters themselves and their member galaxies. However, a complete census of their member galaxies has been challenging due to observational difficulties. Here we present new JWST/NIRCam observations targeting the distant cluster CLJ1001 at z = 2.51 from the COSMOS-Webb program, which, in combination with previous narrow-band imaging targ…

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LHAASO-KM2A detector simulation using Geant4
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LHAASO-KM2A detector simulation using Geant4
KM2A is one of the main sub-arrays of LHAASO, working on gamma ray astronomy and cosmic ray physics at energies above 10 TeV. Detector simulation is the important foundation for estimating detector performance and data analysis. It is a big challenge to simulate the KM2A detector in the framework of Geant4 due to the need to track numerous photons from a large number of detector units (>6000) with large altitude difference (30 m) and huge coverage (1.3 km^2). In this paper, the design of the KM…

APrompt4EM: Augmented Prompt Tuning for Generalized Entity Matching
Yikuan Xia, Jiazun Chen, Xinchi Li, Jun Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04820 https://…

APrompt4EM: Augmented Prompt Tuning for Generalized Entity Matching
Generalized Entity Matching (GEM), which aims at judging whether two records represented in different formats refer to the same real-world entity, is an essential task in data management. The prompt tuning paradigm for pre-trained language models (PLMs), including the recent PromptEM model, effectively addresses the challenges of low-resource GEM in practical applications, offering a robust solution when labeled data is scarce. However, existing prompt tuning models for GEM face the challenges …

X's audio and video calls, which are enabled by default, are peer-to-peer, revealing users' IP addresses to each other, unless they enable a privacy setting (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/04/elon-musk-x-twitter-calling-privacy…

X's new calling feature hurts your privacy — here's how to switch it off | TechCrunch
TechCrunch ran tests of the feature to analyze how the calling feature works and to understand the risks associated with it.