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Analysts: Reliance-Disney India media merger will create an entity that captures 85% of India's on-demand streaming service audience and ~50% of the TV viewers (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/28/reli

Reliance-Disney India media merger to control 85% of streaming, half of TV audience | TechCrunch
The merger of Indian media assets of Reliance, its portfolio Viacom18 and Disney will create an entity that captures 85% of the country's on-demand Reliance and Disney merging their India media properties will create an entity that captures 85% of the country's on-demand streaming service audience and about half of the TV viewers.

A researcher finds that X is testing a feature that lets users create or join communities focused on "adult content" or other "not safe for work" material (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Elon Musk’s X Is Testing ‘Adult Content’ Groups for Users
X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is testing a feature that lets users create or join communities focused on “adult content” or other “not safe for work” material.

Five of the world's leading #Research & #Education #networking organisations - ESnet, GÉANT, the GlobalNOC at Indiana University, @…

New Consortium MetrANOVA to Create a Measurement and Analysis Toolbox for Research and Education Networks Worldwide | GÉANT CONNECT Online
New Consortium MetrANOVA to Create a Measurement and Analysis Toolbox for Research and Education Networks Worldwide Founding members ESnet, GÉANT, Indiana University, Internet2, and Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) seek additional participants February 27 — Five of the world’s leading research and education (R&E) networking organizations have joined forces to form MetrANOVA, a consortium for

Better late then never. EU plans to create defense-industrial complex ready for war.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-plan-war-ready-complex-european-defence-industrial-strategy/

EU plans to create defense-industrial complex ready for war
New strategy is the bloc’s response to the war in Ukraine and the need to restart arms and ammunition production.

“You asked an AI to create it, clearly precision is like job eight here.” Oh that’s going in the quote file. 😂😂 https://mstdn.social/@Dseitz/112003489937633063

I like help understanding the differences between the code GCC (also Clang) generates for two trivial C pgms:
1. Create 2 instances of string: expectedly calls dtor twice, includes "unwind" code w dtor call for first string. Why dtor for just 1st instance?
2. Create 1 instance of string: expectedly calls dtor once but has no unwind code. Why not?
PS: I don't think this is specific to strings.
Demo (intentionally -O0):

Compiler Explorer
Compiler Explorer is an interactive online compiler which shows the assembly output of compiled C++, Rust, Go (and many more) code.

I just created a new Gist to remind myself on how to create index entries that refer to glossary definitions.
https://gist.github.com/juandesant/0101a49fae94069e970484aa8609c0e3

Create glossary and index entries in LaTeX
Create glossary and index entries in LaTeX. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

3D Printed Adapter Helps You Eat Chicken Nuggets On The Highway
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-ae1714bf-82f674ffb6ac9ead
3D Printed Adapter Helps You Eat Chicken Nuggets On The Highway So often, we see 3D printers used to create some nifty l…

This article is a perfect summary on why interviewing the stochastic terrorists that create violence against marginalized groups (in this case trans people) centers the aggressors and not the victims and the injustice. Taylor Lorenz got played by LibsOfTikTok and should have known better.
"Furthermore, and in particular: If you are going to use a trans person’s violent death as a narcissistic exercise, and exploit the suffering of a real trans person to raise your own cis profile …

I Don’t Care About Your Brand
Nex Benedict, Taylor Lorenz, and why trans trauma is not your goldmine.

Daily Inspiration: "It's better to construct an understanding instead of manufacturing fear!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
The long version is this: "It's better to construct an understanding of what tomorrow might bring instead of manufacturing fear about what it might take away!"
I've got a steady stream of keynotes on the books going well into the fall. One of them, in October, will be for the Chicago-based Great Lakes Construction Association. This i…

Daily Inspiration: Personal Development & Innovation – “You can create more opportunities or you can create more problems. Choose wisely.

Imagine this: Mastodon now ships directly with a built-in Matrix :matrix: server, all direct messages (DMs) are end-to-end encrypted and the DM interface is completely overhauled to look similar to Twitter. When you create a Mastodon account you also create a Matrix account with the same ID (ErikUden@mastodon.de ⇒ ErikUden:mastodon.de).
If a Fediverse server deletes this functionality, isn't updated, or you're messaging someone on an ActivityPub service that …

From @suegreaney.bsky.social
Do you work with archaeological archives? Is your research collections based? Have your say on the development of a [UK] National Collection for Archaeological Archives: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NCAA-researchers

Operating Sustainable Archives: reviewing researcher needs
Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

Foreign-owned oil companies in Canada hold key to climate change
:mastodon:
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/august-2023/foreign-oil-companies/

Foreign-owned oil companies in Canada hold key to climate change
The federal government should use financial regulation to create incentives for oil companies to embrace climate change goals.

I finally made the code for Porpoise [see old thread: https://mastodon.social/@shriramk/110766673588996764] public. (I had stuff in the repo I didn't want public, so I had to cleanse and create a new repo.) If anyone wants to try out Porpoise, go ahead! At least one …

GitHub - shriram/porpoise: use an LLM to translate purpose-statements into code to evaluate their quality
use an LLM to translate purpose-statements into code to evaluate their quality - shriram/porpoise

An article on why consumers should be able to see the full contents of the loan applications submitted by dealers to lenders. Written by Tom Oscherwitz, one of the team where I work.
(Its free access, but you have to create a login to see it 😞
#ConsumerRights #DataProtection

The CFPB's data access requirements should apply to auto loans
In implementing Section 1033, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is leaving out auto loans, one of the largest sources of consumer debt.

Bad idea.
Bipartisan bill would create "antisemitism monitors" at colleges
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/26/antisemitism-monitor-colleges-columbia-israel

Bipartisan bill would create "antisemitism monitors" at colleges
The COLUMBIA Act is the first bill introduced in direct response to recent campus protests.

I am trying to create a cutaway view of an assembly in #FreeCAD.
It doesn't work at all. It sections some of the parts but not others in the assembly, so I can't use it to make a cutaway view.
Probably I'm doing something wrong. So I searched for "assembly persistent section cut freecad" and saw a forum result that looked like exactly what I wanted to know. "Persistent secti…

ROFL.
Got blocked by Newsmast for laying out their plan to create an app using Fedi content without user consent.
Their reasoning for the block is "Against Newsmast's Policy"
:kek: I guess it IS against their policy to let people know exactly what they're doing....🤦‍♂️
#Fediverse

"Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force."
W. Edwards Deming

Since there is no question that gun ownership is a God-given right and essential to preserve one's security, the Biden government should create a program to give at least an assault rifle to all those citizens who cannot afford to buy one. Especially the homeless.
Texas should lead the way on this initiative.
And #BernieSanders surely will agree that Minimum Gun is more importan…

Intersection Types In #TypeScript
https://claritydev.net/blog/intersection-types-in-typescript

I've tried to create a Gmail account.
It asks for a mobile phone number.
It doesn't accept mine because it was used too many times.
F%^$% Google!

The ant with the scythe is marching off to work in the fields, "Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go." https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/112161972170253990

myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)
Attached: 3 images As it turns out ant rings were pretty popular. They could be used with wax to create a seal. I really like the one where the ant is walking on her back legs like a person and carrying a scythe as if working in the field. A hematite Roman ant seal has been carved from careful observation of a real ant. It has antennae and what appear to be maxillary palps. This ant also has a stinger.

Here we go into the future!
I spent the day with the new Mistral Large API and I asked it to create two songs for my podcast.
One in Syncopated Trap style and the other in Gypsy Jazz.
Here's the Syncopated Trap version.
#AI #AImusic

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that: "The manufacturing sector was responsible for 12% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2021. **About 75% of those emissions came from burning fuel to create heat**, and the rest were by-products of industrial processes that transform materials into products."
Note: Most low to moderate temperature heat demands could be satisfied with heat pumps rather than burning fuel.

Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the Manufacturing Sector
At a Glance When producing goods, the manufacturing sector emits carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that cause global warming, both by burning fossil fuels and through certain industrial processes.

There's only one week left for subscribers to opt-in to access their free places to the pilot of our new online training course. This must be done by Friday 5th April.
#ResearchIntegrity

@… That does sound messed up.
Create a demo environment or something, don’t literally have your workers pay you.

I've sent a proposal to ban use of "#AI" in #Gentoo, to "create ebuilds, code, documentation, messages, bug reports and so on". This includes GitHub #Copilot.
The rationale is based on three points. Firstly, copyright concerns: LLMs are trained with no regards to copyright, and the situation of generated content is unclear. Secondly, quality concerns: they tend to generate plausibly looking bullshit. Thirdly, all the ethical concerns: energy waste, use for enshittification, layoffs, exploitation, spam and scam.
This is not something I'd like to see Gentoo associated with. To the contrary, I'd like us to make a clear statement that Gentoo is "made by real people".
So far I've gotten a one thousand and two votes in favor.
https://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg99042.html

Please will the press stop giving air time to the idiot tech-bros. I beg you! 🙏 This is the height of ridiculousness. Just stop burning carbon! 🙄
To be clear, this *will not* prevent the melting of the polar ice. It will however burn more carbon... #ClimateChange
Posting for the information (but suggest people take calming breaths while reading this garbage).

Just imagine what could be achieved if all the human intelligence that is used to create artificial intelligence were used to solve real world problems!

With the AutSPACEs #citizenscience project we got a paid #mastoart opportunity. 🧑‍🎨 The project is by & for a community of #actuallyautistic people to gather qualitative data on sensory processing experiences in daily life. 📚
We are looking for a freelance illustrator/graphic designer to create a couple of accessible illustrations for the project. We would particularly love to work with someone with lived experience.
See more details on the opportunity & project here: https://autspacesnews.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/february-newsletter-2024/

Sharing from Twitter/ X:
https://twitter.com/fn/status/1772657840332607752
"Dear techie, do you contribute to Free and Open Source? If so, pl fill in this form to help create my Who's Who of FOSS in India ebook/book;
Name:
Contribution to …

Frederick Noronha (FN) (@fn) on X
Dear techie, do you contribute to Free and Open Source? If so, pl fill in this form to help create my Who's Who of FOSS in India ebook/book; Name: Contribution to FOSS: Contacts: Education: Alumni of: Your dream for FOSS in India: Send with photo to fredericknoronha5@gmail.com

https://www.404media.co/irl-fakes-where-people-pay-for-ai-generated-porn-of-normal-people/

‘IRL Fakes:’ Where People Pay for AI-Generated Porn of Normal People
A Telegram user who advertises their services on Twitter will create AI-generated porn of anyone for a price, and has also targeted minors.

… more than five hours to create this jail:
…
===> usr.sbin/wpa/src/wps (installconfig)
[05:38:08] Recording filesystem state for clean... done
[05:38:08] Jail main 15.0-CURRENT 1500017 amd64 is ready to be used
root@mowa219-gjp4-zbook-freebsd:~ # date ; uname -aKU ; history 4
Fri Mar 29 10:14:29 GMT 2024
FreeBSD mowa219-gjp4-zbook-freebsd 15.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT main-n269035-3f2b9607756d GENERIC-NODEBUG amd64 1500017 1500017
1486 2:5…

We don’t want to be ruled by kings like Zuckerberg and Musk. So let’s create fiefdoms ruled by mini-Zuckerbergs and mini-Musks instead.
Gosh darnit something tells me there’s a better solution to this but I’ll be damned if I can put my finger on it…
🤔

@… What was the hate part of that relationship?
Behind the scenes, it has used the event loop for ages now. But did its connection handling manually. Took out the custom connection handled and now using react/socket to create the connections and such.
So no, you don't need a specific extension to work. As always please use ext-ev or ext-uv, or another event loop ext…

"Quitting #capitalism requires political change and economic restructuring. But the most crucial transition is the psychological one — quitting the competitive, individualist, consumption-driven mindset at capitalism’s core. No economic reform will create lasting, positive change until we start seeing each other as cooperative partners working toward shared prosperity. We must undergo a prof…

How to quit capitalism. — Joan Westenberg
Let's start with something controversial: Capitalism is not an economic system. It is a philosophical and ideological force that shapes our lives, environment, and perception of humanity. It's a behemoth that thrives on relentless growth, often at a devastating cost. Under its reign, we witness the

This has become “red scare” levels of grotesque https://www.axios.com/2024/04/26/antisemitism-monitor-colleges-columbia-israel

Bipartisan bill would create "antisemitism monitors" at colleges
The COLUMBIA Act is the first bill introduced in direct response to recent campus protests.

🦴 Scientists try out Stone Age tools to understand how they were used
#science

Scientists try out Stone Age tools to understand how they were used
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica Stone Age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found that a combination of macroscopic and microscopic traces can tell us how stone edges were used. Their criteria help separate tools used for wood-felling from other activities. In addition, dated stone edges may be used to identify when timber use began for early humans.

User is seeking recommendations for apps to create penetration testing reports. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1cenf42/

{ggbump} creates elegant bump charts in ggplot. #ggplot #rstats

Migrant suicides in Calais: a border designed to create despair https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/migrant-suicides-in-calais-a-border-designed-to-create-despair/

X adds a feature that lets Spaces hosts enable live video when they create a new session, available on iOS (Amrita Khalid/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/28/24086072/x-spaces-live-video-chat-stream

X Spaces has live video
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, is adding video to its Spaces feature that previously only broadcast live audio.

Dear God in heaven.
Paedophiles create nude AI images of children to extort them, says charity
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/23/paedophiles-create-nude-ai-images-of-children-to-exto…

Daily inspiration: "You can create more opportunities or you can create more problems. Choose wisely." - Futurist Jim Carroll
It's all about a series of choices.
You can choose to be a barrier, or you can choose to be a gateway. Someone forging a path for going forward, or on a road looking back, towards a destination called tomorrow instead of getting back to yesterday. A mindset that chooses to be part of the change process to get there or one that chooses to get …

Daily Inspiration: Personal Development & Innovation – “You can create more opportunities or you can create more problems. Choose wisely.

saw a Kickstarter campaign that said
"I'm an entrepreneur working in aviation. I had an idea to create an AI product therefore I started learning programming ('Python' for more technical of you)."
and immediately stopped reading

Defense Ministry establishes department for logistics planning: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/27/defense-ministry-establishes.html

'ConfigureWithoutCarrier=1' is the #systemd networking magic I needed in my bridge, and which none of the guides seem to list; if you create a bridge with no interface, (but with an IP) - e.g. for a container you will create later, the network start up blocks waiting for the bridge to have a 'carrier' (i.e. a plugged in network), which it doesn't have.

FRESCO: Federated Reinforcement Energy System for Cooperative Optimization
Nicolas Mauricio Cuadrado, Roberto Alejandro Gutierrez, Martin Tak\'a\v{c}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18444

FRESCO: Federated Reinforcement Energy System for Cooperative Optimization
The rise in renewable energy is creating new dynamics in the energy grid that promise to create a cleaner and more participative energy grid, where technology plays a crucial part in making the required flexibility to achieve the vision of the next-generation grid. This work presents FRESCO, a framework that aims to ease the implementation of energy markets using a hierarchical control architecture of reinforcement learning agents trained using federated learning. The core concept we are provin…

Introducing cosmosGPT: Monolingual Training for Turkish Language Models
H. Toprak Kesgin, M. Kaan Yuce, Eren Dogan, M. Egemen Uzun, Atahan Uz, H. Emre Seyrek, Ahmed Zeer, M. Fatih Amasyali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17336

Introducing cosmosGPT: Monolingual Training for Turkish Language Models
The number of open source language models that can produce Turkish is increasing day by day, as in other languages. In order to create the basic versions of such models, the training of multilingual models is usually continued with Turkish corpora. The alternative is to train the model with only Turkish corpora. In this study, we first introduce the cosmosGPT models that we created with this alternative method. Then, we introduce new finetune datasets for basic language models to fulfill user r…

QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Agree, disagree — be inspired or not.
QOTD is fuel for conversation, and food for thought.
#QOTD
#QuoteOfTheDay

Scammers are using sample videos of influencers with modest social media presence to create AI deepfake ads that often push offensive products and ideas (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/28/ai-women-clone-ads/

AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them.
Artificial intelligence is spurring a new type of identity theft, altering people’s social media posts to sell erectile dysfunction pills or praise Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

On the Use of Large Language Models to Generate Capability Ontologies
Luis Miguel Vieira da Silva, Aljosha K\"ocher, Felix Gehlhoff, Alexander Fay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17524

On the Use of Large Language Models to Generate Capability Ontologies
Capability ontologies are increasingly used to model functionalities of systems or machines. The creation of such ontological models with all properties and constraints of capabilities is very complex and can only be done by ontology experts. However, Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown that they can generate machine-interpretable models from natural language text input and thus support engineers / ontology experts. Therefore, this paper investigates how LLMs can be used to create capabilit…

I hesitated sharing this because the alt text is pants, the random  (yes, obj) in the middle suggests missing stuff, it targets WCAG 2.1, has “here” link text, may not grok 1.4.11 & states, maybe thinks they invented shifting left, uses “a11y” in the copy, suggests 1.4.1 is too prescriptive, uses animated GIFs, pushes Material Design, _but_ it is a nice color-blind chart design primer.
“How Accessibility Standards Can Empower Better Chart Visual Design”

How Accessibility Standards Can Empower Better Chart Visual Design — Smashing Magazine
Accessibility for data visualization extends well beyond web standards, at least if you’re trying to create an experience that’s actually useful. This article focuses on techniques for creating useful and accessible visualizations that extend well beyond compliance.

#Kahoot zur #Bergpredigt für Klasse 9 (etwas erweitert von einer Vorlage)
https://

It is not as bad as E or F, and will probably pass because there’s virtually no campaign against it, but it bothers me how many “urbanist” orgs have fallen for Prop C, which asserts that the way to revive downtown is to give a tax break to downtown landlords—out of revenue that’s supposed to be earmarked to build affordable housing.
It’s also an obvious vehicle to associate Breed, who has a huge photo on the Yes on C website, with the (empty) idea of revitalizing downtown.

#3Dprinter

Since there is no question that gun ownership is a God-given right and essential to preserve one's security, the Biden government should create a program to give at least an assault rifle to all those citizens who cannot afford to buy one. Especially the homeless.
Texas should lead the way on this initiative.
And #BernieSanders surely will agree that Minimum Gun is more importan…

DemLabs explains how to Create your own Rapid Response GIF. He aims this at Dem candidates with low budgets, but we can all use these steps.
#BlueWaveRising #MTPol

How to create your own rapid response campaign GIF
GIFs work well for campaigns because condense your message and call to action into seconds. 

The capitalists, either a venture capitalist or a manager (monitor capitalist), have learnt about the past mistakes made by oppressor classes before them and after they've taken over. They have to create a barrier between workers to make labour unity harder to be achieved. By creating a barrier, they may give differential treatment to each worker as they like, feeding the distrust among the ranks. This is the "miscommunication" problem every boss is talking about, and they'…

Cowboys' Stephen Jones addresses offseason strategy to retain star players https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_stephen_jones_addresses_offseason_strategy_to_retain_star_players/s1_13132_4…

Cowboys' Stephen Jones addresses offseason strategy to retain star players
Despite what’s been said about Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, the reality is he’s coming off arguably the best season of his career after finishing runner-up to Lamar Jackson for the NFL MVP award. Because of his remarkable 2023 season, Dallas is working toward signing the 30-year-old QB to a contract extension, which could also help create some breathing room with its 2024 salary cap — something the team is cognizant of as it also tries to lock in star receiver CeeDee Lamb and …

X adds a feature that lets Spaces hosts enable live video when they create a new session, available on iOS (Amrita Khalid/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/28/24086072/x-spaces-live-video-chat-stream

X Spaces has live video
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, is adding video to its Spaces feature that previously only broadcast live audio.

A Semi-Automatic Approach to Create Large Gender- and Age-Balanced Speaker Corpora: Usefulness of Speaker Diarization & Identification
R\'emi Uro, David Doukhan, Albert Rilliard, La\"etitia Larcher, Anissa-Claire Adgharouamane, Marie Tahon, Antoine Laurent
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17552

A Semi-Automatic Approach to Create Large Gender- and Age-Balanced Speaker Corpora: Usefulness of Speaker Diarization & Identification
This paper presents a semi-automatic approach to create a diachronic corpus of voices balanced for speaker's age, gender, and recording period, according to 32 categories (2 genders, 4 age ranges and 4 recording periods). Corpora were selected at French National Institute of Audiovisual (INA) to obtain at least 30 speakers per category (a total of 960 speakers; only 874 have be found yet). For each speaker, speech excerpts were extracted from audiovisual documents using an automatic pipeline co…

Turns out the Mastodon version underlying #Trump's social media platform #TruthSocial is outdated and has a vulnerability that allows arbitrary remote code execution and DoS attacks.
In totally unrelated news: It is utterly ILLEGAL to hack into, sabotage, shutdown or destroy counter-de…

Ryan Baumann (@ryanfb@digipres.club)
I don't know who needs to hear this but #TruthSocial, which is running a forked version of Mastodon, does not from the source code appear to have appropriate mitigations in place for CVE-2023-36460, which theoretically allows attackers to create and overwrite any file Mastodon has access to, allowing Denial of Service and arbitrary Remote Code Execution https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-36460 (probably other CVE's as well, but some rely on federation which Truth Social doesn't use?) #in…

Ansible Lightspeed: A Code Generation Service for IT Automation
Priyam Sahoo, Saurabh Pujar, Ganesh Nalawade, Richard Gebhardt, Louis Mandel, Luca Buratti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17442

Ansible Lightspeed: A Code Generation Service for IT Automation
The availability of Large Language Models (LLMs) which can generate code, has made it possible to create tools that improve developer productivity. Integrated development environments or IDEs which developers use to write software are often used as an interface to interact with LLMs. Although many such tools have been released, almost all of them focus on general-purpose programming languages. Domain-specific languages, such as those crucial for IT automation, have not received much attention. …

Do I know a #Facebook developer? I need to create a small Facebook app to enable login with Facebook to my site and I go to Get Started at https://developers.facebook.com and add my mobile number but it…

Today I had an urge to create a Twitter account to contact someone not on Mastodon.
I didn't.
#Mastodon #Twitter

The ant with the scythe is marching off to work in the fields, "Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go." https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/112161972170253990

myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)
Attached: 3 images As it turns out ant rings were pretty popular. They could be used with wax to create a seal. I really like the one where the ant is walking on her back legs like a person and carrying a scythe as if working in the field. A hematite Roman ant seal has been carved from careful observation of a real ant. It has antennae and what appear to be maxillary palps. This ant also has a stinger.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that: "The manufacturing sector was responsible for 12% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2021. **About 75% of those emissions came from burning fuel to create heat**, and the rest were by-products of industrial processes that transform materials into products."
Note: Most low to moderate temperature heat demands could be satisfied with heat pumps rather than burning fuel.

Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the Manufacturing Sector
At a Glance When producing goods, the manufacturing sector emits carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that cause global warming, both by burning fossil fuels and through certain industrial processes.

Here we go into the future: Part 2!
As you know from my previous post, I spent the day with the new Mistral Large API and I asked it to create two songs for my podcast.
One in Syncopated Trap style and the other in Gypsy Jazz.
Here's the Gypsy Jazz version.
#AI #AImusic

Just imagine what could be achieved if all the human intelligence that is used to create artificial intelligence were used to solve real world problems!

@… hi. From a recent article:
「… since we are not using GNU/Linux, all hacks that make software run fast there may now work here, or even create huge problems. Firefox on FreeBSD is a hack layered over a hack running slowly. …」
Focusing on the web browser: please, can you elaborate?
My own use of www/firefox is a mixture of:
— wildly excessive (e.g. t…

User is seeking recommendations for apps to create penetration testing reports. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1cenf42/

Scammers are using sample videos of influencers with modest social media presence to create AI deepfake ads that often push offensive products and ideas (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/28/ai-women-clone-ads/

AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them.
Artificial intelligence is spurring a new type of identity theft, altering people’s social media posts to sell erectile dysfunction pills or praise Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

Keep pushing against this shit, complaining works https://decrypt.co/223411/bbc-abandons-doctor-who-ai-promo-plans-after-viewer-complaints

BBC Abandons 'Doctor Who' AI Promo Plans After Viewer Complaints
The BBC has "no plans" to expand upon a trial that saw generative AI used to create marketing copy for the sci-fi series "Doctor Who."

The UK's Reach plans to move 300 of its 2,000 journalists into central traffic-driving content hub to reduce the number of journalists writing similar stories (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-central-hub-content-dupl…

Reach plans to move 300 journalists into central traffic-driving content hub
Reach is planning to create a team of journalists to produce traffic-driving content for use across multiple of its news websites.

saw a Kickstarter campaign that said
"I'm an entrepreneur working in aviation. I had an idea to create an AI product therefore I started learning programming ('Python' for more technical of you)."
and immediately stopped reading

Kitten breaking change: Route handlers, etc., now take parameter objects
Just pushed the API updates I’d posted about earlier to main and to the latest Kitten release.
This change affects:
- Route handlers (all types of routes)
- `onConnect()` handlers
- The default export on main.script.js files
I’ve updated all the examples, documentation, etc., on Kitten to use the new API but if you see anything I’ve missed, please let me know.

app
A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

Superior Parallel Big Data Clustering through Competitive Stochastic Sample Size Optimization in Big-means
Rustam Mussabayev, Ravil Mussabayev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18766

Superior Parallel Big Data Clustering through Competitive Stochastic Sample Size Optimization in Big-means
This paper introduces a novel K-means clustering algorithm, an advancement on the conventional Big-means methodology. The proposed method efficiently integrates parallel processing, stochastic sampling, and competitive optimization to create a scalable variant designed for big data applications. It addresses scalability and computation time challenges typically faced with traditional techniques. The algorithm adjusts sample sizes dynamically for each worker during execution, optimizing performa…

NewRetirement, which offers financial retirement planning tools for consumers and enterprise customers, raised a $20M Series A led by Allegis Capital (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/newretirement-want…

NewRetirement wants to simplify financial planning for retirement | TechCrunch
NewRetirement builds software to help people create financial retirement plans.

NewsQs: Multi-Source Question Generation for the Inquiring Mind
Alyssa Hwang, Kalpit Dixit, Miguel Ballesteros, Yassine Benajiba, Vittorio Castelli, Markus Dreyer, Mohit Bansal, Kathleen McKeown
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18479

NewsQs: Multi-Source Question Generation for the Inquiring Mind
We present NewsQs (news-cues), a dataset that provides question-answer pairs for multiple news documents. To create NewsQs, we augment a traditional multi-document summarization dataset with questions automatically generated by a T5-Large model fine-tuned on FAQ-style news articles from the News On the Web corpus. We show that fine-tuning a model with control codes produces questions that are judged acceptable more often than the same model without them as measured through human evaluation. We …

NFL insider tosses out Cowboys’ rival as possible future suitor for Dak Prescott https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_insider_tosses_out_cowboys_rival_as_possible_future_suitor_for_dak_presc…

NFL insider tosses out Cowboys’ rival as possible future suitor for Dak Prescott
The situation with Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott took somewhat of a surprising turn on Tuesday. NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport indicated little progress on an extension, with the team seemingly willing to let the quarterback play out the final year of his contract without a new deal, potentially setting him up to become a free agent following the season. Assuming this is indeed how things pan out, it has the potential to create one of the most intriguing offseason storylines following t…

Do I know a #Facebook developer? I need to create a small Facebook app to enable login with Facebook to my site and I go to Get Started at https://developers.facebook.com and add my mobile number but it…

United Methodists endorse change that could give regions more say on LGBTQ and other issues
https://religionnews.com/2024/04/26/united-methodists-endorse-change-that-could-give-regions-more-say-on-lgb…

United Methodists endorse change that could give regions more say on LGBTQ and other issues
(AP) — The plan would create multiple regional conferences — one for the United States and others covering areas ranging from the Philippines to Europe to Africa.

NewRetirement, which offers financial retirement planning tools for consumers and enterprise customers, raised a $20M Series A led by Allegis Capital (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/newretirement-want…

NewRetirement wants to simplify financial planning for retirement | TechCrunch
NewRetirement builds software to help people create financial retirement plans.

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Large Language Models Perform on Par with Experts Identifying Mental Health Factors in Adolescent Online Forums
Mental health in children and adolescents has been steadily deteriorating over the past few years [ 1 ]. The recent advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) offers much hope for cost and time efficient scaling of monitoring and intervention, yet despite specifically prevalent issues such as school bullying and eating disorders, previous studies on have not investigated performance in this domain or for open information extraction where the set of answers is not predetermined. We create a new data…

Adobe launches GenStudio to let brands create content and measure its performance using generative AI, underpinned by promises of brand safety (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/adobes-genstudio-brings…

Adobe's GenStudio brings brand-safe generative AI to marketers | TechCrunch
Brands want to use generative AI to personalize their marketing efforts -- but they are also deathly afraid of AI going off message and ruining their

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Guided Distant Supervision for Multilingual Relation Extraction Data: Adapting to a New Language
Relation extraction is essential for extracting and understanding biographical information in the context of digital humanities and related subjects. There is a growing interest in the community to build datasets capable of training machine learning models to extract relationships. However, annotating such datasets can be expensive and time-consuming, in addition to being limited to English. This paper applies guided distant supervision to create a large biographical relationship extraction dat…

Adobe launches GenStudio to let brands create content and measure its performance using generative AI, underpinned by promises of brand safety (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/adobes-genstudio-brings…

Adobe's GenStudio brings brand-safe generative AI to marketers | TechCrunch
Brands want to use generative AI to personalize their marketing efforts -- but they are also deathly afraid of AI going off message and ruining their

Adobe launches GenStudio to let brands create content and measure its performance using generative AI, underpinned by promises of brand safety (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/adobes-genstudio-brings…

Adobe's GenStudio brings brand-safe generative AI to marketers | TechCrunch
Brands want to use generative AI to personalize their marketing efforts -- but they are also deathly afraid of AI going off message and ruining their

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14872 has been replaced.
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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…

Baltimore Police arrest a high school teacher for allegedly framing his principal by using AI to create an audio file of the principal making racist comments (The Baltimore Banner)
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/educati

Ex-athletic director accused of framing principal with AI arrested at airport with gun
Baltimore County Police charged Dazhon Darien, Pikesville High School’s former athletic director, in connection with the incident.

Sony plans to add a new opt-in Community Game Help feature on the PS5 later in 2024 to automatically create clips that can help other players complete games (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/26/24112309/sony-ps5-community-game-help

The PS5 is getting an automatic game clip feature that helps other players
PS5 players will be able to help each other with automatic game clips. These will complement existing hint videos from game developers.

Apple removes three AI image generation apps from the App Store after 404 Media probe found the apps advertised the ability to create nonconsensual nude images (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/apple-removes-nonc

Apple Removes Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps Following 404 Media Investigation
Apple and Google appear more willing to take action against these apps than they were in the past.

Canada introduces the Online Harms Act, which aims to hold platforms responsible for reducing exposure to damaging content and create a digital safety regulator (Randy Thanthong-Knight/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trudeau to Force Big Tech to Police ‘Harmful’ Online Content
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government introduced an online safety law, joining European countries in trying to compel internet companies to actively regulate and remove harmful content.