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Indiz für Sauerstoff? – Curiosity findet unerwartet viel Manganoxid auf dem Mars
Auf der Erde ist Manganoxid dank des vielen Sauerstoffs ziemlich häufig, auf dem Mars sind die Voraussetzungen nicht so gut. Ein Fund ist deshalb ein Rätsel.

Curiosity-driven Red-teaming for Large Language Models
Zhang-Wei Hong, Idan Shenfeld, Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Yung-Sung Chuang, Aldo Pareja, James Glass, Akash Srivastava, Pulkit Agrawal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19464

Curiosity-driven Red-teaming for Large Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) hold great potential for many natural language applications but risk generating incorrect or toxic content. To probe when an LLM generates unwanted content, the current paradigm is to recruit a \textit{red team} of human testers to design input prompts (i.e., test cases) that elicit undesirable responses from LLMs. However, relying solely on human testers is expensive and time-consuming. Recent works automate red teaming by training a separate red team LLM with rein…

Daily Inspiration: "Always be prepared to know how little you know!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
One thing that I have always understood about my ability to interpret the future is that while I know a lot of stuff, there is a lot I do not know. I think that's a good thing, because that fact is the basis for my relentless curiosity, and I have long believed that curiosity is the key to success for anyone. If you ever lose your creativity, you lose your initiative. Lose your ini…

Here's my latest Human Meme podcast episode: Oliver Sacks: A Life of Curiosity, Compassion, and Choosing Quality Over Quantity in the Face of Cancer - http://sites.libsyn.com/84966/oliver-sacks-a-life…

👚 When Women Ask, Does Curiosity Help?
#socialscience #research

When Women Ask, Does Curiosity Help?
This research examines the potential social benefits of displaying curiosity during a negotiation. Past research has found women who ask directly in distributive agentic settings can suffer negative social consequences and obtain worse objective outcomes compared to men. In three experiments (N = 600) using different negotiation contexts, we found men and women who approach negotiations with curiosity reap the same economic benefits of asking directly but without incurring a social cost. We als…

Clearly a scam, a wallet drainer probably (see the actual email address). I have been under siege from various crypto scammers. One from blockfi looked so convincing, it was nuts. I really want to click on this one but will have to keep my curiosity on the sidelines.
That blue checkmark confirming the sender owns the sending domain name and logo definitely makes you think it's legit

Here's my latest Human Meme podcast episode: Oliver Sacks: A Life of Curiosity, Compassion, and Choosing Quality Over Quantity in the Face of Cancer - http://sites.libsyn.com/84966/oliver-sacks-a-life…

Just out of curiosity: did you know that the musician Maurice Ravel was Basque?

Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America
by Matthew Olzmann
Tell me what it’s like to live without
curiosity, without awe. To sail
on clear water, rolling your eyes
at the kelp reefs swaying
beneath you, ignoring the flicker
of mermaid scales in the mist,
looking at the world and feeling
only boredom. To stand
on the precipice of some wild valley,
the eagles circling, a herd of…

Our paper has been recently accepted and published in a springer journal. Out of curiosity I clicked the link on an offer to order some reprints, like in the old days.
25 copies of the paper that we have written, cost almost 900 USD. #Springer have mostly contributed by destroying the typesetting, and then printing on paper. 🤔
I seriously hope nobody is using this service. And that we will replace this predatory system with independent archival storage soon.

Just out of curiosity, I looked up when the last Federal Circuit en banc design patent case, #EgyptianGoddess, was argued (6/2/08) and decided (9/22/08).
If #LKQvGM were to follow the same timeline, we could expect a decision around late May.

I am getting old.
The many hoops of pre-requisite knowledge and specific software skills and ‘free by request to download at one not-Google place’ is more hoopage than my mild curiosity in a local LLM can manage.
I’m going for my nap. I’ll wake up for my evening meds later. https://mastodon.socia…

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Google goes “open AI” with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family Gemma chatbots can run locally, and they reportedly outperform Meta's Llama 2. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/google-goes-open-ai-with-gemma-a-free-open-weights-chatbot-family/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

This is a video slideshow of some of the best images from the Mars missions — Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, and Perseverance — presented in 4K resolution at 60fps.
These look amazing on the biggest hi-res screen you can find.
https://www.openculture.com/…

Explore the Surface of Mars in Spectacular 4K Resolution
Could you use a mental escape? Maybe a trip to Mars will do the trick. Above, you can find high definition footage captured by NASA's three Mars rovers--Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity.

Do you wish your FediFriends were real people in real life?
Toronto's Fedi meetup welcomes you to bring your intellectual curiosity, your novel hardware demos, and your zest for life to:
Victory Cafe at 6pm, Mondays in Toronto
#Toronto #TechPizzaMondays

Re-Ranking News Comments by Constructiveness and Curiosity Significantly Increases Perceived Respect, Trustworthiness, and Interest
Emily Saltz, Zaria Howard, Tin Acosta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05429

Re-Ranking News Comments by Constructiveness and Curiosity Significantly Increases Perceived Respect, Trustworthiness, and Interest
Online commenting platforms have commonly developed systems to address online harms by removing and down-ranking content. An alternative, under-explored approach is to focus on up-ranking content to proactively prioritize prosocial commentary and set better conversational norms. We present a study with 460 English-speaking US-based news readers to understand the effects of re-ranking comments by constructiveness, curiosity, and personal stories on a variety of outcomes related to willingness to…

Are you hiring a research software engineer? Which competencies are you looking for?
Check out this paper and let us know if these competencies match your expectations.
#RSEng
https://buff.ly/46o1zNm<…

Foundational Competencies and Responsibilities of a Research Software Engineer
The term Research Software Engineer, or RSE, emerged a little over 10 years ago as a way to represent individuals working in the research community but focusing on software development. The term has been widely adopted and there are a number of high-level definitions of what an RSE is. However, the roles of RSEs vary depending on the institutional context they work in. At one end of the spectrum, RSE roles may look similar to a traditional research role. At the other extreme, they resemble that…

Just out of curiosity I launched Edge on my WIN10 machine and co-pilot is there. Unwanted and most definitely will be unused. I don't use Edge on my home machine, default browser is Firefox.

#WordWeavers Day 19: What are your MCs' first memories?
The soft light from the dawn of time on his newborn being. Mother's voice, singing life into the world. Father's baritone, supporting and loving her with a passion. Weightlessly drifting towards them. Smiling. No name or purpose just yet, only curiosity. Silvery light from the moon and the stars, and a brother's warm w…

Service providers are closer than ever to phasing landlines out: in California, AT&T proposed doing away with landline phones altogether, appealing to the state’s public utilities commission for permission to cut service. The telecommunications giant called landlines a “historical curiosity that’s no longer necessary”.
WRONG!

navy curiosity about classified capabilities and hiding your cards
I mean, hiding your cards has maybe a few players. The public of low quality adversaries, medium quality ones, and ones you assume always watch...
I wonder if Navy ships have like, 3 different speeds.
The declassified one they run at during peace time
One they as captains are at discretion to break but don't publish.
One they can't break unless it's war with a near peer adversary.
Same with detection capability
A distance they acknowledge they can see at / enemy combatants know / get told to piss off at
A distance they can quietly prepare at / spies might know if they were aboard the ship / ready stations
The true distance they can see at war time but they just have to quietly take the missile to the face and act "surprised" once it gets within X miles / console intentionally nerfed at peace time
That's just a guess

One question, just out of curiosity: Considering that in most of USA applies that (not so) funny thing called "at will employment", there is no legal rule that limits the maximum number of layoffs a company can make in a given window of time in USA, right?

QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.”
— Arnold Edinborough
Agree, disagree — be inspired or not.
QOTD is fuel for conversation, and food for thought.
#QOTD
#QuoteOfTheDay

Three out of five teachers agree: curiosity is a dangerous thing, especially in students.
Sibley’s Improbable How-to-Identify-Rare-Birds Advice
https://improbable.com/2024/03/04/sibleys-improbable-how-to-identify-rare-birds-advice/

Sibley’s Improbable How-to-Identify-Rare-Birds Advice
Birders, heed David Sibley’s improbable advice about how to identify rare birds: If you think that you, of all people, have found a rare bird, ask yourself the following questions: Is this id…

Given the demographic of my follower base on this account, I'm mentioning this as a curiosity, but...
I spent quite a few months translating Meta in Myanmar series by @… to Polish.
It happened. It's live.
🔗

Meta w Mjanmie
Tłumaczenie serii artykułów autorstwa Erin Kissane na temat działalności firmy Meta – twórcy Facebooka – w Mjanmie, znanej też jako Birma....

Inadequacies of Large Language Model Benchmarks in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Timothy R. McIntosh, Teo Susnjak, Tong Liu, Paul Watters, Malka N. Halgamuge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09880

Inadequacies of Large Language Model Benchmarks in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence
The rapid rise in popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) with emerging capabilities has spurred public curiosity to evaluate and compare different LLMs, leading many researchers to propose their LLM benchmarks. Noticing preliminary inadequacies in those benchmarks, we embarked on a study to critically assess 23 state-of-the-art LLM benchmarks, using our novel unified evaluation framework through the lenses of people, process, and technology, under the pillars of functionality and security. …

Very useful thread for navigating paper authorship from @…
https://mstdn.social/@MCDuncanLab/111874200481484601

on [[violetshift]]: https://chat.openai.com/share/114e5870-e790-4b28-8a21-716e3fd3d298
a nice example of an exploratory conversation with an LLM that IMHO shows the potential of them as tutors/curiosity enablers.

ChatGPT
A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges

#WordWeavers Day 19: What are your MCs' first memories?
The soft light from the dawn of time on his newborn being. Mother's voice, singing life into the world. Father's baritone, supporting and loving her with a passion. Weightlessly drifting towards them. Smiling. No name or purpose just yet, only curiosity. Silvery light from the moon and the stars, and a brother's warm w…

Being able to participate in democracy should not be this hard.
I received a new driver’s license in the mail, but I was still not registered to vote.
The deadline to register was getting closer.
I called my county’s voter registrar’s office. The clerk on the phone said she was not sure what went wrong.
That’s when my journalistic curiosity took over. I started calling my sources to ask why someone’s voter registration applications would be landing in the void.
…

It took me three tries to register to vote — and I’m a voting reporter
Votebeat’s Texas reporter made three separate attempts to register to vote in Texas before succeeding.

Do I anthropomorphize the rovers and probes as inquisitive puppies and birds? Yes. Yes I do.
#curiosity #discovery #voyager #pioneer

Using storytelling to foster the teaching and learning of gravitational waves physics at high-school
Matteo Tuveri, Arianna Steri, Daniela Fadda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09035 <…

Using storytelling to foster the teaching and learning of gravitational waves physics at high-school
Studies in Physics Education Research show that interdisciplinary approaches in education foster students' motivation, creativity, curiosity, and interest in physics. We discuss their features and potential role in bringing contemporary physics topics to high school, and how to use them to integrate formal educational programs. We make an explicit example of the use of storytelling and theatrical techniques to introduce secondary school students to black holes and gravitational waves topics. Th…

Looking at the beautiful standard for "normal-gauge traction vehicles, classification and marking", I'd like to point out one more historical curiosity.
Electric multiple units are classified as designed "for local and suburban traffic, on lines with low and high platforms" (EN) and "for suburban traffic, on lines with high platforms" (EW) [1].
Let's note that the standard dates back to a time when high-floor railcars were a norm. According to Wikipedia, EN57's "floor is 1153 mm above top of rail" [2]. For these EMUs, the difference between "high-platform" and "low-platform" units boiled down to the latter having stairs leading down. So both kinds of units could be used on high-platform lines.
Most of the modern EMUs are low-floor, and are not suitable for high platforms. Therefore, they technically do not meet the definition for "EN" marking. For example, the Newag Impuls trains ordered by SKM Trójmiasto (the urban train operator) had their train floor height specially raised to 960 mm ATR [3].
[1] #rail

Using storytelling to foster the teaching and learning of gravitational waves physics at high-school
Matteo Tuveri, Arianna Steri, Daniela Fadda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09035 <…

Using storytelling to foster the teaching and learning of gravitational waves physics at high-school
Studies in Physics Education Research show that interdisciplinary approaches in education foster students' motivation, creativity, curiosity, and interest in physics. We discuss their features and potential role in bringing contemporary physics topics to high school, and how to use them to integrate formal educational programs. We make an explicit example of the use of storytelling and theatrical techniques to introduce secondary school students to black holes and gravitational waves topics. Th…