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Polish government caves into farmers’ demands as thousands march on Warsaw – Euractiv
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/polish-government-caves-into-farmers-demands-as-thousands-march-on-warsaw/…

Polish government caves into farmers’ demands as thousands march on Warsaw
The Polish government agreed to meet farmers’ demands on Tuesday, as thousands marched in Warsaw to protest

Welt: Ukraine withdrew from the negotiation process with Russia in 2022 due to Russia's new demands: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/27/welt-ukraine-withdrew.html

🧩 Workplace Fragmentation Demands New Organizing Strategies
#labor

Workplace Fragmentation Demands New Organizing Strategies
In recent decades, structural changes in the US economy have dispersed workers across workplaces and geographic areas. Labor’s decline can’t be reversed without addressing this new reality.

Sources and a lawsuit by ex-Arena Group CEO Ross Levinsohn detail The Arena Group's chaotic handling of Sports Illustrated and a messy transfer to Minute Media (A.J. Perez/Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/threats-

Threats, Demands, a Lawsuit, and a Website in Limbo: Inside the Chaos at ‘SI’
The transition to a new publisher has been a mess for ‘SI,’ with sources saying the previous publisher even turned off employee email.

"The vast majority of the demands for productivity made within the economy are intended to reduce the level of labour input into the production of goods and services, whilst at the same time increasing the return to the rentier who has exploited the natural resources of the world to deliver the material component" -- @…

The stories we tell each other about the economy in which we live are more important than the data we collect about it
With politicians, taking an Easter break, inspiration has to come from elsewhere this morning. I am returning, in that case, to the article by economics Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton on the IMF website, which was entitled

Echoing Their Client, Trump’s Lawyers Pursue an Absolutist Defense
Donald J. Trump demands praise and concedes no faults, denying his lawyers time-honored defense tactics
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/nyregio

Echoing Their Client, Trump’s Lawyers Pursue an Absolutist Defense
Donald J. Trump demands praise and concedes no faults, denying his lawyers time-honored defense tactics.

Daily inspiration: "Do the wrong things for the right reasons!"- Futurist Jim Carroll
History celebrates the rule-breakers who did the wrong things for the right reasons!
Rosa Parks - she defined the push for civil rights by refusing to sit where she was told. Martin Luther King for a regular series of arrests in violation of demands that he refrain from protesting. Dick Leitsch for conducting a "sip-in" at a New York bar to challenge the prohibition against s…

Daily Inspiration: Innovation & Risk – “Do the wrong things for the right reasons!”

Ransomware group shows 'proof pack' of data from NHS Dumfries and Galloway
INC Ransom threatens to release full data unless demands met
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4190676/ransomware-group-proof-pack-nhs-dumfries-gallow…

Ransomware group shows 'proof pack' of data from NHS Dumfries and Galloway
Whilst the information appears highly sensitive, much of it dates back several years

So far, the only negative side effect I have seen of #threads supporting ActivityPub has been the whining and demands for preemptive censorship (from people who have more in common with the book burners than they realize).
I haven't seen a single objectionable post from Threads.
My hope is that I'll be able to delete my Threads account and follow those I care about from my…

House Republican critical of Biden impeachment push demands his removal via 25th Amendment (Elizabeth Elkind/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-republican-critical-biden-impeachment-push-demands-removal-via-25th-amendment
http://www.memeorandum.com/240226/p64#a240226p64

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.

Keep Tabs on PC Use with Custom Analog Voltmeter
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-b83d9638-d0534cd5469bc4cb
Keep Tabs on PC Use with Custom Analog Voltmeter With the demands of modern computing, from video editing, streaming, and gaming, many …

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DiffuseKronA: A Parameter Efficient Fine-tuning Method for Personalized Diffusion Model
In the realm of subject-driven text-to-image (T2I) generative models, recent developments like DreamBooth and BLIP-Diffusion have led to impressive results yet encounter limitations due to their intensive fine-tuning demands and substantial parameter requirements. While the low-rank adaptation (LoRA) module within DreamBooth offers a reduction in trainable parameters, it introduces a pronounced sensitivity to hyperparameters, leading to a compromise between parameter efficiency and the quality …

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Can multiple-choice questions really be useful in detecting the abilities of LLMs?
Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are widely used in the evaluation of large language models (LLMs) due to their simplicity and efficiency. However, there are concerns about whether MCQs can truly measure LLM's capabilities, particularly in knowledge-intensive scenarios where long-form generation (LFG) answers are required. The misalignment between the task and the evaluation method demands a thoughtful analysis of MCQ's efficacy, which we undertake in this paper by evaluating nine LLMs on four …

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The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
Generative AI (GenAI) systems offer unprecedented opportunities for transforming professional and personal work, yet present challenges around prompting, evaluating and relying on outputs, and optimizing workflows. We argue that metacognition$\unicode{x2013}$the psychological ability to monitor and control one's thoughts and behavior$\unicode{x2013}$offers a valuable lens to understand and design for these usability challenges. Drawing on research in psychology and cognitive science, and recent…

"Where is this rule written, that somehow when the UNSC "demands an immediate #ceasefire for the month of Ramadan respected by all parties leading to a lasting sustainable ceasefire", it's non-binding and "there's no impact at all" on the warring party? Nowhere, that's the beauty of the

Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) on X
Since the beginning, it's been obvious that Gaza was in many ways a fight between International Law and the US's "rules-based order". This whole episode around the UN resolution is a perfect illustration of this. There is no debate amongst international…

Dealing with Data for RE: Mitigating Challenges using NLP and Generative AI
Smita Ghaisas, Anmol Singhal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16977 https://

Dealing with Data for RE: Mitigating Challenges using NLP and Generative AI
Across the dynamic business landscape today, enterprises face an ever-increasing range of challenges. These include the constantly evolving regulatory environment, the growing demand for personalization within software applications, and the heightened emphasis on governance. In response to these multifaceted demands, large enterprises have been adopting automation that spans from the optimization of core business processes to the enhancement of customer experiences. Indeed, Artificial Intellige…

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.

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Automated MPI code generation for scalable finite-difference solvers
Partial differential equations (PDEs) are crucial in modelling diverse phenomena across scientific disciplines, including seismic and medical imaging, computational fluid dynamics, image processing, and neural networks. Solving these PDEs on a large scale is an intricate and time-intensive process that demands careful tuning. This paper introduces automated code-generation techniques specifically tailored for distributed memory parallelism (DMP) to solve explicit finite-difference (FD) stencils…

The Many Faces of Viet Thanh Nguyen | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/viet-thanh-nguyen-profile/

The Many Faces of Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Vietnamese American writer’s leap to the mainstream comes at a moment that demands his anti-colonialist perspective.

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Mitigating Fine-tuning Jailbreak Attack with Backdoor Enhanced Alignment
Despite the general capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and Llama-2, these models still request fine-tuning or adaptation with customized data when it comes to meeting the specific business demands and intricacies of tailored use cases. However, this process inevitably introduces new safety threats, particularly against the Fine-tuning based Jailbreak Attack (FJAttack), where incorporating just a few harmful examples into the fine-tuning dataset can significantly compromise …

Jupiter brings jollity but he demands respect.

Impact of Computation in Integral Reinforcement Learning for Continuous-Time Control
Wenhan Cao, Wei Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17375 https://

Impact of Computation in Integral Reinforcement Learning for Continuous-Time Control
Integral reinforcement learning (IntRL) demands the precise computation of the utility function's integral at its policy evaluation (PEV) stage. This is achieved through quadrature rules, which are weighted sums of utility functions evaluated from state samples obtained in discrete time. Our research reveals a critical yet underexplored phenomenon: the choice of the computational method -- in this case, the quadrature rule -- can significantly impact control performance. This impact is traced b…

Guardian: New Orleans archdiocese must submit clergy-abuse documents to police
In criminal investigation, New Orleans judge demands paper trail from archbishop Gregory Aymond all the way to the Vatican
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a

Generative Medical Segmentation
Jiayu Huo, Xi Ouyang, S\'ebastien Ourselin, Rachel Sparks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18198 https://

Generative Medical Segmentation
Rapid advancements in medical image segmentation performance have been significantly driven by the development of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs). However, these models introduce high computational demands and often have limited ability to generalize across diverse medical imaging datasets. In this manuscript, we introduce Generative Medical Segmentation (GMS), a novel approach leveraging a generative model for image segmentation. Concretely, GMS employs a ro…

A key point about westerners who buy the Putin bullshit about NATO expansion, protecting Russian-speakers in Donbas etc. is that they also believe he will stop once he has achieved his goals in Ukraine.
This is because they believe there is a certain reasonableness to his demands - i.e. it is not in the nature of somebody making reasonable demands to go any further than is necessary.
#Ukraine…

That's the way to do it!
Spain's public prosecutor demands 3 years for ex police officer who attributed most crime to immigration, at a far right meeting, calling on Spanish people to "stop being peaceful" about it.
https://www.els…

La fiscalía pide tres años de cárcel para el excomisario que vinculó migración y delincuencia
Ricardo Ferris, en un acto organizado por Vox en el Ateneo de València en 2022, incitó a los “españoles a dejar de ser pacíficos" después de haber equiparado la inmigración con la delincuencia.

Outdoor Environment Reconstruction with Deep Learning on Radio Propagation Paths
Hrant Khachatrian, Rafayel Mkrtchyan, Theofanis P. Raptis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17336

Outdoor Environment Reconstruction with Deep Learning on Radio Propagation Paths
Conventional methods for outdoor environment reconstruction rely predominantly on vision-based techniques like photogrammetry and LiDAR, facing limitations such as constrained coverage, susceptibility to environmental conditions, and high computational and energy demands. These challenges are particularly pronounced in applications like augmented reality navigation, especially when integrated with wearable devices featuring constrained computational resources and energy budgets. In response, th…

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Text2Pic Swift: Enhancing Long-Text to Image Retrieval for Large-Scale Libraries
Text-to-image retrieval plays a crucial role across various applications, including digital libraries, e-commerce platforms, and multimedia databases, by enabling the search for images using text queries. Despite the advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), which offer leading-edge performance, their applicability in large-scale, varied, and ambiguous retrieval scenarios is constrained by significant computational demands and the generation of injective embeddings. This paper i…

Here's their press release from this morning:
Alt text here instead of in images due to length:
NEWS RELEASE Embargoed until April 24, 7:00am PST
Divest From Death USA
Media Contact: Media Liaisons, USC Divest From Death Coalition USCSolidarityOccupation@protonmail.com
USC Divest From Death Coalition to Begin Gaza Solidarity Occupation in University of
Southern California Campus
LOS ANGELES. (April 24, 2023) — USC Divest From Death Coalition today announced theit occupation of USC's Alumni Park, where the increasingly controversial 2024 Commencement is currently set to take place. The students taking part in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation are planning to occupy USC until their demands are met. The coalition joins other students groups across the country in the National Students for Justice in Palestine's "Popular University for Gaza," a coordinated mass movement of students, faculty and staff that disrupts universities, creating climates that push universities to answer community and international calls for full divestment from the Zionist entity, and all of the industries that sustain it.
1. End War Profiteering and Investment in Genocide. USC must fully disclose and divest its finances and endowment from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and occupation in Palestine, including the US Military and weapons manufacturing. USC must comumit to accountability through full transparency of their financial investments.
2. Complete Academic Boycott of Israel. USC must end its study abroad programs at Hebrew University's Rothenberg International School and Reichman University and sever all academic ties and research cooperation with Israeli universities.
3. Protect free speech on campus and provide full amnesty to all students, staff, and faculty disciplined, penalized, or fired for their pro-Palestine ackivism. USC must abide by their self- proclaimed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion values and implement material policies protecting the safety of its marginalized students.
4. Stop the Displacement, from South Central to Palestine. No land grabs, whether in South Central, Tongva territory, or Palestine. Cease expansion, provide reparations, and support housing for low-income South Central residents. No development by USC without genuine community control.
5. No Policing on Campus. End the targeted repression and harassment of Black, Brown, and Palestinian students and their allies on and off campus, including through university disciplinary processes. Defund the Department of Public Safety and disclose and sever all ties with the LAPD.
6. End the Silence on the Genocide in Palestine. Release a public statement calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza, denouncing the ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, and call on government officials o do so too.
"I'm participating in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation at USC to highlight and amplify the anti- zionist Jewish voice at USC and be in solidarity with the Palestinian fight for liberation," says a student organizer from USC's chapter of Jewish Voices for Palestine (JVP). "JVP USC feels our voice is especially important right now as many people at USC and across the country are equating zionism and Judaism, but we are here to say they are not the same! We stand by our belief of free speech, resistance to oppressive systems and solidarity with our valedictorian Asna and all other college campuses where pro-Palestine voices have been silenced."
The USC Divest From Death Coalition establishes the occupation mo st fundamentally in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they resist genocide and continue in their struggle for liberation. The occupation is also in resistance to attempts by USC and other universities to suppress the student movement for Palestine on its campuses, in resistance to the silencing of students that criticize the state of Israel, in resistance to the university administrators and boards of trustees who profit off the genocide of Palestinians; The students taking part are firm in their commitment to speaking out against the university's complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
"USC's funding of the ongoing genocide perpetuated by the zionist entity is reflective of maintaining imperialist interests abroad, as well as solidifying the shared ideology of amerikan and zionist institutions in preserving racialized oppression," says a student organizer of the Gaza Solidarity Occupation. "To not stand in opposition to the expressly racist violence here and abroad is to ignore the calls for solidarity demanded by the majority of the world. USC acts in accordance with these oppressions, and to call against this is to recognize both the inhumanity of these systems and our own humanity in opposing them."
We have chosen to use the word "occupation” instead of "encampment" to draw attention to USC as an occupying force on unceded Gabrieleno/Tongva land, an occupying force in South Central through its expansion into, gentrification of, and destruction of the existing community, and as a complicit power in Israeli occupation of Palestine.
About USC Divest From Death
In joining the national "Cut Ties with Genocide: Divest from Death" campaign, USC Divest From Death pushes our institutions to divest from companies complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, in all its iterations, alongside thousands of campuses. The coalition's push for the advancement of the key demand points on campus is the first steps towards the liberation of all people by ending the complicity of the University of Southern California in the violence enacted on our communities. Through the intentional act of coalition building, the students of USC realize that we are part of an interconnected fight for freedom taking place on campus, in our communities and homelands. We envision campuses free from militarism, occupation, and war through the implementation of divestment at USC
About Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
The student movement for the liberation of Palestine first began in the 1950s through the formation of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS). From the U.S. to Palestine, GUPS chapters galvanized thousands of students towards a liberated Palestine. The 90s” wave of corrupt politicians and faulty deals changed the liberation movement as we knew it and many institutions, including the student movement, collapsed. In the absence of a Palestinian student movement, organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine emerged across occupied Turtle Island (U.S. and Canada) as a way to educate, advocate, and mobilize in support for Palestinian liberation. Nearly two decades after the formation of the first Students for Justice in Palestine, the movement for Palestine has taken colleges and universities across North America by storm. With over 200 campus Palestine solidarity organizations across the continent, students have been leaders in uplifting demands for freedom, Justice, and equality for the Palestinian people.

This might be the most epic political protest I've ever seen!
https://reason.com/2024/04/05/meet-literally-anybody-else-the-presidential-candidate-that-2024-demands/

Meet 'Literally Anybody Else,' the Presidential Candidate That 2024 Demands
The 35-year-old Texan formerly known as Dustin Ebey voted for Gary Johnson in 2016 and says the national debt is America's biggest problem.

Learning Traffic Signal Control via Genetic Programming
Xiao-Cheng Liao, Yi Mei, Mengjie Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17328 https://

Learning Traffic Signal Control via Genetic Programming
The control of traffic signals is crucial for improving transportation efficiency. Recently, learning-based methods, especially Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), garnered substantial success in the quest for more efficient traffic signal control strategies. However, the design of rewards in DRL highly demands domain knowledge to converge to an effective policy, and the final policy also presents difficulties in terms of explainability. In this work, a new learning-based method for signal contr…

Fox News host Mark Levin Demands to Know Why Republican Billionaires Aren't Willing to Post Trump's Bond
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/mark-levin-demands-to-know-why-republican…

Mark Levin Demands to Know Why Republican Billionaires Aren't Willing to Post Trump's Bond
Fox News weekend host Mark Levin said it is "an outrage" that no ultra-wealthy Republicans have come forward to help former President Donald Trump post a $454 million bond.

🪧 Cornell grad student union demands university prioritize contract negotiations
https://ithacavoice.org/2024/04/cornell-grad-student-union-demands-university-prioritize-contract-negotiations/

Ambient neutron dosimetry in high energy and pulsed neutron fields
Ariel Tarifeno-Saldivia, Francisco Calvino, Alfredo De Blas, Benedetta Brusasco, Adria Casanovas-Hoste, Ana M. Cives, Guillem Cortes, Roger Garcia, Francisco Molina, Nil Mont-Geli, Max Pallas, Cristian Pavez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18934

Ambient neutron dosimetry in high energy and pulsed neutron fields
The status of the LINrem project is presented, focusing on the development of innovative neutron dosimeters with enhanced energy sensitivity, time resolution, and portability. Designed to meet the technical demands of radiation protection in modern particle and nuclear facilities, these dosimeters are discussed in detail. Results from experimental campaigns showcasing their efficacy in pulsed fields generated by fusion plasmas and high-intensity pulsed lasers are presented. Additionally, prospe…

Hamas rejects Israel's ceasefire response, sticks to main demands
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-rejects-israels-ceasefire-response-sticks-main-demands-2024-04-13/

No major American presidential candidate has talked like he now does at his rallies
— not Richard Nixon, not George Wallace, not even Donald Trump himself
Trump's demands on the world’s attention make it paradoxically easy not to pay attention to the particulars.
Most Americans, in any case, made up their minds about him one way or another long ago.
This has made Trump appear more static than he actually is
— made it harder to see how the Trump presidency,…

How Trump’s Rhetoric at Rallies Has Escalated
No major American presidential candidate has talked like he now does at his rallies — not Richard Nixon, not George Wallace, not even Donald Trump himself.

"Come clean on secret taxpayer rescue plans for Thames Water, MP demands"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #ThamesWater

"Where is this rule written, that somehow when the UNSC "demands an immediate #ceasefire for the month of Ramadan respected by all parties leading to a lasting sustainable ceasefire", it's non-binding and "there's no impact at all" on the warring party? Nowhere, that's the beauty of the

Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) on X
Since the beginning, it's been obvious that Gaza was in many ways a fight between International Law and the US's "rules-based order". This whole episode around the UN resolution is a perfect illustration of this. There is no debate amongst international…

Some proprietary software lobbyists are trying to spin the xz story as an "anti open source" story, and I see demands like "you shall only use opensource software if you have a contract with someone guaranteeing support and security". I'd be curious: Can I see the contract those people have with Microsoft or whatever company you never heard of that wrote the firmware in their wifi card that guarantees the same for the closed source software they're using?

Simple Network Mechanism Leads to Quasi-Real Brain Activation Patterns with Drosophila Connectome
Xiaoyu Zhang, Pengcheng Yang, Jiawei Feng, Qiang Luo, Wei Lin, Xin Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17128

Simple Network Mechanism Leads to Quasi-Real Brain Activation Patterns with Drosophila Connectome
Considering the high computational demands of most methods, using network communication models to simulate the brain is a more economical way. However, despite numerous brain network communication models, there is still insufficient evidence that they can effectively replicate the real activation patterns of the brain. Moreover, it remains unclear whether actual network structures are crucial in simulating intelligence. Addressing these issues, we propose a large scale network communication mod…

Towards Scalable Multi-Chip Wireless Networks with Near-Field Time Reversal
Ama Bandara, F\'atima Rodr\'iguez-Gal\'an, Pau Talarn, Elana Pereira de Santana, Peter Haring Bol\'ivar, Eduard Alarc\'on, Sergi Abadal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17325

Towards Scalable Multi-Chip Wireless Networks with Near-Field Time Reversal
The concept of Wireless Network-on-Chip (WNoC) has emerged as a potential solution to address the escalating communication demands of modern computing systems due to their low-latency, versatility, and reconfigurability. However, for WNoC to fulfill its potential, it is essential to establish multiple high-speed wireless links across chips. Unfortunately, the compact and enclosed nature of computing packages introduces significant challenges in the form of Co-Channel Interference (CCI) and Inte…

Operating semiconductor quantum processors with hopping spins
Chien-An Wang, Valentin John, Hanifa Tidjani, C\'ecile X. Yu, Alexander Ivlev, Corentin D\'eprez, Floor van Riggelen-Doelman, Benjamin D. Woods, Nico W. Hendrickx, Will I. L. Lawrie, Lucas E. A. Stehouwer, Stefan Oosterhout, Amir Sammak, Mark Friesen, Giordano Scappucci, Sander L. de Snoo, Maximilian Rimbach-Russ, Francesco Borsoi, Menno Veldhorst

Operating semiconductor quantum processors with hopping spins
Qubits that can be efficiently controlled are pivotal in the development of scalable quantum hardware. Resonant control is commonly embraced to execute high-fidelity quantum gates but demands integration of high-frequency oscillating signals and results in qubit crosstalk and heating. Establishing quantum control based on discrete signals could therefore result in a paradigm shift. This may be accomplished with single-spin semiconductor qubits, if one can engineer hopping spins between quantum …

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Dealing with Data for RE: Mitigating Challenges using NLP and Generative AI
Across the dynamic business landscape today, enterprises face an ever-increasing range of challenges. These include the constantly evolving regulatory environment, the growing demand for personalization within software applications, and the heightened emphasis on governance. In response to these multifaceted demands, large enterprises have been adopting automation that spans from the optimization of core business processes to the enhancement of customer experiences. Indeed, Artificial Intellige…

Jupiter brings jollity but he demands respect.

The Paradox of Industrial Involvement in Engineering Higher Education
Srinjoy Mitra, Jean-Pierre Raskin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16766 https://

The Paradox of Industrial Involvement in Engineering Higher Education
This paper discusses the importance of reflective and socially conscious education in engineering schools, particularly within the EE/CS sector. While most engineering disciplines have historically aligned themselves with the demands of the technology industry, the lack of critical examination of industry practices and their impact on justice, equality, and sustainability is self-evident. Today, the for-profit engineering/technology companies, some of which are among the largest in the world, a…

How about, “Do better, American EV makers.”
“Ban Chinese electric vehicles now,” demands US senator
https://arstechnica.com/?p=2016899

My contribution on #Xitter just now:
If you can deadname your kid, we can deadname your app, Elon.
That once-thriving place known as Twitter
is dying on the vine: a no-hitter.
When a billionaire bought it,
Its best members forgot it.
They fled as Musk raged and turned bitter.

Elon Musk demands users stop ‘deadnaming’ Twitter after Stephen King trolls the billionaire
In a recent clash on social media, Elon Musk accused Stephen King of ‘deadnaming’ the platform formerly known as Twitter, now X.

Guardian: New Orleans archdiocese must submit clergy-abuse documents to police
In criminal investigation, New Orleans judge demands paper trail from archbishop Gregory Aymond all the way to the Vatican
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a

House Republicans Are Suddenly Desperate to End Biden Impeachment
"Some lawmakers don’t even want to bring the impeachment to the floor for a vote. Although Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett warned Politico that 'the base is going to demand it,' his fellow party members don’t think it’s worth it."
Gosh, Tim! Why would the base demand it? Any ideas there, buddy? 🤔

House Republicans Are Suddenly Desperate to End Biden Impeachment
House Republicans know that their rapidly shrinking majority—and their lack of evidence—has put them in an impossible position.

ProLLaMA: A Protein Large Language Model for Multi-Task Protein Language Processing
Liuzhenghao Lv, Zongying Lin, Hao Li, Yuyang Liu, Jiaxi Cui, Calvin Yu-Chian Chen, Li Yuan, Yonghong Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16445 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.16445
arXiv:2402.16445v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs), including GPT-x and LLaMA2, have achieved remarkable performance in multiple Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Under the premise that protein sequences constitute the protein language, Protein Large Language Models (ProLLMs) trained on protein corpora excel at de novo protein sequence generation. However, as of now, unlike LLMs in NLP, no ProLLM is capable of multiple tasks in the Protein Language Processing (PLP) field. This prompts us to delineate the inherent limitations in current ProLLMs: (i) the lack of natural language capabilities, (ii) insufficient instruction understanding, and (iii) high training resource demands. To address these challenges, we introduce a training framework to transform any general LLM into a ProLLM capable of handling multiple PLP tasks. Specifically, our framework utilizes low-rank adaptation and employs a two-stage training approach, and it is distinguished by its universality, low overhead, and scalability. Through training under this framework, we propose the ProLLaMA model, the first known ProLLM to handle multiple PLP tasks simultaneously. Experiments show that ProLLaMA achieves state-of-the-art results in the unconditional protein sequence generation task. In the controllable protein sequence generation task, ProLLaMA can design novel proteins with desired functionalities. In the protein property prediction task, ProLLaMA achieves nearly 100\% accuracy across many categories. The latter two tasks are beyond the reach of other ProLLMs. Code is available at \url{https://github.com/Lyu6PosHao/ProLLaMA}.

Missouri AG sues Media Matters over its X research, demands donor names (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/missouri-ag-sues-media-matters-in-lawsuit-echoing-elon-musks-complaints/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240326/p86#a240326p86

Exergetic Port-Hamiltonian Systems for Multibody Dynamics
Markus Lohmayer, Giuseppe Capobianco, Sigrid Leyendecker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18095 https:/…

Exergetic Port-Hamiltonian Systems for Multibody Dynamics
Multibody dynamics simulation plays an important role in various fields, including mechanical engineering, robotics, and biomechanics. Setting up computational models however becomes increasingly challenging as systems grow in size and complexity. Especially the consistent combination of models across different physical domains usually demands a lot of attention. This motivates us to study formal languages for compositional modeling of multiphysical systems. This article shows how multibody sys…

That's the way to do it!
Spain's public prosecutor demands 3 years for ex police officer who attributed most crime to immigration, at a far right meeting, calling on Spanish people to "stop being peaceful" about it.
https://www.els…

La fiscalía pide tres años de cárcel para el excomisario que vinculó migración y delincuencia
Ricardo Ferris, en un acto organizado por Vox en el Ateneo de València en 2022, incitó a los “españoles a dejar de ser pacíficos" después de haber equiparado la inmigración con la delincuencia.

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Multicasting Optical Reconfigurable Switch
Artificial Intelligence (AI) demands large data flows within datacenters, heavily relying on multicasting data transfers. As AI models scale, the requirement for high-bandwidth and low-latency networking compounds. The common use of electrical packet switching faces limitations due to optical-electrical-optical conversion bottlenecks. Optical switches, while bandwidth-agnostic and low-latency, suffer from having only unicast or non-scalable multicasting capability. This paper introduces an opti…

Sources: Saudi Arabia is mandating that Alibaba, SenseTime, and other Chinese tech companies invest in the kingdom and share expertise to secure huge deals (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://t.co/w5mzSwes2k

Integrating UAV-Enabled Base Stations in 3D Networks: QoS-Aware Joint Fronthaul and Backhaul Design
Salim Janji, Piotr Wawrzyniak, Piotr Formanowicz, Adrian Kliks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17547

Integrating UAV-Enabled Base Stations in 3D Networks: QoS-Aware Joint Fronthaul and Backhaul Design
The emerging concept of 3D networks, integrating terrestrial, aerial, and space layers, introduces a novel and complex structure characterized by stations relaying backhaul loads through point-to-point wireless links, forming a wireless 3D backhaul mesh. A key challenge is the strategic placement of aerial platform such as drone base stations (DBSs), considering the locations and service demands of ground nodes and the connectivity to backhaul gateway nodes for core network access. This paper a…

PREDILECT: Preferences Delineated with Zero-Shot Language-based Reasoning in Reinforcement Learning
Simon Holk, Daniel Marta, Iolanda Leite
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15420

PREDILECT: Preferences Delineated with Zero-Shot Language-based Reasoning in Reinforcement Learning
Preference-based reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a new field in robot learning, where humans play a pivotal role in shaping robot behavior by expressing preferences on different sequences of state-action pairs. However, formulating realistic policies for robots demands responses from humans to an extensive array of queries. In this work, we approach the sample-efficiency challenge by expanding the information collected per query to contain both preferences and optional text prompting…

Exploring Pre-trained General-purpose Audio Representations for Heart Murmur Detection
Daisuke Niizumi, Daiki Takeuchi, Yasunori Ohishi, Noboru Harada, Kunio Kashino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17107

Exploring Pre-trained General-purpose Audio Representations for Heart Murmur Detection
To reduce the need for skilled clinicians in heart sound interpretation, recent studies on automating cardiac auscultation have explored deep learning approaches. However, despite the demands for large data for deep learning, the size of the heart sound datasets is limited, and no pre-trained model is available. On the contrary, many pre-trained models for general audio tasks are available as general-purpose audio representations. This study explores the potential of general-purpose audio repre…

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High-repetition-rate seeded free-electron laser with direct-amplification of an external coherent laser
Various scientific and industrial researches such as spectroscopy and advanced nano-technologies have been demanding high flux and fully coherent EUV and X-ray radiation. These demands can be commendably satisfied with a MHz-level repetition-rate seeded free-electron laser (FEL). Dictated by the seed laser system, seeded FELs have faced obstacles for the realization of MHz repetition rate. Reducing the required peak power of an external coherent seed laser can effectively increase the repetitio…

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Lemur: Integrating Large Language Models in Automated Program Verification
The demonstrated code-understanding capability of LLMs raises the question of whether they can be used for automated program verification, a task that demands high-level abstract reasoning about program properties that is challenging for verification tools. We propose a general methodology to combine the power of LLMs and automated reasoners for automated program verification. We formally describe this methodology as a set of derivation rules and prove its soundness. We instantiate the calculus…

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A Novel Hybrid Machine Learning Model for Rapid Assessment of Wave and Storm Surge Responses Over an Extended Coastal Region
Storm surge and waves are responsible for a substantial portion of tropical and extratropical cyclones-related damages. While high-fidelity numerical models have significantly advanced the simulation accuracy of storm surge and waves, they are not practical to be employed for probabilistic analysis, risk assessment or rapid prediction due to their high computational demands. In this study, a novel hybrid model combining dimensionality reduction and data-driven techniques is developed for rapid …

UCLA solidarity encampment demands.

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Fundamental Limits of Throughput and Availability: Applications to prophet inequalities & transaction fee mechanism design
This paper studies the fundamental limits of availability and throughput for independent and heterogeneous demands of a limited resource. Availability is the probability that the demands are below the capacity of the resource. Throughput is the expected fraction of the resource that is utilized by the demands. We offer a concentration inequality generator that gives lower bounds on feasible availability and throughput pairs with a given capacity and independent but not necessarily identical dis…

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VLBI Astrometry of Radio Stars to Link Radio and Optical Celestial Reference Frames: Observing Strategies
The Gaia celestial reference frame (Gaia-CRF) will benefit from a close assessment with independent methods, such as Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) measurements of radio stars at bright magnitudes. However, obtaining full astrometric parameters for each radio star through VLBI measurements demands a significant amount of observation time. This study proposes an efficient observing strategy that acquires double-epoch VLBI positions to measure the positions and proper motions of radio s…

Some proprietary software lobbyists are trying to spin the xz story as an "anti open source" story, and I see demands like "you shall only use opensource software if you have a contract with someone guaranteeing support and security". I'd be curious: Can I see the contract those people have with Microsoft or whatever company you never heard of that wrote the firmware in their wifi card that guarantees the same for the closed source software they're using?

Trump wants immediate appeal of RICO case ruling
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/utmost-importance-trump-demands-rico-judge-allow-immediate-appeal-of-decision-keeping-fani-willis-o…

Trump demands RICO judge allow immediate appeal of decision keeping Fani Willis on case
"Whether District Attorney Willis and her Office are permitted to continue representing the State of Georgia in prosecuting the Defendants in this action is of the utmost importance to this case."

IT suppliers hacked off with Uncle Sam's demands in aftermath of cyberattacks
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/08/us_tech_industry_changes/

IT suppliers hacked off with Uncle Sam's demands in aftermath of cyberattacks
Plan says to hand over keys to networks – and report intrusions within eight hours of discovery

Russia demands extradition of Ukrainians, including head of SBU, after ISIS-K attributed terrorist attack: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/31/russia-demands-extradition.html

It doesn’t help that The System™ demands my course of action be: I call a customer service representative somewhere halfway around the country, for them to tell me that The System™ indicates the package has been delivered.
The system lies. And it does not serve my need of location where my package is in fact, rather than where it is in the delusional state of the world as The System™ sees it.

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A Literature Review of Literature Reviews in Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
By consolidating scattered knowledge, the literature review provides a comprehensive understanding of the investigated topic. However, reading, conducting, or peer-reviewing review papers generally demands a significant investment of time and effort from researchers. To improve efficiency, this paper aims to provide a thorough review of reviews in the PAMI field from diverse perspectives. First, this paper proposes several article-level, field-normalized, and large language model-empowered bibl…

Decoding Driver Takeover Behaviour in Conditional Automation with Immersive Virtual Reality
Muhammad Sajjad Ansar, Bilal Farooq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16046

Decoding Driver Takeover Behaviour in Conditional Automation with Immersive Virtual Reality
The safe transition from conditional automation to manual driving control is significantly intertwined with the vehicle's lateral and longitudinal dynamics. The transition may occur as a result of a system-initiated mandatory takeover (MTOR) or as a driver-initiated discretionary takeover (DTOR). In either condition, the takeover process entails differing cognitive demands and may affect the driving behaviour differently. This study analyzes driving stability and perceived mental workload in 30…

Bill Ackman hires a law firm, which demands "immediate retractions and corrections" from Business Insider in a "final attempt to avoid litigation" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Bill Ackman Urges Business Insider to Correct Story or Face Lawsuit
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman escalated his offensive against Business Insider in relation to stories alleging his wife committed plagiarism, deploying a law firm to increase pressure on the news outlet to correct or retract them.

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Powerful Lossy Compression for Noisy Images
Image compression and denoising represent fundamental challenges in image processing with many real-world applications. To address practical demands, current solutions can be categorized into two main strategies: 1) sequential method; and 2) joint method. However, sequential methods have the disadvantage of error accumulation as there is information loss between multiple individual models. Recently, the academic community began to make some attempts to tackle this problem through end-to-end joi…

So now what?
UN security council votes to demand immediate ceasefire in Gaza | United Nations | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/25/un-gaza-ceasefire-vote

Jupiter brings jollity but he demands respect.

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Toward parallel intelligence: an interdisciplinary solution for complex systems
The growing complexity of real-world systems necessitates interdisciplinary solutions to confront myriad challenges in modeling, analysis, management, and control. To meet these demands, the parallel systems method rooted in Artificial systems, Computational experiments, and Parallel execution (ACP) approach has been developed. The method cultivates a cycle, termed parallel intelligence, which iteratively creates data, acquires knowledge, and refines the actual system. Over the past two decades…

South Florida School Demands Parent Consent for Black History Month Events (Brooke Leigh Howard/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/iprep-academy-school-in-miami-dade-county-demands-permissions-sl…

IPrep Academy School in Miami Dade County Demands Permissions Slips for Black History Month
Parents of students at the IPrep Academy in South Florida were shocked after being asked to sign permission slips to allow their children to participate in Black History Month.

Mitigating Fine-tuning Jailbreak Attack with Backdoor Enhanced Alignment
Jiongxiao Wang, Jiazhao Li, Yiquan Li, Xiangyu Qi, Muhao Chen, Junjie Hu, Yixuan Li, Bo Li, Chaowei Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14968

Mitigating Fine-tuning Jailbreak Attack with Backdoor Enhanced Alignment
Despite the general capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and Llama-2, these models still request fine-tuning or adaptation with customized data when it comes to meeting the specific business demands and intricacies of tailored use cases. However, this process inevitably introduces new safety threats, particularly against the Fine-tuning based Jailbreak Attack (FJAttack), where incorporating just a few harmful examples into the fine-tuning dataset can significantly compromise …

Bill Ackman hires a law firm, which demands "immediate retractions and corrections" from Business Insider in a "final attempt to avoid litigation" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Bill Ackman Urges Business Insider to Correct Story or Face Lawsuit
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman escalated his offensive against Business Insider in relation to stories alleging his wife committed plagiarism, deploying a law firm to increase pressure on the news outlet to correct or retract them.

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A robust shape model for blood vessels analysis
The availability of digital twins for the cardiovascular system will enable insightful computational tools both for research and clinical practice. This, however, demands robust and well defined models and methods for the different steps involved in the process. We present a vessel coordinate system (VCS) that enables the unanbiguous definition of locations in a vessel section, by adapting the idea of cylindrical coordinates to the vessel geometry. Using the VCS model, point correspondence can …

TriHelper: Zero-Shot Object Navigation with Dynamic Assistance
Lingfeng Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Hao Wang, Erjia Xiao, Zixuan Jiang, Honglei Chen, Renjing Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15223

TriHelper: Zero-Shot Object Navigation with Dynamic Assistance
Navigating toward specific objects in unknown environments without additional training, known as Zero-Shot object navigation, poses a significant challenge in the field of robotics, which demands high levels of auxiliary information and strategic planning. Traditional works have focused on holistic solutions, overlooking the specific challenges agents encounter during navigation such as collision, low exploration efficiency, and misidentification of targets. To address these challenges, our wor…

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Resource-Aware Hierarchical Federated Learning for Video Caching in Wireless Networks
Video caching can significantly improve backhaul traffic congestion by locally storing the popular content that users frequently request. A privacy-preserving method is desirable to learn how users' demands change over time. As such, this paper proposes a novel resource-aware hierarchical federated learning (RawHFL) solution to predict users' future content requests under the realistic assumptions that content requests are sporadic and users' datasets can only be updated based on the requested …

Text2Pic Swift: Enhancing Long-Text to Image Retrieval for Large-Scale Libraries
Zijun Long, Xuri Ge, Richard Mccreadie, Joemon Jose
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15276

Text2Pic Swift: Enhancing Long-Text to Image Retrieval for Large-Scale Libraries
Text-to-image retrieval plays a crucial role across various applications, including digital libraries, e-commerce platforms, and multimedia databases, by enabling the search for images using text queries. Despite the advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), which offer leading-edge performance, their applicability in large-scale, varied, and ambiguous retrieval scenarios is constrained by significant computational demands and the generation of injective embeddings. This paper i…

Georgian government again demands extradition of wanted ex-officials who work in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/11/georgian-government-again.html

Streaming IoT Data and the Quantum Edge: A Classic/Quantum Machine Learning Use Case
Sabrina Herbst, Vincenzo De Maio, Ivona Brandic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15542

Streaming IoT Data and the Quantum Edge: A Classic/Quantum Machine Learning Use Case
With the advent of the Post-Moore era, the scientific community is faced with the challenge of addressing the demands of current data-intensive machine learning applications, which are the cornerstone of urgent analytics in distributed computing. Quantum machine learning could be a solution for the increasing demand of urgent analytics, providing potential theoretical speedups and increased space efficiency. However, challenges such as (1) the encoding of data from the classical to the quantum …

Trump demands DOJ 'immediately' drop charges against him in classified docs case after Biden decision (Brooke Singman/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-demands-doj-immediately-drop-charges-class…

Trump demands DOJ 'immediately' drop charges against him in classified docs case after Biden decision
EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump told Fox News Digital that “deranged" Special Counsel Jack Smith needs to “immediately" drop all charges against him in his classified records case following the decision not to bring charges against President Biden for his retention of sensitive national security documents.

opp/ai: Optimistic Privacy-Preserving AI on Blockchain
Cathie So, KD Conway, Xiaohang Yu, Suning Yao, Kartin Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15006 https://…

opp/ai: Optimistic Privacy-Preserving AI on Blockchain
The convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology is reshaping the digital world, offering decentralized, secure, and efficient AI services on blockchain platforms. Despite the promise, the high computational demands of AI on blockchain raise significant privacy and efficiency concerns. The Optimistic Privacy-Preserving AI (opp/ai) framework is introduced as a pioneering solution to these issues, striking a balance between privacy protection and computational efficiency.…

TJCCT: A Two-timescale Approach for UAV-assisted Mobile Edge Computing
Zemin Sun, Geng Sun, Qingqing Wu, Long He, Shuang Liang, Hongyang Pan, Dusit Niyato, Chau Yuen, Victor C. M. Leung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15828

TJCCT: A Two-timescale Approach for UAV-assisted Mobile Edge Computing
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) is emerging as a promising paradigm to provide aerial-terrestrial computing services in close proximity to mobile devices (MDs). However, meeting the demands of computation-intensive and delay-sensitive tasks for MDs poses several challenges, including the demand-supply contradiction between MDs and MEC servers, the demand-supply heterogeneity between MDs and MEC servers, the trajectory control requirements on energy efficiency …

This morning the Cal Poly Humboldt administration responded at length to student Gaza Solidarity protestors' demands.
#HumboldtState #CalPolyHumboldt #Arcata #California #StudentProtests #FreeGaza #Palestine

State Attorney General Letitia James' office filed papers giving Trump's lawyers or the bond underwriter 10 days to “justify” the bond—essentially, to show that the company can make good on it. **That could mean disclosing more about the collateral Trump provided**.
NY state demands more info on Trump’s bond in civil fraud case

NY state demands more info on Trump’s bond in civil fraud case
Days after former President Donald Trump posted a $175 million bond to block New York state from imminently collecting on a huge civil fraud judgment , state lawyers Thursday called for more ...

🥊 Change Healthcare faces another ransomware threat—and it looks credible
(.. there was that time my lawyer told me that blackmail never ends, meantime the credit card machines are bonkers at my doc’s)
https://arstechnica.com/?p=2017095

Change Healthcare faces another ransomware threat—and it looks credible
Hackers already received a $22 million payment. Now a second group demands money.

Rep. Jim Jordan, who heads the House Judiciary Committee, sent letters to major advertisers including GroupM to explain why they won't advertise on Truth Social (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/05/jim-jo

Jim Jordan Demands Major Ad Companies Explain Why They Won’t Advertise On Truth Social
Jim Jordan, who heads the House Judiciary Committee and its subcommittee on “the weaponization of the federal government,” continues to use “weaponize the power of the federal government” to punish…

Racial Revelations: Sunny Hostin's Family Owned Slaves, Still DEMANDS Reparations (Nicholas Fondacaro/Newsbusters)
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2024/02/08/racial-revelati…

Racial Revelations: Sunny Hostin’s Family Owned Slaves, Still DEMANDS Reparations
It's well known that Sunny Hostin, co-host of ABC’s The View was a staunchly racist and anti-Semitic person who has repeatedly dema

Text2Pic Swift: Enhancing Long-Text to Image Retrieval for Large-Scale Libraries
Zijun Long, Xuri Ge, Richard Mccreadie, Joemon Jose
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15276

Text2Pic Swift: Enhancing Long-Text to Image Retrieval for Large-Scale Libraries
Text-to-image retrieval plays a crucial role across various applications, including digital libraries, e-commerce platforms, and multimedia databases, by enabling the search for images using text queries. Despite the advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), which offer leading-edge performance, their applicability in large-scale, varied, and ambiguous retrieval scenarios is constrained by significant computational demands and the generation of injective embeddings. This paper i…

Texas demands #trans teens' private medical records. Florida and Utah want to send them to prison. - #LGBTQ Nation

Texas demands trans teens private medical records. Florida and Utah want to send them to prison. - LGBTQ Nation
Texas is demanding people's medical records. Indiana is investigating doctors. And an anti-trans bill in Iowa died.

Interference Management for Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems: A Survey
Yangyang Niu, Zhiqing Wei, Lin Wang, Huici Wu, Zhiyong Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16189

Interference Management for Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems: A Survey
Emerging applications such as autonomous driving and Internet of things (IoT) services put forward the demand for simutaneous sensing and communication functions in the same system. Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has the potential to meet the demands of ubiquitous communication and high-precision sensing due to the advantages of spectrum and hardware resource sharing, as well as the mutual enhancement of sensing and communication. However, ISAC system faces severe interference requ…

Biden Team Rebuffs Johnson Demand for Meeting on Ukraine, Border (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-14/johnson-demands-direct-talks-with-biden-to-unlock-ukraine-aid
http://www.memeorandum.com/240214/p63#a240214p63

UCLA Med School Requires Students To Attend Lecture Where Speaker Demands Prayer for 'Mama Earth,' Leads Chants of 'Free Palestine.' (Aaron Sibarium/Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/campus/ucla-med-school-requires-students-to-attend-lecture-where-speaker-demands-prayer-for-mama-earth-leads-chants-of-free-palestine/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240403/p28#a240403p28