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“1 in 5 Americans think violence may solve U.S. divisions, poll finds”.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/1-in-5-americans-think-violence-may-solve-u-s-divisions-poll-finds

1 in 5 Americans think violence may solve U.S. divisions, poll finds
Most Americans, no matter their political affiliation, do not believe that violence is a solution to domestic political divisions, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll.

Amazon Is Laying Off Hundreds of Employees in Its Cloud Division
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-job-cuts-aws-roles-cloud-computing-division-aws-2024-4

Amazon is laying off hundreds of employees in its cloud division
The latest round of cuts will impact Amazon Web Services staffers, according to internal emails obtained by Business Insider.

DiffusionPipe: Training Large Diffusion Models with Efficient Pipelines
Ye Tian, Zhen Jia, Ziyue Luo, Yida Wang, Chuan Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01248 …

DiffusionPipe: Training Large Diffusion Models with Efficient Pipelines
Diffusion models have emerged as dominant performers for image generation. To support training large diffusion models, this paper studies pipeline parallel training of diffusion models and proposes DiffusionPipe, a synchronous pipeline training system that advocates innovative pipeline bubble filling technique, catering to structural characteristics of diffusion models. State-of-the-art diffusion models typically include trainable (the backbone) and non-trainable (e.g., frozen input encoders) p…

💔 David Blunkett says devising 99-year prison sentences is his ‘biggest regret’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/28/david-blunkett-says-devising-99-year-prison-sentences-ipp-is-his-biggest-…

Sad to hear Kerbal space 2 will not get all the improvements it needs. Rip intercept games.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/take-two-reportedly-shuts-down-roll7-and-intercept-games-private-division-suffers-…

Take-Two reportedly shuts down Roll7 and Intercept Games, Private Division suffers layoffs
More details have emerged about the ongoing layoffs at Take-Two Interactive, with reports suggesting the publisher has …

1 in 5 Americans think violence may solve U.S. divisions, poll finds (Laura Santhanam/PBS NewsHour)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/1-in-5-americans-think-violence-may-solve-u-s-divisions-poll-finds
http://www.memeorandum.com/240403/p23#a240403p23

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15264 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Qubit dephasing by spectrally diffusing quantum two-level systems
We investigate the pure dephasing of a Josephson qubit due to the spectral diffusion of two-level systems that are close to resonance with the qubit. We identify the parameter regime in which this pure dephasing rate can be of the order of the energy relaxation rate and, thus, the relation $T_2 = 2 T_1$ is violated for the qubit. This regime is reached if the dynamics of the thermal TLSs responsible for the spectral diffusion is sufficiently slower than the energy relaxation of the qubit. By ad…

Please try Session, SimpleX, or Threema before deciding to stay with Signal (or WhatsApp).
They do a lot of things well, but when deciding things like this that could greatly improve the user experience I've found the Signal developers / leadership are not making good decisions.
#QT

Deviant Ollam (@deviantollam@defcon.social)
Attached: 1 image Question: am i alone in being frustrated that @signalapp@mastodon.world does not allow you to be logged in on two mobile devices at the same time? I have more than one phone. (I have my main phone and a backup in case main phone dies or breaks) I'd *really* like to be logged in on both (or have one be the "primary" and the other device "linked" etc etc) Is there some reason why the developers have decided that this is not a desirable way to operate?

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05794 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Privacy-Preserving Diffusion Model Using Homomorphic Encryption
In this paper, we introduce a privacy-preserving stable diffusion framework leveraging homomorphic encryption, called HE-Diffusion, which primarily focuses on protecting the denoising phase of the diffusion process. HE-Diffusion is a tailored encryption framework specifically designed to align with the unique architecture of stable diffusion, ensuring both privacy and functionality. To address the inherent computational challenges, we propose a novel min-distortion method that enables efficient…

Please try Session, SimpleX, or Threema before deciding to stay with Signal (or WhatsApp).
They do a lot of things well, but when deciding things like this that could greatly improve the user experience I've found the Signal developers / leadership are not making good decisions.
#QT

Deviant Ollam (@deviantollam@defcon.social)
Attached: 1 image Question: am i alone in being frustrated that @signalapp@mastodon.world does not allow you to be logged in on two mobile devices at the same time? I have more than one phone. (I have my main phone and a backup in case main phone dies or breaks) I'd *really* like to be logged in on both (or have one be the "primary" and the other device "linked" etc etc) Is there some reason why the developers have decided that this is not a desirable way to operate?