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Model-less Is the Best Model: Generating Pure Code Implementations to Replace On-Device DL Models
Mingyi Zhou, Xiang Gao, Pei Liu, John Grundy, Chunyang Chen, Xiao Chen, Li Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16479

Model-less Is the Best Model: Generating Pure Code Implementations to Replace On-Device DL Models
Recent studies show that deployed deep learning (DL) models such as those of Tensor Flow Lite (TFLite) can be easily extracted from real-world applications and devices by attackers to generate many kinds of attacks like adversarial attacks. Although securing deployed on-device DL models has gained increasing attention, no existing methods can fully prevent the aforementioned threats. Traditional software protection techniques have been widely explored, if on-device models can be implemented usi…

The Black-Hole Masses of High-Redshift QSOs
Andrew King
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16832 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.16832

The Black-Hole Masses of High-Redshift QSOs
Observations of high-redshift quasars frequently promote suggestions of large black hole masses, whose presence so early in cosmic time is not easily explicable. I consider the parallel with ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) -- now known to be stellar-mass black hole (and neutron star) binaries apparently radiating far above their Eddington luminosities $L_{\rm Edd}$. The true luminosity in ULXs is actually only of order $L_{\rm Edd}$, for {\it stellar-mass} accretors, but has a very anisotrop…

"The [Russian] election that began Friday has taken place in a tightly controlled environment where there are no real alternatives to Putin, no public criticism of him or his war in #Ukraine. Putin’s fiercest political foe, Alexei Navalny, died in an Arctic prison last month, and other critics are either in jail or in exile."

Russia election: Putin basks in electoral victory even as Russians quietly protest
Russian President Vladimir Putin is basking in a victory that was never in doubt, as partial election results showed him easily securing a fifth term after facing only token challengers and harshly suppressing opposition voices. With little margin for protest, Russians crowded outside polling stations at noon Sunday, the last day of the election. They were apparently heeding an opposition call to express their displeasure with Putin. Still, the impending landslide underlined that Putin would ac…

The Distance to the S147 Supernova Remnant
C. S. Kochanek (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University), J. C. Raymond (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), N. Caldwell (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13892

The Distance to the S147 Supernova Remnant
In the absence of a parallax distance to a pulsar or a surviving binary in a supernova remnant (SNR), distances to Galactic SNRs are generally very uncertain. However, by combining Gaia data with wide field, multi-fiber echelle spectroscopy, it is now possible to obtain accurate distances to many SNRs with limited extinction by searching for the appearance of high velocity CaII or NaI absorption lines in hot stars as a function of distance. We demonstrate this for the SNR S147 using the spectra…

Exiled official: Russian election organizer killed in explosion in occupied Berdiansk: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/06/exiled-official-russian.html

Die excel sheets mit den Namen 🤣 Es ist immer wieder ein Highlight!!
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The German eagle (pro Deo, Fide et Alemannia – for God, Faith and Germany) apparently needs to be strapped down for fear of being blown away.

Die excel sheets mit den Namen 🤣 Es ist immer wieder ein Highlight!!
https://chaos.social/@harkank/112198044216639527