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8 Lesser-Known Java Streams API Features
https://javabulletin.substack.com/p/8-lesser-known-java-streams-api-features

YouTube revamps its TV app to make the viewing experience more interactive and giving greater prominence to chapters, comments, and video descriptions (Chris Welch/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/13/24099533/youtube-tv-app-redesign-…

YouTube is revamping its TV app to make videos feel way more interactive
YouTube has revealed a new TV app design that highlights features like comments and shopping without taking away from the experience of watching videos.

Task-conditioned adaptation of visual features in multi-task policy learning
Pierre Marza, Laetitia Matignon, Olivier Simonin, Christian Wolf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07739

Task-conditioned adaptation of visual features in multi-task policy learning
Successfully addressing a wide variety of tasks is a core ability of autonomous agents, which requires flexibly adapting the underlying decision-making strategies and, as we argue in this work, also adapting the underlying perception modules. An analogical argument would be the human visual system, which uses top-down signals to focus attention determined by the current task. Similarly, in this work, we adapt pre-trained large vision models conditioned on specific downstream tasks in the contex…

Daily Inspiration: "It's when you are at the bottom that you have the greatest chance to get to the top." - Futurist Jim Carroll
Rock bottom is real for many people and for many companies. A fortunate few can summon the courage and the strength to find their way out - using the desperation seen in their bottom to finally reach for the top. One of the most fascinating things that can happen when someone voyages from the worst of times to the potential for the best of times…

Daily Inspiration: Innovation & Recovery – “It’s when you are at the bottom that you have the greatest chance to get to the top.”

The Connectivity Standards Alliance releases Matter 1.3, adding support for more appliances, energy and water management, and new casting protocol features (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24151664

Matter 1.3 arrives with new device type and features
The new Matter 1.3 spec adds energy management, EV chargers, and ovens to the smart home standard.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00511 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

MIPS at SemEval-2024 Task 3: Multimodal Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction in Conversations with Multimodal Language Models
This paper presents our winning submission to Subtask 2 of SemEval 2024 Task 3 on multimodal emotion cause analysis in conversations. We propose a novel Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Multimodal Emotion Cause Extraction (MER-MCE) framework that integrates text, audio, and visual modalities using specialized emotion encoders. Our approach sets itself apart from top-performing teams by leveraging modality-specific features for enhanced emotion understanding and causality inference. Experiment…

**1 of 2/ #internationalwomensday2024** 
On this International Woman's Day, I would like to shout out into the void some thoughts about my wife of 35 years.
She is the type of woman who is not often recognized but should be; not appreciated enough when she gives everything to her all; not cheered enough when her efforts demand a standing ovation.
I know one…

How Netflix's stand-up specials, COVID, and rise of platforms like TikTok and YouTube have transformed the comedy business, broadening comedians' reach (Addie Morfoot/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/features/netflix-…

Netflix's Massive Paydays, COVID and TikTok Caused 'Explosion of Comedians'
The comedy business is quickly changing thanks to Netflix's massive paydays and comics flocking to TikTok and YouTube. 

How Netflix's stand-up specials, COVID, and rise of platforms like TikTok and YouTube have transformed the comedy business, broadening comedians' reach (Addie Morfoot/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/features/netflix-…

Netflix's Massive Paydays, COVID and TikTok Caused 'Explosion of Comedians'
The comedy business is quickly changing thanks to Netflix's massive paydays and comics flocking to TikTok and YouTube. 

I love it when VP Kamala Harris has this sort of smile on her face.
And look at Afred E. Neumann next to her. He even knows Biden is at the top of form.