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While Google paused Gemini's image generation, its text generation tool also offers some absurd responses, highlighting the need for flourishing open source AI (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2024/gemini-and-googles-culture/

Gemini and Google’s Culture
The Google Gemini fiasco shows that the biggest challenge for Google in AI is not business model but rather company culture; change is needed from the top down.

"Weatherwatch: how solar farms benefit bees and butterflies"
#Solar #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

A question I didn't know anyone was pondering. And now, I've expanded my vocabulary to include -- or perhaps exclude the word "merkin". https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/feb/18/could-the-pub…

Elon Musk’s Pro-MAGA Tweets Expose Tech Oligarchy’s Dark Side
A new class of tech barons hopes to create a flourishing information space for “red-pilled” far-right ideologies, and the billionaire Musk is their model leader
https://newrepublic.com/article/178930

Elon Musk’s Unhinged Pro-MAGA Tweets Expose Tech Oligarchy’s Dark Side
A new class of tech barons hopes to create a flourishing information space for "red-pilled" far right ideologies, and the billionaire Musk is their model leader.

🌱 Climate experts sound alarm over thriving plant life at Greenland ice sheet
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/13/flourishing-vegetation-greenland-ice-sheet-alarm-climate-crisis

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12205 has been replaced.
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Synthetic Datasets for Autonomous Driving: A Survey
Autonomous driving techniques have been flourishing in recent years while thirsting for huge amounts of high-quality data. However, it is difficult for real-world datasets to keep up with the pace of changing requirements due to their expensive and time-consuming experimental and labeling costs. Therefore, more and more researchers are turning to synthetic datasets to easily generate rich and changeable data as an effective complement to the real world and to improve the performance of algorith…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16847 has been replaced.
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The Art of Staying Ahead of Deadlines: Improved Algorithms for the Minimum Tardy Processing Time
We study the fundamental scheduling problem $1\|\sum p_jU_j$. Given a set of $n$ jobs with processing times $p_j$ and deadlines $d_j$, the problem is to select a subset of jobs such that the total processing time is maximized without violating the deadlines. In the midst of a flourishing line of research, Fischer and Wennmann have recently devised the sought-after $\widetilde O(P)$-time algorithm, where $P = \sum p_j$ is the total processing time of all jobs. This running time is optimal a…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17025 has been replaced.
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Quantum Spread Complexity in Neutrino Oscillations
Quantum information theory has recently emerged as a flourishing area of research and quantum complexity, one of its powerful measures, is being applied for investigating complex systems in many areas of physics. Its application to practical physical situations, however, is still few and far between. Neutrino flavor oscillation is a widely studied physical phenomena with far reaching consequences in understanding the standard model of particle physics and to search for physics beyond it. Oscill…

💓 Flourishing romances are more the result of proactive behaviors than soulmate spark, study finds
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-flourishing-romances-result-proactive-behaviors.html

Flourishing romances are more the result of proactive behaviors than soulmate spark, study finds
Sixty percent of Americans believe in the idea that true love is found in a one-and-only soulmate relationship, confirming that the quest to find one's soulmate continues to play a significant role in our modern dating culture. However, a new report finds that enduring connection in romantic relationships results more from the personal virtues and intentional efforts of the partners, than it does from spontaneous love and emotional spark.

"A social model of disability, by contrast, invites you to widen the scenario from the body itself to include the stuff around it: the tools and furniture and classrooms and sidewalks that make it possible or impossible for the body, however configured, to do its tasks, and the larger structures of institutions and economies that make human flourishing possible." Sara Hendren, "What Can A Body Do?"

"Want Out of Gaza? Pay Us $10,000. In Gaza, a bribery industry is flourishing at the Rafah crossing into Egypt on the backs of displaced Gazans" Witnessed Egypt's exploitation of war refugees has been one of the saddest parts of this whole thing https://buff.ly/4akeAdn And the world stands by and lets it happen.

Random Network Distillation Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for AGV Path Planning
Huilin Yin, Shengkai Su, Yinjia Lin, Pengju Zhen, Karin Festl, Daniel Watzenig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12594

Random Network Distillation Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for AGV Path Planning
With the flourishing development of intelligent warehousing systems, the technology of Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) has experienced rapid growth. Within intelligent warehousing environments, AGV is required to safely and rapidly plan an optimal path in complex and dynamic environments. Most research has studied deep reinforcement learning to address this challenge. However, in the environments with sparse extrinsic rewards, these algorithms often converge slowly, learn inefficiently or fail t…

Foreign propaganda accounts aiming to affect US elections are flourishing on X, which isn't participating in info-sharing meetings with other social platforms (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/16/x-meta-china-d…

Posing as Americans, Chinese accounts on X aim to divide and disrupt
X hasn’t sent a representative in months to biweekly information-sharing meetings with other social media companies.

“The main reason why the phone-based childhood is so harmful is because it pushes aside everything else. Smartphones are experience blockers. Our ultimate goal should not be to remove screens entirely, nor should it be to return childhood to exactly the way it was in 1960. Rather, it should be to create a version of childhood and adolescence that keeps young people anchored in the real world while flourishing in the digital age.”

The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.

Foreign propaganda accounts aiming to affect US elections are flourishing on X, which isn't participating in info-sharing meetings with other social platforms (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/16/x-meta-china-d…

Posing as Americans, Chinese accounts on X aim to divide and disrupt
X hasn’t sent a representative in months to biweekly information-sharing meetings with other social media companies.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07950 has been replaced.
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The Power of Tests for Detecting $p$-Hacking
$p$-Hacking undermines the validity of empirical studies. A flourishing empirical literature investigates the prevalence of $p$-hacking based on the distribution of $p$-values across studies. Interpreting results in this literature requires a careful understanding of the power of methods for detecting $p$-hacking. We theoretically study the implications of likely forms of $p$-hacking on the distribution of $p$-values to understand the power of tests for detecting it. Power depends crucially on …

Random Network Distillation Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for AGV Path Planning
Huilin Yin, Shengkai Su, Yinjia Lin, Pengju Zhen, Karin Festl, Daniel Watzenig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12594

Random Network Distillation Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for AGV Path Planning
With the flourishing development of intelligent warehousing systems, the technology of Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) has experienced rapid growth. Within intelligent warehousing environments, AGV is required to safely and rapidly plan an optimal path in complex and dynamic environments. Most research has studied deep reinforcement learning to address this challenge. However, in the environments with sparse extrinsic rewards, these algorithms often converge slowly, learn inefficiently or fail t…

Communication Optimization for Distributed Training: Architecture, Advances, and Opportunities
Yunze Wei, Tianshuo Hu, Cong Liang, Yong Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07585

Communication Optimization for Distributed Training: Architecture, Advances, and Opportunities
The past few years have witnessed the flourishing of large-scale deep neural network models with ever-growing parameter numbers. Training such large-scale models typically requires massive memory and computing resources that exceed those of a single GPU, necessitating distributed training. As GPU performance has rapidly evolved in recent years, computation time has shrunk, thereby increasing the proportion of communication in the overall training time. Therefore, optimizing communication for di…

“The main reason why the phone-based childhood is so harmful is because it pushes aside everything else. Smartphones are experience blockers. Our ultimate goal should not be to remove screens entirely, nor should it be to return childhood to exactly the way it was in 1960. Rather, it should be to create a version of childhood and adolescence that keeps young people anchored in the real world while flourishing in the digital age.”

The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.

Developer email: Amazon will no longer pay developers to create Alexa apps, and stops offering free AWS credits; developers can still monetize apps via IAPs (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Amazon to Stop Paying Developers to Create Apps For Alexa
Amazon.com Inc. will no longer pay developers to create applications for Alexa, scrapping a key element of the company’s effort to build a flourishing app store for its voice-activated digital assistant.

Sources, court filings, and internal documents detail how a flourishing partnership between Sam Altman and Elon Musk turned sour, culminating in Musk's lawsuit (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/elon-musk-sam-…