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Jalin Hyatt says the Giants are a playoff team: 'That's our focus and we're gonna get there'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jalin-h

Jalin Hyatt says the Giants are a playoff team: 'That's our focus and we're gonna get there'
Hyatt has a lot of confidence in a team coming off a 6-11 season

The fucking gall..
#CongestionPricing

Hochul’s Congestion Pricing Pause Leaves MTA’s Grand Ambitions in Shambles
From the Second Avenue Subway to signal overhauls to legally mandated accessibility upgrades, without money from the new Manhattan tolls — and no viable ‘Plan B’ — the entire system may be stalled.

The more I mess around with LLMs the more I realize:
AI can supplement.
AI can focus.
AI can not replace.

Wow, seeing all the CSS Day content coming up and very jealous. And I missed @… !! I will make it a priority to go to one conference about CSS when the divorce is over and I can focus on webdev again. Especially if Kevin is talking!
#CSSDay

Dan Campbell stresses focus for 2024 Lions: 'We can’t do the Ron Burgundy. We can’t just continue to read off the teleprompter.' https://www.nfl.com/news/dan-campbell-stresses-fo…

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Single Photon Quantum Ranging: When Sequential Decoding Meets High Dimensional Entanglement
We consider the quantum ranging problem in the low noise level per mode and low reflectivity (high loss) regime. We focus on single photon transmission strategies and propose a novel approach that combines high dimensional time-bin entanglement at the transmitter with a carefully constructed sequential decision rule at the detector. Our analytical results establish the significant performance gains that can be leveraged from this approach in a range of operating parameters, as compared to the s…

FREA: Feasibility-Guided Generation of Safety-Critical Scenarios with Reasonable Adversariality
Keyu Chen, Yuheng Lei, Hao Cheng, Haoran Wu, Wenchao Sun, Sifa Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02983

FREA: Feasibility-Guided Generation of Safety-Critical Scenarios with Reasonable Adversariality
Generating safety-critical scenarios, which are essential yet difficult to collect at scale, offers an effective method to evaluate the robustness of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Existing methods focus on optimizing adversariality while preserving the naturalness of scenarios, aiming to achieve a balance through data-driven approaches. However, without an appropriate upper bound for adversariality, the scenarios might exhibit excessive adversariality, potentially leading to unavoidable collisions…

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Model Free Prediction with Uncertainty Assessment
Deep nonparametric regression, characterized by the utilization of deep neural networks to learn target functions, has emerged as a focus of research attention in recent years. Despite considerable progress in understanding convergence rates, the absence of asymptotic properties hinders rigorous statistical inference. To address this gap, we propose a novel framework that transforms the deep estimation paradigm into a platform conducive to conditional mean estimation, leveraging the conditional…

Reconfiguring Participatory Design to Resist AI Realism
Aakash Gautam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03245 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.032…

Reconfiguring Participatory Design to Resist AI Realism
The growing trend of artificial intelligence (AI) as a solution to social and technical problems reinforces AI Realism -- the belief that AI is an inevitable and natural order. In response, this paper argues that participatory design (PD), with its focus on democratic values and processes, can play a role in questioning and resisting AI Realism. I examine three concerning aspects of AI Realism: the facade of democratization that lacks true empowerment, demands for human adaptability in contrast…

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Tame the Wild with Byzantine Linearizability: Reliable Broadcast, Snapshots, and Asset Transfer
We formalize Byzantine linearizability, a correctness condition that specifies whether a concurrent object with a sequential specification is resilient against Byzantine failures. Using this definition, we systematically study Byzantine-tolerant emulations of various objects from registers. We focus on three useful objects -- reliable broadcast, atomic snapshot, and asset transfer. We prove that there is an $f$-resilient implementation of such objects from registers with $n$ processes $f<\frac{…

Mukai lifting of self-dual points in $\mathbb{P}^6$
Barbara Betti, Leonie Kayser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02734 https://arxiv.org/p…

Mukai lifting of self-dual points in $\mathbb{P}^6$
A set of $2n$ points in $\mathbb{P}^{n-1}$ is self-dual if it is invariant under the Gale transform. Motivated by Mukai's work on canonical curves, Petrakiev showed that a general self-dual set of $14$ points in $\mathbb{P}^6$ arises as the intersection of the Grassmannian ${\rm Gr}(2,6)$ in its Plücker embedding in $\mathbb{P}^{14}$ with a linear space of dimension $6$. In this paper we focus on the inverse problem of recovering such a linear space associated to a general self-dual set of poi…

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Enzymatic cycle-based receivers with high input impedance for approximate maximum a posteriori demodulation of concentration modulated signals
Molecular communication is a bio-inspired communication paradigm where molecules are used as the information carrier. This paper considers a molecular communication network where the transmitter uses concentration modulated signals for communication. Our focus is to design receivers that can demodulate these signals. We impose three features on our receivers. We want the receivers to use enzymatic cycles as their building blocks, have high input impedance and can work approximately as a maximum…

LDM-RSIC: Exploring Distortion Prior with Latent Diffusion Models for Remote Sensing Image Compression
Junhui Li, Jutao Li, Xingsong Hou, Huake Wang, Yutao Zhang, Yujie Dun, Wenke Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03961

LDM-RSIC: Exploring Distortion Prior with Latent Diffusion Models for Remote Sensing Image Compression
Deep learning-based image compression algorithms typically focus on designing encoding and decoding networks and improving the accuracy of entropy model estimation to enhance the rate-distortion (RD) performance. However, few algorithms leverage the compression distortion prior from existing compression algorithms to improve RD performance. In this paper, we propose a latent diffusion model-based remote sensing image compression (LDM-RSIC) method, which aims to enhance the final decoding qualit…

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Learning Low-dimensional Latent Dynamics from High-dimensional Observations: Non-asymptotics and Lower Bounds
In this paper, we focus on learning a linear time-invariant (LTI) model with low-dimensional latent variables but high-dimensional observations. We provide an algorithm that recovers the high-dimensional features, i.e. column space of the observer, embeds the data into low dimensions and learns the low-dimensional model parameters. Our algorithm enjoys a sample complexity guarantee of order $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(n/ε^2)$, where $n$ is the observation dimension. We further establish a fundamental…

Tolerant Algorithms for Learning with Arbitrary Covariate Shift
Surbhi Goel, Abhishek Shetty, Konstantinos Stavropoulos, Arsen Vasilyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02742

Tolerant Algorithms for Learning with Arbitrary Covariate Shift
We study the problem of learning under arbitrary distribution shift, where the learner is trained on a labeled set from one distribution but evaluated on a different, potentially adversarially generated test distribution. We focus on two frameworks: PQ learning [Goldwasser, A. Kalai, Y. Kalai, Montasser NeurIPS 2020], allowing abstention on adversarially generated parts of the test distribution, and TDS learning [Klivans, Stavropoulos, Vasilyan COLT 2024], permitting abstention on the entire te…

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Cosmological constant as an integration constant
The discrepancy between the observed value of the cosmological constant (CC) and its expected value from quantum field theoretical considerations motivates the search for a theory in which the CC is decoupled from the vacuum energy. In this article, we consider theories constructed from the derivatives of the Einstein equation, in which the CC is regarded as an integration constant. We focus on theories that can be written as a Codazzi equation (which includes Cotton gravity and a gauge-gravity…

An improved description of charm fragmentation data
Matteo Cacciari, Andrea Ghira, Simone Marzani, Giovanni Ridolfi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04173 https:…

An improved description of charm fragmentation data
We consider the fragmentation of heavy quarks into heavy-flavoured hadrons, specifically the production of charmed mesons in $e^+e^-$ collisions, at different centre-of-mass energies. We focus our attention on the ratio of moments of the $D^{*+}$ energy spectrum measured by ALEPH and CLEO. This ratio is believed to provide us with a direct test of perturbative QCD evolution because hadronisation effects should cancel between the numerator and denominator. However, state-of-the-art calculations …

GWnext 2024: Meeting Summary
Alejandro Torres-Orjuela, Veronica Vazquez-Aceves, Rui Xu, Jin-Hong Chen, Andrea Derdzinski, Matthias U. Kruckow, Stefano Rinaldi, Lorenzo Speri, Ziming Wang, Garvin Yim, Xue-Ting Zhang, Qian Hu, Miaoxin Liu, Xiangyu Lyu, Zheng Wu, Cong Zhou, Manuel Arca Sedda, Yan-Chen Bi, Hong-Yu Chen, Xian Chen, Jiageng Jiao, Yu-Mei Wu

GWnext 2024: Meeting Summary
GWnext 2024 was a meeting held in the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University in March $4^\text{th} - 8^\text{th}$, 2024. In the meeting researchers at different career stages -- with a particular focus on early career scientists -- working on the different aspects of gravitational wave (GW) astronomy gathered to discuss the current status as well as prospects of the field. The meeting was divided into three core sessions: Astrophysics, GW Theory, and Detection. Each…

CISA advisors urge changes to JCDC's goals, operations, membership criteria https://therecord.media/jcdc-changes-recommended-csac-cisa

CISA advisors urge changes to JCDC's goals, operations, membership criteria
The Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative — a public-private cyberthreat information hub created by CISA — should focus more on incidents and less on policy, while refining other aspects of its operations, an advisory committee said.

Atomic representations of R. Thompson's groups and Cuntz's algebra
Arnaud Brothier, Dilshan Wijesena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02967 https://

Atomic representations of R. Thompson's groups and Cuntz's algebra
We continue to study Pythagorean unitary representation of Richard Thompson's groups $F,T,V$ and their extension to the Cuntz(-Dixmier) algebra. Any linear isometry from a Hilbert space to its direct sum square produces such. We focus on those arising from a finite-dimensional Hilbert space. We show that they decompose as a direct sum of a so-called diffuse part and an atomic part. We previously proved that the diffuse part is Ind-mixing: it does not contain induced representations of finite-di…

Projection-Free Variance Reduction Methods for Stochastic Constrained Multi-Level Compositional Optimization
Wei Jiang, Sifan Yang, Wenhao Yang, Yibo Wang, Yuanyu Wan, Lijun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03787

Projection-Free Variance Reduction Methods for Stochastic Constrained Multi-Level Compositional Optimization
This paper investigates projection-free algorithms for stochastic constrained multi-level optimization. In this context, the objective function is a nested composition of several smooth functions, and the decision set is closed and convex. Existing projection-free algorithms for solving this problem suffer from two limitations: 1) they solely focus on the gradient mapping criterion and fail to match the optimal sample complexities in unconstrained settings; 2) their analysis is exclusively appl…

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The Gauss images of complete minimal surfaces of genus zero of finite total curvature
This paper aims to present a systematic study on the Gauss images of complete minimal surfaces of genus 0 of finite total curvature in Euclidean 3-space and Euclidean 4-space. We focus on the number of omitted values and the total weight of the totally ramified values of their Gauss maps. In particular, we construct new complete minimal surfaces of finite total curvature whose Gauss maps have 2 omitted values and 1 totally ramified value of order 2, that is, the total weight of the totally rami…

Promotional Language and the Adoption of Innovative Ideas in Science
Hao Peng, Huilian Sophie Qiu, Henrik Barslund Fosse, Brian Uzzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02798

Promotional Language and the Adoption of Innovative Ideas in Science
How are the merits of innovative ideas communicated in science? Here we conduct semantic analyses of grant application success with a focus on scientific promotional language, which has been growing in frequency in many contexts and purportedly may convey an innovative idea's originality and significance. Our analysis attempts to surmount limitations of prior studies by examining the full text of tens of thousands of both funded and unfunded grants from three leading public and private funding …

Opportunistic Delay Tolerant Routing for LED Wristbands in Music Events
Nandita Joshi, Milena Radenkovic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02694 https://

Opportunistic Delay Tolerant Routing for LED Wristbands in Music Events
The existing technology used for LED wristbands does not explore the use of opportunistic delay tolerant network (DTN) routing protocols to disseminate lighting information. This paper multiple trade-offs of different criteria with the protocol (Spray & Focus and PRoPHETv2) changes with varying music event scenario configurations & capacities using the ONE simulator. When considering variable music event durations, it was shown that PRoPHETv2 was more desirable for longer durations however Spra…

Comparing estimators of discriminative performance of time-to-event models
Ying Jin, Andrew Leroux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04167 https://

Comparing estimators of discriminative performance of time-to-event models
Predicting the timing and occurrence of events is a major focus of data science applications, especially in the context of biomedical research. Performance for models estimating these outcomes, often referred to as time-to-event or survival outcomes, is frequently summarized using measures of discrimination, in particular time-dependent AUC and concordance. Many estimators for these quantities have been proposed which can be broadly categorized as either semi-parametric estimators or non-parame…

Matrices over polynomial rings approached by commutative algebra
Zaqueu Ramos, Aron Simis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04266 https://ar…

Matrices over polynomial rings approached by commutative algebra
The main goal of the paper is the discussion of a deeper interaction between matrix theory over polynomial rings over a field and typical methods of commutative algebra and related algebraic geometry. This is intended in the sense of bringing numerical algebraic invariants into the picture of determinantal ideals, with an emphasis on non-generic ones. In particular, there is a strong focus on square sparse matrices and features of the dual variety to a determinantal hypersurface. Though the ove…

Genuine-Focused Learning using Mask AutoEncoder for Generalized Fake Audio Detection
Xiaopeng Wang, Ruibo Fu, Zhengqi Wen, Zhiyong Wang, Yuankun Xie, Yukun Liu, Jianhua Tao, Xuefei Liu, Yongwei Li, Xin Qi, Yi Lu, Shuchen Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03247

Genuine-Focused Learning using Mask AutoEncoder for Generalized Fake Audio Detection
The generalization of Fake Audio Detection (FAD) is critical due to the emergence of new spoofing techniques. Traditional FAD methods often focus solely on distinguishing between genuine and known spoofed audio. We propose a Genuine-Focused Learning (GFL) framework guided, aiming for highly generalized FAD, called GFL-FAD. This method incorporates a Counterfactual Reasoning Enhanced Representation (CRER) based on audio reconstruction using the Mask AutoEncoder (MAE) architecture to accurately m…

On the hypergeometric function and families of holomorphic functions
Mark Elin, Fiana Jacobzon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02747 https://

On the hypergeometric function and families of holomorphic functions
In this work, we examine one two-parameter family of sets consisting of functions holomorphic in the unit disk, previously investigated by several mathematicians. We focus on the set-theoretic properties of this family, identify the general form of filtrations within it, and discover that it is not a lattice. This insight motivates us to introduce a refined concept of quasi-infima and quasi-suprema, and to establish their complete description. Unexpectedly, some new properties of the Gauß hy…

Parametric Study of a Bladeless Fan Geometry: Investigating the Influence of Geometry Parameters on Discharge Ratio and Thrust Force
Guillaume Ma\^itrejean, Merlin Kempf, Lucas Antoniali, Feirrera-Lopes, Mohamed Karrouch, Didier Bleses, Fran\c{c}ois Truong, Denis C. D. Roux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03305

Parametric Study of a Bladeless Fan Geometry: Investigating the Influence of Geometry Parameters on Discharge Ratio and Thrust Force
The innovative bladeless design of the AirMultiplier, patented by Dyson in 2009, has generated significant interest due to its unique approach to air circulation that leverages the Coanda effect. In this study, we present a comprehensive parametric analysis of a simplified bladeless fan geometry, with a specific focus on the discharge ratio and generated thrust force for small to medium radii (5 to 200mm) and a range of flow rates spanning from 1 to 100g/s. In addition to the radii and mass flo…

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MatrixWorld: A pursuit-evasion platform for safe multi-agent coordination and autocurricula
Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) achieves encouraging performance in solving complex tasks. However, the safety of MARL policies is one critical concern that impedes their real-world applications. Popular multi-agent benchmarks focus on diverse tasks yet provide limited safety support. Therefore, this work proposes a safety-constrained multi-agent environment: MatrixWorld, based on the general pursuit-evasion game. Particularly, a safety-constrained multi-agent action execution model i…

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Poroelastic plate model obtained by simultaneous homogenization and dimension reduction
In this paper, the starting point of our analysis is a coupled system of linear elasticity and Stokes equation. We consider two small parameters: the thickness $h$ of the thin plate and the pore scale $\varepsilon(h)$ which depends on $h$. We will focus specifically on the case when the pore size is comparatively small relative to the thickness of the plate. The main goal here is derive a model of a poroelastic plate, starting from the $3D$ problem as $h$ goes to zero, using simultaneous homoge…

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Dynamic Ranking and Translation Synchronization
In many applications, such as sport tournaments or recommendation systems, we have at our disposal data consisting of pairwise comparisons between a set of $n$ items (or players). The objective is to use this data to infer the latent strength of each item and/or their ranking. Existing results for this problem predominantly focus on the setting consisting of a single comparison graph $G$. However, there exist scenarios (e.g., sports tournaments) where the the pairwise comparison data evolves wi…

FREA: Feasibility-Guided Generation of Safety-Critical Scenarios with Reasonable Adversariality
Keyu Chen, Yuheng Lei, Hao Cheng, Haoran Wu, Wenchao Sun, Sifa Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02983

FREA: Feasibility-Guided Generation of Safety-Critical Scenarios with Reasonable Adversariality
Generating safety-critical scenarios, which are essential yet difficult to collect at scale, offers an effective method to evaluate the robustness of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Existing methods focus on optimizing adversariality while preserving the naturalness of scenarios, aiming to achieve a balance through data-driven approaches. However, without an appropriate upper bound for adversariality, the scenarios might exhibit excessive adversariality, potentially leading to unavoidable collisions…

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Generalized phase estimation in noisy quantum gates
We examine metrological scenarios where the parameter of interest is encoded onto a quantum state through the action of a noisy quantum gate and investigate the ultimate bound to precision by analyzing the behaviour of the Quantum Fisher Information (QFI). We focus on qubit gates and consider the possibility of employing successive applications of the gate. We go beyond the trivial case of unitary gates and characterize the robustness of the metrological procedure introducing noise in the perfo…

A Priori Estimation of the Approximation, Optimization and Generalization Error of Random Neural Networks for Solving Partial Differential Equations
Xianliang Xu, Zhongyi Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03080

A Priori Estimation of the Approximation, Optimization and Generalization Error of Random Neural Networks for Solving Partial Differential Equations
In recent years, there are numerous methods involving neural networks for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), such as Physics informed neural networks (PINNs), Deep Ritz method (DRM) and others. However, the optimization problems are typically non-convex, which makes these methods lead to unsatisfactory solutions. With weights sampled from some distribution, applying random neural networks to solve PDEs yields least squares problems that are easily solvable. In this paper, we focus o…

FBI releases 475-page document on O.J. Simpson https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5549307/2024/06/07/oj-simpson-fbi-document-release/

FBI releases 475-page document on O.J. Simpson
The FBI documents largely focus on the murder investigation of Brown Simpson and Goldman's deaths.

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How to discretize continuous state-action spaces in Q-learning: A symbolic control approach
Q-learning is widely recognized as an effective approach for synthesizing controllers to achieve specific goals. However, handling challenges posed by continuous state-action spaces remains an ongoing research focus. This paper presents a systematic analysis that highlights a major drawback in space discretization methods. To address this challenge, the paper proposes a symbolic model that represents behavioral relations, such as alternating simulation from abstraction to the controlled system.…

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Generalised Diffusion Probabilistic Scale-Spaces
Diffusion probabilistic models excel at sampling new images from learned distributions. Originally motivated by drift-diffusion concepts from physics, they apply image perturbations such as noise and blur in a forward process that results in a tractable probability distribution. A corresponding learned reverse process generates images and can be conditioned on side information, which leads to a wide variety of practical applications. Most of the research focus currently lies on practice-oriente…

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The Power of Extrapolation in Federated Learning
We propose and study several server-extrapolation strategies for enhancing the theoretical and empirical convergence properties of the popular federated learning optimizer FedProx [Li et al., 2020]. While it has long been known that some form of extrapolation can help in the practice of FL, only a handful of works provide any theoretical guarantees. The phenomenon seems elusive, and our current theoretical understanding remains severely incomplete. In our work, we focus on smooth convex or stro…

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Empowering Embodied Manipulation: A Bimanual-Mobile Robot Manipulation Dataset for Household Tasks
As Embodied AI advances, it increasingly enables robots to handle the complexity of household manipulation tasks more effectively. However, the application of robots in these settings remains limited due to the scarcity of bimanual-mobile robot manipulation datasets. Existing datasets either focus solely on simple grasping tasks using single-arm robots without mobility, or collect sensor data limited to a narrow scope of sensory inputs. As a result, these datasets often fail to encapsulate the …

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Relational hyperevent models for the coevolution of coauthoring and citation networks
The development of suitable statistical models for the analysis of bibliographic networks has trailed behind the empirical ambitions expressed by recent studies of science of science. Extant research typically restricts the analytical focus to either paper citation networks, or author collaboration networks. These networks involve not only direct relationships between papers or authors, but also a broader system of dependencies between the references of papers connected through multiple simulta…

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Path Integrals from Spacetime Quantum Actions
The possibility of extending the canonical formulation of quantum mechanics (QM) to a space-time symmetric form has recently attracted wide interest. In this context, a recent proposal has shown that a spacetime symmetric many-body extension of the Page and Wootters mechanism naturally leads to the so-called Quantum Action (QA) operator, a quantum version of the action of classical mechanics. In this work, we focus on connecting the QA with the well-established Feynman's Path Integral (PI). In …

Strong-Coupling Modification of Singlet-Fission Dynamical Pathways
Lisamaria Wallner, Charlotte Remnant, Oriol Vendrell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03638 ht…

Strong-Coupling Modification of Singlet-Fission Dynamical Pathways
We investigate theoretically the influence of strong light-matter coupling on the initial steps of the photo-triggered singlet-fission process. In particular we focus on intra-molecular singlet fission in a TIPS-pentacene dimer derivative described by a vibronic Hamiltonian including the optically active singlet excited states, doubly excited and charge transfer states, as well as the final triplet-triplet pair state. Quantum dynamics simulations of up to four dimers in the cavity indicate that…

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DoWhy-GCM: An extension of DoWhy for causal inference in graphical causal models
We present DoWhy-GCM, an extension of the DoWhy Python library, which leverages graphical causal models. Unlike existing causality libraries, which mainly focus on effect estimation, DoWhy-GCM addresses diverse causal queries, such as identifying the root causes of outliers and distributional changes, attributing causal influences to the data generating process of each node, or diagnosis of causal structures. With DoWhy-GCM, users typically specify cause-effect relations via a causal graph, fit…

Trump's Lawyers turn focus to classified documents case after New York verdict
Donald Trump's lawyers are preparing to redirect their focus on the charges that the former president illegally retained classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida,
moving on after Trump was found guilty of 34 felonies in his New York criminal trial last month.
The documents case now stands with singular importance for Trump,
🔸as it is the only case with ongoing procee…

The PESQetarian: On the Relevance of Goodhart's Law for Speech Enhancement
Danilo de Oliveira, Simon Welker, Julius Richter, Timo Gerkmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03460

The PESQetarian: On the Relevance of Goodhart's Law for Speech Enhancement
To obtain improved speech enhancement models, researchers often focus on increasing performance according to specific instrumental metrics. However, when the same metric is used in a loss function to optimize models, it may be detrimental to aspects that the given metric does not see. The goal of this paper is to illustrate the risk of overfitting a speech enhancement model to the metric used for evaluation. For this, we introduce enhancement models that exploit the widely used PESQ measure. Ou…

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Dilepton polarization as a signature of plasma anisotropy
We propose the angular distribution of lepton pairs produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions as a probe of thermalization of the quark-gluon plasma. We focus on dileptons with invariant masses large enough that they are produced through quark-antiquark annihilation in the early stages of the collision. The angular distribution of the lepton in the rest frame of the pair then reflects the angular distribution of quark momenta. At early times, the transverse pressure of the quark-gluon …

FERC Commissioner Christie--who has longstanding ties to the natural gas industry and who has for years been saying that the US is retiring coal plants too quickly and that the US needs to build MOAR GAS and not renewables--is now accusing his fellow commissioners of being captured by the renewable lobby.
In other news, pot calls kettle black.

FERC in Focus: Has the agency been ‘captured’ by the sectors it regulates?
FERC Commissioner Mark Christie thinks so. Other FERC experts don't go that far, but they see the commission giving a strong deference to utility companies.

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Bidirectional Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Dance Generation
Dance serves as a powerful medium for expressing human emotions, but the lifelike generation of dance is still a considerable challenge. Recently, diffusion models have showcased remarkable generative abilities across various domains. They hold promise for human motion generation due to their adaptable many-to-many nature. Nonetheless, current diffusion-based motion generation models often create entire motion sequences directly and unidirectionally, lacking focus on the motion with local and b…

RoboCoder: Robotic Learning from Basic Skills to General Tasks with Large Language Models
Jingyao Li, Pengguang Chen, Sitong Wu, Chuanyang Zheng, Hong Xu, Jiaya Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03757

RoboCoder: Robotic Learning from Basic Skills to General Tasks with Large Language Models
The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has improved the prospects for robotic tasks. However, existing benchmarks are still limited to single tasks with limited generalization capabilities. In this work, we introduce a comprehensive benchmark and an autonomous learning framework, RoboCoder aimed at enhancing the generalization capabilities of robots in complex environments. Unlike traditional methods that focus on single-task learning, our research emphasizes the development of a general…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio1's #Dance
Sub Focus:
🎵 Off The Ground
#BBCR1 #SubFocus
https://open.spotify.com/track/5UvLQncwvEGiRLn0xEZw45

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Investigating the Generalizability of Assistive Robots Models over Various Tasks
In the domain of assistive robotics, the significance of effective modeling is well acknowledged. Prior research has primarily focused on enhancing model accuracy or involved the collection of extensive, often impractical amounts of data. While improving individual model accuracy is beneficial, it necessitates constant remodeling for each new task and user interaction. In this paper, we investigate the generalizability of different modeling methods. We focus on constructing the dynamic model of…

Older women are being significantly shortchanged by medical research - men are the focus of more health studies, leaving unanswered questions about women and cancer, Alzheimer’s and other serious conditions. - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/hea…

Older women are being significantly shortchanged by medical research
Men are the focus of much more health research, leaving unanswered questions about women and cancer, Alzheimer’s and other serious conditions.

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Bidirectional Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Dance Generation
Dance serves as a powerful medium for expressing human emotions, but the lifelike generation of dance is still a considerable challenge. Recently, diffusion models have showcased remarkable generative abilities across various domains. They hold promise for human motion generation due to their adaptable many-to-many nature. Nonetheless, current diffusion-based motion generation models often create entire motion sequences directly and unidirectionally, lacking focus on the motion with local and b…

#productivity
#focus
I'd like your thoughts on generalising & extending the following:
When time-boxing desk work (I use Pomodoro), it seems to help a lot to restrict the first chunk of time exclusively to set-up (tools, work space, resources...) and prep, only starting &…

Experts say generative AI is set to make certain skills in finance and accounting redundant and free up time for workers to focus more on value-added tasks (Seb Murray/Financial Times)
https://t.co/D3va4RAXGS

AI in finance is like ‘moving from typewriters to word processors’
Tools are set to make some skills redundant and free up time for more value-added tasks

"Following her lecture, Maria Todorova discusses with sociologist Manuela Boatca whether and to what extent (de)colonization theories can be made productive in Eastern European studies. The focus is the question of whether all empires can automatically be regarded as colonial." #Osteuropa #Imperium

Panel discussion | Imperial Rule and Colonial Experience: Eastern Europe in the Global Context | L.I.S.A. WISSENSCHAFTSPORTAL GERDA HENKEL STIFTUNG
Following her lecture, Maria Todorova discusses with sociologist sociologist Manuela Boatca whether and to what extent (de)colonization theories can be made productive in Eastern European studies. The focus is the question of whether all empires can automatically be regarded as colonial. Boatca argues with the concept of coloniality (Anibal Quijano), which refers to the fact that colonialism creates racial hierarchies, economic hierarchies, social hierarchies and cultural hierarchies that are s…

My brain doing that awful between-projects thing casting about for topics to focus on and problems to solve with nothing good to latch onto

Do you find that loud, distracting music helps you focus?
Yes
No
It depends… (comment below maybe?)

EU states won't be directly involved in $50 billion loan for Ukraine, Italian PM says: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/15/eu-states-wont.html

I was also thinking about getting user emails in a list to do something for retention. I would love to put more focus on keeping the users we got since the flow of new users is currently at a trickle.

Awhile ago, @… (another dominant hypnotist) created a group chat on Signal (https://signal.org) for guys interested in erotic hypnosis, and posted a link on Mastodon so others c…

Signal Messenger: Speak Freely
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.

Glad to see this documentary focus on the women who were canceled for telling their stories
#movies #film #documentary

Back at it. The conductor immediately recognized my Pacifica Taco Bell sticker and was very happy about that.
#Amtrak #CoastStarlight #Tågskryt

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems."
— Marc Cuban
Agree, disagree — be inspired or not.
QOTD is fuel for conversation, and food for thought.
#QOTD
#QuoteOfTheDay

I continue to be disappointed by the illiberal behavior of supposedly “progressive” universities. In the end, they’re all just cogs in the same classist, capitalistic, cronyist system we all happen to live in.
Money trumps ethics, every time. https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11

Interesting post on the future or lack thereof of Generative AI.
Microsoft is ""... shifting our focus on GPTs to Commercial and Enterprise scenarios and are stopping GPT efforts in consumer Copilot." Translation: Microsoft isn't making enough money from consumer MS365 subscriptions to pay for the cloud costs of an OpenAI-based service."

Christopher Rice on LinkedIn: #ai #openai #microsoft #apple #appleintelligence | 355 comments
Microsoft is retiring its GPT Builder in 4 Weeks. What's that you say? You thought Generative AI was going to rule the world after that Apple Intelligence… | 355 comments on LinkedIn

"This post will focus on how we produce fresh water and how we dispose of wastewater at the South Pole."
https://brr.fyi/posts/south-pole-water-infrastructure

California lilac, Ceanothus thyrsiflorus, blooming in Salesforce Park last spring 🌿
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbyoder/53433272602

Love the privacy focus on all new features #WWDC

Q&A with Jingna Zhang, the founder of anti-AI social platform Cara, about its focus on artists, having nearly 900K users, generative AI vs. creativity, and more (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/cara-portfolio-app-artificial-i…

How is Scotland faring after Brexit? | Focus on Europe - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS3t8btIKVI
"The handouts from Westminster are not as good as those from the EU"
With the next general election coming, there is still no majority for rejoi…

Slogans mainly are bad. But like most things they can be used in ways that help or hurt. The main problem is when they substitute for a method to achieve the aim (most of the time). If the slogan serves like a mission statement to focus people on something useful to focus on and it is one minor part of a system to achieve a result it can be fine and even useful...

Same with this "Maven" thing today.
They want to make some kinda AI-edited personal-magazine. A narrow-focus news show, personalized for you by terra-flops of statistical correlations.
People do seem to like algorithmic feeds. Nobody can read everything, so some kinda summary or selector is inevitable.
But to do it, you gotta read everything.
That mega-mind is gonna be babbling to bosses and dates about every public word on the web whatever your privacy settings say.
These folks have "deleted" the data for now at least.
But that T&C's switcheroo is even easier if we never signed any T&Cs and they have implied consent because google made the precedent back in the 90s when they indexed the whole web.
#maven #consent #ai

Which areas should Brian Cashman focus on at the trade deadline? Four Yankees takeaways
#MLB #Baseball #TheAthletic

Is anyone aware of a (stereo) microscope with a swing-lens setup allowing the focal plane to be angled, vs normal to the view axis?
Goal is to have the largest possible portion of a flat surface be in focus when seen from about a 30-50 degree angle.

Two 2GW offshore wind farms have been successfully tendered by the Dutch government: one to be developed by pension fund ABP with SSE (concession fee €1m/yr, additional focus on nature), the other by Vattenfall & CIP (fee €20m/yr, combined with 1GW electrolyser at the Rotterdam landing point).

Noordzeker en Zeevonk II winnen tenders windparken op zee IJmuiden Ver Alpha en Beta
De grootste vergunningsronde voor windparken op zee in Nederland tot nu toe is succesvol afgerond. Noordzeker, een consortium van ABP, APG en SSE Renewables, is de winnaar van de vergunning voor windpark IJmuiden Ver kavel Alpha. Hierbij ligt de nadruk op de versterking van de natuur van de Noordzee. Zeevonk II, een joint venture van Vattenfall en Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) is de winnaar van IJmuiden Ver kavel Beta. Bij dit windpark ligt de nadruk op de slimme inpassing van het wi…

Raiders' Davante Adams reveals his nickname for Brock Bowers https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_davante_adams_reveals_his_nickname_for_brock_bowers/s1_127_40477625

Raiders' Davante Adams reveals his nickname for Brock Bowers
Las Vegas Raiders rookie Brock Bowers has already won over one of his veteran teammates, judging by his new nickname. Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams raved about Bowers and his focus when it comes to football. In fact, that single-minded focus has earned Bowers the nickname “BM” for “business man.” “That’s BM, man. That’s what I call him. BM — Business Man,” Adams told reporters on Wednesday. “He don’t care about nothing else other than just locking in on football. I c…

⚡ Exploring the Use of Cold Atmospheric Plasma for Sound and Vibration Generation
#science

Exploring the Use of Cold Atmospheric Plasma for Sound and Vibration Generation
In this study, we investigate the potential of cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) as a non-contact excitation device, comparing its performance with an ultrasound transmitter. Utilizing a scanning Laser Doppler Vibrometer (LDV), we visualize the acoustic wavefront generated by a CAP probe and an ultrasound sensor within a designated 50 mm × 50 mm area in front of each probe. Our focus lies in assessing the applicability of a CAP probe for exciting a small polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) sample. By a…

America's Got Talent 2024 Spoilers
I don't watch shows like that usually because I can't focus on the show. I prefer to find videos of the amazing singers that show up.
This is AWESOME!
Wish the title didn't spoil the big part of the video AND the show, but whatever.
#Music #AGT #AmericasGotTalent

NYT reports on factory-built housing in Sweden & potential for the US. Cites US building codes as obstacle, but doesn't go into depth.
My takeaway: I see more structural obstacles to this than just building codes. Zoning. Lack of state capacity to enforce performance-based code. Focus of industrial management on cost over durability & quality.

How an American Dream of Housing Became a Reality in Sweden
The U.S. once looked to modular construction as an efficient way to build lots of housing at scale, but Sweden picked up the idea and put it into practice

Sources: Lightspeed wants to become a registered investment adviser, letting it use more than 20% of its funds, the cap for VC firms, to trade secondary markets (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)
https://t.co/gCTlqdGncn

"Following her lecture, Maria Todorova discusses with sociologist Manuela Boatca whether and to what extent (de)colonization theories can be made productive in Eastern European studies. The focus is the question of whether all empires can automatically be regarded as colonial." #Osteuropa #Imperium

Panel discussion | Imperial Rule and Colonial Experience: Eastern Europe in the Global Context | L.I.S.A. WISSENSCHAFTSPORTAL GERDA HENKEL STIFTUNG
Following her lecture, Maria Todorova discusses with sociologist sociologist Manuela Boatca whether and to what extent (de)colonization theories can be made productive in Eastern European studies. The focus is the question of whether all empires can automatically be regarded as colonial. Boatca argues with the concept of coloniality (Anibal Quijano), which refers to the fact that colonialism creates racial hierarchies, economic hierarchies, social hierarchies and cultural hierarchies that are s…

#Apple’s continued focus on highly-intentional #privacy, consent, highlighting of “On Device”, and “not shared with Apple or anyone else” feels pretty good after going all-in on this, career-wise, for the past 2 years.

Why music could solve the Universe’s deepest secrets - BBC Science Focus Magazine
https://www.sciencefocus.com/comment/link-science-music

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Hei, vaihdetaan Signaliin: https://signal.org/install

Signal Messenger: Speak Freely
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.

I was also thinking about getting user emails in a list to do something for retention. I would love to put more focus on keeping the users we got since the flow of new users is currently at a trickle.

Interesting post on the future or lack thereof of Generative AI.
Microsoft is ""... shifting our focus on GPTs to Commercial and Enterprise scenarios and are stopping GPT efforts in consumer Copilot." Translation: Microsoft isn't making enough money from consumer MS365 subscriptions to pay for the cloud costs of an OpenAI-based service."

Christopher Rice on LinkedIn: #ai #openai #microsoft #apple #appleintelligence | 355 comments
Microsoft is retiring its GPT Builder in 4 Weeks. What's that you say? You thought Generative AI was going to rule the world after that Apple Intelligence… | 355 comments on LinkedIn

A second Trump term would double down on erasing trans rights. Here’s how advocates are preparing.
https://19thnews.org/2024/06/lgbtq-trump-trans-second-term/

A second Trump term would double down on erasing trans rights. Here’s how advocates are preparing.
A second Trump administration would focus on rolling back transgender rights, as he detailed in a campaign video last year.

A Dictionary Based Approach for Removing Out-of-Focus Blur
Uditangshu Aurangabadkar, Anil Kokaram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11330 https://

A Dictionary Based Approach for Removing Out-of-Focus Blur
The field of image deblurring has seen tremendous progress with the rise of deep learning models. These models, albeit efficient, are computationally expensive and energy consuming. Dictionary based learning approaches have shown promising results in image denoising and Single Image Super-Resolution. We propose an extension of the Rapid and Accurate Image Super-Resolution (RAISR) algorithm introduced by Isidoro, Romano and Milanfar for the task of out-of-focus blur removal. We define a sharpnes…

CNN signs a deal to use AP stories on its website, the first time it has done so since cutting ties 14 years ago to focus more on original reporting (Alexandra Steigrad/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2024/06/10/media/cnn-staffers-…

CNN staffers fear layoffs as network inks deal with the Associated Press
CNN inked a deal with the Associated Press to use its copy on its website, the first time it has done so since cutting ties with the wire service 14 years ago.

Paradigm says it raised $850M for its third fund, which will focus on early-stage crypto projects; it previously launched a $2.5B crypto fund in November 2021 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Een opvallende overeenkomst tussen Nieuw Sociaal Contract en FvD  - @…
https://chrisaalberts.nl/2024/06/10/ee

Sam Altman currently runs OpenAI, the leading startup in generative artificial intelligence.
And Apple, racing to catch up in that area, has forged a partnership to integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT into the iPhone’s operating system.
Though the controversial Altman is unlikely to take the stage at the event, the agreement will be a key focus of Apple’s 🔸Worldwide Developers Conference🔸 next week
— and it shows just how much the power in Silicon Valley has shifted over the past fe…

Apple made once-unlikely deal with Sam Altman to catch up in AI
An OpenAI agreement is due to be announced at the Apple’s developer conference next week.

America's Got Talent 2024 Spoilers
I don't watch shows like that usually because I can't focus on the show. I prefer to find videos of the amazing singers that show up.
This is AWESOME!
Wish the title didn't spoil the big part of the video AND the show, but whatever.
#Music #AGT #AmericasGotTalent

🧠 Neural Similarity and Synchrony among Friends
#brain #neuroscience

Neural Similarity and Synchrony among Friends
Researchers have long recognized that friends tend to exhibit behaviors that are more similar to each other than to those of non-friends. In recent years, the concept of neural similarity or neural synchrony among friends has garnered significant attention. This body of research bifurcates into two primary areas of focus: the specificity of neural similarity among friends (vs. non-friends) and the situational factors that influence neural synchrony among friends. This review synthesizes the com…

Paradigm says it raised $850M for its third fund, which will focus on early-stage crypto projects; it previously launched a $2.5B crypto fund in November 2021 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

New Study Reveals That Simply Looking at Trees Can Boost Your Mental Health
https://scitechdaily.com/new-study-reveals-that-simply-looking-at-trees-can-boost-your-mental-health/

New Study Reveals That Simply Looking at Trees Can Boost Your Mental Health
New eye-tracking research reveals that looking at natural elements during urban walks can significantly benefit mental health. The study, conducted by Bangor University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and published in the journal People and Nature, showed that city-dwellers who focus

The MAGA Tragedy of Trump's Hunter Biden Obsession
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/06/08/demons-the-greek-tragedy-of-americas-hunter-biden-addiction/

Demons: The Greek Tragedy of America's Hunter Biden Addiction - emptywheel
Naomi Biden's testimony in the Hunter Biden trial on Friday may well help prove the possession case against her dad, while conflicting stories from the gun shop guys might harm the counts pertaining to his statements on the gun form. More than anything else, though, Friday's testimony demonstrated what a pointless stupid waste of time the nation's focus on prosecuting Hunter Biden has been.

Q&A with Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on co-authoring the "Attention is all you need" paper at Google, focusing on enterprise, whether there's an AI bubble, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24173858/ai-coher…

Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez sees AI’s pathway to profitability
Compute power is expensive, but Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez says a focus on enterprise and quality can make AI make money.