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Over the last few weeks I have rewatched the first four seasons of Star Trek Discovery as a goodbye gesture before now I start watching the final season. I love the future-of-the-future universe part because it shows how hard it is to build sth like a Federation and how it kind of decenters Earth. And so many wild ideas. The spore drive. Species 10-C. So much badass action. And so many feels. Oh, I will miss them all badly. Michael. Saru. Tilly. Reno. Detmer. All of them. Even Grudge.

Decentralized Control for Heterogeneous Battery Energy Storage System
Yusuke Hakuta, Yasushi Amano, Tomohiko Jimbo, Shuji Tomura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10439

Decentralized Control for Heterogeneous Battery Energy Storage System
Battery energy storage systems (BESSs) are essential for stable power supply in renewable energy systems that can operate in all weather. Future BESSs will be massive and pluggable with several heterogeneous batteries. In this paper, a novel decentralized control method for a heterogeneous BESS is proposed, in which each battery autonomously operates based on its characteristics. First, a control method that uses only one broadcast signal for each type of battery is proposed. Second, the asympt…

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PromptCodec: High-Fidelity Neural Speech Codec using Disentangled Representation Learning based Adaptive Feature-aware Prompt Encoders
Neural speech codec has recently gained widespread attention in generative speech modeling domains, like voice conversion, text-to-speech synthesis, etc. However, ensuring high-fidelity audio reconstruction of speech codecs under high compression rates remains an open and challenging issue. In this paper, we propose PromptCodec, a novel end-to-end neural speech codec model using disentangled representation learning based feature-aware prompt encoders. By incorporating additional feature represe…

It's an odd one, but I think the movie Cherry 2000 was formative to me.

Made in 1985, released in 1988, it's a Mad Max-esque adventure where a tracker (Melanie Griffith) is helping a businessman (David Andrews) find an out-of-production fembot in the post-apocalyptic desert wastelands of the future, to replace his animatronic wife that breaks down at the start of the film.

The year in the movie is 2017. Cherry 2000 is the name of the discontinued robot wife.

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A Dynamical Model of Neural Scaling Laws
On a variety of tasks, the performance of neural networks predictably improves with training time, dataset size and model size across many orders of magnitude. This phenomenon is known as a neural scaling law. Of fundamental importance is the compute-optimal scaling law, which reports the performance as a function of units of compute when choosing model sizes optimally. We analyze a random feature model trained with gradient descent as a solvable model of network training and generalization. Th…

Turn up the heat: Climate change activists are gearing up for a sizzling summer of dissent | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2024/06/10/turn-up-the-heat-climate-change-activists-are-gearing-up-for-a-sizzli…

Climate change activists are gearing up for a sizzling summer of dissent
What brings people to protest during potentially the hottest summer in human history? The future of humanity

Decentralized Social Networks and the Future of Free Speech Online
Tao Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06934 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Decentralized Social Networks and the Future of Free Speech Online
Decentralized social networks like Mastodon and BlueSky are trending topics that have drawn much attention and discussion in recent years. By devolving powers from the central node to the end users, decentralized social networks aim to cure existing pathologies on the centralized platforms and have been viewed by many as the future of the Internet. This article critically and systematically assesses the decentralization project's prospect for communications online. It uses normative theories of…

Two system transformation data-driven algorithms for linear quadratic mean-field games
Xun Li, Guangchen Wang, Yu Wang, Jie Xiong, Heng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10285

Two system transformation data-driven algorithms for linear quadratic mean-field games
This paper studies a class of continuous-time linear quadratic (LQ) mean-field game problems. We develop two system transformation data-driven algorithms to approximate the decentralized strategies of the LQ mean-field games. The main feature of the obtained data-driven algorithms is that they eliminate the requirement on all system matrices. First, we transform the original stochastic system into an ordinary differential equation (ODE). Subsequently, we construct some Kronecker product-based m…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01092 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

A Dynamical Model of Neural Scaling Laws
On a variety of tasks, the performance of neural networks predictably improves with training time, dataset size and model size across many orders of magnitude. This phenomenon is known as a neural scaling law. Of fundamental importance is the compute-optimal scaling law, which reports the performance as a function of units of compute when choosing model sizes optimally. We analyze a random feature model trained with gradient descent as a solvable model of network training and generalization. Th…

Why is a private citizen and Russian asset blocking access for a foreign dignitary to speak to the Speaker of the House?
The GOP is a clear and present danger to the future of American democracy, and must be eliminated.
If Ukraine falls, the decades of war that follow will be personally the fault of Donald Trump and the GOP leadership. And they should be treated accordingly.
No quarter for fascists.