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I've spent some of today finding bottlenecks in my world-simulating cellular automaton, and I can now simulate 10,000 years of history from the middle of the Ice Age to the middle of the Iron Age over 40,000 square kilometres (at kilometre scale) in slightly under two minutes of wall-clock time. It's utterly caning my poor computer, but it doesn't crash.
#Clojure

I decided long ago that generational classifications do not make any sense.
As an example:
How can I possibly be in the same generation as my parents?
Meanwhile, my 2 children are considered to have been born into different generations.
The whole premise is absolute codswallop.
#generations

🐢 Nile Basin farmers grow food forests to restore wetlands and bring back a turtle
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/nile-basin-farmers-grow-food-forests-to-restore-wetlands-and-bring-back-a-turtle/

Nile Basin farmers grow food forests to restore wetlands and bring back a turtle
WESTERN PROVINCE, Kenya — In the 44 years Naomi Rita Sitati has lived in Bukirimo village in western Kenya, she has known only one system of farming, which her community has depended on for generations. Cultivating sugarcane as the only crop in large plots is a common practice in the region, which is part of […]

Groceries are shaping up to be a top spending priority for younger generations,
a February report from McKinsey & Company found.
The firm asked over 4,000 people, from baby boomers to Gen Zers, about the categories they intend to splurge on this year.
Groceries ranked highest for millennials and Gen Zers,
outpacing restaurants, bars, travel, beauty and personal care, apparel, and fitness.
Guess what that led them to conclude:

Zionism's/Israel's internal inequality, racism, creation of refugees, and unrestrained violence have created moral crises for generations of Jewish scholars.
Until I encountered these recent works, I was unaware of important links in the chain…

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In-Context Sharpness as Alerts: An Inner Representation Perspective for Hallucination Mitigation
Large language models (LLMs) frequently hallucinate and produce factual errors, yet our understanding of why they make these errors remains limited. In this study, we delve into the underlying mechanisms of LLM hallucinations from the perspective of inner representations, and discover a salient pattern associated with hallucinations: correct generations tend to have sharper context activations in the hidden states of the in-context tokens, compared to the incorrect ones. Leveraging this insight…

Distributed MIMO Measurements for Integrated Communication and Sensing in an Industrial Environment
Christian Nelson, Xuhong Li, Aleksei Fedorov, Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann, Fredrik Tufvesson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02430

Distributed MIMO Measurements for Integrated Communication and Sensing in an Industrial Environment
Many concepts for future generations of wireless communication systems use coherent processing of signals from many distributed antennas. The aim is to improve communication reliability, capacity, and energy efficiency and provide possibilities for new applications through integrated communication and sensing. The large bandwidths available in the higher bands have inspired much work regarding sensing in the mmWave and sub-THz bands; however, the sub-6 GHz cellular bands will still be the main …

Clean energy transition could take ‘decades or generations,’ JPMorgan warns
#RealEstate #UrbanDevelopment #SmartCitiesDive

🐮 Milk on ice: Antarctic time capsule of whole milk powder sheds light on the enduring qualities of dairy products
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-ice-antarctic-capsule-powder-qualities.html

Milk on ice: Antarctic time capsule of whole milk powder sheds light on the enduring qualities of dairy products
In a remarkable discovery, whole milk powder manufactured in New Zealand in 1907 and transported to Antarctica with explorers seeking the South Pole was unveiled after more than a century. The findings have allowed dairy researchers to answer the question: Is the milk we enjoy today different from the milk consumed in previous generations?

Learning at the Speed of Wireless: Online Real-Time Learning for AI-Enabled MIMO in NextG
Jiarui Xu, Shashank Jere, Yifei Song, Yi-Hung Kao, Lizhong Zheng, Lingjia Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02651

Learning at the Speed of Wireless: Online Real-Time Learning for AI-Enabled MIMO in NextG
Integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into the air interface has been envisioned as a key technology for next-generation (NextG) cellular networks. At the air interface, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and its variants such as multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) and massive/full-dimension MIMO have been key enablers across successive generations of cellular networks with evolving complexity and design challenges. Initiating active investigation into leveraging AI/ML …

I'm explaining to the #6yo that she can't just go around randomly calling people; that's not what younger generations DO. That's only for older generations (50 years old). She needs to message first, at least.
She found this upsetting and just wants to call. So hey, maybe that'll make a comeback after Gen Z?

"That’s why The Inquirer Editorial Board plans to spend the next 10 months sounding the alarm that #Trump remains a danger to our democracy. We plan to detail Trump’s many flaws and misdeeds while spelling out the risks of a second term, which the twice-impeached former president has made clear will be worse than his first four years.
Put simply, Trump is unfit for office."
Don…

Donald Trump is a clear and present danger | Editorial
The presidential election is about more than the traditional policy differences between two candidates. It's about the kind of country we are going to live in and pass on to future generations.

Voted.
It’s only district but it’s what generations before me fought for.

It often feels that the humanities are going the way of the dinosaur entirely. We can't have a free culture if our culture is defined entirely by what iPad babies and Facebook Grannies are exposed to on the internet.
What I'm saying is, without literature worth studying, without people with the desire to study and practice culture, there will be no culture left over. No more free culture either. Our generations could be the last to read books or play music. Are we a dying bree…

Memory Sharing with CXL: Hardware and Software Design Approaches
Sunita Jain, Nagaradhesh Yeleswarapu, Hasan Al Maruf, Rita Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03245

Memory Sharing with CXL: Hardware and Software Design Approaches
Compute Express Link (CXL) is a rapidly emerging coherent interconnect standard that provides opportunities for memory pooling and sharing. Memory sharing is a well-established software feature that improves memory utilization by avoiding unnecessary data movement. In this paper, we discuss multiple approaches to enable memory sharing with different generations of CXL protocol (i.e., CXL 2.0 and CXL 3.0) considering the challenges with each of the architectures from the device hardware and soft…

"Women favour climate actions that benefit future generations more than men – new study"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Study

Women favour climate actions that benefit future generations more than men – new study
Attitudes towards climate policies partly depend on a consideration of future, as yet unborn, descendants. Women tended to show more ability to think about how future generations could benefit.

The Counterfeit Conundrum: Can Code Language Models Grasp the Nuances of Their Incorrect Generations?
Alex Gu, Wen-Ding Li, Naman Jain, Theo X. Olausson, Celine Lee, Koushik Sen, Armando Solar-Lezama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19475

The Counterfeit Conundrum: Can Code Language Models Grasp the Nuances of Their Incorrect Generations?
While language models are increasingly more proficient at code generation, they still frequently generate incorrect programs. Many of these programs are obviously wrong, but others are more subtle and pass weaker correctness checks such as being able to compile. In this work, we focus on these counterfeit samples: programs sampled from a language model that 1) have a high enough log-probability to be generated at a moderate temperature and 2) pass weak correctness checks. Overall, we discover t…

Quantum Science and Technologies in K-12: Supporting Teachers to Integrate Quantum in STEM Classrooms
Nancy Holincheck, Jessica L. Rosenberg, Xiaolu Zhang, Tiffany Butler, Michele Colandene, Benjamin W. Dreyfus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03538

Quantum Science and Technologies in K-12: Supporting Teachers to Integrate Quantum in STEM Classrooms
Quantum science and computing represent a vital intersection between science and technology, gaining increasing importance in modern society. There is a pressing need to incorporate these concepts into the K-12 curriculum, equipping new generations with the tools to navigate and thrive in an evolving technological landscape. This study explores the professional learning of K-12 teachers (n = 49) related to quantum concepts and pedagogy. We used open-ended surveys, field notes, workshop artifact…

"That’s why The Inquirer Editorial Board plans to spend the next 10 months sounding the alarm that #Trump remains a danger to our democracy. We plan to detail Trump’s many flaws and misdeeds while spelling out the risks of a second term, which the twice-impeached former president has made clear will be worse than his first four years.
Put simply, Trump is unfit for office."
Don…

Donald Trump is a clear and present danger | Editorial
The presidential election is about more than the traditional policy differences between two candidates. It's about the kind of country we are going to live in and pass on to future generations.

Stranger Danger was pounded into the subconscious minds of two generations.
and warped minds by the millions are the really sad result.

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NeuroLGP-SM: Scalable Surrogate-Assisted Neuroevolution for Deep Neural Networks
Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) play a crucial role in the architectural configuration and training of Artificial Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), a process known as neuroevolution. However, neuroevolution is hindered by its inherent computational expense, requiring multiple generations, a large population, and numerous epochs. The most computationally intensive aspect lies in evaluating the fitness function of a single candidate solution. To address this challenge, we employ Surrogate-assisted EAs (…

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Why E.T. Can't Phone Home: A Global View on IP-based Geoblocking at VoWiFi
In current cellular network generations (4G, 5G) the IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) plays an integral role in terminating voice calls and short messages. Many operators use VoWiFi (Voice over Wi-Fi, also Wi-Fi calling) as an alternative network access technology to complement their cellular coverage in areas where no radio signal is available (e.g., rural territories or shielded buildings). In a mobile world where customers regularly traverse national borders, this can be used to avoid expensive…

In June, the Promote Ukraine choir will take part in the “Let’s Zing Ensemble” festival of non-professional choirs in the most famous cultural center of Belgium — Bozar: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/in-june-the.html

U.S. Multifamily Market Snapshot — Q4 2023
Arbor - February 22, 2024
“The U.S. multifamily market continued to show signs of slowing at the end of 2023, although demand remained robust, with high home prices leading younger generations of higher-income households to choose renting over homeownership.”

U.S. Multifamily Market Snapshot Q4 2023 - Arbor Realty
The U.S. multifamily market continued to show signs of slowing at the end of 2023, although demand remained robust, with high home prices leading younger generations of higher-income households to choose renting over homeownership.

"BASIC deserved better than to be dismissed and vilified by generations of so-called “professional” or “academic” programmers. Mark Jones Lorenzo’s “Endless Loop,” together with the myriad of available implementations of the language, and the collective impetus of retrocomputing fans to keep it alive in our memories, are the closest thing to a monument that it will ever get."

Mark Jones Lorenzo
The history of the BASIC programming language is, at best, scattered across countless books, a consequence of the disdain and arrogance of generations of programmers who loudly advocated for the dismissal of such a lesser language. Or maybe it is not, and it just so happens that the language was so wildly influential that it is impossible to elaborate on any computer in the past 50 years without coming across the path of a BASIC dialect at some point.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink wants Boomers to fix 'retirement crisis': 'It's no wonder younger generations, Millennials and Gen Z, are so economically anxious' (Silla Brush/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2024/03/26/blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-boomers-fix-retirement-crisis-millennials-gen-z-economically-anxious/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240326/p84#a240326p84

I wish the Leafs would stop playing the most hated in the playoffs already. Then I could go back to finding joy in the general shambles Toronto has been for generations.

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Chance Constrained Economic Dispatch Considering the Capability of Network Flexibility Against Renewable Uncertainties
This paper incorporates a continuous-type network flexibility into chance constrained economic dispatch (CCED). In the proposed model, both power generations and line susceptances are continuous variables to minimize the expected generation cost and guarantee a low probability of constraint violation in terms of generations and line flows under renewable uncertainties. From the analytical form of CCED, we figure out the mechanism of network flexibility against uncertainties -- while renewable u…

Attacks Against Mobility Prediction in 5G Networks
Syafiq Al Atiiq, Yachao Yuan, Christian Gehrmann, Jakob Sternby, Luis Barriga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19319

Attacks Against Mobility Prediction in 5G Networks
The $5^{th}$ generation of mobile networks introduces a new Network Function (NF) that was not present in previous generations, namely the Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF). Its primary objective is to provide advanced analytics services to various entities within the network and also towards external application services in the 5G ecosystem. One of the key use cases of NWDAF is mobility trajectory prediction, which aims to accurately support efficient mobility management of User Equipmen…

The United States as a whole has 81 percent of African American children attending non-white majority schools, as compared to 77 percent in 1968.
Moreover, the concentration of African American children into non-white majority schools has increased in every region except the Midwest, which has been broadly stable.
We note that the data for the Border region reflects the broader Hispanic immigration, which complicates the comparison to some extent.
Nevertheless, it is dif…

Racial Integration of Schools in the United States
February is African American History Month, a time when the United States pays tribute to generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.

"The vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society.
You must use it because it is not guaranteed. You can lose it."
The way to ensure our freedom and secure voting rights for future generations is to VOTE!
#GoodTrouble4VotingRights

Star Trek Generations is 30 years old 😭

We can halve the global population in four generations (three if we limit lifetimes as well), that's unlikely to be popular or achievable without architecting an entirely different global society and then gulling those generations into thinking it's for the Greater Good.
We're currently adding another billion people every 12 years, the UN models the peak in the 2050's when it's around 10B. I doubt that will be pleasant. Only 250 years for Malthus to pay out.
<…

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Replacing Judges with Juries: Evaluating LLM Generations with a Panel of Diverse Models
As Large Language Models (LLMs) have become more advanced, they have outpaced our abilities to accurately evaluate their quality. Not only is finding data to adequately probe particular model properties difficult, but evaluating the correctness of a model's freeform generation alone is a challenge. To address this, many evaluations now rely on using LLMs themselves as judges to score the quality of outputs from other LLMs. Evaluations most commonly use a single large model like GPT4. While this…

Capitalism as a natural followup to religion
Religion teaches you that you need to toil all your life for the elites, and you're going to reap the reward in the afterlife. That is, if such a thing exists. If it doesn't, it's not like you're going to be around to complain.
Capitalism teaches you that you need to toil most of your life for the elites, and you're going to reap the reward of a nice, cozy retirement. That is, if you live long enough to enjoy it. If you don't, it's not like you're going to be around to complain.
Well, technically you may not be healthy enough, or have a pension high enough, to actually enjoy the retirement. But it's not their fault — you haven't been taking good care of yourself, you haven't been working hard enough, or perhaps it's the fault of these lazy youngsters, or immigrants, or… In either case, if you were a good, god-fearing person, you're still up for the other reward, right?
Oh, and in both cases, it's important to reproduce. We must breed, so that future generations can continue toiling for the elites.
#AntiCapitalism

excellent overview of Long Covid
From Ziyad Al-Aly & Eric Topol. Covers a ton of key points in a short article.
"The world must rise to the occasion and address these challenges; the health and well-being of current and future generations depend on this."
#LongCovid #medicine

Got this from Newmax, which is making it all about 'it's race based' - but most rich ppl are...white
"The Biden administration wants to raise the top marginal rate on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends for those making over $400,000 a year to 44.6%.
Biden also wants to eliminate the “loophole” that permits families to postpone estate taxes for generations through trusts."

If you want to learn and hear from First Nations women in this part of the world and how they're regaining their space, this is a great article about Nuu-cha-nulth women:
“Nuu-chah-nulth women are powerful, strong, and not afraid to take up the space meant for them. This is how Mariah Charleson (łučinƛcuta), a Hesquiaht member who was recently elected the nation’s chief councillor, describes the women of Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations.”

Haven't posted about it but shoulda; been doing a rewatch Everything Star Trek binge. Finished Enterprise the other day, currently doing the reboot movies.
My viewing order (tho I may have the TNG movies out of place):
TOS -> TAS -> TOSMovies -> TNG -> Generations -> DS9 -> First Contact -> VOY -> Insurrection -> ENT -> Nemesis -> Reboot Movies (I am here, 1/3) -> Disco -> STP -> Lower Decks -> SNW

I hadn’t thought of this before.
I grew up as the oldest of 25-30 cousins, most of whom lived in the general area. The weekends were always full of family visits and at least a half dozen cousins hanging around to play with… https://press.coop/@CBCNews/111957338085294869…

CBC News :press: (@CBCNews@press.coop)
Kids are growing up with fewer cousins than ever. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood? Canadian children have fewer cousins than previous generations — a growing trend as the decreasing fertility rate causes extended families to narrow over time, sociologists and demographers say. #press https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cousins-decline-canada-1.7103338?cmp=rss&utm_source=press.coop

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ViSAGe: A Global-Scale Analysis of Visual Stereotypes in Text-to-Image Generation
Recent studies have shown that Text-to-Image (T2I) model generations can reflect social stereotypes present in the real world. However, existing approaches for evaluating stereotypes have a noticeable lack of coverage of global identity groups and their associated stereotypes. To address this gap, we introduce the ViSAGe (Visual Stereotypes Around the Globe) dataset to enable the evaluation of known nationality-based stereotypes in T2I models, across 135 nationalities. We enrich an existing tex…

Back from a fun couple of days in Bochum presenting at the second Hardware Reverse Engineering Symposium (HARRIS) hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy.
The talk was titled "Secure Element vs Cloners: A Case Study". Slides will be uploaded shortly, I'll share a link here when I've had a chance to do that.
As part of this research, I and the other IOA silicon lab folks examined two generations of an undisclosed consumer product with cryptogr…

A look at the costs of a smartphone-based childhood, as Gen Z struggles with poor mental health and lags behind previous generations on many important metrics (Jonathan Haidt/The Atlantic)
https://www.

"Timothy [Mellon] has... contributed $20 million to Trump’s super PAC... $30 million to the House Republicans’ super PAC... $30 million to the Senate Republicans’ super PAC... $15 million to Robert F Kennedy Junior’s super PAC"... and millions to Greg Abbott’s border wall fund.
#billionaires #superPACs

The poster child for the perils of dynastic wealth
Four generations of Mellons are now bankrolling Trump

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Joint Chance-constrained Game for Coordinating Renewable Microgrids with Service Delivery Risk: A Bayesian Optimization Approach
Microgrids incorporate distributed energy resources (DERs) and flexible loads, which can provide energy and reserve services for the main grid. However, due to uncertain renewable generations such as solar power, microgrids might under-deliver reserve services and breach day-ahead contracts in real-time. If multiple microgrids breach their reserve contracts simultaneously, this could lead to a severe grid contingency. This paper designs a distributionally robust joint chance-constrained (DRJCC)…

On Equilibrium Determinacy in Overlapping Generations Models with Money
Tomohiro Hirano, Alexis Akira Toda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13222 https://…

On Equilibrium Determinacy in Overlapping Generations Models with Money
This paper provides a detailed analysis of the local determinacy of monetary and non-monetary steady states in Tirole (1985)'s classical two-period overlapping generations model with capital and production. We show that the sufficient condition for local determinacy in endowment economies provided by Scheinkman (1980) does not generalize to models with production: there are robust examples with arbitrary utility functions in which the non-monetary steady state is locally determinate or indeterm…

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A mechanism relating the fermionic mass hierarchy to the flavor mixing
Considering the hierarchical structure of fermionic masses and the fermionic flavor mixing puzzles in the Standard Model, we propose to relate them by the see-saw mechanism, i.e. only the third generation of quarks and charged leptons achieve the masses at the tree level, the first two generations achieves masses through the mixings with the third generation, and the neutrinos achieve tiny Majorana masses by the so-called Type-I see-saw mechanism. This new picture at the fermion sector can expl…

It seems to me that everybody wants to blame smart phones and TikTok so they won't have to examine how helicopter parenting destroyed the minds of the younger generations.

"the most important victory for America’s #antitrust enforcers is what doesn’t happen. Across the economy and every sector, corporate leaders are backing away from merger-driven growth and predatory pricing, deterred from violating the law by the knowledge that the generations-long period of tolerance for lawless corporate abuse is coming to a close."

Hip Hip Hooray For Hipster Antitrust
Don’t believe the hype.The undeniable fact is that the FTC has racked up a long list of victories over corporate abuses, like busting a nationwide, decades-long fraud that tricked people into paying for “free” tax preparation.The wheels of justice grind slowly, so many of the actions the FTC has...

What I like about the new rules saying zoomers and below are banned from cigarettes is how many people are justifying it by saying they wanna stop kids starting young.
"I was 12 when I started..." they'll say "so we just want to ensure they never start"
Hummm.
Buying cigarettes was already illegal when you were 12.
The law makes no difference at all to anybody under 18. They are already banned from buying fags.
The idea of different laws for different generations is fun though. Maybe we should pass some laws that are exempt only for boomers.
Assisted suicide legal for anyone younger than a boomer, but the boomers still have to suffer slow painful death?

'A step back in time': America's Catholic Church sees an immense shift toward the old ways
https://religionnews.com/2024/05/01/a-step-back-in-time-americas-catholic-church-sees-an-immense-shift…

'A step back in time': America's Catholic Church sees an immense shift toward the old ways
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Generations of Catholics who embraced the modernizing tide sparked in the 1960s by Vatican II are increasingly giving way to religious conservatives who believe the church has been twisted by change,

Generalizing Reward Modeling for Out-of-Distribution Preference Learning
Chen Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14760 https://arxiv.org/…

Generalizing Reward Modeling for Out-of-Distribution Preference Learning
Preference learning (PL) with large language models (LLMs) aims to align the LLMs' generations with human preferences. Previous work on reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has demonstrated promising results in in-distribution PL. However, due to the difficulty of obtaining human feedback, discretely training reward models for every encountered distribution is challenging. Thus, out-of-distribution (OOD) PL is practically useful for enhancing the generalization ability of LLMs with…

‘Staff started breaking down’: top US care non-profit accused of reducing workers to tears
Former employees of Caring Across Generations, a high-profile caregivers association run by one of the US’s leading labor activists, and backed by celebrities including Megan Thee Stallion and Bradley Cooper, have accused the non-profit of reducing staff to tears due to poor management, and of retaliation against union organizers.
CAG, an offshoot of the National Domestic Workers Alliance,…

The damage that Trump-McConnell-Leonard Leo judges do will last generations.
"The restraining order, which would have allowed Davis to continue distributing her newsletter as the lawsuit played out, was denied in an order from U.S. District Judge Matthew McFarland, an appointee of Republican former President Donald Trump."

'Colerain is not Taylor Swift': Woman sues entire town for chilling speech after criticism
A case of bad blood is brewing in Ohio as a woman has sued her town and a local police chief, claiming attempts to silence her with bogus trademark infringement claims is a First Amendment violation.

One of the warmest movies I’ve watched https://mstdn.social/@ghibli/112286293475305998

Daily Ghibli :verified: (@ghibli@mstdn.social)
Attached: 4 images Happy 36th Anniversary to My Neighbor Totoro! 🥳 On this day in 1988, Studio Ghibli released My Neighbor Totoro, a heartwarming animated film that has captured the hearts of children and adults alike for generations. ✨✨ My Neighbor Totoro is a timeless classic that's sure to be enjoyed by people of all ages. It is a story about friendship, family, and the power of imagination. 👩🏻☔🐻 #ghibli #スタジオジブリ #TonariNoTotoro #MyNeighborTotoro #S…

Integrated Communication, Localization, and Sensing in 6G D-MIMO Networks
Hao Guo, Henk Wymeersch, Behrooz Makki, Hui Chen, Yibo Wu, Giuseppe Durisi, Musa Furkan Keskin, Mohammad H. Moghaddam, Charitha Madapatha, Han Yu, Peter Hammarberg, Hyowon Kim, Tommy Svensson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19785<…

Integrated Communication, Localization, and Sensing in 6G D-MIMO Networks
Future generations of mobile networks call for concurrent sensing and communication functionalities in the same hardware and/or spectrum. Compared to communication, sensing services often suffer from limited coverage, due to the high path loss of the reflected signal and the increased infrastructure requirements. To provide a more uniform quality of service, distributed multiple input multiple output (D-MIMO) systems deploy a large number of distributed nodes and efficiently control them, makin…

Cross-system biological image quality enhancement based on the generative adversarial network as a foundation for establishing a multi-institute microscopy cooperative network
Dominik Panek, Carina Rz\k{a}ca, Maksymilian Szczypior, Joanna Sorysz, Krzysztof Misztal, Zbigniew Baster, Zenon Rajfur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18026…

Cross-system biological image quality enhancement based on the generative adversarial network as a foundation for establishing a multi-institute microscopy cooperative network
High-quality fluorescence imaging of biological systems is limited by processes like photobleaching and phototoxicity, and also in many cases, by limited access to the latest generations of microscopes. Moreover, low temporal resolution can lead to a motion blur effect in living systems. Our work presents a deep learning (DL) generative-adversarial approach to the problem of obtaining high-quality (HQ) images based on their low-quality (LQ) equivalents. We propose a generative-adversarial netwo…

Incel CS lecturer at Waterloo
How is this man employed as a lecturer!? Benyamin Ghojogh (lecturer at University of Waterloo) wrote 19 pages of pseudo-academic drivel about being an incel
"On the Challenges of Dating and Marriage in the New Generations"
#IncelShaming

Today we celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Today recognises that women and girls have made significant contributions to STEM fields throughout history and deserve equal opportunities and recognition.
By highlighting this important day we support
-Promoting Gender Equality
-Highlighting achievements
-Inspiring future generations
-Advocating for inclusion

#Spam des Tages: »Japan have been eating this weird “gelatin†for generations…«
http://spam.tamagothi.de/?p=24893

#OTD in 1979 The #GiveEmEnoughRope tour played the Ontario Theater in Washington DC. Uk based band #TheClash brought along one of their heroes, USA rock n roll progenitor

@… Looking through MacTracker (all too regularly), it strikes me now how brief the PowerPC period was. Precious few generations.
But oh what an impact — it even had full revival with the G3, and Jony's blue period. And the G4 period was more distinct to G3 in style than any of the Intel period from itself. Even G5 holds a spotlight in my memory,…

Tango 2: Aligning Diffusion-based Text-to-Audio Generations through Direct Preference Optimization
Navonil Majumder, Chia-Yu Hung, Deepanway Ghosal, Wei-Ning Hsu, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09956

Tango 2: Aligning Diffusion-based Text-to-Audio Generations through Direct Preference Optimization
Generative multimodal content is increasingly prevalent in much of the content creation arena, as it has the potential to allow artists and media personnel to create pre-production mockups by quickly bringing their ideas to life. The generation of audio from text prompts is an important aspect of such processes in the music and film industry. Many of the recent diffusion-based text-to-audio models focus on training increasingly sophisticated diffusion models on a large set of datasets of prompt…

Vision Pro may become an iPad killer, but some in Apple's Vision Products Group believe it may take four generations for the headset to reach its full potential (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsle…

Apple Vision Pro Review: $3,499 Headset Will Eventually Replace the iPad
Apple’s Vision Pro will eventually replace the iPad, but the device has hardware and software shortcomings that need to be resolved first. Also: Forgetting your headset’s passcode can turn into a headache, and Apple makes upgrades to its software on Windows.

In the biggest picture, student protesters against the war on Gaza are just cycling through the range of normal tactics used by generations of activists and are being vilified, expelled, and criminalized for it.

"Timothy [Mellon] has... contributed $20 million to Trump’s super PAC... $30 million to the House Republicans’ super PAC... $30 million to the Senate Republicans’ super PAC... $15 million to Robert F Kennedy Junior’s super PAC"... and millions to Greg Abbott’s border wall fund.
#billionaires #superPACs

The poster child for the perils of dynastic wealth
Four generations of Mellons are now bankrolling Trump

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07484 has been replaced.
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Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons with lepton flavour conserving or violating decays to a jet and a charged lepton
A search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) is presented, which considers the hadronic final state and coupling scenarios involving all three lepton generations in the 2-20 GeV HNL mass range for the first time. Events comprising two leptons (electrons or muons) and jets are analyzed in a data sample of proton-proton collisions, recorded with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{-1}$. A novel jet …

"We started to find horse remains from horses that were dated through precise scientific dating techniques, dating significantly earlier than when we had expected, substantially predating the first white guy with a notebook in the region," Dr Taylor said.
[...]
But William Taylor says that the key finding — that horses arrived earlier than anyone thought — is almost secondary to the fact that the team was able to come together as it did.
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How the horse exposed a mistake in the history books but confirmed what First Nations people have known for generations
Authors of an award-winning US study that incorporated First Nations traditional knowledge say there are lessons for Australian researchers.

Metronome: tracing variation in poetic meters via local sequence alignment
Ben Nagy, Artjoms \v{S}e\c{l}a, Mirella De Sisto, Petr Plech\'a\v{c}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17337

Metronome: tracing variation in poetic meters via local sequence alignment
All poetic forms come from somewhere. Prosodic templates can be copied for generations, altered by individuals, imported from foreign traditions, or fundamentally changed under the pressures of language evolution. Yet these relationships are notoriously difficult to trace across languages and times. This paper introduces an unsupervised method for detecting structural similarities in poems using local sequence alignment. The method relies on encoding poetic texts as strings of prosodic features…

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A.I. In All The Wrong Places
This text describes experiences gained across a two-year test period during which two generations of Generative Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) systems were incorporated into an interdisciplinary, university level course on A.I. for art and design practices. The text uses the results from the courses to reflect on new opportunities for generative systems in art and design, while considering traps and limits.

The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. Exodus 31.16 NET.
The sabbath was part of the Mosaic covenant for the Israelites.
#Bible #BibleVerses

The {\alpha}-element enrichment of gas in distant galaxies
Anna Velichko, Annalisa De Cia, Christina Konstantopoulou, C\'edric Ledoux, Jens-Kristian Krogager, Tanita Ramburuth-Hurt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15508

The α-element enrichment of gas in distant galaxies
The chemical evolution of distant galaxies cannot be assessed from observations of individual stars, in contrast to the case of nearby galaxies. On the other hand, the study of the interstellar medium (ISM) offers an alternative way to reveal important properties of the chemical evolution of distant galaxies. The chemical enrichment of the ISM is produced by all the previous generations of stars and it is possible to precisely determine the metal abundances in the neutral ISM in galaxies. The c…

On Equilibrium Determinacy in Overlapping Generations Models with Money
Tomohiro Hirano, Alexis Akira Toda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13222 https://…

On Equilibrium Determinacy in Overlapping Generations Models with Money
This paper provides a detailed analysis of the local determinacy of monetary and non-monetary steady states in Tirole (1985)'s classical two-period overlapping generations model with capital and production. We show that the sufficient condition for local determinacy in endowment economies provided by Scheinkman (1980) does not generalize to models with production: there are robust examples with arbitrary utility functions in which the non-monetary steady state is locally determinate or indeterm…

Scalable and programmable quantum computing platform for optical non-Gaussian input states
Takato Yoshida, Daichi Okuno, Takahiro Kashiwazaki, Takeshi Umeki, Shigehito Miki, Fumihiro China, Masahiro Yabuno, Hirotaka Terai, Shuntaro Takeda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11404

Scalable and programmable quantum computing platform for optical non-Gaussian input states
Quantum computing has been pursued with various hardware platforms, and an optical system is one of the most reasonable choices for large-scale computation. In the optical continuous-variable computation scheme, the incorporation of Gaussian gates and a highly non-classical non-Gaussian state enables universal quantum computation. Although basic technologies for Gaussian gates and non-Gaussian state generations have long been developed, these building blocks have not yet been integrated in a sc…

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C-RAG: Certified Generation Risks for Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
Despite the impressive capabilities of large language models (LLMs) across diverse applications, they still suffer from trustworthiness issues, such as hallucinations and misalignments. Retrieval-augmented language models (RAG) have been proposed to enhance the credibility of generations by grounding external knowledge, but the theoretical understandings of their generation risks remains unexplored. In this paper, we answer: 1) whether RAG can indeed lead to low generation risks, 2) how to prov…

Nested Inheritance Dynamics
Bahman Moraffah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17601 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.17601

Nested Inheritance Dynamics
The idea of the inheritance of biological processes, such as the developmental process or the life cycle of an organism, has been discussed in the biology literature, but formal mathematical descriptions and plausible data analysis frameworks are lacking. We introduce an extension of the nested Dirichlet Process (nDP) to a multiscale model to aid in understanding the mechanisms by which biological processes are inherited, remain stable, and are modified across generations. To address these issu…

Benchmarking and Dissecting the Nvidia Hopper GPU Architecture
Weile Luo, Ruibo Fan, Zeyu Li, Dayou Du, Qiang Wang, Xiaowen Chu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13499

Benchmarking and Dissecting the Nvidia Hopper GPU Architecture
Graphics processing units (GPUs) are continually evolving to cater to the computational demands of contemporary general-purpose workloads, particularly those driven by artificial intelligence (AI) utilizing deep learning techniques. A substantial body of studies have been dedicated to dissecting the microarchitectural metrics characterizing diverse GPU generations, which helps researchers understand the hardware details and leverage them to optimize the GPU programs. However, the latest Hopper …

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A discrete model for Gell-Mann matrices
I propose a discrete model for the Gell-Mann matrices, which allows them to participate in discrete symmetries of three generations of four types of elementary fermions, in addition to their usual role in describing a continuous group $SU(3)$ of colour symmetries. This model sheds new light on the mathematical (rather than physical) necessity for `mixing' between the various gauge groups $SU(3)$, $SU(2)$ and $U(1)$ of the Standard Model. In particular it shows how the anti-Hermitian version of …

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Knowledge-Augmented Large Language Models for Personalized Contextual Query Suggestion
Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at tackling various natural language tasks. However, due to the significant costs involved in re-training or fine-tuning them, they remain largely static and difficult to personalize. Nevertheless, a variety of applications could benefit from generations that are tailored to users' preferences, goals, and knowledge. Among them is web search, where knowing what a user is trying to accomplish, what they care about, and what they know can lead to improved search …

Right, so, visualisations of Galloway
1. About 5,000 years after the ice has melted, with widespread forest;
2. About 5,000 years after that, after 200 generations of human settlement.
This is pure simulation, not actual data; but the land it shows as flooded is either still lochs and wetlands, or land we know has historically been drained. The areas of settlement are plausible, and map onto historical settlements.

Hey CBC - it’s called “The Fade” and has been around since the 1930s. I had one when I was *12 years old*!
Stop taking Black Culture and making it about white people!!
“The fade first arrived on the scene with the invention of electric trimmers in the 1930s”
https://www.therichbarber.co…

History of the Fade
Black hair is black history. Our unique hairstyles span back to the ancient world, with traditions passed down through generations to create the iconic hairstyles we know (and rock) today. Afros, braids, cornrows, dreadlocks, and Jheri curls step in and out of the spotlight, but no hairstyle remains as timeless as the

Harvard Housing Study: State of the Rental Housing Industry
Arbor - February 9, 2024
“Younger generations of higher-income lifestyle renters will continue to drive demand, although the need for more significant investment in affordable housing and rental assistance is greater than ever.”
featuring @…

Harvard Housing Study: State of the Rental Housing Industry
The most recent America’s Rental Housing 2024 report published by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) takes a detailed look at the state of the rental housing industry.

Joint operation of a fast-charging EV hub with a stand-alone independent battery storage system under fairness considerations
Diwas Paudel, Luke Wolf, Tapas K. Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16113

Joint operation of a fast-charging EV hub with a stand-alone independent battery storage system under fairness considerations
The need for larger-scale fast-charging electric vehicle (EV) hubs is on the rise due to the growth in EV adoption. Another area of power infrastructure growth is the proliferation of independently operated stand-alone battery storage systems (BSS), which is fueled by improvements and cost reductions in battery technology. Many possible uses of the stand-alone BSS are being explored including participation in the energy and ancillary markets, load balancing for renewable generations, and suppor…

🎥 👚 ‘Mean Girls,’ 20 years later: The villain’s triumph
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-02-08/mean-girls-20-years-later-the-villains-triumph.html

‘Mean Girls,’ 20 years later: The villain’s triumph
The original film debuted in 2004, becoming a touchstone for several generations of women who grew up during the 1990s and aughts. Now, it’s ironing out the jokes that aged poorly

Puritan Revival is leading a wave of sexphobia and you can hear it in the way younger generations comment on 30 year old TV shows.
https://youtu.be/QtLPewEg-yc
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CriticBench: Evaluating Large Language Models as Critic
Critique ability are crucial in the scalable oversight and self-improvement of Large Language Models (LLMs). While many recent studies explore the critique ability of LLMs to judge and refine flaws in generations, how to comprehensively and reliably measure the critique abilities of LLMs is under-explored. This paper introduces \shortname, a novel benchmark designed to comprehensively and reliably evaluate four key critique ability dimensions of LLMs: feedback, comparison, refinement and meta-f…

The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. Exodus 31.16 NET.
The sabbath was part of the Mosaic covenant for the Israelites.
#Bible #BibleVerses

Right, so, visualisations of Galloway
1. About 5,000 years after the ice has melted, with widespread forest;
2. About 5,000 years after that, after 200 generations of human settlement.
This is pure simulation, not actual data; but the land it shows as flooded is either still lochs and wetlands, or land we know has historically been drained. The areas of settlement are plausible, and map onto historical settlements.

Securing Large Language Models: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Responsible Practices
Sara Abdali, Richard Anarfi, CJ Barberan, Jia He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12503

Securing Large Language Models: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Responsible Practices
Large language models (LLMs) have significantly transformed the landscape of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Their impact extends across a diverse spectrum of tasks, revolutionizing how we approach language understanding and generations. Nevertheless, alongside their remarkable utility, LLMs introduce critical security and risk considerations. These challenges warrant careful examination to ensure responsible deployment and safeguard against potential vulnerabilities. This research paper tho…

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NeuroLGP-SM: Scalable Surrogate-Assisted Neuroevolution for Deep Neural Networks
Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) play a crucial role in the architectural configuration and training of Artificial Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), a process known as neuroevolution. However, neuroevolution is hindered by its inherent computational expense, requiring multiple generations, a large population, and numerous epochs. The most computationally intensive aspect lies in evaluating the fitness function of a single candidate solution. To address this challenge, we employ Surrogate-assisted EAs (…

Calibrating Long-form Generations from Large Language Models
Yukun Huang, Yixin Liu, Raghuveer Thirukovalluru, Arman Cohan, Bhuwan Dhingra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06544

Calibrating Long-form Generations from Large Language Models
To enhance Large Language Models' (LLMs) reliability, calibration is essential -- the model's assessed confidence scores should align with the actual likelihood of its responses being correct. However, current confidence elicitation methods and calibration metrics typically rely on a binary true/false assessment of response correctness. This approach does not apply to long-form generation, where an answer can be partially correct. Addressing this gap, we introduce a unified calibration framewor…

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$Z^\prime$ induced forward dominant processes in $μ$TRISTAN experiment
General $U(1)$ extension of the Standard Model (SM) is a well motivated beyond the Standard Model(BSM) scenario where three generations of right handed neutrinos (RHNs) are introduced to cancel gauge and mixed gauge-gravity anomalies. After the $U(1)_X$ is broken, RHNs participate in the seesaw mechanism to generate light neutrino masses satisfying neutrino oscillation data. In addition to that, a neutral gauge boson $Z^\prime$ is evolved which interacts with the left and right handed fermions …

Why E.T. Can't Phone Home: A Global View on IP-based Geoblocking at VoWiFi
Gabriel Karl Gegenhuber, Philipp Frenzel, Edgar Weippl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11759

Why E.T. Can't Phone Home: A Global View on IP-based Geoblocking at VoWiFi
In current cellular network generations (4G, 5G) the IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) plays an integral role in terminating voice calls and short messages. Many operators use VoWiFi (Voice over Wi-Fi, also Wi-Fi calling) as an alternative network access technology to complement their cellular coverage in areas where no radio signal is available (e.g., rural territories or shielded buildings). In a mobile world where customers regularly traverse national borders, this can be used to avoid expensive…

Harvard Housing Study: State of the Rental Housing Industry
Arbor - February 9, 2024
“Younger generations of higher-income lifestyle renters will continue to drive demand, although the need for more significant investment in affordable housing and rental assistance is greater than ever.”
featuring @…

Harvard Housing Study: State of the Rental Housing Industry
The most recent America’s Rental Housing 2024 report published by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) takes a detailed look at the state of the rental housing industry.

Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00720-6

Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say
Clues to a modern mystery could be lurking in information collected generations ago.

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Teaching Probabilistic Logical Reasoning to Transformers
In this paper, we evaluate the capability of transformer-based language models in making inferences over uncertain text that includes uncertain rules of reasoning. We cover both Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) and generative Large Language Models (LLMs). Our evaluation results show that both generations of language models struggle with reasoning over uncertain text. We propose a novel end-to-end fine-tuning approach, Probabilistic Constraint Training (PCT), that utilizes probabilistic logica…

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Teaching Probabilistic Logical Reasoning to Transformers
In this paper, we evaluate the capability of transformer-based language models in making inferences over uncertain text that includes uncertain rules of reasoning. We cover both Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) and generative Large Language Models (LLMs). Our evaluation results show that both generations of language models struggle with reasoning over uncertain text. We propose a novel end-to-end fine-tuning approach, Probabilistic Constraint Training (PCT), that utilizes probabilistic logica…

Verifiable by Design: Aligning Language Models to Quote from Pre-Training Data
Jingyu Zhang, Marc Marone, Tianjian Li, Benjamin Van Durme, Daniel Khashabi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03862

Verifiable by Design: Aligning Language Models to Quote from Pre-Training Data
For humans to trust the fluent generations of large language models (LLMs), they must be able to verify their correctness against trusted, external sources. Recent efforts aim to increase verifiability through citations of retrieved documents or post-hoc provenance. However, such citations are prone to mistakes that further complicate their verifiability. To address these limitations, we tackle the verifiability goal with a different philosophy: we trivialize the verification process by develop…

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SaGE: Evaluating Moral Consistency in Large Language Models
Despite recent advancements showcasing the impressive capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in conversational systems, we show that even state-of-the-art LLMs are morally inconsistent in their generations, questioning their reliability (and trustworthiness in general). Prior works in LLM evaluation focus on developing ground-truth data to measure accuracy on specific tasks. However, for moral scenarios that often lack universally agreed-upon answers, consistency in model responses become…