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New Research Provides Clear Evidence of a Human “Fingerprint” on Climate Change
https://scitechdaily.com/new-research-provides-clear-evidence-of-a-human-fingerprint-on-climate-change/

New Research Provides Clear Evidence of a Human “Fingerprint” on Climate Change
Claims that climate change occurs naturally conflict with recent trends in ocean temperatures, which are indicative of human influence. New oceanic research provides clear evidence of a human “fingerprint” on climate change and shows that specific signals from human activities have altered the seas

Your tile floor may contain human remains. Really old ones.
“A dentist found an ancient human jawbone embedded in his parents’ tile floor”
#archeology
https://wapo.st/3WjIwlR

A dentist found an ancient human jawbone embedded in his parents’ tile floor
The discovery of a human mandible embedded in a travertine floor tile went viral on Reddit, and now the family is working with scientists to study the specimen.

I'm thinking instead to have a little chat window that pops up and lets visitors know when I am available for a Voight-Kampff test
https://social.lol/@andycarolan/112015952361980159

“There are no more words to speak about what’s going on in Gaza. There are no more laws to break. No more appeals… The hypocrisy is obvious. Our collective [humanity] has failed. Human rights have a skin colour and the darker you are the less human rights you have. [They have tried to silence us], they have tried to make us look like antisemites…all of that to make it possible to kill more Palestinians.”
– Abir Al-Sahlani MEP

“The German government’s failings in protecting Muslims from hatred and discrimination start with a lack of understanding that Muslims experience racism and not simply faith-based hostility,” said Almaz Teffera, researcher on racism in Europe at Human Rights Watch.
“Without a clear understanding of anti-Muslim hate and discrimination in Germany and strong data on incidents and community outreach, a response by the German authorities will be ineffective.”

Bird flu detected in person who had contact with infected dairy cattle in Texas
A person in Texas is being treated for #bird #flu,
the second human case of an illness caused by
a highly virulent virus
that has rampaged through 🔸sickened dairy cows in five states🔸 in recent weeks.

The patient, who …

Bird flu detected in dairy worker who had contact with infected cattle in Texas
This is the second case of a human sickened by this highly virulent strain of bird flu in the United States, raising questions about whether this pathogen is now more easily transmitted among mammals.

Inna Sovsun on the human cost of delaying weapon supply: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/01/inna-sovsun-on.html

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interactome_figeys: Figeys human interactome (2007)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents an interaction between two proteins, as inferred using a mass spectrometry‐based approach.
This network has 2239 nodes and 6452 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
<…

“Three independent scientific studies analyze how the human brain transforms notes into feelings, a mystery that has intrigued psychologists and musicologists for decades”
https://english.elpais.com/scien…

Music scientists find the connection between music and emotion: ‘Our neurons dance to the same rhythm’
Three independent scientific studies analyze how the human brain transforms notes into feelings, a mystery that has intrigued psychologists and musicologists for decades

"If it does turn out to be anything like human understanding, it will probably not be based on LLMs.
After all, LLMs learn in the opposite direction from humans. LLMs start out learning language and attempt to abstract concepts. Human babies learn concepts first, and only later acquire the language to describe them."

Why large language models aren’t headed toward humanlike understanding
Unlike people, today's generative AI isn’t good at learning concepts that it can apply to new situations.

Your tile floor may contain human remains. Really old ones.
“A dentist found an ancient human jawbone embedded in his parents’ tile floor”
#archeology
https://wapo.st/3WjIwlR

A dentist found an ancient human jawbone embedded in his parents’ tile floor
The discovery of a human mandible embedded in a travertine floor tile went viral on Reddit, and now the family is working with scientists to study the specimen.

To stem the tide of AI-generated work, Amazon starts limiting the publication of "summaries" and "workbooks" that claim to be companions to human-authored books (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/

Tech writer Kara Swisher has a new book. Enter the AI-generated scams.
On Amazon, new books such as Swisher’s memoir now routinely vie with imitators in search results. Some authors are fed up.

Dynamic Human Trust Modeling of Autonomous Agents With Varying Capability and Strategy
Jason Dekarske (University of California, Davis), Zhaodan Kong (University of California, Davis), Sanjay Joshi (University of California, Davis)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19291 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19291
arXiv:2404.19291v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Objective We model the dynamic trust of human subjects in a human-autonomy-teaming screen-based task.
Background Trust is an emerging area of study in human-robot collaboration. Many studies have looked at the issue of robot performance as a sole predictor of human trust, but this could underestimate the complexity of the interaction.
Method Subjects were paired with autonomous agents to search an on-screen grid to determine the number of outlier objects. In each trial, a different autonomous agent with a preassigned capability used one of three search strategies and then reported the number of outliers it found as a fraction of its capability. Then, the subject reported their total outlier estimate. Human subjects then evaluated statements about the agent's behavior, reliability, and their trust in the agent.
Results 80 subjects were recruited. Self-reported trust was modeled using Ordinary Least Squares, but the group that interacted with varying capability agents on a short time order produced a better performing ARIMAX model. Models were cross-validated between groups and found a moderate improvement in the next trial trust prediction.
Conclusion A time series modeling approach reveals the effects of temporal ordering of agent performance on estimated trust. Recency bias may affect how subjects weigh the contribution of strategy or capability to trust. Understanding the connections between agent behavior, agent performance, and human trust is crucial to improving human-robot collaborative tasks.
Application The modeling approach in this study demonstrates the need to represent autonomous agent characteristics over time to capture changes in human trust.

Chernobyl is such a great analogy for human hubris.
“An RMBK reactor does not explode.” “There is no graphite”.
If ANY of them had for ONE second actually decided to care maybe the whole situation could’ve been solved so much sooner and faster than it was without the such great loss of human life. There still would’ve sadly probably been a loss of life, but not as great as it was. My heart weeps when watching the series.

@… @… but beep is a human!!

“After all, the one thing AI is unarguably *very* good at is producing bullshit at scale. As the web becomes an anaerobic lagoon for botshit, the quantum of human-generated "content" in any internet core sample is dwindling to homeopathic levels” 🤣 😥
https://x.com/doctorow/status/17748143…

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr (@doctorow) on X
After all, the one thing AI is unarguably *very* good at is producing bullshit at scale. As the web becomes an anaerobic lagoon for botshit, the quantum of human-generated "content" in any internet core sample is dwindling to homeopathic levels: https://t.co/aqF6yNWzWC 13/

Assessing Visually-Continuous Corruption Robustness of Neural Networks Relative to Human Performance
Huakun Shen, Boyue Caroline Hu, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Lina Marsso, Marsha Chechik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19401

Assessing Visually-Continuous Corruption Robustness of Neural Networks Relative to Human Performance
While Neural Networks (NNs) have surpassed human accuracy in image classification on ImageNet, they often lack robustness against image corruption, i.e., corruption robustness. Yet such robustness is seemingly effortless for human perception. In this paper, we propose visually-continuous corruption robustness (VCR) -- an extension of corruption robustness to allow assessing it over the wide and continuous range of changes that correspond to the human perceptive quality (i.e., from the original …

«As ever, the problem with a gadget isn't what it does: it's who it does it for and who it does it to. There are plenty of benefits from being a centaur – lots of ways that automation can help workers. But the only path to AI profitability lies in reverse centaurs, automation that turns the human in the loop into the crumple-zone for a robot»
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/01/human-in-the-loop/#monkey-in-the-middle

#BHM challenge from **Michael Harriot**
"You get to choose any three people, living or dead, to answer 1 question: Who is responsible for saving the most lives in all of human history?
I’d argue that no one can beat my team."

Precision nutrition to reset virus-induced human metabolic reprogramming and dysregulation (HMRD) in long-COVID - npj Science of Food
“SARS‐CoV‐2, the etiological agent of COVID-19, is devoid of any metabolic capacity; therefore, it is critical for the viral pathogen to hijack host cellular metabolic machinery for its replication and propagation. “

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Brief Encounter:
🎵 Human
#BriefEncounter
https://open.spotify.com/track/2do4rBZAn5bGBzneSMOLbn
https://aotns.bandcamp.com/track/human

CHALLENGE: Stop mistaking normal human aging for generational shifts
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: Impossible
From @…: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Two trends help make Millennials seem lazy to their elders We change how we view work as we age, and society's view of work is also shifting. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/two-trends-help-make-millennials-seem-lazy-to-their-elders/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Exploring Multilingual Human Value Concepts in Large Language Models: Is Value Alignment Consistent, Transferable and Controllable across Languages?
Shaoyang Xu, Weilong Dong, Zishan Guo, Xinwei Wu, Deyi Xiong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18120

Exploring Multilingual Human Value Concepts in Large Language Models: Is Value Alignment Consistent, Transferable and Controllable across Languages?
Prior research in representation engineering has revealed that LLMs encode concepts within their representation spaces, predominantly centered around English. In this study, we extend this philosophy to a multilingual scenario, delving into multilingual human value concepts in LLMs. Through our comprehensive exploration covering 7 types of human values, 16 languages and 3 LLM series with distinct multilinguality, we empirically substantiate the existence of multilingual human values in LLMs. Fu…

Alice Isn't Dead - complete series ⛟💀🔍
Narrated mystery thriller series | Total listening time: 12h 57m
A truck driver searches across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead. In the course of her search, she will encounter not-quite-human serial murderers, towns literally lost in time, and a conspiracy that goes way beyon...

Alice Isn't Dead - complete series ⛟💀🔍
Narrated mystery thriller series | Total listening time: 12h 57m A truck driver searches across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead. In the course of her search, she will encounter not-quite-human serial murderers, towns literally lost in time, and a conspiracy that goes way beyond one missing woman. From author Joseph Fink of Welcome to Night Vale. 3 seasons, 30 episodes as of Aug 28, 2018.

Just updated my 2014 post “W3C CSS Odor Module Released” to mention GameScent, which spews smells at your face while you game:
https://adrianroselli.com/2012/04/w3c-css-odor-module-released.html#Update07

W3C CSS Odor Module Released
The web was always a visual medium, but with the addition of sound and video it has locked up two human senses. With development of specifications and techniques around vibration, the internet you “feel” is getting closer, too. That leaves only a couple senses left to cover Ever since the…

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Learning Human Preferences Over Robot Behavior as Soft Planning Constraints
Austin Narcomey (Yale University), Nathan Tsoi (Yale University), Ruta Desai (Meta AI), Marynel V\'azquez (Yale University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19795

Learning Human Preferences Over Robot Behavior as Soft Planning Constraints
Preference learning has long been studied in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) in order to adapt robot behavior to specific user needs and desires. Typically, human preferences are modeled as a scalar function; however, such a formulation confounds critical considerations on how the robot should behave for a given task, with desired -- but not required -- robot behavior. In this work, we distinguish between such required and desired robot behavior by leveraging a planning framework. Specifically, w…

"Automation #centaurs are great: they relieve humans of drudgework & let them focus on the creative & satisfying parts of their jobs.
But a #hallucinatingAI is a terrible #copilot. It'…

To stem the tide of AI-generated work, Amazon starts limiting the publication of "summaries" and "workbooks" that claim to be companions to human-authored books (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/

Tech writer Kara Swisher has a new book. Enter the AI-generated scams.
On Amazon, new books such as Swisher’s memoir now routinely vie with imitators in search results. Some authors are fed up.

Urgent challenges demand more action from scientists
Professor of Planetary Health Pim Martens introduced a new concept to the audience by describing himself as a Scientivist. Martens formulates that:
"Scientivists are scientists that are engaged in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge (the ‘science’ part), that aim to promote, impede, or direct societal change (the ‘activist’ part)”.
:mastodon:

Could a planetary health approach in sustainability science wake up the masses to act? | Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science | University of Helsinki
Urban planning and policymakers must adapt to the growing understanding of how planetary health impacts human well-being. To achieve this, there is a need for resolute language in scientific communication to encourage immediate actions.

Protest isn’t harassment, says group suing UK government over law change https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/home-secretary-liberty-court-anti-protest-laws-james-cleverly-suella-braverman-palestine/

Good morning, what is the plane for today? The same is every day: getting up, having breakfast, getting out for a walk and have some fresh air, then Officeworks. 😉
#getoutside #gutenmorgen #goodmorning

"#AI accidentally made me believe in the concept of a human soul by showing me what art looks like without it." - Natasha Mazumdar

Drinking Boiled Tap Water Reduces Human Intake of Nanoplastics and Microplastics
That's interesting! I would not have expected boiling to do much.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WtQIXgA_4wA
Alternative 🔗:

If you tell a story about how you shotgunned a dog in a gravel pit thinking this will make you seem more human and relatable, there is something wrong with you.

Institutionalized torture (…) shatters the social network which makes us human. Its source is clear and identifiable: it is our fellow human beings who turn us into small, frightened, cornered animals and it is their triumphant and arrogant will that mires us in interminable suffering. One can even imagine the torturer thinking ‘‘You must die or suffer never-ending torment because you are of a different race, religion or political conviction. (1/2)

Here's my latest Human Meme podcast episode: Broadway's Adaptation Addiction: Is Originality Dead on Stage? - http://sites.libsyn.com/84966/broadways-adaptation-addiction-is-originality-dead-on-stage

do you ever just re-invent luddites by accident?
I don't think the problem with AI or robots is themselves (ecological damage and IP theft is still a concern), it's the centralization of capital
spreadsheet software replacing human calculators
like... if you use AI or robotics... it should come from a worker controlled cooperative.
it should not centralize capital into the buy-n-large bezosphere of rent-everything economics.
(this is related to structural unemployment / technological unemployment - and might be a way to introduce someone to the idea of how structural racism is different than they imagine, because technology advancements seem like a force you can't stop or question, entrenched into the fabric of society - when they absolutely should be fair and equitable)

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/h5n1-flu-reported-cases

H5N1 influenza: monthly reported cases
Monthly reported human cases of H5N1, a type of highly-pathogenic avian influenza. Only a small fraction of potential cases are tested by labs to confirm whether they have influenza and to identify their strain.

One of world’s smallest fish is as loud as a gunshot which makes you wonder what they're being so chatty about
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/27/smallest-fish-sounds-loud-danionella-cerebrum

That we find meaning in all manner of things in our lives—in our relationships with friends and family, in art and literature, religious belief—is not some weird epiphenomenon of the human mind.
Ball, Philip. How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology (p. 406). Pan Macmillan. Kindle-editie.
@…

Chile, 1973: eyewitness testimony.
Voz IX: ‘I watched as bonfires of books and papers were burned’ | Latin America Bureau https://

Voz IX: ‘I watched as bonfires of books and papers were burned’ | Latin America Bureau
In August last year, with the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état in Chile fast approaching, Tom Gatehouse interviewed his father Mike Gatehouse about his experiences of being arrested by the military and taken to the National Stadium, and continuing to campaign for human rights.

Human Factors in Model-Driven Engineering: Future Research Goals and Initiatives for MDE
Grischa Liebel, Jil Kl\"under, Regina Hebig, Christopher Lazik, In\^es Nunes, Isabella Gra{\ss}l, Jan-Philipp Stegh\"ofer, Joeri Exelmans, Julian Oertel, Kai Marquardt, Katharina Juhnke, Kurt Schneider, Lucas Gren, Lucia Happe, Marc Herrmann, Marvin Wyrich, Matthias Tichy, Miguel Goul\~ao, Rebekka Wohlrab, Reyhaneh Kalantari, Robert Heinrich, Sandra Greiner, Satrio Adi Rukmono, Shalini Ch…

Human Factors in Model-Driven Engineering: Future Research Goals and Initiatives for MDE
Purpose: Software modelling and Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is traditionally studied from a technical perspective. However, one of the core motivations behind the use of software models is inherently human-centred. Models aim to enable practitioners to communicate about software designs, make software understandable, or make software easier to write through domain-specific modelling languages. Several recent studies challenge the idea that these aims can always be reached and indicate that h…

The full programme of the GÉANT #Security Days is live!
On 10 April, Prof. Roland van Rijswijk-Deij @… will deliver the opening keynote "Moving the Goal to Post #Quantum

Security Days: the full programme is live | GÉANT CONNECT Online
We are happy to announce the unveiling of the full programme for Security Days, GÉANT first security conference that will take place in Prague on 9-11 April 2024. Across three days, international NREN experts from all areas of security will share their insights, knowledge experience and expertise. From cybersecurity awareness and the human factor, to

Ooh. Hope this is good. Adam Sandler in a serious role is usually a good sign, isn’t it? Have heard good things about the book it is based on. And music by Max Richter.
Spaceman film review — Adam Sandler befriends an alien arachnid https://on.ft.com/3T1ndlM

Spaceman film review — Adam Sandler befriends an alien arachnid
He plays a lonely astronaut in this whimsical exploration of the human psyche

Human Simulacra: A Step toward the Personification of Large Language Models
Qiuejie Xie, Qiming Feng, Tianqi Zhang, Qingqiu Li, Yuejie Zhang, Rui Feng, Shang Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18180

Human Simulacra: A Step toward the Personification of Large Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) are recognized as systems that closely mimic aspects of human intelligence. This capability has attracted attention from the social science community, who see the potential in leveraging LLMs to replace human participants in experiments, thereby reducing research costs and complexity. In this paper, we introduce a framework for large language models personification, including a strategy for constructing virtual characters' life stories from the ground up, a Multi-Ag…

"Keep all of our fossil fuels in the ground..." either means
A) We buy all our fossil fuels and petroleum products from elsewhere, driving & funding further Middle East conflict
or
B) People starve.
Seriously, without modern agriculture we go back to large fractions of the human population starving to death. And modern agriculture means you effectively eat petroleum that was grown with fossil-fueled tractors and shipped with fossil fueled trucks.

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Human League:
🎵 Love action (I believe in love)
#HumanLeague
https://open.spotify.com/track/5RBPXlIiZVrr8hab7LpRJB
https://retrosoundwave.bandcamp.com/track/the-human-league-love-action-ext-intro-remix

Some hard facts for the eco-techno-optimists from the always well researched Low Tech magazine.
"Unfortunately, the planned switch to low-carbon energy sources and the electrification of heating and transport technologies will not decrease our dependency on the steel industry – on the contrary."
htt…

How to Escape From the Iron Age?
We cannot lower carbon emissions if we keep producing steel with fossil fuels.

“…as well as promoting an open human-centered search engine market.”
Why does everything have to be a fucking market for fuck’s sake?! https://suma-ev.social/@openwebsearcheu/112360213078810208

OpenWebSearch.eu (@openwebsearcheu@suma-ev.social)
Attached: 1 image 📧 📫 What’s better than no news? Good news! And that we have plenty of! Our communications team is currently prepping our next #newsletter issue with lots of updates on the #OpenWebSearch Index prototype, Third-Party contributions, up-to-date partner profiles, interesting event tips and so much more. Be among the first to learn about opportunities to engage and stay in the loop on relevant progress. 👉 Simply sign up to our mailing list if you haven’t yet. ht…

interactome_figeys: Figeys human interactome (2007)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents an interaction between two proteins, as inferred using a mass spectrometry‐based approach.
This network has 2239 nodes and 6452 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
<…

A recently developed ⭐️#cancer #vaccine for dogs⭐️ is showing promising results in clinical trials, which have been running since 2016, and there's hope that some of the benefits of the vaccine could be translated into human cancer treatments.
More than 300 dogs have been treated with the vaccine to date, and th…

Breakthrough Cancer Vaccine For Dogs Is 'Truly Revolutionary', Scientist Says
A recently developed cancer vaccine for dogs is showing promising results in clinical trials, which have been running since 2016, and there's hope that some of the benefits of the vaccine could be translated into human cancer treatments.

@… @… but beep is a human!!

Bird flu: What we know (and don’t) about its potential to cause a human pandemic - Vox
https://www.vox.com/even-better/24145304/bird-flu-h5n1-avian-influenza-pandemic

Bird flu: What we know (and don’t) about its potential to cause a human pandemic
Here’s what’s worrying experts about bird flu right now — and what isn’t.

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Brief Encounter:
🎵 Human
#BriefEncounter
https://open.spotify.com/track/2do4rBZAn5bGBzneSMOLbn
https://aotns.bandcamp.com/track/human

“Russian Soldier Raped Me.” Sexual Violence as War Crime : https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/29/russian-soldier-raped.html

I’ve heeded the call of the decentralized web, and launched a new blog on teaching.
For the first post, I worked my somewhat popular Mastodon thread on liberal arts and human freedom into an essay:
https://innig.net/teaching/liberal-arts-manifesto
It’s mos…

Alice Isn't Dead - complete series ⛟💀🔍
Narrated mystery thriller series | Total listening time: 12h 57m
A truck driver searches across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead. In the course of her search, she will encounter not-quite-human serial murderers, towns literally lost in time, and a conspiracy that goes way beyon...

Alice Isn't Dead - complete series ⛟💀🔍
Narrated mystery thriller series | Total listening time: 12h 57m A truck driver searches across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead. In the course of her search, she will encounter not-quite-human serial murderers, towns literally lost in time, and a conspiracy that goes way beyond one missing woman. From author Joseph Fink of Welcome to Night Vale. 3 seasons, 30 episodes as of Aug 28, 2018.

Context-based Interpretable Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network for Human Motion Forecasting
Edgar Medina, Leyong Loh, Namrata Gurung, Kyung Hun Oh, Niels Heller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19237

Context-based Interpretable Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network for Human Motion Forecasting
Human motion prediction is still an open problem extremely important for autonomous driving and safety applications. Due to the complex spatiotemporal relation of motion sequences, this remains a challenging problem not only for movement prediction but also to perform a preliminary interpretation of the joint connections. In this work, we present a Context-based Interpretable Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network (CIST-GCN), as an efficient 3D human pose forecasting model based on GCNs th…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01677 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

DialogBench: Evaluating LLMs as Human-like Dialogue Systems
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable breakthroughs in new dialogue capabilities by leveraging instruction tuning, which refreshes human impressions of dialogue systems. The long-standing goal of dialogue systems is to be human-like enough to establish long-term connections with users. Therefore, there has been an urgent need to evaluate LLMs as human-like dialogue systems. In this paper, we propose DialogBench, a dialogue evaluation benchmark that contains 12 dialogue tasks to …

Nuclear War is still on the agenda but no one is talking about it.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/31/annie-jacobsen-nuclear-war-scenario

To stem the tide of AI-generated work, Amazon starts limiting the publication of "summaries" and "workbooks" that claim to be companions to human-authored books (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/

Tech writer Kara Swisher has a new book. Enter the AI-generated scams.
On Amazon, new books such as Swisher’s memoir now routinely vie with imitators in search results. Some authors are fed up.

Impact of whole-body vibrations on electrovibration perception varies with target stimulus duration
Jan D. A. Vuik, Daan M. Pool, Y. Vardar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18972 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.18972
arXiv:2404.18972v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study explores the impact of whole-body vibrations induced by external vehicle perturbations, such as aircraft turbulence, on the perception of electrovibration displayed on touchscreens. Electrovibration holds promise as a technology for providing tactile feedback on future touchscreens, addressing usability challenges in vehicle cockpits. However, its performance under dynamic conditions, such as during whole-body vibrations induced by turbulence, still needs to be explored. We measured the absolute detection thresholds of 15 human participants for short- and long-duration electrovibration stimuli displayed on a touchscreen, both in the absence and presence of two types of turbulence motion generated by a motion simulator. Concurrently, we measured participants' applied contact force and finger scan speeds. Significantly higher (38%) absolute detection thresholds were observed for short electrovibration stimuli than for long stimuli. Finger scan speeds in the direction of turbulence, applied forces, and force fluctuation rates increased during whole-body vibrations due to biodynamic feedthrough. As a result, turbulence also significantly increased the perception thresholds, but only for short-duration electrovibration stimuli. The results reveal that whole-body vibrations can impede the perception of short-duration electrovibration stimuli, due to involuntary finger movements and increased normal force fluctuations. Our findings offer valuable insights for the future design of touchscreens with tactile feedback in vehicle cockpits.

interactome_stelzl: Stelzl human interactome (2005)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents an interaction between two proteins, as inferred via high-throughput Y2H experiments using bait and prey methodology.
This network has 1706 nodes and 6207 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

I didn't manage to get out in time after work before I got dark and wet so that I really didn't want to go out. Yet my back is a bit too stiff to just lay on the couch so those friends came to Action.
#fitness #stayfit

Here's my latest Human Meme podcast episode: A Snowball's Dream: The Magical Tale of Snowy the Pebble - http://sites.libsyn.com/84966/a-snowballs-dream-the-magical-tale-of-snowy-the-pebble

The full programme of the GÉANT #Security Days is live!
On 11 April, Daniel Stach, journalist, presenter, science communicator, #CzechTV #CT24, will deliver the closing keynote "Lies are (not!) everywhe…

Security Days: the full programme is live | GÉANT CONNECT Online
We are happy to announce the unveiling of the full programme for Security Days, GÉANT first security conference that will take place in Prague on 9-11 April 2024. Across three days, international NREN experts from all areas of security will share their insights, knowledge experience and expertise. From cybersecurity awareness and the human factor, to

This morning we went along to the Wimbledon Greyhound Welfare kennels for their Easter party.
First order of business though was to take a kennel hound out for a walk!
Here's Ronnie. He's such a character: very young, never raced, heaps of energy and the curliest tail you ever saw on a hound.
https://www.…

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Safe Explicable Planning
Human expectations arise from their understanding of others and the world. In the context of human-AI interaction, this understanding may not align with reality, leading to the AI agent failing to meet expectations and compromising team performance. Explicable planning, introduced as a method to bridge this gap, aims to reconcile human expectations with the agent's optimal behavior, facilitating interpretable decision-making. However, an unresolved critical issue is ensuring safety in explicabl…

Russia says it's ready to transfer bodies of POWs killed in Il-76 plane crash: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/01/russia-says-its.html

Fine Structure-Aware Sampling: A New Sampling Training Scheme for Pixel-Aligned Implicit Models in Single-View Human Reconstruction
Kennard Yanting Chan, Fayao Liu, Guosheng Lin, Chuan Sheng Foo, Weisi Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19197

Fine Structure-Aware Sampling: A New Sampling Training Scheme for Pixel-Aligned Implicit Models in Single-View Human Reconstruction
Pixel-aligned implicit models, such as PIFu, PIFuHD, and ICON, are used for single-view clothed human reconstruction. These models need to be trained using a sampling training scheme. Existing sampling training schemes either fail to capture thin surfaces (e.g. ears, fingers) or cause noisy artefacts in reconstructed meshes. To address these problems, we introduce Fine Structured-Aware Sampling (FSS), a new sampling training scheme to train pixel-aligned implicit models for single-view human re…

interactome_stelzl: Stelzl human interactome (2005)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents an interaction between two proteins, as inferred via high-throughput Y2H experiments using bait and prey methodology.
This network has 1706 nodes and 6207 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Scientists link elusive human group to 150,000-year-old Chinese ‘dragon man’
Evidence from the DNA traces left by #Denisovans shows they lived on the Tibetan plateau, ­probably ­travelled to the Philippines and Laos in south Asia and might have made their way to northern China more than 100,000 years ago. They interbred with modern humans.
Their DNA, which was first found in samples from the…

So I know you’ve all seen that “tired Oompa-Loompa” photo from that #WillysChocolateExperience disaster. Please know that there is a human being behind that meme, and she is not enjoying the attention.
These are actors, and they showed up for a job. They got screwed along with the ticket-buyers.

Prompting Explicit and Implicit Knowledge for Multi-hop Question Answering Based on Human Reading Process
Guangming Huang, Yunfei Long, Cunjin Luo, Jiaxing Shen, Xia Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19350

Prompting Explicit and Implicit Knowledge for Multi-hop Question Answering Based on Human Reading Process
Pre-trained language models (PLMs) leverage chains-of-thought (CoT) to simulate human reasoning and inference processes, achieving proficient performance in multi-hop QA. However, a gap persists between PLMs' reasoning abilities and those of humans when tackling complex problems. Psychological studies suggest a vital connection between explicit information in passages and human prior knowledge during reading. Nevertheless, current research has given insufficient attention to linking input passa…

Human-in-the-Loop Synthetic Text Data Inspection with Provenance Tracking
Hong Jin Kang, Fabrice Harel-Canada, Muhammad Ali Gulzar, Violet Peng, Miryung Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18881

Human-in-the-Loop Synthetic Text Data Inspection with Provenance Tracking
Data augmentation techniques apply transformations to existing texts to generate additional data. The transformations may produce low-quality texts, where the meaning of the text is changed and the text may even be mangled beyond human comprehension. Analyzing the synthetically generated texts and their corresponding labels is slow and demanding. To winnow out texts with incorrect labels, we develop INSPECTOR, a human-in-the-loop data inspection technique. INSPECTOR combines the strengths of pr…

HHS Orders Hospitals To Get Written Patient Consent Before Conducting Prostate And Pelvic Examinations - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/04/hhs-orders-hospitals-to-get-written-patien…

HHS Orders Hospitals To Get Written Patient Consent Before Conducting Prostate And Pelvic Examinations
The New York Times reports: The Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday that hospitals must obtain written informed consent from patients before they undergo sensitive examinations — li

Here's my latest Human Meme podcast episode: Cat Heads in Space! Episode 23: The Great Cosmic Cat-Swap - http://sites.libsyn.com/84966/cat-heads-in-space-episode-23-the-great-cosmic-cat-swap

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Safe Explicable Planning
Human expectations arise from their understanding of others and the world. In the context of human-AI interaction, this understanding may not align with reality, leading to the AI agent failing to meet expectations and compromising team performance. Explicable planning, introduced as a method to bridge this gap, aims to reconcile human expectations with the agent's optimal behavior, facilitating interpretable decision-making. However, an unresolved critical issue is ensuring safety in explicabl…

Speaker Mike #Johnson also supports the #death penalty,
So, no, he doesn't believe in the sanctity of every life.
https://

CSPAN
.@SpeakerJohnson: "I believe in the sanctity of every human life. I always have and because of that I support IVF and its availability."

Assessing the Efficacy of Grammar Error Correction: A Human Evaluation Approach in the Japanese Context
Qiao Wang, Zheng Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18101

Assessing the Efficacy of Grammar Error Correction: A Human Evaluation Approach in the Japanese Context
In this study, we evaluated the performance of the state-of-the-art sequence tagging grammar error detection and correction model (SeqTagger) using Japanese university students' writing samples. With an automatic annotation toolkit, ERRANT, we first evaluated SeqTagger's performance on error correction with human expert correction as the benchmark. Then a human-annotated approach was adopted to evaluate Seqtagger's performance in error detection using a subset of the writing dataset. Results in…

MaskFi: Unsupervised Learning of WiFi and Vision Representations for Multimodal Human Activity Recognition
Jianfei Yang, Shijie Tang, Yuecong Xu, Yunjiao Zhou, Lihua Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19258

MaskFi: Unsupervised Learning of WiFi and Vision Representations for Multimodal Human Activity Recognition
Human activity recognition (HAR) has been playing an increasingly important role in various domains such as healthcare, security monitoring, and metaverse gaming. Though numerous HAR methods based on computer vision have been developed to show prominent performance, they still suffer from poor robustness in adverse visual conditions in particular low illumination, which motivates WiFi-based HAR to serve as a good complementary modality. Existing solutions using WiFi and vision modalities rely o…

I've had a few requests for different badges in the same style as my “Powered” and “Made by a Human” badges.
I’m thinking about taking these and a few more requests and selling them in packs containing 8 badges in 8 different colors in 88x31 PNG and SVG @ £2 (minimum donation)
If you have any requests for these badges, please let me know in the replies and I will add it to the list!
(No NSFW content please!)

Visit Andy Carolan's Ko-fi Shop!
I am using Ko-fi to offer cute profile picture commissions, icons, headers, backgrounds, zines, and other neat things. Also, if you like my work, and want to support me, please consider buying me a Flat White!

Here's my latest Human Meme podcast episode: Unspoken Love: A Story of Unrequited Love and Forgiveness - http://sites.libsyn.com/84966/unspoken-love-a-story-of-unrequited-love-and-forgiveness

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MetaStates: An Approach for Representing Human Workers' Psychophysiological States in the Industrial Metaverse
Photo-realistic avatar is a modern term referring to the digital asset that represents a human in computer graphic advanced systems such as video games and simulation tools. These avatars utilize the advances in graphic technologies in both software and hardware aspects. While photo-realistic avatars are increasingly used in industrial simulations, representing human factors such as human workers psychophysiological states, remains a challenge. This article addresses this issue by introducing t…

Iraq criminalises LGBTQ relationships in 'attack on human rights'
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/29/iraq-human-rights/

Iraq’s criminalisation of same-sex relationships and LGBTQ+ people an ‘attack on human rights’
Iraq’s parliament have passed a law criminalising same-sex relationships and trans people, with human rights groups rejecting the decision.

Military: Russia uses 'human wave' attacks near Krynky in Kherson Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/28/military-russia-uses.html

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Towards Human-Centered Construction Robotics: An RL-Driven Companion Robot For Contextually Assisting Carpentry Workers
In the dynamic construction industry, traditional robotic integration has primarily focused on automating specific tasks, often overlooking the complexity and variability of human aspects in construction workflows. This paper introduces a human-centered approach with a ``work companion rover" designed to assist construction workers within their existing practices, aiming to enhance safety and workflow fluency while respecting construction labor's skilled nature. We conduct an in-depth study on …

Here's my latest Human Meme podcast episode: Unlocking the Secrets of Unity: The Enduring Legacy of the Narmer Palette - http://sites.libsyn.com/84966/unlocking-the-secrets-of-unity-the-enduring-legacy-of-the-narmer-palette

A Framework for Leveraging Human Computation Gaming to Enhance Knowledge Graphs for Accuracy Critical Generative AI Applications
Steph Buongiorno, Corey Clark
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19729 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19729
arXiv:2404.19729v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: External knowledge graphs (KGs) can be used to augment large language models (LLMs), while simultaneously providing an explainable knowledge base of facts that can be inspected by a human. This approach may be particularly valuable in domains where explainability is critical, like human trafficking data analysis. However, creating KGs can pose challenges. KGs parsed from documents may comprise explicit connections (those directly stated by a document) but miss implicit connections (those obvious to a human although not directly stated). To address these challenges, this preliminary research introduces the GAME-KG framework, standing for "Gaming for Augmenting Metadata and Enhancing Knowledge Graphs." GAME-KG is a federated approach to modifying explicit as well as implicit connections in KGs by using crowdsourced feedback collected through video games. GAME-KG is shown through two demonstrations: a Unity test scenario from Dark Shadows, a video game that collects feedback on KGs parsed from US Department of Justice (DOJ) Press Releases on human trafficking, and a following experiment where OpenAI's GPT-4 is prompted to answer questions based on a modified and unmodified KG. Initial results suggest that GAME-KG can be an effective framework for enhancing KGs, while simultaneously providing an explainable set of structured facts verified by humans.

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Assessing the Efficacy of Grammar Error Correction: A Human Evaluation Approach in the Japanese Context
In this study, we evaluated the performance of the state-of-the-art sequence tagging grammar error detection and correction model (SeqTagger) using Japanese university students' writing samples. With an automatic annotation toolkit, ERRANT, we first evaluated SeqTagger's performance on error correction with human expert correction as the benchmark. Then a human-annotated approach was adopted to evaluate Seqtagger's performance in error detection using a subset of the writing dataset. Results in…

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
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initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

Towards Human-Centered Construction Robotics: An RL-Driven Companion Robot For Contextually Assisting Carpentry Workers
In the dynamic construction industry, traditional robotic integration has primarily focused on automating specific tasks, often overlooking the complexity and variability of human aspects in construction workflows. This paper introduces a human-centered approach with a ``work companion rover" designed to assist construction workers within their existing practices, aiming to enhance safety and workflow fluency while respecting construction labor's skilled nature. We conduct an in-depth study on …

Ukraine appeals to Council of Europe to derogate from parts of Convention on Human Rights and Freedoms due to martial law: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/29/ukraine-appeals-to.html

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 112890 edges.
Tags: Biol…

Human-Centric Aware UAV Trajectory Planning in Search and Rescue Missions Employing Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning with AHP and Similarity-Based Experience Replay
Mahya Ramezani, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18487

Human-Centric Aware UAV Trajectory Planning in Search and Rescue Missions Employing Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning with AHP and Similarity-Based Experience Replay
The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) into Search and Rescue (SAR) missions presents a promising avenue for enhancing operational efficiency and effectiveness. However, the success of these missions is not solely dependent on the technical capabilities of the drones but also on their acceptance and interaction with humans on the ground. This paper explores the effect of human-centric factor in UAV trajectory planning for SAR missions. We introduce a novel approach based on the rein…

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 112890 edges.
Tags: Biol…