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Robert Marsham’s “Indications of Spring” (1789)
What can we learn from observing the progression of spring — a hawthorn’s first flowering, the return of birdsong on a particular day? About the lifelong calendrical project of Robert Marsham, the Norfolk naturalist considered Britain's first phenologist.

"We feel the urge to highlight Margaret Hamilton's monumental contributions to the history of the 20th century: not just the assembly language code that, at the heist of the first manned Lunar landing, produced some of the most dramatic error codes ever logged in the history of software engineering, but her groundbreaking idea of transforming mere programming into, precisely, software engineering."

Today's #AFIR post looks at the Trans-European Transport Network. It may remind you of the glory days of international trains, or of electronic music. Either way, it's about the careful composition of an essential #EV charging network for light and heavy vehicles.

Jaap Burger on LinkedIn: #afir
In 6 days' time, on 13 April 2024 📆, most of the provisions of the 🇪🇺 Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation #AFIR for new charging points will come…

Safe Training with Sensitive In-domain Data: Leveraging Data Fragmentation To Mitigate Linkage Attacks
Mariia Ignashina, Julia Ive
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19486 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19486
arXiv:2404.19486v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Current text generation models are trained using real data which can potentially contain sensitive information, such as confidential patient information and the like. Under certain conditions output of the training data which they have memorised can be triggered, exposing sensitive data. To mitigate against this risk we propose a safer alternative which sees fragmented data in the form of domain-specific short phrases randomly grouped together shared instead of full texts. Thus, text fragments that could re-identify an individual cannot be reproduced by the model in one sequence, giving significant protection against linkage attacks. We fine-tune several state-of-the-art LLMs using meaningful syntactic chunks to explore their utility. In particular, we fine-tune BERT-based models to predict two cardiovascular diagnoses. Our results demonstrate the capacity of LLMs to benefit from the pre-trained knowledge and deliver classification results when fine-tuned with fragmented data comparable to fine-tuning with full training data.

Il governo canadese smetterŠ di inviare armi a Israele, ha detto la ministra degli esteri Mélanie Joly
Era ora diocane, speriamo che altri seguano l'esempio
https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/112124049020045146

No top-heavy stellar initial mass function needed: the ionizing radiation of GS9422 can be powered by a mixture of AGN and stars
Yijia Li, Joel Leja, Benjamin D. Johnson, Sandro Tacchella, Rohan P. Naidu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02333

No top-heavy stellar initial mass function needed: the ionizing radiation of GS9422 can be powered by a mixture of AGN and stars
JWST is producing high-quality rest-frame optical and UV spectra of faint galaxies at $z>4$ for the first time, challenging models of galaxy and stellar populations. One galaxy recently observed at $z=5.943$, GS9422, has nebular line and UV continuum emission that appears to require a high ionizing photon production efficiency. This has been explained with an exotic stellar initial mass function (IMF), 10-30x more top-heavy than a Salpeter IMF (Cameron et al. 2023). Here we suggest an alternate…

For #TuneTuesday this week, we're posting #TheOpener: the first song we remember hearing live. Mine is the Screaming Trees, "Nearly Lost You." The Trees opened the MTV Alternative Nation Tour at the Marcus Amphitheater at Summerfest in Milwaukee, WI in July 1993. They were followed, in very obviou…

"The [Russian] election that began Friday has taken place in a tightly controlled environment where there are no real alternatives to Putin, no public criticism of him or his war in #Ukraine. Putin’s fiercest political foe, Alexei Navalny, died in an Arctic prison last month, and other critics are either in jail or in exile."

Russia election: Putin basks in electoral victory even as Russians quietly protest
Russian President Vladimir Putin is basking in a victory that was never in doubt, as partial election results showed him easily securing a fifth term after facing only token challengers and harshly suppressing opposition voices. With little margin for protest, Russians crowded outside polling stations at noon Sunday, the last day of the election. They were apparently heeding an opposition call to express their displeasure with Putin. Still, the impending landslide underlined that Putin would ac…

PEN America: 4,349 books were removed from US schools across 23 states from July 2023 to December 2023, up from 3,362 books in the entire previous academic year (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/books/book-bans-public-school…

Book Bans Continue to Surge in Public Schools
More books were removed during the first half of this academic year than in the entire previous one.

Il governo canadese smetterŠ di inviare armi a Israele, ha detto la ministra degli esteri Mélanie Joly
Era ora diocane, speriamo che altri seguano l'esempio
https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/112124049020045146