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DOJ v. Google: Microsoft invested in OpenAI over fears of falling behind Google; Kevin Scott said he was "very, very worried" in a 2019 email to Satya Nadella (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Microsoft Concern About Google’s Lead Drove Investment in OpenAI
Microsoft Corp.’s motivation for investing heavily and partnering with OpenAI came from a sense of falling badly behind Google, according to an internal email released Tuesday as part of the Justice Department’s antitrust case against the search giant.

NFL Draft 2025: Which team has the most draft picks next year? Panthers lead the way; Eagles, others follow

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl…

NFL Draft 2025: Which team has the most draft picks next year? Panthers lead the way; Eagles, others follow
A look at each club's 2025 draft picks

Experts warn UN court’s approach in Ukraine versus Russia genocide cases ‘may lead to more instability’: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/01/experts-warn-un.html

Trump holds large lead over Haley in South Carolina, Post-Monmouth poll finds (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/01/south-carolina-poll-post-monmouth/

Trump holds large lead over Haley in South Carolina, Post-Monmouth poll finds
The former South Carolina governor has seen her favorability fall in her home state while Trump’s has improved.

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBC6Music:
#6MusicStories
- The Davies Diaries -1968 and 1969
Ray Davies, lead singer of the Kinks, looks back at the group's career in 1968 and 1969.
#RelistenNow

BBC Radio 6 Music - 6 Music Stories, The Davies Diaries -1968 and 1969
Ray Davies, lead singer of the Kinks, looks back at the group's career in 1968 and 1969.

🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 “More indictments await”: Experts say Kenneth Chesebro's Jan. 6 secret tweets may lead to "felony charges” | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2024/02/27/more-indictments-await-experts-…

“More indictments await”: Experts say Jan. 6 architect’s secret tweets may lead to "felony charges”
Kenneth Chesebro's false statements to prosecutors put him at “great legal risk," law professors say.

100% test coverage doesn’t mean your code’s bug free but it did just lead me to find and fix an issue in JavaScript Database (JSDB)¹ with a code path that wasn’t being hit that I would have otherwise missed because it was causing the relevant test to pass.
¹ JSDB is a zero-dependency, transparent, in-memory, streaming write-on-update JavaScript database for the Small Web that persists to a JavaScript transaction log (an append-only log).

jsdb
A zero-dependency, transparent, in-memory, streaming write-on-update JavaScript database for the Small Web that persists to a JavaScript transaction log.

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #SaraCox
Paolo Nutini:
🎵 Pencil Full Of Lead
#PaoloNutini
https://open.spotify.com/track/3GCwkCwcIVUenpm5cVS14O
https://dastef.bandcamp.com/track/paolo-nutini-pencil-full-of-lead-dastef-remix

Norway Is Taking The Lead In Electric Trucks - @CleanTechnica
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/03/27/norway-is-taking-the-lead-in-electric-trucks/
In the article give an interesting experiment:
'This winter, the Norwegian R…

Outrage as #SaudiArabia is chosen to lead #UN #women's rights group - despite 'abysmal' record on equality in kingdom where wives can be stoned to death for adultery

Interesting how Bostrom’s concerns changed. The biggest risk is mindless panic preventing development of AI. The EU is in panic, with only the US as a bulwark in AI development against the apocalyptic prospect of Russia or China getting it.
https://unherd.com/2023/11/nick-bostro

Nick Bostrom: Will AI lead to tyranny?
We are entering an age of existential risk

People produce programming language books with good intentions, but do these lead to the best outcomes? Let's PROFILE books like programs! @… distills our experience with Rust to show how similar ideas can be applied even to newish languages.

Check out today's packed Metcurity for the most important infosec developments you should know.
Lead items via @… @… @…

US Disrupted Volt Typhoon by Hijacking, Wiping Botnet Routers
Hackers siphoned $112.5m from Ripple founder, Around three dozen targeted by Pegasus in Jordan, Another Ivanti zero-day exploited in the wild, Brazil police bust up banking malware op, much more

New Ride! I'm really enjoying the lead single, "Peace Sign."
https://rideox4.bandcamp.com/album/interplay

CVE-2024-28085 essentially exploits improperly filtered escape sequences provided via command line arguments to trick users into creating a fake sudo (aka superuser do) prompt on other users' terminals and trick them into entering their passwords.
However, for this to work, the mesg utility – which controls the ability to display messages from other users – has to be set to "y" (i.e., enabled) and the wall command has to have setgid permissions.
CVE-2024-28085 impac…

New Linux Bug Could Lead to User Password Leaks and Clipboard Hijacking
A new Linux vulnerability puts user passwords at risk. It exploits the "wall" command to potentially leak passwords on Ubuntu & Debian systems.

Norway Is Taking The Lead In Electric Trucks #EVtruck https://cleantechnica.com/2024/03/27/norway-is-taking-the-lead-in-electric-trucks/

Norway Is Taking The Lead In Electric Trucks - CleanTechnica
Norway has set a target for all new trucks sold in the country to be electric by 2030. That will require adding many new charging stations capable of providing at least one megawatt of power.

Lead times for renewables have fallen in Australia https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988324000458 @…

Jerry Jones on whether Ezekiel Elliott could be Cowboys' lead back https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/jerry_jones_on_whether_ezekiel_elliott_could_be_cowboys_lead_back/s1_127_40293214

Jerry Jones on whether Ezekiel Elliott could be Cowboys' lead back
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones certainly is not downplaying his interest in one player he knows very well. Jones spoke at length on Friday about a possible reunion with veteran running back Ezekiel Elliott. Jones admitted that the two sides met prior to the NFL Draft, as had been previously reported. Jones was happy to talk up Elliott, saying he was impressed with how the running back finished last season with New England and even suggesting he could be good enough to perform as a lead back. …

Why reading whitepapers takes your career to the next level (and how to do it)
https://read.highgrowthengineer.com/p/why-reading-whitepapers-takes-your

Deep Lead Optimization: Leveraging Generative AI for Structural Modification
Odin Zhang, Haitao Lin, Hui Zhang, Huifeng Zhao, Yufei Huang, Yuansheng Huang, Dejun Jiang, Chang-yu Hsieh, Peichen Pan, Tingjun Hou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19230

Deep Lead Optimization: Leveraging Generative AI for Structural Modification
The idea of using deep-learning-based molecular generation to accelerate discovery of drug candidates has attracted extraordinary attention, and many deep generative models have been developed for automated drug design, termed molecular generation. In general, molecular generation encompasses two main strategies: de novo design, which generates novel molecular structures from scratch, and lead optimization, which refines existing molecules into drug candidates. Among them, lead optimization pla…

Daily Inspiration: "Have you ever realized that maybe it’s your attitude that has you winning in the race to irrelevance?" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Only a fool dares believe that their past defines their future.
I've met a lot of fools.
Hubris, arrogance, imperiousness - these are the sins of failure - all of which can lead a company, or organization to the brink of failure through a race to irrelevance.
With that, read the article posted by the retiring …

Daily Inspiration: Leadership -“Have you ever realized that maybe it’s your attitude that has you winning in the race to irrelevance?”

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBC6Music:
#6MusicStories
- The Davies Diaries -1968 and 1969
Ray Davies, lead singer of the Kinks, looks back at the group's career in 1968 and 1969.
#RelistenNow

BBC Radio 6 Music - 6 Music Stories, The Davies Diaries -1968 and 1969
Ray Davies, lead singer of the Kinks, looks back at the group's career in 1968 and 1969.

The Disney-Reliance merger would create a TV player that dominates cricket in India: Disney has IPL TV broadcast rights and Reliance has IPL streaming rights (Arpan Chaturvedi/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sust…

Welp... it doesn't appear that tonight is going to be the night that changes the course of the Sounders' season.
Galaxy lead 1-0.
#Sounders :sounders: #MLS :mls:

Updated Page: Disability and Mental Health Sensitivity Reader Services https://www.philippawrites.co.uk/proofreading-copyediting/disability-and-mental-health-sensitivity-reader-services

Disability and Mental Health Sensitivity Reader Services | Philippa Writes
Authors want their readers to love their work. But if a reader gets upset that the minority group they belong to is poorly represented, this can lead to bad reviews and a lack of enjoyment. As your Disability Sensitivity Reader, I can help you to eliminate this risk and present disabled lives realistically.

UK selling arms to Israel - legally iffy
“A warring party becomes unlawful if it cannot show that its actions have been proportionate. ...
“Countries supplying arms to Israel may now be complicit in criminal warfare. The public should be told what the advice says.”
- Sir Geoffrey Nice, "who was the lead prosecutor at former Serbian president Slobodan Milošević’s trial from 2002 to 2006"
("advice" there means legal advice given to the UK government)
#Israel #UK #law

Relevant blog, we are not ready for lethal autonomous weapons. Which is a step further then current automatic guided weapons. "Will Fearless and Tireless Robots Lead to More Terrifying Wars?"
#ai #war #autonomousweapons

Will Fearless and Tireless Robots Lead to More Terrifying Wars? - War on the Rocks
While developing the nuclear bomb, Robert Oppenheimer and his colleagues expressed concerns about the possibility of igniting the Earth’s atmosphere.

The #ClimateCrisis isn't just about science; it's also about compassion and political strategy.
Listen, learn, and lead the change. 
#ClimateCompassion 
#LeadChange

“Largely, the food supply regulatory system is based on an honor system.”.
Which doesn't really work , does it?
Not just food, cf recent recalled eye-drops news, so seems to affect OTC meds as well (and how about prescription med recalls?)
(Even a staunch conservative said "Trust but verify" re Soviets. Surely the evidence shows that applies even more to business?)
Lead-Tainted Applesauce Sailed Through Gaps in Food-Safety System

Lead-Tainted Applesauce Highlights Failings in Food Safety System
Hundreds of American children were poisoned last year. Records show how, time and again, the contamination went unnoticed.

“Largely, the food supply regulatory system is based on an honor system.”.
Which doesn't really work , does it?
Not just food, cf recent recalled eye-drops news, so seems to affect OTC meds as well (and how about prescription med recalls?)
(Even a staunch conservative said "Trust but verify" re Soviets. Surely the evidence shows that applies even more to business?)
Lead-Tainted Applesauce Sailed Through Gaps in Food-Safety System

Lead-Tainted Applesauce Highlights Failings in Food Safety System
Hundreds of American children were poisoned last year. Records show how, time and again, the contamination went unnoticed.

The Reddit user is upset with the lack of cybersecurity knowledge in a major Portuguese company's security lead, who is allegedly hiding a vulnerability leaking clients' personal data instead of reporting it as per GDPR requirements. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1bswj40/

US3 – Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
https://www.didiermary.fr/us3-cantaloop-flip-fantasia/
US3 appeared with it’s acclaimed, platinum-certified album, released in 1993.
“Hand On The Torch” contains the gold-certified lead single, “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia…

US3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) - Didier J. MARY (blog)
Is US3 a "one-hit wonder"? The acclaimed "Hand On The Torch" was released in 1993 and contains the lead single, "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)."

another thing I meant to toot earlier but forgot: this neon skrunklies shirt I got from https://howl-out.com

HOWL OUT
HOWL OUT - UNTAMED AND UNBROKEN - CYBER//PUNK 'FURRY' ADJACENT STREETWEAR AND GOODZ

Once upon a time, only about 650 million years ago, our Earth was a snowball. What was the aftermath #greenhouse #climate triggering deglaciation and the ocean's role in it?
We addressed this intriguing scientific question via a set of

TIL the lead singer of The Dictators officiated the wedding of Mojo Nixon and his bride Adaire Newman 🤩
At "The Fun Farm Go Karts & Arcade" in San Diego. February 11, 1989 🏁
#RIP #MojoNixon

MAGA North Conspiracy Theorist Alberta Premier Marlaina says,
'Contrarian' doctor is a good choice to lead COVID-19 data review, Alberta premier says
Dr. Gary Davidson, who accused province of exaggerating COVID-19's impact on hospitals, to lead data review

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/contrarian-doctor-is-a-good-choice-to-lead-covid-19-data-review-alberta-premier-says-1.7182891

"Australia must lead the world on nature restoration through ambitious interpretation of international law"
#Australia #Nature #Environment

Australia must lead the world on nature restoration through ambitious interpretation of international law
Australia committed to restore 30% of degraded ecosystems by 2030 when we signed the global biodiversity framework. But what does that really mean? It’s open to interpretation. So let’s be ambitious.

Monadic aspects of the ideal lattice functor on the category of distributive lattices
Ando Razafindrakoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19642 https://<…

Monadic aspects of the ideal lattice functor on the category of distributive lattices
It is known that the construction of the frame of ideals from a distributive lattice induces a monad whose algebras are precisely the frames and frame homomorphisms. Using the Fakir construction of an idempotent approximation of a monad, we extend B. Jacobs' results on lax idempotent monads and show that the sequence of monads and comonads generated by successive iterations of this ideal functor on its algebras and coalgebras do not strictly lead to a new category. We further extend this result…

Voor iedereen die dacht dat covid voorbij was ... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-covid-poses-new-challenges-in-the-fifth-year-of-the-pandemic/

Rampant COVID Poses New Challenges in the Fifth Year of the Pandemic
“We’re still in a pandemic,” says a lead COVID official with the World Health Organization

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16107 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

FuseChat: Knowledge Fusion of Chat Models
While training large language models (LLMs) from scratch can indeed lead to models with distinct capabilities and strengths, this approach incurs substantial costs and may lead to potential redundancy in competencies. An alternative strategy is to combine existing LLMs into a more robust LLM, thereby diminishing the necessity for expensive pre-training. However, due to the diverse architectures of LLMs, direct parameter blending proves to be unfeasible. Recently, \textsc{FuseLLM} introduced the…

DIGIC: Domain Generalizable Imitation Learning by Causal Discovery
Yang Chen, Yitao Liang, Zhouchen Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18910 https://

DIGIC: Domain Generalizable Imitation Learning by Causal Discovery
Causality has been combined with machine learning to produce robust representations for domain generalization. Most existing methods of this type require massive data from multiple domains to identify causal features by cross-domain variations, which can be expensive or even infeasible and may lead to misidentification in some cases. In this work, we make a different attempt by leveraging the demonstration data distribution to discover the causal features for a domain generalizable policy. We d…

On statements re: encampments from the University of #Toronto and the University of #Ottawa.
https://www.cbc.ca/ne…

Ontario universities warn student activists encampments will not be tolerated | CBC News
Two Ontario universities are warning anyone planning to follow the lead of pro-Palestinian student activists in the U.S. and elsewhere in Canada that setting up encampments on campus will not be tolerated.

A Framework to Model ML Engineering Processes
Sergio Morales, Robert Claris\'o, Jordi Cabot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18531 https://

A Framework to Model ML Engineering Processes
The development of Machine Learning (ML) based systems is complex and requires multidisciplinary teams with diverse skill sets. This may lead to communication issues or misapplication of best practices. Process models can alleviate these challenges by standardizing task orchestration, providing a common language to facilitate communication, and nurturing a collaborative environment. Unfortunately, current process modeling languages are not suitable for describing the development of such systems…

The Disney-Reliance merger would create a TV player that dominates cricket in India: Disney has IPL TV broadcast rights and Reliance has IPL streaming rights (Arpan Chaturvedi/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sust…

Your #website should look different to others to stand out from the crowd, but personalizing it too much can lead to several problems in the future.
https://josvelasco.com/dont-personaliz<…

Cosmo Jarvis is kinda meh? But he’s not the lead. The book is “Shogun,” not “Anjin” after all, and Hiroyuki Sanada is terrific. Tokuma Nishioka as Toda Hiromatsu is also fun, he’s not putting up with anyone’s bullshit.
Actually the casting overall seems really strong, I like everyone else besides Cosmo haha
https://thedirect.com/article/shogun-2024-cast-series-characters-actors-fx-photos

GÉANT is pleased to announce that Claudio Allocchio, Senior Manager and Advisor at the Italian NREN, GARR, was re-elected as Chair of the GÉANT Community Committee (GCC).
Read below to hear from Claudio and Gilles Massen, Chair of the GÉANT Board of Directors 👉
https://

Claudio Allocchio to continue to lead GÉANT Community Committee | GÉANT CONNECT Online
GÉANT is pleased to announce that Claudio Allocchio, Senior Manager and Advisor at the Italian NREN, GARR, was re-elected as Chair of the GÉANT Community Committee (GCC). Claudio was elected to continue his leadership of the GCC during the March 2024 GÉANT General Assembly (GA) meeting. Claudio has held the position of Chair since March

Performance of CMS muon reconstruction from proton-proton to heavy ion collisions
CMS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17377 https://

Performance of CMS muon reconstruction from proton-proton to heavy ion collisions
The performance of muon tracking, identification, triggering, momentum resolution, and momentum scale has been studied with the CMS detector at the LHC using data collected at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV in proton-proton (pp) and lead-lead (PbPb) collisions in 2017 and 2018, respectively, and at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$ = 8.16 TeV in proton-lead (pPb) collisions in 2016. Muon efficiencies, momentum resolutions, and momentum scales are compared by focusing on how the muon reconstruction perf…

Low-Overhead Defect-Adaptive Surface Code with Bandage-Like Super-Stabilizers
Zuolin Wei, Tan He, Yangsen Ye, Dachao Wu, Yiming Zhang, Youwei Zhao, Weiping Lin, He-Liang Huang, Xiaobo Zhu, Jian-Wei Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18644

Low-Overhead Defect-Adaptive Surface Code with Bandage-Like Super-Stabilizers
To make practical quantum algorithms work, large-scale quantum processors protected by error-correcting codes are required to resist noise and ensure reliable computational outcomes. However, a major challenge arises from defects in processor fabrication, as well as occasional losses or cosmic rays during the computing process, all of which can lead to qubit malfunctions and disrupt error-correcting codes' normal operations. In this context, we introduce an automatic adapter to implement the su…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11408 has been replaced.
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Indirect Swarm Control: Characterization and Analysis of Emergent Swarm Behaviors
Emergence and emergent behaviors are often defined as cases where changes in local interactions between agents at a lower level effectively changes what occurs in the higher level of the system (i.e., the whole swarm) and its properties. However, the manner in which these collective emergent behaviors self-organize is less understood. The focus of this paper is in presenting a new framework for characterizing the conditions that lead to different macrostates and how to predict/analyze their mac…

Hiding from Facebook: An Encryption Protocol resistant to Correlation Attacks
Chen-Da Liu, Simone Santini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18817 https://<…

Hiding from Facebook: An Encryption Protocol resistant to Correlation Attacks
In many social networks, one publishes information that one wants to reveal (e.g., the photograph of some friends) together with information that may lead to privacy breaches (e.g., the name of these people). One might want to hide this sensitive information by encrypting it and sharing the decryption key only with trusted people, but this might not be enough. If the cipher associated to a face is always the same, correlation between the output of a face recognition system and the cipher can gi…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.02103 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

A Study of Hypergraph Using Null Spaces of the Incidence Matrix and its Transpose
In this study, we explore the substructures of a hypergraph that lead us to linearly dependent rows (or columns) in the incidence matrix of the hypergraph. These substructures are closely related to the spectra of various hypergraph matrices, including the signless Laplacian, adjacency, Laplacian, and adjacency matrices of the hypergraph's incidence graph. Specific eigenvectors of these hypergraph matrices serve to characterize these substructures. We show that vectors belonging to the nullsp…

GenAI Distortion: The Effect of GenAI Fluency and Positive Affect
Xiantong Yang, Mengmeng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17822 https://

GenAI Distortion: The Effect of GenAI Fluency and Positive Affect
The introduction of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into educational practices has been transformative, yet it brings a crucial concern about the potential distortion of users' beliefs. Given the prevalence of GenAI among college students, examining the psychological mechanisms that lead to GenAI distortion from both technological factors and the individual's psychological processes is a critical priority. A mixed-methods approach is employed to test the proposed hypotheses. Study 1 …

Why an elected second chamber won’t lead to gridlock #ukpol

Is the Page-time paradox paradoxical?
Bruno Arderucio Costa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17815 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.17815<…

Is the Page-time paradox paradoxical?
I discuss how five reasonably sounding assumptions lead to a dilemma -- the Page-time paradox -- , which appears to challenge a conventional statistical mechanical underpinning of black hole thermodynamics. By inspecting the conceptual subtleties behind each hypothesis, I list questions that require clarification before the puzzle can be deemed paradoxical. I devote particular attention to using thermodynamic arguments for a system that never reaches equilibrium. As a proof of concept, I show t…

Spectroscopic diagnostics of lead stratification in hot subdwarf atmospheres
L. J. A. Scott, C. S. Jeffery, C. M. Byrne, M. Dorsch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19071

Spectroscopic diagnostics of lead stratification in hot subdwarf atmospheres
Heavy metal subdwarfs are a class of hot subdwarfs with very high abundances of heavy elements, typically around 10 000 times solar. They include stars which are strongly enhanced in either lead or zirconium, as well as other elements. Vertical stratification of the enhanced elements, where the element is concentrated in a thin layer of the atmosphere, has been proposed as a mechanism to explain the apparent high abundances. This paper explores the effects of the vertical stratification of lead…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10179 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Local vanishing for toric varieties
Let $X$ be a toric variety. We establish vanishing (and non-vanishing) results for the sheaves $R^if_*Ω^p_{\tilde X}(\log E)$, where $f: \tilde{X} \to X$ is a strong log resolution of singularities with reduced exceptional divisor $E$. These extend the local vanishing theorem for toric varieties in [MOP20]. Our consideration of these sheaves is motivated by the notion of $k$-rational singularities introduced by Friedman and Laza [FL22b]. In particular, our results lead to criteria for toric va…

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Cross-modal tumor segmentation using generative blending augmentation and self training
\textit{Objectives}: Data scarcity and domain shifts lead to biased training sets that do not accurately represent deployment conditions. A related practical problem is cross-modal image segmentation, where the objective is to segment unlabelled images using previously labelled datasets from other imaging modalities. \textit{Methods}: We propose a cross-modal segmentation method based on conventional image synthesis boosted by a new data augmentation technique called Generative Blending Augment…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09289 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hept…

Wilson Loops and Wormholes
We analyse the properties of Wilson loop observables for holographic gauge theories, when the dual bulk geometries have a single and/or multiple boundaries (Euclidean spacetime wormholes). Such observables lead to a generalisation and refinement of the characterisation in arXiv:2202.01372 based on the compressibility of cycles and the pinching limit of higher genus Riemann surfaces, since they carry information about the dynamics and phase structure of the dual gauge theory of an arbitrary dime…

i learned this week that the amazing singer jimmie dale gilmore's 1st recorded appearance was this 1969 hub city movers 7-inch, setting a gilbert shelton comic to music, with jimmie dale singing lead on the cosmic c&w b-side. https://taylorjessen.blogspot.com/2022<…

Hub City Movers: The Chicken Song b/w I Can't Know Tomorrow
  A deathless classic from the Hub City Movers of Austin, Texas, one-time house band at the Vulcan Gas Company club and the first act to pl...

Mobility and Threshold Voltage Extraction in Transistors with Gate-Voltage-Dependent Contact Resistance
Robert K. A. Bennett, Lauren Hoang, Connor Cremers, Andrew J. Mannix, Eric Pop
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19022 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19022
arXiv:2404.19022v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The mobility of emerging (e.g., two-dimensional, oxide, organic) semiconductors is commonly estimated from transistor current-voltage measurements. However, such devices often experience contact gating, i.e., electric fields from the gate modulate the contact resistance during measurements, which can lead conventional extraction techniques to estimate mobility incorrectly even by a factor >2. This error can be minimized by measuring transistors at high gate-source bias, |$V_\mathrm{gs}$|, but this regime is often inaccessible in emerging devices that suffer from high contact resistance or early gate dielectric breakdown. Here, we propose a method of extracting mobility in transistors with gate-dependent contact resistance that does not require operation at high |$V_\mathrm{gs}$|, enabling accurate mobility extraction even in emerging transistors with strong contact gating. Our approach relies on updating the transfer length method (TLM) and can achieve <10% error even in regimes where conventional techniques overestimate mobility by >2$\times$.

Source: Vikes RB Mattison informed he'll be cut https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39626525/vikings-rb-alexander-mattison-informed-cut

Vikings' Alexander Mattison informed he'll be cut, source says - ESPN
Running back Alexander Mattison, who struggled after taking over for Dalvin Cook as the lead back last season, has been told by the Vikings that he will be released, a source told ESPN.

US3 – Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
https://www.didiermary.fr/us3-cantaloop-flip-fantasia/
US3 appeared with it’s acclaimed, platinum-certified album, released in 1993.
“Hand On The Torch” contains the gold-certified lead single, “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia…

US3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) - Didier J. MARY (blog)
Is US3 a "one-hit wonder"? The acclaimed "Hand On The Torch" was released in 1993 and contains the lead single, "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)."

Bill that could lead to prosecution of librarians advances in Alabama House (Lauren Irwin/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4622940-bill-that-could-lead-to-prosecution-of-librarians-advances-in-alabama-house/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240425/p79#a240425p79

Two-thirds of Chicago kids under 6 exposed to lead in water, study estimates - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/19/chicago-water-pipes-lead-contamination-children/

Two-thirds of Chicago kids under 6 exposed to lead in water, study estimates
The report says much housing infrastructure was built before the use of new lead pipes was banned in 1986. Lead can affect intelligence, behavior and learning, experts say.

MAGA North Conspiracy Theorist Alberta Premier Marlaina says,
'Contrarian' doctor is a good choice to lead COVID-19 data review, Alberta premier says
Dr. Gary Davidson, who accused province of exaggerating COVID-19's impact on hospitals, to lead data review

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/contrarian-doctor-is-a-good-choice-to-lead-covid-19-data-review-alberta-premier-says-1.7182891

NBCUniversal names Gemma Garcia to lead Telemundo's news division as executive VP of news; most recently, she was the head of news at Spain's RTVE Play (Natalie Korach/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/telemundo-gemma-garcia-news-division/

Gemma Garcia to Lead Telemundo News Division
Veteran news executive Gemma Garcia will lead Telemundo's news division and will report directly to chairman of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises Luis Fernández

Will Cowboys really be ‘all in’ or expect more of the same during 2024 offseason? https://theathletic.com/5306104/2024/02/29/dallas-cowboys-change-playoffs-super-bowl/

Will Cowboys really be ‘all in’ or expect more of the same during 2024 offseason?
Jerry Jones said the Cowboys would be all in this season. Will they follow the lead of other recent successful NFC teams to do that?

Republican-appointed judges raise alarm over Trump attacks on law
A Republican-appointed judge denounced Donald Trump’s social media attacks against the #judge #presiding over the former president’s hush money and #election

Republican-appointed judges raise alarm over Trump attacks on law
Federal D.C. Judge Reggie B. Walton warned Trump’s attacks on hush-money trial judge and others could lead to violence.

Focus on Your Question! Interpreting and Mitigating Toxic CoT Problems in Commonsense Reasoning
Jiachun Li, Pengfei Cao, Chenhao Wang, Zhuoran Jin, Yubo Chen, Daojian Zeng, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18344

Focus on Your Question! Interpreting and Mitigating Toxic CoT Problems in Commonsense Reasoning
Large language models exhibit high-level commonsense reasoning abilities, especially with enhancement methods like Chain-of-Thought (CoT). However, we find these CoT-like methods lead to a considerable number of originally correct answers turning wrong, which we define as the Toxic CoT problem. To interpret and mitigate this problem, we first utilize attribution tracing and causal tracing methods to probe the internal working mechanism of the LLM during CoT reasoning. Through comparisons, we pr…

PrescientFuzz: A more effective exploration approach for grey-box fuzzing
Daniel Blackwell, David Clark
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18887 https://

PrescientFuzz: A more effective exploration approach for grey-box fuzzing
In this paper, we introduce an approach for improving the early exploration of grey-box fuzzing campaigns; allowing the fuzzer to reach the interesting coverage earlier. To do this, it leverages information from the system under test's (SUT's) control flow graph in order to decide which inputs are likely to lead to discovering most coverage when mutated.

Source: HeyGen, which uses AI to generate avatars and voices for videos, is raising $60M at a $440M pre-investment valuation, amid concerns about its China ties (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/be

Benchmark to Lead Investment in AI Video Startup HeyGen at $440 Million Valuation
HeyGen, a three-year-old startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate avatars and voices for videos, is raising $60 million at a pre-investment valuation of $440 million, six times higher than the startup’s valuation four months ago, according to a person with direct knowledge of the ...

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Indirect Swarm Control: Characterization and Analysis of Emergent Swarm Behaviors
Emergence and emergent behaviors are often defined as cases where changes in local interactions between agents at a lower level effectively changes what occurs in the higher level of the system (i.e., the whole swarm) and its properties. However, the manner in which these collective emergent behaviors self-organize is less understood. The focus of this paper is in presenting a new framework for characterizing the conditions that lead to different macrostates and how to predict/analyze their mac…

Monitoring Wandering Behavior of Persons Suffering from Dementia Using BLE Based Localization System
Marcin Kolakowski, Bartosz Blachucki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19704

Monitoring Wandering Behavior of Persons Suffering from Dementia Using BLE Based Localization System
With the aging of our populations, dementia will become a problem which would directly or indirectly affect a large number of people. One of the most dangerous dementia symptoms is wandering. It consists in aimless walking and spatial disorientation, which might lead to various unpleasant situations like falling down accidents at home to leaving the living place and going missing. Therefore, in order to ensure elderly people's safety it is crucial to detect and alarm the caregivers in case of s…

Is the Page-time paradox paradoxical?
Bruno Arderucio Costa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17815 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.17815<…

Is the Page-time paradox paradoxical?
I discuss how five reasonably sounding assumptions lead to a dilemma -- the Page-time paradox -- , which appears to challenge a conventional statistical mechanical underpinning of black hole thermodynamics. By inspecting the conceptual subtleties behind each hypothesis, I list questions that require clarification before the puzzle can be deemed paradoxical. I devote particular attention to using thermodynamic arguments for a system that never reaches equilibrium. As a proof of concept, I show t…

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Cross-modal tumor segmentation using generative blending augmentation and self training
\textit{Objectives}: Data scarcity and domain shifts lead to biased training sets that do not accurately represent deployment conditions. A related practical problem is cross-modal image segmentation, where the objective is to segment unlabelled images using previously labelled datasets from other imaging modalities. \textit{Methods}: We propose a cross-modal segmentation method based on conventional image synthesis boosted by a new data augmentation technique called Generative Blending Augment…

Marta Barandiy, the head of Promote Ukraine, demonstrated her unwavering commitment by traveling to Ukraine with Georges Dallemagne and Belgian journalists of La Libre and LN24, to actively contribute to our cause: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/27/marta-barandiy-the.html…

M-x Reloaded: The Second Golden Age of #Emacs - (think) by @…
https://

Please sign the petition asking Ross and Burlington to Remove Toxic Lead from their Supply Chain
Since 2009, CEH's testing repeatedly found high levels of lead in leather and faux leather fashion accessories such as handbags, wallets, shoes, and belts sold at off-price retailers. In 2022 alone, more than 1 in 4 of the fashion accessories purchased from Ross and Burlington contained high levels of lead. Exposure to lead can cause cancer, reproductive issues, and neurological harm. T…

Tell Ross and Burlington: Remove Toxic Lead from their Supply Chain
Since 2009, our testing repeatedly found high levels of lead in leather and faux leather fashion accessories such as handbags, wallets, shoes, and belts sold at off-price retailers. In 2022 alone, more than 1 in 4 of the fashion accessories we purchased from Ross and Burlington contained high levels of lead. Exposure to lead can cause cancer, reproductive issues, and neurological harm. There is no safe level of lead exposure. Ross and Burlington cater to lower-income consumers, and most of…

Please sign the petition asking Ross and Burlington to Remove Toxic Lead from their Supply Chain
Since 2009, CEH's testing repeatedly found high levels of lead in leather and faux leather fashion accessories such as handbags, wallets, shoes, and belts sold at off-price retailers. In 2022 alone, more than 1 in 4 of the fashion accessories purchased from Ross and Burlington contained high levels of lead. Exposure to lead can cause cancer, reproductive issues, and neurological harm. T…

Tell Ross and Burlington: Remove Toxic Lead from their Supply Chain
Since 2009, our testing repeatedly found high levels of lead in leather and faux leather fashion accessories such as handbags, wallets, shoes, and belts sold at off-price retailers. In 2022 alone, more than 1 in 4 of the fashion accessories we purchased from Ross and Burlington contained high levels of lead. Exposure to lead can cause cancer, reproductive issues, and neurological harm. There is no safe level of lead exposure. Ross and Burlington cater to lower-income consumers, and most of…

Republican-appointed judges raise alarm over Trump attacks on law
A Republican-appointed judge denounced Donald Trump’s social media attacks against the #judge #presiding over the former president’s hush money and #election

Republican-appointed judges raise alarm over Trump attacks on law
Federal D.C. Judge Reggie B. Walton warned Trump’s attacks on hush-money trial judge and others could lead to violence.

Dallas Cowboys Looking Into Intriguing Defensive Coordinator https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_looking_into_intriguing_defensive_coordinator/s1_17150_39901795

Dallas Cowboys Looking Into Intriguing Defensive Coordinator
With Dan Quinn’s departure from the Dallas Cowboys to assume the role of head coach for their divisional rivals, the Washington Commanders, the Cowboys find themselves in need of a prominent figure to lead their defense. Fortunately, an enticing candidate has recently become available. As reported by Nicki Jhabvala of the Washington Post, the former head coach of the Washington Commanders, Ron Rivera, is being considered as a potential candidate for the vacant defensive coordinator position w…

Tokenization Is More Than Compression
Craig W. Schmidt, Varshini Reddy, Haoran Zhang, Alec Alameddine, Omri Uzan, Yuval Pinter, Chris Tanner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18376

Tokenization Is More Than Compression
Tokenization is a foundational step in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, bridging raw text and language models. Existing tokenization approaches like Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) originate from the field of data compression, and it has been suggested that the effectiveness of BPE stems from its ability to condense text into a relatively small number of tokens. We test the hypothesis that fewer tokens lead to better downstream performance by introducing PathPiece, a new tokenizer that segment…

Source: HeyGen, which uses AI to generate avatars and voices for videos, is raising $60M at a $440M pre-investment valuation, amid concerns about its China ties (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/be

Benchmark to Lead Investment in AI Video Startup HeyGen at $440 Million Valuation
HeyGen, a three-year-old startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate avatars and voices for videos, is raising $60 million at a pre-investment valuation of $440 million, six times higher than the startup’s valuation four months ago, according to a person with direct knowledge of the ...

Assessing Quality Metrics for Neural Reality Gap Input Mitigation in Autonomous Driving Testing
Stefano Carlo Lambertenghi, Andrea Stocco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18577

Assessing Quality Metrics for Neural Reality Gap Input Mitigation in Autonomous Driving Testing
Simulation-based testing of automated driving systems (ADS) is the industry standard, being a controlled, safe, and cost-effective alternative to real-world testing. Despite these advantages, virtual simulations often fail to accurately replicate real-world conditions like image fidelity, texture representation, and environmental accuracy. This can lead to significant differences in ADS behavior between simulated and real-world domains, a phenomenon known as the sim2real gap. Researchers have u…

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Benchmarking ground truth trajectories with robotic total stations
Benchmarks stand as vital cornerstones in elevating SLAM algorithms within mobile robotics. Consequently, ensuring accurate and reproducible ground truth generation is vital for fair evaluation. A majority of outdoor ground truths are generated by GNSS, which can lead to discrepancies over time, especially in covered areas. However, research showed that RTS setups are more precise and can alternatively be used to generate these ground truths. In our work, we compare both RTS and GNSS systems' p…

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Exploring the Interaction of Creative Writers with AI-Powered Writing Tools
AI-based virtual assistants are increasingly used to support daily ideation tasks. The values or bias present in these agents can influence output in hidden ways. They may also affect how people perceive the ideas produced with these AI agents and lead to implications for the design of AI-based tools. We explored the effects of AI agents with different values on the ideation process and user perception of idea quality, ownership, agent competence, and values present in the output. Our study tas…

Dallas Cowboys Looking Into Intriguing Defensive Coordinator https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_looking_into_intriguing_defensive_coordinator/s1_17150_39901795

Dallas Cowboys Looking Into Intriguing Defensive Coordinator
With Dan Quinn’s departure from the Dallas Cowboys to assume the role of head coach for their divisional rivals, the Washington Commanders, the Cowboys find themselves in need of a prominent figure to lead their defense. Fortunately, an enticing candidate has recently become available. As reported by Nicki Jhabvala of the Washington Post, the former head coach of the Washington Commanders, Ron Rivera, is being considered as a potential candidate for the vacant defensive coordinator position w…

Judge Luttig blasts SCOTUS for avoiding ‘key question’ at the heart of Trump immunity case
https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/judge-luttig-blasts-scotus-for-avoiding-key-question-at-th…

Judge Luttig blasts SCOTUS for avoiding ‘key question’ at the heart of Trump immunity case
Former federal Judge J. Michael Luttig joins Ali Velshi to discuss his takeaways from this week’s Supreme Court oral arguments on former President Donald Trump's presidential immunity claim, which many believe will lead to more delays in Trump’s federal criminal cases, and potentially impact the future of the presidency itself. "That this absurd argument is even being made before the Supreme Court is an embarrassment to the Constitution and to our country,” Judge Luttig says. Judge Luttig…

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Defending LLMs against Jailbreaking Attacks via Backtranslation
Although many large language models (LLMs) have been trained to refuse harmful requests, they are still vulnerable to jailbreaking attacks, which rewrite the original prompt to conceal its harmful intent. In this paper, we propose a new method for defending LLMs against jailbreaking attacks by ``backtranslation''. Specifically, given an initial response generated by the target LLM from an input prompt, our backtranslation prompts a language model to infer an input prompt that can lead to the re…

Microsoft says its investment in Mistral AI amounts to €15M; EU regulators plan to analyze the investment, which could eventually lead to a formal investigation (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Microsoft’s Mistral AI Investment to Be Examined by EU Watchdog
Microsoft Corp.’s Mistral AI investment is set to be analyzed by the European Union’s competition watchdog at the same time that its deep ties to OpenAI Inc come under regulatory scrutiny.

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What you need to know about a learning robot: Identifying the enabling architecture of complex systems
Nowadays, we are dealing more and more with robots and AI in everyday life. However, their behavior is not always apparent to most lay users, especially in error situations. As a result, there can be misconceptions about the behavior of the technologies in use. This, in turn, can lead to misuse and rejection by users. Explanation, for example, through transparency, can address these misconceptions. However, it would be confusing and overwhelming for users if the entire software or hardware was …

With Dan Quinn heading to Washington, what will become of his staff in Dallas? https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/with_dan_quinn_heading_to_washington_what_will_become_of_his_staff_in_dallas/s1_1…

With Dan Quinn heading to Washington, what will become of his staff in Dallas?
One of Dan Quinn‘s assistants in Atlanta and Dallas, Joe Whitt appears more likely to stay with the Cowboys than follow Quinn to Washington. With Quinn signing on as Commanders HC, the Cowboys are looking inward to replace him. The Cowboys’ secondary coach for the past three seasons, Whitt has emerged as the lead candidate to take over for Quinn as DC, per the Dallas Morning News’ Michael Gehlken. Whitt has been an NFL assistant since 2007. Whitt could, however, have two options in the …

Sources: the new iPad Pro may launch with an M4 chip, kicking off Apple's AI strategy that will be expanded at WWDC; the new Pencil will have haptic feedback (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/…

Apple Rivals Retool to Compete With iPhone and Vision Pro; iOS 18 and AI Details
Apple’s top rivals are revamping their strategies for smartphones and headsets in a sign they smell an opportunity. Also: The new iPad Pro will usher in Apple’s shift into AI hardware; new details emerge on iOS 18 and the company’s AI plan; and the Vision Pro’s lead marketer retires.

With Dan Quinn heading to Washington, what will become of his staff in Dallas? https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/with_dan_quinn_heading_to_washington_what_will_become_of_his_staff_in_dallas/s1_1…

With Dan Quinn heading to Washington, what will become of his staff in Dallas?
One of Dan Quinn‘s assistants in Atlanta and Dallas, Joe Whitt appears more likely to stay with the Cowboys than follow Quinn to Washington. With Quinn signing on as Commanders HC, the Cowboys are looking inward to replace him. The Cowboys’ secondary coach for the past three seasons, Whitt has emerged as the lead candidate to take over for Quinn as DC, per the Dallas Morning News’ Michael Gehlken. Whitt has been an NFL assistant since 2007. Whitt could, however, have two options in the …

Countering Reward Over-optimization in LLM with Demonstration-Guided Reinforcement Learning
Mathieu Rita, Florian Strub, Rahma Chaabouni, Paul Michel, Emmanuel Dupoux, Olivier Pietquin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19409 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19409
arXiv:2404.19409v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been proven essential for tuning large language models (LLMs), it can lead to reward over-optimization (ROO). Existing approaches address ROO by adding KL regularization, requiring computationally expensive hyperparameter tuning. Additionally, KL regularization focuses solely on regularizing the language policy, neglecting a potential source of regularization: the reward function itself. Inspired by demonstration-guided RL, we here introduce the Reward Calibration from Demonstration (RCfD), which leverages human demonstrations and a reward model to recalibrate the reward objective. Formally, given a prompt, the RCfD objective minimizes the distance between the demonstrations' and LLM's rewards rather than directly maximizing the reward function. This objective shift avoids incentivizing the LLM to exploit the reward model and promotes more natural and diverse language generation. We show the effectiveness of RCfD on three language tasks, which achieves comparable performance to carefully tuned baselines while mitigating ROO.

Report: Cowboys discussing reunion with two-time NFL rushing champ https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_cowboys_discussing_reunion_with_two_time_nfl_rushing_champ/s1_127_40176652

Report: Cowboys discussing reunion with two-time NFL rushing champ
The Dallas Cowboys have some room in their backfield, and may look to an old friend of theirs to help fill it. The Cowboys and Ezekiel Elliott have mutual interest in a potential reunion, according to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN. No deal has been reached, but both sides are interested in talking and sorting something out. The Cowboys reportedly liked what they saw from Elliott down the stretch in 2023, as he essentially became the lead back for the New England Patriots down the stretch. In total, he …

Context-Aware Machine Translation with Source Coreference Explanation
Huy Hien Vu, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Taro Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19505 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19505
arXiv:2404.19505v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Despite significant improvements in enhancing the quality of translation, context-aware machine translation (MT) models underperform in many cases. One of the main reasons is that they fail to utilize the correct features from context when the context is too long or their models are overly complex. This can lead to the explain-away effect, wherein the models only consider features easier to explain predictions, resulting in inaccurate translations. To address this issue, we propose a model that explains the decisions made for translation by predicting coreference features in the input. We construct a model for input coreference by exploiting contextual features from both the input and translation output representations on top of an existing MT model. We evaluate and analyze our method in the WMT document-level translation task of English-German dataset, the English-Russian dataset, and the multilingual TED talk dataset, demonstrating an improvement of over 1.0 BLEU score when compared with other context-aware models.