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More than 100 top AI researchers sign an open letter imploring AI companies to provide a legal and technical safe harbor for researchers to study their products (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3uYvZJu

Top AI researchers say OpenAI, Meta and more hinder independent evaluations
Firms like OpenAI and Meta use strict protocols to keep bad actors from abusing AI systems. But researchers argue these rules are chilling independent evaluations.

It's like oh good, but the seeds have already been planted. Bluesky as a company seems to have a hard path to profitability.
Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/05/jack-dorsey-says-hes-no-longer-on-the-bluesk…

Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board | TechCrunch
It sounds like Bluesky’s most prominent backer is no longer on its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his

Bluesky confirms Jack Dorsey's departure from its board and says it is searching for a new board member (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/05/jack-dorsey-says-hes-no-longer-on-the-bluesky-board/

Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board | TechCrunch
Bluesky’s most prominent backer has left its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Start

Mastodon stans: “Federation and open protocols are awesome so everyone can run servers and services!”
[someone makes Mastodon to Bluesky bridge with the federation and open protocols]
Mastodon stans: “No, not like that!”
This is starting to feel like email all over again, with big players having turf wars and small servers will be impossible to run because of enormous administrative overhead.

Jack Dorsey replies "no" to an X user who asked if he was still on the Bluesky board; it's not clear when he left, as Bluesky's FAQ still lists him as a member (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/05/jack-d…

Jack Dorsey says he’s no longer on the Bluesky board | TechCrunch
It sounds like Bluesky’s most prominent backer is no longer on its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his

“the open source social web (aka the fediverse)”.
Hmm, not sure what to think about that description. I see the appeal but do we want to stretch “open source” all the way to include closed implementations of open protocols?
From a headline in #techcrunch about #flipboard.

Flipboard deepens its ties to the open source social web (aka the fediverse) | TechCrunch
Flipboard users can now see their new followers and other activity around the content they share in the fediverse directly in the Flipboard app.

Protocols for Observational Studies: Methods and Open Problems
Dylan S. Small
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19807 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Protocols for Observational Studies: Methods and Open Problems
For learning about the causal effect of a treatment, a randomized controlled trial (RCT) is considered the gold standard. However, randomizing treatment is sometimes unethical or infeasible, and instead an observational study may be conducted. While some aspects of a well designed RCT cannot be replicated in an observational study, one aspect that can is to have a protocol with prespecified hypotheses about prespecified outcomes and a prespecified analysis. We illustrate the value of protocols …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03896 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

ReQuSim: Faithfully simulating near-term quantum repeaters
Quantum repeaters have long been established to be essential for distributing entanglement over long distances. Consequently, their experimental realization constitutes a core challenge of quantum communication. However, there are numerous open questions about implementation details for realistic, near-term experimental setups. In order to assess the performance of realistic repeater protocols, we here present ReQuSim, a comprehensive Monte-Carlo based simulation platform for quantum repeaters …

https://techcrunch.…

Why Meta is looking to the fediverse as the future for social media | TechCrunch
Meta's move into the open social web, also known as the fediverse, is puzzling. Does the Facebook owner see open protocols as the future? Will it embrace

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15735 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Replacing Cryptopuzzles with Useful Computation in Blockchain Proof-of-Work Protocols
Proof-of-Work (PoW) blockchains have emerged as a robust and effective consensus mechanism in open environments like the Internet, leading to widespread deployment with numerous cryptocurrency platforms and substantial investments. However, the current PoW implementation primarily focuses on validating the discovery of a winning nonce. Exploring the notion of replacing cryptographic puzzles with useful computing tasks becomes compelling, given the substantial computational capacity of blockchai…

Mastodon stans: “Federation and open protocols are awesome so everyone can run servers and services!”
[someone makes Mastodon to Bluesky bridge with the federation and open protocols]
Mastodon stans: “No, not like that!”
This is starting to feel like email all over again, with big players having turf wars and small servers will be impossible to run because of enormous administrative overhead.

Optimal Control of Underdamped Systems: An Analytic Approach
Julia Sanders, Marco Baldovin, Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00679 htt…

Optimal Control of Underdamped Systems: An Analytic Approach
Optimal control theory deals with finding protocols to steer a system between assigned initial and final states, such that a trajectory-dependent cost function is minimized. The application of optimal control to stochastic systems is an open and challenging research frontier, with a spectrum of applications ranging from stochastic thermodynamics, to biophysics and data science. Among these, the design of nanoscale electronic components motivates the study of underdamped dynamics, leading to pra…

I think it is shameful that the Biden Campaign has created an account on TikTok, a proprietary, non-domestic service, while not having an account on any of the Federated SocialWeb systems that use open-source protocols and implementations.
The rule for government or political accounts should be: **Open, non-proprietary systems first!**

"lol hey guys": Biden campaign joins TikTok to reach young voters
As of Monday afternoon, the account's first video had 5.2 million views.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15735 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Replacing Cryptopuzzles with Useful Computation in Blockchain Proof-of-Work Protocols
Proof-of-Work (PoW) blockchains have emerged as a robust and effective consensus mechanism in open environments like the Internet, leading to widespread deployment with numerous cryptocurrency platforms and substantial investments. However, the current PoW implementation primarily focuses on validating the discovery of a winning nonce. Exploring the notion of replacing cryptographic puzzles with useful computing tasks becomes compelling, given the substantial computational capacity of blockchai…

For those unaware, the BlueSky-Fediverse bridge is LIVE and seems to be federating profiles who "opt-in" to BlueSky.
If you want to opt-in, you just have to follow @… and then if you have a BlueSky account, you can login and find your account by using the format @user.domain.ap.brid.gy, so mine is @BeAware.social.beaware.live.ap.brid.gy
This is SUPER exciting! Bridging open protocols is a super cool thing and I'm so happy to test out this super cool project!
Edit: more info after further investigation. Notifications from BlueSky users only work if they have activated the bridge on their side...this is less than stellar, but hopefully this changes?😳
Also, to find a BlueSky user that HAS opted into the bridge, their Bluesky account will appear in the fediverse as @[handle]@bsky.brid.gy. For example, @snarfed.bsky.social on Bluesky is bridged into the fediverse as @… (sorry for the notification, Ryan. Hope you don't get spammed😬)
#BlueSkyBridge #BlueSky #BridgyFed #Mastodon #Fediverse #Fedi #ActivityPub #Bridge

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04631 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…

Hole Flying Qubits in Quantum Dot Arrays
Quantum information transfer is fundamental for scalable quantum computing in any potential platform and architecture. Hole spin qubits, owing to their intrinsic spin-orbit interaction (SOI), promise fast quantum operations which are fundamental for the implementation of quantum gates. Yet, the influence of SOI in quantum transfer protocols remains an open question. Here, we investigate hole flying qubits using shortcuts to adiabaticity protocols, i.e., the long-range transfer of hole spin stat…

NOMAD CAMELS: Configurable Application for Measurements, Experiments and Laboratory Systems
Alexander D. Fuchs, Johannes A. F. Lehmeyer, Heinz Junkes, Heiko B. Weber, Michael Krieger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07548

NOMAD CAMELS: Configurable Application for Measurements, Experiments and Laboratory Systems
NOMAD CAMELS (short: CAMELS) is a configurable, open-source measurement software that records fully self-describing experimental data. It has its origins in the field of experimental physics where a wide variety of measurement instruments are used in frequently changing experimental setups and measurement protocols. CAMELS provides a graphical user interface (GUI) which allows the user to configure experiments without the need of programming skills or deep understanding of instrument communicat…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04631 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…

Hole Flying Qubits in Quantum Dot Arrays
Quantum information transfer is fundamental for scalable quantum computing in any potential platform and architecture. Hole spin qubits, owing to their intrinsic spin-orbit interaction (SOI), promise fast quantum operations which are fundamental for the implementation of quantum gates. Yet, the influence of SOI in quantum transfer protocols remains an open question. Here, we investigate hole flying qubits using shortcuts to adiabaticity protocols, i.e., the long-range transfer of hole spin stat…

LDPRecover: Recovering Frequencies from Poisoning Attacks against Local Differential Privacy
Xinyue Sun, Qingqing Ye, Haibo Hu, Jiawei Duan, Tianyu Wo, Jie Xu, Renyu Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09351

LDPRecover: Recovering Frequencies from Poisoning Attacks against Local Differential Privacy
Local differential privacy (LDP), which enables an untrusted server to collect aggregated statistics from distributed users while protecting the privacy of those users, has been widely deployed in practice. However, LDP protocols for frequency estimation are vulnerable to poisoning attacks, in which an attacker can poison the aggregated frequencies by manipulating the data sent from malicious users. Therefore, it is an open challenge to recover the accurate aggregated frequencies from poisoned …

NOMAD CAMELS: Configurable Application for Measurements, Experiments and Laboratory Systems
Alexander D. Fuchs, Johannes A. F. Lehmeyer, Heinz Junkes, Heiko B. Weber, Michael Krieger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07548

NOMAD CAMELS: Configurable Application for Measurements, Experiments and Laboratory Systems
NOMAD CAMELS (short: CAMELS) is a configurable, open-source measurement software that records fully self-describing experimental data. It has its origins in the field of experimental physics where a wide variety of measurement instruments are used in frequently changing experimental setups and measurement protocols. CAMELS provides a graphical user interface (GUI) which allows the user to configure experiments without the need of programming skills or deep understanding of instrument communicat…