Tootfinder

A great practice day, even got a chance to sneak in some Elvis, which is never a bad thing.
#piano #practice
Practice Journal: Bonus Elvis

Privacy Engineering From Principles to Practice: A Roadmap
Frank Pallas, Katharina Koerner, Isabel Barber\'a, Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Meiko Jensen, Nandita Rao Narla, Nikita Samarin, Max-R. Ulbricht, Isabel Wagner, Kim Wuyts, Christian Zimmermann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03442

Privacy Engineering From Principles to Practice: A Roadmap
Privacy engineering is gaining momentum in industry and academia alike. So far, manifold low-level primitives and higher-level methods and strategies have successfully been established. Still, fostering adoption in real-world information systems calls for additional aspects to be consciously considered in research and practice.

Modern Code Reviews -- Survey of Literature and Practice
Deepika Badampudi, Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Ricardo Britto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00088 https…

Modern Code Reviews -- Survey of Literature and Practice
Background: Modern Code Review (MCR) is a lightweight alternative to traditional code inspections. While secondary studies on MCR exist, it is unknown whether the research community has targeted themes that practitioners consider important. Objectives: The objectives are to provide an overview of MCR research, analyze the practitioners' opinions on the importance of MCR research, investigate the alignment between research and practice, and propose future MCR research avenues. Method: We conduct…

LOOK: Falcons' Kirk Cousins back on the practice field throwing passes after tearing Achilles in October

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

LOOK: Falcons' Kirk Cousins back on the practice field throwing passes after tearing Achilles in October
Atlanta posted a video of Cousins throwing during its offseason workout program

Come learn about and get hands-on practice in propagation & production of local native plants for our urban & wildland restoration projects
Join us for a short, 3 hour focus on native plant volunteer work where you'll learn a little, and help a lot!
Meeting at the Rancho Sierra Vista #native #plant n…

How to volunteer with native plants in L.A., Santa Barbara, OC
One of the easiest ways to learn about California native plants is volunteering to get your hands dirty. Here are some opportunities around Los Angeles, Orange and Santa Barbara counties.

It’s not wrong. But it’s not right, either.
“Creating Fluid Typography with the CSS clamp() Function”
https://www.sitepoint.com/fluid-typography-css-clamp-function/#:~…

Creating Fluid Typography with the CSS clamp() Function — SitePoint
We dive into the intricacies of how to use the CSS clamp() function to scale the size of text across a range of device sizes.

OT Unplugged: Community Of Practice Insights
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/ot-unplugged-community-of-practice-insights/

OT Unplugged | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: OT Unplugged: Community Of Practice Insights Hosts: Sarah Collison, Nikki Cousins, and Alyce Svensk Category: Health & Fitness Sub-Category: Alternative & Complementary Health, Careers…

Hi all! Yesterday we did a nice walk around a nearby village. I wanted to practice using foreground. As expected: not too easy!
How low do I have to go, which aperture, are there enough flowers, are they distributed "well" enough.
Is there a midground that contributes positively?
Well. It was a nice opportunity to practice! And this is the result..
#nature

"When civil society becomes unraveled, that’s an invitation to demagogues and grifters of all stripes to come in and collect the spoils."
—Yale Sociology and Religious Studies Professor Philip Gorski in an interview with the YDS journal, Reflections
https://

MM: Different CS publication types:
- "doing CS”, e.g. using CS as a method but paper is describing findings from the project
- "science of citizen science", how is CS done?
- “Mix": presents both the research as well as the practice of CS
- “meta level": discuss CS in a larger context/academic fields
- “other”/“unclear”: Does not fit, or is it even related to CS?
Method: Search WoS (😭) for "citizen science", papers between 2010-22, at least one EU-based author: 1600 papers.

#ecsa2024

“At the dawn of his enlightenment, someone asked the Buddha, "What are your credentials? How do we know that you are enlightened?" He touched his hand to the ground. "This solid earth is my witness. This solid earth, this sane earth, is my witness." Sane and solid and definite, no imaginings, no concepts, no emotions, no frivolity, but being basically what is: this is the awakened state. And this is the example we follow in our meditation practice.” Chögyam Trungpa

CSP Annual Conference and student conference
Join us at Manchester Central Convention Complex on 11-12 October for our annual conference. Book now and you'll save £60 on the ticket price!
https://www.csp.org.uk/news-events/csp-annual-conference

Google is testing "Speaking practice" in Search, which uses a conversational AI bot to let Search Labs users in some countries improve their English skills (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/26/google-improve-e…

Google's new 'Speaking practice' feature uses AI to help users improve their English skills | TechCrunch
Google is testing a new “Speaking practice” feature in Search that helps users improve their conversational English skills.

CACM Is Now Open Access – Communications of the ACM
<https://cacm.acm.org/news/cacm-is-now-open-access-2/>
More than six decades of CACM’s renowned research articles, seminal papers, technical reports, commentaries, real-world practice, and news article…

Trying a new blog thing, a music practice journal. I kind of ran into a bit of a roadblock on my progress and threw up my hands for a bit. Trying to come back to playing again with some dedication and focus, but also looking to see ways to help push a bunch of my pieces over the finish line.
Anyone have any good tips for how to get pieces to a finished state when you are close, but aren't able to reliably play them consistently?

Practice Journal: Getting Stuck
I got stuck; no other way to put it. This has happened a few times, but for the last couple of months, I have just felt that my progress has kind of ground to a halt. I’m flubbing different notes in the same piece each time I sit down. A few of weeks ago, I kind of threw up my hands and walked a way for awhile. At the same time, my daughter started to learn the violin and her teacher provided me some accompianing sheet music, so I basically stopped practicing my pieces for a few weeks and pla…

Over the past decades, we found out that the way we live in the rich countries of the world is not sustainable.
A common reaction is:
"Oh, that's not good. But any solution should:
1) ensure that we can keep living as we do, and
2) not be more expensive than current practice."
#sustainability

Ofcourse results needs to be verified and confirmed in practice but after reading the
MedGemini paper from Google there is no doubt in my mind AI will change the world of medicines. Not replacing people but augmenting them during diagnosis, operations and treatment of patients.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18416

Capabilities of Gemini Models in Medicine
Excellence in a wide variety of medical applications poses considerable challenges for AI, requiring advanced reasoning, access to up-to-date medical knowledge and understanding of complex multimodal data. Gemini models, with strong general capabilities in multimodal and long-context reasoning, offer exciting possibilities in medicine. Building on these core strengths of Gemini, we introduce Med-Gemini, a family of highly capable multimodal models that are specialized in medicine with the abili…

Off my antidepressants for a week due to my nurse practitioner leaving the practice and nobody knowing what to do about it, and a song about suicide by a guy who committed suicide comes on the Apple Music. Cool beans. Glad I’m getting my refill today. https://music.apple.com/us/a…

They’re just getting started. This is the first taste, really. And I hope #Netflix continues to expand their concept of alternative and #global #sports programming. That’s where they can make serious market inroad…

Netflix’s baby steps with live sports, including WWE, look like a practice run for what’s to come 
Netflix sports head Gabe Spitzer said the WWE deal isn't part of its sports strategy, but the broadcasting practice could prepare for future live sports.

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Model Compression in Practice: Lessons Learned from Practitioners Creating On-device Machine Learning Experiences
On-device machine learning (ML) promises to improve the privacy, responsiveness, and proliferation of new, intelligent user experiences by moving ML computation onto everyday personal devices. However, today's large ML models must be drastically compressed to run efficiently on-device, a hurtle that requires deep, yet currently niche expertise. To engage the broader human-centered ML community in on-device ML experiences, we present the results from an interview study with 30 experts at Apple t…

Reports: Former Cowboys OT La’el Collins signing with Bills https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/reports_former_cowboys_ot_lael_collins_signing_with_bills/s1_17236_40196483

Recently I had a unit test that was failing about 10% of the time. The error was a DOM element was not found. Upon further investigation a factory that built a test response built a response 1 in 10 times that didn't produce the DOM element.
Though the behavior of the code was correct I didn't have a clear good best practice in mind for how to allow the factory to generate responses but exclude a specific shape that was invalid.
Would love any links to articles that migh…

Judge denies John Eastman stay of inactive enrollment
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/gravity-of-john-eastmans-transgressions-and-threat-to-the-pu…

'Gravity' of Eastman's 'transgressions' show he can't practice law after disbarment rec: Judge
The judge who issued John Eastman's disbarment recommendation has denied the retired law professor a reprieve, citing the "gravity" of his "transgressions."

This Ford commercial on Twitter has high praise for strategies that are failing in practice: healthcare, housing, environment, education, etc.
But he fails to point out where his government excels - building wait lists. Need a family doctor, join a list. Need support for an autistic child, join 10s of thousands. Wait lists for surgery, complaining about landlord abuse, child care spots or public housing all have impressive growth rates.

Doug Ford (@fordnation) on X
We are so proud to represent the people of Ontario. No matter what part of the province you live in, what matters to you, matters to us. From small business to transit to building homes, your priorities are our priorities. Our team will never stop working for you.

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

Learning to Bid in Forward Electricity Markets Using a No-Regret Algorithm
Arega Getaneh Abate, Dorsa Majdi, Jalal Kazempour, Maryam Kamgarpour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03314

Learning to Bid in Forward Electricity Markets Using a No-Regret Algorithm
It is a common practice in the current literature of electricity markets to use game-theoretic approaches for strategic price bidding. However, they generally rely on the assumption that the strategic bidders have prior knowledge of rival bids, either perfectly or with some uncertainty. This is not necessarily a realistic assumption. This paper takes a different approach by relaxing such an assumption and exploits a no-regret learning algorithm for repeated games. In particular, by using the \e…

Members of the iHeart Podcast Union file an unfair labor practice claim against iHeartMedia; the union represents around 100 producers, hosts, and others (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/b…

Podcast Workers File Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against iHeartMedia
Staffers who are unionized with the Writers Guild of America East are alleging that management has engaged in intimidating behavior and encroached on their rights to discuss their working conditions and their union during break periods.

Enhancing Student Engagement in Large-Scale Capstone Courses: An Experience Report
Asma Shakil, Paul Denny
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03120 https://…

Enhancing Student Engagement in Large-Scale Capstone Courses: An Experience Report
Computer science (CS) capstone courses offer students a valuable opportunity to gain hands-on experience in software development, practice essential soft skills, and enhance their employability prospects. They are a core component in many CS undergraduate degrees and address the ACM curricula requirements of inculcating professional dispositions in students and making them aware of the broader societal implications of computing. However, coordinating a capstone course, especially for a large st…

Events this week in Manchester
We are keen to learn from experiences in the 'majority world' to give us clues as to what an ecologically and socially just society would be like.   That's why SSM is celebrating the contribution of Wangari Maathai this week.  More details below.  See her obituary from the Guardian, September, 2011. Wednesday 6th March, 7.30pm. Alexandra Practice is hosting ‘Taking Root’ …

Events this week in Manchester
We are keen to learn from experiences in the ‘majority world’ to give us clues as to what an ecologically and socially just society would be like.   That’s why SSM is celebrating …

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Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Automated Echocardiography View Recognition: A Holistic Approach
To facilitate diagnosis on cardiac ultrasound (US), clinical practice has established several standard views of the heart, which serve as reference points for diagnostic measurements and define viewports from which images are acquired. Automatic view recognition involves grouping those images into classes of standard views. Although deep learning techniques have been successful in achieving this, they still struggle with fully verifying the suitability of an image for specific measurements due …

🔊 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Jamila Woods feat. Saba:
🎵 Practice
#NowPlaying #JamilaWoods #Saba
https://open.spotify.com/track/6J2ECbAbX4L4WgIkeXyeq6
https://jamilawoodsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/practice-feat-saba

Events this week in Manchester
We are keen to learn from experiences in the 'majority world' to give us clues as to what an ecologically and socially just society would be like.   That's why SSM is celebrating the contribution of Wangari Maathai this week.  More details below.  See her obituary from the Guardian, September, 2011. Wednesday 6th March, 7.30pm. Alexandra Practice is hosting ‘Taking Root’ …

Events this week in Manchester
We are keen to learn from experiences in the ‘majority world’ to give us clues as to what an ecologically and socially just society would be like.   That’s why SSM is celebrating …

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Optimal Transport for Measures with Noisy Tree Metric
We study optimal transport (OT) problem for probability measures supported on a tree metric space. It is known that such OT problem (i.e., tree-Wasserstein (TW)) admits a closed-form expression, but depends fundamentally on the underlying tree structure over supports of input measures. In practice, the given tree structure may be, however, perturbed due to noisy or adversarial measurements. To mitigate this issue, we follow the max-min robust OT approach which considers the maximal possible dis…

Riemannian Covariance Fitting for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation
Joseph S. Picard, Amitay Bar, Ronen Talmon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03401 https://

Riemannian Covariance Fitting for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation
Covariance fitting (CF) is a comprehensive approach for direction of arrival (DoA) estimation, consolidating many common solutions. Standard practice is to use Euclidean criteria for CF, disregarding the intrinsic Hermitian positive-definite (HPD) geometry of the spatial covariance matrices. We assert that this oversight leads to inherent limitations. In this paper, as a remedy, we present a comprehensive study of the use of various Riemannian metrics of HPD matrices in CF. We focus on the adva…

some practice doodles
head angles ambient coloring Matsutake Tokuyuki style

Tricks from the Trade for Large-Scale Markdown Pricing: Heuristic Cut Generation for Lagrangian Decomposition
Robert Streeck, Torsten Gellert, Andreas Schmitt, Asya Dipkaya, Vladimir Fux, Tim Januschowski, Timo Berthold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02996

Tricks from the Trade for Large-Scale Markdown Pricing: Heuristic Cut Generation for Lagrangian Decomposition
In automated decision making processes in the online fashion industry, the 'predict-then-optimize' paradigm is frequently applied, particularly for markdown pricing strategies. This typically involves a mixed-integer optimization step, which is crucial for maximizing profit and merchandise volume. In practice, the size and complexity of the optimization problem is prohibitive for using off-the-shelf solvers for mixed integer programs and specifically tailored approaches are a necessity. Our pap…

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Learning Robust Output Control Barrier Functions from Safe Expert Demonstrations
This paper addresses learning safe output feedback control laws from partial observations of expert demonstrations. We assume that a model of the system dynamics and a state estimator are available along with corresponding error bounds, e.g., estimated from data in practice. We first propose robust output control barrier functions (ROCBFs) as a means to guarantee safety, as defined through controlled forward invariance of a safe set. We then formulate an optimization problem to learn ROCBFs fro…

2023 retro-link! https://sabrinajewson.org/blog/errors - Modular errors in Rust.

The solving degrees for computing Gr\"{o}bner bases of affine semi-regular polynomial sequences
Momonari Kudo, Kazuhiro Yokoyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03530

The solving degrees for computing Gröbner bases of affine semi-regular polynomial sequences
Determining the complexity of computing Gröbner bases is an important problem both in theory and in practice, and for that the solving degree plays a key role. In this paper, we study the solving degrees of affine semi-regular sequences and their homogenized sequences. Some of our results are considered to give mathematically rigorous proofs of the correctness of methods for computing Gröbner bases of the ideal generated by an affine semi-regular sequence. This paper is a sequel of the author…

QED: Scalable Verification of Hardware Memory Consistency
Gokulan Ravi, Xiaokang Qiu, Mithuna Thottethodi, T. N. Vijaykumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03113

QED: Scalable Verification of Hardware Memory Consistency
Memory consistency model (MCM) issues in out-of-order-issue microprocessor-based shared-memory systems are notoriously non-intuitive and a source of hardware design bugs. Prior hardware verification work is limited to in-order-issue processors, to proving the correctness only of some test cases, or to bounded verification that does not scale in practice beyond 7 instructions across all threads. Because cache coherence (i.e., write serialization and atomicity) and pipeline front-end verification…

Former 49ers practice squad player makes history by scoring first UFL touchdown

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/former-49ers-practice-sq…

Former 49ers practice squad player makes history by scoring first UFL touchdown
Isaiah Winstead had the first touchdown and two-point attempt in the UFL

Aligning TCEA Courses to the ISTE Standards: https://tceajmg.micro.blog/2024/05/01/aligning-tcea-courses.html

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Q-adaptive: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Based Routing on Dragonfly Network
on adaptive routing to balance network traffic for optimum performance. Ideally, adaptive routing attempts to forward packets between minimal and non-minimal paths with the least congestion. In practice, current adaptive routing algorithms estimate routing path congestion based on local information such as output queue occupancy. Using local information to estimate global path congestion is inevitably inaccurate because a router has no precise knowledge of link states a few hops away. This inac…

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Beyond Neyman-Pearson: e-values enable hypothesis testing with a data-driven alpha
A standard practice in statistical hypothesis testing is to mention the p-value alongside the accept/reject decision. We show the advantages of mentioning an e-value instead. With p-values, it is not clear how to use an extreme observation (e.g. p $\ll α$) for getting better frequentist decisions. With e-values it is straightforward, since they provide Type-I risk control in a generalized Neyman-Pearson setting with the decision task (a general loss function) determined post-hoc, after observa…

Off my antidepressants for a week due to my nurse practitioner leaving the practice and nobody knowing what to do about it, and a song about suicide by a guy who committed suicide comes on the Apple Music. Cool beans. Glad I’m getting my refill today. https://music.apple.com/us/a…

Bought myself a cheap trombone mouthpiece from Amazon to see if a bigger size worked better for me. It's only been one quick practice of Happy Birthday, but it seems to be easier to play with, especially in the lower register. If this *does* work, I might buy a branded one.
#trombone #practice

WildChat: 1M ChatGPT Interaction Logs in the Wild
Wenting Zhao, Xiang Ren, Jack Hessel, Claire Cardie, Yejin Choi, Yuntian Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01470

WildChat: 1M ChatGPT Interaction Logs in the Wild
Chatbots such as GPT-4 and ChatGPT are now serving millions of users. Despite their widespread use, there remains a lack of public datasets showcasing how these tools are used by a population of users in practice. To bridge this gap, we offered free access to ChatGPT for online users in exchange for their affirmative, consensual opt-in to anonymously collect their chat transcripts and request headers. From this, we compiled WildChat, a corpus of 1 million user-ChatGPT conversations, which consi…

MOre solutions to energy storage as we move to renewable energy #WWS
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/01/thermal…

MOre solutions to energy storage as we move to renewable energy #WWS
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/01/thermal…

You know how you almost never see an advanced chess game really played out? I mean, they play it out to the point where the inevitable loser sees their doom and resigns. The best (or, I guess, 2nd-best?) players see their doom well before beginners will. Some people even see the practice of grinding out an inevitable end-game as amateurish and rude.
Quite different in life. Once one notes that the remainder is doomed to be an unpleasant slide into the grave, people get all suicide-wat…

@… I don’t represent Netlify but I also wouldn’t want to try to defend this practice

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Model Compression in Practice: Lessons Learned from Practitioners Creating On-device Machine Learning Experiences
On-device machine learning (ML) promises to improve the privacy, responsiveness, and proliferation of new, intelligent user experiences by moving ML computation onto everyday personal devices. However, today's large ML models must be drastically compressed to run efficiently on-device, a hurtle that requires deep, yet currently niche expertise. To engage the broader human-centered ML community in on-device ML experiences, we present the results from an interview study with 30 experts at Apple t…

If you're annoyed by #DST, spare a thought for Montaigne, who found Italian cities disagreed on whether mechanical clocks should start from 0 at sunrise or noon.
#JacquesLeGoff, "Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages": a classic I often think about.

Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages : Jacques Le Goff : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Reports: Bills sign veteran OT La'el Collins https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/reports_bills_sign_veteran_ot_lael_collins/s1_17049_40197207

Reports: Bills sign veteran OT La'el Collins
The Buffalo Bills have signed veteran offensive tackle La'el Collins to a one-year contract, multiple media outlets reported Thursday. Collins, 30, did not play in a game last season, spending 20 days on the Dallas Cowboys' practice squad in January during their run to the playoffs. He began his NFL career with the Cowboys, starting 71 of 74 games from 2015-21 but missing all of the 2020 season due to injury. The NFL suspended him for five weeks in September 2021 for violating the substance abu…

In tonight's sitting I was reminded how, for me these days, #meditation is matter-of-factly less about gaining a special state or a deeper relaxation, and more about participating appreciatively in what's present. The terms for that can sound exotic, like "suchness practice," but the practical experience brings a renewed regard for, as an example, Dōgen's instruction:

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Scalable tensor methods for nonuniform hypergraphs
While multilinear algebra appears natural for studying the multiway interactions modeled by hypergraphs, tensor methods for general hypergraphs have been stymied by theoretical and practical barriers. A recently proposed adjacency tensor is applicable to nonuniform hypergraphs, but is prohibitively costly to form and analyze in practice. We develop tensor times same vector (TTSV) algorithms for this tensor which improve complexity from $O(n^r)$ to a low-degree polynomial in $r$, where $n$ is th…

The least religious and least sexually repressed US state, Vermont, also has some of the lowest rates of STDs and unplanned pregnancies.
That parallels results from Europe where very sex-positive cultures practice much more responsible sex than repressed ones.

Differentially Private Verification of Survey-Weighted Estimates
Tong Lin, Jerome P. Reiter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02519 https://…

Differentially Private Verification of Survey-Weighted Estimates
Several official statistics agencies release synthetic data as public use microdata files. In practice, synthetic data do not admit accurate results for every analysis. Thus, it is beneficial for agencies to provide users with feedback on the quality of their analyses of the synthetic data. One approach is to couple synthetic data with a verification server that provides users with measures of the similarity of estimates computed with the synthetic and underlying confidential data. However, suc…

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FAIR-USE4OS: Guidelines for Creating Impactful Open-Source Software
This paper extends the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) guidelines to provide criteria for assessing if software conforms to best practices in open source. By adding 'USE' (User-Centered, Sustainable, Equitable), software development can adhere to open source best practice by incorporating user-input early on, ensuring front-end designs are accessible to all possible stakeholders, and planning long-term sustainability alongside software design. The FAIR-USE4OS guidelines wil…

Austin City Council adopts resolution protecting transgender residents | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/austin-city-council-adopts-resolution-protecting-transgender-residents/

Austin City Council adopts resolution protecting transgender residents
Texas' capital city voted to adopt a measure providing some protections to transgender people seeking gender-affirming care despite state laws against the practice.

Raiders rookie Jackson Powers-Johnson couldn't help but laugh at draft rumors surrounding him https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_rookie_jackson_powers_johnson_couldnt_…

Raiders rookie Jackson Powers-Johnson couldn't help but laugh at draft rumors surrounding him
The Las Vegas Raiders, demonstrating their strategic prowess, secured the best player available in the second round, offensive guard Jackson Powers-Johnson. Despite his projected first-round status, the Raiders seized the opportunity to add a long-time Raiders fan to their roster. The other reason he fell that low was apparently because of some injury concerns from others. When he was at the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama, JPJ left the second practice with a hamstring injury. It's worth noting …

[Hätte ich mir letztes Jahr auch denken können, dass dieses Kunstwerk am Flughafen Toronto Pearsons von Richard Serra ist: Tilted Spheres. https://www.torontopearson.com/en/while-you-are-here/art-and-culture/current-art/tilted-spheres

Tilted Spheres
In the early 1970s, Richard Serra began working with steel, the material that would define his influential artistic practice through the monumentality of his sculptures.

Hope Is a Practice and a Discipline: Building a Path to a Counterculture of Care - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly https://nonprofitquarterly.org/hope-is-a-practice-and-a-discipline-building-a-path-to-a-counterculture…

Hope Is a Practice and a Discipline: Building a Path to a Counterculture of Care - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
We are wading through hell and high water, tasked with dreaming new worlds into being while the worlds we have known fall down around us. Here, on the edge of everything, the work of cultivating hope and purpose, of anchoring people to one another, is as important now as it has ever been, at any time in human history—because without those efforts, we would be lost in the dark.

Virtual Sectorization to Enable Hybrid Beamforming in mm-Wave mMIMO
Roman Bychkov, Andrey Dergachev, Alexander Osinsky, Vladimir Lyashev, Andrey Ivanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02161

Virtual Sectorization to Enable Hybrid Beamforming in mm-Wave mMIMO
Hybrid beamforming (HBF) is a key technology to enable mm-wave Massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) receivers for future-generation wireless communications. It combines beamforming in both analog (via phase shifters) and digital domains, resulting in low power consumption and high spectral efficiency. In practice, the problem of joint beamforming in multi-user scenarios is still open because an analog beam can't cover all users simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical …

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Cardinal-Utility Matching Markets: The Quest for Envy-Freeness, Pareto-Optimality, and Efficient Computability
Unlike ordinal-utility matching markets, which are well-developed from the viewpoint of both theory and practice, recent insights from a computer science perspective have left cardinal-utility matching markets in a state of flux. The celebrated pricing-based mechanism for one-sided cardinal-utility matching markets due to Hylland and Zeckhauser, which had long eluded efficient algorithms, was finally shown to be intractable; the problem of computing an approximate equilibrium is PPAD-complete. …

IF there was just one thing which I could tell my younger self, it would be read more #Braille and get your reading speed up. #Blind Braille learners, practice makes better. Don't put it off. Read with both hands, and get that speed up. You will thank yourself later.

Hey docker heads, what's best practice: Running your whole lampp stack (apache, php, db) in one project, or several compose files?

some practice doodles
head angles ambient coloring Matsutake Tokuyuki style

Oh hey, I am presenting at AccessU (second half of Tuesday, 14 May):
https://knowbility.org/programs/accessu-2024/prototyping-accessibility
I don’t do well in heat, so mostly it’s worth it to see my bald scalp function as a little dribbling s…

Prototyping Accessibility — Knowbility
An introduction to digital accessibility concepts and approaches, specifying a minimal user interface element for practice. No code or computers needed (nor used).

Until now, the focus of #energy #storage for industry has been mainly on giant conventional batteries
But there’s growing interest in
💥storing energy in the form of #heat💥
– and that’s where the everyday ingredients such a…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01672 has been replaced.
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Pseudo-inverse reconstruction of bandlimited signals from nonuniform generalized samples with orthogonal kernels
Contrary to the traditional pursuit of research on nonuniform sampling of bandlimited signals, the objective of the present paper is not to find sampling conditions that permit perfect reconstruction, but to perform the best possible signal recovery from any given set of nonuniform samples, whether it is finite as in practice, or infinite to achieve the possibility of unique reconstruction in $L^2({\mathbb R})$. This leads us to consider the pseudo-inverse of the whole sampling map as a linear …

SEED: Customize Large Language Models with Sample-Efficient Adaptation for Code Generation
Xue Jiang, Yihong Dong, Zhi Jin, Ge Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00046

SEED: Customize Large Language Models with Sample-Efficient Adaptation for Code Generation
Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in code generation, they still struggle with code generation tasks in specific scenarios. These scenarios usually necessitate the adaptation of LLMs to fulfill specific needs, but the limited training data available in practice leads to poor code generation performance. How to effectively adapt LLMs to new scenarios with fewer training samples is a major challenge for current code generation. In this paper, we propose a novel …

Agora Elevator Bodily Sensation Study -- a report
Rebekah Rousi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03356 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.03356

Agora Elevator Bodily Sensation Study -- a report
This study set out to examine the relationship between expressed social emotions (i.e. that what people say they are feeling) and physical sensations, the connection between emotion and bodily experience. It additionally provided the opportunity to investigate how the neurological findings of gender differences can be observed in practice, what difference does it make in behaviour and judgment that we have varying levels of mirror neuron activity? The following report documents the study, proce…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09094 has been replaced.
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High confidence inference on the probability an individual benefits from treatment using experimental or observational data with known propensity scores
We seek to understand the probability an individual benefits from treatment (PIBT), an inestimable quantity that must be bounded in practice. Given the innate uncertainty in the population-level bounds on PIBT, we seek to better understand the margin of error for their estimation in order to discern whether the estimated bounds on PIBT are tight or wide due to random chance or not. Toward this goal, we present guarantees to the estimation of bounds on marginal PIBT, with any threshold of intere…

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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18759 has been replaced.
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Towards A Structured Overview of Use Cases for Natural Language Processing in the Legal Domain: A German Perspective
In recent years, the field of Legal Tech has risen in prevalence, as the Natural Language Processing (NLP) and legal disciplines have combined forces to digitalize legal processes. Amidst the steady flow of research solutions stemming from the NLP domain, the study of use cases has fallen behind, leading to a number of innovative technical methods without a place in practice. In this work, we aim to build a structured overview of Legal Tech use cases, grounded in NLP literature, but also supple…

“With any practice on the path, how are you relate with it makes an enormous difference.lf you become dogmatic and snobbish about a practice, thinking it is the higher way, it may become a problem.“ Chögyam Trungpa

[Hätte ich mir letztes Jahr auch denken können, dass dieses Kunstwerk am Flughafen Toronto Pearsons von Richard Serra ist: Tilted Spheres. https://www.torontopearson.com/en/while-you-are-here/art-and-culture/current-art/tilted-spheres

Tilted Spheres
In the early 1970s, Richard Serra began working with steel, the material that would define his influential artistic practice through the monumentality of his sculptures.

Agora Elevator Bodily Sensation Study -- a report
Rebekah Rousi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03356 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.03356

Agora Elevator Bodily Sensation Study -- a report
This study set out to examine the relationship between expressed social emotions (i.e. that what people say they are feeling) and physical sensations, the connection between emotion and bodily experience. It additionally provided the opportunity to investigate how the neurological findings of gender differences can be observed in practice, what difference does it make in behaviour and judgment that we have varying levels of mirror neuron activity? The following report documents the study, proce…

I did my 48th(!) intensive #meditation retreat last week, and I hear in Hironari's post something that resonates for me—how much contemplative practice is about a profoundly simple engagement with the living truth.
And I'm reminded too of a line in the 1981 movie "Chariots of Fire," where the Christian sister of an Olympic runner is concerned about him practicing on Sun…

Data-Efficient Unsupervised Interpolation Without Any Intermediate Frame for 4D Medical Images
JungEun Kim, Hangyul Yoon, Geondo Park, Kyungsu Kim, Eunho Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01464

Data-Efficient Unsupervised Interpolation Without Any Intermediate Frame for 4D Medical Images
4D medical images, which represent 3D images with temporal information, are crucial in clinical practice for capturing dynamic changes and monitoring long-term disease progression. However, acquiring 4D medical images poses challenges due to factors such as radiation exposure and imaging duration, necessitating a balance between achieving high temporal resolution and minimizing adverse effects. Given these circumstances, not only is data acquisition challenging, but increasing the frame rate fo…

The Hunt Report: 2024 HBCU Combine, Legacy Bowl practice standouts

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/the-hunt-report-2024-hbcu-combine-legacy…

The Hunt Report: 2024 HBCU Combine, Legacy Bowl practice standouts
You may not know these prospects, but NFL scouts sure do

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03247 has been replaced.
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Multivariate selfsimilarity: Multiscale eigen-structures for selfsimilarity parameter estimation
Scale-free dynamics, formalized by selfsimilarity, provides a versatile paradigm massively and ubiquitously used to model temporal dynamics in real-world data. However, its practical use has mostly remained univariate so far. By contrast, modern applications often demand multivariate data analysis. Accordingly, models for multivariate selfsimilarity were recently proposed. Nevertheless, they have remained rarely used in practice because of a lack of available robust estimation procedures for th…

Cowboys CB sends NFL warning with return of former interceptions leader https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_cb_sends_nfl_warning_with_return_of_former_interceptions_leader/s1_13132_40314532

Cowboys CB sends NFL warning with return of former interceptions leader
Cowboys two-time Pro Bowl cornerback Trevon Diggs' 2023 season ended before it started after he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during a practice in September. It was a big blow to Dallas' defense as he was ruled out for the season, having surgery to repair it in October. However, his absence helped another young cornerback have a breakout season. DaRon Bland, a fifth-round pick in 2022, led the league with nine interceptions and set an NFL record with five interception ret…

JailbreakBench: An Open Robustness Benchmark for Jailbreaking Large Language Models
Patrick Chao, Edoardo Debenedetti, Alexander Robey, Maksym Andriushchenko, Francesco Croce, Vikash Sehwag, Edgar Dobriban, Nicolas Flammarion, George J. Pappas, Florian Tramer, Hamed Hassani, Eric Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01318

JailbreakBench: An Open Robustness Benchmark for Jailbreaking Large Language Models
Jailbreak attacks cause large language models (LLMs) to generate harmful, unethical, or otherwise objectionable content. Evaluating these attacks presents a number of challenges, which the current collection of benchmarks and evaluation techniques do not adequately address. First, there is no clear standard of practice regarding jailbreaking evaluation. Second, existing works compute costs and success rates in incomparable ways. And third, numerous works are not reproducible, as they withhold a…

I keep forgetting to mention that I am doing a workshop at #AccessU in a couple weeks:
https://knowbility.org/programs/accessu-2024/prototyping-accessibility

Prototyping Accessibility — Knowbility
An introduction to digital accessibility concepts and approaches, specifying a minimal user interface element for practice. No code or computers needed (nor used).

DLAP: A Deep Learning Augmented Large Language Model Prompting Framework for Software Vulnerability Detection
Yanjing Yang, Xin Zhou, Runfeng Mao, Jinwei Xu, Lanxin Yang, Yu Zhangm, Haifeng Shen, He Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01202

DLAP: A Deep Learning Augmented Large Language Model Prompting Framework for Software Vulnerability Detection
Software vulnerability detection is generally supported by automated static analysis tools, which have recently been reinforced by deep learning (DL) models. However, despite the superior performance of DL-based approaches over rule-based ones in research, applying DL approaches to software vulnerability detection in practice remains a challenge due to the complex structure of source code, the black-box nature of DL, and the domain knowledge required to understand and validate the black-box res…

I keep forgetting to mention that I am doing a workshop at #AccessU in a couple weeks:
https://knowbility.org/programs/accessu-2024/prototyping-accessibility

Prototyping Accessibility — Knowbility
An introduction to digital accessibility concepts and approaches, specifying a minimal user interface element for practice. No code or computers needed (nor used).

DLAP: A Deep Learning Augmented Large Language Model Prompting Framework for Software Vulnerability Detection
Yanjing Yang, Xin Zhou, Runfeng Mao, Jinwei Xu, Lanxin Yang, Yu Zhangm, Haifeng Shen, He Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01202

DLAP: A Deep Learning Augmented Large Language Model Prompting Framework for Software Vulnerability Detection
Software vulnerability detection is generally supported by automated static analysis tools, which have recently been reinforced by deep learning (DL) models. However, despite the superior performance of DL-based approaches over rule-based ones in research, applying DL approaches to software vulnerability detection in practice remains a challenge due to the complex structure of source code, the black-box nature of DL, and the domain knowledge required to understand and validate the black-box res…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05292 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

How to Teach Programming in the AI Era? Using LLMs as a Teachable Agent for Debugging
Large Language Models (LLMs) now excel at generative skills and can create content at impeccable speeds. However, they are imperfect and still make various mistakes. In a Computer Science education context, as these models are widely recognized as "AI pair programmers," it becomes increasingly important to train students on evaluating and debugging the LLM-generated code. In this work, we introduce HypoCompass, a novel system to facilitate deliberate practice on debugging, where human novices p…

Characterizing Dependency Update Practice of NPM, PyPI and Cargo Packages
Imranur Rahman, Nusrat Zahan, Stephen Magill, William Enck, Laurie Williams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17382

Characterizing Dependency Update Practice of NPM, PyPI and Cargo Packages
Keeping dependencies up-to-date prevents software supply chain attacks through outdated and vulnerable dependencies. Developers may use packages' dependency update practice as one of the selection criteria for choosing a package as a dependency. However, the lack of metrics characterizing packages' dependency update practice makes this assessment difficult. To measure the up-to-date characteristics of packages, we focus on the dependency management aspect and propose two update metrics: Time-Ou…