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Politics (in general)
If you ever needed a short answer on how right-wing politics differs from the left-wing politics:
The essence of right-wing politics is the conviction that it is the most important to help the rich (and other privileged people), because if they became even more sickly rich, it is bound that some of that will finally start trickling down on everyone. And if it doesn't, then it's all fault of the people who aren't white cis hetero males — of given nationality, faith and right-wing views.
On the other hand, the left-wing views are based on weird ideas such as that all people are equal, nobody should be privileged and that everyone deserves to live.
#politics

"Come to mind the names of violent battles: DR-DOS, Taligent, AmigaOS, Newton OS, Windows for Pen Computing, Copland, Vino, NeXTSTEP, Novell NetWare, JavaOS, BeOS, DoJ vs Microsoft, Rhapsody, POSIX, Linux is communism, Linux is a cancer, Samizdat, Windows Vista, SCO, Symbian, Solaris, OpenSolaris, systemd, Windows Phone, MeeGo, Tizen, Firefox OS, Sailfish OS. Countless mythical man-month hours were lost. Millions of lines of code were fired."

Distilling Privileged Information for Dubins Traveling Salesman Problems with Neighborhoods
Min Kyu Shin, Su-Jeong Park, Seung-Keol Ryu, Heeyeon Kim, Han-Lim Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16721

Distilling Privileged Information for Dubins Traveling Salesman Problems with Neighborhoods
This paper presents a novel learning approach for Dubins Traveling Salesman Problems(DTSP) with Neighborhood (DTSPN) to quickly produce a tour of a non-holonomic vehicle passing through neighborhoods of given task points. The method involves two learning phases: initially, a model-free reinforcement learning approach leverages privileged information to distill knowledge from expert trajectories generated by the LinKernighan heuristic (LKH) algorithm. Subsequently, a supervised learning phase tr…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04916 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

Correcting Diffusion-Based Perceptual Image Compression with Privileged End-to-End Decoder
The images produced by diffusion models can attain excellent perceptual quality. However, it is challenging for diffusion models to guarantee distortion, hence the integration of diffusion models and image compression models still needs more comprehensive explorations. This paper presents a diffusion-based image compression method that employs a privileged end-to-end decoder model as correction, which achieves better perceptual quality while guaranteeing the distortion to an extent. We build a …

Raise your privileged hand if you're willing to 'fight to the last Ukrainian' (Douglas MacKinnon/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4473663-raise-your-privileged-hand-if-youre-willing-to-fight-to-the-last-ukrainian/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240217/p19#a240217p19

A bill to protect IVF? I said looong ago there’s a huge chunk of the US that won’t be bothered to fight for repro rights until IVF is threatened.
Sorrynotsorry—if a fertilized embryo in a uterus is a person, a fertilized embryo in a dish/tube is, too. If you’re fighting for folks to be able to make their own repro decisions w/o government interference, you must fight for EVERYONE. Not just a privileged minority.

The Reddit user is questioning the focus on authenticated vulnerability scans, especially in cases where an InfoSec program is still developing. The user argues that such scans, which require privileged access, may contribute to vulnerability fatigue in an immature organization. They suggest a primary focus on threats not requiring privileged access, similar to securing a building against an intruder without keys. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1bp383a/

SLIGHT rant about how Nostr works and comparing it to BlueSky, Fedi, and other platforms in terms of moderation.
Well, I just learned a bit about Nostr.
It's basically "Bluesky, but FOSS". You have your account that has more control of moderation for the user.
The difference is that on Nostr nobody can "ban" per se because nobody has control over each other. It's block and mute. That's your moderation and you do it yourself. Nobody does it for you, unlike Fedi or BlueSky.
I gotta say, that's where a lot of you really need to go to have your eyes opened to what the Fediverse is really like for those of us on single user instances and the sheer amount of work unpaid moderators and admins do here to keep these instances as "nasty shit free" as they can.
Awhile back I kept seeing things like "Other platforms have moderation issues, there's CP and all kinds of other nasty stuff there".
There's all that here too, you're just privileged to have people with massive amounts of passion for this place and do the unpaid work to block and remove all that shit.
If you actually had any control in what you're allowed to see or not see, it can end up being the wild west for all things bad. Which is okay for those who don't mind blocking and muting endlessly (What Fediverse unpaid mods and admins do every day), but I'd bet a lot of you won't want to do that because it sounds HARD and potentially gross and traumatic.
So, whenever you think "that other platform is bad because their moderation sucks". Maybe, just maybe, think about if you would want to sit there all day looking at nasty shit like CP and other sexual crimes/hate speech/scams/etc. and have a little sympathy for the actual people who do. Because it sucks and it does exist here, you just don't see it.
#Fediverse #Nostr #Fedi #BlueSky #Threads #Moderation #Mastodon

Learning using privileged information for segmenting tumors on digital mammograms
Ioannis N. Tzortzis, Konstantinos Makantasis, Ioannis Rallis, Nikolaos Bakalos, Anastasios Doulamis, Nikolaos Doulamis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06379

Learning using privileged information for segmenting tumors on digital mammograms
Limited amount of data and data sharing restrictions, due to GDPR compliance, constitute two common factors leading to reduced availability and accessibility when referring to medical data. To tackle these issues, we introduce the technique of Learning Using Privileged Information. Aiming to substantiate the idea, we attempt to build a robust model that improves the segmentation quality of tumors on digital mammograms, by gaining privileged information knowledge during the training procedure. T…

Warning: this thread from the absolutely brilliant @… is not for the faint-hearted, or those expecting a baby, but it's a useful reminder, for those of us in the privileged world, just how dangerous childbirth is. And how far we've come with modern medicine. And how much we should support

Raise your privileged hand if you're willing to 'fight to the last Ukrainian' (Douglas MacKinnon/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4473663-raise-your-privileged-hand-if-youre-willing-to-fight-to-the-last-ukrainian/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240217/p19#a240217p19

My video passed 1,000 views just after 3 days & 20h! While that’s absolutely nothing on YouTube, my first video took a week – progress!
More importantly, I have to thank y’all because I’m absolutely bringing my own audience (66% of my viewers are external) while hoping that The Algorithm finds the right pigeonhole for me & starts sending significant & RELEVANT traffic to my videos eVeNtUaLlY.
So, THANK YOU again! I know I’m super privileged compared to starting from 0…

can't believe it that there is no live stream for #realwordcrypto - #iacr please i beg you think of those that are not privileged to be there in person...

Those of us who are privileged to know Black women are NOT surprised. ❤️ https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/111938268565123180

Trump als marionet van een club christelijke witte rijke hetero mannen. Complot of complottheorie? https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/112128364159090445

The retail price of a luxury #ebike is less than the value the average US car loses the moment it's driven off the sales lot
The fact that we pour billions of public dollars into propping up a transportation system that virtually requires car ownership for all but the most privileged--when cheap, safe, fun alternatives are easily available--is criminal

I remember! I remember and ponder "battles won". Social progress is mostly full of two steps forward and one slip back. I am lucky and privileged. Reading and learning about social progress is heartening.
#SocialProgress #SocialJustice

Let's take back the right to travel across countryside which belongs to all of us and not just a privileged minority of absentee landlords!
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/unlock-england-s-countryside-introduce-a-right-to-ro…

Did you know only 8% of England’s countryside has a right of public access? And only 3% of our rivers?
Sign this petition from @Right2Roam calling for access reform this election. We shouldn’t be shut out of our own country, or risk being told off for going for a swim! We need access for everyone.

I’m due an assessment for #adhd soon and I’ve been thinking… I couldn’t concentrate on my school work unless I was in a room on my own in absolute silence. I was fortunate to have my own bedroom. It’s just another example of how less privileged kids are already onto a loser compared to wealthier peers. Gotta love those guys that confidently declare themselves to be ‘self made men’.

So, back from viewing the total eclipse (we finally got back back slightly after midnight)
And I could probably write a whole trip report but I will summarize thusly:
If you ever are fortunate enough to have the chance to see a total eclipse, f’ing do it.
I was grateful I was privileged and lucky enough to have been able to travel and see it. It was amazing.

Trump als marionet van een club christelijke witte rijke hetero mannen. Complot of complottheorie? https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/112128364159090445

If COVID19 was a child, it would be entering preschool pretty soon. Well, if a privileged child.
Also - it would be b100.

Observational characterisation of large-scale transport and horizontal turbulent diffusivity in the quiet Sun
F. Rincon (IRAP, CNRS,Universit\'e de Toulouse), P. Barr\`ere (IRAP, CNRS,Universit\'e de Toulouse AIM Universit\'e Paris-Saclay, Universit\'e Paris Cit\'e, CNRS), T. Roudier (IRAP, CNRS,Universit\'e de Toulouse)
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Observational characterisation of large-scale transport and horizontal turbulent diffusivity in the quiet Sun
The Sun is a magnetic star, and the only spatio-temporally resolved astrophysical system displaying turbulent MHD thermal convection. This makes it a privileged object of study to understand fluid turbulence in extreme regimes and its interactions with magnetic fields. Global analyses of high-resolution solar observations provided by the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory can shed light on the physical processes underlying large-scale emergent phenomena such as the solar dynamo cycle. Combining a …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11355 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Spectral chaos bounds from scaling theory of maximally efficient quantum-dynamical scrambling
A key conjecture about the evolution of complex quantum systems towards an ergodic steady state, known as scrambling, is that this process acquires universal features when it is most efficient. We develop a single-parameter scaling theory for the spectral statistics in this scenario, which embodies exact self-similarity of the spectral correlations along the complete scrambling dynamics. We establish that the scaling predictions are matched by a privileged stochastic process, and serve as bound…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10296 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Formal Security Analysis of the AMD SEV-SNP Software Interface
AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization technologies enable confidential computing by protecting virtual machines from highly privileged software such as hypervisors. In this work, we develop the first, comprehensive symbolic model of the software interface of the latest SEV iteration called SEV Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP). Our model covers remote attestation, key derivation, page swap and live migration. We analyze the security of the software interface of SEV-SNP by verifying critical secrecy,…

Correcting Diffusion-Based Perceptual Image Compression with Privileged End-to-End Decoder
Yiyang Ma, Wenhan Yang, Jiaying Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04916

Correcting Diffusion-Based Perceptual Image Compression with Privileged End-to-End Decoder
The images produced by diffusion models can attain excellent perceptual quality. However, it is challenging for diffusion models to guarantee distortion, hence the integration of diffusion models and image compression models still needs more comprehensive explorations. This paper presents a diffusion-based image compression method that employs a privileged end-to-end decoder model as correction, which achieves better perceptual quality while guaranteeing the distortion to an extent. We build a …

The post discusses measures for added security for high-value targets (HVTs) like the CEO. Apart from privileged access for IT and devs, additional potential solutions include regular device checks, tailored awareness trainings, security keys, and stronger passwords. The user also considers advice to stop using wearables in meetings and removing electronics from sensitive discussions. They ask for community input on extra security measures. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1bk1076/

I remember! I remember and ponder "battles won". Social progress is mostly full of two steps forward and one slip back. I am lucky and privileged. Reading and learning about social progress is heartening.
#SocialProgress #SocialJustice

Formal Security Analysis of the AMD SEV-SNP Software Interface
Petar Parad\v{z}ik, Ante Derek, Marko Horvat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10296 https://

Formal Security Analysis of the AMD SEV-SNP Software Interface
AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization technologies enable confidential computing by protecting virtual machines from highly privileged software such as hypervisors. In this work, we develop the first, comprehensive symbolic model of the software interface of the latest SEV iteration called SEV Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP). Our model covers remote attestation, key derivation, page swap and live migration. We analyze the security of the software interface of SEV-SNP by verifying critical secrecy,…

Constants of motion characterizing continuous symmetry-broken phases
\'Angel L. Corps, Jorge Dukelsky, Armando Rela\~no
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09248

Constants of motion characterizing continuous symmetry-broken phases
We present a theory characterizing the phases emerging as a consequence of continuous symmetry-breaking in quantum and classical systems. In symmetry-breaking phases, dynamics is restricted due to the existence of a set of conserved charges derived from the order parameter of the phase transition. Their expectation values are determined by the privileged direction appearing in the ordered phase as a consequence of symmetry breaking, and thus they can be used to determine whether this direction …