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Embracing #OpenTelemetry: A Step-by-Step guide to transitioning from #Micrometer to OpenTelemetry using #SpringBoot and Buildpacks

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Koxo:
🎵 Step by step
#Koxo
https://open.spotify.com/track/7zzpno7uAqkAzWZDQuGEFA
https://reelaks.bandcamp.com/track/koxo-step-by-step-reelaks-remiks

5 Cowboys who need to step up in 2024 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/lists/5-cowboys-who-need-to-step-up-in-2024/

5 Cowboys who need to step up in 2024
It’s been a slow burn for the Dallas Cowboys this offseason. The team has lost a number of free agents, while only adding one player from outside the organization, and re-signing only a few o…

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…

Based on their 5-Step plan to evoke 'better' ideas from teams appealing to #ChatGPT (step 5 is "confirm by other sources") and looking at their methodology, I'm not convince we wouldn't get the same results using Brian Eno's @…

howtofixit.ai
How to use AI to solve problems better

💧 ProtoDUNE's argon filling underway, a significant step toward next era of neutrino research
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-protodune-argon-underway-significant-era.html

ProtoDUNE's argon filling underway, a significant step toward next era of neutrino research
CERN's Neutrino Platform houses a prototype of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) known as ProtoDUNE, which is designed to test and validate the technologies that will be applied to the construction of the DUNE experiment in the United States.

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to step down in wake of cabin panel blowout
The CEO of #Boeing has announced plans to #resign amid a sweeping overhaul of the planemaker’s management as it fights to repair its reputation following a terrifying cabin panel blowout.
Dave Calhoun will step down at the end of this year. Lar…

Generative AI, Free Speech, & Public Discourse: Why the Academy Must Step Forward | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/generative-ai-free-speech-public-discourse-why-the-academy-must-step-forward

Just updated the video on my Streaming HTML article so it’s no longer using Vimeo’s video player (which has tracking) but a simple video tag.
https://ar.al/2024/03/08/streaming-html/
(Sorry it took a little while, it involves a bit more work – but not much more – than si…

Streaming HTML
Building the Streaming HTML counter example. Estimated reading time: 25 minutes. Kitten has a new experimental workflow for creating web apps called Streaming HTML that I want to introduce you to today. Kitten, uniquely, enables you to build Small Web apps (peer-to-peer web apps). But it also aims to make creating any type of web app as easy as possible. The new Streaming HTML workflow is a big step in realising this goal.

SBU head predicts future operations in Russia, says Ukraine 'never repeats itself': https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/26/sbu-head-predicts.html

#AI generates high-quality #images 30 times faster in a single step
Novel method makes tools like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E-3 faster by simplifying the image-generating process to a single step while maintaining or enhancing image quality.

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General Optimal Step-size for ADMM-type Algorithms: Domain Parametrization and Optimal Rates
In this work, we solve a 49-year open problem, the general optimal step-size for ADMM-type algorithms. For a convex program: $\text{min.} \,\, f({x}) + g({z})$, $\text{s.t.}\, {A}{x} - {B}{z} = {c} $, given an arbitrary fixed-point initialization $ ζ^0 $, an optimal step-size choice is given by a root of the following polynomial: \begin{equation*} ρ^4\Vert {A}{x}^\star\Vert^2 - ρ^3\langle {A}{x}^\star, ζ^0\rangle + ρ\langle λ^\star,ζ^0\rangle - \Vertλ^\star\Vert^2 = 0, \end{equation…

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.

"When that old order fell, it took the form of a well-earned landslide, and a clear step towards something genuinely new. After a decade and a half, the Bute House Agreement breathed new life into those fading hopes. Now it seems more likely that real change will come crawling out of a tomb, in a faded red rosette"
#ScotPol

Scotland’s old order plots a restoration
In 1985, Neal Ascherson compared the different attitudes which the English and the Scots have to their national histories. When the English think of their past, he argued, they “are gazing from the te

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Making Reasoning Matter: Measuring and Improving Faithfulness of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to perform better when asked to reason step-by-step before answering a question. However, it is unclear to what degree the model's final answer is faithful to the stated reasoning steps. In this paper, we perform a causal mediation analysis on twelve LLMs to examine how intermediate reasoning steps generated by the LLM influence the final outcome and find that LLMs do not reliably use their intermediate reasoning steps when generating an answer. To a…

In light of massive public expenditure on the maintenance of infrastructure necessary for personal automobiles, not to mention the climate crisis, I've long thought that free commercial parking in cities is an abomination. If you happen to live in Toronto, you may wish to send a message to your councillor asking that the city implement a commercial parking levy for the support of the TTC.

TAKE ACTION: Tell your City Councillor and the Mayor to fund transit with a Commercial Parking Lot Levy
Act now: tell your Member of Parliament to step up and support a new funding deal for Toronto to help meet our climate goals, and make our city more liveable, affordable, and resilient for all.

Advancing BDD Software Testing: Dynamic Scenario Re-Usability And Step Auto-Complete For Cucumber Framework
A. H. Mughal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15928 h…

Advancing BDD Software Testing: Dynamic Scenario Re-Usability And Step Auto-Complete For Cucumber Framework
This paper presents and implements the re-usability of scenarios within scenarios for behavior-driven development (BDD) Gherkin test scripts in the Cucumber Java framework. Though the focus of the presented work is on scenario re-usability through an implementation within the Cucumber BDD Java framework, the paper also dives a little into the limitations of Cucumber single-threaded scenario execution model. This implementation increases the modularity and efficiency of the test suite. The paper…

Micro-Reflections: Crafting Reflections in the Moment #tcea #tceajmg: https://tceajmg.…

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As SCOTUS continues to play TFG's game of sillybugger, let's not lose sight of the fact that Trump only cares about himself and only cares sbout immunity for himself.
Nothing would be so perfect to him as an immunity law so narrow as to apply only to him.
Jail is too good for TFG, but it's a step in a good direction.
Vote for Democracy!

Wow! Affinity are obviously listening to their market! I just got an email stating a 4 point pledge. Part 1 is the most important and includes this:
"If we do offer a subscription, it will only ever be as an option alongside the perpetual model, for those who prefer it. "
Hurrah!!!
Well done Affinity!

New #EV models from BMW will support bi-directional charging from 2025. As a first step, the #V2H and #V2G functions will be made available with a DC wallbox and dynamic tariff from a selected partner in selected ma…

Neue Energie für Neue Klasse: E-Autos als Energiespeicher
+++ Bidirektionales Laden kommt mit Neue Klasse Modellen +++ Nächster Technologiehub in punkto Intelligentes Laden +++ Neue Funktionen für Charging Ökosystem BMW Connected Home Charging +++

I'm planning make a rain cover for the new #Cetma (paying $500 for a rain cover feels weird when I spent $600 for the entire bike). However, I'm hoping to not have to sew or really expend much effort. So far, I've got 6mm tent poles, a double side-by-side stroller rain cover, and some metal snaps. The stroller cover fits nicely even on the 32" wide box. I still need to figure …

Jamie (he/she/they) (@Jamie@friendsofdesoto.social)
Attached: 3 images Part 2b of my #cargoBike canopy project progress: I’ve installed 3 of 4 windows and 1 of 4 zippers. The going is slow as I obsess about trying to get every step correct before proceeding. This project has already seen me through some firsts: 1st zipper, 1st industrial sewing machine. I’m using my regular machine for tight zigzags on the edges to prevent ravelry. Bonus! I brought the center panel to the #ArtShantyProject wrap event and got a cool screen print on it à …

Generalized Step-Chirp Sequences With Flexible Bandwidth
Cheng Du, Yi Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16327 https://arxiv.org/pdf/24…

Generalized Step-Chirp Sequences With Flexible Bandwidth
Sequences with low aperiodic autocorrelation sidelobes have been extensively researched in literatures. With sufficiently low integrated sidelobe level (ISL), their power spectrums are asymptotically flat over the whole frequency domain. However, for the beam sweeping in the massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) broadcast channels, the flat spectrum should be constrained in a passband with tunable bandwidth to achieve the flexible tradeoffs between the beamforming gain and the beam sweeping t…

Two-Stage Block Orthogonalization to Improve Performance of $s$-step GMRES
Ichitaro Yamazaki, Andrew J. Higgins, Erik G. Boman, Daniel B. Szyld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15033

Two-Stage Block Orthogonalization to Improve Performance of $s$-step GMRES
On current computer architectures, GMRES' performance can be limited by its communication cost to generate orthonormal basis vectors of the Krylov subspace. To address this performance bottleneck, its $s$-step variant orthogonalizes a block of $s$ basis vectors at a time, potentially reducing the communication cost by a factor of $s$. Unfortunately, for a large step size $s$, the solver can generate extremely ill-conditioned basis vectors, and to maintain stability in practice, a conservatively…

Hungary set to remove final barrier for Sweden's NATO accession
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240226-hungary-set-to-ratify-sweden-s-nato-accession-clearing-last-hurdle

Hungary set to remove final barrier for Sweden's NATO accession
Hungary is expected to ratify Sweden's NATO accession on Monday, clearing the last hurdle before the historic step by the Nordic country whose neutrality lasted through two world wars and the simmering conflict of the Cold War.

🙀 Data Analysis Doesn't Have to Be Scary! 📊
Are you one of those people who breaks out in a cold sweat at the mere mention of Pivot Tables? I get it! They can seem super intimidating at first. But trust me, they're powerful tools that can transform the way you work with data.
That's why I made this new video tutorial all about breaking down Pivot Tables and making them approachable. In it, I'll guide you step-by-step through creating your own interactive Sales D…

Gestern ging ein Meme durch die Runde, wie sich das Hobby Vögelbeobachtung an einen heran schleicht.
Heute habe ich #Merlin von Cornell ausprobiert und bin sehr begeistert: offline, live Ansicht aller erkannten Vögel und ohne Account nutzbar.
Hatte #BirdNet getestet, aber Merlin ist deutlich coole…

Merlin Bird ID - Home
Bird ID Wizard—Step-by-step Answer three simple questions about a bird you are trying to identify and Merlin will give you a list of possible matches. Merlin offers quick identification help for all levels of bird watchers and outdoor enthusiasts to help you learn about the birds in any country i

Actually, what does Big Pub do with APCs?
Springer Nature (today!): Hold my beer, aaaah, poster, no, ahem, *your* poster!
Bien entendu, this paper is out since January first, 2022!
!B

TWOLAR: a TWO-step LLM-Augmented distillation method for passage Reranking
Davide Baldelli, Junfeng Jiang, Akiko Aizawa, Paolo Torroni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17759

TWOLAR: a TWO-step LLM-Augmented distillation method for passage Reranking
In this paper, we present TWOLAR: a two-stage pipeline for passage reranking based on the distillation of knowledge from Large Language Models (LLM). TWOLAR introduces a new scoring strategy and a distillation process consisting in the creation of a novel and diverse training dataset. The dataset consists of 20K queries, each associated with a set of documents retrieved via four distinct retrieval methods to ensure diversity, and then reranked by exploiting the zero-shot reranking capabilities …

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RetroBridge: Modeling Retrosynthesis with Markov Bridges
Retrosynthesis planning is a fundamental challenge in chemistry which aims at designing reaction pathways from commercially available starting materials to a target molecule. Each step in multi-step retrosynthesis planning requires accurate prediction of possible precursor molecules given the target molecule and confidence estimates to guide heuristic search algorithms. We model single-step retrosynthesis planning as a distribution learning problem in a discrete state space. First, we introduce…

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Exponential Concentration in Stochastic Approximation
We analyze the behavior of stochastic approximation algorithms where iterates, in expectation, progress towards an objective at each step. When progress is proportional to the step size of the algorithm, we prove exponential concentration bounds. These tail-bounds contrast asymptotic normality results, which are more frequently associated with stochastic approximation. The methods that we develop rely on a geometric ergodicity proof. This extends a result on Markov chains due to Hajek (1982) to…

Nothing like a sexy step-mother to brighten your day :-D
#JenniferCampbell #JeremyJackson
Season 9 Episode 19 "Double Jeopardy"
#RandomBaywatch

Atlassian's co-CEO Scott Farquhar plans to step down on August 31, 2024, after 23 years at the company; he will remain a board member and a special advisor (Scott Farquhar/Work Life)
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/scott-farquhar-ceo-tra…

The journey of a lifetime - Work Life by Atlassian
Sharing a note I sent to our Atlassian employees earlier today.

An Analog of the Rothe Method for Some Ill-Posed Problems for Parabolic Equations
Michael V. Klibanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16246 https://

An Analog of the Rothe Method for Some Ill-Posed Problems for Parabolic Equations
The classical method of Rothe proves existence and uniqueness theorems for initial boundary value problems for parabolic equations using the explicit finite difference scheme with respect to time. In this method, an elliptic boundary value problem is investigated on each time step. On the other hand, time dependent experimental data are always collected on discrete time grids, and the grid step size cannot be arranged to be infinitely small. The same is true for numerical studies. Therefore, it…

As I scroll my feed, each time I encounter “This is where I draw the line” I think, is this person quitting #Strands and posting their last result. Then I realize what I’ve done. You'd think by the 3rd one I’d skip step 1, but you would be wrong.

Madness – One Step Beyond
https://www.didiermary.fr/madness-one-step-beyond/
“One Step Beyond” is a tune written by Jamaican ska singer Prince Buster. It was covered by British band Madness for their debut studio album of the same name in 1979.
The Madnes…

One Step Beyond - Madness - Didier J. MARY (blog)
"One Step Beyond", written by Prince Buster, was covered by British band Madness for their debut studio album of the same name in 1979.

Online Drone Scheduling for Last-mile Delivery
Saswata Jana, Giuseppe F. Italiano, Manas Jyoti Kashyop, Athanasios L. Konstantinidis, Evangelos Kosinas, Partha Sarathi Mandal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16085

Online Drone Scheduling for Last-mile Delivery
Delivering a parcel from the distribution hub to the customer's doorstep is called the \textit{last-mile delivery} step in delivery logistics. In this paper, we study a hybrid {\it truck-drones} model for the last-mile delivery step, in which a truck moves on a predefined path carrying parcels and drones deliver the parcels. We define the \textsc{online drone scheduling} problem, where the truck moves in a predefined path, and the customer's requests appear online during the truck's movement. T…

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Two-step homogeneous geodesics in some homogeneous Finsler manifolds
A natural extension of a homogeneous geodesic in homogeneous Riemannian spaces $G/H$, known as a two-step homogeneous geodesic, can be expressed of the form $γ(t)=π(\exp(tx)\exp(ty))$, where $x$ and $y$ are elements of the Lie algebra of $G$. This paper aims to expand this concept to homogeneous Finsler spaces. We provide certain sufficient conditions for $(α,β)$ spaces and decomposable cubic spaces to possess a one-parameter family of invariant Finsler metrics that can be classified as two…

"Tasmania's tall #eucalypt forests will be wiped out by #HeatWaves unless we step in to help them"
"But climate change is making it harder for these forests to remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in wood. During heat waves, they stop removing carbon altogether …

Tasmania's tall eucalypt forests will be wiped out by heat waves unless we step in to help them
Tasmania's tall eucalypt forests are globally significant. They accumulate carbon faster than any other natural forest ecosystem in the world.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell: I think we'll be 'very effective' in removing hip-drop tackles https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-commissioner-roger-goodell-i-think-we-ll-be-very-effective-in-removing-hip-drop-ta…

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell: I think we'll be 'very effective' in removing hip-drop tackles
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said on Wednesday that the move to ban the swivel hip-drop tackle is a positive step for the league’s player health and safety.

Attractors of Parikh mapping iterations
Alexander Chunikhin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14932 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.14932<…

Attractors of Parikh mapping iterations
Three types of the Parikh mapping are introduced, namely, alphabetic, alphabetic-basis and basis. Explicit expressions for attractors of the k-th order in bases n >= 8, including countable ones, are found. Properties for the alphabetic, alphabetic-basis and basis Parikh vectors are given at each step of the Parikh mapping. The maximum number of iterations leading to attractors of the k-th order in the basis n is determined.

Russia throws thousands of troops to capture Chasiv Yar. Why is it so important?: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/russia-throws-thousands.html

Donate to Mastodon and support this vicious cycle :blobCatEvil:

Donate to Mastodon
View people and companies who crowdfund the development of the decentralized, open-source social media platform Mastodon.

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Automata and coalgebras in categories of species
We study generalized automata (in the sense of Adámek-Trnková) in Joyal's category of (set-valued) combinatorial species, and as an important preliminary step, we study coalgebras for its derivative endofunctor $\partial$ and for the `Euler homogeneity operator' $L\circ\partial$ arising from the adjunction $L\dashv\partial\dashv R$.

Cowboys players who need to step up in 2024, from Micah Parsons to Jalen Tolbert https://theathletic.com/5368372/2024/03/26/cowboys-key-players-2024/

Cowboys players who need to step up in 2024, from Micah Parsons to Jalen Tolbert
Two of the Cowboys' leaders — Parsons and Dak Prescott — need to be better when it matters. Where else can Dallas use in-house lifts?

S t-SNE - Bringing dimensionality reduction to data streams
Pedro C. Vieira, Jo\~ao P. Montrezol, Jo\~ao T. Vieira, Jo\~ao Gama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17643

S+t-SNE - Bringing dimensionality reduction to data streams
We present S+t-SNE, an adaptation of the t-SNE algorithm designed to handle infinite data streams. The core idea behind S+t-SNE is to update the t-SNE embedding incrementally as new data arrives, ensuring scalability and adaptability to handle streaming scenarios. By selecting the most important points at each step, the algorithm ensures scalability while keeping informative visualisations. Employing a blind method for drift management adjusts the embedding space, facilitating continuous visual…

Leadership at NBC raced to contain an escalating revolt on Monday as some of the country’s best-known television anchors took the extraordinary step of criticizing their network on its own airwaves for hiring Ronna McDaniel, the former chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, as a political analyst.
One by one, MSNBC stars lined up to berate their bosses on live television.
Rachel Maddow, the biggest star and highest-rated anchor at MSNBC, opened her 9 p.m. show with a 2…

NBC News Faces Rebellion Over Hiring of Ronna McDaniel, Ex-RNC Chair
In extraordinary on-air remarks, Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough and Nicolle Wallace questioned their own network’s decision to hire Ronna McDaniel as a political analyst.

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On electromagnetic turbulence and transport in STEP
In this work, we present first-of-their-kind nonlinear local gyrokinetic simulations of electromagnetic turbulence at mid-radius in the burning plasma phase of the conceptual high-$β$, reactor-scale, tight-aspect-ratio tokamak STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production). A prior linear analysis in D. Kennedy et al. 2023 Nucl. Fusion 63 126061 reveals the presence of unstable hybrid kinetic ballooning modes, where inclusion of the compressional magnetic field fluctuation, $δB_{\parallel}$, …

@… @… A single board computer with custom software to produce your decimal second (or fractions of a decimal second) pulses would likely be step 1. Then you need to concern yourself with gearing.

30 years ago today (Feb 25, 1994), nine inch nails released the first single from The Downward Spiral, 'March of the Pigs'. I had this record pretty soon after it came out and I played it nonstop. World changing. Step right up.
https://youtu.be/GHPkJkBS1vE?si=QRdLvYV6ihI…

One-step architecture of bifunctional petal-like oxygen-deficient NiAl-LDHs nanosheets for high-performance hybrid supercapacitors and urea oxidation
Yuchen Wang, Yaoyu Liu, Man Zhang, Biying Liu, Zhiyue Zhao, Kai Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17038

One-step architecture of bifunctional petal-like oxygen-deficient NiAl-LDHs nanosheets for high-performance hybrid supercapacitors and urea oxidation
Nickel-based layered double hydroxides (LDHs) are promising electrode materials in the fields of energy storage (supercapacitors) and conversion (urea oxidation). The rational construction of atomic and electronic structure is crucial for nickel-based LDHs to realize their satisfactory electrochemical performance. Herein, we report a facile, ecofriendly, one-step synthesis process to construct petal-like oxygen-deficient NiAl-LDH nanosheets for hybrid super-capacitors (HSCs) and urea oxidation …

I'm planning make a rain cover for the new #Cetma (paying $500 for a rain cover feels weird when I spent $600 for the entire bike). However, I'm hoping to not have to sew or really expend much effort. So far, I've got 6mm tent poles, a double side-by-side stroller rain cover, and some metal snaps. The stroller cover fits nicely even on the 32" wide box. I still need to figure …

Jamie (he/she/they) (@Jamie@friendsofdesoto.social)
Attached: 3 images Part 2b of my #cargoBike canopy project progress: I’ve installed 3 of 4 windows and 1 of 4 zippers. The going is slow as I obsess about trying to get every step correct before proceeding. This project has already seen me through some firsts: 1st zipper, 1st industrial sewing machine. I’m using my regular machine for tight zigzags on the edges to prevent ravelry. Bonus! I brought the center panel to the #ArtShantyProject wrap event and got a cool screen print on it à …

Hi friends!
The last two #photos from my photowalk in January! I rarely do macros but that day I wasn't out for hiking but really for #photography. So I thought, I could also step down into the frozen stream, take some time and look for tiny structures.
Needless to say that I was…

A Frozen Day: Capturing the Chill Through the Lens
In the midst of a frigid January, I embarked on a daring photo expedition to capture the frozen beauty of a nearby waterfall. Battling bone-chilling temperatures, I ventured into the icy landscape, armed with determination and camera in hand. Join me on this chilly adventure of exploration and disco

guys its happening.. they are taking over my college, next step is the world
#LifeInCanada

Monday jam: Mephis Slim | Steppin' Out | #blues

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A three-step approach to production frontier estimation and the Matsuoka's distribution
In this work, we introduce a three-step semiparametric methodology for the estimation of production frontiers. We consider a model inspired by the well-known Cobb-Douglas production function, wherein input factors operate multiplicatively within the model. Efficiency in the proposed model is assumed to follow a continuous univariate uniparametric distribution in $(0,1)$, referred to as Matsuoka's distribution, which is discussed in detail. Following model linearization, the first step is to sem…

I recently switched from a step-over #ebike with a somewhat aggressive riding position (and famously no rear brake pads...https://youtu.be/SEDkUxUwc6s?t=352) to an upright, step-thru model.
And the number…

A Realisation of Channel Emulation in a Reverberation Chamber method for Over-the-Air Compliance Testing in Support of 3GPP Standardisation
Yunsong Gui, Tian Hong Loh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15099

A Realisation of Channel Emulation in a Reverberation Chamber method for Over-the-Air Compliance Testing in Support of 3GPP Standardisation
The inherent long decay power delay profile (PDP) in the reverberation chamber (RC) is a major challenge for accurate channel emulation of 3GPP channel model, which is widely used in performance test of the physical layer. To tackle this challenge, we propose in this paper a novel two-step "closed-loop" approach consisting of (i) a channel measuring step and (ii) a channel model synthesis step. The channel measurement step is used to capture the wireless channel of the RC. In the channel model …

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Towards Universal Dense Blocking for Entity Resolution
Blocking is a critical step in entity resolution, and the emergence of neural network-based representation models has led to the development of dense blocking as a promising approach for exploring deep semantics in blocking. However, previous advanced self-supervised dense blocking approaches require domain-specific training on the target domain, which limits the benefits and rapid adaptation of these methods. To address this issue, we propose UBlocker, a dense blocker that is pre-trained on a …

Actually, what does Big Pub do with APCs?
Springer Nature (today!): Hold my beer, aaaah, poster, no, ahem, *your* poster!
Bien entendu, this paper is out since January first, 2022!
!B

Inference for Regression with Variables Generated from Unstructured Data
Laura Battaglia, Timothy Christensen, Stephen Hansen, Szymon Sacher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15585

Inference for Regression with Variables Generated from Unstructured Data
The leading strategy for analyzing unstructured data uses two steps. First, latent variables of economic interest are estimated with an upstream information retrieval model. Second, the estimates are treated as "data" in a downstream econometric model. We establish theoretical arguments for why this two-step strategy leads to biased inference in empirically plausible settings. More constructively, we propose a one-step strategy for valid inference that uses the upstream and downstream models jo…

Russia throws thousands of troops to capture Chasiv Yar. Why is it so important?: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/russia-throws-thousands.html

Atlassian's co-CEO Scott Farquhar plans to step down on August 31, 2024, after 23 years at the company; he will remain a board member and a special advisor (Scott Farquhar/Work Life)
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/scott-farquhar-ceo-tra…

The journey of a lifetime - Work Life by Atlassian
Sharing a note I sent to our Atlassian employees earlier today.

Why Former NFL GM Believes Cowboys May Need ‘Perfect’ NFL Draft https://heavy.com/sports/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-step-back-former-gm-says-news/?adt_ei=[email]

Why Former NFL GM Believes Cowboys May Need 'Perfect' NFL Draft
The Dallas Cowboys haven't been able to do enough in free agency to avoid taking a step back during the 2024 NFL season, former NFL GM says.

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Online Convex Optimization Using Coordinate Descent Algorithms
This paper considers the problem of online optimization where the objective function is time-varying. In particular, we extend coordinate descent type algorithms to the online case, where the objective function varies after a finite number of iterations of the algorithm. Instead of solving the problem exactly at each time step, we only apply a finite number of iterations at each time step. Commonly used notions of regret are used to measure the performance of the online algorithm. Moreover, coo…

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Effective Dynamics of Translationally Invariant Magnetic Schrödinger Equations in the High Field Limit
We study the large field limit in Schrödinger equations with magnetic vector potentials describing translationally invariant $B$-fields with respect to the $z$-axis. In a first step, using regular perturbation theory, we derive an approximate description of the solution, provided the initial data is compactly supported in the Fourier-variable dual to $z\in \mathbb R$. The effective dynamics is thereby seen to produce high-frequency oscillations and large magnetic drifts. In a second step we sh…

The very fact that former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) has been able to draw the votes of a substantial number of Republicans away from presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump should be setting off alarms among Republicans.
That is the opinion of former Trump White House communications official Alyssa Farah Griffin
"Let's take a step back," she told the host. "
So Donald Trump's running virtually as an incumbent, being that he's a former presiden…

The GOP is missing a 'glaring, blaring siren alarm' about Trump's prospects: former aide
The very fact that former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) has been able to draw the votes of a substantial number of Republicans away from presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump should be setting off alarms among Republicans.That is the opinion of former Trump White House communications official Alys...

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RankPrompt: Step-by-Step Comparisons Make Language Models Better Reasoners
Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance across various reasoning tasks. However, even state-of-the-art LLMs such as ChatGPT are prone to logical errors during their reasoning processes. Existing solutions, which include deploying task-specific verifiers or voting over multiple reasoning paths, either require extensive human annotations or fail in scenarios with inconsistent responses. To address these challenges, we introduce RankPrompt, a new prompting method that ena…

A CWENO large time-step scheme for Hamilton--Jacobi equations
E. Carlini, R. Ferretti, S. Preda, M. Semplice
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15367 https://

A CWENO large time-step scheme for Hamilton--Jacobi equations
We propose a high order numerical scheme for time-dependent first order Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equations. In particular we propose to combine a semi-Lagrangian scheme with a Central Weighted Non-Oscillatory reconstruction. We prove a convergence result in the case of state- and time-independent Hamiltonians. Numerical simulations are presented in space dimensions one and two, also for more general state- and time-dependent Hamiltonians, demonstrating superior performance in terms of CPU ti…

AgentFL: Scaling LLM-based Fault Localization to Project-Level Context
Yihao Qin, Shangwen Wang, Yiling Lou, Jinhao Dong, Kaixin Wang, Xiaoling Li, Xiaoguang Mao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16362

AgentFL: Scaling LLM-based Fault Localization to Project-Level Context
Fault Localization (FL) is an essential step during the debugging process. With the strong capabilities of code comprehension, the recent Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising performance in diagnosing bugs in the code. Nevertheless, due to LLMs' limited performance in handling long contexts, existing LLM-based fault localization remains on localizing bugs within a small code scope (i.e., a method or a class), which struggles to diagnose bugs for a large code scope (i.e., an …

NATO Military Committee Chief calls on Western allies to step up their support for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/23/nato-military-committee.html

Sources: Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque plans to step down as CEO, following the departure of a group of researchers who helped develop Stable Diffusion (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/20

Stability AI Founder Emad Mostaque Plans To Resign As CEO, Sources Say
Mostaque has told a number of people close to him that he plans to step down as chief executive of the once buzzy generative AI startup known for Stable Diffusion.

Clyburn gives GOP a new nickname: ‘Groupies of Putin’ | The Hill
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4487402-clyburn-gives-gop-new-nickname-groupies-of-putin/

Clyburn gives GOP a new nickname: ‘Groupies of Putin’
House Minority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) went after Republicans Saturday, branding the GOP with a new nickname: “Groupies of Putin.” Clyburn, who announced he would step down from leadership in 2024, argued Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his other GOP colleagues have only been doing the business of Russian President Vladimir Putin “at the behest…

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Inference for Regression with Variables Generated from Unstructured Data
The leading strategy for analyzing unstructured data uses two steps. First, latent variables of economic interest are estimated with an upstream information retrieval model. Second, the estimates are treated as "data" in a downstream econometric model. We establish theoretical arguments for why this two-step strategy leads to biased inference in empirically plausible settings. More constructively, we propose a one-step strategy for valid inference that uses the upstream and downstream models jo…

ESPN NFL experts claim Dallas Cowboys took step backward in NFL free agency https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/espn_nfl_experts_claim_dallas_cowboys_took_step_backward_in_nfl_free_agency/s1_17236_…

ESPN NFL experts claim Dallas Cowboys took step backward in NFL free agency
Cowboys fans grumbled throughout the start of free agency about how their favorite team made no moves. Instead, they lost too many players. As it turns out, NFL experts agreed with everyone else. ESPN did an overhead view of all of free agency, picking winners and losers and biggest surprises. The Cowboys kept coming up in conversation. One of the questions was which team took a step back. “Cowboys,” answered Mike Tannenbaum, an ESPN NFL front office insider. “They still have needs at lef…

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Fix-Con: Automatic Fault Localization and Repair of Deep Learning Model Conversions between Frameworks
Converting deep learning models between frameworks is a common step to maximize model compatibility across devices and leverage optimization features that may be exclusively provided in one deep learning framework. However, this conversion process may be riddled with bugs, making the converted models either undeployable or problematic, considerably degrading their prediction correctness. In this paper we propose an automated approach for fault localization and repair, Fix-Con, during model co…

The staggering civil fraud judgment against Donald Trump was finalized in New York on Friday, making official a verdict that leaves the former president on the hook for more than $454 million in fines and interest.
The procedural step by the New York county clerk starts the clock on Trump’s appeals process, while allowing the debt to begin racking up post-judgment interest of nearly $112,000 each day.
In his Feb. 16 ruling, Judge Arthur Engoron ruled that Trump lied for years abo…

Donald Trump civil fraud case: $454 million judgment is finalized, starting clock on appeal
The staggering civil fraud judgment against Donald Trump was finalized by a New York county clerk on Friday. The procedural step makes official a verdict that put the former president on the hook for more than $454 million in fines and interest. It also starts a 30-day clock for Trump to appeal. In the meantime, his debt will rack up daily interest totaling nearly $112,000 each day. A New York judge ordered Trump to pay the sum in a ruling last week that found he inflated his wealth for years i…

fucking cops, man
#OfficerAdams #FuckEricAdams
https://www.nytimes.c…

Mayor Adams Pushes Out Chairwoman of Police Oversight Board
Arva Rice was asked to resign after she criticized police handling of a fatal shooting investigation and requested more money and power to investigate misconduct.

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Empowering Multi-step Reasoning across Languages via Tree-of-Thoughts
Reasoning methods, best exemplified by the well-known Chain-of-Thought (CoT), empower the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) by eliciting them to solve complex tasks in a step-by-step manner. Although they are achieving significant success, the ability to deliver multi-step reasoning remains limited to English because of the imbalance in the distribution of pre-training data, which makes other languages a barrier. In this paper, we propose Cross-lingual Tree-of-Thoughts (Cross-…

NSA Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce will retire at the end of March after taking the position in 2021; Deputy Director David Luber will assume the role (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2024/02/nsa-cyb…

NSA cyber director to step down after 34 years of service
His departure comes amid heightened security fears in 2024 and debate over whether to renew a controversial spying power.

Robust mass lumping and outlier removal strategies in isogeometric analysis
Yannis Voet, Espen Sande, Annalisa Buffa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14956 https…

Robust mass lumping and outlier removal strategies in isogeometric analysis
Mass lumping techniques are commonly employed in explicit time integration schemes for problems in structural dynamics and both avoid solving costly linear systems with the consistent mass matrix and increase the critical time step. In isogeometric analysis, the critical time step is constrained by so-called "outlier" frequencies, representing the inaccurate high frequency part of the spectrum. Removing or dampening these high frequencies is paramount for fast explicit solution techniques. In t…

Cap Overdraft Fees at $3! Submit an Official Public Comment Supporting the CFPB’s Junk Fees Proposal Now!
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/submit-an-official-public-comment-supporting-the-cfpbs-overdraft-fees-p…

Cap Overdraft Fees at $3! Submit an Official Public Comment Supporting the CFPB’s Junk Fees Proposal Now!
At long last, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued their finalized proposal on capping exploitative overdraft fees, which in some cases have been set as high as $39 per transaction.[1] This proposal is part of CFPB’s ongoing effort to tackle junk fees in the banking and finance industries -- and it’s a very significant step towards just and equitable banking, since the group of people most impacted by overdraft fees are low-income, Black, and brown families. The ne…

Legal Aspects for Software Developers Interested in Generative AI Applications
Steffen Herbold, Brian Valerius, Anamaria Mojica-Hanke, Isabella Lex, Joel Mittel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16630

Legal Aspects for Software Developers Interested in Generative AI Applications
Recent successes in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) have led to new technologies capable of generating high-quality code, natural language, and images. The next step is to integrate GenAI technology into products, a task typically conducted by software developers. Such product development always comes with a certain risk of liability. Within this article, we want to shed light on the current state of two such risks: data protection and copyright. Both aspects are crucial for GenAI. T…

NSA Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce will retire at the end of March after taking the position in 2021; Deputy Director David Luber will assume the role (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2024/02/nsa-cyb…

NSA cyber director to step down after 34 years of service
His departure comes amid heightened security fears in 2024 and debate over whether to renew a controversial spying power.

A multi-year process started in late 2021 took the next step toward #regulating business use of #AI in #California.
The rules are expected to be influential given the number of AI companies in the state.
Rules around busi…

Large California companies will soon face new rules on how they use AI
The California Privacy Protection Agency moved closer in a years-long process of creating rules companies will have to obey about using AI.

Former POW: "The global community has to step up": https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/22/former-pow-the.html

Business Insider interviewed Warren Buffett's son about his  support for Ukraine. 

Howard Buffett's foundation has given $520 million to Ukraine in humanitarian aid.

The philanthropist warns the US will make a historic blunder if it fails to support Ukraine's war effort.
http…

Warren Buffett's son has given $500M to Ukraine, says Congress should step up
Howard Buffett's foundation, largely funded by his father Warren Buffett's contributions, has given $500 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

Meizu, which was acquired by Chinese automaker Geely in 2022, will no longer make smartphones, to pursue an "all in AI" strategy over the next three years (South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.co…

Chinese smartphone vendors from Meizu to Oppo step up AI integration in devices
Increased artificial intelligence integration in Chinese handsets shows how a new tech arms race in the smartphone industry is heating up, as the global market is poised for a recovery in 2024.

‘The working class can’t afford it’: the shocking truth about the money bands make on tour
deceiving. “I don’t blame the public for seeing a band playing to 2,000 people and thinking they’re minted,” says artist manager Dan Potts. “But the reality is quite different.”
Post-Covid there has been significant focus on grassroots music venues as they struggle to stay open.
There’s been less focus on the actual ability of artists to tour these venues. David Martin, chief executi…

Memo: Thrasio CEO Greg Greeley plans to resign and five other senior executives will "step down when Thrasio emerges from Chapter 11 in the coming weeks" (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/amazon-agg…

‘The working class can’t afford it’: the shocking truth about the money bands make on tour
deceiving. “I don’t blame the public for seeing a band playing to 2,000 people and thinking they’re minted,” says artist manager Dan Potts. “But the reality is quite different.”
Post-Covid there has been significant focus on grassroots music venues as they struggle to stay open.
There’s been less focus on the actual ability of artists to tour these venues. David Martin, chief executi…

Robinhood co-founder and Chief Creative Officer Baiju Bhatt plans to step down to pursue other entrepreneurial interests, but will remain on the company's board (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/robinhood-co-foun

Two years ago, Yuri Burda and Harri Edwards, researchers at the San Francisco–based firm OpenAI, were trying to find out what it would take to get a language model to do basic arithmetic.
They wanted to know how many examples of adding up two numbers the model needed to see before it was able to add up any two numbers they gave it.
At first, things didn’t go too well. The models memorized the sums they saw but failed to solve new ones.
By accident, Burda and Edwards left so…

Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why.
And that's a problem. Figuring it out is one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time and a crucial step towards controlling more powerful future models.

It’s not too late for We, The People to reclaim our government from the forces of #neofascism and great wealth who’ve worked so hard since the Reagan Revolution to seize complete control of it.
It’s going to require a two-step process:
end the ability of the #morbidly

Is SCOTUS About to Make Bribing Politicians the Same as “Earning a Tip”?
And now it appears that the six corrupt Republicans currently on the Court are preparing to make political bribery even easier for their well-heeled patrons…

Meta reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $36.46B, net income up 117% YoY to $12.37B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.24B for March 2024 (Meta Investor Relations)
https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/…

Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. "It's been a good start to the year," said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO. "The new version of Meta AI with Llama 3 is another step towards building the world's leading AI. We're seeing healthy growth across our apps and we continue making steady progress building the metaverse as well." First Quarter 2024 Financial Highlights Three Months Ended March 31, % Change In millions, …

Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results (Meta Investor Relations)
https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2024/Meta-Reports-First-Quarter-2024-Results/default.aspx

Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. "It's been a good start to the year," said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO. "The new version of Meta AI with Llama 3 is another step towards building the world's leading AI. We're seeing healthy growth across our apps and we continue making steady progress building the metaverse as well." First Quarter 2024 Financial Highlights Three Months Ended March 31, % Change In millions, …