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STUDY: Tradwife influencers are quietly spreading far-right conspiracy theories (Olivia Little/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/study-tradwife-influencers-are-quietly-spreading-far-right-conspiracy-theories
http://www.memeorandum.com/240501/p71#a240501p71

Metric geometry of the privacy-utility tradeoff
March Boedihardjo, Thomas Strohmer, Roman Vershynin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00329 https://

Metric geometry of the privacy-utility tradeoff
Synthetic data are an attractive concept to enable privacy in data sharing. A fundamental question is how similar the privacy-preserving synthetic data are compared to the true data. Using metric privacy, an effective generalization of differential privacy beyond the discrete setting, we raise the problem of characterizing the optimal privacy-accuracy tradeoff by the metric geometry of the underlying space. We provide a partial solution to this problem in terms of the "entropic scale", a quanti…

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers:
🎵 I won't back down
#NowPlaying #TomPetty #TheHeartbreakers
https://open.spotify.com/track/6VI1XxF61Ny1Gb2m27XnaR
https://djchrisdiablo.bandcamp.com/track/tom-petty-the-heartbreakers-i-wont-back-down-instrumental-2

So, I've been recently having a conversation with several folk about Slack vs Discord and which platform may be more advantagous for organizing events and building community. I and others were surprised to learn of how wide the gulf is on various people's ranges of experiences on each service, in terms of community, harassment, security tools, and users feeling welcomed.
I recognize that my experience as a femme-presenting person who uses my real identity is different from that of an anonymous person with a profile photo showing a bearded guy in a Patagonia vest holding up an IPA. This tracks with the discussions I've had today: tech bros generally seem to lean toward one platform while all of my other business-owning women friends opt to steer away from that service almost entirely.
If you're femme and use your real identity online, do you have a preference for Slack or Discord? Have you ever opted out of using either Slack or Discord? In addition to discussion of general vibes and security tools, we also can all recognize that there are some surveillance/privacy tradeoffs in play, as well. (Just as, if you're an organizer, maybe you have thoughts about which service offers tools or features or pricing that steers you one way or another, as well?)
What are your stories on this topic?

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12197 has been replaced.
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Thermodynamic concentration inequalities and tradeoff relations
Thermodynamic tradeoff relations quantify the fundamental concept of "no free lunch" in the physical world, suggesting that faster and more precise physical processes come at a higher thermodynamic cost. The key elements in these tradeoff relations are the thermodynamic uncertainty relation and speed limit, which are closely related to information inequalities from which other tradeoff relations are derived. Concentration inequalities are relations that complement information inequalities in st…

Gestern gab es etwas zum Abendessen, das ganz und gar nicht meiner aktuellen Ernährungsphilosophie entspricht. Aber es war verdammt gut.
https://aus-meinem-kochtopf.de/tartiflette-mit-reblochon-kartoffelauflauf/

Tartiflette mit Reblochon Käse - Französischer Kartoffelauflauf
Tartiflette mit Reblochon ist kein Traditions-Gericht. Es wurde als Marketingmaßnahme für Reblochon Käse erfunden. Rezept mit Käsegeschichte

Loose LIPS Sink Ships: Asking Questions in Battleship with Language-Informed Program Sampling
Gabriel Grand, Valerio Pepe, Jacob Andreas, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19471

Loose LIPS Sink Ships: Asking Questions in Battleship with Language-Informed Program Sampling
Questions combine our mastery of language with our remarkable facility for reasoning about uncertainty. How do people navigate vast hypothesis spaces to pose informative questions given limited cognitive resources? We study these tradeoffs in a classic grounded question-asking task based on the board game Battleship. Our language-informed program sampling (LIPS) model uses large language models (LLMs) to generate natural language questions, translate them into symbolic programs, and evaluate th…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #SoundsOfThe60sWithTonyBlackburn
The Yardbirds:
🎵 Shapes Of Things
#TheYardbirds
https://open.spotify.com/track/4OjqrdD3QILzxkGwNoMk0c

An Expectation-Maximization Relaxed Method for Privacy Funnel
Lingyi Chen, Jiachuan Ye, Shitong Wu, Huihui Wu, Hao Wu, Wenyi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00616

An Expectation-Maximization Relaxed Method for Privacy Funnel
The privacy funnel (PF) gives a framework of privacy-preserving data release, where the goal is to release useful data while also limiting the exposure of associated sensitive information. This framework has garnered significant interest due to its broad applications in characterization of the privacy-utility tradeoff. Hence, there is a strong motivation to develop numerical methods with high precision and theoretical convergence guarantees. In this paper, we propose a novel relaxation variant …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16532 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_…

Fast, Fair and Truthful Distributed Stable Matching for Common Preferences
Stable matching is a fundamental problem studied both in economics and computer science. The task is to find a matching between two sides of agents that have preferences over who they want to be matched with. A matching is stable if no pair of agents prefer each other over their current matches. The deferred acceptance algorithm of Gale and Shapley solves this problem in polynomial time. Further, it is a mechanism: the proposing side in the algorithm is always incentivised to report their prefe…