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From twelve years ago, talking to the deeply-missed David Carr about Reddit: “Condé gave it enough rope and left the people there to their own devices. I don’t know whether it was a brilliant strategy or accidental neglect, but the founders did not leave, the community stayed intact, and the site grew beyond anybody’s expectations.”

Reddit Thrives Under Hands-Off Policy of Advance Publications
Reddit, built on open-source software and guided by the ethos of its community of 20 million users a month, is a classic Web start-up in which opportunity seems mixed with barely controlled anarchy.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15371 has been replaced.
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LegalDuet: Learning Effective Representations for Legal Judgment Prediction through a Dual-View Legal Clue Reasoning
Most existing Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) models focus on discovering the legal triggers in the criminal fact description. However, in real-world scenarios, a professional judge not only needs to assimilate the law case experience that thrives on past sentenced legal judgments but also depends on the professional legal grounded reasoning that learned from professional legal knowledge. In this paper, we propose a LegalDuet model, which pretrains language models to learn a tailored embedding …

Moss thrives on Volcan Mountain in Eastern San Diego County, California. #mosstodon

Hey friends of the #mountains!
One more #photo from the hike I blogged about recently. This was about at 8am, shortly before reaching the hut. I plan to walk this mountain range later this year. I guess it'll be really cool 🙂
That day, the path led me to the left side further up th…

A Journey to New Heights: Hiking the Uncharted Summit
Join me on a wonderful mountain adventure with an early start to beat the heat, exploring the solitude of nature. Enjoy with me this fulfilling hike, capturing breathtaking vistas and concluding with a little thrill near the end.

Slate says 2023 was the most profitable year in its 27 year history, with revenue up 28% YoY through investments and growth in its podcasts and website (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/11/2024/slate-reports-best-year

Slate reports best year | Semafor
The digital stalwart thrives in a tough year for media

FLGuard: Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning via Ensemble of Contrastive Models
Younghan Lee, Yungi Cho, Woorim Han, Ho Bae, Yunheung Paek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02846

FLGuard: Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning via Ensemble of Contrastive Models
Federated Learning (FL) thrives in training a global model with numerous clients by only sharing the parameters of their local models trained with their private training datasets. Therefore, without revealing the private dataset, the clients can obtain a deep learning (DL) model with high performance. However, recent research proposed poisoning attacks that cause a catastrophic loss in the accuracy of the global model when adversaries, posed as benign clients, are present in a group of clients.…