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In 2001, California state regulators proposed a safety rule
to remove abandoned power lines, which could potentially ignite wildfires.
However, under pressure from utilities like Southern California Edison,
the rule was revised in 2005 to allow these lines to remain
until deemed "permanently abandoned" by executives

SMOTE-DP: Improving Privacy-Utility Tradeoff with Synthetic Data
Yan Zhou, Bradley Malin, Murat Kantarcioglu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01907 https://

SMOTE-DP: Improving Privacy-Utility Tradeoff with Synthetic Data
Privacy-preserving data publication, including synthetic data sharing, often experiences trade-offs between privacy and utility. Synthetic data is generally more effective than data anonymization in balancing this trade-off, however, not without its own challenges. Synthetic data produced by generative models trained on source data may inadvertently reveal information about outliers. Techniques specifically designed for preserving privacy, such as introducing noise to satisfy differential priva…

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POSIX shell and utilities quick reference.
https://shellhaters.org/
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Many LLMs Are More Utilitarian Than One
Anita Keshmirian, Razan Baltaji, Babak Hemmatian, Hadi Asghari, Lav R. Varshney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00814 ht…

Many LLMs Are More Utilitarian Than One
Moral judgment is integral to large language model (LLM) alignment and social reasoning. As multi-agent systems gain prominence, it becomes crucial to understand how LLMs function collectively during collaboration, compared to individual agents. In human moral judgment, group deliberation leads to a utilitarian boost: a tendency to endorse norm violations that maximize benefits for the greatest number of people despite harms. We study whether a similar dynamic emerges in multi-agent LLM systems…

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https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/114949958179517536
( And it highlights the fact that we need to rethink utilities, recognizing them as services necessary for a modern equitable society to function)

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https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/114949958179517536
( And it highlights the fact that we need to rethink utilities, recognizing them as services necessary for a modern equitable society to function)

Reducing Profile-Based Matching to the Maximum Weight Matching Problem
Seongbeom Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00047 https://arxiv.…

Reducing Profile-Based Matching to the Maximum Weight Matching Problem
The profile-based matching problem is the problem of finding a matching that optimizes profile from an instance $(G, r, \langle u_1, \dots, u_r \rangle)$, where $G$ is a bipartite graph $(A \cup B, E)$, $r$ is the number of utility functions, and $u_i: E \to \{ 0, 1, \dots, U_i \}$ is utility functions for $1 \le i \le r$. A matching is optimal if the matching maximizes the sum of the 1st utility, subject to this, maximizes the sum of the 2nd utility, and so on. The profile-based matching can e…

Learning to optimize convex risk measures: The cases of utility-based shortfall risk and optimized certainty equivalent risk
Sumedh Gupte, Prashanth L. A., Sanjay P. Bhat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01101

Learning to optimize convex risk measures: The cases of utility-based shortfall risk and optimized certainty equivalent risk
We consider the problems of estimation and optimization of two popular convex risk mea- sures: utility-based shortfall risk (UBSR) and Optimized Certainty Equivalent (OCE) risk. We extend these risk measures to cover possibly unbounded random variables. We cover prominent risk measures like the entropic risk, expectile risk, monotone mean-variance risk, Value-at-Risk, and Conditional Value-at-Risk as few special cases of either the UBSR or the OCE risk. In the context of estimation, we derive n…

Douwe Bob is geen jodenhater of antisemiet, toch wordt hij mede door uitlatingen van de fractievoorzitter van de VVD het land uitgejaagd. Beschamend voor een notabene liberale partij (ooit).
#vvd

Douwe Bob: met gezin weg uit Nederland op advies van de politie
De zanger weigerde zondag op het laatste moment op te treden bij het Joodse kindervoetbalevenement Jom Ha in Amsterdam.

visionOS 26: Keine Public Beta, wenig Liquid Glass | TNBT-Podcast
Themen in dieser Folge: visionOS 26 Beta 4, PS-VR2-Controller, Apple Immersive Video Utility, Cyberpunk und mehr.
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