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Distilling a Small Utility-Based Passage Selector to Enhance Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Hengran Zhang, Keping Bi, Jiafeng Guo, Jiaming Zhang, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, Xueqi Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19102

Distilling a Small Utility-Based Passage Selector to Enhance Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by incorporating retrieved information. Standard retrieval process prioritized relevance, focusing on topical alignment between queries and passages. In contrast, in RAG, the emphasis has shifted to utility, which considers the usefulness of passages for generating accurate answers. Despite empirical evidence showing the benefits of utility-based retrieval in RAG, the high computational cost of using LLMs for utility jud…

How a trans utilities employee used Pride to remind us that everybody poops - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/how-a-trans-utilities-employee-used-pride-to-remind-us-that-everybody-poops/

Is there a cross-platform utility that allows you set up domain aliases locally and keep track of them. I just don't want to keep opening and closin the /etc/hosts file.

Strict Comparisons of Infinite Utility Streams
Michael Greinecker, Michael Nielsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20567 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20567…

Strict Comparisons of Infinite Utility Streams
There exists a preference relation on infinite utility streams that does not discriminate between different periods, satisfies the Pareto criterion, and so that almost all pairs of utility streams are strictly comparable. Such a preference relation provides a counterexample to a claim in [Zame, William R. ``Can intergenerational equity be operationalized?'' Theoretical Economics 2.2 (2007): 187-202.]

Quantum Circuit Caches and Compressors for Low Latency, High Throughput Computing
Ioana Moflic, Alan Robertson, Simon J. Devitt, Alexandru Paler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20677

Quantum Circuit Caches and Compressors for Low Latency, High Throughput Computing
Utility-scale quantum programs contain operations on the order of $>10^{15}$ which must be prepared and piped from a classical co-processor to the control unit of the quantum device. The latency of this process significantly increases with the size of the program: existing high-level classical representations of quantum programs are typically memory intensive and do not naïvely efficiently scale to the degree required to execute utility-scale programs in real-time. To combat this limitation, w…

Proof of Work With External Utilities
Yogev Bar-On, Ilan Komargodski, Omri Weinstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21685 https://arxiv.o…

Proof of Work With External Utilities
Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus is traditionally analyzed under the assumption that all miners incur similar costs per unit of computational effort. In reality, costs vary due to factors such as regional electricity cost differences and access to specialized hardware. These variations in mining costs become even more pronounced in the emerging paradigm of \emph{Proof-of-Useful-Work} (PoUW), where miners can earn additional \emph{external} rewards by performing beneficial computations, such as Art…

Sometimes {renv} just isnt enough to ensure your environment is controlled. Maybe {slushy} could be an option? https://gsk-biostatistics.github.io/slushy/index.html

Balancing Privacy and Utility in Correlated Data: A Study of Bayesian Differential Privacy
Martin Lange, Patricia Guerra-Balboa, Javier Parra-Arnau, Thorsten Strufe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21308

Balancing Privacy and Utility in Correlated Data: A Study of Bayesian Differential Privacy
Privacy risks in differentially private (DP) systems increase significantly when data is correlated, as standard DP metrics often underestimate the resulting privacy leakage, leaving sensitive information vulnerable. Given the ubiquity of dependencies in real-world databases, this oversight poses a critical challenge for privacy protections. Bayesian differential privacy (BDP) extends DP to account for these correlations, yet current BDP mechanisms indicate notable utility loss, limiting its ad…

Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis | Utility Dive
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/texas-law-gives-grid-operator-power-to-disconnect-data-centers-during-crisi/751587/

FERC’s Christie calls for dispatchable resources after grid operators come ‘close to the edge’ | Utility Dive
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ferc-christie-dispatchable-resources-heat-wave-pjm-miso-iso-ne/751821/