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Si le dernier plan de l’Administration Biden fonctionne, les Palestinien·ne·s de gaza vont pouvoir retourner dans leurs habitations. Pour ce qu’il doit en rester. Quel gâchis! Tout ça parce que les extrémistes des deux côtés mènent le bal. Misère.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/06…

Understanding Biden’s proposal for a Gaza ceasefire
While the details of Joe Biden’s proposal for a Gaza ceasefire remain vague it does make one outcome of the fighting clear: Israel and the United States lost.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00027 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

LLMs as Writing Assistants: Exploring Perspectives on Sense of Ownership and Reasoning
Sense of ownership in writing confines our investment of thoughts, time, and contribution, leading to attachment to the output. However, using writing assistants introduces a mental dilemma, as some content isn't directly our creation. For instance, we tend to credit Large Language Models (LLMs) more in creative tasks, even though all tasks are equal for them. Additionally, while we may not claim complete ownership of LLM-generated content, we freely claim authorship. We conduct a short survey …

"At least two dozen countries worldwide have already made the sensible transition to some form of automatic tax filing, not necessarily just for low-income citizens, but in many cases for everyone. The UK, Japan, Australia, Denmark, Chile, and Portugal have implemented some version of an automated, digital tax system, and none of them have turned back."
How the tax industry is keeping automatic filing out of reach – Canadian Dimension

How the tax industry is keeping automatic filing out of reach
In the unfair fight for automatic tax filing, Canadians need to get behind the underdog. While many of us might welcome and benefit from this service, it’s our vulnerable friends and neighbours who need it the most. We must come together to join the chorus calling for this crucial tax reform—and be louder than those motivated by nothing more than greed.

#WordWeavers April 4: Is there writing advice you used to follow but changed your mind?
Not that I can recall. I don't consciously follow other people's advice while I write, which means I can't exactly stop following it.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09801 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

ProCoT: Stimulating Critical Thinking and Writing of Students through Engagement with Large Language Models (LLMs)
We introduce a novel writing method called Probing Chain-of-Thought (ProCoT), which potentially prevents students from cheating using a Large Language Model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, while enhancing their active learning. LLMs have disrupted education and many other fields. For fear of students cheating, many have resorted to banning their use. These LLMs are also known for hallucinations. We conduct studies with ProCoT in two different courses with 65 students. The students in each course were a…

Distributed Ranges: A Model for Distributed Data Structures, Algorithms, and Views
Benjamin Brock, Robert Cohn, Suyash Bakshi, Tuomas Karna, Jeongnim Kim, Mateusz Nowak, {\L}ukasz \'Slusarczyk, Kacper Stefanski, Timothy G. Mattson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00158

Distributed Ranges: A Model for Distributed Data Structures, Algorithms, and Views
Data structures and algorithms are essential building blocks for programs, and \emph{distributed data structures}, which automatically partition data across multiple memory locales, are essential to writing high-level parallel programs. While many projects have designed and implemented C++ distributed data structures and algorithms, there has not been widespread adoption of an interoperable model allowing algorithms and data structures from different libraries to work together. This paper intro…

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, “The fact that a de facto elimination of political rivals by all possible legal and illegal means is going on there is obvious.”
Illustration du proverbe «les ennemis de nos ennemis sont nos amis».
https://www.

After Trump guilty verdict, US divisions deepen as Russia extends sympathy
While Democrats rejoice and Republicans agonise, international reactions on the historic guilty verdict pour in.

Latest on my website: While searching for a local aviation pioneer, I found an archive of newspaper photos from my home town. Some of my favourites reveal the lifestyle of the day, and the things the local paper thought were important.
https://cosmicray.ca/writing/sudburyar…

The secret to writing papers appears to be a secret stash of chocolate that is only allowed to be eaten while writing papers late in the evening when the rest of the family is in bed. It's amazing the motivation it supplies.
#AcademicChatter

Writing this month's #GitHub sponsors update while watching The Cup Head Show on the side: https://github.com/sponsors/WyriHaximus
(It includes a blog post preview 😎 .)<…

Source: Microsoft agreed to pay Inflection ~$650M when hiring its staff, mostly via a licensing deal that makes Inflection's models available for sale on Azure (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mi

Microsoft Agreed to Pay Inflection $650 Million While Hiring Its Staff
Microsoft doesn’t want its plan to hire two of Inflection AI’s co-founders and most of its 70-person staff to be seen as an acquisition. But it’s still writing a hefty check to the two-year-old artificial intelligence startup. The software giant has agreed to pay Inflection approximately $650 ...

Latest on my website: While searching for a local aviation pioneer, I found an archive of newspaper photos from my home town. Some of my favourites reveal the lifestyle of the day, and the things the local paper thought were important.
https://cosmicray.ca/writing/sudburyar…

Various – Rodney On The ROQ Vol. III
Posh Boy Records, 1982
I think this was like my 5th album purchase ever (first was Talking Heads’ “Speaking In Tongues”). I found a lot of cool music while listening to Rodney’s show every Sunday night. I got vol 3 first because it had my most sought after tracks, like Unit 3 and Venus, and the Bangles’ “Bitchin Summer” (hard to find for years!).
#VinylRecords

I'm using LLM since Friday to help me writing a Visual Basic macro. I have 0 knowledge of VBA and Word API in the same time.
While I think I'd be much more efficient having a pair programming with someone who actually knows this technology, still LLM is a nice kick starter for terra-incognita places where I have no clue how to start, where to look and what I need.
Happy to have this tech.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00026 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Ink and Individuality: Crafting a Personalised Narrative in the Age of LLMs
Individuality and personalization comprise the distinctive characteristics that make each writer unique and influence their words in order to effectively engage readers while conveying authenticity. However, our growing reliance on LLM-based writing assistants risks compromising our creativity and individuality over time. We often overlook the negative impacts of this trend on our creativity and uniqueness, despite the possible consequences. This study investigates these concerns by performing …

"Prison labor is big business in the United States. According to a 2022 ACLU report, Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers, incarcerated workers save prisons more than $9 billion a year in operational costs and earn them more than $2 billion in sales of goods and services, while the prisoners make pennies per hour."
#Prison

Lawsuit: Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to Meatpackers, McDonalds
No parole if you’re still profitable.

Ugh, while shaving just now, I heard my wife's Windows computer (she's doing academic writing) making insipid incidental noises. One of the worst things about Microsoft's aesthetic is its relentless blandness. It's the 'easy listening music' of computing. Yuck.

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> git annex assist
...
symlinkPointsToGitDir: symlink target points to git dir
remote: fatal: fsck error in pack objects
error: remote unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit
IIUC, :git: #git implemented something that uselessly breaks :gitannex: #gitAnnex / :datala…

fsck: warn about symlink pointing inside a gitdir · git/git@a33fea0
In the wake of fixing a vulnerability where `git clone` mistakenly followed a symbolic link that it had just written while checking out files, writing into a gitdir, let's add some defense-in-d...

@… please add a warning and offer to save as draft if while you’re writing a reply the original post gets deleted or becomes otherwise unavailable to reply to

While I was in the SPA yesterday I also finished my blog post about litter in the #mountains and cleaning up the trails.
Today my wife even said that she liked me writing about the topic, because it illustrates exactly what I try to transport all the time: "Love it, Change it or Leave it" & invest energy into positive change instead of just rage.
And keep in mind: It&…

Embracing the Clean-Up: Transforming Hikes into Acts of Kindness
Discover the power of carrying a CleanUpBag on hikes. Embrace positivity by picking up litter and turning frustration into constructive action, improving both the environment and your mood. Learn how this simple practice can enhance your outdoor experiences and even positively impact your everyday l

Designing Prompt Analytics Dashboards to Analyze Student-ChatGPT Interactions in EFL Writing
Minsun Kim, SeonGyeom Kim, Suyoun Lee, Yoosang Yoon, Junho Myung, Haneul Yoo, Hyungseung Lim, Jieun Han, Yoonsu Kim, So-Yeon Ahn, Juho Kim, Alice Oh, Hwajung Hong, Tak Yeon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19691

Designing Prompt Analytics Dashboards to Analyze Student-ChatGPT Interactions in EFL Writing
While ChatGPT has significantly impacted education by offering personalized resources for students, its integration into educational settings poses unprecedented risks, such as inaccuracies and biases in AI-generated content, plagiarism and over-reliance on AI, and privacy and security issues. To help teachers address such risks, we conducted a two-phase iterative design process that comprises surveys, interviews, and prototype demonstration involving six EFL (English as a Foreign Language) tea…

While some cultures use psychedelic plant medicines to access visions or guidance, the Haida have other tools.
“We don't have any psychedelics up in Haida,” Giihlgiigaa said. “We have mushrooms, but they were never used in ceremony. There's no stories of them being used in ceremony.”
“We have a different way of attaining that dream state,” he said.
“For one, everyone knew it was very common to have dreams, but not everyone dreamt every day because people had to get wor…

New poetry collection breaks free of limited Indigenous narratives
Dallas Hunt’s latest release is a book of 100 poems exploring ideas of urban Indigeneity, decolonial theory and how First Nations find ways to create and continue to exist. Hunt, a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River) First Nation, said his new collection Teeth sets out “to challenge the expectations and stereotypes placed on Indigenous writers.” Writing has always called to Hunt, he said, and he was encouraged by teachers and his family. 

Does anyone actually have time to read these author blogs that everyone says we are supposed to have? Are there actually readers out there interested in how many words I wrote yesterday and what flavor of tea I drink while writing and where I like to eat lunch and how many times my cat barfed on the carpet and...
I think the whole thing is someone's idea of a practical joke on writers. :catto:
#writing

Eric Liu, a former content moderator for Weibo, says that while online witch-hunts are nothing new, “recently it has reached a level that surprised people”. 
@…

While I sincerely value how my #neurodivergent brain so deeply & fully engages with anything I encounter...
...sometimes I REALLY envy the ability to engage with many things simultaneously on a surface level
(Like, for example, be able to stay semi-active on Mastodon while writing a research-intensive article instead of having to ghost out entirely in order to focus 🙃)

From the vault...
The quote below is usually attributed to Einstein:
“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and smart. [Together they are powerful beyond imagination.]”
But it's real origin is quite different. Read here (09/2021): http…

Misquoting Einstein Is Fast And Stupid, But Not Accurate
I was writing something a while ago, and had reason to quote the famous aphorism ?Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and smart.? I?ll bet y…

I haven't edited any #PHP code for a while so I didn't know that #SublimeText recognises you're writing comment blocks with "ASCII art" borders and it will place a new asterisk for you automatically whenever you press return.

Eric Liu, a former content moderator for Weibo, says that while online witch-hunts are nothing new, “recently it has reached a level that surprised people”. 
@…

Enhancing Hokkien Dual Translation by Exploring and Standardizing of Four Writing Systems
Bo-Han Lu, Yi-Hsuan Lin, En-Shiun Annie Lee, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12024

Enhancing Hokkien Dual Translation by Exploring and Standardizing of Four Writing Systems
Machine translation focuses mainly on high-resource languages (HRLs), while low-resource languages (LRLs) like Taiwanese Hokkien are relatively under-explored. This study aims to address this gap by developing a dual translation model between Taiwanese Hokkien and both Traditional Mandarin Chinese and English. We employ a pre-trained LLaMA2-7B model specialized in Traditional Mandarin Chinese to leverage the orthographic similarities between Taiwanese Hokkien Han and Traditional Mandarin Chines…

While some cultures use psychedelic plant medicines to access visions or guidance, the Haida have other tools.
“We don't have any psychedelics up in Haida,” Giihlgiigaa said. “We have mushrooms, but they were never used in ceremony. There's no stories of them being used in ceremony.”
“We have a different way of attaining that dream state,” he said.
“For one, everyone knew it was very common to have dreams, but not everyone dreamt every day because people had to get wor…

New poetry collection breaks free of limited Indigenous narratives
Dallas Hunt’s latest release is a book of 100 poems exploring ideas of urban Indigeneity, decolonial theory and how First Nations find ways to create and continue to exist. Hunt, a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River) First Nation, said his new collection Teeth sets out “to challenge the expectations and stereotypes placed on Indigenous writers.” Writing has always called to Hunt, he said, and he was encouraged by teachers and his family. 

Report: Dallas Cowboys Eyeing Star Replacement for RB Tony Pollard https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_dallas_cowboys_eyeing_star_replacement_for_rb_tony_pollard/s1_17068_40091341

Report: Dallas Cowboys Eyeing Star Replacement for RB Tony Pollard
The Dallas Cowboys learned this morning that they lost veteran RB Tony Pollard to the Tennessee Titans. While he will certainly be missed, the Cowboys can ease the sting by signing a key free agent. Ironically, it could end up being an unofficial swap. Read below to find out who the right fit for the Cowboys is. The Cowboys are one of the favorites to land RB Derrick Henry via free agency. At the time of writing, their odds of landing him are +220. Only the Baltimore Ravens have higher odds (+1…

CheckMate: Evaluating Checkpointing Protocols for Streaming Dataflows
George Siachamis, Kyriakos Psarakis, Marios Fragkoulis, Arie van Deursen, Paris Carbone, Asterios Katsifodimos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13629

CheckMate: Evaluating Checkpointing Protocols for Streaming Dataflows
Stream processing in the last decade has seen broad adoption in both commercial and research settings. One key element for this success is the ability of modern stream processors to handle failures while ensuring exactly-once processing guarantees. At the moment of writing, virtually all stream processors that guarantee exactly-once processing implement a variant of Apache Flink's coordinated checkpoints - an extension of the original Chandy-Lamport checkpoints from 1985. However, the reasons b…

Technology-assisted Journal Writing for Improving Student Mental Wellbeing: Humanoid Robot vs. Voice Assistant
Batuhan Sayis, Hatice Gunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05083

Technology-assisted Journal Writing for Improving Student Mental Wellbeing: Humanoid Robot vs. Voice Assistant
Conversational agents have a potential in improving student mental wellbeing while assisting them in self-disclosure activities such as journalling. Their embodiment might have an effect on what students disclose, and how they disclose this, and students overall adherence to the disclosure activity. However, the effect of embodiment in the context of agent assisted journal writing has not been studied. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the viability of using social robots (SR) and voice…

CheckMate: Evaluating Checkpointing Protocols for Streaming Dataflows
George Siachamis, Kyriakos Psarakis, Marios Fragkoulis, Arie van Deursen, Paris Carbone, Asterios Katsifodimos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13629

CheckMate: Evaluating Checkpointing Protocols for Streaming Dataflows
Stream processing in the last decade has seen broad adoption in both commercial and research settings. One key element for this success is the ability of modern stream processors to handle failures while ensuring exactly-once processing guarantees. At the moment of writing, virtually all stream processors that guarantee exactly-once processing implement a variant of Apache Flink's coordinated checkpoints - an extension of the original Chandy-Lamport checkpoints from 1985. However, the reasons b…

CommitBench: A Benchmark for Commit Message Generation
Maximilian Schall, Tamara Czinczoll, Gerard de Melo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05188 https://…

CommitBench: A Benchmark for Commit Message Generation
Writing commit messages is a tedious daily task for many software developers, and often remains neglected. Automating this task has the potential to save time while ensuring that messages are informative. A high-quality dataset and an objective benchmark are vital preconditions for solid research and evaluation towards this goal. We show that existing datasets exhibit various problems, such as the quality of the commit selection, small sample sizes, duplicates, privacy issues, and missing licen…

Quite a good comment on #AI-generated code:
"""
First of all, writing code is considerably easier than reviewing code. With LLMs you can hope to automate the easy bit while making the hard bit harder because there is nobody to ask why they chose to do X two months ago. Also, there will be either zero documentation, unintelligible documentation, or plain wrong documentation.
"""
#LLM #GPT #ChatGPT #Copilot

CommitBench: A Benchmark for Commit Message Generation
Maximilian Schall, Tamara Czinczoll, Gerard de Melo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05188 https://…

CommitBench: A Benchmark for Commit Message Generation
Writing commit messages is a tedious daily task for many software developers, and often remains neglected. Automating this task has the potential to save time while ensuring that messages are informative. A high-quality dataset and an objective benchmark are vital preconditions for solid research and evaluation towards this goal. We show that existing datasets exhibit various problems, such as the quality of the commit selection, small sample sizes, duplicates, privacy issues, and missing licen…