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"Intelligence" is a strange, subjective and often unnecessary concept #science

Why ‘intelligence’ exists only in the eye of the beholder | Aeon Essays
Our human minds hold us back from truly understanding the many brilliant ways that other creatures solve their problems

Mozilla acquires Anonym, a privacy-focused ad measurement startup launched by Meta executives in 2022, and will run Anonym as a separate business unit (Allison Schiff/AdExchanger)
https://www.adexchanger.com/privacy/mozill

Mozilla Acquires Anonym, A Privacy Tech Startup Founded By Two Top Former Meta Execs
Former Meta advertising executives Graham Mudd and Brad Smallwood have sold their privacy tech startup Anonym to Mozilla.

Professors giving instructions: I shall tell my students exactly what to do and they had better do it.
Professors following instructions: hahaha, nice try, but why don't I just make up my own and sow chaos.
I'm not referring to any Dagstuhl event, of course.

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
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Convergence rate of nonlinear delayed McKean-Vlasov SDEs driven by fractional Brownian motions
Shengrong Wang, Jie Xie, Li Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09678

Convergence rate of nonlinear delayed McKean-Vlasov SDEs driven by fractional Brownian motions
In this paper, our main aim is to investigate the strong convergence for a McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equation with super-linear delay driven by fractional Brownian motion with Hurst exponent $H\in(1/2, 1)$. After giving uniqueness and existence for the exact solution, we analyze the properties including boundedness of moment and propagation of chaos. Besides, we give the Euler-Maruyama (EM) scheme and show that the numerical solution converges strongly to the exact solution. Further…

The Cost and Complexity of Minimizing Envy in House Allocation
Jayakrishnan Madathil, Neeldhara Misra, Aditi Sethia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09744 https:…

The Cost and Complexity of Minimizing Envy in House Allocation
We study almost-envy-freeness in house allocation, where $m$ houses are to be allocated among $n$ agents so that every agent receives exactly one house. An envy-free allocation need not exist, and therefore we may have to settle for relaxations of envy-freeness. But typical relaxations such as envy-free up to one good do not make sense for house allocation, as every agent is required to receive exactly one house. Hence we turn to different aggregate measures of envy as markers of fairness. In p…

Optimal Kernel Orchestration for Tensor Programs with Korch
Muyan Hu, Ashwin Venkatram, Shreyashri Biswas, Balamurugan Marimuthu, Bohan Hou, Gabriele Oliaro, Haojie Wang, Liyan Zheng, Xupeng Miao, Jidong Zhai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09465 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.09465
arXiv:2406.09465v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Kernel orchestration is the task of mapping the computation defined in different operators of a deep neural network (DNN) to the execution of GPU kernels on modern hardware platforms. Prior approaches optimize kernel orchestration by greedily applying operator fusion, which fuses the computation of multiple operators into a single kernel, and miss a variety of optimization opportunities in kernel orchestration.
This paper presents Korch, a tensor program optimizer that discovers optimal kernel orchestration strategies for tensor programs. Instead of directly fusing operators, Korch first applies operator fission to decompose tensor operators into a small set of basic tensor algebra primitives. This decomposition enables a diversity of fine-grained, inter-operator optimizations. Next, Korch optimizes kernel orchestration by formalizing it as a constrained optimization problem, leveraging an off-the-shelf binary linear programming solver to discover an optimal orchestration strategy, and generating an executable that can be directly deployed on modern GPU platforms. Evaluation on a variety of DNNs shows that Korch outperforms existing tensor program optimizers by up to 1.7x on V100 GPUs and up to 1.6x on A100 GPUs. Korch is publicly available at https://github.com/humuyan/Korch.

Wisst ihr noch als CSU-Agrarminister Christian Schmidt gegen die Haltung der GroKo 2017 in der EU im Alleingang für Glyphosat stimmte?
In Östereich gibt es einen ähnlich gelagerten Fall, mit den Unterschieden, dass sich die grüne Umweltministerin auf eine geänderte Haltung der Bundesländer beziehen kann und dass ihr Abstimmungsverhalten kein egoistischer Bereicherungstripp ist.

During Watergate, the Supreme Court spoke with one voice.
Can it do the same in Trump’s case?
The Constitution has no “absolute, unqualified presidential privilege of immunity,”
the court said in July 1974 in United States vs. Nixon.
The president’s claim of executive privilege for his White House tapes, justices said,
“cannot prevail over the fundamental demands of ... the fair administration of criminal justice.”
Chief Justice Warren Burger, an appoint…

During Watergate, Supreme Court spoke as one. Can it do so on Trump?
The Supreme Court is once again being asked to help unify a nation deeply divided over some founding principles. Will today's justices rise to the occasion?

RISJ's 2024 Digital News Report with a survey of 90K people: six platforms, like TikTok, reach 10% of respondents for news use vs. two a decade ago, more (Nic Newman/Reuters Institute)
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digit…