'(Masataro Asai Ph . D)

Optimal illness policy for an unethical daycare center While businesses are typically more profitable if their workers and communities are minimally exposed to diseases, the same is not true for daycare centers. Here it is shown that a daycare center coul...

This is hilarious: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20123

Nをbinomialで何度かサンプルして....

Bike Helmet Ratings Virginia Tech Helmet Ratings - Bike helmets have been tested to evaluate their ability to reduce brain injury risk.

Wear helmets!
www.helmet.beam.vt.edu/bicycle-helm...

I needed a new bicycle helmet. Decided to scrape data from Virginia tech helmet rating website and compute the pareto front. For such a mundane task chatgpt is nice. Only for these tasks. I'd probably go for Specialized align II. I don't care about the design.

LLM側がアクティブラーニング(好奇心を持ってバックグラウンドで自分でニュースやウェブを見に行く)してそれをもとにゴシップを振ってくるみたいな話があると、面白いけどAGIがどーたらで騒がれそう

kya!?

Zebra’s are working

A screenshot of manual page named `systemd-soft-reboot.service` that reads: Such a userspace-only reboot operation permits updating or resetting the entirety of userspace with minimal downtime, as the reboot operation does not transition through: •The second phase of regular shutdown, as implemented by systemd-shutdown(8). •The third phase of regular shutdown, i.e. the return to the initrd context. •The hardware reboot operation. •The firmware initialization. •The boot loader initialization. •The kernel initialization. •The initrd initialization. However, this form of reboot comes with drawbacks as well: •The OS update remains incomplete, as the kernel is not reset and continues running. •Kernel settings (such as /proc/sys/ settings, a.k.a. "sysctl", or /sys/ settings) are not reset.

The `sudo systemctl soft-reboot` on Linux is used for performing a userspace only reboot operation. It will reboot the Linux distro without the BIOS, UEFI or the hardware having to perform a complete cold boot. As a result your system reboots in seconds but will not load a new Linux kernel.

A reminder that the 70+ year-old research discipline of AI is much bigger than genAI, much bigger than just deep learning, much bigger than Big Tech. AI includes symbolic reasoning, multi-agent systems and statistical machine learning and is used for astrophysics, renewable energy and climate models

Aladin Djuhera, Amin Seffo, Masataro Asai, Holger Boche: "Don't Do That!": Guiding Embodied Systems through Large Language Model-based Constraint Generation https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04500 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.04500 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.04500

A visualization of the generator-validator gap, where the LM likelihoods of for the generator and discriminator forms of questions are poorly correlated.

Aligning the validator and generator rankings can fix it!

One of the ways that LLMs can be inconsistent is the "generator-validator gap," where LLMs deem their own answers incorrect.

🎯 We demonstrate that ranking-based discriminator training can significantly reduce this gap, and improvements on one task often generalize to others!

🧵👇

Yey

反語で「リコ、いってみろ。君の家族は災害に備えて何かしたのか。してなかったんだろ」みたいなaccusationに聞こえた

永遠の地雷、wagamama

this should be a roundabout...

Trump Announces New Visa Tier For Immigrants Who Will Be Friends With Barron WASHINGTON—Extending an offer to immigrants hoping to relocate to the United States, President Donald Trump unveiled a new type of visa Thursday for any foreign citizen willing to move to America to b...

Trump Announces New Visa Tier For Immigrants Who Will Be Friends With Barron

A note on LCBO website saying all services unavailable while they remove American products.

Ontario's LCBO - one of the largest purchasers of alcohol in the world by volume - has shut down their website completely while they remove all American products from their ordering systems. Good luck Kentucky!

The #tradewar is on. Real-time electricity prices doubled few minutes after midnight EST in New England. 🔌💡

Listen, I know every Black person's head turned when they heard that line

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

This chart of federal voter preference over time is the craziest shift in public opinion I've ever seen.

Also afaik Tampa uses a lot of nuclear energy

Yes. There's a filibuster rule. Use it. Take turns reading out the January 6 reports on the floor of the Senate. Read from the DC phonebook. Have an in-depth discussion about the virtues of "Skeleton Crew". Read my novel out loud. I don't care. Do what the GOP would.

Pizza Hut Japan Shoyu ramen pizza ad

Pizza Hut Japan Shoyu ramen pizza - a picture of the actual pizza

What's it like eating a pizza with a bowl of ramen poured on top of it? Several UJ writers, including Tokyo Vice creator Jake Adelstein, decided to find out by trying Pizza Hut Japan's latest marketing gimmick. Check out our verdict below.

https://buff.ly/42Jcrap

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

How the Netherlands eradicated the pothole Taxes on heavy cars ensure Dutch roads are among the smoothest in the world

The answer (in part) = “Dutch drivers pay far more tax if they have a heavier car. The idea is to penalise those vehicles which most contribute to causing the potholes to help pay for the roads.”

lol

28JAN2025