discounts on such items as Nate's Humane Tofurkey Loaf (to satisfy your sister's vegetarian boyfriend), Apple noise-cancelling earbuds ("for when Grandpa weighs

Okay, everyone! It’s been a long time, hasn’t it? So many things have happened in the past month! Time sure flies, doesn’t it? Anyway... we have some more new moderators now, and it's been a wh...

Benchmarks for large multimodal language models (MLMs) now serve to simultaneously assess the general capabilities of models instead of evaluating for a specific capability. As a result, when a develo...

split into two episodes, made available on Wednesdays and Fridays. The Patreon version continues to be released on Tuesdays. The podcast is signed to American

Growing up, I always wished I could smoke; not that I was interested in the cigarette itself, but as long as I could remember the scent was embedded in the fibers of my clothes, every scratchy, squigg...

This technical report describes our QuAVF@NTU-NVIDIA submission to the Ego4D Talking to Me (TTM) Challenge 2023. Based on the observation from the TTM task and the provided dataset, we propose to use ...

Growing up, I always wished I could smoke; not that I was interested in the cigarette itself, but as long as I could remember the scent was embedded in the fibers of my clothes, every scratchy, squigg...

Camera rotation estimation from a single image is a challenging task, often requiring depth data and/or camera intrinsics, which are generally not available for in-the-wild videos. Although external s...

Part 6 left off in the early morning hours of August 4th. SW has barely slept in the past 4 days. She has spent every night rage texting her husband & messaging Cristina Meacham, who lived in...

Creating content with specified identities (ID) has attracted significant interest in the field of generative models. In the field of text-to-image generation (T2I), subject-driven creation has achiev...

**Black Sheep Family** **Part 47** **Arc 4** **Auld lang syne** **“You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So get on your way!”** ~ _Dr. Suess_ ***(B)(S)(F...

This paper addresses ontology and ethics of an AI agent called digital me. We define digital me as autonomous, decision-making, and learning agent, representing an individual and having practically im...

I'm going to try to make this as short as possible but there's a lot I'd like to say here and it's hard to decide what to include or leave out. I need to tell my story somewhere though.   ...

I was a student of Juris Hartmanis at Cornell in the late 1970's. He believed that there was great potential in studying restricted reductions. I describe here some of his influences on me and, in par...

I’m sure everyone can remember their retail days. The periods of our lives when we worked long hours for shit pay and at the mercy of every dickhead who felt a soy sauce shortage was a legitimate re...

Planar bipartite graphs can be represented as touching graphs of horizontal and vertical segments in $\mathbb{R}^2$. We study a generalization in space: touching graphs of axis-aligned rectangles in $...

For most of my life, I sat there accepting a possibility that I was neurologically disabled. More or less drifting through a system from which I had an opportunity to meet so many people... all deemed...

Human interaction with the external world fundamentally involves the exchange of personal memory, whether with other individuals, websites, applications, or, in the future, AI agents. A significant po...

I'm going to try to make this as short as possible but there's a lot I'd like to say here and it's hard to decide what to include or leave out. I need to tell my story somewhere though.   ...

The electronic structure of Me[N(CN)$_2$]$_2$ (Me=Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu) molecular magnets has been investigated using x-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) as well...

Introduction: The Medium Energy X-ray telescope (ME) is a collimated X-ray telescope onboard the Insight hard X-ray modulation telescope (Insight-HXMT) satellite. It has 1728 Si-PIN pixels readout usi...