:::info Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 2004, by Astounding Stories is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND – XXIV. — MISS WINCHELSEA’S HEART. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 2004: THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND – XXIV. — MISS WINCHELSEA’S HEART. By H. G. Wells ::: Miss Winchelsea was going to Rome. The matter had filled her mind for a month or more, and […]
arXiv:2603.00576v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Symbolic music generation is a challenging task in multimedia generation, involving long sequences with hierarchical temporal structures, long-range dependencies, and fine-grained local details. Though recent diffusion-based models produce high quality generations, they tend to suffer from high training and inference costs with long symbolic sequences due to iterative denoising and sequence-length-related costs. To deal with such problem, we put forth a diffusing strategy named SMDIM to combine efficient global structure construction and light […]
Far Side fans might recall a classic 1982 cartoon called “Cow Tools,” featuring a cow standing next to a jumble of strange objects—the joke being that cows don’t use tools. That’s why a pet Swiss brown cow in Austria named Veronika has caused a bit of a sensation: she likes to pick up random sticks and use them to scratch herself. According to a new paper published in the journal Current Biology, this is a form of multipurpose […]
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s relentless anti-vaccine agenda is getting reined in as Republicans warn that further attacks on lifesaving vaccines could harm the party during the midterms, according to a report by The Washington Post. The Post reported Wednesday that Kennedy’s hand-selected committee of vaccine advisors—who share his anti-vaccine views—have abruptly abandoned plans to attack mRNA vaccines in an upcoming meeting. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
When Netflix launched its ad-supported tier in November 2022, most people shrugged it off as a pricing accommodation for budget-conscious subscribers. It was a bigger deal than it looked. The AVOD vs SVOD debate had been a niche industry conversation up to that point. Netflix, a company that spent a decade telling advertisers they had no place in its product, had just admitted its model needed a second revenue engine. Every major platform followed, and the structural logic […]
arXiv:2603.03462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X), introduced and developed by the 3GPP, is a promising technology for the Autonomous Driving System (ADS). C-V2X aims to fulfill the Service-Level Requirements (SLRs) of ADS to ensure road safety following the development of the latest version, i.e., the NR-V2X. However, vulnerabilities threatening road safety in NR-V2X persist that have yet to be investigated. Existing research primarily evaluates road safety based on successful packet receptions. In this work, we […]
Datasette 1.0a24 New Datasette alpha this morning. Key new features: Datasette’s Request object can now handle multipart/form-data file uploads via the new await request.form(files=True) method. I plan to use this for a datasette-files plugin to support attaching files to rows of data. The recommended development environment for hacking on Datasette itself now uses uv. Crucially, you can clone Datasette and run uv run pytest to run the tests without needing to manually create a virtual environment or install […]
arXiv:2602.23507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: Clinical prediction models are increasingly used to inform healthcare decisions, but determining the minimum sample size for their development remains a critical and unresolved challenge. Inadequate sample sizes can lead to overfitting, poor generalisability, and biased predictions. Existing approaches, such as heuristic rules, closed-form formulas, and simulation-based methods, vary in flexibility and accuracy, particularly for complex data structures and machine learning models. Methods: We review current methodologies for sample size estimation in […]
arXiv:2601.02509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Following the initial publication of hdlib, a Python library for designing Vector-Symbolic Architectures (VSA), we introduce a major extension that significantly enhances its machine learning capabilities. VSA, also known as Hyperdimensional Computing, is a computing paradigm that represents and processes information using high-dimensional vectors. While the first version of hdlib established a robust foundation for creating and manipulating these vectors, this update addresses the growing need for more advanced, data-driven modeling within the […]
arXiv:2601.04261v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The widespread adoption of Large Language Model (LLM) in commercial and research settings has intensified the need for robust intellectual property protection. Backdoor-based LLM fingerprinting has emerged as a promising solution for this challenge. In practical application, the low-cost multi-model collaborative technique, LLM ensemble, combines diverse LLMs to leverage their complementary strengths, garnering significant attention and practical adoption. Unfortunately, the vulnerability of existing LLM fingerprinting for the ensemble scenario is unexplored. In order […]