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Japan's favorite beer is in peril
Technology Internet Japan's favorite beer is in peril Asahi Super Dry's manufacturer is suffering from a major cyberattack. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Japan is facing a serious beer crisis. The emergency began on Monday, September 29 when the makers of the country's most popular brew Asahi Super Dry announced it had suffered a massive cyberattack resulting in a nationwide "system failure." The immediate fallout included a temporary shutdown of nearly all of Asahi Group's 30 domestic breweries, as well a pause in ordering and shipping across Japan.
Fast Multivariate Spatio-temporal Analysis via Low Rank Tensor Learning Mohammad T aha Bahadori
Accurate and efficient analysis of multivariate spatio-temporal data is critical in climatology, geology, and sociology applications. Existing models usually assume simple inter-dependence among variables, space, and time, and are computationally expensive. We propose a unified low rank tensor learning framework for multivariate spatio-temporal analysis, which can conveniently incorporate different properties in spatio-temporal data, such as spatial clustering and shared structure among variables. We demonstrate how the general framework can be applied to cokriging and forecasting tasks, and develop an efficient greedy algorithm to solve the resulting optimization problem with convergence guarantee. We conduct experiments on both synthetic datasets and real application datasets to demonstrate that our method is not only significantly faster than existing methods but also achieves lower estimation error.
Double or Nothing: Multiplicative Incentive Mechanisms for Crowdsourcing
Nihar Bhadresh Shah, Dengyong Zhou
Crowdsourcing has gained immense popularity in machine learning applications for obtaining large amounts of labeled data. Crowdsourcing is cheap and fast, but suffers from the problem of low-quality data. To address this fundamental challenge in crowdsourcing, we propose a simple payment mechanism to incentivize workers to answer only the questions that they are sure of and skip the rest. We show that surprisingly, under a mild and natural "no-free-lunch" requirement, this mechanism is the one and only incentive-compatible payment mechanism possible. We also show that among all possible incentive-compatible mechanisms (that may or may not satisfy no-free-lunch), our mechanism makes the smallest possible payment to spammers. Interestingly, this unique mechanism takes a "multiplicative" form. The simplicity of the mechanism is an added benefit. In preliminary experiments involving over several hundred workers, we observe a significant reduction in the error rates under our unique mechanism for the same or lower monetary expenditure.
Is THIS Amelia Earhart's missing plane? Expedition this month will finally confirm if the 'Taraia Object' in a lagoon on Nikumaroro Island is her Lockheed Electra 10E
Shroud of Turin mystery deepens as surgeon spots hidden detail that points to Jesus' resurrection I was so happy after trying a trendy new cosmetic procedure. But 10 years later I suffered a devastating side effect... the doctor had lied I'm no longer sleeping with my husband - and never will again, says MOLLY RYDDELL. I love him, but counted down the moments until he climaxed. Then I couldn't bear it any more and the truth spilled out... so many women feel the same The'middle-class kinks' saving marriages: Wives reveal the eight buzzy sex trends that revived their lagging libidos - including the fantasy husbands are secretly obsessed with I'm a woman with autism... here are the signs you might be masking, even from yourself Lori Loughlin's husband Mossimo Giannulli seen with mystery brunette in tiny skirt day after shock split Body count from Houston's bayous rises as serial killer whispers grip city and residents are told: 'Be vigilant' Cake-faced 90s sitcom star looks unrecognizable as she ditches the heavy eyeshadow for an LA errand run can you guess who? Trump dollar coin design released by Treasury... and it's inspired by the most iconic political photo of the century I've loved Taylor Swift for years. Mystery deepens over Hulk Hogan's death as his widow faces fresh anguish Prison chief reveals exactly where Diddy could end up... and the one horrifying jail he MUST avoid Is THIS Amelia Earhart's missing plane?
Trump's Department of War reveals shopping list of formidable weapons for a potential war with China
Trump dollar coin design released by Treasury... and it's inspired by the most iconic political photo of the century Top plastic surgeons reveal secrets behind Taylor Swift's'changing' face: 'It is looking very full' Shroud of Turin mystery deepens as surgeon spots hidden detail that points to Jesus' resurrection Hollywood A-listers pay me $50,000 to cure their drug addicted nepo-babies because they can't afford for these secrets to go public I'm no longer sleeping with my husband - and never will again, says MOLLY RYDDELL. I love him, but counted down the moments until he climaxed. Then I couldn't bear it any more and the truth spilled out... so many women feel the same Lori Loughlin's husband Mossimo Giannulli seen with mystery brunette in tiny skirt day after shock split I'm a woman with autism... here are the signs you might be masking, even from yourself Diddy sentenced to 50 MONTHS in prison for prostitution offenses as he's branded a vile and unrepentant woman beater I've loved Taylor Swift for years. I was so happy after trying a trendy new cosmetic procedure. But 10 years later I suffered a devastating side effect... the doctor had lied The'middle-class kinks' saving marriages: Wives reveal the eight buzzy sex trends that revived their lagging libidos - including the fantasy husbands are secretly obsessed with Cake-faced 90s sitcom star looks unrecognizable as she ditches the heavy eyeshadow for an LA errand run can you guess who?
California police stumped after trying to ticket driverless car for illegal U-turn
San Bruno police posted a photo of a Waymo and a dilemma, writing: 'Since there was no human driver, a ticket couldn't be issued.' San Bruno police posted a photo of a Waymo and a dilemma, writing: 'Since there was no human driver, a ticket couldn't be issued.' San Bruno officers pull over Waymo but say a ticket wasn't issued, as'citation books don't have a box for "robot"' If a driver makes an illegal U-turn, but no one is behind the wheel, does the car still get a ticket? A police department in California grappled with this existential question last week. During a DUI enforcement operation, officers in San Bruno pulled over a car without anyone behind the wheel after the autonomous vehicle made an illegal U-turn at a light.
FusionFactory: Fusing LLM Capabilities with Multi-LLM Log Data
Feng, Tao, Zhang, Haozhen, Lei, Zijie, Han, Pengrui, Patwary, Mostofa, Shoeybi, Mohammad, Catanzaro, Bryan, You, Jiaxuan
The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has created a diverse landscape of models, each excelling at different tasks. This diversity drives researchers to employ multiple LLMs in practice, leaving behind valuable multi-LLM log data. This naturally leads to the question of whether such logs can be fully leveraged to fuse LLMs' complementary capabilities. Although prior work has explored various strategies for integrating multiple LLMs, we argue that practical fusion must meet two essential requirements: (1) compatibility with real-world serving scenarios (e.g., local and API-based serving), and (2) flexibility to operate at different stages of the LLM pipeline to meet varied user needs (e.g., fine-tuning and inference stages). To this end, we introduce LLMFusionBench, a large-scale benchmark for LLM fusion that spans 14 tasks across five domains, with responses from 20 open-source LLMs (8B--671B) totaling 103M tokens. Building on LLMFusionBench, we propose FusionFactory, a systematic framework with three elaborated levels: (1) query-level fusion via tailored LLM routers, (2) thought-level fusion leveraging retrieved abstract reasoning templates, and (3) model-level fusion via distillation from top-ranked responses. Experiments show that FusionFactory consistently outperforms the best individual LLM across all 14 benchmarks, with the optimal fusion configuration varying across benchmarks, highlighting the promise of multi-LLM log data as a practical foundation for fusing diverse LLM capabilities.
Kindergarten is important, but illness, tears make chronic absenteeism a challenge
Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Students arrive for the first day of school at 24th Street Elementary School. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . Kindergartners have California's highest chronic absenteeism rates, with 26% missing at least 10% of school days in 2023-24.
ICE offers big bucks -- but California police officers prove tough to poach
Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . The Trump administration is offering hefty signing bonuses, student loan forgiveness and six-figure salaries to recruit ICE officers. California police agencies already struggling to hire and retain enough officers now face competition from the federal agency.