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US surveillance firms run a victory lap amid Trump's immigration crackdown

The Guardian

I'm your host, Blake Montgomery, currently enjoying Shirley Jackson's eerie final novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Surveillance is industrializing and privatizing. My colleagues Johana Bhuiyan and Jose Olivares report on the companies aiding Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, which are running a victory lap after their latest quarterly financial reports: Palantir, the tech firm, and Geo Group and CoreCivic, the private prison and surveillance companies, said this week that they brought in more money than Wall Street expected them to, thanks to the administration's crackdown on immigrants. "Well, as usual, I've been cautioned to be a little modest about our bombastic numbers," said Alex Karp, the Palantir chief executive, in an investor call earlier this week. Then he crowed about the company's "extraordinary numbers" and his "enormous pride" in its success.



A Generation Examples

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Green indicates factual, red indicates nonfactual, and striked text indicates repetition. So ci ety es ti mates that more than 228,000 peo ple will be di ag nosed with lung can cer in the United... That would make an oxygen mask one of the more popular treatments for this devastating disease. It helps ease breathing and give patients back their strength. The symptoms of lung cancer may resemble those of a bad cold or pneumonia.


Graph Neural Network Bandits

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The key challenges in this setting are scaling to large domains, and to graphs with many nodes. We resolve these challenges by embedding the permutation invariance into our model.




Adv Attribute Inconspicuous and Transferable Adversarial Attack on Face Recognition Supplementary Material

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StyleGAN [1] and the proposed Adv-Attribute attack. During training, the proposed important-aware attribute selection can choose the optimal attribute for the different pairs of target faces and source faces. When attacking the same target face, diverse source faces choose different attributes in each step. Lemma 1. Suppose the overall training loss Do the main claims made in the abstract and introduction accurately reflect the paper's If you ran experiments... (a) Did you include the code, data, and instructions needed to reproduce the main experimental results (either in the supplemental material or as a URL)? [Y es] (b) Did you specify all the training details (e.g., data splits, hyperparameters, how they Did you report error bars (e.g., with respect to the random seed after running experiments multiple times)? Did you include the total amount of compute and the type of resources used (e.g., type Did you include any new assets either in the supplemental material or as a URL? [N/A] Did you discuss whether and how consent was obtained from people whose data you're If you used crowdsourcing or conducted research with human subjects... (a)



Supplementary Materials for " DropCov: A Simple yet Effective Method for Improving Deep Architectures " Qilong Wang

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Our proposed DropCov can be flexibly integrated with existing deep architectures (e.g., CNNs [ Qinghua Hu is the corresponding author and is with Engineering Research Center of City intelligence and Digital Governance, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. VGG-VD on three small-scale fine-grained datasets) show 0.5 is the best choices of As listed in Table S2, we can see that single L T module brings a little gain for plain GCP . Compared to B-CNN + L T (79.62% training accuracy), plain GCP GCP + L T, while B-CNN + L T achieves significant improvement over B-CNN and plain GCP . On the contrary, the samples involving less redundant information (e.g., scene) have large Such these phenomena show the consistency with our finding. Is second-order information helpful for large-scale visual recognition?