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DAVID MARCUS: Andrew Tate is the woke Left's misogynist Frankenstein
The Tate brothers left the Sunshine State Thursday ahead of an expected court appearance in Romania, but influencer and former MMA fighter Andrew Tate says he'll be back. Andrew Tate is back in America, forcing us to confront his perverse messaging to a subset of America's young men. But what we really need to come to grips with are the social conditions in our culture that created an opening for this men's rights Frankenstein. Tate, 38, is a former professional kickboxer facing sex trafficking charges in Romania, serious enough that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis insists the podcast star is not welcome in the Sunshine State, where he landed earlier this week; the Florida attorney general is now investigating Tate and his brother Tristan. ANDREW TATE SAYS HE PLANS TO LIVE IN FLORIDA DESPITE'HEE HAW' OVER RETURN TO US SOIL Tate made a fortune off of a "webcam model" (read: porn) business, then began selling online courses ostensibly teaching alienated boys and young men how to become alpha males.
At least 14 people killed in overnight attacks in eastern Ukraine
At least 14 people have been killed in overnight attacks on Ukraine's eastern region. Ukraine's emergency service said on Saturday that Russian forces hit the town of Dobropillia in the eastern Donetsk region on Friday night, killing 11 people and wounding 30. Emergency services added that eight five-storey apartment buildings, an administrative building, and 30 cars were damaged. At least three people were killed and seven injured after a Russian drone attack on a civilian building in Bogodukhiv, Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine, the governor of Kharkiv, Oleh Synehubov, wrote on Telegram. In Odesa, a drone attack resulted in several fires, which affected a hangar with agricultural equipment, a service station building, an auto parts store, solar panels held in an open area and a four-storey industrial building.
Decoding the Black Box: Integrating Moral Imagination with Technical AI Governance
This paper examines the intricate interplay among AI safety, security, and governance by integrating technical systems engineering with principles of moral imagination and ethical philosophy. Drawing on foundational insights from Weapons of Math Destruction and Thinking in Systems alongside contemporary debates in AI ethics, we develop a comprehensive multi-dimensional framework designed to regulate AI technologies deployed in high-stakes domains such as defense, finance, healthcare, and education. Our approach combines rigorous technical analysis, quantitative risk assessment, and normative evaluation to expose systemic vulnerabilities inherent in opaque, black-box models. Detailed case studies, including analyses of Microsoft Tay (2016) and the UK A-Level Grading Algorithm (2020), demonstrate how security lapses, bias amplification, and lack of accountability can precipitate cascading failures that undermine public trust. We conclude by outlining targeted strategies for enhancing AI resilience through adaptive regulatory mechanisms, robust security protocols, and interdisciplinary oversight, thereby advancing the state of the art in ethical and technical AI governance.
Unmanned Surface Vehicle Path Planning from the Perspective of Multi-Modality Constraints: A Comprehensive Analysis
Zhou, Chunhui, Gu, Shangding, Wen, Yuanqiao, Du, Zhe, Xiao, Changshi, Huang, Liang, Zhu, Man
With the development and application of artificial intelligence and machine learning, more and more studies focus on unmanned vehicles and their applications (Zhou, Z., 2016). For example, Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) or wheeled robot is widely used in field of industrial automation (automatic forklift), warehouse management, planet exploring (lunar rover), disaster rescue, intelligent transportation (automatic drive) and military operation (de-mining robot) (Arai et al., 2002; Farinelli et al., 2004; Kui et al., 2007). The application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is also increasingly changed from military domain to civil use, such as remote sensing photographing, agricultural spraying, communications relay, environmental monitoring and express service (Jayoung et al., 2013; George et al., 2012; Mingzhu et al., 2016). The development of UGV and UAV has already been updated to a new level. Another unmanned vehicle should also be paid attention to, which is the Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV). The application scenarios are not widely applied for civil use and the studies of a USV are relatively fewer and commence a bit late.
LimTopic: LLM-based Topic Modeling and Text Summarization for Analyzing Scientific Articles limitations
Azhar, Ibrahim Al, Reddy, Venkata Devesh, Alhoori, Hamed, Akella, Akhil Pandey
The limitations sections of scientific articles play a crucial role in highlighting the boundaries and shortcomings of research, thereby guiding future studies and improving research methods. Analyzing these limitations benefits researchers, reviewers, funding agencies, and the broader academic community. We introduce LimTopic, a strategy where Topic generation in Limitation sections in scientific articles with Large Language Models (LLMs). Here, each topic contains the title and Topic Summary. This study focuses on effectively extracting and understanding these limitations through topic modeling and text summarization, utilizing the capabilities of LLMs. We extracted limitations from research articles and applied an LLM-based topic modeling integrated with the BERtopic approach to generate a title for each topic and Topic Sentences. To enhance comprehension and accessibility, we employed LLM-based text summarization to create concise and generalizable summaries for each topic Topic Sentences and produce a Topic Summary. Our experimentation involved prompt engineering, fine-tuning LLM and BERTopic, and integrating BERTopic with LLM to generate topics, titles, and a topic summary. We also experimented with various LLMs with BERTopic for topic modeling and various LLMs for text summarization tasks. Our results showed that the combination of BERTopic and GPT 4 performed the best in terms of silhouette and coherence scores in topic modeling, and the GPT4 summary outperformed other LLM tasks as a text summarizer.
Generalizable Machine Learning Models for Predicting Data Center Server Power, Efficiency, and Throughput
Lei, Nuoa, Shehabi, Arman, Lu, Jun, Cao, Zhi, Koomey, Jonathan, Smith, Sarah, Masanet, Eric
In the rapidly evolving digital era, comprehending the intricate dynamics influencing server power consumption, efficiency, and performance is crucial for sustainable data center operations. However, existing models lack the ability to provide a detailed and reliable understanding of these intricate relationships. This study employs a machine learning-based approach, using the SPECPower_ssj2008 database, to facilitate user-friendly and generalizable server modeling. The resulting models demonstrate high accuracy, with errors falling within approximately 10% on the testing dataset, showcasing their practical utility and generalizability. Through meticulous analysis, predictive features related to hardware availability date, server workload level, and specifications are identified, providing insights into optimizing energy conservation, efficiency, and performance in server deployment and operation. By systematically measuring biases and uncertainties, the study underscores the need for caution when employing historical data for prospective server modeling, considering the dynamic nature of technology landscapes. Collectively, this work offers valuable insights into the sustainable deployment and operation of servers in data centers, paving the way for enhanced resource use efficiency and more environmentally conscious practices.
Causal Discovery and Inference towards Urban Elements and Associated Factors
Feng, Tao, Zhang, Yunke, Fan, Xiaochen, Wang, Huandong, Li, Yong
To uncover the city's fundamental functioning mechanisms, it is important to acquire a deep understanding of complicated relationships among citizens, location, and mobility behaviors. Previous research studies have applied direct correlation analysis to investigate such relationships. Nevertheless, due to the ubiquitous confounding effects, empirical correlation analysis may not accurately reflect underlying causal relationships among basic urban elements. In this paper, we propose a novel urban causal computing framework to comprehensively explore causalities and confounding effects among a variety of factors across different types of urban elements. In particular, we design a reinforcement learning algorithm to discover the potential causal graph, which depicts the causal relations between urban factors. The causal graph further serves as the guidance for estimating causal effects between pair-wise urban factors by propensity score matching. After removing the confounding effects from correlations, we leverage significance levels of causal effects in downstream urban mobility prediction tasks. Experimental studies on open-source urban datasets show that the discovered causal graph demonstrates a hierarchical structure, where citizens affect locations, and they both cause changes in urban mobility behaviors. Experimental results in urban mobility prediction tasks further show that the proposed method can effectively reduce confounding effects and enhance performance of urban computing tasks.
Language Model Personalization via Reward Factorization
Shenfeld, Idan, Faltings, Felix, Agrawal, Pulkit, Pacchiano, Aldo
Modern large language models (LLMs) are optimized for human-aligned responses using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). However, existing RLHF approaches assume a universal preference model and fail to account for individual user preferences, limiting their effectiveness in personalized applications. We introduce a framework that extends RLHF to enable user personalization by leveraging the assumption that user preferences lie in a low-dimensional space. Instead of training a separate model per user, we represent user-specific rewards as a linear combination of base reward functions. Using only 10 user responses, our method can infer user-specific rewards and align LLM outputs accordingly. We validate our approach through experiments with both synthetic and real users, demonstrating significant personalization achieved by our method. In human evaluations, our method achieves a 67% win rate over default GPT-4o responses. Code and demo are available at https://idanshen.github.io/PReF/.
The AI Pentad, the CHARME$^{2}$D Model, and an Assessment of Current-State AI Regulation
Gao, Di Kevin, Mittal, Sudip, Wu, Jiming, Du, Hongwei, Chen, Jingdao, Rahimi, Shahram
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made remarkable progress in the past few years with AI-enabled applications beginning to permeate every aspect of our society. Despite the widespread consensus on the need to regulate AI, there remains a lack of a unified approach to framing, developing, and assessing AI regulations. Many of the existing methods take a value-based approach, for example, accountability, fairness, free from bias, transparency, and trust. However, these methods often face challenges at the outset due to disagreements in academia over the subjective nature of these definitions. This paper aims to establish a unifying model for AI regulation from the perspective of core AI components. We first introduce the AI Pentad, which comprises the five essential components of AI: humans and organizations, algorithms, data, computing, and energy. We then review AI regulatory enablers, including AI registration and disclosure, AI monitoring, and AI enforcement mechanisms. Subsequently, we present the CHARME$^{2}$D Model to explore further the relationship between the AI Pentad and AI regulatory enablers. Finally, we apply the CHARME$^{2}$D model to assess AI regulatory efforts in the European Union (EU), China, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States (US), highlighting their strengths, weaknesses, and gaps. This comparative evaluation offers insights for future legislative work in the AI domain.
A quantum annealing approach to graph node embedding
Node embedding is a key technique for representing graph nodes as vectors while preserving structural and relational properties, which enables machine learning tasks like feature extraction, clustering, and classification. While classical methods such as DeepWalk, node2vec, and graph convolutional networks learn node embeddings by capturing structural and relational patterns in graphs, they often require significant computational resources and struggle with scalability on large graphs. Quantum computing provides a promising alternative for graph-based learning by leveraging quantum effects and introducing novel optimization approaches. Variational quantum circuits and quantum kernel methods have been explored for embedding tasks, but their scalability remains limited due to the constraints of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware. In this paper, we investigate quantum annealing (QA) as an alternative approach that mitigates key challenges associated with quantum gate-based models. We propose several formulations of the node embedding problem as a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) instance, making it compatible with current quantum annealers such as those developed by D-Wave. We implement our algorithms on a D-Wave quantum annealer and evaluate their performance on graphs with up to 100 nodes and embedding dimensions of up to 5. Our findings indicate that QA is a viable approach for graph-based learning, providing a scalable and efficient alternative to previous quantum embedding techniques.