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NYT flamed for student op-ed arguing progressive universities 'alienate' conservatives: 'Science fiction'

FOX News

Campus Reform correspondents Wyatt Eichholz and Kale Ogunbor joined'Fox & Friends First' to discuss the impact of woke culture on college campuses. Liberal media figures and professors mocked and attacked the New York Times Wednesday for publishing a guest essay from a conservative Ivy League student criticizing his campus' progressive attitude. The essay "My Liberal Campus Is Pushing Freethinkers to the Right" came from Princeton University senior Adam S. Hoffman who described his fellow campus conservatives as growing increasingly more right-wing in backlash to their college's more leftist stances. "Today's campus conservatives embrace a less moderate, complacent and institutional approach to politics. Instead of belief in the status quo, many tend toward scorched-earth politics. But these changes aren't solely the consequence of a fractured national politics," Hoffman wrote.


'The Last of Us' recap: 'Left Behind' is Ellie's origin story

Washington Post - Technology News

The next wonder is a quick stop at a mall photo booth. The third is an arcade, or to Ellie, the "most beautiful thing" she's ever seen. This is the HBO and Warner Bros. Discovery brand universe at work; Warner also owns the Mortal Kombat franchise. Here we see Riley play as Mileena and successfully pull off her Fatality finishing move (which probably counts as yet another miracle). How the hell did a 17-year-old girl in a fungal post-apocalypse learn this move?


Integrating Additional Knowledge Into Estimation of Graphical Models

arXiv.org Machine Learning

In applications of graphical models, we typically have more information than just the samples themselves. A prime example is the estimation of brain connectivity networks based on fMRI data, where in addition to the samples themselves, the spatial positions of the measurements are readily available. With particular regard for this application, we are thus interested in ways to incorporate additional knowledge most effectively into graph estimation. Our approach to this is to make neighborhood selection receptive to additional knowledge by strengthening the role of the tuning parameters. We demonstrate that this concept (i) can improve reproducibility, (ii) is computationally convenient and efficient, and (iii) carries a lucid Bayesian interpretation. We specifically show that the approach provides effective estimations of brain connectivity graphs from fMRI data. However, providing a general scheme for the inclusion of additional knowledge, our concept is expected to have applications in a wide range of domains.


Meet Charpu, the Drone-Racing Megastar Who Doesn't Feel Like Racing

WIRED

A drone-racing ace charts his own course as the sport goes mainstream. Carlos Puertolas maneuvers an X-shaped drone high above a grassy field in a Los Angeles park, then spins it sharply to face the ground and sends it full-throttle into a suicide dive. He takes his hand off a radio controller and peels off a pair of opaque white goggles. Puertolas is an aloof but unassuming Spaniard who stands about 5?8?, with a tuft of gray in his bangs and a rough chinstrap beard. In his day job he's a top animator at DreamWorks, but he's in this park testing a model designed especially for him by the Florida drone-kit company Lumenier.


Discriminative Reordering Model Adaptation via Structural Learning

AAAI Conferences

Reordering model adaptation remains a big challenge in statistical machine translation because reordering patterns of translation units often vary dramatically from one domain to another. In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive discriminative reordering model (DRM) based on structural learning, which can capture correspondences among reordering features from two different domains. Exploiting both in-domain and out-of-domain monolingual corpora, our model learns a shared feature representation for cross-domain phrase reordering. Incorporating features of this representation, the DRM trained on out-of-domain corpus generalizes better to in-domain data. Experiment results on the NIST Chinese-English translation task show that our approach significantly outperforms a variety of baselines.