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A plane crashed in a Brazil neighborhood, with all aboard feared dead

A plane crashed in a Brazil neighborhood, with all aboard feared dead

A passenger plane carrying 62 people has crashed in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, the airline Voepass confirmed in a statement on its website.The plane, which was headed toward São Paulo's Guarulhos International Airport from Cascavel, had 58 passengers and four crew members on board when it fell from the sky in the town of Vinhedo on Friday, the airline wrote on its website. The flight path of the Voepass plane that crashed in Vinhedo, Brazil on Friday. Dario Lopez-Mills/Associated Press The airline did not provide details on what may have caused the crash.Brazilian TV station GloboNews reported that…
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Cluster-Wide Task Slowdown Detection in Cloud System

Cluster-Wide Task Slowdown Detection in Cloud System

arXiv:2408.04236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Slow task detection is a critical problem in cloud operation and maintenance since it is highly related to user experience and can bring substantial liquidated damages. Most anomaly detection methods detect it from a single-task aspect. However, considering millions of concurrent tasks in large-scale cloud computing clusters, it becomes impractical and inefficient. Moreover, single-task slowdowns are very common and do not necessarily indicate a malfunction of a cluster due to its violent fluctuation nature in a virtual environment. Thus, we shift our attention to cluster-wide task slowdowns by utilizing the duration time distribution of tasks…
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LLDif: Diffusion Models for Low-light Emotion Recognition

LLDif: Diffusion Models for Low-light Emotion Recognition

arXiv:2408.04235v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces LLDif, a novel diffusion-based facial expression recognition (FER) framework tailored for extremely low-light (LL) environments. Images captured under such conditions often suffer from low brightness and significantly reduced contrast, presenting challenges to conventional methods. These challenges include poor image quality that can significantly reduce the accuracy of emotion recognition. LLDif addresses these issues with a novel two-stage training process that combines a Label-aware CLIP (LA-CLIP), an embedding prior network (PNET), and a transformer-based network adept at handling the noise of low-light images. The first stage involves LA-CLIP generating a joint embedding prior…
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Roomba robot vacuums are up to $420 off right now

Roomba robot vacuums are up to $420 off right now

Roomba robot vacuums are on sale right now via Wellbots and some of the deals are absolutely fantastic. The biggest discount is for the well-regarded Combo j9+, which is pretty much the company’s top-tier robovac. This vacuum and mop hybrid is typically a jaw-dropping $1,400, but this deal brings the price down to $980. Just enter the code “ENGT420” at checkout.iRobotMake sure to put "ENGT420" at checkout.  Save $420 with codeENGT420$980 at WellbotsWe loved this unit in our official review, calling it “the ideal robot vacuum and mop” and “a godsend for tired parents.” The vacuuming performance is excellent and…
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A DOJ-approved monitor begins policing how Pornhub screens for illegal videos, including potential sexual abuse

A DOJ-approved monitor begins policing how Pornhub screens for illegal videos, including potential sexual abuse

The firm will review how Aylo responds to takedown requests and screens for illegal content — including child-sexual-abuse images and non-consensual videos of sexual assault and trafficking — on its flagship website Pornhub and such sister sites as YouPorn and RedTube.The monitorship is part of a deferred prosecution agreement between Aylo and federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, who charged the company with money laundering in December.As part of that agreement, Aylo — formerly MindGeek— admitted profiting from videos produced by the sex trafficking ring Girls Do Porn. In addition to agreeing to independent monitoring, Aylo officials paid a $1.8 million fine…
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EfficientRAG: Efficient Retriever for Multi-Hop Question Answering

EfficientRAG: Efficient Retriever for Multi-Hop Question Answering

arXiv:2408.04259v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods encounter difficulties when addressing complex questions like multi-hop queries. While iterative retrieval methods improve performance by gathering additional information, current approaches often rely on multiple calls of large language models (LLMs). In this paper, we introduce EfficientRAG, an efficient retriever for multi-hop question answering. EfficientRAG iteratively generates new queries without the need for LLM calls at each iteration and filters out irrelevant information. Experimental results demonstrate that EfficientRAG surpasses existing RAG methods on three open-domain multi-hop question-answering datasets. Source link lol
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Ex-Twitter Chairman Sues Elon Musk’s X for $20 Million in Shares

Ex-Twitter Chairman Sues Elon Musk’s X for $20 Million in Shares

Former Twitter Chairman Omid Kordestani sued the social media company, claiming that billionaire owner Elon Musk is refusing to cash out more than $20 million worth of shares he is owed.Kordestani served as the company’s executive chairman from 2015 to 2020 and stayed on the board for two more years, until Musk bought the platform for $44 billion. He said in the complaint that the bulk of his compensation was stock, which he says Musk is refusing to pay out. Source link lol
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8 million student-loan borrowers on Biden’s new repayment plan just got more bad news after a federal court officially blocked cheaper payments and debt cancellation

8 million student-loan borrowers on Biden’s new repayment plan just got more bad news after a federal court officially blocked cheaper payments and debt cancellation

On Friday, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals placed a preliminary injunction on President Joe Biden's SAVE income-driven repayment plan, intended to lower monthly payments and shorten the timeline for relief for the 8 million borrowers enrolled.If this sounds familiar, that's because it is: on July 18, the 8th Circuit placed a temporary stay on the plan in response to a lawsuit led by Missouri's attorney general to block the plan from being implemented. This latest ruling replaces that stay, and it likely means that enrolled borrowers will be in limbo for longer as the legal process is carried out."Among…
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Enhanced Traffic Flow Prediction with Multi-Segment Fusion Tensor Graph Convolutional Networks

Enhanced Traffic Flow Prediction with Multi-Segment Fusion Tensor Graph Convolutional Networks

arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Source link lol
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Cross-View Meets Diffusion: Aerial Image Synthesis with Geometry and Text Guidance

Cross-View Meets Diffusion: Aerial Image Synthesis with Geometry and Text Guidance

arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Source link lol
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