Airline says it’s testing a booking tool that lets women select seats away from men

Airline says it’s testing a booking tool that lets women select seats away from men

The CEO of Indian budget airline IndiGo says a booking tool test that lets women avoid sitting next to men on flights is getting some positive responses on social media.In an interview with CNBC, IndiGo chief Pieter Elbers said the test has "resounded very, very well" — though the airline is still looking into whether it has increased female travel.According to CNBC, the test kicked off in May across all IndiGo flights to make female passengers feel more comfortable.To book a ticket, customers first select a gender. On a subsequent seat selection page, female travelers see pink seats to designate…
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Lesion Elevation Prediction from Skin Images Improves Diagnosis

Lesion Elevation Prediction from Skin Images Improves Diagnosis

arXiv:2408.02792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While deep learning-based computer-aided diagnosis for skin lesion image analysis is approaching dermatologists' performance levels, there are several works showing that incorporating additional features such as shape priors, texture, color constancy, and illumination further improves the lesion diagnosis performance. In this work, we look at another clinically useful feature, skin lesion elevation, and investigate the feasibility of predicting and leveraging skin lesion elevation labels. Specifically, we use a deep learning model to predict image-level lesion elevation labels from 2D skin lesion images. We test the elevation prediction accuracy on the derm7pt dataset, and use the…
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Empathy Level Alignment via Reinforcement Learning for Empathetic Response Generation

Empathy Level Alignment via Reinforcement Learning for Empathetic Response Generation

arXiv:2408.02976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Empathetic response generation, aiming at understanding the user's situation and feelings and respond empathically, is crucial in building human-like dialogue systems. Previous methods mainly focus on using maximum likelihood estimation as the optimization objective for training response generation models, without taking into account the empathy level alignment between generated responses and target responses. To this end, we propose an empathetic response generation using reinforcement learning (EmpRL) framework. The framework designs an effective empathy reward function and generates empathetic responses by maximizing the expected reward through reinforcement learning. Given the powerful text generation capability of pre-trained…
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The Ring Stick Up Cam is down to its lowest price yet

The Ring Stick Up Cam is down to its lowest price yet

The Ring Stick Up Cam . That’s a discount of 45 percent and is the lowest price ever for the well-regarded security camera. Last time it got this low was Prime Day, but that was only available to Prime members. Now anyone can get in on the action.This is a standard security camera, but it’s anything but bare-bones. It’s easily mountable to just about any surface and can be moved at will. It allows for two-way communication via a proprietary app or an Echo device like the Show. People can use these same methods to check in on the camera…
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X Is Boosting the Far Right’s UK Riots as Telegram Scrambles for Control

X Is Boosting the Far Right’s UK Riots as Telegram Scrambles for Control

As asylum centers are boarding up ahead of another predicted day of violent protests across the UK on Wednesday, X owner Elon Musk has stoked tensions by labeling UK prime minister Keir Starmer “#TwoTierKier” and spreading a far-right conspiracy theory that claims white rioters are being dealt with more severely than minorities by police.For days now, Musk has sought to use his huge influence to suggest that diversity was causing the riots: “If incompatible cultures are brought together without assimilation, conflict is inevitable,” Musk wrote. Responding to a video of riots in Liverpool on Monday, Musk warned: “Civil war is…
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Ship a SaaS From Zero to Customers in One Month

Ship a SaaS From Zero to Customers in One Month

This is a new service from Rails Designer ✨ Yes, launching a successful SaaS doesn't take months! With the right scope, carefully cherry-picking the features that make your SaaS valuable to customers and skipping all the bloat. This can be done through the decade of experience I have building SaaS' and the right tech-stack. A SaaS Can be Launched Quickly Many big agencies will tell you it will take many months to build and launch your SaaS. That is because they follow your requirements to the dot. They don't question anything on your list. That's where I come in. Because…
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I visited Abercrombie & Fitch for the first time in years. It’s come a long way, but I’m not completely sold.

I visited Abercrombie & Fitch for the first time in years. It’s come a long way, but I’m not completely sold.

I don't have fond memories of the brand from when I was a kid. Abercrombie & Fitch used to have shopping bags with shirtless models. Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images Part of Abercrombie's revival is tied to consumer nostalgia, but my days shopping there as a child were short-lived.By the time high school rolled around, I had sized out of its offerings.My limited memories of the brand consist of being uncomfortable in its fitting rooms while trying to squeeze my plump body into its XL offerings and feeling inadequate as I watched my friends revel in the stylistic magic that was wearing…
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WPP Sells $775 Million Stake in PR Firm FGS Global to KKR

WPP Sells $775 Million Stake in PR Firm FGS Global to KKR

WPP Plc agreed to sell its stake in communications consultancy FGS Global to KKR & Co Inc. for $775 million as the British advertising agency streamlines its business to make room for investments in newer technologies. The sale of the approximately 50% stake gives FGS Global an enterprise value of $1.7 billion, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. KKR will increase its stake in the company to about 80% from 30%. Source link lol
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Spatio-Temporal Partial Sensing Forecast for Long-term Traffic

Spatio-Temporal Partial Sensing Forecast for Long-term Traffic

arXiv:2408.02689v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic forecasting uses recent measurements by sensors installed at chosen locations to forecast the future road traffic. Existing work either assumes all locations are equipped with sensors or focuses on short-term forecast. This paper studies partial sensing traffic forecast of long-term traffic, assuming sensors only at some locations. The study is important in lowering the infrastructure investment cost in traffic management since deploying sensors at all locations could incur prohibitively high cost. However, the problem is challenging due to the unknown distribution at unsensed locations, the intricate spatio-temporal correlation in long-term forecasting, as well as…
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