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Because the partner doesn't test for HIV and/or is in denial that they have it or that it will affect them.

These are cultural contexts where the woman has no right to question any of this.

You are thinking of HPV, HSV is herpes.

There is no vaccine, it doesn't cause cancer (that we know of, at least not like HPV), and spreads via skin contact on the genital area.

Since fluids are not required for HPV or HSV and it's present on the area that a condom won't cover, condoms aren't effective for either.

They were previously parallelizable (via fft), but performed poorly on language modeling tasks.

Mamba adds a dependence on the inputs that makes language modeling competitive with transformers, but that prevents using the fft approach. So they switch to a method using parallel prefix scan.