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‘No one understands a woman in her 20s like Billy Joel [playing 🪗 in the 1970s]’: gen z finds solace in anti-hustle anthem Vienna
(I missed this story with the great #accordion pic last year)
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LOL!
I'd also be protesting if I were Malaysian. 😂
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/114875349534575720

DiffClean: Diffusion-based Makeup Removal for Accurate Age Estimation
Ekta Balkrishna Gavas, Chinmay Hegde, Nasir Memon, Sudipta Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13292

DiffClean: Diffusion-based Makeup Removal for Accurate Age Estimation
Accurate age verification can protect underage users from unauthorized access to online platforms and e-commerce sites that provide age-restricted services. However, accurate age estimation can be confounded by several factors, including facial makeup that can induce changes to alter perceived identity and age to fool both humans and machines. In this work, we propose DiffClean which erases makeup traces using a text-guided diffusion model to defend against makeup attacks. DiffClean improves ag…

SANGAM: SystemVerilog Assertion Generation via Monte Carlo Tree Self-Refine
Adarsh Gupta, Bhabesh Mali, Chandan Karfa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13983 http…

SANGAM: SystemVerilog Assertion Generation via Monte Carlo Tree Self-Refine
Recent advancements in the field of reasoning using Large Language Models (LLMs) have created new possibilities for more complex and automatic Hardware Assertion Generation techniques. This paper introduces SANGAM, a SystemVerilog Assertion Generation framework using LLM-guided Monte Carlo Tree Search for the automatic generation of SVAs from industry-level specifications. The proposed framework utilizes a three-stage approach: Stage 1 consists of multi-modal Specification Processing using Sign…

Sources: Meta's talks with Scale AI started in mid-April, with Zuckerberg floating a $5B investment in early May, which Alexandr Wang later countered with $20B (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-agreed-pay…

Meta Agreed to Pay up for Scale AI but Then Wanted More for Its Money
The negotiations started as just one billionaire tech founder talking to another. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg approached Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang in mid-April about a potentially industry-shaking deal. Zuckerberg wanted Wang to join Meta and was willing to pay billions of dollars to ...

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
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On the accretion luminosity of Class I protostars
L. Testi, A. Natta, S. Gozzi, C. F. Manara, J. P. Williams, R. Claes, U. Lebreuilly, P. Hennebelle, R. Klessen, S. Molinari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14601

On the accretion luminosity of Class I protostars
The value of the accretion luminosity during the early phases of star formation is a crucial information which helps us understand how stars form, yet it is still very difficult to obtain. We develop a new methodology to measure accretion luminosity using mid-infrared hydrogen recombination lines, and apply it to a limited sample of Class~I protostars in the Taurus and Ophiuchus star forming regions. We adopt the commonly used assumption that the properties of disk-protostar accretion in Class …

Detection of low-luminosity X-ray pulsations from the accreting millisecond pulsar IGR J17511-3057: an ever-thinning thread between bright accretion and sub-luminous states
Giulia Illiano, Alessandro Papitto, Sergio Campana, Alessio Marino, Arianna Miraval Zanon, Francesco Carotenuto, Francesco Coti Zelati, Maria Cristina Baglio, Filippo Ambrosino, Christian Malacaria, Caterina Ballocco, Gaurava K. Jaisawal, Marco M. Messa, Emilie Parent, Thomas D. Russell, Andrea Sanna, Anastasios Tzi…

Detection of low-luminosity X-ray pulsations from the accreting millisecond pulsar IGR J17511-3057: an ever-thinning thread between bright accretion and sub-luminous states
After nearly a decade in quiescence, the accreting millisecond pulsar IGR J17511$-$3057 displayed a new outburst on 2025 February 11, its third since discovery, following previous activity in 2009 and 2015. We report on an XMM-Newton Target of Opportunity observation performed on 2025 March 4, more than twenty days after the outburst onset. From the X-ray spectrum - well described by an absorbed Comptonization model - we estimated an unabsorbed 0.5$-$10 keV luminosity of $L_X \sim 7 \times 10^{…

#ImprecRecords has a new #WeirdAl t-shirt with an #Accordion and the cryptic reference "Satan eats Cheese-Whiz" (Taken from a back-masked message on Al's song "Nature Trail To…

Satan Eats Cheese Whiz - T Shirt

Do I know any #accordion or #concertina folks in #Belfast who might be up to attending this auction and shipping me an instrument if I’m fool enough to win one?
The Ken Hopkin's Accordion…

The Ken Hopkin's Accordion Collection at Ross's Online Auctions
The Ken Hopkin's Accordion Collection Bidding will take place via the-saleroom.com. You can bid by clicking here. Ross's Auctions is proud to present this landmark sale of Northern Ireland's lar