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Toward Green Code: Prompting Small Language Models for Energy-Efficient Code Generation
Humza Ashraf, Syed Muhammad Danish, Zeeshan Sattar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09947 https…

Toward Green Code: Prompting Small Language Models for Energy-Efficient Code Generation
There is a growing concern about the environmental impact of large language models (LLMs) in software development, particularly due to their high energy use and carbon footprint. Small Language Models (SLMs) offer a more sustainable alternative, requiring fewer computational resources while remaining effective for fundamental programming tasks. In this study, we investigate whether prompt engineering can improve the energy efficiency of SLMs in code generation. We evaluate four open-source SLMs…

🍫 Cacao agroforestry in Belize hits the sweet spot for people and nature
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/cacao-agroforestry-in-belize-hits-the-sweet-spot-for-people-and-nature/

Cacao agroforestry in Belize hits the sweet spot for people and nature
The Maya Golden Landscape in southern Belize is a patchwork of protected areas, agricultural lands and small communities, part of the greater Maya Forest, the second-largest tropical forest in the Americas, after the Amazon. It’s a haven for predators like jaguars (Panthera onca) and pumas (Puma concolor), and threatened species like Baird’s tapirs (Tapirus bairdii) […]

Humanoid Robot Acrobatics Utilizing Complete Articulated Rigid Body Dynamics
Gerald Brantner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08258 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08…

Humanoid Robot Acrobatics Utilizing Complete Articulated Rigid Body Dynamics
Endowing humanoid robots with the ability to perform highly dynamic motions akin to human-level acrobatics has been a long-standing challenge. Successfully performing these maneuvers requires close consideration of the underlying physics in both trajectory optimization for planning and control during execution. This is particularly challenging due to humanoids' high degree-of-freedom count and associated exponentially scaling complexities, which makes planning on the explicit equations of motio…

Wer im Sternzeichen Löwe Geborene beschenken mag: als Sondervariante hab ich von diesem handgemalten #wandklexschmuck aktuell auch 1Paar Ohrhänger (12mm klein!) da. Anspruchsvolle Sache: Sichtbares Weiß ist beim Malen freigelassene Fläche!
Zu finden auf #mammals #miniaturepainting #art #artShop #lion #fediArt #mastoArt #creativeToots

Video-Based MPAA Rating Prediction: An Attention-Driven Hybrid Architecture Using Contrastive Learning
Dipta Neogi, Nourash Azmine Chowdhury, Muhammad Rafsan Kabir, Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06826

Video-Based MPAA Rating Prediction: An Attention-Driven Hybrid Architecture Using Contrastive Learning
The rapid growth of visual content consumption across platforms necessitates automated video classification for age-suitability standards like the MPAA rating system (G, PG, PG-13, R). Traditional methods struggle with large labeled data requirements, poor generalization, and inefficient feature learning. To address these challenges, we employ contrastive learning for improved discrimination and adaptability, exploring three frameworks: Instance Discrimination, Contextual Contrastive Learning, …

The Underground Muon Detector of AugerPrime: Status and Performance
Joaquin de Jesus (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08631 https://

The Underground Muon Detector of AugerPrime: Status and Performance
As part of the upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory, known as AugerPrime, the Underground Muon Detector is being installed in the low-energy extension of the Surface Detector, allowing for a direct measurement of the muonic component of air showers produced by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with energies between 10^{16.8} and 10^{19} eV. The detector consists of an array of 30 m2 plastic scintillator detectors buried 2.3 m underground near a water-Cherenkov detector. Two modes of operation ar…

Azerbaijan gives eight journalists prison sentences ranging from 7.5 to 15 years, as part of a series of media trials set to obliterate independent reporting (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/8-journalists-g…

8 journalists given lengthy jail terms as Azerbaijan crushes free press - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, June 23, 2025— Eight Azerbaijani journalists have received prison sentences ranging from 7 ½ to 15 years, as part of an ongoing series of media trials likely to obliterate independent reporting in the Caucasus nation. In a closed-door trial on Monday, columnist and peace activist Bahruz Samadov was sentenced by a court in...

Viele #Landwirte haben in #AgriPV investiert, doch vielerorts bleibt der #Stromertrag bislang aus.
Die EU hat dem deutschen

Agri-PV: Wo bleibt die Extra-Vergütung?
"Das haben wir uns anders vorgestellt": Eine fertige Agri-PV-Anlage, die keinen Strom produziert – kein Einzelfall. Der Grund: Das Okay der EU für das Solarpaket 1 fehlt immer noch und damit die geplante Extra-Vergütung für den Sonnenstrom vom Feld.

On Trustworthy Rule-Based Models and Explanations
Mohamed Siala, Jordi Planes, Joao Marques-Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07576 https://

On Trustworthy Rule-Based Models and Explanations
A task of interest in machine learning (ML) is that of ascribing explanations to the predictions made by ML models. Furthermore, in domains deemed high risk, the rigor of explanations is paramount. Indeed, incorrect explanations can and will mislead human decision makers. As a result, and even if interpretability is acknowledged as an elusive concept, so-called interpretable models are employed ubiquitously in high-risk uses of ML and data mining (DM). This is the case for rule-based ML models,…

Mit Berliner Hilfe aufgebautes Prothesenzentrum in Kiew eröffnet
In der ukrainischen Hauptstadt Kiew ist ein mit Berliner Unterstützung aufgebautes Prothesenzentrum eröffnet worden. Verwundete Soldaten und Zivilisten, denen Beine oder Arme amputiert wurden, sollen hier mit Prothesen versorgt werden. Die Erstausstattung inklusive nötiger Gerätschaften und Maschinen wurde nach Angaben des Berliner Senats über Spenden finanziert…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Selenskyj macht Druck bei Sicherheitsgarantien ++
Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj fordert eine schnellere Ausarbeitung möglicher Sicherheitsgarantien für sein Land. Eine fehlgeleitete Drohne der Ukraine ist nach Behördenangaben in Estland abgestürzt.