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OK, now for the hard question. What would it be like to answer these questions together as a group?
If you asked these questions to the folks who follow you, could you work together to come up with an answer? Would you be willing to get a few friends together (maybe over a drink) to talk through these and try to come up with *one* answer that everyone could agree on?
I wonder if anyone would be willing to try it as an experiment and come back with results. :)

As someone who goes to church every Sunday, I can assure you that the last person whose theological opinion I'd value is Peter Thiel, whose name anagrams to "The Reptile".
https://archive.ph/9zsIT

Look before Transcription: End-to-End SlideASR with Visually-Anchored Policy Optimization
Rui Hu, Delai Qiu, Yining Wang, Shengping Liu, Jitao Sang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08618

Look before Transcription: End-to-End SlideASR with Visually-Anchored Policy Optimization
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often struggle with domain-specific terminology, especially in specialized settings such as academic lectures. To address this, we define the SlideASR task, which leverages the rich visual information from presentation slides to improve transcription accuracy. Existing pipeline methods for this task tend to be complex and underperform. Although omni-modal large language models (OLLMs) provide a promising end-to-end framework, they frequently fail in pr…

xRouter: Training Cost-Aware LLMs Orchestration System via Reinforcement Learning
Cheng Qian, Zuxin Liu, Shirley Kokane, Akshara Prabhakar, Jielin Qiu, Haolin Chen, Zhiwei Liu, Heng Ji, Weiran Yao, Shelby Heinecke, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Huan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08439

xRouter: Training Cost-Aware LLMs Orchestration System via Reinforcement Learning
Modern LLM deployments confront a widening cost-performance spectrum: premium models deliver strong reasoning but are expensive, while lightweight models are economical yet brittle on complex tasks. Static escalation rules and keyword heuristics under-utilize this spectrum and fail to adapt across task types. We present xRouter, a tool-calling-based routing system in which a learned router can either answer directly or invoke one or more external models. The router is trained end-to-end with re…

The right answer to a Catholic claiming that some persecuted minority is "flaunting" is to agree: these Christians in Ancient Rome brought it on themselves by flaunting their religion.

M3Retrieve: Benchmarking Multimodal Retrieval for Medicine
Arkadeep Acharya, Akash Ghosh, Pradeepika Verma, Kitsuchart Pasupa, Sriparna Saha, Priti Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06888

M3Retrieve: Benchmarking Multimodal Retrieval for Medicine
With the increasing use of RetrievalAugmented Generation (RAG), strong retrieval models have become more important than ever. In healthcare, multimodal retrieval models that combine information from both text and images offer major advantages for many downstream tasks such as question answering, cross-modal retrieval, and multimodal summarization, since medical data often includes both formats. However, there is currently no standard benchmark to evaluate how well these models perform in medica…

Irgendwie entbehrt es nicht eines gewissen Zynismus, Palästina jetzt als Staat anzuerkennen, wo es nichts mehr gibt im Gazastreifen ausser Trümmer und Verzweiflung.
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#Gaza #esReicht #neueWege…

It is now less than than 12 months to the midterm elections.
And the D-party is about as ready and organized as a bag of live worms.
The R-party is ready with massive tools to exclude voters; block, disrupt and manipulate the vote counts; and otherwise assure that the election comes out their way.
But the D's still hang onto leaders and issues (I'm lookin' at you "identity politics") that are like boat anchors on a parachute.
I am old, but I firm…

AugerPrime Surface Detector Electronics: requirements, verification and performance
Martina Boh\'a\v{c}ov\'a (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14955

AugerPrime Surface Detector Electronics: requirements, verification and performance
The Pierre Auger Observatory has recently undergone a major upgrade, called AugerPrime, tailored to answer the current most pressing questions in the ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) detection. The AugerPrime upgrade consists of the addition, on top of each station, of a scintillator detector, to separate the muonic and electromagnetic component of the shower for better primary identification, and of a radio detector to measure the emission of air showers in 30-80 MHz range. An additional s…