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Data Augmentation for Visualization Design Knowledge Bases
Hyeok Kim, Jeffrey Heer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02216 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02216…

Data Augmentation for Visualization Design Knowledge Bases
Visualization knowledge bases enable computational reasoning and recommendation over a visualization design space. These systems evaluate design trade-offs using numeric weights assigned to different features (e.g., binning a variable). Feature weights can be learned automatically by fitting a model to a collection of chart pairs, in which one chart is deemed preferable to the other. To date, labeled chart pairs have been drawn from published empirical research results; however, such pairs are …

With the federal hiring freeze lifting in mid-July, the Trump administration has rolled out a humiliating federal hiring plan that critics warn will politicize and likely slow down the process rather than increase government efficiency.
De-emphasizing degree requirements and banning DEI initiatives
—as well as any census tracking of gender, race, ethnicity, or religion to assess the composition of government
—the plan requires every new hire to submit essays explaining which e…

New federal employees must praise Trump EOs, submit to continuous vetting
Trump will continuously monitor all federal workers for “trustworthiness.”…

A federal judge temporarily blocks Florida from enforcing a law banning social media accounts for children under 14, saying the law is "likely unconstitutional" (Kate Payne/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/florida-soc

I'm rewatching The West Wing (reassuring in these dark times to watch a COMPETANT if fictional, administration).
Those guys would obsess over the PERCEPTION of what color tie the president wore in a stump speech or what FONT was used for a notice about national parks. CJ uses one word vs. another and the press goes bananas.
Remember Obama's tan suit?
THIS administration slings unreviewed, unvetted, zero effort AI slop like its nothing and noone bats an eye.
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Randahl Fink (@randahl@mastodon.social)
Attached: 2 images Picture 1: The Republican party is trying to promote Trump with a collage of Trump in front of a car and the text, "Make automobiles great again". Picture 2: The car used in the collage, is a VAZ-2101 produced by the Russian car manufacturer Lada from 1970 onwards.

playing prague | Prague City Tourism - https://prague.eu/en/playing-prague/?utm_source=charlesgames.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsl…

playing prague | Prague City Tourism
Playing Prague is a game celebrating Prague and all those who have shaped and continue to shape this beautiful city. Every detail of the game is a tribute to the 1000-year cultural heritage of a city that was once the seat of the Holy Roman Emperors and the capital of the Bohemian Kingdom. It is also the origin of the designation of bohemians as people with a creative and unconventional way of life. Become a Bohemian for a while and build your own Prague.

From Release to Adoption: Challenges in Reusing Pre-trained AI Models for Downstream Developers
Peerachai Banyongrakkul, Mansooreh Zahedi, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Christoph Treude, Haoyu Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23234

From Release to Adoption: Challenges in Reusing Pre-trained AI Models for Downstream Developers
Pre-trained models (PTMs) have gained widespread popularity and achieved remarkable success across various fields, driven by their groundbreaking performance and easy accessibility through hosting providers. However, the challenges faced by downstream developers in reusing PTMs in software systems are less explored. To bridge this knowledge gap, we qualitatively created and analyzed a dataset of 840 PTM-related issue reports from 31 OSS GitHub projects. We systematically developed a comprehensi…

„Die größten Mietsteigerungen gab es nach Berlin (plus 107 Prozent) in Leipzig (plus 67,7 Prozent) und in Bremen (plus 57 Prozent).“
„Einer Auswertung des Bauministeriums zufolge stiegen die Angebotsmieten in den 14 größten kreisfreien Städten seit 2015 durchschnittlich um fast 50 Prozent.“
Die '#Mietpreisbremse', das einzige, was CDUCSUSPD gegen hohe Mieten machen wo…

Israel attacks Iran's capital with explosions booming across Tehran (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-explosions-israel-tehran-00234a06e5128a8aceb406b140297299
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p149#a250612p149

Cryogenic scanning photocurrent spectroscopy for materials responses to structured optical fields
Duxing Hao, Chun-I Lu, Ziqi Sun, Yu-Chen Chang, Wen-Hao Chang, Ye-Ru Chen, Akiyoshi Park, Beining Rao, Siyuan Qiu, Yann-Wen Lan, Ting-Hua Lu, Nai-Chang Yeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24833

Cryogenic scanning photocurrent spectroscopy for materials responses to structured optical fields
Circular dichroism spectroscopy is known to provide important insights into the interplay of different degrees of freedom in quantum materials, and yet spectroscopic study of the optoelectronic responses of quantum materials to structured optical fields, such as light with finite spin and orbital angular momentum, has not yet been widely explored, particularly at cryogenic temperature. Here we demonstrate the design and application of a novel instrument that integrates scanning spectroscopic ph…

Southern Baptist delegates at national meeting overwhelmingly call for banning same-sex marriage (Peter Smith/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/southern-baptists-meeting-sexual-abuse-jennifer-lyell-8ebb5246978918f46d243d6ce2d9f4a5
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p8#a250611p8