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I really hesitated to share this, as it can feel crass and self-promote-y (especially when so many on here are probably going through hard stuff.) At the same time, in feeling crushed myself atm, unexpectedly receiving such a message about the album from someone I’ve not met was a major uplift. Plus, the artwork from @… gets a shout out too, whic…

Paratrooper planes flying over on their way to the Ginkelse Heide where members of the 11th Airmobile Brigade will jump out in commemoration of Operation Market Garden.

"How researchers tracked the biggest hidden sources of forever chemical pollution in UK rivers"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #PFAS

How researchers tracked the biggest hidden sources of forever chemical pollution in UK rivers
The amount of toxic "forever chemicals" flowing into the River Mersey in north-west England has reached some of the highest levels recorded anywhere in the world.

Eagles legend Brandon Graham coming out of retirement to boost Philly's struggling pass rush

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eagles-

#photography
A storm is coming over Murtensee.

GRAFT: GRaPH and Table Reasoning for Textual Alignment -- A Benchmark for Structured Instruction Following and Visual Reasoning
Abhigya Verma, Sriram Puttagunta, Seganrasan Subramanian, Sravan Ramachandran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15690

GRAFT: GRaPH and Table Reasoning for Textual Alignment -- A Benchmark for Structured Instruction Following and Visual Reasoning
GRAFT is a structured multimodal benchmark for evaluating models on instruction-following, visual reasoning, and visual-textual alignment tasks. It features programmatically generated charts and synthetically rendered tables, created with Python visualization libraries to ensure control over data semantics, structure, and clarity. Each GRAFT instance pairs a chart or table image with a systematically generated, multi-step analytical question based solely on visual content. Answers are provided …

Next week is the first edition of the relaunch of Papers Club! Read the following paper in preparation: “Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens” by Anastasia Kozyreva, Sam Wineburg, Stephan Lewandowsky, and Ralph Hertwig.
Date: July 28th, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM (discussion will happen about a half an hour later).
Location: Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W., Toronto.
A link to the paper and the PDF can be found at the Luma link. RSVP is not necessary but r…

WangchanThaiInstruct: An instruction-following Dataset for Culture-Aware, Multitask, and Multi-domain Evaluation in Thai
Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Pume Tuchinda, Lalita Lowphansirikul, Surapon Nonesung, Panuthep Tasawong, Alham Fikri Aji, Can Udomcharoenchaikit, Sarana Nutanong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15239…

WangchanThaiInstruct: An instruction-following Dataset for Culture-Aware, Multitask, and Multi-domain Evaluation in Thai
Large language models excel at instruction-following in English, but their performance in low-resource languages like Thai remains underexplored. Existing benchmarks often rely on translations, missing cultural and domain-specific nuances needed for real-world use. We present WangchanThaiInstruct, a human-authored Thai dataset for evaluation and instruction tuning, covering four professional domains and seven task types. Created through a multi-stage quality control process with annotators, dom…

Today, we had a fire alarm going off at @… when I was just working on a local :git: repo.
This reminded me on the popular meme:
In case of fire 🔥
1. git commit
2. git push
3. leave building
I always had some mixed feelings about it. Thus, I wrote down whats wrong with this meme on several levels (technical and social):

Commanders vs. Raiders: Where to watch NFL Week 3, odds, promos, prediction following Jayden Daniels injury

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/command