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I was reading Lalo Schifrin's obit; - I hadn't realised he wrote so many of the scores for films I know; I bought his Black Widow album because I liked his music in Bullitt - but Cool Hand Luke, Dirty Harry, Kelly's Heroes, are all ones I grew up on.

Inside you are many wolves: Using cognitive models to interpret value trade-offs in LLMs
Sonia K. Murthy, Rosie Zhao, Jennifer Hu, Sham Kakade, Markus Wulfmeier, Peng Qian, Tomer Ullman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20666

Inside you are many wolves: Using cognitive models to interpret value trade-offs in LLMs
Navigating everyday social situations often requires juggling conflicting goals, such as conveying a harsh truth, maintaining trust, all while still being mindful of another person's feelings. These value trade-offs are an integral part of human decision-making and language use, however, current tools for interpreting such dynamic and multi-faceted notions of values in LLMs are limited. In cognitive science, so-called "cognitive models" provide formal accounts of these trade-offs in humans, by …

Personalized Mental State Evaluation in Human-Robot Interaction using Federated Learning
Andrea Bussolan, Oliver Avram, Andrea Pignata, Gianvito Urgese, Stefano Baraldo, Anna Valente
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20212

Personalized Mental State Evaluation in Human-Robot Interaction using Federated Learning
With the advent of Industry 5.0, manufacturers are increasingly prioritizing worker well-being alongside mass customization. Stress-aware Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) plays a crucial role in this paradigm, where robots must adapt their behavior to human mental states to improve collaboration fluency and safety. This paper presents a novel framework that integrates Federated Learning (FL) to enable personalized mental state evaluation while preserving user privacy. By leveraging physiological…

Last Thursday, the movers ultimately arrived and did an awesome job, emptying the house and garage in 3 hours. The house sale closed with no issues on Friday at 5pm. Today, Monday the 23rd, our house purchase should close mid to late afternoon. Tomorrow, the moving truck arrives to dump our possessions into various rooms. We're almost there...
#NewBeginnings #FeelinGood
https://youtu.be/Edwsf-8F3sI?si=FDM6ees_yO_DqqCE

maha -another rfk jr thing presumably
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/114557815478728541

Player the #oblivionremastered version yesterday for a few hours. It brought back soo many great memories of how I setup a room with my brother all those years ago with a Xbox and a beamer to play the game for many hours.
Everything looked so amazing back then and the remaster does well at transporting a similar feeling. Though the game world is sometimes a bit bare when one looks …

Optimization of Flying Ad Hoc Network Topology and Collaborative Path Planning for Multiple UAVs
Ming He, Peizhao Wang, Haihua Chen, Bin Sun, Hongpeng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17945

Optimization of Flying Ad Hoc Network Topology and Collaborative Path Planning for Multiple UAVs
Multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a vital role in monitoring and data collection in wide area environments with harsh conditions. In most scenarios, issues such as real-time data retrieval and real-time UAV positioning are often disregarded, essentially neglecting the communication constraints. In this paper, we comprehensively address both the coverage of the target area and the data transmission capabilities of the flying ad hoc network (FANET). The data throughput of the network …

DSA-NRP: No-Reflow Prediction from Angiographic Perfusion Dynamics in Stroke EVT
Shreeram Athreya, Carlos Olivares, Ameera Ismail, Kambiz Nael, William Speier, Corey Arnold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17501

DSA-NRP: No-Reflow Prediction from Angiographic Perfusion Dynamics in Stroke EVT
Following successful large-vessel recanalization via endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for acute ischemic stroke (AIS), some patients experience a complication known as no-reflow, defined by persistent microvascular hypoperfusion that undermines tissue recovery and worsens clinical outcomes. Although prompt identification is crucial, standard clinical practice relies on perfusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) within 24 hours post-procedure, delaying intervention. In this work, we introduce the…

The Daily Beast says Reddit and Facebook have made up for falling Google referral traffic; Vox CEO says OpenAI is a good partner but still undervalues content (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Daily Beast gains on Reddit and Facebook as Google traffic falls
Reddit and Facebook have made up for falling referral traffic from Google for the Daily Beast, Cannes Lions event hears.

Size distribution of decaying foam bubbles
Ildoo Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18049 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.18049

Size distribution of decaying foam bubbles
The most studies on the stability of foam bubbles investigated the mechanical stability of thin films between bubbles due to the drainage by gravity. In the current work, we take an alternative approach by assuming the rupture of bubbles as a series of random events and by investigating the time evolution of the size distribution of foam bubbles over a long time up to several hours. For this purpose, we first prepared layers of bubbles on Petri dishes by shaking soap solutions of a few differen…