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District judge presses forward with mass-firings challenge following SCOTUS's order (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/illston-mass-firings-post-scotus-order
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p19#a250719p19

2025 Harry Smith Prize awarded to œscar Romero-Bšez for landscape genomics work that “sets a new standard”
#science #MolecularEcology #genetics

Dual-Stage Value-Guided Inference with Margin-Based Reward Adjustment for Fast and Faithful VLM Captioning
Ankan Deria, Adinath Madhavrao Dukre, Feilong Tang, Sara Atito, Sudipta Roy, Muhammad Awais, Muhammad Haris Khan, Imran Razzak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15649

Dual-Stage Value-Guided Inference with Margin-Based Reward Adjustment for Fast and Faithful VLM Captioning
Despite significant advances in inference-time search for vision-language models (VLMs), existing approaches remain both computationally expensive and prone to unpenalized, low-confidence generations which often lead to persistent hallucinations. We introduce \textbf{Value-guided Inference with Margin-based Reward (ViMaR)}, a two-stage inference framework that improves both efficiency and output fidelity by combining a temporal-difference value model with a margin-aware reward adjustment. In th…

Nine players trying to avoid bust label, plus Lamar seeks college teammate and Travis Kelce's falling stock

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/ne…

#MinorThreat Bassist Gives Update Amid Stage 4 #Kidney Transplant Battle
https://www.ya…

Legendary Punk Bassist Gives Update Amid Stage 4 Kidney Disease Battle
After falling out of step, you can help him back on his feet.

Model Predictive Path-Following Control for a Quadrotor
David Leprich, Mario Rosenfelder, Mario Hermle, Jingshan Chen, Peter Eberhard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15447

Model Predictive Path-Following Control for a Quadrotor
Automating drone-assisted processes is a complex task. Many solutions rely on trajectory generation and tracking, whereas in contrast, path-following control is a particularly promising approach, offering an intuitive and natural approach to automate tasks for drones and other vehicles. While different solutions to the path-following problem have been proposed, most of them lack the capability to explicitly handle state and input constraints, are formulated in a conservative two-stage approach,…

I'm pretty happy with the top side Samtec ARF6 launch simulations now.
S11:
* Red: No cutout, -12 dB at 10 GHz, -7 at 20 GHz, -4.8 at 30 GHz
* Blue: Rectangular ground cutout the size of the pad, -22.5 at 10 GHz, -16.4 at 20 GHz, -11.7 at 30 GHz
* Green: 30um larger than the pad on all sides (1.06 x 0.41 mm), -30.5 at 10 GHz, -22 at 20, -15 at 30.
With the oversized cutout it's more than good enough for QSGMII and 25Gbase-R.
TDR:
* Red: No cutou…

This survey has a few hours of life left, but I've gone ahead and chosen "Innocuous In Innisfil." That feels right and suits my general objective to be harmless and not give offense or arouse strong feelings. Although I've failed that objective on occasion.
#NewBeginning

Notes on the topology of independence structures
Kevin Ivan Piterman, Volkmar Welker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12971 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12971

Notes on the topology of independence structures
Following Welsh, a pre-independence space (pi-space) is a set $M$ together with a non-empty collection $I(M)$ of subsets of $M$, called independent sets, which is closed under taking subsets, and finite independent sets satisfy the exchange property from matroid theory. We show that $I(M)$, viewed as a poset, is contractible if it is infinite-dimensional, and Cohen-Macaulay otherwise. Moreover, the proper part of the associated poset of flats is also contractible in the infinite-dimensional c…