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Last week, our students learned how to conduct a proper evaluation for an NLP experiment. To this end, we introduced a small textcorpus with sentences about Joseph Fourier, who counts as one of the discoverers of the greenhouse effect, responsible for global warming.

I was today years old when I learned that novelist Erica "Fear of Flying" Jong was married to novelist Jonathan Fast, son of better-known novelist Howard Fast. Their daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, is also a writer.
#EricaJong #HowardFast

NAVER LABS Europe Submission to the Instruction-following Track
Beomseok Lee, Marcely Zanon Boito, Laurent Besacier, Ioan Calapodescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01808

NAVER LABS Europe Submission to the Instruction-following Track
In this paper we describe NAVER LABS Europe submission to the instruction-following speech processing short track at IWSLT 2025. We participate in the constrained settings, developing systems that can simultaneously perform ASR, ST, and SQA tasks from English speech input into the following target languages: Chinese, Italian, and German. Our solution leverages two pretrained modules: (1) a speech-to-LLM embedding projector trained using representations from the SeamlessM4T-v2-large speech encod…

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Interpretable Augmented Physics-Based Model for Estimation and Tracking
State-space estimation and tracking rely on accurate dynamical models to perform well. However, obtaining an vaccurate dynamical model for complex scenarios or adapting to changes in the system poses challenges to the estimation process. Recently, augmented physics-based models (APBMs) appear as an appealing strategy to cope with these challenges where the composition of a small and adaptive neural network with known physics-based models (PBM) is learned on the fly following an augmented state-…

#CFP: Meeting at the Crossroads: Understanding the Intersection of Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
https://ift.tt/BRQ0Ya6
Laurent Pernot wrote, “Religion is intimately linked with words. Everyone knows that the spoken…

#CFP: Meeting at the Crossroads: Understanding the Intersection of Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
Laurent Pernot wrote, “Religion is intimately linked with words. Everyone knows that the spoken and written word plays an essential role in religion, as language is necessarily used to address the gods or God, to speak about the divine or the sacred, and to express religious feeling or awareness”. Thus, Pernot called for an understanding of the role rhetoric plays in our expression and performance of religion.

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Are your internal feelings of direction aligned with compass north and 360° ? My first childhood sense was based on the front of the house I lived in, looking east. When I later learned about north I had to imagine lots of those little "front views" posted like icons in the overall north-based world I could only logically imagine in my hea…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00827 has been replaced.
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Comparing Experimental and Nonexperimental Methods: What Lessons Have We Learned Four Decades After LaLonde (1986)?
In 1986, Robert LaLonde published an article comparing nonexperimental estimates to experimental benchmarks (LaLonde 1986). He concluded that the nonexperimental methods at the time could not systematically replicate experimental benchmarks, casting doubt on their credibility. Following LaLonde's critical assessment, there have been significant methodological advances and practical changes, including (i) an emphasis on the unconfoundedness assumption separated from functional form consideration…

This month, I (soft) launched the redesigned https://candide.media website, and (officially) launched the "Frugal Filmmaking: Video Editing on a Budget" course! 🥳
The hybrid course (happening both in-person and virtually) teaches participants how to edit video using @…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06635 has been replaced.
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The Hybrid Euclidean-Lorentzian Universe: Stability Considerations and the Point of Transition
TThe limited velocity implied by Lorentzian signature, prevents the universe to reach thermodynamic equilibrium implied by the CMB. Rapid expansion can occur by following Hawking and assuming a primordial Euclidean metric, in which case velocity is not limited and thermalization and rapid expansion are derived without the need to assume an ad-hoc field. Moreover, a mathematical model was given regarding the development of current Lorentzian space-time from the early Euclidean space-time in whic…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06635 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

The Hybrid Euclidean-Lorentzian Universe: Stability Considerations and the Point of Transition
TThe limited velocity implied by Lorentzian signature, prevents the universe to reach thermodynamic equilibrium implied by the CMB. Rapid expansion can occur by following Hawking and assuming a primordial Euclidean metric, in which case velocity is not limited and thermalization and rapid expansion are derived without the need to assume an ad-hoc field. Moreover, a mathematical model was given regarding the development of current Lorentzian space-time from the early Euclidean space-time in whic…