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Right now there's an ACM design technology conference happening with hundreds of people flying in to a conference facility on a remote island to discuss the conference theme of how to make their work more sustainable. In-person participation only.

'He let Patrick into his world': Inside the decision that's fueling the Chiefs' dynasty https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46504157/kansas-city-chiefs-built-dynasty-patrick-mahomes-travis-kelce-mnf

Following a discussion on reddit of all places, here's a poll. Please spread far and wide because [garbled audio, static, unintelligible noises]
The question is: do you normally listen to and enjoy audiobooks?
Also, this is what I mean by "inner monologue" (sorry it's not WP but that page terrifies me)

How Inner Monologues Work, and Who Has Them
Inner monologues can represent a rich experience for some, as long as they don’t get out of hand.

Light-IF: Endowing LLMs with Generalizable Reasoning via Preview and Self-Checking for Complex Instruction Following
Chenyang Wang, Liang Wen, Shousheng Jia, Xiangzheng Zhang, Liang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03178

Light-IF: Endowing LLMs with Generalizable Reasoning via Preview and Self-Checking for Complex Instruction Following
While advancements in the reasoning abilities of LLMs have significantly enhanced their performance in solving mathematical problems, coding tasks, and general puzzles, their effectiveness in accurately adhering to instructions remains inconsistent, particularly with more complex directives. Our investigation identifies lazy reasoning during the thinking stage as the primary factor contributing to poor instruction adherence. To mitigate this issue, we propose a comprehensive framework designed …

Nos reíamos de que Reagan preguntara a una vidente decisiones de política durante su presidencia. Pues en Suecia estšn con la versión 3.0 de consultar a un oršculo: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/05/chat-gpt-sw…

CoPS: Conditional Prompt Synthesis for Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection
Qiyu Chen, Zhen Qu, Wei Luo, Haiming Yao, Yunkang Cao, Yuxin Jiang, Yinan Duan, Huiyuan Luo, Chengkan Lv, Zhengtao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03447

CoPS: Conditional Prompt Synthesis for Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection
Recently, large pre-trained vision-language models have shown remarkable performance in zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD). With fine-tuning on a single auxiliary dataset, the model enables cross-category anomaly detection on diverse datasets covering industrial defects and medical lesions. Compared to manually designed prompts, prompt learning eliminates the need for expert knowledge and trial-and-error. However, it still faces the following challenges: (i) static learnable tokens struggle to …

Tailored Thermal and Mechanical Performance of Biodegradable PLA-P(VDF-TrFE) Polymer Blends
G Suresh, B. Satyanarayana, C. Thirmal, Kaushal Jagarlamudi, T Komala, Jimlee Patowary, Ashutosh Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04662

Tailored Thermal and Mechanical Performance of Biodegradable PLA-P(VDF-TrFE) Polymer Blends
The development of polymer blends has emerged as a strategic approach for designing multifunctional materials with enhanced tailored characteristics. Current work investigates and reports for the first time, the structure-property relationships in free-standing blend films of poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) (P(VDF-TrFE)) and polylactic acid (PLA), prepared to evaluate their suitability for functional applications. For this investigation, films of approximately 40 $μ$m thick were fa…

MagicGUI: A Foundational Mobile GUI Agent with Scalable Data Pipeline and Reinforcement Fine-tuning
Liujian Tang, Shaokang Dong, Yijia Huang, Minqi Xiang, Hongtao Ruan, Bin Wang, Shuo Li, Zhihui Cao, Hailiang Pang, Heng Kong, He Yang, Mingxu Chai, Zhilin Gao, Xingyu Liu, Yingnan Fu, Jiaming Liu, Tao Gui, Xuanjing Huang, Yu-Gang Jiang, Qi Zhang, Kang Wang, Yunke Zhang, Yuran Wang

MagicGUI: A Foundational Mobile GUI Agent with Scalable Data Pipeline and Reinforcement Fine-tuning
This paper presents MagicGUI, a foundational mobile GUI agent designed to address critical challenges in perception, grounding, and reasoning within real-world mobile GUI environments. The framework is underpinned by following six key components: (1) a comprehensive and accurate dataset, constructed via the scalable GUI Data Pipeline, which aggregates the largest and most diverse GUI-centric multimodal data to date from open-source repositories, automated crawling, and targeted manual annotatio…

Designer Meg Lewis on separating who you're told to be from who you really are – The Creative Independent https://thecreat…

Designer Meg Lewis on separating who you're told to be from who you really are – The Creative Independent
Designer Meg Lewis discusses following what's enjoyable, leaving doors open to possibility, and recapturing the impulsive creativity of childhood.

Jakobi Meyers ready to play Week 1 for Raiders following trade request: 'I asked, they said no' https://www.nfl.com/news/jakobi-meyers-ready-to-play-week-1-for-raiders-following-trade-request-i-asked-they-said-no…