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I have mixed feelings about this…
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/cloudflare_creates_ai_crawler_toll/

1. It's CloudFlare
2. It should generate revenue for content scraped by AI
3. It's an interesting use of 402 Payment req…

Cloudflare creates AI crawler tollbooth to pay publishers
ai-pocalypse: The bargain between content makers and crawlers has broken down

Ever get the feeling you're being watched?
Me: I have cats. I'm always being watched.

1/ I'm feeling real pain at the cuts to Indiana public universities, especially IU, especially cogsci. These are some of the biggest brains in cogsci and edupsych in the world, but why do *I* care? I'll tell you what they've done *for me, personally*. ↵
https://www.i…

Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.

A look at the ~$377 TranscribeGlass smart glasses that use AI to subtitle conversations in nearly real time, built for the deaf or hard-of-hearing (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/these-translating-ai-glasses-put-subtitles-on-…

These Transcribing Eyeglasses Put Subtitles on the World
TranscribeGlass can subtitle conversations in nearly real time and will soon be able to translate languages and tell you when the person you’re talking to you is feeling socially awkward.

Quenching of excitons at grain boundaries in C60 thin films
Rysa Greenwood, Bradley G. Guislain, MengXing Na, Alexandra B. Tully, Sergey Zhdanovich, Jerry Icban Dadap, Sydney K. Y. Dufresne, Vanessa King, Jiabin Yu, Giorgio Levy, Arthur K. Mills, Matteo Michiardi, Andrea Damascelli, Sarah A. Burke, David J. Jones
https://arxiv.o…

Quenching of excitons at grain boundaries in C60 thin films
Exciton lifetimes play a critical role in the performance of organic optoelectronic devices. In this work, we investigate how the presence of multiple rotational domains, and therefore grain boundaries, impacts exciton dynamics in thin films of C60/Au(111) using time and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (TR-ARPES). We find that films with multiple rotational domains exhibit shorter exciton lifetimes and evidence of exciton-exciton annihilation, even when one domain predominates. Scanni…

Black #OpenAccess : shadow #libraries and text piracy
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/re…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15325 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_…

Odyssey: Empowering Minecraft Agents with Open-World Skills
Recent studies have delved into constructing generalist agents for open-world environments like Minecraft. Despite the encouraging results, existing efforts mainly focus on solving basic programmatic tasks, e.g., material collection and tool-crafting following the Minecraft tech-tree, treating the ObtainDiamond task as the ultimate goal. This limitation stems from the narrowly defined set of actions available to agents, requiring them to learn effective long-horizon strategies from scratch. Con…

Windowing in terahertz time-domain spectroscopy: resolving resonances in thin-film samples
Esteban Marulanda, Fernanda L. Costa, Nicolas M. Kawahala, Felix G. G. Hernandez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00729

Windowing in terahertz time-domain spectroscopy: resolving resonances in thin-film samples
Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) has become a powerful tool for investigating the optical properties of thin films, offering direct access to the complex permittivity in the terahertz range. However, in transmission-based measurements of thin films on thick substrates, multiple reflections and limited time windows can introduce artifacts that obscure resonant features such as phonon modes. Time-domain windowing is widely employed to mitigate these effects, yet systematic guidelines …

Black #OpenAccess : shadow #libraries and text piracy
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/re…

Black #OpenAccess : shadow #libraries and text piracy
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/re…