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Precise control of the phase-transition temperature of VO2 from 70 to -35 {\deg}C for tunable optics
Jin-Woo Cho, Jonathan L. King, Martin Hafermann, Karla Paz, Shenwei Yin, Tanuj Kumar, Hongyan Mei, Joseph A. Andrade, Dung. T. Quach, Colin Hessel, Chenghao Wan, Carsten Ronning, David Woolf, Mikhail A. Kats
https://arxiv.org/abs…

Precise control of the phase-transition temperature of VO2 from 70 to -35 °C for tunable optics
We demonstrate the combination of metal doping and ion bombardment as a hybrid technique to precisely engineer the insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) properties of vanadium dioxide (VO$_2$) films. This approach enables (i) setting the phase-transition temperature ($T_c$) from $-35$ to $70$ °C, (ii) near-zero hysteresis in highly doped and irradiated films, and (iii) robust optical contrast across a broad range of doping and irradiation conditions, down to $T_c = -35$ °C. While previous work …

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…

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…

Computing $H$-equations with 2-by-2 integral matrices
Gemma Bastardas, Enric Ventura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05272 https://arxiv.o…

Computing $H$-equations with 2-by-2 integral matrices
We study the transference through finite index extensions of the notion of equational coherence, as well as its effective counterpart. We deduce an explicit algorithm for solving the following algorithmic problem about size two integral invertible matrices: ''given $h_1,\ldots, h_r; g\in \operatorname{PSL}_2(\mathbb{Z})$, decide whether $g$ is algebraic over the subgroup $H=\langle h_1,\ldots ,h_r\rangle \leqslant \operatorname{PSL}_2(\mathbb{Z})$ (i.e., whether there exist a non-trivial $H$-eq…

Our coffee machine died this morning. That makes 4 Kuerig machines in 9 years, and our last one ever. We ordered an 8-cup drip maker with carafe this morning. No more feeling guilty about using pods (I'm sorry, Mother Earth), cost per cup will be cheaper, I can control my flavor and strength, and the coffee grounds are great in our compost. Yes, it took me a decade to figure out I was a slave to convenience and waste. No judging, please.

Sonnet 141 - CXLI
In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors note;
But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,
Who, in despite of view, is pleased to dote.
Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted;
Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone,
Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited
To any sensual feast with thee alone:
But my five wits nor my five senses can
Dissuade one foo…

Following up on the post about old #Windows installations, we have this one about floppy disks. Or as some people know them, the "Save" icon.
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Obsolete, but not gone: The people who won't give up floppy disks
The last floppy disk was made over a decade ago and doesn't even have enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture, so why do some people still love using them?