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"Patricia #Espenak announced in an email that Fred passed away yesterday afternoon," Michael Zeiler just wrote on the Solar Eclipse Mailing List: "Fred was in hospice at their home in Portal, Arizona. Pat was holding his hand when he passed away and is devastated.
Fred had an extremely consequential life and was a giant in the solar eclipse community. Let‘s remember his enthusiasm for nature‘s greatest spectacle, his warm friendship to many of us, his generosity in sharing his knowledge, and his impact on all of us."
Obituaries: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/fred-espenak-1953-2025/ and https://www.astronomy.com/observing/fred-espenak-dies-at-71/

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"Seeking Joy"
#MellowMusic #NowPlaying
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Seeking Joy #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Da fährt eins nach Biskoupky (aktuelle Bevölkerung 185 nach cs-wikipedia) nur, um von dort aus die Jihlava hinauf zur Mohelenska hadcovš step zu wandern, und dann ist das erste Haus nach dem Ausstieg aus dem Bus gleich das Geburtshaus des Poetisten Vítězslav Nezval. Allerdings: Die Číslo popisné (40 laut OSM) ist darauf nicht angebracht, aber Nezval hat schließlich eines seiner berühmtesten (von Milča Mayerovš getanzten) Gedichte auch abeceda und nicht 1234 genannt.

Tient Bull n'est toujours pas mort https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/06/02/l-etat-achete-les-supercalculateurs-d-atos_6610190_3234.html

L’Etat achète les supercalculateurs d’Atos
L’Agence des participations de l’Etat achète pour 410 millions d’euros ces activités stratégiques, notamment pour la dissuasion nucléaire.

Elon Musk will singlehandedly be responsible for the wholly unnecessary deaths & misery of millions worldwide. And he & Trump couldn't care less.
You did this, #Trump voter.
And anyone that didn't vote.
http…

Elon Musk’s Reign of Terror Is Only Just Beginning
His “departure” from the government is anything but.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19990 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_…

LEGO-Puzzles: How Good Are MLLMs at Multi-Step Spatial Reasoning?
Multi-step spatial reasoning entails understanding and reasoning about spatial relationships across multiple sequential steps, which is crucial for tackling complex real-world applications, such as robotic manipulation, autonomous navigation, and automated assembly. To assess how well current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have acquired this fundamental capability, we introduce LEGO-Puzzles, a scalable benchmark designed to evaluate both spatial understanding and sequential reasoning …

Last boost, related #uspol take:
"Here's RFK's plan:
1. Claim vaccines cause autism
2. Push vaccine skepticism, lower vax rates
3. Create autism registry - people avoid getting a diagnosis to stay off it
4. Point to the decrease in autism diagnoses as "proof" vaccines cause autism"
via a screenshot of a tweet by a Skyler Johnson @Skylerfo…

GeoChain: Multimodal Chain-of-Thought for Geographic Reasoning
Sahiti Yerramilli, Nilay Pande, Rynaa Grover, Jayant Sravan Tamarapalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00785

GeoChain: Multimodal Chain-of-Thought for Geographic Reasoning
This paper introduces GeoChain, a large-scale benchmark for evaluating step-by-step geographic reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Leveraging 1.46 million Mapillary street-level images, GeoChain pairs each image with a 21-step chain-of-thought (CoT) question sequence (over 30 million Q&A pairs). These sequences guide models from coarse attributes to fine-grained localization across four reasoning categories - visual, spatial, cultural, and precise geolocation - annotated by d…

RiOSWorld: Benchmarking the Risk of Multimodal Compter-Use Agents
Jingyi Yang, Shuai Shao, Dongrui Liu, Jing Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00618 https://…

RiOSWorld: Benchmarking the Risk of Multimodal Compter-Use Agents
With the rapid development of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), they are increasingly deployed as autonomous computer-use agents capable of accomplishing complex computer tasks. However, a pressing issue arises: Can the safety risk principles designed and aligned for general MLLMs in dialogue scenarios be effectively transferred to real-world computer-use scenarios? Existing research on evaluating the safety risks of MLLM-based computer-use agents suffers from several limitations: it ei…

Hidden in Plain Sight: Probing Implicit Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models
Qianqi Yan, Hongquan Li, Shan Jiang, Yang Zhao, Xinze Guan, Ching-Chen Kuo, Xin Eric Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00258

Hidden in Plain Sight: Probing Implicit Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly deployed in open-ended, real-world environments where inputs are messy, underspecified, and not always trustworthy. Unlike curated benchmarks, these settings frequently involve instructions that refer to missing objects or contradictory facts, rely on ambiguous references, or request infeasible actions. In such cases, success hinges not on task execution alone, but on a model's ability to detect when something is silently wrong. This pap…