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"O sea que extirparon, le extirparon nueve ceros a este pesito de aca delante. Y como este Austral equivale a mil millones de pesos moneda nacional, y como en aquel entonces se compraba con 83 $mn un dolar, este Austral equivale a DOCE MILLONES DE DOLARES… (risas, mezcladas con silencio, lagrimas e ironia), lo cual parece un chiste, si no fuera una joda grande como una casa…"

Tato Bores en Busca De La Vereda Del Sol
Monologo N° 2000 - Domingo 9 de setiembre de 1990 - 21 horas 30 minutos.

At a topline glance, Trump's Big Budget Bill is an outrage:
large tax cuts for the rich and millions kicked off health insurance,
almost a parody of what an apparently fragile coalition of contemporary conservatives might abide
(if also a bill that raised the eyebrows of a few debt scolds, including Musk).
But because it is also a one-stop legislative omnibus,
rushed so quickly through the House that Republican representatives are now protesting they didn…

Opinion | Trump’s Budget Tells Three Unhappy Truths About America
Features of the budget: A supercharged ICE, school vouchers and no relief for a warming planet.

High-Sensitivity Fiber Interferometer for Gravitational Phase Shift Measurement on Entangled States
Eleonora Polini, Piotr Chru\'sciel, Georgi Dvali, Christopher Hilweg, Beg\"um Kabag\"oz, Dorotea Macri, Thomas Mieling, Thomas Morling, Eric Oelker, Elisabeth Steininger, Xinghui Yin, Haocun Yu, Sebastian Zell, Tongxuan Zhang, Nergis Mavalvala, Philip Walther

High-Sensitivity Fiber Interferometer for Gravitational Phase Shift Measurement on Entangled States
In this contribution, we describe the status of our experiment aimed at measuring the gravitationally induced phase shift on path-entangled photons. We use a kilometer-scale fiber interferometer whose arms are vertically displaced in the Earth gravitational potential, allowing photons propagating at different heights to accumulate different phases. To date, this is the first experiment to measure this effect on massless particles, thereby experimentally combining general relativity and quantum …

When a WhatsApp message says "Forwarded many times", in India it often means the message has been forwarded (tens/hundreds of) millions of times. 😳
The speed and scale are both just mind numbing.
#technology #information

ICE raids appear to be giving criminals license to do whatever the f--- they want. But silly me... this has always been about Trump's racism, not law & order.
All you Trump voters are responsible for the misery of millions.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6m7rb…

Serendipitous Recommendation with Multimodal LLM
Haoting Wang, Jianling Wang, Hao Li, Fangjun Yi, Mengyu Fu, Youwei Zhang, Yifan Liu, Liang Liu, Minmin Chen, Ed H. Chi, Lichan Hong, Haokai Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08283

Serendipitous Recommendation with Multimodal LLM
Conventional recommendation systems succeed in identifying relevant content but often fail to provide users with surprising or novel items. Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) possess the world knowledge and multimodal understanding needed for serendipity, but their integration into billion-item-scale platforms presents significant challenges. In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical framework where fine-tuned MLLMs provide high-level guidance to conventional recommendation models, s…

Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey
Longzhen Han, Awes Mubarak, Almas Baimagambetov, Nikolaos Polatidis, Thar Baker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10016

Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have rapidly evolved beyond text generation, now spanning diverse output modalities including images, music, video, human motion, and 3D objects, by integrating language with other sensory modalities under unified architectures. This survey categorises six primary generative modalities and examines how foundational techniques, namely Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), Mixture of Experts (MoE), Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), and Chain-of-…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21177 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCG_…

SOLIDGEO: Measuring Multimodal Spatial Math Reasoning in Solid Geometry
Geometry is a fundamental branch of mathematics and plays a crucial role in evaluating the reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, existing multimodal mathematics benchmarks mainly focus on plane geometry and largely ignore solid geometry, which requires spatial reasoning and is more challenging than plane geometry. To address this critical gap, we introduce SolidGeo, the first large-scale benchmark specifically designed to evaluate the performance of MLLMs …

Millions of non-producing oil and gas wells around the world are leaking methane and other contaminants,
contributing to increased greenhouse gas emissions and polluting our water, soil, and air.
The total annual methane emissions from non-producing wells in Canada is 7 times higher than estimated in Canada’s National Inventory Report
The U.S. no longer even estimates it's methane emissions

Stark Tuning and Charge State Control in Individual Telecom C-Band Quantum Dots
N. J. Martin, A. J. Brash, A. Tomlinson, E. M. Sala, E. O. Mills, C. L. Phillips, R. Dost, L. Hallacy, P. Millington-Hotze, D. Hallett, K. A. O'Flaherty, J. Heffernan, M. S. Skolnick, A. M Fox, L. R. Wilson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07951…

Stark Tuning and Charge State Control in Individual Telecom C-Band Quantum Dots
Telecom-wavelength quantum dots (QDs) are emerging as a promising solution for generating deterministic single-photons compatible with existing fiber-optic infrastructure. Emission in the low-loss C-band minimizes transmission losses, making them ideal for long-distance quantum communication. In this work, we present the first demonstration of both Stark tuning and charge state control of individual InAs/InP QDs operating within the telecom C-band. These QDs are grown by droplet epitaxy and emb…