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Surprise! Bobby Brainworms hampered Texas measles response - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/08/25/surprise-bobby-brainworms-hampered-texas-measles-response/

Democrats struggle to come up with a unified response to Trump's Iran strikes (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-struggle-unified-response-trump-iran-strikes-rcna214504
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p3#a250624p3

Automated Brake Onset Detection in Naturalistic Driving Data
Shu-Yuan Liu, Johan Engstr\"om, Gustav Markkula
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17943 https://…

Automated Brake Onset Detection in Naturalistic Driving Data
Response timing measures play a crucial role in the assessment of automated driving systems (ADS) in collision avoidance scenarios, including but not limited to establishing human benchmarks and comparing ADS to human driver response performance. For example, measuring the response time (of a human driver or ADS) to a conflict requires the determination of a stimulus onset and a response onset. In existing studies, response onset relies on manual annotation or vehicle control signals such as ac…

PID Tuning via Desired Step Response Curve Fitting
Senol Gulgonul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17655 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.17655…

PID Tuning via Desired Step Response Curve Fitting
This paper presents a PID tuning method based on step response curve fitting (PID-SRCF) that combines integral absolute error (IAE) minimization with explicit transient response shaping. The proposed approach determines optimal PID parameters by matching the closed-loop response to any desired system response, but practically either a first-order plus time delay model or a second-order system with defined settling time and overshoot requirements. Implemented using constrained nonlinear optimiza…

Can External Validation Tools Improve Annotation Quality for LLM-as-a-Judge?
Arduin Findeis, Floris Weers, Guoli Yin, Ke Ye, Ruoming Pang, Tom Gunter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17015

Can External Validation Tools Improve Annotation Quality for LLM-as-a-Judge?
Pairwise preferences over model responses are widely collected to evaluate and provide feedback to large language models (LLMs). Given two alternative model responses to the same input, a human or AI annotator selects the "better" response. This approach can provide feedback for domains where other hard-coded metrics are difficult to obtain (e.g., chat response quality), thereby helping model evaluation or training. However, for some domains high-quality pairwise comparisons can be tricky to ob…

“After Hurricane Katrina, Congress passed a law to strengthen the nation’s disaster response. FEMA employees say the Trump administration has reversed that progress.”
My question, as always: “Who benefits?”
https://www.nytime…

FEMA Employees Warn That Trump Is Gutting Disaster Response
After Hurricane Katrina, Congress passed a law to strengthen the nation’s disaster response. FEMA employees say the Trump administration has reversed that progress.

Zelenskyy: “We know Russia’s intentions – we will respond”: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/zelenskyy-we-know-russias-intentions.html

Threat intel experts have told me that CISOs should be prepared for DDoS attacks in terms of Iranian threats.
"'313 Team' claimed responsibility for a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack on Trump’s Truth Social platform just hours after the U.S. strikes."

Iranian-Aligned Hackers Claim Responsibility for Attack on Trump’s Truth Social Platform
A group of Iranian-aligned hackers has reportedly attacked something President Donald Trump holds dear — his Truth Social platform.

FCC Chairman: President Trump is fundamentally reshaping the media landscape (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/07/25/fcc-chairman-president-trump-is-fundamentally-reshaping-the-media-landscape.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p1#a250726p1

Trump slams 'crime-ridden' Baltimore in response to Maryland governor's invitation (Amanda Hurley/WTTG-TV)
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/trump-slams-crime-ridden-baltimore-response-maryland-governors-invitation
http://www.memeorandum.com/250824/p26#a250824p26