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Evaluating the Limits of Rotation Period Recovery through Gyrochronology Criteria
Mariel Lares-Martiz, Terry D. Oswalt, Derek L. Buzasi, Kylie R. Boyer, Luca Guida, Ryan J. Reynolds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08266

Evaluating the Limits of Rotation Period Recovery through Gyrochronology Criteria
Contamination from nearby sources often compromises stellar rotation periods derived from photometric light curves, particularly in data with large pixel scales such as TESS. This problem is compounded when both the target and contaminant are intrinsically variable, a scenario that challenges deblending algorithms, which often assume constant contaminants. We assess the reliability of rotation period detections using wide binary systems, whose components share a common age and rotational histor…

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): VI. Comparison of Dust Evolution Models to AGE-PRO Observations
Nicolas T. Kurtovic, Matias G\'arate, Paola Pinilla, Ke Zhang, Giovanni P. Rosotti, Rossella Anania, Ilaria Pascucci, Beno\^it Tabone, Leon Trapman, Dingshan Deng, Miguel Vioque, John Carpenter, Lucas A. Cieza, Laura M. P\'erez, Carolina Agurto-Gangas, Anibal Sierra, Dary A. Ru\'iz-Rodriguez, James Miley, Camilo Gonz\'alez-Ruilova, Estephan…

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): VI. Comparison of Dust Evolution Models to AGE-PRO Observations
The potential for planet formation of a circumstellar disk depends on the dust and gas reservoirs, which evolve as a function of the disk age. The ALMA Large Program AGE-PRO has measured several disk properties across three star-forming regions of different ages, and in this study we compare the observational results to dust evolution simulations. Using DustPy for the dust evolution, and RADMC-3D for the radiative transfer, we ran a large grid of models spanning stellar masses of 0.25, 0.50, 0.…

EditInspector: A Benchmark for Evaluation of Text-Guided Image Edits
Ron Yosef, Moran Yanuka, Yonatan Bitton, Dani Lischinski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09988

EditInspector: A Benchmark for Evaluation of Text-Guided Image Edits
Text-guided image editing, fueled by recent advancements in generative AI, is becoming increasingly widespread. This trend highlights the need for a comprehensive framework to verify text-guided edits and assess their quality. To address this need, we introduce EditInspector, a novel benchmark for evaluation of text-guided image edits, based on human annotations collected using an extensive template for edit verification. We leverage EditInspector to evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art…

Code with Me or for Me? How Increasing AI Automation Transforms Developer Workflows
Valerie Chen, Ameet Talwalkar, Robert Brennan, Graham Neubig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08149

Code with Me or for Me? How Increasing AI Automation Transforms Developer Workflows
Developers now have access to a growing array of increasingly autonomous AI tools to support software development. While numerous studies have examined developer use of copilots, which can provide chat assistance or code completions, evaluations of coding agents, which can automatically write files and run code, still largely rely on static benchmarks without humans-in-the-loop. In this work, we conduct the first academic study to explore developer interactions with coding agents and characteri…

AI-Augmented Visible Light Communication: A Framework for Noise Mitigation and Secure Data Transmission
A. A. Nutfaji, Moustafa Hassan Elmallah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08145

AI-Augmented Visible Light Communication: A Framework for Noise Mitigation and Secure Data Transmission
This paper presents a proposed AI Deep Learning model that addresses common challenges encountered in Visible Light Communication (VLC) systems. In this work, we run a Python simulation that models a basic VLC system primarily affected by Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN). A Deep Neural Network (DNN) is then trained to equalize the noisy signal received and improve signal integrity. The system evaluates and compares the Bit Error Rate (BER) before and after equalization to demonstrate the ef…

Man, it took me a while to warm up to Costco, but it's really is one of the better corners of capitalism. They pay people fairly, sell only quality stuff, didn't disavow DEI, and aren't owned and run by hedge fund assholes.
It's amazing how nice it is not to have to evaluate every purchase. If it is there, it's usually because it has been proven to make customers happy and thus earned its shelf space.
And, no surprise, the CEO dogfoods himself.

The Pants Cost $20. They Explain $86 Billion of Costco Sales. — The Wall Street Journal
Kirkland Signature is now bigger than some of the world’s biggest companies—and it has become essential to Costco’s business

Can LLM-based Financial Investing Strategies Outperform the Market in Long Run?
Weixian Waylon Li, Hyeonjun Kim, Mihai Cucuringu, Tiejun Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07078

Can LLM-based Financial Investing Strategies Outperform the Market in Long Run?
Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently been leveraged for asset pricing tasks and stock trading applications, enabling AI agents to generate investment decisions from unstructured financial data. However, most evaluations of LLM timing-based investing strategies are conducted on narrow timeframes and limited stock universes, overstating effectiveness due to survivorship and data-snooping biases. We critically assess their generalizability and robustness by proposing FINSABER, a backtesting …

Frankrikes president Emmanuel Macron kräver att de sex franska medborgare som förts bort från #Madleen av israeliska styrkor "ska få återvända till Frankrike så snart som möjligt", enligt Elyséepalatset, skriver Le Monde.

En direct, guerre à Gaza : après l’interception du « Madleen » par Israël, la France réclame le retour de ses ressortissants « dans les plus brefs délais »
Six ressortissants français, dont l’eurodéputée Rima Hassan, se trouvent à bord du bateau humanitaire qui faisait route vers Gaza et a été intercepté par les autorités israéliennes pendant la nuit. La diplomatie française a aussi demandé le « retour rapide » de ses citoyens ; l’Etat hébreu, de son côté, assure que les activistes « vont retourner dans leurs pays ».

ArtifactsBench: Bridging the Visual-Interactive Gap in LLM Code Generation Evaluation
Chenchen Zhang, Yuhang Li, Can Xu, Jiaheng Liu, Ao Liu, Shihui Hu, Dengpeng Wu, Guanhua Huang, Kejiao Li, Qi Yi, Ruibin Xiong, Haotian Zhu, Yuanxing Zhang, Yuhao Jiang, Yue Zhang, Zenan Xu, Bohui Zhai, Guoxiang He, Hebin Li, Jie Zhao, Le Zhang, Lingyun Tan, Pengyu Guo, Xianshu Pang, Yang Ruan, Zhifeng Zhang, Zhonghu Wang, Ziyan Xu, Zuopu Yin, Wiggin Zhou, Chayse Zhou, Fengzong Lian

ArtifactsBench: Bridging the Visual-Interactive Gap in LLM Code Generation Evaluation
The generative capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly expanding from static code to dynamic, interactive visual artifacts. This progress is bottlenecked by a critical evaluation gap: established benchmarks focus on algorithmic correctness and are blind to the visual fidelity and interactive integrity that define modern user experiences. To bridge this gap, we introduce ArtifactsBench, a new benchmark and paradigm for the automated, multimodal evaluation of visual code generati…

Evidence of .Ia Supernova Detonations in 3D Hydrodynamical Simulations of Double Degenerate Mergers
Uri Pierre Burmester, Lilia Ferrario, R\"udiger Pakmor, Ivo R. Seitenzahl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08237

Evidence of .Ia Supernova Detonations in 3D Hydrodynamical Simulations of Double Degenerate Mergers
We report detailed 3D simulations of 1.1 $\mathrm{M_{\odot}}$ Oxygen-Neon (ONe) white dwarfs (WDs) merging with a 0.35 $\mathrm{M_{\odot}}$ helium WD, conducted with the moving-mesh hydrodynamic code AREPO. The simulations utilise self-consistent chemical profiles for the primary WD which were generated by a stellar evolution code incorporating the effects of semi-degenerate carbon burning. We find that a helium detonation is ignited at the base of the helium layer, starting a thermonuclear run…