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Hertz and other car rental agencies are increasingly relying on scanners that use high-res imaging and AI to flag even tiny blemishes, angering some customers (Gabe Castro-Root/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/travel/rental-car-ai-scann…

Hertz and Other Rental Car Agencies Turn to AI for Damage Detection
Hertz and other agencies are increasingly relying on scanners that use high-res imaging and A.I. to flag even tiny blemishes, and customers aren’t happy.

Not a whisper about this on DR's news site so thanks 🙏 @… for sharing the original briefing.
Looking forward to better IT support on our Linux machines now...
https://mastodon.social/@randahl/114655674138180496
randahl@mastodon.social - In Denmark, The Ministry of Digitalization now removes all Microsoft software from ministry computers and switches to open source in a strategy that has been agreed with all five regions of Denmark.
The more Trump threatens Europe, the more US companies will get the Tesla treatment.
I will not be surprised if the Parliament member iPhones are next.
https://nordjyske.dk/nyheder/politik/digitaliseringsminister-vil-udfase-microsoft-i-sit-eget-ministerium/5616096

God, Randall, you sound like a fucking bitch.

Performance and Practical Considerations of Large and Small Language Models in Clinical Decision Support in Rheumatology
Sabine Felde, R\"udiger Buchkremer, Gamal Chehab, Christian Thielscher, J\"org HW Distler, Matthias Schneider, Jutta G. Richter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07983

Performance and Practical Considerations of Large and Small Language Models in Clinical Decision Support in Rheumatology
Large language models (LLMs) show promise for supporting clinical decision-making in complex fields such as rheumatology. Our evaluation shows that smaller language models (SLMs), combined with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), achieve higher diagnostic and therapeutic performance than larger models, while requiring substantially less energy and enabling cost-efficient, local deployment. These features are attractive for resource-limited healthcare. However, expert oversight remains essenti…

Demonstrating Multi-Suction Item Picking at Scale via Multi-Modal Learning of Pick Success
Che Wang, Jeroen van Baar, Chaitanya Mitash, Shuai Li, Dylan Randle, Weiyao Wang, Sumedh Sontakke, Kostas E. Bekris, Kapil Katyal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10359

Demonstrating Multi-Suction Item Picking at Scale via Multi-Modal Learning of Pick Success
This work demonstrates how autonomously learning aspects of robotic operation from sparsely-labeled, real-world data of deployed, engineered solutions at industrial scale can provide with solutions that achieve improved performance. Specifically, it focuses on multi-suction robot picking and performs a comprehensive study on the application of multi-modal visual encoders for predicting the success of candidate robotic picks. Picking diverse items from unstructured piles is an important and chal…

Single-Family Rental Investment Snapshot — July 2025
Arbor Realty Trust - July 3, 2025
“The SFR sector continued showing strength in several key areas in the second quarter of 2025, even as residential housing market growth moderated.”

Single-Family Rental Investment Snapshot July 2025
The single-family rental (SFR) sector continued showing strength in several key areas in the second quarter of 2025, even as residential housing market growth moderated.

I don’t agree in one respect:
Neither OOP nor FP (nor 4GLs nor IDEs nor SOAs nor any of the other new hotnesses past) had anything remotely resembling the current money behind them. None led to companies speculatively laying off tens of thousands of employees for imagined productivity boosts that had not actually arrived yet. None shaped whole election cycles, or led to national proposals for preemptive deregulation. None led to the construction of nuclear power plants or the draining of rivers. None sent oligarchs or fascists into spasmodic wet dreams of world domination. None started quasi-religious cults like EA.
All •that• is the part that feels like blockchain — but even worse, if such a thing is possible.
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#FotoVorschlag
'Fels und Stein' Granitsteine im Aist-Tal, Oberösterreich.

Fahrgäste verängstigt - Randalierende Burschen aus Straßenbahn geholt #News #Nachrichten

Whoa - 2.5 billion with a 'b'? That's an expensive remodel...
Federal Reserve rebuts Trump admin renovation attacks
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/12/federal-reserve-trump-renovation-attacks.html