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Can confirm! Fun game and gorgeous day at @…. Plus, I’m always happy to watch a Boston team play and not win. 😈
https://twitter.com/SFGiants/status/19

SFGiants (@SFGiants) on X
What a game!

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sophia Kennedy:
🎵 Rodeo
#NowPlaying #SophiaKennedy
https://sophiakennedy.bandcamp.com/track/rodeo
https://open.spotify.com/track/3AK1IvwhjvgOAWhl7wuhe6

In mathematics, we have a useful phrase I wish were more in general parlance: “necessary but not sufficient.”
This is not sufficient, but it is necessary. Call those Senators. They aren’t •completely• useless. https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/114729468063702602

Optimal Operating Strategy for PV-BESS Households: Balancing Self-Consumption and Self-Sufficiency
Jun Wook Heo, Raja Jurdak, Sara Khalifa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17268

Optimal Operating Strategy for PV-BESS Households: Balancing Self-Consumption and Self-Sufficiency
High penetration of Photovoltaic (PV) generation and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in individual households increases the demand for solutions to determine the optimal PV generation power and the capacity of BESS. Self-consumption and self-sufficiency are essential for optimising the operation of PV-BESS systems in households, aiming to minimise power import from and export to the main grid. However, self-consumption and self-sufficiency are not independent; they share a linear relations…

H-QuEST: Accelerating Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection with Hierarchical Indexing
Akanksha Singh, Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Vipul Arora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16751

H-QuEST: Accelerating Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection with Hierarchical Indexing
Query-by-example spoken term detection (QbE-STD) searches for matching words or phrases in an audio dataset using a sample spoken query. When annotated data is limited or unavailable, QbE-STD is often done using template matching methods like dynamic time warping (DTW), which are computationally expensive and do not scale well. To address this, we propose H-QuEST (Hierarchical Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection), a novel framework that accelerates spoken term retrieval by utilizing Term Fre…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Erika de Casier:
🎵 Little Bit
#ErikadeCasier
https://aines.bandcamp.com/track/erika-de-casier-little-bit-aines-endless-summer-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/0spXmYRCgO10zVvQwkj4hZ

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Sophia Kennedy:
🎵 Imaginary Friend (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #SophiaKennedy
https://sophiakennedy.bandcamp.com/track/imaginary-friend
https://open.spotify.com/track/7CbVZ2Yzl0TtcCERaJDZSR

Continual Learning with Columnar Spiking Neural Networks
Denis Larionov, Nikolay Bazenkov, Mikhail Kiselev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17169 https://…

Continual Learning with Columnar Spiking Neural Networks
This study investigates columnar-organized spiking neural networks (SNNs) for continual learning and catastrophic forgetting. Using CoLaNET (Columnar Layered Network), we show that microcolumns adapt most efficiently to new tasks when they lack shared structure with prior learning. We demonstrate how CoLaNET hyperparameters govern the trade-off between retaining old knowledge (stability) and acquiring new information (plasticity). Our optimal configuration learns ten sequential MNIST tasks effe…

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
-- Andy Finkel, computer guy