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KI-Barometer 03/2025 – Generative KI im Einsatz: Fallbeispiele aus Unternehmen
Einblicke in die Ergebnisse des aktuellen KI-Barometers. Erfahren Sie, wie deutsche Unternehmen generative KI erfolgreich einsetzen und was Sie daraus lernen.

AI firms are striking partnerships and giving some users in Asia free access to AI tools, in pursuit of larger sources of real-world consumer data for training (Itika Sharma Punit/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-data-collection-global-deals/

AI giants race to scoop up elusive real-world data
OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity create partnerships and free offers for a steady stream of consumer data that can't be scraped from the internet.

12 Surprising Benefits of Going Vegan #AnimalRights

12 Surprising Benefits of Going Vegan
Going vegan has a lot of great benefits overall. Many people experience improvements in their health, and research confirms that eating a plant-based diet has many health advantages. There is also a…

Euro banks block billions in rogue PayPal direct debits after fraud glitch
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/euro_banks_block_paypal_direct_debits/

Euro banks block billions in rogue PayPal direct debits after fraud glitch
: US payments platform back in action, says it's informing affected customers

My new guilty pleasure is getting radicalized by this TikTok account: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMQD6kpQ/

Russian drones target Kyiv, Ukrainian cities in large-scale attack: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/russian-drones-target-kyiv-ukrainian.html

Fedibird、新しい機能も基本的にじゃんじゃん入れちゃうのであんまり出番はないんですが、たまにベータテスターモードにしておかないと使えない機能というのがあります。
で、プレビューカードとか、絵文字リアクションとか、投稿してしばらくポーリングして、WebUIのタイムラインに自動反映する機能があります。
URL投稿を多用する人は、使ってみるといいですよ。プレビューカードが取得されると反映されたりします。
#fedibird #fedibird_info

Wow, this means the shelves at the liquor and cannabis stores can be re-filled. 😉
But seriously, good news, and congrats to the negotiators on both sides.
https://mastodon.social/@Maxfieldripken/115442407123016124

just discovered a bug: `gdb` hangs loading symbols (from a stripped binary), _unless_ i run it under `perf record`
i'm going the fuck to bed

The shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis was the fourth deadly shooting in the city in just over 24 hours.
In total, the string of violence has left at least five people dead and 25 injured, according to the police.

Live Updates: Motive Sought in Minneapolis Catholic School Shooting That Killed 2 Children and Injured 17
Of the 17 injured, 14 were children and three were adults in their 80s. Officials were looking at the social media content of the suspect, who was also dead.

Abstract Landscapes
(Bernina range, on the approach to Lago di Fellaria, Sep 2025)
Everything about this place is so special: the road to the trailhead (with 1700m elevation gain), the scale of the majestic ~4000er (meters) mountains with their glaciated peaks. Observing the different levels/layers of this upper valley where the glaciers have already mostly receded, the parts which have been flooded with a reservoir (slowly drying out), the equally spectacular & tragic waterfa…

Ich möchte in der Schule digitale Infotafel(n) aufstellen. Alter Fernseher und Raspi wäre die einfache Lösung. Ich fände aber eine energiesparendere Variante besser.
Habt ihr Empfehlungen für große E-Ink-Displays?

The muse never rests.
Keep going.
#motivation #inspiration
https://muz4now.com/web-sto…

How to keep moving even when it hurts
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Initial curve25519 accelerator refactoring update: added new MULT_AREA_OPT parameter.
0 = existing implementation (best for 7 series)
1 = resource sharing between constant and variable multipliers, but still does 32 16x32 multiplies per clock. Much slower on 7 series due to DSP cascade, but hits the same 71 MHz Fmax on Trion.
Fabric usage on Trion is slightly higher (9528 -> 10613 LE) but multiplier block usage is down from 96 to 66.
Next step will be trying to fig…

¡Noooooooo! Se canceló la gira de Mr. Bungle 🥹
¿Por qué nos haces esto Mike? 😭
#MrBungle #MikePatton
https://mastodon.s…

from my link log —
asn1c: the Lionet ASN.1 compiler.
https://github.com/vlm/asn1c
saved 2025-10-27 https://dotat.at/:/8YCM5.html

This is very good news and hopefully the trend https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/115098344545425242

Schoof mag door met VVD en BBB, maar veel enthousiasme is er niet. ‘Het ramp – excuus – het rompkabinet-Schoof’ | de #Volkskrant
https://www.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
-- Pliny the Elder

Tipp:
Mache jetzt ein #Backup Deines #Smartphone|s.
Es stirbt schneller als du denkst.

“Caturday!? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within this backyard?” #caturday

In GrapheneOS, you can now opt into a new feature called security preview releases. This allows you to receive monthly security patches earlier than the standard schedule.
For example, the 2025092701 security preview release already includes additional patches from the November 2025 and December 2025 Android Security Bulletins, along with fixes for several CVEs.
Full details can be found here:

Un an chez 3liz
#throwbackthursday

Cooked - bad
Cooking - good
Broiled - silly
Broiling - sad
Roasting - bitter sweet
Roasted - good
Baked - sweet
Baking - bad

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Immer mehr Menschen sehen sich im beruflichen Umfeld genötigt, mit generativer #KI zu arbeiten.
Besonders Großunternehmen „überrollen“ damit ihre #Mitarbeiter. Es wird eine Art

Generative KI für Einsteiger - Praxisnahe Prompts für Privat und Beruf – einfach erklärt
Buchempfehlungen zu Klimawandel, Nachhaltigkeit, Umweltschutz und Klimaanpassung

I need a vacation
9 years… 9 whole years since I last had one.
I think it’s starting to have a negative effect.

Tag 12 sind wir mit Hilfe von @… und #OsmAnd 70 km quer von #Mantua nach #Cremona

@… hehe :-D In Solasta finde ich das auch toll umgesetzt, aber am Tisch ist das eher ne Variante von:
"Ich klettere auf die nächste Ebene"
"Moment, der Höhenunterschied sind .... äh, ahja, da ... 20 Fuß. Mach mal Agi!"
"roll... 12!"
"reicht nicht, sorry! Du fällst .. 5 plus 15 plus 25 plus 20 ..…

Mal wieder ein Meisterwerk von Snicklink haha
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UKqdZRiUaeA&si=3ixCb-A3wgGfLqAN

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#EggcornFoodOrMeals

we out here WAITING, on godot

Die @… kann was, gebt ihr nen Job!
https://tech.lgbt/@sp4rk/115445802558758222

<div class="essay" style="left:1700500px">
Interesting css!
But this was a left to right scrolling page of the planets with the scale of the moon at 1 px.
^ @… as it was in Salmas newsletter!

Lol - John Carpenter's 1988 They Live.
Starring famed 80s wrestler Roddy Piper - who coined "I'm here to kick ass and chew gum and Im all outa gum!" - who discovers a pair of special sunglasses that show the world as it really is: we are subliminally controlled by aliens using global warming to make Earth's atmosphere similar to their homeworld, depleting its resources
`DISRUPT! SHIFT PARADIGMS! MOVE FAST BREAK THINGS!`

Let's face it: Israel is the main source of instability in the Middle East | Responsible Statecraft
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-united-nations/

I can haz #Gokrazy fbstatus on tiny scween? 🥺
@… I may file some PR again to factor out constants for the layout calculation. :D

Happy "End of First Year" 8-hour CLE weekend to all who practice.
#Law #LawFedi

A morning thought: claiming that someone is "bothered" by the intensive smell of perfume is an unfair simplification.
It's not that I "don't like" intensive smells. It's an actual physiological reaction. I recall that a long time ago, I accidentally sat behind a classmate who used a lot of perfume. Took me a while to realize why I was getting dizzy wherever I leaned down to note something (at first I thought that leaning was the problem, not entering the cloud of perfume). Using perfumes is a choice, not getting dizzy over smells.
Same goes for noise. It's not that I "don't like" noise. It's that noise kills my nervous system. It's not that I have a choice.
#ActuallyAutistic

51gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

Monday's excellent adventure: business in NYC M-F, need to take the train. Not yet packed, chores-chores-chores around the house, train to catch at 2pm. At 12:29 I am still home, need to drop by work to drop off some stuff and then catch the red line to South Station to the Acela. So at 12:30 I hop on the cargo bike, assist to maximum, arrive at work 25 minutes later, leave bike in the "long term" parking, drop crap at desk, I have a few minutes to grab lunch,

Viking longship in London! moored "on the north side of the Thames next to London Bridge, will head into St Katherine Docks at 4:30pm [Wed 27 Aug] ... until Sunday... open to visitors."
https://bsky.app/profile/ianvisits.co.uk/post/3lxdhynnzik2d

ianVisits (@ianvisits.co.uk)
The Saga Farmann has moored up on the north side of the Thames next to London Bridge, will head into St Katherine Docks tomorrow at 4:30pm and be there until Sunday, and will be open to visitors.

The Admin Avenues Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

#Antifa Kleine Anfrage #LTNRW #SPD 18-15430 "Aktivitäten der rechtsextremen Kleinstpartei „Der Dritte Weg“ in Hilchenbach und mögliche Maßnahmen der Landesregierung"

Huge birth rate problems here like most of Europe. Gov have now announced that families with >=2 kids will get roughly 1/4 million in tax cuts over 25 years.
Thats crazy, like small family house worth crazy.

#MinCup25 QF4 Personally, I enjoy the six-member silicate ring structure of dioptase. Both images credit mindat.

Wie man sich halt auf den Maustag vorbereitet…
#haxkoleaks

we’re bowling! 🎳

Falls jemand in #BadOeYnhausen und Umgebung ein paar #Fahrradteile benötigt, habe ich etwas abzugeben;
- 28er Laufrad mit #Shimano

Alle Anzeigen von Andreas Edler | Kleinanzeigen
Hier findest du alle Anzeigen von Andreas Edler

Am 14.09 mach ich mein Kreuz für die eine Partei, die es ernst meint mit Sicherheit im Straßenverkehr.
Und außerdem bin ich der Meinung, dass Alleinunfälle zu sehr unterschätzt werden.

yeah so the power company took the money they said they were gonna and I don't get paid til Friday so id super duper appreciate some help not getting hit with infinite overdraft fees!!! tank u!!!
venmo: @ianthe
paypal/zelle: ephydriad@gmail.com
#mutualaid

Business-Idee: 2034 Verbrenner kaufen (und anmelden!) und 1 Jahr später zu Unsummen verkaufen.
Ah Mist, leider kann man sich auf die Politik nicht verlassen, da lass ich das lieber.

@… @… @… Fahrenheit?

I love this App!
These people are too classy to even hint at this but if you like them and what they do - consider leaving a 5 star review in both the Mac & iOS app stores, and if you have positive things to say, write a quick 2 paragraph review - the buzz helps.
https://iconfactory.world/@Iconfactory

The Iconfactory (@Iconfactory@iconfactory.world)
Attached: 1 image :tot_app: Your text companion is tiny but now it's also mighty! Tot 2 launches today and features new text dividers, automatic indents, a redesigned UI, customizable smart bullets & much more. Tot for iOS is a free upgrade for 1.0 owners. macOS is free to use with paid premium features. Available now for iOS, macOS & watchOS. Learn more - https://blog.iconfactory.com/2025/08/tot-version-2-says-hello/ #TotRocks

Important & informative 🧵re #indigenous & #uncontactedpeople
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115446627734

Some numpty has sprayed a St George's Cross on a white mini-roundabout in town. I hold my nose every time I go past. We've recently had a number of new families placed in the town - it became diverse literally over night and it's long long long overdue. It infuriates me to think that they might feel unwelcome because some arsehole overworks his brain cell and sprays symbols about. #ukpol…

Fixed, thanks to @…
With and without less(1):
pkg query --evaluate '%o ~ base/*' '%o\n\n%e\n\n----\n\n' | less
pkg query --evaluate '%o ~ base/*' '%o\n\n%e\n\n----\n\n'
#FreeBSD

Letzten Donnerstag aus dem Büro, beschrieb genau den momentanen Stresslevel 😁

Las Vegas Raiders' TV schedule in 2025: How to watch Pete Carroll's NFL return this season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6576499/2025/08/27/las-vegas-raiders-how-to-watch-2025-pete-carroll/

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
VILA: Why didn't you suggest it to us?
CALLY: Because I knew how you'd react.
AVON: Auron may be different, Cally, but on Earth it is considered ill-mannered to kill your friends while committing suicide.

The thing about trade deals with the US, is that you can cancel at any time. They're not phone contracts.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/us-eu-trade-deal-germany-france-tump-tariff

A look at the possible remedies a US court might impose on Google after its antitrust loss last year, including a breakup, with a decision expected this week (Tim Wu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/opinion…

Opinion | Google Could Get Broken Up This Week for Antitrust Violations. Here’s What It Would Mean.
It will be effective if people who work at big tech companies start quitting their jobs.

An 8- and 12-bit block AES cipher
Peter T. Breuer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18485 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18485…

An 8- and 12-bit block AES cipher
Because it is so unusual, or hard to find, or expository, a truly tiny 8- or 12-bit block AES (Rijndael) cipher is documented here, along with Java source code.

Zwischen Starnberg und Hollywood: die grossartige Schauspielerin Marianne Sägebrecht wird 80!
#Alter #Schauspielerin #Frau

Kult-Schauspielerin: Wie ein Hufeisen-Unfall das Leben von Marianne Sägebrecht veränderte
»Out of Rosenheim«-Star Marianne Sägebrecht wird 80 Jahre alt, denkt aber gar nicht daran, die Arbeit einzustellen. Schließlich biete das Altern viele Vorteile.

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Un train stationne Š Saint-Denis – Université vers Châtillon-Montrouge en raison d'un ajustement de l'intervalle entre les trains .
🤖 28/09 01:03

LSD-3D: Large-Scale 3D Driving Scene Generation with Geometry Grounding
Julian Ost, Andrea Ramazzina, Amogh Joshi, Maximilian B\"omer, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19204

LSD-3D: Large-Scale 3D Driving Scene Generation with Geometry Grounding
Large-scale scene data is essential for training and testing in robot learning. Neural reconstruction methods have promised the capability of reconstructing large physically-grounded outdoor scenes from captured sensor data. However, these methods have baked-in static environments and only allow for limited scene control -- they are functionally constrained in scene and trajectory diversity by the captures from which they are reconstructed. In contrast, generating driving data with recent image…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[1/4]:
- From Evidence to Decision: Exploring Evaluative AI
Thao Le, Tim Miller, Liz Sonenberg, Ronal Singh, H. Peter Soyer

Rotterdam - Hendrik Idoplein, Heer Arnoldstraat
#kamafotos

So Covid mRNA vax may increase your chances to survive (unrelated)cancer
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09655-y#ref-CR16

Source: Wentz to have season-ending surgery https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46748807/vikings-wentz-season-ending-shoulder-surgery

On-Demand Zeeman Nuclear Frequency Comb Quantum Memory
Yanli Shi, Xiwen Zhang, Yuri Shvyd'ko, Olga Kocharovskaya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18645 https://

On-Demand Zeeman Nuclear Frequency Comb Quantum Memory
The emerging hard X-ray - nuclear interfaces offer unique potential advantages over traditional optical-atomic interfaces for room-temperature, solid-state quantum information processing, including lower background noise, tighter focusing, and exceptionally high resonance quality. Leveraging such interfaces, a major milestone was recently achieved with the first implementation of nuclear quantum memory in the hard X-ray range [S. Velten et al., Nuclear quantum memory for hard X-ray photon wave …

ONUといえば、日曜日に会社のONUが沈黙されまして（電源ランプ消灯のままうんともすんとも……）、月曜から火曜の午前中まで、電話もFAXもインターネットもつながらない状態になって大変困りました。火曜昼に新しいものに交換しました。
まぁ、製造みると19年前ぐらいの機械だったので、仕方ないね！
で、それはともかくとして、修理担当者が直しに行くなら復旧は9月になるとか言うんですわ。1〜2週間とまったままとか無理ですわ……。
なんかメッチャ修理が混んでるって話で、暑いのも影響してるかもしれないし、根本的に人が減らされているんだろうな……というのもあり……。

it's a little upsetting to consider that when i read _ZN13cxxrtl_design11p_swci__vtb4evalEPN6cxxrtl9performerE i just see the demangled name

A law firm has issued an apology after a data breach exposed the email addresses of 194 people linked to the Church of England’s redress scheme for survivors of Church-related abuse.
https://premierchristian.news/en/news/

Trump said Monday that
he would impose additional sanctions on Russia
before a previously announced 50-day deadline
if Russia does not reach a ceasefire in its war with Ukraine.
Trump said the new deadline
would be in 10 to 12 days.
He made his comments during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Trump’s golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland.

Live updates: Trump meeting with British prime minister in Scotland with trade, Gaza on the agenda
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s second term and the Republican-led Congress.

from my link log —
Sapir-Whorf does not apply to programming languages.
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/sapir-whorf-does-not-apply-to-programming/
saved 2025-08-21

Sapir-Whorf does not apply to Programming Languages
Linguistics is about human languages, not programming ones

De premiersvraag ligt op tafel, misschien wel met meer gewicht dan ooit tevoren | de #Volkskrant
#TK2025

DreamState – accompaniment for your dreaming #music https://muz4now.com/2023/dreamstate-accompaniment-for-your-dreaming

DreamState - accompaniment for your dreaming
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Hardware is weird sometimes
Julien's random thoughts: Corsair CMK32GX4M2D3600 RAM Micron single-rank kit vs CMK32GX4M2D3600 Nunya dual-rank RAM kit vs Asus Prime X570 Pro motherboard
https://blog.madbrain.com/2022/12/corsair-cmk32gx4m2d3600-ram-micron.…

Corsair CMK32GX4M2D3600 RAM Micron single-rank kit vs CMK32GX4M2D3600 Nunya dual-rank RAM kit vs Asus Prime X570 Pro motherboard
In November 2021, I upgraded my main desktop computer with an AMD Ryzen 5950X CPU, an Asus Prime X570 Pro motherboard, and a Corsair CMK32GX...

Horizontale und vertikale Gewalten­teilung, Beschränkung von Amtszeiten, Minderheitenschutz, Kontrolle politischen Handelns durch die Gerichte usw¹ sind alles Maßnahmen zur Beschränkung von Macht, um zu verhindern, daß Einzelpersonen oder kleine Gruppen übermäßig Macht ansammeln und ihre Partikularinteressen einseitig durchsetzen.
All dies hilft nur, solange es ein klares Primat der Politik über die Wirtschaft gibt, denn nur dann kann auch wirtschaftliche Macht – bei der viele der gena…

#productmanagement in your software, if you include a tree control, and allow users to DO things in said tree control, like modify the contents/structure OF the tree control, then if you have to redraw the tree control to reflect the change, and you DONT remember what node I had open and return me to it, then I _freaking hate you_
T'is a poor tree control if it doesn't "remem…

"What then is the spirit of liberty? I cannot define it; I can only tell you my own faith. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the mind of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded..." - Learned Hand

On Spacetherm Aerogel Thermal Insulation - Learn about the highest-performing robust wall insulation for where space is at a premium: small homes in expensive cities. #aerogel #IWI #insulation -

On Spacetherm Aerogel Thermal Insulation
Learn about the highest-performing robust wall insulation for where space is at a premium: small homes in expensive cities. #aerogel #IWI #insulation

'Blatant and deplorable': Trump admin employees say they're forced to watch 'propaganda' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/propaganda-interior-department/

I've been informed that there's another Endless Baseball happening

The companies that sell eye glasses cleaning solution seemingly have no problem with a pump that expels about 5 times as much fluid per pump as is necessary to clean a lens. I get that this allows them to sell more units of lens cleaning solution, but it makes a bigger mess for the user. I'd pay more for less fluid if it came with a pump that dispensed a reasonable amount.
Try though I might, I’m incapable of doing a 20% pump.

FastMesh:Efficient Artistic Mesh Generation via Component Decoupling
Jeonghwan Kim, Yushi Lan, Armando Fortes, Yongwei Chen, Xingang Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19188 https:/…

FastMesh:Efficient Artistic Mesh Generation via Component Decoupling
Recent mesh generation approaches typically tokenize triangle meshes into sequences of tokens and train autoregressive models to generate these tokens sequentially. Despite substantial progress, such token sequences inevitably reuse vertices multiple times to fully represent manifold meshes, as each vertex is shared by multiple faces. This redundancy leads to excessively long token sequences and inefficient generation processes. In this paper, we propose an efficient framework that generates ar…

When I started programming I had one big disadvantage: no Internet. No looking up stuff online, no asking questions, no easy download of tools, only printed books and magazines (and even those hard to get)…
When I started programming I had one big advantage: no Internet. Whatever I created could not expose any security hole, any personal data, everything just run locally, and the biggest fear was that the police would come for my pirated copy of Sokoban – or even worse that the disk it…

Poor #productmanagement: if your software works on files in a directory, and the contents of that directory are subject to change (say, switching between branches in a code repo), then don't CACHE the list of files in that directory that you care about and stash that shit in `%user%/.config/la-la-la-la-lookatme-im-expensive-software/cache` and then show that to the user.
Like wtf, wh…

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

Dobrindt will also jetzt unbeschränkte Gesichts­erkennung.
Laßt uns das doch in Zukunft so machen: jedesmal, wenn die Regierung an unsere Daten will, sagen wir, welche Daten wir dafür von der Regierung wollen, so nach dem Motto: „Ihr bekommt Gesichtserkennung, dafür bekommen wir die Inhalte aller Lobbygespräche“.
Deal?
#pol

Singapore-based wealth management platform Endowus raised $70M , bringing its total funding to $130M , and says the new capital will boost its AI advisory tools (Katrina Bianca Cuaresma/DealStreetAsia)
https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/endowus-70-m-round-460635/…

Endowus closes $70m round to deepen AI, regional expansion
The funding round was led by Illuminate Financial.

Learning Binary Sampling Patterns for Single-Pixel Imaging using Bilevel Optimisation
Serban C. Tudosie, Alexander Denker, Zeljko Kereta, Simon Arridge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19068

Learning Binary Sampling Patterns for Single-Pixel Imaging using Bilevel Optimisation
Single-Pixel Imaging enables reconstructing objects using a single detector through sequential illuminations with structured light patterns. We propose a bilevel optimisation method for learning task-specific, binary illumination patterns, optimised for applications like single-pixel fluorescence microscopy. We address the non-differentiable nature of binary pattern optimisation using the Straight-Through Estimator and leveraging a Total Deep Variation regulariser in the bilevel formulation. We…

Diarycast - Year In Review, and One Weird Trick (2022) - A look back at the thrills and spills of 2022 at EOU Towers... #podcast #yearInReview - h…

Diarycast - Year In Review, and One Weird Trick (2022)
A look back at the thrills and spills of 2022 at EOU Towers... #podcast #yearInReview

Aus Sicht von Merz verlangen die Gesetze des Marktes von Deutschland, das mit dem Klima zu ignorieren, wenn Trump (also die US-Industrie) das mit dem Klima ignoriert.¹ Ich würde sagen China sieht das anders.
__
¹von wegen konkurrenzfähig und so…
#pol #depol

MicroDetect-Net (MDN): Leveraging Deep Learning to Detect Microplastics in Clam Blood, a Step Towards Human Blood Analysis
Riju Marwah, Riya Arora, Navneet Yadav, Himank Arora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19021

MicroDetect-Net (MDN): Leveraging Deep Learning to Detect Microplastics in Clam Blood, a Step Towards Human Blood Analysis
With the prevalence of plastics exceeding 368 million tons yearly, microplastic pollution has grown to an extent where air, water, soil, and living organisms have all tested positive for microplastic presence. These particles, which are smaller than 5 millimeters in size, are no less harmful to humans than to the environment. Toxicity research on microplastics has shown that exposure may cause liver infection, intestinal injuries, and gut flora imbalance, leading to numerous potential health ha…

Saving Electricity and Gas (2013) - Meter readings at home. - https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity-2013.html

Saving Electricity and Gas (2013)
Meter readings at home.

Enhancing Document VQA Models via Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Eric L\'opez, Artemis Llabr\'es, Ernest Valveny
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18984 https://

Enhancing Document VQA Models via Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Document Visual Question Answering (Document VQA) must cope with documents that span dozens of pages, yet leading systems still concatenate every page or rely on very large vision-language models, both of which are memory-hungry. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) offers an attractive alternative, first retrieving a concise set of relevant segments before generating answers from this selected evidence. In this paper, we systematically evaluate the impact of incorporating RAG into Document VQA…

The point is the mask: scaling coral reef segmentation with weak supervision
Matteo Contini, Victor Illien, Sylvain Poulain, Serge Bernard, Julien Barde, Sylvain Bonhommeau, Alexis Joly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18958

The point is the mask: scaling coral reef segmentation with weak supervision
Monitoring coral reefs at large spatial scales remains an open challenge, essential for assessing ecosystem health and informing conservation efforts. While drone-based aerial imagery offers broad spatial coverage, its limited resolution makes it difficult to reliably distinguish fine-scale classes, such as coral morphotypes. At the same time, obtaining pixel-level annotations over large spatial extents is costly and labor-intensive, limiting the scalability of deep learning-based segmentation …

Deep Pre-trained Time Series Features for Tree Species Classification in the Dutch Forest Inventory
Takayuki Ishikawa, Carmelo Bonannella, Bas J. W. Lerink, Marc Ru{\ss}wurm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18829

Deep Pre-trained Time Series Features for Tree Species Classification in the Dutch Forest Inventory
National Forest Inventory (NFI)s serve as the primary source of forest information, providing crucial tree species distribution data. However, maintaining these inventories requires labor-intensive on-site campaigns. Remote sensing approaches, particularly when combined with machine learning, offer opportunities to update NFIs more frequently and at larger scales. While the use of Satellite Image Time Series has proven effective for distinguishing tree species through seasonal canopy reflectanc…