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Inferring Obscured Cosmic Black Hole Accretion History from AGN Found by JWST/MIRI CEERS Survey
C. -A. Hsieh (Department of Physics, National Taiwan University), T. Goto (Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University), C. -T. Ling (Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University), S. J. Kim (Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University), T. Hashimoto (Department of Physics, National Chung Hsing University), T.…

Inferring Obscured Cosmic Black Hole Accretion History from AGN Found by JWST/MIRI CEERS Survey
This study presents the black hole accretion history (BHAH) of obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) identified from the JWST CEERS survey by Chien et al. (2024) using mid-infrared (MIR) SED fitting. We compute black hole accretion rates (BHARs) to estimate the black hole accretion density (BHAD), $ρ_{L_{\mathrm{disk}}}$, across $0 < z < 4.25$. MIR luminosity functions (LFs) are also constructed for these sources, modeled with modified Schechter and double power law forms, and corresponding B…

Digital Collections Explorer: An Open-Source, Multimodal Viewer for Searching Digital Collections
Ying-Hsiang Huang, Benjamin Charles Germain Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00961 …

Digital Collections Explorer: An Open-Source, Multimodal Viewer for Searching Digital Collections
We present Digital Collections Explorer, a web-based, open-source exploratory search platform that leverages CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) for enhanced visual discovery of digital collections. Our Digital Collections Explorer can be installed locally and configured to run on a visual collection of interest on disk in just a few steps. Building upon recent advances in multimodal search techniques, our interface enables natural language queries and reverse image searches over dig…

Rund um den #Jordansprudel im #Audi!
Der Grund, warum er überhaupt so weit gekommen ist, sind die nicht wieder an Ort und Stelle verbrachten #Poller im Weg. Gerne werden die von Stadtwerken u…

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WOOT '25 conference schedule has been announced!
I'm pleased to say that I have not one but two papers (one as first author) being presented there:
"Security through Transparency: Tales from the RP2350 Hacking Challenge", Marius Muench, University of Birmingham; Aedan Cullen and Kévin Courdesses, Independent; Thomas 'stacksmashing' Roth, Hextree; Andrew Zonenberg, IOActive
"Extraction of Secrets from 40nm CMOS Gate Dielectric Breakdown Antifus…

WOOT '25 Technical Sessions

If the abundance people were in any way shape or form serious, they'd talk less about magical growth without harms but taking away billionaires' money to lift everyone else up to a decent life.
If their theory worked, the rich folks would be very rich quickly. But why should poorer people wait to eat, have healthcare and safe housing until the magic wealth appears?
It sounds very inconsistent.

Nice work by International Law Enforcement in taking down the Danabot malware infrastructure. Includes quotes from @… of Proofpoint on the dual-use Cybercrime/Nation State Intelligence nature of some of the operations.
From: @…

Augment or Not? A Comparative Study of Pure and Augmented Large Language Model Recommenders
Wei-Hsiang Huang, Chen-Wei Ke, Wei-Ning Chiu, Yu-Xuan Su, Chun-Chun Yang, Chieh-Yuan Cheng, Yun-Nung Chen, Pu-Jen Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23053

Augment or Not? A Comparative Study of Pure and Augmented Large Language Model Recommenders
Large language models (LLMs) have introduced new paradigms for recommender systems by enabling richer semantic understanding and incorporating implicit world knowledge. In this study, we propose a systematic taxonomy that classifies existing approaches into two categories: (1) Pure LLM Recommenders, which rely solely on LLMs, and (2) Augmented LLM Recommenders, which integrate additional non-LLM techniques to enhance performance. This taxonomy provides a novel lens through which to examine the …

A Large-Scale Real-World Evaluation of LLM-Based Virtual Teaching Assistant
Sunjun Kweon, Sooyohn Nam, Hyunseung Lim, Hwajung Hong, Edward Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17363

A Large-Scale Real-World Evaluation of LLM-Based Virtual Teaching Assistant
Virtual Teaching Assistants (VTAs) powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to enhance student learning by providing instant feedback and facilitating multi-turn interactions. However, empirical studies on their effectiveness and acceptance in real-world classrooms are limited, leaving their practical impact uncertain. In this study, we develop an LLM-based VTA and deploy it in an introductory AI programming course with 477 graduate students. To assess how student perceptions …

Baltimore mayor & council members introduce comprehensive yimby package. Has backing of city's main business & community action organizations:
● Legalize 2-, 3- & 4-unit houses in 1-family districts
● Abolish minimum off-street parking requirements
● Legalize single-staircase structures with more than 3 stories
I don't think I've seen all this in one package anywhere up to now.

Baltimore’s top YIMBYs want to erase zoning rules blocking more housing
A package of five bills will attempt to make it easier to build and redevelop Baltimore City properties.