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SpikingBrain Technical Report: Spiking Brain-inspired Large Models
Yuqi Pan, Yupeng Feng, Jinghao Zhuang, Siyu Ding, Zehao Liu, Bohan Sun, Yuhong Chou, Han Xu, Xuerui Qiu, Anlin Deng, Anjie Hu, Peng Zhou, Man Yao, Jibin Wu, Jian Yang, Guoliang Sun, Bo Xu, Guoqi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05276

SpikingBrain Technical Report: Spiking Brain-inspired Large Models
Mainstream Transformer-based large language models face major efficiency bottlenecks: training computation scales quadratically with sequence length, and inference memory grows linearly, limiting long-context processing. Building large models on non-NVIDIA platforms also poses challenges for stable and efficient training. To address this, we introduce SpikingBrain, a family of brain-inspired models designed for efficient long-context training and inference. SpikingBrain leverages the MetaX GPU …

California Central Coast elected officials, nonprofit organizers, and immigrant rights advocates are preparing for an incoming increase in immigration enforcement
following recent developments at the federal level, including the U.S. Supreme Court decision to lift restrictions in the region,
and billions of dollars that will soon be available to fund more detention centers, officers, and ICE enforcement operations.
On Monday, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administrati…

Central Coast Leaders Prepare for Surge in Federal Immigration Response
Elected officials and organizers are speaking out against the incoming increase in enforcement and ICE funding.

Love this idea
https://www.threads.com/@gmbutts/post/DPHAit1kaAI

Gerald Butts (@gmbutts) on Threads
Best advice I’ve heard this year: every day, pick a friend you haven’t spoken to in a while and give them a call.

“The impact of the reforms — and 3rd Assault’s attitude toward the importance of training — is already being felt on the battlefield…”
https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/inside-ukraines-plan-to-build-self-sufficient-defense-force/

Inside Ukraine’s Plan To Build a Self-Sufficient Defense Force
With Western security guarantees uncertain, Kyiv is turning to elite, battle-hardened units as the core of a remodeled military

DepthGait: Multi-Scale Cross-Level Feature Fusion of RGB-Derived Depth and Silhouette Sequences for Robust Gait Recognition
Xinzhu Li, Juepeng Zheng, Yikun Chen, Xudong Mao, Guanghui Yue, Wei Zhou, Chenlei Lv, Ruomei Wang, Fan Zhou, Baoquan Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03397

DepthGait: Multi-Scale Cross-Level Feature Fusion of RGB-Derived Depth and Silhouette Sequences for Robust Gait Recognition
Robust gait recognition requires highly discriminative representations, which are closely tied to input modalities. While binary silhouettes and skeletons have dominated recent literature, these 2D representations fall short of capturing sufficient cues that can be exploited to handle viewpoint variations, and capture finer and meaningful details of gait. In this paper, we introduce a novel framework, termed DepthGait, that incorporates RGB-derived depth maps and silhouettes for enhanced gait r…

Word2Spike: Poisson Rate Coding for Associative Memories and Neuromorphic Algorithms
Archit Kalra, Midhun Sadanand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07361 https://

Word2Spike: Poisson Rate Coding for Associative Memories and Neuromorphic Algorithms
Spiking neural networks offer a promising path toward energy-efficient, brain-like associative memory. This paper introduces Word2Spike, a novel rate coding mechanism that combines continuous word embeddings and neuromorphic architectures. We develop a one-to-one mapping that converts multi-dimensional word vectors into spike-based attractor states using Poisson processes. Using BitNet b1.58 quantization, we maintain 97% semantic similarity of continuous embeddings on SimLex-999 while achieving…

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From Sufficiency to Reflection: Reinforcement-Guided Thinking Quality in Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for LLMs
Jie He, Victor Gutierrez Basulto, Jeff Z. Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22716

From Sufficiency to Reflection: Reinforcement-Guided Thinking Quality in Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for LLMs
Reinforcement learning-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods enhance the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). However, most rely only on final-answer rewards, overlooking intermediate reasoning quality. This paper analyzes existing RAG reasoning models and identifies three main failure patterns: (1) information insufficiency, meaning the model fails to retrieve adequate support; (2) faulty reasoning, where logical or content-level flaws appear despite sufficient inf…

Spectral and ergodic properties of the operator $B(r,s)$ over power series spaces $\Lambda_\infty(\alpha)$ of infinite type and their duals
Angela A. Albanese, Claudio Mele
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05315

Spectral and ergodic properties of the operator $B(r,s)$ over power series spaces $Λ_\infty(α)$ of infinite type and their duals
In this paper, we investigate the spectral and ergodic properties of the linear operator $B(r,s)$ acting on power series spaces $Λ_\infty(α)$ of infinite type and on their strong duals. Precisely, we provide a complete characterization of its fine spectrum and establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the operator to be power bounded and (uniformly) mean ergodic.

@40zetrel@mastodon.social it is not a crime to be in the United States without documentation; it is a civil violation.
Thank you in advance for checking your facts before speaking (or voting) in any place at any time with bad info in the future.
Please consider it your patriotic duty!
I’m sure you wouldn’t want to damage the United States by spreading bad info, again.
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Albany mayor: being undocumented in the U.S. is not a crime
Albany Mayor Kathy M. Sheehan said in a national television interview that it’s not a crime for immigrants to live in th