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fleshlike owl

Saw this guy a few days ago. Just a few houses up 🦉
Then last night I hear this screech again from our upstairs bedroom window. So I use the Merlin app to identify it as a Great Horned Owl. Then I played the various sounds and learned that this is a juvenile doing a "begging call", which is a raspy screeching sound young owls use to solicit food from their parents.
Kids, man. They always need something.

John Fahey - "The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death" (1965)
#NowPlaying #JohnFahey #GuitarSoli

ChemLog: Making MSOL Viable for Ontological Classification and Learning
Simon Fl\"ugel, Martin Glauer, Till Mossakowski, Fabian Neuhaus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13987

ChemLog: Making MSOL Viable for Ontological Classification and Learning
Despite its prevalence, in many domains, OWL is not expressive enough to define ontology classes. In this paper, we present an approach that allows to use monadic second-order formalisations for ontology classification. As a case study, we have applied our approach to 14 peptide-related classes from the chemistry ontology ChEBI. For these classes, a monadic second-order logic formalisation has been developed and applied both to ChEBI as well as to 119 million molecules from the chemistry databa…

Disentangling concept semantics via multilingual averaging in Sparse Autoencoders
Cliff O'Reilly, Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Tillman Weyde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14275 https:…

Disentangling concept semantics via multilingual averaging in Sparse Autoencoders
Connecting LLMs with formal knowledge representation and reasoning is a promising approach to address their shortcomings. Embeddings and sparse autoencoders are widely used to represent textual content, but the semantics are entangled with syntactic and language-specific information. We propose a method that isolates concept semantics in Large Langue Models by averaging concept activations derived via Sparse Autoencoders. We create English text representations from OWL ontology classes, transla…

Ontolearn-A Framework for Large-scale OWL Class Expression Learning in Python
Caglar Demir, Alkid Baci, N'Dah Jean Kouagou, Leonie Nora Sieger, Stefan Heindorf, Simon Bin, Lukas Bl\"ubaum, Alexander Bigerl, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11561

Ontolearn-A Framework for Large-scale OWL Class Expression Learning in Python
In this paper, we present Ontolearn-a framework for learning OWL class expressions over large knowledge graphs. Ontolearn contains efficient implementations of recent stateof-the-art symbolic and neuro-symbolic class expression learners including EvoLearner and DRILL. A learned OWL class expression can be used to classify instances in the knowledge graph. Furthermore, Ontolearn integrates a verbalization module based on an LLM to translate complex OWL class expressions into natural language sen…

Heute #Klimastreik z.B. in #Osnabrück. #OWL schwächelt leider diesmal.
#FridaysForFuture heute am …

Quick! Get that Trump of Doom out of the mouth of that babe!!
Howland Owl shakes the hand of Albert Alligator and says, "Congratulations! Thou art in the hands of a good man. SAFE! Safe until the TRUMP OF DOOM soundeth." Albert replies, "Right coach. 'Til the TRUMP of DOOM." Meanwhile, in the background, a bear holding a trumpet up towards a child, says, "Watch--Even a child...Wanna try the bugle, son?" Churchy La Femme, a turtle, looks on with concern…

We're happy to see an official Muni sign at Church/Duboce replace our community-installed one after 3 years! They even reused our mounting hardware 🥺 Make your own sign at https://munisign.org

I think I've seen this photo before (it's from 2022) but I don't know that I've read the article or seen the photo right before the owl landed.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/great-grey-owl-lands-on-camera-1.6397792

Great grey owl flips the script on Quebec City wildlife photographer | CBC News
An amateur photographer got more than she bargained for when the owl she set out to photograph landed on her camera lens.

Sources: Meta is set to seal an almost $30B financing package for its Louisiana data center; Meta will retain 20% ownership in the Hyperion data center site (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-16/blue…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Siksika Ramblers:
🎵 Owl Dance
#SiksikaRamblers
https://canyonrecords.bandcamp.com/track/owl-dance-3-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/0JJcT33ylcnngm0PWyI2Vi

A cool thing about the Seattle Frontrunners group runs is that this barred owl (Strix varia) is not even the first owl I've seen this close on a run. (This one was along the ravine trail in Ravenna Park this morning.)
#naturalist #wildlife

Och, das "#Hugos" in #BadOeYnhausen macht zu? Ich durfte ja eh nicht rein, weil ich zu alt bin. Aber auch wir haben am Wahlinfostand massive Beschwerden über Randale vor dem Lokal, zerbrochenes Glas in der Fußgängerzone und völlig unregulierte Öffnungszeiten herangetragen bekommen.…

Bad Oeynhausen: „Hugos Bar“ muss schließen – nach nur einem Jahr
Wie es zu dem frühen Aus gekommen ist und was die Stadt damit zutun hat.

Finished "Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl" by Jonathan C. Slaght.
Slaght leads a scientific study to the remote and frozen Primoriye region of Eastern Russia to learn more about the Blakiston Fish Owl, the largest living species of owl. Slaght hoped that increased understanding would allow for habitat preservation and conservation to protect this amazing species. Utterly fascinating.
5/5 stars ⭐⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the W…
A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusiv…

Interesting way to represent uncertain or vague information into #knowledgegraphs (as e.g. easier integration of LLM/Deep Learning Results into KGs) via "Fuzzy OWL". Paper by Fernando Bobillo & Umberto Straccia: Fuzzy Ontology Representation using OWL 2

Fuzzy Ontology Representation using OWL 2
The need to deal with vague information in Semantic Web languages is rising in importance and, thus, calls for a standard way to represent such information. We may address this issue by either extending current Semantic Web languages to cope with vagueness, or by providing a procedure to represent such information within current standard languages and tools. In this work, we follow the latter approach, by identifying the syntactic differences that a fuzzy ontology language has to cope with, and…

Sources: Meta picks Pimco and Blue Owl to lead a $29B financing for its Louisiana data center expansion, providing $26B in debt and $3B in equity, respectively (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-08/met…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Dime:
🎵 Robo Owl
#Dime

#Upcoming Framed around the language of filmmaking, “Achlys” finds Jon Porras (aka Barn Owl) moving further into texture, erosion, and weight. Available via #ShelterPress, October 24th.

Twitter's back to actually letting you view profiles and their tweets without logging in...unless the profile doesn't have enough followers, in which case it pretends they never tweeted. very nortmal website.

Duolingo launches a five-episode anime series in collaboration with Titmouse, premiering October 13 on YouTube, as a marketing campaign (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/duolingo-anime-series-final-test-…

Why Duolingo Is Launching Its Own Anime Series 'The Final Test'
Duolingo has cast Duo, its lovable and plucky owl mascot, as the star of the company's first-ever anime series, '最後の決戦 (The Final Test).

Step 3. Draw the rest of the owl
https://chaos.social/@weirdunits/115070655681033544

today in "draw the rest of the fucking owl"

Full Moon Rising / Neil #Halstead
Palindrome Hunches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8brjvcOK2A

From Ethical Declarations to Provable Independence: An Ontology-Driven Optimal-Transport Framework for Certifiably Fair AI Systems
Sukriti Bhattacharya, Chitro Majumdar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08086

From Ethical Declarations to Provable Independence: An Ontology-Driven Optimal-Transport Framework for Certifiably Fair AI Systems
This paper presents a framework for provably fair AI that overcomes the limits of current bias mitigation methods by systematically removing all sensitive information and its proxies. Using ontology engineering in OWL 2 QL, it formally defines sensitive attributes and infers their proxies through logical reasoning, constructing a sigma algebra G that captures the full structure of biased patterns. Fair representations are then obtained via Delbaen Majumdar optimal transport, which generates var…

OWL: Geometry-Aware Spatial Reasoning for Audio Large Language Models
Subrata Biswas, Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan, Bashima Islam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26140 https://

OWL: Geometry-Aware Spatial Reasoning for Audio Large Language Models
Spatial reasoning is fundamental to auditory perception, yet current audio large language models (ALLMs) largely rely on unstructured binaural cues and single step inference. This limits both perceptual accuracy in direction and distance estimation and the capacity for interpretable reasoning. Recent work such as BAT demonstrates spatial QA with binaural audio, but its reliance on coarse categorical labels (left, right, up, down) and the absence of explicit geometric supervision constrain resol…

Putting Perspective into OWL [sic]: Complexity-Neutral Standpoint Reasoning for Ontology Languages via Monodic S5 over Counting Two-Variable First-Order Logic (Extended Version with Appendix)
Luc\'ia G\'omez \'Alvarez, Sebastian Rudolph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00653

Putting Perspective into OWL [sic]: Complexity-Neutral Standpoint Reasoning for Ontology Languages via Monodic S5 over Counting Two-Variable First-Order Logic (Extended Version with Appendix)
Standpoint extensions of knowledge representation formalisms have been recently introduced as a means to incorporate multi-perspective modelling and reasoning through modal operators that attribute pieces of knowledge to specific entities or agents. In these extensions, the integration between conceptual modelling and perspective annotations can vary in strength, with monodic standpoint extensions offering a well-balanced approach. They allow for advanced modelling features, such as the express…

#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Archaeologists found a 1,700-year-old chamber at the largest Mayan site in Belize,
still holding a rare mosaic death mask and jadeite jewelry, shells from the Pacific and elaborate designs on pottery and bone.
https://www.nytimes…

Maya Ruler’s Tomb Is Unearthed in Belize, With Clues to His Ancient World
A rare mosaic death mask made of jadeite and vessels in the shapes of an owl, a monkey and coatimundi were found with the ruler.

Dispute Resolution in Peer Review with Abstract Argumentation and OWL DL
Ildar Baimuratov, Elena Lisanyuk, Dmitry Prokudin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14258

Dispute Resolution in Peer Review with Abstract Argumentation and OWL DL
The peer review process for scientific publications faces significant challenges due to the increasing volume of submissions and inherent reviewer biases. While artificial intelligence offers the potential to facilitate the process, it also risks perpetuating biases present in training data. This research addresses these challenges by applying formal methods from argumentation theory to support transparent and unbiased dispute resolution in peer review. Specifically, we conceptualize scientific…

@Dirk_OWL@mastodon.social
Magst Du ein Bild senden?

LLM-Assisted Modeling of Semantic Web-Enabled Multi-Agents Systems with AJAN
Hacane Hechehouche, Andre Antakli, Matthias Klusch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06911 https://

LLM-Assisted Modeling of Semantic Web-Enabled Multi-Agents Systems with AJAN
There are many established semantic Web standards for implementing multi-agent driven applications. The AJAN framework allows to engineer multi-agent systems based on these standards. In particular, agent knowledge is represented in RDF/RDFS and OWL, while agent behavior models are defined with Behavior Trees and SPARQL to access and manipulate this knowledge. However, the appropriate definition of RDF/RDFS and SPARQL-based agent behaviors still remains a major hurdle not only for agent modeler…

Have to say Sharkey is beautiful :pika:
Here is my profile on Sharkey @…
#fediverse #Sharkey

Animer une base de connaissance: des ontologies aux mod{\`e}les d'I.A. g{\'e}n{\'e}rative
Peter Stockinger (ESCOM, PLIDAM, Inalco, CIS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01304

Animer une base de connaissance: des ontologies aux mod{è}les d'I.A. g{é}n{é}rative
In a context where the social sciences and humanities are experimenting with non-anthropocentric analytical frames, this article proposes a semiotic (structural) reading of the hybridization between symbolic AI and neural (or sub-symbolic) AI based on a field of application: the design and use of a knowledge base for area studies. We describe the LaCAS ecosystem -- Open Archives in Linguistic and Cultural Studies (thesaurus; RDF/OWL ontology; LOD services; harvesting; expertise; publication), d…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Stevie Nicks:
🎵 Stand Back
#StevieNicks
https://theowlrecords.bandcamp.com/track/stevie-nicks-stand-back-the-owl-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/6sleEAnBH0sZMe0pOQNidG

Mobile-Agent-v3: Foundamental Agents for GUI Automation
Jiabo Ye, Xi Zhang, Haiyang Xu, Haowei Liu, Junyang Wang, Zhaoqing Zhu, Ziwei Zheng, Feiyu Gao, Junjie Cao, Zhengxi Lu, Jitong Liao, Qi Zheng, Fei Huang, Jingren Zhou, Ming Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15144

Mobile-Agent-v3: Foundamental Agents for GUI Automation
This paper introduces GUI-Owl, a foundational GUI agent model that achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source end-to-end models on ten GUI benchmarks across desktop and mobile environments, covering grounding, question answering, planning, decision-making, and procedural knowledge. GUI-Owl-7B achieves 66.4 on AndroidWorld and 29.4 on OSWorld. Building on this, we propose Mobile-Agent-v3, a general-purpose GUI agent framework that further improves performance to 73.3 on AndroidWorld…

The Shape of $\mathcal{EL}$ Proofs: A Tale of Three Calculi (Extended Version)
Christian Alrabbaa, Stefan Borgwardt, Philipp Herrmann, Markus Kr\"otzsch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21851

The Shape of $\mathcal{EL}$ Proofs: A Tale of Three Calculi (Extended Version)
Consequence-based reasoning can be used to construct proofs that explain entailments of description logic (DL) ontologies. In the literature, one can find multiple consequence-based calculi for reasoning in the $\mathcal{EL}$ family of DLs, each of which gives rise to proofs of different shapes. Here, we study three such calculi and the proofs they produce on a benchmark based on the OWL Reasoner Evaluation. The calculi are implemented using a translation into existential rules with stratified …

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Kenojuak Ashevak, one of Canada’s most famous Inuk artists. She was born in 1927 at Camp Kerrasak on southern Baffin Island and died on January 8, 2013, in Cape Dorset, Nunavut. Known primarily for her drawings as a graphic artist, she had a diverse artistic experience, making sculpture and engraving and working with textiles and also on stained glass. She is celebrated as a leading figure of modern Inuit art and one of Canada's preeminent artists and cultural icons. She was the first Inuk artist inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame (2001), was made an Officer of the Order of Canada (1967), and promoted to Companion in 1982. She received the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (2008) and the Order of Nunavut (2012). Her work, with its superb design qualities, was used for Canadian stamps, coins and banknotes, including her best-known work, The Enchanted Owl
#CanadaIsAwesome #IndigenousArt
https://youtu.be/u4a2V_jQU98?si=s80cCelwfP8tR8nV

NIRS: An Ontology for Non-Invasive Respiratory Support in Acute Care
Md Fantacher Islam, Jarrod Mosier, Vignesh Subbian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19992 https://

NIRS: An Ontology for Non-Invasive Respiratory Support in Acute Care
Objective: Develop a Non Invasive Respiratory Support (NIRS) ontology to support knowledge representation in acute care settings. Materials and Methods: We developed the NIRS ontology using Web Ontology Language (OWL) semantics and Protege to organize clinical concepts and relationships. To enable rule-based clinical reasoning beyond hierarchical structures, we added Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) rules. We evaluated logical reasoning by adding 17 hypothetical patient clinical scenarios. W…

Robust Bioacoustic Detection via Richly Labelled Synthetic Soundscape Augmentation
Kaspar Soltero, Tadeu Siqueira, Stefanie Gutschmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16235

Robust Bioacoustic Detection via Richly Labelled Synthetic Soundscape Augmentation
Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) analysis is often hindered by the intensive manual effort needed to create labelled training data. This study introduces a synthetic data framework to generate large volumes of richly labelled training data from very limited source material, improving the robustness of bioacoustic detection models. Our framework synthesises realistic soundscapes by combining clean background noise with isolated target vocalisations (little owl), automatically generating dynamic…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow
The Owl:
🎵 Bad Bad Feelin'
#TheOwl
https://garygrainger.bandcamp.com/track/goin-down-the-road-feelin-bad-2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Leos Janšček & Thomas Adès:
🎵 On an overgrown path (The little owl has not flown away)
#LeosJanáček #ThomasAdès

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Thomas Vautor, Gesualdo Consort & Gerald Place:
🎵 Sweet Suffolk Owl
#ThomasVautor #GesualdoConsort #GeraldPlace

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow
The Owl:
🎵 Bad Bad Feelin'
#TheOwl
https://garygrainger.bandcamp.com/track/goin-down-the-road-feelin-bad-2