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SFMTA board is hearing Mayor Lurie’s mass displacement plan to banish working-poor, mostly Latino families living in RVs from the city.
Here’s the “refuge permit” designed as window dressing to make liberals feel ok about this. Notice to get one, you have to “agree to accept offer of… interim… housing,” ie agree to be displaced a little later anyway. 💩
#sfpol

Cowboys predicted to acquire Breece Hall in blockbuster trade with Jets https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/new-york-jets/news/cowboys-predicted-acquire-breece-hall-blockbuster-trade-jets/367336…

BuzzFeed brackets are 100% accurate and do not lie. And only 5% agree with me? Go home 😂

Ravens, cornerback Jaire Alexander agree to deal https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6427434/2025/06/18/jaire-alexander-signs-ravens/

Sources: Microsoft is prepared to walk away from high-stakes talks with OpenAI if they cannot agree on critical issues, such as the size of Microsoft's stake (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/072e90fe-1c8c-415c-8024-5996b1ebb3cb

Microsoft prepared to walk away from high-stakes OpenAI talks
ChatGPT maker’s plans to convert into a for-profit leads software giant to make contingency plans

Adapting Whisper for Streaming Speech Recognition via Two-Pass Decoding
Haoran Zhou, Xingchen Song, Brendan Fahy, Qiaochu Song, Binbin Zhang, Zhendong Peng, Anshul Wadhawan, Denglin Jiang, Apurv Verma, Vinay Ramesh, Srivas Prasad, Michele M. Franceschini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12154 …

Adapting Whisper for Streaming Speech Recognition via Two-Pass Decoding
OpenAI Whisper is a family of robust Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models trained on 680,000 hours of audio. However, its encoder-decoder architecture, trained with a sequence-to-sequence objective, lacks native support for streaming ASR. In this paper, we fine-tune Whisper for streaming ASR using the WeNet toolkit by adopting a Unified Two-pass (U2) structure. We introduce an additional Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) decoder trained with causal attention masks to generate str…

CMT-LLM: Contextual Multi-Talker ASR Utilizing Large Language Models
Jiajun He, Naoki Sawada, Koichi Miyazaki, Tomoki Toda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12059

CMT-LLM: Contextual Multi-Talker ASR Utilizing Large Language Models
In real-world applications, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems must handle overlapping speech from multiple speakers and recognize rare words like technical terms. Traditional methods address multi-talker ASR and contextual biasing separately, limiting performance in complex scenarios. We propose a unified framework that combines multi-talker overlapping speech recognition and contextual biasing into a single task. Our ASR method integrates pretrained speech encoders and large language …

A Far-Infrared Search for Planet Nine Using AKARI All-Sky Survey
Amos Y. -A. Chen, Tomotsugu Goto, Issei Yamamura, Takao Nakagawa, Cossas K. -W. Wu, Terry Long Phan, Tetsuya Hashimoto, Yuri Uno, Simon C. -C. Ho, Seong Jin Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12854

A Far-Infrared Search for Planet Nine Using AKARI All-Sky Survey
An unusual orbital element clustering of Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) has been observed. The most promising dynamic solution is the presence of a giant planet in the outer Solar system, Planet Nine. However, due to its extreme distance, intensive searches in optical have not been successful. We aim to find Planet Nine in the far-infrared, where it has the peak of the black body radiation, using the most sensitive all-sky far-infrared survey to date, AKARI. In contrast to optical searches, where t…

Kid1's uninterested in Akira. "Why would I wanna read old-man manga?"

NFL news roundup: Steelers, S DeShon Elliott agree to 2-yr, $12.5 million extension https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-monday-june-16