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@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-11-17 10:21:40

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
TARRANT: Like capturing us.
HOWER: Do you feel ill, or upset in any way?
DAYNA: No. What was it, some kind of narcotic spray gun?
HOWER: Something like that. Quite harmless, I assure you.
TARRANT: I'm glad to hear it.
blake.torpidity.net/m/303/102

Claude Sonnet 4.0 describes the image as: "This scene appears to be from a science fiction television production, likely from the late 1970s or early 1980s based on the visual quality and costume design. The setting is an ornate, luxurious chamber with decorative spiral patterns on dark walls and ambient lighting creating an atmospheric mood. Two figures stand prominently in white ceremonial or military-style uniforms with gold accents and insignia, positioned authoritatively in the center of …
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2025-11-11 00:30:01

Moody Urbanity - Relations III 🧶
情绪化城市 - 关系 III 🧶
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ Shanghai GP3 400 Pan
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Shanghai GP3 400 PAN (FF) English Alt Text: A dramatic black-and-white photo taken from a low angle, looking up at a tall residential building. The structure features multiple balconies with metal railings, windows with air conditioning units, and ornate ironwork. The perspective emphasizes the building’s height and repetitive architectural patterns. The grainy texture adds a vintage, film-like feel, highlighting the imposing presence of the urban architecture. 中文替代文字： 这是一张黑白照片，从低角度仰拍一栋高层住宅楼。…
Shanghai GP3 400 PAN (FF) English Alt Text: A black-and-white photo of a city street. In the foreground, a metal bollard with a can of coke stands beside a striped traffic cone and a metal fence. The fence separates the sidewalk from the road, where cars and a motorcycle are passing. Residential buildings with balconies and trees line the background. Overhead, power lines stretch across the sky. The image has a grainy, vintage texture, evoking a quiet, everyday moment in an urban neighborhood.…
Shanghai GP3 400 PAN (FF) English Alt Text: A black-and-white street photo showing a cluttered scene of parked motor scooters and bicycles in front of a building. Some scooters have license plates, others are covered with protective sheets. The building behind has barred windows and a sign with Chinese characters above the entrance. The image captures the density and texture of urban life, with overlapping shapes and surfaces creating a documentary-style composition. 中文替代文字： 这是一张黑白街头照片，画面前景是密…
Shanghai GP3 400 PAN (FF) English Alt Text: A black-and-white photo of a worn building facade. Large rectangular windows dominate the structure, some open or partially ajar. Air conditioning units are mounted on the wall, with peeling paint and exposed plaster adding texture. A tree branch with leaves stretches across the top of the frame, partially obscuring the view. The image conveys a gritty, aged urban atmosphere. 中文替代文字： 这是一张黑白照片，展示了一栋外墙斑驳的建筑。建筑上有多个大矩形窗户，有些打开或半开。墙面上安装了空调机，油漆脱落，露出粗糙的灰泥层，…
@arXiv_csLO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-13 07:48:40

U-Turn: Enhancing Incorrectness Analysis by Reversing Direction
Flavio Ascari, Roberto Bruni, Roberta Gori, Azalea Raad
arxiv.org/abs/2510.09292

U-Turn: Enhancing Incorrectness Analysis by Reversing Direction
O'Hearn's Incorrectness Logic (IL) has sparked renewed interest in static analyses that aim to detect program errors rather than prove their absence, thereby avoiding false alarms -- a critical factor for practical adoption in industrial settings. As new incorrectness logics emerge to capture diverse error-related properties, a key question arises: can the combination of (in)correctness techniques enhance precision, expressiveness, automation, or scalability? Notable frameworks, such as outcome…

@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-13 10:38:30

Accent-Invariant Automatic Speech Recognition via Saliency-Driven Spectrogram Masking
Mohammad Hossein Sameti, Sepehr Harfi Moridani, Ali Zarean, Hossein Sameti
arxiv.org/abs/2510.09528

Accent-Invariant Automatic Speech Recognition via Saliency-Driven Spectrogram Masking
Pre-trained transformer-based models have significantly advanced automatic speech recognition (ASR), yet they remain sensitive to accent and dialectal variations, resulting in elevated word error rates (WER) in linguistically diverse languages such as English and Persian. To address this challenge, we propose an accent-invariant ASR framework that integrates accent and dialect classification into the recognition pipeline. Our approach involves training a spectrogram-based classifier to capture …

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-03 06:05:49

Stripe agrees to acquire Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers based on usage and has raised $128M in total funding (Scott Woody/Metronome)
metronome.com/blog/important-c

Important Company Update | Metronome blog
A new chapter for modern monetization and global payments. Metronome has signed a definitive agreement to join Stripe.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-06 13:06:00

Disney and Penn Entertainment agree to end ESPN Bet on December 1, after failing to capture significant market share; they signed a 10-year, $2B deal in 2023 (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@vosje62@mastodon.nl
2025-09-25 16:07:04

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians | Israel | The Guardian
theguardian.com/world/2025/sep

Equipped with Azure’s near-limitless storage capacity and computing power, Unit 8200 had built an indiscriminate new system allowing its intelligence officers to collect, play back and analyse the content of cellular calls of an entire population. The project was so expansive that, according to sources from Unit 8200 – which is equivalent in its remit to the US National Security Agency – a mantra emerged internally that captured its scale and ambition: “A million calls an hour.”
According to several sources, the enormous repository of intercepted calls – which amounted to as much as 8,000 terabytes of data – was held in a Microsoft datacentre in the Netherlands. Within days of the Guardian publishing the investigation, Unit 8200 appears to have swiftly moved the surveillance data out of the country. According to sources familiar with the huge data transfer outside of the EU country, it occurred in early August. Intelligence sources said Unit 8200 planned to transfer t…
@arXiv_nuclex_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-10 08:48:39

Spectrometry of Captured Highly Charged Ions Produced Following Antiproton Annihilations
F. P. Gustafsson, M. Volponi, J. Zielinski, A. Asare, I. Hwang, S. Alfaro Campos, M. Auzins, D. Bhanushali, A. Bhartia, M. Berghold, R. S. Brusa, K. Calik, A. Camper, R. Caravita, F. Castelli, G. Cerchiari, S. Chandran, A. Chehaimi, S. Choudapurkar, R. Ciury{\l}o, P. Conte, G. Consolati, M. Doser, R. Ferguson, M. Germann, A. Giszczak, L. T. Gl\"oggler, {\L}. Graczykowski, M. Grosbart, F. Guati…

Spectrometry of Captured Highly Charged Ions Produced Following Antiproton Annihilations
We report the first capture and time-of-flight spectrometry of highly charged ions produced following antiproton annihilations in a Penning-Malmberg trap. At the AEgIS experiment, we employed a multi-step nested-trap technique to isolate ions from antiproton annihilations with ultra-low-density helium and argon gas. The capture and identification of highly-charged argon ions in charge-states up to $Ar^{5+}$ demonstrates a new method for in-trap synthesis. This work establishes a clear path towa…

@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2025-11-30 17:16:12

"As explained in chapter 11 of Meyer’s book, assertions are meant to check the correctness of a piece of software; that is, its ability to perform the tasks defined in their specification.
Because, you do have a specification, right? Right?"
deprogrammaticaipsum.com/asser

Assertions
Colin Powell passed away during the preparation of this article. In one of the most memorable and abhorrent chapters of his career he gave a speech in the United Nations trying to justify the unjustifiable.

@arXiv_csCV_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-26 10:21:31

Evaluating the Evaluators: Metrics for Compositional Text-to-Image Generation
Seyed Amir Kasaei, Ali Aghayari, Arash Marioriyad, Niki Sepasian, MohammadAmin Fazli, Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah, Mohammad Hossein Rohban
arxiv.org/abs/2509.21227

Evaluating the Evaluators: Metrics for Compositional Text-to-Image Generation
Text-image generation has advanced rapidly, but assessing whether outputs truly capture the objects, attributes, and relations described in prompts remains a central challenge. Evaluation in this space relies heavily on automated metrics, yet these are often adopted by convention or popularity rather than validated against human judgment. Because evaluation and reported progress in the field depend directly on these metrics, it is critical to understand how well they reflect human preferences. …