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Open ASR Leaderboard: Towards Reproducible and Transparent Multilingual and Long-Form Speech Recognition Evaluation
Vaibhav Srivastav, Steven Zheng, Eric Bezzam, Eustache Le Bihan, Nithin Koluguri, Piotr \.Zelasko, Somshubra Majumdar, Adel Moumen, Sanchit Gandhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06961

Open ASR Leaderboard: Towards Reproducible and Transparent Multilingual and Long-Form Speech Recognition Evaluation
Despite rapid progress, ASR evaluation remains saturated with short-form English, and efficiency is rarely reported. We present the Open ASR Leaderboard, a fully reproducible benchmark and interactive leaderboard comparing 60+ open-source and proprietary systems across 11 datasets, including dedicated multilingual and long-form tracks. We standardize text normalization and report both word error rate (WER) and inverse real-time factor (RTFx), enabling fair accuracy-efficiency comparisons. For E…

"This Home Siding Made from Rice Husks Saves Thousands of Trees and Diverts Crop Waste from Landfills"
#Houses
https://www.goodnewsne…

This Home Siding Made from Rice Husks Saves Thousands of Trees, Diverts Ag Waste from Landfills
One pallet of ACRE material saves a whole acre of tropical rainforest hardwoods, and in 2022 alone, 44,000 of those pallets were sold.

“At what point are folks going to try literally any other tactic than condescending rants? Does it matter that LLM apps are at the top of virtually every app store nearly every day because individual people are choosing to download them[…]?”
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/7/anil-dash/

Latest results from the searches for ultra-high-energy photons at the Pierre Auger Observatory
Pierpaolo Savina (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05113

Latest results from the searches for ultra-high-energy photons at the Pierre Auger Observatory
The Pierre Auger Observatory is the largest air-shower detector in the world, offering unparalleled exposure to photons with energies above $5 \times 10^{16}$ eV. Since the start of data collection almost two decades ago, numerous searches for photons have been conducted using the detection systems of the Observatory. These searches have led to the most stringent upper limits on the diffuse photon flux. These limits place severe constraints on current models regarding the origin of ultra-high-e…

Results and plans to apply interferometry to air shower observations at the Pierre Auger Observatory
Pim van Dillen (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04975

Results and plans to apply interferometry to air shower observations at the Pierre Auger Observatory
By analysing the radio emissions from air showers using interferometry, we can estimate their properties. In this contribution, we apply interferometry to reconstruct air-shower parameters based on measurements taken with the Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) at the Pierre Auger Observatory. This reconstruction method is achievable at AERA through precise clock synchronisation with a beacon and an accurate survey of the station locations. Interferometry has been applied to several thousand i…

from my link log —
My ideal array language.
https://www.ashermancinelli.com/csblog/2025-7-20-Ideal-Array-Language.html
saved 2025-08-05

Eagles acquire CB Jakorian Bennett from Raiders in exchange for DT Thomas Booker https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-acquire-cb-jakorian-bennett-from-raiders-in-exchange-for-dt-thomas-booker

Why yes, I do like stories about big game hunters being taken out by the animals they're hunting https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/world/africa/big-game-hunter-killed-buffalo-safari-south-africa.html

Big-Game Hunter Is Killed by Buffalo During Safari
Asher Watkins, a real estate executive from Texas, was tracking a Cape buffalo in South Africa when he was attacked, a safari company said.

From Poisoned to Aware: Fostering Backdoor Self-Awareness in LLMs
Guangyu Shen, Siyuan Cheng, Xiangzhe Xu, Yuan Zhou, Hanxi Guo, Zhuo Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05169

From Poisoned to Aware: Fostering Backdoor Self-Awareness in LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) can acquire deceptive behaviors through backdoor attacks, where the model executes prohibited actions whenever secret triggers appear in the input. Existing safety training methods largely fail to address this vulnerability, due to the inherent difficulty of uncovering hidden triggers implanted in the model. Motivated by recent findings on LLMs' situational awareness, we propose a novel post-training framework that cultivates self-awareness of backdoor risks and ena…

Cloud Detection using Night Sky Background Light at the Pierre Auger Observatory
Fedor Tairli, for the Pierre Auger Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06343 https://

Cloud Detection using Night Sky Background Light at the Pierre Auger Observatory
Rejection of cloud-contaminated data is a complex and important process at the Pierre Auger Observatory, one which combines information from several sources, including IR cameras, lidars, and satellite imaging. With the deteriorating quality of the IR cameras and challenges in using other sources, we propose a new method. We use continuous detector monitoring measurements to build a large database of night sky background fluxes for each pixel across 27 telescopes. Using this database, we genera…