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I agree entirely with Rich.
BUT: there is a sound basis for not implementing mail functionality in systems that do not absolutely demand it. https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/114688068144011594

I think that events are showing us that we can anticipate that the only way FFOTUS will ever leave the White House is on a gurney. (Or, as his acolytes like to think, he ascends.)
The D-party is doing its best to self-destruct and assure that it does not win seats in the 2026 mid terms. And I seriously doubt that we will have a true election in 2028.

Começa o verão, desata tudo a lançar música.
Agora (i.e., hš dois dias) foi a Iolanda.
https://youtu.be/ewgzYKEUDMY
Um pop assim meio enkizombado, ou talvez reggaetonado. Não é mau, mas parece-me um bocado banal.
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#PSA: As someone who types the word SpamAssassin on a regular basis, assure you that yes, it is ‘ass ass in’ and ‘ass ass I nation"
Despite what the trending hashtags say.

PMF-CEC: Phoneme-augmented Multimodal Fusion for Context-aware ASR Error Correction with Error-specific Selective Decoding
Jiajun He, Tomoki Toda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11064 …

PMF-CEC: Phoneme-augmented Multimodal Fusion for Context-aware ASR Error Correction with Error-specific Selective Decoding
End-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models often struggle to accurately recognize rare words. Previously, we introduced an ASR postprocessing method called error detection and context-aware error correction (ED-CEC), which leverages contextual information such as named entities and technical terms to improve the accuracy of ASR transcripts. Although ED-CEC achieves a notable success in correcting rare words, its accuracy remains low when dealing with rare words that have similar pronu…

#urbanism talk today:
It was a bit stupid for the government (defending the court case) to agree with the prosecution that it w…

Robotic System for Chemical Experiment Automation with Dual Demonstration of End-effector and Jig Operations
Hikaru Sasaki, Naoto Komeno, Takumi Hachimine, Kei Takahashi, Yu-ya Ohnishi, Tetsunori Sugawara, Araki Wakiuchi, Miho Hatanaka, Tomoyuki Miyao, Hiroharu Ajiro, Mikiya Fujii, Takamitsu Matsubara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.…

Robotic System for Chemical Experiment Automation with Dual Demonstration of End-effector and Jig Operations
While robotic automation has demonstrated remarkable performance, such as executing hundreds of experiments continuously over several days, it is challenging to design a program that synchronizes the robot's movements with the experimental jigs to conduct an experiment. We propose a concept that enables the automation of experiments by utilizing dual demonstrations of robot motions and jig operations by chemists in an experimental environment constructed to be controlled by a robot. To verify t…

Azure cost reduction/optimization for hosted applications using Artificial Intelligence. And it's REPEATABLE. Interested? Read on...
✅ Daniel Meppiel's Project Post
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielmeppiel_enterpriseai-ai-…

💥 What if AI could shrink your cloud bill by 80% in the time it takes to drink your coffee? | Daniel Meppiel
💥 What if AI could shrink your cloud bill by 80% in the time it takes to drink your coffee? 💥 I recently got it to happen—firsthand. What started as a quick experiment turned into something game-changing. Using VSCode's reusable prompts and the Azure MCP server, GitHub Copilot identified key optimizations for my app's infra in a predictable manner. Then, the Coding Agent implemented them. 📉 The result? An 80% smaller cloud bill. Just like that. In this 2-minute demo (linked below …

I don’t agree in one respect:
Neither OOP nor FP (nor 4GLs nor IDEs nor SOAs nor any of the other new hotnesses past) had anything remotely resembling the current money behind them. None led to companies speculatively laying off tens of thousands of employees for imagined productivity boosts that had not actually arrived yet. None shaped whole election cycles, or led to national proposals for preemptive deregulation. None led to the construction of nuclear power plants or the draining of rivers. None sent oligarchs or fascists into spasmodic wet dreams of world domination. None started quasi-religious cults like EA.
All •that• is the part that feels like blockchain — but even worse, if such a thing is possible.
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Better Pseudo-labeling with Multi-ASR Fusion and Error Correction by SpeechLLM
Jeena Prakash, Blessingh Kumar, Kadri Hacioglu, Bidisha Sharma, Sindhuja Gopalan, Malolan Chetlur, Shankar Venkatesan, Andreas Stolcke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11089

Better Pseudo-labeling with Multi-ASR Fusion and Error Correction by SpeechLLM
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) models rely on high-quality transcribed data for effective training. Generating pseudo-labels for large unlabeled audio datasets often relies on complex pipelines that combine multiple ASR outputs through multi-stage processing, leading to error propagation, information loss and disjoint optimization. We propose a unified multi-ASR prompt-driven framework using postprocessing by either textual or speech-based large language models (LLMs), replacing voting or o…