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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

Steelers, T.J. Watt agree to terms on record three-year, $123 million extension https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-t-j-watt-agree-to-terms-on-record-three-year-123-million-extension

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…

WhisperKit: On-device Real-time ASR with Billion-Scale Transformers
Atila Orhon, Arda Okan, Berkin Durmus, Zach Nagengast, Eduardo Pacheco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10860

WhisperKit: On-device Real-time ASR with Billion-Scale Transformers
Real-time Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is a fundamental building block for many commercial applications of ML, including live captioning, dictation, meeting transcriptions, and medical scribes. Accuracy and latency are the most important factors when companies select a system to deploy. We present WhisperKit, an optimized on-device inference system for real-time ASR that significantly outperforms leading cloud-based systems. We benchmark against server-side systems that deploy a diverse s…

Raiders agree to terms with rookie 2nd-round pick before camp begins https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-agree-to-terms-with-rookie-2nd-round-pick-before-camp-begins-3397822/

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

Wer nimmt sich eigentlich noch des Genitivs an? #AusGründen

Improving Contextual ASR via Multi-grained Fusion with Large Language Models
Shilin Zhou, Zhenghua Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12252 https://

Improving Contextual ASR via Multi-grained Fusion with Large Language Models
While end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models have shown impressive performance in transcribing general speech, they often struggle to accurately recognize contextually relevant keywords, such as proper nouns or user-specific entities. Previous approaches have explored leveraging keyword dictionaries in the textual modality to improve keyword recognition, either through token-level fusion that guides token-by-token generation or phrase-level fusion that enables direct copying of …

Sources: Steelers make Watt highest-paid non-QB https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45764664/steelers-tj-watt-agree-3-year-123m-extension

Steelers, T.J. Watt agree to contract extension that makes him highest-paid non QB in NFL history, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steeler…