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Neue Farbe für Wände: Nachhaltig durch Pilze und Algen?
Eine Tinte aus Pilzen und Algen soll Hauswände vor Schadstoffen schützen, CO₂ speichern und Risse reparieren. Das Projekt will Gebäude nachhaltiger machen.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Alexander:
🎵 Taste
#Alexander
https://alexanderparsons.bandcamp.com/track/adapted-to-english-taste

SMART: Simulated Students Aligned with Item Response Theory for Question Difficulty Prediction
Alexander Scarlatos, Nigel Fernandez, Christopher Ormerod, Susan Lottridge, Andrew Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05129

SMART: Simulated Students Aligned with Item Response Theory for Question Difficulty Prediction
Item (question) difficulties play a crucial role in educational assessments, enabling accurate and efficient assessment of student abilities and personalization to maximize learning outcomes. Traditionally, estimating item difficulties can be costly, requiring real students to respond to items, followed by fitting an item response theory (IRT) model to get item difficulty estimates. This approach cannot be applied to the cold-start setting for previously unseen items either. In this work, we pr…

So we did get a Conservative government, just not an overtly anti-immigrant, Nazi one.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #austerity
https://mstdn.ca/@AlisonCreekside/114813978567664309

An Aligned Sub-Neptune Revealed with MAROON-X and a Tendency Towards Alignment for Small Planets
Alex S. Polanski, Ian J. M. Crossfield, Andreas Seifahrt, Jacob L. Bean, Jonathan Brande, Karen A. Collins, David R. Coria, Akihiko Fukui, Norio Narita, Julian St\"urmer, Steven Giacalone, David Kasper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507…

An Aligned Sub-Neptune Revealed with MAROON-X and a Tendency Towards Alignment for Small Planets
We present the Rossiter-McLaughlin measurement of the sub-Neptune TOI-1759A b with MAROON-X. A joint analysis with MuSCAT3 photometry and nine additional TESS transits produces a sky-projected obliquity of $|λ|$= $4^\circ\pm18^{\circ}$. We also derive a true obliquity of $ψ$=24$\pm12^{\circ}$ making this planet consistent with full alignment albeit to $<1σ$. With a period of 18.85 days and an $a/R_{*}$ of 40, TOI-1759A b is the longest period single sub-Neptune to have a measured o…

Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models
Eunseop Yoon, Hee Suk Yoon, Mark A. Hasegawa-Johnson, Chang D. Yoo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04976

Can Video LLMs Refuse to Answer? Alignment for Answerability in Video Large Language Models
In the broader context of deep learning, Multimodal Large Language Models have achieved significant breakthroughs by leveraging powerful Large Language Models as a backbone to align different modalities into the language space. A prime exemplification is the development of Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs). While numerous advancements have been proposed to enhance the video understanding capabilities of these models, they are predominantly trained on questions generated directly from vid…

¿Por qué le llamamos "arañazo" a los "rasguños" si las arañas no arañan? 🤯
¿O alguien acaso ha visto alguna vez a una araña arañando?
¿Quién me lo puede explicar? 🤔

FuboTV agrees to pay $3.4M to settle a 2023 class action lawsuit alleging it violated US and California privacy laws over user data; Fubo denies the claims (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/fu…

Fubo May Owe You Money After Agreeing to Pay $3.4 Million to Settle Class Action Lawsuit Over Privacy Violations | Cord Cutters News
FuboTV Inc. and FuboTV Media Inc. have agreed to pay $3.4 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging the companies violated federal and California privacy laws, including the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), and California Civil Code § 1799.3. The lawsuit claims Fubo improperly collected, stored, used, […]

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Alison Goldfrapp:
🎵 Reverberotic
#AlisonGoldfrapp
https://open.spotify.com/track/047E83iJCGmU3Sq3kabk7G

CTA: Cross-Task Alignment for Better Test Time Training
Samuel Barbeau, Pedram Fekri, David Osowiechi, Ali Bahri, Moslem YazdanpanahMasih Aminbeidokhti, Christian Desrosiers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05221

CTA: Cross-Task Alignment for Better Test Time Training
Deep learning models have demonstrated exceptional performance across a wide range of computer vision tasks. However, their performance often degrades significantly when faced with distribution shifts, such as domain or dataset changes. Test-Time Training (TTT) has emerged as an effective method to enhance model robustness by incorporating an auxiliary unsupervised task during training and leveraging it for model updates at test time. In this work, we introduce CTA (Cross-Task Alignment), a nov…