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Evaluating LLMs for Historical Document OCR: A Methodological Framework for Digital Humanities
Maria Levchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06743 https://arx…

Evaluating LLMs for Historical Document OCR: A Methodological Framework for Digital Humanities
Digital humanities scholars increasingly use Large Language Models for historical document digitization, yet lack appropriate evaluation frameworks for LLM-based OCR. Traditional metrics fail to capture temporal biases and period-specific errors crucial for historical corpus creation. We present an evaluation methodology for LLM-based historical OCR, addressing contamination risks and systematic biases in diplomatic transcription. Using 18th-century Russian Civil font texts, we introduce novel …

Octo's Heartland: Supporting Children with Congenital Heart Disease through Digital Health Education
Irene Zeng, Neda Barbazi, Ji Youn Shin, Gurumurthy Hiremath, Carlye Anne Lauff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02537

Octo's Heartland: Supporting Children with Congenital Heart Disease through Digital Health Education
Children with congenital heart disease (CHD) often face challenges that require them to understand complex medical information from an early age in order to support lifelong care and improve health outcomes. However, prior research has rarely included young children in designing and evaluating digital tools to support health education using developmentally appropriate strategies. This study is part of a multi-phase research involving participatory design (PD), user testing, and iterative develo…

There is only one appropriate response to these threats from Trump: fuck off. (Or, some more diplomatically worded version of the same.)
Unfortunately, I doubt European leaders have to backbone to defend EU / EEA sovereignty. https://mastodon.social/@LukaszOlejnik/115093…

Validating Terrain Models in Digital Twins for Trustworthy sUAS Operations
Arturo Miguel Russell Bernal, Maureen Petterson, Pedro Antonio Alarcon Granadeno, Michael Murphy, James Mason, Jane Cleland-Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16104

Validating Terrain Models in Digital Twins for Trustworthy sUAS Operations
With the increasing deployment of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) in unfamiliar and complex environments, Environmental Digital Twins (EDT) that comprise weather, airspace, and terrain data are critical for safe flight planning and for maintaining appropriate altitudes during search and surveillance operations. With the expansion of sUAS capabilities through edge and cloud computing, accurate EDT are also vital for advanced sUAS capabilities, like geolocation. However, real-world sUAS de…