Tootfinder

I *loved* this game! And the others from the same developer. Masters of the Elements (1999) is one of the all-time great art games imho.
https://digipres.club/@misty/114496041511519164

Misty (@misty@digipres.club)
Attached: 1 image Fantastic adventures in the world of the internet!

Okay, hopefully Kojima San can convince you :) #TheEternaut #ElEternauta

I did something for #PrideMonth this year!
See more on the NG post: https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/jamestdg/ng-pride-2025

NG Pride 2025

On March 3, 1969 the United States Navy established an elite school for the top one percent of its pilots. Its purpose was to teach the lost art of aerial combat and to ensure that the handful of men who graduated were the best fighter pilots in the world.
They succeeded.
Today, the Navy calls it Fighter Weapon School.
The flyers call it: ...
Do you hear the theme song in your head, yet? 😆

Face the future
#StreetArt #face #photography

OH: "In art and writing a friend of mine coined the phrase “polishing dirt” for when an artist needs to stop because they are no longer improving the art on any meaningful or perceivable level."

WWAggr: A Window Wasserstein-based Aggregation for Ensemble Change Point Detection
Alexander Stepikin, Evgenia Romanenkova, Alexey Zaytsev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08066

WWAggr: A Window Wasserstein-based Aggregation for Ensemble Change Point Detection
Change Point Detection (CPD) aims to identify moments of abrupt distribution shifts in data streams. Real-world high-dimensional CPD remains challenging due to data pattern complexity and violation of common assumptions. Resorting to standalone deep neural networks, the current state-of-the-art detectors have yet to achieve perfect quality. Concurrently, ensembling provides more robust solutions, boosting the performance. In this paper, we investigate ensembles of deep change point detectors an…

WoMAP: World Models For Embodied Open-Vocabulary Object Localization
Tenny Yin, Zhiting Mei, Tao Sun, Lihan Zha, Emily Zhou, Jeremy Bao, Miyu Yamane, Ola Shorinwa, Anirudha Majumdar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01600

WoMAP: World Models For Embodied Open-Vocabulary Object Localization
Language-instructed active object localization is a critical challenge for robots, requiring efficient exploration of partially observable environments. However, state-of-the-art approaches either struggle to generalize beyond demonstration datasets (e.g., imitation learning methods) or fail to generate physically grounded actions (e.g., VLMs). To address these limitations, we introduce WoMAP (World Models for Active Perception): a recipe for training open-vocabulary object localization policie…

That utterly awful feeling of waiting for an email and getting nothing but spam. This has been me for days, and though there are far worse feelings in the world, I am heartily ready to be done with this one! At this point, I might even take bad news, though of course I hope otherwise.

I'm broke and summer's coming up, so now is a great time to remind you all, I am STILL available #forhire for #pixelart, #textmode,

Do-PFN: In-Context Learning for Causal Effect Estimation
Jake Robertson, Arik Reuter, Siyuan Guo, Noah Hollmann, Frank Hutter, Bernhard Sch\"olkopf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06039

Do-PFN: In-Context Learning for Causal Effect Estimation
Estimation of causal effects is critical to a range of scientific disciplines. Existing methods for this task either require interventional data, knowledge about the ground truth causal graph, or rely on assumptions such as unconfoundedness, restricting their applicability in real-world settings. In the domain of tabular machine learning, Prior-data fitted networks (PFNs) have achieved state-of-the-art predictive performance, having been pre-trained on synthetic data to solve tabular prediction…

New Video!
#youtube #art

"The destruction of the climate by industrial processes is a real-world problem. If programming language selection has no impact on it, then maybe we’re all just wasting our time, creating shiny consumer distractions to make the last few years of humanity that little more palatable for the richest 1% of the world’s human population."

Choosing A Programming Language
Selecting the correct programming language for a particular task often feels like a bunfight. Suggestions are thrown around based on the individual's preferences and desires. The experience is very likely to leave one feeling that programming is an art, rather than a science.

We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation

Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert on envisioning alternatives
https://thecreativeindependent.com/peo

Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert on envisioning alternatives – The Creative Independent
Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert discusses growing up in the Seattle arts scene, dealing with music industry hierarchy, and imagining the ideal conditions for creativity.

Mit den illegalen #Siedlungen im Westjordanland sollte genauso verfahren werden wie mit Schwarzbauten. Sie müssen abgerissen und der Status quo ante wiederhergestellt werden.
Die Art der rechtswidrigen Annexion von Land zum Zweck des Siedlungsbaus, die Menschenrechte verletzt, muss international geächtet werden.
Die israelische Regierung setzt sich über internationales Recht und universe…

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Enhancing the Robustness of LLM-Generated Code: Empirical Study and Framework
Ensuring the robustness of code generated by large language models (LLMs) is crucial for real-world reliability. However, existing evaluations predominantly focus on correctness, often neglecting key robustness concerns such as missing input validation and insufficient error handling. In this paper, we present the first empirical study on the robustness of LLM-generated code. We introduce novel robustness metrics and analyze four state-of-the-art code LLMs, revealing that, on average, 43.1% of …

That utterly awful feeling of waiting for an email and getting nothing but spam. This has been me for days, and though there are far worse feelings in the world, I am heartily ready to be done with this one! At this point, I might even take bad news, though of course I hope otherwise.

Another busy week!
🩰 Helped with tabulation at the Red Fern Feis (and yes, deciphering handwriting is an art).
🏈 NFL Draft brought surprises — and a Muskogee native signed with the Buffalo Bills!
🎶 And somehow, a Phil Collins cover songs post from years ago is trending again?
Read the full update here:

This week: Music, Football, and the Red Fern Fèis – Bob Mueller
What possible connection could there be between football, music, and a Fèis? And what the heck is a Feis, anyway?

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Community Aware Temporal Network Generation
The advantages of temporal networks in capturing complex dynamics, such as diffusion and contagion, has led to breakthroughs in real world systems across numerous fields. In the case of human behavior, face-to-face interaction networks enable us to understand the dynamics of how communities emerge and evolve in time through the interactions, which is crucial in fields like epidemics, sociological studies and urban science. However, state-of-the-art datasets suffer from a number of drawbacks, su…

Xueni Yang brings our attention to invisibility vs hypervisibility in Cao Fei's Haze and Fog art movie
#SecurityNarratives

Sonnet 001 - I
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And onl…

SEMNAV: A Semantic Segmentation-Driven Approach to Visual Semantic Navigation
Rafael Flor-Rodr\'iguez, Carlos Guti\'errez-\'Alvarez, Francisco Javier Acevedo-Rodr\'iguez, Sergio Lafuente-Arroyo, Roberto J. L\'opez-Sastre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01418

SEMNAV: A Semantic Segmentation-Driven Approach to Visual Semantic Navigation
Visual Semantic Navigation (VSN) is a fundamental problem in robotics, where an agent must navigate toward a target object in an unknown environment, mainly using visual information. Most state-of-the-art VSN models are trained in simulation environments, where rendered scenes of the real world are used, at best. These approaches typically rely on raw RGB data from the virtual scenes, which limits their ability to generalize to real-world environments due to domain adaptation issues. To tackle …

Singer-songwriter Nemahsis on the importance of being uncompromising
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/singer…

Singer-songwriter Nemahsis on the importance of being uncompromising – The Creative Independent
Singer-songwriter Nemahsis discusses breaking through despite hardships, freedom of expression, and the power of building a genuine community online

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CodeReviewQA: The Code Review Comprehension Assessment for Large Language Models
State-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive code generation capabilities but struggle with real-world software engineering tasks, such as revising source code to address code reviews, hindering their practical use. Code review comments are often implicit, ambiguous, and colloquial, requiring models to grasp both code and human intent. This challenge calls for evaluating large language models' ability to bridge both technical and conversational contexts. While exis…

Musician Demian Licht on learning to go with the flow
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-demian-licht-on-learning-to…

Musician Demian Licht on learning to go with the flow – The Creative Independent
Musician Demian Licht discusses the feminine energy she's inspired by, teaching Ableton as a woman in Latin America, and identifying as an outsider in the music scene.

THE WASTIVE: An Interactive Ebb and Flow of Digital Fabrication Waste
Yifan Shan, Bo Liu, Sebastian Bidegain, Thijs Roumen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21153

THE WASTIVE: An Interactive Ebb and Flow of Digital Fabrication Waste
What if digital fabrication waste could observe the world? What would they see? What would they say? "THE WASTIVE" reimagines digital fabrication waste as sentient observers, giving them a poetic voice through interactive art. As viewers approach, the installation awakens, mimicking the rhythmic ebb and flow of ocean waves - a silent dialogue where discarded materials "observe" and respond to human presence. These interactions echo the gentle murmurs of the sea, transforming technological resid…

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Collision- and Reachability-Aware Multi-Robot Control with Grounded LLM Planners
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in various robot control tasks. However, their deployment in real-world applications remains constrained. Even state-ofthe-art LLMs, such as GPT-o4mini, frequently produce invalid action plans that violate physical constraints, such as directing a robot to an unreachable location or causing collisions between robots. This issue primarily arises from a lack of awareness of these physical constraints during the reasoning process. T…

Sonnet 001 - I
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And onl…

The world is stressful—cruelty, dissenting opinions about said cruelty, taxes... Come sit at my table for a while. My bread basket is magic—it can provide whatever you need. Same goes for the teapot on the table, and the larder, if pastry won't do. I can't fix the world, but at least I can provide something of a refuge and a meal—and a listening ear if you wish to tell me of your woes while we sate our hunger!
#MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt #WSS366 #LesFicFri

The world is stressful—cruelty, dissenting opinions about said cruelty, taxes... Come sit at my table for a while. My bread basket is magic—it can provide whatever you need. Same goes for the teapot on the table, and the larder, if pastry won't do. I can't fix the world, but at least I can provide something of a refuge and a meal—and a listening ear if you wish to tell me of your woes while we sate our hunger!
#MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt #WSS366 #LesFicFri