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Best Practices for Machine Learning-Assisted Protein Engineering
Fabio Herrera-Rocha, David Medina-Ortiz, Fabian Mauz, Juergen Pleiss, Mehdi D. Davari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07547

Best Practices for Machine Learning-Assisted Protein Engineering
Data-driven modeling based on Machine Learning (ML) is becoming a central component of protein engineering workflows. This perspective presents the elements necessary to develop effective, reliable, and reproducible ML models, and a set of guidelines for ML developments for protein engineering. This includes a critical discussion of software engineering good practices for development and evaluation of ML-based protein engineering projects, emphasizing supervised learning. These guidelines cover…

Best practices are contextual.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/best-practices

When Prompt Engineering Meets Software Engineering: CNL-P as Natural and Robust "APIs'' for Human-AI Interaction
Zhenchang Xing, Yang Liu, Zhuo Cheng, Qing Huang, Dehai Zhao, Daniel Sun, Chenhua Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06942

When Prompt Engineering Meets Software Engineering: CNL-P as Natural and Robust "APIs'' for Human-AI Interaction
With the growing capabilities of large language models (LLMs), they are increasingly applied in areas like intelligent customer service, code generation, and knowledge management. Natural language (NL) prompts act as the ``APIs'' for human-LLM interaction. To improve prompt quality, best practices for prompt engineering (PE) have been developed, including writing guidelines and templates. Building on this, we propose Controlled NL for Prompt (CNL-P), which not only incorporates PE best practice…

Automated Visualization Makeovers with LLMs
Siddharth Gangwar, David A. Selby, Sebastian J. Vollmer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05637 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Automated Visualization Makeovers with LLMs
Making a good graphic that accurately and efficiently conveys the desired message to the audience is both an art and a science, typically not taught in the data science curriculum. Visualisation makeovers are exercises where the community exchange feedback to improve charts and data visualizations. Can multi-modal large language models (LLMs) emulate this task? Given a plot in the form of an image file, or the code used to generate it, an LLM, primed with a list of visualization best practices,…

Generative AI as a Safety Net for Survey Question Refinement
Erica Ann Metheney, Lauren Yehle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08702 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0…

Generative AI as a Safety Net for Survey Question Refinement
Writing survey questions that easily and accurately convey their intent to a variety of respondents is a demanding and high-stakes task. Despite the extensive literature on best practices, the number of considerations to keep in mind is vast and even small errors can render collected data unusable for its intended purpose. The process of drafting initial questions, checking for known sources of error, and developing solutions to those problems requires considerable time, expertise, and financia…

»Crate Layout Best Practices: lib.rs, mod.rs, and src/bin«
Slowly, slowly, I'm learning what Rust uses for what in its coding.
🦀 https://dev.to/sgchris/crate-layout-best-practices-librs-modrs-and-srcbin-4abd

Crate Layout Best Practices: lib.rs, mod.rs, and src/bin
Crate Layout Best Practices: lib.rs, mod.rs, and src/bin Rust has rapidly become one of...

Issue Tracking Ecosystems: Context and Best Practices
Lloyd Montgomery
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06704 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06…

Issue Tracking Ecosystems: Context and Best Practices
Issue Tracking Systems (ITSs), such as GitHub and Jira, are popular tools that support Software Engineering (SE) organisations through the management of ``issues'', which represent different SE artefacts such as requirements, development tasks, and maintenance items. ITSs also support internal linking between issues, and external linking to other tools and information sources. This provides SE organisations key forms of documentation, including forwards and backwards traceability (e.g., Feature…

Aligning LLMs for the Classroom with Knowledge-Based Retrieval -- A Comparative RAG Study
Amay Jain, Liu Cui, Si Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07846 https://

Aligning LLMs for the Classroom with Knowledge-Based Retrieval -- A Comparative RAG Study
Large language models like ChatGPT are increasingly used in classrooms, but they often provide outdated or fabricated information that can mislead students. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) improves reliability of LLMs by grounding responses in external resources. We investigate two accessible RAG paradigms, vector-based retrieval and graph-based retrieval to identify best practices for classroom question answering (QA). Existing comparative studies fail to account for pedagogical factors s…

Enhancing Quantum Software Development Process with Experiment Tracking
Mahee Gamage, Otso Kinanen, Jake Muff, Vlad Stirbu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06990

Enhancing Quantum Software Development Process with Experiment Tracking
As quantum computing advances from theoretical promise to experimental reality, the need for rigorous experiment tracking becomes critical. Drawing inspiration from best practices in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), we argue that reproducibility, scalability, and collaboration in quantum research can benefit significantly from structured tracking workflows. This paper explores the application of MLflow in quantum research, illustrating how it enables better development pr…

Alt text - Why It's Important
- please use #AltText -
https://publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/alt-text

Alt text - Why It's Important - Debbie Ridpath Ohi - Obsidian Publish
This page helps explain why it's important to use alt text when posting images on Bluesky, best practices, and tips. Cover-WhyUseAltText-v2-flat-800.jpg INDEX Here are just some of the ways alt-text …

Best practices for nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulations
Antonio Prlj, Jack T. Taylor, Ji\v{r}\'i Jano\v{s}, Petr Slav\'i\v{c}ek, Federica Agostini, Basile F. E. Curchod
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05263

Best practices for nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulations
Nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulations aim to describe the coupled electron-nuclear dynamics of molecules in excited electronic states. These simulations have been applied to understand a plethora of photochemical and photophysical processes, and, as a result, the number of nonadiabatic dynamics simulations has been growing significantly over the past decade. Yet, the field remains in its infancy, and a potential user may find it difficult to approach this type of simulation, given their c…

Fraudulent Publishing in the Mathematical Sciences
Ilka Agricola, Lynn Heller, Wil Schilders, Moritz Schubotz, Peter Taylor, Luis Vega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07257 https://

Fraudulent Publishing in the Mathematical Sciences
This report is the first of two publications of a joint Working Group of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) and the International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM). In it, we shall analyze the current state of publishing in the mathematical sciences and explain the resulting problems. Our second publication will offer concrete recommendations, guidelines, and best practices for researchers, policymakers, and evaluators of mathematical research. It will explain how to…

GCVE-BCP-04 - Recommendations and Best Practices for ID Allocation version 1.1 published.
BCP Document https://gcve.eu/bcp/gcve-bcp-04/
PDF https://

TFW you build a site with @… and web platform standards (== semantic HTML, modern CSS, a little bit of JavaScript, and a dash of ARIA) and you look at Lighthouse for the first time …
Looks like industry best practices actually work. (Sorry for using my platform to ruin anyone’s day. 🥰) 🍋

At Berlin Buzzwords 2025, Kevin Liang discussed how Apache Solr/Lucene builds dense vector indexes and talked about how he and his team optimised their dense vector setup, sharing the challenges they faced and the best practices they learned along the way.
Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/cDiCX3mVAlQ?si=YWMkpEVpA-lWrH04
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What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger: Do tougher practices equal tougher Cowboys? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/01/tough-love-dallas-cowboys-brian-schottenheimer/85467254007/

Long; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
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Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
"""
All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.

Dredging up recollections of my experience as R6RS editor for my PLSS talk tomorrow.
https://2025.ecoop.org/details/plss-2025-papers/8/Do-Programming-Languages-Fulfill-Requirements-Should-They-

SHERPA: A Model-Driven Framework for Large Language Model Execution
Boqi Chen, Kua Chen, Jos\'e Antonio Hern\'andez L\'opez, Gunter Mussbacher, D\'aniel Varr\'o, Amir Feizpour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00272

SHERPA: A Model-Driven Framework for Large Language Model Execution
Recently, large language models (LLMs) have achieved widespread application across various fields. Despite their impressive capabilities, LLMs suffer from a lack of structured reasoning ability, particularly for complex tasks requiring domain-specific best practices, which are often unavailable in the training data. Although multi-step prompting methods incorporating human best practices, such as chain-of-thought and tree-of-thought, have gained popularity, they lack a general mechanism to cont…

Im Rahmen der Vorbereitung auf ein Vorstellungsgespräch habe ich mich in ein sog. Framework aus Best Practices für die IT-Branche eingearbeitet und dabei Verblüffendes festgestellt:
Im Grunde sind dies Dinge des gesunden Menschenverstands, die jemand mal zusammengestellt hat. Bzw. Dinge, die eine aufmerksame Mitarbeiterin, die seit ein paar Jahre im Arbeitsleben steht (egal wo), kennen sollte. 1/2

So #Gentoo #Python eclasses are pretty modern, in the sense that they tend to follow the best practices and standards, and eventually deal with deprecations. Nevertheless, they have a long history and carry quite some historical burden, particularly regarding to naming.
The key point is that the eclasses were conceived as a replacement for the old eclasses: "distutils" and "python". Hence, much like we revision ebuilds, I've named the matching eclasses "distutils-r1" and "python-r1". For consistency, I've also used the "-r1" suffix for the remaining eclasses introduced at the time: "python-any-r1", "python-single-r1" and "python-utils-r1" — even though there were never "r0"s.
It didn't take long to realize my first mistake. I've made the multi-impl eclass effectively the "main" eclass, probably largely inspired by the previous Gentoo recommendations. However, in the end I've found out that for the most use cases (i.e. where "distutils-r1" is not involved), there is no real need for multi-impl, and it makes things much harder. So if I were naming them today, I would have named it "python-multi", to indicate the specific use case — and either avoid designating a default at all, or made "python-single" the default.
What aged even worse is the "distutils-r1" eclass. Admittedly, back when it was conceived, distutils was still largely a thing — and there were people (like me) who avoided unnecessary dependency on setuptools. Of course, nowadays it has been entirely devoured by setuptools, and with #PEP517 even "setuptools" wouldn't be a good name anymore. Nowadays, people are getting confused why they are supposed to use "distutils-r1" for, say, Hatchling.
Admittedly, this is something I could have done differently — PEP517 support was a major migration, and involved an explicit switch. Instead of adding DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517 (what a self-contradictory name) variable, I could have forked the eclass. Why didn't I do that? Because there used to be a lot of code shared between the two paths. Of course, over time they diverged more, and eventually I've dropped the legacy support — but the opportunity to rename was lost.
In fact, as a semi-related fact, I've recognized another design problem with the eclass earlier — I should have gone for two eclasses rather than one: a "python-phase" eclass with generic sub-phase support, and a "distutils" (or later "python-pep517") implementing default sub-phases for the common backends. And again, this is precisely how I could have solved the code reuse problem when I introduced PEP517 support.
But then, I didn't anticipate how the eclasses would end up looking like in the end — and I can't really predict what new challenges the Python ecosystem is going to bring us. And I think it's too late to rename or split stuff — too much busywork on everyone.

Green Computing: The Ultimate Carbon Destroyer for a Sustainable Future
Sayed Mahbub Hasan Amiri, Prasun Goswami, Md. Mainul Islam, Mohammad Shakhawat Hossen, Marzana Mithila, Naznin Akter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00153

Green Computing: The Ultimate Carbon Destroyer for a Sustainable Future
Green computing represents a critical pathway to decarbonize the digital economy while maintaining technological progress. This article examines how sustainable IT strategies including energy-efficient hardware, AI-optimized data centres, and circular e-waste systems can transform computing into a net carbon sink. Through analysis of industry best practices and emerging technologies like quantum computing and biodegradable electronics, we demonstrate achievable reductions of 40-60% in energy co…

Best Practices and Considerations for Child Speech Corpus Collection and Curation in Educational, Clinical, and Forensic Scenarios
John Hansen, Satwik Dutta, Ellen Grand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12870

Best Practices and Considerations for Child Speech Corpus Collection and Curation in Educational, Clinical, and Forensic Scenarios
A child's spoken ability continues to change until their adult age. Until 7-8yrs, their speech sound development and language structure evolve rapidly. This dynamic shift in their spoken communication skills and data privacy make it challenging to curate technology-ready speech corpora for children. This study aims to bridge this gap and provide researchers and practitioners with the best practices and considerations for developing such a corpus based on an intended goal. Although primarily foc…

Breaking Out from the TESSERACT: Reassessing ML-based Malware Detection under Spatio-Temporal Drift
Theo Chow, Mario D'Onghia, Lorenz Linhardt, Zeliang Kan, Daniel Arp, Lorenzo Cavallaro, Fabio Pierazzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23814

Breaking Out from the TESSERACT: Reassessing ML-based Malware Detection under Spatio-Temporal Drift
Several recent works focused on the best practices for applying machine learning to cybersecurity. In the context of malware, TESSERACT highlighted the impact of concept drift on detection performance and suggested temporal and spatial constraints to be enforced to ensure realistic time-aware evaluations, which have been adopted by the community. In this paper, we demonstrate striking discrepancies in the performance of learning-based malware detection across the same time frame when evaluated …

Recommendations for Best Practices for Data Preservation and Open Science in HEP
Simone Campana (CERN, Switzerland), Irakli Chakaberia (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA), Gang Chen (Institute of High Energy Physics, China), Cristinel Diaconu (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille CPPM, France, CNRS/IN2P3 and Aix-Marseille Universit\'e, France), Caterina Doglioni (University of Manchester, UK), Dillon S. Fitzgerald (University of Michigan, USA), Vincent Garonne (B…

Recommendations for Best Practices for Data Preservation and Open Science in HEP
These recommendations are the result of reflections by scientists and experts who are, or have been, involved in the preservation of high-energy physics data. The work has been done under the umbrella of the Data Lifecycle panel of the International Committee of Future Accelerators (ICFA), drawing on the expertise of a wide range of stakeholders. A key indicator of success in the data preservation efforts is the long-term usability of the data. Experience shows that achieving this requires pr…

The Protesters' Guide to #Smartphone #Security
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CI/CD #Pipeline #Architecture: Complete Guide to Building Robust CI and CD Pipelines
https://

🌟 New SIGs Spotlight: SIG-AI 🌟
A new space for collaboration on Artificial Intelligence within the NREN community is here.
SIG-AI brings the Research & Education community together to share expertise, best practices, and explore practical use cases of AI in NREN context—from cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing (HPC) to network automation and next-generation networks.
📖 For more insights, read the full interview with Leonie Schäfer (@…

"DH Spaces: Freie Schaffensräume als multifunktionale Orte an Bibliotheken"
#DigitalHumanities

Optimal control driven functional electrical stimulation: A scoping review
Kevin Co, Micka\"el Begon, Fran\c{c}ois Bailly, Florent Moissenet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02899

Optimal control driven functional electrical stimulation: A scoping review
Introduction: Rehabilitation after a neurological impairment can be supported by functional electrical stimulation (FES). However, FES is limited by early muscle fatigue, slowing down the recovery progress. The use of optimal control to reduce overstimulation and improve motion precision is gaining interest. This review aims to map the current literature state meanwhile clarifying the best practices, identifying persistent challenges, and outlining directions for future research. Methods: Follo…

How to secure your phone before joining a protest
✅ The Protesters' Guide to Smartphone Security
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/

The Protesters' Guide to Smartphone Security
Your phone is an essential tool, but it also represents a huge risk to your privacy and security. Understanding these best practices when it comes to securing your smartphone will help keep you and your data safe.

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Virtual Reality User Interface Design: Best Practices and Implementation
Esin Mehmedova, Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Stefan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09358 https://

Virtual Reality User Interface Design: Best Practices and Implementation
Designing effective user interfaces (UIs) for virtual reality (VR) is essential to enhance user immersion, usability, comfort, and accessibility in virtual environments. Despite the growing adoption of VR across domains such as education, healthcare, gaming, and rehabilitation, there is a noticeable lack of unified and comprehensive design guidelines for VR UI design. To address this gap, we conducted a systematic literature review to identify existing best practices and propose complete and un…

Modeling the Mass Distribution and Gravitational Potential of Nearby Disk Galaxies: Implications for the ISM Dynamical Equilibrium
Vivek Vijayakumar, Jiayi Sun, Eve C. Ostriker, Enrico M. Di Teodoro, Konstantin Haubner, Chang-Goo Kim, Adam K. Leroy, Miguel Querejeta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22381…

Modeling the Mass Distribution and Gravitational Potential of Nearby Disk Galaxies: Implications for the ISM Dynamical Equilibrium
We characterize stellar, gas, and dark matter mass distributions for 17 nearby massive disk galaxies from the PHANGS sample. This allows us to compute the gravitational potential that vertically confines the interstellar gas and determines its equilibrium scale height and weight. We first combine dynamical mass constraints from existing CO and HI rotation curves together with stellar and gas mass estimates from near-infrared, CO, and HI data. These estimates incorporate current best practices i…

Meta-Metrics and Best Practices for System-Level Inference Performance Benchmarking
Shweta Salaria, Zhuoran Liu, Nelson Mimura Gonzalez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10251 https://…

Meta-Metrics and Best Practices for System-Level Inference Performance Benchmarking
Benchmarking inference performance (speed) of Foundation Models such as Large Language Models (LLM) involves navigating a vast experimental landscape to understand the complex interactions between hardware and software components. However, evaluating every possible test configuration is impractical, unfeasible and unnecessary. To address this challenge, we introduce FMwork, a comprehensive and methodical approach to creating a controlled testing environment that accurately reflects and characte…

Tool-Assisted Conformance Checking to Reference Process Models
Bernhard Rumpe, Max Stachon, Sebastian St\"uber, Valdes Voufo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00738 https://

Tool-Assisted Conformance Checking to Reference Process Models
Reference models convey best practices and standards. The reference frameworks necessitate conformance checks to ensure adherence to established guidelines and principles, which is crucial for maintaining quality and consistency in various processes. This paper explores automated conformance checks for concrete process models against reference models using causal dependency analysis of tasks and events. Existing notions of conformance checking for process models focus on verifying process execu…

The Perils of Chart Deception: How Misleading Visualizations Affect Vision-Language Models
Ridwan Mahbub, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mizanur Rahman, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Enamul Hoque
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09716

The Perils of Chart Deception: How Misleading Visualizations Affect Vision-Language Models
Information visualizations are powerful tools that help users quickly identify patterns, trends, and outliers, facilitating informed decision-making. However, when visualizations incorporate deceptive design elements-such as truncated or inverted axes, unjustified 3D effects, or violations of best practices-they can mislead viewers and distort understanding, spreading misinformation. While some deceptive tactics are obvious, others subtly manipulate perception while maintaining a facade of legi…

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Are you running open-source databases on Kubernetes? At Berlin Buzzwords 2025, Peter Zaitsev discussed best practices for high availability, security, backups, and disaster recovery. Discover key pitfalls to avoid and learn how Operators can simplify database management for MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL in Kubernetes environments.
Watch the full session:

A Risk Assessment Framework for Digital Identification Systems
Allison Woodruff, Dirk Balfanz, Will Drewry, Mariana Raykova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14755

A Risk Assessment Framework for Digital Identification Systems
We introduce a risk assessment framework for digital identification systems, as well as recommended best practices to enhance privacy, security, and other desirable properties in these systems. To generate these resources, we created a casebook of a wide range of digital identification systems, and we then applied expert analysis and critique to identify patterns. We piloted the framework on several reviews within our organization over a period of approximately one year, and found it to be robu…

SDBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Speaker Diarization
Eduardo Pacheco, Atila Orhon, Berkin Durmus, Blaise Munyampirwa, Andrey Leonov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16136

SDBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Speaker Diarization
Even state-of-the-art speaker diarization systems exhibit high variance in error rates across different datasets, representing numerous use cases and domains. Furthermore, comparing across systems requires careful application of best practices such as dataset splits and metric definitions to allow for apples-to-apples comparison. We propose SDBench (Speaker Diarization Benchmark), an open-source benchmark suite that integrates 13 diverse datasets with built-in tooling for consistent and fine-gr…

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Using LLMs and Essence to Support Software Practice Adoption
Sonia Nicoletti, Paolo Ciancarini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16445 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

Using LLMs and Essence to Support Software Practice Adoption
Recent advancements in natural language processing (NLP) have enabled the development of automated tools that support various domains, including software engineering. However, while NLP and artificial intelligence (AI) research has extensively focused on tasks such as code generation, less attention has been given to automating support for the adoption of best practices, the evolution of ways of working, and the monitoring of process health. This study addresses this gap by exploring the integr…

MCP2OSC: Parametric Control by Natural Language
Yuan-Yi Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10414 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10414

MCP2OSC: Parametric Control by Natural Language
Text prompts enable intuitive content creation but may fall short in achieving high precision for intricate tasks; knob or slider controls offer precise adjustments at the cost of increased complexity. To address the gap between knobs and prompts, a new MCP (Model Context Protocol) server and a unique set of prompt design criteria are presented to enable exploring parametric OSC (OpenSoundControl) control by natural language prompts. Demonstrated by 14 practical QA examples with best practices …

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows
Edward Abrokwah, Taher A. Ghaleb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18062 https://

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows
Continuous Integration (CI) has evolved from a tooling strategy to a fundamental mindset in modern CI engineering. It enables teams to develop, test, and deliver software rapidly and collaboratively. Among CI services, GitHub Actions (GHA) has emerged as a dominant service due to its deep integration with GitHub and a vast ecosystem of reusable workflow actions. Although GHA provides official documentation and community-supported best practices, there appears to be limited empirical understandi…

Ten Essential Guidelines for Building High-Quality Research Software
Nasir U. Eisty, David E. Bernholdt, Alex Koufos, David J. Luet, Miranda Mundt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16166

Ten Essential Guidelines for Building High-Quality Research Software
High-quality research software is a cornerstone of modern scientific progress, enabling researchers to analyze complex data, simulate phenomena, and share reproducible results. However, creating such software requires adherence to best practices that ensure robustness, usability, and sustainability. This paper presents ten guidelines for producing high-quality research software, covering every stage of the development lifecycle. These guidelines emphasize the importance of planning, writing cle…

WIP: Leveraging LLMs for Enforcing Design Principles in Student Code: Analysis of Prompting Strategies and RAG
Dhruv Kolhatkar, Soubhagya Akkena, Edward F. Gehringer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11717

WIP: Leveraging LLMs for Enforcing Design Principles in Student Code: Analysis of Prompting Strategies and RAG
This work-in-progress research-to-practice paper explores the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into the code-review process for open-source software projects developed in computer science and software engineering courses. The focus is on developing an automated feedback tool that evaluates student code for adherence to key object-oriented design principles, addressing the need for more effective and scalable methods to teach software design best practices. The innovative practice inv…

MetaLint: Generalizable Idiomatic Code Quality Analysis through Instruction-Following and Easy-to-Hard Generalization
Atharva Naik, Lawanya Baghel, Dhakshin Govindarajan, Darsh Agrawal, Daniel Fried, Carolyn Rose
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11687

MetaLint: Generalizable Idiomatic Code Quality Analysis through Instruction-Following and Easy-to-Hard Generalization
Large Language Models, though successful in code generation, struggle with code quality analysis because they are limited by static training data and can't easily adapt to evolving best practices. We introduce MetaLint, a new instruction-following framework that formulates code quality analysis as the task of detecting and fixing problematic semantic code fragments or code idioms based on high-level specifications. Unlike conventional approaches that train models on static, rule-based data, Met…