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To Claude: Explain how smart glasses with AI-based scene description, OCR for reading print, and visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for "raw vision" will erode the market opportunities for all implantable visual prostheses (retinal implants and brain implants for restoring vision to the blind). https://

Scam compounds labeled a 'living nightmare' as Cambodian government accused of turning a blind eye https://therecord.media/cambodia-scam-compounds-amnesty-international-report

Parents of young blind children face ethical dilemmas both when applying or withholding sensory substitution options: children have greater brain plasticity, but long-term benefit of sensory substitution in daily life has not yet been firmly established. #ethics #NeuroEthics

WIMPs Below the Radar: Blind Spots and Benchmarks Beyond the Neutrino Floor
Giorgio Arcadi, Stefano Profumo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19062 https://

WIMPs Below the Radar: Blind Spots and Benchmarks Beyond the Neutrino Floor
We investigate benchmark scenarios for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) that naturally evade current direct detection constraints by featuring suppressed spin-independent cross-sections. Focusing on three representative models, the Singlet-Doublet fermion model, its extension to a Two-Higgs-Doublet plus pseudoscalar sector (2HDM$+a$), and a dark $SU(3)$ gauge model, we systematically analyze the interplay between thermal freeze-out, direct detection blind spots, and radiative correc…

PrivacyGo: Privacy-Preserving Ad Measurement with Multidimensional Intersection
Jian Du, Haohao Qian, Shikun Zhang, Wen-jie Lu, Donghang Lu, Yongchuan Niu, Bo Jiang, Yongjun Zhao, Qiang Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20981

PrivacyGo: Privacy-Preserving Ad Measurement with Multidimensional Intersection
This paper tackles the challenging and practical problem of multi-identifier private user profile matching for privacy-preserving ad measurement, a cornerstone of modern advertising analytics. We introduce a comprehensive cryptographic framework leveraging reversed Oblivious Pseudorandom Functions (OPRF) and novel blind key rotation techniques to support secure matching across multiple identifiers. Our design prevents cross-identifier linkages and includes a differentially private mechanism to …

A profile of Twitch streamer and YouTuber Ross Minor, blind since age 8, who is an advocate and consultant for blind-accessible video games like Sea of Thieves (Dexter Thomas/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ross-minor-the-blind-leading-the-gamers/

He’s Blind. He Plays Video Games. Here’s How That Works
Ross Minor lost his eyesight at 8 years old. Today, he’s a hardcore gamer who runs YouTube and Twitch channels and consults for big studios. This is not—necessarily—an inspirational story.

SPT-3G D1: CMB temperature and polarization power spectra and cosmology from 2019 and 2020 observations of the SPT-3G Main field
E. Camphuis, W. Quan, L. Balkenhol, A. R. Khalife, F. Ge, F. Guidi, N. Huang, G. P. Lynch, Y. Omori, C. Trendafilova, A. J. Anderson, B. Ansarinejad, M. Archipley, P. S. Barry, K. Benabed, A. N. Bender, B. A. Benson, F. Bianchini, L. E. Bleem, F. R. Bouchet, L. Bryant, M. G. Campitiello, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, P. Chaubal, P. M. Chichura, A. Chokshi, T.…

SPT-3G D1: CMB temperature and polarization power spectra and cosmology from 2019 and 2020 observations of the SPT-3G Main field
We present measurements of the temperature and E-mode polarization angular power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from observations of 4% of the sky with SPT-3G, the current camera on the South Pole Telescope (SPT). The maps used in this analysis are the deepest used in a CMB TT/TE/EE analysis to date. The maps and resulting power spectra have been validated through blind and unblind tests. The measurements of the lensed EE and TE spectra are the most precise to date at l=1800-4…

Sonnet 027 - XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless…

A bit baffled by my colleagues' and students' helplessness regarding "new" digital tools - considering that my grandpa, who is turning 97 in a week and is almost blind, is reading a lot of online news and tutorials ("TV is boring"), still sends e-cards for all our birthdays, recalculates all his care bills with a huge Excel table, and apparently has a LinkedIn account (he hasn't worked since 1990) 🤷‍♀️
(edit: typo)

Parents of young blind children face ethical dilemmas both when applying or withholding sensory substitution options: children have greater brain plasticity, but long-term benefit of sensory substitution in daily life has not yet been firmly established, while mastering sensory substitution as an adult likely becomes harder and with more limited results. #ethics

The Blind Spot of BGP Anomaly Detection: Why LSTM Autoencoders Fail on Real-World Outages
Samuel Oluwafemi Adebayo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17821 https:/…

The Blind Spot of BGP Anomaly Detection: Why LSTM Autoencoders Fail on Real-World Outages
Deep learning has significant potential to make the Internet's Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) secure by detecting anomalous routing activity. However, all but a few of these approaches rely on the implicit assumption that anomalies manifest as noisy, high-complexity outliers from some normal baseline. This work challenges this assumption by investigating if a best-in-class detection model built on this assumption can effectively deal with real-world security events' diverse signatures. We employ…

(YouTube) A world's first for the blind! The vOICe web app and Google Gemini Live demo: simultaneous "raw" vision from visual-to-auditory sensory substitution and AI-based verbal descriptions for "semantic" vision https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=506BvU8oMmM

Blind Source Separation in Biomedical Signals Using Variational Methods
Yasaman Torabi, Shahram Shirani, James P. Reilly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18281 h…

Blind Source Separation in Biomedical Signals Using Variational Methods
This study introduces a novel unsupervised approach for separating overlapping heart and lung sounds using variational autoencoders (VAEs). In clinical settings, these sounds often interfere with each other, making manual separation difficult and error-prone. The proposed model learns to encode mixed signals into a structured latent space and reconstructs the individual components using a probabilistic decoder, all without requiring labeled data or prior knowledge of source characteristics. We …

Today, according to ResearchGate, the article "Visual experiences in the blind induced by an auditory sensory substitution device" (2010) received 800 reads via ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Meijer-3/achievemen…

Deceptive Game Design? Investigating the Impact of Visual Card Style on Player Perception
Leonie Kallabis, Timo Bertram, Florian Rupp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18648

Deceptive Game Design? Investigating the Impact of Visual Card Style on Player Perception
The visual style of game elements considerably contributes to the overall experience. Aesthetics influence player appeal, while the abilities of game pieces define their in-game functionality. In this paper, we investigate how the visual style of collectible cards influences the players' perception of the card's actual strength in the game. Using the popular trading card game Magic: The Gathering, we conduct a single-blind survey study that examines how players perceive the strength of AI-gener…

NIKA2 Cosmological Legacy Survey: Blind detection of galaxy clusters in the COSMOS field via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
D. Ch\'erouvrier, J. F. Macias-Perez, F. X. D\'esert, R. Adam, P. Ade, H. Ajeddig, S. Amarantidis, P. Andr\'e, H. Aussel, R. Barrena, A. Beelen, A. Benoit, S. Berta, M. B\'ethermin, A. Bongiovanni, J. Bounmy, O. Bourrion, L. -J. Bing, M. Calvo, A. Catalano, M. De Petris, S. Doyle, E. F. C. Driessen, G. Ejlali, A. Ferragamo, M. Fernandez-Torreiro…

NIKA2 Cosmological Legacy Survey: Blind detection of galaxy clusters in the COSMOS field via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
(Abridged) Clusters of galaxies, formed in the latest stages of structure formation, are unique cosmological probes. With the advent of large CMB surveys like those from the Planck satellite, the ACT and SPT telescopes, we now have access to a large number of galaxy clusters detected at millimeter wavelengths via the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect. Nevertheless, it is interesting to complement them with high-angular-resolution (tens of arcseconds) observations to target the lowest-mass…

Um... Excuse me, that's my view.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Blind Melon:
🎵 No Rain
#BlindMelon
https://keendj.bandcamp.com/track/blind-melon-no-rain-thdp-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6txWz9UapYHVxEd7dDIHXT

There's a lovely discussion on Twitter/X between humans and AI models (Grok and Perplexity) on whether a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant can provide meaningful vision to people born blind https://x.com/waleedd322/status/1927463484800835657

I've seen this little guy on the ground all weekend. No reaction to the dog either so I wonder if it's blind or something

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Swans:
🎵 Blind
#NowPlaying #Swans
https://swans.bandcamp.com/album/soundtracks-for-the-blind-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/4W5ZiER2saVe1uo7bNTWbE

Independent vector analysis -- an introduction for statisticians
Miro Arvila, Klaus Nordhausen, Mika Sipil\"a, Sara Taskinen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16175

Independent vector analysis -- an introduction for statisticians
Blind source separation (BSS), particularly independent component analysis (ICA), has been widely used in various fields of science such as biomedical signal processing to recover latent source signals from the observed mixture. While ICA is typically applied to individual datasets, many real-world applications share underlying sources across datasets. Independent vector analysis (IVA) extends ICA to jointly analyze multiple datasets by exploiting statistical dependencies across them. While var…

The proper way to do this for a blind student would surely be some kind of physical manipulatives, not verbal descriptions. The thing is, I don’t have any blind students currently, and if I did, we’d work on individual accommodation and assistance.
With this alt text, I’m just trying to get •something• in there to be at least minimally accessible: head start on those accommodation, something helpful if I ever share this online, etc. If there’s any way for text to convey the spatial relationships, that would be better than the text I have.

Poster No 857: Plastic changes in the occipital regions during pitch perception associate with blindness onset age; "Specifically, the primary visual cortex remains engaged in pitch processing tasks following late blindness." https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15641972

An accurate and revised version of optical character recognition-based speech synthesis using LabVIEW
Prateek Mehta, Anasuya Patil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15029

An accurate and revised version of optical character recognition-based speech synthesis using LabVIEW
Knowledge extraction through sound is a distinctive property. Visually impaired individuals often rely solely on Braille books and audio recordings provided by NGOs. Due to limitations in these approaches, blind individuals often cannot access books of their choice. Speech is a more effective mode of communication than text for blind and visually impaired persons, as they can easily respond to sounds. This paper presents the development of an accurate, reliable, cost-effective, and user-friendl…

Semi-Blind Channel Estimation for Downlink Communications Based on Dynamic Metasurface Antennas
Amarilton L. Magalh\~aes, Andr\'e L. F. de Almeida, A. Lee Swindlehurst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12639

Semi-Blind Channel Estimation for Downlink Communications Based on Dynamic Metasurface Antennas
Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) are emerging as a promising technology to enable energy-efficient, large array-based multi-antenna systems. This paper presents a simple channel estimation scheme for the downlink of a multiple-input single-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MISO-OFDM) communication system exploiting DMAs. The proposed scheme extracts separate estimates of the wireless channel and the unknown waveguide propagation vector using a simple iterative algorithm base…

#GiftLink He's ruined the brand
"Fidelity to blind justice and institutional integrity made the U.S. economy exceptional. No more."
Opinion | How Trump is damaging America’s economic brand - The Washington Post
https://wapo.st/4jVtuei

SRG/eROSITA No. 5: Discovery of quasi-periodic eruptions every ~3.7 days from a galaxy at z>0.1
R. Arcodia, P. Baldini, A. Merloni, A. Rau, K. Nandra, J. Chakraborty, A. J. Goodwin, M. J. Page, J. Buchner, M. Masterson, I. Monageng, Z. Arzoumanian, D. Buckley, E. Kara, G. Ponti, M. E. Ramos-Ceja, M. Salvato, K. Gendreau, I. Grotova, M. Krumpe
http…

SRG/eROSITA No. 5: Discovery of quasi-periodic eruptions every ~3.7 days from a galaxy at z>0.1
Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are repeating soft X-ray bursts from the nuclei of galaxies, tantalizingly proposed to be extreme mass ratio inspirals. Here, we report the discovery of a new galaxy showing X-ray QPEs, the fifth found through a dedicated blind search in the \emph{SRG}/eROSITA all-sky survey data, hereafter named eRO-QPE5. Its QPE duration ($t_{\rm dur}\sim0.6$\,d), recurrence time ($t_{\rm recur}\sim3.7\,$d), integrated energy per eruption ($\sim3.4 \times 10^{47}\,$erg), and bl…

Taming Stable Diffusion for Computed Tomography Blind Super-Resolution
Chunlei Li, Yilei Shi, Haoxi Hu, Jingliang Hu, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Lichao Mou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11496

Taming Stable Diffusion for Computed Tomography Blind Super-Resolution
High-resolution computed tomography (CT) imaging is essential for medical diagnosis but requires increased radiation exposure, creating a critical trade-off between image quality and patient safety. While deep learning methods have shown promise in CT super-resolution, they face challenges with complex degradations and limited medical training data. Meanwhile, large-scale pre-trained diffusion models, particularly Stable Diffusion, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in synthesizing fine …

ChatGPT: "Smart glasses combining AI scene understanding, OCR, and sensory substitution are decisive market disruptors" https://chatgpt.com/share/68349bdd-b670-8004-8788-893ca3f98ae5
"They render visual implants:
- Less competitive i…

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Developers criticize Google for its decision to hide raw reasoning tokens, essential for debugging complex AI workflows, of its flagship model Gemini 2.5 Pro (Ben Dickson/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/googles-gemin…

Sam Lynn Ballpark in Bakersfield, where batters face into the setting sun,
is an anomaly in a sport of anomalies.
Or perhaps it is simply
a reminder of what once was.
There’s not one thing about Sam Lynn that makes sense to the modern fan, Wheeler admitted. 
“Is it glitzy? No,” he asked rhetorically.
“Is it entertaining for the people that are there?
Yes. Yes, it is.
Are you going to go blind if you look into the sun?
Yes. But it is wh…

How hunter-gatherers slept: sleep and rest in the prehistoric era https://lithub.com/how-exactly-did-hunter-gatherers-sleep-on-rest-and-relaxation-in-the-prehistoric-era

How Exactly Did Hunter-Gatherers Sleep? On Rest and Relaxation in the Prehistoric Era
“…human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.” Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (1986) * Sleep was a mystery to our distant ance…

these are uhhh
not encouraging numbers
edit: these are not per 100!! i am blind

Blind Passive Beamforming for MIMO System
Wenhai Lai, Jiawei Yao, Kaiming Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00987 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Blind Passive Beamforming for MIMO System
Passive beamforming for the intelligent surface (IS)-aided multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication is a difficult nonconvex problem. It becomes even more challenging under the practical discrete constraints on phase shifts. Unlike most of the existing approaches that rely on the channel state information (CSI), this work advocates a blind beamforming strategy without any CSI. Simply put, we propose a statistical method that learns the main feature of the wireless environment from th…

Discovery of an HI 21 cm absorption system at z=2.327 with CHIME
CHIME Collaboration, Mandana Amiri, Arnab Chakraborty, Simon Foreman, Mark Halpern, Alex S. Hill, Gary Hinshaw, Carolin Hofer, Albin Joseph, Joshua MacEachern, Kiyoshi W. Masui, Juan Mena-Parra, Arash Mirhosseini, Ue-Li Pen, Tristan Pinsonneault-Marotte, Alex Reda, J. Richard Shaw, Seth R. Siegel, Yukari Uchibori, Rik van Lieshout, Haochen Wang, Dallas Wulf

Discovery of an HI 21 cm absorption system at z=2.327 with CHIME
We report the detection of a new HI absorption system associated with the radio source NVSS J164725+375218 at a redshift of z=2.327, identified through a blind survey conducted by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME). This marks the fifth detection of an associated system at z > 2. By analyzing a subset of available data, we conducted a blind survey for HI absorption systems within the redshift range of 0.78 to 2.55 along 202 lines of sight in the declination range of 35 t…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09132 has been replaced.
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Self-Supervised Autoencoder Network for Robust Heart Rate Extraction from Noisy Photoplethysmogram: Applying Blind Source Separation to Biosignal Analysis
Biosignals can be viewed as mixtures measuring particular physiological events, and blind source separation (BSS) aims to extract underlying source signals from mixtures. This paper proposes a self-supervised multi-encoder autoencoder (MEAE) to separate heartbeat-related source signals from photoplethysmogram (PPG), enhancing heart rate (HR) detection in noisy PPG data. The MEAE is trained on PPG signals from a large open polysomnography database without any pre-processing or data selection. Th…

Update to white paper on brain implants for restoring vision (notably Neuralink Blindsight) and non-invasive visual-to-auditory sensory substitution (The vOICe) https://artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm Note: blind people with RP may still have central tunnel vision to make eye c…

Adapting Online Customer Reviews for Blind Users: A Case Study of Restaurant Reviews
Mohan Sunkara, Akshay Kolgar Nayak, Sandeep Kalari, Yash Prakash, Sampath Jayarathna, Hae-Na Lee, Vikas Ashok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04865

Adapting Online Customer Reviews for Blind Users: A Case Study of Restaurant Reviews
Online reviews have become an integral aspect of consumer decision-making on e-commerce websites, especially in the restaurant industry. Unlike sighted users who can visually skim through the reviews, perusing reviews remains challenging for blind users, who rely on screen reader assistive technology that supports predominantly one-dimensional narration of content via keyboard shortcuts. In an interview study, we uncovered numerous pain points of blind screen reader users with online restaurant…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14814 has been replaced.
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VB-Com: Learning Vision-Blind Composite Humanoid Locomotion Against Deficient Perception
The performance of legged locomotion is closely tied to the accuracy and comprehensiveness of state observations. Blind policies, which rely solely on proprioception, are considered highly robust due to the reliability of proprioceptive observations. However, these policies significantly limit locomotion speed and often require collisions with the terrain to adapt. In contrast, Vision policies allows the robot to plan motions in advance and respond proactively to unstructured terrains with an o…

This is an interesting take on how AI can, in specific cases, when used carefully, be used to level the playing field.
https://tylertringas.com/ai-legal/
I think this is true in many situations, including education. We just have to get past the shortcuts, the blind faith and the hype,…

»Experten zweifeln Sicherheit von Musks neuem XChat an:
Mit XChat verspricht Elon Musk verschlüsselte Kommunikation auf seinem sozialen Netzwerk X. Doch Expert:innen äußern ernsthafte Bedenken an der Sicherheit der neuen Nachrichtenfunktion.«
Wenn dies nicht so was ähnliches wie ein Telegram Klon wird und Verschlüsselung verspricht, die mensch nicht wirklich nutzen kann aber viele dem Blind vertrauen?!??
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Experten zweifeln Sicherheit von Musks neuem XChat an - t3n – digital pioneers
Mit XChat verspricht Elon Musk verschlüsselte Kommunikation auf seinem sozialen Netzwerk X. Doch Expert:innen äußern ernsthafte Bedenken an der Sicherheit der neuen Nachrichtenfunktion. Elon Musk hat mit XChat eine neue Version der Nachrichtenfunktion der Social-Media-Plattform X angekündigt. Über das neue Feature soll auch das Versenden von Dateien möglich sein. Wie The Register berichtet, zeigen sich […]

Educators' Perceptions of Large Language Models as Tutors: Comparing Human and AI Tutors in a Blind Text-only Setting
Sankalan Pal Chowdhury, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Donya Rooein, Dirk Hovy, Tanja K\"aser, Mrinmaya Sachan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08702

Educators' Perceptions of Large Language Models as Tutors: Comparing Human and AI Tutors in a Blind Text-only Setting
The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) opens up the possibility of using them as personal tutors. This has led to the development of several intelligent tutoring systems and learning assistants that use LLMs as back-ends with various degrees of engineering. In this study, we seek to compare human tutors with LLM tutors in terms of engagement, empathy, scaffolding, and conciseness. We ask human tutors to annotate and compare the performance of an LLM tutor with that of a human tut…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00253 has been replaced.
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Aligned but Blind: Alignment Increases Implicit Bias by Reducing Awareness of Race
Although value-aligned language models (LMs) appear unbiased in explicit bias evaluations, they often exhibit stereotypes in implicit word association tasks, raising concerns about their fair usage. We investigate the mechanisms behind this discrepancy and find that alignment surprisingly amplifies implicit bias in model outputs. Specifically, we show that aligned LMs, unlike their unaligned counterparts, overlook racial concepts in early internal representations when the context is ambiguous. …

Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
JENNA: A missile?
BLAKE: No, it can't be. They can't have spotted Liberator. We've got the blind down. [launch appears on screen]
JENNA: There it is, look, just leaving the ionosphere.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/207/33 B7B6…

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

The blind leading the gamers https://www.wired.com/story/ross-minor-the-blind-leading-the-gamers/ "when Minor asks a sighted person for help, it might actually be for our sake: to let *us* feel useful and included."

He’s Blind. He Plays Video Games. Here’s How That Works
Ross Minor lost his eyesight at 8 years old. Today, he’s a hardcore gamer who runs YouTube and Twitch channels and consults for big studios. This is not—necessarily—an inspirational story.

Thanks for the thoughtful replies. Answers to questions:
Many people asked for the context. This is for college students using what they already know about the order of arithmetic operations to start analyzing the structure of code. In the activity, they visual code structures using these kind of diagrams. The important thing here is thus not just subtraction; it’s this way of visualizing the relationships — and there already is a sight-centeric word, “visualize!” But I suspect a blind reader could also use these spatial relationships as a learning tool…if there were a good way of conveying the spatial relationships.

B2LoRa: Boosting LoRa Transmission for Satellite-IoT Systems with Blind Coherent Combining
Yimin Zhao, Weibo Wang, Xiong Wang, Linghe Kong, Jiadi Yu, Yifei Zhu, Shiyuan Li, Chong He, Guihai Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24140

B2LoRa: Boosting LoRa Transmission for Satellite-IoT Systems with Blind Coherent Combining
With the rapid growth of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks, satellite-IoT systems using the LoRa technique have been increasingly deployed to provide widespread Internet services to low-power and low-cost ground devices. However, the long transmission distance and adverse environments from IoT satellites to ground devices pose a huge challenge to link reliability, as evidenced by the measurement results based on our real-world setup. In this paper, we propose a blind coherent combining d…

London-based Definely, whose AI tools help law firms draft and review legal contracts, raised a $30M Series B led by Revaia, with Clio and others participating (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/09/uk-legaltech-de…

UK legaltech Definely secures $30M to boost global reach and AI development
UK legaltech company Definely has raised $30 million in Series B funding to accelerate its global expansion and AI product roadmap. This additional funding brings the total amount raised by Definely since its inception to $40 million. Launched in 2020 by Nnamdi Emelifeonwu and Feargus MacDaei, Definely was born from lived experience, including that of co-founder MacDaeid, who is registered blind after being diagnosed with a degenerative eye condition at age 11. Throughout his life, he consiste…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03734 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Labeling without Seeing? Blind Annotation for Privacy-Preserving Entity Resolution
The entity resolution problem requires finding pairs across datasets that belong to different owners but refer to the same entity in the real world. To train and evaluate solutions (either rule-based or machine-learning-based) to the entity resolution problem, generating a ground truth dataset with entity pairs or clusters is needed. However, such a data annotation process involves humans as domain oracles to review the plaintext data for all candidate record pairs from different parties, which…

Did the Dallas Cowboys do enough to fix their massive flaw on defense? https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/did-dallas-cowboys-do-enough-to-fix-massive-flaw-on-defense

(YouTube, 2024) #NeuraViper cortical visual restoration phosphene simulator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYQEEThyzBY Simulation of cortical brain implant vision for the blind;

Sonnet 027 - XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04907 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

Verbose ListOps (VLO): Beyond Long Context -- Unmasking LLM's Reasoning Blind Spots
Large Language Models (LLMs), whilst great at extracting facts from text, struggle with nested narrative reasoning. Existing long context and multi-hop QA benchmarks inadequately test this, lacking realistic distractors or failing to decouple context length from reasoning complexity, masking a fundamental LLM limitation. We introduce Verbose ListOps, a novel benchmark that programmatically transposes ListOps computations into lengthy, coherent stories. This uniquely forces internal computation …

Evaluating Gemini in an arena for learning
LearnLM Team, Abhinit Modi, Aditya Srikanth Veerubhotla, Aliya Rysbek, Andrea Huber, Ankit Anand, Avishkar Bhoopchand, Brett Wiltshire, Daniel Gillick, Daniel Kasenberg, Eleni Sgouritsa, Gal Elidan, Hengrui Liu, Holger Winnemoeller, Irina Jurenka, James Cohan, Jennifer She, Julia Wilkowski, Kaiz Alarakyia, Kevin R. McKee, Komal Singh, Lisa Wang, Markus Kunesch, Miruna P\^islar, Niv Efron, Parsa Mahmoudieh, Pierre-Alexandre Kamienny, Sara Wiltb…

Evaluating Gemini in an arena for learning
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to transform education, but the research community lacks a robust, general benchmark to evaluate AI models for learning. To assess state-of-the-art support for educational use cases, we ran an "arena for learning" where educators and pedagogy experts conduct blind, head-to-head, multi-turn comparisons of leading AI models. In particular, $N = 189$ educators drew from their experience to role-play realistic learning use cases, interacting with two models se…

Monitoring Decomposition Attacks in LLMs with Lightweight Sequential Monitors
Chen Yueh-Han, Nitish Joshi, Yulin Chen, Maksym Andriushchenko, Rico Angell, He He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10949

Monitoring Decomposition Attacks in LLMs with Lightweight Sequential Monitors
Current LLM safety defenses fail under decomposition attacks, where a malicious goal is decomposed into benign subtasks that circumvent refusals. The challenge lies in the existing shallow safety alignment techniques: they only detect harm in the immediate prompt and do not reason about long-range intent, leaving them blind to malicious intent that emerges over a sequence of seemingly benign instructions. We therefore propose adding an external monitor that observes the conversation at a higher…

To ChatGPT: How many users of The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind are there in the world? https://chatgpt.com/share/6857c14d-074c-8004-b4d2-f6e6fc925e02

ChatGPT - E-bike Injury Odds in NYC
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A quantitative assessment of EOG eye tracking during free viewing in sighted and in congenitally blind https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2025.149794
"Our work further emphasizes the presence of blinks and saccadic muscular movements both in sighted individuals with…

CPINN-ABPI: Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Accurate Power Estimation in MPSoCs
Mohamed R. Elshamy, Mehdi Elahi, Ahmad Patooghy, Abdel-Hameed A. Badawy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22469

CPINN-ABPI: Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Accurate Power Estimation in MPSoCs
Efficient thermal and power management in modern multiprocessor systems-on-chip (MPSoCs) demands accurate power consumption estimation. One of the state-of-the-art approaches, Alternative Blind Power Identification (ABPI), theoretically eliminates the dependence on steady-state temperatures, addressing a major shortcoming of previous approaches. However, ABPI performance has remained unverified in actual hardware implementations. In this study, we conduct the first empirical validation of ABPI …

"Smart glasses offering a combination of sensory substitution based 'raw' vision and AI-based scene description and OCR appears to be technically and economically the most feasible and sustainable way toward meeting expectations, needs and interests of many blind people." https://www.artificialvision…

Sonnet 136 - CXXXVI
If thy soul check thee that I come so near,
Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy Will,
And will, thy soul knows, is admitted there;
Thus far for love, my love-suit, sweet, fulfil.
Will, will fulfil the treasure of thy love,
Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one.
In things of great receipt with ease we prove
Among a number one is reckoned none:
Then in the number let me pass untold,
Though in thy store…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13638 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

XENONnT WIMP Search: Signal & Background Modeling and Statistical Inference
The XENONnT experiment searches for weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter scattering off a xenon nucleus. In particular, XENONnT uses a dual-phase time projection chamber with a 5.9-tonne liquid xenon target, detecting both scintillation and ionization signals to reconstruct the energy, position, and type of recoil. A blind search for nuclear recoil WIMPs with an exposure of 1.1 tonne-years (4.18 t fiducial mass) yielded no signal excess over background expectations, from which…

Estimands for Randomized Discontinuation Designs in Oncology
Ayon Mukherjee, Oleksandr Sverdlov, Ngoc-Thuy Ha, Yu Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00556 htt…

Estimands for Randomized Discontinuation Designs in Oncology
Randomized discontinuation design (RDD) is an enrichment strategy commonly used to address limitations of traditional placebo-controlled trials, particularly the ethical concern of prolonged placebo exposure. RDD consists of two phases: an initial open-label phase in which all eligible patients receive the investigational medicinal product (IMP), followed by a double-blind phase in which responders are randomized to continue with the IMP or switch to placebo. This design tests whether the IMP p…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19441 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

The anti-glitching gamma-ray pulsar PSR J1522-5735
Context. A small number of pulsar glitches have been identified as anti-glitches or spin-down glitches, where the overall contribution to the pulsar's rotation frequency is negative. A notable example of a spin-down glitch was observed in PSR 1522-5735, a radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsar discovered by blind searches in the 3-year data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Aims. This work aims to search for PSR 1522-5735's glitches using Fermi-LAT data from over 15 years of observations. Method…

Back of the quire, Lincoln Cathedral, April 2025
#photography #heritagephotographer #documentingplaces #lincoln

Pondering how to best prepare for the upcoming onslaught of Neuralink Blindsight brain implant hype/PR after the first blind patient receives one in UAE. Most scientists are open to reason, but they make up a tiny minority under funding stress, while the mass media profit from maximizing hype.
https://www.artifi…

China Focus: Retinal implant offers hope for blind, extends vision to infrared #BCI

How to turn the tide? Both brain implants and sensory substitution can only restore very limited forms of vision to blind people, nothing like normal vision. We should be cooperating, not just competing, ignoring mass media incentives, investors and AI. Let's be true leaders. 😇

(YouTube) From blindness to cyber brilliance, from "seeing with sound" to securing cyberspace, the journey of Pranav Lal, congenitally blind user of The vOICe vision BCI in India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWlVKDpZ6hU

Go for a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant, or opt for cheaper and replaceable smart glasses? #BCI

The neurological basis for non-visual illustration https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jill_00117_7 "this article poses the question of whether there is a theoretical precedent for creating visual imagery in the minds of blind peopl…

To ChatGPT: Write a pitch against the use of visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind. https://chatgpt.com/share/684c2ab3-2c68-8004-bf53-c3b401c10064 "Let's stop romanticizing sensory substitution and start prioritizing solutions that actu…

Phone Flooding Protest

(Chinese) Review: Research progress of artificial vision https://rs.yiigle.com/cmaid/1543337 the paper contains 1 reference to sensory substitution for the blind

(image) Map of users of The vOICe for Android all over the world in the past 30 minutes https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vOICe.vOICe

The vOICe for Android - Apps on Google Play
Augmented Reality for the Blind: See with your Ears!

After Nano Retina's bankruptcy, "#CortiSight Medical is a fledgling neurostimulation firm that aims to restore sight to hundreds of thousands of blind people through wireless cortical implants" https://