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"The Research Data Management Workbook: Building a Collection of Data Management Exercises to Bridge Data Information Literacy and Data Management Implementation" @ Journal of eScience Librarianship: https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.937

Bridge Sampling Diagnostics
Giorgio Micaletto, Aki Vehtari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14487 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14487…

Bridge Sampling Diagnostics
In Bayesian statistics, the marginal likelihood is used for model selection and averaging, yet it is often challenging to compute accurately for complex models. Approaches such as bridge sampling, while effective, may suffer from issues of high variability of the estimates. We present how to estimate Monte Carlo standard error (MCSE) for bridge sampling, and how to diagnose the reliability of MCSE estimates using Pareto-$\hat{k}$ and block reshuffling diagnostics without the need to repeatedly …

Experts: Felony rioting charges for journalists covering protests are rare, troubling (Quinlan Bentley/Cincinnati.com)
https://eu.cincinnati.com/story/news/2025/07/22/reporters-face-felonies-after-roebling-bridge-protest/85322385007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p124#a250722p124

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Tacocat:
🎵 Bridge to Hawaii
#Tacocat
https://tacocat.bandcamp.com/track/bridge-to-hawaii
https://open.spotify.com/track/3RgUzbBzDYimNWvEbkQPIQ
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Ukraine seeks $6 billion to close weapons production gap, prioritising drone interceptors: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/21/ukraine-seeks-billion-to-close.html

Alpine County, perched like an emerald on the crest of the Sierra Nevada, is as rural as rural California gets.
Vast distance separates its sparse settlements, tucked among forests and crystalline streams. The views, unobstructed by city clutter, go on forever.
There is no hospital,
no supermarket, fast-food restaurant or shopping mall anywhere in its 743 square miles.
The only stoplight is temporary,
put in place for a bridge repair.
And yet if all goes …

California mystery: Why does a small rural county vote like SF?
Rural usually means Republican. But this county is a Democratic speck in California's sea of red.

Impressions of Lisbon #Portugal

#malaphors #humor #comedy

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
CALLY: In range.
BLAKE: Force wall.
AVON: [Tries to activate force wall but it just burbles] Primary malfunction. Force wall won't activate.
BLAKE: Leave it. Hit it, Jenna, all the power we've got. Hang on!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/113

State Space Models Naturally Produce Traveling Waves, Time Cells, and Scale to Abstract Cognitive Functions
Sen Lu, Xiaoyu Zhang, Mingtao Hu, Eric Yeu-Jer Lee, Soohyeon Kim, Wei D. Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13638

State Space Models Naturally Produce Traveling Waves, Time Cells, and Scale to Abstract Cognitive Functions
A grand challenge in modern neuroscience is to bridge the gap between the detailed mapping of microscale neural circuits and a mechanistic understanding of cognitive functions. While extensive knowledge exists about neuronal connectivity and biophysics, a significant gap remains in how these elements combine to produce flexible, learned behaviors. Here, we propose that a framework based on State-Space Models (SSMs), an emerging class of deep learning architectures, can bridge this gap. We argue…

South Korea's Upstage, which offers AI document intelligence tools, raised a $45M Series B bridge led by the KDB, Amazon, and AMD, after a $72M Series B in 2024 (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/20/upstage-…

An Empirical Study on How Video-LLMs Answer Video Questions
Chenhui Gou, Ziyu Ma, Zicheng Duan, Haoyu He, Feng Chen, Akide Liu, Bohan Zhuang, Jianfei Cai, Hamid Rezatofighi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15360

An Empirical Study on How Video-LLMs Answer Video Questions
Taking advantage of large-scale data and pretrained language models, Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in answering video questions. However, most existing efforts focus on improving performance, with limited attention to understanding their internal mechanisms. This paper aims to bridge this gap through a systematic empirical study. To interpret existing VideoLLMs, we adopt attention knockouts as our primary analytical tool and design three variants: Video…

Weakening NEPA without replaciing it with something better is no abundance agenda.
This highway widening would foreclose future transit expansion and probably make traffic worse for most drivers.It is opposed by both local governments it goes through. NEPA is the only veto point.
A transit project with the same local opposition would be dead on arrival.

Alexandria asks VDOT to delay adding express lanes to Woodrow Wilson Bridge | ALXnow
Alexandria Mayor Alyia Gaskins and city staff are asking that the Virginia Department of Transportation delay approval of a preferred alternative on a plan to add express lanes from the Springfield Interchange across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. In an April letter to VDOT, Gaskins wrote that the project will bring "Alexandria "substantial consequences to our

Urban Living V - Iconography 🎎
都市生活 V - 图解 🎎
📷 Nikon FE
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buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

3LM: Bridging Arabic, STEM, and Code through Benchmarking
Basma El Amel Boussaha, Leen AlQadi, Mugariya Farooq, Shaikha Alsuwaidi, Giulia Campesan, Ahmed Alzubaidi, Mohammed Alyafeai, Hakim Hacid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15850

3LM: Bridging Arabic, STEM, and Code through Benchmarking
Arabic is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, yet efforts to develop and evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) for Arabic remain relatively limited. Most existing Arabic benchmarks focus on linguistic, cultural, or religious content, leaving a significant gap in domains like STEM and code which are increasingly relevant for real-world LLM applications. To help bridge this gap, we present 3LM, a suite of three benchmarks designed specifically for Arabic. The first is a set of S…

Feeling like moving this account to a GTS instance, would delete my Bsky and bridge it there and make it a one-for-all, but I want something like WP to tweak not GTS. It'd be cool if @… would consider a 10 buck a month plan for something like ClassicPress w/ ActivityPub, I imagine that's pretty light.

VeriOpt: PPA-Aware High-Quality Verilog Generation via Multi-Role LLMs
Kimia Tasnia, Alexander Garcia, Tasnuva Farheen, Sazadur Rahman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14776

VeriOpt: PPA-Aware High-Quality Verilog Generation via Multi-Role LLMs
The rapid adoption of large language models(LLMs) in hardware design has primarily focused on generating functionally correct Verilog code, overlooking critical Power Performance-Area(PPA) metrics essential for industrial-grade designs. To bridge this gap, we propose VeriOpt, a novel framework that leverages role-based prompting and PPA-aware optimization to enable LLMs to produce high-quality, synthesizable Verilog. VeriOpt structures LLM interactions into specialized roles (e.g., Planner, Pro…

Foundation Models for Cross-Domain EEG Analysis Application: A Survey
Hongqi Li, Yitong Chen, Yujuan Wang, Weihang Ni, Haodong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15716 https://

Foundation Models for Cross-Domain EEG Analysis Application: A Survey
Electroencephalography (EEG) analysis stands at the forefront of neuroscience and artificial intelligence research, where foundation models are reshaping the traditional EEG analysis paradigm by leveraging their powerful representational capacity and cross-modal generalization. However, the rapid proliferation of these techniques has led to a fragmented research landscape, characterized by diverse model roles, inconsistent architectures, and a lack of systematic categorization. To bridge this g…

El diario El País estš disponible de manera oficial en el fediverso con su cuenta de bluesky a través del bridge
👉🏻 @…
#ElPais #Bluesky

Topological Social Choice: Designing a Noise-Robust Polar Distance for Persistence Diagrams
Athanasios Andrikopoulos, Nikolaos Sampanis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14340

Topological Social Choice: Designing a Noise-Robust Polar Distance for Persistence Diagrams
Topological Data Analysis (TDA) has emerged as a powerful framework for extracting robust and interpretable features from noisy high-dimensional data. In the context of Social Choice Theory, where preference profiles and collective decisions are geometrically rich yet sensitive to perturbations, TDA remains largely unexplored. This work introduces a novel conceptual bridge between these domains by proposing a new metric framework for persistence diagrams tailored to noisy preference data.We def…

DualMark: Identifying Model and Training Data Origins in Generated Audio
Xuefeng Yang, Jian Guan, Feiyang Xiao, Congyi Fan, Haohe Liu, Qiaoxi Zhu, Dongli Xu, Youtian Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15521

DualMark: Identifying Model and Training Data Origins in Generated Audio
Existing watermarking methods for audio generative models only enable model-level attribution, allowing the identification of the originating generation model, but are unable to trace the underlying training dataset. This significant limitation raises critical provenance questions, particularly in scenarios involving copyright and accountability concerns. To bridge this fundamental gap, we introduce DualMark, the first dual-provenance watermarking framework capable of simultaneously encoding tw…

Cross-Layer Design of Vector-Symbolic Computing: Bridging Cognition and Brain-Inspired Hardware Acceleration
Shuting Du, Mohamed Ibrahim, Zishen Wan, Luqi Zheng, Boheng Zhao, Zhenkun Fan, Che-Kai Liu, Tushar Krishna, Arijit Raychowdhury, Haitong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14245

Cross-Layer Design of Vector-Symbolic Computing: Bridging Cognition and Brain-Inspired Hardware Acceleration
Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) have been widely deployed in various cognitive applications due to their simple and efficient operations. The widespread adoption of VSAs has, in turn, spurred the development of numerous hardware solutions aimed at optimizing their performance. Despite these advancements, a comprehensive and unified discourse on the convergence of hardware and algorithms in the context of VSAs remains somewhat limited. The paper aims to bridge the gap between theoretical so…

Diversity in Hydrogen-rich Envelope Mass of Type II Supernovae. (III). The mass-loss and evolutionary pathways of the red supergiant progenitors
Qiliang Fang, Takashi J. Moriya, Keiichi Maeda, Andris Dorozsmai, Javier Silva-Farf\'an
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14665

Diversity in Hydrogen-rich Envelope Mass of Type II Supernovae. (III). The mass-loss and evolutionary pathways of the red supergiant progenitors
We present a comprehensive analysis of 32 type II supernovae (SNe II) with plateau phase photometry and late phase ($nebular$) spectroscopy available, aiming to bridge the gap between the surface and core of their red supergiant (RSG) progenitors. Using \texttt{MESA}\,+\texttt{STELLA}, we compute an extensive grid of SN II light curve models originating from RSG with effective temperatures $T_{\rm eff}$ around 3650\,K and hydrogen-rich envelopes artificially stripped to varying degrees. These m…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Des Demonas:
🎵 The Duke Ellington Bridge
#DesDemonas
https://des-demonas.bandcamp.com/track/the-duke-elington-bridge
https://open.spotify.com/track/5E1F4ZhdWKkIrPcEGLVYF7

Ultrastrong and ductile CoNiMoAl medium-entropy alloys enabled by L12 nanoprecipitate-induced multiple deformation mechanisms
Min Young Sung, Tae Jin Jang, Sang Yoon Song, Gunjick Lee, KenHee Ryou, Sang-Ho Oh, Byeong-Joo Lee, Pyuck-Pa Choi, J\"org Neugebauer, Blazej Grabowski, Fritz K\"ormann, Yuji Ikeda, Alireza Zargaran, Seok Su Sohn
https://…

Ultrastrong and ductile CoNiMoAl medium-entropy alloys enabled by L12 nanoprecipitate-induced multiple deformation mechanisms
L12 precipitates are known to significantly enhance the strength and ductility of single-phase face-centered cubic (FCC) medium- or high-entropy alloys (M/HEAs). However, further improvements in mechanical properties remain untapped, as alloy design has historically focused on systems with specific CrCoNi- or FeCoCrNi-based FCC matrix and Ni3Al L12 phase compositions. This study introduces novel Co-Ni-Mo-Al alloys with L12 precipitates by systematically altering Al content, aiming to bridge thi…

Hoogste spoorbrug geopend.
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/6/6/worlds-tallest-railway-bridge-links-kashmir-valley-to-india#flips-6373957241112:0

World’s tallest railway bridge links Kashmir Valley to India
India’s PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the world’s tallest railway bridge in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Knight Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and others unveil the Public Media Bridge Fund, providing $26.5M to help CPB radio and TV stations avoid closure (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/20…

The Race to Rescue PBS and NPR Stations
The Knight Foundation and other top organizations are aiming to provide $50 million to stabilize the stations most at risk from the recent federal government funding cuts.

This weekend is the last chance to say goodbye to our local West Montrose Covered Bridge ("Kissing Bridge"). The historic 145 year old span of the Grand River is the last remaining original one in #Ontario. It will be replaced over the next 2 years by a rebuilt covered bridge, with hopefully many of the original elements reused.

Please note that the photo below, which is making the rounds, is from 1987 and not 2025; Golden Gate anniversary not a protest. See this page:
https://www.vintag.es/2013/09/pictures-of-golden-gate-bridge-50th.html

SF Supervisor Matt Dorsey was one of 15 BCDC Commissioners who voted to take away weekday access to the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge bike path.
Dorsey said cyclists need to learn to compromise more. So much for his bragging about using bikeshare 🚮
https://

Richmond bridge bike lane access to be reduced starting this fall
The change to Thursday afternoons through Sundays, starting in October, lets transportation officials test the impact on traffic congestion.

Not including a direct rail link to Glasgow airport is a missed opportunity.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98lqj0j8rdo

New Paisley bridge and roads plan to boost Glasgow Airport links
The £59m project is expected to improve transport connections between Paisley town centre and the airport.

New Computer Science Building seen from the end of the plaza near the bridge with Gates Hall
#photo #photography #buildings

“THE BIKE FRAME IS A BRIDGE ON WHEELS, BUILT TO CARRY PEOPLE OVER THE GROUND.”
The Modern Bicycle and its Accessories, 1898
Bridge Bike Works made In 🇨🇦
#cycling

BRIDGE Bike Works - North American Made Carbon Bikes
BRIDGE was founded with a vision to create a better carbon bike. One that is designed, precision-engineered and built locally. One that is handcrafted in North America by a team with an unparalleled passion for attention to detail, from product to experience. One that celebrates the relationship between rider and bike.

Loudoun schools suspend boys uncomfortable with biological female student in locker room (Nick Minock/WJLA-TV)
https://wjla.com/news/local/loudoun-county-schools-suspend-boys-students-stone-bridge-high-school-sexual-harassment-female-school-locker-room-discrimination-bathroom-title-ix-investigation-gender-identity-policy-8040-education
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p135#a250818p135

Efficient Image-to-Image Schr\"odinger Bridge for CT Field of View Extension
Zhenhao Li, Long Yang, Xiaojie Yin, Haijun Yu, Jiazhou Wang, Hongbin Han, Weigang Hu, Yixing Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11211

Efficient Image-to-Image Schrödinger Bridge for CT Field of View Extension
Computed tomography (CT) is a cornerstone imaging modality for non-invasive, high-resolution visualization of internal anatomical structures. However, when the scanned object exceeds the scanner's field of view (FOV), projection data are truncated, resulting in incomplete reconstructions and pronounced artifacts near FOV boundaries. Conventional reconstruction algorithms struggle to recover accurate anatomy from such data, limiting clinical reliability. Deep learning approaches have been explor…

#Trump's 2003 letter to #Epstein is a smoking gun & #MAGA's reckoning with their king being a pedophile.

Who would've guessed that this would be the bridge too far for his cult?

Embodied-R1: Reinforced Embodied Reasoning for General Robotic Manipulation
Yifu Yuan, Haiqin Cui, Yaoting Huang, Yibin Chen, Fei Ni, Zibin Dong, Pengyi Li, Yan Zheng, Jianye Hao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13998

Embodied-R1: Reinforced Embodied Reasoning for General Robotic Manipulation
Generalization in embodied AI is hindered by the "seeing-to-doing gap," which stems from data scarcity and embodiment heterogeneity. To address this, we pioneer "pointing" as a unified, embodiment-agnostic intermediate representation, defining four core embodied pointing abilities that bridge high-level vision-language comprehension with low-level action primitives. We introduce Embodied-R1, a 3B Vision-Language Model (VLM) specifically designed for embodied reasoning and pointing. We use a wid…

Non-individuality and experience
Raoni Arroyo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15627 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.15627

Non-individuality and experience
This chapter acknowledges a gap between the ``non-individuals'' interpretation of quantum mechanics and our world of experience, and begins to bridge it. Section 1 states the problem with Abner Shimony's ``Phenomenological principle''; section 2 briefly presents the interpretation with connection to standard quantum mechanics; section 3 presents the measurement problem in connection with the Phenomenological principle, the standard way out of it, and why the ``non-individuals'' interpretation o…

Observing Fine-Grained Changes in Jupyter Notebooks During Development Time
Sergey Titov, Konstantin Grotov, Cristina Sarasua, Yaroslav Golubev, Dhivyabharathi Ramasamy, Alberto Bacchelli, Abraham Bernstein, Timofey Bryksin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15831

Observing Fine-Grained Changes in Jupyter Notebooks During Development Time
In software engineering, numerous studies have focused on the analysis of fine-grained logs, leading to significant innovations in areas such as refactoring, security, and code completion. However, no similar studies have been conducted for computational notebooks in the context of data science. To help bridge this research gap, we make three scientific contributions: we (1) introduce a toolset for collecting code changes in Jupyter notebooks during development time; (2) use it to collect mor…

So when the narrow-ass Ballard Bridge sidewalk pops up in 10 Things I Hate About You, do other people loudly boo at the screen? Or is that just me?

Statistical Arbitrage in Options Markets by Graph Learning and Synthetic Long Positions
Yoonsik Hong, Diego Klabjan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14762 https://

Statistical Arbitrage in Options Markets by Graph Learning and Synthetic Long Positions
Statistical arbitrages (StatArbs) driven by machine learning has garnered considerable attention in both academia and industry. Nevertheless, deep-learning (DL) approaches to directly exploit StatArbs in options markets remain largely unexplored. Moreover, prior graph learning (GL) -- a methodological basis of this paper -- studies overlooked that features are tabular in many cases and that tree-based methods outperform DL on numerous tabular datasets. To bridge these gaps, we propose a two-sta…

Walking to Georgetown was a mistake. Mostly due to the ½ mile of uncovered sun-drenched Key Bridge.

Siamese Neural Network for Label-Efficient Critical Phenomena Prediction in 3D Percolation Models
Shanshan Wang, Dian Xu, Jianmin Shen, Feng Gao, Wei Li, Weibing Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14159

Siamese Neural Network for Label-Efficient Critical Phenomena Prediction in 3D Percolation Models
Percolation theory serves as a cornerstone for studying phase transitions and critical phenomena, with broad implications in statistical physics, materials science, and complex networks. However, most machine learning frameworks for percolation analysis have focused on two-dimensional systems, oversimplifying the spatial correlations and morphological complexity of real-world three-dimensional materials. To bridge this gap and improve label efficiency and scalability in 3D systems, we propose a…

Good morning!

Control-affine Schr\"odinger Bridge and Generalized Bohm Potential
Alexis M. H. Teter, Abhishek Halder, Michael D. Schneider, Alexx S. Perloff, Jane Pratt, Conor M. Artman, Maria Demireva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08511

Control-affine Schrödinger Bridge and Generalized Bohm Potential
The control-affine Schrödinger bridge concerns with a stochastic optimal control problem. Its solution is a controlled evolution of joint state probability density subject to a control-affine Itô diffusion with a given deadline connecting a given pair of initial and terminal densities. In this work, we recast the necessary conditions of optimality for the control-affine Schrödinger bridge problem as a two point boundary value problem for a quantum mechanical Schrödinger PDE with complex pot…

I use @… with all of my accounts. I don't get a ton of engagement with folks over there but the world is a better place because the bridge exists.

As we're getting more into hikes around our new home – and I record tracks of them to also improve #openstreetmap – I've made a #wanderer profile at @… to share some nice trails.
It's an open source trail/track sharing platform that's federated thanks to #ActivityPub, so if you can read this post, you can follow my profile there too!*
* that is except you read this through the bridge to BlueSky, then you're out of luck and should give the actual Fediverse another try 😉

🎶 #Kerch Bridge on fire, your defence is terrified 🎶
“#Ukraine's #SBU claims it has damaged the foundations of the

Ukraine claims explosive attack on Russia's bridge to Crimea
Kyiv says it has bombed the Kerch Bridge in a "unique special operation." The blast targeted a critical Russian supply route. Meanwhile, three people were killed in a Russian attack on Sumy.

Exploring Autonomous Agents: A Closer Look at Why They Fail When Completing Tasks
Ruofan Lu, Yichen Li, Yintong Huo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13143 https://

Exploring Autonomous Agents: A Closer Look at Why They Fail When Completing Tasks
Autonomous agent systems powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities in automating complex tasks. However, current evaluations largely rely on success rates without systematically analyzing the interactions, communication mechanisms, and failure causes within these systems. To bridge this gap, we present a benchmark of 34 representative programmable tasks designed to rigorously assess autonomous agents. Using this benchmark, we evaluate three popular open-so…

Momentum Multi-Marginal Schr\"odinger Bridge Matching
Panagiotis Theodoropoulos, Augustinos D. Saravanos, Evangelos A. Theodorou, Guan-Horng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10168

Momentum Multi-Marginal Schrödinger Bridge Matching
Understanding complex systems by inferring trajectories from sparse sample snapshots is a fundamental challenge in a wide range of domains, e.g., single-cell biology, meteorology, and economics. Despite advancements in Bridge and Flow matching frameworks, current methodologies rely on pairwise interpolation between adjacent snapshots. This hinders their ability to capture long-range temporal dependencies and potentially affects the coherence of the inferred trajectories. To address these issues…

What's the point of paying for an entry to a viewing platform, if there's a road bridge next to it, with the same height and roughly the same view?
Yeah, I know, it's the Poznań way of thinking.

Historic Tokyo Bridge Liberated from Concrete Overpass Will Shine Again Thanks to Grassroots Campaign https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/historic-tokyo-bridge-pulled-out-from-under-highway-overpass-following-gra…

Historic Tokyo Bridge Liberated from Concrete Overpass Will Shine Again Thanks to Grassroots Campaign
The Nihonbashi Bridge was considered the first reference node of the entire Japanese national road network at the time. 

LumiMAS: A Comprehensive Framework for Real-Time Monitoring and Enhanced Observability in Multi-Agent Systems
Ron Solomon, Yarin Yerushalmi Levi, Lior Vaknin, Eran Aizikovich, Amit Baras, Etai Ohana, Amit Giloni, Shamik Bose, Chiara Picardi, Yuval Elovici, Asaf Shabtai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12412

LumiMAS: A Comprehensive Framework for Real-Time Monitoring and Enhanced Observability in Multi-Agent Systems
The incorporation of large language models in multi-agent systems (MASs) has the potential to significantly improve our ability to autonomously solve complex problems. However, such systems introduce unique challenges in monitoring, interpreting, and detecting system failures. Most existing MAS observability frameworks focus on analyzing each individual agent separately, overlooking failures associated with the entire MAS. To bridge this gap, we propose LumiMAS, a novel MAS observability framew…

I realize there's a lot going on, but I'm surprised I didn't hear anything about the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge partially shutting down for emergency repairs. How does this affect the bike path debate? No word if it's affected by the shutdown.
https://www.

Transit for All: Mapping Equitable Bike2Subway Connection using Region Representation Learning
Min Namgung, JangHyeon Lee, Fangyi Ding, Yao-Yi Chiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15113

Transit for All: Mapping Equitable Bike2Subway Connection using Region Representation Learning
Ensuring equitable public transit access remains challenging, particularly in densely populated cities like New York City (NYC), where low-income and minority communities often face limited transit accessibility. Bike-sharing systems (BSS) can bridge these equity gaps by providing affordable first- and last-mile connections. However, strategically expanding BSS into underserved neighborhoods is difficult due to uncertain bike-sharing demand at newly planned ("cold-start") station locations and …

Owners of cargo ship that crashed into Baltimore bridge sue company that built vessel | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/owners-of-cargo-ship-that-crashed-into-baltimore-bridge-sue-company-that-built-vessel

i've upgraded the Ethernet controller applet for #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer
this is the main loop of the applet working in bridge mode (acting as a network card for your PC). no weird optimizations, no hacks, just a loop that forwards packets in normal boring Python
on a 100BASE-T link, i get ~95.5 Mbps [saturated link] of upload bandwidth and ~70 Mbps of downlo…

Synth Riff Morning Jams
This series of jams will start with a synth riff or figure of some kind. This time it is a Zebra 2 patch called "HS Rhode Lady." I put bass on with my Rondo Douglass Violin bass and discovered that the bridge pickup is dead. I will have to take that apart to see what is going on. Fortunately, the neck pickup sounds good.

From Translink
Partial closures on Pattullo Bridge coming next week
Bridge closed northbound for one night and southbound for two nights

The Pattullo Bridge will be partially closed to traffic three nights in a row next week so crews can perform scheduled maintenance work.
Monday June 9 9pm to 5am closed Northbound
Tuesday June 10 9pm to 5am closed
Southbound
Wednesday June 11 9pm to 5am closed Southbound
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Neural Bridge Processes
Jian Xu, Yican Liu, Qibin Zhao, John Paisley, Delu Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07220 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07220

Neural Bridge Processes
Learning stochastic functions from partially observed context-target pairs is a fundamental problem in probabilistic modeling. Traditional models like Gaussian Processes (GPs) face scalability issues with large datasets and assume Gaussianity, limiting their applicability. While Neural Processes (NPs) offer more flexibility, they struggle with capturing complex, multi-modal target distributions. Neural Diffusion Processes (NDPs) enhance expressivity through a learned diffusion process but rely …

Wookey Hole near Wells, Mendip Hills, April 2025
#photography #heritagephotography #documentingplaces #documentingbritain

MM-BrowseComp: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Browsing Agents
Shilong Li, Xingyuan Bu, Wenjie Wang, Jiaheng Liu, Jun Dong, Haoyang He, Hao Lu, Haozhe Zhang, Chenchen Jing, Zhen Li, Chuanhao Li, Jiayi Tian, Chenchen Zhang, Tianhao Peng, Yancheng He, Jihao Gu, Yuanxing Zhang, Jian Yang, Ge Zhang, Wenhao Huang, Wangchunshu Zhou, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Ruizhe Ding, Shilei Wen

MM-BrowseComp: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Browsing Agents
AI agents with advanced reasoning and tool use capabilities have demonstrated impressive performance in web browsing for deep search. While existing benchmarks such as BrowseComp evaluate these browsing abilities, they primarily focus on textual information, overlooking the prevalence of multimodal content. To bridge this gap, we introduce MM-BrowseComp, a novel benchmark comprising 224 challenging, hand-crafted questions specifically designed to assess agents' multimodal retrieval and reasonin…

Automatically describe data and models as text using the {report} package. #rstats

Too little sleep, too hot, stagnant air with no breeze, and definitely rudely humid. When it became clear what a struggle this would be, I opted to run for HR zones instead. This included several walking breaks to bring my HR back down. My fitness needs the work.
#Running

Normal forms of 2-plat 2-knots and their Alexander polynomials
Jumpei Yasuda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15401 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Normal forms of 2-plat 2-knots and their Alexander polynomials
A 2-knot is a 2-sphere smoothly embedded in the 4-space. A 2-knot is called $n$-plat if it is equivalent to the plat closure of a 2-dimensional $2n$-braid, which is a higher-dimensional analogue of an $n$-bridge knot. Every 1-plat 2-knot is trivial, and there exist infinitely many nontrivial 2-plat 2-knots. In this paper, we introduce normal forms of 2-plat 2-knots using rational numbers. We compute their knot groups and Alexander polynomials based on these normal forms. We also propose conject…

L'Orient en course Š pied
So it rained, and then it was sunny when I got to the treadmill. Should have done the treadmill, way too humid 🤦‍♂️😆
Turns out the bridge I cross when I run this route is falling apart, so I have a detour for a few months.
#running #runnersofmastodon

Schr\"odinger Bridge Consistency Trajectory Models for Speech Enhancement
Shuichiro Nishigori, Koichi Saito, Naoki Murata, Masato Hirano, Shusuke Takahashi, Yuki Mitsufuji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11925

Schrödinger Bridge Consistency Trajectory Models for Speech Enhancement
Speech enhancement (SE) utilizing diffusion models is a promising technology that improves speech quality in noisy speech data. Furthermore, the Schrödinger bridge (SB) has recently been used in diffusion-based SE to improve speech quality by resolving a mismatch between the endpoint of the forward process and the starting point of the reverse process. However, the SB still exhibits slow inference owing to the necessity of a large number of function evaluations (NFE) for inference to obtain hi…

Code is a confusing engineering object for our human brains. It is a bit like building a bridge or a kitchen utensil: it’s an object without a mind, it has a function, it can fail, people do unexpected things with it. But it can also feel a bit like a person given a task: it has behavior, it •decides•, it •acts•, it •causes•.
(All arguably true of a bridge too, but most of us don’t think of bridges that way!)
The lay understanding of code leans heavily on the idea that programs are anthropomorphic, little homunculi with agency.
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if you follow this account bluesky then remember to follow this bridge account so I can see your posts and stuff
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xbifsywyv5pka5jlknhv5yv3

Quantum-to-Classical Transition via Single-Shot Generalized Measurements
Zhenyu Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13174 https://arxiv.org…

Quantum-to-Classical Transition via Single-Shot Generalized Measurements
Quantum-to-classical transition for finite-dimensional systems is widely considered to occur continuously, yet the mechanism underlying the intermediate stage remains unclear. In this work, we address this challenge by adopting an operational framework to bridge discrete generalized coherent state positive-operator-valued measurements and continuous isotropic depolarizing channels. Our unified treatment reveals how dimensionality and decoherence rate collectively govern the quantum-to-classical…

“The String… will be much faster”
my brain is breaking https://mastodon.social/@Catfish_Man/114655168110161214

SDAP-based QoS Flow Multiplexing Support in Simu5G for 5G NR Simulation
Mohamed Seliem, Utz Roedig, Cormac Sreenan, Dirk Pesch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12785 https://

SDAP-based QoS Flow Multiplexing Support in Simu5G for 5G NR Simulation
The Service Data Adaptation Protocol (SDAP) plays a central role in 5G New Radio (NR), acting as a bridge between the core and radio networks, by enabling QoS Flow multiplexing over shared Data Radio Bearers (DRBs). However, most 5G simulation frameworks, including the popular OMNet++-based Simu5G, lack SDAP support, limiting their ability to model realistic QoS behavior. This paper presents a modular, standardscompliant SDAP extension for Simu5G. The implementation includes core elements such …

Driving Style Recognition Like an Expert Using Semantic Privileged Information from Large Language Models
Zhaokun Chen, Chaopeng Zhang, Xiaohan Li, Wenshuo Wang, Gentiane Venture, Junqiang Xi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13881

Driving Style Recognition Like an Expert Using Semantic Privileged Information from Large Language Models
Existing driving style recognition systems largely depend on low-level sensor-derived features for training, neglecting the rich semantic reasoning capability inherent to human experts. This discrepancy results in a fundamental misalignment between algorithmic classifications and expert judgments. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel framework that integrates Semantic Privileged Information (SPI) derived from large language models (LLMs) to align recognition outcomes with human-interpretable …

Exploiting Convexity of Neural Networks in Dynamic Operating Envelope Optimization for Distributed Energy Resources
Hongyi Li, Liming Liu, Yunyi Li, Zhaoyu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13090

Exploiting Convexity of Neural Networks in Dynamic Operating Envelope Optimization for Distributed Energy Resources
The increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) brings opportunities and challenges to the operation of distribution systems. To ensure network integrity, dynamic operating envelopes (DOEs) are issued by utilities to DERs as their time-varying export/import power limits. Due to the non-convex nature of power flow equations, the optimization of DOEs faces a dilemma of solution accuracy and computation efficiency. To bridge this gap, in this paper, we facilitate DOE optimization…

Somehow we made this part of the Queensboro Bridge worse. This is a 3-4ft wide two-way bike lane. There's so much wrong with this, from the metal manhole cover taking up almost the entire width of the bike lane, to the MUTCD-violating usage of sharrows, to those shitty rumble strip/speed bump things THAT ARE LOOSE.
Wtaf! #bikeNYC
@…

Ukraine detonated a massive underwater blast t
argeting the key road and rail bridge connecting the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula to Russia,
damaging its underwater supports.
The operation, claimed by Kyiv’s SBU security service, is the second high-profile operation by Ukraine in days striking significant Russian assets after a sophisticated drone raid on Moscow’s strategic bomber fleet on Sunday

EgoTwin: Dreaming Body and View in First Person
Jingqiao Xiu, Fangzhou Hong, Yicong Li, Mengze Li, Wentao Wang, Sirui Han, Liang Pan, Ziwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13013 …

EgoTwin: Dreaming Body and View in First Person
While exocentric video synthesis has achieved great progress, egocentric video generation remains largely underexplored, which requires modeling first-person view content along with camera motion patterns induced by the wearer's body movements. To bridge this gap, we introduce a novel task of joint egocentric video and human motion generation, characterized by two key challenges: 1) Viewpoint Alignment: the camera trajectory in the generated video must accurately align with the head trajectory …

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
GAN: He seems to be working to a plan.
VILA: I wish we were.
AVON: [Entering] Well? Did any of the controls respond?
GAN: Nothing here.
VILA: Nothing on mine.
CALLY: Nothing on these.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/338 B7B3

Amazon launches Kiro, an IDE that aims to bridge the gap between rapidly vibe-coded prototypes and production-ready systems (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-targets-vibe-coding-chaos-with-new-kiro-ai-softwa…

good morning.
#SanFrancisco

Beyond Solving Math Quiz: Evaluating the Ability of Large Reasoning Models to Ask for Information
Youcheng Huang, Bowen Qin, Chen Huang, Duanyu Feng, Xi Yang, Wenqiang Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11252

Beyond Solving Math Quiz: Evaluating the Ability of Large Reasoning Models to Ask for Information
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable problem-solving abilities in mathematics, as evaluated by existing benchmarks exclusively on well-defined problems. However, such evaluation setup constitutes a critical gap, since a genuine intelligent agent should not only solve problems (as a math quiz solver), but also be able~to ask for information when the problems lack sufficient information, enabling proactivity in responding users' requests. To bridge such gap, we proposes a ne…

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Sparse Autoencoders Bridge The Deep Learning Model and The Brain
Ziming Mao, Jia Xu, Zeqi Zheng, Haofang Zheng, Dabing Sheng, Yaochu Jin, Guoyuan Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11123

Sparse Autoencoders Bridge The Deep Learning Model and The Brain
We present SAE-BrainMap, a novel framework that directly aligns deep learning visual model representations with voxel-level fMRI responses using sparse autoencoders (SAEs). First, we train layer-wise SAEs on model activations and compute the correlations between SAE unit activations and cortical fMRI signals elicited by the same natural image stimuli with cosine similarity, revealing strong activation correspondence (maximum similarity up to 0.76). Depending on this alignment, we construct a vo…

Weakening NEPA without replaciing it with something better is no abundance agenda.
This highway widening would foreclose future transit expansion and probably make traffic worse for most drivers.It is opposed by both local governments it goes through. NEPA is the only veto point.
A transit project with the same local opposition would be dead on arrival.

Fabrication of airbridges with gradient exposure
Yuting Sun, Jiayu Ding, Xiaoyu Xia, Xiaohan Wang, Jianwen Xu, Shuqing Song, Dong Lan, Jie Zhao, Yang Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14565

Fabrication of airbridges with gradient exposure
In superconducting quantum circuits, airbridges are critical for eliminating parasitic slotline modes of coplanar waveguide circuits and reducing crosstalks between direct current magnetic flux biases. Here, we present a technique for fabricating superconducting airbridges. With this technique, a single layer of photoresist is employed, and the gradient exposure process is used to define the profile of airbridges. In order to properly obtain the bridge profile, we design exposure dosage based o…

Breaking Language Barriers: Equitable Performance in Multilingual Language Models
Tanay Nagar, Grigorii Khvatskii, Anna Sokol, Nitesh V. Chawla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12662 …

Breaking Language Barriers: Equitable Performance in Multilingual Language Models
Cutting-edge LLMs have emerged as powerful tools for multilingual communication and understanding. However, LLMs perform worse in Common Sense Reasoning (CSR) tasks when prompted in low-resource languages (LRLs) like Hindi or Swahili compared to high-resource languages (HRLs) like English. Equalizing this inconsistent access to quality LLM outputs is crucial to ensure fairness for speakers of LRLs and across diverse linguistic communities. In this paper, we propose an approach to bridge this ga…

"I Cannot Write This Because It Violates Our Content Policy": Understanding Content Moderation Policies and User Experiences in Generative AI Products
Lan Gao, Oscar Chen, Rachel Lee, Nick Feamster, Chenhao Tan, Marshini Chetty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14018

"I Cannot Write This Because It Violates Our Content Policy": Understanding Content Moderation Policies and User Experiences in Generative AI Products
While recent research has focused on developing safeguards for generative AI (GAI) model-level content safety, little is known about how content moderation to prevent malicious content performs for end-users in real-world GAI products. To bridge this gap, we investigated content moderation policies and their enforcement in GAI online tools -- consumer-facing web-based GAI applications. We first analyzed content moderation policies of 14 GAI online tools. While these policies are comprehensive i…

Bixby Bridge in Big Sur California
-- Today
-- and as rapidly built by the WPA in 1932 (top: August & bottom: October)
-- The canyon at the north end is so steep you can't see the bottom here, but Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a cabin there (where Jack Kerouac stayed in 1961)

Program Feature-based Fuzzing Benchmarking
Miao Miao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15088 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.15088

Program Feature-based Fuzzing Benchmarking
Fuzzing is a powerful software testing technique renowned for its effectiveness in identifying software vulnerabilities. Traditional fuzzing evaluations typically focus on overall fuzzer performance across a set of target programs, yet few benchmarks consider how fine-grained program features influence fuzzing effectiveness. To bridge this gap, we introduce a novel benchmark designed to generate programs with configurable, fine-grained program features to enhance fuzzing evaluations. We reviewe…

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
PLAXTON: What's the matter with your main drive?
TARRANT: It's a museum piece.
PLAXTON: Standard fiber optic control connections?
AVON: Very standard.
https://blake.t…

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

Fascist harasser confronting protestors on the 42nd st bridge over 35w

Inclusion Arena: An Open Platform for Evaluating Large Foundation Models with Real-World Apps
Kangyu Wang, Hongliang He, Lin Liu, Ruiqi Liang, Zhenzhong Lan, Jianguo Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11452

Inclusion Arena: An Open Platform for Evaluating Large Foundation Models with Real-World Apps
Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have ushered in a new era of AI capabilities, demonstrating near-human-level performance across diverse scenarios. While numerous benchmarks (e.g., MMLU) and leaderboards (e.g., Chatbot Arena) have been proposed to help evolve the development of LLMs and MLLMs, most rely on static datasets or crowdsourced general-domain prompts, often falling short of reflecting performance in real-world applications. To bridge this criti…

Ukraine strikes bridge connecting Russia to Crimea with underwater explosives (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/03/europe/ukraine-crimea-bridge-russia-underwater-intl
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p92#a250603p92

Rethinking the Embodied Gap in Vision-and-Language Navigation: A Holistic Study of Physical and Visual Disparities
Liuyi Wang, Xinyuan Xia, Hui Zhao, Hanqing Wang, Tai Wang, Yilun Chen, Chengju Liu, Qijun Chen, Jiangmiao Pang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13019

Rethinking the Embodied Gap in Vision-and-Language Navigation: A Holistic Study of Physical and Visual Disparities
Recent Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) advancements are promising, but their idealized assumptions about robot movement and control fail to reflect physically embodied deployment challenges. To bridge this gap, we introduce VLN-PE, a physically realistic VLN platform supporting humanoid, quadruped, and wheeled robots. For the first time, we systematically evaluate several ego-centric VLN methods in physical robotic settings across different technical pipelines, including classification mod…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CV. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/new
[2/5]:
FrameBridge: Improving Image-to-Video Generation with Bridge Models
http…

NLI4VolVis: Natural Language Interaction for Volume Visualization via LLM Multi-Agents and Editable 3D Gaussian Splatting
Kuangshi Ai, Kaiyuan Tang, Chaoli Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12621

NLI4VolVis: Natural Language Interaction for Volume Visualization via LLM Multi-Agents and Editable 3D Gaussian Splatting
Traditional volume visualization (VolVis) methods, like direct volume rendering, suffer from rigid transfer function designs and high computational costs. Although novel view synthesis approaches enhance rendering efficiency, they require additional learning effort for non-experts and lack support for semantic-level interaction. To bridge this gap, we propose NLI4VolVis, an interactive system that enables users to explore, query, and edit volumetric scenes using natural language. NLI4VolVis int…

Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
[Switch to flight deck of Liberator. Blake enters rubbing his shoulder.]
AVON: What happened?
BLAKE: Slight disagreement with Raiker. And then the hatch closed.
JENNA: We're on our way.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/663 B7B3

Can Large Language Models Bridge the Gap in Environmental Knowledge?
Linda Smail (College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Zayed University, UAE), David Santandreu Calonge (Department of Academic Development, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE), Firuz Kamalov (School of Engineering, Applied Science,Technology, Canadian University Dubai, UAE), Nur H. Orak (Department of Environmental Engineering, Marmara University, T\"urkiye)

Can Large Language Models Bridge the Gap in Environmental Knowledge?
This research investigates the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models to bridge the knowledge gap in environmental education among university students. By focusing on prominent large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3.5, GPT-4, GPT-4o, Gemini, Claude Sonnet, and Llama 2, the study assesses their effectiveness in conveying environmental concepts and, consequently, facilitating environmental education. The investigation employs a standardized tool, the Environmental Knowledge Test (EK…

ReAL-AD: Towards Human-Like Reasoning in End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Yuhang Lu, Jiadong Tu, Yuexin Ma, Xinge Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12499 https:/…

ReAL-AD: Towards Human-Like Reasoning in End-to-End Autonomous Driving
End-to-end autonomous driving has emerged as a promising approach to unify perception, prediction, and planning within a single framework, reducing information loss and improving adaptability. However, existing methods often rely on fixed and sparse trajectory supervision, limiting their ability to capture the hierarchical reasoning process that human drivers naturally employ. To bridge this gap, we propose ReAL-AD, a Reasoning-Augmented Learning framework that structures decision-making in aut…