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Devstral: Fine-tuning Language Models for Coding Agent Applications
Abhinav Rastogi, Adam Yang, Albert Q. Jiang, Alexander H. Liu, Alexandre Sablayrolles, Am\'elie H\'eliou, Am\'elie Martin, Anmol Agarwal, Andy Ehrenberg, Andy Lo, Antoine Roux, Arthur Darcet, Arthur Mensch, Baptiste Bout, Baptiste Rozi\`ere, Baudouin De Monicault, Chris Bamford, Christian Wallenwein, Christophe Renaudin, Cl\'emence Lanfranchi, Cl\'ement Denoix, Corentin Barreau, Darius Dabert Devon …

Devstral: Fine-tuning Language Models for Coding Agent Applications
We introduce Devstral-Small, a lightweight open source model for code agents with the best performance among models below 100B size. In this technical report, we give an overview of how we design and develop a model and craft specializations in agentic software development. The resulting model, Devstral-Small is a small 24B model, fast and easy to serve. Despite its size, Devstral-Small still attains competitive performance compared to models more than an order of magnitude larger.

1/2 Thanks to @… for this interesting article. It speaks to me. :)
I’ve been weather blogging @… since 2005. It is interesting how it has changed, and how I have changed.
My website used to be just data from the (expensive) station I bought when I moved back to Port Alberni. It was a hobby and a side project to practice web/coding skills I use at work. My focus was on creating useful data for people that was more local/relevant than the official EC station outside of the city.
Then I put up a webcam and learned how to make timelapses. This got the attention of local media… because pictures. :)
Then I added a blog and started to write about the weather almost daily. This was before Facebook. There was a popular local online forum where I would post things. The media would also follow my website and they started to call me when there was extreme weather (usually very hot or very wet/stormy).
Then Facebook started to get big and I made a page that eventually had a few thousand followers. I would blog often. Lots of traffic from Facebook… this was 2010 and on. I blogged about climate and weather pretty equally.
Like anyone in Port Alberni, I was/am obsessed with the Martin Mars and got wrapped up in that issue along with others which combined with the weather following probably gave me just enough exposure to have me elected as a councillor in 2014.
I continued through that 4 years, blogging often in addition to councillor duties and work, heavily on facebook, then it all went sideways on my own poor judgement (go ahead and google it, it’s ok :)) and I was not reelected, but Facebook by 2018 had also changed. Cambridge Analytica, etc.
….Continued…
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-weather-apps-data-wildfires-storms-preparation-obsession-social-media/

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
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- Silenced voices: social media polarization and women's marginalization in peacebuilding during th...
Adem Chanie Ali, Seid Muhie Yimam, Abinew Ali Ayele, Chris Biemann, Martin Semmann

Spin versus Magic: Lessons from Gluon and Graviton Scattering
John Gargalionis, Nathan Moynihan, Sokratis Trifinopoulos, Ewan N. V. Wallace, Chris D. White, Martin J. White
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14967

Spin versus Magic: Lessons from Gluon and Graviton Scattering
The quantum property of non-stabiliserness, also known as magic, plays a key role in designing quantum computing systems. How to produce, manipulate and enhance magic remains mysterious, such that concrete examples of physical systems that manifest magic behaviour are sought after. In this paper, we study two-particle scattering of gluons and gravitons in Yang--Mills theory and General Relativity, as well as their supersymmetric extensions. This provides an interesting case of two-qubit systems…

Nothing more to be said here…
“An inmate who has pleaded guilty to murdering Robert Pickton in prison last year says he did it for the serial killer's victims.
Martin Charest admitted on Thursday morning to fatally assaulting Pickton with a broken broom handle at the Port-Cartier federal penitentiary in May 2024.
Charest pleaded guilty to first-degree murder during a court appearance in Sept-Îles, Que., northeast of Quebec City.
Pickton was convicted in 2007 of six counts of second-degree murder, but confessed to killing a total of 49 women whom he lured to his pig farm near Vancouver.
A statement of facts read out in court detailed how Charest locked himself into a room with Pickton and assaulted him twice while guards were unable to enter.
Charest told the judge he murdered Pickton after the serial killer had continued to brag about the murders and told other inmates he'd commit more crimes if he was ever released.”
#Justice #Canada #RobertPickton #MMIWG #Indigenous
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pickton-s-killer-murder-charge-1.7643499

SynthID-Image: Image watermarking at internet scale
Sven Gowal, Rudy Bunel, Florian Stimberg, David Stutz, Guillermo Ortiz-Jimenez, Christina Kouridi, Mel Vecerik, Jamie Hayes, Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi, Paul Bernard, Chris Gamble, Mikl\'os Z. Horv\'ath, Fabian Kaczmarczyck, Alex Kaskasoli, Aleksandar Petrov, Ilia Shumailov, Meghana Thotakuri, Olivia Wiles, Jessica Yung, Zahra Ahmed, Victor Martin, Simon Rosen, Christopher Sav\v{c}ak, Armin Senoner, Nidhi Vyas, Pushmeet Kohli

SynthID-Image: Image watermarking at internet scale
We introduce SynthID-Image, a deep learning-based system for invisibly watermarking AI-generated imagery. This paper documents the technical desiderata, threat models, and practical challenges of deploying such a system at internet scale, addressing key requirements of effectiveness, fidelity, robustness, and security. SynthID-Image has been used to watermark over ten billion images and video frames across Google's services and its corresponding verification service is available to trusted test…

And with a thud felt on every doorstep, the Austerity Times of Mark Carney's Liberal government lands.
Massive layoffs on the way in the public service, likely starting at Canada Post.
Everyone remembers what came after the government of the last austerity-Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin*, right? RIGHT?
(shockingly, also a "Finance Guy”)
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Economy #CanadaPost #Liberalism #Centrism #Rightwing #Pandering #EndStageCapitalism
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-post-transformation-changes-1.7643345

Groups with conjugacy classes of coprime sizes
Rachel D. Camina, Attila Mar\'oti, Emanuele Pacifici, Chris Parker, Kamilla Rekv\'enyi, Jack Saunders, V\'ictor Sotomayor, Gareth Tracey, Martin van Beek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03851

Groups with conjugacy classes of coprime sizes
Suppose that $x$, $y$ are elements of a finite group $G$ lying in conjugacy classes of coprime sizes. We prove that $\langle {x^G} \cap {y^G}\rangle$ is an abelian normal subgroup of $G$ and, as a consequence, that if $x$ and $y$ are $π$-regular elements for some set of primes $π$, then $x^G y^G$ is a $π$-regular conjugacy class in $G$. The latter statement was previously known for $π$-separable groups $G$ and this generalisation permits us to extend several results concerning the common di…

Selecting Interlacing Committees
Chris Dong, Martin Bullinger, Tomasz W\k{a}s, Larry Birnbaum, Edith Elkind
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02519 https://arxiv.…

Selecting Interlacing Committees
Polarization is a major concern for a well-functioning society. Often, mass polarization of a society is driven by polarizing political representation, even when the latter is easily preventable. The existing computational social choice methods for the task of committee selection are not designed to address this issue. We enrich the standard approach to committee selection by defining two quantitative measures that evaluate how well a given committee interconnects the voters. Maximizing these m…

Theoretical Diagnostics for the Physical Conditions in Active Galactic Nuclei under the View of JWST
Lulu Zhang, Ric I. Davies, Chris Packham, Erin K. S. Hicks, Daniel E. Delaney, Miguel Pereira-Santaella, Laura Hermosa Mu\~noz, Ismael Garc\'ia-Bernete, Claudio Ricci, Dimitra Rigopoulou, Almudena Alonso-Herrero, Martin J. Ward, Enrica Bellocchi, Cristina Ramos Almeida, Francoise Combes, Masatoshi Imanishi, Omaira Gonz\'alez-Mart\'in, Tanio D\'iaz-Santos, Anelise Audiber…

Theoretical Diagnostics for the Physical Conditions in Active Galactic Nuclei under the View of JWST
With excellent spectral and angular resolutions and, especially, sensitivity, the JWST allows us to observe infrared emission lines that were previously inaccessible or barely accessible. These emission lines are promising for evaluating the physical conditions in different galaxies. Based on {\sc MAPPINGS V} photoionization models, we systematically analyze the dependence of over 20 mid-infrared (mid-IR) emission lines covered by the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) onboard JWST on the physical …