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Hey, folks who understand alt text and limited vision accessibility:
I have need to write alt text for the diagram below. The alt text needs to be comprehensible to somebody who is encountering this kind of diagram for the ••very first time••. I could describe the images using the relevant jargon, but that would only serve people who already know the thing this activity is teaching them!
Any suggestions for how I could write good alt text for something like this? Is it possible? (The horizontal black bars are minus signs, i.e. subtraction. This is clear from context in the text, but probably not clear in the image.)
PLEASE NOTE: I am looking for people with ••relevant accessibility expertise••, not just random best shots from people who (like me) don’t really know much about this kind of problem.

The difference between Ukraine and Russia attacks is clear. Ukraine hits primarily military targets, Russia primarily civilian targets.
We should keep doing everything we can to help Ukraine defend it's civilian centers.
#ukraine #russia

At first hearing of this place the dog-phobic in me noped out but it looks like they’ve got some good rules/policies in place. Milwaukee dog people who eat sandwiches this one’s for you.
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/07/05/dining-rileys-offers-up-s…

Dining: Riley’s Offers Up Sandwiches, Space for Fido
Dog-friendly business has a clear niche in Third Ward.

With every month that passes, it becomes more clear that quitting that cursed place was the right call:
«Peter Kyle said it was clear further action was needed to ensure the government-backed Alan Turing Institute met its full potential. […] Making clear that the Turing 2.0 strategy did not meet government requirements, Kyle indicated that he expected leadership changes at ATI.» 🍿
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/04/minister-demands-overhaul-of-uks-leading-ai-institute-alan-turing

Vacation officially started with a cup of ice cream 😊
#vacation #bayern

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Nada Surf:
🎵 Cold To See Clear
#NowPlaying #NadaSurf
https://nadasurf.bandcamp.com/track/cold-to-see-clear
https://open.spotify.com/track/7y0yAHKF2NqVNOghLbWPVS

A defense trick:
If you are in a crowd of advancing ICE or maga-cops you can drop strips of packing tape (the two or three inch wide clear stuff available at any drug or stationary store) or carpet tape (double sided super strong adhesive) in their path. It can really entangle an advancing phalanx.
(This trick can bounce back onto those who deploy it. It may be useful to tack one or both ends of the tape to the ground to prevent it from blowing back and entangling you, or if yo…

Relevant för min artikel om puberteten hos idrottande flickor det här. Mer mogna tjejer är troligen mer mottagliga för instruktioner. Jag tror det påverkar hur intelligent och "träningsbar" som spelaren uppfattas.
"We found a clear correlation between pubertal development and school grades. Those who are further along in puberty perform better in school"

Sean Hannity is always throwing the football, never catching it. You're coming through loud and clear, Sean: I am not a receiver.

At the risk of stating the obvious, please do state the obvious! In two separate meetings this week it seemed like someone was arguing against a proposed change and in both cases, they were actually very supportive of the idea, and had already moved on to talk about what else could be done. Stop. Express your support (you can thank the suggester if you like!) so that it's clear, and THEN you can build on the original suggestion.
In both cases, we nearly ended up not doing the original thing!

Since childhood, I have viewed the family as an inherently authoritarian institution, a primary form of domination that compels obedience and suppresses the individual’s natural freedom to organize themselves, as Rocker made clear in his unyielding critique of all authority.
#Anarchism #Syndicalism

🧶 Can America Get Unstuck?
#politics

Can America Get Unstuck?
We used to be more dynamic, more mobile, and more energetic. It’s not clear if we can be again.

Calamus 25 The prairie-grass dividing
Whitman's celebration of simple men, of men from "inland America", of those who are unimpressed by Presidents and Governors. It's a romantic sentiment but in 2025 also feels a little naïve or condescending.
But as always I'm here for the gay stuff. Which starts explicitly enough
[I] Demand the most copious and close companionship of men
Well OK then! Me too. Maybe you could read that in a non-sexual way but then Whitman gets lusty
[I demand] Those with a never-quell'd audacity—those with sweet and lusty flesh, clear of taint, choice and chary of its love-power
My goodness, is that hot! At least to start, it's a shame he tames it seeking out men "chary of love-power". At least he recognizes their love power! I'll take the taint, thank you.

Meanwhile, while we continue to debate "the business case for sustainability": 
"92% of CFOs plan to invest more on sustainability this year due to the clear business case—and more than half say they plan to spend significantly more."

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
The Peddlers:
🎵 On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
#ThePeddlers
https://open.spotify.com/track/3FzBRKgDtjtv0Xu0diOzib

Cowboys' backup QB situation could already have a clear cut favorite https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-backup-qb-situation-already-have-clear-cut-favorite

this isn't a capable administration. to let talent and promise flip through the net because of political posturing is unforgiveable.
<https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/06/jared-isaacman-speaks-out-and-its-cle…

Jared Isaacman speaks out, and it’s clear that NASA lost a visionary leader
“We went from the atomic bomb in 1945 to laying the keel on the Nautilus in 1951.”…

Niki notes a front yard vegetable garden can be expensive to kick off at first. “It’s a bit of a status symbol now to have a tidy vegetable garden in your front yard producing some of your own food,” she says.
Nature's bountiful crops

"Palestine Action is not arming the genocide and Israel — that’s Keir Starmer and the British government, who should be proscribed,”
'A clear example of political censorship' | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/clear-e…

The U.S. military B-2 Spirit bomber pilots and crew involved with the coordinated strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last month have been invited to attend a July 4 celebration at the White House
-- but it's not clear what measures have been taken to protect their identities.
The White House confirmed to Military.com that those involved in the mission, dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer, were invited to the White House's July 4 celebration.
It follows comments mad…

Pilots Who Conducted Iran Strikes Invited to White House on July 4, Raising Security Concerns
The B-2 Spirit bomber pilots and crew involved with the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last month have been invited to attend a July 4 celebration at the White House, but it's not clear what measures have been taken to protect their identities.

Just to clarify: this is not a complete list of things I want for the world. This is not even a complete political platform. It’s just a single simple, clear, core message that I suspect would work much better in elections than that fash-lite mush all the Newsomesque political consultants are oozing out of their pores right now.

I was asked if I could send a screenshot of my Rust learning project to possibly help to be installed. A server that deals with binary encryption, among other things, is not so simply clear to see 😅🤷‍♂️
(This is now in the INFO login, it's just for showing the request as a demo and doesn't make sense)
#rust

Browsing reporting structures…
45 employees, 3 managers
70 employees, 6 managers
46 employees, 2 managers
😳😱 WTAF is happening to management in tech
We have clear research and experience and common sense understanding that high manager-report ratios are ineffective, and yet…???

Reason-to-Recommend: Using Interaction-of-Thought Reasoning to Enhance LLM Recommendation
Keyu Zhao, Fengli Xu, Yong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05069 ht…

Reason-to-Recommend: Using Interaction-of-Thought Reasoning to Enhance LLM Recommendation
Driven by advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), integrating them into recommendation tasks has gained interest due to their strong semantic understanding and prompt flexibility. Prior work encoded user-item interactions or metadata into prompts for recommendations. In parallel, LLM reasoning, boosted by test-time scaling and reinforcement learning, has excelled in fields like mathematics and code, where reasoning traces and correctness signals are clear, enabling high performance and interp…

How to Get Loud and Clear Mixes in Your Home Studio https://www.levelsmusicproduction.com/blog/how-to-get-loud-and-clear-mixes-…

How to Get Loud and Clear Mixes in Your Home Studio
Learn how to get loud, clear, and professional-sounding mixes in your home studio with these 5 essential tips on balance, EQ, compression, referencing, and mastering.

Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
GEELA: We provide clear passage out of orbit.
BLAKE: [Examining the unit] I don't know that we have this type of cell. I dare say we have something that can be adapted.
NOVARA: Then you agree?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/354 B7B…

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Benchmarking Time-localized Explanations for Audio Classification Models
Cecilia Bola\~nos, Leonardo Pepino, Martin Meza, Luciana Ferrer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04391

Benchmarking Time-localized Explanations for Audio Classification Models
Most modern approaches for audio processing are opaque, in the sense that they do not provide an explanation for their decisions. For this reason, various methods have been proposed to explain the outputs generated by these models. Good explanations can result in interesting insights about the data or the model, as well as increase trust in the system. Unfortunately, evaluating the quality of explanations is far from trivial since, for most tasks, there is no clear ground truth explanation to u…

Hadn't really thought about it before, but Langdon Winner's "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" is a clear counterexample to Betteridge's Law.

Sources: Elon Musk is pushing lawmakers to help clear a path for driverless vehicles and has been weighing in on revisions of a bill on autonomous vehicles (Bloomberg)

Offseason Moves Make Spytek's Vision for the Raiders' Future Clear https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-chip-kelly-raheem-mostert-brock-bowers-jakobi-meyers

In the last two weeks, I've read two different people expressing a general complaint about normal use of hashtags, and I just don't get it. Can someone explain this viewpoint to me?
To be clear, I am not talking about someone who quietly chooses not to use hashtags in their own toots.
Also, I am not talking about hashtag spamming, the deliberate use of off-topic tags.
#MastodonQuestion

The Clear Winner in Trump v. CASA: The Supreme Court (Jack Goldsmith/Executive Functions)
https://executivefunctions.substack.com/p/the-clear-winner-in-trump-v-casa
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p66#a250629p66

Formation of the Two-Armed Phase Spiral from Multiple External Perturbations
Junxian Lin, Zhao-Yu Li, Rui Guo, Jason A. S. Hunt, Teresa Antoja, Chengye Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04705

Formation of the Two-Armed Phase Spiral from Multiple External Perturbations
Recent studies using the Gaia DR3 data have revealed a two-armed phase spiral in the $Z-V_Z$ phase space in the inner disk. In this study, we present new features of the two-armed phase spiral revealed by the Gaia Data and a new mechanism to explain such features with multiple external perturbations. By segmenting the Gaia DR3 RVS catalog based on $J_ϕ$ (or $R_{g}$) and $θ_ϕ$, we confirm the existence of the clear two-armed phase spiral in the inner disk. Moreover, we identify a different tw…

I for one welcome our new nose-robot overlords 🤖 🤧
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/25/swarms-of-tiny-nose-robots-could-clear-infected-sinuses-researchers-say

Do you need inspiration how to present a dataset in a clear figure and what package to use? Check out #rstats

From data to Viz | Find the graphic you need
A classification of chart types based on their input data format.

Well, the good news is that it’s over. Run/walk staying in HR zone 2 and I think I was walking more than running. My fitness is 💩 right now. The humidity about killed me, even at 0730. I should have gone out earlier.
I’m at my in-laws place in Tennessee for the holiday weekend, of which this beautiful neighborhood has so few mature trees. As such, the sun gleefully poured out its angry menace upon me the entire time and I suffered. I am meant for cold weather.

Thermodynamics: A Clear Conceptual Framework
Joaquim Anacleto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02023 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.02023

Thermodynamics: A Clear Conceptual Framework
Building on the fundamental equation, this study revisits key thermodynamic concepts in a cohesive and innovative manner. It demonstrates the consistency of thermodynamic theory while addressing and clarifying common misconceptions and errors found in the literature, particularly regarding discussions on heat and work. Although the latter two concepts could potentially be set aside, they can be retained if their various and different definitions are clearly articulated and properly understood. …

A commented translation of Boltzmann's work, "Ueber die sogenannte H-Curve."
Jae Wan Shim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04262 https://

A commented translation of Boltzmann's work, "Ueber die sogenannte H-Curve."
Boltzmann's work, ``Ueber die sogenannte H-Curve," discusses his demonstration of the essential characteristics of the H-curve in a clear, concise, and precise style, showcasing his efforts to persuade his peers. To make these findings more widely accessible, the author aims to provide a translated version of the original article, while also correcting some typographical errors in the mathematical expressions with explanatory footnotes. The final section offers concluding remarks with graphs an…

As the Senate weighs possible changes to the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap as part of the tax portion of the "big, beautiful bill,"
House Republicans from blue states are already threatening to derail the bill's prospects.
"Let's be clear — no SALT, no deal," New York Republican Mike Lawler said Wednesday in a post on X

Trump admin live updates: Trump signs proclamation banning travel from 12 countries
The president cited national security concerns for enacting the ban.

It's on days like today that @…'s rain radar really comes into it's own - I've been trying to clear some admin from home, but I need to bike to the office to print a poster for this week's @… meeting in Brussels - guess I'm going to wait an hour or so then..
https://www.dmi.dk/#radar

Alright, I got a sicko headphone cable from Corpse Cable, and as a trepidatious high end headphone listener, I am relieved and a tiny bit mortified to report that it sounds really fucking good!
• Focal Clear MG Professional
• Custom GR∀EDIGGER Cable (4.4mm balanced TRRRS)
• Sony Walkman NW-ZX707

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/11/lets-be-clear-the-rioting-in-la-is-by-the-cops-not-the-protestors/

Let’s Be Clear: The Rioting In LA Is By The Cops, Not The Protestors
I already wrote about the GOP’s bloodthirsty desire to use the military on Americans. They manufactured a nonsense “crisis” by over-aggressively sending in ICE agents to grab people off the streets…

Just came back from a wonderful ~4h hike in the #mangfalltal. We stopped here, had some cake and coffee in the shade and had just a good time.
#hiking #bayern

Now, as a Trot, I'm obviously not a huge Stalin fan but, still... 🤔
4% of the world population, 22% of all the prisoners in the world.

So halte ich im #Browser meine #MultiColumn-Ansicht clean und sauber:
Wenn eine Spalte gelesen, dann einfach auf den Tropfen drücken und die Spalte ist leer.

👀 #QGIS vs #Arcgis from an industry perspective https://www.wigeogis.com/en/arcgis_vs_qgis

First Law of the Internet
Every person shall be free to use the Internet in any way that is privately beneficial without being publicly detrimental.
- The burden of demonstrating public detriment shall be on those who wish to prevent the private use.
- Such a demonstration shall require clear and convincing evidence of public detriment.
- The public detriment must be of such degree and extent as to justify the suppression of the private activity.
…

Let’s be clear:
The people saying “Alligator Auschwitz” are not blowing things out of proportion. They are not putting words in MAGA’s mouth. This is a clear and explicit endorsement of the mass murder of an entire identity group in the US.
And yes, obviously she is “joking.” Of course she is “joking.” But with quotation marks. She is not joking.

This needs to be made clear to everyone. A HUGE SWATH OF AMERICA IS NOT LISTENING.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2orsuabrdskjpuglpru77po2/post/3lsxfkpdnjk24

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17155 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

TrimR: Verifier-based Training-Free Thinking Compression for Efficient Test-Time Scaling
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) demonstrate exceptional capability in tackling complex mathematical, logical, and coding tasks by leveraging extended Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. Test-time scaling methods, such as prolonging CoT with explicit token-level exploration, can push LRMs' accuracy boundaries, but they incur significant decoding overhead. A key inefficiency source is LRMs often generate redundant thinking CoTs, which demonstrate clear structured overthinking and underthinking patter…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21386 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Power Suppression and Lensing Anomaly -- A phenomenological investigation
Primordial power spectra with low power at long wavelengths can alleviate lensing anomaly. However the extent to which data favours such a primordial spectra is not clear. In this work, we investigate power suppression and related mitigation of lensing anomaly with the help of phenomenological models which are valid over scales of interest. We consider simple extensions to nearly scale invariant power spectra such as those which includes running and running of running of spectral index. We perf…

The #QEMU contribution policy is being updated to make it clear we don't currently accept #llm generated code: https://

As United Nations experts have made clear, spraying red paint and disrupting the British-based operations of Israel’s largest weapons firm, Elbit Systems, is not terrorism.
#ukpolitics

Is Reasoning All You Need? Probing Bias in the Age of Reasoning Language Models
Riccardo Cantini, Nicola Gabriele, Alessio Orsino, Domenico Talia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02799 …

Is Reasoning All You Need? Probing Bias in the Age of Reasoning Language Models
Reasoning Language Models (RLMs) have gained traction for their ability to perform complex, multi-step reasoning tasks through mechanisms such as Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting or fine-tuned reasoning traces. While these capabilities promise improved reliability, their impact on robustness to social biases remains unclear. In this work, we leverage the CLEAR-Bias benchmark, originally designed for Large Language Models (LLMs), to investigate the adversarial robustness of RLMs to bias elicitat…

🗳️ Can the “Red Wave” Stop Austerity in Finland?
#politics

Can the “Red Wave” Stop Austerity in Finland?
Last Sunday’s local and regional elections in Finland saw a big defeat for the hard-right Finns Party. Its leader called the gains for left-wing parties a “red wave” — but it’s less clear that this will halt the government’s austerity agenda.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14792 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

Exploiting Local Observations for Robust Robot Learning
While many robotic tasks can be addressed through either centralized single-agent control with full state observation or decentralized multi-agent control, clear criteria for selecting the optimal approach are lacking. This paper presents a comprehensive investigation into how multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) with local observations can enhance robustness in complex robotic systems compared to traditional centralized control methods. We provide both theoretical analysis and empirical v…

There is a word for this, treason. It is now clear for everyone that the USA is actively supporting Russia.
"Hegseth halted weapons for Ukraine despite military analysis that the aid wouldn’t jeopardize U.S. readiness
The move blindsided the State Department, Ukraine, European allies and members of Congress, who demanded an explanation from the Pentagon."

Hegseth halted weapons for Ukraine despite military analysis that the aid wouldn’t jeopardize U.S. readiness
Suspending the shipment of military aid to Ukraine was a unilateral step by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to four sources.

Call your Senators now. @… can make it easy, or just dial 202-224-3121 and ask the Capitol switchboard to connect you.
#USpol #bbb

One look and it was clear they were into Test Drivel Development.
#sarcasm #softwareEngineering #TDD

Durchsichtige Icon-Optik in iOS 26: Apple ergänzt Hell und Dunkel um "Clear"
Apple neuer, glasiger Look lässt sich auch auf iPhone-Bildzeichen ausdehnen. Das ist glücklicherweise rein optional, denn die Übersicht leidet.

Learning to cluster neuronal function
Nina S. Nellen, Polina Turishcheva, Michaela Vystr\v{c}ilov\'a, Shashwat Sridhar, Tim Gollisch, Andreas S. Tolias, Alexander S. Ecker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03293

Learning to cluster neuronal function
Deep neural networks trained to predict neural activity from visual input and behaviour have shown great potential to serve as digital twins of the visual cortex. Per-neuron embeddings derived from these models could potentially be used to map the functional landscape or identify cell types. However, state-of-the-art predictive models of mouse V1 do not generate functional embeddings that exhibit clear clustering patterns which would correspond to cell types. This raises the question whether th…

Want to invest in Ukrainian startups from the US? This platform promises to be the bridge: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/want-to-invest-in-ukrainian.html

I was playing Pup Champs and got totally stuck on level 2-12. I had an idea on how to solve it but I couldn't get it to work for days. Heck… this level IS IMPOSSIBLE AND NO WAY THAT IS SOLVABLE AT ALL. Then I did solve it and the solution is now clear as glass and straight forward even.
I love thinky games until I hate them until I love them again! That’s why they are great!

Pup Champs

the good thing with "fake ai" is that it is sometimes so stupid that it motivates you to work harder.
I was using the GPT-4o mini regarding I dunno both what it "had" on Qubes OS and modifying Template VMs...the answers it gave were utterly stupid and when I(with some temper issues) pointed it out in a nice and clear way(still with temper issues) it gave the same stupid answers.
Edit: no "part 2" needed, any other parts I just attach to this post...

Unpacking Graduate Students' Learning Experience with Generative AI Teaching Assistant in A Quantitative Methodology Course
Zhanxin Hao, Haifeng Luo, Yongyi Chen, Yu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02966

Unpacking Graduate Students' Learning Experience with Generative AI Teaching Assistant in A Quantitative Methodology Course
The study was conducted in an Advanced Quantitative Research Methods course involving 20 graduate students. During the course, student inquiries made to the AI were recorded and coded using Bloom's taxonomy and the CLEAR framework. A series of independent sample t-tests and poisson regression analyses were employed to analyse the characteristics of different questions asked by students with different backgrounds. Post course interviews were conducted with 10 students to gain deeper insights int…

Sen. Chris Murphy says it's 'clear' Trump's strikes on Iran are 'illegal' (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/chris-murphy-says-clear-trumps-strikes-iran-are-illegal-rcna215794
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p45#a250629p45

The Trump people have just announced that they have sent a letter to Columbia’s accreditor, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, accusing Columbia of being in violation of civil rights law.
My initial reaction is that this is good news since it implies both that Columbia hasn’t further caved-in yet and makes clear that the Trump people have run out of ammunition

The Situation at Columbia XXIII
This week I’m very happy to not be at Columbia, and not in the US, enjoying spending the week at the Perimeter Institute at a conference in honor of Lee Smolin. Since there’s a little b…

How Well Does GPT-4o Understand Vision? Evaluating Multimodal Foundation Models on Standard Computer Vision Tasks
Rahul Ramachandran, Ali Garjani, Roman Bachmann, Andrei Atanov, O\u{g}uzhan Fatih Kar, Amir Zamir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01955

How Well Does GPT-4o Understand Vision? Evaluating Multimodal Foundation Models on Standard Computer Vision Tasks
Multimodal foundation models, such as GPT-4o, have recently made remarkable progress, but it is not clear where exactly these models stand in terms of understanding vision. In this paper, we benchmark the performance of popular multimodal foundation models (GPT-4o, o4-mini, Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemini 2.0 Flash, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Qwen2-VL, Llama 3.2) on standard computer vision tasks (semantic segmentation, object detection, image classification, depth and surface normal prediction) using establ…

A clear #sunset on 29 June in Bochum, Germany - with two #sunspots quite evident at times and a strong #GreenRim near the end of the show: more timesteps in https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid0vbP2AxckiSgX6hjVwNxJCuJ49mvcqMrJnP3EfDSjnzBKaJKfRnSTuYtzMnUm4Mrjl

Laser-plasma acceleration in a conical plasma channel with longitudinally inhomogeneous plasma profile
D. S. Bondar, W. Leemans, V. I. Maslov, I. N. Onishchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04021

Laser-plasma acceleration in a conical plasma channel with longitudinally inhomogeneous plasma profile
Laser-plasma acceleration is considered as a modern method of accelerating bunches using a wakefield excited by a laser pulse. This paper demonstrates the use of a longitudinally inhomogeneous increasing plasma density gradient in a conical channel to increase of the energy of a self-injected bunch. Comparison of a conical channels with homogeneous and inhomogeneous plasma and also conical and cylindrical homogeneous channels, shows a clear advantage of an inhomogeneous conical channel. The lon…

Globality and Regions
Hector Gramaglia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01664 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01664

Globality and Regions
We obtain a characterization of global variables by unifying abstraction with region abstraction in a region-based language. More precisely, in a previous work a language called global was presented, whose virtue is to provide a conceptually clear way of introducing imperative operations in a functional language. Memory safety is provided by the concept of linear protection, which connects the global system to a linear one. In this paper we show that the concept of global variable provided by t…

#photography #bloomScrolling #green #blue

Just in case you haven't already seen this - and the summary: Vaccines are safe, they are tested and there is a robust tracking system to detect possible problems.
https://theconversation.com/im-a-physi

I’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what RFK Jr. gets wrong
The health secretary has made many inaccurate statements about vaccines. But the science is clear that vaccines have dramatically reduced childhood illness, disability and death.

Just in case you haven't already seen this - and the summary: Vaccines are safe, they are tested and there is a robust tracking system to detect possible problems.
https://theconversation.com/im-a-physi

I’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what RFK Jr. gets wrong
The health secretary has made many inaccurate statements about vaccines. But the science is clear that vaccines have dramatically reduced childhood illness, disability and death.

Has anyone considered or encountered a "Generative AI usage statement" in a manuscript before? I'm thinking of adding one to make clear what genAI was/wasn't used to do in an upcoming submission.

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
AVON: Put it on the main screen.
ORAC: I must point out that this is a gross misuse and an absurd waste of my capabilities.
AVON: Put it on the main screen.
ORAC: I will do it only under protest.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/115

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Yesterday I finally wrote the blog post for the bike and hike recently.
For me it was pretty tough as it was constant incline of around 1000m over around 12km with just one short exception.
The view here is from the summit down to the "plain" where we left the bikes for the final climb.
The blog: https://w…

It is absolutely clear that,
The new casualties and massacre in #Gaza were inflicted by the Israeli army.
We know this because of,
The scale
The kind of injuries which include blast from shells
Eyewitness reports.
Who do you believe, the Israeli government or MSF?

I feel the call of home...

This was quite clear up in Qaanaaq this year. The place was swarming with filmmakers wanting to record the narwhal hunt. Hard to imagine the angle would be the same in other cultures....🤔

Some people are wildly off base and completely missing the point of what I’m doing. I downloaded Chrome only to install a mobile OS that protects my security. Once the web installation was done, Chrome was deleted immediately. This was a clear, intentional step.
The fact that some folks are threatening me not to use Chrome for this is beyond absurd. It’s like telling me not to withdraw cash from my own bank because the bank might somehow control what I do with that money. That kind of …

You Sound a Little Tense: L2 Tailored Clear TTS Using Durational Vowel Properties
Paige Tutt\"os\'i, H. Henny Yeung, Yue Wang, Jean-Julien Aucouturier, Angelica Lim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23367

You Sound a Little Tense: L2 Tailored Clear TTS Using Durational Vowel Properties
We present the first text-to-speech (TTS) system tailored to second language (L2) speakers. We use duration differences between American English tense (longer) and lax (shorter) vowels to create a "clarity mode" for Matcha-TTS. Our perception studies showed that French-L1, English-L2 listeners had fewer (at least 9.15%) transcription errors when using our clarity mode, and found it more encouraging and respectful than overall slowed down speech. Remarkably, listeners were not aware of these eff…

What we used to call “Bad News” can just be referred to as “News” now, and “Good News” no longer exists to confuse things so I hope that’s clear.

I just checked the files from our vacation recently. One day we just did a short cycling loop in the neighbourhood.
Actually - nothing really exciting for us. But after a while I thought about all you, international friends here. And I assumed that most of you have probably no clue about my direct neighbourhood and the villages around.
So enjoy a short video:

CLEAR-3K: Assessing Causal Explanatory Capabilities in Language Models
Naiming Liu, Richard Baraniuk, Shashank Sonkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17180 http…

CLEAR-3K: Assessing Causal Explanatory Capabilities in Language Models
We introduce CLEAR-3K, a dataset of 3,000 assertion-reasoning questions designed to evaluate whether language models can determine if one statement causally explains another. Each question present an assertion-reason pair and challenge language models to distinguish between semantic relatedness and genuine causal explanatory relationships. Through comprehensive evaluation of 21 state-of-the-art language models (ranging from 0.5B to 72B parameters), we identify two fundamental findings. First, l…

Dak Prescott makes goal clear about Dallas Cowboys, NFL legacy https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dak-prescott-makes-goal-clear-about-dallas-cowboys-nfl-legacy

I’m going to be very honest and clear.
I am fully preparing myself to die under this new American regime.
That’s not to say that it’s the end of the world. It isn’t.
But I am almost 50 years old. It will take so long to do anything with this mess that this is the new normal for *me*.
I do hope a lot of you run. I hope you vote, sure.
Maybe do a general strike or rent strike.
All great!
But I spent the last week reading things and this is not, for ME…

Trump asks the Supreme Court to clear the way for federal downsizing plans (Mark Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-mass-firings-supreme-court-doge-0ea25bf33376bda2434992587c7f3143
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p109#a250602p109

Dang it…is there a human-readable data format that is basically YAML syntax but the simple featureset of JSON (plus comments)?
I want something concise and Markdown-ish, made for human editing, like YAML, but without all of YAML’s…er, specialness.
EDIT: To be clear, this is for •primary content•, not configuration. It should •feel• like working with Markdown; it’s just that the output needs to be array-and-dict-shaped instead of HTML-shaped. (Lots of good suggestions in the replies already! TOML and KDL and are clear crowd favorites.)

'Fahrrad' #FotoVorschlag "Bicycle"
Ahh that motto immediately reminded me of our bike&hike to the Schachen above #GarmischPartenkirchen in 2021.
We were pretty done when we reached our destination but it was a great ride. It would be so cool if I…

Dang it…is there a human-readable data format that is basically YAML syntax but the simple featureset of JSON (plus comments)?
I want something concise and Markdown-ish, made for human editing, like YAML, but without all of YAML’s…er, specialness.
EDIT: To be clear, this is for •primary content•, not configuration. It should •feel• like working with Markdown; it’s just that the output needs to be array-and-dict-shaped instead of HTML-shaped. (Lots of good suggestions in the replies already! TOML and KDL and are clear crowd favorites.)

Exercise can reduce the risk of cancer patients dying by a third,
stop tumours coming back
and is even more effective than drugs,
according to the results of a landmark trial that could transform health guidelines worldwide.

Hi friends!
I set my alarm to 5am and headed out for a nice walk. It was getting warm, so I started early. - and it was just so good to do so!
A nice 6h walk with lots of views, lots of photos and just enjoying being out. End the #summit just for me 😍
On the way up I noted all places where I could refuel later using my water filter. Seriously: why didn't I buy that waaays ear…

Hi friends!
I set my alarm to 5am and headed out for a nice walk. It was getting warm, so I started early. - and it was just so good to do so!
A nice 6h walk with lots of views, lots of photos and just enjoying being out. End the #summit just for me 😍
On the way up I noted all places where I could refuel later using my water filter. Seriously: why didn't I buy that waaays ear…

The MAGA era
— and the three latest Trump appointees to the Court
— has resulted in a new, gruesome project:
❌giving Trump whatever he wants.
🔥This toxic combination of bigotry and fealty has created a Court that uses all its might to attack the less powerful
while coddling those who already have it all — particularly Donald Trump.
It’s a Court with a very clear vision of who matters and who needs protection.
The majority opinion in "Trump v. C…

A corrupted Supreme Court sinks to new lows
The Trumpist majority closed the term with a ruling that could rip the nation apart.

A little afterwork walk after a short rain shower.
It has cooled off!
#gaißach #badtoelz
#walking

I finally finished the blogpost including some new photos and a short video (!!) from my hike last Saturday.
To me it was a really really gorgeous day!
Read the story here: https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2025/getting-up-early-for-the-mountains/
(a…

'Dinge die mit "S" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag (Things starting with S).
#Schnee / #Snow
I took this

We just went for a walk in Bad Tölz. Nothing special, just going for a walk along the river #isar.
Enjoy your Sunday!
#silentsunday #badtoelz