Tootfinder

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang
said he’s reached out to Elon Musk
in hopes of collaborating on the creation of a new political party,
Yang, along with mutual friends, believes the Tesla CEO has what it takes to form a new faction that propels America’s strongest leaders. ($$$$)
When asked if Musk has responded to his inquiry, Yang told the outlet “Not yet, but I assume he’s been very busy.”

Andrew Yang reaches out to Musk to collaborate on new political party
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said he’s reached out to Elon Musk in hopes of collaborating on the creation of a new political party...

Building on the 90s, statistical n-gram language models, trained on vast text collections, became the backbone of NLP research. They fueled advancements in nearly all NLP techniques of the era, laying the groundwork for today's AI.
F. Jelinek (1997), Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
#NLP

7 winners from Dallas Cowboys 2025 OTAs include shocking RB1 candidate https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/7-winners-from-dallas-cowboys-2025-otas-include-shocking-rb1-candidate

Smoking gun signature from axion and the constraints with radio telescopes
Zixuan Liu, Jiajun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05795 https://

Smoking gun signature from axion and the constraints with radio telescopes
Axions are an elegant solution to the strong CP problem for particle physics and a promising dark matter candidate. They can convert into photons under a strong magnetic field, while magnetars with extreme magnetic fields are natural labs for axion detection. Radio telescopes can detect the radio emission from axion-photon conversion near magnetars. In this study, we have refined the calculation of axion-photon conversion and developed the matched filtering integration method to largely improve…

Deformations of OP ensembles in a bulk critical scaling
Caio E. Candido, Victor Alves, Thomas Chouteau, Charles F. Santos, Guilherme L. F. Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05622

Deformations of OP ensembles in a bulk critical scaling
We study orthogonal polynomial ensembles whose weights are deformations of exponential weights, in the limit of a large number of particles. The deformation symbols we consider affect local fluctuations of the ensemble around a bulk point of the limiting spectrum. We identify the limiting kernel in terms of a solution to an integrable non-local differential equation. This novel kernel is the correlation kernel of a conditional thinned process starting from the Sine point process, and it is also…

Won’t someone think of the jackbooted thugs?
“…ICE officers themselves…facing inhumane conditions…showing symptoms of respiratory infections…can’t get proper testing for diagnoses…at risk of rocket attacks from Yemeni terrorists…lack body armor or other protective gear. …Trump…said…judge was ‘literally putting ICE agents’ lives in danger.’
…not quite true…judge never said they had to stay there…officials are ‘manufacturing the…chaos they decry.’”

ICE details dangerous working conditions in Djibouti. But they don’t have to be there.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are laboring under dangerous conditions while maintaining custody over migrants they’re holding at a military base in Djibouti, according to a declaration from an ICE official Thursday.

BecomingLit: Relightable Gaussian Avatars with Hybrid Neural Shading
Jonathan Schmidt, Simon Giebenhain, Matthias Niessner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06271

BecomingLit: Relightable Gaussian Avatars with Hybrid Neural Shading
We introduce BecomingLit, a novel method for reconstructing relightable, high-resolution head avatars that can be rendered from novel viewpoints at interactive rates. Therefore, we propose a new low-cost light stage capture setup, tailored specifically towards capturing faces. Using this setup, we collect a novel dataset consisting of diverse multi-view sequences of numerous subjects under varying illumination conditions and facial expressions. By leveraging our new dataset, we introduce a new …

Markov Blanket Density and Free Energy Minimization
Luca M. Possati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05794 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05794…

Markov Blanket Density and Free Energy Minimization
This paper presents a continuous, information-theoretic extension of the Free Energy Principle through the concept of Markov blanket density, i.e., a scalar field that quantifies the degree of conditional independence between internal and external states at each point in space (ranging from 0 for full coupling to 1 for full separation). It demonstrates that active inference dynamics (including the minimization of variational and expected free energy) naturally emerge from spatial gradients in t…

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

ExAct: A Video-Language Benchmark for Expert Action Analysis
Han Yi, Yulu Pan, Feihong He, Xinyu Liu, Benjamin Zhang, Oluwatumininu Oguntola, Gedas Bertasius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06277

ExAct: A Video-Language Benchmark for Expert Action Analysis
We present ExAct, a new video-language benchmark for expert-level understanding of skilled physical human activities. Our new benchmark contains 3521 expert-curated video question-answer pairs spanning 11 physical activities in 6 domains: Sports, Bike Repair, Cooking, Health, Music, and Dance. ExAct requires the correct answer to be selected from five carefully designed candidate options, thus necessitating a nuanced, fine-grained, expert-level understanding of physical human skills. Evaluating…