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this *sounds* like SFMTA agreed to painting full 20-foot red curbs at every intersection, rather than the mere 10 feet at stop-controlled intersections that has been traffic engineer Ricardo Olea's policy. if so, good! parent organizing worked!
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SFMTA Coming Up Short on Daylighting SF’s Red Curbs, Parents Say
San Francisco’s transit agency says it will change its daylighting policy to ensure compliance with a California traffic safety law intended to protect pedestrians and cyclists.

Listening to No Kings in The USA by Gangstagrass: #NoKings #Indivisible

NADI 2025: The First Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task
Bashar Talafha, Hawau Olamide Toyin, Peter Sullivan, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Abdurrahman Juma, Amirbek Djanibekov, Chiyu Zhang, Hamad Alshehhi, Hanan Aldarmaki, Mustafa Jarrar, Nizar Habash, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02038

NADI 2025: The First Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task
We present the findings of the sixth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI 2025) Shared Task, which focused on Arabic speech dialect processing across three subtasks: spoken dialect identification (Subtask 1), speech recognition (Subtask 2), and diacritic restoration for spoken dialects (Subtask 3). A total of 44 teams registered, and during the testing phase, 100 valid submissions were received from eight unique teams. The distribution was as follows: 34 submissions for Subtask 1 "five t…

Jon G. in Glasgow (UK, not KY) on Psalm 1.
#Bible

Some patterns of sleep quality and Daylight Saving Time across countries: a predictive and exploratory analysis
Bhanu Sharma, Eugene Pinsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03358 http…

Some patterns of sleep quality and Daylight Saving Time across countries: a predictive and exploratory analysis
In this study we analyzed average sleep durations across 61 countries to examine the impact of Daylight Saving Time (DST) practices. Key metrics influencing sleep were identified, and statistical correlation analysis was applied to explore relationships among these factors. Countries were grouped based on DST observance, and visualizations compared sleep patterns between DST and non-DST regions. Results show that, on average, countries observing DST tend to report longer sleep durations than th…

Designing Algorithmic Delegates: The Role of Indistinguishability in Human-AI Handoff
Sophie Greenwood, Karen Levy, Solon Barocas, Hoda Heidari, Jon Kleinberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03102

Designing Algorithmic Delegates: The Role of Indistinguishability in Human-AI Handoff
As AI technologies improve, people are increasingly willing to delegate tasks to AI agents. In many cases, the human decision-maker chooses whether to delegate to an AI agent based on properties of the specific instance of the decision-making problem they are facing. Since humans typically lack full awareness of all the factors relevant to this choice for a given decision-making instance, they perform a kind of categorization by treating indistinguishable instances -- those that have the same o…

A Unified Denoising and Adaptation Framework for Self-Supervised Bengali Dialectal ASR
Swadhin Biswas, Imran, Tuhin Sheikh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00988 https://

A Unified Denoising and Adaptation Framework for Self-Supervised Bengali Dialectal ASR
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for Bengali, the world's fifth most spoken language, remains a significant challenge, critically hindering technological accessibility for its over 270 million speakers. This challenge is compounded by two persistent and intertwined factors: the language's vast dialectal diversity and the prevalence of acoustic noise in real-world environments. While state-of-the-art self-supervised learning (SSL) models have advanced ASR for low-resource languages, they often…

This is a delightful segment on RNZ (nights with Emile Donovan) talking about 'perfect pitch'... https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/audio/2018993777/shower-thoughts-what-is-perfect-pitch

Audacity shocks! Russian UAVs attack in broad daylight, says Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/02/audacity-shocks-russian-uavs-attack.html

chDzDT: Word-level morphology-aware language model for Algerian social media text
Abdelkrime Aries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01772 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

chDzDT: Word-level morphology-aware language model for Algerian social media text
Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have substantially advanced natural language processing by providing context-sensitive text representations. However, the Algerian dialect remains under-represented, with few dedicated models available. Processing this dialect is challenging due to its complex morphology, frequent code-switching, multiple scripts, and strong lexical influences from other languages. These characteristics complicate tokenization and reduce the effectiveness of conventional word-…