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DocMMIR: A Framework for Document Multi-modal Information Retrieval
The rapid advancement of unsupervised representation learning and large-scale pre-trained vision-language models has significantly improved cross-modal retrieval tasks. However, existing multi-modal information retrieval (MMIR) studies lack a comprehensive exploration of document-level retrieval and suffer from the absence of cross-domain datasets at this granularity. To address this limitation, we introduce DocMMIR, a novel multi-modal document retrieval framework designed explicitly to unify …

Can anyone here help explain the "status of a #Slovak living abroad"?
It is available to a) citizens and b) descendants of citizens. I understand the purpose of the status for the second group. But why would a Slovak citizen need the status document?

Accessibility for the Working Mathematician
Julius Ross
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22667 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22667

Accessibility for the Working Mathematician
If you only take one thing away from this document I would like it tobe this: Creating accessible documents requires authors have a working understanding of accessibility, and write with accessibility in mind.

Spotted yet another "NIS 2 certified" title on LinkedIn. Impressive, considering NIS 2 doesn't actually have a certification.
Are training agencies just inventing fantasy diplomas so people can avoid reading the actual NIS 2 directive?
Maybe we need a "Certified NIS 2 Reader" badge, read the document once, and you're more qualified than half the certifications out there.
#certification

Claude Plays Pokemon has restarted with Claude 4.
So far (~24 hours in) it seems pretty similar to the old one; it's currently wandering around Viridian Forest. But supposedly, internal tests showed it doing somewhat better. I don't know how much of that is due to the model and how much is the improved harness.
Improved harness info:

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Rethinking Chunk Size For Long-Document Retrieval: A Multi-Dataset Analysis
Chunking is a crucial preprocessing step in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, significantly impacting retrieval effectiveness across diverse datasets. In this study, we systematically evaluate fixed-size chunking strategies and their influence on retrieval performance using multiple embedding models. Our experiments, conducted on both short-form and long-form datasets, reveal that chunk size plays a critical role in retrieval effectiveness -- smaller chunks (64-128 tokens) are optim…

{dtrack} makes documentation of data wrangling part of the analysis and creates pretty flow charts: #rstats

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#OIDC #infosec

Effortless adjustments with an adaptive paste #visualstudio :visualstudio:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/effortless-adjust…

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Exploring the Interplay of Skewness and Kurtosis: Dynamics in Cryptocurrency Markets Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
We examine how skewness interacts with kurtosis within the cryptocurrency market. We show that during the COVID-19 pandemic there are more clusters of observations around the two flanks, highlighting the presence of a volatile behavior. Moreover, we document the evolvement of the interrelationship as the pandemic progresses, identifying the domination of the extremes. Our findings advance the thinking that by exploiting the interrelationship between the two higher moments of cryptocurrencies, i…

EUISS, #Publication #ChaillotPaper 186
Unpowering Russia: How the EU can counter and undermine the Kremlin Metadata
22 May 2025
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#OIDC #infosec

Every time someone publishes a linear non-interactive document only as a PDF, I shed a tear.

@… is wondering how much trouble a skipped heading level is for screen reader users. Three users have replied but it'd be great to see more feedback. Anyone else willing to reply to Manuel's post? Here is the link:
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Freue mich, dass die deutsche Ausgabe von A Thousand Year Old Vampire von @…, erschienen bei @…, da ist. Ich habe eine Vorlage als Google Doc angelegt und im @… Play Aids Folder abgelegt: #pnpde #ttrpg #solorpg #storygame

If you love #PersonalGrowth I really recommend you checking this app
💚 Confyday | Life Optimization App https://confyday.com/app

#cybersecurity

Did I just do a #Markdown conversion of Mark Russinovich’s seminal 1998 article on #WindowsNT (and by extension, all modern versions of #MicrosoftWindows)’ debt to

USC professor Allison Marsh writes this delightful short article for IEEE Spectrum about Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert's British counterparts in Cambridge and how, in their case, a document (the Lighthill Report) precipitated cuts in British AI research funding in ways similar to how funding was temporarily cut in the U.S. following MIT's publishing of Minsky and Papert's "Perceptrons" in 1969.
"Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI"

Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI

Its creator lost a power struggle that led to an AI winter in the 1970s

Ein neuer Blogpost, in dem ich zeige, wie man relativ einfach Seiten im #NeosCMS Backend markieren kann, die in einem Workspace vorbereitet, aber noch nicht veröffentlicht wurden: https://mind-the-…

Always document your builds! I have to rebuild a #ProxMox cluster with #Thunderbolt support and I forgot what the hell I did to get it working last time. 🙄
#debian

Wrestling with the ruler in Word? 📄 Frustrating, yeah? From text spilling off the page to uneven layouts, it can slow you down. ⏱️
But what if you could nail perfect formatting every time? 🎯
Dive into this walkthrough and discover how to effortlessly adjust margins, from quick presets to precise custom settings. I even cover those things like binding and landscape orientations! 🔄
No matter the document, getting those margins right makes all the difference. 😉
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so why don't we make @… vice-president of the european commission in charge of tech sovereignity, digital and internet things? https://berthub.eu/articles/po…

Cryptocurrencies in the Balance Sheet: Insights from (Micro)Strategy -- Bitcoin Interactions
Sabrina Aufiero, Antonio Briola, Tesfaye Salarin, Fabio Caccioli, Silvia Bartolucci, Tomaso Aste
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14655

Cryptocurrencies in the Balance Sheet: Insights from (Micro)Strategy -- Bitcoin Interactions
This paper investigates the evolving link between cryptocurrency and equity markets in the context of the recent wave of corporate Bitcoin (BTC) treasury strategies. We assemble a dataset of 39 publicly listed firms holding BTC, from their first acquisition through April 2025. Using daily logarithmic returns, we first document significant positive co-movements via Pearson correlations and single factor model regressions, discovering an average BTC beta of 0.62, and isolating 12 companies, inclu…