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Some interesting stuff I found on internet exchange LANs.
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/ixp-bad-broadcast-packets-interesting
saved 2025-09-25

Some interesting stuff I found on IX LANs

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Identity types.
https://bartoszmilewski.com/2025/09/22/identity-types/
saved 2025-09-26 https://dotat.…

Identity Types
Previously: Models of (Dependent) Type Theory. There is a deep connection between mathematics and programming. Computer programs deal with such mathematical objects as numbers, vectors, monoids, fu…

A Bayesian approach to time-domain Photonic Doppler Velocimetry
J. R. Allison (First Light Fusion Ltd), R. Bordas (First Light Fusion Ltd), J. Read (First Light Fusion Ltd), G. Burdiak (First Light Fusion Ltd), V. Beltr\'an (First Light Fusion Ltd), N. Joiner (First Light Fusion Ltd), H. Doyle (First Light Fusion Ltd), N. Hawker (First Light Fusion Ltd), J. Skidmore (First Light Fusion Ltd), T. Ao (Sandia National Laboratories), A. Porwitzky (Sandia National Laboratories), D. Dolan…

A Bayesian approach to time-domain Photonic Doppler Velocimetry
Photonic Doppler Velocimetry (PDV) is an established technique for measuring the velocities of fast-moving surfaces in high-energy-density experiments. In the standard approach to PDV analysis, a short-time Fourier transform (STFT) is used to generate a spectrogram from which the velocity history of the target is inferred. The user chooses the form, duration and separation of the window function. Here we present a Bayesian approach to infer the velocity directly from the PDV oscilloscope trace,…

VOX-KRIKRI: Unifying Speech and Language through Continuous Fusion
Dimitrios Damianos, Leon Voukoutis, Georgios Paraskevopoulos, Vassilis Katsouros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15667

VOX-KRIKRI: Unifying Speech and Language through Continuous Fusion
We present a multimodal fusion framework that bridges pre-trained decoder-based large language models (LLM) and acoustic encoder-decoder architectures such as Whisper, with the aim of building speech-enabled LLMs. Instead of directly using audio embeddings, we explore an intermediate audio-conditioned text space as a more effective mechanism for alignment. Our method operates fully in continuous text representation spaces, fusing Whisper's hidden decoder states with those of an LLM through cros…

from my link log —
The curious case of the “pygmy nuthatch” in Charlie’s Angels.
https://slate.com/culture/2025/05/birds-movies-charlies-angels-2000-pygmy-nuthatch.html
saved 2025-05-23

It’s One of the Weirdest Mistakes in Movie History. I Spent Months Investigating How It All Went Wrong.
The story behind cinema’s most mysterious bird.

Edward Enninful's quarterly print magazine, 72, launches with no print ads, but "powered by incredible companies"; at least seven Vogue staffers have joined 72 (Chloe Mac Donnell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/s

Faster and Better: Reinforced Collaborative Distillation and Self-Learning for Infrared-Visible Image Fusion
Yuhao Wang, Lingjuan Miao, Zhiqiang Zhou, Yajun Qiao, Lei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02424

Faster and Better: Reinforced Collaborative Distillation and Self-Learning for Infrared-Visible Image Fusion
Infrared and visible image fusion plays a critical role in enhancing scene perception by combining complementary information from different modalities. Despite recent advances, achieving high-quality image fusion with lightweight models remains a significant challenge. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel collaborative distillation and self-learning framework for image fusion driven by reinforcement learning. Unlike conventional distillation, this approach not only enables the student model t…

Color Me Correctly: Bridging Perceptual Color Spaces and Text Embeddings for Improved Diffusion Generation
Sung-Lin Tsai, Bo-Lun Huang, Yu Ting Shen, Cheng Yu Yeo, Chiang Tseng, Bo-Kai Ruan, Wen-Sheng Lien, Hong-Han Shuai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10058

Color Me Correctly: Bridging Perceptual Color Spaces and Text Embeddings for Improved Diffusion Generation
Accurate color alignment in text-to-image (T2I) generation is critical for applications such as fashion, product visualization, and interior design, yet current diffusion models struggle with nuanced and compound color terms (e.g., Tiffany blue, lime green, hot pink), often producing images that are misaligned with human intent. Existing approaches rely on cross-attention manipulation, reference images, or fine-tuning but fail to systematically resolve ambiguous color descriptions. To precisely…

from my link log —
Algebraic effects for the rest of us.
https://overreacted.io/algebraic-effects-for-the-rest-of-us/
saved 2019-07-24 ht…

Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us — overreacted
They’re not burritos.

SignClip: Leveraging Mouthing Cues for Sign Language Translation by Multimodal Contrastive Fusion
Wenfang Wu, Tingting Yuan, Yupeng Li, Daling Wang, Xiaoming Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10266

SignClip: Leveraging Mouthing Cues for Sign Language Translation by Multimodal Contrastive Fusion
Sign language translation (SLT) aims to translate natural language from sign language videos, serving as a vital bridge for inclusive communication. While recent advances leverage powerful visual backbones and large language models, most approaches mainly focus on manual signals (hand gestures) and tend to overlook non-manual cues like mouthing. In fact, mouthing conveys essential linguistic information in sign languages and plays a crucial role in disambiguating visually similar signs. In this…