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Follow the Sportsbook odds: Nico Collins is the best Fantasy Football value pick in 2025 drafts

https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/football

@… Welcome to Mastodon!  Best tip for starting out that I have is to search for # that you are interested in, and follow any that you like.  Then follow the people using those hashtags that interest you. Follow liberally, lots, or your feed will be very empty and boring, cos there's no algorithm feeding you stuff till you tell it what to feed you.  …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Lykke Li:
🎵 I Follow Rivers
#LykkeLi
https://synthesthetics.bandcamp.com/track/lykke-li-i-follow-rivers-synthesthetics-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3WlVUkLgGYByiGj8gF4erq

I'll land back to a busy week in the UK, but hope to find some time to follow up on #DH2025 conversations (around final #FF2025 proposal reviews). Please get in touch if we talked about something you want to follow up!

Dynasties in distress: How Chiefs can follow same path as these winning franchises after 0-2 start

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dynasti

Silicon Valley is pushing senators to follow the House in reviving a favorable tax benefit that disappeared because of a US tax law Section 174 change in 2017 (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/20/silicon-valley-big-tech-tax-benefit

Silicon Valley is pushing revival of game-changing tax benefit for startups
This could change the math for a slew of startups, and even Big Tech.

The "live" album follow-up to my first #SingerSongwriter release:
"LiveSongs from Dream This"
#DreamThis #NowPlaying

LiveSongs from #DreamThis #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The past week has revealed Trump’s road map to one-party rule.
https://www.vox.com/politics/462076/trump-democracy-jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk

This is how Trump ends democracy
The past week has revealed Trump’s policy road map to veto one-party rule. Will Americans let him follow it?

if you wonder why fedi isn’t getting mass-adoption look at the replies 🥲 https://mas.to/@carnage4life/114711218316426969

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ICE Wrongly Suggests Lawmaker Doxxed Agents, and Racist Threats Follow (Ana Ley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/nyregion/ice-connecticut-legislator-threats.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250820/p2#a250820p2

If you’re using the Expedition 33 photo mode mod follow my advice and do NOT try to open it and its freecam mode during a cutscene

It is Follow Friday, a great time to highlight some people on the Fediverse. 🌟
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The #DZA in a nutshell slide by Günther #Hasinger shown at #ag2025goerlitz in full resolution (thanks for sending it). Pictures from side events of the meeting to follow later ... as I'm already in the next one - https://www.fhsev.de/Wolfschmidt/events/akag-goerlitz-2025.php - to be followed by a short vaction near Oybin.

The CCOR Compact Coronagraphs for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-19 (GOES-19) and the Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) Missions
A. F. Thernisien, D. H. Chua, M. T. Carter, N. B. Rich, M. Noya, T. A. Babich, C. E. Crippa, B. Baugh, Y. Bordlemay, D. Socker, D. Biesecker, C. Korendyke, D. Wang, D. Vassiliadis, N-Y. Wang, S. Abbay, S. Bagnall, L. Balmaceda, S. Brown, J. Bonafede, D. Boyer, J. Declet, P. Cheng, K. Corsi, L. Cremerius, I. Chavis, J. Chiralo, G. Clifford,…

The CCOR Compact Coronagraphs for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-19 (GOES-19) and the Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) Missions
The CCOR Compact Coronagraph is a series of two operational solar coronagraphs sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). They were designed, built, and tested by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). The CCORs will be used by NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center to detect and track Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and predict the Space Weather. CCOR-1 is on board the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite -U (GOES-U, now GOES-19/GOES-East). GOES-U wa…

The stage is set for the #Ward6 Cromarty Firth & #Ward10 Eilean a' Cheò [Skye] #byelections. The electronic count in Kyleachin Community Hall starts at 11am and you can follow it live on the Council&…

Stock #Mastodon doesn’t allow me to create a webhook to notify me when my account is mentioned, someone replies to one of my posts, or someone I follow posts. I could poll the Masto API but that seems inefficient. With all the bots out there it seems like there would be a better way?
Maybe someone has a custom Fedi server that supports Webhooks. I’m happy to pay for an account there. Maybe th…

Harnessing the Power of AI in Qualitative Research: Role Assignment, Engagement, and User Perceptions of AI-Generated Follow-Up Questions in Semi-Structured Interviews
He Zhang, Yueyan Liu, Xin Guan, Jie Cai, John M. Carroll
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12709

Harnessing the Power of AI in Qualitative Research: Role Assignment, Engagement, and User Perceptions of AI-Generated Follow-Up Questions in Semi-Structured Interviews
Semi-structured interviews highly rely on the quality of follow-up questions, yet interviewers' knowledge and skills may limit their depth and potentially affect outcomes. While many studies have shown the usefulness of large language models (LLMs) for qualitative analysis, their possibility in the data collection process remains underexplored. We adopt an AI-driven "Wizard-of-Oz" setup to investigate how real-time LLM support in generating follow-up questions shapes semi-structured interviews.…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Rio Kosta:
🎵 Follow The River
#NowPlaying #RioKosta
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://open.spotify.com/track/4lqy6A33h6N9Yy1GhLkD93

Some of the stuff that this guy is saying sounds like the mumbo jumbo you hear in the final act of some animes. GITS part 2 or „Stand-Alone Complex“ for example, where the bad guy is dumping exposition about the universe. You wonder what the author was smoking and can’t follow but you keep watching because of cool mecha action and explosions.
„The non-governmental system isolates you, mirrors you…“ „It lives in soft compliance delays“… yadda yadda. Your brain on ChatGPT.

Google updates its Search app's Discover page to let users follow specific publishers and creators; it plans to add YouTube Shorts and X and Instagram posts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/google-revamps-discover-pag…

Google revamps Discover page to show content from creators | TechCrunch
Google will now let you follow publishers and creators directly through its Search app's Discover page.

House Flipper 2 (Multi, XPd on PC) Test out your interior design skills and get even more creative with the revamped toolset in this excellent sequel.
If you follow me you might have noticed I like a good sim game (and if you like em too stay tuned, reviewing a couple more today), and HF2 is absolutely a good sim. Not surprising as the OG was a good first showing for the devs, Frozen District. This time out they've refined the tool set, added in some more story elements, and booste…

Salty Seagull: A VSAT Honeynet to Follow the Bread Crumb of Attacks in Ship Networks
Georgios Michail Makrakis, Jeroen Pijpker, Remco Hassing, Rob Loves, Stephen McCombie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11325

Salty Seagull: A VSAT Honeynet to Follow the Bread Crumb of Attacks in Ship Networks
Cyber threats against the maritime industry have increased notably in recent years, highlighting the need for innovative cybersecurity approaches. Ships, as critical assets, possess highly specialized and interconnected network infrastructures, where their legacy systems and operational constraints further exacerbate their vulnerability to cyberattacks. To better understand this evolving threat landscape, we propose the use of cyber-deception techniques and in particular honeynets, as a means t…

\(1^{st}\) announcement for the 2025 Midwestern Workshop on Asymptotic Analysis - October 10 - 12 at #PurdueFortWayne 🐘 .
Participant registration is now open (through Sept. 21 to be considered for travel support), follow the instructions on the web site:

CAST: Counterfactual Labels Improve Instruction Following in Vision-Language-Action Models
Catherine Glossop, William Chen, Arjun Bhorkar, Dhruv Shah, Sergey Levine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13446

CAST: Counterfactual Labels Improve Instruction Following in Vision-Language-Action Models
Generalist robots should be able to understand and follow user instructions, but current vision-language-action (VLA) models struggle with following fine-grained commands despite providing a powerful architecture for mapping open-vocabulary natural language instructions to robot actions. One cause for this is a lack of semantic diversity and language grounding in existing robot datasets and, specifically, a lack of fine-grained task diversity for similar observations. To address this, we presen…

Reasoning over Boundaries: Enhancing Specification Alignment via Test-time Delibration
Haoran Zhang, Yafu Li, Xuyang Hu, Dongrui Liu, Zhilin Wang, Bo Li, Yu Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14760

Reasoning over Boundaries: Enhancing Specification Alignment via Test-time Delibration
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied in diverse real-world scenarios, each governed by bespoke behavioral and safety specifications (spec) custom-tailored by users or organizations. These spec, categorized into safety-spec and behavioral-spec, vary across scenarios and evolve with changing preferences and requirements. We formalize this challenge as specification alignment, focusing on LLMs' ability to follow dynamic, scenario-specific spec from both behavioral and safety persp…

#DH2025 thanks @flochiff.bsky.social for sharing this link as I wanted to follow up on Pandore! 'Pandore: automating text-processing workflows for humanities researchers' from Sorbonne Université and ObTIC - Observatoire des textes, des idées et des corpus

Dealing with #EventualConsistency, and Causal Consistency using Predictable Identifiers
https://www.architecture-weekly.com/p/dealing-with-eventual-co…

@… I edited my previous reply to add: It's a little hard to follow the side-by-side screenshots of what corresponds to what, so I'd recommend separating them and explaining them one at a time, if possible (along with a link to the demo).

there should be more people on fedi with strange unique and or terrifying worldviews i can follow just to study how their brains work, for the most part i gotta go other places for that

Towards Understanding and Harnessing the Transferability of Prognostic Knowledge in Computational Pathology
Pei Liu, Luping Ji, Jiaxiang Gou, Xiangxiang Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13482

Towards Understanding and Harnessing the Transferability of Prognostic Knowledge in Computational Pathology
Whole-Slide Image (WSI) is an important tool for evaluating the prognosis of cancer patients. Present WSI-based prognosis studies generally follow a conventional paradigm -- cancer-specific model development -- where one cancer disease corresponds to one model and this model cannot make use of the prognostic knowledge from others. Despite its notable success in recent years, this paradigm has inherent limitations and has always been struggling with practical requirements: (i) scaling to the rar…

Ramsey model of optimal growth with Allee effect
Zihan Wang, Vladimir Shikhman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14876 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14876

Ramsey model of optimal growth with Allee effect
For the Ramsey model of economic growth, which describes the optimal allocation of consumption and saving over time, we assume the population dynamics to follow the Allee effect. The so-called Allee threshold separates two regimes from each other. If starting below the threshold, the population decreases to zero. Above this threshold, it gradually saturates. We show that the corresponding consumption per capita stabilizes at two different levels accordingly. As for our main result, the consumpt…

This was a big crowd, with specific actions people can take in a blue area of a blue state. The most important thing is follow up.
https://bsky.app/profile/indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social/post/3luamkf7lkc2i

Our brand-new institute brochure is here! 🌞🪐✨
Across 40 pages, you’ll find an overview of our research topics, methods, and infrastructure—plus insights into public events, training, and more.
Enjoy reading! Follow this link: https://www.mps.mpg.de/8480541/institute-brochure…

Cheek To Cheek: Celebrating The Perfect Partnership Of Ella And Louis https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/ella-and-louis-cheek-cheek/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=uDiscoverMusic/magazine/Jazz…

Cheek To Cheek: Celebrating The Perfect Partnership Of Ella And Louis
With their three albums for Verve, Ella and Louis proved themselves the perfect partnership, setting the bar for all jazz duets to follow.

Sometimes I wish I could snoop the IPs of some of the people that follow me. Pretty sure they are not who they say they are.

This one is around the corner from my office. I never suspected what it might look like on the inside.
https://www.instagram.com/zillowgonewild/p/DMMMikYumtR/

Zillow Gone Wild 🏡 on Instagram: "me: lets go to Versailles Mother: we literally have Versailles at home Follow @zillowgonewild to never miss a wild home! Link in bio for the full listing! $4,000,000 | Alexandria, VA 6 bd, 5 ba | 3,183 sq ft | 2,042 sq ft lot Currently listed via @andrea.courduvelis and @nihalala @ttrsir Zillow Gone Wild season two premieres Friday, July 18, at 9:30 pm ET/PT on HGTV and streams the next day on discovery+ and HBO Max Thanks for submitting @ratchelbuff!! Found a wild home? Submit it for a chance to be featured at zillowgonewild.com/submit!! If you see an agent posting a listing we should feature TAG US IN THEIR COMMENTS!! MID YEAR SUPPORTER DRIVE!! Patreon.com/zillowgonewild or link in bio!! If Zillow gone wild brings you joy please support us for as low as $1 a month!! We are looking for our first 100 supporters 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼"
7,636 likes, 461 comments - zillowgonewild on July 16, 2025: "me: lets go to Versailles Mother: we literally have Versailles at home Follow @zillowgonewild to never miss a wild home! Link in bio for the full listing! $4,000,000 | Alexandria, VA 6 bd, 5 ba | 3,183 sq ft | 2,042 sq ft lot Currently listed via @andrea.courduvelis and @nihalala @ttrsir Zillow Gone Wild season two premieres Friday, July 18, at 9:30 pm ET/PT on HGTV and streams the next day on discovery+ and HBO M…

Google updates its Search app's Discover page to let users follow specific publishers and creators; it plans to add YouTube Shorts and X and Instagram posts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/google-revamps-discover-pag…

Google revamps Discover page to show content from creators | TechCrunch
Google will now let you follow publishers and creators directly through its Search app's Discover page.

As we're getting more into hikes around our new home – and I record tracks of them to also improve #openstreetmap – I've made a #wanderer profile at @… to share some nice trails.
It's an open source trail/track sharing platform that's federated thanks to #ActivityPub, so if you can read this post, you can follow my profile there too!*
* that is except you read this through the bridge to BlueSky, then you're out of luck and should give the actual Fediverse another try 😉

LinkedIn tips:
1. You don't have to read the posts.
2. If you don't like a post from someone you follow, then stop following them. You can keep a connection without following them!
3. If you don't like a post from someone you don't follow, then mark it as not interested. Send the signal to inform both the recommendation algorithm, and the people who design the recommendation algorithm, what content you don't want to see.
Whatever other people are…

EP250207b is not a collapsar fast X-ray transient. Is it due to a compact object merger?
P. G. Jonker, A. J. Levan, Xing Liu, Dong Xu, Yuan Liu, Xinpeng Xu, An Li, N. Sarin, N. R. Tanvir, G. P. Lamb, M. E. Ravasio, J. S\'anchez-Sierras, J. A. Quirola-V\'asquez, B. C. Rayson, J. N. D. van Dalen, D. B. Malesani, A. P. C. van Hoof, F. E. Bauer, J. Chac\'on, S. J. Smartt, A. Martin-Carrillo, G. Corcoran, L. Cotter, A. Rossi, F. Onori, M. Fraser, P. T. O'Brien, R. A. J. Eyle…

EP250207b is not a collapsar fast X-ray transient. Is it due to a compact object merger?
Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) are short-lived extra-galactic X-ray sources. Recent progress through multi-wavelength follow-up of Einstein Probe discovered FXTs has shown that several are related to collapsars, which can also produce gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In this paper we investigate the nature of the FXT EP250207b. The VLT/MUSE spectra of a nearby (15.9 kpc in projection) lenticular galaxy reveal no signs of recent star formation. If this galaxy is indeed the host, EP250207b lies at a redshi…

The ${\rm SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$-character variety of $8_{18}$
Haimiao Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12203 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12203

The ${\rm SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$-character variety of $8_{18}$
The knot $8_{18}$ is the first non-arborescent hyperbolic knot. In 2020, Paoluzzi and Porti found its ${\rm SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$-character variety with the aid of a computer, but many details were omitted. In this paper, we determine the character variety by a software-free procedure, which is easy to follow and enlightening. Along the way, we develop an efficient method for working with simultaneous conjugacy classes of four elements of ${\rm SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$.

Follow me for my random hot takes intertwined with long embarrassing periods of silence and trash reposting

Discovery of a multi-planetary system orbiting the aged Sun-like star HD 224018
M. Damasso, L. Naponiello, A. Anna John, J. A. Egger, M. Cretignier, A. Mortier, A. S. Bonomo, A. Collier Cameron, X. Dumusque, T. Wilson, L. Buchhave, B. Nicholson, M. Stalport, A. Ghedina, D. W. Latham, J. Livingston, L. Malavolta, A. Sozzetti, J. M. Jenkins, G. Mantovan, A. F. Mart\'inez Fiorenzano, L. Palethorpe, R. Tronsgaard, S. Udry, C. A. Watson

Discovery of a multi-planetary system orbiting the aged Sun-like star HD 224018
In 2016, Kepler/K2 detected a system of two sub-Neptunes transiting the star HD 224018, one of them showing a mono-transit event. In 2017, we began a spectroscopic follow-up with HARPS-N to measure the dynamical masses of the planets using radial velocities, and collected additional transit observations using CHEOPS. We measured the fundamental physical parameters of the host star, which is an ``old Sun'' analogue. We analysed radial velocities and photometric time series, also including data b…

Beware of Mastodon being under attack by scam bots which claim your account is suspended and that you have to follow their link.
I found a scam bot which recently posted 60 scam replies...so I may not have been fooled but what about the other 59 people?
The strategy of scammers isn't "boohoo 1 guy didn't open my scam link'
Their thinking is "if at least 1 user opened the link we can gather their data'...

Stochastic synaptic dynamics under learning
Jakob Stubenrauch, Naomi Auer, Richard Kempter, Benjamin Lindner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13846 https://arxiv…

Stochastic synaptic dynamics under learning
Learning is based on synaptic plasticity, which drives and is driven by neural activity. Because pre- and postsynaptic spiking activity is shaped by randomness, the synaptic weights follow a stochastic process, requiring a probabilistic framework to capture the noisy synaptic dynamics. We consider a paradigmatic supervised learning example: a presynaptic neural population impinging in a sequence of episodes on a recurrent network of integrate-and-fire neurons through synapses undergoing spike-t…

A catalog to unite them all: REGALADE, a revised galaxy compilation for the advanced detector era
Hugo Tranin, Nadejda Blagorodnova, Marco A. G\'omez-Mu\~noz, Maxime Wavasseur, Paul J. Groot, Lloyd Landsberg, Fiorenzo Stoppa, Steven Bloemen, Paul M. Vreeswijk, Dani\"elle L. A. Pieterse, Jan van Roestel, Simone Scaringi, Sara Faris
https://

A catalog to unite them all: REGALADE, a revised galaxy compilation for the advanced detector era
Many applications in transient science, gravitational wave follow-up, and galaxy population studies require all-sky galaxy catalogs with reliable distances, extents, and stellar masses. However, existing catalogs often lack completeness beyond $\sim 100$ Mpc, suffer from stellar contamination, or do not provide homogeneous stellar mass estimates and size information. Our goal is to build a high-purity, high-completeness, all-sky galaxy catalog out to 2,000 Mpc, specifically designed to support …

How Many Instructions Can LLMs Follow at Once?
Daniel Jaroslawicz, Brendan Whiting, Parth Shah, Karime Maamari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11538 https://

How Many Instructions Can LLMs Follow at Once?
Production-grade LLM systems require robust adherence to dozens or even hundreds of instructions simultaneously. However, the instruction-following capabilities of LLMs at high instruction densities have not yet been characterized, as existing benchmarks only evaluate models on tasks with a single or few instructions. We introduce IFScale, a simple benchmark of 500 keyword-inclusion instructions for a business report writing task to measure how instruction-following performance degrades as inst…

Ideal Social Gas
VS Morales-Salgado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13447 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13447

Ideal Social Gas
This work continues the one commenced in a previous one, where the key idea is that individual stances on a social matter can be modeled as positions of particles in physics. Here, we explore the aggregation of individual behavior as a microscopic model of social phenomena to obtain quantities characterizing a society as a whole, similar to the resulting thermodynamical quantities at the macroscopic scale. We follow the theoretical framework of statistical mechanics with a Boltzmann distributio…

Our pick this week comes from legendary extreme metal force Strapping Young Lad!
Loud, relentless, and gloriously over the top. Listen to it, absorb it, and see what we had to say about it and the band behind it.
Don't forget to follow us for your weekly dose of #rock and #metal .. handpic…

Strapping Young Lad - Far Beyond Metal
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

Imagine that a cease-fire would be implemented along current frontlines and it would hold for several years, Ukraine would become a EU member, economic integration with the EU would follow which would be beneficial to the union as a whole. Putin can not allow that to happen, especially because he can never be so succesful with his own failed state Russia (economically at least).
Putin prefers uncertainty, instability for Ukraine.

Anyone recommend any anime/manga artists for me to follow?

I'd follow Mastodon to hell and back, I'd just wish it would stop going there

Perception in Plan: Coupled Perception and Planning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Bozhou Zhang, Jingyu Li, Nan Song, Li Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11488 https://

Perception in Plan: Coupled Perception and Planning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
End-to-end autonomous driving has achieved remarkable advancements in recent years. Existing methods primarily follow a perception-planning paradigm, where perception and planning are executed sequentially within a fully differentiable framework for planning-oriented optimization. We further advance this paradigm through a perception-in-plan framework design, which integrates perception into the planning process. This design facilitates targeted perception guided by evolving planning objectives…

Charlie Kirk & Stochastic Terrorism
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOgSkSygGz-/

Well, it’s a visit to the hospital today for a follow-up appointment for my DVT earlier this year

oh, is today self-promo day? is that a thing? okay, here goes nothing! please follow @…, it's where i upload all my videos nowadays and you can follow it directly from your instance of choice. also please follow @…

I'm migrating my articles and blogging, and you can kind of follow my process.
I just posted this, which includes this line: "Building your goals in someone else’s sandbox alone is not ideal, a little like building a castle on sand."
https://davaug.medium.com/online-longe

Online Longevity - David August - Medium
I am shifting my article posting and blogging to a new place: https://davidaugust.ghost.io (I signed up for the 14 day trial… not sure yet if investing in paying monthly or annually is a good idea)…

inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …

@… wie kommt's dass ihr gup.pe blockt? Haben die dort was verbockt?
Hatte da ein paar Gruppen, denen ich folgte
UPDATE: Durch Antworten von @… und @…

Q&A with independent journalist Molly White, who writes the tech and crypto newsletter Citation Needed, which has ~29K subscribers, including ~2,400 paid (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/independent-journali…

Independent journalist Molly White knows how to follow the memecoin
The cryptocurrency and tech newsletter Citation Needed is pay-what-you-want. White currently has about 29,000 subscribers including about 2,400 paid subscribers despite the lack of a paywall.

Investigating the Performance of Small Language Models in Detecting Test Smells in Manual Test Cases
Keila Lucas, Rohit Gheyi, M\'arcio Ribeiro, Fabio Palomba, Luana Martins, Elvys Soares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13035

Investigating the Performance of Small Language Models in Detecting Test Smells in Manual Test Cases
Manual testing, in which testers follow natural language instructions to validate system behavior, remains crucial for uncovering issues not easily captured by automation. However, these test cases often suffer from test smells, quality issues such as ambiguity, redundancy, or missing checks that reduce test reliability and maintainability. While detection tools exist, they typically require manual rule definition and lack scalability. This study investigates the potential of Small Language Mod…

Ask-to-Clarify: Resolving Instruction Ambiguity through Multi-turn Dialogue
Xingyao Lin, Xinghao Zhu, Tianyi Lu, Sicheng Xie, Hui Zhang, Xipeng Qiu, Zuxuan Wu, Yu-Gang Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15061

Ask-to-Clarify: Resolving Instruction Ambiguity through Multi-turn Dialogue
The ultimate goal of embodied agents is to create collaborators that can interact with humans, not mere executors that passively follow instructions. This requires agents to communicate, coordinate, and adapt their actions based on human feedback. Recently, advances in VLAs have offered a path toward this goal. However, most current VLA-based embodied agents operate in a one-way mode: they receive an instruction and execute it without feedback. This approach fails in real-world scenarios where …

War is an unconscionable horror. The illusions of "international law" and "rules of war" have lead us to believe that war can be clean, managed, and "civilized."
But wars are fought by humans and humans are messy. Humans are not well suited to following orderly rules. Humans respond to their environment. Humans in extraordinary situations can be extraordinarily vindictive and brutal. Sufficiently traumatized humans can act without a conscience, spreading trauma like an infection. If humans respond to their situation, then there can be no "civilized" war because war is itself an situation outside of the society. It is a place that promotes antisocial behavior and punishes pro-social behavior. War cannot be expected to follow "international law" because it is what fills the void created by the failure of "international law" (so long as we rely on nations).
To call for war is to inflict atrocities on civilians. It is to kill the parents and children who serve, and to destroy the combatants who survive. It is to infect both sides with a trauma that will spread if untreated, when soldiers come home or when they become mercenaries in other wars.
And yet... there are times when the brutality, the incompetence, the evil becomes so unbearable that no other option exists, when taking up arms is simply bringing symmetry to an existing asymmetric conflict. There are times when the worst possible thing is inescapable, though it can never be justified.
In this new era of war, in the scramble of conflict under the collapsing of the (poorly named) "Pax Americana," I hope that we, the people, can understand that war is not a tool to fulfill an objective. It is not part of a larger strategy. It is not an extension of deplomacy.
War is a failure.
While it may be the only way to deal with the irrational - the genocidal, the slaver, the dictator - it is still a failure. It is a failure to build a world in which these people can't control armies and economies, can't turn populations in to cults and bend nations to their will.
And we will continue to have such wars until we unite against those who would use as as pawns, who would control our lives and lead us to our deaths. We will have these wars until we unite, as one world, against those rulers. This is what I mean, and what a lot of other people mean, when we say, "No War, but Class War."

Symmetry Resolved Multipartite Entanglement Entropy
Ashwat Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13410 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13410

Symmetry Resolved Multipartite Entanglement Entropy
We perform the symmetry resolution of a multipartite entanglement measure, namely the global entanglement $Q$ introduced by Meyer and Wallach [2002, J. of Math. Phys., 43, pp. 4273] for all systems of distinguishable particles hosting a locally acting symmetry. For an ensemble of Haar random states we find agreement with equipartition, with leading order behaviour and finite size corrections which follow a power law scaling with the number of local degrees of freedom. Implications of this resul…

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
TRAVIS: Oh? Then you'll probably cease to exist.
MUTOID: Ready, Commander.
TRAVIS: Follow Blake's course.
MUTOID: We can't match his speed.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/499 B7B4

The colors we perceive follow consistent brain codes in all humans #neuroscience
Large-scale color biases in the retinotopic functional architecture are region specific an…

The colors we perceive follow consistent brain codes in all humans

@… at the head of the page: "Condensed steps".
The tiny URL is condensed, and more memorable when I follow the routine repeatedly without written notes.
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Follow live: Bills, Dolphins face off on 'Thursday Night Football' https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401772937/dolphins-bills

An early morning alone on the banks of the (still young) Isar river some weeks ago... Really more "flow" rather than #WaterfallWednesday, but I just absolutely cherish places and moments like this & feeling so privileged being able to experience these after decades of living in large cities... (each time also a reminder how much we stand to lose...)

@… Could you also provide a live link to the page? Also, is the issue that the footnotes don't work at all when you click on them, or that they don't appear the way you'd like them to appear? It's a little hard to follow the side-by-side screenshots of what corresponds to what, so I'd recommend separating them and explaining them one at…

Scheduling follow-up observations of energetic transients with the neutrino target scheduler (NuTS)
Tobias Heibges, Claire Gu\'epin, Luke Kupari, Hannah Wistrand, Randy Lahm, Johannes Eser, Mary Hall Reno, Tonia M. Venters, Lawrence Wiencke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13844

Scheduling follow-up observations of energetic transients with the neutrino target scheduler (NuTS)
Space missions offer unique opportunities for studying ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays and neutrinos by leveraging secondary emissions generated by extensive air showers (EAS) resulting from their interactions with the atmosphere or Earth's crust. Detecting UHE neutrinos associated with transient sources holds great potential for unraveling the origins of UHE cosmic rays and the physical processes driving their production. Stratospheric balloon missions, illustrated recently by the Extreme …

The Type II SN 2025pht in NGC 1637: A Red Supergiant with Carbon-rich Circumstellar Dust as the First JWST Detection of a Supernova Progenitor Star
Charles D. Kilpatrick, Aswin Suresh, Kyle W. Davis, Maria R. Drout, Ryan J. Foley, Alexander Gagliano, Wynn V. Jacobson-Galan, Ravjit Kaur, Kirsty Taggart, Jason Vazquez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2…

The Type II SN 2025pht in NGC 1637: A Red Supergiant with Carbon-rich Circumstellar Dust as the First JWST Detection of a Supernova Progenitor Star
We present follow-up imaging and spectroscopy and pre-explosion imaging of supernova (SN) 2025pht located in NGC 1637 at 12 Mpc. Our spectroscopy shows that SN 2025pht is a Type II SN with broad lines of hydrogen and with minimal line-of-sight extinction inferred from Na I D absorption. NGC 1637 was the target of several epochs of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) imaging covering the site of SN 2025pht from 31 to 0.7 yr prior to discovery. Using a follow-up HST…

Sibling Sub-Neptunes Around Sibling M Dwarfs: TOI-521 and TOI-912
G. Lacedelli, E. Pall\'e, R. Luque, K. Ikuta, H. M. Tabernero, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, J. M. Almenara, F. J. Pozuelos, D. Jankowski, N. Narita, A. Fukui, G. Nowak, H. T. Ishikawa, T. Kimura, Y. Hori, K. A. Collins, S. B. Howell, C. Jiang, F. Murgas, H. P. Osborn, N. Astudillo-Defru, X. Bonfils, D. Charbonneau, M. Fausnaugh, S. Gerald\'ia-Gonz\'alez, K. Go\'zdziewski, P. Guerra, Y. Hayashi, K. Hodapp, K. Ho…

Sibling Sub-Neptunes Around Sibling M Dwarfs: TOI-521 and TOI-912
Sub-Neptunes are absent in the Solar System, yet they are commonly found in our Galaxy. They challenge the internal structure models and prompt investigation on their formation, evolution, and atmospheres. We report the characterisation of new sub-Neptunes orbiting two similar M dwarfs, TOI-521 (T_eff=3544 K), and TOI-912 (T_eff=3572 K). Both stars host a candidate identified by TESS and are part of the THIRSTEE follow-up program, which aims at understanding the sub-Neptune population through p…

Distance measurements from the internal dynamics of globular clusters: Application to the Sombrero galaxy (M 104)
Katja Fahrion, Michael A. Beasley, Anastasia Gvozdenko, Glenn van de Ven, Katherine L. Rhode, Ana L. Chies-Santos, Anna Ferre-Mateu, Marina Rejkuba, Oliver M\"uller, Eric Emsellem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14948

Distance measurements from the internal dynamics of globular clusters: Application to the Sombrero galaxy (M 104)
Globular clusters (GCs) are dense star clusters found in all massive galaxies. Recent work has established that they follow a tight relation between their internal stellar velocity dispersion $σ$ and luminosity, enabling accurate distance measurements. In this work, we aim to apply this GC velocity dispersion (GCVD) distance method to measure the distance to M 104 (NGC 4594, the Sombrero galaxy). We have measured internal stellar velocity dispersions for 85 globular clusters (GCs) and one ultr…

MCTR: Midpoint Corrected Triangulation for Autonomous Racing via Digital Twin Simulation in CARLA
Junhao Ye, Cheng Hu, Yiqin Wang, Weizhan Huang, Nicolas Baumann, Jie He, Meixun Qu, Lei Xie, Hongye Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12729

MCTR: Midpoint Corrected Triangulation for Autonomous Racing via Digital Twin Simulation in CARLA
In autonomous racing, reactive controllers eliminate the computational burden of the full See-Think-Act autonomy stack by directly mapping sensor inputs to control actions. This bypasses the need for explicit localization and trajectory planning. A widely adopted baseline in this category is the Follow-The-Gap method, which performs trajectory planning using LiDAR data. Building on FTG, the Delaunay Triangulation-based Racing algorithm introduces further enhancements. However, DTR's use of circ…

#VPN

Reasoning Strategies in Large Language Models: Can They Follow, Prefer, and Optimize?
Yanjian Zhang, Guillaume Wisniewski, Nadi Tomeh, Thierry Charnois
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11423

Reasoning Strategies in Large Language Models: Can They Follow, Prefer, and Optimize?
Human reasoning involves different strategies, each suited to specific problems. Prior work shows that large language model (LLMs) tend to favor a single reasoning strategy, potentially limiting their effectiveness in diverse reasoning challenges. In this work, we investigate whether prompting can control LLMs reasoning strategies and assess its impact on logical problem-solving. While our experiments show that no single strategy consistently improves accuracy, performance could be enhanced if …

Keeping with the #blues theme this week, our pick is a timeless track from The Blasters.
Check it out and see what we had to say about the band and the song that still holds up today, and don't forget to follow us for your weekly dose of #rock and

The Blasters - Dark Night
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

2025 NFL preseason, Week 3: How to watch every game, what to know for all 32 teams https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-preseason-week-3-how-to-watch-every-game-what-to-know-for-all-32-teams

Did I just un-follow inactive users on #Pixelfed, instead of going to bed? Yes, yes I did!
@…

MARS2 2025 Challenge on Multimodal Reasoning: Datasets, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Outlook
Peng Xu, Shengwu Xiong, Jiajun Zhang, Yaxiong Chen, Bowen Zhou, Chen Change Loy, David A. Clifton, Kyoung Mu Lee, Luc Van Gool, Ruiming He, Ruilin Yao, Xinwei Long, Jirui Huang, Kai Tian, Sa Yang, Yihua Shao, Jin Feng, Yue Zhong, Jiakai Zhou, Cheng Tang, Tianyu Zou, Yifang Zhang, Junming Liang, Guoyou Li, Zhaoxiang Wang, Qiang Zhou, Yichen Zhao, Shili Xiong, Hyeongjin Nam, Jaerin Lee, Jaey…

MARS2 2025 Challenge on Multimodal Reasoning: Datasets, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Outlook
This paper reviews the MARS2 2025 Challenge on Multimodal Reasoning. We aim to bring together different approaches in multimodal machine learning and LLMs via a large benchmark. We hope it better allows researchers to follow the state-of-the-art in this very dynamic area. Meanwhile, a growing number of testbeds have boosted the evolution of general-purpose large language models. Thus, this year's MARS2 focuses on real-world and specialized scenarios to broaden the multimodal reasoning applicati…

India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting orders the takedown of 138 YouTube videos and 83 Instagram posts on Adani Enterprises, citing a court order (The News Minute)
https://www.thenewsminute.com/news/govt-or

Govt orders takedown of 138 YouTube videos, 83 Instagram posts on Adani citing court order
Follow TNM’s WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has issued takedown notices to sever

From Next Token Prediction to (STRIPS) World Models -- Preliminary Results
Carlos N\'u\~nez-Molina, Vicen\c{c} G\'omez, Hector Geffner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13389 h…

From Next Token Prediction to (STRIPS) World Models -- Preliminary Results
We consider the problem of learning propositional STRIPS world models from action traces alone, using a deep learning architecture (transformers) and gradient descent. The task is cast as a supervised next token prediction problem where the tokens are the actions, and an action $a$ may follow an action sequence if the hidden effects of the previous actions do not make an action precondition of $a$ false. We show that a suitable transformer architecture can faithfully represent propositional STR…

jesus christ that's up there with pierce the veil in terms of most awkward comebacks lol

Py maidr: Bridging Visual and Non-Visual Data Experiences Through a Unified Python Framework
JooYoung Seo, Saairam Venkatesh, Daksh Pokar, Sanchita Kamath, Krishna Anandan Ganesan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13532

Py maidr: Bridging Visual and Non-Visual Data Experiences Through a Unified Python Framework
Although recent efforts have developed accessible data visualization tools for blind and low-vision (BLV) users, most follow a "design for them" approach that creates an unintentional divide between sighted creators and BLV consumers. This unidirectional paradigm perpetuates a power dynamic where sighted creators produce non-visual content boundaries for BLV consumers to access. This paper proposes a bidirectional approach, "design for us," where both sighted and BLV collaborators can employ th…

Multiwavelength Observations of the Apparently Non-repeating FRB 20250316A
Ye Li, Hui Sun, Lei Qian, Dong-Yue Li, Yan-Long Hua, Li-Ping Xin, Cheng-Kui Li, Yi-Han Wang, Jia-Rui Niu, Tian-Rui Sun, Zhu-Heng Yao, Jin-Jun Geng, Chi-Chuan Jin, Nanda Rea, Yuan Liu, Zhi-Chen Pan, Tao An, Vadim Burwitz, Zhi-Ming Cai, Jin-Huang Cao, Yong Chen, Hua-Qing Cheng, Wei-Wei Cui, Hua Feng, Peter Friedrich, Da-Wei Han, Jing-Wei Hu, Lei Hu, Yu-Xiang Huang, Shu-Mei Jia, Ji-An Jiang, Bin Li, Feng Li, Ming L…

Multiwavelength Observations of the Apparently Non-repeating FRB 20250316A
The physical origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) remains uncertain. Although multiwavelength observations offer critical diagnostics and have been widely conducted, only Galactic FRB~20200428D is associated with an X-ray burst from the magnetar SGR J1935+2154. Here, we present multiwavelength follow-up observations of the nearby bright FRB~20250316A, including the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), Einstein Probe (EP) X-ray mission, Chandra X-ray Observatory, Wide Fiel…

• “No deal until there’s a deal”:
Donald Trump said he and Vladimir Putin made “great progress”
but did not emerge from today’s summit with a deal on the war in Ukraine.
• Onus on Ukraine:
In an interview on Fox tonight, Trump put the onus on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
to negotiate a ceasefire,
saying there would soon be a meeting set up between Zelensky and Putin.
“They both want me there,” Trump said.
• Key details unclear:
…

Trump and Putin are now holding their high-stakes summit in Alaska
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting in Alaska today to discuss Russia’s war in Ukraine. Follow here for the latest.

The cosmic journey of dust grains - from nucleation to planetary system
Kira Lund, Anders Johansen, Oscar Agertz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14325 https://a…

The cosmic journey of dust grains - from nucleation to planetary system
Dust is essential to the evolution of galaxies and drives the formation of planetary systems. The challenge of inferring the origin of different presolar dust grains from meteoritic samples motivates forward modelling to understand the contributions of low- and high-mass stars to dust in our Solar System. In this work we follow the evolution of dust with tracer particles within a hydrodynamical simulation of a Milky Way-like isolated disc galaxy. We find that nearly half of the grains released …

Survey: ~50% of US adults who subscribe only to sports streamers are "somewhat" or "very" satisfied by the availability of sports events they want to watch (Maya Sweedler/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/sports-stream…

Sports fans use multiple subscriptions to watch games: poll
A new poll finds sports fans are likelier to use a combination of streaming services and traditional TV options to access their favorite teams. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll shows this complicated and often expensive patchwork is common for many sports fans and leaves them beholden to multiple platforms and subscriptions if they want to keep up with their teams. About 4 in 10 people who follow sports “extremely” or “very” closely use both cable and sa…

Ward, McMillan and others primed to follow path of 2024 breakouts https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/45746739/fantasy-football-2025-version-2024-breakouts-nfl-sleeper

Three-Dimensional Numerical Simulations of Magnetar Crust Quakes
Yuanhong Qu, Ashley Bransgrove
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12567 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508…

Three-Dimensional Numerical Simulations of Magnetar Crust Quakes
Crust quakes are frequently invoked as a mechanism to trigger sudden transients in the magnetospheres of magnetars. In this picture, a mechanical failure of the crust excites seismic motions of the magnetar surface that launch force-free waves into the magnetosphere. We first investigate this problem analytically and then perform three-dimensional numerical simulations. Our simulations follow the propagation of high-frequency magneto-elastic waves in the entire crust, and include magnetic coupl…

Generation and Evaluation in the Human Invention Process through the Lens of Game Design
Katherine M. Collins, Graham Todd, Cedegao E. Zhang, Adrian Weller, Julian Togelius, Junyi Chu, Lionel Wong, Thomas L. Griffiths, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10914

Generation and Evaluation in the Human Invention Process through the Lens of Game Design
The human ability to learn rules and solve problems has been a central concern of cognitive science research since the field's earliest days. But we do not just follow rules and solve problems given to us by others: we modify those rules, create new problems, and set new goals and tasks for ourselves and others. Arguably, even more than rule following and problem solving, human intelligence is about creatively breaking and stretching the rules, changing the game, and inventing new problems wort…

A volcanic eruption in Iceland has sparked the evacuation of the world-famous Blue Lagoon geothermal spa and surrounding areas.
The eruption began around 4 a.m. Wednesday on the Reykjanes Peninsula, southwest of the capital, Reykjavik, Iceland's Met Office said.
It was preceded by intense seismic activity which prompted the evacuation of around 100 from the town of Grindavik.
Tourists at a nearby campsite and guests at the Blue Lagoon were also forced to urgently pack and …

Iceland volcano erupts as Blue Lagoon evacuated: Live updates
A volcanic eruption in Iceland has sparked the evacuation of the world-famous Blue Lagoon geothermal spa and surrounding areas. Follow Newsweek's live blog.

Spotify adds new features for free users globally, allowing them to search for and play any song they want; the company reported 433M ad-supported MAUs in Q2 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/15/spotify-will-now-let-free-users-pic…

Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch
On Monday, the company announced that free users globally will now be able to search and play any song they want or play a song shared by a friend or an artist they follow on social media.

Scene Graph-Guided Proactive Replanning for Failure-Resilient Embodied Agent
Che Rin Yu, Daewon Chae, Dabin Seo, Sangwon Lee, Hyeongwoo Im, Jinkyu Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11286

Scene Graph-Guided Proactive Replanning for Failure-Resilient Embodied Agent
When humans perform everyday tasks, we naturally adjust our actions based on the current state of the environment. For instance, if we intend to put something into a drawer but notice it is closed, we open it first. However, many autonomous robots lack this adaptive awareness. They often follow pre-planned actions that may overlook subtle yet critical changes in the scene, which can result in actions being executed under outdated assumptions and eventual failure. While replanning is critical fo…

John Oliver discusses the Trump administration’s promise to deport one million immigrants,
what the follow through on that promise looks like in practice,
what the actual rules are about masked police arresting civilians across the country,
and some stuff about filmmaker Dean Cain.
(It’s ok, you can Google him, we don’t expect you to recognize the name)

John Oliver: Immigration Enforcement
John Oliver discusses the Trump administration’s promise to deport one million immigrants, what the follow through on that promise looks like in practice, what the actual rules are about masked police arresting civilians across the country, and some stuff ...

StableTracker: Learning to Stably Track Target via Differentiable Simulation
Fanxing Li, Shengyang Wang, Fangyu Sun, Shuyu Wu, Dexin Zuo, Wenxian Yu, Danping Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14147

StableTracker: Learning to Stably Track Target via Differentiable Simulation
FPV object tracking methods heavily rely on handcraft modular designs, resulting in hardware overload and cumulative error, which seriously degrades the tracking performance, especially for rapidly accelerating or decelerating targets. To address these challenges, we present \textbf{StableTracker}, a learning-based control policy that enables quadrotors to robustly follow the moving target from arbitrary perspectives. The policy is trained using backpropagation-through-time via differentiable s…

XMM-Newton follow-up of two eROSITA X-ray binary candidates
A. Avakyan, A. Zainab, V. Doroshenko, J. Wilms, A. Schwope, V. Suleimanov, D. Buckley, J. Brink, A. Santangelo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08592

XMM-Newton follow-up of two eROSITA X-ray binary candidates
We report on the follow-up observations with XMM-Newton of two X-ray binary candidates identified in the first eROSITA all-sky survey data (eRASS1), 1eRASS J061330.8+160440 and 1eRASS J161201.9-464622. Based on the obtained results, in particular, the observed X-ray spectra and lack of pulsations, as well as properties of the identified optical counterparts, we conclude that both candidates are unlikely to be XRBs. Based on LAMOST optical spectroscopy and SED fit results for 1eRASS J061330.8+16…