Tootfinder

Random tangent: I heard recently that a native turtle in Florida has been found eating them as well, not by any sort of toxin avoidance, but because they have a genetic immunity to bufotoxin.
https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF/115033012119880479

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
George Clinton:
🎵 Silly Millameter
#GeorgeClinton
https://open.spotify.com/track/5KdZNYPYOzY47TN9V2WGbz

Visual Perception Engine: Fast and Flexible Multi-Head Inference for Robotic Vision Tasks
Jakub {\L}ucki, Jonathan Becktor, Georgios Georgakis, Robert Royce, Shehryar Khattak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11584

Visual Perception Engine: Fast and Flexible Multi-Head Inference for Robotic Vision Tasks
Deploying multiple machine learning models on resource-constrained robotic platforms for different perception tasks often results in redundant computations, large memory footprints, and complex integration challenges. In response, this work presents Visual Perception Engine (VPEngine), a modular framework designed to enable efficient GPU usage for visual multitasking while maintaining extensibility and developer accessibility. Our framework architecture leverages a shared foundation model backb…

🚮 Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/08/junk-filled-garages-hurt-ev-sales-as-people-dont-have-room-for-chargers/

Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says
A new report looks at barriers to EV charging.

Day 17 of the road trip was spent in Fremantle. Gorgeous old buildings, decent breweries, and great street art. #RoadTrip

Grundsätzlich gibt's mir in #Stuttgart zu häufig Leichen in Koffern. 💲
https://www.

Grausames Verbrechen - Zwei Kofferleichen im Stuttgarter Schlossgarten - wie der Doppelmord aufgeklärt wurde
Im Schlossgarten werden am 1. Juni 2014 zufällig zwei Koffer mit grausigem Inhalt entdeckt. Um den ungewöhnlichen Mordfall ranken sich viele Geschichten – am Ende gibt es drei mehr oder minder plausible Versionen.

Open burning of plastic is an escalating public health threat, say experts https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/open-burning-of-plastic-is-an-escalating-public-health-threat-say-experts/

Open burning of plastic is an escalating public health threat, say experts
When Tiwonge Mzumara-Gawa was a child, her mother sent her to market with a basket woven from grasses. “But now we don’t do that,” she says, because plastic has taken over most utilitarian purposes in today’s Malawi. “You go and you get a plastic carrier, and they’re usually not reusable plastics.” In many Malawi communities, […]

Road Obstacle Video Segmentation
Shyam Nandan Rai, Shyamgopal Karthik, Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu, Barbara Caputo, Carlo Masone, Zeynep Akata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13181 htt…

Road Obstacle Video Segmentation
With the growing deployment of autonomous driving agents, the detection and segmentation of road obstacles have become critical to ensure safe autonomous navigation. However, existing road-obstacle segmentation methods are applied on individual frames, overlooking the temporal nature of the problem, leading to inconsistent prediction maps between consecutive frames. In this work, we demonstrate that the road-obstacle segmentation task is inherently temporal, since the segmentation maps for cons…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Grace Jones:
🎵 Pull Up To The Bumper
#GraceJones
https://djludoremix1.bandcamp.com/track/grace-jones-pull-up-to-the-bumper
https://open.spotify.com/track/72uS4v9EdiXZeascM5RTl7

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
George Clanton:
🎵 I Been Young
#GeorgeClanton
https://georgeclanton.bandcamp.com/track/i-been-young
https://open.spotify.com/track/1gRDj5L77TVphFS2AT0nh3