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California lawmakers approve Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to increase funding for the state's film and TV tax incentive program from $330M to $750M per year (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/california-750-million-fi…

California Lawmakers Agree on $750 Million for Film and TV Credit
California legislative leaders have accepted Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposal to more than double the film and TV credit, in a win for the industry.

Mad respect for a guy who made a flugehorn cool.
RIP Chuck Mangione
https://youtu.be/1mLdUFw4Xfc?si=uu7aW9IwfAWRRM80&t=2

Innerhalb weniger Tage im August 2025 haben #Waldbrände in #Spanien die höchsten jährlichen #Feueremissionen seit Beginn der

A Lightweight Face Quality Assessment Framework to Improve Face Verification Performance in Real-Time Screening Applications
Ahmed Aman Ibrahim, Hamad Mansour Alawar, Abdulnasser Abbas Zehi, Ahmed Mohammad Alkendi, Bilal Shafi Ashfaq Ahmed Mirza, Shan Ullah, Ismail Lujain Jaleel, Hassan Ugail
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15961

A Lightweight Face Quality Assessment Framework to Improve Face Verification Performance in Real-Time Screening Applications
Face image quality plays a critical role in determining the accuracy and reliability of face verification systems, particularly in real-time screening applications such as surveillance, identity verification, and access control. Low-quality face images, often caused by factors such as motion blur, poor lighting conditions, occlusions, and extreme pose variations, significantly degrade the performance of face recognition models, leading to higher false rejection and false acceptance rates. In th…

This piece was created while the apartheid government of South Africa was forcibly removing Coloured families from their homes as part of the destruction of District Six.
#mannenberg #southafrica #amf

Abdullah Ibrahim - Mannenberg - African Music Forum
Abdullah Ibrahim - Mannenberg - The instrumental later became identified with the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.

Mind the Gap: Evaluating the Representativeness of Quantitative Medical Language Reasoning LLM Benchmarks for African Disease Burdens
Fred Mutisya (Qhala, Kenya Medical Association), Shikoh Gitau (Qhala), Christine Syovata (Kenya Medical Association), Diana Oigara (Kenya Medical Association), Ibrahim Matende (Kenya Medical Association), Muna Aden (Kenya Medical Association), Munira Ali (Kenya Medical Association), Ryan Nyotu (Kenya Medical Association), Diana Marion (Kenya Medical Asso…

Mind the Gap: Evaluating the Representativeness of Quantitative Medical Language Reasoning LLM Benchmarks for African Disease Burdens
Introduction: Existing medical LLM benchmarks largely reflect examination syllabi and disease profiles from high income settings, raising questions about their validity for African deployment where malaria, HIV, TB, sickle cell disease and other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) dominate burden and national guidelines drive care. Methodology: We systematically reviewed 31 quantitative LLM evaluation papers (Jan 2019 May 2025) identifying 19 English medical QA benchmarks. Alama Health QA was de…

Spatial Regionalization: A Hybrid Quantum Computing Approach
Yunhan Chang, Amr Magdy, Federico M. Spedalieri, Ibrahim Sabek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18799

Spatial Regionalization: A Hybrid Quantum Computing Approach
Quantum computing has shown significant potential to address complex optimization problems; however, its application remains confined to specific problems at limited scales. Spatial regionalization remains largely unexplored in quantum computing due to its complexity and large number of variables. In this paper, we introduce the first hybrid quantum-classical method to spatial regionalization by decomposing the problem into manageable subproblems, leveraging the strengths of both classical and …

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
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- HausaNLP at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Hausa Text Emotion Detection
Sani Abdullahi Sani, Salim Abubakar, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Abdulhamid Abubakar, Maryam Bala

Edge Association Strategies for Synthetic Data Empowered Hierarchical Federated Learning with Non-IID Data
Jer Shyuan Ng, Aditya Pribadi Kalapaaking, Xiaoyu Xia, Dusit Niyato, Ibrahim Khalil, Iqbal Gondal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18259

Edge Association Strategies for Synthetic Data Empowered Hierarchical Federated Learning with Non-IID Data
In recent years, Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a widely adopted privacy-preserving distributed training approach, attracting significant interest from both academia and industry. Research efforts have been dedicated to improving different aspects of FL, such as algorithm improvement, resource allocation, and client selection, to enable its deployment in distributed edge networks for practical applications. One of the reasons for the poor FL model performance is due to the worker dropou…

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