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VisText-Mosquito: A Multimodal Dataset and Benchmark for AI-Based Mosquito Breeding Site Detection and Reasoning
Md. Adnanul Islam, Md. Faiyaz Abdullah Sayeedi, Md. Asaduzzaman Shuvo, Muhammad Ziaur Rahman, Shahanur Rahman Bappy, Raiyan Rahman, Swakkhar Shatabda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14629

VisText-Mosquito: A Multimodal Dataset and Benchmark for AI-Based Mosquito Breeding Site Detection and Reasoning
Mosquito-borne diseases pose a major global health risk, requiring early detection and proactive control of breeding sites to prevent outbreaks. In this paper, we present VisText-Mosquito, a multimodal dataset that integrates visual and textual data to support automated detection, segmentation, and reasoning for mosquito breeding site analysis. The dataset includes 1,828 annotated images for object detection, 142 images for water surface segmentation, and natural language reasoning texts linked…

Uncovering Intention through LLM-Driven Code Snippet Description Generation
Yusuf Sulistyo Nugroho, Farah Danisha Salam, Brittany Reid, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Kazumasa Shimari, Kenichi Matsumoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15453

Uncovering Intention through LLM-Driven Code Snippet Description Generation
Documenting code snippets is essential to pinpoint key areas where both developers and users should pay attention. Examples include usage examples and other Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), which are especially important for third-party libraries. With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), the key goal is to investigate the kinds of description developers commonly use and evaluate how well an LLM, in this case Llama, can support description generation. We use NPM Code Snippets, co…

The Orbit of WASP-4 b is in Decay
\"O. Ba\c{s}t\"urk, A. C. Kutluay, A. Barker, S. Yal\c{c}{\i}nkaya, J. Southworth, K. Barkaoui, A. W\"unsche, M. J. Burgdorf, M. Timmermans, E. Jehin, J. Tregloan-Reed, R. Figuera Jaimes, T. C. Hinse, B. Duru, J. Hitchcock, P. Longa-Pe\~na, S. Rahvar, S. Sajadian, M. Bretton, S. O. Selam, M. Gillon, M. Bonavita, G. D'Ago, M. Dominik, U. G. J{\o}rgensen, C. Snodgrass, P. Spyrato

The Orbit of WASP-4 b is in Decay
WASP-4 b is a hot Jupiter exhibiting a decreasing orbital period, prompting investigations into potential mechanisms driving its evolution. We analyzed 173 transit light curves, including 37 new observations, and derived mid-transit timings with EXOFAST, forming the most extensive TTV dataset for this system. Adding 58 literature timings and removing unreliable data, we constructed a TTV diagram with 216 points. Our analysis considered linear, quadratic, and apsidal motion models, with the quad…

The Trump administration is preparing to begin the transfer of potentially thousands of foreigners who are in the United States illegally
to the U.S. military base in Guantšnamo Bay, Cuba,
starting as early as this week,
said U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The foreign nationals under consideration hail from a range of countries.
They include hundreds from friendly European nations, including Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, the Nethe…

Trump to ramp up transfers to Guantánamo, including citizens of allies
The administration aims to send thousands of foreigners to Guantánamo, including people from Britain and France, with no plans to notify their home governments.

FAST Pulsar Database: II. Scattering profiles of 122 Pulsars
W. C. Jing, J. L. Han, C. Wang, P. F. Wang, T. Wang, N. N. Cai, J. Xu, Z. L. Yang, D. J. Zhou, Yi Yan, W. Q. Su, X. Y. Gao, L. Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14519

FAST Pulsar Database: II. Scattering profiles of 122 Pulsars
The turbulent ionized interstellar medium diffracts radio waves and makes them propagate in multiple paths. The pulse-broadening observed at low frequencies results from the scattering effect of interstellar clouds of ionized gas. During the Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot (GPPS) survey and other projects by using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we detect the pulse-broadening for 122 pulsars in the radio frequency band between 1.0 and 1.5 GHz, including 60 newly…

"Inspired by the political philosopher Albert Hirschman, figures including Goff, Thiel and the investor and writer Balaji Srinivasan have been championing what they call “exit” – the principle that those with means have the right to walk away from the obligations of citizenship, especially taxes and burdensome regulation. Retooling and rebranding the old ambitions and privileges of empires, they dream of splintering governments and carving up the world into hyper-capitalist, democracy-free havens under the sole control of the supremely wealthy, protected by private mercenaries, serviced by AI robots and financed by cryptocurrencies."
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#OligarchApocalypse #Oligarchy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk

A great piece of analysis with lots of suggestions for what to do in response to the Trump administration's efforts to destroy U.S. research infrastructure. I appreciate the inclusion of the work to #DefendResearch against #censorship.

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All 242 people on board killed after London-bound Air India flight crashed in Ahmedabad, say police
– latest updates
Ahmedabad police commissioner says there appear to be no survivors from flight AI171,
with passengers including 169 Indians, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese and one Canadian

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08741 has been replaced.
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Birational Transformations and 2d (0,2) Quiver Gauge Theories beyond Toric Fano 3-folds
We show that a family of birational transformations that relate toric Fano 3-folds defined by reflexive lattice polytopes can be identified with mass deformations of corresponding 2d (0,2) supersymmetric quiver gauge theories. These theories are realized by a Type IIA brane configuration known as brane brick models. We further show that the same family of birational transformations extends to more general toric Calabi-Yau 4-folds, including those defined by non-reflexive toric diagrams. Under t…