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Éditorial du journal Le Monde
Après la chute du président Andry Rajoelina, où va Madagascar ? https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/10/16/apres-la-chute-du-president-andry-rajoelina-ou-va-madagascar_6647133_32…

SpatialTrackerV2: 3D Point Tracking Made Easy
Yuxi Xiao, Jianyuan Wang, Nan Xue, Nikita Karaev, Yuri Makarov, Bingyi Kang, Xing Zhu, Hujun Bao, Yujun Shen, Xiaowei Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12462

SpatialTrackerV2: 3D Point Tracking Made Easy
We present SpatialTrackerV2, a feed-forward 3D point tracking method for monocular videos. Going beyond modular pipelines built on off-the-shelf components for 3D tracking, our approach unifies the intrinsic connections between point tracking, monocular depth, and camera pose estimation into a high-performing and feedforward 3D point tracker. It decomposes world-space 3D motion into scene geometry, camera ego-motion, and pixel-wise object motion, with a fully differentiable and end-to-end archi…

MEMBOT: Memory-Based Robot in Intermittent POMDP
Youzhi Liang, Eyan Noronha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11225 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11225

MEMBOT: Memory-Based Robot in Intermittent POMDP
Robotic systems deployed in real-world environments often operate under con- ditions of partial and often intermittent observability, where sensor inputs may be noisy, occluded, or entirely unavailable due to failures or environmental con- straints. Traditional reinforcement learning (RL) approaches that assume full state observability are ill-equipped for such challenges. In this work, we introduce MEMBOT, a modular memory-based architecture designed to address intermittent partial observabili…

Granulation signatures in 3D hydrodynamical simulations: evaluating background model performance using a Bayesian nested sampling framework
Jens R. Larsen, Mia S. Lundkvist, Guy R. Davies, Martin B. Nielsen, Hans-G\"unter Ludwig, Yixiao Zhao, Luisa F. Rodr\'iguez D\'iaz, Hans Kjeldsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.1169…

Granulation signatures in 3D hydrodynamical simulations: evaluating background model performance using a Bayesian nested sampling framework
Understanding the granulation background signal is of vital importance when interpreting the asteroseismic diagnostics of solar-like oscillators. Various descriptions exist in the literature for modelling the surface manifestation of convection, the choice of which affects our interpretations. We aim to evaluate the performance of and preference for various granulation background models for a suite of 3D hydrodynamical simulations of convection across the HR diagram, thereby expanding the numbe…

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Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
VILA: Right.
BLAKE: One more thing, Vila.
VILA: Oh yes, sorry [Releases Blake]
BLAKE: Thank you. Asteroid PK One One Eight.
VILA: Right. [Vila moves in front of Zen]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/213 B7B6

Just finished "Once For Yes" by Allie Millington. A phenomenal book dealing with tragedy, gentrification, grief, and community, it's preposterously poetic, but unfortunately has a twisted neoliberal politics lurking behind the scenes that makes me hesitate to recommend it. I enjoyed it greatly, especially the tightly choreographed prose, and the plot was both very well-paced and touching. It's fun for adults but also written for kids, which makes it all the more frustrating that despite touching on gentrification, it valorizes someone who is objectively a pretty scummy landlord, and fails to interrogate land ownership or rent in the slightest. It wouldn't be nearly the same story without the way things wrap up, but that doesn't make me comfortable with the larger messages it's sending, even if I think its messaging about grief is good, including for children.
#AmReading

Value-Based Large Language Model Agent Simulation for Mutual Evaluation of Trust and Interpersonal Closeness
Yuki Sakamoto, Takahisa Uchida, Hiroshi Ishiguro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11979

Value-Based Large Language Model Agent Simulation for Mutual Evaluation of Trust and Interpersonal Closeness
Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for simulating complex social phenomena using human-like agents with specific traits. In human societies, value similarity is important for building trust and close relationships; however, it remains unexplored whether this principle holds true in artificial societies comprising LLM agents. Therefore, this study investigates the influence of value similarity on relationship-building among LLM agents through two experiments. First, in a…

Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
TRONOS: Selson.
SELSON: Sir.
TRONOS: [Points to the screen on his console] That's the third staircase, isn't it?
SELSON: Yes, sir [The console screen displays a metal staircase] They're getting closer every minute, sir.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/209/3

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
FRANTON: With respect, sir. You and Cally are from the same sibling group, aren't you?
ZELDA: Yes, Cally's my twin.
FRANTON: Identical brain scan.
ZELDA: Optimum telepathic affinity.