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"IFLA PressReader International [Library] Marketing Award Winners 2025" – mit #catcontent! :)
https://www.ifla.org/news/ifla-pressreader

Trump's megabill: What are the next steps and hurdles (Natalie Daher/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/30/big-beautiful-bill-how-to-pass-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p102#a250630p102

$3.3 trillion of debt being handed to future generations to make billionaires richer.
Higher cost of living, drained government benefits & fewer economic opportunities on the world stage...
...for our kids.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4ibal

Online Edge Coloring: Sharp Thresholds
Joakim Blikstad, Ola Svensson, Radu Vintan, David Wajc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21560 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.2…

Online Edge Coloring: Sharp Thresholds
Vizing's theorem guarantees that every graph with maximum degree $Δ$ admits an edge coloring using $Δ+ 1$ colors. In online settings - where edges arrive one at a time and must be colored immediately - a simple greedy algorithm uses at most $2Δ- 1$ colors. Over thirty years ago, Bar-Noy, Motwani, and Naor [IPL'92] proved that this guarantee is optimal among deterministic algorithms when $Δ= O(\log n)$, and among randomized algorithms when $Δ= O(\sqrt{\log n})$. While deterministic improvem…

Modelling birdsong transmission with methods from molecular sequence analysis
Anthony Kwong, Mark Muldoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20833 https://arxiv.or…

Modelling birdsong transmission with methods from molecular sequence analysis
In many species of songbirds, juvenile males learn their songs from adult male tutors. In this paper we formulate a novel Markov model for birdsong transmission developed by analogy with models used in biological sequence analysis. We fit the model using the recently developed Interacting Particle Langevin Algorithm (IPLA) of Akyildiz et al. (arXiv:2303.13429) and analyse a collection of songs from Java sparrows (Lonchura oryzivora) originally recorded and studied by Masayo Soma and her collabo…

3DGS-IEval-15K: A Large-scale Image Quality Evaluation Database for 3D Gaussian-Splatting
Yuke Xing, Jiarui Wang, Peizhi Niu, Wenjie Huang, Guangtao Zhai, Yiling Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14642

3DGS-IEval-15K: A Large-scale Image Quality Evaluation Database for 3D Gaussian-Splatting
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a promising approach for novel view synthesis, offering real-time rendering with high visual fidelity. However, its substantial storage requirements present significant challenges for practical applications. While recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) 3DGS methods increasingly incorporate dedicated compression modules, there is a lack of a comprehensive framework to evaluate their perceptual impact. Therefore we present 3DGS-IEval-15K, the first large-scale …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Ought:
🎵 Beautiful Blue Sky
#Ought
https://ought.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-blue-sky
https://open.spotify.com/track/5vs3jJj3AhJMgIycoiF5Tx

#Aras25 #IEPol #Presidentialelection https://caint.ie/post/51…

Irish Presidency Election 2025
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PriorFormer: A Transformer for Real-time Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation with Versatile Geometric Priors
Mohamed Adjel (LAAS-GEPETTO), Vincent Bonnet (IPAL, LAAS-GEPETTO, CNRS-AIST JRL)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18238

PriorFormer: A Transformer for Real-time Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation with Versatile Geometric Priors
This paper proposes a new lightweight Transformer-based lifter that maps short sequences of human 2D joint positions to 3D poses using a single camera. The proposed model takes as input geometric priors including segment lengths and camera intrinsics and is designed to operate in both calibrated and uncalibrated settings. To this end, a masking mechanism enables the model to ignore missing priors during training and inference. This yields a single versatile network that can adapt to different d…

Easily my favorite animal video of the week. (Even though I cried throughout.)
▶️ We Almost Didn’t Stop for This Tiny Kitten—But I’m So Glad We Did!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dPvAmJR9aQs&si=W_UJfTRB-i7iFwel