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Metas neue VR-Prototypen loten die Grenzen der Technik aus
Meta wird im August voraussichtlich drei neue Headset-Prototypen vorstellen, die bei Sichtfeld und Pixeldichte mit dem menschlichen Auge konkurrieren können.

After nuclear weapons testing began in 1945, atmospheric radiation contaminated new steel production worldwide.
For decades, scientists needing radiation-free metal for sensitive instruments had to salvage steel from pre-war shipwrecks.
Scientists called this steel
"low-background steel."
Graham-Cumming sees a parallel with today's web, where AI-generated content increasingly mingles with human-created material and contaminates it.
With the advent o…

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content
Newly announced catalog collects pre-2022 sources untouched by ChatGPT and AI contamination.

#NoKings #usa #uspol
Proteste in den USA sind laut Einschätzung eines Wissenschaftlers zweifelsohne mit einer der größten Ein- Tages- Proteste in der menschlichen Geschichte 💪🎉

Deriving Entangled Relativity
Olivier Minazzoli (ARTEMIS), Maxime Wavasseur (ARTEMIS), Thomas Chehab (ARTEMIS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15209 https://

Deriving Entangled Relativity
Entangled Relativity is a non-linear reformulation of Einstein's theory that cannot be defined in the absence of matter fields. It recovers General Relativity in the weak matter density limit or whenever $\mathcal{L}_m = T$ on-shell, and it is also more parsimonious in terms of fundamental constants and units. In this paper, we show that Entangled Relativity can be derived from a general $f(R,\mathcal{L}_m)$ theory by imposing a single requirement: the theory must admit all solutions of General…

#SolaWi Sommer-Losergemüse für mich: Fenchel und auch Mangold 😅
Mangold geht okay in einem Curry mit Linsen, Fenchel dagegen kann ich überhaupt nur einmal pro Saison gerade so essen.

Rechts im Bild: Robert Misik darüber, wie rechte #Propaganda auf die menschliche Psyche wirkt.
Die "Phase der Verwandlung, in der die Menschen psychisch geradezu ummontiert wurden."
Links Yahoo News über Menschen, die sich in Chats mit #LLM​s (konkret:

DMS:Diffusion-Based Multi-Baseline Stereo Generation for Improving Self-Supervised Depth Estimation
Zihua Liu, Yizhou Li, Songyan Zhang, Masatoshi Okutomi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13091

DMS:Diffusion-Based Multi-Baseline Stereo Generation for Improving Self-Supervised Depth Estimation
While supervised stereo matching and monocular depth estimation have advanced significantly with learning-based algorithms, self-supervised methods using stereo images as supervision signals have received relatively less focus and require further investigation. A primary challenge arises from ambiguity introduced during photometric reconstruction, particularly due to missing corresponding pixels in ill-posed regions of the target view, such as occlusions and out-of-frame areas. To address this …

MUFFIN: Mixture of User-Adaptive Frequency Filtering for Sequential Recommendation
Ilwoong Baek, Mincheol Yoon, Seongmin Park, Jongwuk Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13670 https…

MUFFIN: Mixture of User-Adaptive Frequency Filtering for Sequential Recommendation
Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to predict users' subsequent interactions by modeling their sequential behaviors. Recent studies have explored frequency domain analysis, which effectively models periodic patterns in user sequences. However, existing frequency-domain SR models still face two major drawbacks: (i) limited frequency band coverage, often missing critical behavioral patterns in a specific frequency range, and (ii) lack of personalized frequency filtering, as they apply an identic…

Evaluating Identity Leakage in Speaker De-Identification Systems
Seungmin Seo, Oleg Aulov, Afzal Godil, Kevin Mangold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14012 https://

Evaluating Identity Leakage in Speaker De-Identification Systems
Speaker de-identification aims to conceal a speaker's identity while preserving intelligibility of the underlying speech. We introduce a benchmark that quantifies residual identity leakage with three complementary error rates: equal error rate, cumulative match characteristic hit rate, and embedding-space similarity measured via canonical correlation analysis and Procrustes analysis. Evaluation results reveal that all state-of-the-art speaker de-identification systems leak identity information.…

Cannot emphasize enough how much we need people with experience as public defenders and civil rights lawyers to run for political office.
At a time of authoritarianism, their skepticism of power is critical.
https://bsky.app/profile/davidmenschel.bsky.social/post…