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The metric system is 150 years old. The metre originated in the French Revolution, but its definition has changed many times since - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-05-20/metre-treaty-anniversary-met…

The metre originated in the French Revolution, but its definition has changed many times since
The next time you pick up a bag of spuds from the supermarket or fill up the car with petrol, you can thank a treaty signed in 1875 for the metric system that underpins daily life.

Insights Informed Generative AI for Design: Incorporating Real-world Data for Text-to-Image Output
Richa Gupta, Alexander Htet Kyaw
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15008

Insights Informed Generative AI for Design: Incorporating Real-world Data for Text-to-Image Output
Generative AI, specifically text-to-image models, have revolutionized interior architectural design by enabling the rapid translation of conceptual ideas into visual representations from simple text prompts. While generative AI can produce visually appealing images they often lack actionable data for designers In this work, we propose a novel pipeline that integrates DALL-E 3 with a materials dataset to enrich AI-generated designs with sustainability metrics and material usage insights. After t…

An ultra-low-power CGRA for accelerating Transformers at the edge
Rohit Prasad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12904 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

An ultra-low-power CGRA for accelerating Transformers at the edge
Transformers have revolutionized deep learning with applications in natural language processing, computer vision, and beyond. However, their computational demands make it challenging to deploy them on low-power edge devices. This paper introduces an ultra-low-power, Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array (CGRA) architecture specifically designed to accelerate General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) operations in transformer models tailored for the energy and resource constraints of edge applications.…

Beyond Diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Enabled Sensing: Cramer-Rao Bound Optimization
Xiaoqi Zhang, Liang Liu, Shuowen Zhang, Haijun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11292

Beyond Diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Enabled Sensing: Cramer-Rao Bound Optimization
Recently, beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) has emerged as a more flexible solution to engineer the wireless propagation channels, thanks to its non-diagonal reflecting matrix. Although the gain of the BD-RIS over the conventional RIS in communication has been revealed in many works, its gain in 6G sensing is still unknown. This motivates us to study the BD-RIS assisted sensing in this letter. Specifically, we derive the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) for estimating the angle-…

Nice to see Michael Hansmeyer still following his dreams: The White Tower was finally revealed 2 weeks ago, currently the largest 3D printed structure in the world (30 meters [90ft] tall), located in a small village in Switzerland:
https://www.michael-hansmeyer.com/white-tower

Tor Alva | White Tower - Project Overview
Tor Alva, White Tower, Weisser Turm in Mulegns, Switzerland, Origen Foundation

From Revolution to Ruin: An Empirical Analysis Yemen's State Collapse
Riste Ichev, Rok Spruk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08512 https://

From Revolution to Ruin: An Empirical Analysis Yemen's State Collapse
We assess the broad repercussions of Yemen's 2011 revolution and subsequent civil war on its macroeconomic trajectories, human development, and quality of governance by constructing counterfactual benchmarks using a balanced panel of 37 developing countries over 1990-2022. Drawing on matrix-completion estimators with alternative shrinkage regimes and a LASSO-augmented synthetic-control method, we generate Yemen's hypothetical no-conflict paths for key macroeconomic aggregates, demographic and h…

Gestern waren wir in Innsbruck. Der Rapoldipark war entspannt und kühl. Die Stadt eine Stadt. Die Geschäfte interessieren mich wenig. Am Abend in der veganen Pizzaria https://www.meowinnsbruck.com/ essen war schön. Und als kleinen Bonus haben wir beim Platzkonzert in Mieders vorbeigeschaut.

Share Your Attention: Transformer Weight Sharing via Matrix-based Dictionary Learning
Magauiya Zhussip, Dmitriy Shopkhoev, Ammar Ali, Stamatios Lefkimmiatis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04581

Share Your Attention: Transformer Weight Sharing via Matrix-based Dictionary Learning
Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized AI applications, yet their high computational and memory demands hinder their widespread deployment. Existing compression techniques focus on intra-block optimizations (e.g. low-rank approximation, attention head pruning), while the repetitive layered structure of transformers implies significant inter-block redundancy - a dimension largely unexplored beyond key-value (KV) caching. Inspired by dictionary learning in CNNs, we propose a framework f…

China's state TV broadcaster has revealed details of a new
"graphite bomb"
that can cause a "complete loss of electricity" across an area of 10,000 square meters,
or knock out entire power stations, the South China Morning Post reported.
An animated video released by China's CCTV showed a missile being launched from a ground-based launcher
and then flying to a target where it releases 90 small submunitions.
They then bounce on t…

Video teases new Chinese blackout bomb that can knock out enemy power stations
Animation shared by state broadcaster shows what appears to be graphite bomb designed to disrupt command and control systems.

Brazil serves potentially contaminated shark meat to children in public schools https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/brazil-serves-potentially-contaminated-shark-meat-to-children-in-public-schools/…

Brazil serves potentially contaminated shark meat to children in public schools
Brazil has ordered at least 5,600 metric tons of potentially contaminated shark meat to serve in schools and other public institutions since 2004, a Mongabay investigation has revealed. Shark meat tends to have higher concentrations of toxic heavy metals, as top predators accumulate contaminants like mercury from lower down in the food chain. The contaminants […]