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Tua Tagovailoa questions Dolphins' leadership, calls out teammates for skipping meetings https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6711528/2025/10/12/miami-dolphins-tua-tagovailoa-player-meetings/

Dolphins Mike McDaniel Provides Clarity on Player-Led Meetings https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/mike-mcdaniel-coaches-player-led-meetings/?adt_ei=[email]

Inside the Closed-Door Meetings of the N.F.L.’s Billionaire Owners https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/business/nfl-owners-trump.html

Another tip for #DH2025 / life in general - calendar appointments added in different timezones in Outlook often display incorrectly on iPhones. Keep that in mind when adding conference sessions / meetings to your calendar!
(It's been that way for years, who knows if Outlook or iOS is to blame)

"Rep. Tim Burchett told NOTUS that he still sleeps in his office because it helps him stay productive and get to meetings early."
MAGA rep busted after story on office sleepovers curiously changes - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/tim-burchett-2673878919/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Aug.12.2025_8.17pm

Spatially-Augmented Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Diarization for Meetings
Li Li, Ming Cheng, Hongyu Zhang, Juan Liu, Ming Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09505 https://

Spatially-Augmented Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Diarization for Meetings
This paper proposes a Spatially-Augmented Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Diarization (SA-S2SND) framework, which integrates direction-of-arrival (DOA) cues estimated by SRP-DNN into the S2SND backbone. A two-stage training strategy is adopted: the model is first trained with single-channel audio and DOA features, and then further optimized with multi-channel inputs under DOA guidance. In addition, a simulated DOA generation scheme is introduced to alleviate dependence on matched multi-channel corp…

yes, confront your bully in high school, have him sit through school meetings for hurtful statements, otherwise he might turn into steven miller

#Meetings mit Menschen, die man nicht mag und die einen nicht mögen und für die man nur optional eingeladen ist. 🥳

Slovak PM Fico plans meetings with Putin, Zelensky this week: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/01/slovak-pm-fico-plans-meetings.html

Leaked files: WaPo publisher Will Lewis supported Boris Johnson as a secret political adviser when he was UK PM in 2022; Lewis was AP's vice-chair at the time (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/10/…

The Call for Papers (and posters) is now open for the #Indiana #MAA section meeting, Sat. October 18 at Taylor University.
https://www.indiana.maa.org/…

Nie mehr öde Meetings: Zucks Display-Brille hat Potenzial
Nachrichten, Fotos, sogar Videos lassen sich im Display der Ray-Ban Meta Brille anschauen. Das kann was, findet Eva-Maria Weiß – kann aber auch stören.

Vision Pro: Webex mit 3D-Modellen in Meetings
Cisco erweitert Webex um 3D-Kollaboration für die Apple Vision Pro. Teams können gemeinsam 3D-Modelle in Echtzeit betrachten und bearbeiten.
https://www.

AI is flooding libraries with generated content just as budgets and staff are at their most precarious. This Thursday at 10am EDT my ASIS&T webinar asks if we need to ban it, label it, absorb it—or rethink the library itself.
https://www.asist.org/meetings-events/webi

Geheime Superkraft: Meetings verkürzen

Dolphins' Mike McDaniel: Tua Tagovailoa's comments 'misguided representation' of player film sessions https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-mike-mcdaniel-tua-tagovailoa-comments-misguided-representation

AquiLLM: a RAG Tool for Capturing Tacit Knowledge in Research Groups
Chandler Campbell, Bernie Boscoe, Tuan Do
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05648 https://arx…

AquiLLM: a RAG Tool for Capturing Tacit Knowledge in Research Groups
Research groups face persistent challenges in capturing, storing, and retrieving knowledge that is distributed across team members. Although structured data intended for analysis and publication is often well managed, much of a group's collective knowledge remains informal, fragmented, or undocumented--often passed down orally through meetings, mentoring, and day-to-day collaboration. This includes private resources such as emails, meeting notes, training materials, and ad hoc documentation. To…

Human Capital Visualization using Speech Amount during Meetings
Ekai Hashimoto, Takeshi Mizumoto, Kohei Nagira, Shun Shiramatsu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02075 https://

Human Capital Visualization using Speech Amount during Meetings
In recent years, many companies have recognized the importance of human resources and are investing in human capital to revitalize their organizations and enhance internal communication, thereby fostering innovation. However, conventional quantification methods have mainly focused on readily measurable indicators without addressing the fundamental role of conversations in human capital. This study focuses on routine meetings and proposes strategies to visualize human capital by analyzing speech…

As for “but it's great for coding!“…
…world-wide there's about 3.6 billion jobs or so, of which ~25 million are in software development; this means maybe about 0.7% of all jobs world-wide can use "great for coding".
Writing actual code amounts to maybe, if you're lucky, 10% of the work a software developer does.
The rest is meetings, high-level specifications, email and chat, more meetings, learning new things, updating stuff, lots of testing and debugging, etc.
The gist is, the supposed gains from "AI" are completely irrelevant (and indeed there's signs and studies that show it doesn't do anything for programmer productivity either).
tl;dr: This is the worst economic bubble in history, pushing a dream of a magical technology that unfortunately doesn't work, by appealing to investor greed.

New CDC chief was part of meetings where officials pressed ousted leader on vaccines (Adam Cancryn/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/29/politics/jim-oneill-cdc-vaccine-meetings?Date=20250829&Profile=CNN
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p65#a250829p65

Unbroken: Meetings in the circle of Promote Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/31/unbroken-meetings-in-the-circle.html

For effective meetings, try Meeting Kitty™!

#3GuteDingeDesTages
🙂 Den ersten Schultag mit meetings back to back to back to back tatsächlich überlebt
🙂 Der Sparverkäufer freut sich, dass ich wieder da bin
🙂 Abends aufm Balkon chillen

Users say AI notetaking tools for meetings can misinterpret context when generating summaries or share content meant for a select audience with all participants (Ann-Marie Alcšntara/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-notetaker-m

Former Dolphins WR calls out Tua Tagovailoa for leadership comments after loss to Chargers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/former-dolphi…

Wann immer es um Veränderungen geht, besteht ein Spektrum, in dem diese diskutierbar sind: Auf der einen Seite, sollten Veränderungen die gewünschten Verbesserungen mit sich bringen. Auf der anderen Seite, müssen sie in den bestehenden Strukturen beschlossen und umgesetzt werden können.
Das bringt Agenten dieser Veränderung in eine Zwickmühle: Machen sie einen zu radikalen Vorschlag, der tatsächliche Veränderung mit sich bringt, wird dieser schnell abgelehnt. Machen sie von Beginn an …

On Signal’s Meredith Whittaker in The Economist. Or: The origins of poor digital policy demands
Over the last years, I have taken part in numerous meetings about how to square the circle of formulating policy demands that both make a difference and have a vague prospect of being adopted by policy-makers. And I often get to observe how this kills any meaningful debate and narrows perspectives.

Morning all! It's a bit of a 'catch up' day in the office today. No client meetings, just event promotion, community admin, and some podcast and video editing.
Wishing everyone a productive day, whatever you're up to!

Always good to get a reality check. At the same time good to remember the data collection of this trial was from October 2024 to Decembre 2024. Models have improved since then, reasoning, more tool use etc.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m365_copilot_uk_government/

UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost
: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

East and #SoutheastAsia have the most populated time zones in the world.
Yet most so-called "global" #civilsociety calls or meetings are set at times that are incredibly inconvenient for those of us here. And, as a result, you see so few

12:21 Minuten über viel zu viel "synchronen Austausch" (aka remote meetings)
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/markus-albers-die-optimierungsluege-warum-wir-keine-zeit-fuer-die-arbeit-haben-100.html

Markus Albers: "Die Optimierungslüge" Warum wir keine Zeit für die Arbeit haben

AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event Booked Random Meetings for Attendees https://www.404media.co/ai-at-the-worlds-biggest-games-event-booked-random-meetings-for-attendees/

At Berlin Buzzwords, Danica Fine discussed how to create a custom on-air sign using Apache Kafka®, Apache Flink®, and Apache Iceberg™. Discover how to capture events such as Zoom meetings and camera usage with Python, process data using FlinkSQL, analyse trends from your Iceberg tables, and integrate everything into a practical IoT project that can scale effectively.
Watch the full session:

Here are the three primary kinds of community-based events we’ll be sponsoring during 31 Days of Action:

Open/community lab meetings over Zoom or live-streamed lab tours/demos

Teach-ins at local community centers, churches, parks, basically anywhere that’s not a college campus

Stand Up For Science tabling and demos that include “Ask a Scientist” booths,
pond water under a microscope,
strawberry DNA extraction,
egg drop competitions, …

SUFS 31 Days of Action Guidebook
🧬 WHAT IS STAND UP FOR SCIENCE? Stand Up for Science (SUFS) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization born from the rallies held in cities throughout the United States and around the world on March 7th, 2025. We believe that science is a public good that benefits everyone, and we’re leading...

Pete Carroll refutes report about Tom Brady's meetings with Chip Kelly https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/pete-carroll-refutes-report-tom-bradys-meetings-chip-kelly/0e3f571242…

Despite legal rulings, California school district tries to revive Christian prayers at meetings
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/despite-legal-rulings-california

Whew. Drove 326mi in the last 24hrs to take 3 meetings. Exhausted & car running on fumes. Just barely made it into a gas station.
... then Spotify dropped these bangers on me & I think I'll be alright.
🎶 Lay Your Hands on Me - Thompson Twins
https://open.spotify.com/…

Micah Parsons attends Cowboys meetings ahead of preseason finale https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/micah-parsons-attends-dallas-cowboys-meetings-ahead-nfl-preseason-finale

Can AI agents understand spoken conversations about data visualizations in online meetings?
Rizul Sharma, Tianyu Jiang, Seokki Lee, Jillian Aurisano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00245

Can AI agents understand spoken conversations about data visualizations in online meetings?
In this short paper, we present work evaluating an AI agent's understanding of spoken conversations about data visualizations in an online meeting scenario. There is growing interest in the development of AI-assistants that support meetings, such as by providing assistance with tasks or summarizing a discussion. The quality of this support depends on a model that understands the conversational dialogue. To evaluate this understanding, we introduce a dual-axis testing framework for diagnosing th…

Ghislaine Maxwell's meetings with Justice Department shrouded in secrecy (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ghislaine-maxwell-justice-department-meetings-rcna221240
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p45#a250726p45

Is It Really You? Exploring Biometric Verification Scenarios in Photorealistic Talking-Head Avatar Videos
Laura Pedrouzo-Rodriguez, Pedro Delgado-DeRobles, Luis F. Gomez, Ruben Tolosana, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Aythami Morales, Julian Fierrez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00748

Is It Really You? Exploring Biometric Verification Scenarios in Photorealistic Talking-Head Avatar Videos
Photorealistic talking-head avatars are becoming increasingly common in virtual meetings, gaming, and social platforms. These avatars allow for more immersive communication, but they also introduce serious security risks. One emerging threat is impersonation: an attacker can steal a user's avatar-preserving their appearance and voice-making it nearly impossible to detect its fraudulent usage by sight or sound alone. In this paper, we explore the challenge of biometric verification in such avata…

Trump's proposal – Can meetings really end the war?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/trumps-proposal-can-meetings-really.html

Trump’s cabinet meetings look like meetings of the Soviet or Northkorean politburo with ministers constantly praising the “great leader”. Painful to watch the once great USA going down the drain and transformation towards minimal authoritarian and probably a fullblown fascist state.
#usa #trump

Dialog nach David Bohm. Bohm war Physiker und hat u. a. mit Einstein zusammengearbeitet.
Er sagt, dass wir in Gesprächen/Meetings immer auf unserem Standpunkt beharren, ihn durchsetzen/verteidigen wollen. Dadurch kämen wir als Gruppe/Gesellschaft nicht weiter. Weil niemand zuhört.
Bessere Erfahrung hat er damit gemacht, wenn eine ihren Standpunkt ausführlich erötert, andere ihr (geistig) folgen, nur zuhören. Und das erstmal so stehen lassen. 1/2

I was reminded of the Internet Evolution Tapestry... (I'm on it in several spots.)
The cover page is at https://tapestryai.com/InternetEvolution

This reminds me of when I confused a (long deceased) country music singer with a (recently deceased) anti-cyberbullying influencer and got brigaded by the latter’s Twitter followers.
I think that was the first time I received a death threat online. I look back on it now with a touch of nostalgia. https://mastodon.soc…

Perplexity debuts Email Assistant for Gmail and Outlook, which can manage inboxes, schedule meetings, and more, for subscribers of its $200/month Max plan (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.

Perplexity launches AI email assistant that can manage your Outlook or Gmail inbox for you — but it will cost $200 a month
Perplexity's $200 subscription is gaining a new feature that lets it manage your inbox by drafting replies to threads, scheduling meetings, and labeling emails using a new AI email assistant.

Oh hell no! If they allow it at work I will be asking how I can turn it off. There are times when we cannot record or use transcriptions for parts of meetings.
https://www.theverge.com/news/781278/microsoft-teams-copilot-ai-agents

You're not ready for "agentic" workflows if you don't even have "agendic" meetings

"'We can and will continue to pursue the same goal we have had from the outset — for each member of Congress to represent both urban and rural voices,' Schultz and Adams said."
Objecting to this reasoning is how Proposition 4 passed with the majority of #Utah voters in 2018.
We know this because of how many rural Republican constituents showed up at public meetings th…

What does the public want their local government to hear? A data-driven case study of public comments across the state of Michigan
Chang Ge, Justine Zhang, Haofei Xu, Yanna Krupnikov, Jenna Bednar, Sabina Tomkins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18431

What does the public want their local government to hear? A data-driven case study of public comments across the state of Michigan
City council meetings are vital sites for civic participation where the public can speak directly to their local government. By addressing city officials and calling on them to take action, public commenters can potentially influence policy decisions spanning a broad range of concerns, from housing, to sustainability, to social justice. Yet studies of these meetings have often been limited by the availability of large-scale, geographically-diverse data. Relying on local governments' increasing …

Workation, day one: headset fell apart
So, no online meetings for the next view weeks, I guess?
#AcademicChatter #AchievementOfTheDay

Findings of the Third Automatic Minuting (AutoMin) Challenge
Kartik Shinde, Laurent Besacier, Ondrej Bojar, Thibaut Thonet, Tirthankar Ghosal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13814 ht…

Findings of the Third Automatic Minuting (AutoMin) Challenge
This paper presents the third edition of AutoMin, a shared task on automatic meeting summarization into minutes. In 2025, AutoMin featured the main task of minuting, the creation of structured meeting minutes, as well as a new task: question answering (QA) based on meeting transcripts. The minuting task covered two languages, English and Czech, and two domains: project meetings and European Parliament sessions. The QA task focused solely on project meetings and was available in two settings: …

Tom 'Brady Rules' end. NFL to allow Fox analyst to attend production meetings: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6577539/2025/08/27/tom-brady-rules-fox-nfl-2025/

AI summaries of meetings always read a bit like meeting minutes that say "Executive Session" when what actually happened was an off the record discussion that was nearly met with fisticuffs. Like it's not _wrong_ but it doesn't usually capture the sentiment.

I Can't Join, But I Will Send My Agent: Stand-in Enhanced Asynchronous Meetings (SEAM)
Zhongyi Bai, Jens Emil Gr{\o}nb{\ae}k, Andrew Irlitti, Jarrod Knibbe, Eduardo Velloso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17676

I Can't Join, But I Will Send My Agent: Stand-in Enhanced Asynchronous Meetings (SEAM)
We propose and explore the user experience of SEAM -- Stand-in Enhanced Asynchronous Meetings -- virtual reality meetings in which embodied virtual agents represent absent users. During the meeting, attendees can address the agent, and the absent user can later watch the recording from its perspective to respond. Through two mixed-method studies with 45 participants using the Wizard-of-Oz approach, we explored both the perspectives of the attendees in the original meeting and of the absent user…

You're not an alcoholic unless you go to the meetings.

Danish Minister of Justice and chief architect of the current Chat Control proposal, Peter Hummelgaard:
"We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone's civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services."
Ok, I agree but on one condition: "everyone" means EVERYONE. Police, military, government, politicians, lobbyists, 100% 7x24 transparency. No closed door meetings, no off the record, no sly meets in a pub. Everyone.
Anything else is sinister.

If this doesn't convince you people to ditch ALL AMERICAN SERVICES ecosystem, what will?
https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/115248992415556991

Snake wrangler predicts Snake Oil could be the cure-all within the next six months.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91371621/perplexity-ceo-predicts-ai-could-replace-recruiters-and-assistants-in-as-little-as-six-mo…

Chinese banks continue to block payments from Russia despite Putin’s meetings with Xi Jinping: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/06/chinese-banks-continue-to-block.html

The perfect killing machine doesn’t exist.... https://www.theverge.com/news/708481/microsoft-teams-mercedes-benz-integration-in-car-camera-support

Mercedes-Benz will let you use an in-car camera in Microsoft Teams while driving
Mercedes-Benz is the first car maker to allow its in-car camera to work in Microsoft Teams meetings while you’re driving. It’s coming to the all-new CLA first.

I think my most-sent email of all time is "Does Tuesday at 2 pm work for you?" followed closely by "No worries, how about Wednesday?" 🫠
But what if you could just... not do that anymore?
There’s a scheduling tool hiding in plain sight in Gmail that ends all this nonsense. You offer times, they click once, and poof—it's in the calendar.
I filmed a quick guide on it because this needs to be public knowledge:

Trump on Tuesday canceled a meeting with Democratic congressional leaders to avoid a shutdown over government funding, arguing it could not “possibly be productive”.

The reversal leaves the two parties in Washington without a solution to keep the government open past Sept. 30,
when the current fiscal year ends and funding runs out.
The meeting scheduled for Thursday was intended to negotiate a path forward.

Trump cancels meetings with Democrats, bringing shutdown closer
Democratic congressional leaders argue the president’s unwillingness to meet is inviting a shutdown.

“On Monday afternoon, NIH’s chief operating officer, Eric Schnabel, was escorted out of the building just three months into his new job. … Schnabel’s departure was so abrupt that some staff showed up for meetings with him Tuesday only to be told he was gone, an NIH employee said.” (free link) https://wapo.st/4nMhcs5

Der Versuch, während des Board-Meetings zu meditieren, scheiterte grandios. 😡

From the barrage of "news coverage" of the Putin/Trump meeting and today's meeting for everyone else investing in Ukraine, I have to wonder, did anyone actually expect anything to come from these meetings?
No
Maybe something small
Yes

Tom 'Brady Rules' end. NFL to allow Fox analyst to attend production meetings: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6577539/2025/08/27/tom-brady-rules-fox-nfl-2025/

Cowboys HC Brian Schottenheimer Shares His Thoughts on Tom Brady Controversy https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brian-schottenheimer-tom-brady-meetings/?adt_ei=[email]

ClearMask: Noise-Free and Naturalness-Preserving Protection Against Voice Deepfake Attacks
Yuanda Wang, Bocheng Chen, Hanqing Guo, Guangjing Wang, Weikang Ding, Qiben Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17660

ClearMask: Noise-Free and Naturalness-Preserving Protection Against Voice Deepfake Attacks
Voice deepfake attacks, which artificially impersonate human speech for malicious purposes, have emerged as a severe threat. Existing defenses typically inject noise into human speech to compromise voice encoders in speech synthesis models. However, these methods degrade audio quality and require prior knowledge of the attack approaches, limiting their effectiveness in diverse scenarios. Moreover, real-time audios, such as speech in virtual meetings and voice messages, are still exposed to voic…

Halloween is just a month and a half away! 🎃

Fundamentally, these tools make text that is 'normal': extremes are flattened. Salient points recede.
And for meetings, 90% will be normal business as usual.
The important part is that 10%. Guess what the summary de-emphasizes.

Testing AI tools for journalism work: LLMs worked well for short summaries but poorly for long ones, and scientific research tools lacked depth and consistency (Hilke Schellmann/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/i-tested-how-well-ai-tool…

I Tested How Well AI Tools Work for Journalism
Some tools were sufficient for summarizing meetings. For research, the results were a disaster.

Take note, #Utah. There will be two #Redistricting committee meetings open to the public. Click the link for where/when/how to attend.
#utpol

Ghislaine Maxwell received limited immunity during meetings with deputy attorney general: Sources (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/deputy-ag-blanche-set-meet-2nd-day-ghislaine/story?id=124064062
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p106#a250725p106

An extended CIR process with stochastic discontinuities
Claudio Fontana, Simone Pavarana, Thorsten Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15752 https://arxiv.o…

An extended CIR process with stochastic discontinuities
We study an extension of the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR) process that incorporates jumps at deterministic dates, referred to as stochastic discontinuities. Our main motivation stems from short-rate modelling in the context of overnight rates, which often exhibit jumps at predetermined dates corresponding to central bank meetings. We provide a formal definition of a CIR process with stochastic discontinuities, where the jump sizes depend on the pre-jump state, thereby allowing for both upwarrd and …

Personalized Real-time Jargon Support for Online Meetings
Yifan Song, Wing Yee Au, Hon Yung Wong, Brian P. Bailey, Tal August
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10239 https://

Personalized Real-time Jargon Support for Online Meetings
Effective interdisciplinary communication is frequently hindered by domain-specific jargon. To explore the jargon barriers in-depth, we conducted a formative diary study with 16 professionals, revealing critical limitations in current jargon-management strategies during workplace meetings. Based on these insights, we designed ParseJargon, an interactive LLM-powered system providing real-time personalized jargon identification and explanations tailored to users' individual backgrounds. A control…

The head of the British armed forces will tell his American counterparts
the UK is prepared to send troops to defend Ukraine’s skies and seas
but not to the frontline with Russia,
as planning intensifies for a postwar settlement.
Tony Radakin, the chief of the defence staff, will on Wednesday attend meetings at the Pentagon
designed to finalise what 30 different countries are willing to commit to Ukraine’s national security.
Radakin is expected to
co…

That meeting could have been a TV show. 📺 🇺🇸
🎁
#USA #uspol #meetings #cabinet #NYT #NY_Times

Lviv mayor says he found bug in office after meetings with top Ukrainian officials: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/23/lviv-mayor-says-he-found.html

Hill returns to Dolphins' facility, speaks to team https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46477683/tyreek-hill-returns-dolphins-facility-speaks-team

Finding Common Ground: Using Large Language Models to Detect Agreement in Multi-Agent Decision Conferences
Selina Heller, Mohamed Ibrahim, David Antony Selby, Sebastian Vollmer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08440

Finding Common Ground: Using Large Language Models to Detect Agreement in Multi-Agent Decision Conferences
Decision conferences are structured, collaborative meetings that bring together experts from various fields to address complex issues and reach a consensus on recommendations for future actions or policies. These conferences often rely on facilitated discussions to ensure productive dialogue and collective agreement. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant promise in simulating real-world scenarios, particularly through collaborative multi-agent systems that mimic group in…

The Information launches its first live video product, TITV, hosted by reporter Akash Pasricha and streamed on YouTube, X, and The Information's website (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/14/the-information-video-titv

The Information launches new video product called TITV
Co-founder and CEO Jessica Lessin will host a segment about coverage themes coming out of editor's meetings.

Cowboys, playoff hopes will walk into the Lions Den in Week 14 https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-playoff-hopes-will-walk-into-the-lions-den-in-week-14

Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in Anchorage.
Eight pages, that appear to have been produced by U.S. staff and left behind accidentally, shared precise locations and meeting times of the summit and phone numbers of U.S. government employees

FastEnhancer: Speed-Optimized Streaming Neural Speech Enhancement
Sunghwan Ahn, Jinmo Han, Beom Jun Woo, Nam Soo Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21867 https://

FastEnhancer: Speed-Optimized Streaming Neural Speech Enhancement
Streaming speech enhancement is a crucial task for real-time applications such as online meetings, smart home appliances, and hearing aids. Deep neural network-based approaches achieve exceptional performance while demanding substantial computational resources. Although recent neural speech enhancement models have succeeded in reducing the number of parameters and multiply-accumulate operations, their sophisticated architectures often introduce significant processing latency on common hardware.…

Spousal conflit of interest issues aside for a moment... I may actually vomit if Danielle Smith's Alberta government introduces a “15-year master plan for introducing passenger trains across the province.“ when I have been advocating for this in BC for decades to absolute crickets (if not active denial) from all political parties in power.
#BCpoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Rail #Transportation #Sustainability
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-premier-s-husband-invited-to-passenger-rail-meetings-as-province-mulls-expansion-plan-1.7583358

"I Don't Think RAI Applies to My Model'' -- Engaging Non-champions with Sticky Stories for Responsible AI Work
Nadia Nahar, Chenyang Yang, Yanxin Chen, Wesley Hanwen Deng, Ken Holstein, Motahhare Eslami, Christian K\"astner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22858

"I Don't Think RAI Applies to My Model'' -- Engaging Non-champions with Sticky Stories for Responsible AI Work
Responsible AI (RAI) tools -- checklists, templates, and governance processes -- often engage RAI champions, individuals intrinsically motivated to advocate ethical practices, but fail to reach non-champions, who frequently dismiss them as bureaucratic tasks. To explore this gap, we shadowed meetings and interviewed data scientists at an organization, finding that practitioners perceived RAI as irrelevant to their work. Building on these insights and theoretical foundations, we derived design p…

OH on slack
User Story
As Overloaded Olivia, the backend engineer,
I want clear, actionable requirements with business context, so that I can implement the correct solution without burning half a day in meetings or wild guessing.
Acceptance Criteria
1. The story includes functional requirements (not just vibes).
2. Success/failure states are defined happy path edge cases).
3. Any dependencies or blockers are identified.
Bonus: PM/Designer reviewed this and it’s not just a draft in disguise.
#swe #sre #devops #devoops @… @…

#NPR reports of #Drumpf admin operatives leaving 8 pages of sensitive internal eyes only 👀 #Putin feting itinerary notes behind in #Alaska hotel sparks ridi…

Johnson: I'm not giving 'trade secrets' to Brady https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46294186/bears-ben-johnson-not-worried-tom-brady-production-meeting

UniSLU: Unified Spoken Language Understanding from Heterogeneous Cross-Task Datasets
Zhichao Sheng, Shilin Zhou, Chen Gong, Zhenghua Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12951

UniSLU: Unified Spoken Language Understanding from Heterogeneous Cross-Task Datasets
Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) plays a crucial role in speech-centric multimedia applications, enabling machines to comprehend spoken language in scenarios such as meetings, interviews, and customer service interactions. SLU encompasses multiple tasks, including Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), spoken Named Entity Recognition (NER), and spoken Sentiment Analysis (SA). However, existing methods often rely on separate model architectures for individual tasks such as spoken NER and SA, whi…

EEND-SAA: Enrollment-Less Main Speaker Voice Activity Detection Using Self-Attention Attractors
Wen-Yung Wu, Pei-Chin Hsieh, Tai-Shih Chi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11957 https:…

EEND-SAA: Enrollment-Less Main Speaker Voice Activity Detection Using Self-Attention Attractors
Voice activity detection (VAD) is essential in speech-based systems, but traditional methods detect only speech presence without identifying speakers. Target-speaker VAD (TS-VAD) extends this by detecting the speech of a known speaker using a short enrollment utterance, but this assumption fails in open-domain scenarios such as meetings or customer service calls, where the main speaker is unknown. We propose EEND-SAA, an enrollment-less, streaming-compatible framework for main-speaker VAD, whic…