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Quite annoyed that i18next has many versions of its own JSON format (now v4) https://www.i18next.com/misc/json-format — every time there's a new version, devs have to convert existing translation files to the new format *and* ensure that their translation management platform (e.g. Crowdin) already…

JSON Format | i18next documentation

Woman dies from brain ameba after flushing nose with RV water:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emerging-topics/woman-dies-brain-ameba-after-flushing-nose-rv-water

Children riding in school buses became so dehydrated and nauseous that they had to be hosed down by the Fire Department.
Hundreds of young people were hospitalized with heat-related illnesses.
But the elderly, and especially the elderly who lived alone, were most vulnerable to the heat wave.
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One of my favorite comics from long ago...
https://cavebear.com/images/misc/oh-the-humidity.png

I am extremely late to the conclave themed blog posting trend but here it is.
It's mostly a bunch of miscellaneous thoughts about how to be a bit less cliche about fantasy religions and also some specific things I've done, mostly with Cairn.
https://seedlinggames.com/blogging/w…

MISC: Minimal Intervention Shared Control with Guaranteed Safety under Non-Convex Constraints
Shivam Chaubey, Francesco Verdoja, Shankar Deka, Ville Kyrki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02438

MISC: Minimal Intervention Shared Control with Guaranteed Safety under Non-Convex Constraints
Shared control combines human intention with autonomous decision-making, from low-level safety overrides to high-level task guidance, enabling systems that adapt to users while ensuring safety and performance. This enhances task effectiveness and user experience across domains such as assistive robotics, teleoperation, and autonomous driving. However, existing shared control methods, based on e.g. Model Predictive Control, Control Barrier Functions, or learning-based control, struggle with feas…

Noise-robust multi-fidelity surrogate modelling for parametric partial differential equations
Benjamin M. Kent, Lorenzo Tamellini, Matteo Giacomini, Antonio Huerta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03691

Noise-robust multi-fidelity surrogate modelling for parametric partial differential equations
We address the challenge of constructing noise-robust surrogate models for quantities of interest (QoIs) arising from parametric partial differential equations (PDEs), using multi-fidelity collocation techniques; specifically, the Multi-Index Stochastic Collocation (MISC). In practical scenarios, the PDE evaluations used to build a response surface are often corrupted by numerical noise, especially for the low-fidelity models. This noise, which may originate from loose solver tolerances, coarse…

Semantics-Guided Generative Image Compression
Cheng-Lin Wu, Hyomin Choi, Ivan V. Baji\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24015 https://

Semantics-Guided Generative Image Compression
Advancements in text-to-image generative AI with large multimodal models are spreading into the field of image compression, creating high-quality representation of images at extremely low bit rates. This work introduces novel components to the existing multimodal image semantic compression (MISC) approach, enhancing the quality of the generated images in terms of PSNR and perceptual metrics. The new components include semantic segmentation guidance for the generative decoder, as well as content…

excellent analysis of covid state of play
From Julia Doubleday.
"Each time a new wave crops up, the media scrambles to let the public know that COVID is spreading “again” ... But each time, it fails to inform the public that nearly half of COVID cases are asymptomatic, that COVID looks different in different patients, that vaccines do not prevent infections, that rapid tests have high false negative rates, and that COVID is fully airborne.
"Taken together, the virus I’m describing is much more difficult to control than the one the press presents. The press frames the virus as something that can be halted by familiarizing yourself with the symptoms, staying home once you feel sick and test positive, and avoided altogether by simply getting vaccinated or keeping ones’ distance from sick people. ...
"The misinformation that reigns in liberal spaces is not the result of accidental miscommunication. People don’t know that the virus is asymptomatic 40% of the time because there is simply no universe where that virus is controllable without an elimination strategy, or a day-to-day mitigation strategy."
#covid #misinformation #denial #CovidIsAirborne