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Dolphins evaluating cornerbacks through baptism of bad plays https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45500677/dolphins-young-cornerbacks-growing-practice

Cowboys QBs continue practice jersey trend under Brian Schottenheimer https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-qbs-practice-jersey-trend-under-brian-schottenheimer

Good idea, perhaps the Commission could put this vision into practice for #EV roaming, so that the #AFIR provisions do not remain a dead letter?
From: @…

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image 🛬 Plane lands. Flight mode off. 💬 “Welcome to Italy! Use your mobile plan just like at home.” 8 years of free EU roaming – we've come a long way: → 2000s: €0.50–€1/min calls → 2007: roaming caps → 2017: the end of roaming charges → 2022: the improved “Roam like at home” pack extended to 2032, bringing: 🌐 Fast 5G access across the EU 💰 Protection from unexpected charges 🆘 Better access to emergency services Fair for opera…

Opinion | Millions of Americans Like Trump Better in Theory Than in Practice - The New York Times
https://archive.is/20250615103234/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/opinion/trump-immigration-democrats.html#selection-4401.0-4401.66

Isn't it absurd that a medical practice has to keep telling successive people that they need a new referral to set up an appointment for their child, because they have a referral to a medical practice dedicated to children, while their doctor for children is technically employed by a regular practice?
#Poland #HealthCare

Jaguars rookie Travis Hunter begins splitting time on offense, defense during same practice https://www.nfl.com/news/jaguars-rookie-travis-hunter-begins-splitting-time-on-offense-defense-during-same-practice

Digital rights organizations urge the FTC to investigate Character.AI and Meta's "unlicensed practice of medicine facilitated" by therapy AI chatbots (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-comp…

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say
Exclusive: An FTC complaint led by the Consumer Federation of America outlines how therapy bots on Meta and Character.AI have claimed to be qualified, licensed therapists to users, and why that may be breaking the law.

Music Meditation - musical sounds for meditative practice
#MellowMusic #MeditationMusic
https://…

Music Meditation - musical sounds for meditative practice
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Stakeholder Participation for Responsible AI Development: Disconnects Between Guidance and Current Practice
Emma Kallina, Thomas Bohn\'e, Jat Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09873

Stakeholder Participation for Responsible AI Development: Disconnects Between Guidance and Current Practice
Responsible AI (rAI) guidance increasingly promotes stakeholder involvement (SHI) during AI development. At the same time, SHI is already common in commercial software development, but with potentially different foci. This study clarifies the extent to which established SHI practices are able to contribute to rAI efforts as well as potential disconnects -- essential insights to inform and tailor future interventions that further shift industry practice towards rAI efforts. First, we analysed 56…

Podcast: Final Observations from Raiders Final Minicamp Practice https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-minicamp-pete-carroll-tommy-mellott-tom-mcmahon

From Theory to Practice: Advancing Multi-Robot Path Planning Algorithms and Applications
Teng Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09914 https://

From Theory to Practice: Advancing Multi-Robot Path Planning Algorithms and Applications
The labeled MRPP (Multi-Robot Path Planning) problem involves routing robots from start to goal configurations efficiently while avoiding collisions. Despite progress in solution quality and runtime, its complexity and industrial relevance continue to drive research. This dissertation introduces scalable MRPP methods with provable guarantees and practical heuristics. First, we study dense MRPP on 2D grids, relevant to warehouse and parcel systems. We propose the Rubik Table method, achieving …

Cowboys' secret weapon bringing 'energy' to practice is unlikely source https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-secret-weapon-bringing-energy-practice-unlikely-source

What is practice?
Practice is like a keel—deep contact with the self helps you not be blown around by every wind. Attentively returning to yourself for a period of time every day can be like coming home.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/ways-of-seeing-practice…

Ways of Seeing: Practice
Practice as a form of attention.

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Zerrow: True Zero-Copy Arrow Pipelines in Bauplan
Bauplan is a FaaS-based lakehouse specifically built for data pipelines: its execution engine uses Apache Arrow for data passing between the nodes in the DAG. While Arrow is known as the "zero copy format", in practice, limited Linux kernel support for shared memory makes it difficult to avoid copying entirely. In this work, we introduce several new techniques to eliminate nearly all copying from pipelines: in particular, we implement a new kernel module that performs de-anonymization, thus eli…

Physical Layer-Based Device Fingerprinting for Wireless Security: From Theory to Practice
Junqing Zhang, Francesco Ardizzon, Mattia Piana, Guanxiong Shen, Stefano Tomasin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09807

Physical Layer-Based Device Fingerprinting for Wireless Security: From Theory to Practice
The identification of the devices from which a message is received is part of security mechanisms to ensure authentication in wireless communications. Conventional authentication approaches are cryptography-based, which, however, are usually computationally expensive and not adequate in the Internet of Things (IoT), where devices tend to be low-cost and with limited resources. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of physical layer-based device fingerprinting, which is an emerging device a…

"I Said Things I Needed to Hear Myself": Peer Support as an Emotional, Organisational, and Sociotechnical Practice in Singapore
Kellie Yu Hui Sim, Kenny Tsu Wei Choo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09362

"I Said Things I Needed to Hear Myself": Peer Support as an Emotional, Organisational, and Sociotechnical Practice in Singapore
Peer support plays a vital role in expanding access to mental health care by providing empathetic, community-based support outside formal clinical systems. As digital platforms increasingly mediate such support, the design and impact of these technologies remain under-examined, particularly in Asian contexts. This paper presents findings from an interview study with 20 peer supporters in Singapore, who operate across diverse online, offline, and hybrid environments. Through a thematic analysis,…

I am not an elevator pitch.
I don't have clear, clean boundaries.
My #art has always been more MacGyver than artisan.
Full thought: https://fromemily.com/feedbackless-fee

Aaron Rodgers already hates one thing about Steelers practice: Veteran QB says he 'can't stand' this

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron…

Exclusive: Legal Practice Board of Western Australia confirms Dire Wolf ransomware attack
https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/12158-exclusive-legal-practice-board-of-western-australia-confirms-dire-wolf-ransomwar…

Exclusive: Legal Practice Board of Western Australia confirms Dire Wolf ransomware attack
Hacker newcomers claim to have exfiltrated 300 gigabytes of data, including limited contact details and correspondence and bank account information.

#Agile Development was invented in the Soviet Union.

Auftakt zum #GreenCulture Festival auf Zollverein in Essen mit einem Workshop zur Müllvermeidung bei Kulturveranstaltungen mit Jonas Gudegast.

Double Jointed: Cowboys to host Rams at practice prior to rolling to SoFi for exhibition https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/11/cowboys-rams-joint-practice-training-camp-p…

John Harbaugh Has Strong Words for Ex-Raiders Coach Jon Gruden https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jon-gruden-john-harbaugh-ravens/?adt_ei=[email]

Replaced article(s) found for eess.IV. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.IV/new/
[1/1]:
Towards Clinical Practice in CT-Based Pulmonary Disease Screening: An Efficient and Reliable Fram...

"Stephen Fry and Theo James to star in film about marine bottom trawling"
#Oceans #Environment

Monitorability for the Modal mu-Calculus over Systems with Data: From Practice to Theory
Luca Aceto, Antonis Achilleos, Duncan Paul Attard, L\'eo Exibard, Adrian Francalanza, Anna Ing\'olfsd\'ottir, Karoliina Lehtinen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06172

Monitorability for the Modal mu-Calculus over Systems with Data: From Practice to Theory
Runtime verification, also known as runtime monitoring, consists of checking whether a system satisfies a given specification by observing the trace it produces during its execution. It is used as a lightweight verification technique to complement or substitute costlier methods such as model-checking. In the regular setting, Hennessy-Milner logic with recursion, a variant of the modal mu-calculus, provides a versatile formalism for expressing linear- and branching-time specifications of the c…

Spectral Analysis of Discretized Boundary Integral Operators in 3D: a High-Frequency Perspective
V. Giunzioni, A. Merlini, F. P. Andriulli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10880

Spectral Analysis of Discretized Boundary Integral Operators in 3D: a High-Frequency Perspective
When modeling propagation and scattering phenomena using integral equations discretized by the boundary element method, it is common practice to approximate the boundary of the scatterer with a mesh comprising elements of size approximately equal to a fraction of the wavelength $λ$ of the incident wave, e.g., $λ/10$. In this work, by analyzing the spectra of the operator matrices, we show a discrepancy with respect to the continuous operators which grows with the simulation frequency, challen…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DB. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DB/new/
[1/1]:
Finding a Fair Scoring Function for Top-$k$ Selection: From Hardness to Practice

Double Jointed: Cowboys to host Rams at practice prior to rolling to SoFi for exhibition https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/11/cowboys-rams-joint-practice-training-camp-p…

Dataset of News Articles with Provenance Metadata for Media Relevance Assessment
Tomas Peterka, Matyas Bohacek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09847 https://

Dataset of News Articles with Provenance Metadata for Media Relevance Assessment
Out-of-context and misattributed imagery is the leading form of media manipulation in today's misinformation and disinformation landscape. The existing methods attempting to detect this practice often only consider whether the semantics of the imagery corresponds to the text narrative, missing manipulation so long as the depicted objects or scenes somewhat correspond to the narrative at hand. To tackle this, we introduce News Media Provenance Dataset, a dataset of news articles with provenance-…

“In theory, scientists could’ve produced a deadly virus that accidentally infected lab workers. In practice, we know that didn’t happen.”
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/covid-19-origin-chinese-lab/

The Turn to Practice in Design Ethics: Characteristics and Future Research Directions for HCI Research
Gizem \"Oz, Christian Dindler, Sharon Lindberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06055

The Turn to Practice in Design Ethics: Characteristics and Future Research Directions for HCI Research
As emerging technologies continue to shape society, there is a growing emphasis on the need to engage with design ethics as it unfolds in practice to better capture the complexities of ethical considerations embedded in day-to-day work. Positioned within the broader "turn to practice" in HCI, the review characterizes this body of work in terms of its motivations, conceptual frameworks, methodologies, and contributions across a range of design disciplines and academic databases. The findings rev…

😰 VR and AR simulations help users practice stress management in realistic scenarios
#vr

VR and AR simulations help users practice stress management in realistic scenarios
Everyday situations can sometimes feel like big stressors, whether it's delivering an important work presentation, attending a party full of strangers or confronting a partner. Talking to a friend or a therapist can help. But so can practice.

One way to spend time instead of #doomscrolling has recentlt been #codewars
Bitesized problems of different difficulties for almost any language.
Not as big as #adventofcode

Optimal quantum metrology under energy constraints
Longyun Chen, Yuxiang Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09436 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Optimal quantum metrology under energy constraints
Quantum metrology promises enhanced precision in parameter estimation by exploiting quantum effects. The traditional framework of metrology commonly assumes unlimited access to resources, overlooking resource constraints in realistic scenarios. As such, the optimal strategies therein are often infeasible in practice. Here, we investigate quantum metrology where the total energy consumption of the probe state preparation, intermediate control operations, and the final measurement is subject to a…

Simulation Everywhere: An Evolutionary Expansion of Discrete-Event Modeling and Simulation research and practice
Ikpe Justice Akpan, Godwin E. Etti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05698

Simulation Everywhere: An Evolutionary Expansion of Discrete-Event Modeling and Simulation research and practice
Simulation was launched in the 1950s, nicknamed a tool of "last resort." Over the years, this Operations Research (OR) method has made significant progress, and utilizing the accelerated advances in computer science (hardware and software, processing speed, and advanced information visualization capabilities) to improve simulation usability in research and practice. After overcoming the initial obstacles and the scare of outliving its usefulness in the 2000s, computer simulation has remained a …

GED language arts test today. failed to prepare well. fortunately, judging by the practice test, it seems like anyone who can comprehend a book for 12 year olds could ace this. wish me luck ig
update: 🥳

«What “win the center” pragmatists would have us believe is that the shock of the Missouri ladies over the shabby treatment of one of their “good ‘uns” means that they share our common value of universal human equality, even though there is scant evidence that this value is shared. This seems to be standard rhetorical practice when one is a pragmatic “win the center” type.»
Applies to all places where parties try to beat the fascists by moving towards the right
https://www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-middle/

TTrace: Lightweight Error Checking and Diagnosis for Distributed Training
Haitian Jiang, Shaowei Zhu, Zhen Zhang, Zhenyu Song, Xinwei Fu, Zhen Jia, Yida Wang, Jinyang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09280

TTrace: Lightweight Error Checking and Diagnosis for Distributed Training
Distributed training is essential for scaling the training of large neural network models, such as large language models (LLMs), across thousands of GPUs. However, the complexity of distributed training programs makes them particularly prone to silent bugs, which do not produce explicit error signal but lead to incorrect training outcome. Effectively detecting and localizing such silent bugs in distributed training is challenging. Common debugging practice using metrics like training loss or gr…

Micah Parsons returns to Cowboys practice field at minicamp with welcomed twist https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/micah-parsons-returns-dallas-cowboys-practice-field-minicamp-welcomed-twist

Bengals first-round pick Shemar Stewart calls out team, says he won't practice until he signs his contract

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…

We Are AI: Taking Control of Technology
Julia Stoyanovich, Armanda Lewis, Eric Corbett, Lucius E. J. Bynum, Lucas Rosenblatt, Falaah Arif Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08117

We Are AI: Taking Control of Technology
Responsible AI (RAI) is the science and practice of ensuring the design, development, use, and oversight of AI are socially sustainable--benefiting diverse stakeholders while controlling the risks. Achieving this goal requires active engagement and participation from the broader public. This paper introduces "We are AI: Taking Control of Technology," a public education course that brings the topics of AI and RAI to the general audience in a peer-learning setting. We outline the goals behind t…

Drove through the Blackwall Tunnel to Greenwich and back to Islington yesterday.
South of the river it's all 30MPH speed limits and everything feels too fast and scary compared to the sedate and pedestrian-friendly 20MPH limits in the north.
Since I last went through it, it seems the Blackwall tunnel has added a toll.
The TFL website for setting up to pay the tolls is absolutely awful. Failed in Librewolf, Failed in Firefox. Failed because VPN. Took me four attempts in three different browsers to get it to take payment card details.
Demands *no* special characters in the password?!? And doesn't even tell you what the specific problem with the password is, just "doesn't meet the rules above"
Uses awful validation questions like "mothers maiden name". Bad enough practice to use them at all, but the "memorable date" question restricts to ddmmyy format so you can't even put in a date from outside this century.
For some reason asks for a PIN and and Password both!? Pointless. Then actually refuses the login form if you supply both!?

Setting up the auto-payment doesn't seem to have covered the charges added to the registration plate yesterday, so had to do the payment-details entering yet again to deal with yesterday's charges.
Email validation message contains the link only in the HTML of the email, not the text version, so viewed in Mutt it has no link.
And this all seems to be separate from the Dartford Crossing charge, which had a less crappy but still pretty crappy signup.
Good god council programmers suck at web-dev.
#driving #london #tfl #blackwallTunnel #greenwich

Raising a Glass to the Bronze Age Vinters Who Domesticated the Grape 3,200 Years Ago https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/raising-a-glass-to-the-bronze-age-vinters-who-domesticated-the-grape-3200-years-ago/

Raising a Glass to the Bronze Age Vinters Who Domesticated the Grape 3,200 Years Ago
The results offer insight into the ancient practice of vinting, and tell the tale of a gradual transition from wild to domesticated types

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Hypergraph Tversky-Aware Domain Incremental Learning for Brain Tumor Segmentation with Missing Modalities
Existing methods for multimodal MRI segmentation with missing modalities typically assume that all MRI modalities are available during training. However, in clinical practice, some modalities may be missing due to the sequential nature of MRI acquisition, leading to performance degradation. Furthermore, retraining models to accommodate newly available modalities can be inefficient and may cause overfitting, potentially compromising previously learned knowledge. To address these challenges, we p…

I wonder how it shows up in practice that the mayor of Graz is from the communist party since 2021? (Which got most votes in the municipal elections.) The coalition leading the city consists of KPÖ (communists), Greens, and SPÖ (Labour).

Semi-Automated Quality Assurance in Digital Pathology: Tile Classification Approach
Meredith VandeHaar, M. Clinch, I. Yilmaz, M. A. Rahman, Y. Xiao, F. Dogany, H. M. Alazab, A. Nassar, Z. Akkus, B. Dangott
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10916

Semi-Automated Quality Assurance in Digital Pathology: Tile Classification Approach
Quality assurance is a critical but underexplored area in digital pathology, where even minor artifacts can have significant effects. Artifacts have been shown to negatively impact the performance of AI diagnostic models. In current practice, trained staff manually review digitized images prior to release of these slides to pathologists which are then used to render a diagnosis. Conventional image processing approaches, provide a foundation for detecting artifacts on digital pathology slides. H…

"Campaigners hail plan to ban bottom trawling in half of England’s protected seas"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

Documenting Your Prompts a Best Practice for Success
#promptengineering

Micah Parsons returns to Cowboys practice field, has lengthy convo with Jerry Jones https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/micah-parsons-returns-dallas-cowboys-practice-field-lengthy-convo-jerry-jones

Podcast: Projecting the Raiders Practice Squad for 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-nfl-practice-squad-john-spytek-pete-carroll-jeremy-chinn-laki-tasi

On the Batch Size Selection in Stochastic Gradient Methods Using No-Replacement Sampling
Marco Boresta, Alberto De Santis, Stefano Lucidi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08758

On the Batch Size Selection in Stochastic Gradient Methods Using No-Replacement Sampling
Recent stochastic gradient methods that have appeared in the literature base their efficiency and global convergence properties on a suitable control of the variance of the gradient batch estimate. This control is typically achieved by dynamically increasing the batch size during the iterations of the algorithm. However, in the existing methods the statistical analysis often relies on sampling with replacement. This particular batch selection appears unrealistic in practice. In this paper, we c…

I made this a while ago and wanted to share it with you.
If you have epilepsy, please be careful before visiting because it has lots of rainbow spinning effects. It’s that duck spinning to Geometry Dash Practice Mode, with rainbow-colored text overlaid.
https://midtsveen.codeberg.page/duck.h

I tell stories about the artist Allan Kaprow and what he did in the years after he invented Happenings. For Kaprow, the practice of art became inseparable from the practice of life: ordinary, intimate, sometimes ridiculous, just like the practice of Zen.
#Art
#buddhism

Brushing Teeth, Trading Dirt
Sal Kenzen Randolph gives a talk on practice and the expressive art-life practice of Allan Kaprow.

From Judgment to Interference: Early Stopping LLM Harmful Outputs via Streaming Content Monitoring
Yang Li, Qiang Sheng, Yehan Yang, Xueyao Zhang, Juan Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09996

From Judgment to Interference: Early Stopping LLM Harmful Outputs via Streaming Content Monitoring
Though safety alignment has been applied to most large language models (LLMs), LLM service providers generally deploy a subsequent moderation as the external safety guardrail in real-world products. Existing moderators mainly practice a conventional full detection, which determines the harmfulness based on the complete LLM output, causing high service latency. Recent works pay more attention to partial detection where moderators oversee the generation midway and early stop the output if harmful…

Intelligent Design 4.0: Paradigm Evolution Toward the Agentic AI Era
Shuo Jiang, Min Xie, Frank Youhua Chen, Jian Ma, Jianxi Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09755

Intelligent Design 4.0: Paradigm Evolution Toward the Agentic AI Era
Research and practice in Intelligent Design (ID) have significantly enhanced engineering innovation, efficiency, quality, and productivity over recent decades, fundamentally reshaping how engineering designers think, behave, and interact with design processes. The recent emergence of Foundation Models (FMs), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), has demonstrated general knowledge-based reasoning capabilities, and open new paths and avenues for further transformation in engineering design. …

On The Impact of Merge Request Deviations on Code Review Practices
Samah Kansab, Francis Bordeleau, Ali Tizghadam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08860 https://…

On The Impact of Merge Request Deviations on Code Review Practices
Code review is a key practice in software engineering, ensuring quality and collaboration. However, industrial Merge Request (MR) workflows often deviate from standardized review processes, with many MRs serving non-review purposes (e.g., drafts, rebases, or dependency updates). We term these cases deviations and hypothesize that ignoring them biases analytics and undermines ML models for review analysis. We identify seven deviation categories, occurring in 37.02% of MRs, and propose a few-sh…

Mid-practice fight ends Giants' OTA session early: 'Heat got to us' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6406146/2025/06/05/giants-fight-practice-brian-burns/

Trustworthiness Preservation by Copies of Machine Learning Systems
Leonardo Ceragioli, Giuseppe Primiero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05203 https://

Trustworthiness Preservation by Copies of Machine Learning Systems
A common practice of ML systems development concerns the training of the same model under different data sets, and the use of the same (training and test) sets for different learning models. The first case is a desirable practice for identifying high quality and unbiased training conditions. The latter case coincides with the search for optimal models under a common dataset for training. These differently obtained systems have been considered akin to copies. In the quest for responsible AI, a l…

Watch: 2025 Mandatory Minicamp https://www.raiders.com/video/mandatory-minicamp-highlights-geno-smith-nfl-2025

WIP: Large Language Model-Enhanced Smart Tutor for Undergraduate Circuit Analysis
Liangliang Chen, Huiru Xie, Jacqueline Rohde, Ying Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08962

WIP: Large Language Model-Enhanced Smart Tutor for Undergraduate Circuit Analysis
This research-to-practice work-in-progress (WIP) paper presents an AI-enabled smart tutor designed to provide homework assessment and feedback for students in an undergraduate circuit analysis course. We detail the tutor's design philosophy and core components, including open-ended question answering and homework feedback generation. The prompts are carefully crafted to optimize responses across different problems. The smart tutor was deployed on the Microsoft Azure platform and is currently in…

Ego-centric Learning of Communicative World Models for Autonomous Driving
Hang Wang, Dechen Gao, Junshan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08149 https://

Ego-centric Learning of Communicative World Models for Autonomous Driving
We study multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) for tasks in complex high-dimensional environments, such as autonomous driving. MARL is known to suffer from the \textit{partial observability} and \textit{non-stationarity} issues. To tackle these challenges, information sharing is often employed, which however faces major hurdles in practice, including overwhelming communication overhead and scalability concerns. By making use of generative AI embodied in world model together with its latent …

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From Theory to Practice: Analyzing VQPM for Quantum Optimization of QUBO Problems
The variational quantum power method (VQPM), which adapts the classical power iteration algorithm for quantum settings, has shown promise for eigenvector estimation and optimization on quantum hardware. In this work, we provide a comprehensive theoretical and numerical analysis of VQPM by investigating its convergence, robustness, and qubit locking mechanisms. We present detailed strategies for applying VQPM to QUBO problems by leveraging these locking mechanisms. Based on the simulations for e…

GenIR: Generative Visual Feedback for Mental Image Retrieval
Diji Yang, Minghao Liu, Chung-Hsiang Lo, Yi Zhang, James Davis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06220

GenIR: Generative Visual Feedback for Mental Image Retrieval
Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong performance on text-to-image retrieval benchmarks. However, bridging this success to real-world applications remains a challenge. In practice, human search behavior is rarely a one-shot action. Instead, it is often a multi-round process guided by clues in mind, that is, a mental image ranging from vague recollections to vivid mental representations of the target image. Motivated by this gap, we study the task of Mental Image Retrieval (MIR), which…

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Depermissioning Web3: a Permissionless Accountable RPC Protocol for Blockchain Networks
In blockchain networks, so-called "full nodes" serve data to and relay transactions from clients through an RPC interface. This serving layer enables integration of "Web3" data, stored on blockchains, with "Web2" mobile or web applications that cannot directly participate as peers in a blockchain network. In practice, the serving layer is dominated by a small number of centralized services ("node providers") that offer permissioned access to RPC endpoints. Clients register with these providers …

MBTModelGenerator: A software tool for reverse engineering of Model-based Testing (MBT) models from clickstream data of web applications
Sasidhar Matta, Vahid Garousi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08179

MBTModelGenerator: A software tool for reverse engineering of Model-based Testing (MBT) models from clickstream data of web applications
Automated testing has become a standard practice in software engineering, yet the creation of test models and suites remains labor-intensive. To reduce this effort, we developed an open-source tool that automatically generates Model-Based Testing (MBT) models from clickstream data collected during user interaction with web applications. The tool captures UI events, transforms them into state-transition models, and exports the result in a format compatible with the GraphWalker MBT tool. This ena…

The Raiders got one starting DT back to begin minicamp while the other is still out https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/06/10/raiders-dt-adam-butl…

WATCH: 49ers' Trent Williams pancakes teammate in return to practice field following ankle injury

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/watch-4

Pic 6: Takeaways from final Cowboys OTA practice https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-takeaways-from-final-cowboys-ota-practice

From Guidelines to Practice: A New Paradigm for Arabic Language Model Evaluation
Serry Sibaee, Omer Nacar, Adel Ammar, Yasser Al-Habashi, Abdulrahman Al-Batati, Wadii Boulila
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01920

From Guidelines to Practice: A New Paradigm for Arabic Language Model Evaluation
This paper addresses critical gaps in Arabic language model evaluation by establishing comprehensive theoretical guidelines and introducing a novel evaluation framework. We first analyze existing Arabic evaluation datasets, identifying significant issues in linguistic accuracy, cultural alignment, and methodological rigor. To address these limitations in LLMs, we present the Arabic Depth Mini Dataset (ADMD), a carefully curated collection of 490 challenging questions spanning ten major domains …

Pic 6: Takeaways from final Cowboys OTA practice https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-takeaways-from-final-cowboys-ota-practice

Steelers DB, West Virginia alum Beanie Bishop disrespects Pitt logo following recent practice

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steeler

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SLAC: Simulation-Pretrained Latent Action Space for Whole-Body Real-World RL
Building capable household and industrial robots requires mastering the control of versatile, high-degree-of-freedom (DoF) systems such as mobile manipulators. While reinforcement learning (RL) holds promise for autonomously acquiring robot control policies, scaling it to high-DoF embodiments remains challenging. Direct RL in the real world demands both safe exploration and high sample efficiency, which are difficult to achieve in practice. Sim-to-real RL, on the other hand, is often brittle du…

Raiders top free agent addition returns to practice while 2 starting defenders remain out https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/06/04/raiders-s…

From Theory to Practice: Real-World Use Cases on Trustworthy LLM-Driven Process Modeling, Prediction and Automation
Peter Pfeiffer, Alexander Rombach, Maxim Majlatow, Nijat Mehdiyev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03801

From Theory to Practice: Real-World Use Cases on Trustworthy LLM-Driven Process Modeling, Prediction and Automation
Traditional Business Process Management (BPM) struggles with rigidity, opacity, and scalability in dynamic environments while emerging Large Language Models (LLMs) present transformative opportunities alongside risks. This paper explores four real-world use cases that demonstrate how LLMs, augmented with trustworthy process intelligence, redefine process modeling, prediction, and automation. Grounded in early-stage research projects with industrial partners, the work spans manufacturing, modeli…

LOOK: Travis Hunter makes absurd interception during Jaguars practice

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Dallas Cowboys lose veteran starter to injury during OTA practice https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-lose-veteran-starter-injury-during-ota-practice

On the Practices of Autonomous Systems Development: Survey-based Empirical Findings
Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, Denny Hood, Johann Schumann, Noble Nkwocha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04438

On the Practices of Autonomous Systems Development: Survey-based Empirical Findings
Autonomous systems have gained an important role in many industry domains and are beginning to change everyday life. However, due to dynamically emerging applications and often proprietary constraints, there is a lack of information about the practice of developing autonomous systems. This paper presents the first part of the longitudinal study focused on establishing state-of-the-practice, identifying and quantifying the challenges and benefits, identifying the processes and standards used, an…

5 takeaways from Day 3 of Raiders minicamp: WR starting trio, OL depth chart, more https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/06/12/5-takeaways-from-da…

'Sky's the limit' for Joe Milton as Cowboys backup QB flashes skills during Cowboys OTA practice

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Predicting the Raiders Practice Squad https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/laki-tasi-las-vegas-carter-bradley-pete-carroll-john-spytek

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Will Raiders Find Any Special Talent From Their Practice Squad? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-jarrod-hufford-will-putum-jah-joyner-qadir-ismail

Aaron Rodgers says decision to sign with Steelers 'was best for my soul' https://www.nfl.com/news/aaron-rodgers-says-decision-to-sign-with-steelers-was-best-for-my-soul

Bills running back James Cook reports to mandatory minicamp amid desire for new contract: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6416090/2025/06/10/bills-james-cook-reports-mandatory-minicamp-contract/

Pic 6: Quick observations from Day 2 minicamp https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-quick-observations-from-day-2-minicamp

Notes and quotes from Day 2 of Raiders' 2025 mandatory minicamp https://www.raiders.com/news/notes-and-quotes-from-day-2-of-raiders-2025-mandatory-minicamp

Pic 6: Quick observations from Day 2 minicamp https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-quick-observations-from-day-2-minicamp

Dillon Gabriel, Shedeur Sanders focused on making steady improvement at Browns minicamp https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6417239/2025/06/10/browns-minicamp-shedeur-sanders-dillon-gabriel/

Notes and quotes from Day 2 of Raiders' 2025 mandatory minicamp https://www.raiders.com/news/notes-and-quotes-from-day-2-of-raiders-2025-mandatory-minicamp

Cowboys’ Micah Parsons Puts Jerry Jones on Hot Seat After Chat https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/micah-parsons-hot-seat-jerry-jones/?adt_ei=[email]

Raiders DT Adam Butler revealed why he missed OTA practices and it wasn't injury related https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/06/11/raiders-dt-adam-butlers-mis…

We look at 5 takeaways from Day 2 of Raiders minicamp https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/06/11/5-takeaways-observations-day-2-raiders-mandatory-minicamp/84155678007/…

Eagles mandatory minicamp: Key position battles, storylines, players to watch before team breaks for summer

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5 takeaways from Day one of Raiders mandatory minicamp https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/06/10/raiders-mandatory-minicamp-day-one-observa…

Pic 6: Quick observations from Day 1 minicamp https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-quick-observations-from-day-1-minicamp

Raiders LT Kolton Miller back in action at minicamp, but still without contract extension https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6417220/2025/06/10/raiders-minicamp-kolton-miller-contract-jakorian-bennett/