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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

Putin-Zelensky meeting 'not ready at all,' Kremlin says despite Trump push for peace deal: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/putinzelensky-meeting-not-ready-at.html

Democratizing Game Modding with GenAI: A Case Study of StarCharM, a Stardew Valley Character Maker
Hamid Zand Miralvand, Mohammad Ronagh Nikghalb, Mohammad Darandeh, Abidullah Khan, Ian Arawjo, Jinghui Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13951

Democratizing Game Modding with GenAI: A Case Study of StarCharM, a Stardew Valley Character Maker
Game modding offers unique and personalized gaming experiences, but the technical complexity of creating mods often limits participation to skilled users. We envision a future where every player can create personalized mods for their games. To explore this space, we designed StarCharM, a GenAI-based non-player character (NPC) creator for Stardew Valley. Our tool enables players to iteratively create new NPC mods, requiring minimal user input while allowing for fine-grained adjustments through u…

Karolina Skrivankova understands how #IoT really should work. The recordings of the #IRTF presentation will be available at <https://da…

AMPED: Accelerating MTTKRP for Billion-Scale Sparse Tensor Decomposition on Multiple GPUs
Sasindu Wijeratne, Rajgopal Kannan, Viktor Prasanna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15121

AMPED: Accelerating MTTKRP for Billion-Scale Sparse Tensor Decomposition on Multiple GPUs
Matricized Tensor Times Khatri-Rao Product (MTTKRP) is the computational bottleneck in sparse tensor decomposition. As real-world sparse tensors grow to billions of nonzeros, they increasingly demand higher memory capacity and compute throughput from hardware accelerators. In this work, we present AMPED, a multi-GPU parallel algorithm designed to accelerate MTTKRP on billion-scale sparse tensors. AMPED scales beyond the limits of a single GPU, meeting both the memory and performance requirement…

Terry McLaurin's contract situation with Commanders won't have an easy resolution https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6508867/2025/07/22/terry-mclaurin-commanders-contract-gm-adam-peters/

Modeling Fair Play in Detective Stories with Language Models
Eitan Wagner, Renana Keydar, Omri Abend
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13841 https://

Modeling Fair Play in Detective Stories with Language Models
Effective storytelling relies on a delicate balance between meeting the reader's prior expectations and introducing unexpected developments. In the domain of detective fiction, this tension is known as fair play, which includes the implicit agreement between the writer and the reader as to the range of possible resolutions the mystery story may have. In this work, we present a probabilistic framework for detective fiction that allows us to define desired qualities. Using this framework, we form…

A Three-Level Whole-Body Disturbance Rejection Control Framework for Dynamic Motions in Legged Robots
Bolin Li, Gewei Zuo, Zhixiang Wang, Xiaotian Ke, Lijun Zhu, Han Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13531

A Three-Level Whole-Body Disturbance Rejection Control Framework for Dynamic Motions in Legged Robots
This paper presents a control framework designed to enhance the stability and robustness of legged robots in the presence of uncertainties, including model uncertainties, external disturbances, and faults. The framework enables the full-state feedback estimator to estimate and compensate for uncertainties in whole-body dynamics of the legged robots. First, we propose a novel moving horizon extended state observer (MH-ESO) to estimate uncertainties and mitigate noise in legged systems, which can…

Memoirs of the CP/M creator released:
“Our father, Gary Kildall, was one of the founders of the personal computer industry, but you probably don’t know his name. Those who have heard of him may recall the myth that he ‘missed’ the opportunity to become Bill Gates by going flying instead of meeting with IBM. Unfortunately, this tall tale paints Gary as a ‘could-have-been,’ ignores his deep contributions, and overshadows his role as an inventor of key technologies that define how compute…

In His Own Words: Gary Kildall
Gary Kildall was a pioneer of personal computer software. He wrote programming language tools, including assemblers (Intel 4004), interpreters (BASIC), and compilers (PL/M). He created a widely-used disk operating system (CP/M). He and his wife, Dorothy McEwen, started a successful company called Digital Research to develop and market CP/M, which for years was the dominant operating system for personal microcomputers. Thousands of programs were written to run under it, and a million or more peo…

The Emotion-Memory Link: Do Memorability Annotations Matter for Intelligent Systems?
Maria Tsfasman, Ramin Ghorbani, Catholijn M. Jonker, Bernd Dudzik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14084

The Emotion-Memory Link: Do Memorability Annotations Matter for Intelligent Systems?
Humans have a selective memory, remembering relevant episodes and forgetting the less relevant information. Possessing awareness of event memorability for a user could help intelligent systems in more accurate user modelling, especially for such applications as meeting support systems, memory augmentation, and meeting summarisation. Emotion recognition has been widely studied, since emotions are thought to signal moments of high personal relevance to users. The emotional experience of situation…