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"An overlooked biocultural landscape in Sri Lanka receives overdue protection"
#SriLanka #Environment #Nature

An overlooked biocultural landscape in Sri Lanka receives overdue protection
COLOMBO — Nestled in the eastern edge of Sri Lanka’s Uva province, Nilgala stands out as a landscape of remarkable ecological and cultural importance. Long overlooked in mainstream conservation efforts despite its significance, Nilgala finally received due recognition on June 2 when it was declared a forest reserve covering its full extent of 40,685 hectares […]

The network cabling came in so got it installed. Not sure if this is _exactly_ the way I want to run it, but either way it's pretty clean overall. Each one of the Minisforum MS-A2s will get 2x10GbE fiber for iSCSI and 1x2.5GbE for VM traffic.
#minirack #homelab

Far beyond the Lounge, with Lounge Lizard EP-5’s new physical modeling
#MusicianTips #MusicTech

Far beyond the Lounge, with Lounge Lizard EP-5's new physical modeling - CDM Create Digital Music
AAS' Lounge Lizard EP-5 refreshes one of the definitive electric keyboards in software with a redesigned physical modeling core for tine and reed instruments. What sets this particular plug-in apart is deep modeling and diverse presets, which can take the instrument way beyond the lounge. Yes, it can be an accurate electric keyboard, but it can also imagine new keyboard instrument sounds that you've never heard before.

FPF and OneTrust launch updated Conformity Assessment under the EU AI Act: guide and infographic
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-and-onetrust-launch-updated-conformity-assessment-under-the-eu-ai-act-guide-and-infographi…

Beyond just predicting words, LLMs interpolate meaning between data points, as in the recent phenomenon of AI explaining fake idioms like "you can’t lick a badger twice." The danger is that made-up "truths" will fuel future models
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Supervised Link Prediction in Co-Authorship Networks Based on Author Node-Based Features
Doaa Hassan, Mohammad Al Hasan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21673 ht…

Supervised Link Prediction in Co-Authorship Networks Based on Author Node-Based Features
Predicting the emergence of future research collaborations between authors in academic social networks (SNs) is a very effective example that demonstrates the link prediction problem. This problem refers to predicting the potential existence or absence of a link between a pair of nodes (authors) on the co-authorship network. Various similarity and aggregation metrics were proposed in the literature for predicting the potential link between two authors on such networks. However, the relevant res…

The UK's Press Gazette launches a paywall, charging £9.99 per month or £99 per year, and plans to add AI-enhanced search, its first app, and a print product (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/press-gazette-paywall-launch/

Press Gazette launches paid access to online content
Press Gazette is launching a metered paywall to help it fund the next stage of its expansion.

#Plex, stop! I only have so much popcorn to eat while I watch all these new changes play out🍿
https://lemmy.ml/post/30839839

How to Deal When You Strongly Dislike a Particular Body Part?
#NowWatching

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04779 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csPL_…

Can LLMs Reason About Program Semantics? A Comprehensive Evaluation of LLMs on Formal Specification Inference
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to automate programming tasks. Yet, LLMs' capabilities in reasoning about program semantics are still inadequately studied, leaving significant potential for further exploration. This paper introduces FormalBench, a comprehensive benchmark designed to evaluate LLMs' reasoning abilities on program semantics, particularly via the task of synthesizing formal program specifications to assist verifying program correctness. This task requires b…