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Russia implements 'severe austerity' amid financial crisis: military spending prioritized over national projects: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/russia-implements-severe-austerity-amid.html

Uncertainty Prioritized Experience Replay
Rodrigo Carrasco-Davis, Sebastian Lee, Claudia Clopath, Will Dabney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09270 https://

Uncertainty Prioritized Experience Replay
Prioritized experience replay, which improves sample efficiency by selecting relevant transitions to update parameter estimates, is a crucial component of contemporary value-based deep reinforcement learning models. Typically, transitions are prioritized based on their temporal difference error. However, this approach is prone to favoring noisy transitions, even when the value estimation closely approximates the target mean. This phenomenon resembles the noisy TV problem postulated in the explo…

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem, whose department oversees FEMA’s work,
issued a new agency rule this year requiring all contracts and grants costing over $100,000 to be personally approved by her.
As floodwaters were rising in Texas, Noem failed to respond to such requests over the weekend,
taking four days to approve the spending that could have saved lives.
As of Wednesday evening, 120 people in Texas have been killed by the massive flo…

DHS Head Kristi Noem Prioritized Instagram Pics Over FEMA Requests for Response to Texas Floods
It took Noem four days to respond to requests from FEMA, delaying access to some search and rescue tools.

Mahomes in Round 11? WRs, RBs prioritized in 8-team mock draft https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/45700874/fantasy-football-mock-draft-2025-8-team-ppr

Automated UAV-based Wind Turbine Blade Inspection: Blade Stop Angle Estimation and Blade Detail Prioritized Exposure Adjustment
Yichuan Shi, Hao Liu, Haowen Zheng, Haowen Yu, Xianqi Liang, Jie Li, Minmin Ma, Ximin Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04922

Automated UAV-based Wind Turbine Blade Inspection: Blade Stop Angle Estimation and Blade Detail Prioritized Exposure Adjustment
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are critical in the automated inspection of wind turbine blades. Nevertheless, several issues persist in this domain. Firstly, existing inspection platforms encounter challenges in meeting the demands of automated inspection tasks and scenarios. Moreover, current blade stop angle estimation methods are vulnerable to environmental factors, restricting their robustness. Additionally, there is an absence of real-time blade detail prioritized exposure adjustment duri…

Reward Models Enable Scalable Code Verification by Trading Accuracy for Throughput
Gabriel Orlanski, Nicholas Roberts, Aws Albarghouthi, Frederic Sala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10056

Reward Models Enable Scalable Code Verification by Trading Accuracy for Throughput
The standard paradigm for solving coding tasks via large language models (LLMs) is to generate-then-rank programs, where the latter step uses a verifier in the ranking process. The growing consensus is that a comprehensive verifier (e.g., a full test suite) should be prioritized over an outcome reward model (ORM) whenever possible, with little consideration given to the trade-offs involved. We aim to challenge this assumption by systematically exploring the tradeoff between speed and accuracy. …

Mitigating Multi-Sequence 3D Prostate MRI Data Scarcity through Domain Adaptation using Locally-Trained Latent Diffusion Models for Prostate Cancer Detection
Emerson P. Grabke, Babak Taati, Masoom A. Haider
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06384

Mitigating Multi-Sequence 3D Prostate MRI Data Scarcity through Domain Adaptation using Locally-Trained Latent Diffusion Models for Prostate Cancer Detection
Objective: Latent diffusion models (LDMs) could mitigate data scarcity challenges affecting machine learning development for medical image interpretation. The recent CCELLA LDM improved prostate cancer detection performance using synthetic MRI for classifier training but was limited to the axial T2-weighted (AxT2) sequence, did not investigate inter-institutional domain shift, and prioritized radiology over histopathology outcomes. We propose CCELLA++ to address these limitations and improve cl…

Zohran Mamdani’s apparent victory late Tuesday night represented a sharp rebuke of the Democratic Party establishment
It represented, he said, the ascendance of a new Democratic coalition, one that prioritized the needs of the working class over those of the elite.
“We have won because New Yorkers have stood up for a city they can afford,” he said.
“A city where they can do more than just struggle. One where those who toil in the night can enjoy the fruits of their labor in…

In Joyful Speech, Mamdani Vows to Work for ‘Each and Every New Yorker’
A crowd in Queens celebrated the triumph of Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive winner of the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City.