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Der weltweite #Boom bei #Elektroautos könnte in wenigen Jahren wegen eines drohenden #Lithium-Engpasses ins Stocken geraten.
Eine neue Studie zeigt, dass der Bedarf in den

Electric vehicle boom could hit major roadblock in just 5 years, study claims | BBC Science Focus Magazine
With sales skyrocketing, a shortage of this key critical material could halt progress

!MSA at BAREC Shared Task 2025: Ensembling Arabic Transformers for Readability Assessment
Mohamed Basem, Mohamed Younes, Seif Ahmed, Abdelrahman Moustafa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10040

!MSA at BAREC Shared Task 2025: Ensembling Arabic Transformers for Readability Assessment
We present MSAs winning system for the BAREC 2025 Shared Task on fine-grained Arabic readability assessment, achieving first place in six of six tracks. Our approach is a confidence-weighted ensemble of four complementary transformer models (AraBERTv2, AraELECTRA, MARBERT, and CAMeLBERT) each fine-tuned with distinct loss functions to capture diverse readability signals. To tackle severe class imbalance and data scarcity, we applied weighted training, advanced preprocessing, SAMER corpus relabe…

I will never understand why the authors of a manuscript that they post on a preprint server spontaneously decide that it will be better for whoever reads their manuscript to have not only all the figures at the end, but also separated from the legends?
WHY 😭
(Same question for papers sent to review btw. Most journals allow for the format of your choice for the first submission. WHY not make it a nice, easily readable format??)

Vance Boelter has shown us the true face of the R-party: murderous, violent, gun-addicted, rampaging, and deceptive.
His act of disguising himself as a police officer in order to deceive his victims makes it beyond necessary for police and other law enforcement to have clear, readable, and accurate identity tags, front and back, that can be read at a distance. And such officers must not hide their identity by wearing face covering masks.
It is critical to both know that a law en…

Folk at #DH2025 might be interested in this article 'From handwriting to searchable text: using AI to make millions of historical documents accessible'

From handwriting to searchable text: using AI to make millions of historical documents accessible
In April 2025 the Swedish National Archives made 1,2 million digital images of archival documents into searchable, machine readable text — making the information in the archives more accessible than…

It hasn’t been a problem yet, but I’d like to preemptively say: If you apply to join @… I’m going to screen your profile for signs of actually being in the greater PDX area.
If your profile is blank, if your posts aren’t readable to me because they’re not public, if you never post or boost anything local, then I can’t tell if you’re actually local.

I'm paranoid about the cloud, OneDrive etc
I have a policy that most stuff I put on the cloud is encrypted (esp backups). Not always practical tho.
I was happy to discover rclone https://rclone.org/ a while ago, & to find out it can set up encrypted containers on OneDrive etc. Readable on both ends, e…

Function-to-Style Guidance of LLMs for Code Translation
Longhui Zhang, Bin Wang, Jiahao Wang, Xiaofeng Zhao, Min Zhang, Hao Yang, Meishan Zhang, Yu Li, Jing Li, Jun Yu, Min Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11083

Function-to-Style Guidance of LLMs for Code Translation
Large language models (LLMs) have made significant strides in code translation tasks. However, ensuring both the correctness and readability of translated code remains a challenge, limiting their effective adoption in real-world software development. In this work, we propose F2STrans, a function-to-style guiding paradigm designed to progressively improve the performance of LLMs in code translation. Our approach comprises two key stages: (1) Functional learning, which optimizes translation corre…

Can we make a deal? You keep your eight features but we get readability instead?
https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/115203446838618162

Text Adaptation to Plain Language and Easy Read via Automatic Post-Editing Cycles
Jes\'us Calleja, David Ponce, Thierry Etchegoyhen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11991 https://…

Text Adaptation to Plain Language and Easy Read via Automatic Post-Editing Cycles
We describe Vicomtech's participation in the CLEARS challenge on text adaptation to Plain Language and Easy Read in Spanish. Our approach features automatic post-editing of different types of initial Large Language Model adaptations, where successive adaptations are generated iteratively until readability and similarity metrics indicate that no further adaptation refinement can be successfully performed. Taking the average of all official metrics, our submissions achieved first and second place…