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いい一日が過ごせたかね、しゅまい [参照]

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in July
removed references to Donald Trump’s two impeachments
from an exhibit display
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/07/31/trump-impeachment-smithsonian/

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum
A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

@… I was thinking of you when I just tried this AI prompt: “> spawn 5 agents using batchtool to replace the react webui with html/css with no javascript, remove all the react code and references, keep the same functionality and layout. “. I will let you know how it works out. It’s a throwaway app at this point anyway, but it it works I’ll keep it this way.…

One Weird Trick to Untie Landin's Knot
Paulette Koronkevich, William J. Bowman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21317 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21317…

One Weird Trick to Untie Landin's Knot
In this work, we explore Landin's Knot, which is understood as a pattern for encoding general recursion, including non-termination, that is possible after adding higher-order references to an otherwise terminating language. We observe that this isn't always true -- higher-order references, by themselves, don't lead to non-termination. The key insight is that Landin's Knot relies not primarily on references storing functions, but on unrestricted quantification over a function's environment. We s…

I’ve refreshed the “General Methodologies for Intelligence Analysis” section on threat-intelligence.eu
The page was a bit dated, so it now has cleaner references, better structure, and direct links to practical models (including MISP taxonomies).
🔗 https://threat-intelligence.eu/methodo…

#UkAcademia question: I see references to the "REF" a lot, including needing to publish papers that get a specific REF "rating" like 3* or 4*. Anyone knows what these stars mean and how do they decide how many stars your papers get?
#Academia

A good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker

The CosmoVerse White Paper - Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics: #HubbleTension debate: https://physicsworld.com/a/cosmic-conflict-continues-new-data-fuel-the-hubble-tension-debate/. Also A Tale of Many H0: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-astro-052622-033813

Automatic Reviewers Assignment to a Research Paper Based on Allied References and Publications Weight
Tamim Al Mahmud, B M Mainul Hossain, Dilshad Ara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21331

Automatic Reviewers Assignment to a Research Paper Based on Allied References and Publications Weight
Everyday, a vast stream of research documents is submitted to conferences, anthologies, journals, newsletters, annual reports, daily papers, and various periodicals. Many such publications use independent external specialists to review submissions. This process is called peer review, and the reviewers are called referees. However, it is not always possible to pick the best referee for reviewing. Moreover, new research fields are emerging in every sector, and the number of research papers is inc…

アメフラシの生まれた朝に
借りてきたサーバーさ [参照]

authoritarian politics, Thomas Mann
... An excellent, powerful exhibition on democracy and despotism through the life and writing of local lad Thomas Mann, roughly 1890s to 1950s (now two Nobel references in one thread).
Rich set of contemporary and current images (Pegida, AfD etc), lots of visitor engagement. Folk were taking this in slowly, giving me time for some online translation.
➡️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann

Frequently Used References For Atomic Data In X-ray Spectroscopy
N. Hell (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), G. V. Brown (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), M. E. Eckart (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), A. J. Fairchild (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), C. A. Kilbourne (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), M. A. Leutenegger (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), F. S. Porter (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), M. C. Witthoeft (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

Frequently Used References For Atomic Data In X-ray Spectroscopy
Accurate atomic physics reference data are a crucial requirement for analysis and interpretation of observed spectra, even more so for observations with high spectral resolution. This document provides a curated list of atomic physics references frequently used for plasma diagnostics in X-ray spectroscopy, outside of comprehensive plasma models that typically come with their own underlying atomic databases. The list includes references to physical constants, laboratory benchmarks, transition en…

300 mm Wafer-Scale SiN Platform for Broadband Soliton Microcombs Compatible with Alkali Atomic References
Shao-Chien Ou, Alin Antohe, Lewis G. Carpenter, Gregory Moille, Kartik Srinivasan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20895

300 mm Wafer-Scale SiN Platform for Broadband Soliton Microcombs Compatible with Alkali Atomic References
Chip-integrated optical frequency combs (OFCs) based on Kerr nonlinear resonators are of great significance given their scalability and wide range of applications. Broadband on-chip OFCs reaching visible wavelengths are especially valuable as they address atomic clock transitions that play an important role in position, navigation, and timing infrastructure. Silicon nitride (SiN) deposited via low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) is the usual platform for the fabrication of chip-integ…

CineVision: An Interactive Pre-visualization Storyboard System for Director-Cinematographer Collaboration
Zheng Wei, Hongtao Wu, lvmin Zhang, Xian Xu, Yefeng Zheng, Pan Hui, Maneesh Agrawala, Huamin Qu, Anyi Rao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20355

CineVision: An Interactive Pre-visualization Storyboard System for Director-Cinematographer Collaboration
Effective communication between directors and cinematographers is fundamental in film production, yet traditional approaches relying on visual references and hand-drawn storyboards often lack the efficiency and precision necessary during pre-production. We present CineVision, an AI-driven platform that integrates scriptwriting with real-time visual pre-visualization to bridge this communication gap. By offering dynamic lighting control, style emulation based on renowned filmmakers, and customiz…

Updated my Fediverse profile page, so it references more background stories rather than just referencing the apps we currently build.
Of course, given space constraints most of those story references are very brief allusions. But they might still serve as useful launch points for conversation! If anything there piques your interest and you're curious to learn more, feel free to ask me about them.

@… Ah, thanks!
I find “Kybernetik in philosophischer Sicht” pretty good, apart from the occasional ML boilerplate, and he liberally cites both Eastern and Western references.

@… Ah, thanks!
I find “Kybernetik in philosophischer Sicht” pretty good, apart from the occasional ML boilerplate, and he liberally cites both Eastern and Western references.

"Reform Council Bans All Mentions of Climate Change While Quietly Taking Green Funds From Government"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

Reform Council Bans All Mentions of Climate Change While Quietly Taking Green Funds From Government
Reform-run West Northamptonshire is removing all references to ‘climate change’ and ‘net zero’ from official documents, yet continuing to take government green grants

LaTeXTrans: Structured LaTeX Translation with Multi-Agent Coordination
Ziming Zhu, Chenglong Wang, Shunjie Xing, Yifu Huo, Fengning Tian, Quan Du, Di Yang, Chunliang Zhang, Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18791

LaTeXTrans: Structured LaTeX Translation with Multi-Agent Coordination
Despite the remarkable progress of modern machine translation (MT) systems on general-domain texts, translating structured LaTeX-formatted documents remains a significant challenge. These documents typically interleave natural language with domain-specific syntax, such as mathematical equations, tables, figures, and cross-references, all of which must be accurately preserved to maintain semantic integrity and compilability. In this paper, we introduce LaTeXTrans, a collaborative multi-agent sys…

A Study of the Scale Invariant Signal to Distortion Ratio in Speech Separation with Noisy References
Simon Dahl Jepsen, Mads Gr{\ae}sb{\o}ll Christensen, Jesper Rindom Jensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14623

A Study of the Scale Invariant Signal to Distortion Ratio in Speech Separation with Noisy References
This paper examines the implications of using the Scale-Invariant Signal-to-Distortion Ratio (SI-SDR) as both evaluation and training objective in supervised speech separation, when the training references contain noise, as is the case with the de facto benchmark WSJ0-2Mix. A derivation of the SI-SDR with noisy references reveals that noise limits the achievable SI-SDR, or leads to undesired noise in the separated outputs. To address this, a method is proposed to enhance references and augment …

Mapping NVD Records to Their VFCs: How Hard is it?
Huu Hung Nguyen, Duc Manh Tran, Yiran Cheng, Thanh Le-Cong, Hong Jin Kang, Ratnadira Widyasari, Shar Lwin Khin, Ouh Eng Lieh, Ting Zhang, David Lo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09702

Mapping NVD Records to Their VFCs: How Hard is it?
Mapping National Vulnerability Database (NVD) records to vulnerability-fixing commits (VFCs) is crucial for vulnerability analysis but challenging due to sparse explicit links in NVD references.This study explores this mapping's feasibility through an empirical approach. Manual analysis of NVD references showed Git references enable over 86% success, while non-Git references achieve under 14%. Using these findings, we built an automated pipeline extracting 31,942 VFCs from 20,360 NVD records (8…

Axions and Axion-like particles: collider searches
Anke Biek\"otter, Ken Mimasu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19358 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19358

Axions and Axion-like particles: collider searches
We give an overview of collider searches for Axion-like particles (ALPs). The intention of this review is to give a pedagogical introduction to collider phenomenology of ALPs, and provide a starting point for newcomers, including suitable references to deepen their knowledge. We motivate how ALPs arise from the breaking of approximate global symmetries and describe their interactions across different scales in an effective field theory framework. We further review the dominant production and de…

I’m sorry, but I cannot help a tiny bit of Schadenfreude. A colleague is an enthusiastic user of ChatGPT and recently told me that one does not need traditional reference managers like Zotero anymore, since you can just ask the LLM to re-format your references according to a given style. Now he got article proofs back with countless comments that the dates in in-text references don’t match the dates in the bibliography. 🙃

Universal dynamics and microwave control of programmable cavity electro-optic frequency combs
Yunxiang Song, Tianqi Lei, Yanyun Xue, Andrea Cordaro, Michael Haas, Guanhao Huang, Xudong Li, Shengyuan Lu, Leticia Magalhaes, Jiayu Yang, Matthew Yeh, Xinrui Zhu, Neil Sinclair, Qihuang Gong, Yaowen Hu, Marko Loncar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21…

Universal dynamics and microwave control of programmable cavity electro-optic frequency combs
Electro-optic (EO) frequency combs are foundational for metrology and spectroscopy. Specifically, microresonator-based cavity EO combs are distinguished by efficient sideband generation, precisely controlled by microwave signals, enabling high-performance integrated frequency references and pulse sources. However, the apparent simplicity of these devices, often described by the EO modulation-induced coupling of nearest-neighbor cavity modes, has limited investigations of their fundamental physi…

Nobody asked, ofc, but here’s what I think. Everybody says #Epstein was a smart guy, so there is no list. Not on paper, and if there was a digital one it’s gone. There are, however, records. Of a lot of stuff. It was reported today that 1000 FBI agents in New York were pulled off their regular duties, working 24/7 for most of March, scouring whatever documents there are specifically for references …

Maestro-EVC: Controllable Emotional Voice Conversion Guided by References and Explicit Prosody
Jinsung Yoon, Wooyeol Jeong, Jio Gim, Young-Joo Suh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06890

Maestro-EVC: Controllable Emotional Voice Conversion Guided by References and Explicit Prosody
Emotional voice conversion (EVC) aims to modify the emotional style of speech while preserving its linguistic content. In practical EVC, controllability, the ability to independently control speaker identity and emotional style using distinct references, is crucial. However, existing methods often struggle to fully disentangle these attributes and lack the ability to model fine-grained emotional expressions such as temporal dynamics. We propose Maestro-EVC, a controllable EVC framework that ena…

ビリヤニ、お肉のまわりは色が濃くなったり、あえてムラのある仕上がりになってるのがいいよね…… [参照]

Did anyone else really enjoy "Air", the #Nike/Sonny Vaccaro/Phil Knight/Michael Jordan movie?
Between the 80s references, 80s music & David Falk's hilariously unhinged phone rant, this is one of the most wonderful movies ever for a #GenX'er.
▶️

#Orwell wrote about the #JustTransition in 1947 ("Toward European Unity"):
«The European peoples, and especially the British, have long owed their high standard of life to direct or indirect exploitation of the coloured peoples. [...] But it is by no means certain that we can afford these th…

go ahead, keep ignoring my music posts. it only makes my references More Obscure
on that note, Deerhoof's Offend Maggie flows so much better with the vinyl track order. I don't know what they were thinking with the CD track order, it's so cooked

You'll never become a NATIVE English speaker
No matter how hard you try, the years in the UK or Ireland, the effort in your accent, or the AI applications you might use to fake it
There is a language wall, made of accents, cultural references and seemingly illogical phrasal verbs and idioms, that we cannot jump
But IT DOESN'T MATTER.
90% of your interactions are probably with other non-native speakers. As long as you understand each other, you're good.

Neither British nor American: how Europeans speak their own flavour of English - The European Perspective
Learning English with Elton John

i wonder if brainrot humor worked the same way back before the internet existed. like did victorian era youth make themselves laugh by inserting vulgar slang or opium and alcohol or women dressing like men or charles darwin or edgy jack the ripper references into phrases coined within a children's author / humorist's "nonsense book" or whatever trashy pulp magazines were popular

Replaced article(s) found for cs.PL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.PL/new
[1/1]:
- Complete the Cycle: Reachability Types with Expressive Cyclic References (Extended Version)
Haotian Deng, Siyuan He, Songlin Jia, Yuyan Bao, Tiark Rompf

Maneuvering-based Dynamic Thrust Allocation for Fully-Actuated Vessels
Emir Cem Gezer, Roger Skjetne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18309 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Maneuvering-based Dynamic Thrust Allocation for Fully-Actuated Vessels
This paper introduces a new approach to solving the thrust allocation problem using the maneuvering problem in the maritime domain for fully actuated vessels. The method uses a control Lyapunov function to create a nonlinear reference filter for the thruster forces. The filter ensures dynamic tracking of the optimal thrust allocation solution with rate limitation in the output thruster references. It further uses control barrier functions to ensure that the thruster force saturation limits are …

Long post, game design
Crungle is a game designed to be a simple test of general reasoning skills that's difficult to play by rote memory, since there are many possible rule sets, but it should be easy to play if one can understand and extrapolate from rules. The game is not necessarily fair, with the first player often having an advantage or a forced win. The game is entirely deterministic, although a variant determines the rule set randomly.
This is version 0.1, and has not yet been tested at all.
Crungle is a competitive game for two players, each of whom controls a single piece on a 3x3 grid. The cells of the grid are numbered from 1 to 9, starting at the top left and proceeding across each row and then down to the next row, so the top three cells are 1, 2, and 3 from left to right, then the next three are 4, 5, and 6 and the final row is cells 7, 8, and 9.
The two players decide who shall play as purple and who shall play as orange. Purple goes first, starting the rules phase by picking one goal rule from the table of goal rules. Next, orange picks a goal rule. These two goal rules determine the two winning conditions. Then each player, starting with orange, alternate picking a movement rule until four movement rules have been selected. During this process, at most one indirect movement rule may be selected. Finally, purple picks a starting location for orange (1-9), with 5 (the center) not allowed. Then orange picks the starting location for purple, which may not be adjacent to orange's starting position.
Alternatively, the goal rules, movement rules, and starting positions may be determined randomly, or a pre-determined ruleset may be selected.
If the ruleset makes it impossible to win, the players should agree to a draw. Either player could instead "bet" their opponent. If the opponent agrees to the bet, the opponent must demonstrate a series of moves by both players that would result in a win for either player. If they can do this, they win, but if they submit an invalid demonstration or cannot submit a demonstration, the player who "bet" wins.
Now that starting positions, movement rules, and goals have been decided, the play phase proceeds with each player taking a turn, starting with purple, until one player wins by satisfying one of the two goals, or until the players agree to a draw. Note that it's possible for both players to occupy the same space.
During each player's turn, that player identifies one of the four movement rules to use and names the square they move to using that rule, then they move their piece into that square and their turn ends. Neither player may use the same movement rule twice in a row (but it's okay to use the same rule your opponent just did unless another rule disallows that). If the movement rule a player picks moves their opponent's piece, they need to state where their opponent's piece ends up. Pieces that would move off the board instead stay in place; it's okay to select a rule that causes your piece to stay in place because of this rule. However, if a rule says "pick a square" or "move to a square" with some additional criteria, but there are no squares that meet those criteria, then that rule may not be used, and a player who picks that rule must pick a different one instead.
Any player who incorrectly states a destination for either their piece or their opponent's piece, picks an invalid square, or chooses an invalid rule has made a violation, as long as their opponent objects before selecting their next move. A player who makes at least three violations immediately forfeits and their opponent wins by default. However, if a player violates a rule but their opponent does not object before picking their next move, the stated destination(s) of the invalid move still stand, and the violation does not count. If a player objects to a valid move, their objection is ignored, and if they do this at least three times, they forfeit and their opponent wins by default.
Goal rules (each player picks one; either player can win using either chosen rule):
End your turn in the same space as your opponent three turns in a row.
End at least one turn in each of the 9 cells.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single row, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single column, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in each of cells 1, 3, 7, and 9 (the four corners of the grid).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in each of cells 2, 4, 6, and 8 (the central cells on each side).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in the cell directly above your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly below your opponent (in either order).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in the cell directly to the left of your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly to the right of your opponent (in either order).
End 12 turns in a row without ending any of them in cell 5.
End 8 turns in a row in 8 different cells.
Movement rules (each player picks two; either player may move using any of the four):
Move to any cell on the board that's diagonally adjacent to your current position.
Move to any cell on the board that's orthogonally adjacent to your current position.
Move up one cell. Also move your opponent up one cell.
Move down one cell. Also move your opponent down one cell.
Move left one cell. Also move your opponent left one cell.
Move right one cell. Also move your opponent right one cell.
Move up one cell. Move your opponent down one cell.
Move down one cell. Move your opponent up one cell.
Move left one cell. Move your opponent right one cell.
Move right one cell. Move your opponent left one cell.
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 2 or 3 to 6 or 9 to 8).
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 counter-clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 4 or 6 to 3 or 7 to 8).
Move to any square reachable from your current position by a knight's move in chess (in other words, a square that's in an adjacent column and two rows up or down, or that's in an adjacent row and two columns left or right).
Stay in the same place.
Swap places with your opponent's piece.
Move back to the position that you started at on your previous turn.
If you are on an odd-numbered square, move to any other odd-numbered square. Otherwise, move to any even-numbered square.
Move to any square in the same column as your current position.
Move to any square in the same row as your current position.
Move to any square in the same column as your opponent's position.
Move to any square in the same row as your opponent's position.
Pick a square that's neither in the same row as your piece nor in the same row as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Pick a square that's neither in the same column as your piece nor in the same column as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Move to one of the squares orthogonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to one of the squares diagonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to the square opposite your current position across the middle square, or stay in place if you're in the middle square.
Pick any square that's closer to your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers (this includes the square your opponent is in). Move to that square.
Pick any square that's further from your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers. Move to that square.
If you are on a corner square (1, 3, 7, or 9) move to any other corner square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
If you are on an edge square (2, 4, 6, or 8) move to any other edge square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
Indirect movement rules (may be chosen instead of a direct movement rule; at most one per game):
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, and in addition, your opponent may not use that rule on their next turn (nor may they select it via an indirect rule like this one).
Select two of the other three movement rules, declare them, and then move as if you had used one and then the other, applying any additional effects of both rules in order.
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, but if the move would cause your piece to move off the board, instead of staying in place move to square 5 (in the middle).
Pick one of the other three movement rules selected in your game and apply it, but move your opponent's piece instead of your own piece. If that movement rule says to move "your opponent's piece," instead apply that movement to your own piece. References to "your position" and "your opponent's position" are swapped when applying the chosen rule, as are references to "your turn" and "your opponent's turn" and do on.
#Game #GameDesign

Kogaro: Stop #Kubernetes Silent Failures
https://kogaro.com/

Enhancing Reference-based Sketch Colorization via Separating Reference Representations
Dingkun Yan, Xinrui Wang, Zhuoru Li, Suguru Saito, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo, Jiaxian Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17620

Enhancing Reference-based Sketch Colorization via Separating Reference Representations
Reference-based sketch colorization methods have garnered significant attention for the potential application in animation and digital illustration production. However, most existing methods are trained with image triplets of sketch, reference, and ground truth that are semantically and spatially similar, while real-world references and sketches often exhibit substantial misalignment. This mismatch in data distribution between training and inference leads to overfitting, consequently resulting …

Labelling Data with Unknown References
Adrian de Wynter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03083 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.03083

Labelling Data with Unknown References
An evaluator is trustworthy when there exists some agreed-upon way to measure its performance as a labeller. The two ways to establish trustworthiness are either by testing it, or by assuming the evaluator `knows' somehow the way to label the corpus. However, if labelled references (e.g., a development set) are unavailable, neither of these approaches work: the former requires the data, and the latter is an assumption, not evidence. To address this, we introduce an algorithm (the `No-Data Algor…

After Erasing 'Trans' References Under Trump, Stonewall Website Deletes Another Part Of LGBTQ (Hilary Hanson/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stonewall-website-bisexual-delete_n_687270aee4b0566597f99710
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p39#a250712p39

Long-time existence for the 2D ideal Boussinesq and the 2D density-dependent Euler equations
Hantaek Bae, Milton Lopes Filho, Anna Mazzucato, Helena Nussenzveig Lopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18244

Long-time existence for the 2D ideal Boussinesq and the 2D density-dependent Euler equations
We establish long-time existence of smooth solutions to the 2D ideal Boussinesq equations and to the 2D non-homogeneous incompressible Euler equations for initial data consisting of small temperature perturbations, or small density perturbations, of smooth initial flows which are not necessarily small. Both results are known (see Danchin and Fanelli 2013, Danchin 2011 in the references) but the technique we develop to prove them is at the same time elementary and has broad potential applicabili…

There are so many references to Trump in the Epstein files that a thousand FBI agents are working around the clock to flag them, presumably so they can be expunged in some manner:
A log exists tracking the mentions of Donald Trump in the files, and that there were approximately 100,000 files containing roughly 300,000 pages. Individual analysts were told to flag mentions of Trump by document and page number by logging them in an Excel spreadsheet, then they’d hand …

The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI
Inside the chaotic review process of the Epstein and Maxwell files at the Bureau

Self-selection of Information and Belief Update: An Experiment on COVID-19 Vaccine Information Acquisition
ChienHsun Lin, Hans H. Tung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19056

Self-selection of Information and Belief Update: An Experiment on COVID-19 Vaccine Information Acquisition
Rational information acquisition theory predicts that people select the more informative information. Thus, people's beliefs will be more persuaded by the information they select. We test the prediction in a critical real-world context -- information about COVID-19 vaccines. We conducted an online experiment in Taiwan where the subjects selected information about COVID-19 vaccines, and then the subjects updated their beliefs about vaccine effectiveness and references to vaccines. As our design …

Photonic chip-based optical frequency division with PZT-integrated soliton microcombs
Ruxuan Liu, Mark W. Harrington, Shuman Sun, Fatemehsadat Tabatabaei, Samin Hanifi, Meiting Song, Kaikai Liu, Jiawei Wang, Haoran Chen, Zijiao Yang, Beichen Wang, Fateme Majdi, Paul A. Morton, Karl D. Nelson, Steve M. Bowers, Andreas Beling, Daniel J. Blumenthal, Xu Yi
https://…

Photonic chip-based optical frequency division with PZT-integrated soliton microcombs
Optical frequency division (OFD) produces low-noise microwave and millimeter-wave signals by transferring the exceptional stability of optical references to electronic frequency domains. Recent developments in integrated optical references and soliton microcombs have paved the way for miniaturizing OFD oscillators to chip scale. Critical to this realization is a rapid tunable frequency comb that is stabilized to the optical references, thereby coherently linking optical and electronic frequenci…

Truth Social launches a Perplexity-powered AI search feature that consistently references Trump-supporting media including Fox News and The Washington Times (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/753863/trump-truth-social-ai-s…

Truth Social’s new AI search engine basically just pushes Fox News
Donald Trump’s media company is beta-testing a new AI search feature on Truth Social that’s seemingly biased towards conservative media sources.

On July 3rd I delivered the closing keynote at #CampDigital, a conference organized by Nexer Digital. I’ve now put together my companion page for this talk, chock-full with notes and references, linking to articles, papers, videos, podcasts and books.

https://axbom.com/cdmaps/

An episode in season 1 of Clarissa Explains it All quotes Karl Marx saying "Religion is the opium of the people," the mother starting to smoke again, and references to joining a cult.
They don't make #nickelodeon #kids shows like they used to.

DAGs for the Masses
Michael Anoprenko, Andrei Tonkikh, Alexander Spiegelman, Petr Kuznetsov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13998 https://…

DAGs for the Masses
A recent approach to building consensus protocols on top of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) shows much promise due to its simplicity and stable throughput. However, as each node in the DAG typically includes a linear number of references to the nodes in the previous round, prior DAG protocols only scale up to a certain point when the overhead of maintaining the graph becomes the bottleneck. To enable large-scale deployments of DAG-based protocols, we propose a sparse DAG architecture, where ea…

Last night 8 of us got together for Call of Cthulhu. First RPG for one of us, and a couple of us with decades of experience gaming together. Went off without a hitch. Other than my reporter getting killed by a swarm of vermin (one of two deaths).

I like the animated series #Pantheon and there's a 2nd season now. Its design is simple (kinda like Invincible's) but it seems to have been made by people who care about getting details of cyber technology right. There are these nice references to stuff that the audience might appreciate like this NERD sticker on a laptop that looks like the logo of NERV (the central organisation from th…

Found a practical use for AI. When I write research papers I want all my references in Zotero and not just in the text. But if I upload my manuscript to CoPilot (usually sucks at most things) it can return the doi for most articles i cite and ISBN for most books. Then I only have to copy the doi into Zotero and add the reference. Practical if you only have articles as print outs (there is a browser plug in when showing an article in the browser, but not for print outs). Tip of the day and th…

Evaluating the Use of LLMs for Documentation to Code Traceability
Ebube Alor, SayedHassan Khatoonabadi, Emad Shihab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16440 https:…

Evaluating the Use of LLMs for Documentation to Code Traceability
Large Language Models (LLMs) offer new potential for automating documentation-to-code traceability, yet their capabilities remain underexplored. We present a comprehensive evaluation of LLMs (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, and o3-mini) in establishing trace links between various software documentation (including API references and user guides) and source code. We create two novel datasets from two open-source projects (Unity Catalog and Crawl4AI). Through systematic experiments, we assess three key…

Chinese anime feels very challenging to watch for me.
I'm not sure if there's a larger culture of "and the things happened outside the show, fans will know what's up, because they watch more than just the show" or it's just culturally accepted to run a little looser/faster in the content.
There's also strong tendencies to weave in Chinese history and culture plot points or references that just continue to miss me.
BUT - I do enjoy that they tend to go _hard_ on universe building and story intensity. Everything is always epic.
Lord of Mysteries so far is an -amazing- mysticism story with strong Lovecraftian elements. Would love to see more like it. Live action would be absolutely wild.

BeyondMimic: From Motion Tracking to Versatile Humanoid Control via Guided Diffusion
Takara E. Truong, Qiayuan Liao, Xiaoyu Huang, Guy Tevet, C. Karen Liu, Koushil Sreenath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08241

BeyondMimic: From Motion Tracking to Versatile Humanoid Control via Guided Diffusion
Learning skills from human motions offers a promising path toward generalizable policies for whole-body humanoid control, yet two key cornerstones are missing: (1) a high-quality motion tracking framework that faithfully transforms large-scale kinematic references into robust and extremely dynamic motions on real hardware, and (2) a distillation approach that can effectively learn these motion primitives and compose them to solve downstream tasks. We address these gaps with BeyondMimic, the fir…

"no I don't think so" and not providing any proof or references that backs up why you think so and what you are going to do to inform yourself better or are too worried that everyone is spying on you...
...is totally fine and I'm totally fine not seeing any of your posts again because my time is valuable!
#MyTimeIsValuable

Feature-Based vs. GAN-Based Learning from Demonstrations: When and Why
Chenhao Li, Marco Hutter, Andreas Krause
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05906 https://…

Feature-Based vs. GAN-Based Learning from Demonstrations: When and Why
This survey provides a comparative analysis of feature-based and GAN-based approaches to learning from demonstrations, with a focus on the structure of reward functions and their implications for policy learning. Feature-based methods offer dense, interpretable rewards that excel at high-fidelity motion imitation, yet often require sophisticated representations of references and struggle with generalization in unstructured settings. GAN-based methods, in contrast, use implicit, distributional s…

The matched projection and geodesics of the Grassmann manifold
Esteban Andruchow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14870 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14870

The matched projection and geodesics of the Grassmann manifold
Given an idempotent operator $E$ in a complex Hilbert space ${\mathcal H}$, one can associate to it two orthogonal projections: - The polar decomposition $2E-1=(2P-1)|2E-1|$ provides an orthogonal projection $P$. That the unitary part in the decomposition of $2E-1$ is of this form, i.e., a selfadjoint unitary operator, is a remarkable observation done by G. Corach, H. Porta and L. Recht (see references below). - The question of which, among all orthogonal projections, is the one c…

The illusion of a perfect metric: Why evaluating AI's words is harder than it looks
Maria Paz Oliva, Adriana Correia, Ivan Vankov, Viktor Botev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13816

The illusion of a perfect metric: Why evaluating AI's words is harder than it looks
Evaluating Natural Language Generation (NLG) is crucial for the practical adoption of AI, but has been a longstanding research challenge. While human evaluation is considered the de-facto standard, it is expensive and lacks scalability. Practical applications have driven the development of various automatic evaluation metrics (AEM), designed to compare the model output with human-written references, generating a score which approximates human judgment. Over time, AEMs have evolved from simple l…

Petty Assifer Hegseth orders #HarveyMilk name to be removed from US Naval vessel
https://apnews.com/article/harvey-milk-navy-ship-rename…

Pete Hegseth orders Harvey Milk's name scrubbed from US Navy ship
U.S. officials say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk in a highly rare move. The ship was named after the slain gay rights activist who served as a sailor during the Korean War. The officials say Navy Secretary John Phelan put together a small team to rename the replenishment oiler, and that a new name is expected this month. It marks the latest move by Hegseth to purge diversity, equity and inclusion references, and it comes during Pride Month. T…

そろそろ猫、再放送しておくかね。 [参照]

Hidden in Plain Sight: Probing Implicit Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models
Qianqi Yan, Hongquan Li, Shan Jiang, Yang Zhao, Xinze Guan, Ching-Chen Kuo, Xin Eric Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00258

Hidden in Plain Sight: Probing Implicit Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly deployed in open-ended, real-world environments where inputs are messy, underspecified, and not always trustworthy. Unlike curated benchmarks, these settings frequently involve instructions that refer to missing objects or contradictory facts, rely on ambiguous references, or request infeasible actions. In such cases, success hinges not on task execution alone, but on a model's ability to detect when something is silently wrong. This pap…

Shot-Noise-Limited Laser Frequency Stabilization Using a High-Resolution Wavelength Meter
Mengde Gan, Haoyi Zhang, Xiaodong Tan, Jiaming Li, Le Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20894

Shot-Noise-Limited Laser Frequency Stabilization Using a High-Resolution Wavelength Meter
We present a compact laser frequency stabilization method by locking a 556 nm laser to a high-precision wavelength meter. Unlike traditional schemes that rely on optical cavities or atomic references, we stabilize the laser frequency via a closed-loop feedback system referenced to a wavelength meter. This configuration effectively suppresses long-term frequency drifts, achieving frequency stability to the wavelength meter's shot-noise-limited resolution. The system enables sub-hundred-kilohertz…

Day 2:
TL;DR:
❌ `composite: true`
❌ `tsconfig.build.json`
✅ `paths` in `tsconfig.base.json`
✅ `include` shared libs explicitly where needed
✅ `turbo run build` just works
Wrestled for hours (~3) with TypeScript `project references` and `paths` in a Turbo monorepo (NestJS, ESM).
Turns out: if you want global aliases like `@my-lib/foo` to *just work* across apps — skip `composite: true` and `tsc --build`.
Project references and alia…

DS@GT at CheckThat! 2025: Exploring Retrieval and Reranking Pipelines for Scientific Claim Source Retrieval on Social Media Discourse
Jeanette Schofield, Shuyu Tian, Hoang Thanh Thanh Truong, Maximilian Heil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06563

DS@GT at CheckThat! 2025: Exploring Retrieval and Reranking Pipelines for Scientific Claim Source Retrieval on Social Media Discourse
Social media users often make scientific claims without citing where these claims come from, generating a need to verify these claims. This paper details work done by the DS@GT team for CLEF 2025 CheckThat! Lab Task 4b Scientific Claim Source Retrieval which seeks to find relevant scientific papers based on implicit references in tweets. Our team explored 6 different data augmentation techniques, 7 different retrieval and reranking pipelines, and finetuned a bi-encoder. Achieving an MRR@5 of 0.…

Crunchyroll blames a third-party vendor for AI-generated subtitles, with errors and references to ChatGPT, and says it is working to rectify the error (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/str

Crunchyroll blames third-party vendor for AI subtitle mess
"We are investigating the matter and are working to rectify the error," Crunchyroll told Engadget.

カセットビジョンがない
やりなおし2 [参照]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the
USNS Harvey Milk,
a highly rare move that will strip the ship of the moniker of a slain gay rights activist who served as a sailor during the Korean War.
The change was laid out in an internal memo that officials said defended the action as a move to align with Trump and Hegseth’s objectives to
“re-establish the warrior culture

Pete Hegseth orders Harvey Milk's name scrubbed from US Navy ship
U.S. officials say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk in a highly rare move. The ship was named after the slain gay rights activist who served as a sailor during the Korean War. The officials say Navy Secretary John Phelan put together a small team to rename the replenishment oiler, and that a new name is expected this month. It marks the latest move by Hegseth to purge diversity, equity and inclusion references, and it comes during Pride Month. T…

All for law and law for all: Adaptive RAG Pipeline for Legal Research
Figarri Keisha, Prince Singh, Pallavi, Dion Fernandes, Aravindh Manivannan, Ilham Wicaksono, Faisal Ahmad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13107

All for law and law for all: Adaptive RAG Pipeline for Legal Research
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mitigates hallucinations by grounding large language model outputs in cited sources, a capability that is especially critical in the legal domain. We present an end-to-end RAG pipeline that revisits and extends the LegalBenchRAG baseline with three targeted enhancements: (i) a context-aware query translator that disentangles document references from natural-language questions and adapts retrieval depth and response style based on expertise and specificity, (…

Mastodon 4.4系、必須となるlibvipsのバージョン絡みでUbuntu 22.04だとそのままでは動かないので、24.04に移行しておいた方が良いよ。
さしあたりlibvipsを自前ビルドすれば22.04のままでいけるけども。 [参照]

ThematicPlane: Bridging Tacit User Intent and Latent Spaces for Image Generation
Daniel Lee, Nikhil Sharma, Donghoon Shin, DaEun Choi, Harsh Sharma, Jeonghwan Kim, Heng Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06065

ThematicPlane: Bridging Tacit User Intent and Latent Spaces for Image Generation
Generative AI has made image creation more accessible, yet aligning outputs with nuanced creative intent remains challenging, particularly for non-experts. Existing tools often require users to externalize ideas through prompts or references, limiting fluid exploration. We introduce ThematicPlane, a system that enables users to navigate and manipulate high-level semantic concepts (e.g., mood, style, or narrative tone) within an interactive thematic design plane. This interface bridges the gap b…

セガサたん白 [参照]

Crunchyroll ran subtitles filled with errors and references to ChatGPT on one of its shows; the streamer had said it had no plans to use AI in programming (Charles Pulliam-Moore/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artific…

Crunchyroll ran embarrassingly bad ChatGPT subtitles on its new anime series
Crunchyroll subscribers were treated to some unexpected AI slop while watching Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show.

Transient performance of MPC for tracking without terminal constraints
Nadine Ehmann, Matthias K\"ohler, Frank Allg\"ower
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10589

Transient performance of MPC for tracking without terminal constraints
Model predictive control (MPC) for tracking is a recently introduced approach, which extends standard MPC formulations by incorporating an artificial reference as an additional optimization variable, in order to track external and potentially time-varying references. In this work, we analyze the performance of such an MPC for tracking scheme without a terminal cost and terminal constraints. We derive a transient performance estimate, i.e. a bound on the closed-loop performance over an arbitrary…

Muochrony: Exploring Time and Frequency Applications of Cosmic Muons
G. Cerretto, E. Cantoni, M. Sellone, C. E. Calosso, I. Gnesi, H. K. M. Tanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24606

Muochrony: Exploring Time and Frequency Applications of Cosmic Muons
This study outlines the progress of a collaborative effort between INRIM and MUOGRAPHIX-The University of Tokyo, focusing on using muons from cosmic-ray-induced Extensive Air Showers (EAS) to synchronize atomic clocks and disseminate atomic time references. The approach, known as the Cosmic Time Synchronizer (CTS), proposed by the University of Tokyo, serves as the foundation for a new field of study called Muochrony. The paper details the CTS technology, underlying principles, and the prototyp…

Explainable Information Retrieval in the Audit Domain
Alexander Frummet, Emanuel Slany, Jonas Amling, Moritz Lang, Stephan Scheele
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03479

Explainable Information Retrieval in the Audit Domain
Conversational agents such as Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini assist users with complex search tasks but often generate misleading or fabricated references. This undermines trust, particularly in high-stakes domains such as medicine and finance. Explainable information retrieval (XIR) aims to address this by making search results more transparent and interpretable. While most XIR research is domain-agnostic, this paper focuses on auditing -- a critical yet underexplored area. We argue that …

Evaluating LLMs on Chinese Idiom Translation
Cai Yang, Yao Dou, David Heineman, Xiaofeng Wu, Wei Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10421 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Evaluating LLMs on Chinese Idiom Translation
Idioms, whose figurative meanings usually differ from their literal interpretations, are common in everyday language, especially in Chinese, where they often contain historical references and follow specific structural patterns. Despite recent progress in machine translation with large language models, little is known about Chinese idiom translation. In this work, we introduce IdiomEval, a framework with a comprehensive error taxonomy for Chinese idiom translation. We annotate 900 translation p…

From Rapid Release to Reinforced Elite: Citation Inequality Is Stronger in Preprints than Journals
Chiaki Miura, Ichiro Sakata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07547

From Rapid Release to Reinforced Elite: Citation Inequality Is Stronger in Preprints than Journals
Preprint has been considered to mainly supplement journal-based systems for the rapid dissemination of relevant scientific knowledge, and has historically been by studies indicating that preprints and published reports have comparable authorship, references, and quality.However, as preprint increasingly serve as an independent medium for scholarly communication rather than precursors to the version of record, it remains uncertain how preprint usage is shaping scientific discourse.Our research r…

There and Back Again: Revisiting the Failure of Concatenation in Mittag-Leffler Functions
Paulo M. Carvalho-Neto, Cesar E. T. Ledesma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05788 https://…

There and Back Again: Revisiting the Failure of Concatenation in Mittag-Leffler Functions
The function $t \mapsto E_α(λt^α)$ is widely regarded as the fractional analogue of the exponential function, yet its algebraic properties remain poorly understood. In particular, standard references lack a rigorous proof of the failure of the semigroup property. In this work, we fill this gap by providing an analytical proof that the semigroup property holds if and only if either $α= 1$ or $λ= 0$. Our result establishes a precise criterion for when Mittag-Leffler dynamics are compatible w…

Observability of modified threshold behavior near unitarity
Michael D. Higgins, J. Golak, R. Skibinski, K. Topolnicki, H. Witala, H. Kamada, Chris H. Greene
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24569

Observability of modified threshold behavior near unitarity
A number of recent references have pointed out that an N-particle system having short-range interactions at S-wave and/or P-wave unitarity can exhibit modified threshold behavior for various reactive processes. But the question of how close to unitarity one must get in order to observe such modifications has not been addressed. The present study quantities this question by treating cases involving 3- or 4-neutrons, at the physical value of the neutron-neutron singlet scattering length a and at …

Achiさんのハトのお話は大好きです。読むと良いよ。 [参照]

Discrepancy-Aware Contrastive Adaptation in Medical Time Series Analysis
Yifan Wang, Hongfeng Ai, Ruiqi Li, Maowei Jiang, Ruiyuan Kang, Jiahua Dong, Cheng Jiang, Chenzhong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05572

Discrepancy-Aware Contrastive Adaptation in Medical Time Series Analysis
In medical time series disease diagnosis, two key challenges are identified. First, the high annotation cost of medical data leads to overfitting in models trained on label-limited, single-center datasets. To address this, we propose incorporating external data from related tasks and leveraging AE-GAN to extract prior knowledge, providing valuable references for downstream tasks. Second, many existing studies employ contrastive learning to derive more generalized medical sequence representation…

For some reason some events remind me about the world going downhill but in a serious and bad way.
I remember when I was on the fediverse and said something to the likes of:
"Wikipedia needs more reliable references"
and then someone comes along
"BUT THEY ARE STEALING MONEY FROM JOURNALISTS BY NOT PAYING FOR ARTICLES"
and I'm like..."Did I kill your dog?"
I think there's a reply guy for everything...troublemakers!

Grok AI's Unfiltered Extremism: Controversial Replies Exposed
#GrokAI #MechaHitler #AI #ElonMusk

Sum Rules in Quantum Liquids
Riccardo Fantoni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07950 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07950

Sum Rules in Quantum Liquids
We review the linear response theory in the horizontal quantum liquids framework spanning from Coulomb liquids to Atomic gases. There are several well known references about this subject, like the onset of the Kramers-Kronig relations and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. For the Coulomb systems we show the connection between the linear response function and the dielectric function which settles a parallelism between statistical mechanics and electrostatic properties. For (very degenerate, d…

Impact of common modes correlations and time sampling on the total noise of a H2RG near-IR detector
B. Kubik, R. Barbier, A. Castera, E. Chabanat, S. Ferriol, G. Smadja
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04995

Impact of common modes correlations and time sampling on the total noise of a H2RG near-IR detector
We present the readout noise reduction methods and the 1/f noise response of an 2Kx2K HgCdTe detector similar to the detectors that will be used in the Near Infrared Spectrometer Photometer - one of the instruments of the future ESA mission named Euclid. Various algorithms of common modes subtraction are defined and compared. We show that the readout noise can be lowered by 60% using properly the references provided within the array. A predictive model of the 1/f noise with a given frequency po…

:koresuki:
QT: https://fedibird.com/@ymd/114656034081456005

Think Twice Before You Judge: Mixture of Dual Reasoning Experts for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection
Soumyadeep Jana, Abhrajyoti Kundu, Sanasam Ranbir Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04458

Think Twice Before You Judge: Mixture of Dual Reasoning Experts for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection
Multimodal sarcasm detection has attracted growing interest due to the rise of multimedia posts on social media. Understanding sarcastic image-text posts often requires external contextual knowledge, such as cultural references or commonsense reasoning. However, existing models struggle to capture the deeper rationale behind sarcasm, relying mainly on shallow cues like image captions or object-attribute pairs from images. To address this, we propose \textbf{MiDRE} (\textbf{Mi}xture of \textbf{D…

毘忌尼さんが呼ばれた気がした [参照]

Reference-free Adversarial Sex Obfuscation in Speech
Yangyang Qu, Michele Panariello, Massimiliano Todisco, Nicholas Evans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02295 https://

Reference-free Adversarial Sex Obfuscation in Speech
Sex conversion in speech involves privacy risks from data collection and often leaves residual sex-specific cues in outputs, even when target speaker references are unavailable. We introduce RASO for Reference-free Adversarial Sex Obfuscation. Innovations include a sex-conditional adversarial learning framework to disentangle linguistic content from sex-related acoustic markers and explicit regularisation to align fundamental frequency distributions and formant trajectories with sex-neutral cha…

Open Science, Open Innovation? The Role of Open Access in Patenting Activity
Abdelghani Maddi (GEMASS), Ahmad Yaman Abdin, Francesco Fdp de Pretis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00829

Open Science, Open Innovation? The Role of Open Access in Patenting Activity
Scientific knowledge is a key driver of technological innovation, shaping industrial development and policy decisions worldwide. Understanding how patents incorporate scientific research is essential for assessing the role of academic discoveries in technological progress. Non-Patent References (NPRs) provide a useful indicator of this relationship by revealing the extent to which patents draw upon scientific literature. Here, we show that reliance on scientific research in patents varies signi…

Optical frequency division referenced to microhertz-linewidth quantum-noise-limited lasers
Jiahao Hu, Yanlan Xiao, Honglei Yang, Siyi Xue, Wenchan Dong, Kunpeng Zhai, Sha Zhu, Kun Qiu, Shengkang Zhang, Jun Ge, Ninghua Zhu, Xiaoshun Jiang, Jing Xu, Huashun Wen, Heng Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24557

Optical frequency division referenced to microhertz-linewidth quantum-noise-limited lasers
Optical frequency division (OFD) implements the conversion of ultra-stable optical frequencies into microwave frequencies through an optical frequency comb flywheel, generating microwave oscillators with record-low phase noise and time jitter. However, conventional OFD systems face significant trade-off between division complexity and noise suppression due to severe thermal noise and technical noise in the optical frequency references. Here, we address this challenge by generating common-cavity…