2025-11-28 13:32:51
Enjoying the footnote speculation that LLMs recognise Neal Stephenson novels based on random paragraphs appended to spam to fool content classifiers.
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/a-remarkable-assertion-from-a16z
Enjoying the footnote speculation that LLMs recognise Neal Stephenson novels based on random paragraphs appended to spam to fool content classifiers.
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/a-remarkable-assertion-from-a16z
Already shared this track/EP some time ago, but it just needs another round: 13 minutes of beautiful minimal, meditative slow-motion dub with an absolutely remarkable (and unforgettable) bass line to glue it all together...
Blamstrain - 4AM (2013)
https://soundcloud.com/juho/blamstrain
Wow. In a series of astronomical photos of the night sky, they found >100,000 star-like objects suspiciously only present in some images.
You could think they're just satellites (e.g. Starlink). However, the photos had been captured 1949–1957, before Sputnik was launched (1st human-made satellite)!
Remarkable: The “transients” were 68% more likely 1 day after a nuclear-bomb test! (That “argues against bomb debris … as a plausible explanation.”)
The disgust and dismay that this administration arouses is remarkable. Since when is discouraging tourism a brilliant economic development strategy?
Trump's face on new national park passes outrages conservationists
https://www.
The disgust and dismay that this administration arouses is remarkable. Since when is discouraging tourism a brilliant economic development strategy?
Trump's face on new national park passes outrages conservationists
https://www.
I was lucky to get invited on a tour of the University of Coimbra (Portugal) on a recent trip - apparently the 14th oldest university in Europe (1290), and the highlight was definitely the Joanine Library (Biblioteca Joanina). Photography is not permitted in the main library but we were allowed to take snaps in the 19th century vault. A truly remarkable piece of design combining function with beautiful decoration.
a moment of recognition of the passing of the great #reggae vocalist Jimmy Cliff at age 81..a remarkable talented man whose dynamic performances and voice that emerged from Jamaican poverty brought joy & inspiration to millions around the globe. His international career breakthru came with starring role in the film The Harder They Come in 1972, but he'd already had a greatest hits album out 2 years …
The Guardian: Experts hail 'remarkable' success of electronic implant in restoring sight https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/20/experts-hail-remarkable-success-of-electronic-implant-in-restoring-sight
🪮 Powerful and precise multi-color lasers now fit on a single chip
#laser
More people have now downloaded the GOV.UK app than died of Covid-19 in the UK. A remarkable achievement.
It is remarkable how quickly one gets used to a nice screen. This is my first desktop high density screen (218 PPI) and even with Windows' slightly shaky support everything just looks so much better. Text and graphics.
But when U.C.L.A.’s campus shut down during the pandemic, something remarkable happened: The beaks of juncos born on campus reverted to their wildland shape.
If Rams are NFL's top team, who is No. 2? Plus: Purdy's performance, 2026 targets https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6916089/2025/12/23/nfl-best-team-2025-rams-seahawks-patriots/
A remarkable video clip taken on the #ISS was just posted at #Lemmon rising with a substantial tail - and numerous #satellites flying around.
“In fact, while the trauma and terror that Bovino’s unit instills is certainly real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how _ineffective_ the force has turned out to be. Time and again, these agents — and the broader DHS and White House policies behind it — are being exposed not for their strength, but their weakness. Ordinary Americas are stronger — braver _and_ better.”
@axbom@axbom.meI’ve just watched the last of a 5 part series by PBS Nova called “Human” with each episode subtitled with its focus. It is excellent.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/human-origins/
I was particularly struck by the last segment, noting that the roots of the Alphabet …
A rarely seen seven-arm octopus was captured on camera 2,300 feet below the surface in remarkable deep-sea footage.
The species
— formally known as the seven-arm octopus (Haliphron atlanticus)
— was recorded by the remotely operated vehicle Ventana, operated by the team at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).
According to MBARI, the encounter occurred during a recent expedition in Monterey Bay and marks only the fourth time the organisation has observed…
Communities in the DRC are building something remarkable: a 1-million-hectare biodiversity corridor connecting two major protected areas.
Strong Roots Congo has already secured 23 community forest concessions covering nearly 600,000 hectares. The project does double duty—allowing wildlife to move safely between habitats while supporting local livelihoods and protecting Indigenous peoples from land grabbing.
how do you even make a Lycra top hat Bruce https://mastodon.social/@chest_bot_shop/115385401693084912
This short film explores the special partnership between Australia and Japan to successfully bring #Hayabusa2 home, in what was a remarkable feat for space science.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKIfFh5hIUM
"It is 'remarkable' to see that China is so dominant and advanced in so many fields compared with the United States."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04048-7
"An SNP victory in May’s Holyrood contest would hardly be an earthquake, after 18 continuous years of nationalist government. It would, though, signal a remarkable comeback from a period of eclipse, and from an often dismal record on public services. For Labour, which did so well in Scotland in the 2024 general election, it would signal a crisis moment, imperilling Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership"
#UKPol
SRUM: Fine-Grained Self-Rewarding for Unified Multimodal Models
Weiyang Jin, Yuwei Niu, Jiaqi Liao, Chengqi Duan, Aoxue Li, Shenghua Gao, Xihui Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12784
Structured Sparsity and Weight-adaptive Pruning for Memory and Compute efficient Whisper models
Prasenjit K Mudi, Anshi Sachan, Dahlia Devapriya, Sheetal Kalyani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12666
MatSciBench: Benchmarking the Reasoning Ability of Large Language Models in Materials Science
Junkai Zhang, Jingru Gan, Xiaoxuan Wang, Zian Jia, Changquan Gu, Jianpeng Chen, Yanqiao Zhu, Mingyu Derek Ma, Dawei Zhou, Ling Li, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12171
Reasoning Pattern Matters: Learning to Reason without Human Rationales
Chaoxu Pang, Yixuan Cao, Ping Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12643 https://arxiv.org…
RIP Dave Ball. Those Soft Cell backing tracks are just remarkable. https://youtu.be/hCIUUgw7VlQ?si=qSHDMeNVAg9QX8e8
The Helen Glanville - A Second Chance Podcast
Here you'll find Helen Glanville's guest interviews and media appearances as she shares the remarkable true story behind her husband Richard Geoff Glanville, a former white-collar criminal extradited from Brazil to Australia...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory:
Running my own full-service, multi-tenanted & multi-domain email service gives me a remarkable feeling of power. It's is seriously cool (been running 4 of them for a bunch of years). In other news, Mailcow is superb - . https://mailcow.email/ (I run their Dockerized install)
Gemini Nano Banana Pro is a remarkable technical achievement that gives you a sense of what a remastered game might look like. Granted, the original game/graphics have their charm as well.
Still wouldn't use it in a final output, but for conceptualization, it is fascinating.
Here is an example for Shenmue.
https://
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#MusicMatters
- 400 Years of the Royal Collection
Ian Skelly tours the formal home of the British Court, exploring its remarkable art collection and musical connections, featuring composers from Monteverdi to Judith Weir.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kdd0
VisualDAN: Exposing Vulnerabilities in VLMs with Visual-Driven DAN Commands
Aofan Liu, Lulu Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09699 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…
What’s amazing to me is that *anyone* still visits the US as a tourist.
“Hey, I know, let’s go to Fascistland… maybe we’ll get deported to fuck-knows-where and it’ll be a real adventure!” https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/115696148277070484
A Systematic Study on Generating Web Vulnerability Proof-of-Concepts Using Large Language Models
Mengyao Zhao, Kaixuan Li, Lyuye Zhang, Wenjing Dang, Chenggong Ding, Sen Chen, Zheli Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10148
Translating Milli/Microrobots with A Value-Centered Readiness Framework
Hakan Ceylan, Edoardo Sinibaldi, Sanjay Misra, Pankaj J. Pasricha, Dietmar W. Hutmacher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12090
One of the most remarkable episodes of The Analyst Inside Cricket is this one from 2020 of "The special sounds of cricket", featuring commentator Dean du Plessis, who is BLIND. Even by the amazing standards of visually impaired people, he's next-level.
https://
An Empirical Study for Representations of Videos in Video Question Answering via MLLMs
Zhi Li, Yanan Wang, Hao Niu, Julio Vizcarra, Masato Taya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12299 …
Given the remarkable #GreensSurge in members and polling, and the ongoing chaotic infighting at 'Your Party', it's maybe worth reposting my questioning of both leaderships on the eco-planetary crisis and overshoot.
As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda? – degrowthUK
AI in Computational Thinking Education in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review
Ebrahim Rahimi, Clara Maathuis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09677 https://
The poset of maximal tubings of the cycle graph is a lattice
Ben Adenbaum, Emily Barnard, Max Hlavacek, Bryson Kagy, Nathan R. T. Lesnevich, George D. Nasr, Katie Waddle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09429
Schaut mal hier .. so einfach kann Anis mit SVG sein ;D
#svg
"In a key scene of the 2012 blockbuster film “Skyfall”, MI6 quartermaster Q realizes too late that plugging a cable into the laptop of a notoriously skilled terrorist like Raoul Silva was a terrible idea. After a few seconds, the laptop infects the systems of MI6, releasing all physical doors and disabling all security guards, prompting Silva to escape and wreak havoc. A message appears on the laptop screen, taunting Q, reading “Not such a clever boy”."
BridgeCode: A Dual Speech Representation Paradigm for Autoregressive Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Jingyuan Xing, Mingru Yang, Zhipeng Li, Xiaofen Xing, Xiangmin Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11646
SAM2-3dMed: Empowering SAM2 for 3D Medical Image Segmentation
Yeqing Yang, Le Xu, Lixia Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08967 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08…
The 2026 military funding bill released this week would
require the U.S. to assess Israel’s weapons arsenal
and suggest ways to undo any “gaps” that may be caused by arms embargoes imposed by other countries protesting Israel’s violence.
This remarkable measure comes as a response to at least two dozen countries that have restricted or ended weapons transfers to Israel since its genocide began on October 7, 2023.
It also comes after countless experts, including watch…
20-minute introduction - #Survey ... https://www.simg.de is a most remarkable project by an amateur astronomer working from a bad (!) site but with highly specialized equipment.
Tee Higgins joins Jerry Rice, Cris Carter in rare club with remarkable Bengals touchdown grab
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bengals-wr-tee-higgins-jerry-rice-cris-carter…
UniFusion: Vision-Language Model as Unified Encoder in Image Generation
Kevin Li, Manuel Brack, Sudeep Katakol, Hareesh Ravi, Ajinkya Kale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12789 https…
Also some good museums..
Multimodal Prompt Optimization: Why Not Leverage Multiple Modalities for MLLMs
Yumin Choi, Dongki Kim, Jinheon Baek, Sung Ju Hwang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09201 https://
GTAlign: Game-Theoretic Alignment of LLM Assistants for Mutual Welfare
Siqi Zhu, David Zhang, Pedro Cisneros-Velarde, Jiaxuan You
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08872 https://
🐺 Wolves have returned to Denmark, and not everyone is happy about it
#denmark
Hybrid Models for Natural Language Reasoning: The Case of Syllogistic Logic
Manuel Vargas Guzm\'an, Jakub Szymanik, Maciej Malicki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09472 https://
Humanoid Everyday: A Comprehensive Robotic Dataset for Open-World Humanoid Manipulation
Zhenyu Zhao, Hongyi Jing, Xiawei Liu, Jiageng Mao, Abha Jha, Hanwen Yang, Rong Xue, Sergey Zakharor, Vitor Guizilini, Yue Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08807
Well…
It’s still a remarkable display of ego to ask POTUS to get involved with a healthcare scheduling matter. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3m4onydufic2x
Agentic RAG for Software Testing with Hybrid Vector-Graph and Multi-Agent Orchestration
Mohanakrishnan Hariharan, Satish Arvapalli, Seshu Barma, Evangeline Sheela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10824
The $10bn Trump/BBC lawsuit announced shortly before the BBC charter renewal green paper? What a remarkable coincidence.
From Defender to Devil? Unintended Risk Interactions Induced by LLM Defenses
Xiangtao Meng, Tianshuo Cong, Li Wang, Wenyu Chen, Zheng Li, Shanqing Guo, Xiaoyun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07968
HatLLM: Hierarchical Attention Masking for Enhanced Collaborative Modeling in LLM-based Recommendation
Yu Cui, Feng Liu, Jiawei Chen, Canghong Jin, Xingyu Lou, Changwang Zhang, Jun Wang, Yuegang Sun, Can Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10955
EvoCAD: Evolutionary CAD Code Generation with Vision Language Models
Tobias Preintner, Weixuan Yuan, Adrian K\"onig, Thomas B\"ack, Elena Raponi, Niki van Stein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11631
FM-IRL: Flow-Matching for Reward Modeling and Policy Regularization in Reinforcement Learning
Zhenglin Wan, Jingxuan Wu, Xingrui Yu, Chubin Zhang, Mingcong Lei, Bo An, Ivor Tsang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09222
PAC Reasoning: Controlling the Performance Loss for Efficient Reasoning
Hao Zeng, Jianguo Huang, Bingyi Jing, Hongxin Wei, Bo An
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09133 https://…
The last 25 years of photographing buildings and landscapes has taught me that being in the right place at the right time helps define the quality of a photograph.
My camper van gets me into places at times that I wouldn’t normally be able to access.
I can now stay over on sites to monitor the local conditions and light levels throughout a full 24 hours.
I’m cut free of the bonds of ‘out of town’ accommodation and site access logistics.
Travelling in the van has been…
Dyna-Mind: Learning to Simulate from Experience for Better AI Agents
Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Michel Galley, Hao Cheng, Qianhui Wu, Janardhan Kulkarni, Suman Nath, Zhou Yu, Jianfeng Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09577
ODI-Bench: Can MLLMs Understand Immersive Omnidirectional Environments?
Liu Yang, Huiyu Duan, Ran Tao, Juntao Cheng, Sijing Wu, Yunhao Li, Jing Liu, Xiongkuo Min, Guangtao Zhai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11549
Leading the Follower: Learning Persuasive Agents in Social Deduction Games
Zhang Zheng, Deheng Ye, Peilin Zhao, Hao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09087 https://
FLRC: Fine-grained Low-Rank Compressor for Efficient LLM Inference
Yu-Chen Lu, Chong-Yan Chen, Chi-Chih Chang, Yu-Fang Hu, Kai-Chiang Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09332 https:/…
BLAZER: Bootstrapping LLM-based Manipulation Agents with Zero-Shot Data Generation
Rocktim Jyoti Das, Harsh Singh, Diana Turmakhan, Muhammad Abdullah Sohail, Mingfei Han, Preslav Nakov, Fabio Pizzati, Ivan Laptev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08572
AppForge: From Assistant to Independent Developer - Are GPTs Ready for Software Development?
Dezhi Ran, Yuan Cao, Mengzhou Wu, Simin Chen, Yuzhe Guo, Jun Ren, Zihe Song, Hao Yu, Jialei Wei, Linyi Li, Wei Yang, Baishakhi Ray, Tao Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07740
Cross-Receiver Generalization for RF Fingerprint Identification via Feature Disentanglement and Adversarial Training
Yuhao Pan, Xiucheng Wang, Nan Cheng, Wenchao Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09405
The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by people from 19 countries who were banned from traveling to the United States earlier this year.
The action halts green card and citizenship processing for broad swaths of people, according to a spokesman from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Remarkable that there's apparently no step between studies and official US government health advice.
It reminds me of the, mentally overwhelming, pattern in health magazines that suggest changes to diet every month often on the basis of a single university paper's statistical findings.
Tiny-R1V: Lightweight Multimodal Unified Reasoning Model via Model Merging
Qixiang Yin, Huanjin Yao, Jianghao Chen, Jiaxing Huang, Zhicheng Zhao, Fei Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08987
StatEval: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Large Language Models in Statistics
Yuchen Lu, Run Yang, Yichen Zhang, Shuguang Yu, Runpeng Dai, Ziwei Wang, Jiayi Xiang, Wenxin E, Siran Gao, Xinyao Ruan, Yirui Huang, Chenjing Xi, Haibo Hu, Yueming Fu, Qinglan Yu, Xiaobing Wei, Jiani Gu, Rui Sun, Jiaxuan Jia, Fan Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.095…
SciVideoBench: Benchmarking Scientific Video Reasoning in Large Multimodal Models
Andong Deng, Taojiannan Yang, Shoubin Yu, Lincoln Spencer, Mohit Bansal, Chen Chen, Serena Yeung-Levy, Xiaohan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08559
One Sentence, Two Embeddings: Contrastive Learning of Explicit and Implicit Semantic Representations
Kohei Oda, Po-Min Chuang, Kiyoaki Shirai, Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09293
Are Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks Truly Effective? A Causal Perspective
Xiao Yang, Xuejiao Zhao, Zhiqi Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05750 https://…
DODO: Causal Structure Learning with Budgeted Interventions
Matteo Gregorini, Chiara Boldrini, Lorenzo Valerio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08207 https://arx…
Video-STAR: Reinforcing Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition with Tools
Zhenlong Yuan, Xiangyan Qu, Chengxuan Qian, Rui Chen, Jing Tang, Lei Sun, Xiangxiang Chu, Dapeng Zhang, Yiwei Wang, Yujun Cai, Shuo Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08480
Beyond Single-Granularity Prompts: A Multi-Scale Chain-of-Thought Prompt Learning for Graph
Ziyu Zheng, Yaming Yang, Ziyu Guan, Wei Zhao, Xinyan Huang, Weigang Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09394
The Physics of Data and Tasks: Theories of Locality and Compositionality in Deep Learning
Alessandro Favero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06106 https://arxiv.…
R-Horizon: How Far Can Your Large Reasoning Model Really Go in Breadth and Depth?
Yi Lu, Jianing Wang, Linsen Guo, Wei He, Hongyin Tang, Tao Gui, Xuanjing Huang, Xuezhi Cao, Wei Wang, Xunliang Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08189
GenPilot: A Multi-Agent System for Test-Time Prompt Optimization in Image Generation
Wen Ye, Zhaocheng Liu, Yuwei Gui, Tingyu Yuan, Yunyue Su, Bowen Fang, Chaoyang Zhao, Qiang Liu, Liang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07217
TopInG: Topologically Interpretable Graph Learning via Persistent Rationale Filtration
Cheng Xin, Fan Xu, Xin Ding, Jie Gao, Jiaxin Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05102 https:/…
Memory Retrieval and Consolidation in Large Language Models through Function Tokens
Shaohua Zhang, Yuan Lin, Hang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08203 https://
Few-Shot Adaptation Benchmark for Remote Sensing Vision-Language Models
Karim El Khoury, Maxime Zanella, Christophe De Vleeschouwer, Benoit Macq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07135
Refusal Falls off a Cliff: How Safety Alignment Fails in Reasoning?
Qingyu Yin, Chak Tou Leong, Linyi Yang, Wenxuan Huang, Wenjie Li, Xiting Wang, Jaehong Yoon, YunXing, XingYu, Jinjin Gu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06036
Riddled basin geometry sets fundamental limits to predictability and reproducibility in deep learning
Andrew Ly, Pulin Gong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05606 https://
Mining the Mind: What 100M Beliefs Reveal About Frontier LLM Knowledge
Shrestha Ghosh, Luca Giordano, Yujia Hu, Tuan-Phong Nguyen, Simon Razniewski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07024
VA-Adapter: Adapting Ultrasound Foundation Model to Echocardiography Probe Guidance
Teng Wang, Haojun Jiang, Yuxuan Wang, Zhenguo Sun, Shiji Song, Gao Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06809
Autoformalizer with Tool Feedback
Qi Guo, Jianing Wang, Jianfei Zhang, Deyang Kong, Xiangzhou Huang, Xiangyu Xi, Wei Wang, Jingang Wang, Xunliang Cai, Shikun Zhang, Wei Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06857
Search-R3: Unifying Reasoning and Embedding Generation in Large Language Models
Yuntao Gui, James Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07048 https://arxiv.org/…
Self-supervised Physics-guided Model with Implicit Representation Regularization for Fast MRI Reconstruction
Jingran Xu, Yuanyuan Liu, Yanjie Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06611
Representation Potentials of Foundation Models for Multimodal Alignment: A Survey
Jianglin Lu, Hailing Wang, Yi Xu, Yizhou Wang, Kuo Yang, Yun Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05184
ToolMem: Enhancing Multimodal Agents with Learnable Tool Capability Memory
Yunzhong Xiao, Yangmin Li, Hewei Wang, Yunlong Tang, Zora Zhiruo Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06664