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📢 Merz kündigt Reformen beim Bürgergeld, Aktivrente und Infrastrukturausbau an
Beim Koalitionsausschuss haben sich CDU, CSU und SPD auf Reformen in mehreren Bereichen geeinigt. Laut Kanzler Merz einigte sich die Koalition unter anderem auf eine Bürgergeld-Reform. Die Aktivrente soll zum 1.1.2026 starten. Für die Verkehrsinfrastruktur soll mehr Geld ausgeben werden.
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Merz kündigt Reformen beim Bürgergeld, Aktivrente und Infrastrukturausbau an
Beim Koalitionsausschuss haben sich CDU, CSU und SPD auf Reformen in mehreren Bereichen geeinigt. Laut Kanzler Merz einigte sich die Koalition unter anderem auf eine Bürgergeld-Reform. Die Aktivrente soll zum 1.1.2026 starten. Für die Verkehrsinfrastruktur soll mehr Geld ausgeben werden.

"Reform’s pro-fracking stance could divide potential voters, research shows"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy

Im #Windpark Elster ersetzen 16 moderne Anlagen 50 ältere und erzeugen sechsmal mehr Strom – rund 235 GWh jährlich.
Das #Repowering-Projekt zählt zu den leistungsstärksten Europas. Es spart 180.000 Tonnen CO₂ pro Jahr und benötigt ein Drittel weniger Fläche.
Der Rückbau erfolgte ress…

Repowering-Windpark: 16 moderne Anlagen ersetzen 50 alte und produzieren sechsmal mehr Strom | Windkraft-Journal
VSB bringt einen der größten modernisierten Windparks Europas ans Netz (WK-intern) - Mit der Inbetriebnahme des repowerten Windparks Elster setzt die VSB Gruppe ein klares Zeichen für die Energiewende – in einer Phase, in der Deutschland bei der Umsetzung seiner Energieziele an Tempo verliert: 16 moderne Anlagen ersetzen 50 alte und produzieren sechsmal mehr Strom.

A Formal Framework for Fluency-based Multi-Reference Evaluation in Grammatical Error Correction
Eitan Klinger, Zihao Huang, Tran Minh Nguyen, Emma Jayeon Park, Yige Chen, Yang Gu, Qingyu Gao, Siliang Liu, Mengyang Qiu, Jungyeul Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06749

A Formal Framework for Fluency-based Multi-Reference Evaluation in Grammatical Error Correction
Evaluating grammatical error correction requires metrics that reflect the diversity of valid human corrections rather than privileging a single reference. Existing frameworks, largely edit-based and English-centric, rely on rigid alignments between system and reference edits, limiting their applicability in multilingual and generative settings. This paper introduces a formal framework for \textit{fluency-based multi-reference evaluation}, framing $n$-gram similarity as an aggregation problem ov…

Imagine if people would spend all the time they're spending on "double-checking" LLM "research" (to see if the references it gives are actually real and then also downloading and reading all the references in full to see if they are correctly quoted and not misrepresented)--instead on reading and thinking themselves.

{purrr} has some lesser known functions that make handling of failing function calls easier: safely, quietly, possibly: #rstats

Wrap a function to capture errors — safely
Creates a modified version of .f that always succeeds. It returns a list with components result and error. If the function succeeds, result contains the returned value and error is NULL. If an error occurred, error is an error object and result is either NULL or otherwise.

Temporal Prompting Matters: Rethinking Referring Video Object Segmentation
Ci-Siang Lin, Min-Hung Chen, I-Jieh Liu, Chien-Yi Wang, Sifei Liu, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07319

Temporal Prompting Matters: Rethinking Referring Video Object Segmentation
Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the object referred to by the query sentence in the video. Most existing methods require end-to-end training with dense mask annotations, which could be computation-consuming and less scalable. In this work, we rethink the RVOS problem and aim to investigate the key to this task. Based on existing foundation segmentation models, we decompose the RVOS task into referring, video, and segmentation factors, and propose a Temporal Prompt Gen…

OpenStore is scaling back its e-commerce aggregation efforts, closing nearly all of its 40 Shopify stores and rebranding under its Jack Archer menswear label (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/openstore-demise-endga…

OpenStore’s demise marks endgame for once-booming e-commerce aggregator market
OpenStore is rebranding under its Jack Archer menswear label after shuttering many of the Shopify storefronts it acquired and laying off staffers.

Reference Grounded Skill Discovery
Seungeun Rho, Aaron Trinh, Danfei Xu, Sehoon Ha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06203 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06203…

Reference Grounded Skill Discovery
Scaling unsupervised skill discovery algorithms to high-DoF agents remains challenging. As dimensionality increases, the exploration space grows exponentially, while the manifold of meaningful skills remains limited. Therefore, semantic meaningfulness becomes essential to effectively guide exploration in high-dimensional spaces. In this work, we present Reference-Grounded Skill Discovery (RGSD), a novel algorithm that grounds skill discovery in a semantically meaningful latent space using refer…

"The Big Tobacco, Climate Denial Lobbyist and Crypto Firms Sponsoring the Reform UK Conference"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

The Big Tobacco, Climate Denial Lobbyist and Crypto Firms Sponsoring the Reform UK Conference
Big corporations and lobby groups are putting their cash behind the rise of Nigel Farage's party