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Context is Gold to find the Gold Passage: Evaluating and Training Contextual Document Embeddings
Max Conti, Manuel Faysse, Gautier Viaud, Antoine Bosselut, C\'eline Hudelot, Pierre Colombo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24782

Context is Gold to find the Gold Passage: Evaluating and Training Contextual Document Embeddings
A limitation of modern document retrieval embedding methods is that they typically encode passages (chunks) from the same documents independently, often overlooking crucial contextual information from the rest of the document that could greatly improve individual chunk representations. In this work, we introduce ConTEB (Context-aware Text Embedding Benchmark), a benchmark designed to evaluate retrieval models on their ability to leverage document-wide context. Our results show that state-of-t…

FreeTacMan: Robot-free Visuo-Tactile Data Collection System for Contact-rich Manipulation
Longyan Wu, Checheng Yu, Jieji Ren, Li Chen, Ran Huang, Guoying Gu, Hongyang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01941

FreeTacMan: Robot-free Visuo-Tactile Data Collection System for Contact-rich Manipulation
Enabling robots with contact-rich manipulation remains a pivotal challenge in robot learning, which is substantially hindered by the data collection gap, including its inefficiency and limited sensor setup. While prior work has explored handheld paradigms, their rod-based mechanical structures remain rigid and unintuitive, providing limited tactile feedback and posing challenges for human operators. Motivated by the dexterity and force feedback of human motion, we propose FreeTacMan, a human-ce…

I am at the same position as this post lines out. I’m neither hard core pro or anti LLMs. I think they are useful in specific contexts e.g. distilling and querying big chunks of text based information. They are not a hail mary solution to every problem.
„A lot of people like Rust and hate Go, and a lot of people like Go and hate Rust. That’s fine. That doesn’t bother me. But there’s something different about [AI discourse] that is driving me up a wall.“

Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
DAYNA: Set.
TARRANT: Good luck.
[Dayna teleports to the surface of Bucol Two. Looks around]
DAYNA: [Into bracelet] Scorpio. Down safe.
TARRANT: [Voice over] Right, standing by. Let me know when you make contact.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/3

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“This is the new model,”
the secretary of commerce, Howard Lutnick, said in an interview with CNBC last month,
“where you work in these kind of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here.”
The reality is that this particular campaign
— this effort to de-skill the working population of the United States
— is more likely to immiserate the country and impoverish its residents than it is to inaugurate a golden age of prosp…

Opinion | Trump Is Waging War on the Future
We can contest the dark dreams of those in power.

"Die Flamme" 🔥 Mein absolutes Lieblingslied vom Album "Merkst Du schon was?" von Nicola Rost. Hier im Remix von Jan Driver. Der Text basiert auf einem Gedicht von Christian Morgenstern
https://open.spotif…

Flamme - Jan Driver Remix
Nicola Rost, Laing, Jan Driver · Merkst Du schon was? (Remixed) · Song · 2025

Anyone else constantly fighting Google Slides to save just ONE image? 😅 The screenshot struggle is real... or maybe even exporting to PowerPoint.
Check out this handy Chrome extension I found! 🙌
It adds a 'Download image' option right to your context menu (when you right-click on the image). So simple, so effective. ✨
Download full resolution JPGs, PNGs, etc directly.
I made a quick video showing how it works if you need this in your life:

Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
DAYNA: Set.
TARRANT: Good luck.
[Dayna teleports to the surface of Bucol Two. Looks around]
DAYNA: [Into bracelet] Scorpio. Down safe.
TARRANT: [Voice over] Right, standing by. Let me know when you make contact.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/3

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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18128 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

A cometary Fluorescence Model for the $ν_3$ Vibrational Band of Cyanogen
Cyanogen (\ce{C_2N_2}) is suspected for a long time to be present in comets and to contribute to the creation of CN radical. So far no observations with ground-based facilities managed to detect this species but the Rosetta mission, thanks to in situ observations with the ROSINA mass spectrometer detected this species in the coma of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. To investigate its presence from infrared spectra in other comets, we developed a fluorescence model for the $ν_3$ fundamental band. Fro…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10914 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Lagrangian cobordism functor in microlocal sheaf theory I
Given a Lagrangian cobordism $L$ of Legendrian submanifolds from $Λ_-$ to $Λ_+$, we construct a functor $Φ_L^*: Sh^c_{Λ_+}(M) \rightarrow Sh^c_{Λ_-}(M) \otimes_{C_{-*}(Ω_*Λ_-)} C_{-*}(Ω_*L)$ between sheaf categories of compact objects with singular support on $Λ_\pm$ and its right adjoint on sheaf categories of proper objects, using Nadler-Shende's work. This gives a sheaf theory description analogous to the Lagrangian cobordism map on Legendrian contact homologies and the right adjoin…