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EZ-Sort: Efficient Pairwise Comparison via Zero-Shot CLIP-Based Pre-Ordering and Human-in-the-Loop Sorting
Yujin Park, Haejun Chung, Ikbeom Jang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21550

EZ-Sort: Efficient Pairwise Comparison via Zero-Shot CLIP-Based Pre-Ordering and Human-in-the-Loop Sorting
Pairwise comparison is often favored over absolute rating or ordinal classification in subjective or difficult annotation tasks due to its improved reliability. However, exhaustive comparisons require a massive number of annotations (O(n^2)). Recent work has greatly reduced the annotation burden (O(n log n)) by actively sampling pairwise comparisons using a sorting algorithm. We further improve annotation efficiency by (1) roughly pre-ordering items using the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-trai…

> fifties era Rocketship Republicanism … come back to earth to find the Overton window has moved the landing pad and it's gotta set down somewhere
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A congruous approach with realistic cross section towards limiting sub-GeV dark matter from LUX-ZEPLIN
Atanu Guha, Jong-Chul Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02301 https://

A congruous approach with realistic cross section towards limiting sub-GeV dark matter from LUX-ZEPLIN
We present constraints on sub-GeV dark matter (DM) through the mechanism of being boosted by cosmic rays (CRs). We utilize the nuclear recoil data from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment for this purpose. Without the mechanism of boosted dark matter (BDM), sub-GeV DM particles are cold enough to produce detectable nuclear recoil in the LZ experiment above the detector threshold. We choose to work with the leading components of cosmic rays to take into account the boost due to them towards the cold …

Poll shows decline in belief that Blacks and Asians face racial discrimination (Associated Press)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/poll-shows-decline-belief-blacks-asians-face-racial-discrimination-rcna222217
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p72#a250731p72

Lauren Sanchez, in preparation for her Venice wedding, is carrying an Eiffel Tower purse that likely costs more than your monthly salary.
Jeff Bezos’s yacht Koru’s purchase price could supply insulin for 856,666 diabetics or feed roughly 1,285,000 people for an entire year.
The Bezos/Sanchez $10 million wedding is just the tip of the selfish iceberg that is the Amazon empire, -- known for grinding warehouse workers into the ground with surveillance practices, extreme time manag…

Why Venetians want Jeff Bezos to choke on his wedding cake
Taya Graham breaks down what Bezos’s luxurious fete reveals about the massive wealth imbalance in the United States.

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Targeted tuning of random forests for quantile estimation and prediction intervals
Matthew Berkowitz, Rachel MacKay Altman, Thomas M. Loughin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01430

Targeted tuning of random forests for quantile estimation and prediction intervals
We present a novel tuning procedure for random forests (RFs) that improves the accuracy of estimated quantiles and produces valid, relatively narrow prediction intervals. While RFs are typically used to estimate mean responses (conditional on covariates), they can also be used to estimate quantiles by estimating the full distribution of the response. However, standard approaches for building RFs often result in excessively biased quantile estimates. To reduce this bias, our proposed tuning proc…

Giants WR Darius Slayton: QB Russell Wilson is 'disgustingly consistent' on and off field https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-wr-darius-slayton-qb-russell-wilson-disgustingly-consistent-on-and-off-field

EDIT:
This is not a novel idea https://github.com/w8tvi/dircproxy
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I need some kind of client-dæmon IRC client that I can connect to from clients on various hosts which leaves me logged in via the dæmon, idles if explicitly set or no clients are connected, and shields the chatroom from joi…

Targeting Epstein's 'sweetheart' deal, Senate Republican forgets who was president in 2008 (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/targeting-epsteins-sweetheart-deal-senate-republican-forgets-was-presi-rcna221432
http://www.memeorandum.com/250728/p57#a250728p57