Tootfinder

Erdogan, Putin discuss resuming Ukraine-Russia talks in Istanbul: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/erdogan-putin-discuss-resuming-ukrainerussia.html

Perception Before Reasoning: Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning for Visual Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
Yan Chen, Long Li, Teng Xi, Long Zeng, Jingdong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13031

Perception Before Reasoning: Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning for Visual Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
Reinforcement learning (RL) has proven highly effective in eliciting the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Inspired by this success, recent studies have explored applying similar techniques to vision-language models (VLMs), aiming to enhance their reasoning performance. However, directly transplanting RL methods from LLMs to VLMs is suboptimal, as the tasks faced by VLMs are inherently more complex. Specifically, VLMs must first accurately perceive and understand visual in…

Recording Strings - recommended mics and positions
#recording #MusicianTips
https://muz4now.c…

Recording Strings - recommended mics and positions
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Trump: Man muss den Hass rausnehmen
Der US-Präsident sagt, die Beziehungen zwischen Putin und Selenskyj seien vergiftet. Man müsse den Hass dort rausnehmen.
📑 https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveb

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Trump lobt Selenskyj als starken Staatschef ++
Bei dem gemeinsamen Auftritt vor der Presse lobte Trump den ukrainischen Präsidenten als starken Staatschef. Der langjährige NATO-Generalsekretär Stoltenberg hält Gespräche mit Russland für richtig - wenn die Ukraine weiter unterstützt wird.

What News Recommendation Research Did (But Mostly Didn't) Teach Us About Building A News Recommender
Karl Higley, Robin Burke, Michael D. Ekstrand, Bart P. Knijnenburg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12361

What News Recommendation Research Did (But Mostly Didn't) Teach Us About Building A News Recommender
One of the goals of recommender systems research is to provide insights and methods that can be used by practitioners to build real-world systems that deliver high-quality recommendations to actual people grounded in their genuine interests and needs. We report on our experience trying to apply the news recommendation literature to build POPROX, a live platform for news recommendation research, and reflect on the extent to which the current state of research supports system-building efforts. Ou…

Rockmond Dunbar Loses Covid Vaccine Trial Against Disney
https://deadline.com/2025/10/rockmond-dunbar-loses-covid-vaccine-firing-trial-disney-1236591063/

All Roads Lead to Rome: Graph-Based Confidence Estimation for Large Language Model Reasoning
Caiqi Zhang, Chang Shu, Ehsan Shareghi, Nigel Collier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12908

All Roads Lead to Rome: Graph-Based Confidence Estimation for Large Language Model Reasoning
Confidence estimation is essential for the reliable deployment of large language models (LLMs). Existing methods are primarily designed for factual QA tasks and often fail to generalize to reasoning tasks. To address this gap, we propose a set of training-free, graph-based confidence estimation methods tailored to reasoning tasks. Our approach models reasoning paths as directed graphs and estimates confidence by exploiting graph properties such as centrality, path convergence, and path weightin…

General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning using Medal.tv game clips, raised a $133.7M seed led by Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/gene

General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips | TechCrunch
Late last year, OpenAI reportedly tried to buy Medal and its vast trove of video game data for $500M. Today, the company spun out a frontier research lab that's using that data to build AI agents that understand how they move through space and time, a concept called spatial-temporal reasoning.

Krisensicher auch bei Blackout: Funknetz wird ausgebaut
Wie das 450-MHz-Netz kritische Infrastrukturen schützt. Und warum gerade abgelegene Regionen von der neuen Technologie profitieren könnten.
https://www.

Dank Weltraumteleskop Gaia: 3D-Karte der Sternentstehungsgebiete um die Sonne
Weil sie dicht in Staub eingehüllt sind, sind die Regionen, in denen Sterne entstehen, besonders schwer zu erforschen. Nun gibt es eine beeindruckende Karte.