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How Much Better Will Raiders' Run Game Be? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-dj-glaze-raheem-mostert-ashton-jeanty-pete-carroll

Over the past few months, I've been building out a home server that was originally purely to run on-prem LLMs. Since I wanted it to run killer AI, I named it "Delores." Over the weekend, I received a Mac Mini in the mail that I got a good deal on and set it up to augment Dolores. I was trying to figure out what to name it and eventually went with "Teddy."
From my laptop, iPads, etc, I can remote into an Ubuntu VM, Windows VM, or (now) MacOS and do whatever I am looking to do.

Heute starten die Teams beim #RAAM.
Ein besonders illusteres Team hat Joey Kelly zusammengestellt: https://biele.bike/mit-influencer-power-beim-race-across-america-2025/

Mit Influencer-Power beim Race Across America 2025
Joey Kelly (Quelle Wikipedia) © Sven Mandel Wenn man an Extrem-Herausforderungen denkt, dann fällt ein Name in Deutschland immer wieder: Joey Kelly. Der Au

Secure API-Driven Research Automation to Accelerate Scientific Discovery
Tyler J. Skluzacek, Paul Bryant, A. J. Ruckman, Daniel Rosendo, Suzanne Prentice, Michael J. Brim, Ryan Adamson, Sarp Oral, Mallikarjun Shankar, Rafael Ferreira da Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11950

Secure API-Driven Research Automation to Accelerate Scientific Discovery
The Secure Scientific Service Mesh (S3M) provides API-driven infrastructure to accelerate scientific discovery through automated research workflows. By integrating near real-time streaming capabilities, intelligent workflow orchestration, and fine-grained authorization within a service mesh architecture, S3M revolutionizes programmatic access to high performance computing (HPC) while maintaining uncompromising security. This framework allows intelligent agents and experimental facilities to dyn…

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"50 Milliarden Euro jährlich und mehr für internationale humanitäre Hilfe sind nicht mehr tragbar. Es gibt nur eine Möglichkeit, diese Kosten zu senken.
Welche?
Den Druck für wirksame Friedensbemühungen zu erhöhen. Wenn wir die Zahl der Konflikte reduzieren, senken wir die humanitären Kosten."
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IKRK-Chefin Mirjana Spoljaric im Interview.
Sie äussert sich klar zur höchst besorgniserregenden Entwicklung, dass Völkerrecht und Menschenre…

Mal Abseits der AfD-Verbotsdebatte (ja, muss dringend geprüft werden!) steht für mich nach wie vor die Frage im Raum, wie eigentlich gesellschaftliches Zusammenleben funktionieren soll, wenn (je nachdem) ein Zehntel bis ein Drittel der Menschen anderen v.a. böses will?

@… - gibt es eigentlich Pläne für die Einbindung von LibreTranslate auf chaos.social?
https://libretranslate.com/
ist ja self-hostable...

LibreTranslate - Free and Open Source Machine Translation API
Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. Free to download, offline capable and easy to setup. Run your own API server in just a few minutes.

Semi-empirical constraints on the HI mass function of star-forming galaxies and $\Omega_{\rm HI}$ at $z\sim 0.37$ from interferometric surveys
Francesco Sinigaglia, Alessandro Bianchetti, Giulia Rodighiero, Lucio Mayer, Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky, Ed Elson, Mattia Vaccari, Matt J. Jarvis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11280…

Semi-empirical constraints on the HI mass function of star-forming galaxies and $Ω_{\rm HI}$ at $z\sim 0.37$ from interferometric surveys
The HI mass function is a crucial tool to understand the evolution of the HI content in galaxies over cosmic times and to constrain both the baryon cycle in galaxy evolution and the reionization history of the Universe. We aim to derive semi-empirical constraints at $z\sim 0.37$ by combining literature results on the stellar mass function from optical surveys with recent findings on the $M_{\rm HI}-M_\star$ scaling relation derived via spectral stacking analysis applied to 21-cm line interferom…

VGR: Visual Grounded Reasoning
Jiacong Wang, Zijiang Kang, Haochen Wang, Haiyong Jiang, Jiawen Li, Bohong Wu, Ya Wang, Jiao Ran, Xiao Liang, Chao Feng, Jun Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11991

VGR: Visual Grounded Reasoning
In the field of multimodal chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, existing approaches predominantly rely on reasoning on pure language space, which inherently suffers from language bias and is largely confined to math or science domains. This narrow focus limits their ability to handle complex visual reasoning tasks that demand comprehensive understanding of image details. To address these limitations, this paper introduces VGR, a novel reasoning multimodal large language model (MLLM) with enhanced …

Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety
Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, Elizabeth Barnes, Yoshua Bengio, Joe Benton, Joseph Bloom, Mark Chen, Alan Cooney, Allan Dafoe, Anca Dragan, Scott Emmons, Owain Evans, David Farhi, Ryan Greenblatt, Dan Hendrycks, Marius Hobbhahn, Evan Hubinger, Geoffrey Irving, Erik Jenner, Daniel Kokotajlo, Victoria Krakovna, Shane Legg, David Lindner, David Luan, Aleksander M\k{a}dry, Julian Michael, Neel Nanda, Dave Orr, Jaku…

Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety
AI systems that "think" in human language offer a unique opportunity for AI safety: we can monitor their chains of thought (CoT) for the intent to misbehave. Like all other known AI oversight methods, CoT monitoring is imperfect and allows some misbehavior to go unnoticed. Nevertheless, it shows promise and we recommend further research into CoT monitorability and investment in CoT monitoring alongside existing safety methods. Because CoT monitorability may be fragile, we recommend that frontie…