Tootfinder

Stranded in Fulda thanks to winter vs Deutsche Bahn. Luckily, I‘ve found a cozy Café 😋 to shorten my waiting.
#coffeechallenge #fulda

Well, that was interesting and curious. I clearly have no idea how anything works any more (not news, even to me). In an abundance of caution, I just changed my GMail password yet again, and two seconds later Dropbox said I was signed out. Maybe a coincidence but a) I've never been signed out of Dropbox like that before and b) the timing is a smoking gun.
It's all so creepy and invasive these days.

3 Dallas Cowboys who deserve more snaps in the second half of the season https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/3-dallas-cowboys-who-deserve-more-snaps-second-half-of-season

🏘️ Once Australia’s second priciest city, Melbourne has become more affordable. What happened – and will it last?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/25/once-austra…

Once Australia’s second priciest city, Melbourne has become more affordable. What happened – and will it last?
More homes and less property investor activity has seen Victoria’s capital rise up the affordability rankings

This is what I do. Do you?
1: Think first, AI second 
2: Use AI as a coach, not a cheerleader 
3: Engineer productive friction 
Details here:
https://every.to/p/think-first-ai-second?ph_email=gfriend@natlogic.com

Think First, AI Second
Three principles for keeping your cognitive edge while leveraging AI's capabilities

India is world’s second-largest shrimp producer. That is now under threat | Trade War News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/11/8/india-is-worlds-second-largest-shrimp-producer-that-is-now-under-threat?traffic_source=rss

Hegseth says he would have ordered second strike on Caribbean vessel (Patricia Zengerle/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/hegseth-says-he-would-have-ordered-second-strike-caribbean-vessel-2025-12-06/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251206/p56#a251206p56

DiffSDA: Unsupervised Diffusion Sequential Disentanglement Across Modalities
Hedi Zisling, Ilan Naiman, Nimrod Berman, Supasorn Suwajanakorn, Omri Azencot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05717

DiffSDA: Unsupervised Diffusion Sequential Disentanglement Across Modalities
Unsupervised representation learning, particularly sequential disentanglement, aims to separate static and dynamic factors of variation in data without relying on labels. This remains a challenging problem, as existing approaches based on variational autoencoders and generative adversarial networks often rely on multiple loss terms, complicating the optimization process. Furthermore, sequential disentanglement methods face challenges when applied to real-world data, and there is currently no es…

In her keynote at #ISWC2025, Yuko Harayama, Secretary General of Global Partnership on AI Tokyo Expert Support Center, is discussing the challenges of #AI on Human Society, suggesting a shift from originally tech-driven to human-centered paradigm, addressing key questions related to

Yesterday, I had the honor to deliver an invited talk with the title "Convenience vs Competence: the Evolving Role of Foundational Knowledge in AI-Driven Research" at the new year's receiption of the computer science faculty at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Very happy to be at the place again, where I did my first PostDoc more than 20 years ago and meeting many old friends. :)
@…