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The Epic Verse calculus: a core calculus for functional logic programming.
https://simon.peytonjones.org/verse-calculus/
saved 2025-06-12

Instructional Agents: LLM Agents on Automated Course Material Generation for Teaching Faculties
Huaiyuan Yao, Wanpeng Xu, Justin Turnau, Nadia Kellam, Hua Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19611

Instructional Agents: LLM Agents on Automated Course Material Generation for Teaching Faculties
Preparing high-quality instructional materials remains a labor-intensive process that often requires extensive coordination among teaching faculty, instructional designers, and teaching assistants. In this work, we present Instructional Agents, a multi-agent large language model (LLM) framework designed to automate end-to-end course material generation, including syllabus creation, lecture scripts, LaTeX-based slides, and assessments. Unlike existing AI-assisted educational tools that focus on …

SCORE-SET: A dataset of GuitarPro files for Music Phrase Generation and Sequence Learning
Vishakh Begari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18723 https://arxiv.org…

SCORE-SET: A dataset of GuitarPro files for Music Phrase Generation and Sequence Learning
A curated dataset of Guitar Pro tablature files (.gp5 format), tailored for tasks involving guitar music generation, sequence modeling, and performance-aware learning is provided. The dataset is derived from MIDI notes in MAESTRO and GiantMIDI which have been adapted into rhythm guitar tracks. These tracks are further processed to include a variety of expression settings typical of guitar performance, such as bends, slides, vibrato, and palm muting, to better reflect the nuances of real-world g…

Letzter Feinschliff an meinem Vortrag „So helfen uns LLMs beim Programmieren“ beim Tübix heute um 14 Uhr in V2:
https://slides.cusy.io/ai/how-llms-help-us-with-programming.slides.html

We had the pleasure of presenting at FIRST.org 2025, showcasing the Vulnerability-Lookup and GCVE.eu initiatives.
Slides are now available.
#cybersecurity #vulnerability #cve

Sven (#Java 's new stream gatherers (

Later, I'll be giving a talk at #IANLS25 on some quantitative analyses of Latin book prodcution in Germany (and Italy in part) from 1500 through 1800. Slides, code and data can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15878272

MiDeSeC: A Dataset for Mitosis Detection and Segmentation in Breast Cancer Histopathology Images
Refik Samet, Nooshin Nemati, Emrah Hancer, Serpil Sak, Bilge Ayca Kirmizi, Zeynep Yildirim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14271

MiDeSeC: A Dataset for Mitosis Detection and Segmentation in Breast Cancer Histopathology Images
The MiDeSeC dataset is created through H&E stained invasive breast carcinoma, no special type (NST) slides of 25 different patients captured at 40x magnification from the Department of Medical Pathology at Ankara University. The slides have been scanned by 3D Histech Panoramic p250 Flash-3 scanner and Olympus BX50 microscope. As several possible mitosis shapes exist, it is crucial to have a large dataset to cover all the cases. Accordingly, a total of 50 regions is selected from glass slides fo…

Take a break from all manners of hype. 😁

A recording of my closing keynote at #CampDigital, on the spectacular lies of maps, has now been published.

This page has all the slides, reference links, embedded videos and a link to the full talk.

https://axbom.com/cdmaps/

There's a reason that Trump is working to prevent reasonably free and fair midterm elections next year.
https://www.umass.edu/news/article/new-national-umass-amherst-poll-finds-president-trumps-job-approval-…

New National UMass Amherst Poll Finds President Trump’s Job Approval Slides 6 Points Since April | UMass Amherst
The survey finds Trump’s net approval drops to -20 six months into his term, while his approval rating on immigration falls 9 points since April; additionally, 70% say he has not handled the Epstein situation well and 81% blame him for hiding info on case.

The dollar sank to its lowest level in more than three years on Thursday
and the FTSE 100 closed at a record high as Donald Trump’s latest trade threats and the weakening economy appeared to bring forward interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.
Foreign exchange traders sold the dollar in favour of the yen and the euro,
which both climbed by about 1% against the US currency to leave it almost 10% down on its value against a basket of currencies since the beginning of the …

As the Dollar Slides, the Euro Is Picking Up Speed (Eshe Nelson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/business/euro-dollar-currency-tariffs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p152#a250722p152

I'm sharing a presentation I gave at my workspace last week: "LLMs, GenAI... should we?"
Just for fun, I converted what was an ODP presentation into Markdown that my Jekyll blog could display as a regular article, then materialized the slides as such, and finally I added a slideshow feature.
I'm thinking of making a presenter mode where one window would display the slideshow, while another would display the presenter's notes, as well as the previous & ne…

My slides on The Paradoxes of Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums #DH2025 panel on Openness in GLAM: Analysing, Reflecting, and D…

Slides by Mary Meeker about AI, as always way too much 😆 , but interesting to browse through.
#AI

More slides about the 2028 Total #SolarEclipse from Terry Cuttle at the SEC - and about coming attractions down under. Relevant websites: https://eclipse.asa.astronomy.org.au/ and https://www.eclipse.aaq.org.au/ 16/n

Classification of Histopathology Slides with Persistence Homology Convolutions
Shrunal Pothagoni, Benjamin Schweinhart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14378 htt…

Classification of Histopathology Slides with Persistence Homology Convolutions
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are a standard tool for computer vision tasks such as image classification. However, typical model architectures may result in the loss of topological information. In specific domains such as histopathology, topology is an important descriptor that can be used to distinguish between disease-indicating tissue by analyzing the shape characteristics of cells. Current literature suggests that reintroducing topological information using persistent homology can im…

The slides from today's presentation "All the DataOps, all the paradigms" at Berlin Buzzwords are now online: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/all-the-dataops-all-the-paradigms/280671667
Video is expected in the next few days.

Fully Automated Segmentation of Fiber Bundles in Anatomic Tracing Data
Kyriaki-Margarita Bintsi, Ya\"el Balbastre, Jingjing Wu, Julia F. Lehman, Suzanne N. Haber, Anastasia Yendiki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12942

Fully Automated Segmentation of Fiber Bundles in Anatomic Tracing Data
Anatomic tracer studies are critical for validating and improving diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography. However, large-scale analysis of data from such studies is hampered by the labor-intensive process of annotating fiber bundles manually on histological slides. Existing automated methods often miss sparse bundles or require complex post-processing across consecutive sections, limiting their flexibility and generalizability. We present a streamlined, fully automated framework for fiber bundle seg…

Not cool.
"We have determined that a bad actor has generated false slides and exploited USENIX’s slide collection process to submit them as though they belong to legitimate authors."
#usenixsecurity

Tipp für alle, die gelegentlich auch mal Talks über eine Videokonferenz geben: Haltet auf euren Slides alle vier Ecken frei. Manche Videokonferenz-Systeme blenden dort eine Miniatur des Sprechers ein. Und natürlich macht jedes System das in einer anderen Ecke.

Our slides for 'The Universal Viewer: radically inclusive software development for digital cultural heritage' for #DH2025 are available from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16040930

AIFoundry invites you to the 2nd edition of the AI Plumbers Conference, a meetup for low-level AI builders who value real conversations over keynote slides and for anyone working in modern data infrastructure, machine learning and open-source software projects. Connect, swap ideas and collaborate, free from the pressure of constant talks.
📅 When: June 15, 2025 – 10 am
📍 Where: GLS Event Campus Berlin, Kastanienallee 82 | 10435 Berlin
Register now:

AI Plumbers conference: 2nd edition · Luma
AIFoundry is bringing you the AI Plumbers Conference: 2nd edition — an open source meetup for low-level AI builders to dive deep into "the plumbing" of modern…

thinking about a new 11ty mascot as I work on some slides this morning

New turntable thinking: Hold the arm steady and slide the platter sideways.
No, really: https://soulution-audio.com/soulution-787-turntable/

Are you making slides with Quarto or R Markdown and need a timer e.g. for breaks or group work? There is the {countdown} package for you: #rstats

I published my slides from @… on my site, as well as capturing answers to questions from @… and @… and linking to ap…

I wonder how long before people adopt delay tactics? For instance , just suppose that every time a box truck, like the one in the article below, enters a Home Depot someone runs up and slides a cable tie or bit of wire through the door latches to prevent the door from being opened from the inside? (The driver could still get out, and remove the cable tie or wire and open the door - but that would let people see the driver and would take maybe 30 to 90 seconds.)

More Masana slides about the geography and road network of relevance for the 2026 Total #SolarEclipse - beware of shadows and traffic. 11/n

Dollying in on #Caturday

Scanning some old slides; in 1981 when the riots were on in Moss side, my dad decided it best to board up his chemist shop before hand, as did some others on the row.
#manchester

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
TARRANT: He will if Orac's working. Now come on. We're wasting time. [starts to climb]
[Dayna does not follow, but continues to explore the small room. A hatch slides open in the floor.]
DAYNA: I knew it. Tarrant.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/422

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Wrapped up an energising Vulnerability Lookup workshop during @…’s Virtual Summer School 2025.
Video and slides are now available.
Big thanks to everyone who joined the discussions.
:youtube: Video

Granddaughter is visiting this weekend, without her parents giving them a break. We are off to Barrie's waterfront splash park near Centennial Beach. It's basically a series of bouncy castles on the water connected by slides and bridges. Thankfully, our youngest daughter is chaperoning the granddaughter because I could not keep up with a 9 year old.
#GetOutside #WaterSports
https://splashon.ca/

O.k. four more slides by Eduard Masana at the Leuven SEC about the 2026 Total #SolarEclipse in Spain, namely what the Comisión Nacional del Eclipse is preparing: see https://www.iaa.csic.es/page/comision-nacional-eclipse and https://eclipses.ign.es and https://eclipse-spain.es/index.php/en/ for relevant websites. And some Final Thoughts and Recommendations about the expected eclipse experience in Spain. 13/n

NuSeC: A Dataset for Nuclei Segmentation in Breast Cancer Histopathology Images
Refik Samet, Nooshin Nemati, Emrah Hancer, Serpil Sak, Bilge Ayca Kirmizi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14272

NuSeC: A Dataset for Nuclei Segmentation in Breast Cancer Histopathology Images
The NuSeC dataset is created by selecting 4 images with the size of 1024*1024 pixels from the slides of each patient among 25 patients. Therefore, there are a total of 100 images in the NuSeC dataset. To carry out a consistent comparative analysis between the methods that will be developed using the NuSeC dataset by the researchers in the future, we divide the NuSeC dataset 75% as the training set and 25% as the testing set. In detail, an image is randomly selected from 4 images of each patient…

And yet more Masana slides about the 2026 Total #SolarEclipse - which largely hits a sparsely populated region of Spain. Which has a lot to offer besides the eclipse, of course. Also a helpful matrix comparing the five zones of the eclipse in Spain. 12/n

Fediscovery explores the possibilities for better search and discovery on the Fediverse -- in the form of an optional, pluggable service.
This service should be decentralized, independent of any one specific Fediverse service and respect user choice and privacy.
Fediscovery @ FOSDEM 2025
We were very grateful to be able to present the Fediscovery project atFOSDEM 2025. The talk was recorded and you can download both the slides and the recorded video

Fediverse Discovery Providers
A project exploring better search and discovery on the Fediverse as an optional, decentralized and pluggable service.

Four teaser slides from the amazing talk by Nicolas Lefaudeux at the #SolarEclipse conference about his vast - professional - experience in imaging and image processing applied to the solar corona: see https://hdr-astrophotography.com/solar-eclipses/ for his results in high resolution (and hopefully the highly instructive talk will become available as well eventually). 5/n

Semi-Automated Quality Assurance in Digital Pathology: Tile Classification Approach
Meredith VandeHaar, M. Clinch, I. Yilmaz, M. A. Rahman, Y. Xiao, F. Dogany, H. M. Alazab, A. Nassar, Z. Akkus, B. Dangott
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10916

Semi-Automated Quality Assurance in Digital Pathology: Tile Classification Approach
Quality assurance is a critical but underexplored area in digital pathology, where even minor artifacts can have significant effects. Artifacts have been shown to negatively impact the performance of AI diagnostic models. In current practice, trained staff manually review digitized images prior to release of these slides to pathologists which are then used to render a diagnosis. Conventional image processing approaches, provide a foundation for detecting artifacts on digital pathology slides. H…

No more Spain for the next Total #SolarEclipse in 2028: SEC slides by Terry Cuttle and Jay Anderson about the Australian track and weather stats. 15/n

Tons of valuable information about the 2026 Total #SolarEclipse at the Belgian conference today, esp. about the preferred Spain: some slides by Jay Anderson - see https://eclipsophile.com/tse2026/ for his full analysis - and Eduard Masana. 10/n

More slides from the Planetary Society presser about the destruction of #NASA by the White House. 2/3

So, I gave my second @… talk today.
Does anybody know why the items move down a little on a series of slides using #pause ?
https://forum.typst.app/t/align-horizon-and-pause-interaction-in-touying/4555

The final slides from the #NASA disaster press conference by the Planetary Society. The briefing is being recorded; at https://www.planetary.org/articles/nasa-2026-budget-proposal-in-charts the various charts are already up. 3/3

GW231123 - a Binary Black Hole Merger with Total Mass 190-265 M_Sun: #BlackHole binary detected through gravitational waves: https://ligo.org/science-summaries/gw231123/ -> event: https://ligo.org/detections/gw231123 / conference slides: https://scicomm.xyz/@LIGO/114852330415127843 / Gravitational waves from massive black holes challenge current astrophysical models: https://ligo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Press-release-for-GW231123-discovery-paper-final.pdf

PixCell: A generative foundation model for digital histopathology images
Srikar Yellapragada, Alexandros Graikos, Zilinghan Li, Kostas Triaridis, Varun Belagali, Saarthak Kapse, Tarak Nath Nandi, Ravi K Madduri, Prateek Prasanna, Tahsin Kurc, Rajarsi R. Gupta, Joel Saltz, Dimitris Samaras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05127

PixCell: A generative foundation model for digital histopathology images
The digitization of histology slides has revolutionized pathology, providing massive datasets for cancer diagnosis and research. Contrastive self-supervised and vision-language models have been shown to effectively mine large pathology datasets to learn discriminative representations. On the other hand, generative models, capable of synthesizing realistic and diverse images, present a compelling solution to address unique problems in pathology that involve synthesizing images; overcoming annota…

Yesterday I gave my first talk with slides in @… and it was good fun.
Except that now most people want to talk about typst and not the math.
I wrote up some thoughts:
https://thomas-kahle.de/blog/2025/typst/