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Watching the first Question Period of the 45th Parliament of Canada!
#CanPoli #CdnPoli

#DegrowthOslo25 Livestream now.
https://isee-degrowth2025.no/live-stream
Sizing sufficiency: Contested framings of scarcity and limits.
Inge RŸpke first.
Long t…

I randomly checked out the Neuro-sama stream. At first, the two AI characters’ free-association banter felt legitimately creative and funny. But then Vedal (human) tried to get one of them to do something specific, and it repeatedly misunderstood the simple instructions, breaking the spell.
I guess that shows the strengths and weaknesses of LLMs today.
I post about AI way too much.

Bidder Feedback in First-Price Auctions for Video Advertising
S\'ebastien Lahaie, Benjamin Schaeffer, Yuanjun Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17058 htt…

Bidder Feedback in First-Price Auctions for Video Advertising
In first-price auctions for display advertising, exchanges typically communicate the "minimum-bid-to-win" to bidders after the auction as feedback for their bidding algorithms. For a winner, this is the second-highest bid, while for losing bidders it is the highest bid. In this paper we investigate the generalization of this concept to general combinatorial auctions, motivated by the domain of video advertising. In a video pod auction, ad slots during an advertising break in a video stream are …

InfiniPot-V: Memory-Constrained KV Cache Compression for Streaming Video Understanding
Minsoo Kim, Kyuhong Shim, Jungwook Choi, Simyung Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15745

InfiniPot-V: Memory-Constrained KV Cache Compression for Streaming Video Understanding
Modern multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can reason over hour-long video, yet their key-value (KV) cache grows linearly with time--quickly exceeding the fixed memory of phones, AR glasses, and edge robots. Prior compression schemes either assume the whole video and user query are available offline or must first build the full cache, so memory still scales with stream length. InfiniPot-V is the first training-free, query-agnostic framework that enforces a hard, length-independent memory c…

Stream DaQ: Stream-First Data Quality Monitoring
Vasileios Papastergios, Anastasios Gounaris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06147 https://

Stream DaQ: Stream-First Data Quality Monitoring
Data quality is fundamental to modern data science workflows, where data continuously flows as unbounded streams feeding critical downstream tasks, from elementary analytics to advanced artificial intelligence models. Existing data quality approaches either focus exclusively on static data or treat streaming as an extension of batch processing, lacking the temporal granularity and contextual awareness required for true streaming applications. In this paper, we present a novel data quality monit…

The conversion tool I started for Plan 9 a.out to ELF is at a good point now.
If you want to see me struggle for almost 2 hours trying to go the first steps, check out the recording of Wednesday's development live stream:
https://youtu.be/QwZmEpCNxcI

It is so nice how the #pandemicpond is maturing now. This is its 5th summer! Can't believe it. The bog filter has made a massive difference for the water clarity and keeping down the algae. The first pic below is from this time last year and you can see the algae clouding and sliming everything.
Two years ago I started planting some moss around rocks in the stream and it has filled in really nicely and naturally. It also served to trap seeds I think and grass and other "weeds" but I like that it just looks more and more like a normal stream. We even have a marsh marigold at the top of the stream (last pic) that we did not plant that came from one that was in the top pond and was eaten by deer. 🦌
#diy #ponds #gardening #fish #ecosystem #portalberni