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The proposed sell-off of federal lands in the Senate budget bill includes a LOT of Joshua tree habitat—the trees grow in some of the largest areas of undeveloped land in the lower 48 states
The place where eastern and western Joshua trees hybridize, north of Creech AFB, is included
#JoshuaTree #USpolitics

"10 1 im Lesesaal {der @…], diesmal: Spröde Samtpfoten" https://blog.sbb.berlin/?p=132437

An 11,000-Study Open-Access Dataset of Longitudinal Magnetic Resonance Images of Brain Metastases
Saahil Chadha, David Weiss, Anastasia Janas, Divya Ramakrishnan, Thomas Hager, Klara Osenberg, Klara Willms, Joshua Zhu, Veronica Chiang, Spyridon Bakas, Nazanin Maleki, Durga V. Sritharan, Sven Schoenherr, Malte Westerhoff, Matthew Zawalich, Melissa Davis, Ajay Malhotra, Khaled Bousabarah, Cornelius Deuschl, MingDe Lin, Sanjay Aneja, Mariam S. Aboian

An 11,000-Study Open-Access Dataset of Longitudinal Magnetic Resonance Images of Brain Metastases
Brain metastases are a common complication of systemic cancer, affecting over 20% of patients with primary malignancies. Longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for diagnosing patients, tracking disease progression, assessing therapeutic response, and guiding treatment selection. However, the manual review of longitudinal imaging is time-intensive, especially for patients with multifocal disease. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers opportunities to streamline image evaluation…

Glaubt ihr dass Elmshorner Streifenpolizist*innen mit Sturmgewehren umgehen können?
Bisher habe ich die nur mit MP5 gesehen, das dürfte .223 sein oder?
https://www.mopo.de/im-norden/schleswig-holstein/ungewoehnlic…

Ungewöhnlicher Spaziergänger: Senior in Elmshorn mit Waffe am Hosenbund
In Elmshorn hat ein Spaziergänger am Montagvormittag für Aufsehen gesorgt. Der Rentner soll eine Waffe dabei gehabt haben. Ob es sich dabei um eine echte

BUT System for the MLC-SLM Challenge
Alexander Polok, Jiangyu Han, Dominik Klement, Samuele Cornell, Jan \v{C}ernock\'y, Luk\'a\v{s} Burget
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13414

BUT System for the MLC-SLM Challenge
We present a two-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that combines DiCoW -- a diarization-conditioned variant of Whisper -- with DiariZen, a diarization pipeline built on top of Pyannote. We first evaluate both systems in out-of-domain (OOD) multilingual scenarios without any fine-tuning. In this scenario, DiariZen consistently outperforms the baseline Pyannote diarization model, demonstrating strong generalization. Despite being fine-tuned on English-only data for target-speaker …

Sources: senior BBC executives are considering charging US consumers for access to its journalism to boost revenues amid falling UK license fee incomes (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

Recently, the German Society for Planetary Research was founded in #Münster. Congratulations! Web page and press release: https://www.planet-dgp.de 🔭
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Foundation Models in Autonomous Driving: A Survey on Scenario Generation and Scenario Analysis
Yuan Gao, Mattia Piccinini, Yuchen Zhang, Dingrui Wang, Korbinian Moller, Roberto Brusnicki, Baha Zarrouki, Alessio Gambi, Jan Frederik Totz, Kai Storms, Steven Peters, Andrea Stocco, Bassam Alrifaee, Marco Pavone, Johannes Betz
https://

Foundation Models in Autonomous Driving: A Survey on Scenario Generation and Scenario Analysis
For autonomous vehicles, safe navigation in complex environments depends on handling a broad range of diverse and rare driving scenarios. Simulation- and scenario-based testing have emerged as key approaches to development and validation of autonomous driving systems. Traditional scenario generation relies on rule-based systems, knowledge-driven models, and data-driven synthesis, often producing limited diversity and unrealistic safety-critical cases. With the emergence of foundation models, wh…

Huh, so the American "No Kings Day" is happening on the same day as the Commonwealth's "Kings Official Summer Birthday".
Strange coincidence.
I think there should be no kings and no king's birthday celebrations FWIW. Power passed down the genetic line like a mutation is ridiculous, and anyway no power should be concentrated in one person like that in the first place.
Have a happy holiday, whichever you are celebrating/protesting.
#kingsBirthday #noKingsDay

@… @… Evidence strongly implies that quotas work. If you set a minimum diversity quota, on any given axis, it doesn’t just improve your quality (because e.g. women who stay in male-dominated industries tend to be way better than their male cou…