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Wet run, 6 miles, kept it under 9 minute mile on a new route up north (barely!). Found an abandoned farm house too, very lovely route. All but 200 feet were paved, mostly gravel and water, as former logging roads go 😆
Knee pain on my right afterward, forgot to bring the brace with on this trip, unfortunately. We’ll see how the rest of the week goes 🤞 Air quality tanks tomorrow too, winds coming from the north 😕

AudioSet-R: A Refined AudioSet with Multi-Stage LLM Label Reannotation
Yulin Sun, Qisheng Xu, Yi Su, Qian Zhu, Yong Dou, Xinwang Liu, Kele Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15429 ht…

AudioSet-R: A Refined AudioSet with Multi-Stage LLM Label Reannotation
AudioSet is a widely used benchmark in the audio research community and has significantly advanced various audio-related tasks. However, persistent issues with label accuracy and completeness remain critical bottlenecks that limit performance in downstream applications.To address the aforementioned challenges, we propose a three-stage reannotation framework that harnesses general-purpose audio-language foundation models to systematically improve the label quality of AudioSet. The framework empl…

Autocatalytic cores in the diluted regime:classification and properties
Praneet Nandan, Philippe Nghe, Jeremie Unterberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15546

Autocatalytic cores in the diluted regime:classification and properties
Autocatalysis underlies the ability of chemical and biochemical systems to replicate. Autocatalysis was recently defined stoichiometrically for reaction networks; five types of minimal autocatalytic networks, termed autocatalytic cores were identified. A necessary and sufficient stoichiometric criterion was later established for dynamical autocatalysis in diluted regimes, ensuring a positive growth rate of autocatalytic species starting from infinitesimal concentrations, given that degradation …

#HotTake:
Liberalism is a syncretic religion where the highest deity is the State and all other deities are subject to it. Liberalism asserts this distinction by classifying political systems as deriving from "natural law" and religions as faith systems. Classical liberalism divided the world into "primitive" beliefs and "enlightened" beliefs. Atheistic anarchism aligns with this distinction by opposing the state and capitalism through logic, rather than asserting that the state and capitalism are themselves systems of faith. Atheistic anarchism further reinforces the narrative of the liberal state by aligning with the liberal understanding of religion as a "primitive" institution.
Graeber et al pointed out the connections between property rights as a form of fedishism (magic) and the evolution of currency, debt, taxes, and the state from temples.

If my bio didn’t make it obvious, I’m an anarcho-syndicalist who’s bisexual, gender-fluid, and autistic!
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism

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An Adequate While-Language for Stochastic Hybrid Computation
Renato Neves, Jos\'e Proen\c{c}a, Juliana Souza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15913 https://

An Adequate While-Language for Stochastic Hybrid Computation
We introduce a language for formally reasoning about programs that combine differential constructs with probabilistic ones. The language harbours, for example, such systems as adaptive cruise controllers, continuous-time random walks, and physical processes involving multiple collisions, like in Einstein's Brownian motion. We furnish the language with an operational semantics and use it to implement a corresponding interpreter. We also present a complementary, denotational semantics and estab…

Leveraging NRTidalv3 to develop gravitational waveform models with higher-order modes for binary neutron star systems
Adrian Abac, Felip Ramis Vidal, Marta Colleoni, Anna Puecher, Alejandra Gonzalez, Tim Dietrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15426

Leveraging NRTidalv3 to develop gravitational waveform models with higher-order modes for binary neutron star systems
Accurate and reliable gravitational waveform models are crucial in determining the properties of compact binary mergers. In particular, next-generation gravitational-wave detectors will require more accurate waveforms to avoid biases in the analysis. In this work, we extend the recent NRTidalv3 model to account for higher-mode corrections in the tidal phase contributions for binary neutron star systems. The higher-mode, multipolar NRTidalv3 model is then attached to several binary-black-hole ba…

Design and Optimization of Wearables for Human Motion Energy Harvesting
Weijia Peng, Mingtong Chen, Zhengbao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16157 https://…

Design and Optimization of Wearables for Human Motion Energy Harvesting
As wearable electronics become increasingly prevalent, there is a rise in interest and demand for sustainably designed systems that are also energy self-sufficient. The research described in this paper investigated a shoe-worn energy harvesting system designed use the mechanical energy from walking to output electrical energy. A spring is attached to electromagnetic generator embedded in the heel of the shoe to recover the vertical pressure caused by the foot strike. The simulated prototype con…

Identifying Explanation Needs: Towards a Catalog of User-based Indicators
Hannah Deters, Laura Reinhardt, Jakob Droste, Martin Obaidi, Kurt Schneider
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16997

Identifying Explanation Needs: Towards a Catalog of User-based Indicators
In today's digitalized world, where software systems are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and complex, the quality aspect of explainability is gaining relevance. A major challenge in achieving adequate explanations is the elicitation of individual explanation needs, as it may be subject to severe hypothetical or confirmation biases. To address these challenges, we aim to establish user-based indicators concerning user behavior or system events that can be captured at runtime to determine when a…