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TASER: Table Agents for Schema-guided Extraction and Recommendation
Nicole Cho, Kirsty Fielding, William Watson, Sumitra Ganesh, Manuela Veloso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13404 …

TASER: Table Agents for Schema-guided Extraction and Recommendation
Real-world financial documents report essential information about an entity's financial holdings that can span millions of different financial instrument types. Yet, these details are often buried in messy, multi-page, fragmented tables - for example, 99.4% of the tables in our dataset have no bounding boxes with the maximum number of rows amounting to 426 per table across 44 pages. To tackle these unique challenges from real-world tables, we present a continuously learning, agentic table extra…

T-REX: Table -- Refute or Entail eXplainer
Tim Luka Horstmann, Baptiste Geisenberger, Mehwish Alam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14055 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

T-REX: Table -- Refute or Entail eXplainer
Verifying textual claims against structured tabular data is a critical yet challenging task in Natural Language Processing with broad real-world impact. While recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled significant progress in table fact-checking, current solutions remain inaccessible to non-experts. We introduce T-REX (T-REX: Table -- Refute or Entail eXplainer), the first live, interactive tool for claim verification over multimodal, multilingual tables using state-of-the-art…

Chain Table: Protecting Table-Level Data Integrity by Digital Ledger Technology
Feng Yu, Ryan Laird
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13932 https://

Chain Table: Protecting Table-Level Data Integrity by Digital Ledger Technology
The rise of blockchain and Digital Ledger Technology (DLT) has gained wide traction. Instead of relying on a traditional centralized data authority, a blockchain system consists of digitally entangled block data shared across a distributed network. The specially designed chain data structure and its consensus mechanism protect blockchain data from being tampered by unauthorized adversaries. However, implementing a full-fledged blockchain system to protect a database can be technically cumbersom…

Security guarantees for Ukraine explained: What's on the table and what's realistic?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/security-guarantees-for-ukraine-explained.html

Taming VR Teleoperation and Learning from Demonstration for Multi-Task Bimanual Table Service Manipulation
Weize Li, Zhengxiao Han, Lixin Xu, Xiangyu Chen, Harrison Bounds, Chenrui Zhang, Yifan Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14542

Taming VR Teleoperation and Learning from Demonstration for Multi-Task Bimanual Table Service Manipulation
This technical report presents the champion solution of the Table Service Track in the ICRA 2025 What Bimanuals Can Do (WBCD) competition. We tackled a series of demanding tasks under strict requirements for speed, precision, and reliability: unfolding a tablecloth (deformable-object manipulation), placing a pizza onto the table (pick-and-place), and opening and closing a food container with the lid. Our solution combines VR-based teleoperation and Learning from Demonstrations (LfD) to balance …

Ah yes. According to the lab results, I can't read.

Gonna try to sell some art today. Commerce not Capitalism.
#art #printmaking

TableDART: Dynamic Adaptive Multi-Modal Routing for Table Understanding
Xiaobo Xing, Wei Yuan, Tong Chen, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Xiangliang Zhang, Hongzhi Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14671

TableDART: Dynamic Adaptive Multi-Modal Routing for Table Understanding
Modeling semantic and structural information from tabular data remains a core challenge for effective table understanding. Existing Table-as-Text approaches flatten tables for large language models (LLMs), but lose crucial structural cues, while Table-as-Image methods preserve structure yet struggle with fine-grained semantics. Recent Table-as-Multimodality strategies attempt to combine textual and visual views, but they (1) statically process both modalities for every query-table pair within a…

Back in March I got coronavirus and lost my framework laptop. Looking in tailscale the last time I used it was in the house and I didn't remember taking it anywhere else. I'd given up trying to find it, thinking someone must have just walked into the house and taken it or something. Then two days ago I was looking for my son's laptop and my wife found mine. It was on a table downstairs the whole time. For seven months !

Rubio says a ceasefire deal 'not off the table' between Ukraine and Russia (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/rubio-says-ceasefire-deal-not-off-table-ukraine-russia-trump-rcna225421
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p20#a250817p20

A Distributed Learned Hash Table
Shengze Wang, Yi Liu, Xiaoxue Zhang, Liting Hu, Chen Qian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14239 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1423…

A Distributed Learned Hash Table
Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) are pivotal in numerous high-impact key-value applications built on distributed networked systems, offering a decentralized architecture that avoids single points of failure and improves data availability. Despite their widespread utility, DHTs face substantial challenges in handling range queries, which are crucial for applications such as LLM serving, distributed storage, databases, content delivery networks, and blockchains. To address this limitation, we prese…

Ah yes, strange women lyin' in ponds...
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism

https://fanf2.user.srcf.net/hermes/doc/qsmtp/draft-fanf-wtf8.html
Encoding a character to WTF-8 proceeds as follows:
* Determine the number of octets required from the character number and the first column of the table above. It is important to note that th…

Top notch flat white in Lisbon #portugal #coffee

Mysterious Drug Store
https://archive.org/details/hypercard_mysterious-drug-store

#coffeeneuring ride 3, combined with #DrumAndBassOnTheBike
I visited a coffee place I used to have lunch at. It seems to have changed owners, but the coffee is still good.
The croissant, not so much.

Matt Eberflus says 'nothing is off the table' amid Cowboys' defensive woes https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/matt-eberflus-nothing-off-table-amid-dallas-cowboys-defensive-woes

#MardiPatisserie d’été je découvre #OwiOwi et je tente le chocolato. Il est simplement délicieux !
Avec des noix de pécan en plus dedans 🤌🏻

Yesterday we got the boy off to college & sorted his dorm room. We all left behind letters for him. A less emotional excerpt of mine:
"It will take me some time to get accustomed to not looking to see if the light is on under your door each night, to buying fewer apples each week, to stealing a glance across the table with a wink and a smile as I prepare to say something ridiculous to your mom."
Proud & happy for him to start this grand new adventure. House feel…

Hybrid Table-Assisted and RL-Based Dynamic Routing for NGSO Satellite Networks
Flor Ortiz, Eva Lagunas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14909 https://arxiv.org/p…

Hybrid Table-Assisted and RL-Based Dynamic Routing for NGSO Satellite Networks
This letter investigates dynamic routing in Next-Generation Satellite Orbit (NGSO) constellations and proposes a hybrid strategy that combines precomputed routing tables with a Deep Q-Learning (DQL) fallback mechanism. While fully RL-based schemes offer adaptability to topology dynamics, they often suffer from high complexity, long convergence times, and unstable performance under heavy traffic. In contrast, the proposed framework exploits deterministic table lookups under nominal conditions an…

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
SERVALAN: Have your decoded It?
VOICE: Not yet.
SERVALAN: What is the origin of the message?
VOICE: Unspecified. No Federation code sign was given.
SERVALAN: Decode at once.
VOICE: And Counsellor Joban is here.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/192

My 8 year old is now making custom notebooks and zines in her shop!

A Comprehensive Re-Evaluation of Biometric Modality Properties in the Modern Era
Rouqaiah Al-Refai, Pankaja Priya Ramasamy, Ragini Ramesh, Patricia Arias-Cabarcos, Philipp Terh\"orst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13874

A Comprehensive Re-Evaluation of Biometric Modality Properties in the Modern Era
The rapid advancement of authentication systems and their increasing reliance on biometrics for faster and more accurate user verification experience, highlight the critical need for a reliable framework to evaluate the suitability of biometric modalities for specific applications. Currently, the most widely known evaluation framework is a comparative table from 1998, which no longer adequately captures recent technological developments or emerging vulnerabilities in biometric systems. To addre…

caida_as: CAIDA AS graphs (2004-2007)
A sequence of 122 network snapshots denoting Autonomous System (AS) relationships on the Internet, from 2004-2007, inferred using the Serial-1 method from RouteViews BGP table snapshots and a set of heuristics.
This network has 22706 nodes and 92826 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Assembled a new potting table for Collette. Turned out nicely.
Collette has always had a passion for gardening, and has dramatically increased her gardening efforts post retirement. She’s been propagating roses this summer. Her first round she had about a 3% success rate. She’s learned and steadily improved the process. Latest batch - 40%. She has become a 10x gardener.
I’ve become a 10x furniture assembler.

The Lego (building) table is finished. My son already has plans to move his in progress build to finish it.
#woodworking
#finished

It's been a while since I've last used #crypto (and by that I don't mean coins but oldschool #cryptography : encrypting and signing mails, etc.), and lately I've only used #gpg …

So Zelensky does the first meeting with Trump, he surely has prepared this fully with the european leaders which will join in the second meeting. My guess, they first of all don't want to leave with a fight, no outcome is better then a heated argument. The best outcome is probably some kind of common approach, no matter how vague. If it gets the Putin approach from the table it is a win.
#Zelensky

Well, then. I see VW is off the table when it comes time to trade in our car. No way in hell am I paying for a car, and then adding a subscription to unlock the features that are built in to it.
VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62weyp4

VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power
The German car-maker says its "optional power upgrade" is designed to give customers more choice.

An LLM Agent-Based Complex Semantic Table Annotation Approach
Yilin Geng, Shujing Wang, Chuan Wang, Keqing He, Yanfei Lv, Ying Wang, Zaiwen Feng, Xiaoying Bai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12868

An LLM Agent-Based Complex Semantic Table Annotation Approach
The Semantic Table Annotation (STA) task, which includes Column Type Annotation (CTA) and Cell Entity Annotation (CEA), maps table contents to ontology entities and plays important roles in various semantic applications. However, complex tables often pose challenges such as semantic loss of column names or cell values, strict ontological hierarchy requirements, homonyms, spelling errors, and abbreviations, which hinder annotation accuracy. To address these issues, this paper proposes an LLM-bas…

How men imagine getting their scars:
• fighting ferocious beasts
• saving maidens from harm
• doing daring things
How men actually get their scars:
• slipping on the mud
• hitting their leg against the table while cleaning
• walking with their hands too close to thorny bushes
• possibly, playing with ferocious beasts of the species felis catus

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DB. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DB/new
[1/1]:
- TabulaX: Leveraging Large Language Models for Multi-Class Table Transformations
Arash Dargahi Nobari, Davood Rafiei

We visited a nearby #summit today. You can see my home on the photo 😉
It's a lovely day today and we spent some time there watching paragliders and the autumn leaf. - afterwards we drove to a café for some soup, coffee and cake.
Yes we're enjoying and relaxing today.
#hiking …

We're all really used to an FBI that is incredibly evil, but generally pretty competent. They have no problem using child sex offenders to infiltrate groups of clowns. They have no problem trying to convince civil rights leaders to commit suicide. They have no problem with sowing confusion within leftists groups and trying to get them to kill each other. They've always been radically anti-left, but they've also always been competent.
Fabricating evidence in a really obvious way would always have been off the table because they wouldn't be willing to throw a case. But those competent people have been pushed out of the FBI. It's now Kash Patel's clown show. It serves the whims of the regime above all else. It will sacrifice decades of hard built trust for a quick win, because no one involved is competent enough to understand the consequences of such actions.
In the past, they may have used torture to elicit a confession. They may have entrapped people. They could have deleted exonerating evidence, but they would probably not have just completely manufactured obviously fake evidence just to forward the regime's narrative. I don't think that we've seen anything like this, at the very least in our lifetimes.
We have to foster a new level of skepticism, far beyond what we have been used to... and this is especially true of Liberals, who still don't understand the level of corruption and incompetence in local law enforcement today.
#USPol #CharlieKirk

TIL Intel has already published a few more FIT spec revisions that I had missed.
https://edc.intel.com/content/www/de/de/design/products-and-solutions/software-and-services/firmware-a…

Ceist agus Craic for Catherine!
Table Quiz this Wed Sept 17th at Massimo Bar Galway, doors at 7pm
€10 per person.
All funds raised will go directly to the Catherine Connolly TD Presidential Campaign.
Link to register - bígí linn!
https://shorturl.at/VOItx

🤺 Left-handers rank high in fencing and table tennis
#sports

Left-handers rank high in fencing and table tennis
Being left-handed seems to be an advantage in some sports, according to a study of athletes in world-rankings.

Wadephul: Deutsche Soldaten in Ukraine "würden uns überfordern"
Wie kann ein mögliches Friedensabkommen abgesichert werden? Bundesaußenminister Johann Wadephul hat sich dazu im Podcast des Medienportals table.media geäußert. Deutschland werde bei einer möglichen Friedenssicherung eine wichtige Rolle übernehmen müssen, sagte er. Die Ukraine brauche Sicherheitsgarantien. Die USA hätten angedeutet, daz…
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Deutschland will Stabilitätsanker in der NATO sein
Die NATO erlebt bewegte Zeiten - nicht nur wegen des Kriegs in der Ukraine. Die Bundesregierung will sich beim NATO-Gipfel als verlässlicher Partner präsentieren. Doch manche haben Zweifel an Deutschlands Rolle.

Ceist agus Craic for Catherine!
Table Quiz this Wed Sept 17th at Massimo Bar Galway, doors at 7pm
€10 per person.
All funds raised will go directly to the Catherine Connolly TD Presidential Campaign.
Link to register - bígí linn!
https://shorturl.at/VOItx

Made a mezze dinner last night at a friend’s home and got to meet some cool people. At the same time, I’m having major fomo about missing the last night of Slippurinn.

Kickstarted a credit-card-sized dice replacement.
For IRL D&D it was fine, but dials spin forever. Made dice tray pointless, while less satisfying. Even though I choose yellow text on black, hard for me to see in mood-lit basement on table
For Shadowrun, 6D6 is embarrassingly insufficient, given I regularly roll 14D6. The VTT roller is far better (since it does the math on pools and successes).
But they’re sturdy and hefty! Which means my mini metal dice are lighter an…

'On the table': Jim Jordan opens the door to impeaching judges who restrain Trump - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/jim-jordan-table-judges/

US, Russia Agreed on Ukraine Security Pledges, Witkoff Says (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-17/rubio-says-ukraine-ceasefire-still-on-table-as-trump-seeks-deal
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p22#a250817p22

ok @… i have found the part where the toot! app lets you PLAY POOL WITH PEOPLE YOU FOLLOW??? what is this app even lmao

"I don't have time for checking stuff, Liam. My friends online show me the truth. There are too many inmigrants"
Mary, a nurse whose frustrations spill over into family life. As tensions rise around the dinner table, the film explores how personal struggles can shape beliefs and conversations.
https://www.youtube…

So @… has federated a whole bunch of #media accounts and I have added many to my table.
⬇️
https://

Brewer’s Blackbird, patiently waiting for lunch to be served. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. May, 2023. #cambriaca #moonstonebeach #blackbird

The Periodic Table Of Finite Simple Groups

From Hitchin Systems to Rational Elliptic Surfaces with C*-actions via Orbifold Hilbert Schemes
Yonghong Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14812 https://arx…

From Hitchin Systems to Rational Elliptic Surfaces with C*-actions via Orbifold Hilbert Schemes
Using orbifold Hilbert schemes, we compactify all two-dimensional Hitchin systems corresponding to types A0-tilde, D4-tilde, E6-tilde, E7-tilde, and E8-tilde, thereby obtaining four rational elliptic surfaces with C*-actions. Their singular fibers and relative minimal models are listed in the main table. To this end, we prove that Hilbert schemes of orbifold surfaces are connected smooth projective schemes under suitable conditions, and we use the Hilbert-Chow morphism to construct the minimal …

Daisy: An Exercise Environment for Learning Information Modeling
Presented by Jessica Belicia Cahyono, joint work with Youyou Cong, Hidehiko Masuhara
#icfpsplash25

That thing on a Monday morning where you find a git repo in mid-rebase state from Friday, and have a mild panic trying to remember what you were thinking at the point of the Friday-afternoon-table-flip.

Zufällig hab ich mitbekommen, dass gerade das #bcki um ist, und zwar hier auf #mastodon. Die Bilder zu sehen hat mich direkt nostalgisch gemacht und es ist toll zu sehen dass auch so viele bekannte Gesichter noch dabei sind. Ich bin ja leider schon lange (jetzt schon über 10 Jahre! Wie die Zeit…

Lego table is coming along. The center piece is done. And ready to be finished. I need to make the legs for both sides (4x) and the two leaves.
We have a good idea on the finish. The "walnut" color on the top right is so far the preference.
#woodworking
#inprogress

Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Routing for Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
Brian Kim, Justin H. Kong, Terrence J. Moore, Fikadu T. Dagefu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14884

Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Routing for Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
Routing in multi-hop wireless networks is a complex problem, especially in heterogeneous networks where multiple wireless communication technologies coexist. Reinforcement learning (RL) methods, such as Q-learning, have been introduced for decentralized routing by allowing nodes to make decisions based on local observations. However, Q-learning suffers from scalability issues and poor generalization due to the difficulty in managing the Q-table in large or dynamic network topologies, especially…

great podcast about #HackersMovie especially the part where they liken it to other movies where kids go on an adventure and have a lair: Peter Pan or The Goonies
https://duck.haus/@joesteel/1152111371

Been busy updating the #Trajectools archival records over at #SDSL2025

The hotel setup #ubuntu #thinkpad #T480s

Love the ambiguous acronyms *within a domain*:
- FIT may mean Firmware Interface Table or Flash Image Tool
- FPT may mean Flash Partition Table or Flash Programming Tool
Edit: All of those are terms from the wonderful world of Intel firmware.

Visual-TableQA: Open-Domain Benchmark for Reasoning over Table Images
Boammani Aser Lompo, Marc Haraoui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07966 https://arxiv.org/…

Visual-TableQA: Open-Domain Benchmark for Reasoning over Table Images
Visual reasoning over structured data such as tables is a critical capability for modern vision-language models (VLMs), yet current benchmarks remain limited in scale, diversity, or reasoning depth, especially when it comes to rendered table images. Addressing this gap, we introduce Visual-TableQA, a large-scale, open-domain multimodal dataset specifically designed to evaluate and enhance visual reasoning over complex tabular data. Our generation pipeline is modular, scalable, and fully autonom…

Make fancy tables: #rstats #tables

That whole shooting scene in the diner with all the standing on the table was so unrealistic.
#DebateAMovieExtraneously #HashTagGames

Ok, #Obsidian bases just caught me: bulk editing frontmatter across files in a table. So blazing fast...

Not a guarantuee for succes or a meaningful outcome but Europe is at the table in Washington and Zelensky has some "cards" (instead of none), if you see who are present.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Emmanuel Macron.
Friedrich Merz.
Keir Starmer.
Giorgia Meloni.
Alexander Stubb.
Ursula von der Leyen.
(NATO) Mark Rutte.
#EU

Reservations plunge across DC restaurants after Trump's police takeover (Jordan Fischer/WUSA)
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/reservations-plunge-across-dc-restaurants-after-president-donald-trumps-police-takeover-summer-restaurant-week-district-open-table/65-e83cc2e7-a921-401a-ba35-960c77f8da14
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p36#a250817p36

Looking for a phantomjs alternative, ran a search and ended up on a page with a seemingly good comparison of possibilities, until you realize the page is on zenrows.com domain. I don't think I'll take YOUR word for your product. Not sure what snakeoil they might be selling but feels overtly self-aggrandizing at least

What’s on your musical reading table? #musicianresources https://muz4now.com/2022/whats-on-your-musical-reading-table

What's on your musical reading table?
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The co-founder of landlord app Airbnb is now Chief Design Officer of the USA. And the UX commentariat cheers, because the vibes of a "seat at the table" play better than the reality: the same government that appointed Joe Gebbia has just demolished 18F, an actual design studio that did actual UX work for the USA, rather than meaningless posturing.
This is not the first time UX has made this bargain: have a seat at the table, only if you can pledge to do nothing with it.

The aesthetics of success come at the cost of failure
It's easy to get a seat at the table. Just agree to become part of the problem.

#coffeeneuring ride 2
Really nice and cheap coffee around the corner.
https://strava.app.link/Pkx6L6QAuXb

Using #Orgmode for so many years, I just recently stumbled over the Elisp function "org-copy-visible" which is practical as hell: it copies the currently visible characters.
So you can collapse/expand, mark a region and then copy only the visible parts of it.
Particular helpful when you paste into non-Emacs or non-orgdown situations. Or to manually generate some table of conten…

Broncos WR Courtland Sutton suggests he left money on the table to keep the roster together: ‘It wasn’t about me' https://www.nfl.com/news/broncos-wr-courtland-sutton-suggests-he-left-money-on-the-table-to-…

Smaller Circuits for Bit Addition
Mikhail Goncharov, Alexander S. Kulikov, Georgie Levtsov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13966 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1396…

Smaller Circuits for Bit Addition
Bit addition arises virtually everywhere in digital circuits: arithmetic operations, increment/decrement operators, computing addresses and table indices, and so on. Since bit addition is such a basic task in Boolean circuit synthesis, a lot of research has been done on constructing efficient circuits for various special cases of it. A vast majority of these results are devoted to optimizing the circuit depth (also known as delay). In this paper, we investigate the circuit size (also known as…

Whole Body Model Predictive Control for Spin-Aware Quadrupedal Table Tennis
David Nguyen, Zulfiqar Zaidi, Kevin Karol, Jessica Hodgins, Zhaoming Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08754

Whole Body Model Predictive Control for Spin-Aware Quadrupedal Table Tennis
Developing table tennis robots that mirror human speed, accuracy, and ability to predict and respond to the full range of ball spins remains a significant challenge for legged robots. To demonstrate these capabilities we present a system to play dynamic table tennis for quadrupedal robots that integrates high speed perception, trajectory prediction, and agile control. Our system uses external cameras for high-speed ball localization, physical models with learned residuals to infer spin and pred…

Douro valley hiking day 6. Completed our circuit back to Pinhaõ and celebrated with some port.#portugal #hiking #port #wine

With Apache NiFi, a multimodal data pipelining tool, you can assemble existing and/or custom Java & Python processors into a variety of flows. At Berlin Buzzwords 2025, Lester Martin discussed how a rich data pipeline can be constructed from Kafka, stored using the Apache Iceberg table format and consumed from Trino.
Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/2yH9PfiXb9Y?si=Xhi_xDMzLQOps8my
Berlin Buzzwords returns on 7-9 June 2026! Get 36% off with our Trust Us Ticket: https://tickets.plainschwarz.com/bbuzz26/c/8Hvk0ZvJA/

Ok, San Francisco, let's get our act together. Spritzes are 6 euro flat around these parts.

The Netherlands has a housing shortage. In the run-up to the October elections, some politicians are claiming we're 1 million homes short. Not true.
We're 396,000 homes (4.8%) short, while 170,000 (2%) is seen as a normal, manageable shortage. So we would need 226,000 additional homes now.

Moin! Es ist leider wirklich so schön hier. #nofilter #Uckermark #project25

A Broadband Squeezed Light Source for Table-Top Interferometry
Fabio Bergamin, Nikitha Kuntimaddi, Abhinav Patra, Stephanie Montoya, Moritz Mehmet, Katherine Dooley, Hartmut Grote, Henning Vahlbruch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08857

A Broadband Squeezed Light Source for Table-Top Interferometry
We report on the characterisation of one of two broadband squeezed light sources developed for the Quantum Enhanced Space-Time (QUEST) experiment, using balanced homodyne detection. QUEST consists of a pair of co-located, table-top, power-recycled Michelson interferometers designed to probe stationary space-time fluctuations. The interferometers are designed to be shot-noise limited in the frequency range from 1 to 200 MHz, and squeezed light will be employed with the goal to reduce the shot no…

PanelTR: Zero-Shot Table Reasoning Framework Through Multi-Agent Scientific Discussion
Yiran Rex Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06110 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

PanelTR: Zero-Shot Table Reasoning Framework Through Multi-Agent Scientific Discussion
Table reasoning, including tabular QA and fact verification, often depends on annotated data or complex data augmentation, limiting flexibility and generalization. LLMs, despite their versatility, often underperform compared to simple supervised models. To approach these issues, we introduce PanelTR, a framework utilizing LLM agent scientists for robust table reasoning through a structured scientific approach. PanelTR's workflow involves agent scientists conducting individual investigations, en…

My partner and I were out to dinner last night. Five teen girls showed up. They sat down ordered food, then chatted, laughed, and engaged with each other. A bit later five teen boys came in, sat down a table over from the girls, and each one was hunched over the table with their face in their phones… I’m not even sure they spoke to each other.
We left about 10 minutes after the boys arrived but goddamn I hope they stopped staring at their phones.

Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
TRAVIS: I don't break that easily.
SERVALAN: You were expected to resign the service. Why didn't you?
TRAVIS: I've told you, I want my command back. It's the only way I can catch -
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/112/235 B7B5

Table legs attached to my Lego table. Just needs the leaves now and it will be done.
#woodworking
#inprogress

caida_as: CAIDA AS graphs (2004-2007)
A sequence of 122 network snapshots denoting Autonomous System (AS) relationships on the Internet, from 2004-2007, inferred using the Serial-1 method from RouteViews BGP table snapshots and a set of heuristics.
This network has 21245 nodes and 84962 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

from my link log —
A comprehensive list of Wayland compositors.
https://www.gilesorr.com/wm/table.html
saved 2025-05-26 https://

Not such long walks today as it was raining. But the rain made some beautiful mood and we enjoyed some coffee and cake afterwards.

From Surface to Semantics: Semantic Structure Parsing for Table-Centric Document Analysis
Xuan Li, Jialiang Dong, Raymond Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10311 https://

From Surface to Semantics: Semantic Structure Parsing for Table-Centric Document Analysis
Documents are core carriers of information and knowl-edge, with broad applications in finance, healthcare, and scientific research. Tables, as the main medium for structured data, encapsulate key information and are among the most critical document components. Existing studies largely focus on surface-level tasks such as layout analysis, table detection, and data extraction, lacking deep semantic parsing of tables and their contextual associations. This limits advanced tasks like cross-paragrap…

The table's final dry fit. It's almost perfectly level which was one thing I was worried about.
Also, the glue up with shims.
Tomorrow, the finishing goes on and it should be ready to attach the top
#woodworking
#inprogress

My new hat!
#NewHat #Ireland #Irish #Fashion

Bel Air Seen at the Super Cream (great Soft Serve North of Homer!) heading back from Sunday's Car Show
#photo #photography #cars

My kid hade some time to kill after school... so she went picking mushrooms with a friend - and gave it to ME!

Security mechanism inspired by NATO Article 5 remains 'main one on the table,' Meloni says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/security-mechanism-inspired-by-nato.html

Table is finished and installed. Mac LC III has FINALLY been moved out of my office.
#woodworking
#retrocomputing

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
TARRANT: In the absence of a more pressing engagement.
AVON: I am not asking THEM to kill him.
CALLY: But pointless revenge, it doesn't achieve anything.
https://blake.t…

from my link log —
Hashed radix sort with batched operations is typically faster than a hash table.
https://reiner.org/hashed-sorting
saved 2025-09-08

Hashed sorting is typically faster than hash tables
Benchmarks and theoretical explanation of why and when hashed radix sort beats hash tables.

Trump, 79, Awkwardly Hides Bruised Hands Under the Table During Tech Bro Dinner (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-hides-bruised-hands-under-the-table-during-tech-bro-dinner/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p84#a250905p84

TEN: Table Explicitization, Neurosymbolically
Nikita Mehrotra, Aayush Kumar, Sumit Gulwani, Arjun Radhakrishna, Ashish Tiwari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09324 https://

TEN: Table Explicitization, Neurosymbolically
We present a neurosymbolic approach, TEN, for extracting tabular data from semistructured input text. This task is particularly challenging for text input that does not use special delimiters consistently to separate columns and rows. Purely neural approaches perform poorly due to hallucinations and their inability to enforce hard constraints. TEN uses Structural Decomposition prompting - a specialized chain-of-thought prompting approach - on a large language model (LLM) to generate an initial …

First Lego table leaf is built and attached. Mistakes were made (and corrected). It looks ok. The gap (1/4") is a little more than I wanted, but I'll know how to fix that going forward (measure better and build over sized). I am happy that it stands up with just one leaf attached. I was concerned that not having the counter balance of the other leaf would cause it to tip.
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Donald Trump's Corruption FINALLY Collides With Kitchen Table Issues (Brian Beutler/Off Message)
https://www.offmessage.net/p/donald-trump-corruption-kitchen-table-issues
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p61#a250804p61

The table top for the new Apple II table is finished. Just curing for a week or so. Still need to build the frame. This one will be simpler than the last. Just a basic mortise and tenon with an extra set of supports about six inches down on the sides and back.
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I wasn't having much luck with my Stanley #4 when flattening this table top. Out of desperation, I grabbed one of my Japanese planes. I've never had much luck with it in the past even though I tried it several times.
Man, that thing ate through the top and flattened it in no time. I hit it with the Stanley for good measure when I was done.
#woodworking