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heise | ROG Xbox Ally (X) im Test: Steam-Deck-Rivale mit leichtem Windows
Ergonomisches Design und schlankeres Windows: Wir testen, wie sich ROG Xbox Ally X und das abgespeckte ROG Xbox Ally bei Leistung und Komfort schlagen.

heise | Bequemer heizen: 9 smarte Heizkörperthermostate im Test
Smarte Heizkörperthermostate regeln die Temperatur und lassen sich aus der Ferne bedienen. Wir testen neun Kandidaten, die man mit dem iPhone steuern kann.

I can't see how anything could possibly go wrong with this #MentalHealth

Your AI 'Twin' Could Soon Test And Treat Your Mental Health
When we hear the word "twins", we tend to think of two identical people who share physical traits, and perhaps certain behaviours or quirks.

BoN Appetit Team at LeWiDi-2025: Best-of-N Test-time Scaling Can Not Stomach Annotation Disagreements (Yet)
Tomas Ruiz, Siyao Peng, Barbara Plank, Carsten Schwemmer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12516

BoN Appetit Team at LeWiDi-2025: Best-of-N Test-time Scaling Can Not Stomach Annotation Disagreements (Yet)
Test-time scaling is a family of techniques to improve LLM outputs at inference time by performing extra computation. To the best of our knowledge, test-time scaling has been limited to domains with verifiably correct answers, like mathematics and coding. We transfer test-time scaling to the LeWiDi-2025 tasks to evaluate annotation disagreements. We experiment with three test-time scaling methods: two benchmark algorithms (Model Averaging and Majority Voting), and a Best-of-N sampling method. T…

💊 Vålerenga call for anti-doping changes after artificial pitch causes footballer to fail drug test
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/26/valerenga-anti-doping-changes-artificial-pitch-causes-footb…

Vålerenga call for anti-doping changes after artificial pitch causes footballer to fail drug test
Vålerenga have called for anti-doping regulations to be strengthened after a player in their women’s team was found to have ingested a banned stimulant from rubber crumb in a pitch

The Morgan-Pitman Test of Equality of Variances and its Application to Machine Learning Model Evaluation and Selection
Argimiro Arratia, Alejandra Caba\~na, Ernesto Mordecki, Gerard Rovira-Parra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12185

The Morgan-Pitman Test of Equality of Variances and its Application to Machine Learning Model Evaluation and Selection
Model selection in non-linear models often prioritizes performance metrics over statistical tests, limiting the ability to account for sampling variability. We propose the use of a statistical test to assess the equality of variances in forecasting errors. The test builds upon the classic Morgan-Pitman approach, incorporating enhancements to ensure robustness against data with heavy-tailed distributions or outliers with high variance, plus a strategy to make residuals from machine learning mode…

PSA about food labeling in the US
We have a gluten detection service dog because many things that should be gluten free/say they’re gluten free are not actually gluten free.
Stuff gets contaminated when growing (e.g. next to wheat field), by shared equipment, in factories, from packaging, during transport and in-store.
Every US consumer should know:
1. The list of ingredients on food isn't exhaustive
2. Allergen labeling:
a) limited to just some allergens
b) manufacturers don't actually have to test
c) "certified" foods are tested—but not continuously
d) testing only works with enough contamination
Some certifications may require batch-testing, but usually they don't.
A "certified gluten free" product may e.g. contain oats which sometimes are contaminated with gluten—but as not every batch is tested it's impossible to know unless you test yourself (hence the service dog).
Even if the product is properly batch-tested, you might get a part of the product that has the allergen in it, whereas the tested part didn't.
Or the threshold was too low (our dog can detect gluten better than any available lab testing equipment; yes, dogs are amazing).
Food products also contain ingredients that do not have to be included on the label when they're "incidental" (included in an another ingredient) or if they're considered part of the manufacturing process but not of the final product (e.g. various coatings on factory equipment).
Don't need to list flavors or specific spices either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As for allergens, only those responsible for ~90% of food allergies* have to be specifically declared, and they're not tested for as it's simply based on the ingredients list.
Good luck if you have other allergies.
*milk, egg, egg, fish, Crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, soybeans

Interessant: In meinem Artikel vom Dienstag über E-Mail-Weiterleitungen waren natürlich als Beispiele einige E-Mail-Adressen zu lesen.
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/anbieter-von-e-mail-aliassen-im-test-mail-aliasse-teil-1/
Bereits heute tref…

Ach du meine Güte!
Ich hatte so eben aus Neugier und Spass bei einigen kommerziellen Passworts management Services mal meine Demo-Passwörter geprüft. Die sind sehr simpel und sollten nirgends verwendet werden, denn die sind mehr als nur eratbar.
Was zeigen mir deren Webseiten an beim Passwort-Test?!?? Genau ich hätte anscheinend nur sichere Demo/Test Passwörter angewendet. Ich nehme ihre Nachricht mal als Marketing wahr und nicht der Realität von Profis 🤦

A Martingale Kernel Two-Sample Test
Anirban Chatterjee, Aaditya Ramdas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11853 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11853

A Martingale Kernel Two-Sample Test
The Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) is a widely used multivariate distance metric for two-sample testing. The standard MMD test statistic has an intractable null distribution typically requiring costly resampling or permutation approaches for calibration. In this work we leverage a martingale interpretation of the estimated squared MMD to propose martingale MMD (mMMD), a quadratic-time statistic which has a limiting standard Gaussian distribution under the null. Moreover we show that the test is…

Sticker collection for 39C3 is complete. 500 of each iso8601ultras, "We do not test on animals, we test in production" and a large stack "Nett hier. Aber waren Sie schon mal in Ankh-Morpork?"
Will be distributed in trading boxes/stacks/heaps
#39c3 #stickers

TPSQLi: Test Prioritization for SQL Injection Vulnerability Detection in Web Applications
Guan-Yan Yang, Farn Wang, You-Zong Gu, Ya-Wen Teng, Kuo-Hui Yeh, Ping-Hsueh Ho, Wei-Ling Wen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10920

TPSQLi: Test Prioritization for SQL Injection Vulnerability Detection in Web Applications
The rapid proliferation of network applications has led to a significant increase in network attacks. According to the OWASP Top 10 Projects report released in 2021, injection attacks rank among the top three vulnerabilities in software projects. This growing threat landscape has increased the complexity and workload of software testing, necessitating advanced tools to support agile development cycles. This paper introduces a novel test prioritization method for SQL injection vulnerabilities to…

Spin-induced Quadrupole Moment (SIQM) Test for Eccentric Compact Binaries
Syed U. Naqvi, Chandra Kant Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10675 https://arxiv…

Spin-induced Quadrupole Moment (SIQM) Test for Eccentric Compact Binaries
Spin-induced deformations of individual components of a binary can be quantified using the gravitational wave signal the binary emits. Such deformations are characterised by a parameter, $ κ$, which takes a value of 1 for a black hole and thus its measurement can be used to test the no-hair conjecture. However, in practice, only a symmetric combination of this parameter for a binary ($ κ_s $) can be measured, thus instead enabling a test for the no-hair conjecture in the context of a binary b…

Data-Model Co-Evolution: Growing Test Sets to Refine LLM Behavior
Minjae Lee, Minsuk Kahng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12728 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.1272…

Data-Model Co-Evolution: Growing Test Sets to Refine LLM Behavior
A long-standing challenge in machine learning has been the rigid separation between data work and model refinement, enforced by slow fine-tuning cycles. The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) overcomes this historical barrier, allowing applications developers to instantly govern model behavior by editing prompt instructions. This shift enables a new paradigm: data-model co-evolution, where a living test set and a model's instructions evolve in tandem. We operationalize this paradigm in an int…

The Lovelace Test of Intelligence: Can Humans Recognise and Esteem AI-Generated Art?
Ewelina Gajewska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11371 https://arxiv.org/pd…

The Lovelace Test of Intelligence: Can Humans Recognise and Esteem AI-Generated Art?
This study aims to evaluate machine intelligence through artistic creativity by employing a modified version of the Turing Test inspired by Lady Lovelace. It investigates two hypotheses: whether human judges can reliably distinguish AI-generated artworks from human-created ones and whether AI-generated art achieves comparable aesthetic value to human-crafted works. The research contributes to understanding machine creativity and its implications for cognitive science and AI technology. Particip…

I just finished working my way through @…’s TDD book.
The exercise of writing a test framework to run the tests driving the development of my test framework in Python was truly a joy to work through.
Code here in case anyone is curious:

😻 New test can flag drugs that could be harmful to cats
#cats

New test can flag drugs that could be harmful to cats
A new test developed at Washington State University will help pharmaceutical companies, veterinarians and regulatory agencies identify drugs that may trigger severe—but preventable—neurological side effects in some cats.

AppLovin shut down Array last quarter, calling it "a test product" that wasn't "economically viable", after allegations it led to unwanted Android app installs (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

On the universal calibration of Pareto-type linear combination tests
Parijat Chakraborty, F. Richard Guo, Kerby Shedden, Stilian Stoev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12066 https://

On the universal calibration of Pareto-type linear combination tests
It is often of interest to test a global null hypothesis using multiple, possibly dependent, $p$-values by combining their strengths while controlling the Type I error. Recently, several heavy-tailed combinations tests, such as the harmonic mean test and the Cauchy combination test, have been proposed: they map $p$-values into heavy-tailed random variables before combining them in some fashion into a single test statistic. The resulting tests, which are calibrated under the assumption of indepe…

Quick teaser / test video of the PIC12F683 project.
Anyone have thoughts on format/audio quality etc?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQoWavKAhbA

Blick hinter Türchen - Täuschend oder traumhaft? Adventkalender im Test #News #Nachrichten

I've just bought test materials to evaluate the relative strengths of a flax/balsa sandwich composite versus a carbon/Nomex (aramid) sandwich composite.
Yes, I know the carbon/Nomex will be stronger, but would the flax/balsa be strong enough for my #Tricycle project?
#BikeTooter

Kleiner Test:
Zick-Zick-Z...
(Sorry, wer es kennt, erinnert sich sofort!)

Heute vor 55 Jahren: Am 16. Dezember 1970 kam es zum #Atomtest "Artesia". Die Operation #Emery war eine US-Serie von 24 Atomtestdetonationen zwischen 1970/71. Sie wurden auf dem Nevada Test Site (NST) unterirdisch durchgeführt und dienten der Waffenentwicklung.

MockK: Under the cover
#Kotlin

I got a pair of rain pants from 33,000ft and they are large enough to fit over my regular pants, so hopefully I can bike in the rain now. It may actually rain tomorrow morning so I might get a chance to test them.

from my link log —
ucs-detect: automatically test the Unicode version and support level of a terminal emulator.
https://ucs-detect.readthedocs.io/
saved 2025-11-15 https:/…

Planning a video"meeting" with friends via #nextcloud talk. I just did a test with my wife and I must admit that I am amazed how easy it just worked!
I'm curious if it works as expected.

Instagram unveils its first TV app, initially available on Amazon's Fire TV as a test with plans to expand to other TV platforms (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-16/instagram-debuts-ded…

Development of a national thrust test facility for electric propulsion at Robinson Research Institute, New Zealand
Emile Webster, Ben Mallett
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10558 ht…

Development of a national thrust test facility for electric propulsion at Robinson Research Institute, New Zealand
The Robinson Research Institute is developing a type of electric propulsion for spacecraft called an applied-field magneto-plasma-dynamic (AF-MPD) thruster. The applied field module of the thruster features a cryocooler-cooled high-temperature-superconducting (HTS) magnet generating central fields exceeding 1 Tesla. This paper reports on the progress to date of the thruster test facilities established at the Institute to enable development of the AF-MPD and electric propulsion in general. The v…

Öffentlicher Nahverkehr, Heinerliner oder doch Carsharing? Mein erster Carsharing-Test mit Book-n-Drive: erst super easy, dann die Überraschung – plötzlich ein anderes Auto, 5 km entfernt! 😅Manchmal top, manchmal flop – aber spannend bleibt’s. Ein erster Preisvergleich zeigt: Carsharing, Heinerliner oder Bahn – preislich gar nicht so weit auseinander #LadeLust ⚡️

Resource-sensitive but language-blind: Community size and not grammatical complexity better predicts the accuracy of Large Language Models in a novel Wug Test
Nikoleta Pantelidou, Evelina Leivada, Paolo Morosi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12463

Resource-sensitive but language-blind: Community size and not grammatical complexity better predicts the accuracy of Large Language Models in a novel Wug Test
The linguistic abilities of Large Language Models are a matter of ongoing debate. This study contributes to this discussion by investigating model performance in a morphological generalization task that involves novel words. Using a multilingual adaptation of the Wug Test, six models were tested across four partially unrelated languages (Catalan, English, Greek, and Spanish) and compared with human speakers. The aim is to determine whether model accuracy approximates human competence and whethe…

DIPLODOCUS II: Implementation of transport equations and test cases relevant to micro-scale physics of jetted astrophysical sources
Christopher N. Everett, Marc Klinger-Plaisier, Garret Cotter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12505

DIPLODOCUS II: Implementation of transport equations and test cases relevant to micro-scale physics of jetted astrophysical sources
DIPLODOCUS (Distribution-In-PLateaux methODOlogy for the CompUtation of transport equationS) is a novel framework being developed for the general transport of particle distribution functions through the seven dimensions of phase space, including forcing terms and interactions between particles. Following Paper I, which details the background analytic framework, this second paper provides an overview of the numerical implementation in the form of the code package Diplodocus.jl, written in Julia,…

D-TPT: Dimensional Entropy Maximization for Calibrating Test-Time Prompt Tuning in Vision-Language Models
Jisu Han, Wonjun Hwang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09473 https://…

D-TPT: Dimensional Entropy Maximization for Calibrating Test-Time Prompt Tuning in Vision-Language Models
Test-time adaptation paradigm provides flexibility towards domain shifts by performing immediate adaptation on unlabeled target data from the source model. Vision-Language Models (VLMs) leverage their generalization capabilities for diverse downstream tasks, and test-time prompt tuning has emerged as a prominent solution for adapting VLMs. In this work, we explore contrastive VLMs and identify the modality gap caused by a single dominant feature dimension across modalities. We observe that the …

A collection of stills from newly released videos of the #Starship returning is now leading https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/auch-suborbital-test-nr-11-verlief-problemlos/ - here are two in full resolution.

Shocked to hear that «After careful consideration, we have decided to stop accepting new customers for Amazon Glacier (original standalone vault-based service) starting on December 15, 2025. There will be no change to the S3 Glacier storage classes as part of this plan». /s
For years I've been duly billed either 0,01 € or 0,00 € per month for some ancient Glacier test I never bothered to clean up. Now that makes me some kind of protected species on

Selection Procedures in Competitive Admission
Nathan Hancart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12653 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12653

Selection Procedures in Competitive Admission
Two identical firms compete to attract and hire from a pool of candidates of unknown productivity. Firms simultaneously post a selection procedure which consists of a test and an acceptance probability for each test outcome. After observing the firms' selection procedures, each candidate can apply to one of them. Both firms have access to a limited set of feasible tests. The firms face two key considerations when choosing their selection procedure: the statistical properties of their test and t…

#TIL
I always struggled with #TestFirst #Programming because it requires much discipline to delay new features and concentrate on test cases first.
But while I was working on my

"Syberia Remastered" im Test: Gefangen zwischen den Zeiten
Ein wunderschönes Grafikadventure wird renoviert. Doch "Syberia Remastered" hat leider auch Schwächen. Kate Walker kämpft mit Mäusen und einer Doppelgängerin.
…

'systemd-analyze' is a useful if random tool that's part of systemd; it's actually got a whole bunch of different useful bits thrown in. The 'blame' , 'plot' and 'critical-chain' subcommands let you debug start up time. 'calendar' and 'timestamp' let you test if your format for a time/date is OK to use in a systemd file; 'verify' lets you check your systemd unit file for errors. There's loads more random bits.

Generative AI-Enabled Adaptive Learning Platform: How I Can Help You Pass Your Driving Test?
Riya Gill, Ievgeniia Kuzminykh, Maher Salem, Bogdan Ghita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11438

Generative AI-Enabled Adaptive Learning Platform: How I Can Help You Pass Your Driving Test?
This study aims to develop an adaptive learning platform that leverages generative AI to automate assessment creation and feedback delivery. The platform provides self-correcting tests and personalised feedback that adapts to each learners progress and history, ensuring a tailored learning experience. The study involves the development and evaluation of a web-based application for revision for the UK Driving Theory Test. The platform generates dynamic, non-repetitive question sets and offers ad…

@… you can use BETA5 now to test hardware compatibility. Install to a USB flash drive.
@…

friends spot in Philly is super fuckin nice and I have been bestowed the honor of sleeping in Da Big Bed while im here :ablobreach:
so gonna just test that out by attempting to nap rn

Managed to put the new Pi music player together before leaving work today. Got it set up with remote control and a quick test of playback. Next stop: Speaker mounting and figuring out if I should bet on physical security through obscurity by making it not easily visible or using a moderately long RCA cable. What’s a reasonable cable length with decent quality cables?

heise | Powerbeats Fit im Test: Hörer mit Haken
Die Powerbeats Fit von Beats halten gut im Ohr und bringen ANC mit. Wie schlagen sie sich im Vergleich zu den AirPods Pro 3?
https://www.heise.de/tests…

""[…] it is our pleasure to announce the availability of #Fedora #Linux 43 beta! This release comes packed with the latest version upgrades of existing features, plus a few new ones too. As with every beta release, this is your opportunity to test out the upcoming Fedora Linux release a…

The Autocar Christmas road test and coffee. Sunday morning is starting well.
#WeirdCarMastodon

On Korovkin-type theorems including exponential test functions on infinite intervals through power series convergence
Dilek S\"oylemez, Mehmet \"Unver
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12568

On Korovkin-type theorems including exponential test functions on infinite intervals through power series convergence
Approximation theory has long been concerned with the development of positive linear operators that effectively approximate classes of functions. Among the most well-known results in this area are Korovkin-type approximation theorems, which provide simple and elegant criteria for convergence by testing only on a small set of functions. Motivated by these classical results and their extensions, we focus on versions that preserve exponential functions and incorporate modern summability techniques…

Representation-Based Exploration for Language Models: From Test-Time to Post-Training
Jens Tuyls, Dylan J. Foster, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Jordan T. Ash
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11686

Representation-Based Exploration for Language Models: From Test-Time to Post-Training
Reinforcement learning (RL) promises to expand the capabilities of language models, but it is unclear if current RL techniques promote the discovery of novel behaviors, or simply sharpen those already present in the base model. In this paper, we investigate the value of deliberate exploration -- explicitly incentivizing the model to discover novel and diverse behaviors -- and aim to understand how the knowledge in pre-trained models can guide this search. Our main finding is that exploration wi…

Titans Revisited: A Lightweight Reimplementation and Critical Analysis of a Test-Time Memory Model
Gavriel Di Nepi, Federico Siciliano, Fabrizio Silvestri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09551

Titans Revisited: A Lightweight Reimplementation and Critical Analysis of a Test-Time Memory Model
By the end of 2024, Google researchers introduced Titans: Learning at Test Time, a neural memory model achieving strong empirical results across multiple tasks. However, the lack of publicly available code and ambiguities in the original description hinder reproducibility. In this work, we present a lightweight reimplementation of Titans and conduct a comprehensive evaluation on Masked Language Modeling, Time Series Forecasting, and Recommendation tasks. Our results reveal that Titans does not …

'That sucks': Who said it? Test your knowledge in the NFL Week 6 quote quiz https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46585863/browns-steelers-rams-ravens-chargers-dolphins-patriots-jaguars-jets-week-6-2025-…

Beyond Test Scores: How Academic Rank Shapes Long-Term Outcomes
Emilia Del Bono, Angus Holford, Tommaso Sartori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11973 https://ar…

Beyond Test Scores: How Academic Rank Shapes Long-Term Outcomes
We study the effects of academic rank using data on the entire population of children enrolled in primary schools in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1962. Exploiting quasi-random variation in peer group composition, we estimate the causal impact of rank on academic performance, noncognitive development, parental investment, and long-term outcomes. Higher rank improves achievement on the high-stakes eleven-plus examination and strengthens internalizing skills (traits related to self-concept and confidenc…

Jiggled interferometer: Ground-based gravitational wave detector using rapidly-repeated free-falling test masses
Shoki Iwaguchi, Bin Wu, Kurumi Umemura, Tomohiro Ishikawa, Kenji Tsuji, Ryota Nishimura, Yuta Michimura, Yutaro Enomoto, Soichiro Morisaki, Yoichi Aso, Tomotada Akutsu, Keiko Kokeyama, Seiji Kawamura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.1…

Jiggled interferometer: Ground-based gravitational wave detector using rapidly-repeated free-falling test masses
We propose the Jiggled Interferometer (JIGI), a novel ground-based gravitational wave detector with space-like sensitivity. Using rapidly-repeated free-fall test masses, JIGI eliminates seismic and suspension thermal noise during free fall. Compared to the Juggled Interferometer, it offers improved angular stability and avoids tracking lasers. We analyze detrending--a required step to remove actuation-induced noise--and show sensitivity gains of about four orders of magnitude in the 0.1-0.3 Hz …

Instagram unveils its first TV app, initially available on Amazon's Fire TV as a test with plans to expand to other TV platforms (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-16/instagram-debuts-ded…

@…
EDIT: nevermind. I converted the references but I'm still open to feedback if you have any.
do you have any advice for me?
I'm surely doing something wrong.
https://

ArtPerception: ASCII Art-based Jailbreak on LLMs with Recognition Pre-test
Guan-Yan Yang, Tzu-Yu Cheng, Ya-Wen Teng, Farn Wanga, Kuo-Hui Yeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10281 htt…

ArtPerception: ASCII Art-based Jailbreak on LLMs with Recognition Pre-test
The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into computer applications has introduced transformative capabilities but also significant security challenges. Existing safety alignments, which primarily focus on semantic interpretation, leave LLMs vulnerable to attacks that use non-standard data representations. This paper introduces ArtPerception, a novel black-box jailbreak framework that strategically leverages ASCII art to bypass the security measures of state-of-the-art (SOTA) LLMs. Unlik…

60 years ago today (maybe), the muir beach acid test, during which the grateful dead & owsley stanley encounter one another for the very first time & owsley promptly freaks out & drives his car into a ditch. muir beach photo from later in the '60s. (sometimes the palo alto acid test is placed on 12/11 & muir beach on 12/18, but rosie mcgee says she met phil lesh for the 1st time on 12/11 & attended palo alto the following week, which seems to settle the matter.) [1/4]…

Yesterday I had to present some stuff to a pretty large group, around 40 people.
What better moment to install my KDE spin of the Nixbook project (codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/asterix-saigon) for a real life test?
I have only one issue with it.
It just keeps working 🤣
#nixos #kde

Für das @… habe ich drei bekannte E-Mail-Alias-Dienste getestet:
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/anbieter-von-e-mail-alias…

Anbieter von E-Mail-Aliassen im Test – Mail-Aliasse Teil 1
Vergleich moderner E-Mail-Alias-Dienste: Addy.io, Firefox Relay und Proton Pass im Test – Datenschutz, Funktionen und Alltagstauglichkeit.

New full leadframe skeletonization test. Will it work?

More Screen Time Linked To Lower Test Scores For Elementary Students - Slashdot
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0036214/more-screen-time-linked-to-lower-test-scores-for-elementary-students

Heute vor 55 Jahren: Am 16.12.1970 kam es simultan zu 4 #Atomtests "Avens-Andorre/Alkermes/Asamite/Cream". Die Operation #Emery war eine US-Serie von 24 Tests zwischen 1970/71. Sie wurden auf dem Nevada Test Site (NST) unterirdisch durchgeführt und dienten der Waffenentwicklung.

Raider Nation Origin Stories: Meet James Hollins, America's unsung first Black nuclear test leader https://www.raiders.com/news/raider-nation-origin-stories-meet-james-hollins-america-s-unsung-first-black-nuclear-tes…

why does my state's offical driver test practice app look like it was created by a 12yo on codepen

heise | Fotodaten-Manager MetaImage für macOS im Test
MetaImage hilft dabei, Metadaten von Fotos einzusehen und zu bearbeiten.
https://www.heise.de/tests/Fotodaten-Manag

from my link log —
The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algorithms.
https://github.com/Voultapher/sort-research-rs/blob/main/writeup/unreasonable/text.md
saved 2025-09-14

sort-research-rs/writeup/unreasonable/text.md at main · Voultapher/sort-research-rs
Test and benchmark suite for sort implementations. - Voultapher/sort-research-rs

A Kolmogorov-Smirnov-Type Test for Dependently Double-Truncated Data
Anne-Marie Toparkus, Rafael Weissbach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11517 https://arxiv.o…

A Kolmogorov-Smirnov-Type Test for Dependently Double-Truncated Data
With double-truncated lifespans, we test the hypothesis of a parametric distribution family for the lifespan. The typical finding from demography is an instationary behaviour of the life expectancy, and a copula models the resulting weak dependence of lifespan and the age at truncation. Our main example is the Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenststern copula. The test is based on Donsker-class arguments and the functional delta method for empirical processes. The assumptions also allow parametric inference, …

Die Verantwortlichen haben nicht verstanden, dass die Zeit der symbolischen Projekte vorbei ist. FCAS wäre kein Prestige‑Spielplatz für Luftfahrtkonzerne, sondern ein Stresstest für die viel beschworene „strategische Souveränität“. Besteht Europa diesen Test nicht, wird die Abhängigkeit von US‑Systemen zementiert – und jeder weitere Appell an „europäische Eigenständigkeit“ zur leeren Hülse. | Horst Schulte | Warum Europas Kampfjet-Projekt scheitert

🏃‍♀️ Air Force announces new force-wide fitness test: 2-mile run, twice per year
#airforce

Air Force announces new force-wide fitness test: 2-mile run, twice per year
Airmen will also undergo a body composition analysis as part of the test that measures their waist circumference against their height.

Agentic Property-Based Testing: Finding Bugs Across the Python Ecosystem
Muhammad Maaz, Liam DeVoe, Zac Hatfield-Dodds, Nicholas Carlini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09907 https:/…

Agentic Property-Based Testing: Finding Bugs Across the Python Ecosystem
Property-based testing (PBT) is a lightweight formal method, typically implemented as a randomized testing framework. Users specify the input domain for their test using combinators supplied by the PBT framework, and the expected properties or invariants as a unit-test function. The framework then searches for a counterexample, e.g. by generating inputs and calling the test function. In this work, we demonstrate an LLM-based agent which analyzes Python modules, infers function-specific and cros…

Shares of Tesla closed at a 2025 high on Monday after the company confirmed it is testing driverless vehicles in Austin without a human safety operator (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/15/tesla-tests-driverless-cars-in-austin…

Tesla stock closes at 2025 high after Musk confirms driverless Robotaxi tests underway in Austin
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a social media post that his company is testing driverless cars in Austin without a safety driver in the vehicle.

"Anno 117" im Test: Rom für Zuckerbäcker
Produktionsketten sind wichtig, aber auch nicht alles: Mit "Anno 117" bedient die Serie alte Stärken und punktet vor allem mit einer wunderschönen Antike.
https://www.…

Trixie update: Ceph got uninstalled from my storage cluster node due to package version conflicts or something.
This is a bit of a problem. (I did test on one node of a 3-way redudnant cluster so loss of one isn't the end of the world but it's an annoyance...)

This Week in Sports Trivia: October 16, 2025 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6720263/2025/10/16/this-week-in-sports-trivia-october-16-2025/

Learning-To-Measure: In-context Active Feature Acquisition
Yuta Kobayashi, Zilin Jing, Jiayu Yao, Hongseok Namkoong, Shalmali Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12624 https://

Learning-To-Measure: In-context Active Feature Acquisition
Active feature acquisition (AFA) is a sequential decision-making problem where the goal is to improve model performance for test instances by adaptively selecting which features to acquire. In practice, AFA methods often learn from retrospective data with systematic missingness in the features and limited task-specific labels. Most prior work addresses acquisition for a single predetermined task, limiting scalability. To address this limitation, we formalize the meta-AFA problem, where the goal…

Duolingo launches a five-episode anime series in collaboration with Titmouse, premiering October 13 on YouTube, as a marketing campaign (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/duolingo-anime-series-final-test-…

Why Duolingo Is Launching Its Own Anime Series 'The Final Test'
Duolingo has cast Duo, its lovable and plucky owl mascot, as the star of the company's first-ever anime series, '最後の決戦 (The Final Test).

»Passwortmanager — Test offenbart Sicherheitslücken bei Nutzerdaten:
Passwortmanager im Test - Nur drei von zehn Produkten verschlüsseln alle Daten komplett. Bei einigen können Hersteller auf Passwörter zugreifen«
Ein Argument mehr um dem Open-Source Passwort-Manager @… & Co zu vertrauen. Immer noch wird dis verhältnismässig von wenigen priv. &am…

Sicherheitslücken bei Passwortmanagern: Viele Anbieter verschlüsseln Daten unvollständig
Passwortmanager im Test: Nur drei von zehn Produkten verschlüsseln alle Daten komplett. Bei einigen können Hersteller auf Passwörter zugreifen.

Efficient Real-World Deblurring using Single Images: AIM 2025 Challenge Report
Daniel Feijoo, Paula Garrido-Mellado, Marcos V. Conde, Jaesung Rim, Alvaro Garcia, Sunghyun Cho, Radu Timofte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12788

Efficient Real-World Deblurring using Single Images: AIM 2025 Challenge Report
This paper reviews the AIM 2025 Efficient Real-World Deblurring using Single Images Challenge, which aims to advance in efficient real-blur restoration. The challenge is based on a new test set based on the well known RSBlur dataset. Pairs of blur and degraded images in this dataset are captured using a double-camera system. Participant were tasked with developing solutions to effectively deblur these type of images while fulfilling strict efficiency constraints: fewer than 5 million model para…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[9/11]:
- Inducing Uncertainty for Test-Time Privacy
Muhammad H. Ashiq, Peter Triantafillou, Hung Yun Tseng, Grigoris G. Chrysos

„Routine“ im Test: Im Weltraum hört dich jeder laufen
„Routine“ ist ein kurzer, visuell umwerfender Reparaturbesuch auf einer Mondbasis mit Mörderbots, der sich manchmal selbst im Weg steht.
https://www.

Raider Nation Origin Stories: Meet James Hollins, America's unsung first Black nuclear test leader https://www.raiders.com/news/raider-nation-origin-stories-meet-james-hollins-america-s-unsung-first-black-nuclear-tes…

Search-based Hyperparameter Tuning for Python Unit Test Generation
Stephan Lukasczyk, Gordon Fraser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08716 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Search-based Hyperparameter Tuning for Python Unit Test Generation
Search-based test-generation algorithms have countless configuration options. Users rarely adjust these options and usually stick to the default values, which may not lead to the best possible results. Tuning an algorithm's hyperparameters is a method to find better hyperparameter values, but it typically comes with a high demand of resources. Meta-heuristic search algorithms -- that effectively solve the test-generation problem -- have been proposed as a solution to also efficiently tune param…

Prompting Test-Time Scaling Is A Strong LLM Reasoning Data Augmentation
Sondos Mahmoud Bsharat, Zhiqiang Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09599 https://arxi…

Prompting Test-Time Scaling Is A Strong LLM Reasoning Data Augmentation
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities when provided with chain-of-thought exemplars, but curating large reasoning datasets remains laborious and resource-intensive. In this work, we introduce Prompting Test-Time Scaling (P-TTS), a simple yet effective inference-time data augmentation strategy for enhancing LLM reasoning through finetuning. Rather than collecting thousands or even millions of examples, P-TTS leverages a small pool of only 90 manually se…

Geheimtipp "Rue Valley" im Test: Immer und immer und immer wieder ein Hit
Im Mystery-Abenteuer "Rue Valley" gerät die Zeit aus den Fugen und zwingt einen depressiven Autor dazu, sich seinen inneren Dämonen zu stellen. Ein Geheimtipp!

LazyDrag: Enabling Stable Drag-Based Editing on Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers via Explicit Correspondence
Zixin Yin, Xili Dai, Duomin Wang, Xianfang Zeng, Lionel M. Ni, Gang Yu, Heung-Yeung Shum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12203

LazyDrag: Enabling Stable Drag-Based Editing on Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers via Explicit Correspondence
The reliance on implicit point matching via attention has become a core bottleneck in drag-based editing, resulting in a fundamental compromise on weakened inversion strength and costly test-time optimization (TTO). This compromise severely limits the generative capabilities of diffusion models, suppressing high-fidelity inpainting and text-guided creation. In this paper, we introduce LazyDrag, the first drag-based image editing method for Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers, which directly elim…

⚡ Will electric tractors gain traction? At a pilot event for farmers, researchers see possibilities
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-electric-tractors-gain-traction-event.html

Will electric tractors gain traction? At a pilot event for farmers, researchers see possibilities
In the soft dirt of an indoor horseback riding ring last month, a group of farmers got ready to test drive a new piece of equipment: an electric tractor.

Constraint-Guided Unit Test Generation for Machine Learning Libraries
Lukas Krodinger, Altin Hajdari, Stephan Lukasczyk, Gordon Fraser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09108 https://

Constraint-Guided Unit Test Generation for Machine Learning Libraries
Machine learning (ML) libraries such as PyTorch and TensorFlow are essential for a wide range of modern applications. Ensuring the correctness of ML libraries through testing is crucial. However, ML APIs often impose strict input constraints involving complex data structures such as tensors. Automated test generation tools such as Pynguin are not aware of these constraints and often create non-compliant inputs. This leads to early test failures and limited code coverage. Prior work has investig…

Die neue Mac & i: iPhones, Watches, AirPods im Test, Tipps zu iOS und macOS 26
Wie lang hält der Akku des iPhone Air? Was leistet das Tele des 17 Pro? Das klärt die Mac & i im Heft 5/2025. Zudem gibt's viele Tipps für die Apple-Systeme.

Top 10 Browser Fingerprint Test Tools in 2025
A browser fingerprint is the unique set of data your browser and device reveal #online, such as system info, fonts, screen size, and #IPaddress. Detecting your #browser

Top 10 Browser Fingerprint Test Tools in 2025
Discover the top 10 browser fingerprint test tools in 2025 to check your online identity exposure. Compare free & paid options like BrowserScan, BrowserLeaks, Whoer.net, and more to protect privacy, m

Raiders Face Daunting Climb to Pull Off Week 7 Upset https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-brock-bowers-pete-carroll-kansas-city-chiefs

Heute vor 36 Jahren: Am 14. November 1989 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Muleshoe". Die Operation Aqueduct war eine Serie von 10 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1989 und 1990 auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

Preservation of Language Understanding Capabilities in Speech-aware Large Language Models
Marek Kubis, Pawe{\l} Sk\'orzewski, Iwona Christop, Mateusz Czy\.znikiewicz, Jakub Kubiak, {\L}ukasz Bondaruk, Marcin Lewandowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12171

Preservation of Language Understanding Capabilities in Speech-aware Large Language Models
The paper presents C3T (Cross-modal Capabilities Conservation Test), a new benchmark for assessing the performance of speech-aware large language models. The benchmark utilizes textual tasks and a voice cloning text-to-speech model to quantify the extent to which language understanding capabilities are preserved when the model is accessed via speech input. C3T quantifies the fairness of the model for different categories of speakers and its robustness across text and speech modalities.

"Star Wars: Beyond Victory" Test – Die perfekte Tech-Demo für Meta Quest 3
"Star Wars: Beyond Victory" bietet rasante Pod-Rennen, Action-Figuren und eine neue Geschichte – doch wie gut funktioniert der Wechsel zwischen VR und MR?

How media coverage of Trump's AI EO overstated federal authority over states and overlooked how the order's interstate commerce argument could backfire (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/trump-pretends-to-…

Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal
The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you’d think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across…

heise | Doppelkopf-Speicher: USB-Sticks mit Steckern für USB-C und USB-A im Test
Kleine Speicher sind ungemein praktisch für den bequemen Datenaustausch. Inzwischen gibt es sie trotz des kompakten Formats mit der Geschwindigkeit von SSDs.

Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 15. Oktober 1958 führte die USA mit "Hamilton" den 15. Atomtest der Operation Hardtack II, eine Serie von 37 #Atomtests auf der #Nevada Test Site, NTS, durch. Von Ballontests bis zu unterirdischen Explosionen wurden verschiedene Methoden erprobt.

heise | Haustierkamera Petlibro Scout: Tierüberwachung mit KI-Erkennung im Test
Die Petlibro Scout überwacht das Zuhause, wenn Haustiere alleine sind. Wir haben das mit zwei Katzen in der Praxis ausprobiert.

Sedeve-Kit, a Specification-Driven Development Framework for Building Distributed Systems
Hua Guo, Yunhong Ji, Xuan Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11566 https://

Sedeve-Kit, a Specification-Driven Development Framework for Building Distributed Systems
Developing distributed systems presents significant challenges, primarily due to the complexity introduced by non-deterministic concurrency and faults. To address these, we propose a specification-driven development framework. Our method encompasses three key stages. The first stage defines system specifications and invariants using TLA${^+}$. It allows us to perform model checking on the algorithm's correctness and generate test cases for subsequent development phases. In the second stage, bas…

heise | GitHub Spark im Test: Apps programmieren, ohne eine Zeile Code zu schreiben
Prompt eingeben, Enter drücken und fertig ist die App – ohne eine Zeile Code zu tippen. Wir haben getestet, was GitHubs KI-Programmierer Spark wirklich kann.

Rethinking Technology Stack Selection with AI Coding Proficiency
Xiaoyu Zhang, Weipeng Jiang, Juan Zhai, Shiqing Ma, Qingshuang Bao, Chenhao Lin, Chao Shen, Tianlin Li, Yang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11132

Rethinking Technology Stack Selection with AI Coding Proficiency
Large language models (LLMs) are now an integral part of software development workflows and are reshaping the whole process. Traditional technology stack selection has not caught up. Most of the existing selection methods focus solely on the inherent attributes of the technology, overlooking whether the LLM can effectively leverage the chosen technology. For example, when generating code snippets using popular libraries like Selenium (one of the most widely used test automation tools with over …