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The rise of candidates centering gun violence is a result of the growing prevention movement across the US, which has become something of 👉a pipeline for new candidates running for office.
#Maxwell #Frost, the nation’s first gen Z US representative, started off as a volunteer before becoming organizing director for <…

Kouji Kozaki and Anna Lisa Gentile are opening #ISWC2025 with almost 400 participants this year. Despite the popularity of generative #Ai the largest topic here is still knowledge representation and readoning
#semanticweb

@… in #Brno at #openalt. A very interesting topic.

Are artificial retinas merely an approach to recover sight, or are they a tool of augmented reality beyond natural eyes in blind people? https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bst/advpub/0/advpub_2025.01341/_article

Are artificial retinas merely an approach to recover sight, or are they a tool of augmented reality beyond natural eyes in blind people?
Implantable artificial retinas have been a considerable technology to help blind people recover their sight. This topic has attracted increasing atten …

Snapchat launches Topic Chats, which enables public conversations on subjects like F1, and plans to use AI and other safety tech to moderate the chats (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/snapchat-rolls-out-topic-chats-for-publ…

Snapchat rolls out 'Topic Chats' for public conversations | TechCrunch
The social network says the new feature will let users chat about what’s happening in the world and across various communities, from Formula 1 to the reality TV show "Below Deck."

Google has teased 60-second AI videos from Veo, which sounds impressive until you realize that requires not 10x, but 100x the energy of a 6-second clip.
Analysis confirming quadratic scaling of AI video footprint: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp…

The #Chandrayaan-3 propulsion module has been discovered again, at first mistaken for an asteroid on an exotic orbit but swiftly ID'd: https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/116985030#msg41240

Im 3. Quartal 2025 stammten 65,1 Prozent des Stroms in #Deutschland aus #ErneuerbarenEnergien. Das ist mehr als im gesamten Vorjahr.
#Photovoltaik und

trans women need to stop wearing hot topic and amazon basics and start weaving and sewing their own garments, forming an original culture of visual symbolism and pattern akin to many women in ancient societies

Hierarchies 😩... One of the biggest recurring time-consuming issues I sometimes encounter is making decisions about _where_ to put some (new or exisiting) code/feature, i.e. in which package, new or existing, considering: functional fit (topic), structural fit (pre-existing data format conventions with the rest of a package), and if possible, not introducing new dependencies as a result of new feature... Sometimes these three aspects are mutually blocking each other and it's so time cons…

OPNsense 25.7.8 released
November 26, 2025, 12:17:59 PM
#opnsense

Funny how folks in the West will debate the ethics of going back in time to kill baby Hitler whenever the topic of time travel comes up but no one ever considers going back to stop colonialism.
🤔

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Le Tigre:
🎵 Hot Topic
#LeTigre
https://bikinikill.bandcamp.com/track/hot-topic
https://open.spotify.com/track/4otN5ZboeohAAAXaGnLCIH

Already the spirit of our schooling is permeated with the feeling that
every subject, every topic, every fact, every professed truth must be
submitted to a certain publicity and impartiality. All proffered
samples of learning must go to the same assay-room and be subjected to
common tests. It is the essence of all dogmatic faiths to hold that
any such "show-down" is sacrilegious and perverse. The characteristic
of religion, from their point of view,…

So … I have been busy contributing to this
tldr: real-time #telegram archive of the Russian War against Ukraine.
It’s 100% built with Claude Code in a bit more than 2 months
it’s near 200.000 lines of #python code, without counting with documentation of course.
check it out !

XTRA: Cross-Lingual Topic Modeling with Topic and Representation Alignments
Tien Phat Nguyen, Vu Minh Ngo, Tung Nguyen, Linh Van Ngo, Duc Anh Nguyen, Sang Dinh, Trung Le
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02788

XTRA: Cross-Lingual Topic Modeling with Topic and Representation Alignments
Cross-lingual topic modeling aims to uncover shared semantic themes across languages. Several methods have been proposed to address this problem, leveraging both traditional and neural approaches. While previous methods have achieved some improvements in topic diversity, they often struggle to ensure high topic coherence and consistent alignment across languages. We propose XTRA (Cross-Lingual Topic Modeling with Topic and Representation Alignments), a novel framework that unifies Bag-of-Words …

@… @… @… I would also be very interested in the slides. A very important topic right now!

on the topic of #posiwid, I much too frequently repost Mitchell and Webb's brilliant sketch: The Death Ray
#helpfulbullets #doommelon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HgejSCHRi8

Torquing Cars
Each week we will bringing you the latest motoring news and reviews as well as breaking down out Top 5 topic...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/torquing-cars/

This is a human-curated small selection of interesting accounts to help you get started on Mastodon and the Fediverse.
Once you follow a few people on a particular topic, you will discover even more people through all the posts they share etc.
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Fedi.Directory – Interesting accounts on Mastodon & the Fediverse
Interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse

I just decided that I won't blog about the last two days of our #Schwarzwald vacation. I don't have shareable photos or stories from those days. It just feels like writing for the sake of completeness,not for the photos.
All the days can be viewed here:

'Tarik - A Golden Axe Story' is being ported/worked on for the Atari 2600 - it's a WIP. Here's POC and the latest version: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/369085-tarik-a-golden-axe-story-great-update-2025

In #StarTrek, humanity did not just wait for other species to come visit them, but actively sought them out by sending out a number of probes into deep space. And one of them is the topic of today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for othe…

MTOS: A LLM-Driven Multi-topic Opinion Simulation Framework for Exploring Echo Chamber Dynamics
Dingyi Zuo, Hongjie Zhang, Jie Ou, Chaosheng Feng, Shuwan Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12423

MTOS: A LLM-Driven Multi-topic Opinion Simulation Framework for Exploring Echo Chamber Dynamics
The polarization of opinions, information segregation, and cognitive biases on social media have attracted significant academic attention. In real-world networks, information often spans multiple interrelated topics, posing challenges for opinion evolution and highlighting the need for frameworks that simulate interactions among topics. Existing studies based on large language models (LLMs) focus largely on single topics, limiting the capture of cognitive transfer in multi-topic, cross-domain c…

Jon Gruden Gets Honest About Tom Brady’s Raiders Role https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-jon-gruden-gets-honest-about-tom-brady-role

A #MiniMoon that wasn't: the 'asteroid' 2025 US6 - https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25UL8.html, retracted in https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25UM3.html - has been swiftly ID'd as the Chinese lunar test satellite Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) B: https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/115959056#msg41014. Here is its fun orbit around the Earth in an animation: https://bsky.app/profile/tony873004.bsky.social/post/3m44my3hgis24

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PrototypeFund/115626856685738684
A VERY important topic right now… resilience is so critical!

The topic has also highlighted the rise of “fictosexuality” and fan culture in Japan, where many young people form strong emotional connections with fictional characters.

I think I have a whole blog post/talk/video in me on this topic, but I feel like most ppl lack imagination when thinking about the DB repository pattern. It doesn't have to be just add/list/get—it's probably even wasteful!
Catchy: ”Database Repository Pattern for People Who Don't Hate Databases”

Even #Nature now uses #AI to generate content: Sensory substitution devices and perception https://www.

Create RSS feeds from any Google News webpage, search result or topic
(World, Technology, Business, Sports).
Just copy and paste the Google News URL below to get started.
https://rss.app/rss-feed/google-news-rss-feed

Google News RSS Feed
Instantly create Google News RSS Feeds from any Google News webpage, topic or search result with RSS generator.

Topic Modeling as Long-Form Generation: Can Long-Context LLMs revolutionize NTM via Zero-Shot Prompting?
Xuan Xu, Haolun Li, Zhongliang Yang, Beilin Chu, Jia Song, Moxuan Xu, Linna Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03174

Topic Modeling as Long-Form Generation: Can Long-Context LLMs revolutionize NTM via Zero-Shot Prompting?
Traditional topic models such as neural topic models rely on inference and generation networks to learn latent topic distributions. This paper explores a new paradigm for topic modeling in the era of large language models, framing TM as a long-form generation task whose definition is updated in this paradigm. We propose a simple but practical approach to implement LLM-based topic model tasks out of the box (sample a data subset, generate topics and representative text with our prompt, text assi…

Nice, I wanted to write about that topic. And there.. Someone wrote about it already.
That's the reason why I never recorded myself walnut walking into the scene.
Even though it looks really cool,it really disturbs my hiking experience and totally turns into filming.
https://blog.lauram…

People filming themselves in nature
A lot of hiking, camping, and cycling youtube video makers choose to film third-person footage of themselves alone in nature... sometimes with a drone, but s...

Excited to see Publishers Weekly feature YDS professor Yii-Jan Lin and her book "Immigration and Apocalypse"! https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/99026-aar-sbl-2025…

AAR/SBL 2025: Changing People, Changing Worlds
Yale University religious studies scholar Yii-Jan Lin sees parallels between immigration stories and the Book of Revelation.

Day 28: Samira Ahmed
As foreshadowed, we're back to YA land, which represents a lot of what I've been enjoying from the library lately.
I've read "Hollow Fires", "This Book Won't Burn", and "Love, Hate, and other Filters" by Ahmed, along with "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know" which is quite different. All four are teen ~romances with interesting things to say about racism & growing up as a South Asian Muslim, but whereas the first three are set in small-town Indiana, the third is set in France and includes a historical fiction angle involving Dumas and a hypothetical Muslim woman who was (in this telling) the inspiration for several Lord Byron poems.
Ahmed's novels all include a strong and overt theme of social justice, and it's refreshing to see an author not try to wade around the topic or ignore it. Her romances are complex, with imperfect protagonists and endings that aren't always "happily ever after" although they're satisfying and believable.
My library has a plethora of similar authors I've been enjoying, including Adiba Jaigirdar (who appeared earlier in this list), Sabaa Tahir ("All my Rage" is fantastic but I'm less of a fan of her fantasy stuff), Sabina Khan ("The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali"), and Randa Abdel-Fattah ("Does My Head Look Big In This?"; from an earlier era). Ahmed gets the spot here because I really like her politics and the way she works them into her writing. Her characters are unapologetic advocates against things like book bans, and Ahmed doesn't second-guess them or try to make things more palatable for those who want to ban books (or whatever). Her historical fiction in "Mad..." is also really cool in terms of "huh that could actually totally be true" and grappling with literary sexism from ages past.
#30AuthorsNoMen

Want to check the google trends for a topic? Use {gtrendsR} directly from within your favorite language: #googletrends

GitHub - PMassicotte/gtrendsR: R functions to perform and display Google Trends queries
R functions to perform and display Google Trends queries - PMassicotte/gtrendsR

Virginia Woolf Miscellany Special Topic: Panoramic Woolf (Fall 2026)
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Issue of Ukraine's territories – the most sensitive topic in negotiations, says Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/18/issue-of-ukraines-territories-the.html

Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam https://www.zdnet.com/article/europes-plan-to-ditch-us-tech-giants-is-built-on-open-source-and-its-gaining-steam/
"…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PrototypeFund/115626856685738684
A VERY important topic right now… resilience is so critical!

@…
PLEASE BRING BACK THE DARK MODE !!!!!! PLEASE !!!!!!
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/112807/and-again-the-dark-m…

#OpenTelemetry Sampling update
https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/sampling-milestones/

⏰ Examining why some species developed consciousness while others remained non-conscious
#animals

Examining why some species developed consciousness while others remained non-conscious
What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum published two articles on this topic.

This is a good video about Masculinity. I generally agree with it. Galloway get a lot wrong on gender. Though I don't really think he is a grifter. I think he cares about the topic and wants a good out come not too far off what the person in this video wants.
As I think more about big tent politics I wonder if this video could do more calling in then calling out. There are real enemies out there and to me, at this time, Galloway is a mistaken ally rather then an enemy

Whoops. My »USB Sticks Are Not a Back-Up« seminar at ​Convention Zero got the 8am EST slot on Nov 22nd. I've held similar sessions during HistoCamp and LitCampHD, and the topic has never been a crowd favourite. I guess I'll see how many people will be awake enough at that hour. 😬
Relevant Links:
https://conventionzero.carrd.co/

Seems like a good day to bring back this 2021 post: https://systemsapproach.org/2021/07/19/decentralizing-the-internet-again/

Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI: "States have been the only effective line of defense against AI harms."
On the topic of states rights, Donald Trump doesn’t exactly follow the party line. During his first term, he couched himself in populist, small-government rhetoric — even as he attacked individual states that dared to defend migrants and legalize marijuana.

Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI
Donald Trump recently signed an executive order allowing his administration to attack states that try to regulate artificial intelligence.

Kubernetes Server Side Apply is the topic for the next few minutes at #12Clouds thanks to Rafa Brito

The Bills might be in trouble, plus drama in Laker-land https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6824633/2025/11/21/bills-texans-josh-allen-the-pulse/

@… thanks.
Let's note, at the foot of the penultimate archived page (prior to removal of the topic):
― opening poster RypPn pleaded for people to be better
― eternal_noob replied, "But i'd like to watch things burn. 🥸".
The flames certainly entertained that one person. Moderators might have been less amused; it …

"Craft a single network packet to obtain root": I had hoped that this type of vulnerability hat been eliminated.
At least, the Router Advertisement packets should generally not be able to cross routers.
Patch your #FreeBSD systems now.
#rtsol

Free business idea, a service to print and frame thoughtful on-topic replies on social media.
On second thought probably not very viable.

Doc2Query : Topic-Coverage based Document Expansion and its Application to Dense Retrieval via Dual-Index Fusion
Tzu-Lin Kuo, Wei-Ning Chiu, Wei-Yun Ma, Pu-Jen Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09557

Doc2Query++: Topic-Coverage based Document Expansion and its Application to Dense Retrieval via Dual-Index Fusion
Document expansion (DE) via query generation tackles vocabulary mismatch in sparse retrieval, yet faces limitations: uncontrolled generation producing hallucinated or redundant queries with low diversity; poor generalization from in-domain training (e.g., MS MARCO) to out-of-domain data like BEIR; and noise from concatenation harming dense retrieval. While Large Language Models (LLMs) enable cross-domain query generation, basic prompting lacks control, and taxonomy-based methods rely on domain-…

#EroticMusings 25: Does your erotica ever explore chronic or terminal health?
I plan to write a short series focused on that topic - Namalenia is suffering from a progressing illness that picks up speed as she ages and Rhaise is suffering from a chronical condition after literally falling off an airship, almost drowning and barely surviving the ordeal. They meet on the island where …

I love it when @… goes on long nerd dives on YouTube and the topic of his latest video focuses on why #Jesus is traditionally depicted with long hair.
An icing on the cake is that early in the video he donated $250 to

farewell to my one true book format. #books

I'm thinking of (1) recording my #PIM lecture as a larger set of 5-30min video snippets (1 for each sub-topic) and/or
(2) writing a book with even more background information on the same subject including further links.
What would you consider more important to you personally?
Please do limit yourself to not more than 2 choices even if they are hard to do.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #IndieForeverDiscoWithBethDitto
Le Tigre:
🎵 Hot Topic
#LeTigre
https://bikinikill.bandcamp.com/track/hot-topic
https://open.spotify.com/track/4otN5ZboeohAAAXaGnLCIH

And more to read in your freetime, if you are interested in AI, from Bluesky, Phillip Isola.
"Over the past year, my lab has been working on fleshing out theory applications of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis.
Today I want to share two new works on this topic:"
Eliciting higher alignment:
https://arxiv.org/…

Words That Make Language Models Perceive
Large language models (LLMs) trained purely on text ostensibly lack any direct perceptual experience, yet their internal representations are implicitly shaped by multimodal regularities encoded in language. We test the hypothesis that explicit sensory prompting can surface this latent structure, bringing a text-only LLM into closer representational alignment with specialist vision and audio encoders. When a sensory prompt tells the model to 'see' or 'hear', it cues the model to resolve its next…

https://bsky.app/profile/ericwbailey.website/post/3m27zvanqsc2d
Over on Bluesky from @…

Eric Bailey (@ericwbailey.website)
"Again and again, accessibility as a topic in web standards is treated as simultaneously too trivial for specialists' technical opinions to be given weight, but also too difficult to get right without a specialist volunteering to tackle the tricky details." https://alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-threat-model-for-accessibility-on-the-web/

Gary H. comments on 1 Peter 1, topic of holiness:
#Bible

I am trying to reply to a topic on a forum about what can be included in The Movie Database (as opposed to IMDb) and it is getting flagged, which is annoying since the last post includes this nonsensical claim:
> Distribution/release is an essential fact about the existance of a movie- a movie has to have some type of distribution/release (otherwise the movie literally doesnt exist).
I thought I might be hitting filters because I mentioned the name of a documentary about The …

I’m in a work training for a agentic AI we will soon have access to. One use case that was suggested is researching and summarizing HR policy on a topic or for a question.
Oof. I expect it won’t be long before I read a news article where someone brings a wrongful termination suit based on either end of such a AI query.
#OfficeWorkerGripes

OPNsense 25.7.7 released
This update ships a number of third party security updates, firewall live
log improvements based on user feedback from 25.7.6, plus minor fixes and
improvements like usual.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=49616.msg25204…

Transcript of a talk by Cory Doctorow @… on the topic of AI and its near -term effects on society. Long. Summary of an upcoming book.
Many good thoughts in it, some I haven't found described so well before, some new to me. I'm quite aligned on his points about copyright, and he's tying this up better than I have seen in other places. I don…

This year at @… London I'll be giving a quick introduction to shaders and how they work. It's a topic that really excites (and scares, a bit) me, lately. I hope it'll get y'all excited too :) But not scared. Even though it's halloween.

This is my curated anarchist playlist, featuring ideas, history, and voices that challenge the existing order.
I recommend it to anyone interested in the topic to watch it in full to grasp its depth and understand why it remains so essential today.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTH

A comprehensive write-up on post-quantum cryptography in today's web.
My favourite quote: "we are in an interesting in-between time, where almost all Internet traffic is protected by post-quantum key agreement, but not a single public post-quantum certificate is used."
https://blog.cloudflare.com/p…

from my link log —
Comparing Rust to Carbon.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1036912/
saved 2025-09-29 https://dotat.at/:/E4XQI.html

The NYT says it won't be deterred in its work after Trump posted on Truth Social that reporting by The NYT and others about his health was "seditious" (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-health-press-new…

New York Times says it won't be deterred from writing about Trump's health
The New York Times and President Donald Trump are fighting again. The news outlet said Wednesday it won't be deterred by Trump's “false and inflammatory language” from writing about the 79-year-old president's health. The Times has done a handful of stories on that topic recently, including an opinion column that said Trump is “starting to give President Joe Biden vibes.” In a Truth Social post, Trump said it might be treasonous for outlets like the Times to do “FAKE” reports about …

Virginia Woolf Miscellany Special Topic: Panoramic Woolf (Fall 2026)
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Yesterday I was surprised that my blog post about IP tracking vs "conspiracy" my-phone-is-spying gets low but constant visits. - I reviewed it, corrected a couple of spelling mistakes and added some details.
After all, I'm just happy that I wrote this blog post. I often simply use the blog to "offload" a thought process out of my brain. No matter if someone reads it.

My slides and a video of my talk "Grow your [engineering] brand while putting privacy first" are available on my blog: https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4500/
If you want a funny, but useful talk on that topic, reach out!

(14 years ago, in 2011) Building the bionic eye: an emerging reality and opportunity https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3326660/ "blind individuals will continue to benefit from the use of sensory substitution devices";

Building the Bionic Eye: An Emerging Reality and Opportunity
Once the topic of folklore and science fiction, the notion of restoring vision to the blind is now approaching a tractable reality. Technological advances have inspired numerous multidisciplinary groups worldwide to develop visual neuroprosthetic ...

After almost two centuries,
Baker & Taylor,
a nationwide library book distributor,
will reportedly shut down operations in January.
Baker & Taylor CEO Aman Kochar told employees Monday that following a recent failed acquisition deal with ReaderLink, the Charlotte-based company has no viable path forward, though he had hoped to find another solution

Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down
At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.

Looking for other people here who're interested in analog "alt process" photography (especially Kallitype & salt prints in general) and who are also making their own prints. There used to be a few more such people in my TL, but they all seem to have vanished or stopped posting in the past year, and generally it feels there's precious little interest in this topic on Mastodon... (I too have a feeling, either my own photography went drastically downhill over the past 3-4 …

First the nucleus of #comet SWAN split - https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-2-november-2025/#Nov06 ("Der Kern des Kometen C/2025 R2 (SWAN) ist zerbrochen ...") - and now C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) has suffered the same fate: a 2-meter-telescope image from https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17487 ("Multiple Fragmentation Observed"), also https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/116216567 (several amateur observations) and https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17488 (Hubble detections of more fragments, sadly no pictures included).

Day 26: Emily Short
If you know who Short is, you know exactly why she's on this list. If you don't, you're probably in the majority. She's an absolutely legendary author within the interactive fiction (IF) community, which gets somewhat pigeonholed by stuff like Zork when there's actually a huge range of stuff in the medium some of which isn't even puzzle-focused, and Short has been writing & coding on the bleeding edge of things for decades.
I was lucky enough to be introduced to Short's work in graduate school, where we played "Galatea" as part of an interactive fiction class. Short uses a lot of clever parser tricks to make your conversation with a statue feel very fluid and conversational, giving to contemporary audiences a great example of how vibrant interaction with a well-designed agent can be in contrast to an LLM, if you're willing to put in some work on bespoke parsing & responses (although the user does need to know basic IF conventions). While I didn't explore the full range of Galatea's many possible outcomes, it left a strong impression on me as a vision for what IF could be besides dorky puzzles, and I think that "visionary" is a great term to describe Short.
If you'd like you get a feel for her (very early) work, you can play Galatea here: #30AuthorsNoMen

OPNsense 25.7.5 released
This updates provides for a new GeoIP database source by IPinfo, stability
fixes for several network drivers and the recent OpenSSL security update
amongst others.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=49220.msg249339#msg2493…

What I'm hearing about Brandon Aiyuk, Joe Burrow's status and Shedeur Sanders' first start https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6828031/2025/11/22/nfl-rumors-news-joe-burrow-brandon-aiyuk-shedeur-sanders/

Topic-Specific Classifiers are Better Relevance Judges than Prompted LLMs
Lukas Gienapp, Martin Potthast, Harrisen Scells, Eugene Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04633 https://

Topic-Specific Classifiers are Better Relevance Judges than Prompted LLMs
The unjudged document problem, where pooled test collections have incomplete relevance judgments for evaluating new retrieval systems, is a key obstacle to the reusability of test collections in information retrieval. While the de facto standard to deal with the problem is to treat unjudged documents as non-relevant, many alternatives have been proposed, including the use of large language models (LLMs) as a relevance judge (LLM-as-a-judge). However, this has been criticized as circular, since …

🎞️ High-performance 2D graphics rendering on the CPU using sparse strips
#graphics

master-thesis/main.pdf at main · LaurenzV/master-thesis
My master's thesis about the topic "High-performance 2D graphics rendering on the CPU using sparse strips" - LaurenzV/master-thesis

We are happy to welcome @… from RWTH in today's #nfdicore playground talking about "Bridging the Gap from Biomedical to Domain-Agnostic Semantics".
Besides others, he is demonstrating that our

One thing I've taken note of is people are outraged about news items that I don't react to at all.
Both consciously and unconsciously I turn away from some news items because quite frankly, I experience both outrage and empathy fatigue. To protect my mental well-being, there's some topics I turn away from.
Part of this is my natural tendency to prefer to become very informed about a topic before I weigh in.

OPNsense 25.7.9 released
Started by franco, December 04, 2025, 03:12:42 PM
#opnsense

Frontiers call for papers: Innovative electrode and bioelectronic technologies for neural recording and stimulation https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/75514/innovative-electrode-and-bioelec…

Tags are sets. Many apps support tagging of content, but most of them (incl. Mastodon) treat tags only as singular/isolated topic filters, akin to a flat folder-based approach. But tagging can be so, so much more powerful when treating tags as sets and offering users the possibility to combine and query tagged content as sets (think Venn diagrams), i.e. allowing tags to be combined using AND/OR/NOT aka intersection/union/difference operations...
Below is a simple query engine to do jus…

Chip Kelly Shares Honest Assessment on How Raiders OL Impacts Offense https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-chip-kelly-shares-honest-assessment-impacts-offense

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
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Recently I spoke with a woman in a shop about hiking and she said that she's not experienced in the mountains and thus doesn't dare to go alone.
I wondered if such people would feel better if they'd go for example with me (or just any other person who is a bit into the topic). No need to talk, no social obligations, just walking together a route, no sports event, nothing extreme. 🤔 Not as a guided tour, just walking.
And if I would do that.

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
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JD Vance just went on Foxnews and lied his face off
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Do you remember when I once feared that having my photos as background in video conferences might be unprofessional?
Just yesterday I went into a workshop with strangers and a pretty well known investor - and guess what the first topic was in the call? The beautiful background and that I took it in sub -10°C.
I think it was profess enough

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
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'Pfade und Wege' / 'paths and ways' (? Or trails 🤔) #FotoVorschlag
Yes, that's a topic for me again 😉
This is from a trail that I did a couple of times already in different seasons. And this sections just offers such a cool view to the south.
The trail itself varies quite a bit in all terms - which I totally like. Well - enjoy!