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Source: Brendan Carr has agreed to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee over his public pressure on Disney and ABC about Kimmel's Charlie Kirk monologue (Burgess Everett/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/01/2025

Carr to testify before Cruz’s committee in wake of Kimmel flap
The Texas GOP chair compared the FCC chair’s pressure on Disney and ABC to a mob boss.

The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 8. end-to-end numerical modeling of the testbed to estimate the contrast limits
Ramya M Anche, Kyle Van Gorkom, Kian Milani, Kevin Derby, Emory Jenkins, Jaren Ashcraft, Saraswathi Kalyani Subramanian, Patrick Ingraham, Daewook Kim, Heejoo Choi, Olivier Durney, Ewan Douglas
https://arxiv.org/abs/…

The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 8. end-to-end numerical modeling of the testbed to estimate the contrast limits
The space coronagraph optical bench (SCoOB) at the University of Arizona is a high-contrast imaging testbed designed to operate in a vacuum to obtain a contrast better than 1e-8 in optical wavelengths using vector vortex coronagraph (VVC) masks. The testbed performance in a half-sided D-shaped dark hole is 2.2e-9 in a << 1% BW, 4e-9 in a 2% BW, and 2.5e-8 in a 15% BW. While the testbed has met the design specification contrast requirements in monochromatic wavelengths, comprehensive end-to-end …

Nasa-Überschallflugzeug X-59 absolviert ersten Testflug
Die Nasa und Lockheed Martin haben das experimentelle Überschallflugzeug X-59 auf einem ersten Testflug ausprobiert, um Bordsysteme zu prüfen.
https://www.

October 3, 2025.
Park Police tore down FLARE encampment at 5:00 AM this morning.
Protest at Union Station, Washington, DC this evening 5:00 PM
https://youtube.com/shorts/t8qtpbQS6Kk?si=mEb3bypUIOQN2iJ5

“Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and ‘kind of exploded’ on his chest upon impact, he says.
‘I could smell the onions and mustard.’”
https://bsky.app/profile/jamieson.bsky.social/post/3m4su7zwui224

Exposing the Cracks: Vulnerabilities of Retrieval-Augmented LLM-based Machine Translation
Yanming Sun, Runzhe Zhan, Chi Seng Cheang, Han Wu, Xuebo Liu, Yuyao Niu, Fengying Ye, Kaixin Lan, Lidia S. Chao, Derek F. Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00829

Exposing the Cracks: Vulnerabilities of Retrieval-Augmented LLM-based Machine Translation
\textbf{RE}trieval-\textbf{A}ugmented \textbf{L}LM-based \textbf{M}achine \textbf{T}ranslation (REAL-MT) shows promise for knowledge-intensive tasks like idiomatic translation, but its reliability under noisy retrieval contexts remains poorly understood despite this being a common challenge in real-world deployment. To address this gap, we propose a noise synthesis framework and new metrics to evaluate the robustness of REAL-MT systematically. Using this framework, we instantiate REAL-MT with Q…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Moon Walker:
🎵 New God
#MoonWalker
https://open.spotify.com/track/5TxHd6feUaIpJxLAjpYJZp

RFK Jr to testify at Senate hearing on chaos at federal health agencies and vaccine policy changes
– live updates
Trump’s health secretary is expected to face tough questions on about department layoffs and budget cuts amid scrutiny over his plans to
‘make America healthy again’

Diversity-Incentivized Exploration for Versatile Reasoning
Zican Hu, Shilin Zhang, Yafu Li, Jianhao Yan, Xuyang Hu, Leyang Cui, Xiaoye Qu, Chunlin Chen, Yu Cheng, Zhi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26209

Diversity-Incentivized Exploration for Versatile Reasoning
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a crucial paradigm for incentivizing reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs). Due to vast state-action spaces and reward sparsity in reasoning tasks, existing methods often struggle with deficient exploration and poor sample efficiency. In the paper, we propose \textbf{DIVER} (\textbf{D}iversity-\textbf{I}ncentivized Exploration for \textbf{V}ersatil\textbf{E} \textbf{R}easoning), an innovative framework that hi…

from my link log —
A content defined chunking algorithm testbed.
https://github.com/buildbarn/go-cdc
saved 2025-10-01 https://dotat.at/:/BZGS0.html

GitHub - buildbarn/go-cdc: Content Defined Chunking playground
Content Defined Chunking playground. Contribute to buildbarn/go-cdc development by creating an account on GitHub.