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just ordered one of these: https://www.yepkit.com/product/300110/YKUSH3
i really hope it works, and i finally can stop this annoying unplug/plug that is also putting a strain on the socket and the plug when working with devices powered over usb that need to be reset. i feel this will…

New Orbital Constraints for YSES 1 b and HR 2562 B from High-Precision Astrometry and Planetary Radial Velocities
Jonathan Roberts (Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA), William Thompson (NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics, Victoria, Canada), Jason J. Wang (Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwes…

New Orbital Constraints for YSES 1 b and HR 2562 B from High-Precision Astrometry and Planetary Radial Velocities
We present new VLTI/GRAVITY astrometry and updated orbit fits for the directly imaged companions YSES 1 b and HR 2562 B, substellar objects straddling the planet-brown dwarf boundary. Using high-precision astrometry, radial velocity (RV) data, and proper motions, we derive revised orbital parameters with orbitize! arXiv:1910.01756. For YSES 1 b, the inclusion of GRAVITY astrometry and a relative radial velocity measurement from arXiv:2409.16660 overcomes the traditional challenge of constrainin…

Source: SoftBank's plans for a JV with OpenAI to bring AI to Japanese corporate customers are well behind schedule, with an update now expected in November (Yusuke Ogawa/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Hazzah & yikes! Just saw the matriarch skink in our garden - we call her 3-Legs, because she's missing her left front leg. This is my first time seeing her since last fall. She's looking rather worse for the wear. From my quick glimpse, seems she's lost most of her tail and appears to have a mostly healed wound on her side. Here's hoping she's able to recover - and perhaps even parent another brood of skinklets - this summer! It's a pretty harsh world for skinks o…

@… That’s eh… yikes. Yikes is all I have.

Implementing a Logical Inference System for Japanese Comparatives
Yosuke Mikami, Daiki Matsuoka, Hitomi Yanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13734 https://arx…

Implementing a Logical Inference System for Japanese Comparatives
Natural Language Inference (NLI) involving comparatives is challenging because it requires understanding quantities and comparative relations expressed by sentences. While some approaches leverage Large Language Models (LLMs), we focus on logic-based approaches grounded in compositional semantics, which are promising for robust handling of numerical and logical expressions. Previous studies along these lines have proposed logical inference systems for English comparatives. However, it has been …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Iron Curtain:
🎵 Thy Wolf
#IronCurtain
https://ironcurtainattack.bandcamp.com/track/thy-wolf
https://open.spotify.com/track/5YkOE1ZFjnJMDtmK8CLwDS

Can Large Language Models Robustly Perform Natural Language Inference for Japanese Comparatives?
Yosuke Mikami, Daiki Matsuoka, Hitomi Yanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13695 ht…

Can Large Language Models Robustly Perform Natural Language Inference for Japanese Comparatives?
Large Language Models (LLMs) perform remarkably well in Natural Language Inference (NLI). However, NLI involving numerical and logical expressions remains challenging. Comparatives are a key linguistic phenomenon related to such inference, but the robustness of LLMs in handling them, especially in languages that are not dominant in the models' training data, such as Japanese, has not been sufficiently explored. To address this gap, we construct a Japanese NLI dataset that focuses on comparative…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
PJ Harvey:
🎵 Long Snake Moan
#PJHarvey
https://elliotsongs.bandcamp.com/track/long-snake-moan-pjharvey
https://open.spotify.com/track/36YJWsgSCEMFsv9Y2jxI4U

Llama-Mimi: Speech Language Models with Interleaved Semantic and Acoustic Tokens
Issa Sugiura, Shuhei Kurita, Yusuke Oda, Ryuichiro Higashinaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14882 …

Llama-Mimi: Speech Language Models with Interleaved Semantic and Acoustic Tokens
We propose Llama-Mimi, a speech language model that uses a unified tokenizer and a single Transformer decoder to jointly model sequences of interleaved semantic and acoustic tokens. Comprehensive evaluation shows that Llama-Mimi achieves state-of-the-art performance in acoustic consistency and possesses the ability to preserve speaker identity. Our analysis further demonstrates that increasing the number of quantizers improves acoustic fidelity but degrades linguistic performance, highlighting …