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🚯 Junkyard Computing: Repurposing Discarded Smartphones to Minimize Carbon
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Junkyard Computing: Repurposing Discarded Smartphones to Minimize Carbon
1.5 billion smartphones are sold annually, and most are decommissioned less than two years later. Most of these unwanted smartphones are neither discarded nor recycled but languish in junk drawers and storage units. This computational stockpile represents a substantial wasted potential: modern smartphones have increasingly high-performance and energy-efficient processors, extensive networking capabilities, and a reliable built-in power supply. This project studies the ability to reuse smartphon…

狐 CalliMaster: Mastering Page-level Chinese Calligraphy via Layout-guided Spatial Planning
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CalliMaster: Mastering Page-level Chinese Calligraphy via Layout-guided Spatial Planning
Page-level calligraphy synthesis requires balancing glyph precision with layout composition. Existing character models lack spatial context, while page-level methods often compromise brushwork detail. In this paper, we present \textbf{CalliMaster}, a unified framework for controllable generation and editing that resolves this conflict by decoupling spatial planning from content synthesis. Inspired by the human cognitive process of ``planning before writing'', we introduce a coarse-to-fine pipel…