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Normally, Rutgers football starts the season with easy out of conference (B1G) games. Not this year. They host Ohio tonight at 6pm.
#rutgers #football #GoRU

Live Improvisation For Dual Vintage Moog Modular Synthesizers & Drums
https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2025/07/20/live-improvisation-for-dual-vin…

Live Improvisation For Dual Vintage Moog Modular Synthesizers & Drums
The jam features an amazing set of instruments, including dual Moog modular systems, an Oberheim Eight Voice SEM and a Roland Jupiter-8. 

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Saint Etienne:
🎵 Save It for a Rainy Day
#SaintEtienne
https://heavenlyrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/save-it-for-a-rainy-day
https://open.spotify.com/track/0hQCzDG58brhODyYeOXecA

Bootstrapping Learned Cost Models with Synthetic SQL Queries
Michael Nidd, Christoph Miksovic, Thomas Gschwind, Francesco Fusco, Andrea Giovannini, Ioana Giurgiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19807

Bootstrapping Learned Cost Models with Synthetic SQL Queries
Having access to realistic workloads for a given database instance is extremely important to enable stress and vulnerability testing, as well as to optimize for cost and performance. Recent advances in learned cost models have shown that when enough diverse SQL queries are available, one can effectively and efficiently predict the cost of running a given query against a specific database engine. In this paper, we describe our experience in exploiting modern synthetic data generation techniques,…

Diverse And Private Synthetic Datasets Generation for RAG evaluation: A multi-agent framework
Ilias Driouich, Hongliu Cao, Eoin Thomas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18929 https://

Diverse And Private Synthetic Datasets Generation for RAG evaluation: A multi-agent framework
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems improve large language model outputs by incorporating external knowledge, enabling more informed and context-aware responses. However, the effectiveness and trustworthiness of these systems critically depends on how they are evaluated, particularly on whether the evaluation process captures real-world constraints like protecting sensitive information. While current evaluation efforts for RAG systems have primarily focused on the development of perfor…

CSRD2025: A Large-Scale Synthetic Radio Dataset for Spectrum Sensing in Wireless Communications
Shuo Chang, Rui Sun, Jiashuo He, Sai Huang, Kan Yu, Zhiyong Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19552

CSRD2025: A Large-Scale Synthetic Radio Dataset for Spectrum Sensing in Wireless Communications
The development of Large AI Models (LAMs) for wireless communications, particularly for complex tasks like spectrum sensing, is critically dependent on the availability of vast, diverse, and realistic datasets. Addressing this need, this paper introduces the ChangShuoRadioData (CSRD) framework, an open-source, modular simulation platform designed for generating large-scale synthetic radio frequency (RF) data. CSRD simulates the end-to-end transmission and reception process, incorporating an ext…

FEST: A Unified Framework for Evaluating Synthetic Tabular Data
Weijie Niu, Alberto Huertas Celdran, Karoline Siarsky, Burkhard Stiller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16254 https://…

FEST: A Unified Framework for Evaluating Synthetic Tabular Data
Synthetic data generation, leveraging generative machine learning techniques, offers a promising approach to mitigating privacy concerns associated with real-world data usage. Synthetic data closely resembles real-world data while maintaining strong privacy guarantees. However, a comprehensive assessment framework is still missing in the evaluation of synthetic data generation, especially when considering the balance between privacy preservation and data utility in synthetic data. This research…

Make no mistake - the Justice Department is trying to interfere with fair elections in NJ and California
#doj #trump #cheating

Justice Department Will Monitor Elections in California and New Jersey
The Trump administration said that monitors will watch polling in two states, led by Democrats, where key races or issues are on the ballot.

Why Synthetic Isn't Real Yet: A Diagnostic Framework for Contact Center Dialogue Generation
Rishikesh Devanathan, Varun Nathan, Ayush Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18210 …

Why Synthetic Isn't Real Yet: A Diagnostic Framework for Contact Center Dialogue Generation
Synthetic transcript generation is critical in contact center domains, where privacy and data scarcity limit model training and evaluation. Unlike prior synthetic dialogue generation work on open-domain or medical dialogues, contact center conversations are goal-oriented, role-asymmetric, and behaviorally complex, featuring disfluencies, ASR noise, and compliance-driven agent actions. In deployments where transcripts are unavailable, standard pipelines still yield derived call attributes such a…

House Oversight cmte Democrats release 6 pages from Epstein files.
They mention Prince Andrew (and his massages), Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel.
AND Elon Musk possibly on Epstein’s island
#uspol #epstein #PrinceAndrew