Multinex: Lightweight Low-light Image Enhancement via Multi-prior Retinex
Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to restore natural visibility, color fidelity, and structural detail under severe illumination degradation.
we propose Multinex, an ultra-lightweight structured framework that integrates multiple fine-grained representations within a principled Retinex residual formulation.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10359
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Embedding Items at Scale: Comparing GNN-Based and ID-Based Item Embeddings in the Yandex Ecosystem
This paper is a case study that compares pretrained industrial graph neural network item embeddings with end-to-end trainable item embeddings across two mature production recommendation systems at Yandex: Yandex Market and Yandex Music.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26365
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Rethinking EEG-Based Disease Diagnosis: Decoupling Instance Representation Learning from Subject-Level Supervision
EEG-based disease diagnosis requires one prediction per subject, yet common pipelines segment recordings into short instances...
We propose BridgeMIL (Multiple Instance Learning), a two-stage framework that decouples instance representation learning from subject-level supervision
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27274v2
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Search Algorithms in Data Structures: Real-Faction Selection of Hash Tables and Balance Trees from Sequential Search
https://bbs.csdn.net/weixin_28728495/article/details/100243332
An overview of approaches, covering linear search, hashes, and balanced trees, when to use each, and common implementation bugs.
Beware the package mimic
Okay I'm a teacher. So let me explain this to you in as simple a way as I can.
Let's say I want to buy a cake. But not just any cake. A specialty cake for my nieces quinceañera. A cake like that costs at least $100 bucks. But I don't have $100 bucks. What do?
Well, I could save up to buy the cake. But that might take a long time and by then her quinceañera would be long over and gone. I could go take out a loan for the $100 bucks. But I don't want to take out a loan because it might make my credit look bad to have that much debt. So what's the solution?
Well if I'm particularly creative and not overburdened by an abundance of morality, the solution is easy. I make another me. A special me. A me designed for one purpose only - to saddle with debt.
So I create another Lana. A legal fiction. Let's call her Twona. Twona's only purpose in life is to get a bunch of credit cards and then cakes for my niece's quinceañera. Twona gets a MasterCard and a Visa, and puts $50 on each. When the cake arrives, Twona gives me the cake, and keeps the debt. And if the IRS or the banks ever come calling asking pesky questions about how I managed to afford a special quinceañera cake, I can legally and truthfully tell them I do not have any quinceañera credit card debt.
And you may be asking why the credit cards would do this. Why just give Twona those lines of credit, knowing that she was just going to buy a quinceañera cake with it. It's not like they can repossess a giant 5-tiered specially cake with "Congratulations Niece on Your Quinceañera" written on it in bright pink fluffy icing. No one would ever buy that from them. It's worthless as a repossessed asset. And the reason is that I signed an agreement with MasterCard and Visa saying that if they ever had to come collect on the debt, that I would pay them a certain amount of interest on the debt for the next 100 years.
So let's recap.
- I got: the cake, and no record of debt on my financial documents
- Twona got: the debt
- The credit agencies got: promise of residual income for the next century
Congratulations, now you understand how all these enormous data center buildings in rural places are being funded. Just take the quinceañera numbers and multiply them by 10 orders of magnitude. Meta and Amazon and Oracle and the rest of the tech companies are set to invest almost a trillion dollars in AI buildout just this year alone. And none of it is going on their financial documents. Because technically, none of them have taken out any loans. The loans are being held by shell companies created specifically for this purpose, with names like (I am not making these up) Beignet and Sopaipilla. These shell companies own the debt. And in return, Meta gets to build a $27 Billion dollar specialty data center building in the middle of rural Louisiana. And then Beignet rents that building to Meta. Nobody except Meta will ever use that building. It exists for one purpose only. But legally, Meta does not carry the debt on constructing it. Beignet does.
And the big burning question here is why. Why would Meta do this?
The reason is because if Meta had that debt on its own books, $27 billion dollars of debt looks like exactly what it is - the biggest financial gamble in the history of modern finances. Bigger than the housing bubble of the late 2000s. Bigger than the dot-com bubble of the 1990s. Bigger even than the stock market bubble of the roaring 1920s. And we all know how well that one went.
So what's the fallout here? Nobody knows. What I'm saying is that you, the public, are not getting the full story. It's being deliberately hidden from public view. But now that you know it exists, you know what to look out for. This is a bubble. And when it bursts, there will be almost no warning. And some people stand to lose everything.
Seeing another round of “it turns out that WFH has serious downsides because employees get all their social interaction at work and are getting unhealthy without that” stories and my first thought is “maybe we should fix that bit where people are forced to rely on their jobs for social interaction” rather than “let’s go back to the office”
RE: https://types.pl/@pigworker/117033805111606410
Pssst: LDAP objects can have arbitrarily many types (objectClasses).
Nobody needs my personal take on this Rod Liddle fellow. I've never lived in the UK, I was blessed enough to never hear his name during his lifetime, and I'm discovering his hot takes about topics like the sexual magnetism of 14-year-olds posthumously. But if you *want* my take, for some reason, it's pretty simple.
It is utterly unremarkable that a man this vile was born, or that he lived, or that he died. Plenty of shriveled little blighters like him have done exactly that, to no fanfare at all. What's remarkable and damning is that he was given a platform to say what he said, as if it was worth anyone else hearing. His public existence is the criminal record of the British media machinery, and not hardly the full scope of it. An empire that cares what people like Rod Liddle have to say, have an overdue reckoning of conscience sitting at their doorstep.
Demand obscurity for such men and women, with a loud voice, for it's kinder than they deserve, but exactly the kindness you owe your neighbor.
Whaaaat?!
Much of my career boils down to:
All code is liability. Minimize it.
Feedback loops are everywhere. Speed them up; do them more.
We’re bad at predicting the future. Avoid it.
More tests.
Hire smart, motivated people, then get out of their way.
Find the right thing to turn off and on again.
Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy?
In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
General Motors streetcar consp...
Christian nationalism entails the belief that a 2K year old dead Jewish guy living under the oppressive thumb of the Roman Empire would support another empire crushing other people in other countries because a bunch of white people embraced a religion in the future that was a complete bastardization of the Judaism he adhered to, and somehow, a 2K year old religious figure who was a person of color himself, would support white supremacy being substituted for the god that he worshiped.
"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has expressed concern about new talent coming to the firm for the money rather than the mission"
So annoying when your employees care more about money than the mission of *checks notes* rendering employees obsolete lol fucking hell
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/03/ai-talent-wars-openai-google-meta-anthropic
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What is it like to work at FLOCK what is is like to work at palantir? What is it like to work for ICE... not on the ground but doing their website, or their payroll?
I posted about this just after the election and this interview reminded me of this post. I think the interview shows how this can happen.
Don't let it be YOU who helps build this monsterous machine.
I'm mad he worked there but glad he's speaking up now.