arXiv:2601.10956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: One’s profession is an essential part of modern life. Traditionally, professional development has been criticized for excluding people with disabilities. People with visual impairments, for example, face disproportionately low employment rates, highlighting persistent gaps in professional opportunities. Recently, there has been growing research on social media platforms as spaces for more equitable career development approaches. In this paper, we present an interview study on the professional development experiences of 60 people with visual […]

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Software quality assurance remains a major challenge in industrial environments, where large-scale and long-lived systems inevitably accumulate defects. Identifying the location of a fault is often time-consuming and costly, particularly during maintenance phases when developers must rely primarily on textual bug reports rather than complete runtime or code-level context. In this study, we investigated if artificial intelligence can support fault localization using only the natural-language content of bug reports. By relying only on textual information, our approach requires […]

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Release: datasette-llm 0.1a1 New release of the base plugin that makes models from LLM available for use by other Datasette plugins such as datasette-enrichments-llm. New register_llm_purposes() plugin hook and get_purposes() function for retrieving registered purpose strings. #1 One of the responsibilities of this plugin is to configure which models are used for which purposes, so you can say in one place “data enrichment uses GPT-5.4-nano but SQL query assistance happens using Sonnet 4.6”, for example. Plugins that depend […]

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The Power BI Salesforce connector is often the first option teams use to bring Salesforce data into Power BI through native connectors such as Salesforce Objects and Salesforce Reports. This works for basic reporting, but limitations around data volume, refresh reliability, and scalability become more important as reporting grows. This guide explains how the native connectors work, where their limits become critical, and when Metrica Power BI Connector for Salesforce becomes the better fit. Which Native Power BI […]

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When I first heard “cloud commitment insurance,” I nodded politely and had absolutely no idea what anyone was talking about. Insurance? For cloud commitments? What gets insured — the server? The discount? The contract? And who’s the insurance company here? I had several sessions with the Archera team trying to wrap my head around it. Here’s the thing that made it so confusing: their product is genuinely simple. So simple that the simplicity itself became the barrier. There […]

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Can traditional equity markets and cryptocurrency exchanges coexist on the same platform? BitMEX, the derivatives exchange that has operated since 2014 without losing customer funds to hacks, is testing this proposition with a month-long campaign offering 70,000 USDT in prizes to traders who engage with equity perpetual contracts. The campaign, running from February 12 to March 12, 2026, targets users who trade contracts based on Apple (AAPL), Tesla (TSLA), and other publicly traded companies, marking a continuation of […]

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Neural networks often rely on spurious shortcuts for many epochs before discovering structured representations. However, the mechanism governing when this transition occurs and whether its timing can be predicted remains unclear. Prior work shows that gradient descent converges to low norm solutions and that neural networks exhibit simplicity bias, but neither explains the timescale of the transition from shortcut features to structured representations. We introduce the Norm-Hierarchy Transition (NHT) framework, which explains delayed representation learning as the slow […]

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arXiv:2602.20323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable object manipulation requires understanding physical properties that vary across objects and environments. Vision-language model (VLM) planners can reason about friction and stability in general terms; however, they often cannot predict how a specific ball will roll on a particular surface or which stone will provide a stable foundation without direct experience. We present PhysMem, a memory framework that enables VLM robot planners to learn physical principles from interaction at test time, without […]

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In this unusually personal essay, Teilhard speaks almost across the table, inviting us to rethink our cosmic standing. He shows how humanity, once dwarfed by vast space and tiny particles, regains significance through a third dimension of reality: complexity. As matter organizes itself into ever-deeper centers, consciousness rises—and in us, becomes self-aware. Humanity is not a cosmic accident, he suggests, but the universe awakening to itself and preparing its next leap.

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