Abstract: In unsupervised medical image registration, encoder-decoder architectures are widely used to predict dense, full-resolution displacement fields from paired images. Despite their popularity, ...

An unexpected revisit to my earlier post on mouse encoder hacking sparked a timely opportunity to reexamine quadrature encoders, this time with a clearer lens and a more targeted focus on their signal ...

A compact data format optimized for transmitting structured information to Large Language Models (LLMs) with 30-60% fewer tokens than JSON. TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation) combines YAML's ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

The FCC has been down this road before. The commission has launched several initiatives to improve emergency alerting in the United States over the past decade, but its most recent modernization ...

Abstract: Image segmentation is crucial in many fields, but existing image segmentation models based on encoder-decoder networks are constrained by manual parameter tuning and the limited ...

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Call it the return of Clippy — this time with AI. Microsoft’s new small language model shows us the future of interfaces. Microsoft announced this week a new generative AI (genAI) system called Mu, ...

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