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Energy research and engineering concern how power is produced, stored, delivered, and consumed. Follow solar and nuclear power, fusion, geothermal systems, batteries, electricity grids, and changing power demand.
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Open in the map ↗654 classified signals in the fourteen-day window. Recent momentum: steady. These counts include signals awaiting readable evidence.
Earlier sources
Up to ten sources with readable evidence, ordered by their feed timestamp. These archive sources can be older than the live fourteen-day window. This list is a sample, not a measure of total activity. Dates distinguish paper publication, repository creation, model/dataset activity, Hacker News posts, and KEV catalog additions. “First archived” records when SYMTRI first stored the signal.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
How the oil capital of the US welcomed a solar power boom ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
FuseReg: Regularizing Layer Fusion Mitigates the Reconstruction-Generation Gap in Representation Autoencoders ↗
Representation autoencoders (RAEs) reuse features from a pretrained visual encoder as reconstruction and diffusion latents, integrating strong visual representations into image generation. However, RAEs still need to decide which encoder layers form the shared latent space for the generator and pixel decoder. This choice involves a trade-off. Shallower layers tend to preserve fine pixel details better, while deeper layers tend to yield better generation metrics. A fixed heuristic layer fusion therefore couples two stages that benefit from different information. We introduce FuseReg, which repl…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Statistical Foundations for a Google Play User-Review Sentiment Index: Signal Fusion, Shrinkage, Distributional Validation, and Dynamic Smoothing ↗
We develop a statistically explicit sentiment index for Google Play user reviews and establish the mathematical results supporting its construction. Normalized star ratings and text-sentiment scores are treated as noisy measures of latent review valence and fused by covariance-aware inverse-variance weighting. Review-level estimates are aggregated with bounded helpfulness and recency weights, then shrunk toward a population mean using estimated precision rather than an arbitrary review-count threshold. App-level rating histograms provide a distributional diagnostic for samples returned under d…
- GitHub · Repository created · First archived
Sabotin/Daily-Energy-MojElektro ↗
Full-screen energy dashboard for Home Assistant on top of the Moj Elektro integration: daily/weekly/monthly usage, high/low tariff, tariff blocks, 15-minute power.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Impact of magnetic drift configuration on the edge radial electric field in the TCV tokamak ↗
The edge radial electric ($E_r$) in the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) is compared in matched L-mode discharges with opposite ion magnetic drift directions (favorable versus unfavorable $B \! \times \! \nabla B$ configurations). As previously reported on the WEST and AUG tokamaks, the $E_r$ profile---measured by Doppler backscattering (DBS)---exhibits a "well" just inside the separatrix in the favorable drift case, which is absent or less pronounced in the unfavorable counterpart. This observation holds over a broad range of plasma conditions, notably also in Ohmic discharges with near…
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Nuclear Waste Accidentally Leaked at Pacific Coast Site ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
The Right Information Extraction Pipeline Depends on the Document: Accuracy-Energy Trade-offs for Small, Local Models ↗
Whether an information extraction pipeline should process page images or parsed text depends on the document, and the answer flips across the layout spectrum. We study this trade-off under a constraint that rules out (closed) cloud services: privacy-sensitive documents processed on-premise by small ($\le 8\mathrm{B}$ parameter) text-only and vision--language models, evaluated on both accuracy and energy over a design space spanning input representation, model family, and inference configuration. Benchmarking on the near-plain-text Kleister-NDA contracts and the layout-rich VRDU forms, we find…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
ChronoFuseGS: Multi-Temporal Gaussian Fusion with Per-Splat Persistence and Change Visualization ↗
Reconstructing environments where parts of the scene change between captured image sets poses a challenge for 3D scene reconstruction. We present ChronoFuseGS, a multi-temporal Gaussian Splatting approach that addresses this issue by taking multiple separately trained Gaussian Splatting models, each representing a distinct timestep and partially overlapping in geographic coverage, and merging them into a single combined model. By allowing Gaussians from one timestep to contribute to the reconstruction at other timesteps, our approach leverages data across all captured timesteps to refine persi…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
CG-HAF: An Interpretable Global-Local Lesion-Burden Fusion Framework for Ordinal Acne Severity Grading in Agentic Skincare Support ↗
Ordinal acne severity grading requires distinguishing visually similar neighboring grades while jointly weighing holistic facial appearance and localized lesion burden - evidence that most existing approaches collapse into a single opaque representation. We introduce CG-HAF, a global-local fusion framework that instead keeps this evidence explicit: averaged holistic severity probabilities from independently trained classifiers are combined with structured lesion-burden descriptors from an object detector (lesion count, detection confidence, lesion area) into a compact representation, from whic…
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
CommonGrid: The open source registry of the US power grid ↗
Hacker News discussion.
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