The preprint authors report: LAFT combines structured translation prompts with numerical validation and profiling-guided feedback to convert Fortran atmospheric physics to GPU-accelerated JAX while preserving floating-point agreement.
The authors caution that numerical agreement alone does not ensure efficient GPU execution. Their results motivate checking correctness and hardware performance separately.
Researchers tested language models on Wikipedia navigation using the Wikipedia Game format across five languages and academic citation networks, finding no model significantly outperformed humans.
The authors report performance and rankings that vary across languages and topics. Compare navigation methods in the language and collection you plan to use.
The author presents a browser fingerprinting demonstration that assigns a repeatable nickname even after cookies are cleared or a VPN is used.
The article describes fingerprinting through hardware measurements. Cookie deletion alone may not change the identity reported by this demonstration.
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For software engineers modernizing legacy atmospheric physics code for GPUspreprint
A Fortran-to-JAX framework pairs translation with validation and profiling
The preprint authors report: LAFT combines structured translation prompts with numerical validation and profiling-guided feedback to convert Fortran atmospheric physics to GPU-accelerated JAX while preserving floating-point agreement.
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requires accelerator-programming expertise. We present LAFT (LLM-Assisted Fortran Translation), an agentic framework for converting Fortran atmospheric physics parameterizations into GPU-accelerated JAX while
front end for metadata extraction and bridge generation, structured translation prompts, numerical validation, and profiling-guided feedback to identify inefficient execution patterns. The
The authors caution that numerical agreement alone does not ensure efficient GPU execution. Their results motivate checking correctness and hardware performance separately.
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The results demonstrate that numerical agreement alone does not ensure efficient GPU execution and motivate combining numerical validation with hardware-aware performance analysis.
Compare the translated implementations’ execution designs. Check whether compilation and host-device transfers belong in your own timing before estimating a speedup for your code.
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The reported cached-execution timing excludes compilation and host-device transfers.
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in cached execution at 1,000,000 atmospheric columns, excluding compilation and host-device transfers.
For practitioners evaluating language models for navigating information networkspreprint
A multilingual benchmark tests how models navigate document collections
Researchers tested language models on Wikipedia navigation using the Wikipedia Game format across five languages and academic citation networks, finding no model significantly outperformed humans.
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specialist linguistic or scientific knowledge. We used the Wikipedia Game to test language models on an analogous information retrieval task. In the
humans, although the best models (GPT-o3 mini, GPT-4o, QwQ:32B, and DeepSeek-R1:70B) achieved comparable success. Performance and rankings varied across languages and topics,
The authors report performance and rankings that vary across languages and topics. Compare navigation methods in the language and collection you plan to use.
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Performance and rankings varied across languages and topics, with implications for practitioners utilising these techniques.
Use the described graph-building code to test navigation in a document collection similar to your own, then compare results with a human or TF-IDF baseline.
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A preprint reports the authors’ findings; peer review and independent replication are not established here.
For people testing browser privacy controlsarticle
A fingerprinting demo tests the limits of cookie controls
The author presents a browser fingerprinting demonstration that assigns a repeatable nickname even after cookies are cleared or a VPN is used.
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Try refreshing the page. Clear the cookies. Connect to a VPN. You’re still the … . Now open it on your phone or some other device and your nickname will be different and just as consistent.
Open the demo in a browser you already use. Compare its reported nickname before and after cookie clearing and in incognito mode; treat that as a test of this demo, not proof of anonymity.
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For people building or evaluating AI systemspreprint
Towards Physically Grounded Articulated 3D Assets: A Multi-Agent Pipeline and Benchmark
The preprint authors report: Artisan achieves competitive spatial fidelity while attaining the lowest collision rates and highest stability rates among more than ten evaluated models in their benchmark.
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Through extensive evaluation of more than 10 representative models, Artisan achieves competitive spatial fidelity while attaining the lowest collision rates and highest stability rates among the evaluated methods.
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