Interesting links, 21/04/2026
Misc. interesting things.
cadrille: Multi-modal CAD Reconstruction with Reinforcement Learning, ICLR desk reject, code
polyquantique/haarpy — Haarpy, a Python library for Weingarten calculus and integration of classical compact groups and ensembles
patrick-kidger/sympy2jax — Turn SymPy expressions into trainable JAX expressions.
Attention to Mamba: A Recipe for Cross-Architecture Distillation
patrick-kidger/equinox — Elegant easy-to-use neural networks + scientific computing in JAX
A Speech Recognition Extension to Snack
There was a 'Moved Permanently' error fetching URL: 'https://x.com/KyeGomezB/status/2045659150340723107'
olgasafonova/mediawiki-mcp-server — MCP server for MediaWiki wikis - search, read, and edit wiki content from AI assistants
Should We Still Pretrain Encoders with Masked Language Modeling?, Huggingface, training code
TMH
Strange paper titles:
- What Is Your Other Hand Doing, Robot? A Model of Behavior for Shopkeeper Robot’s Idle Hand
- “I’m Not Touching You. It’s The Robot!”: Inclusion Through A Touch-Based Robot Among Mixed-Visual Ability Children
- Feel the Bite: Robot-Assisted Inside-Mouth Bite Transfer using Robust Mouth Perception and Physical Interaction-Aware Control
- I’m very pleased that my paper “Kiss Me More: Artificial Lips for Intimate Encounters” has been accepted at ICSR + Art 2026
Blackened Thrash Metal VS Blackened Death Metal
rsprouse/espsfree — BSD-licensed Entropic Signal Processing System (ESPS) released by Microsoft, repackaged and slightly updated.
Extending papermill through entry points
AcousTools: A ‘Full-Stack’, Python-Based, Acoustic Holography Library, code
Introduction to Manifold Learning
54yyyu/kaggle-mcp — Kaggle-MCP: Connect Claude AI to the Kaggle API through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling competition, dataset, and kernel operations through the AI interface.
googlecolab/colab-mcp — An MCP server for interacting with Google Colab
Red Hat Linux 7.0 - Appendix F. Kickstart Installations
libAudioFlux/audioFlux — A library for audio and music analysis, feature extraction.
Optimizing ASR Models with Semantic Information
VICReg: Variance-Invariance-Covariance Regularization for Self-Supervised Learning
Bridging the linguistic divide: a survey on leveraging large language models for machine translation
Aratox: a multi-dialect, multi-label arabic dataset and model benchmark for toxicity detection
Whisper based Cross-Lingual Phoneme Recognition between Vietnamese and English, arXiv
VICReg Pytorch (official), Jax
How to Generate Text in One Step
antirez/qwen-asr — C inference for Qwen3-ASR 0.6b and 1.7b transcriptions models
antirez/sds — Simple Dynamic Strings library for C
ljuvela/SourceFilterNeuralFormants — Neural formant synthesis using differtiable resonant filters and source-filter model structure.
HiFi-Glot: High-Fidelity Neural Formant Synthesis with Differentiable Resonant Filters, code, model
LRE Journal - template, overleaf (broken link); Wayback
The NeWMe corpus: a gold standard corpus for the study of word meaning negotiation
The Kestrel TTS text normalization system
Multilingual text analysis for text-to-speech synthesis
How To Become a Mathematical Genius
Personal Exceptionalism: why knowing you’re the exception to the rule matters
- Take on insane goals (that stretch beyond skill/experience level)
- Break the rules
- Be resilient
- Push themselves
- Upside thinking
Spectral Embedding and Laplacian Eigenmaps
Blending Supervised and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning with Prefix Sampling, code
Streaming Speech-to-Text Translation with a SpeechLLM
NVlabs/Sana — Efficient High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Linear Diffusion Transformer. — Code is open, models are not.
Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there’s a plugin to avoid them., code
poloclub/transformer-explainer
ysharma3501/LuxTTS — LuxTTS is an lightweight zipvoice based text-to-speech model designed for high quality voice cloning and realistic generation at speeds exceeding 150x realtime.
k2-fsa/ZipVoice — Fast and High-Quality Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Flow Matching
the largest cocaine-mixing factory ever found in the history of the State