backon is a modern evolution of backoff — a zero-dependency Python library for retry with exponential backoff. It provides decorator, functional, and context manager APIs for both sync and async code.

The symbolic power of a stagnant pond beneath Lincoln’s statue has proven irresistible for the president’s critics Narcissus was cursed to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool of water.

11-year-old found floating on polystyrene off Zhunan after missing school; coastguard rescued him, probe ongoing. US will take control of Strait of Hormuz, charge for shipping, Trump says Maps show ...

The Long March 2F carrying the uncrewed Shenzhou-22 spacecraft climbs into a blue sky above Jiuquan spaceport, Nov. 25, 2025. Credit: CASC HELSINKI — China’s secretive spaceplane has released an ...

In the 'utaite' (cover singer) community, I often see the claim that 'if you record in 32-bit float, you won't get clipping.' To give you the conclusion first, this is half true and half false. While ...

Abstract: With the rapid development of uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, UAVs have provided an innovative solution for floating debris monitoring. However, object detection in UAV images ...

Abstract: Recent research on remote sensing object detection has largely focused on improving the representation of oriented bounding boxes but has overlooked the unique prior knowledge presented in ...

We propose MaskCut approach to generate pseudo-masks for multiple objects in an image. CutLER can learn unsupervised object detectors and instance segmentors solely on ImageNet-1K. CutLER exhibits ...