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🔄 Seeing double: Visual anagrams that rotate open doors for brain research
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Seeing double: Visual anagrams that rotate open doors for brain research
New artificial intelligence-generated images that appear to be one thing, but something else entirely when rotated, are helping scientists test the human mind.

«So, to sum it up, Kling wears his mask a bit better than DHH, but as far as I’m concerned it seems clear that both projects are run by fascists. If it walks like a fascist and quacks like a fascist… then why is Cloudflare giving them hundreds of thousands of dollars?»
I think we all know the answer to that one!
https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/24/2025-09-24-Cloudflare-and-fascists.html

Inside Pangyo Techno Valley, South Korea's "Silicon Valley" that is home to 1,800 startups, R&D centers, and global tech firms, as it strives for global impact (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/sout

South Korea's 'Silicon Valley' struggles to live up to its global ambitions | TechCrunch
South Korea’s Pangyo continues to anchor the nation’s tech economy, though accessibility and competition test its edge.

HUNT: High-Speed UAV Navigation and Tracking in Unstructured Environments via Instantaneous Relative Frames
Alessandro Saviolo, Jeffrey Mao, Giuseppe Loianno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19452

HUNT: High-Speed UAV Navigation and Tracking in Unstructured Environments via Instantaneous Relative Frames
Search and rescue operations require unmanned aerial vehicles to both traverse unknown unstructured environments at high speed and track targets once detected. Achieving both capabilities under degraded sensing and without global localization remains an open challenge. Recent works on relative navigation have shown robust tracking by anchoring planning and control to a visible detected object, but cannot address navigation when no target is in the field of view. We present HUNT (High-speed UAV …

Waldo is lying on top of my & has looked up, literally wanting to know why I stopped rubbing his belly. I have no answer.
#dogs

Which is easier:
Reversing DRAM init binaries or setting up MFA with O365?
(I am forced to, thank you HostEurope...)
Can't access my damn email now, great, -(2**31)/10, cannot recommend.
Yes, the answer is the former. 😱

🧲 We tested if a specialized magnetic powder could remove microplastics from drinking water: The answer is yes
https://theconversation.com/we-tested-if-a-specialised-magnetic-powder-could-remove-mi…

We tested if a specialised magnetic powder could remove microplastics from drinking water: the answer is yes
Researchers developed a new method to remove microplastics from water.

Rep. Ilhan Omar asked CNN anchor and Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins if she finds slain activist Charlie Kirk’s views “reprehensible” as Collins grilled her about social media posts related to Kirk.
Omar faced an attempted censure over her posts, which included reposting a video referencing Kirk being “shot through the neck” by his own “Frankenstein monster.”
Four Republicans helped vote down the censure resolution

Dem Ilhan Omar Straight-Up Asks CNN Anchor ‘Do You Not Find Charlie Kirk’s Views Reprehensible ...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) straight-up asked CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins if she finds slain activist Charlie Kirk's views "reprehensible."

Which is easier:
Reversing DRAM init binaries or setting up MFA with O365?
(I am forced to, thank you HostEurope...)
Can't access my damn email now, great, -(2**31)/10, cannot recommend.
Yes, the answer is the former. 😱

End-to-end RL Improves Dexterous Grasping Policies
Ritvik Singh, Karl Van Wyk, Pieter Abbeel, Jitendra Malik, Nathan Ratliff, Ankur Handa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16434 https:…

End-to-end RL Improves Dexterous Grasping Policies
This work explores techniques to scale up image-based end-to-end learning for dexterous grasping with an arm + hand system. Unlike state-based RL, vision-based RL is much more memory inefficient, resulting in relatively low batch sizes, which is not amenable for algorithms like PPO. Nevertheless, it is still an attractive method as unlike the more commonly used techniques which distill state-based policies into vision networks, end-to-end RL can allow for emergent active vision behaviors. We id…