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"Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films."
-Jason Bateman
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CAST: Counterfactual Labels Improve Instruction Following in Vision-Language-Action Models
Catherine Glossop, William Chen, Arjun Bhorkar, Dhruv Shah, Sergey Levine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13446

CAST: Counterfactual Labels Improve Instruction Following in Vision-Language-Action Models
Generalist robots should be able to understand and follow user instructions, but current vision-language-action (VLA) models struggle with following fine-grained commands despite providing a powerful architecture for mapping open-vocabulary natural language instructions to robot actions. One cause for this is a lack of semantic diversity and language grounding in existing robot datasets and, specifically, a lack of fine-grained task diversity for similar observations. To address this, we presen…

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Ashton Jeanty, Michael Mayer, Jeremy Chinn and Raheem Mostert Postgame Media https://www.raiders.com/video/ashton-jeanty-michael-mayer-jeremy-chinn-raheem-mostert-postgame-media-week-7

#Spearhead's #MichaelFranti played a concert last night at #SDSU as online rumblings grew about allegations from a female artist casting some unusually dark shadows over the positive vibes associated with ex-

It's also worth challenging other anarchists and leftists. A lot of the folks going to these protests imagine themselves on the same side (even when they support the systems of oppression we oppose, even when they don't get that statements like "laws are real" are defenses of fascism not a rejections of it). Liberals espouse values and fail to live up to them. How do we help them close the gap between what they say they believe and the actions they take?
After decades of telling them what's going to happen and then having it happen, now that they're finally starting to see the world we've been yelling about, how do we turn "I fucking told you" into an invitation?
People don't like to lie. Cognitive dissonance doesn't feel good. There are people who are feeling it now, people who've never felt it in this way before. How do we help them resolve it?
How do we best use this opportunity to invite people, to open up to those who've always wanted to be with us but never believed that a better world is possible?

American Academy of Religion, Western Region 2026 Annual Conference - RELIGIONS OF ASIA UNIT ​(with an opportunity for inclusion in a planned edited volume)
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HeroBench: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Planning and Structured Reasoning in Virtual Worlds
Petr Anokhin, Roman Khalikov, Stefan Rebrikov, Viktor Volkov, Artyom Sorokin, Vincent Bissonnette
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12782

HeroBench: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Planning and Structured Reasoning in Virtual Worlds
Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in isolated step-by-step reasoning tasks such as mathematics and programming, but their proficiency in long-horizon planning, where solutions require extended, structured sequences of interdependent actions, remains underexplored. Existing benchmarks typically assess LLMs through abstract or low-dimensional algorithmic tasks, failing to capture the complexity of realistic planning environments. We introduce HeroBench, a novel bench…

Automated Energy-Aware Time-Series Model Deployment on Embedded FPGAs for Resilient Combined Sewer Overflow Management
Tianheng Ling, Vipin Singh, Chao Qian, Felix Biessmann, Gregor Schiele
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13905

Automated Energy-Aware Time-Series Model Deployment on Embedded FPGAs for Resilient Combined Sewer Overflow Management
Extreme weather events, intensified by climate change, increasingly challenge aging combined sewer systems, raising the risk of untreated wastewater overflow. Accurate forecasting of sewer overflow basin filling levels can provide actionable insights for early intervention, helping mitigating uncontrolled discharge. In recent years, AI-based forecasting methods have offered scalable alternatives to traditional physics-based models, but their reliance on cloud computing limits their reliability …

"Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films."
—Jason Bateman
#acting #coaching #inspiration