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Sight Over Site: Perception-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Robotic Inspection
Richard Kuhlmann, Jakob Wolfram, Boyang Sun, Jiaxu Xing, Davide Scaramuzza, Marc Pollefeys, Cesar Cadena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17877

Sight Over Site: Perception-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Robotic Inspection
Autonomous inspection is a central problem in robotics, with applications ranging from industrial monitoring to search-and-rescue. Traditionally, inspection has often been reduced to navigation tasks, where the objective is to reach a predefined location while avoiding obstacles. However, this formulation captures only part of the real inspection problem. In real-world environments, the inspection targets may become visible well before their exact coordinates are reached, making further movemen…

A proud achievement of my half-century IT career happened in 1996 consulting to the #UNDP toward the first published edition of the Humanity Development Library.
It seemed easy enough: "It can be fairly estimated that 1/3, or about 20 million pages of UN, and as much University and NGO material are very useful. Those 20 million pages useful UN publications probably contain about 50% of solutions for major World problems. This information must be released in digital format for non-profit redistribution in all countries."
also portable and accessible to all platforms, everywhere.
Happily, not only did the project live on, but thanks to @… our once-intractable problem of global delivery is now globally solved!
So, whether or not this is timely, I don't know, but should you need to suddenly rebuild some semblance of civilization from scratch…
Humanity Development Library 2.0 CD-ROM 1998 : #HumanityLibrariesProject : #InternetArchive
https://archive.org/details/humanity-development-library-2.0

Speech-to-See: End-to-End Speech-Driven Open-Set Object Detection
Wenhuan Lu, Xinyue Song, Wenjun Ke, Zhizhi Yu, Wenhao Yang, Jianguo Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16670 https:…

Speech-to-See: End-to-End Speech-Driven Open-Set Object Detection
Audio grounding, or speech-driven open-set object detection, aims to localize and identify objects directly from speech, enabling generalization beyond predefined categories. This task is crucial for applications like human-robot interaction where textual input is impractical. However, progress in this domain faces a fundamental bottleneck from the scarcity of large-scale, paired audio-image data, and is further constrained by previous methods that rely on indirect, text-mediated pipelines. In …

"Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows
A new study that mapped the portfolios of the world’s 250 biggest oil and gas companies found their deployment of renewable energy is paltry: they’re responsible for just 1.42% of the global renewable energy capacity in operation. Despite announcing ambitious plans to embrace renewables, a mere 0.1% of the primary energy they produce comes from […]

Higher moments under dependence uncertainty with applications in insurance
Carole Bernard, Jinghui Chen, Steven Vanduffel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16600 https://

Higher moments under dependence uncertainty with applications in insurance
Recent studies have highlighted the significance of higher-order moments - such as coskewness - in portfolio optimization within the financial domain. This paper extends that focus to the field of actuarial science by examining the impact of these moments on key actuarial applications. In the first part, we derive analytical lower and upper bounds for mixed moments of the form $\mathbb{E}(X_1X_2^d)$, where $X_i \sim F_i$ for $i=1,2$, assuming known marginal distributions but unspecified depende…

Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/big-oil-isnt-part-of-the-clean-energy-push-despite-its-claims-study-shows/

Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows
A new study that mapped the portfolios of the world’s 250 biggest oil and gas companies found their deployment of renewable energy is paltry: they’re responsible for just 1.42% of the global renewable energy capacity in operation. Despite announcing ambitious plans to embrace renewables, a mere 0.1% of the primary energy they produce comes from […]

If anyone I have a connection with has any thoughts on part or full time design/illustration roles, I would LOVE to hear from you.
18 years experience and am open to new challenges!
#lookingforwork #getfedihired
My most recently uploaded work can be found in my portfolio at https://www.andycarolan.com
If you wish to find out more about me as a person, my strengths, skills and what I'm like to work with, please take a look at my personal user manual at https://www.andycarolan.com/myusermanual
CV/Resume on request

Taste is used here as a research instrument, not a metaphor.
Each work translates a regional ecological transformation into a reproducible, time-based edible score
paired with a data-driven abstract drawing that represents perceived taste.
Together, an instructional certificate (containing the edible score),
a data-driven abstract drawing,
and a Bioregional Context Dossier form a single artwork
that can be performed, conserved, and collected.

Taste Cartographies Documenting Anthropocene Terroir Through Systematic Flavor Analysis — Beth Ames Altringer Eagle Portfolio
Taste Cartographies Documenting Anthropocene Terroir Through Systematic Flavor Analysis Project focus: Systematic translation of regional ecological systems...

Prompt: “Three movies that are similar to Zatoichi but not the most popular ones”.
Likewise.com gives what seems to be a predefined list as changes to the last part are not influencing the result.
Gemini (2.5 Flash): 3 movies from the 70s. I believe they are good recommendations.
ChatGPT: 3 options from the late 60s. I believe they are also good recommendations.
In the end I chose to watch “The Twilight Samurai” 2002.

from my link log —
VBARE / versioned BARE: A simple alternative to Protobuf & Cap'n Proto for schema evolution.
https://www.rivet.dev/blog/2025-09-24-vbare-simple-schema-evolution-with-maximum-performance
saved 2025-…

VBARE: A simple alternative to Protobuf & Cap'n Proto for schema evolution
At Rivet, we're building an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Durable Objects — a tool for running stateful compute workloads. VBARE is a small but crucial component in meeting the demanding performance requirements of Rivet Actors.