Analyzing Key Objectives in Human-to-Robot Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation
Chendong Xin, Mingrui Yu, Yongpeng Jiang, Zhefeng Zhang, Xiang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09384
"When the Trump regime took over in January and Elon Musk's data-raiders started hacking federal agencies of various kinds, a group chat in which I participate started speculating about what kinds of terrible things this crowd might do. One member of the group wondered if the hacking might include the Social Security Administration's "death master file" – a list of people, presumably deceased, who would not receive any federal benefits and whose names and other identifying information would be flagged so that financial institutions would refuse to serve them.
What if, the conversation continued, the infamously cruel and paranoid regime decided to add living persons to the death master list? Doing so would destroy people's actual lives – which might make it just what a vicious government would do."
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https://cornerstone.dangillmor.com/essentials-april-12-2025/
On the Linear Programming Model for Dynamic Stochastic Matching and Its Application on Pricing
Junlin Chen, Chiwei Yan, Hai Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09924
Pete Carroll Will Help the Raiders in Multiple Ways https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-antonio-pierce-john-spytek-josh-mcdaniels
Skip the usual warmongering posturing from the various indentured 'experts', to
“Luck and misperception played a significant role in near misses in the Cold War conflict between the US & Soviet Union, especially the Cuban missile crisis in 1962,”
“What is claimed in this SDR, and has been the rhetoric under successive governments, is that the UK’s nuclear weapons are an ‘ultimate guarantee’ against attack. But… there is no basis for claiming this level of certainty.”…
Russland: Noch kein Datum für neue direkte Gespräche
Die russische Führung hat nach eigenen Angaben noch kein konkretes Datum für eine Fortsetzung der direkten Verhandlungen mit der Ukraine im Auge. Ein Termin für die nächste Gesprächsrunde werde vereinbart, sobald beide Seiten bereit seien, sagte Präsidialamtssprecher Dmitri Peskow der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters zufolge. Zunächst müssten beide Seiten die ausgetauschten Vorsc…
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