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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

Analyzing Key Objectives in Human-to-Robot Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation
Kinematic retargeting from human hands to robot hands is essential for transferring dexterity from humans to robots in manipulation teleoperation and imitation learning. However, due to mechanical differences between human and robot hands, completely reproducing human motions on robot hands is impossible. Existing works on retargeting incorporate various optimization objectives, focusing on different aspects of hand configuration. However, the lack of experimental comparative studies leaves the…

"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."
#USPolitics
https://cornerstone.dangillmor.com/essentials-april-12-2025/

Raiders' Brock Bowers Set to Cash In Big In Future https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-brock-bowers-puka-nacua-justin-jefferson-jamarr-chase

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

On the Linear Programming Model for Dynamic Stochastic Matching and Its Application on Pricing
Important pricing problems in centralized matching markets -- such as carpooling and food delivery platforms -- often exhibit a bi-level structure. At the upper level, the platform sets prices for different types of agents (e.g., riders with various origins and destinations, or delivery orders from diverse restaurants to customer locations). The lower level then matches converted agents to minimize operational costs, such as pooling riders with similar itineraries into the same vehicle or conso…

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

Für die breite Verwendung von #KI, speziell im Kontext #Schule, muss sichergestellt sein, dass #LLMs user:innen nicht zu selbstgefährdendem Verhalten animieren.
Das Nonprofit Transluce arbeitet an verschie…

Surfacing Pathological Behaviors in Language Models
We train reinforcement learning (RL) agents to craft realistic natural-language prompts that elicit specified behaviors in frontier open-weight models (Llama 3.1/4, Qwen 2.5, and DeepSeek-V3), using a proposed variational lower bound to guide the search.

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.”…

Will Britain’s nuclear strategy bring catastrophe? Experts on UK's 'dangerous gamble'
Former defence minister Tobias Ellwood said the UK must expand its nuclear arsenal with tactical bombs to prepare for Putin

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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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Gefangenenaustausch steht bevor ++
Die Ukraine und Russland werden voraussichtlich am Wochenende erneut Kriegsgefangene austauschen. Verteidigungsminister Pistorius verspricht der Ukraine anhaltende Unterstützung des Westens, vor allem beim Ausbau der Flugabwehr.