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Ulcerate:
🎵 Stare Into Death and Be Still
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https://ulcerate.bandcamp.com/album/stare-into-death-and-be-still
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“Where to Put Focus When Opening a Modal Dialog”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/06/where-to-put-focus-when-opening-a-modal-dialog.html
TL;DR: blanket statements about where to put focus when opening a modal dialog are wrong, in…

Where to Put Focus When Opening a Modal Dialog
TL;DR: blanket statements about where to put focus when opening a modal dialog are wrong, including this one. This post is meant to help guide you, an intelligent and thoughtful and empathetic reader, figure out where you should set focus. The scenarios are non-exhaustive. Messages I’m artificially breaking these into…

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Mel Tormé:
🎵 Comin' Home Baby
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https://djcmanmusic.bandcamp.com/track/mel-torme-comin-home-baby-cman-swing-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/71tjsDvB4EMJqNG8EMmFnb

Had a fun conversation on this week's Mac Power Users with @… and @…, ranging from punched card computing in the '70s through developing for NeXT in the '90s to considering how to tastefully use (and avoid overuse) Liquid …

"All the tech oligarchs and business titans who’ve thrown in with Trump, apparently deciding that strongman politics are good for business, should think carefully about that post; in it, you can see the transition to a new kind of American regime.""
'Think carefully': How a single Trump threat should have cronies panicking - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-musk-2672324238/?cx_testId=4&cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&cx_artPos=1&cx_experienceId=EXC93HV4HK4I&cx_experienceActionId=showRecommendationsJ2A0SJUMQX4T24#cxrecs_s

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20290 has been replaced.
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EgoZero: Robot Learning from Smart Glasses
Despite recent progress in general purpose robotics, robot policies still lag far behind basic human capabilities in the real world. Humans interact constantly with the physical world, yet this rich data resource remains largely untapped in robot learning. We propose EgoZero, a minimal system that learns robust manipulation policies from human demonstrations captured with Project Aria smart glasses, $\textbf{and zero robot data}$. EgoZero enables: (1) extraction of complete, robot-executable ac…

Thanks for the thoughtful replies. Answers to questions:
Many people asked for the context. This is for college students using what they already know about the order of arithmetic operations to start analyzing the structure of code. In the activity, they visual code structures using these kind of diagrams. The important thing here is thus not just subtraction; it’s this way of visualizing the relationships — and there already is a sight-centeric word, “visualize!” But I suspect a blind reader could also use these spatial relationships as a learning tool…if there were a good way of conveying the spatial relationships.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03308 has been replaced.
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Hermes: High-Performance Homomorphically Encrypted Vector Databases
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) has long promised the ability to compute over encrypted data without revealing sensitive contents -- a foundational goal for secure cloud analytics. Yet despite decades of cryptographic advances, practical integration of FHE into real-world relational databases remains elusive. This paper presents \textbf{Hermes}, the first system to enable FHE-native vector query processing inside a standard SQL engine. By leveraging the multi-slot capabilities of modern sche…

STAR: Learning Diverse Robot Skill Abstractions through Rotation-Augmented Vector Quantization
Hao Li, Qi Lv, Rui Shao, Xiang Deng, Yinchuan Li, Jianye Hao, Liqiang Nie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03863

STAR: Learning Diverse Robot Skill Abstractions through Rotation-Augmented Vector Quantization
Transforming complex actions into discrete skill abstractions has demonstrated strong potential for robotic manipulation. Existing approaches mainly leverage latent variable models, e.g., VQ-VAE, to learn skill abstractions through learned vectors (codebooks), while they suffer from codebook collapse and modeling the causal relationship between learned skills. To address these limitations, we present \textbf{S}kill \textbf{T}raining with \textbf{A}ugmented \textbf{R}otation (\textbf{STAR}), a f…

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Digital-physical testbed for ship autonomy studies in the Marine Cybernetics Laboratory basin
The algorithms developed for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) are often challenging to test on actual vessels due to high operational costs and safety considerations. Simulations offer a cost-effective alternative and eliminate risks, but they may not accurately represent real-world dynamics for the given tasks. Utilizing small-scale model ships and robotic vessels in conjunction with a laboratory basin provides an accessible testing environment for the early stages of validation proces…