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Interesting and thrilling 13-part read:
"The Time I Built an ROV to Solve [[Missing Person Cases]]" - The [[Anttidote]]:
https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-01/
(h/t Hacker News)

The Time I Built an ROV to Solve Missing Person Cases - Part 1
Introduction

Inspiring #TNC24 Opening Keynote this morning from Paul Iske (Maastricht University, Institute of Brilliant Failures).
“Failing is not only inevitable, but also an essential learning process. Why do projects fail? Are there underlying patterns? The Institute of Brilliant Failures recognised a method involving 16 archetypes and tools to extract lessons learned and allow us to develop ‘Failure In…

CONNECT Interview with Professor Paul Iske, Maastricht University | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Brilliant Failures: fostering creativity and pushing boundaries We met with Professor Paul Iske who will be giving the opening keynote at TNC24. Professor at the School of Business and Economics at Maastricht University, Paul works on service and social innovation and his mission is to make organisations smarter and more innovative. He is also a

You know that feeling – using software or services that do not work for you but use you?
You know you want to get out of this situation but don't know how?
The Internet has lots of advice – good and bad – and I am proud to say that I just helped revive one of the better advice portals: @… at

Listening to RNZ talking about 'Field days' I'm really feeling that our country - especially those in primary industry and they gov't they've bought - are dragging us backward at a disastrous rate. It's very depressing. These misguided, entirely self-interested people, seemingly devoid of anything resembling a conscience, really really depress me.

Well, this explains quite a bit.
(Taken from an article discussing the newly released Apple AI program, in which we discover the source of corporate interest in AI.)

Great 🧵 about Apple’s Private Cloud Compute system to handle tasks beyond what can be done on device. I have mixed feelings about so-called “artificial intelligence”. I don’t like how data gets scraped without permission, and is displacing jobs. But, when it comes to using large language models as a tool, like better organizing my inbox, I’m okay with that. Obviously, when the rubber meets the road, I’m likely to change my mind.

Optimal sensing policy with interference-model uncertainty
Vincent Corlay, Jean-Christophe Sibel, Nicolas Gresset
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06280 https://…

Optimal sensing policy with interference-model uncertainty
Assume that an interferer behaves according to a parametric model but one does not know the value of the model parameters. Sensing enables to improve the model knowledge and therefore perform a better link adaptation. However, we consider a half-duplex scenario where, at each time slot, the communication system should decide between sensing and communication. We thus propose to investigate the optimal policy to maximize the expected sum rate given a finite-time communication. % the following qu…

A survey on the Le-Murakami-Ohtsuki invariant for closed 3-manifolds
Benjamin Enriquez, Anderson Vera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06857 https://

A survey on the Le-Murakami-Ohtsuki invariant for closed 3-manifolds
We review the original approach to the Le-Murakami-Ohtsuki (LMO) invariant of closed 3-manifolds (as opposed to the later approach based on the Aarhus integral). Following the ideas of surgery presentation, we introduce a class of combinatorial structures, called Kirby structures, which we prove to yield multiplicative 3-manifold invariants. We illustrate this with the Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants. We then introduce a class of combinatorial structures, called pre-LMO structures, and prove that…

Demonstrating HumanTHOR: A Simulation Platform and Benchmark for Human-Robot Collaboration in a Shared Workspace
Chenxu Wang, Boyuan Du, Jiaxin Xu, Peiyan Li, Di Guo, Huaping Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06498

Demonstrating HumanTHOR: A Simulation Platform and Benchmark for Human-Robot Collaboration in a Shared Workspace
Human-robot collaboration (HRC) in a shared workspace has become a common pattern in real-world robot applications and has garnered significant research interest. However, most existing studies for human-in-the-loop (HITL) collaboration with robots in a shared workspace evaluate in either simplified game environments or physical platforms, falling short in limited realistic significance or limited scalability. To support future studies, we build an embodied framework named HumanTHOR, which enab…

Optimal sensing policy with interference-model uncertainty
Vincent Corlay, Jean-Christophe Sibel, Nicolas Gresset
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06280 https://…

Optimal sensing policy with interference-model uncertainty
Assume that an interferer behaves according to a parametric model but one does not know the value of the model parameters. Sensing enables to improve the model knowledge and therefore perform a better link adaptation. However, we consider a half-duplex scenario where, at each time slot, the communication system should decide between sensing and communication. We thus propose to investigate the optimal policy to maximize the expected sum rate given a finite-time communication. % the following qu…