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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03896 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

FLIP: Flowability-Informed Powder Weighing
Autonomous manipulation of powders remains a significant challenge for robotic automation in scientific laboratories. The inherent variability and complex physical interactions of powders in flow, coupled with variability in laboratory conditions necessitates adaptive automation. This work introduces FLIP, a flowability-informed powder weighing framework designed to enhance robotic policy learning for granular material handling. Our key contribution lies in using material flowability, quantifie…

Vuelve Guns n' Roses a Chile este año
14 de octubre en el Parque Estadio Nacional. La preventa comieza el 11 de junio a las 11:00 hrs. y la venta general el 13 a las 11:30 por puntoticket.
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Dredging up recollections of my experience as R6RS editor for my PLSS talk tomorrow.
https://2025.ecoop.org/details/plss-2025-papers/8/Do-Programming-Languages-Fulfill-Requirements-Should-They-

"Amazon to open fulfilment centre with vertical solar in Japan"
#Japan #Amazon #Business

FLIP: Flowability-Informed Powder Weighing
Nikola Radulov (Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool UK), Alex Wright (Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool UK), Thomas little (Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool UK), Andrew I. Cooper (Department of Chemistry university of Liverpool UK), Gabriella Pizzuto (Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool UK, Department of Chemistry university of Liverpool UK)

FLIP: Flowability-Informed Powder Weighing
Autonomous manipulation of powders remains a significant challenge for robotic automation in scientific laboratories. The inherent variability and complex physical interactions of powders in flow, coupled with variability in laboratory conditions necessitates adaptive automation. This work introduces FLIP, a flowability-informed powder weighing framework designed to enhance robotic policy learning for granular material handling. Our key contribution lies in using material flowability, quantifie…

We are so fucking doomed. The people with the real money are fulfilling their own paranoid fantasies: they’ve become servants of AGI: Artificial Generalized Imbecility. And the people with the skills and credentials to call them on it just don’t. https://eigenmagic.net/@NewtonMark/114

Mark Newton (@NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net)
Attached: 1 image An advertising company uses a bullshit machine to pretend to be a climate engineer, hilarity ensues. “Meta’s AI climate tool raised false hope of CO2 removal, scientists say” https://www.ft.com/content/69220fea-9c9a-4f55-9118-65d2660c85d4 ping @davidgerard@circumstances.run Maybe for our next trick we can ask a car manufacturing company how to grow tulips. It’d make the same amount of sense as asking Meta how to remove atmospheric CO2.

The IRS open sourced most of its Direct File tax software on GitHub last week, fulfilling a legal requirement under the SHARE IT Act, despite Intuit pressure (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/directfile-open-source-…

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

@… How exciting — congratulations! Really hope you find all of the happiness and fulfillment in your new career — you deserve it

“Humans generally want to feel chosen and special, and some individuals will believe they are to an extraordinary degree.” —YDS Prof Yii-Jan Lin as quoted in Rolling Stone on A.I. and religious fervor. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

People Are Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in AI. Religious Scholars Have Thoughts
People keep falling down rabbit holes of prophecy and spiritualism thanks to conversations with AI chatbots. Here's what religious scholars are saying.

Any #SailfishOS users out here know how to make #StreetComplete usable again by either disabling the any-audio-interrupting plop sounds or teaching SailfishOS to just keep playing audio if another app makes sound?

Disabling Plop/Touch sounds in StreetComplete
StreetComplete is a very cool app that makes adding data to OpenStreetMap quite fun. However, on SailfishOS there is one thing that makes it super annoying to use: Whenever one fulfils a task / answers a question, the icon vanishes with a PLOP sound, which then stops any other audio such ss the Sailfish media player. This effectively prevents listening to music or an audiobook during mapping which is indescribably annoying. Some links: from my post: A couple of other people having big probl…