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Avoid #Krogers until they agree to pay their workers.
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Demonstration Sidetracks: Categorizing Systematic Non-Optimality in Human Demonstrations
Shijie Fang, Hang Yu, Qidi Fang, Reuben M. Aronson, Elaine S. Short
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11262

Demonstration Sidetracks: Categorizing Systematic Non-Optimality in Human Demonstrations
Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a popular approach for robots to acquire new skills, but most LfD methods suffer from imperfections in human demonstrations. Prior work typically treats these suboptimalities as random noise. In this paper we study non-optimal behaviors in non-expert demonstrations and show that they are systematic, forming what we call demonstration sidetracks. Using a public space study with 40 participants performing a long-horizon robot task, we recreated the setup in si…

Step-by-step Instructions and a Simple Tabular Output Format Improve the Dependency Parsing Accuracy of LLMs
Hiroshi Matsuda, Chunpeng Ma, Masayuki Asahara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09983

Step-by-step Instructions and a Simple Tabular Output Format Improve the Dependency Parsing Accuracy of LLMs
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled impressive performance in various tasks. However, standard prompting often struggles to produce structurally valid and accurate outputs, especially in dependency parsing. We propose a novel step-by-step instruction strategy, where universal part-of-speech tagging precedes the prediction of syntactic heads and dependency labels, and a simplified CoNLL-U like output format, our method achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on Universal Depe…

I spotted this '100 best movies of all time' (maybe most popular/influential, see how they chose them) list via Empire, some I agree with, some I'm disturbed by. Now I can't stop thinking about it. Check the list, agree/disagree? What would YOUR top ones be? I'm gonna throw mine together and see what I get. Can I even come up with 100 that are WORTHY? 😂

The 100 Best Movies Of All Time — And Where You Can Watch Them
Explore Empire's top 100 best movies, ranked by our critics. From blockbusters to cult classics, see what made the list and what you need to watch now!

It's time for the #EV industry to hold itself to a higher standard when it comes to roaming. You can't have your cake and eat it. Make the cake bigger!
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I fully agree with Christian Weinberger's call here: Isn't it time we stop… | Jaap Burger
I fully agree with Christian Weinberger's call here: Isn't it time we stop pretending roaming works and start holding the ecosystem to a higher standard? As a fossil in this industry, I remember how EV roaming took off 15 years ago – it was a no-brainer from a user perspective and a logical step to ensure that the EV charging market could grow, benefiting everyone in the sector. As an early electric car driver eager to travel abroad, I spent a lot of time getting the right passes for local n…

"There's one way to end this war. You say to Vladimir Putin:
If you don't stop this war, and we agree to the ceasefire terms I dictate, we are bringing Ukraine into NATO within 30 days. Which part of that sentence don't you understand? Do you want to mess with me? Test me.
That's how you end this war."
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Study of electronic band alignment in SiGeSn/GeSn quantum well via internal photoemission effect
Justin Rudie, Huong Tran, Yang Zhang, Sylvester Amoah, Sudip Acharya, Hryhorii Stanchu, Mansour Mortazavi, Timothy A. Morgan, Gregory T. Forcherio, Greg Sun, Gregory Salamo, Wei Du, Shui-Qing Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06976

Study of electronic band alignment in SiGeSn/GeSn quantum well via internal photoemission effect
SiGeSn-based optoelectronic devices, which operate across a broad infrared wavelength range, have attracted significant attention, particularly heterostructures utilizing quantum wells are widely utilized. In these structures, band alignment type and barrier height are crucial for carrier confinement, making them highly desirable information to obtain. This work leverages the internal photoemission effect to extract effective barrier heights from a Si0.024Ge0.892Sn0.084 / Ge0.882Sn0.118 single …

Scott Logic Lead Developer Darren Smith shares a report of carbon emission measuring software tools in 2025, their scope, and reviews these in the context of principal cloud service providers' offerings, including Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon AWS.
"Tools for measuring Cloud Carbon Emissions (updated for 2025)"

Tools for measuring Cloud Carbon Emissions (updated for 2025)
In this post I'll discuss ways of estimating the emissions caused by your Cloud workloads as a first step towards reaching your organisation's Net Zero goals.

Performance of MAGIC stellar intensity interferometer and expansion to MAGIC CTAO-LST1 stellar intensity interferometer
Alejo Cifuentes, V. A. Acciari, F. Barnes, G. Chon, E. Colombo, J. Cortina, C. Delgado, C. D\'iaz, M. Fiori, D. Fink, T. Hassan, I. Jim\'enez Mart\'inez, I. Jorge, D. Kerszberg, E. Lyard, G. Mart\'inez, R. Mirzoyan, M. Polo, N. Produit, J. J. Rodr\'iguez-V\'azquez, P. Saha, T. Schweizer, D. Strom, R. Walter, C. W. Wunderlich, MAGIC Collaborat…

Performance of MAGIC stellar intensity interferometer and expansion to MAGIC + CTAO-LST1 stellar intensity interferometer
A new generation of optical intensity interferometers are emerging in recent years taking advantage of the existing infrastructure of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). The MAGIC SII (Stellar Intensity Interferometer) in La Palma, Spain, has been operating since its first successful measurements in 2019 and its current design allows it to operate regularly. The current setup is ready to follow up on bright optical transients, as changing from regular gamma-ray observations to SII…

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Agoria feat. Noemie & Rami Khalifé:
🎵 Teardrops
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