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Augmented Reality-Enhanced Robot Teleoperation for Collecting User Demonstrations
Shiqi Gong, Sebastian Zudaire, Chi Zhang, Zhen Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11783 https://

Augmented Reality-Enhanced Robot Teleoperation for Collecting User Demonstrations
Traditional industrial robot programming is often complex and time-consuming, typically requiring weeks or even months of effort from expert programmers. Although Programming by Demonstration (PbD) offers a more accessible alternative, intuitive interfaces for robot control and demonstration collection remain challenging. To address this, we propose an Augmented Reality (AR)-enhanced robot teleoperation system that integrates AR-based control with spatial point cloud rendering, enabling intuiti…

Maximum augmented Zagreb index on polyomino chains
Manuel Montes-y-Morales, Sayl\'e Sigarreta, Hugo Cruz-Su\'arez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10669 https://

Maximum augmented Zagreb index on polyomino chains
In this paper, we present a dynamic programming approach for identifying extremal polyomino chains with respect to degree-based topological indices. This approach provides an explicit recurrence and constructive algorithm that enables both the computation of an extremal polyomino chain in linear time with respect to its number of squares, and the enumeration of all maximal configurations in linear time with respect to their amount. As a main application, we resolve a problem posed in 2016 by ch…

OK fedi hivemind... I'm looking for a flat square of material about 1cm on a side and maybe 1mm thick that is going to survive being boiled in hot nitric/sulfuric acid for a couple of minutes, then rinsed in acetone and water.
I'm thinking a glass or ceramic, but don't have a source for ready made chunks of the right size (microscope coverglasses are too fragile).
You can get pre-diced silicon wafers with chunks the right size (e.g. Ted Pella 16006) but that's ann…

As I continue to slowly roll out Trixie to more of my fleet: my first virtual desktop VM (my mail client system) to be upgraded works fine for a while, then randomly seems to lock the screen and blank my VNC session after a few minutes of inactivity.
If I log into the VM console from the hypervisor UI and unlock, the VNC comes back.
Wonder what's up there...

FinVet: A Collaborative Framework of RAG and External Fact-Checking Agents for Financial Misinformation Detection
Daniel Berhane Araya, Duoduo Liao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11654

FinVet: A Collaborative Framework of RAG and External Fact-Checking Agents for Financial Misinformation Detection
Financial markets face growing threats from misinformation that can trigger billions in losses in minutes. Most existing approaches lack transparency in their decision-making and provide limited attribution to credible sources. We introduce FinVet, a novel multi-agent framework that integrates two Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines with external fact-checking through a confidence-weighted voting mechanism. FinVet employs adaptive three-tier processing that dynamically adjusts verifi…

Augment, founded by Deliverr's Harish Abbott, raised an $85M Series A led by Redpoint to scale its AI assistant for logistics, five months after a $25M seed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/ai-l

AI logistics startup Augment, from Deliverr's founder, raises massive $85M Series A | TechCrunch
The new funding, which was led by Redpoint, comes just five months after the startup launched out of stealth with a $25 million seed round.

Another few minutes in HF on the PIC12F683 sample and it looks like parts of M2 are starting to delaminate, while other parts still had oxide over them??
Gonna clean and see how this goes. This is the sort of thing that makes wet-etch deprocessing challenging though.

Back to delayering the PIC12F683. I have a ton of imagery and could do some narrated analysis already but my throat is still sore from being sick so I don't want to be recording any audio.
This is after another three minutes in room temperature Whink. I got a fresh squirt of acid in case the old stuff was getting reacted away but I don't think there is enough glass in this sample to meaningfully dilute it.

Second time in the past couple of days that I've joined a Teams call for work, hear the person leading the meeting go "We're still missing a few people let's give them a couple minutes", then silence.
And silence.
And 5 minutes later I get a text from someone asking where I am, and I'm like "still in the meeting waiting for people to join?"
But apparently the connection got borked after I joined and I got silently disconnected server side…

aaanyway... if 5 minutes etch time got me pretty much to poly, let's see where 1 minute gets me.
My hope is either M3 with overglass stripped, or M2. Both would be good datasets to have.