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Wait: econ professors get *bonuses*? For what, being such darling peaches?

« Et si les livres nous apprenaient Š nous soucier des autres ? »
– « Le chat qui voulait sauver les livres » de Sôsuke Natsukawa, un joli petit roman japonais sur le pouvoir des livres. (Et un chat exceptionel.) #2025reads #BooksofMastodon

Traversing the Narrow Path: A Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning Framework for Humanoid Beam Walking
TianChen Huang, Wei Gao, Runchen Xu, Shiwu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20661

Traversing the Narrow Path: A Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning Framework for Humanoid Beam Walking
Traversing narrow beams is challenging for humanoids due to sparse, safety-critical contacts and the fragility of purely learned policies. We propose a physically grounded, two-stage framework that couples an XCoM/LIPM footstep template with a lightweight residual planner and a simple low-level tracker. Stage-1 is trained on flat ground: the tracker learns to robustly follow footstep targets by adding small random perturbations to heuristic footsteps, without any hand-crafted centerline locking…

„Für die Beschäftigten von Frauenhäusern und Beratungsstellen sollte es demnach eine bundesweite Anlaufstelle geben, die Fortbildungen und Informationen zum Umgang mit digitaler Gewalt anbiete.“
Fordert die #GFMK. Fürchte, die Koalition wird das Thema #TechnikbasierteGewalt weiter i…

mmmh, lecker schmecker Eis nur für heute. Gut das @… so viel arbeitet damit Ich mir das ganze Eis leisten kann!
Glücklicherweise gibt sie sich mit einem Eis im Monat als Bezahlung zufrieden, haha...

Mamdani follows in AOC’s footsteps,
having defeated an entrenched figure of the establishment with grassroots progressive support.
So this was a sweet moment.
Mamdani has received supportive words from both Senator Chuck Schumer…
And Governor Kathy Hochul…
Hopefully, formal endorsements are forthcoming.
An unintended, but hopeful consequence of Mamdani’s win is that, at 33 years old, he has inspired other young people to want to run for office themselves.…

Good News For Progressive Views The Week Of 6/20-6/26
On Tuesday, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani shocked New York politics by defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for NYC mayor.

Kneeling to anti-democrats, we may have an army soon, but little left to fight for. Sharp opinion article.
"Hahaha, clever Rutte wrapped Trump around his finger."?
It's the self-deception of the weak. But Trump isn't the puppet. He's the puppet master.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/cs-beb181f5/

Knielend voor antidemocraten hebben we straks misschien wel een leger, maar weinig meer over om voor te vechten

Cat.
#caturday #catsOfMastodon #FediCats

The Biscuit Maker is in!
#caturday #catsOfMastodon #FediCats