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“The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number became believers and turned to the Lord.”
‭‭Acts€ ‭11€:‭21€ ‭NRSV€€
https://bible.com/bible/2016/act.11.21.NRSV

Acts 11:21 The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number became believers and turned to the Lord. | New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) | Download The Bible App Now
The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number became believers and turned to the Lord.

Hmm… maybe I should pickup a watch with a "California Dial". 🤔
P.S. For those unfamiliar with this dial layout or even those who have seen it but wondered WTF is going on, this is a nice summary:
https://revolutionwatch.com/california-love/

California Love
With its mix of Roman and Arabic numerals, the so-called California dial has become one of the most sought-after Rolex watches of the modern era.

Towards Biosignals-Free Autonomous Prosthetic Hand Control via Imitation Learning
Kaijie Shi, Wanglong Lu, Hanli Zhao, Vinicius Prado da Fonseca, Ting Zou, Xianta Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08795

Towards Biosignals-Free Autonomous Prosthetic Hand Control via Imitation Learning
Limb loss affects millions globally, impairing physical function and reducing quality of life. Most traditional surface electromyographic (sEMG) and semi-autonomous methods require users to generate myoelectric signals for each control, imposing physically and mentally taxing demands. This study aims to develop a fully autonomous control system that enables a prosthetic hand to automatically grasp and release objects of various shapes using only a camera attached to the wrist. By placing the ha…

Kyle Liu is the Head of Engineering at Mercari, a second-hand e-commerce marketplace based in Japan. His team has been using Elastic Search for retrieval and DNN Learning to Rank for ranking for a long time. At #bbuzz, he will discuss how they re-architected their search system in response to developments in deep learning and LLM, and how they successfully convinced internal stakeholders to adopt new…

Hearing Hands: Generating Sounds from Physical Interactions in 3D Scenes
Yiming Dou, Wonseok Oh, Yuqing Luo, Antonio Loquercio, Andrew Owens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09989

Hearing Hands: Generating Sounds from Physical Interactions in 3D Scenes
We study the problem of making 3D scene reconstructions interactive by asking the following question: can we predict the sounds of human hands physically interacting with a scene? First, we record a video of a human manipulating objects within a 3D scene using their hands. We then use these action-sound pairs to train a rectified flow model to map 3D hand trajectories to their corresponding audio. At test time, a user can query the model for other actions, parameterized as sequences of hand pos…

Real-Time Confidence Detection through Facial Expressions and Hand Gestures
Tanjil Hasan Sakib, Samia Jahan Mojumder, Rajan Das Gupta, Md Imrul Hasan Showmick, Md. Yeasin Rahat, Md. Jakir Hossen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09153

Real-Time Confidence Detection through Facial Expressions and Hand Gestures
Real-time face orientation recognition is a cutting-edge technology meant to track and analyze facial movements in virtual environments such as online interviews, remote meetings, and virtual classrooms. As the demand for virtual interactions grows, it becomes increasingly important to measure participant engagement, attention, and overall interaction. This research presents a novel solution that leverages the Media Pipe Face Mesh framework to identify facial landmarks and extract geometric dat…

Somewhere in this room there is half a jammy dodger.
I do not understand why it is not in my hand, as I have only just finished chewing the first half.
But where did I put it down?

Diver-Robot Communication Dataset for Underwater Hand Gesture Recognition
Igor Kvasi\'c, Derek Orbaugh Antillon, {\DH}ula Na{\dj}, Christopher Walker, Iain Anderson, Nikola Mi\v{s}kovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08974

Diver-Robot Communication Dataset for Underwater Hand Gesture Recognition
In this paper, we present a dataset of diving gesture images used for human-robot interaction underwater. By offering this open access dataset, the paper aims at investigating the potential of using visual detection of diving gestures from an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) as a form of communication with a human diver. In addition to the image recording, the same dataset was recorded using a smart gesture recognition glove. The glove uses elastomer sensors and on-board processing to determ…

Youtuber entwickelt stärksten Hand-Laser der Welt
Youtuber StyroPyro hat die Leistung eines tragbaren Lasers auf 250 Watt hochgeschraubt. Damit ist er wohl der weltweit stärkste Hand-Laser.
https://www.…

2026 is going to be a big hit for those of us who buy second-hand IT equipment. The end of Windows 10 support together with the incompatibility of many computers with Windows 11 will flood the market of high-powered computers and laptops. I'm going to feel like a kid in a candy store.

Im using case_when() quite a lot, case_match() is new to me: #rstats

A general vectorised switch() — case_match
This function allows you to vectorise multiple switch() statements. Each case is evaluated sequentially and the first match for each element determines the corresponding value in the output vector. If no cases match, the .default is used. case_match() is an R equivalent of the SQL "simple" CASE WHEN statement. Connection to case_when() While case_when() uses logical expressions on the left-hand side of the formula, case_match() uses values to match against .x with. The following two statement…

Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
GEELA: [Touches Avon's hand with her weapon. She releases his hand.] Minimum power. A full charge would cut you in half.
NOVARA: Understand. Your lives are totally unimportant to us.
BLAKE: All right.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/484…

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

For my next modern culture and media studies work, I'd like to use "THE SIMPLE NEW SOCIO-ECONOMICGEOPOLITICALBIO-HISTORICAL APPROACH" (TSR 1987)
(The eighties were a very weird time, y'all.)
(I found this in WCA #26, ZODIAC ATTACK)

Zuckerberg's Meta Just Made a Huge Investment in a Very Dark AI Company
"This is like the AI equivalent of the Marshall Plan."
https://futurism.com/meta-scaleai-superintelligence

Zuckerberg's Meta Just Made a Huge Investment in a Very Dark AI Company
Zuckerberg is said to be hand picking a team of nearly 50 AI researchers to launch a shadowy "superintelligence group."

Old servers are prepped and ready for their new owner and new home.
#homelab

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? https://actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/motie-van-want…

Teken voor een motie van wantrouwen tegen minister Faber
De ondertekenaars van deze petitie laten zien dat het Nederlandse volk klaar is met een minister die de hand boven het hoofd gehouden wordt om de coalitie bij elkaar te houden. Dit terwijl de minister iedere keer weer laat blijken totaal ongeschikt te zijn aan de functie als minister. De minister toont namelijk geen ministeriële verantwoordelijkheid. Dit kan dus niet langer en de minister moet of zelf opstappen of weggestuurd worden. In het belang van Nederland waar echte problemen opgelost...

Inside Out 🏢
内外 🏢
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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TABS. It is a question of #accessibility, you morons!
Death to #smartTabs (aka random haphazard inserts of spaces depending on the IDE at hand)!
#codingStyle

Synergizing Reinforcement Learning and Genetic Algorithms for Neural Combinatorial Optimization
Shengda Gu, Kai Li, Junliang Xing, Yifan Zhang, Jian Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09404

Synergizing Reinforcement Learning and Genetic Algorithms for Neural Combinatorial Optimization
Combinatorial optimization problems are notoriously challenging due to their discrete structure and exponentially large solution space. Recent advances in deep reinforcement learning (DRL) have enabled the learning heuristics directly from data. However, DRL methods often suffer from limited exploration and susceptibility to local optima. On the other hand, evolutionary algorithms such as Genetic Algorithms (GAs) exhibit strong global exploration capabilities but are typically sample inefficien…

Dataset of News Articles with Provenance Metadata for Media Relevance Assessment
Tomas Peterka, Matyas Bohacek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09847 https://

Dataset of News Articles with Provenance Metadata for Media Relevance Assessment
Out-of-context and misattributed imagery is the leading form of media manipulation in today's misinformation and disinformation landscape. The existing methods attempting to detect this practice often only consider whether the semantics of the imagery corresponds to the text narrative, missing manipulation so long as the depicted objects or scenes somewhat correspond to the narrative at hand. To tackle this, we introduce News Media Provenance Dataset, a dataset of news articles with provenance-…

The modern standard model of cosmology is a triumph of the scientific process.
On the other hand, it’s also kind of a kludge.
The modern standard model seems to glue together a bunch of disparate parts without any overarching theoretical structure.
Take inflation and dark energy.
In both cases, we have a form of pervasive energy that pushes space apart.
Inflation does it really fast and then dissipates.
Dark energy does it much slower and does not dissipate…

Our standard model of cosmology is both a triumph and a jumbled mess
The standard model of cosmology is very successful, but cosmologists are largely still in the dark about the forces that drive the Universe.

This morning’s bike ride was beautiful, but it got more difficult when the pedal came off.
#cycling #biking #forest

"Georgia high court rejects election board’s rules for hand counts and inquiries" - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=150307

No, Donald, not even with the hand. That part is over for us.

New lab acquisition: MinusK 50BM-4 passive vibration isolator.
Going to have to get a more permanent weight to balance it right (there's currently a random steel chisel under the microscope in one corner and a CPU heatsink on top) but it's a huge improvement over the random aluminum plate with sorbothane feet.
Huge improvement in stability. The biggest problem is that changing objectives is now a two hand job, the microscope is floated so well that if i grab the turret th…

"Onder het gevallen kabinet is de publieke omroep volgens onze recensent drie keer ‘De Telegraaf’ geworden. Vrijwel alle talkshows zijn nu op de hand van de VVD" https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/06/04/vrijwel-alle-talkshows-zijn…

Vrijwel alle talkshows zijn nu op de hand van de VVD
ZAP: Onder het gevallen kabinet is de publieke omroep volgens onze recensent drie keer ‘De Telegraaf’ geworden.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08578 has been replaced.
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Classification and nonexistence for $t$-structures on derived categories of schemes
This work establishes new results on the classification of $t$-structures for many subcategories of the derived category of quasi-coherent sheaves on a Noetherian scheme. Our work makes progress in two different directions. On one hand, we provide an improvement of a result of Takahashi on $t$-structures, generalizing it to the case of the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves on a quasi-compact CM-excellent scheme of finite Krull dimension. On the other hand, via independent techniques,…

From AP religion news:
Southern Baptists target porn, sports betting, same-sex marriage and ‘willful childlessness’
https://apnews.com/article/southern-baptists-pornography-sports-betting-gay-marriage-aac48…

Southern Baptists to meet in Dallas for annual evangelical gathering
Southern Baptists meeting this week in Dallas will be asked to approve resolutions calling for a legal ban on pornography and reversing the U.S. Supreme Court’s approval of same-sex marriage. The proposed resolutions call for laws on gender, marriage and family based on what they say is biblical teaching. They also call for legislators to curtail sports betting and to support policies that promote childbearing. Delegates of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant de…

This is the original middle finger of the right hand of #GalileoGalilei as it can be seen in the #MuseoGalileo, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in #Florence:

#ndwgoecountdown Meteoriten – Boten aus dem All
Immer wieder bahnen sich Gesteinsbrocken aus dem Weltall ihren Weg auf die Erde. Meteoriten sind interessant für Forschende. Denn die Brocken sind Zeitzeugen der Entstehung des Sonnensystems. Ihre genaue Zusammensetzung kann helfen zu verstehen, wie das Sonnensystem zu dem Ort wurde, den wir heute kennen. Mit echten Meteoriten zu…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08468 has been replaced.
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Multi-GraspLLM: A Multimodal LLM for Multi-Hand Semantic Guided Grasp Generation
Multi-hand semantic grasp generation aims to generate feasible and semantically appropriate grasp poses for different robotic hands based on natural language instructions. Although the task is highly valuable, due to the lack of multihand grasp datasets with fine-grained contact description between robotic hands and objects, it is still a long-standing difficult task. In this paper, we present Multi-GraspSet, the first large-scale multi-hand grasp dataset with automatically contact annotations.…

In 1975 vierde de NAVO haar 30jarig bestaan in Leeuwenhorst in Noordwijk, Jozef Luns was het opperhoofd.
Toen zongen we:
30 jaar NAVO, 30 jaren lang,
30 jaar koude oorlog, 30 jaren bang.
30 jaar met fascisten hand in hand
Dus Nederland uit de NAVO
En de NAVO uit Nederland.
Nu gaat het een beetje anders:
https://

Das ist doch die Hand eines Ent, oder? ODER? 🤔🤭
Für eine #Sommerwanderung in diesem Bundesland findet Ihr Routenideen mit GPX-Track übrigens unter https://www.oekologisch-unterwegs.de/wande

Calamus 29 One flitting glimpse
What a sweet poem of quiet love. One of my favorites so far.
The setup is voyeuristic: we're spying on a bar full of men. And we see Whitman in a corner, and then
a youth who loves me, and whom I love, silently approaching, and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand
It astonishes me that these poems of clear homosexual love were published in 1860!
What's particularly nice is the contrast between the rowdy bar scene
drinking and oath and smutty jest
and the quiet intimacy of Whitman and his lover
we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word.
The expression of love here is universal. But it is a man writing about a man, in the company of men. And thus it is particularly mine.

> People think physical pain is inherently negative, like it’s pure badness. But when you lock eyes with Miss Pain Piggy and she holds her hand in ice water for 466 seconds straight, you start to question a lot of assumptions.
www.experimental-history.com/p/three-dumb-studies-for-your-consideration

On the Generalization of Data-Assisted Control in port-Hamiltonian Systems (DAC-pH)
Mostafa Eslami, Maryam Babazadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07079 https…

On the Generalization of Data-Assisted Control in port-Hamiltonian Systems (DAC-pH)
This paper introduces a hypothetical hybrid control framework for port-Hamiltonian (p$\mathcal{H}$) systems, employing a dynamic decomposition based on Data-Assisted Control (DAC). The system's evolution is split into two parts with fixed topology: Right-Hand Side (RHS)- an intrinsic Hamiltonian flow handling worst-case parametric uncertainties, and Left-Hand Side (LHS)- a dissipative/input flow addressing both structural and parametric uncertainties. A virtual port variable $Π$ serves as the …

So, two people who were readers of my book on change are bringing out books on change. This happened with my PhD (& my game). Two people published books on my research (with unrepresentative credit). This is why I haven't presented my work publicly this time.
On the one hand, it's great that the ideas spread (they're not mine anyway). On the other, I don't trust these folks & don't respect them anymore.
I need to learn who is safe to share my WIP wit…

Der Laser besteht aus Komponenten, die StyroPyro auf eBay erworben hat, darunter ein ausgemustertes Laser-Array aus blauen Laser-Dioden. 🔥
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10423253?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_be…

It never hurts to have current backups on hand for all my devices, right? That's just, you know, being prepared…

Our pick this week comes courtesy of Swedish rock/metal outfit Blindside!
If you haven’t heard this one - now’s the time. If you have - spin it again, doctor’s orders!
Check out the track, read our take, and let us know what you think.
Follow us for your weekly dose of #rock and #metal—ha…

Blindside - Caught a Glimpse
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

I keep posting about how the AI hype bubble makes it almost impossible to have a reasonable conversation about LLMs, and it’s only when the bubble bursts that we can start thinking realistically about what if anything LLMs are actually good for in writing code.
That seems to be what Fred is getting at here: the massive gap between the hype and the reality means that the affordances of these tools fit neither the task at hand nor the tool’s own capabilities.
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Inside Out 🏢
内外 🏢
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Packers trying out WR Bo Melton at CB following release of Jaire Alexander https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-trying-out-wr-bo-melton-at-cb-following-release-of-jaire-alexander

Generalizable Articulated Object Reconstruction from Casually Captured RGBD Videos
Weikun Peng, Jun Lv, Cewu Lu, Manolis Savva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08334

Generalizable Articulated Object Reconstruction from Casually Captured RGBD Videos
Articulated objects are prevalent in daily life. Understanding their kinematic structure and reconstructing them have numerous applications in embodied AI and robotics. However, current methods require carefully captured data for training or inference, preventing practical, scalable, and generalizable reconstruction of articulated objects. We focus on reconstruction of an articulated object from a casually captured RGBD video shot with a hand-held camera. A casually captured video of an interac…

Also, don’t hand your phone to cops!
#WWDC2025

"So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand."
"Using AI is not about communicating. It’s about avoiding communicating. It’s about not reading, not writing, not drawing, not seeing. It’s about ceding our powers of expression and comprehension to digital apps that will cushion us from fully participating in our own lives."

Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning?
So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand.

– En allt större del av befolkningen blir ju äldre och behöver vård – men vem ska ta hand om dem? Det är en rubrik man vill se: ”Vem ska ta hand om de som byggde upp den välfärd som snart har raserats?”
https://www.dn.se/sverige/tuff-sommar-for-

Tuff sommar för omsorgen – färre händer för de äldre när personal utvisas
Äldreomsorgen står på randen till kaos när erfarna medarbetare tvingas lämna landet. Vem ska ta hand om de äldre när händerna blir allt färre?

Calvary (Crucified Christ, the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist)
Castile-Leon (?), last quarter of the 13th c.-early 14th c.
Polychrome oak wood
Portugal's National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon

Mailbag: Should Diggs be rehabbing with team? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-should-diggs-be-rehabbing-with-team

Quick tip for those with young kids who want them to learn how to use a watch with an analogue (dial) style interface.
While the likes of Flik Flak make nice kids watches, they are a little on the pricy side.
Potentially better IMHO however are these kids field/pilot style watches from AliExpress. They cost basically nothing [<$5🇺🇸] and the hour hand points to an inner ring of numbered hours, while the minute hand points to an outer ring of numbered minutes. So simple!

3 #PositiveDinge gestern
- Runde spaziert im Wald oberhalb von Breithardt mit schöner Aussicht am Waldrand
- ich mache Fortschritte auf der Mundharmonika; macht Spaß; Einzeltöne zu spielen, fällt mir noch schwer (wird aber, wenn ich den Abstand der Töne noch besser verinnerlicht habe); sollte darauf achten, das Instrument nicht zu verkrampft mit der linken Hand zu halten ... immer …

her: "Don't count your bras before they hatch."
me: "A bra in the hand is worth two on the boobs."
her: "...we deserve each other."

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22119 has been replaced.
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Massless limit of massive self-interacting vector fields
We study massive self-interacting vector field theories with mass added ``by hand". We show that the massless limit of the quartic self-interacting vector field theory is not smooth. Pathological behavior of the theory is not limited only at the classical level, even at the quantum level unitarity is violated at the two-loop. Using the Vainshtein mechanism, we show that it fails beyond the strong-coupling scale and hence a massless limit is not smooth even in quantum theory.

how do you like them apples?
#cndpoli #Canpoli #Poilievre

Meine zahme Echse:

Woooow, gar nicht mal sooooooo lecker.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21398 has been replaced.
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In a Few Words: Comparing Weak Supervision and LLMs for Short Query Intent Classification
User intent classification is an important task in information retrieval. Previously, user intents were classified manually and automatically; the latter helped to avoid hand labelling of large datasets. Recent studies explored whether LLMs can reliably determine user intent. However, researchers have recognized the limitations of using generative LLMs for classification tasks. In this study, we empirically compare user intent classification into informational, navigational, and transactional c…

The @… paper Algorithmic Alphabets for Patterns of Movement by @… @… me is published !

Sonnet 127 - CXXVII
In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;
But now is black beauty's successive heir,
And beauty slandered with a bastard shame:
For since each hand hath put on Nature's power,
Fairing the foul with Art's false borrowed face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.
Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black,

When Tukey meets Chauvenet: a new boxplot criterion for outlier detection
Hongmei Lin, Riquan Zhang, Tiejun Tong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06491 https://

When Tukey meets Chauvenet: a new boxplot criterion for outlier detection
The box-and-whisker plot, introduced by Tukey (1977), is one of the most popular graphical methods in descriptive statistics. On the other hand, however, Tukey's boxplot is free of sample size, yielding the so-called "one-size-fits-all" fences for outlier detection. Although improvements on the sample size adjusted boxplots do exist in the literature, most of them are either not easy to implement or lack justification. As another common rule for outlier detection, Chauvenet's criterion uses the…

At first it looked like--defiant Martyr-to-Nazis--Bonhoeffer's left arm (in the X-tian 2 arm cross) was a brotherhood fist, and the right was flipping off the Nazis. The statue is right outside St. Peter's Church in Hamburg, though, so no. His right hand is giving a Jesus-style blessing. https://bne.so…

#P is Sandwiched by One and Two #2DNF Calls: Is Subtraction Stronger Than We Thought?
Max Bannach, Erik D. Demaine, Timothy Gomez, Markus Hecher
https://

#P is Sandwiched by One and Two #2DNF Calls: Is Subtraction Stronger Than We Thought?
The canonical class in the realm of counting complexity is #P. It is well known that the problem of counting the models of a propositional formula in disjunctive normal form (#DNF) is complete for #P under Turing reductions. On the other hand, #DNF $\in$ spanL and spanL $\not\subseteq$ #P unless NL = NP. Hence, the class of functions logspace-reducible to #DNF is a strict subset of #P under plausible complexity-theoretic assumptions. By contrast, we show that two calls to a (restricted) #2DNF o…

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HAND Me the Data: Fast Robot Adaptation via Hand Path Retrieval
We hand the community HAND, a simple and time-efficient method for teaching robots new manipulation tasks through human hand demonstrations. Instead of relying on task-specific robot demonstrations collected via teleoperation, HAND uses easy-to-provide hand demonstrations to retrieve relevant behaviors from task-agnostic robot play data. Using a visual tracking pipeline, HAND extracts the motion of the human hand from the hand demonstration and retrieves robot sub-trajectories in two stages: fi…

while people are hand-wringing, I’m already window-shopping for my first yacht bought from my first check as a Professional AI Slop Unfucker.

New shelves came in, went ahead and pulled the shorter ones out, installed the full length ones, installed the supports, and cleaned up the power cables. Also adjusted the hooks on the back so they make a bit more sense.
Do the new shelves seem crooked? Yes. However they should support the MS-A2s a bit better.
#homelab

Non-invasive two-step strategy BCI: brain-muscle-hand interface
Sun Ye, Zuo Cuiming, Zhang Rui, Shi Bin, Pang Yajing, Gao Lingyun, Zhao Bowei, Wang Jing, Yao Dezhong, Liu Gang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02013

Non-invasive two-step strategy BCI: brain-muscle-hand interface
Brain-computer interface enables direct interaction between brain and device. However, common brain-computer interfaces often employ one-step strategy that rely on non-natural paradigms, such as SSVEP-BCI and MI-BCI, are limited to specific scenarios, restricting their broader application. This paper first proposes a two-step strategic brain-muscular-hand interface (BMHI) based on biological evolutionary selection mechanism, by integrating the brain-muscle (BM) interface with the muscle-hand (M…

Neuer Bund-Länder-Pakt - Hinter vorgehaltener Hand wird bereits gezweifelt #News #Nachrichten

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Long-term impact of the magnetic-field strength on the evolution and electromagnetic emission by neutron-star merger remnants
Numerical simulations are essential to understand the complex physics accompanying the merger of binary systems of neutron stars. However, these simulations become computationally challenging when they have to model the merger remnants on timescales over which secular phenomena, such as the launching of magnetically driven outflows, develop. To tackle these challenges, we have recently developed a hybrid approach that combines, via a hand-off transition, a fully general-relativistic code (FIL) …

Transient Dynamics in Lattices of Differentiating Ring Oscillators
Peter DelMastro, Arjun Karuvally, Hananel Hazan, Hava Siegelmann, Edward Rietman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07253

Transient Dynamics in Lattices of Differentiating Ring Oscillators
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are machine learning models widely used for learning temporal relationships. Current state-of-the-art RNNs use integrating or spiking neurons -- two classes of computing units whose outputs depend directly on their internal states -- and accordingly there is a wealth of literature characterizing the behavior of large networks built from these neurons. On the other hand, past research on differentiating neurons, whose outputs are computed from the derivatives of …

Vacation officially started with a cup of ice cream 😊
#vacation #bayern

“What AI sells is vastly different from what it delivers, particularly what it delivers out of the box.”
The post gives some great context on the study of “the difference between work-as-imagined (WAI) and work-as-done (WAD),” and says:
“If what we have to do to be productive with LLMs is to add a lot of scaffolding and invest effort to gain important but poorly defined skills, we should be able to assume that what we’re sold and what we get are rather different things. That gap implies that better designed artifacts could have better affordances, and be more appropriate to the task at hand.”
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Spray applied by hand
And sometimes the hand itself
Bloody mosquitos.
#dailyhaikuprompt - spray
#haiku
#poem

In #Graz wird diesen Sommer kräftig gebaut.
Nun gibt's offenbar anlässlich der Totalsperre der Tramlinien über die Hauptbrücke weitere Maßnahmen am Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Kai als auch der Erzherzog-Johann-Brücke:
https://…

Breaking Symmetries with Involutions
Michael Codish, Mikol\'a\v{s} Janota
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02903 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Breaking Symmetries with Involutions
Symmetry breaking for graphs and other combinatorial objects is notoriously hard. On the one hand, complete symmetry breaks are exponential in size. On the other hand, current, state-of-the-art, partial symmetry breaks are often considered too weak to be of practical use. Recently, the concept of graph patterns has been introduced and provides a concise representation for (large) sets of non-canonical graphs, i.e.\ graphs that are not lex-leaders and can be excluded from search. In particular…

His hand never touches her
#NicoleEggert #DavidHasselhoff
Season 3 Episode 3 "Tequila Bay"
#RandomBaywatch

Wow, how did you get those scars?

Do the #BBC hand over website news stories to the work experience kids at the weekend, or something? This is embarrassingly bad.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn7zngr6jn5o

Spending Review to include £86bn for science and tech
The government says every corner of the country will benefit, but research backers call for a long-term plan for science.

https://www.theredhandfiles.com/
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Dual Approach to Inverse Covariance Intersection Fusion
Ji\v{r}\'i Ajgl, Ond\v{r}ej Straka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05955 https://

Dual Approach to Inverse Covariance Intersection Fusion
Linear fusion of estimates under the condition of no knowledge of correlation of estimation errors has reached maturity. On the other hand, various cases of partial knowledge are still active research areas. A frequent motivation is to deal with "common information" or "common noise", whatever it means. A fusion rule for a strict meaning of the former expression has already been elaborated. Despite the dual relationship, a strict meaning of the latter one has not been considered so far. The pap…

Advances on Affordable Hardware Platforms for Human Demonstration Acquisition in Agricultural Applications
Alberto San-Miguel-Tello, Gennaro Scarati, Alejandro Hern\'andez, Mario Cavero-Vidal, Aakash Maroti, N\'estor Garc\'ia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09494

Advances on Affordable Hardware Platforms for Human Demonstration Acquisition in Agricultural Applications
This paper presents advances on the Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI), a low-cost hand-held gripper for robot Learning from Demonstration (LfD), for complex in-the-wild scenarios found in agricultural settings. The focus is on improving the acquisition of suitable samples with minimal additional setup. Firstly, idle times and user's cognitive load are reduced through the extraction of individual samples from a continuous demonstration considering task events. Secondly, reliability on the g…

Mailbag: Should Diggs be rehabbing with team? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-should-diggs-be-rehabbing-with-team

"We can't verify that the DNS root servers are running the code they say they are nor trust that the root zone won't be manipulated by a rogue U.S. administration. Therefore, we need [something completely different]."
DNS is a convenient example, but substitute almost any widely deployed subsystem or tech of your choice.
I find these sorts of hand wavy, shallow 240-character arguments to be as easily dismissed as they are so often made.

Self Portrait Study 🖼️
自我小像研究 🖼️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

Our pick this week is from Big Audio Dynamite, and is a real piece of rock history. If you haven't heard it, well, you need to hand in your rock license until you have!
Give it a spin, check our usual thoughts and ramblings on it and don't forget to follow us for your weekly slice of #rock and #metal

Big Audio Dynamite - V. Thirteen
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09799 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

Scan-Adaptive MRI Undersampling Using Neighbor-based Optimization (SUNO)
Accelerated MRI involves collecting partial k-space measurements to reduce acquisition time, patient discomfort, and motion artifacts, and typically uses regular undersampling patterns or hand-designed schemes. Recent works have studied population-adaptive sampling patterns that are learned from a group of patients (or scans) based on population-specific metrics. However, such a general sampling pattern can be sub-optimal for any specific scan since it may lack scan or slice adaptive details. T…

Mittwoch: Pornoseiten verlassen Frankreich, Google pausiert KI-Suche für Fotos
Kritik an Altersverifikation Googles Ask Photos aufgeschoben Fusionsrekord in Wendelstein Youtuber mit stärkstem Hand-Laser Bit-Rauschen über Computex

I spotted Dr Pizzabutt Jimmathy the 3rd at the airport! Squeee

Analyzing Key Objectives in Human-to-Robot Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation
Chendong Xin, Mingrui Yu, Yongpeng Jiang, Zhefeng Zhang, Xiang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09384

Analyzing Key Objectives in Human-to-Robot Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation
Kinematic retargeting from human hands to robot hands is essential for transferring dexterity from humans to robots in manipulation teleoperation and imitation learning. However, due to mechanical differences between human and robot hands, completely reproducing human motions on robot hands is impossible. Existing works on retargeting incorporate various optimization objectives, focusing on different aspects of hand configuration. However, the lack of experimental comparative studies leaves the…

Sonnet 154 - CLIV
The little Love-god lying once asleep,
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vowed chaste life to keep
Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand
The fairest votary took up that fire
Which many legions of true hearts had warmed;
And so the General of hot desire
Was, sleeping, by a virgin hand disarmed.
This brand she quenched in a cool well by,
Which from Love's fire took heat perpet…

I've been reading Go as a river by Shelley Read for our #bookclub. Here is what I thought : https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/39e0afee-a00f-4e68-8b1e-922d…

New 2nd hand CD for #navidrome arrived.

Tipp: niemals mit der Hand, die den Spiritus berührt hat, sich an die Lippen fassen

"using a secret subpoena to force Colorado officials to ignore state laws and hand over private financial information of residents sponsoring unaccompanied immigrant children. The state’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis is allegedly demanding that those state officials comply under threat of termination, according to court documents reviewed by The Lever. "
Whistleblower Lawsuit Exposes Trump’s Secret ICE Plot
https://www.levernews.com/whistleblower-lawsuit-exposes-trumps-secret-ice-plot/

Micah Parsons Reveals Heartfelt Talk With Cowboys’ Coach Amid Contract Standoff https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/micah-parsons-reveals-heartfelt-talk-coach-contract-standoff/?adt_ei=[email]

❝We humans are stability-seeking creatures. Getting accustomed to what used to seem unthinkable can feel like an accomplishment. And when the unthinkable recedes at least a bit…it’s easy to mistake it for proof that the dark times are ending.
But these comparatively small victories don’t alter the direction of our transformation — they don’t even slow it down measurably — even while they appeal to our deep need to normalize.…And so just when we most need to act — while there is indeed room for action and some momentum to the resistance — we tend to be lulled into complacency by the sense of relief on the one hand and boredom on the other.❞
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/opinion/trump-danger-normalization-shock.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04147 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

SLAC: Simulation-Pretrained Latent Action Space for Whole-Body Real-World RL
Building capable household and industrial robots requires mastering the control of versatile, high-degree-of-freedom (DoF) systems such as mobile manipulators. While reinforcement learning (RL) holds promise for autonomously acquiring robot control policies, scaling it to high-DoF embodiments remains challenging. Direct RL in the real world demands both safe exploration and high sample efficiency, which are difficult to achieve in practice. Sim-to-real RL, on the other hand, is often brittle du…

Grasp2Grasp: Vision-Based Dexterous Grasp Translation via Schr\"odinger Bridges
Tao Zhong, Jonah Buchanan, Christine Allen-Blanchette
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02489

Grasp2Grasp: Vision-Based Dexterous Grasp Translation via Schrödinger Bridges
We propose a new approach to vision-based dexterous grasp translation, which aims to transfer grasp intent across robotic hands with differing morphologies. Given a visual observation of a source hand grasping an object, our goal is to synthesize a functionally equivalent grasp for a target hand without requiring paired demonstrations or hand-specific simulations. We frame this problem as a stochastic transport between grasp distributions using the Schrödinger Bridge formalism. Our method lear…