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Follow My Hold: Hand-Object Interaction Reconstruction through Geometric Guidance
Ayce Idil Aytekin, Helge Rhodin, Rishabh Dabral, Christian Theobalt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18213

Follow My Hold: Hand-Object Interaction Reconstruction through Geometric Guidance
We propose a novel diffusion-based framework for reconstructing 3D geometry of hand-held objects from monocular RGB images by leveraging hand-object interaction as geometric guidance. Our method conditions a latent diffusion model on an inpainted object appearance and uses inference-time guidance to optimize the object reconstruction, while simultaneously ensuring plausible hand-object interactions. Unlike prior methods that rely on extensive post-processing or produce low-quality reconstructio…

Gebraucht-Smartphones immer beliebter: Back Market im Aufschwung
Unter den Second-Hand-Portalen meldet nicht nur Back Market rosige Zahlen. Das französische Unternehmen sieht vor allem einen Auslöser.
https:…

FSGlove: An Inertial-Based Hand Tracking System with Shape-Aware Calibration
Yutong Li, Jieyi Zhang, Wenqiang Xu, Tutian Tang, Cewu Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21242 https://

FSGlove: An Inertial-Based Hand Tracking System with Shape-Aware Calibration
Accurate hand motion capture (MoCap) is vital for applications in robotics, virtual reality, and biomechanics, yet existing systems face limitations in capturing high-degree-of-freedom (DoF) joint kinematics and personalized hand shape. Commercial gloves offer up to 21 DoFs, which are insufficient for complex manipulations while neglecting shape variations that are critical for contact-rich tasks. We present FSGlove, an inertial-based system that simultaneously tracks up to 48 DoFs and reconstr…

on one hand criticizing OOP for subclassing crimes is a strawman argument; on the other hand every cthulhudamned OOP tutorial starts with subclassing some bloody kind of vehicle

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The White Stripes:
🎵 Hand Springs
#TheWhiteStripes
https://goodknightproductions1.bandcamp.com/track/hand-springs
https://open.spotify.com/track/65oZNFPOkwjLQmYze98niK

Wat een naar verhaal en slecht voor Nederland. "Als er kamerleden voor de commissie Digitale Zaken gevonden moeten worden steekt bijna niemand in Den Haag zijn of haar hand op. Want iedereen weet, het kost je je carrière als je te digitaal bent."
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/de-d…

De Digitale Bermudadriehoek in Den Haag - Bert Hubert's writings
Als er kamerleden voor de commissie Digitale Zaken gevonden moeten worden steekt bijna niemand in Den Haag zijn of haar hand op. Want iedereen weet, het kost je je carrière als je te digitaal bent. Je partij straft je af met een lullig positie op de lijst voor de volgende verkiezingen. Dit gebeurde harde werkers Hind Dekker en Lisa van Ginneken al eerder. En zo blijkt het ook dit jaar alweer te gaan.

Got another payment ring. Blue this time. I'll put a different card on this than the black one.
I really love how easy these are. They are always right there to hand (obviously).
Sort of like Apple or Google pay but I'm not tied to their ecosystems and I never have to worry about batteries. 100% water proof, which was great for buying ice creams on the beach during our holidays this year.

"UK’s second-hand retail market growing rapidly, research reveals"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Retail

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek:
🎵 Cool Hand
#NowPlaying #DeryaYildirim #GrupSimsek
https://deryayildirimandgrupsimsek.bandcamp.com/album/cool-hand-b-w-yakamoz
https://open.spotify.com/track/1UZkvUDW7lKf55MoXICwWX

Toddler moves towards an outreached hand in the first heat of the 100 meter race (FLRC runs from slow to fast so that the timers will know what they're doing when it counts)
#sports #photo #photography

Not enough petting!!1!

Russia strengthens hand in potential peace talks with steady advances in Donbas: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/russia-strengthens-hand-in-potential.html

#Drumpf #DOJ's legal attack dogs come after #Democrat controlled state's that refused to turn over voter rolls to politicized fed "investigators"... Federal Gov wants data including voters’ full names, dates of birth, str…

Trump administration sues Minnesota secretary of state over refusal to hand over voter rolls
Lawsuit is similar to legal challenges filed by the DOJ against Oregon and Maine this month.

TikTok-Deal: 50 Prozent der US-Einnahmen fließen an ByteDance
Bei der Abspaltung des US-Tiktok-Geschäfts sichert sich der Mutterkonzern eine gute Einnahmequelle; den Kern des Algorithmus gibt er nicht aus der Hand.

Prisco's Week 4 NFL picks: Buccaneers edge Eagles in battle of unbeatens, Chiefs hand Ravens another loss

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/priscos-week…

Let’s just get one thing straight: There is nothing Israel cannot do today. Israel could shoot Palestinian babies on live TV to a laugh track and not one so-called democracy, not one so-called civilised, Western country would raise a single hand to stop them.
Israel has laid bare the moral vacuity of “Western civilisation” and those oft-lauded “European values”. Bullshit all.
We are naught but barbarians, allowing a live-streamed genocide to happen right before our eyes.
Th…

When you shake someone's hand, that's not the area you touch. That's likely where an IV was put in.
Trump’s hand makeup has returned after questions about president’s health over swollen ankle sightings | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-health-hand-makeup-b2813029.html

#Batterien aus #Elektroautos können nach ihrem Einsatz im Fahrzeug als stationäre #Stromspeicher weiterverwendet werden.
Obwohl sie nicht mehr volle Kapazität bieten, eignen sie sich …

Das zweite Leben von Batterien aus Elektroautos
Viele Batterien in E-Fahrzeugen haben kein langes Leben. Doch ein Aachener Startup verbaut in seinen Stromspeichern gebrauchte und überschüssige Batteriemodule.

The lighting is so weird in this photo that I'm actually not convinced it's not either a plastic figurine or AI.
The hair, the weird reflections on the face, the weird colour difference between hand and face, the too-crisp collar and jacket?
Seriously, is his name Gavin, or Ken?
#gavinnewsom
https://mastodon.world/@verdantsquare/115091071967593722

If you're looking for cheap Linux MiniPCs for home server usage: Check refurbed / second hand websites!
Thanks to W10 end, there are some good bargains around! ❤️

HOSt3R: Keypoint-free Hand-Object 3D Reconstruction from RGB images
Anilkumar Swamy, Vincent Leroy, Philippe Weinzaepfel, Jean-S\'ebastien Franco, Gr\'egory Rogez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16465

HOSt3R: Keypoint-free Hand-Object 3D Reconstruction from RGB images
Hand-object 3D reconstruction has become increasingly important for applications in human-robot interaction and immersive AR/VR experiences. A common approach for object-agnostic hand-object reconstruction from RGB sequences involves a two-stage pipeline: hand-object 3D tracking followed by multi-view 3D reconstruction. However, existing methods rely on keypoint detection techniques, such as Structure from Motion (SfM) and hand-keypoint optimization, which struggle with diverse object geometrie…

On Thursday, Donald Trump issued a new “domestic terrorism” memorandum
targeting voices and views he dislikes
under the guise of addressing political violence.
That move came hours before news broke that
his hand-picked and recently installed federal prosecutor in the D.C. suburbs of Virginia
sought and obtained an indictment against James Comey,
the former FBI director who Trump has declared to be one of his enemies.
What we are seeing now is extre…

Trump the tyrant is on full display — but his acting out highlights how weak he is
Trump got his Comey indictment Thursday and issued a memo directing "domestic terrorism" investigations. And yet, both provided more evidence that Trump is losing.

"Rewilding and Mental Health as a Path to Healing"
#Rewilding #Health
https://happyeconew…

Rewilding and Mental Health as a Path to Healing | Happy Eco News
Rewilding and mental health go hand in hand, with nature restoration providing significant benefits. By reconnecting people to nature through rewilding projects, individuals experience reduced stress, improved mood, and a deeper sense of purpose, while also helping restore biodiversity and the environment.

Ich sehe die Hand der zweijährigen Nachbarin, die nach den am Strauch gereiften Tomaten greift.

@… @… A picture of the watch I am wearing now to encourage you. It's a bit dark because I'm in a tent. Yellow (strap) and blue (hand) because I'm in Sweden.

Sometimes, you really do have to hand it to Nietzsche.
Recognizing your own potential as literal prey is a useful early step. https://raggedfeathers.com/@lilithsaintcrow/114921877666921523

Tag 10 war nur eine kurze Radtour 30 km von #Verona nach Peschiera del Garda. Selbst schuld wenn man Google navigieren lässt, zwischendurch waren ziemlich holprige Wege dabei. Der #Gardasee scheint fest in deutscher Hand. Aber scheinbar nicht so voll wie sonst üblich.
Auf dem Glas steht: Il ber…

On the complexity of parametrized motion planning algorithms
Navnath Daundkar, Ekansh Jauhari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17629 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1…

On the complexity of parametrized motion planning algorithms
We study a probabilistic variant of the r-th sequential parametrized topological complexity, which bounds this classical invariant from below and measures the difficulty in constructing permissive parametrized motion planning algorithms. On one hand, we use cohomology to show that this new invariant behaves similarly to the classical invariant on Fadell-Neuwirth fibrations and oriented sphere bundles; on the other hand, we use equivariant homotopy theory to prove that its behavior is wildly dif…

"Ich denke es genügt die Erkenntnis, dass weit mehr Menschen als gemeinhin vermutet zumindest eine zeitlang Long Covid-Symptome haben. Irgendwas um 10% haben Symptome die lange oder sogar für immer bleiben. Dass das enorme Auswirkung auf das Gesundheitssystem und nicht zuletzt auch auf den Arbeitsmarkt und die Volkswirtschaft hat, liegt auf der Hand."
@…

Wie häufig ist Long Covid? Die endgültige Antwort (oder doch nicht)
36% ist die Antwort. Oder auch nicht.

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
AVON: [Passes hand in front of her unresponsive face] Cally. [snaps fingers] Cally.
DAYNA: What's wrong with her?
CALLY: [Normal voice, still preoccupied] They're dying ... all dying.
AVON: Who? Who is dying?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/104

@… sorry, no. Not by hand, that's not for me.
pkg is the future.
I'm testing legacy freebsd-update only because it's timely. The transition to pkgbase.
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@… I have an appointment at the Apple Store this afternoon for that exact reason. Ever since the first moment I put them in, the right hand one does the feedback whistle while the left is perfect.

Unionswähler mit Enkel (Symbolbild)

I found the discus to be challenging because of the busy net in the background but you see people throwing can look like Greek statues so I want to give it another try
#sports #photo #photography…

Sonnet 064 - LXIV
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd,
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself conf…

Calamus 45 Full of life, sweet-blooded, compact, visible
A remarkably effective poem for the end of the cluster. Whitman talking directly to us, the reader, about the import of his poems. And with some ambition: "To one a century hence, or any number of centuries hence".
But even better, he's horny for us:
Now it is you ... seeking me,
Fancying how happy you were, if I could be with you, and become your lover
The poet is imagining us, his future readers, thinking about how we will want to be his lover. What a lusty man! Whitman is not modest.
I love it. And it's a fitting end to this series. I've greatly enjoyed reading them. Over the past 45 days I've learned better how to read Whitman, to understand his poems. And to relate to them in at least one simple way, teasing out the gayest and sexiest parts of these poems. Making them fun for myself.
I'm not quite done yet. I hope to identify my favorites of the group. I may also try my hand at reading one or two aloud.

#TGIF

Love the open space posters at #accde25 😍

A productive day off today: failed to fix the broken "f" key[1] on our aging E330 laptop (broken chassis, so couldn't even salvage a key-switch from eg. prtscr) so ordered both a 2nd hand keyboard, and for good measure, a T480 from https://minifree.org/
Win 10 is going out of support real soon now, s…

Minifree Ltd – Linux/BSD preinstalled laptops with Libreboot BIOS replacement
Minifree Ltd – Linux/BSD preinstalled laptops with Libreboot BIOS replacement

Text-Driven 3D Hand Motion Generation from Sign Language Data
L\'eore Bensabath, Mathis Petrovich, G\"ul Varol
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15902 https://

Text-Driven 3D Hand Motion Generation from Sign Language Data
Our goal is to train a generative model of 3D hand motions, conditioned on natural language descriptions specifying motion characteristics such as handshapes, locations, finger/hand/arm movements. To this end, we automatically build pairs of 3D hand motions and their associated textual labels with unprecedented scale. Specifically, we leverage a large-scale sign language video dataset, along with noisy pseudo-annotated sign categories, which we translate into hand motion descriptions via an LLM…

Hui! Heute in 3 Monaten is Heiligabend, letzter Versandtag davor 19.12. Da ich jedes einzelne Stück von Hand male und ein one-woman-business bin, unterliegts natürlichen Grenzen, was bis dahin alles gemalt, gepackt, geliefert, geschafft sein kann. Geschenke die aus meiner Hand stammen sollen bitte zeitig auf wandklex.art ordern.♥

Interpreting Convolutional Neural Network Activation Maps with Hand-crafted Radiomics Features on Progression of Pediatric Craniopharyngioma after Irradiation Therapy
Wenjun Yang, Chuang Wang, Tina Davis, Jinsoo Uh, Chia-Ho Hua, Thomas E. Merchant
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20728

Interpreting Convolutional Neural Network Activation Maps with Hand-crafted Radiomics Features on Progression of Pediatric Craniopharyngioma after Irradiation Therapy
Purpose: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are promising in predicting treatment outcome for pediatric craniopharyngioma while the decision mechanisms are difficult to interpret. We compared the activation maps of CNN with hand crafted radiomics features of a densely connected artificial neural network (ANN) to correlate with clinical decisions. Methods: A cohort of 100 pediatric craniopharyngioma patients were included. Binary tumor progression was classified by an ANN and CNN with input of…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[3/5]:
- Devil's Hand: Data Poisoning Attacks to Locally Private Graph Learning Protocols
Longzhu He, Chaozhuo Li, Peng Tang, Li Sun, Sen Su, Philip S. Yu

Embodied AI: From LLMs to World Models
Tongtong Feng, Xin Wang, Yu-Gang Jiang, Wenwu Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20021 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20021

Embodied AI: From LLMs to World Models
Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an intelligent system paradigm for achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), serving as the cornerstone for various applications and driving the evolution from cyberspace to physical systems. Recent breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs) and World Models (WMs) have drawn significant attention for embodied AI. On the one hand, LLMs empower embodied AI via semantic reasoning and task decomposition, bringing high-level natural language instruc…

On my usual runs I pass this piece which is my favorite work of street art in Berlin.
Now there's construction on the parking lot next to it and this artwork might soon disappear :(

Does Embodiment Matter to Biomechanics and Function? A Comparative Analysis of Head-Mounted and Hand-Held Assistive Devices for Individuals with Blindness and Low Vision
Gaurav Seth, Hoa Pham, Giles Hamilton-Fletcher, Charles Leclercq, John-Ross Rizzo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18391

Does Embodiment Matter to Biomechanics and Function? A Comparative Analysis of Head-Mounted and Hand-Held Assistive Devices for Individuals with Blindness and Low Vision
Visual assistive technologies, such as Microsoft Seeing AI, can improve access to environmental information for persons with blindness or low vision (pBLV). Yet, the physical and functional implications of different device embodiments remain unclear. In this study, 11 pBLV participants used Seeing AI on a hand-held smartphone and on a head-mounted ARx Vision system to perform six activities of daily living, while their movements were captured with Xsens motion capture. Functional outcomes inclu…

Succession of Ising criticality and its threshold in critical quantum Ising model subject to symmetric decoherence
Yoshihito Kuno, Takahiro Orito, Ikuo Ichinose
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17871

Succession of Ising criticality and its threshold in critical quantum Ising model subject to symmetric decoherence
We investigate a mixed state quantum criticality in the Ising model under $X+ZZ$ decoherence. In the doubled Hilbert space formalism, the decohered state resides on the self-dual critical line of the quantum Ashkin-Teller (qAT) model, as a result of the specific choice of the decoherence channel. On the other hand, since the mixed state under $X+ZZ$ decoherence satisfies the Kramers-Wannier self-duality in a weak sense, the Ising criticality of the pure state can be partially preserved in the m…

'I used to think curation was something done to us, a middle-class job where someone with elbow patches picks which version of our past is respectable enough to put behind glass' 🔥
From ‘Keep The Flame Burning’: What Happens When You Hand the Archives to the People They Forgot About

#Armut anders bemessen
Arm ist nicht nur, wer wenig Geld hat. Um Armut besser bemessen zu können, haben Wissenschaftler*innen nun ein Bewertungssystem entwickelt, das viele Dimensionen der Armut mit einschließt.
#Energie

Raiders lost backup QB Aidan O'Connell to a wrist injury vs the Cardinals https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/23/raiders-qb-aidan-oconnell-hand-injury-presea…

Turns out that the Dutch Justice and Security Minister - of the double-failed right-far-right coalition - ignored urgent advice by Antiterrorism Coordinator to call out the extreme-right nature of last weekend's violence around the anti-immigrant demonstration.
Called it aggression against police and vandalism instead.

Minister negeerde NCTV-advies om Haagse rellen expliciet ‘rechts-extremistisch’ te noemen
Rechts-extremisme: De Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding adviseerde de demissionair minister van Justitie om de rellen in Den Haag te bestempelen als ‘rechts-extremistisch’. De minister sloeg dit advies in de wind. Door vaag te blijven zou hij volgens de terrorismebestrijder „normalisering” van het gedachtegoed in de hand werken.

Von Energiepauschale zu E-Government-Ghosting: Die BundID, der digitale Schlüssel zu Behördendiensten, hat einen deutlichen Nutzerschwund erlebt. 📉 Datenschutzrichtlinien haben zur Löschung hunderttausender inaktiver Konten geführt, die länger als 24 Monate nicht genutzt wurden.
Zum Artikel:

A 21-DOF Humanoid Dexterous Hand with Hybrid SMA-Motor Actuation: CYJ Hand-0
Jin Chai, Xiang Yao, Mengfan Hou, Yanghong Li, Erbao Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14538

A 21-DOF Humanoid Dexterous Hand with Hybrid SMA-Motor Actuation: CYJ Hand-0
CYJ Hand-0 is a 21-DOF humanoid dexterous hand featuring a hybrid tendon-driven actuation system that combines shape memory alloys (SMAs) and DC motors. The hand employs high-strength fishing line as artificial tendons and uses a fully 3D-printed AlSi10Mg metal frame designed to replicate the skeletal and tendon-muscle structure of the human hand. A linear motor-driven module controls finger flexion, while an SMA-based module enables finger extension and lateral abduction. These modules are int…

I needed to bring a few things into the office today, which is always a bit annoying as my back tends to get hot when I cycle with a backpack on. Then I suddenly remembered that #TallBikesArePractical and I have a shit ton of storage space below me.
Look at my little backpack. It looks tiny down there! 🤏 🎒

Open strings in type IIB AdS$_3$ flux vacua
\'Alvaro Arboleya, Adolfo Guarino, Matteo Morittu, Giuseppe Sudano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18529 https://

Open strings in type IIB AdS$_3$ flux vacua
The role of open strings is investigated in the context of AdS$_{3}$ flux vacua arising from type IIB orientifold reductions. On the one hand, contrary to expectations, the perturbative stability of certain recently found non-supersymmetric AdS$_{3}$ flux vacua is shown to be robust under fluctuations of the open-string moduli. On the other hand, a wealth of new perturbatively stable AdS$_{3}$ flux vacua appears as a consequence of the non-trivial dynamics of open-string moduli. We also comment…

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
In Kooperation mit #NFDI4Culture wurden heute die #digAMus Awards verliehen.
💐 Wir gratulieren den verdienten PreisträgerInnen und danken dem Team von digAMus und allen HelferInnen für ihre großartige ehrenamtliche Arbeit!

On the Parameterized Complexity of Grundy Domination and Zero Forcing Problems
Robert Scheffler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18104 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508…

On the Parameterized Complexity of Grundy Domination and Zero Forcing Problems
We consider two different problem families that deal with domination in graphs. On the one hand, we focus on dominating sequences. In such a sequence, every vertex dominates some vertex of the graph that was not dominated by any earlier vertex in the sequence. The problem of finding the longest dominating sequence is known as $\mathsf{Grundy~Domination}$. Depending on whether the closed or the open neighborhoods are used for domination, there are three other versions of this problem. We show th…

‘Appalled’ and ‘sickened?’ David Lammy’s hand-wringing on #Gaza fools no-one
| Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/appa…

Wonderful story featuring alum Richard Riseling '62, '66 B.D. and Apple Pond Farm in Callicoon Center, N.Y. #sustainableliving https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/realest

I really do have to hand to #southpark. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/south-park-skewers-a-satire-proof-president

Alternative tangent and cotangent structures and their physical applications
Jos\'e F. Cari\~nena, Jes\'us Clemente-Gallardo, Giuseppe Marmo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20855

Alternative tangent and cotangent structures and their physical applications
The conditions under which a given manifold $M$ may be given a tangent bundle or a cotangent bundle structure are analyzed. This is an important property arising in different contexts. For instance, in the study of integrability of a given dynamics the existence of alternative compatible structures is very relevant, as well as in the geometric approach to Classical Mechanics. On the other hand in the quantum-to-classical transition, a Weyl system plays an important role for it provides (within …

Residual finiteness properties of some of Halls groups
Lukas Vandeputte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16452 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16452

Residual finiteness properties of some of Halls groups
In this article we study a class of central extensions of $\mathbb{Z}\wr\mathbb{Z}$, as first described by Hall. On the one hand, we construct a group in this class that is conjugacy separable with solvable word problem but unsolvable conjugacy problem. On the other hand we construct the first example of a group where the residual finiteness growth is faster than any polynomial but slower than any exponential.

Constraints on an optical counterpart for the long-period radio transient GPM J1839-10
Ingrid Pelisoli, A. J. Brown, N. Castro Segura, V. S. Dhillon, M. J. Dyer, J. A. Garbutt, M. J. Green, D. Jarvis, M. R. Kennedy, P. Kerry, S. P. Littlefair, J. McCormac, J. Munday, S. G. Parsons, E. Pike, D. I. Sahman, A. Yates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509…

Constraints on an optical counterpart for the long-period radio transient GPM J1839-10
Long period radio transients (LPTs) are periodic radio sources showing pulsed emission on timescales from minutes to hours. The underlying sources behind this emission are currently unclear. There are two leading candidates: neutron stars or white dwarfs. Neutron stars could emit at LPT timescales as magnetars, binaries, or precessing sources. White dwarfs on the other hand have only been observed to emit in radio as binary systems with companions that provide charged particles through their wi…

DiskJoin: Large-scale Vector Similarity Join with SSD
Yanqi Chen, Xiao Yan, Alexandra Meliou, Eric Lo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18494 https://arxiv.org/pd…

DiskJoin: Large-scale Vector Similarity Join with SSD
Similarity join--a widely used operation in data science--finds all pairs of items that have distance smaller than a threshold. Prior work has explored distributed computation methods to scale similarity join to large data volumes but these methods require a cluster deployment, and efficiency suffers from expensive inter-machine communication. On the other hand, disk-based solutions are more cost-effective by using a single machine and storing the large dataset on high-performance external stor…

On nonorientable $4$--manifolds
R. \.Inan\c{c} Baykur, Porter Morgan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20950 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.2095…

On nonorientable $4$--manifolds
We present several structural results on closed, nonorientable, smooth $4$--manifolds, extending analogous results and machinery for the orientable case. We prove the existence of simplified broken Lefschetz fibrations and simplified trisections on nonorientable $4$--manifolds, yielding descriptions of them via factorizations in mapping class groups of nonorientable surfaces. With these tools in hand, we classify low genera simplified broken Lefschetz fibrations on nonorientable $4$--manifolds.…

#3dPrinting costs) 🤯
I saw o…

Quasar cosmology II: joint analyses with Cosmic Microwave Background
M. Benetti, G. Bargiacchi, G. Risaliti, S. Capozziello, E. Lusso, M. Signorini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21477

Quasar cosmology II: joint analyses with Cosmic Microwave Background
Currently, the increasing availability of accurate cosmological probes leads to the emergence of tensions between data on the one hand and between theoretical predictions and direct observations on the other. Moreover, after 25 years since the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe has elected the $Λ$CDM model as the reference model, resolving shortcomings of the standard cosmological model seems to be an unpostponed priority. Hence, it is key to test alternative models and inv…

Edge Clique Partition and Cover Beyond Independence
Fedor V. Fomin, Petr A. Golovach, Danil Sagunov, Kirill Simonov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21216 https:…

Edge Clique Partition and Cover Beyond Independence
Covering and partitioning the edges of a graph into cliques are classical problems at the intersection of combinatorial optimization and graph theory, having been studied through a range of algorithmic and complexity-theoretic lenses. Despite the well-known fixed-parameter tractability of these problems when parameterized by the total number of cliques, such a parameterization often fails to be meaningful for sparse graphs. In many real-world instances, on the other hand, the minimum number of …

Saving Energy with Relaxed Latency Constraints: A Study on Data Compression and Communication
Pietro Talli, Anup Mishra, Federico Chiariotti, Israel Leyva-Mayorga, Andrea Zanella, Petar Popovski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18863

Saving Energy with Relaxed Latency Constraints: A Study on Data Compression and Communication
With the advent of edge computing, data generated by end devices can be pre-processed before transmission, possibly saving transmission time and energy. On the other hand, data processing itself incurs latency and energy consumption, depending on the complexity of the computing operations and the speed of the processor. The energy-latency-reliability profile resulting from the concatenation of pre-processing operations (specifically, data compression) and data transmission is particularly relev…

Is it possible in #Org to hide the configuration options at the top of the buffer?
I couldn’t find anything. On the other hand I don’t even know how to call those lines at the top: front matter? config lines?
#Emacs #OrgMode

Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
ZEN: There is a partial malfunction on the forward detectors.
[In the teleport area, Cally continues to tamper with the detector comp. It shorts out, burning her hand.]
[Flight deck of the Liberator.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/52 B7B3

Stochastic Quantum Spiking Neural Networks with Quantum Memory and Local Learning
Jiechen Chen, Bipin Rajendran, Osvaldo Simeone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21324

Stochastic Quantum Spiking Neural Networks with Quantum Memory and Local Learning
Neuromorphic and quantum computing have recently emerged as promising paradigms for advancing artificial intelligence, each offering complementary strengths. Neuromorphic systems built on spiking neurons excel at processing time-series data efficiently through sparse, event-driven computation, consuming energy only upon input events. Quantum computing, on the other hand, leverages superposition and entanglement to explore feature spaces that are exponentially large in the number of qubits. Hybr…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DM. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DM/new
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- Families of tractable problems with respect to vertex-interval-membership width and its generalis...
Jessica Enright, Samuel D. Hand, Laura Larios-Jones, Kitty Meeks

Carrying on our theme of bands with “The” in the name, this week’s pick is a slice of ‘90s nostalgia from The Ernies ... funky, fun, and impossible not to groove to.
Check it out and see what we had to say about the track and the band behind it.
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The Ernies - Here and Now
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

A statue depicting Donald Trump and deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein frolicking hand in hand appeared on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
The 12-foot-tall statue—made mostly of foam and wire, but painted bronze—is accompanied by three plaques.
The middle plaque reads “In Honor of Friendship Month: We celebrate the long-lasting bond between President Donald J. Trump and his ‘closest friend’ Jeffrey Epstein.”
It then directly references the introducti…

Trump Responds to Statue of Him and Jeffrey Epstein Holding Hands
A mysterious statue popped up overnight of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein frolicking and holding hands.

Advancing Accessible Hand-Arm Vibration Safety Monitoring: ISO-Compliance with Wearable Sensors and Transfer Functions
Johannes Mootz, Reza Akhavian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16536

Advancing Accessible Hand-Arm Vibration Safety Monitoring: ISO-Compliance with Wearable Sensors and Transfer Functions
Field workers are frequently exposed to hazardous vibrations, increasing the risk of Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS) and other long-term health problems. ISO 5349-1 provides guidelines for measuring vibration exposure. However, this standard was established in controlled conditions using high-quality accelerometers directly attached to power tool handles. This study investigates an alternative, wearable sensor-based data collection process and develops an error-minimization transfer function…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Ty Segall:
🎵 The Hand
#TySegall
https://tysegall.bandcamp.com/track/the-hand
https://open.spotify.com/track/7tViFTGSZEiwmtP9uXsXjH

Sonnet 106 - CVI
When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rhyme,
In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,
Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,
Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
I see their antique pen would have express'd
Even such a beauty as you master now.
So all their praises are but prophecies
Of this our time, all you prefiguring;…

Predicting User Grasp Intentions in Virtual Reality
Linghao Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16582 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16582

Predicting User Grasp Intentions in Virtual Reality
Predicting user intentions in virtual reality (VR) is crucial for creating immersive experiences, particularly in tasks involving complex grasping motions where accurate haptic feedback is essential. In this work, we leverage time-series data from hand movements to evaluate both classification and regression approaches across 810 trials with varied object types, sizes, and manipulations. Our findings reveal that classification models struggle to generalize across users, leading to inconsistent …

Goed samengevat,
"Dat alles met dank aan de VVD. De zogenaamde ‘bestuurderspartij’ ging uit puur opportunisme regeren met drie amateuristische partijen, aan de hand van een hoofdlijnenakkoord waarin cruciale keuzes vooruit werden geschoven en onder leiding van een politiek onervaren procesbegeleider als premier."
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🎁 Onbestuurbaar 
Iedereen zag vanaf de eerste dag dat dit experiment zou mislukken. Maar die mislukking was het doel.

HOGraspFlow: Exploring Vision-based Generative Grasp Synthesis with Hand-Object Priors and Taxonomy Awareness
Yitian Shi, Zicheng Guo, Rosa Wolf, Edgar Welte, Rania Rayyes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16871

HOGraspFlow: Exploring Vision-based Generative Grasp Synthesis with Hand-Object Priors and Taxonomy Awareness
We propose Hand-Object\emph{(HO)GraspFlow}, an affordance-centric approach that retargets a single RGB with hand-object interaction (HOI) into multi-modal executable parallel jaw grasps without explicit geometric priors on target objects. Building on foundation models for hand reconstruction and vision, we synthesize $SE(3)$ grasp poses with denoising flow matching (FM), conditioned on the following three complementary cues: RGB foundation features as visual semantics, HOI contact reconstructio…

Wie offen ist Metas VR-Plattform für Sideloading?
Meta entfernte eine App aus dem Horizon Store, die Sideloading-Beschränkungen umging. Ein Signal, dass Meta die Kontrolle nicht aus der Hand gibt.
https://www.

Full twists and stability of knots and quivers
Sachin Chauhan, Piotr Kucharski, Dmitry Noshchenko, Ramadevi Pichai, Vivek Kumar Singh, Marko Sto\v{s}i\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18417

Full twists and stability of knots and quivers
We relate the stability of knot invariants under twisting a pair of strands to the stability of symmetric quivers under unlinking (or linking) operation. Starting from the HOMFLY-PT skein relations, we confirm the stable growth of $Sym^r$-coloured HOMFLY-PT polynomials under the addition of a~full twist to the knot. On the other hand, we show that symmetric quivers exhibit analogous stable growth under unlinking or linking of the quiver augmented with the extra node; in some cases this augmente…

Prisco's Week 4 NFL picks: Buccaneers edge Eagles in battle of unbeatens, Chiefs hand Ravens another loss

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/priscos-week…

UniTac2Pose: A Unified Approach Learned in Simulation for Category-level Visuotactile In-hand Pose Estimation
Mingdong Wu, Long Yang, Jin Liu, Weiyao Huang, Lehong Wu, Zelin Chen, Daolin Ma, Hao Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15934

UniTac2Pose: A Unified Approach Learned in Simulation for Category-level Visuotactile In-hand Pose Estimation
Accurate estimation of the in-hand pose of an object based on its CAD model is crucial in both industrial applications and everyday tasks, ranging from positioning workpieces and assembling components to seamlessly inserting devices like USB connectors. While existing methods often rely on regression, feature matching, or registration techniques, achieving high precision and generalizability to unseen CAD models remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel three-stage fram…

Indecomposable non-degenerate 2-permutational solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation
P\v{r}emysl Jedli\v{c}ka, Agata Pilitowska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17981 https://

Indecomposable non-degenerate 2-permutational solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation
We present a complete characterization of all indecomposable non-degenerate, not necessarily involutive, solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation of multipermutation level~2. We show that every such solution is a homomorphic image of a special, ``largest'' solution called \emph{the universal} one. On the other hand we prove that there is much simpler description. At first, on the product of a group $Z_n^2$ and an abelian group $G$, we construct some family of indecomposable non-degenerate solution…

#TGIF

Learning Dexterous Manipulation with Quantized Hand State
Ying Feng, Hongjie Fang, Yinong He, Jingjing Chen, Chenxi Wang, Zihao He, Ruonan Liu, Cewu Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17450

Learning Dexterous Manipulation with Quantized Hand State
Dexterous robotic hands enable robots to perform complex manipulations that require fine-grained control and adaptability. Achieving such manipulation is challenging because the high degrees of freedom tightly couple hand and arm motions, making learning and control difficult. Successful dexterous manipulation relies not only on precise hand motions, but also on accurate spatial positioning of the arm and coordinated arm-hand dynamics. However, most existing visuomotor policies represent arm an…

Towards Deeper Understanding of Natural User Interactions in Virtual Reality Based Assembly Tasks
Ryan Ghamandi, Yahya Hmaiti, Mykola Maslych, Ravi Kiran Kattoju, Joseph J. LaViola Jr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17124

Towards Deeper Understanding of Natural User Interactions in Virtual Reality Based Assembly Tasks
We explore natural user interactions using a virtual reality simulation of a robot arm for assembly tasks. Using a Wizard-of-Oz study, participants completed collaborative LEGO and instructive PCB assembly tasks, with the robot responding under experimenter control. We collected voice, hand tracking, and gaze data from users. Statistical analyses revealed that instructive and collaborative scenarios elicit distinct behaviors and adopted strategies, particularly as tasks progress. Users tended t…

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
FORBUS: Oh no, please, don't do that. Look. This is the test sample ... [He starts to reach for his detonator control on the desk.]
SERVALAN: I told you, [knocks away his hand - Forbus yelps in pain.] I'm not interested. I'll teach you to obey me if I have to destroy all your skinny little body. [She points a gun at him and fires. He falls from his wheelchair to the floor. Leitz enters]

SEEC: Stable End-Effector Control with Model-Enhanced Residual Learning for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Jaehwi Jang, Zhuoheng Wang, Ziyi Zhou, Feiyang Wu, Ye Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21231

SEEC: Stable End-Effector Control with Model-Enhanced Residual Learning for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Arm end-effector stabilization is essential for humanoid loco-manipulation tasks, yet it remains challenging due to the high degrees of freedom and inherent dynamic instability of bipedal robot structures. Previous model-based controllers achieve precise end-effector control but rely on precise dynamics modeling and estimation, which often struggle to capture real-world factors (e.g., friction and backlash) and thus degrade in practice. On the other hand, learning-based methods can better mitig…

Xbox Ally ausprobiert: Es fühlt sich einfach richtig an
Dank Controller-Griffen liegt der Xbox Ally hervorragend in der Hand. Auch auf Software-Seite hat Microsoft am Komfort gearbeitet.
https://www.

Joint Flow Trajectory Optimization For Feasible Robot Motion Generation from Video Demonstrations
Xiaoxiang Dong, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Weiming Zhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20703

Joint Flow Trajectory Optimization For Feasible Robot Motion Generation from Video Demonstrations
Learning from human video demonstrations offers a scalable alternative to teleoperation or kinesthetic teaching, but poses challenges for robot manipulators due to embodiment differences and joint feasibility constraints. We address this problem by proposing the Joint Flow Trajectory Optimization (JFTO) framework for grasp pose generation and object trajectory imitation under the video-based Learning-from-Demonstration (LfD) paradigm. Rather than directly imitating human hand motions, our metho…

Tac2Motion: Contact-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Tactile Feedback for Robotic Hand Manipulation
Yitaek Kim, Casper Hewson Rask, Christoffer Sloth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17812

Tac2Motion: Contact-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Tactile Feedback for Robotic Hand Manipulation
This paper proposes Tac2Motion, a contact-aware reinforcement learning framework to facilitate the learning of contact-rich in-hand manipulation tasks, such as removing a lid. To this end, we propose tactile sensing-based reward shaping and incorporate the sensing into the observation space through embedding. The designed rewards encourage an agent to ensure firm grasping and smooth finger gaiting at the same time, leading to higher data efficiency and robust performance compared to the baselin…