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The Lurie administration wants to slash #PotreroYard affordable housing because they "just can't find the money."
Our mayor is a billionaire. We have the third most billionaires living here of any city in the world. We can't accept these excuses.

Now watching a #hiking documentary about the Pacific crest trail
#pct

Detecting and Mitigating Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learning Systems: A Comprehensive Empirical Study
Ibne Farabi Shihab, Sanjeda Akter, Anuj Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05619

Detecting and Mitigating Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learning Systems: A Comprehensive Empirical Study
Reward hacking in Reinforcement Learning (RL) systems poses a critical threat to the deployment of autonomous agents, where agents exploit flaws in reward functions to achieve high scores without fulfilling intended objectives. Despite growing awareness of this problem, systematic detection and mitigation approaches remain limited. This paper presents a large-scale empirical study of reward hacking across diverse RL environments and algorithms. We analyze 15,247 training episodes across 15 RL e…

Chair of MoCo Planning Board advocates single-stairway building code reform. https://ggwash.org/view/100397/how-rethinking-stairwells-could-boost-housing-in-montgomery-county

Delistings rise nearly 50% as home sellers quit the market
https://qz.com/delistings-up-realtor-com-housing-market-report

Greets from the forest!
#hiking #wandern #selfie

Katie Wilson, ahead in early results in Seattle's primary for mayor, emphasized housing in her platform.
But not the SF YIMBY vision of upzoning/market-rate only while slashing affordable housing funds. SOCIAL housing with major public investment.
Who will run for SF supervisor next year on that?
https://www.w…

Heavy rain this morning - we have a half-day rest. Our legs are quite happy about it after 6 days #hiking in a row.

“Corey Smith, the director of the Housing Action Coalition, said at a city hearing last year that ‘One of the challenges we face in San Francisco is we need the rent to go back up.’”
He meant so new housing production would start, but the reason we’re supposed to want that is to bring the rent down. Without meaning to, Corey pointed out the incoherence of private-developer-driven YIMBYism.

Amid AI boom, San Francisco rents are up. So are evictions. 
San Francisco officials extol the benefits of the city's AI boom. But rents and eviction notices are rising, and tenants are suffering.

This would make it dramatically more difficult to fund both affordable housing and transit in California. The Howard Jarvis people want to pull up the drawbridge and make us an even more exclusionary, car-dependent and on-fire state. https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/10