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Filings: Bengaluru-based fintech Cred, which offers rewards for paying credit card bills and more, raised ~$72M at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.4B in 2022 (The Economic Times)
https://ec…

Cred raises fresh funds from GIC, others; valuation cut by 45% to $3.5 billion
The fintech major was valued at $6.4 billion in 2022 during its last major fund infusion. The current fund infusion is in the form of primary capital, which means that existing investors have not sold any shares in this round. The drop in valuation was in line with the company's plans to list in India over the next two years, people in the know said.

The eighteenth-century legal system relied primarily on victims and other private individuals to initiate prosecutions.
To counter the disincentives raised by the financial fees, time and potential damage to reputation entailed in mounting a prosecution,
the government offered financial incentives,
both in the form of rewards and the payment of expenses.
Voluntary societies were also set up to support prosecutions.
Despite these initiatives, however, many sti…

"Ein besonders schwieriges Erbe – spartenübergreifende Initiativen zur Erschließung, Digitalisierung und Erforschung des Nachlasses von Leni Riefenstahl" @…: https://blog.sbb.berlin/ri…

SAIL: Faster-than-Demonstration Execution of Imitation Learning Policies
Nadun Ranawaka Arachchige, Zhenyang Chen, Wonsuhk Jung, Woo Chul Shin, Rohan Bansal, Pierre Barroso, Yu Hang He, Yingyang Celine Lin, Benjamin Joffe, Shreyas Kousik, Danfei Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11948

SAIL: Faster-than-Demonstration Execution of Imitation Learning Policies
Offline Imitation Learning (IL) methods such as Behavior Cloning are effective at acquiring complex robotic manipulation skills. However, existing IL-trained policies are confined to executing the task at the same speed as shown in demonstration data. This limits the task throughput of a robotic system, a critical requirement for applications such as industrial automation. In this paper, we introduce and formalize the novel problem of enabling faster-than-demonstration execution of visuomotor p…

*Sigh*
Deep into preparing text for publisher submission. The current (industry senior/well regarded) contributor's references are all inaccurate.
EVERY.SINGLE.ONE
And every paragraph has a reference.
EVERY.SINGLE.ONE.
I can feel every minute passing.
#IAmEditing

I cannot stress enough how stupid and dangerous an idea this is. https://mastotut.cat/@LoDeivit/114685756943284819

Von der Initiative #Carolabrücke gibt es neue lustige Visualisierungen zum Neubau.
https://initiative-carolabruecke.de/2025/06/06/pressemitteilung-0…

Pressemitteilung 06.06.2025 - Initiative Carolabrücke
Neues Konzept für Ersatzneubau in historischer Optik Die Initiative Carolabrücke bringt sich mit einem neuen Konzept in die Diskussion um einen Ersatzneubau ein. Zuletzt bescheinigte Baubürgermeister Stephan Kühn dem CDU-Vorschlag einer zweigeschossigen Brücke prinzipielle Umsetzbarkeit. Im Vergleich dazu ist eine gestalterische Anpassung an die typischen Dresdner Bogenbrücken leicht umsetzbar. Mit einer Konzeptdarstellung (siehe Anhang) zeigt die Initiative […]

this might be one of the _least_ specific (but not completely non-specific) paragraphs in any specification i've ever read

“Using LLMs makes you stupid” is such an emotionally appealing conclusion that I’m going to consciously work — this post is my public commitment! — not to read •too• much into this one study. As the OP says: small N, not peer reviewed, etc.
But I •will• immediately heed the authors’ “concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance.” However the research shakes out, it seems like good practice to double down on helping students keep their own brains awake and active regardless of the technology available to them.

6 reasons Cowboys 1st-round pick should pay immediate dividends https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/14/tyler-booker-cowboys-next-great-lineman/84176529007/