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Imagine a song that changes over time and that each time it becomes new again. Wreck-less is just such a song.
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It's Not Difficult To Imagine - Lyrics and Changing Times
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Low-income Americans slash spending, in a worrying sign for the economy
Consumers of all income levels scale back and hold out for discounts, leaving the economy on shaky ground.
But this shift is most pronounced among lower-income consumers,
who are disproportionately vulnerable to rising prices and other economic pressures eroding their purchasing power

“U.S. consumer spending is not just softening overall, it’s doing so in a fragmented way …
and that’s a re…

Low-income Americans slash spending, a bad sign for the economy
The U.S. economy faces challenges as consumer spending weakens, with lower-income Americans hit hardest by rising prices and economic pressures.

Zusammen 478 Euro: Sony stellt seine erste Maus und Tastatur vor
Sony bringt seine erste PC-Peripherie. Die Preise sprechen für hohes Selbstbewusstsein: Die Inzone Mouse-A und KBD-H75 sind teuer.
https://www…

A Reliable Robot Motion Planner in Complex Real-world Environments via Action Imagination
Chengjin Wang, Yanmin Zhou, Zhipeng Wang, Zheng Yan, Feng Luan, Shuo Jiang, Runjie Shen, Hongrui Sang, Bin He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16963

A Reliable Robot Motion Planner in Complex Real-world Environments via Action Imagination
Humans and animals can make real-time adjustments to movements by imagining their action outcomes to prevent unanticipated or even catastrophic motion failures in unknown unstructured environments. Action imagination, as a refined sensorimotor strategy, leverages perception-action loops to handle physical interaction-induced uncertainties in perception and system modeling within complex systems. Inspired by the action-awareness capability of animal intelligence, this study proposes an imaginati…

"„Vibe Coding“ ist ein Euphe­mis­mus für plan­lo­se Nach­läs­sig­keit. Der Begriff sug­ge­riert intui­ti­ve, krea­ti­ve Arbeit, ver­steckt aber den Ver­zicht auf metho­di­sche Sorg­falt und pro­fes­sio­nel­le Stan­dards. Die­se Umdeu­tung macht Unfä­hig­keit zur Tugend."
(Original title: KI-Tool versteckt Inkompetenz)
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KI-Tool versteckt Inkompetenz
Ein Vibe-Coder schreibt ohne es zu merken auf X, wie kaputt Vibe-Coding ist: Ein Staging-System greift direkt auf die Produktionsdatenbank zu. Keine Versionskontrolle mit Git. Tests funktionieren laut den Posts nur auf dem Produktionssystem. Und der Höhepunkt: Ein KI-Tool warnt explizit "I can not b

Bayesian Optimization with Expected Improvement: No Regret and the Choice of Incumbent
Jingyi Wang, Haowei Wang, Szu Hui Ng, Cosmin G. Petra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15674 htt…

Bayesian Optimization with Expected Improvement: No Regret and the Choice of Incumbent
Expected improvement (EI) is one of the most widely used acquisition functions in Bayesian optimization (BO). Despite its proven empirical success in applications, the cumulative regret upper bound of EI remains an open question. In this paper, we analyze the classic noisy Gaussian process expected improvement (GP-EI) algorithm. We consider the Bayesian setting, where the objective is a sample from a GP. Three commonly used incumbents, namely the best posterior mean incumbent (BPMI), the best s…

Re-imagining Behavioral Sleep Medicine: Designing Conversational Sleep Diary and Visualization Tool
Amama Mahmood, Bokyung Kim, Honghao Zhao, Molly E. Atwood, Luis F. Buenaver, Michael T. Smith, Chien-Ming Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15378

Re-imagining Behavioral Sleep Medicine: Designing Conversational Sleep Diary and Visualization Tool
The sleep diary is a widely used clinical tool for understanding sleep disorders; however, low patient compliance and limited capture of contextual information constrain its effectiveness and leave specialists with an incomplete picture of patients' sleep-related behaviors. In this work, we re-imagine Behavioral Sleep Medicine (BSM) by designing a voice-based conversational sleep diary and specialist-facing visualization tool. Through this design process, we probed specialists' vision of how co…

Direct Imaging for the Debris Disk around $\epsilon$ Eridani with the Cool-Planet Imaging Coronagraph
Chunhui Bao, Jianghui Ji, Gang Zhao, Yiming Zhu, Jiangpei Dou, Su Wang, Yao Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16761

Direct Imaging for the Debris Disk around $ε$ Eridani with the Cool-Planet Imaging Coronagraph
We analyze the inner debris disk around $ε$ Eridani using simulated observations with the Cool-Planet Imaging Coronagraph (CPI-C). Using the radiative transfer code MCFOST, we generate synthetic scattered-light images and spectral energy distributions for three disk models that differ in inclination and radial extent, and compare these results with the anticipated performance of CPI-C. CPI-C can resolve disk structures down to $\sim$3 au, offering substantially finer spatial resolution than ex…

Imagine2Act: Leveraging Object-Action Motion Consistency from Imagined Goals for Robotic Manipulation
Liang Heng, Jiadong Xu, Yiwen Wang, Xiaoqi Li, Muhe Cai, Yan Shen, Juan Zhu, Guanghui Ren, Hao Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17125

Imagine2Act: Leveraging Object-Action Motion Consistency from Imagined Goals for Robotic Manipulation
Relational object rearrangement (ROR) tasks (e.g., insert flower to vase) require a robot to manipulate objects with precise semantic and geometric reasoning. Existing approaches either rely on pre-collected demonstrations that struggle to capture complex geometric constraints or generate goal-state observations to capture semantic and geometric knowledge, but fail to explicitly couple object transformation with action prediction, resulting in errors due to generative noise. To address these li…

A judge ruled late Friday
the Trump administration cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties
because of policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts.
U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco extended a preliminary injunction
blocking the administration from cutting off or conditioning the use of federal funds
for so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions.
His earlier order protected…

Judge blocks Trump from cutting funding over ‘sanctuary’ policies
A judge has ruled the Trump administration cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because of policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts. U.S. District Judge William Orrick on Friday extended a preliminary injunction blocking the administration from cutting off or conditioning the use of federal funds for so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions. His earlier order protected more than a dozen other cities and counties, inc…