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This week, we were discussing the central question Can we "predict" a word? as the basis for statistical language models in our #ISE2025 lecture. Of course, I wasx trying Shakespeare quotes to motivate the (international) students to complement the quotes with "predicted" missing words ;-)
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely...."

"Moral appraisals of generative #AI: How mindset framing shapes moral judgments, emotional appraisals and privacy behavior" https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.102940…

Did you know that the #UniversityOfGeorgia has TWO sets of Jean Charlot murals on its campus? Charlot hung out on the UGA campus for three years in the early 1940s, teaching and working with students. His murals that were inside what was once UGA's journalism building recently underwent some restoration thanks to our museum and the help of a lot of people from across campus.

I asked AI to design a challenge coin* for the U.S. Marines for their campaign in Los Angeles against the American people.
Here’s what it suggests. Are you few the proud yet?
*medallion recognizing membership/achievement/boost morale, often collected or exchanged.
#USpol #USMC

Day 6. I would like to say I'm speechless whereas I am merely voiceless.
The lurgy saga continues.
#SomeRandomBug #NotCovid

To dig slightly deeper here, I think that there's a feedback loop between "fall in love/wait for your perfect match (and by the way girls the only career you should aspire to is the literally unattainable 'princess'" Disney stuff and this "my characters are complex I'm so sophisticated; they suffer but it's not intolerable and their lives are good enough despite the imperfections" crap that gets praised as so evocative of the human condition. In fact, I think it merely evokes the condition of its authors & fans who were poisoned by the Disney in their youth and who have remained bad as relationships ever since, though this is not exactly their fault. In any case, their white middle-aged wisdom-shaped-but-quite bitter and intricately-constructed-so-it's-hard-to-see-the-really-untrue-character-facets work ends up keeping their audience within the "romance is luck" cult by way of reassuring them that a middling romance with lots of doubt and complications is "just life" even though the author doesn't actually have any broader perspective on what life is than anyone else.
This has turned into a bit of a rant, but I think I'll just add that reading Mama by Nikkya Hargrove just before Dream State helped immensely to see how the distant & awkward parent-child relationships of the latter are not a product of human nature but instead of white western culture & capitalism.
(The defeatism about climate change is a whole nother dimension of wrong about Dream State, by that's a separate rant.)

ExoStart: Efficient learning for dexterous manipulation with sensorized exoskeleton demonstrations
Zilin Si, Jose Enrique Chen, M. Emre Karagozler, Antonia Bronars, Jonathan Hutchinson, Thomas Lampe, Nimrod Gileadi, Taylor Howell, Stefano Saliceti, Lukasz Barczyk, Ilan Olivarez Correa, Tom Erez, Mohit Shridhar, Murilo Fernandes Martins, Konstantinos Bousmalis, Nicolas Heess, Francesco Nori, Maria Bauza Villalonga

ExoStart: Efficient learning for dexterous manipulation with sensorized exoskeleton demonstrations
Recent advancements in teleoperation systems have enabled high-quality data collection for robotic manipulators, showing impressive results in learning manipulation at scale. This progress suggests that extending these capabilities to robotic hands could unlock an even broader range of manipulation skills, especially if we could achieve the same level of dexterity that human hands exhibit. However, teleoperating robotic hands is far from a solved problem, as it presents a significant challenge …

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Bob Marley & The Wailers:
🎵 Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
#NowPlaying #BobMarley #TheWailers
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Ky-Mani Marley:
🎵 New Creature
#KyManiMarley
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Magnon-plasmon hybridization mediated by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in two-dimensional crystals: tuning with electric field
Wojciech Rudzi\'nski, Mirali Jafari, J\'ozef Barna\'s, Anna Dyrda{\l}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11834

Magnon-plasmon hybridization mediated by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in two-dimensional crystals: tuning with electric field
Recently, a mechanism of magnon-plasmon hybridization in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems, based on spin-orbit interaction associated with mobile (conduction) electrons has been proposed. Here, we consider another mechanism of magnon-plasmon hybridization, which is based on spin-orbit coupling attributed to localized spins and leading to the antisymmetric exchange (Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya) interaction. The basic element of the mechanism of magnon-plasmon coupling relies on the modifica…