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“Service academies to accept conservative alternative to SAT and ACT”
And it is called the CLT?
They’ll have to find it first.
Hey oh!
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/15/military-academies-clt-standardized-test-00564290…

NFL stars back in action, plus ranking the top 10 WR duos and trying to make sense of the Colts' QB decision

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-st…

Toward Embodiment Equivariant Vision-Language-Action Policy
Anzhe Chen, Yifei Yang, Zhenjie Zhu, Kechun Xu, Zhongxiang Zhou, Rong Xiong, Yue Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14630

Toward Embodiment Equivariant Vision-Language-Action Policy
Vision-language-action policies learn manipulation skills across tasks, environments and embodiments through large-scale pre-training. However, their ability to generalize to novel robot configurations remains limited. Most approaches emphasize model size, dataset scale and diversity while paying less attention to the design of action spaces. This leads to the configuration generalization problem, which requires costly adaptation. We address this challenge by formulating cross-embodiment pre-tr…

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Across 40 pages, you’ll find an overview of our research topics, methods, and infrastructure—plus insights into public events, training, and more.
Enjoy reading! Follow this link: https://www.mps.mpg.de/8480541/institute-brochure…

"California advances climate action with new legislation"
#California #Climate #ClimateChange

CollabVLA: Self-Reflective Vision-Language-Action Model Dreaming Together with Human
Nan Sun, Yongchang Li, Chenxu Wang, Huiying Li, Huaping Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14889

CollabVLA: Self-Reflective Vision-Language-Action Model Dreaming Together with Human
In this work, we present CollabVLA, a self-reflective vision-language-action framework that transforms a standard visuomotor policy into a collaborative assistant. CollabVLA tackles key limitations of prior VLAs, including domain overfitting, non-interpretable reasoning, and the high latency of auxiliary generative models, by integrating VLM-based reflective reasoning with diffusion-based action generation under a mixture-of-experts design. Through a two-stage training recipe of action groundin…

Weekend Reads
* How people use ChatGPT
https://www.nber.org/papers/w34255
* Great firewall document leak
https://gf…

How People Use ChatGPT
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

"If any other group arrived into a neighborhood carrying long guns, deploying chemical weapons, violently engaging and then taking people away with no warrants nor apparent legal reason, we would dispatch SWAT, as SWAT has the training to defuse and deescalate such situations."
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Local Law Enforcement's Challenge: Uphold the Law, Even Against the Feds
in the absence of action, civilians will fill the void I do want to write something not so serious, maybe even funny, here soon. But today, I think the police have to do a very hard and necessary thing: defend Americans against their federal government. If any other group arrived

I think the police have to do a very hard and necessary thing: defend Americans against their federal government.
I make the case for why local law enforcement officers may need to arrest feds:
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/local-la

Local Law Enforcement's Challenge: Uphold the Law, Even Against the Feds
in the absence of action, civilians will fill the void I do want to write something not so serious, maybe even funny, here soon. But today, I think the police have to do a very hard and necessary thing: defend Americans against their federal government. If any other group arrived