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Trump Administration Places Thumb On Negotiation Scale, Decides Harvard Didn't Do Enough To Fight Antisemitism - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/06/trump-administration-places-thumb-on-negotiation-scale-decides-harvard-didnt-do-enough-to-fight-antisemitism/

Intersting (automated) posting background artwork of Lucas Arts games:
This reminds me that I have never played The Dig nor have I played Full Throttle beyond a short demo that was on a shareware CD-ROM.
https://mastodon.social/@lucasarts_places/1143774055917190…

„Die eigentliche Tatmotivation war eine Um- und Rückverteilung zwischen Drogenhändler und oft hilfsbedürftigen Konsumenten“
Plottwist: der hilfsbedürfte Konsument war dann vermutlich er selbst 🐽
https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/polizei-nl/die

Diebstahl bei Kokain-Kontrollen? Polizisten vor Gericht
Mutmaßlich kriminelle Polizeibeamte sollen Bargeld von Drogenhändlern gestohlen haben. Am Landgericht bestreitet ein Angeklagter die Vorwürfe, sein

Discrimination cases unravel as Trump scraps core civil rights tenet
For decades, the federal government has used data analysis to ferret out race and sex discrimination
-- winning court cases and reaching settlements in housing, education, policing and across American life.
Now the Trump administration is working to unwind those same cases.
The administration is unwinding settlements built on “disparate impact,” -- which holds that even neutral policies can lead to …

Discrimination cases unravel as Trump scraps core civil rights tenet
The administration is dismissing cases and unwinding settlements built on « disparate impact, » which holds that even neutral policies can lead to biased outcomes.

Shaping Ultrafast Pulses for Enhanced Resonant Nonlinear Interactions
Omri Meron, Snir Nehemia, Uri Arieli, Haim Suchowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00568

Shaping Ultrafast Pulses for Enhanced Resonant Nonlinear Interactions
Coherent control with shaped ultrafast pulses is a powerful approach for steering nonlinear light-matter interactions. Previous studies in quantum control have shown that, beyond transform-limited pulses, those with antisymmetric spectral phases can drive nonresonant multiphoton transitions with comparable efficiency. However, in resonant multiphoton transitions, the material's spectral-phase response introduces dispersion that degrades nonlinear efficiency. Pre-shaping the pulse to compensate …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13697 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Linear programming for finite-horizon vector-valued Markov decision processes
We propose a vector linear programming formulation for a non-stationary, finite-horizon Markov decision process with vector-valued rewards. Pareto efficient policies are shown to correspond to efficient solutions of the linear program, and vector linear programming theory allows us to fully characterize deterministic efficient policies. An algorithm for enumerating all efficient deterministic policies is presented then tested numerically in an engineering application.

#fedihelp
Als Merz an die Macht kam, hat er einen migrationsnotstand erklärt umnzehtsusende polizistrn am die grenze schicken zu können.
Jetzt brennt es hitzebedingt an einigen stellen in deutschland, in großen städten ist es 40 grad heiß, an manchen orten kommt 5 cm hagel runtet, stürme reißen bäume um, in sichtweite des kanzleramts entzündet sich der rohbau eines hochhauses.
Wa…

PAC Bench: Do Foundation Models Understand Prerequisites for Executing Manipulation Policies?
Atharva Gundawar, Som Sagar, Ransalu Senanayake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23725

PAC Bench: Do Foundation Models Understand Prerequisites for Executing Manipulation Policies?
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly pivotal for generalist robot manipulation, enabling tasks such as physical reasoning, policy generation, and failure detection. However, their proficiency in these high-level applications often assumes a deep understanding of low-level physical prerequisites, a capability that remains largely unverified. For robots to perform actions reliably, they must comprehend intrinsic object properties (e.g., material, weight), action affordances (e.g., grasp…

Last night at the end of the valley, marking & celebrating several occasions/milestones in one of our fave places...
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Hugh Mundell:
🎵 Going Places
#HughMundell
https://vprecordsofficial.bandcamp.com/track/going-places
https://open.spotify.com/track/4J2RDLCeCH8KX7CFkEbDWU