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Don’t get me wrong - while using the fountain pen I am still trying to maintain good writing posture and I’m continuing to do my regular hand stretches.
But for a sense of the difference: before, I was happy with the fact that I managed to develop a good pain management routine to allow me to write like 2-3 pages at a time without convulsing in pain.
And now I can write 6 pages nonstop without even thinking or feeling anything. A short 5–10 minute rest and I can come back for more.
This is such a big deal to me. I was able to draw yesterday with a relaxed hand after spending hours writing notes. Before I’d only be able to do one or the other in a day!
And then I finished the evening by writing out a chapter of my novel by hand.
And today my hand is totally fine!!

And another couple of etch cycles on the PIC12F683 done.
On the home stretch, I've almost got the last of the dielectric off. But I don't want to be too aggressive because ideally I'd get a beauty shot of intact poly across the whole die first, *then* undercut the poly and get a substrate image.
So I'm still doing my usual 2 minutes etch, then image routine. It'll take as long as it takes.

The #cloudflare outage is throwing off my morning routine.

This has become part of my cats nightly routine
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xHooIT-1zCg

Just because the educational work of Anarcho-Syndicalists is directed toward the development of independent thought and action, they are outspoken opponents of all centralising tendencies which are so characteristic of most of the present labour parties.
Centralism, that artificial scheme which operates from the top towards the bottom and turns over the affairs of administration to a small minority, is always attended by barren official routine; it crushes individual conviction, kills …

Random…
HBO has been running ads for “Task” quite heavily this week on Discovery channels (e.g.Science Channel) at a rate of once or twice per ad break. Which is bad enough, but that’s just the framework into which they assort at least 3 *slightly* different 15-second edits. It’s very annoying.
Of course, I grew up in a time when ads were all 30 seconds and they wouldn’t dream of running the same one twice in a break, which is now routine. So I guess this is an

@… if I'm not mistaken, my Kubuntu with root-on-ZFS uses OpenZFS native encryption.
In particular, these two commands, which I ran with 25.10 in live mode (booted from a USB memory stick) as part of a routine to access the encrypted 25.04 system on the internal SSD:
sudo cat /media/kubuntu/keystore-rpool/system.key | sudo zfs load-k…

„Routine“ im Test: Im Weltraum hört dich jeder laufen
„Routine“ ist ein kurzer, visuell umwerfender Reparaturbesuch auf einer Mondbasis mit Mörderbots, der sich manchmal selbst im Weg steht.
https://www.

It's amazing how much of the fediverse you can consume in hospital waiting rooms between 3 separate tests. Just routine stuff so feeling fine but bored (apart from masto).

Accurate and Noise-Tolerant Extraction of Routine Logs in Robotic Process Automation (Extended Version)
Massimiliano de Leoni, Faizan Ahmed Khan, Simone Agostinelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08118

Accurate and Noise-Tolerant Extraction of Routine Logs in Robotic Process Automation (Extended Version)
Robotic Process Mining focuses on the identification of the routine types performed by human resources through a User Interface. The ultimate goal is to discover routine-type models to enable robotic process automation. The discovery of routine-type models requires the provision of a routine log. Unfortunately, the vast majority of existing works do not directly focus on enabling the model discovery, limiting themselves to extracting the set of actions that are part of the routines. They were a…

My dog, Stanley is pretty smart.
He has "speech" buttons that he can press to "say" words (it plays an audio recording of a word like “outside" or "water”).
He'll press the "food" button before we'll feed him dinner, and he presses "outside" most mornings as apart of his routine.
But he has absolutely no idea what these buttons are actually *saying*. He just knows that he gets food when he presses that one. He's …

Trump to get a 'routine yearly' medical check-up -- his second in 6 months (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-get-routine-yearly-medical-check-second-6-months-rcna236538
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p150#a251008p150

Series A, Episode 07 - Mission To Destiny
SONHEIM: I was off duty. I share quarters with Pasco.
PASCO: We were both there. Routine rest period.
BLAKE: And your name?
SONHEIM: Sonheim. We must have slept through it all, as Dr. Kendall did.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/107/97…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Routine:
🎵 Calm and Collected
#Routine
https://rout1ne.bandcamp.com/track/calm-and-collected
https://open.spotify.com/track/4gyje4rP6VvujfVTICsEuD

Few-shot multi-token DreamBooth with LoRa for style-consistent character generation
Ruben Pascual, Mikel Sesma-Sara, Aranzazu Jurio, Daniel Paternain, Mikel Galar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09475

Few-shot multi-token DreamBooth with LoRa for style-consistent character generation
The audiovisual industry is undergoing a profound transformation as it is integrating AI developments not only to automate routine tasks but also to inspire new forms of art. This paper addresses the problem of producing a virtually unlimited number of novel characters that preserve the artistic style and shared visual traits of a small set of human-designed reference characters, thus broadening creative possibilities in animation, gaming, and related domains. Our solution builds upon DreamBoot…

Generative AI for Software Project Management: Insights from a Review of Software Practitioner Literature
Lakshana Iruni Assalaarachchi, Zainab Masood, Rashina Hoda, John Grundy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10887

Generative AI for Software Project Management: Insights from a Review of Software Practitioner Literature
Software practitioners are discussing GenAI transformations in software project management openly and widely. To understand the state of affairs, we performed a grey literature review using 47 publicly available practitioner sources including blogs, articles, and industry reports. We found that software project managers primarily perceive GenAI as an "assistant", "copilot", or "friend" rather than as a "PM replacement", with support of GenAI in automating routine tasks, predictive analytics, co…

Have we done the old Spartacus I Am Antifa routine yet? Did I miss it?

Latent Class Logit Kernel Framework for Surrogate Safety: Identifying Behavioural Thresholds through Conflict Indicator Profiles
Rulla Al-Haideri, Changhe Liu, Karim Ismail, Bilal Farooq, Chi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12012

Latent Class Logit Kernel Framework for Surrogate Safety: Identifying Behavioural Thresholds through Conflict Indicator Profiles
Crash data objectively characterize road safety but are rare and often unsuitable for proactive safety management. Traffic conflict indicators such as time-to-collision (TTC) provide continuous measures of collision proximity but require thresholds to distinguish routine from safety-critical interactions. Extreme Value Theory (EVT) offers statistically defined thresholds, yet these do not necessarily represent how drivers perceive and respond to conflict. This study introduces a behavioural mod…

'The phrase "advanced imaging" suggests Trump was either given a CT scan or an MRI — or both — which are used to detect various health conditions and monitor conditions affecting the organs. This would seem to dispute a previous WH statement that Trump's visit to Walter Reed was part of his "routine yearly check up" (his 2nd such check-up in a handful of months).'
George Conway highlights the two most 'important words' from Trump's White House physician - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/george-conway-trump-physician/

"[Target] has a new directive for store employees: If a shopper comes within 10 feet of you…smile, make eye contact and greet or wave. If…within four feet — ask whether they need help or how their day is going…"
If shopper comes within 1 foot, store employees must kiss them, gently. If within 2 inches, then the employee must propose, perform and consummate a marriage to the customer.
Bigots are gonna try to deflect while going more broke.

Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.

Added a category manager and category state section to the Exocortex Log app.
Have now organized and cleaned up the categories in my ten year database and so we can get some views of the time spent in each category.
We see that through September and October I was in a routine of work and slack with a bit of social a couple of times a week, until the end of November when I went away for social at a conference all weekend. I saw a demo there of a person using Shakespeare, and then when I got back started doing some vibe-coding, shown in in Red.
A break from that to go away at the weekend to a long social party then finish it off and publish a few days ago, since when Vibe Coding has dropped off a little.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog

Great song with an amazing choreo/dance routine, she really felt the track.
#prince

Giga, which develops voice-based AI agents for customer support, raised a $61M Series A led by Redpoint with participation from Y Combinator and Nexus (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/05/voice-ai-giga-raise-61-million-customer-serv…

Exclusive: Voice AI startup Giga raises $61 million to take on customer service automation
Voice AI has the potential to streamline a lot of businesses' customer service tasks, such as answering routine customer questions or scheduling appointments, without a human agent needing to step in.

September was a great month. I finally have a desk, and changed something in my daily routine. I read another two books of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, watched High and Low and The Phantom of the Opera, and tell you about "I Love My Computer" by Ninajirachi.
https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/change…

The Changelog – September 2025
September was a great month. I finally have a desk, and I finally changed something in my daily routine. I read another two books of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series and finished the Three-Body Problem trilogy. I watched High and Low and The Phantom of the Opera, and I will share my connection I Love My Computer by Ninajirachi. Finally, my two cents about Silksong.

As one of my next #selfhosting projects I wanted to compare #ttrss and #freshrss
Seems like the choices just narrowed down to freshRSS. TTRss is discontinued -- at least until anotherone wants…

The end of tt-rss.org
On November 1st 2025 I’m going to dismantle the entirety of infrastructure that powers tt-rss.org, cgit, this forum, and other related sites. The reasons for this are many but the tl;dr is that I no longer find it fun to maintain public-facing anything, be it open source projects or websites. As for tt-rss specifically, it has been ‘done’ for years now and the “let’s bump base PHP version and fix breakages” routine is not engaging in the slightest. You have a month to mirror any i…

,
“... speaking out or speaking up about basic things like medical treatment, they would come & basically throw your head to the ground, shackle your hands behind your back, & then take you to either sit in the hot sun or sit in total isolation & shackle your ankles as well & just leave you there for the day.”
“This is routine for Palestinians who are in indefinite detention, let alone in torture camps,”
David Adler Details His ‘Violent Abduction’ by Israel

Pentagon did not conduct routine investigation on whether Hegseth damaged national security by sharing strike plans on Signal (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/11/politics/pentagon-did-not-conduct-hegseth-signal-investigation
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p42#a251211p42

Introspection in Learned Semantic Scene Graph Localisation
Manshika Charvi Bissessur, Efimia Panagiotaki, Daniele De Martini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07053 https://

Introspection in Learned Semantic Scene Graph Localisation
This work investigates how semantics influence localisation performance and robustness in a learned self-supervised, contrastive semantic localisation framework. After training a localisation network on both original and perturbed maps, we conduct a thorough post-hoc introspection analysis to probe whether the model filters environmental noise and prioritises distinctive landmarks over routine clutter. We validate various interpretability methods and present a comparative reliability analysis. …

Hyper-py: HYbrid Photometry and Extraction Routine in PYthon
Alessio Traficante, Fabrizio De Angelis, Alice Nucara, Milena Benedettini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22453 https://

Hyper-py: HYbrid Photometry and Extraction Routine in PYthon
We present Hyper-Py, a fully restructured and extended Python implementation of HYPER (HYbrid Photometry and Extraction Routine, Traficante et al. 2015). HYPER was originally implemented in IDL, aiming to deliver robust and reproducible photometry of compact sources in FIR/sub-mm/mm maps. HYPER combines source detection via high-pass filtering, background estimation through local polynomial fitting, and source modeling with 2D elliptical Gaussians, simultaneously fitting multiple Gaussians to d…

Ein SocialMedia-erst-ab-16-Gesetz ist wie ein Abtreibung-erst-ab-16-Gesetz: Es würde bedeuten, dass auch eine 40-jaehrige Frau zunächst nachweisen muss älter als 16 zu sein, um einen Routine-Termin beim/bei der Gyn zu bekommen.

Ein SocialMedia-erst-ab-16-Gesetz ist wie ein Abtreibung-erst-ab-16-Gesetz: Es würde bedeuten, dass auch eine 40-jaehrige Frau zunächst nachweisen muss älter als 16 zu sein, um einen Routine-Termin beim/bei der Gyn zu bekommen.

The last time I used MS Word to write a significant document was my PhD thesis. Since I've done everything of consequence in latex. More recently, I've used #emacs' #orgmode to write the latex: much easier for the routine stuff but you can include pure latex as you need. (15 yrs pure latex…

Litter-Robot 5 Pro: Whiskers KI-Katzenklo macht die Katze froh
Katzenfreunde können noch besser die Gesundheit ihrer Katze im Blick behalten. Dabei hilft ein KI-Katzenklo, das die Routine der Katze aufzeichnet.

Routine hearings turned into deportation trap for migrants | AP News https://apnews.com/article/immigration-courts-deportations-trump-administration-8b9fab5475c0da4c0f13f3381de91448

Routine hearings turned into deportation trap for migrants
The nation's immigration courts have undergone a fundamental change under the administration of President Donald Trump. He pledged to impose hardline immigration policies, an issue that was popular with his voters. In practice, the administration has resorted to unusually aggressive tactics, many of which have played out in immigration courts in the United States. Judges have churned out rulings in an assembly-line like fashion. For many immigrants, the courtrooms have also become deportation t…

Quantum Reservoir Computing for Credit Card Default Prediction on a Neutral Atom Platform
Giacomo Vitali, Chiara Vercellino, Paolo Viviani, Olivier Terzo, Bartolomeo Montrucchio, Valeria Zaffaroni, Francesca Cibrario, Christian Mattia, Giacomo Ranieri, Alessandro Sabatino, Francesco Bonazzi, Davide Corbelletto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04…

Quantum Reservoir Computing for Credit Card Default Prediction on a Neutral Atom Platform
In this paper, we define and benchmark a hybrid quantum-classical machine learning pipeline by performing a binary classification task applied to a real-world financial use case. Specifically, we implement a Quantum Reservoir Computing (QRC) layer within a classical routine that includes data preprocessing and binary classification. The reservoir layer has been executed on QuEra's Aquila, a 256-qubit neutral atom simulator, using two different types of encoding: position and local detuning. In …

toot of, tootles ⚙️🛠️
die Arbeit ruft
zuvor Routine Besuch im Lungen-MVZ
mal sehen, was die zum impfen 💉haben

Measles is often seen as a routine childhood illness
— a fever, a rash, and recovery
— but complications are common.
Even when it doesn’t kill,
measles can cause lasting damage.
It weakens the immune system,
making people vulnerable to other infections for months or years.
That means children who seem to recover may still face serious health risks long after the illness is gone.
In some countries, measles has re-emerged in recent years,
…

Measles leaves children vulnerable to other diseases for years
Measles causes more than an acute illness: it suppresses immune memory and increases the risk of complications for years.

Kinetic Monte Carlo prediction of the morphology of pentaerythritol tetranitrate
Jacob Jeffries, Himanshu Singh, Romain Perriot, Christian Negre, Antonio Redondo, Enrique Martinez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25490

Kinetic Monte Carlo prediction of the morphology of pentaerythritol tetranitrate
In this work, we develop an atomistic, graph-based kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulation routine to predict crystal morphology. Within this routine, we encode the state of the supercell in a binary occupation vector and the topology of the supercell in a simple nearest-neighbor graph. From this encoding, we efficiently compute the interaction energy of the system as a quadratic form of the binary occupation vector, representing pairwise interactions. This encoding, coupled with a simple diffusio…

Ah yes, the government of #ProLife & #FamilyValues & #Christianity strikes again, demonstrating their sense of mercy, compassion and common sense.
ICE detains Texas father as son’s health de…

Ah yes, the government of #ProLife & #FamilyValues & #Christianity strikes again, demonstrating their sense of mercy, compassion and common sense.
ICE detains Texas father as son’s health de…

I'm considering 'light therapy'.... Firstly, setting up a hue bulb in mine my partner's bedroom, and making a slow wake-up routine.
Also, getting another SAD lamp as I found the one I had helped a lot.
#SAD #LightTherapy #WakeUp

Wie bringt man Solarstrom, Wärmepumpe und E-Auto unter einen Hut, ohne dass einem der Kopf raucht? Wer Solarstrom effizient für Haushalt, Wärmepumpe und E-Auto nutzen will, merkt schnell: Theorie und Praxis klaffen weit auseinander. Unser Gespräch mit Thomas Wedel und eigene Erfahrungen zeigen, wie sich Routine, Technik und Alltagslogik verbinden – und wie viel Experimentiergeist gefragt ist. #Ladelust

Wie bringt man Solarstrom, Wärmepumpe und E-Auto unter einen Hut, ohne dass einem der Kopf raucht?
Die Energiezukunft beginnt zuhause: Solaranlage aufs Dach, Speicher in den Keller, E-Auto vor die Tür. Doch wie bringt man all diese Komponenten ins richtige Zusammenspiel? Unser Gespräch mit Thoma…

Does anybody know the name of the trope that goes like this:
- setup: protagonist gets shitfaced before social event
- actual trope: protagonist feels like they put on a GLORIOUS show (I remember at least two cases of dance routines) when they finally let go
- fun part: the dance routine was actually a total embarassment and the protagonist made a fool of themselves
I *think* it was in both Derry Girls and Girls5Eva but I can't find it, does anybody remember those or…

Survey of AI-Powered Approaches for Osteoporosis Diagnosis in Medical Imaging
Abdul Rahman, Bumshik Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00061 https://arxiv.org/…

Survey of AI-Powered Approaches for Osteoporosis Diagnosis in Medical Imaging
Osteoporosis silently erodes skeletal integrity worldwide; however, early detection through imaging can prevent most fragility fractures. Artificial intelligence (AI) methods now mine routine Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA), X-ray, Computed Tomography (CT), and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans for subtle, clinically actionable markers, but the literature is fragmented. This survey unifies the field through a tri-axial framework that couples imaging modalities with clinical tasks an…

Score the Steps, Not Just the Goal: VLM-Based Subgoal Evaluation for Robotic Manipulation
Ramy ElMallah, Krish Chhajer, Chi-Guhn Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19524 https://

Score the Steps, Not Just the Goal: VLM-Based Subgoal Evaluation for Robotic Manipulation
Robot learning papers typically report a single binary success rate (SR), which obscures where a policy succeeds or fails along a multi-step manipulation task. We argue that subgoal-level reporting should become routine: for each trajectory, a vector of per-subgoal SRs that makes partial competence visible (e.g., grasp vs. pour). We propose a blueprint for StepEval, a cost-aware plug-in evaluation framework that utilizes vision-language models (VLMs) as automated judges of subgoal outcomes from…

Towards Autonomous Tape Handling for Robotic Wound Redressing
Xiao Liang, Lu Shen, Peihan Zhang, Soofiyan Atar, Florian Richter, Michael Yip
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06127 htt…

Towards Autonomous Tape Handling for Robotic Wound Redressing
Chronic wounds, such as diabetic, pressure, and venous ulcers, affect over 6.5 million patients in the United States alone and generate an annual cost exceeding \$25 billion. Despite this burden, chronic wound care remains a routine yet manual process performed exclusively by trained clinicians due to its critical safety demands. We envision a future in which robotics and automation support wound care to lower costs and enhance patient outcomes. This paper introduces an autonomous framework for…

"Hitler personally had more German generals executed than all the Allies combined managed to kill during the entire war. That’s not micromanagement; that’s murder as a management style."
Very interesting thread!
https://infosec.exchange/@masek/115266663243424953

"Wildfire smoke could kill 71,000 people per year in the US by 2050, study warns"
#US #USA #America #Wildfires

Wildfire smoke could kill 71,000 people per year in the US by 2050, study warns
When wildfire smoke from Canada turned New York City’s sky an eerie orange in June 2023, millions of Americans who’d never experienced such pollution got a glimpse of what has become routine for communities across the U.S. West. The smoke blanketed the Eastern Seaboard, closing schools and forcing residents indoors, a warning of what scientists […]

@… found at <https://joinmastodon.org/apps>.
A minor criticism of the discovery routine: for too many of the apps, you can't get a good idea of how they look until…

Meta cuts roles in its Risk unit citing a shift from manual reviews to a "consistent and automated process" that is delivering "reliable compliance outcomes" (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-job-cut…

Meta told some employees their jobs are being replaced by tech
An internal memo explaining the cuts said "many routine decisions can now be handled efficiently by technology."

I usually post in the evening today's post inthe morning for the 'Fotovorschlag' somehow broke my routine.
Anyways, I wanted to share this photo from my hike on sunday. It was my first winter-hike this season! Saturday was a great cloud inversion - which I missed - sunday greeted me (and QUITE some more hikers) with a plain blue sky.
I hope I can get out again on the weekend to test warmer socks.
Well - enjoy!

Moody Urbanity - TWO II 2️⃣
情绪化城市 - 贰 II 2️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Possible First Detection of Gyroresonance Emission from a Coronal Mass Ejection in the Middle Corona
Surajit Mondal, Bin Chen, Xingyao Chen, Sijie Yu, Dale Gary, Peijin Zhang, Marin M. Anderson, Judd D. Bowman, Ruby Byrne, Morgan Catha, Sherry Chhabra, Larry D Addario, Ivey Davis, Jayce Dowell, Katherine Elder, Gregg Hallinan, Charlie Harnach, Greg Hellbourg, Jack Hickish, Rick Hobbs, David Hodge, Mark Hodges, Yuping Huang, Andrea Isella, Daniel C. Jacobs, Ghislain Kemby, John T Klinef…

Possible First Detection of Gyroresonance Emission from a Coronal Mass Ejection in the Middle Corona
Routine measurements of the magnetic field of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) have been a key challenge in solar physics. Making such measurements is important both from a space weather perspective and for understanding the detailed evolution of the CME. In spite of significant efforts and multiple proposed methods, achieving this goal has not been possible to date. Here we report the first possible detection of gyroresonance emission from a CME. Assuming that the emission is happening at the thi…

From Phenomenology to a Nonlinear Model of Dynamic Snap-Through of an Elastica
Chiraprabha Bhattacharyya, Ramsharan Rangarajan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21328 https://

From Phenomenology to a Nonlinear Model of Dynamic Snap-Through of an Elastica
Rotating the clamped ends of a buckled elastica induces a snap-through instability. Predicting the limit point and determining the equilibria at the start and end of the snap are routine computations in the quasi-static setting. The instability itself, however, is dynamic, and quite violently so. We propose an energy-preserving nonlinear single degree of freedom model for this dynamic phenomenon in the case of a symmetrically deforming elastica. The model hinges on a surprising observation rela…

Through mid-October, IHS had published far fewer posts on Facebook promoting vaccine clinics this year than last.
And in those posts as well as other notices, it replaced language touting immunization’s benefits
with wording that frames both routine childhood vaccinations and annual flu and COVID-19 shots as a personal choice,
advising patients to consult health care providers about their “options regarding vaccines.”
Current and former IHS clinicians told ProPublica…

The Indian Health Service Is Flagging Vaccine-Related Speech. Doctors Say They’re Being Censored.
Officials have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations.

Graph-Radiomic Learning (GrRAiL) Descriptor to Characterize Imaging Heterogeneity in Confounding Tumor Pathologies
Dheerendranath Battalapalli, Apoorva Safai, Maria Jaramillo, Hyemin Um, Gustavo Adalfo Pineda Ortiz, Ulas Bagci, Manmeet Singh Ahluwalia, Marwa Ismail, Pallavi Tiwari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19258

Score the Steps, Not Just the Goal: VLM-Based Subgoal Evaluation for Robotic Manipulation
Ramy ElMallah, Krish Chhajer, Chi-Guhn Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19524 https://

Score the Steps, Not Just the Goal: VLM-Based Subgoal Evaluation for Robotic Manipulation
Robot learning papers typically report a single binary success rate (SR), which obscures where a policy succeeds or fails along a multi-step manipulation task. We argue that subgoal-level reporting should become routine: for each trajectory, a vector of per-subgoal SRs that makes partial competence visible (e.g., grasp vs. pour). We propose a blueprint for StepEval, a cost-aware plug-in evaluation framework that utilizes vision-language models (VLMs) as automated judges of subgoal outcomes from…

Begun: the first major OS upgrade to my new daily driver.
(I've been waiting a few weeks for Discover to prompt me. I didn't realise that I have to follow the routine without being prompted …)
#Kubuntu #Discover

LOFAR 58 MHz Legacy Survey of the 3CRR Catalog
J. M. Boxelaar, F. De Gasperin, M. J. Hardcastle, J. H. Croston, L. K. Morabito, R. J. van Weeren, H. Edler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15115

LOFAR 58 MHz Legacy Survey of the 3CRR Catalog
The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is uniquely able to perform deep, 15" resolutions imaging at frequencies below 100 MHz. Observations in this regime, using the Low Band Antenna (LBA) system, are significantly affected by instrumental and ionospheric distortions. Recent developments in calibration techniques have enabled routine production of high-fidelity images at these challenging frequencies. The aim of this paper is to obtain images of the radio sources included in the Third Cambridge catalo…

Rapid calibration of atrial electrophysiology models using Gaussian process emulators in the ensemble Kalman filter
Mariya Mamajiwala, Cesare Corrado, Chris Lanyon, Steven A. Niederer, Richard D. Wilkinson, Richard H. Clayton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06191

Rapid calibration of atrial electrophysiology models using Gaussian process emulators in the ensemble Kalman filter
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common cardiac arrhythmia characterised by disordered electrical activity in the atria. The standard treatment is catheter ablation, which is invasive and irreversible. Recent advances in computational electrophysiology offer the potential for patient-specific models, often referred to as digital twins, that can be used to guide clinical decisions. To be of practical value, we must be able to rapidly calibrate physics-based models using routine clinical measurement…

On The Road - To Xi’An/ Beings 👁️‍🗨️
在路上 - 去西安/ 灵 👁️‍🗨️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Kodak Double-X 5222
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

The Turkish Ice Cream Robot: Examining Playful Deception in Social Human-Robot Interactions
Hyeonseong Kim, Roy El-Helou, Seungbeen Lee, Sungjoon Choi, Matthew Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21776

The Turkish Ice Cream Robot: Examining Playful Deception in Social Human-Robot Interactions
Playful deception, a common feature in human social interactions, remains underexplored in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Inspired by the Turkish Ice Cream (TIC) vendor routine, we investigate how bounded, culturally familiar forms of deception influence user trust, enjoyment, and engagement during robotic handovers. We design a robotic manipulator equipped with a custom end-effector and implement five TIC-inspired trick policies that deceptively delay the handover of an ice cream-shaped object…

@… my screaming rage is not at legacy freebsd-update. The problem, always a problem for me, is:
vi
It's intolerable. Absolutely fucking intolerable. I do my best to avoid it, but sometimes I forget the five-step avoidance routine that's required for every installation of the OS.
On the plus side: I switched from FreeBSD to Kubuntu.
na…

Bayesian Nonhomogeneous hidden Markov models to leverage routine in physical activity monitoring with informative wear time
Beatrice Cantoni, Savannah V. Rauschendorfer, Michael E. Roth, J. Andrew Livingston, Eugenie S. Kleinerman, Corwin M. Zigler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17806

Bayesian Nonhomogeneous hidden Markov models to leverage routine in physical activity monitoring with informative wear time
Missing data is among the most prominent challenges in the analysis of physical activity (PA) data collected from wearable devices, with the threat of nonignorabile missingness arising when patterns of device wear relate to underlying activity patterns. We offer a rigorous consideration of assumptions about missing data mechanisms in the context of the common modeling paradigm of state space models with a finite, meaningful, set of underlying PA states. Focusing in particular on hidden Markov m…