Tootfinder

Peru Debuts Discovery of Ancient City Dating Back 3,800 Years Ago and Ready for Visitors https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/peru-debuts-discovery-of-ancient-city-dating-back-3800-years-ago-and-ready-for-visitors/

Peru Debuts Discovery of Ancient City Dating Back 3,800 Years Ago and Ready for Visitors
Caral-Supe is one of the oldest civilizations in the world, and oldest-known in the Americas, and Peñico likely inherited that legacy

Managed to repair my digital piano. Two of the c's stopped working. Turns out the fix was easy: I used some 9B pencil to rub the connectors on the piano, as they apparently work with graphite. There was a silicone bit I could take off to get to the connector.
Opening the piano up was by far the hardest part of this repair.
#RightToRepair

Detection of Anomalous Behavior in Robot Systems Based on Machine Learning
Mahfuzul I. Nissan, Sharmin Aktar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09953 https://arxiv…

Detection of Anomalous Behavior in Robot Systems Based on Machine Learning
Ensuring the safe and reliable operation of robotic systems is paramount to prevent potential disasters and safeguard human well-being. Despite rigorous design and engineering practices, these systems can still experience malfunctions, leading to safety risks. In this study, we present a machine learning-based approach for detecting anomalies in system logs to enhance the safety and reliability of robotic systems. We collected logs from two distinct scenarios using CoppeliaSim and comparatively…

Watching the Once Upon a Time... intro hits me with how tiny and temporary my life is compared to the giant sweep of history.
The scenes of people through different ages make me wonder what any of us really mean in the big picture.
The vast flow of time shown reminds me that anarchism is the way forward to break free from repeating cycles of power.
#Anarchism

Characterizing Stability in Many-to-One Matching with Non-Responsive Couples
Shashwat Khare, Souvik Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07490 https://

Characterizing Stability in Many-to-One Matching with Non-Responsive Couples
We study many-to-one matching problems between institutions and individuals, where each institution may be matched to multiple individuals. The matching market includes couples, who view pairs of institutions as complementary. Institutions' preferences over sets of individuals are assumed to satisfy responsiveness, whereas couples' preferences over pairs of institutions may violate responsiveness. In this setting, we first assume that all institutions share a common preference ordering over i…

diese woche endlich mal zum lesen gekommen:
"Über die Bedeutung des Spaßfaktors in Forschungsprojekten – Ein Erfahrungsbericht" von Jutta Bertram
https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2023-0060
– ein erfreulich offener rückblick auf ein forschungssemester, das nicht so gelaufen war wie gep…

Got the modded PS1 (SCPH-5501) connected to the PVM via a gwscart switch using RGB (CSYNC). The switch doesn't seem to have any issues with the signal coming in from the PS1, and the Retro Gaming Cables cable (EuroSCART -> RGB Sync Audio) is absolute quality. If it weren't for Silksong at the moment, I'd be jumping into some retro games.
#retrogaming

So HP is buying Juniper.
Reminds me of this old t-shirt:
https://www.cavebear.com/old_cbblog/pictures/juniperwheel.jpg

Adaptive Gaussian Mixture Models-based Anomaly Detection for under-constrained Cable-Driven Parallel Robots
Julio Garrido, Javier Vales, Diego Silva-Mu\~niz, Enrique Riveiro, Pablo L\'opez-Matencio, Josu\'e Rivera-Andrade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07714

Adaptive Gaussian Mixture Models-based Anomaly Detection for under-constrained Cable-Driven Parallel Robots
Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (CDPRs) are increasingly used for load manipulation tasks involving predefined toolpaths with intermediate stops. At each stop, where the platform maintains a fixed pose and the motors keep the cables under tension, the system must evaluate whether it is safe to proceed by detecting anomalies that could compromise performance (e.g., wind gusts or cable impacts). This paper investigates whether anomalies can be detected using only motor torque data, without additiona…