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The term "context engineering" is gaining traction over "prompt engineering" as it better describes the skill of providing LLMs with the necessary information (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/27/context-…

Flexible estimation of skill formation models
Antonia Antweiler, Joachim Freyberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18995 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18995

Flexible estimation of skill formation models
This paper examines estimation of skill formation models, a critical component in understanding human capital development and its effects on individual outcomes. Existing estimators are either based on moment conditions and only applicable in specific settings or rely on distributional approximations that often do not align with the model. Our method employs an iterative likelihood-based procedure, which flexibly estimates latent variable distributions and recursively incorporates model restric…

Disco Elysium – The Final Cut is 3.99 € on Steam.
Without exaggeration, this is one of the best games I’ve ever played.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/632470/Disco_Elysium__The_Final_Cut/

Save 75% on Disco Elysium - The Final Cut on Steam
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.

My Albion Asia character now...since Albion EU is offline...we got a new member who is online 2/9 online including me.
1st pork pie...then I'll try to login into Albion EU again...
T5 mining xp in K then: 12k
T5 mining xp now:
T5 Mining skill then: 8%
T5 mining skill now: 9%
TP cost: 2k
repairs: 6k
2 pork pies: 10k
total expenses: 18k
Profit:
55k
Clean Profit: 37k

#Wordle 1,440 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 217,070 (624)
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 0 of 74 (35)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 0 of 0 (2)
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WordleBot
Skill 86/99
Luck 47/99
I definitely enjoyed today's wordle, probably because my guesses worked very well, providing good clues and having eliminated most options (I think, bot will have to confirm) at the end.
Bot confirms only 2 words were left.
Bot and I always have a difference of opinion on a result like my 1st guess, bot thinks it's unlucky because there are so many words left, I consider it lucky because it's eliminated 5 letters, and not constrained my coming up w/ words for my next guess.

"Thoughts on Synthesizing Information: A Research Skill for Our Time?" https://muse.jhu.edu/article/964599
"Synthesizing information from multiple sources is a crucial skill for information literacy, and it is exceedingly important for learning in the 21st century information landscape.…

Morning all!
I'm delighted to have an article in this quarter's edition of the journal 'Workplace' from the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy).
It's all about how developing a skill set called Psychological Flexibility helps us deal with hassles and setbacks at work. They've made it open access, so you can read it at:

How Deebo Samuel's skill set could lift Jayden Daniels-led Commanders offense to new heights in 2025

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-dee

Dynamic Context-Aware Prompt Recommendation for Domain-Specific AI Applications
Xinye Tang, Haijun Zhai, Chaitanya Belwal, Vineeth Thayanithi, Philip Baumann, Yogesh K Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20815

Dynamic Context-Aware Prompt Recommendation for Domain-Specific AI Applications
LLM-powered applications are highly susceptible to the quality of user prompts, and crafting high-quality prompts can often be challenging especially for domain-specific applications. This paper presents a novel dynamic context-aware prompt recommendation system for domain-specific AI applications. Our solution combines contextual query analysis, retrieval-augmented knowledge grounding, hierarchical skill organization, and adaptive skill ranking to generate relevant and actionable prompt sugges…

Development and Evaluation of Adaptive LearningSupport System Based on Ontology of MultipleProgramming Languages
Lalita Na Nongkhai, Jingyun Wang, Takahiko Mendori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19728

Development and Evaluation of Adaptive LearningSupport System Based on Ontology of MultipleProgramming Languages
This paper introduces an ontology-based approach within an adaptive learning support system for computer programming. This system (named ADVENTURE) is designed to deliver personalized programming exercises that are tailored to individual learners' skill levels. ADVENTURE utilizes an ontology, named CONTINUOUS, which encompasses common concepts across multiple programming languages. The system leverages this ontology not only to visualize programming concepts but also to provide hints during pra…

Towards Multimodal Social Conversations with Robots: Using Vision-Language Models
Ruben Janssens, Tony Belpaeme
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19196 https://ar…

Towards Multimodal Social Conversations with Robots: Using Vision-Language Models
Large language models have given social robots the ability to autonomously engage in open-domain conversations. However, they are still missing a fundamental social skill: making use of the multiple modalities that carry social interactions. While previous work has focused on task-oriented interactions that require referencing the environment or specific phenomena in social interactions such as dialogue breakdowns, we outline the overall needs of a multimodal system for social conversations wit…

Predicting how the Raiders’ rookie skill players will fare this season https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/predicting-how-the-raiders-rookie-skill-players-will-fare-this-season-3388415/

Skill players headline my personal Dallas Cowboys All-Quarter Century team https://insidethestar.com/skill-players-headline-my-personal-dallas-cowboys-all-quarter-century-team

@… There’s a kind of skill you wish you didn’t have, because you paid heavily for it. That definitely sounds like one of them.

#Wordle 1,439 4/6*
🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ <1% of 214,500 (25)
🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ 7% of 323 (6)
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 5% of 21 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 69% of 5,895
WordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 55/99
Felt like an average wordle day, didn't come quickly but wasn't an epic struggle either

Indian software services provider Tata Consultancy Services plans to cut 2% of its global workforce, or about 12,000 employees, by March 31, 2026 (Moneycontrol)
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects
such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern
art.
-- Tom Stoppard

How Do Code Smells Affect Skill Growth in Scratch Novice Programmers?
Ricardo Hidalgo Arag\'on, Jes\'us M. Gonz\'alez-Barahona, Gregorio Robles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17314

How Do Code Smells Affect Skill Growth in Scratch Novice Programmers?
Context. Code smells, which are recurring anomalies in design or style, have been extensively researched in professional code. However, their significance in block-based projects created by novices is still largely unknown. Block-based environments such as Scratch offer a unique, data-rich setting to examine how emergent design problems intersect with the cultivation of computational-thinking (CT) skills. Objective. This research explores the connection between CT proficiency and design-level c…

AMPED: Adaptive Multi-objective Projection for balancing Exploration and skill Diversification
Geonwoo Cho, Jaemoon Lee, Jaegyun Im, Subi Lee, Jihwan Lee, Sundong Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05980

AMPED: Adaptive Multi-objective Projection for balancing Exploration and skill Diversification
Skill-based reinforcement learning (SBRL) enables rapid adaptation in environments with sparse rewards by pretraining a skill-conditioned policy. Effective skill learning requires jointly maximizing both exploration and skill diversity. However, existing methods often face challenges in simultaneously optimizing for these two conflicting objectives. In this work, we propose a new method, Adaptive Multi-objective Projection for balancing Exploration and skill Diversification (AMPED), which expli…

#Wordle 1,471 5/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 217,369 (704)
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 0 of 4 (61)
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 0 of 0 (15)
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 0 of 0 (5)
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WordleBot
Skill 79/99
Luck 32/99
I eliminated a *lot* (16) of letters!

Expert Generalists by @…
https://martinfowler.com/articles/expert-generalist.html

Mindfulness Meditation and Respiration: Accelerometer-Based Respiration Rate and Mindfulness Progress Estimation to Enhance App Engagement and Mindfulness Skills
Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan, David creswell, Jordan Albert, Patrick O'Connell, Shawn Fallon, Mathew Polowitz, Xuhai "orson" Xu, Bashima islam
https://arxiv.org/abs/250…

Mindfulness Meditation and Respiration: Accelerometer-Based Respiration Rate and Mindfulness Progress Estimation to Enhance App Engagement and Mindfulness Skills
Mindfulness training is widely recognized for its benefits in reducing depression, anxiety, and loneliness. With the rise of smartphone-based mindfulness apps, digital meditation has become more accessible, but sustaining long-term user engagement remains a challenge. This paper explores whether respiration biosignal feedback and mindfulness skill estimation enhance system usability and skill development. We develop a smartphone's accelerometer-based respiration tracking algorithm, eliminating …

We’re learning how to create and share MEDIA in our “Creating Cool Websites” summer camp! Today we are adding AUDIO with Vocaroo to our “Favorite Animals”
Google Sites, and starting our “City Travel webpage” project with Adobe Express!
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/courses/sum…

Lessons by Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) - Cool Websites
These are resources for "Creating Cool Websites," a June 23 - 27, 2025 summer camp led by Dr. Wes Fryer. SHARE A LINK! (Google Form) - View Our Links! Camp Structure (Daily Schedule - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM) 9:00–9:15: Greeting & Introduction to Design Process / Today's Focus 9:15–10:00: Skill

#Wordle 1,500 5/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 219,654 (1,018)
🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 0 of 29 (22)
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 0 of 0 (5)
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 0 of 0 (1)
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WordleBot
Skill 93/99
Luck 38/99
Not real sure my 4th word is a real word, but I'll take it... It seems it is a wordle word.

Overview of the TalentCLEF 2025: Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management
Luis Gasco, Hermenegildo Fabregat, Laura Garc\'ia-Sardi\~na, Paula Estrella, Daniel Deniz, Alvaro Rodrigo, Rabih Zbib
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13275

Overview of the TalentCLEF 2025: Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management
Advances in natural language processing and large language models are driving a major transformation in Human Capital Management, with a growing interest in building smart systems based on language technologies for talent acquisition, upskilling strategies, and workforce planning. However, the adoption and progress of these technologies critically depend on the development of reliable and fair models, properly evaluated on public data and open benchmarks, which have so far been unavailable in t…

How Well Do LLMs Predict Prerequisite Skills? Zero-Shot Comparison to Expert-Defined Concepts
Ngoc Luyen Le, Marie-H\'el\`ene Abel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18479 https://

How Well Do LLMs Predict Prerequisite Skills? Zero-Shot Comparison to Expert-Defined Concepts
Prerequisite skills - foundational competencies required before mastering more advanced concepts - are important for supporting effective learning, assessment, and skill-gap analysis. Traditionally curated by domain experts, these relationships are costly to maintain and difficult to scale. This paper investigates whether large language models (LLMs) can predict prerequisite skills in a zero-shot setting, using only natural language descriptions and without task-specific fine-tuning. We introdu…

Been playing Transiruby and the exploration poetics are top-notch, like rivalling Super Metroid good, which is a distinct rarity among metroidvanias.
Something the original Super Metroid had was required secrets and the expectation that you'd actually read the map as a gameplay skill. Many many metroidvanias don't have that, including favorites like Ori, but it's one of the things that makes Hollow Knight stand out. Transiruby sadly doesn't have maps-as-rewards, but it does have moments where consulting the map is expected (water cog is a big one since it's in the middle of an already-explored area by the time you can access it). The game also requires revisits with the coin door mechanic, but marks the things you need on the map and structures revisits really nicely with a variety of shortcuts that open up as you gain abilities.
I was kinda sad when the first movement power was double jump (le sigh) but the second movement power is really neat and original, so I'm happy again.
Besides the big things, there are a lot of little moments where there's ludonarrative harmony between the choice structures and the area themes/plot points.
Haven't finished it yet, but so far it's headed into my top tier of metroidvanias, or very close, even despite fairly simple combat and easy (if fun) bosses.
#Transiruby #AmPlaying #Metroidvania

Unraveling Human Capital Complexity: Economic Complexity Analysis of Occupations and Skills
Soohyoung Lee, Dawoon Jeong, Jeong-Dong Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12960

Unraveling Human Capital Complexity: Economic Complexity Analysis of Occupations and Skills
This study investigates the structural embeddedness of skills in the division of labor. Drawing on O*NET data covering 120 skills across 872 U.S. occupations, we identify three skill communities: general, cognitive, and physical skills. Compressing the connectivity in the occupation-skill network through the Method of Reflection, we derive the Occupational Complexity Index (OCI) and the Skill Complexity Index (SCI). They unpack the structure of the occupation skill network that general skills a…

People keep saying this and I remain mystified. It’s like I live in some different world.
Sure, getting a file to/from someone else is usually going to involve more faffing about but it’s still not likely going via email, and if all I need is to get it from one of my devices to another, that’s just trivial and *never* involves email.
Maybe a Windows or Android thing? Does Windows still not have built-in scp/sftp? Does Android not do SMB or DAV? Is it a skill issue?

Learning Dexterous Object Handover
Daniel Frau-Alfaro, Julio Casta\~no-Amoros, Santiago Puente, Pablo Gil, Roberto Calandra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16822

Learning Dexterous Object Handover
Object handover is an important skill that we use daily when interacting with other humans. To deploy robots in collaborative setting, like houses, being able to receive and handing over objects safely and efficiently becomes a crucial skill. In this work, we demonstrate the use of Reinforcement Learning (RL) for dexterous object handover between two multi-finger hands. Key to this task is the use of a novel reward function based on dual quaternions to minimize the rotation distance, which outp…

AI and Agile Software Development: From Frustration to Success -- XP2025 Workshop Summary
Tomas Herda, Victoria Pichler, Zheying Zhang, Pekka Abrahamsson, Geir K. Hanssen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20159

AI and Agile Software Development: From Frustration to Success -- XP2025 Workshop Summary
The full-day workshop on AI and Agile at XP 2025 convened a diverse group of researchers and industry practitioners to address the practical challenges and opportunities of integrating Artificial Intelligence into Agile software development. Through interactive sessions, participants identified shared frustrations related to integrating AI into Agile Software Development practices, including challenges with tooling, governance, data quality, and critical skill gaps. These challenges were system…

#Wordle 1,468 6/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 <1% of 219,549 (218)
⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 1% of 75 (9)
🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 16% of 44 (8)
🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 9% of 11 (6)
🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 20% of 5 (4)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 47% of 30
WordleBot
Skill 44/99
Luck 49/99
really thought I'd be starting my streak over again.
0 skill on my 4th and 5th guesses, and a fair amount of luck on my last guess 1 out of 4.

MoSE: Skill-by-Skill Mixture-of-Expert Learning for Autonomous Driving
Lu Xu, Jiaqian Yu, Xiongfeng Peng, Yiwei Chen, Weiming Li, Jaewook Yoo, Sunghyun Chunag, Dongwook Lee, Daehyun Ji, Chao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07818

MoSE: Skill-by-Skill Mixture-of-Expert Learning for Autonomous Driving
Recent studies show large language models (LLMs) and vision language models (VLMs) trained using web-scale data can empower end-to-end autonomous driving systems for a better generalization and interpretation. Specifically, by dynamically routing inputs to specialized subsets of parameters, the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) technique enables general LLMs or VLMs to achieve substantial performance improvements while maintaining computational efficiency. However, general MoE models usually demands ext…

#Wordle № 1459: 2/6
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Skill 50/99
Luck 83/99

The Cowboys All-Century offensive line is one of the best https://insidethestar.com/the-cowboys-all-century-offensive-line-is-one-of-the-best

This is just the start of my decent in to dashcon 2
https://www.tumblr.com/existentialqueer/788563762731958272/the-best-photo-i-took-at-dashcon-2?source=share

I think this is a good call!
”The presence of Expert Generalists crossing the competency boundaries can also increase knowledge transfer between competency groups, increasing everyone's sympathy for related domains. This mechanism also encourages specialists to explore the Expert Generalist skill for themselves.”
https://

Expert Generalists
Being an Expert Generalist should be treated as a first-class skill, one that can be assessed and taught.

Interesting #macroeconomics view: “Consequently, predicted TFP (aka productivity) gains over the next 10 years are even more modest and are predicted to be less than 0.55%.…even when #AI improves the productivity of low-skill workers in certain tasks (without creating new tasks for…

People hired for their skill are openly using ChatGPT and I wondered, what the long term strategy is?
(Original title: So what are you saying?)
https://tante.cc/2025/07/06/so-what-are-you-saying/

So what are you saying?
I had a conversation with a friend who described sitting in a workshop where clients and the people they hired were working on problems. As you do. Happens in every consultingy kind of job. But what has totally become normalized is for the people hired, the “experts” to use ChatGPT and similar services to come […]

Prompt Engineer: Analyzing Skill Requirements in the AI Job Market
An Vu, Jonas Oppenlaender
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00058 https://

Prompt Engineer: Analyzing Skill Requirements in the AI Job Market
The rise of large language models (LLMs) has created a new job role: the Prompt Engineer. Despite growing interest in this position, we still do not fully understand what skills this new job role requires or how common these jobs are. We analyzed 20,662 job postings on LinkedIn, including 72 prompt engineer positions, to learn more about this emerging role. We found that prompt engineering is still rare (less than 0.5% of sampled job postings) but has a unique skill profile. Prompt engineers ne…

Assessing Medical Training Skills via Eye and Head Movements
Kayhan Latifzadeh, Luis A. Leiva, Klen \v{C}opi\v{c} Pucihar, Matja\v{z} Kljun, Iztok Devetak, Lili Steblovnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16819

Assessing Medical Training Skills via Eye and Head Movements
We examined eye and head movements to gain insights into skill development in clinical settings. A total of 24 practitioners participated in simulated baby delivery training sessions. We calculated key metrics, including pupillary response rate, fixation duration, or angular velocity. Our findings indicate that eye and head tracking can effectively differentiate between trained and untrained practitioners, particularly during labor tasks. For example, head-related features achieved an F1 score …

#Wordle 1,438 2/6*
🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 <1% of 215,258 (5)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 54% of 217
WordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 92/99
OMG that was crazy, first word was one I would usually not use, but thought of it and decided to go with it, and then the answer came out of left field, so unexpected.

@… It happens enough that I think it would be foolish to assume it’s a skill issue.
I don’t personally know for sure, but I think it’s about incentives. What’s the point of improving the company when you can make just as much money, and make some friends a lot of money too, by nosediving?

#Wordle 1,469 3/6*
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ <1% of 219,671 (80)
⬜🟨🟩🟩🟨 0 of 22 (1)
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WordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 70/99
Happy to have a quick smooth wordle day after the last few

I ❤️ GPs that get #parkrun: 'Become a parkrun practice today and improve the health and wellbeing of your patients through increased physical activity, skill development, friendships and socialising, mutual support and personal empowerment.' https:/…

Raiders Have the Right Mix in Skill Room https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/jakobi-meyers-brock-bowers-las-vegas-pete-carroll

Morabo Morojele’s creative career was remarkable.
What wove his three identities together – musician, development worker and writer – was his conscious, committed pan-Africanism
and his master craftsman’s skill with sound:
the sound of his drums and the sound of his words as they rose off the page.
Through his books, and his (far too few) recordings, that beauty lives with us still.
Robala ka khotso (Sleep in peace)

Morabo Morojele: The social and political drum beats of the Lesotho jazz musician
The jazz drummer, novelist and development scholar died on May 20.

[Thread] A new US paper shows the best frontier LLM models achieve 0% on hard real-life Programming Contest problems, domains where expert humans still excel (Rohan Paul/@rohanpaul_ai)
https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1934751145400111572

Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) on X
This is really BAD news of LLM's coding skill. ☹️ The best Frontier LLM models achieve 0% on hard real-life Programming Contest problems, domains where expert humans still excel. LiveCodeBench Pro, a benchmark composed of problems from Codeforces, ICPC, and IOI (“International

Managing Technical Debt in a Multidisciplinary Data Intensive Software Team: an Observational Case Study
Ulrike M. Graetsch, Rashina Hoda, Hourieh Khalazjadeh, Mojtaba Shahin, John Grundy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18219

Managing Technical Debt in a Multidisciplinary Data Intensive Software Team: an Observational Case Study
Context: There is an increase in the investment and development of data-intensive (DI) solutions, systems that manage large amounts of data. Without careful management, this growing investment will also grow associated technical debt (TD). Delivery of DI solutions requires a multidisciplinary skill set, but there is limited knowledge about how multidisciplinary teams develop DI systems and manage TD. Objective: This research contributes empirical, practice based insights about multidisciplina…

STAR: Learning Diverse Robot Skill Abstractions through Rotation-Augmented Vector Quantization
Hao Li, Qi Lv, Rui Shao, Xiang Deng, Yinchuan Li, Jianye Hao, Liqiang Nie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03863

STAR: Learning Diverse Robot Skill Abstractions through Rotation-Augmented Vector Quantization
Transforming complex actions into discrete skill abstractions has demonstrated strong potential for robotic manipulation. Existing approaches mainly leverage latent variable models, e.g., VQ-VAE, to learn skill abstractions through learned vectors (codebooks), while they suffer from codebook collapse and modeling the causal relationship between learned skills. To address these limitations, we present \textbf{S}kill \textbf{T}raining with \textbf{A}ugmented \textbf{R}otation (\textbf{STAR}), a f…

Dolphins RB Jaylen Wright ready to be more involved in Year 2: 'I can be a top back in this league' https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-rb-jaylen-wright-ready-to-be-more-involved-in-year-2

ChatAR: Conversation Support using Large Language Model and Augmented Reality
Yuichiro Fujimoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16008 https://

ChatAR: Conversation Support using Large Language Model and Augmented Reality
Engaging in smooth conversations with others is a crucial social skill. However, differences in knowledge between conversation participants can sometimes hinder effective communication. To tackle this issue, this study proposes a real-time support system that integrates head-mounted display (HMD)-based augmented reality (AR) technology with large language models (LLMs). This system facilitates conversation by recognizing keywords during dialogue, generating relevant information using the LLM, r…

#Wordle 1,437 4/6*
⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 <1% of 217,127 (13)
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 11% of 44 (2)
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 42% of 4,043 (1)
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WordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 56/99
Fortunately after my 2nd guess I think there were only 2 options left...yep that's what the bot says.

Graph Representations for Reading Comprehension Analysis using Large Language Model and Eye-Tracking Biomarker
Yuhong Zhang, Jialu Li, Shilai Yang, Yuchen Xu, Gert Cauwenberghs, Tzyy-Ping Jung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11972

Graph Representations for Reading Comprehension Analysis using Large Language Model and Eye-Tracking Biomarker
Reading comprehension is a fundamental skill in human cognitive development. With the advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), there is a growing need to compare how humans and LLMs understand language across different contexts and apply this understanding to functional tasks such as inference, emotion interpretation, and information retrieval. Our previous work used LLMs and human biomarkers to study the reading comprehension process. The results showed that the biomarkers corresponding to…

Albion EU was offline, now probably not.
During that time I went for a 30 minute pork pie mining round in Believer Tor(T5) on the Albion Online Asia server.
This is some data I noted down on etherpad based on my mining round.
I got 42k silver as you can see. Not much...maybe that's like a joke to you...
#AlbionOnline

Skill-Driven Certification Pathways: Measuring Industry Training Impact on Graduate Employability
Anatoli Kovalev, Narelle Stefanac, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04588

Skill-Driven Certification Pathways: Measuring Industry Training Impact on Graduate Employability
Australia faces a critical technology skills shortage, requiring approximately $52,000$ new technology professionals annually by 2030, while confronting a widening gap between employer requirements and graduate capabilities. With only $1\%$ of technology graduates considered immediately work-ready, traditional educational pathways alone prove insufficient to meet industry demands. This research examines how industry certifications, such as Microsoft's AI-900 (Azure AI Fundamentals), can bridge …

COALESCE: Economic and Security Dynamics of Skill-Based Task Outsourcing Among Team of Autonomous LLM Agents
Manish Bhatt, Ronald F. Del Rosario, Vineeth Sai Narajala, Idan Habler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01900

COALESCE: Economic and Security Dynamics of Skill-Based Task Outsourcing Among Team of Autonomous LLM Agents
The meteoric rise and proliferation of autonomous Large Language Model (LLM) agents promise significant capabilities across various domains. However, their deployment is increasingly constrained by substantial computational demands, specifically for Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) resources. This paper addresses the critical problem of optimizing resource utilization in LLM agent systems. We introduce COALESCE (Cost-Optimized and Secure Agent Labour Exchange via Skill-based Competence Estimation…

Learning Accurate Whole-body Throwing with High-frequency Residual Policy and Pullback Tube Acceleration
Yuntao Ma, Yang Liu, Kaixian Qu, Marco Hutter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16986

Learning Accurate Whole-body Throwing with High-frequency Residual Policy and Pullback Tube Acceleration
Throwing is a fundamental skill that enables robots to manipulate objects in ways that extend beyond the reach of their arms. We present a control framework that combines learning and model-based control for prehensile whole-body throwing with legged mobile manipulators. Our framework consists of three components: a nominal tracking policy for the end-effector, a high-frequency residual policy to enhance tracking accuracy, and an optimization-based module to improve end-effector acceleration co…

SAVOR: Skill Affordance Learning from Visuo-Haptic Perception for Robot-Assisted Bite Acquisition
Zhanxin Wu, Bo Ai, Tom Silver, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02353

SAVOR: Skill Affordance Learning from Visuo-Haptic Perception for Robot-Assisted Bite Acquisition
Robot-assisted feeding requires reliable bite acquisition, a challenging task due to the complex interactions between utensils and food with diverse physical properties. These interactions are further complicated by the temporal variability of food properties-for example, steak becomes firm as it cools even during a meal. To address this, we propose SAVOR, a novel approach for learning skill affordances for bite acquisition-how suitable a manipulation skill (e.g., skewering, scooping) is for a …

#Wordle 1,460 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 218,228 (881)
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 0 of 2 (151)
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 0 of 0 (3)
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WordleBot
Skill 85/99
Luck 41/99
Wow one of my most brain off days ever!
Liked the word and entered it before really thinking and it had a double letter, AND THEN my 2nd word reused a letter from the first word. Yikes, I really better double check things the rest of today!
1st word had a skill score of 71, and 2nd word's skill was 64.

Why DeAndre Hopkins' skill set adds different facet to Lamar Jackson, Ravens' offense https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45582207/deandre-hopkins-baltimore-ravens-lamar-jackson-contested-catches

72k silver richer after my 30 minute T4 mining round and probably my last one on Albion Asia for now.
As of this moment I give another brief glance at all members in the guild "Mastodon Fediverse 100 Tax":
Still 1/7 online with the 1 also still being me.
Here are my notes on etherpad(attached image) where I've made available some data...
Trivia: Premium cost is 39 M silver.

#Wordle 1,467 5/6*
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 207,831 (27)
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 15% of 161 (6)
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 33% of 54 (3)
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 39% of 140 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 87/99
Luck 37/99
Needed all those clues for this one, and still wasn't sure that was the word when I entered it.

#Wordle 1,436 5/6*
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ <1% of 218,555 (30)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 5% of 42 (3)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 35% of 96 (2)
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 28% of 1,445 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 93% of 8,197
WordleBot
Skill 90/99
Luck 51/99
Lets see how many 2 letter endings were left after my 2nd guess...Hmm 3 and I tried them all! (Thanks @… )

Before returning to Albion EU I wanted to get at least full T4 gear on Albion Asia plus Avalonian Pickaxe after using learning points to get to T4 mining. Upgrade costs are part of the data.
As of this moment I give a brief glance at all members in the guild "Mastodon Fediverse 100 Tax":
1/7 online. The 1 that's me of course.
Here are my notes on etherpad(attached image)

#Wordle 1,435 3/6*
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ <1% of 216,483 (87)
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 0 of 9 (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 74/99
Sometimes when your options are limited (I think mine were) it takes quite a while to come up with a word, like it was today. Sometimes the word comes quickly (I like those days!)

Skill-Nav: Enhanced Navigation with Versatile Quadrupedal Locomotion via Waypoint Interface
Dewei Wang, Chenjia Ba, Chenhui Li, Jiyuan Shi, Yan Ding, Chi Zhang, Bin Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21853

Skill-Nav: Enhanced Navigation with Versatile Quadrupedal Locomotion via Waypoint Interface
Quadrupedal robots have demonstrated exceptional locomotion capabilities through Reinforcement Learning (RL), including extreme parkour maneuvers. However, integrating locomotion skills with navigation in quadrupedal robots has not been fully investigated, which holds promise for enhancing long-distance movement capabilities. In this paper, we propose Skill-Nav, a method that incorporates quadrupedal locomotion skills into a hierarchical navigation framework using waypoints as an interface. Spe…

Scope Meets Screen: Lessons Learned in Designing Composite Visualizations for Marksmanship Training Across Skill Levels
Emin Zerman, Jonas Carlsson, M{\aa}rten Sj\"ostr\"om
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00333

Scope Meets Screen: Lessons Learned in Designing Composite Visualizations for Marksmanship Training Across Skill Levels
Marksmanship practices are required in various professions, including police, military personnel, hunters, as well as sports shooters, such as Olympic shooting, biathlon, and modern pentathlon. The current form of training and coaching is mostly based on repetition, where the coach does not see through the eyes of the shooter, and analysis is limited to stance and accuracy post-session. In this study, we present a shooting visualization system and evaluate its perceived effectiveness for both n…

So back in Albion EU now...let us check how my 1 day and 8 hour 0% Tax guild "Mastodon Fediverse Unity" is doing...
A little glimpse and we've got...
4/8 players online including me who is also online in the guild.
Here are my notes on etherpad(attached image) where I've made available some data regarding my ore gathering round 4...
Trivia: Premium cost is 25 M silver.

#Wordle 1,466 X/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ <1% of 212,885 (456)
⬜⬜🟩🟨🟨 <1% of 237 (11)
⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩 33% of 3 (5)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 52% of 25 (3)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 31% of 45 (2)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 31% of 61 (1)
WordleBot
Skill 83/99
Luck 33/99
And my streak ends and will have to start anew tomorrow

AFC rookies picked after Round 1 of NFL Draft who could earn key roles in 2025: RJ Harvey among 16 sleepers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…

#Wordle 1,434 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 217,325 (538) luck 7
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 512 (12)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 0 of 2
WordleBot
Skill 79/99
Luck 52/99
I had vowels left to try and up until the last second was looking for a word using a different vowel, but this word just tested a lot of things I wanted to know, and look at that, it was the answer!

GraspGen: A Diffusion-based Framework for 6-DOF Grasping with On-Generator Training
Adithyavairavan Murali, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Yu-Wei Chao, Wentao Yuan, Jun Yamada, Mark Carlson, Fabio Ramos, Stan Birchfield, Dieter Fox, Clemens Eppner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13097

GraspGen: A Diffusion-based Framework for 6-DOF Grasping with On-Generator Training
Grasping is a fundamental robot skill, yet despite significant research advancements, learning-based 6-DOF grasping approaches are still not turnkey and struggle to generalize across different embodiments and in-the-wild settings. We build upon the recent success on modeling the object-centric grasp generation process as an iterative diffusion process. Our proposed framework, GraspGen, consists of a DiffusionTransformer architecture that enhances grasp generation, paired with an efficient discr…

Autonomy by Design: Preserving Human Autonomy in AI Decision-Support
Stefan Buijsman, Sarah Carter, Juan Pablo Berm\'udez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23952

Autonomy by Design: Preserving Human Autonomy in AI Decision-Support
AI systems increasingly support human decision-making across domains of professional, skill-based, and personal activity. While previous work has examined how AI might affect human autonomy globally, the effects of AI on domain-specific autonomy -- the capacity for self-governed action within defined realms of skill or expertise -- remain understudied. We analyze how AI decision-support systems affect two key components of domain-specific autonomy: skilled competence (the ability to make inform…

Mining skill then: 94%
Mining skill later: 96%
#AlbionOnline

#Wordle 1,465 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 209,973 (754)
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 1% of 157 (27)
⬜🟨⬜🟩🟨 0 of 1 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 84/99
Luck 50/99
It's interesting, the paths that lead you to the solution. Except for the bot, following an algorithm and knowing all the possible words as it goes, even those picking the same starting word follow different paths to the answer. I suspect I'd follow a different path next week from what I did today even if I used the same starting word.

A tangible user interface for assessing cognitive mapping ability
Ehud Sharlin, Benjamin Watson, Steve Sutphen, Lili Liu, Robert Lederer, John Frazer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22597

A tangible user interface for assessing cognitive mapping ability
Wayfinding, the ability to recall the environment and navigate through it, is an essential cognitive skill relied upon almost every day in a person's life. A crucial component of wayfinding is the construction of cognitive maps, mental representations of the environments through which a person travels. Age, disease or injury can severely affect cognitive mapping, making assessment of this basic survival skill particularly important to clinicians and therapists. Cognitive mapping has also been t…

Latent Action Diffusion for Cross-Embodiment Manipulation
Erik Bauer, Elvis Nava, Robert K. Katzschmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14608 https://

Latent Action Diffusion for Cross-Embodiment Manipulation
End-to-end learning approaches offer great potential for robotic manipulation, but their impact is constrained by data scarcity and heterogeneity across different embodiments. In particular, diverse action spaces across different end-effectors create barriers for cross-embodiment learning and skill transfer. We address this challenge through diffusion policies learned in a latent action space that unifies diverse end-effector actions. We first show that we can learn a semantically aligned laten…

#Wordle 1,464 4/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 208,699 (236)
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 6% of 87 (8)
⬜🟨🟩⬜🟨 23% of 39 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 94/99
Luck 48/99
I'm surprised that wasn't more of a struggle to find.

#Wordle 1,433 5/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ <1% of 212,891 (265)
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 0 of 58 (10)
⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 0 of 0 (2)
⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 0 of 0 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 97/99
Luck 38/99
Wasn't sure that last guess was really a good 5th guess, but decided it would provide useful info even if wrong.
Look at that I actually narrowed it to 2 and used my friend @… 's patented method of trying all the wrong answers first to get it! 😁 She said she's going to put it in the public domain, so anyone else is also free to use it!

Steering Robots with Inference-Time Interactions
Yanwei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14287 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14287…

Steering Robots with Inference-Time Interactions
Imitation learning has driven the development of generalist policies capable of autonomously solving multiple tasks. However, when a pretrained policy makes errors during deployment, there are limited mechanisms for users to correct its behavior. While collecting additional data for finetuning can address such issues, doing so for each downstream use case is inefficient at deployment. My research proposes an alternative: keeping pretrained policies frozen as a fixed skill repertoire while allow…

#Wordle 1,432 3/6*
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 215,759 (130)
⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ 2% of 52 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 81% of 182
WordleBot
Skill 97/99
Luck 66/99
Submitted pretty much after I thought of it, even though I would generally look for a few other words first.
And it was basically the only word left, bot said the other word had a low 1% chance of being the answer (99% for the actual answer) although 14% of 182 people thought of it and tried it.

#Wordle 1,463 5/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% 219,115 (788)
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 0 of 146 (80)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 0 of 0 (3)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 0 of 0 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 77/99
Luck 45/99
Somehow it was a low stress wordle even after guess 4, my thought was "Hmm, I seem to be running out of letters".
Probably low stress *because* I was running out of letters.
Looking at the 3 words left, my 4th guess was not ideal, but luck evened it out on guess 5.

Versatile and Generalizable Manipulation via Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning with Grounded Object Detection
Huiyi Wang, Fahim Shahriar, Alireza Azimi, Gautham Vasan, Rupam Mahmood, Colin Bellinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10814

Versatile and Generalizable Manipulation via Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning with Grounded Object Detection
General-purpose robotic manipulation, including reach and grasp, is essential for deployment into households and workspaces involving diverse and evolving tasks. Recent advances propose using large pre-trained models, such as Large Language Models and object detectors, to boost robotic perception in reinforcement learning. These models, trained on large datasets via self-supervised learning, can process text prompts and identify diverse objects in scenes, an invaluable skill in RL where learnin…

#Wordle 1,462 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 <1% of 212,990 (210)
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 0 of 49 (4)
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 0 of 0 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 95/99
Luck 49/99
I feel like many people may not be happy with today's word. I think it's fine but not that common, I looked it up to see if it was what I thought.

#Wordle 1,491 4/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ <1% of 212,501 (234)
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 5% of 21 (18)
🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 0 of 1 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 94/99
Luck 48/99
A fine word for today's wordle answer. I hope it's the beginning of several fine words, ie less obscure.
Also it's interesting, several people have pointed out that the bot has started using a new initial word CLASP (at least in hard mode)

#Wordle 1,461 4/6*
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 208,286 (119)
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 0 of 6 (8)
⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ 0 of 0 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 88/99
Luck 61/99
Ha, I liked today's word.

#Wordle 1,490 5/6*
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ <1% of 208,407 (26)
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 6% of 65 (2)
⬜🟩🟨🟩🟩 20% of 1,475 (1)
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩18% of 2,909 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 87% of 8,483
WordleBot
Skill 71/99
Luck 58/99
wow, today's word was definitely reaching deep. I knew my 4th word was not going to be it, but I was grasping at that point. I wasn't even sure my 3rd word was a word until it got accepted, but it was even a wordle word!?

#Wordle 1,489 2/6*
⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ <1% of 218,337 (7)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 18% of 11
WordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 94/99
wow, some days! The 2's always just sneak up on me!

#Wordle 1,459 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 220,142 (938)
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 0 of 7 (12)
🟩🟨⬜⬜🟨 0 of 0 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 48/99
Unusual 3rd guess for me which really helped today

#Wordle 1,488 4/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 <1% of 214,624 (27)
🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨 6% of 122 (7)
🟨🟨⬜🟨🟩 0 of 19 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 89/99
Luck 52/99
well that was lol funny. I typed in the answer as my 3rd guess and then thought of another word I liked better so I used that as my 3rd guess. I still like my 3rd guess better as I feel it provided more info though, so I don't feel bad!
Bot had a better 3rd guess that would have left only 1 word no matter which of the 7 words the answer was, instead of the 2 that my guess left.

#Wordle 1,458 4/6*
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 214,599 (65)
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 9% of 325 (6)
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 15% of 137 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 94/99
Luck 49/99
I very much liked my start eliminating 8 letters. This went quickly which is good because I have to run out the door.
3rd word wasn't a wordle word

#Wordle 1,487 4/6*
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 220,166 (37)
🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 0 of 9 (2)
🟩⬜🟨🟩🟨 0 of 0 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 71/99
Luck 71/99
Took a while to think of any word to try for my 3rd guess, but it worked out well.
So guess 3 wasn't a wordle word (and I had actually thought of the other not answer word, but didn't want to use it)

#Wordle 1,457 5/6*
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 216,778 (92)
⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 1% of 124 (5)
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 1 of 1 (2)
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟨 0 of 232 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 87/99
Luck 42/99
I don't know why I avoided going there for so long, particularly when it was my initial thought after my 1st guess.
Guess 4 wasn't a wordle word

#Wordle 1,456 3/6*
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ <1% of 217,359 (57)
🟨🟩🟩⬜🟩 5% of 21 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 98/99
Luck 75/99
Scary how that fell into place today.

#Wordle 1,486 5/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 214,016 (730)
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 0 of 313 (9)
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 0 of 0 (1)
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 0 of 0 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 68/99
Luck 43/99
Sorry, that should not be a wordle word!
Well I guess I can see it as a word, but still.

#Wordle 1,455 4/6*
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 216,477 (13)
🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ 8% of 25 (4)
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 41% of 233 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 82/99
Luck 69/99
So close. Had to go through remaining letters 1 at a time to find the answer because it just didn't pop out at me.
Getting it down to 13 words on my 1st guess didn't really help me get it quicker. If I were the bot and knew what those 13 words were, it would help, but I've gotta muddle my way through. I'm ok w/ that though.

#Wordle 1,485 5/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 210,036 (163)
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 0 of 101 (13)
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 0 of 0 (4)
⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩 0 of 0 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 85/99
Luck 37/99
Funny that I was talking about that just a couple of days ago. Which will mean nothing except to the 2 people I was talking too.

#Wordle 1,454 5/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 <1% of 218,002 (455)
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 1% of 281 (43)
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 0 of 6 (5)
⬜🟩🟨🟩🟩 0 of 0 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 34/99
Tough word, really had to work the clues