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#Pets #Dogs Build a better bond with your dog and boost their happiness with this expert’s three top tips

Build a better bond with your dog and boost their happiness with this expert’s three top tips
Learn from Amelia the Dog Trainer's three simple yet powerful techniques for a stronger and more fulfilling relationship with your dog

📌 Pinned Introduction
Hey, I’m Erik. I’m an anarchist with an embarrassingly massive crush on Rudolf Rocker’s syndicalist take. I’m also bisexual, autistic, and genderfluid because why not add some extra flavor?
I’m here to share my weird little world, build some solidarity, and maybe spark a little revolution along the way. No pressure, no drama, just good vibes and a lot of laughs. You do you and I’ll do me. Cool? Cool.

"Here’s my perfect vocal chain and the plugins that get me there"
Not the ones I use, but worth checking out.
#MusicianTips #RecordingStudio

Here’s my perfect vocal chain and the plugins that get me there
Struggling to make your vocals sit in the mix? Here’s a tutorial on how you can build your perfect vocal chain

Small Multifamily Investment Snapshot — June 2025
Arbor - June 10, 2025
“Once again, small multifamily demonstrated its resilience in the first quarter of 2025. Pricing stabilized, origination activity improved, and credit standards gained momentum toward pre-pandemic benchmarks.”

Small Multifamily Investment Snapshot — June 2025 - Arbor Realty
Amid ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty, the small multifamily sector remains well-positioned to weather volatility and build on market momentum as the economy navigates stormy conditions.

Four ways to build a zero-trust program for the AI world:
Think of AI as just another identity.
🤔 https://www.scworld.com/perspective/four-ways-to-build-a-zero-trust-program-for-the-ai-world

Four ways to build a zero-trust program for the AI world
Why AI tools deserve the least amount of trust.

Chris Arnade was one of my favorite followers on the old place. One of the very few people who thinks very deeply, but also outside of their own silos, to create a cross-disciplinary theory of the world. One of the few people who is truly willing to see the world as it is.
The solutions to our problems will never come from one realm of expertise, but only by synthesizing a strategy from a more holistic world view.

How to Build the Perfect City
Epsilon Theory contributor and all-around good human Chris Arnade pauses from walking the world to take a first cut at a grand unified theory of

Also, why did we build technology that requires extreme levels of flattery to function?
I don't want to tell my computer that they are "the world's best" at ANYTHING to get them to do tasks. Why does Claude need to be told that you believe in it?
It's so dumb.

Poster: libdebug, Build Your Own Debugger for a Better (Hello) World
Gabriele Digregorio, Roberto Alessandro Bertolini, Francesco Panebianco, Mario Polino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02667

Poster: libdebug, Build Your Own Debugger for a Better (Hello) World
Automated debugging, long pursued in a variety of fields from software engineering to cybersecurity, requires a framework that offers the building blocks for a programmable debugging workflow. However, existing debuggers are primarily tailored for human interaction, and those designed for programmatic debugging focus on kernel space, resulting in limited functionality in userland. To fill this gap, we introduce libdebug, a Python library for programmatic debugging of userland binary executables…

Q&A with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on Airbnb Experiences, its push into services, OpenAI, AI agents, making decisions at Airbnb, cutting PMs, Jony Ive, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wants to build the everything app
The head of Airbnb on expanding beyond travel, AI and design, and the future of real-world experiences.

How to Feel More Hopeful https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/item/how_to_feel_more_hopeful?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Signs of%2…

How to Feel More Hopeful
How can we build a sense of hope when the future feels uncertain? Poet Tomás Morín tries a writing practice to make him feel more hopeful and motivated to work toward his goals.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is what happens when you give Pippi Longstocking steroids. Build muscle clean, girls.

"It's "#ORCID and…," not "ORCID or…": How researcher identifiers work together to help researchers, build a better picture of research, and streamline administrative tasks": White Paper by MoreBrains › https://

My summer camp for rising 4th and 5th graders this week, “Coding in Minecraft - Mars Outpost Mission” is going great!
https://www.astrokidsclub.org/
More info about my middle school unit “Coding Mars” is on:

AstroKids Summer Camp by Dr. Fryer
In this exciting camp, students will build and code their own Mars Outpost inside Minecraft Education! With the help of their robot agent and step-by-step tutorials, campers will learn beginner coding, explore real-world space science, and work together as young engineers and inventors. No

Join the millions using their voices and everyday choices to tackle the climate crisis! #climate

The Climate Reality Project
Get the tools, training, and network to fight climate change and together build the world we want.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Slim Smith & The Uniques:
🎵 Build My World Around You
#SlimSmith #TheUniques

The Guitar Practice Blueprint - GUITARHABITS
#guitar #technique

The Guitar Practice Blueprint - GUITARHABITS
Master your guitar practice routine with The Guitar Practice Blueprint. Build technique, play better, and make every session count.

Evo-0: Vision-Language-Action Model with Implicit Spatial Understanding
Tao Lin, Gen Li, Yilei Zhong, Yanwen Zou, Bo Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00416 …

Evo-0: Vision-Language-Action Model with Implicit Spatial Understanding
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising framework for enabling generalist robots capable of perceiving, reasoning, and acting in the real world. These models usually build upon pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), which excel at semantic understanding due to large-scale text pretraining. However, VLMs typically lack precise spatial understanding capabilities, as they are primarily tuned on 2D image-text pairs without 3D supervision. To address this limitation, recen…

MPC in the Quantum Head (or: Superposition-Secure (Quantum) Zero-Knowledge)
Andrea Coladangelo, Ruta Jawale, Dakshita Khurana, Giulio Malavolta, Hendrik Waldner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22961

MPC in the Quantum Head (or: Superposition-Secure (Quantum) Zero-Knowledge)
The MPC-in-the-head technique (Ishai et al., STOC 2007) is a celebrated method to build zero-knowledge protocols with desirable theoretical properties and high practical efficiency. This technique has generated a large body of research and has influenced the design of real-world post-quantum cryptographic signatures. In this work, we present a generalization of the MPC-in-the-head paradigm to the quantum setting, where the MPC is running a quantum computation. As an application of our framework…

This is the real America: Immigrants with the courage to move halfway round the world to build a new life.
Also, dim sum.

Whether through layoffs or resignations, Tesla has lost many of the employees that helped build the world's most valuable car company. Without them, Elon Musk is about to face his biggest challenge yet.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/20…

So, EU users get the more open iOS now than the rest of the world?
Apple Is Working to Permit Other Default Virtual Assistants on iOS, but Only in the E.U. – Pixel Envy https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ios-default-virtual-assistants/

You just need 20 minutes, a kettlebell and this metcon workout to help you build total body strength at home https://www.tomsguide.com/welln…

You just need 20 minutes, a kettlebell and this metcon workout to help you build total body strength at home
Build lean muscle and strength from your living room

Bitmain, Canaan and MicroBT, which build 90% of crypto mining rigs, are setting up US manufacturing footholds as Trump's tariff war reshapes the supply chain (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/domina

Doc2Agent: Scalable Generation of Tool-Using Agents from API Documentation
Xinyi Ni, Haonan Jian, Qiuyang Wang, Vedanshi Chetan Shah, Pengyu Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19998 …

Doc2Agent: Scalable Generation of Tool-Using Agents from API Documentation
REST APIs play important roles in enriching the action space of web agents, yet most API-based agents rely on curated and uniform toolsets that do not reflect the complexity of real-world APIs. Building tool-using agents for arbitrary domains remains a major challenge, as it requires reading unstructured API documentation, testing APIs and inferring correct parameters. We propose Doc2Agent, a scalable pipeline to build agents that can call Python-based tools generated from API documentation. Do…

How brains build higher order representations of uncertainty
Megan A. K. Peters, Hojjat Azimi Asrari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19057 https://

How brains build higher order representations of uncertainty
Higher-order representations (HORs) are neural or computational states that are "about" first-order representations (FORs), encoding information not about the external world per se but about the agent's own representational processes -- such as the reliability, source, or structure of a FOR. These HORs appear critical to metacognition, learning, and even consciousness by some accounts, yet their dimensionality, construction, and neural substrates remain poorly understood. Here, we propose that …

Join the millions using their voices and everyday choices to tackle the climate crisis! #climate

The Climate Reality Project
Get the tools, training, and network to fight climate change and together build the world we want.

Small Multifamily Investment Trends Report Q2 2025
Arbor Realty Trust - May 22, 2025
“Amid ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty, the small multifamily sector remains well-positioned to weather volatility and build on market momentum as the economy navigates stormy conditions.”

Small Multifamily Investment Trends Report Q2 2025 - Arbor Realty
Asset Valuations Edge Higher as Credit Conditions Tighten

"Inspired by the political philosopher Albert Hirschman, figures including Goff, Thiel and the investor and writer Balaji Srinivasan have been championing what they call “exit” – the principle that those with means have the right to walk away from the obligations of citizenship, especially taxes and burdensome regulation. Retooling and rebranding the old ambitions and privileges of empires, they dream of splintering governments and carving up the world into hyper-capitalist, democracy-free havens under the sole control of the supremely wealthy, protected by private mercenaries, serviced by AI robots and financed by cryptocurrencies."
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Our opponents know full well that we are entering an age of emergency, but have responded by embracing lethal yet self-serving delusions. Having bought into various apartheid fantasies of bunkered safety, they are choosing to let the Earth burn. Our task is to build a wide and deep movement, as spiritual as it is political, strong enough to stop these unhinged traitors. A movement rooted in a steadfast commitment to one another, across our many differences and divides, and to this miraculous, singular planet."
#OligarchApocalypse #Oligarchy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk

The incentive for Iran to build nuclear weapons has just been strengthened. As if the state of the world isn't bad enough already.

Maintaining a Bounded Degree Expander in Dynamic Peer-to-Peer Networks
Antonio Cruciani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17757 https://arxi…

Maintaining a Bounded Degree Expander in Dynamic Peer-to-Peer Networks
We study the problem of maintaining robust and sparse overlay networks in fully distributed settings where nodes continuously join and leave the system. This scenario closely models real-world unstructured peer-to-peer networks, where maintaining a well-connected yet low-degree communication graph is crucial. We generalize a recent protocol by Becchetti et al. [SODA 2020] that relies on a simple randomized connection strategy to build an expander topology with high probability to a dynamic netw…

The full formula for the probability of "success" is:
p = {
1/(2^(-n 1)) if n is negative, or
1 - (1/(2^(n 1))) if n is zero or positive
}
(Both branches have the same value when n is 0, so the behavior is smooth around the origin.)
How can we tweak this?
First, we can introduce fixed success and/or failure chances unaffected by level, with this formula only taking effect if those don't apply. For example, you could do 10% failure, 80% by formula, and 10% success to keep things from being too sure either way even when levels are very high or low. On the other hand, this flattening makes the benefit of extra advantage levels even less exciting.
Second, we could allow for gradations of success/failure, and treat the coin pools I used to explain that math like dice pools a bit. An in-between could require linearly more success flips to achieve the next higher grade of success at each grade. For example, simple success on a crit role might mean dealing 1.5x damage, but if you succeed on 2 of your flips, you get 9/4 damage, or on 4 flips 27/8, or on 7 flips 81/16. In this world, stacking crit levels might be a viable build, and just giving up on armor would be super dangerous. In the particular case I was using this for just now, I can't easily do gradations of success (that's the reason I turned to probabilities in the first place) but I think I'd favor this approach when feasible.
The main innovation here over simple dice pools is how to handle situations where the number of dice should be negative. I'm almost certain it's not a truly novel innovation though, and some RPG fan can point out which system already does this (please actually do this, I'm an RPG nerd too at heart).
I'll leave this with one more tweak we could do: what if the number 2 in the probability equation were 3, or 2/3? I think this has a similar effect to just scaling all the modifiers a bit, but the algebra escapes me in this moment and I'm a bit lazy. In any case, reducing the base of the probability exponent should let you get a few more gradations near 50%, which is probably a good thing, since the default goes from 25% straight to 50% and then to 75% with no integer stops in between.

RAG has revolutionised AI by merging search and generation. Agentic behaviour takes this search to the next level by enabling LLMs to make decisions and call tools. At this year's Berlin Buzzwords, Bilge Yücel will discuss how agentic behaviour enhances pipelines, what it means for a system to act as an 'agent', and core concepts such as routing, tool calling and reasoning, along with a live demo.
Learn more:

Challenges in Grounding Language in the Real World
Peter Lindes, Kaoutar Skiker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17375 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Challenges in Grounding Language in the Real World
A long-term goal of Artificial Intelligence is to build a language understanding system that allows a human to collaborate with a physical robot using language that is natural to the human. In this paper we highlight some of the challenges in doing this, and propose a solution that integrates the abilities of a cognitive agent capable of interactive task learning in a physical robot with the linguistic abilities of a large language model. We also point the way to an initial implementation of th…

GMT: General Motion Tracking for Humanoid Whole-Body Control
Zixuan Chen, Mazeyu Ji, Xuxin Cheng, Xuanbin Peng, Xue Bin Peng, Xiaolong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14770

GMT: General Motion Tracking for Humanoid Whole-Body Control
The ability to track general whole-body motions in the real world is a useful way to build general-purpose humanoid robots. However, achieving this can be challenging due to the temporal and kinematic diversity of the motions, the policy's capability, and the difficulty of coordination of the upper and lower bodies. To address these issues, we propose GMT, a general and scalable motion-tracking framework that trains a single unified policy to enable humanoid robots to track diverse motions in t…