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A look at Eka, which trains its robotic claw on a "vision-force-action model" incorporating realistic joints, motors, and physics principles into its simulation (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-…

When Robots Have Their ChatGPT Moment, Remember These Pincers
From sorting chicken nuggets to screwing in light bulbs, Eka’s robots are eerily lifelike. But do they have real physical smarts?

I am currently discovering step by step the work of Mark Hallett :
https://www.thetransmitter.org/brain-stimulation/remembering-mark-hallett-leader-in-transcranial-magnetic-stimulation/
Quite a long journ…

Your Friday afternoon reminder: you weren't built to remember everything!
#blogging

Meet the author - Joshua Black, Frank Bongiorno, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu
Mon 18 May 2026, 6:00 pm
Frank Bongiorno will be in conversation with Joshua Black, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu on Gold Standard? Remembering the Hawke government. Edited by Frank Bongiorno, CarolynHolbrook and Joshua Black.
#Canberra #ANU

Meet the author - Joshua Black, Frank Bongiorno, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu
Frank Bongiorno will be in conversation with Joshua Black, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu on Gold Standard? Remembering the Hawke government. Edited by Frank Bongiorno, Carolyn Holbrook and Joshua Black.

For me, remembering mostly happens through reliving movement. But how about you? 🤔
#blog

Memorization through movement - Finest Day
I’ve just realized again how much I associate learning and memorizing things with movement. For example, I remember number combinations best when I picture a keypad and then mentally trace...

Remember, if you see a delivery robot ask you to press a crosswalk button for it – no you didn't.

RE: #WSocial has to do to win is have the benefit of the doubt.
Don’t gi…

Remember how normal everything felt in early March 2020 and how rapidly the world changed in the six weeks that followed?
We may again be in a period like that.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/116313954069325623…

remembering that time in 2004 my friend jake booked david allan coe's first nyc show in decades. the gig was on a boat, supposedly because coe wouldn't set foot in nyc due to a beef with the hells angels, so the boat picked him up & dropped him off in new jersey. https://jakerocksoff.com/d-is-for-davi

Born this day 1927: Professor Bruce W. Arden, who was chair of the department and my advisor at Princeton. Wonderful person with seminal contributions to computer science.
https://cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/re