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love that there is both a 🇲🇽 and 🇵🇸 flag leading the way!
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Robotic Calibration Based on Haptic Feedback Improves Sim-to-Real Transfer
Juraj Gavura, Michal Vavrecka, Igor Farkas, Connor Gade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08572

Robotic Calibration Based on Haptic Feedback Improves Sim-to-Real Transfer
When inverse kinematics (IK) is adopted to control robotic arms in manipulation tasks, there is often a discrepancy between the end effector (EE) position of the robot model in the simulator and the physical EE in reality. In most robotic scenarios with sim-to-real transfer, we have information about joint positions in both simulation and reality, but the EE position is only available in simulation. We developed a novel method to overcome this difficulty based on haptic feedback calibration, us…

Leveraging Large Language Models for Classifying App Users' Feedback
Yasaman Abedini, Abbas Heydarnoori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08250 https://

Leveraging Large Language Models for Classifying App Users' Feedback
In recent years, significant research has been conducted into classifying application (app) user feedback, primarily relying on supervised machine learning algorithms. However, fine-tuning more generalizable classifiers based on existing labeled datasets remains an important challenge, as creating large and accurately labeled datasets often requires considerable time and resources. In this paper, we evaluate the capabilities of four advanced LLMs, including GPT-3.5-Turbo, GPT-4, Flan-T5, and Ll…

Rifling/sorting through old books & computer materials stored at my parents place. Hope you enjoy seeing these as much as I did flipping through them.
#GenX #IBMPC #Vintage

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Alright, bumped the encoder VM from 8 to 12 cores, let's see if this helps out with the encode times. I have a sneaking suspicion it will not.
#homelab #ffmpeg

Learning to Transmit Over Unknown Erasure Channels with Empirical Erasure Rate Feedback
Haricharan Balasundaram, Krishna Jagannathan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08599

Learning to Transmit Over Unknown Erasure Channels with Empirical Erasure Rate Feedback
We address the problem of reliable data transmission within a finite time horizon $T$ over a binary erasure channel with unknown erasure probability. We consider a feedback model wherein the transmitter can query the receiver infrequently and obtain the empirical erasure rate experienced by the latter. We aim to minimize a regret quantity, i.e. how much worse a strategy performs compared to an oracle who knows the probability of erasure, while operating at the same block error rate. A learning …

Pond slider on a rock. Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, California, USA. March, 2025. #santabarbarabotanicgarden #reptile #turtle

Show at #GuildTheater I helped book #OTD 32 years ago in #Sacramento 1993