2025-06-03
The TRANSIC Challenge: Furniture Assembly vs Every Other Robot Learning Method
TRANSIC experiments on FurnitureBench: 4 assembly tasks vs traditional sim-to-real, interactive IL, and real-robot-only baselines.
Minecraft Chase the Skies drop: Everything you need to know about the next update
Leave your head in the clouds with Minecraft's newest additions.
Unsent letter #47
To the corporate jobber with a faraway gazeThis is a paid subscribers post. I’m experimenting with sharing more personal writing with this smaller group, like little diary entries that feel...
Trump's Budget for NASA Is Absolutely Horrifying
Earlier this year, the Trump administration revealed its proposed budget for NASA's fiscal year 2025, indicating brutal cuts of unprecedented proportions were coming. Now, the agency has released new data...
The TRANSIC Recipe: Mix Simulation, Add Human Touch, Deploy Successfully
TRANSIC framework: RL base policies in Isaac Gym → human teleoperation corrections → residual policy learning → integrated deployment system.
AI Is Destroying a Generation of Students
If the testimony of beleaguered teachers is anything to go by — as gathered in this extensive roundup of educator opinions by 404 Media — it sure sounds like the...
Should You “Rent” an Exec for Your Startup? A Fractional COO Weighs In
A veteran strategy and ops leader turned fractional COO walks us through why, when and how early-stage founders can tap fractional execs to learn and grow faster.
AI Tutor Is Real, And It's Already Here
TRANSIC enables sim-to-real transfer via human-in-the-loop corrections. Humans assist robots online, residual policies learn from interventions.
The Egg Yolk Principle: Human Sexuality Will Always Outsmart Prudish Algorithms and Hateful Politicians
Anti-porn laws can't stop porn, but they can stop free speech. In the meantime, people will continue to get off to anything and everything.
Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software
Ukraine used ArduPilot to help it wipe out Russian targets. It wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last.
Business Insider Did Something So Stupid With AI That We’re Reeling
Amid Business Insider's latest pivot to AI, the site's past brushes with the technology are coming back to haunt it. As Semafor reports, a manager recommended fake, seemingly-AI-generated books to...
Write About the Best Purpose-Driven Blockchain You Know to Win from 15,000 USDT
Spotlight a blockchain project that stands out for its clear mission and real-world impact—not speculation—for a chance to win in the Spacecoin Contest.
Elden Ring Nightreign Augur boss guide: How to beat Maris
Bring this flying sea creature to the ground in the Augur expedition.
Testing USB Hub Throughput
I recently purchased several USB hubs advertised as supporting 10 Gbps speeds and decided to test their actual performance. The devices bought delivered speeds close to the declared specification.
The HBO Max Intern Who Accidentally Sent One Email To 12 Million People And Broke The Internet
The company blamed them on Twitter. The internet said “not today.”Continue reading on Better Marketing »
How I Super-Charged My LangChain-MySQL Agent: Part 2
My first article for the LangChain-MySQL project showed how a multi‑stage LangChain agent lets you ask natural‑language questions over MySQL. Heavy prompts and repeated LLM calls, however, made the system...
InternationalDriversAssociation.com Implicated in Bizarre PR Spam Frenzy
InternationalDriversAssociation.com is associated with a “What in God’s Name Is This PR Campaign?” hall of fame. Some shadowy, who-even-are-you entity called **OpenResearchersConnect.org** is mass-blasting “press releases” to news sites and...
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