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Article URL: https://bigthink.com/the-long-game/the-221-year-old-company-that-reinvented-itself-4-times/

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Article URL: https://streanga.com/blog/how-i-customize-kde-plasma/

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Article URL: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/more-on-an-internal-openai-model

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How can we ease Robotic Adaptation, or the critical last mile of reliable robotic policy deployment?

Vision-Language-Action Policies (such as Gr00T, Pi0, OpenVLA) are designed so that an adaptation stage is needed before reliable deployment (reliable meaning with very high success rate) of the policy model on a specific combination of application environment and robotic task.

This adaptation stage, often called fine-tuning or post-training, caters to the narrow set of tasks, done in the exact deployment environment, atop a specific embodiment (such as single arm robots, or bi manual robots, or humanoids among others).

The recently released World-Action-Models (WAMs), while having improved generalization to novel tasks and environments, also need adaptation stage to reliably execute a given task on a given environment.

The key requirement of robotic adaptation is high quality adaptation data, typically human teleoperation data of the robot performing the required task in the given environment. Typically 50-200 examples of human teleoperation are required, depending on the base policy being finetuned, as well as the desired performance levels and the complexity of the task.

Thus, given any change in the environment or task where we want robot to perform reliably, there will be a need to collect such teleoperation data again and again.

Thus, robotic adaptation, which is the critical last mile of reliable robotic policy deployment - suffers from the data collection bottleneck - which needs to be eased.

Thus, an important research question needing solutions is -

What are effective approaches to ease human-teleoperation data collection effort required for robotic policy adaptation?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49061030

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Article URL: https://www.olafalders.com/2026/07/26/code-review-is-the-hard-part/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49061026

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Article URL: https://opencctv.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49061018

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Article URL: https://github.com/hertz-ai/HARTOS

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49061015

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The Occult Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Annotated for Esoteric Content: The Fourth Way, Alchemy, Tarot, and Kabbalah

Author is my father, Jon Woodson. I'm the web guy who wanted to bring this to a wider audience with a more interactive way to pop-up the notes about esoteric content.

Author's blurb from Amazon self-publishing page:

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, is a manual for spiritual development. It is not a unique text, for many American modernist novels of canonical stature are similarly grounded in the occult. Fitzgerald was a follower of A. R. Orage who not only taught the Gurdjieff Work (the Fourth Way) but organized a vast literary network to further its goals.

The chief reason that this occult literary tendency has remained in the shadows is that the arbiter of the movement has been poorly understood and critically neglected.

The Great Gatsby belongs to a genre of the novel invented by Carl Van Vechten. Van Vechten’s novel, The Blind Bow-Boy (1923) was the model for The Great Gatsby and for many other modern masterpieces. My annotated presentation of Fitzgerald’s novel performs three functions. Since emblematic novels are all written using the same phonetic-syllabic code, the alchemical cabala, I have decoded the novel and presented a running account of the coded subtext in footnotes. The actual texts that have decrypted are presented in italics.

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Article URL: https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-strongest-el-nino-ever

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Article URL: https://github.com/noahnawara/rucksack

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Article URL: https://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20260606-How-To-Block-Some-Of-The-Bots/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060945

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Article URL: https://www.aihero.dev/skills-grill-me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060906

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Strike-through, comment, delete, etc. all in the browser. Editing agent plans this way is so much more ergonomic than chatting back and forth in the native agent harnesses. It's truly become one of the few side-projects I legitimately use every day and really enjoy.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060901

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Article URL: http://justine.lol/ape.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060871

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In space exploration, there's a famous conundrum that we shouldn't launch a 100-year journey transport ship to another galaxy, because in 20 years technology will have made the ship twice as fast, and we can get there earlier by waiting.

In this episode of "how this translates to B2B sales," I ask if anyone else is struggling to invest in ideas (anywhere from side projects to startups) knowing that the frontier of AI might soon overlap any possible technical or operational moat that you spend a year or more building, and your entire business is just a one-shot prompt away (from either you, meaning you wasted time building, or your target customer, who no longer has a reason to pay you).

Historically it's always been better to Just Build, but this reality seems to be getting tougher to ignore.

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Article URL: https://beyondloom.com/decker/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060856

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