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As always, cool as heck but somewhat disappointed to discover that the examples I find most magical are directly trained for via IL

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

This on it's own is a super useful capability for roboticists. My top request is and always has been just for a grasping model that works

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

I always assumed this to be true

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Here's the table of contents for my lengthy new piece on how I use LLMs to help me write code simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/...

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The naive often fail to grasp just how brutal & evil russia's🇷🇺 plan is. Occupied areas become places where the population is used for the next war. The larger the population occupied, the greater the useful yield for the next conquest. Many in the West cannot comprehend the horror.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Il pollo di Trilussa

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Robopapers episode 1 on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpUT...

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Is America great again yet?

submitted 5 days ago • 1353 comments

What pressure is being put on Russia to negotiate?

submitted 7 days ago • 219 comments

Catherine and her cat from Zaporizhzhia. She spent 5 hours under the rubble of her house, destroyed by a Russian missile. All this time she has been hugging her cat. P.S. Sorry she didn't wear a suit.

submitted 9 days ago • 422 comments

If you're a European startup working on military drone tech, get in touch. I can angel invest and provide advice on deep learning systems and strategy.

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

Hollywood has new material to work on. After decades capitalizing on the fight against Russians, now they have to make movies about 🇺🇸🇷🇺 friendship and common interests, against the 🌏 Maybe the history will remind about those little men. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Shockingly accurate. Waiting for a grant to be approved before starting the research project is #toolittletolate.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Remember…

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

submitted 11 days ago • 437 comments

Giulia started singing. For the moment she's specialized in English classics for which she doesn't know the lyrics, like "winkle winkle little star"

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former french president hollande reflecting what i've heard from a lot of european leaders: “even if the american people remain our friends, the trump administration itself is no longer our ally."

submitted 12 days ago • 19 comments

I’m old enough to remember when we called this ethnic cleansing and knew it was bad

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks. https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

“Together, these actions will make people in the United States and around the world less prosperous and more vulnerable.” “We at Nature denounce this assault on science. And we encourage the global research community, wherever they can, to voice their opposition.”

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

Always love a good SLAM video. Really cool fast motion (even with the 4x speed)

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Wow!

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Do Americans want to be aligned with Russia against all of our traditional allies in Europe and Asia? I don't think so

submitted 16 days ago • 915 comments

Fascinating article about toxicologist Alice Hamilton, who began the fight against leaded gasoline in 1922 — a year after it was invented.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

The concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, the American people don't have a voice. The result is demagoguery and corruption.

submitted 18 days ago • 365 comments

Starlink in Ukraine operates based on paid contracts. If it’s being used as an extortion tool, then other countries should consider it a potential security risk - just like Russian gas used for blackmailing. If Ukraine is cut off, it would be wise for Europe to reconsider its use

submitted 18 days ago • 57 comments

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 19 days ago • 894 comments

Clearing the way for American dictatorship

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"The actions of Musk and DOGE have created moral dilemmas of a kind no American government employee has faced in recent history. Protest or collaborate? Speak up against lawbreaking or remain silent?" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 23 days ago • 55 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 25 days ago • 540 comments

Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.

submitted 25 days ago • 2392 comments

A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.

submitted 27 days ago • 229 comments

⭐ The first foundational model available on @LeRobotHF ⭐ Pi0 is the most advanced Vision Language Action model. It takes natural language commands as input and directly output autonomous behavior. It was trained by @physical_int and ported to pytorch by @m_olbap 👇🧵

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

Ukrainians have been telling you this for almost three years, but you ignored us and welcomed Russian spies into your countries. If you don’t help Ukraine now, democracy and freedom in Europe are doomed. Wake up NOW

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Been waiting for someone to test this and see if it works - can multiple AI agents fact-checking each other reduce hallucinations? The answer appears to be yes - using 3 agents with a structured review process reduced hallucination scores by 96% across 310 test cases. arxiv.org/pdf/2501.13946

submitted 38 days ago • 8 comments

If Ukraine loses, Russia will be 6 hours by car from Germany and yet Europe is still messing about🤷‍♂️

submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

This is 9-year-old Sofiia Yavorska from Poltava. Yesterday, a Russian Kh-22 cruise missile killed her along with her parents when their home was hit. The strike on the residential building has now claimed 12 lives, including 2 children.

submitted 38 days ago • 40 comments

As someone trained as a trade economist, it is my duty to share the 1929-1933 Kindleberger Spiral, showing the month-month decline in global trade due to the combined factors of the (global) Great Depression and retaliatory tariffs. Smooth Hawley is implemented mid-June 1930.

submitted 39 days ago • 52 comments

Your leaders call this "hybrid war" because if they called it "war" they might have to do something about it.

submitted 40 days ago • 19 comments

Yes, because showering dictatorships with money has proven to be such a brilliant strategy in the past.

submitted 41 days ago • 20 comments

The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on

submitted 40 days ago • 98 comments