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Article URL: https://claymcleod.dev/blog/2026-07-26-why-were-building-omics

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Article URL: https://github.com/siliroid/unreached

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Article URL: https://upwatch.online/

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Worth mentioning that the pipeline uses all open-weight models, though for the demo I used Kimi K3 for the translation piece due to the Kimi founder being interviewed.

Have a listen for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92BQg2oozBg

The pipeline can be mostly run locally on an M-series Mac with at least 16 GB of RAM.

The translation stage is the main quality constraint but local models are getting better and better. Could see a specialized 30B model be more than enough here.

Did this on a whim so I could listen to the Kimi founder being interviewed. What stood out to me is how fast the software and even the models themselves seem to be getting commoditized. Far faster than I ever anticipated.

Built using Kimi Code, thought the model needed some guidance, so not a 1-shot effort quite yet.

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I've been in tech for 15 years now. A lot of what I loved about it has changed, and I'm now at a crossroads where I have an opportunity to leave and do something else.

I ended each day of my old jobs exhausted, and never had the energy to do or try the things I thought I was interested in.

I am now in my mid 30s and find myself with a ton of free time. But I am finding I have no idea what I want to do.

Nothing that used to interest me interests me anymore. The things I think I might like I for whatever reason don't have the energy to do or try them.

I feel like I've been in survival mode for so long I dont know what my passions are. How do I find them again?

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Article URL: https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/girls-death-in-china-reveals-human-cost-of-unregulated-science/article71268995.ece

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Article URL: https://www.eater.com/trends/975087/restaurants-lean-into-bespoke-handmade-elements-during-ai-flyer-backlash

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Article URL: https://iza.ac/posts/2026/06/what-counts-as-cooking/

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Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2026/07/25/literary-outdoorsman-he-helped-popularize-bodybuilding-co-created-paintball/

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Written in rust.

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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?

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

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Article URL: https://opencctv.org/

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

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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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