US-based conferences should probably prepare to offer e.g. presentation and comms devices for on-site use by international travelers who are motivated enough to attend but who can't safely bring their devices across the border.

Never forget, the electric car is here to save the car industry, not cities or the planet.

The abortion access restrictions are also a way to deter liberals from migrating to red states

Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳

Two genocidal and begrudging allies in a slapfight (the Adani slap was clearly an unexpected sting for India).

This is so frustrating. Like it would be peanuts compared to the subsidised parking on city streets.
Libraries and museums should ideally be free in a civilised world

I am Roboticist doing my PhD on Active Perception for Mapping and Manipulation. Evidential learning, semantic mapping, coupled active perception manipulation are topics of my interest

I am a left-liberal Bombay Mallu who likes to read, is a news junkie, likes history,economics

I can speak English, Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi. Can understand Tamil. Can read a bit of Sanskrit and French and yet the only language I am assessed on is German.
And having been fairly good at debates, presentations, I miss not being able to exercise those skills anymore

A strange thing that living in Germany did to me is to devalue the languages I know. Telugu/Hindi are exotic and there's little use to it here. My English, which is C2 is treated not on par with Anglophone English speakers and my German, well it's German.

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3/5 I quibble with "[the] introduction of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the field of robotics". No, it has created a lot of research papers, but not real hardened deployments, which is acutally their point in this paper--such deployments are physically dangerous.