Robotics @ XIAOMI

πŸ”₯ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Post-training aims to align the strong action-generation capabilities acquired from pre-training with real robot embodiments and natural-language instruction following along two axes. Embodiment alignment uses high-quality cross-embodiment real-robot data to map the general action-generation ability onto actual robots. Instruction alignment shifts the model from "generating actions given a description of scene state transitions" to "understanding a natural-language instruction and executing it directly."After post-training, Xiaomi-Robotics-1 can be used out-of-the-box to perform a wide range of mobile manipulation tasks in the real world. We evaluate the post-trained…
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Shania Twain: Little Miss Twain Review – Radical Revival Steps Off the Dirt Track to the Middle of the Road | Shania Twain

Shania Twain: Little Miss Twain Review – Radical Revival Steps Off the Dirt Track to the Middle of the Road | Shania Twain

πŸ’₯ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Shania Twain,Music,Culture,Country,Pop and rock βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: 'Wβ€œWhen I was a kid, I started out on stages just like this,” Shania Twain told 200 fans packed into a London pub last June, tracking her seventh album, Little Miss Twain. A reintroduction to the Canadian country legend, the record mines memories of her childhood in Ontario for hints of the arena-filling star she would soon become.Artwork by Little Queen Twain. Photo: Publicity photoOver a mournful Mellotron and pedal steel, the title track marvels at how little Elaine,…
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How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in

How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in

✨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: In the previous article, we explored the importance of standards: how the unspoken agreements governing electrical sockets, paper sizes and file formats form the foundations of a world in which choices remain open and power is not concentrated in the hands of a single player. We concluded with a question: if open standards are so beneficial, why aren’t they universally adopted? The answer, in the case of document formats, lies in a single page produced by Microsoft Office. Getting rid of it is harder than…
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Chris Packham Takes on a Terrifying Crime Gang: This Week’s Best Podcasts | TV and radio

Chris Packham Takes on a Terrifying Crime Gang: This Week’s Best Podcasts | TV and radio

πŸ”₯ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Podcasts πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Choose the weekBuried: dead rabbitMutilated pheasants, mutilated foxes and crying babies: the third series of the award-winning environmental crime show begins with a huge pile of murdered animals outside a primary school. The investigation leads to exposure of the world of illegal blood sports and rural organized crime. She's even recruiting Chris Packham. β€œIt's low-level terrorism, isn't it?” he exclaimed at one point β€” and it's hard to disagree. Listening is essential. Alexei DugginsBBC Sounds, all episodes availableSufi companionsSecretly curious…
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Saivineeth147/lora-speedrun: Speedrunning LoRA fine-tuning: frozen task, frozen hardware, public wall-clock leaderboard. modded-nanogpt for fine-tuning. Β· GitHub

Saivineeth147/lora-speedrun: Speedrunning LoRA fine-tuning: frozen task, frozen hardware, public wall-clock leaderboard. modded-nanogpt for fine-tuning. Β· GitHub

πŸ’₯ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: How fast can you LoRA-fine-tune Qwen2.5-1.5B to β‰₯ 57% on GSM8K β€” on a single L40S? This is modded-nanogpt for fine-tuning: a frozen task, frozen hardware, and a public leaderboard of wall-clock records. Every record is independently re-run 3Γ— with fresh seeds on identical hardware before it counts. Attempting and verifying are free: official timing runs on a Modal L40S sandbox, and Modal's free monthly compute credits cover full runs β€” so anyone can compete, and anyone can re-verify any record with one command.…
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TV Tonight: A Serial Killer’s Sick Twist in The Dark | television

TV Tonight: A Serial Killer’s Sick Twist in The Dark | television

πŸš€ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Chris Packham,TV crime drama,Documentary βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Darkness9pm on ITV1With the serial killer taking his third victim in the latest cliffhanger, it's been a tough week at work for DI Kennedy (Laura Donnelly) in this sinister police drama. Local men in their teens and twenties are the targets, and Kennedy thinks she knows who will be next – but will she save him? Or is she just playing the killer's sick, twisted game? What about her troubling domestic dilemma with her daughter? Holly RichardsonThere's…
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Natural experiments prove phytoplankton carbon removal works

Natural experiments prove phytoplankton carbon removal works

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Never in a million years would the craziest of the mad geoengineers dream of adding a fraction of the iron the Sahara dumps on the North Atlantic every day. Adding nutrients to the ocean so tiny ocean plants remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is an idea that people aren’t used to. Unfamiliar ideas make us uncomfortable. That gut level β€œI’m not so sure about this” is natural enough. It comes out as an inchoate sense that such a thing must be risky, that we’ve…
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World Cup 2026: Spaniard Lamine Yamal β€œcompletes football” by defeating Argentina

World Cup 2026: Spaniard Lamine Yamal β€œcompletes football” by defeating Argentina

πŸ”₯ Check out this trending post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Spain and Lamine Yamal have grown throughout the tournament to leave the world at their feet with the two greatest trophies in football in their pocket.In addition to having glorious natural gifts, he is also Spain's lucky charm. They completed their dominance on the international stage with Ferran Torres' decisive goal in the 106th minute of extra time.Lamine Yamal has not yet lost with his country in the 28 official matches he played. He has started 13 matches in the majors and won them…
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C64 BASIC Dungeon Crawler: Goblin Attack! (C64 BASIC Part 8)

C64 BASIC Dungeon Crawler: Goblin Attack! (C64 BASIC Part 8)

πŸ”₯ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: In part seven the dungeon was full of goblins that were about as threatening as garden gnomes. They stayed exactly where the map generator dropped them. You could walk up, poke them, take five points of damage and stroll away, and they’d still be standing there in the same spot when you came back.This time they chase you. A small change in code but big step forward in feel, and getting there dragged me into a weird and nasty memory bug that corrupted my…
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‘There was never a chance I could be a child’: a new exhibition explores how war shapes children’s lives | children

‘There was never a chance I could be a child’: a new exhibition explores how war shapes children’s lives | children

πŸ”₯ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Children,Museums,Culture,Society,Holocaust,Second world war πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: When John Hajdu was three years old, his parents gave him a teddy bear small enough to fit in his hands: 86 years later, the teddy bears are the only thing left of his childhood.The bear, which the 89-year-old simply calls β€œTeddy”, stayed with him when his father was taken to a labor camp and his mother was sent to a concentration camp, and hid in a non-Jewish neighbour’s closet before being forced into the Budapest ghetto.From 31 July,…
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