Can you somehow guess from these pictures of the building (and thus the architecture) how the institute is called? Hint: "School of bridges and roads".

Me to Claude: in the Figure you created the robot is rotated, lying on its side, because of the orientation of the 3D model in the raw input .glb file. Could you rotate it and make the robot upright.

Claude: ok, the robot is now upright.

The Figure:

But isn't that a post-hoc explanation of something empirical you would like to show, but which uses broad strokes which don't explain the postulated phenomenon?

Any situation in life has the properties you use for your explanation: outcome is uncertain and sometimes rewarding. Example: Cooking.

That argument would be applicable to any tool with some uncertainty on the outcome. But why should it? Why should usage of a tool with uncertainty lead to addition? And why does this focus on uncertainty and not an the expected (=average) outcome? Why is time saving ignored?

This does not hold.

I got you covered, I am doing neither.

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It's diffult to beat Schrödinger's cat as the best reference for jokes on the openness and closedness of the strait of Hormuz.

Topologists: hold my beer

They should not only be mandatory but also have the name on both sides. Else, the name is covered in 80% of the cases.

Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992) on stock trading and price systems: "The most significant fact about this system is the economy of knowledge with which it operates, or how little the individual participants need to know in order to be able to take the right action.”

Stock trading in 2026:

I would rather die trying to understand the standard model than learning modern chemistry...

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Only two possibilities: we are closing in on the singularity, or the bubble burst is near.

Why is Everyone's Robot Folding Clothes? And what does it tell us about the state of modern robot learning?

A lot of amazing results on clothes folding coming out now — so time to reshare this article I wrote about why clothes folding is uniquely suitable for the moment

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That was not on my Bingo card
arxiv.org/pdf/2604.06425

Also:
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Unfortunately that's not completely accurate. There are more than 2 parties involved and the other parties don't play but lose.

I think his reasoning makes sense whenever you consider it through the lens of an insecure 5y old: He wants the strait open but can't get it. So he also blocks it and now claims that the situation is actually HIS choice and not the Iranians'.

That he thinks anybody could fall fo this is hilarious.

My post was of course an attempt of humor and describes what Trump thinks he does (or what tries to make us think), not what really happens.

Today we learned (or so), that blocking the strait of Hormuz is, mathematically speaking, an involution.

Germany triggers debate by requiring men under 45 to get permit for trips longer than three months YouTube video by DW News

WTF Germany?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEGg...

May I ask why? What is the difference?

This is exactly what I needed ...

The Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez:

“The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.”

Ok, thanks