I am building a perception pipeline from RGB-D for pick-and-place with a depth camera. The goal is to detect an object on a table, estimate its 3D position, and obtain a stable orientation that the robot can use to grasp it. In this post, I describe some things I learned during the first part of the implementation, after training the segmentation model: https://medium.com/@danieldoradotalaveron/getting-stable-yaw-for-robotics-pca-tabletop-and-the-beginning-of-my-tracking-pipeline-8b9dd3921d3a submitted by /u/nettrotten [link] [Kommentare]
For traders in the EU, there's been a lot of chatter about MiCA and its impact on crypto exchanges. A lot of exchanges are either limiting what they offer to European users or pulling out of the region entirely. This puts a lot of capital at risk and users need to be proactive about it. For those who don't know me, I work in web3 and write content on projects and what's happening in the space. The exchange Bitpanda is running a campaign that fits this moment and helping out users who may be looking to switch exchanges. They're one of the longer-standing European platforms that's fully regulated and stayed compliant through the MiCA transition, and right now they'll pay you to move assets over. The campaign is called Bring Your Assets. Basically, you transfer your crypto into a Bitpanda account, leave it 30 days, and get 5% back paid in Bitcoin. Bitpanda is a regulated custodial exchange, so while you won't be able to do anything onchain, if you're a "buy-and-hold" type of investor and want the benefits of a CEX, this is a nice little boost. If you keep everything in self-custody and never touch an exchange, this isn't aimed at you. Where it makes sense is if you already hold balances on exchanges, or your current European venue is one of the ones cutting back, and you'd rather consolidate onto something regulated that isn't going anywhere. Effectively, you're getting paid 5% to move assets. Some details: The campaign runs from 18 June to 5 July 2026. You transfer crypto into your Bitpanda account through the app or website during that window, and it needs to stay there for 30 days. Everyone who qualifies gets 5% cashback paid in Bitcoin on the amount they bring over. The first 1,000 participants who move €1,000 or equivalent lock in €50 in BTC, which is that same 5% shown as a round number. Cashback is credited by 30 July 2026. It's open to fully verified users in selected European countries, with the full list on the campaign page (https://www.bitpanda.com/en/campaigns/bya-june-26). MiCA is going to keep separating the platforms that did the regulatory work from the ones that didn't, and EU users are going to keep consolidating toward the compliant ones. Bitpanda paying to accelerate that is a smart use of the moment. If you were already going to hold on an exchange, 5% in BTC to pick a regulated one is a reasonable deal. Note: While I did my due diligence and there's no obvious risk with Bitpanda collapsing, I obviously can't guarantee that. Please make sure you are familiar with the risks associated with custodial accounts. Bitpanda has been around for quite some time and has never had any issues. DYOR & NFA - this post is for informational purposes. submitted by /u/TimmyXBT [link] [Kommentare]
While experimenting with GRPO training, I kept running this shit that when reward increases, it becomes difficult to tell whether the policy is genuinely improving or simply exploiting the reward function. So I built a small library called rewardspy that wraps an existing reward function and continuously monitors indicators that often precede reward hacking. It currently tracks things like rolling reward statistics, reward variance collapse, reward component imbalance, response length drift, reward slope changes, GRPO group collapse, anol. This is my first major RL project so I would absolutely love some technical advice Check it out here: https://github.com/AvAdiii/rewardspy submitted by /u/BaniyanChor [link] [Kommentare]
I really don’t get how people trusted a snake with their savings. It boggles my mind. It’s not like he didn’t have a reputation before and he was just some new guy in the space where maybe you could’ve given him the benefit of the doubt. In 2000, he took part in an accounting scandal for MicroStrategy and got charged for it by the SEC. STRC listed 11 percent returns through dividends for STRC that could pause dividends at any time. I know this isn’t the same but Anchor offered around a 20 percent APY in May 2022 for Luna. We all see how that went down. People were confident and sure that this yield could go on forever. I am not claiming it’ll collapse at this exact moment and won’t pretend to know the timing. However, there are so many signs pointing that this will end catastrophically. They own 4 percent of all Bitcoin in existence. People keep saying “they can just sell their Bitcoin.” If they are over-leveraged, the amount of cash and Bitcoin they have won’t matter. They’ll crash at some point and maybe those of you holding might get a dividend payment but don’t get caught with your pants down. At this point it’s a rite of passage for scammers to be on the cover of Forbes. For example, look at Sam Bankman-Fried and Elizabeth Holmes. The signs are there. Those of you invested feel free to call me whatever you want but we’ll see who’s right in the end. Just don’t pretend the signs weren’t there. Best of luck to all of you and I hope you don’t get burned badly. Edit: Those of you invested in MSTR and STRC feel free to talk your shit but I know I’m right and your post will age like milk. Yes I’m petty. submitted by /u/Repturtle [link] [Kommentare]
To make our library for efficient pangenomics more palatable, I made a little Unix shell. It “cheats” when it sees commands that invoke other pangenomic CLI tools and runs built-in functionality instead. The shell is built around an instruction-based IR that can fluidly intermix shell-like I/O (files and pipes) with efficient in-memory data structures. In a debatably fair comparison, the fake shell runs one shell script 48× faster than running it with sh.
From productivity revolution to cost trap: AI coding could soon cost companies more than developer salaries, market researchers predict.
