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      "dek": "PPMem stores generated scenes as a compact set of oriented surfaces, then renders that memory back into later video chunks.",
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      "headline": "The Demonstration Includes Mistakes; the Progress Meter Does Not",
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      "dek": "PRIME links similar states across trajectories and measures distance to success instead of assuming every recorded action advances the task.",
      "summary": "PRIME links similar states across trajectories and measures distance to success instead of assuming every recorded action advances the task.",
      "body_text": "A robot demonstration can contain pauses, corrections and wrong turns, yet many progress estimators treat the whole trajectory as monotonic success. PRIME builds a weighted graph across observed states, connects visually and spatially similar moments, and uses shortest paths to estimate distance to the goal. That lets the reward signal distinguish advancement, stagnation and setbacks. Across simulated and real precision-manipulation tasks, the authors report stronger robustness to suboptimal demonstrations and as much as a fivefold policy-success improvement over supervised fine-tuning baselines on charger insertion. The magnitude is task-specific, but the principle is broader: learning from a demonstration should not require pretending the demonstrator was perfect.",
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      "headline": "A Consumer Sonar Gets a Paired View of the Fish",
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      "dek": "HaCKRS aligns more than 105,000 noisy sonar frames with overhead color video to make accessible aquatic monitoring easier to study.",
      "summary": "HaCKRS aligns more than 105,000 noisy sonar frames with overhead color video to make accessible aquatic monitoring easier to study.",
      "body_text": "Imaging sonar works where murky water defeats cameras, but research systems can be expensive and consumer sonar is difficult to annotate. The HaCKRS dataset pairs Garmin LiveScope recordings with top-down RGB video of koi carp. It contains more than 105,000 synchronized frame pairs across about 3.3 hours and four range-orientation configurations, together with geometry, timing and registration data. The release deliberately emphasizes calibrated paired observations rather than finished fish labels. It therefore does not solve detection or ecological monitoring on its own. It supplies a bridge for evaluating whether inexpensive sonar can support future counting, tracking and annotation methods under poor visibility.",
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      "headline": "One ECG Lead Draws a Continuous Sleep-Depth Curve",
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      "dek": "ECG-SDI moves beyond coarse sleep stages, but its mortality and treatment-response signals remain observational and exploratory.",
      "summary": "ECG-SDI moves beyond coarse sleep stages, but its mortality and treatment-response signals remain observational and exploratory.",
      "body_text": "Conventional staging divides sleep into broad bins. ECG-SDI trains a two-stage model on 12,392 overnight polysomnography records to estimate a continuous depth index from a single ECG lead. The authors report strong correlation with ordered non-REM stages in internal and external data, high REM-classification AUROC, and within-stage variation that the usual labels hide. Derived phenotypes were associated with subjective sleep quality, all-cause mortality and changes after CPAP in separate analyses. Those associations do not prove that the index causes outcomes or that it is ready for clinical decisions; the wearable example is a proof of concept. The work suggests that a ubiquitous cardiac signal may carry a richer overnight profile than a sequence of categorical stages.",
      "why_it_matters": "ECG-SDI moves beyond coarse sleep stages, but its mortality and treatment-response signals remain observational and exploratory.",
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      "headline": "Prefill and Decode Stop Sharing the Same Number Format",
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      "body_text": "Transformer prefill and decode stress hardware differently, so FuTransformer gives them different kernels and precision. On Hopper GPUs, prefill uses FP8 with fused epilogues and direct cache placement; decode uses INT4 projections and a rotated INT4 key-value cache to reduce outlier error. On one H100, the author reports prefill up to 1.48 times faster than compiled PyTorch FP8 and INT4 decode 1.3 to 2.4 times faster than the best evaluated PyTorch path across tested shapes and batches. Full Llama-3.1-8B decoding reached 2.8 milliseconds per step at batch one in the reported setup, with a perplexity cost from quantization. These are implementation-specific comparisons, not universal model-serving gains.",
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      "headline": "Protein Diffusion Drops From 200 Steps to Eight",
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      "dek": "Blitz distills AlphaFold 3 and Boltz-2 diffusion updates, then uses physical steering and candidate selection to repair remaining geometry.",
      "summary": "Blitz distills AlphaFold 3 and Boltz-2 diffusion updates, then uses physical steering and candidate selection to repair remaining geometry.",
      "body_text": "All-atom protein predictors can spend about 200 denoising steps producing a structure. Blitz uses a geometric noise schedule and multistep consistency training to compress that process to eight steps, then applies physical steering and target-free candidate selection at inference. Under one common evaluation protocol, the authors report that distilled AlphaFold 3 and Boltz-2 models retained teacher-level structural accuracy; AF3-Blitz exceeded the tested few-step baselines and its teacher on several metrics. The comparisons cover structure, interfaces, ligands and stereochemistry, but they remain computational benchmarks rather than experimental confirmation of molecular behavior. The result narrows a costly iterative stage without claiming that eight steps settle every biological question.",
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      "headline": "The Security Script Looks Plausible Until the Machine Checks It",
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      "dek": "HardEval executes model-written remediations on live virtual machines and grades the persistent system state with hidden compliance checks.",
      "summary": "HardEval executes model-written remediations on live virtual machines and grades the persistent system state with hidden compliance checks.",
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      "headline": "The Robot Learns How Long This Moment Can Wait",
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      "dek": "A metareasoning policy changes the planner's computation budget with the state instead of fixing one delay for every maneuver.",
      "summary": "A metareasoning policy changes the planner's computation budget with the state instead of fixing one delay for every maneuver.",
      "body_text": "Planning while moving creates a physical bargain: more computation may improve the plan, but the robot must continue open-loop until that answer arrives. This work casts the budget itself as a semi-Markov decision. A learned policy observes the current state, executing plan and inexpensive planner statistics, then chooses both the action commitment and time available to the solver. Across ground navigation, agile quadrotor flight and contact-rich manipulation, the authors report better performance than fixed-budget baselines and state-dependent reasoning patterns. The tested domains do not establish safe deployment in every real-time system, but they make computation time part of the control policy rather than a constant selected before the robot enters the world.",
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      "headline": "A Balanced Amplifier Separates the Signal From Its Image",
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      "dek": "Two travelling-wave amplifiers and hybrid couplers doubled the usable image-rejected bandwidth in the reported superconducting setup.",
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      "body_text": "A three-wave-mixing amplifier can confuse a signal with an idler at its image frequency. This experiment balanced two kinetic-inductance travelling-wave parametric amplifiers between hybrid couplers, spatially separating signal, pump and idler. The authors report about 20 decibels of gain across nearly an octave, pump rejection below minus 20 decibels and average image rejection near minus 15 decibels. The result is a laboratory architecture for cleaner broadband readout, not a complete quantum measurement system.",
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      "headline": "The Draft Model Stops Carrying the Whole Conversation",
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