technocracy

While apprenticeship learning has shown promise for inducing effective pedagogical policies directly from student interactions in e-learning environments, most existing approaches rely on optimal or near-optimal expert demonstrations under a fixed reward. Real-world student interactions, however, are often inherently imperfect and evolving: students explore, make errors, revise strategies, and refine their goals as understanding develops. In this work, we argue that imperfect student demonstrations are not noise to be discarded, but structured signals-provided their relative quality is ranked. […]

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This study surveys the historical development of regularization, tracing its evolution from stepwise regression in the 1960s to recent advancements in formal error control, structured penalties for non-independent features, Bayesian methods, and l0-based regularization (among other techniques). We empirically evaluate the performance of four canonical frameworks — Ridge, Lasso, ElasticNet, and Post-Lasso OLS — across 134,400 simulations spanning a 7-dimensional manifold grounded in eight production-grade machine learning models. Our findings demonstrate that for prediction accuracy when the sample-to-feature […]

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arXiv:2602.00992v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In many robot motion planning problems, task objectives and physical constraints induce non-Euclidean geometry on the configuration space, yet many planners operate using Euclidean distances that ignore this structure. We address the problem of planning collision-free motions that minimize length under configuration-dependent Riemannian metrics, corresponding to geodesics on the configuration manifold. Conventional numerical methods for computing such paths do not scale well to high-dimensional systems, while sampling-based planners trade scalability for geometric fidelity. […]

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Young Teilhard spots a crisis: earnest souls are abandoning Christianity not from weakness, but from and the search for something grander. His remedy? Reveal the “Soul of the World”: that cosmic fabric where God touches matter, where Christ meets the universe’s longing. Faith mustn’t float in clouds; it must sanctify earth itself.

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arXiv:2604.06175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial management has been revolutionized by mobile banking, but increasing usefulness and satisfaction requires a better user experience. This study aims to provide an improved customer experience by offering user-friendly interfaces, and real-time notifications by user-centric design of mobile banking application UI. A survey was carried out on the target audience in which 81% of respondents to a study of 103 people said they regularly used mobile banking apps, while 77% said they […]

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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 5, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Construction on San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge began in 1933, All U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam got suspended in 1972, AOL acquired Time Warner & became the largest media company in the world in 2000, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Code Smell 12 – […]

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arXiv:2602.18546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cities thrive on social interactions that foster well-being, innovation, and prosperity; yet, exogenous shocks such as pandemics, hurricanes, and wildfires can severely disrupt them. Different urban venues exhibit widely divergent response patterns, raising key questions about what factors contribute to these differences and how we can anticipate and respond. Understanding these questions is crucial for safeguarding social resilience, the capacity of urban venues to maintain both visitation and diversity. In this study, we […]

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Discrete image tokenization is a key bottleneck for scalable visual generation: a tokenizer must remain compact for efficient latent-space priors while preserving semantic structure and using discrete capacity effectively. Existing quantizers face a trade-off: vector-quantized tokenizers learn flexible geometries but often suffer from biased straight-through optimization, codebook under-utilization, and representation collapse at large vocabularies. Structured scalar or implicit tokenizers ensure stable, near-complete utilization by design, yet rely on fixed discretization geometries that may allocate capacity inefficiently under heterogeneous […]

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arXiv:2604.13133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Thermodynamic cycles are pivotal in determining the efficacy of energy conversion systems. Traditional design methodologies, which rely on expert knowledge or exhaustive enumeration, are inefficient and lack scalability, thereby constraining the discovery of high-performance cycles. In this study, we introduce a graph-based hierarchical reinforcement learning approach for the co-design of structure parameters in thermodynamic cycles. These cycles are encoded as graphs, with components and connections depicted as nodes and edges, adhering to grammatical […]

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