Axis of Ordinary

Ukraine’s Minister of Defense, Fedorov, publishes a video of new-generation AI-based Shahed UAV interceptors with automatic launch toward the target. After that, the operator selects the target and issues the strike command. It automates 95% of the entire interception process — from launching the drone to destroying the Shahed. The operator sees the movement of targets in real time, selects a target, and gives the command to engage it. After that, the system independently guides the drone to the target, autonomously recognizes the Shahed, and homes in on it.

Praise from an active American competitor: https://x.com/PalmerLuckey/status/2063795582876197220

This is quite literally and unironically the most important disagreement in the past and future history or the universe. And I'm relieved that only a small number of autistic people take it seriously because politicizing it won't improve the outcome. Unfortunately, I expect this to change relatively soon. https://x.com/tszzl/status/2063821828314050832

A demographic discrepancy emerged at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Irada Zeynalova, Russia’s ambassador to Mauritius, said at the forum that Muslims make up 30% of Russia’s population. Shortly afterwards, Putin stated that Muslims make up around 10–15% of the population.

"Armenia's elections will not be considered legitimate," — Medvedev

The mighty Baltic Hydra has reared its heads and is pounding Russia's military ports. Their helpless Ukrainian minions are watching with joy, wondering how such a feat is even possible. Is another 3-day special military operation necessary? One day to cut each of its three heads.

Crazy that Ukraine is now hitting more deep strike targets per day than Russia in a week. And that little bitch "Antifa" Putin is still whining about Nazis just like a quran-kissing libtard.

Nobel Prize winner Giorgio Parisi and Francesco Zamponi used Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.7 to obtain a proof for their latest paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03300 Many such cases. [Very curious they used these models. Although expensive, GPT-5.x Pro is MUCH stronger at math.]

Good visualization of the recent phase change in AI capabilities. https://epoch.ai/data/cve?view=graph

Many such cases. More and more researchers are coming out admitting this. https://x.com/DominikPeters/status/2062975045807354334

Antares Nuclear’s successful zero-power criticality test marks major step for military applications of advanced microreactors: https://www.army.mil/article-amp/293057/antares_nuclears_successful_zero_power_criticality_test_marks_major_step_for_military_applications_of_advanced_microreactors

Super cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHiVz34QYlw How can a humanoid robot discover complicated, long-horizon physical behaviors from scratch, without teleoperation or human motion retargeting? MotionDisco searches over discrete contact plans, represented as short programs whose mutations are guided by an LLM. The LLM supplies a kind of common-sense prior over plausible physical interactions: where to grasp, step, place, climb, or use environmental support. Each proposed contact sequence is first checked by a fast kinematic feasibility solver, which rejects geometrically impossible plans and returns structured failure feedback. Feasible plans are then passed to a kinodynamic trajectory optimizer, which evaluates whether they can be turned into physically valid robot-object motion and provides a score. That numerical and language feedback is fed back into the evolutionary search, making the otherwise combinatorial contact-plan space much more tractable.

MotionDisco: Motion Discovery for Extreme Humanoid Loco-Manipulation Abstract: We present MotionDisco, a framework that discovers contact-rich, long-horizon humanoid loco-manipulation motions from scratch, without relying on teleoperation or motion retargeting from human demonstrations. This is challenging because the space of possible contact interactions grows combinatorially with the task horizon and the number of objects in the scene. MotionDisco enables rapid discovery of novel motions by coupling a large language model (LLM) guided evolutionary search over sequences of interactions with an efficient sequential kinodynamic trajectory optimizer and pruning strategy, enabling the rapid discovery of novel skills. Through extensive ablation studies, we show that our LLM-guided search discovers successful whole-body trajectories across several challenging long-horizon tasks. Project page: https://atarilab.github.io/motiondisco.io/

People keep noticing. Things are accelerating. Of course, many coping retards will keep clinging to their delusions no matter what. https://x.com/DongruoZ/status/2062774540451873271

For years, morons have been coping that things are going slowly because Russia is fighting attritional warfare and that the front line will eventually collapse. In reality, however, things are getting worse for Russia. And this despite losing most U.S. support and receiving only ~0.3% of Europe's GDP in aid last year.

A true running gag.