Every entrepreneur talks about vision, resilience, and execution. But beneath all of these traits lies a quieter, less visible skill that ultimately determines success or failure: decision-making under uncertainty. Markets shift, data is incomplete, and outcomes are rarely guaranteed. The leaders who endure are not those who wait for certainty—but those who learn how to think clearly without it. According to Alessio Vinassa, serial entrepreneur and business advisor, uncertainty is not an obstacle to leadership—it is the environment […]

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arXiv:2602.01012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-set biometrics faces challenges with probe subjects who may not be enrolled in the gallery, as traditional biometric systems struggle to detect these non-mated probes. Despite the growing prevalence of multi-sample galleries in real-world deployments, most existing methods collapse intra-subject variability into a single global representation, leading to suboptimal decision boundaries and poor open-set robustness. To address this issue, we propose LocalScore, a simple yet effective scoring algorithm that explicitly incorporates the local […]

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arXiv:2602.22249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In energy system analysis, coupling models with mismatched spatial resolutions is a significant challenge. A common solution is assigning weights to high-resolution geographic units for aggregation, but traditional models are limited by using only a single geospatial attribute. This paper presents an innovative method employing a self-supervised Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network to address this issue. This method models high-resolution geographic units as graph nodes, integrating various geographical features to generate physically meaningful weights […]

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arXiv:2602.17832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stochastic Optimal Control provides a unified mathematical framework for solving complex decision-making problems, encompassing paradigms such as maximum entropy reinforcement learning(RL) and imitation learning(IL). However, conventional parametric policies often struggle to represent the multi-modality of the solutions. Though diffusion-based policies are aimed at recovering the multi-modality, they lack an explicit probability density, which complicates policy-gradient optimization. To bridge this gap, we propose MePoly, a novel policy parameterization based on polynomial energy-based models. MePoly […]

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If you hang around startup circles in the Bay Area long enough, you’ll start hearing something unexpected between funding rounds and AI debates: founders quietly Googling “car rental in UAE” and checking flight prices to Dubai and Abu Dhabi. What started as curiosity has turned into a real trend. From San Francisco to the sands of the Arabian Peninsula, American tech talent is seriously eyeing the United Arab Emirates—and not just for a quick conference or a flashy […]

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arXiv:2601.03322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain-computer interfaces facilitate direct communication with a computer, enabling promising applications in human-computer interactions. However, their utility is currently limited because EEG decoding often suffers from poor generalization due to distribution shifts across domains (e.g., subjects). Learning robust representations that capture underlying task-relevant information would mitigate these shifts and improve generalization. One promising approach is to exploit the underlying hierarchical structure in EEG, as recent studies suggest that hierarchical cognitive processes, […]

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What web browsers do when a user requests a page is quite a remarkable journey. My goodness, the process behind the curtains reflects a diligent effort by the folks who build browsers. So far, I’ve found it very interesting to navigate through the steps taken to draw pixels on the screen. I’ll admit it—this is a surprisingly deep and fascinating area. As developers, we tend to focus heavily on performance, especially when building at scale. If we want […]

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We’ve spent the last year building the best VS Code extension for agentic engineering. A million downloads later, we’ve learned how important an end-to-end experience is. Developers don’t live in one tool. They live in terminals, on remote servers – in environments where opening an IDE isn’t even an option. The tools that earn a permanent spot in a developer’s workflow are the ones that show up in all of those places, not just the comfortable ones. That […]

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