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A comprehensive new study from Deakin University in Australia has delivered a sobering verdict on the Health Star Rating (HSR) system: after more than a decade of operation and multiple algorithm ...

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[06/2025] Release arXiv paper. [04/2026] Release STAR codebase with paper-aligned naming, training configs, and README. STAR addresses multitask visuomotor policy learning by converting continuous ...

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

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