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Consent✅ Runner, HIIT Deep left buttock pain Occasionally travels down posterior thigh with intermittent parasthesia & numbness lower leg & foot Brought on with pigeon stretching, yoga, as well 4 point kneeling core hip extension / adduction work 🤷‍♂️ Sitting main aggravating factor - isometric single leg bridging as...

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mbkvor 8 Monaten

Any concerns of placebo effect of image guided injections in centers of excellence?

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James Noakevor 8 Monaten

No

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Kartik Logishettyvor 8 Monaten

V satisfying video, and injection too im sure! What was the underlying cause of IFI?

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Pete in silicovor 8 Monaten

Piriformis?

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JC The Golf Physiovor 8 Monaten

What is a long term plan here? Repeated injections, surgical intervention, no further tx needed?

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Stayko Marinovvor 8 Monaten

If you have access to cryoneurolysis, you can go centrally in QF with motor stimulation and do a 1 min cycle as for spacticity. I keep it as a backup if prolo dosen’t work. Additionally, If you do a follow up MR a couple of months down the line you’ll most often find muscle volume increase. Results are pretty surprising.

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T. Blackvor 8 Monaten

is the initial injectate being delivered to the posterior hip joint/ under capsule as well, aside from QF?

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James Noakevor 8 Monaten

No - deliberately so. The needle isnt long enough anyway and you also cant reliably place the needle under USG into the posterior capsule

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Strong legs are the foundations of a stable posture, yet many let theirs weaken over time. You lose your ability to move and stand upright. Much of my work with chronic pain clients involves strengthening the legs. This video shows 8 essential lower body motions: 1- Hip Extensions Standing upright involves straightening your torso to align it with your lower body, an extension of your hips executed by your Glutes and Hamstrings. The problem is you sit on these muscles all day, weakening them over the years to the point where they fail to do their job. Your lower back picks up the slack against its will and becomes overworked. I'll start chronic pain clients with Hip Bridges on the floor to ensure everything is balanced, then progress to Hip Thrusts and eventually Standing exercises like the Romanian Deadlift. As for the Deadlift off the floor, those are great if you can access a barbell or kettlebell. - Hip Bridge (0:05) - Hip Thrust (0:11) - Romanian Deadlift (0:17) - Deadlift (0:23) 2- Split Squats Split Squats are excellent for strengthening the knees. In the case of a chronic pain client, I use them to stretch the quad and Hip Flexors of the back leg, which are often extremely stiff due to sitting. This stiffness makes the body collapse forward and is often the limiting factor when people try this exercise for the first time. I'll start someone with the Front Foot elevated because it's easier on the front leg and gives a great stretch, then progress to flat and rear foot elevated. - Front foot elevated (0:30) - Flat (0:36) - Rear-foot elevated (0:42.2) 3- Lunges Lunges are the dynamic version of the Split Squat. Besides being excellent for strengthening your leg muscles, the one thing I love about this exercise is that it teaches you how to brace yourself as your foot lands. Many people lack the core strength to absorb an impact. Lunges develop that shock absorption capacity, especially when done with weights. Ensure you have mastered the Split Squats before doing them, and use different directions to target your muscles differently. - Forward (0:48) - Back (0:54.7) - Side (1:07) 4- Squats The king of all exercises is crucial for your ascension. The vertical motion improves your ability to overcome the world's weight crashing down upon you. It's also an amazing Glute and Quad stretch in the bottom position. I'll start chronic pain clients with the bodyweight variation before progressing them to weighted and eventually one-legged, also known as Pistol Squats. Doing one leg at a time is one of the best ways to balance your body's left and right sides from head to toe. - Body weight (1:12.5) - Loaded (1:19) - Pistol (1:25.5) 5- Step-ups Step-ups are amongst my favorite one-sided exercises to strengthen the Glutes and Quads. They are excellent for improving the stability of your hips and abdominal muscles. Use the Front and Lateral variations to maximize your results. - Front (1:31.5) - Lateral (1:38) 6 - Leg Curls Leg Curls strengthen the lower attachment of your Hamstrings. They are an integral part of my knee and lower back recovery programs because many people are weak due to sitting. I'll have chronic pain clients use a towel to create muscle resistance, though you can do them standing to get some much-needed blood flow. The best way to benefit from this exercise is by using an exercise ball or a machine at the gym. - Standing (1:43) - Towel (1:49) - Exercise ball (1:55.4) - Machine (2:02.1) 7- Adductions The inner thigh muscles become problematic when people sit with their legs crossed. They either get stiff or weak depending on whether you cross one leg over the other or with your foot on the opposite knee. I love Copenhagen Planks to restore the balance in your adductors. - Knee-bent (2:08.8) - Straight-leg (2:14) 8- Calf Raises The ankles are the cornerstone of your posture because they affect the alignment of every other joint above. Strong Calves are essential to their stability, yet many omit them from their workouts. Standing Calf Raises also strengthen the knees from behind. Doing the Donkey variation, you'll feel an intense stretch from the knee to the ankle. Seated Calf Raises work a different lower leg muscle essential to pump blood back up from your feet. - Standing (2:20.5) - Donkey (2:26.6) - Seated (2:33.3) Include these 8 types of motions in your routine as an insurance policy against serious mobility problems down the line. Keeping your legs strong ensures a stable posture and quality movements, two crucial factors for a high quality of life.

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701,484 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren

People today walk around with the stiffest hips, and the implications are disastrous. You set yourself up for chronic pain and bad posture for the rest of your life. Take control now before it's too late. These 10 stretches will free your hips from their misery: The best time to do these stretches is before bed, as you unload all the tension accumulated throughout the day and achieve a deeper sleep. 1 - Half Frog Stretch (0:06) 3 x 30-60s/side This one is excellent for your inner thighs and hip flexors. You also stretch your abdominals. 2 - Seated Crossed Leg Reach Forward Stretch (0:14) 3 x 30-60s This stretch also hits the lats that sit right above your hips. Some of you may be unable to reach forward with your legs crossed. The first milestone is to touch the floor with your hands and then slide them forward. 3 - Seated Pigeon Stretch (0:23) 3 x 30-60s/leg Today, one of my clients felt a massive pull just by crossing his leg and pushing down. Forget leaning forward! The goal is to bring your chest down to your leg while keeping your back straight. Push your hips back toward the wall behind you to lower your torso. 4 - Seated Glute Strech (0:32) 3 x 30-60s/leg The difference between this stretch and the Seated Pigeon is that you curl your upper back to lower your head to your leg. 5 - Lying Glute Stretch (0:43) 3 x 30-60s/leg Lying on your back with one leg crossed. Pull the other leg toward your chest and hold. 6 - Pigeon Stretch (0:52) 3 x 30-60s/leg This stretch never fails to open my clients' hips, though many will feel enough of a pull by simply crossing one leg. The goal is to reach forward and lower your torso parallel to the floor. 7 - Glute Bridge with External Rotation (1:00) 3 x 10-12/leg This one is great because you strengthen one leg and stretch the other. Due to a lack of strength or mobility, you might have to rotate with a bent leg before moving onto a straightened one. 8 - Frog Stretch (1:05) 3 x 30-60s The frog stretch is amazing for your inner thigh muscles. Start kneeling with your elbows on the floor and your feet pointing outward. Slide backward and hold. 9 - Crossed-Leg Glute Bridge (1:14) 3 x 30-60s/leg Here is another Glute Bridge variation where you strengthen one leg and stretch the other. You feel the hip opening up at the top, so hold it there and rotate your knee away from your body to increase the pull. 10 - V Stretch (1:23) 3 x 30-60s You can do this stretch with your legs up in the air or against a wall. // Start taking care of your hips now before they turn into stone. Reversing the stiffness becomes much more painful and takes much longer if you let it fester over the years. You'll feel much more relaxed and move smoother once you eliminate all the excess pressure.

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388,104 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

These quick workouts are for people who want to improve their postures. The exercises target the weakened foundations pulling your body out of alignment. The sessions are short yet effective. Use the workouts to raise yourself to the next level before the new year starts. Instructions: - Do the exercises as a circuit, or one at a time if you find the circuit format too challenging. - Repeat the circuit or each exercise 3 to 4 times. - The sessions are light enough that you can done daily. Follow the sequence from Day 1 to Day 7 in order. - Ideally done at the start of your day or at the end. Day 1: Kneeling T-Spine Stretch (0:06) [ 10 reps/side ] - Start: Kneeling, one hand on the floor. - Slide your straight arm under your torso. - Reach as far forward as possible. - Keep your hips squared throughout the motion. 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380,762 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

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We can no longer relate to pleasures, social interactions, and enjoyments we may have engaged in enthusiastically in the past. Goals, ambitions, and desires we once had and were very attached to start to feel completely foreign to us. We realize that most of our so-called needs and desires, wants, including group and tribal identifications, were based on lies, wounds, and matrix programs, which we mistook stemming from our true self. They do not lead us to nor reflect true fulfillment joy, and love - the pure state of our soul hidden deep within us beyond the ego personality - our unique soul embodied individuality centered in the Divine. We start to see through appearances and all the pretense - the mechanical unconscious social interactions with the unconscious feeding mechanisms between people - emotionally, energetically sexually - where almost everyone is a copy of a copy sleepwalking and dreaming of being awake. We realize how little of real individuality and authenticity there is in the world, and how people mistake their conditioned and programmed ego personality for authenticity and also mistake all kinds of feelings, desires, and cravings within them for the soul being. All of which we have done in the past as well to varying degrees and still may do. We realize how little of true love there is. If we are honest with ourselves, we also question what love truly is and if we have really ever experienced it. The more we uncover within us and work through our shadow aspects, mechanical behavior, wounds, and traumas, the more we see all that in others. As the masks fall away, we start to see the unseen and a whole new world - the real world opens up. At first this view is not pleasant at all, and we may question our sanity, feelings of despair, depression, shame, guilt, anger, sadness, and loneliness come up everything that we have been hiding and have suppressed for lifetimes starts to come to the surface the darkness within and without is being made conscious as we descend into the underworld. The higher we want to rise, the deeper we need to go, The more light we possess, the more darkness we uncover. It is the esoteric law of descent and ascent at the same time. If we are sincere in our process, we start to realize thatwe cannot blame others or anything externally anymore. We are asked to take full self responsibility with radical self-honesty. The more we awaken, the more we are also confronted with the illusion of control, the ego likes to cling to. There is something else, a higher divine force that is pulling us out of inertia and sleep, asking us to surrender to it while, at the same time, the lower forces of nature want to keep us chained to our past, our wounds, programs, and identifications trapped in the victim-blame cycle. The occult adverse forces tag into our lower nature using temptations, egohooks and thought injections targeting our blind spots and wounds to keep us plugged into the matrix. Ultimately, we realize that the battle is and always has been through us. We then also start to see and sense the mighty occult hyperdimensional forces beyond our five sensory cognition that manipulate not only us but all people like puppets with strings attached. We realize that there is something else hidden from the mind of ordinary consciousness that controls and manipulates human beings from occult realms - something that feeds on humanity and keeps us in a frequency prison of fear and survival-based egoic service to self-consciousness. We also start to see the wounds and traumas people carry masked and armored under a thick social mask disconnected from their bodies. In fact, we begin to see how most people suffer deep inside but don't know that they are suffering for all the attention and energy is used to escape it by dissociation and then externalizing or suppressing their pain to avoid the discomfort of feeling it within. Like unconscious drug addicts, most people are constantly looking for a fix, trying to fill a bottomless hole in, always looking for love, fulfillment, and happiness externally- just like we have done in our unconscious sleeping state, dreaming of being awake. We then start to encounter humans who don't seem to have a soul but are empty shells occupied by something else. The eyes always give it away - all of which becomes more obvious as we cleanse our perception by internal work. We don't get fooled by appearances anymore. We begin to see via inner vision and our guidance comes more and more from within, not influenced by the group hive mind or the conditioned mind with all its fragmented thought loops. We let go of comparison, ambition and competition and surrender to our soul's calling to unite with the Divine. However, not only do we experience isolation and loneliness pulling back more and more from exterior life we also become subject to the projections and attacks of people still wandering in the wilderness of the collective matrix program. We realize that longtime friends and even family members or our spouse and partner are not at all who we thought they were - that these connections were often based on the illusion of love, trauma bonds, and social programming. We realize how we mistook love for all kinds of behaviors, feelings, and things that are not love but were based on wounds and unconscious feeding mechanisms. When we tell others about our discoveries and realizations we are most often met with ridicule made fun of or even attacked and shamed. We are being told that we are negative, crazy and live in fear or engage in fear-mongering-when, in fact, this reaction is their unconscious fear of the truth projected onto us. It is their false mechanical ego personality trying to protect itself from disillusionment with occult forces, working through them, using them as unconscious matrix agents and attempting to keep us from awakening, speaking truth, and anchoring the divine force. Hence, we also realize that we cannot possibly take anything personally anymore because it is not them doing anything. Moreover, we also recognize that these attacks and interferences serve a teaching function in the bigger picture of the evolution of consciousness and in the process of our unique soul evolution for all there is are lessons. These realizations and confronting the lies we've been telling ourselves do indeed lead to disillusionment - a moral bankruptcy. It's the necessary death everyone has to go through to be reborn in the true self. It is the way out of the matrix. Yet this loneliness we experience and the inability to fit in anywhere has its purpose, including the suffering we experience. If we keep on the track with faith and trust, learning our lessons with sincerity, patience, humility, and courage, it will lead us to true love, real companionship, and a conscious connection with Spirit as we find our way back home, reuniting with the Divine. We start to experience magical positive synchronicities and there is help and support of the divine force that responds to our call and supports and guides us in unexpected ways. But we can only perceive this guidance if we get out of the tunnel vision of ego identification and out of our heads. Doors open where there have been no doors before. Out of the dark, we emerge into the light, and we realize and experience on an embodied level—not merely philosophically or intellectually—that we were never alone but under a spell of separation from all that is, as we experience and perceive the Divine in all. Godspeed. Bernhard Guenther “We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is Creator, the indivisible. And suddenly, we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.” - Hermann Hesse --------------------- Written and narrated by Bernhard Guenther Video and audio editing by Victor Fontane

Bernhard Guenther

136,740 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

War Diary Day 1,391 Blaise Metreweli, the Chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, sticks it to the Killer in The Kremlin. And all his creepy helpers. I agree with every fucking word. VPDFO! (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered) 📷 Welcome inside MI6. This iconic building, familiar to movie fans everywhere, is the home of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency. But whilst hundreds of my team pass through the entry pods each day, the truth is that most of our work happens many miles away from this place - out of sight, hidden from the world, undercover, recruiting and running agents who choose to place their trust in us, sharing secrets to make the UK and the world safer. You might pass one of our officers on the street or sit next to them on a plane when you’re about to set off on an adventure of your own, or in a foreign city taking selfies by the sights. Whether it’s in seemingly everyday places, or on the front line embedded with our military, MI6 is there. In my first few weeks, I’ve heard repeatedly that MI6 is trusted and respected globally, two things that we never take for granted. We are seen as a source of hard power, soft influence and rapid innovation. I’ve also heard that people want to believe in MI6. It’s my job to make sure they can. Today, I want to talk about human agency. We all have choices to make about how we deal with the undercurrents shaping our world. About how, in our new, faster, more dangerous and technology-mediated world, it will be our rediscovery of our shared humanity, our ability to listen, and our courage that will determine how our future unfolds. Conflict is not inevitable. Understanding human nature is in my bones. From a family shaped by devastating conflict, I grew up with a deep sense of gratitude for the UK’s precious democracy and freedom. I spent much of my childhood overseas, which is where my passion for travel and adventure began. I studied anthropology, and later psychology and AI, exploring how we make sense of the world and each other. It’s why I was drawn to MI6: it offers strong purpose, a chance to serve and a belief in the positive power of human connection. Like the Service, I’m operational to my very core. Over nearly three decades, my career has involved recruiting and running agents in hostile territory; and leading operations in warzones to defuse threats and support peace. Always in teams, always learning from others. Over the years, I’ve worked with hundreds of brilliant partners – and indeed occasionally those we’d label as adversaries – across dozens of countries, tackling weapons proliferation and terrorism. During my time at MI5, I saw close up what it takes to defend Britain from being targeted by hostile states. You’ll find many like me in my organisation: powerfully motivated to protect our precious country; curious about how our world is changing, joining dots and taking action, across domains. But it was in my last role as ‘Q’, where it was my job to turn emerging technologies from threats to opportunities that I could most see the world changing. As I dug deep into data and extraordinary innovation, I could see how technology was rapidly reshaping not just our capabilities but also conflict and trust, truth and global power. Let me lay out how I see the global issues MI6 must tackle. Because the greatest danger we face is to misunderstand the nature of the problem. Let’s be in no doubt. Our world is more dangerous and contested now than it has been for decades. Conflict is evolving and trust eroding, just as new technologies spur both competition and dependence. We are being contested from sea to space, from the battlefield to the boardroom. And even our brains, as disinformation manipulates our understanding of each other and ourselves. Across the globe, we are now confronting not one single danger, but an interlocking web of security challenges – military, technological, social, ethical even – each shaping the other in complex ways. We are now operating in a space between peace and war. This is not a temporary state or a gradual, inevitable evolution. Our world is being actively remade, with profound implications for national and international security. Institutions which were designed in the ashes of the Second World War are being challenged. New blocs and identities forming and alliances reshaping. Multipolar competition in tension with multilateral cooperation. But there’s something distinctive that will make this change unlike any other: the impact of advanced technologies, which will accelerate the pace and scale of every threat and opportunity, and increasingly, individualise them too. Advances in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and quantum computing are not only revolutionising economies but rewriting the reality of conflict, as they ‘converge’ to create science-fiction-like tools. There’s incredible promise in all this for all of us, from green technologies to hyper-personalised medicine. But also peril. AI-powered robots and drones are brilliant for scaled manufacturing but devastating on the battlefield. Discoveries that cure disease can also create new weapons. And as states race for tech supremacy, or as some algorithms become as powerful as states, those hyper-personalised tools could become a new vector for conflict and control. Power itself is becoming more diffuse, more unpredictable as control over these technologies is shifting from states to corporations, and sometimes to individuals. And at the same time, the foundations of trust in our societies are eroding. Information, once a unifying force, is increasingly weaponised. Falsehood spreads faster than fact, dividing communities and distorting reality. We live in an age of hyper-connection yet profound isolation. The algorithms flatter our biases and fracture our public squares. And as trust collapses, so does our shared sense of truth – one of the greatest losses a society can suffer. The defining challenge of the twenty-first century is not simply who wields the most powerful technologies, but who guides them with the greatest wisdom. Our security, our prosperity, and our humanity depend on it. Our world is being remade. And for the first time, we are all at the heart of it. My Service must now operate in this new context too: not just expert on hostile states, terrorism, proliferation and more, but also fluent in technology, able to anticipate the second and third order effects of advances that reshape the world in minutes not months. And as China will be a central part of the global transformation taking place this century, it is essential that we, as MI6, continue to inform the government’s understanding of China’s rise and the implications for UK national security. I’m going to break with tradition and won’t give you a global threat tour, but will focus here on Putin’s Russia. We all continue to face the menace of an aggressive, expansionist and revisionist Russia, seeking to subjugate Ukraine and harass NATO. I find it harrowing that hundreds of thousands have died, with the toll mounting every day, because of Putin’s historical distortions and his compromised desire for respect. He is dragging out negotiations and shifting the cost of war onto his own population. But Putin should be in no doubt, our support is enduring. The pressure we apply on Ukraine’s behalf will be sustained. Because it is fundamental not just to European sovereignty and security but to global stability. Alongside the grinding war, Russia is testing us in the grey zone with tactics that are just below the threshold of war. It’s important to understand their attempts to bully, fearmonger and manipulate, because it affects us all. I am talking about: Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure. Drones buzzing airports and bases. Aggressive activity in our seas, above and below the waves. State-sponsored arson and sabotage. Propaganda and influence operations that crack open and exploit fractures within societies. Countering this activity is the work of intelligence and security services across Europe and the globe. And as the Foreign Secretary made clear in a speech last week, the UK is defending itself against this Russian information warfare – sanctioning Russian media outlets pushing Kremlin narratives. The export of chaos is a feature not a bug in this Russian approach to international engagement; and we should be ready for this to continue until Putin is forced to change his calculus. So, how should we respond? It’s not enough now just to understand the world. We must shape it too. MI6 is well-positioned to respond to these threats and wider global instability. And we will continue to evolve, just as we have throughout our long history. The UK government has invested in our intelligence agencies and we are all using our unique powers to keep the British people safe. Our ‘open and connected’ partnerships across the UK Intelligence Community, with HMGCC, NSSIF and the wider tech ecosystem in the UK will become even more important – because in the digital battleground, no single organisation can prevail alone. As a global agency, MI6’s inbuilt strength is our partners and our people. The risks I have set out require us to work ever more closely with our colleagues in MI5, GCHQ and in defence and diplomacy. But also with our Five Eyes partners, with the E3, the EU, NATO, those across the Middle East, the Indo-Pacific and beyond. And with many valued partners whose identity needs to remain secret. Together, we integrate our diverse talent, data and tools to meet the threat. AI is a domain in which we will excel, using the technology to augment, not replace, our human skills. Every digital trace, every byte of data, every algorithmic decision has implications for the safety of the lives of the courageous people who work with us as officers and agents, and for the UK’s strategic advantage. Mastery of technology will infuse everything we do. Not just in our labs, but in the field, in our tradecraft, and even more importantly, in the mindset of every officer. We will become as comfortable with lines of code as we are with human sources, as fluent in Python as we are in multiple other languages. Under my leadership, MI6 will continue to attract Britain’s best and most creative minds: linguists and data scientists, case officers and engineers, behavioural experts and technologists. We need people who walk in the shoes and get in the heads of our adversaries. We need people who think differently, challenge assumptions, and act decisively. All can thrive and make a difference at MI6. At an operational level, we will sharpen our edge and impact with audacity, tapping into – if you like – our historical SOE instincts. We’re at our best when we’re hustling to make things happen, because our intelligence is most valuable when it changes reality on the ground. We will take calculated risks, where the prize is significant and the national interest clear. We will never stoop to the tactics of our opponents. But we must seek to outplay them. In every domain. In every way. So intelligence must drive action. Action must deliver advantage. And advantage must serve Britain’s security and prosperity. But at the core, our deeper contribution is also our simplest – how we unlock human agency. Our fast-paced, tech and threat-infused world now generates more heat than light. As nations retrench and rearm, we are losing opportunities to listen to what’s really going on. I’ve seen time and again throughout my career, that this is where MI6 matters most: we listen and we hear. We understand, because we take time to learn languages and cultures, complex technical and historical detail, immerse ourselves in what’s really driving the situation. Across the globe, right now, our officers are finding people with the courage to step forward, and they are taking time to sit and listen to break these tightening cycles of violence. They listen for nuance, for connection, for opportunity. Over the years, I’ve listened to terrorists who have told us how to defuse the bomb because they know that more violence won’t help. To proliferators and smugglers who’ve told us where to find the dangerous material, motivated to protect their children’s future. To people trapped in authoritarian regimes who know, deep down, that their humanity is being chipped away – and that telling us what’s really going on is an important release, allowing us all to find better ways to navigate our changing world. So, we will work with our agents. And we will continue to engage directly, and with respect, with states and organisation currently working against us. Away from the glare of the media, we will use MI6’s convening power wherever we can to make a material difference, bringing parties together to defuse tensions. But the response to the increasing risks we face won’t be delivered by the UK intelligence community alone. Wider society has a role to play too. That includes work taking place in schools across the country so our children don’t get duped by information manipulation. Let’s all check sources, consider evidence, and be alive to those algorithms that trigger intense reactions, like fear. It also means everyone in society really understanding the world we are in – a world where terrorists plot against us, where our enemies fearmonger, bully and manipulate, and the front line is everywhere. Online, on our streets, in our supply chains, in the minds and on the screens of our citizens. We must all stand together against this. As we do today with our friends in Australia after the shocking antisemitic terrorist attack this weekend. My thoughts -and those of my whole organisation – are with the family, friends and loved ones of the victims. Light will always win over darkness. In rising to meet these challenges we, in MI6, will remain anchored to our values: courage, creativity, respect and integrity. And to our principles: accountability and trust are not constraints on our work; they are the foundations of our legitimacy with the British public. Recently, I had the privilege of meeting and thanking a foreign agent who has worked with us for decades, taking extraordinary risks to help keep the UK safe. I asked why. They said simply, ‘Your values. Your integrity and respect. None of us have a future without them’. This moment reinforced to me that we must remain a very human agency. And so, to sustain that trust, MI6 will continue to be more open. Not for the sake of visibility, but because it matters – and as my MI5 counterpart Sir Ken McCallum said recently - because it is a strength. We will continue the practice of speaking publicly, broaden our channels of engagement, and sustain our focus on attracting the most diverse talent to join our Service. Transparency does not mean revealing what must remain secret. It means showing the British people who we are, what we stand for, and why our work matters. We need your trust and support for the difficult and often dangerous work our agents pursue, every day of the year. In an age of uncertainty, one constant remains: the choices made by human beings still determine the shape of the world. Yes, technology can illuminate possibilities: but information requires judgement; complexity demands clarity; and only people can decide which path to follow. The United Kingdom’s global voice has never rested solely on strength – it has rested on trust, principle, and the ability to understand others as well as ourselves. That is also the essence of intelligence: not simply knowing the world, but interpreting it through a uniquely human lens. Ours is the quiet service, the hidden service. It is one rooted in a profound belief that when human beings act with purpose and integrity, they can steady a faltering world. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was our shared belief in freedom that carried Europe forward. When acts of terror targeted open societies, it was intelligence, cooperation and resolve that preserved them. And when adversaries blur fact and falsehood, our task is to defend the space where truth can still stand. As we step into the future, the tools at our disposal will evolve. But what will always matter most is the human element – the person who stands in the shadows and says: this is right, and that is wrong. That choice – the exercise of human agency – has shaped our world before, and it will shape it again. Because in the end, it is not what we can do that defines us, but what we choose to do. Thank you. Published 15 December 2025

John Sweeney

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#BRI vs #AFC - How transitions could be key to a big away win! A big game today and its our third tough away game of the season already. Happy to get these out of the way early. Started with hard fought wins vs Villa and Sunderland and I can't see Brighton being any easier. Arsenal Defensively - Brighton's aggressive positioning (Image 1) Brighton set up in an aggressive 2-3-5 with both fullbacks tucking into the midfield line joining the pivot midfielder (Ayari or Chema). The aim is overload the backline with 5 technically capable attacking players. This will force us into a different shape with Rice probably dropping deeper to pick up Kostoulas or a central attacker. Odegaard will inturn have to drop to occupy the space Rice vacates (Image 1). Saka and Tzolis will have important tucking duties with Boscagli and Kadioglu respectively. The best way we can prevent this is by making it as cramped as possible for Brighton centrally whilst remaining confident in defending 1v1/2v2 in wider areas. Brighton's attack is fluid and very technically capable. Blindside runs are a danger. Yalcouye has proved extremely dangerous. He will be facing Konsa today and I feel the Englishman's recovery pace will prove strong against Malian. Gross is also an excellent "ghost" runner. A key tactical point: Yalcouye - The Danger Man A simple thing Brighton do is leave a man in between the double pivot of opposition teams and then look to find that man through a blindside run with a third-man combination. It can be lethal. Yalcouye has proved dangerous consistently (Image 2). It leaves a devastating dilemma for 4 players: Konsa, Gabriel, Rice and Bruno. That too, Kostoulas and Gross are important to create lanes to receive before playing the third-man (Yalcouye) Their central zones and long range shooting is another particularly dangerous aspect as they have scored 3/13 goals from zone 14 (PL). 18/80 shots (PL). Raya may have a busy day from long range shots too. Note: From deep build up they aim to draw the press out before "creating their own transitions" (what I like to refer to it as) as they rapidly increase the tempo with line-breaking passes, quick combinations and blindside movement. They are brilliant to watch. They are an incredibly direct team and look to find the most efficient way forward. So strong and so dangerous. Our midfield and backline have to remain very aware. The Transition Possibilities - Brighton's Counter-Press (Video 1) Brighton's aggressive positioning does not stop when they lose possession. Their immediate reaction is to counter-press, with Hurzeler implementing what he describes as a "5 second counter-pressing principle". The aim is simple. Swarm the area around the turnover, prevent the opposition from escaping and regain possession as high as possible. We saw a perfect example in the build-up to their second goal against United in the League Cup. A sequence of pressing actions concluded with Vuskovic aggressively following Sesko high up the pitch, while Gross remained advanced to create an overload around the ball if United attempted to play backwards or possession turned over. Included within Video 1 When Brighton get this right, it is extremely effective. Their aggressive starting positions mean they already have numbers around the ball and can immediately suffocate the opposition after losing possession. But that aggression comes with a major risk. Beating the First Press and Balls In-Behind - Where We Can Hurt Them (Video 2) If we can play through or around that initial press, enormous spaces can appear behind it. Vuskovic regularly commits extremely high, while Brighton's midfielders and fullbacks are often positioned ahead of the ball. That can leave Dunk as the deepest defender and force Brighton into open-field defensive situations they are far less comfortable dealing with. This is where players such as Raya, Bruno G and Odegaard could be crucial. One clean pass through the first wave can immediately turn a Brighton attack into an Arsenal transition, with Havertz, Saka, Calafiori and Tzolis providing the main outlets. The objective should be to turn these moments into 3v3s or 3v4s as quickly as possible, before Brighton have time to recover their structure. There is a particular opportunity down our left side. Although Vuskovic is an incredibly talented box defender and excellent on the ball, defending the channels and dealing with quick dribblers in open space are not his strongest traits. He is also the CB who steps forward far more aggressively than Dunk. That makes Tzolis vs Dunk one of the transition match-ups I expect to see most frequently. Calafiori also may find himself in these positions. Saka on the opposite flank too. I'd also expect the sprayed long balls from Raya to continue: - 5/9 long balls vs Coventry - 5/14 long balls vs Villa - 6/19 long balls vs Chelsea - 9/20 long balls vs Sunderland 62/118 (53%) attempted passes this season have been long balls (PL). Further, supporting data suggests the entire Brighton back line lacks recovery speed and is not comfortable defending large spaces. Their top speeds this season: - Dunk — 31.1 km/h - Vuskovic — 30.6 km/h - Kadioglu — 33.8 km/h - Boscagli — 31.3 km/h That is an extremely slow back line to leave exposed. Chelsea's third goal against Brighton is a perfect example. Vuskovic follows Rogers forward and, once the counter-press is beaten, Hato and Weiffer suddenly find themselves in a foot race towards Brighton's goal. Dunk is left isolated and forced to defend two options; Hato or Pedro. Pedro eventually receives and finishes the move. Included within Video 2 An Alternative That Is Unlikely But Could Genuinely Work - Viktor Gyokeres The transition moments I've described above are almost tailor-made for a profile like Viktor Gyokeres. These are exactly the situations he thrived in throughout his time at Sporting, and we saw similar qualities against Atletico in last season's UCL SF. If he can attack the space behind Brighton's press and isolate himself against slower defenders such as Vuskovic and Dunk, this could be a far more favourable game for him than his other two starts this season. His power, direct running and ability to carry the ball over distance could make him particularly dangerous if Arsenal are able to break Brighton's first line of pressure. There are obvious downsides: - Less stability in our hold-up play. - We are still likely to dominate possession for long periods, meaning many of the same issues he has faced in settled attacks would remain. It would therefore be more of a situational option than an obvious starting choice, but the specific spaces Brighton concede make his profile especially interesting for this game. Summary This is more of an alternative tactical angle I noticed while watching Brighton this season. We will likely dominate possession, but I wanted to analyse a less obvious way we could create chances and score through what seems to be Brighton's biggest weakness this season. Attacking Shape - Expect The Same Simply put, I'd expect us to remain in our 3-1-6/3-2-5 base shape with similar positional fluidity. Expect a similar attacking set-up due to the lack of changes expected within the line-up. To summarise this analysis: Brighton are devastating when pressing high up the pitch, but the large spaces they leave in behind offer an alternative route for us to hurt them. It is certainly something to keep a close eye on when the opportunity presents itself. I've worked all morning on this so a retweet would be greatly appreciated. I hope you enjoyed my analysis! 4-2 Arsenal Win. High scoring game. Video 1: Counter-Pressing Moments Video 2: Transition Weakness Moments

Nino Scouting

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‼️EXPOSED: Hunter Kozak, His WIFE Shelby, A WHEELCHAIR, And A Web Of Utah POLITICAL Connections That KEEP Leading Back to the SAME Lyman Circle😱 A major tip just came in that deserves serious attention. Hunter Kozak’s wife, Shelby A. Kozak, currently serves as Corporate Relations & Development Director for the Utah Lake Authority and previously worked with the U.S. Department of State. She is a Fulbright Fellow, holds a master’s from George Washington University, and has a résumé that runs through federal and quasi-governmental channels. Multiple people on the ground that day have stated she was present at UVU with Hunter on September 10. Here is where it gets more difficult to ignore. Shelby allegedly underwent a C-section and gave birth to a premature baby on September 7 — only three days before the event. Standard U.S. hospital stays after an uncomplicated C-section run two to four days. Early discharge is sometimes possible, but it still requires the mother to meet basic mobility and pain-management milestones. Three days later she was reportedly standing (and later sitting) outdoors at a large public rally in the Utah heat and sun for hours. Anyone who has been through major abdominal surgery knows the level of pain, limited mobility, and risk involved. Leaving the hospital that quickly to attend a crowded outdoor political event is not normal recovery behavior. Witness accounts and video place a wheelchair near their position the entire time. Hunter, Shelby, Hunter’s mother, and an entourage of acquaintances — including Tiffany Barker and Natalie Clawson — were clustered around that wheelchair. Shelby was seen standing next to it while filming and later sitting beside it. After the shot rang out, footage shows the wheelchair still there while people around it react. Remarkably, Shelby herself did not flinch, did not duck, did not look toward the direction of the sound, and did not stop filming. She continued as if nothing had happened. They brought the wheelchair into the event (consistent with the claim she had just had surgery) and then left it behind in the amphitheater afterward. That detail is hard to ignore. Hunter is familiar with standard TPUSA event security protocols. A wheelchair can move through checkpoints with far less scrutiny than a bag or case. While there is no direct proof it was used to bring anything prohibited inside — a remote device, or anything else — the combination of bringing it in for a post-surgical attendee and then abandoning it on site has raised questions for a long time, even before the people who brought it were identified. Once those people turned out to be Hunter and Shelby, the questions only got louder. The family connections are documented. Tiffany Barker (who has given multiple media interviews as a witness) is the sister of Natalie Clawson, Phil Lyman’s running mate. Another sister, Lisa Dean, is the mother of Taylor Belle Dean, who went to prom with Hunter Kozak’s brother Connor and also did interviews after the event. Tiffany’s own daughter sang the national anthem at a prior Charlie Kirk event. The Peterson, Clawson, Barker, and Dean families form a tight local political and social network. Hunter and Shelby sit inside that same web. They attended the event together as a group. Every single lead we have followed in this corner of the case keeps circling back to the same Phil Lyman network. The same surnames, the same political alliances, the same overlapping family and church ties. It is an intricate web of Utah politics and religion that functions like a closed circle — call it what you want, but the pattern is consistent. Hunter, Shelby, the Barkers, the Clawsons, the Deans, and the people around them all sit inside that same orbit. There is more. When Hunter and Shelby appeared on the Brandi & Billie show, Shelby saw Brandi’s “CIA” mug (Candace Intelligence Agency) and initially mistook it for the actual Central Intelligence Agency. After Hunter corrected her, Shelby remarked that working for the real CIA was her dream job and that she had applied multiple times. That is not a casual comment. Combined with her State Department background, Fulbright fellowship, and the rest of the pattern, it raises serious questions. Hunter has previously used the term “MIC” in an interview — a shorthand common in intelligence and defense circles. He turned down a $20,000 offer to take a polygraph. He was elevated quickly into high-profile media, including the CBS appearance with Erika Kirk. The odds of the final question landing exactly where it did, followed by the immediate national platforming of the person who asked it, continue to look statistically extreme. Utah has long been a known recruitment ground for federal agencies, particularly among tight-knit communities with strong institutional loyalty. Shelby’s State Department and Fulbright background, the wheelchair that was brought in and then left behind, her complete lack of reaction to the shot, the post-C-section timeline, the family clustering, and her own stated desire to work for the CIA all sit in the same frame. This is not an exhaustive map. It is the portion that can already be shown through public records, interviews, and footage. More eyes on it will only clarify what belongs there and what does not. Shoutout to KK who has done a tremendious amount of research for this story. Everyone please follow this lady because she's amazing!

Project Constitution

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Every Quiet Step of a Small Creature Learning to Trust Again 🐶❤️‍🩹 A puppy was placed in a small box to see whether she could walk. Her face was badly swollen, with so much soft-tissue swelling that her teeth were pressing into her cheek. When she tried to take a step, her tiny body trembled and tilted to one side. Her leg was broken. Before that, she had been found in a trash bin, with signs suggesting that her mouth had once been tightly restrained. When observing a creature that has endured a major ordeal, it is easy to become lost in the familiar emotions of pity. Yet behind this puppy’s initial silence and her smallest changes lies a remarkably subtle process of biological adaptation. Why did she spend her first day lying still without reacting, only to gradually restore her familiar behaviors in a particular sequence: wagging her tail, seeking human contact, barking, and finally climbing onto and resting her entire body on another dog? Her recovery did not happen as an instant transformation, but as a series of cautious steps by a creature learning how to adapt in order to survive. Throughout her first day in her new home, the puppy, later named Junie, remained completely silent and showed little outward emotion. She chose stillness. She did not whine, ask for food, or seek attention. For a young dog that normally depends on others for survival, this silence was notable. When a puppy experiences major trauma and loses the protection of her mother, she may become withdrawn. This is not necessarily a sign of giving up, but can be a form of self-protection and energy conservation. In nature, making sounds or moving while injured and without the protection of a group can increase the risk of being detected by predators. Remaining quiet can therefore be the safest response. The first change appeared on the morning of the second day, after Junie had her broken leg placed in a cast by a veterinarian. When her rescuer approached, her tail moved slightly. That small movement did not mean that all fear had disappeared. It was simply the first form of communication to return. It was like a tentative test of whether the space around her had become safe enough before she decided to take more familiar steps, such as approaching or seeking affection. By the third and fourth days, Junie began walking toward her caregiver and climbing into her lap. This showed that she was moving from simply lying still and enduring her condition toward actively seeking a source of security. Once the people around her no longer seemed threatening, her need for warmth and protection began to re-emerge. However, humans were not the only ones helping Junie learn how to be a puppy again. The other dogs in the household also became a kind of natural teacher. Puppies learn social rules, bite inhibition, and body-language cues from other dogs, often through direct interaction. Watching the older dogs rest calmly, move at an easy pace, and respond gently to sounds and movements around them could help Junie gradually settle and adjust to the rhythm of her surroundings. One of the most significant moments came when Junie barked for the first time while playing on the bed. The bark did not appear when she was frightened or in pain. It emerged during a moment of play. This suggests that Junie was not merely recovering physically; she was beginning to use her voice again when she felt safe enough to engage in play. After her cast was removed, Junie joined the entire group on a trip to the beach. There, a distinctive habit appeared and continued as she grew older: Junie would often relax and place her entire body weight across the backs or bodies of the other dogs. Animals that have experienced early isolation or lost a reliable source of safety may seek close physical contact as a way of regulating themselves. Pressure from another body can provide a sense of physical security and help reduce tension. The fact that the larger dogs in the household willingly accepted Junie’s behavior without pushing her away suggests that her gesture became part of the group’s way of expressing closeness. Junie’s recovery shows how a creature that has experienced trauma can gradually rebuild its sense of safety, one small piece at a time. Even after growing up, Junie continued climbing onto the backs of the other dogs and resting her full weight against them. It was more than simply an affectionate gesture. When an animal finds a group willing to carry its full weight without pushing it away, that physical contact can become a lasting anchor of safety.

Beauty of music and nature 🌺🌺

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If you watch this ~50 minute screen recording closely (yeah, I know, it's long; there are also some times when my computer was very slow and laggy, just skip past that part. And at one point I had to run and get my 9-month-old a new bottle and left it on a boring screen, sorry!), I believe you can see real signs of the kind of runaway, recursive AI self-improvement that people have been warning of for a while (Mr. Kurzweil most notably and prophetically). Why do I say that? What's different now? Well, there's a reason my set of agent coding tooling is called the Flywheel. These tools all mutually self-reinforce each other. And they all flow directly into my ntm tool (short for "named_tmux_manager"), which acts as a sort of integration point and nerve center for the tools (this is becoming more true by the minute as I'm now seriously working on ntm). Now, ntm was something I started making to automate some aspects of my workflow, but it was the kind of thing where, until it was perfect, it sort of just slowed me down. So I didn't actually use it even though I kept working on it and trying to improve it, and suggested to users that they try it in my tutorials. Well anyway, I finally got around to "dogfooding" ntm last night, and now it's going to get very dramatically better at an alarming rate. Some of that is from applying my "idea wizard" prompt to generate more useful features and building that stuff out and addressing obvious pain points I encountered during my newfound usage of the tool. But a lot comes from my realization that, once again, ntm's true utility is not as a tool for ME, but for an agent. That is, ntm lets one instance of Claude Code or Codex act as, well, me, do the things that I had been doing manually. Do I wish I had started using ntm earlier? No, for two big reasons: 1) Doing it manually helped me build up my intuition massively, which directly led me down the path of creating useful prompt strategies and workflows; these often began as ad-hoc prompts that I realized could be generalized and made more versatile/universal. Lesson: don't prematurely automate until you have an intimate, intuitive feel for your "core value-add loop." Otherwise you'll have a fully automated system quickly that efficiently and automatically does a stupid or otherwise sub-optimal thing. 2) My eyes have been opened to the beauty and power of Skills. I'm not talking about your garden-variety skills that are just a simple markdown file. I'm talking about true tour-de-force directories of perfectly structured and organized files that are filled with good information, insights, workflows, etc., but presented in a way that is highly optimized for consumption by AI agents, with extreme attention paid to things like perfect progressive disclosure, token density, agent-ergonomics, agent-intuitiveness, etc. And also Skills that go way beyond markdown files, with full integration into Claude Code where it makes sense via hooks, sub-agents, and even Python scripts. These kinds of skills are a qualitative difference in expressive power and usefulness and a total game changer. They are also effectively composable, creating almost an algebra of skills that let you use them together in powerful ways. I'm working on a subscription service website and CLI tool now to share what I've learned here most effectively, stay tuned for that in the coming days. Anyway, I now know what to make and how to make it. So, getting back to that screen recording, what does it show that makes me claim recursive self-improvement is here? If you keep your eye on the upper left tmux pane, that's the "controller" agent. It is using ntm to control all the other panes which are also running Claude Code (but ntm fully supports other agent types like Codex and Gemini-CLI, and it's trivially easy to mix and match them if you wanted to have, say, 8 CCs and 6 Codexes for writing the code and 3 Gemini-CLIs for reviewing code.) Now, there's nothing that crazy about this much so far. But where it starts to get very cool is that as the session continues and we encounter real-world problems, things like my ridiculously overloaded computer that keeps hanging for long periods, Claude Code instances that crash and get into a frozen, unresponsive state, it can learn from that. And you can see it using my skill writing skill to refine its ntm vibe coding skill in real time. And then take that skill and refine it to be more intuitive for itself. Or use my cass tool skill to search all the session histories to look for problems that came up and strategize how to solve them. The most useful part was when, towards the end of the session, I told it to reflect on all the things we had done and problems we encountered. One way it can usefully leverage those reflections is by improving its ntm vibe coding skill to make it cover more edge cases and exigencies. But the other, more fundamental, way is for it to conceive of and design the optimal new features and functionality for ntm itself so that the tool embodies those lessons in a first-class way. This offloads cognition from its brain onto its tooling, just like how a person can lean on spellcheck or a calculator. It codifies correct, effective reasoning at the tool level, where it's more reliable and robust and repeatable. And btw, did you notice what code base it was working on the whole time? It was none other than ntm itself! So as it worked on its own tool, it had reflections and ideas about how to further improve the tool. Now, it could have just as easily gotten those insights and ideas while using ntm to work on a different project, but the fact that it was working on itself is almost gloriously meta and recursive. So by the end, after learning from tending to a big group of agent workers (btw, I have previously emphasized doing everything in a really distributed/decentralized way, where each fungible agent gets identical marching orders that tell it to use my bv tool to find the optimal bead to work on. This does work very well, but occasionally results in some contention and overlap from thundering herd, or at least wastes time/tokens/communication in avoiding that before the agents waste time duplicating work. But in this new ntm-oriented workflow, I was able to have the controller agent in the upper left use bv itself and then optimally parcel out the instructions to each agent so that we could know for sure that there's no overlap), I ended up with a ton of new beads for new features, which I had it optimize and polish a few times. Now I can swap to a new Claude Max account and have the swarm implement all those new features! It should only take a couple passes like the one shown in the screen recording to get everything implemented. Then we can rinse and repeat, having the agent read through the full session histories of each agent and its experience from its own session in sending ntm commands and seeing how they worked out in practice, to come up with the next batch of changes to both its ntm vibe coding skill AND to the ntm tool itself. Do you see how rapidly this turns into Skynet? My mistake earlier was in focusing on making myself a "faster horse" as Henry Ford used to joke about customers wanting before he showed them what they should really want (a Model T). That is, something that would make my experience nicer while doing this agent swarm based development workflow. But the obvious lesson is that you should make all your tooling agent-first because the agents are just better at this stuff. You can still watch, and of course I did add a ridiculous number of very nice human-centric features to ntm that you'll be seeing in the next day or two, but those are really kind of "for fun" to make us humans feel better about the process. All the real value-add is happening "by agents, for agents." PS: Towards the end, you can see me switch to my Mac and tell Claude to improve the skill that I made earlier today for taking the mkv screen recording files from OBS Studio and muxing them into MP4 files for sharing, while downloading songs from YouTube to serve as the background music. I made it so it can also grab the thumbnails and generate little song credit cards that show up in the lower right corner. This worked perfectly the first time! I'll include some screenshots in a response post showing how that worked, but it was awesome to witness. Skills are POWERFUL. I'll also post a link to this video on YouTube if you prefer to watch it there.

Jeffrey Emanuel

25,483 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

I think I can finally report some success training a quite accurate IDM capable of recovering keystrokes from Minecraft gameplay, even in quite PvP-heavy situations. At this point the model does not only know what keys are pressed to the extent reasonably discernible, it also knows how fast it is moving in 3D space at all times, even when knockback is mixing with the self-move impulse. Now, recovering keystrokes from normal external capture footage is just about impossible. E.g. W/A/S/D does exactly nothing during partial tick frames and jumping mid-air is also equally useless, so asking the model to recover key down states is inherently unreasoanble. Mouse deltas are also completely arbitrary units, as game mouse sensitivity introduces an arbitrary scale factor into the equation. The only good option is to think carefully about your model-environment contract, and only record "logical actions", not raw keystrokes. So here's a few unfortunate lessons I had to learn in roughly this order. - Choose good units. (bad: mouse deltas, good: delta radians [yes, you will need game-internal state]) - Capture from inside the main game loop and read the game fbo to get consistent frame-action pairing. Doing post-mortem pairing is hopeless. - Carefully define when you think keystrokes actually have an effect. (jump only works on ground, when flying or in water etc.) More subtle: The key may already be down, but no tick has happened yet to actually use the value. Hence: ignore Seperate gamestate into "fast and slow-moving" components. E.g. movement is likely tick based, camera rotation is very likely updated every frame in essentially every game ever. - Think about your frame-action correspondance contract (How old is the frame in relation to the inputs you capture? Will double or tripple buffering affect you?) Think about the game loop timeline, where you are sampling, how old the data you are reading is, and where the ticks are happening around you. Language models used to simply not have a model-environment contract, but even now with the model "living" in a designated harness, the contract still boils down to formatting, and tool implementation intrinsics. While also important, it is still quite a bit more obvious because the violations are in some way shape or form reflected as text you can actually see. - ffmpeg dropping frames cummulatively screws the model the further you get into the sequence because your targets are now shifted. If you can't encode the video in real-time, too bad. - Sodium has a frames in flight system different from vanilla Minecraft, which will also offset your targets from your frames. (there goes that data...) - Models are succeptible to latency. If there is too big of a delay between action and on-screen reflection, your performance degrades. At this point I realize ~100hours of gameplay is essentially no longer usable as a dataset. You can train on this data, but all you'll get is a mushy mess. However, some good news: - Making the model predict physics gamestate scalars helps the model generalize. For instantaneous events like jump, it's unreasonable to ask the model emit a short burst of jump=true at exactly the right time, however if you also predict your current y-velocity, the model has supervision signal for the "latent" from which that onground jump becomes apparent. Recovering x/z motion is also somewhat easier than unmixing it into plausible keystrokes for inertia-heavy player controller logic. - Regressing physics gamestate scalars also seems to make your dataset "bigger". While pure keystroke classification will overfit quickly, predicting exact physics gamestate scalars forces the model to generalize more and you can tolerate far more epochs before validation loss starts to stall out. This is the only reason why it was bearable to dump 100h+ of dataset hours and replace it with ~3 hours of gameplay after the 4th revision of the file format (yeah...) and somehow still have better performance. Now, you might be asking, "isn't this brittle?" and the answer is yesn't. Frame-action correspondance matters for training, but not so much during inference. So as long as you are sampling in roughly the same interval as your training data, you aren't violating any hard contract per-se. Somewhere around the frames ticks are happening, and during training you capture various tick-capture offset relations per random chance, so nothing is too obviously wrong here. HOWEVER, you will get screwed by gui scale, shaders, resource packs, "shit that recording is 1920x1040 because somebody doesn't know fullscreen exists" and other unfortunate edge cases of reality. But I suppose this is the role of dataset size. If all those "contract violations" that a youtube video has compared to the training data are addressed, I think this is a way to turn Youtube into a labeled dataset. I could never shake the feeling that VPT is a sound idea in practice, while never having been properly executed, and I think one reason why it hasn't is because that label boostrapping part is just a pain in the butt to get right. Now, what the player is doing is of course not the only label you can extract from video, but it has to be one of the targets predicted during pretraining to "align" the pretraining objective. Some notes on the video here, the colored dots on the analog visualizer are the ground truth, while the gray dot is the model prediction. Green means correct prediction, red means incorrect prediction at that frame. Model P(key) reports how wrong the prediction is from green (0.0) to red (1.0). You will also notice that during periods of rapid slow down, left and right actions become close to irrecoverable, because there is just that little motion. And some jump actions are not predicted correctly because I got the detection condition for jump events wrong... (duh) LMB/RMB for other than sustained events (like item-consume and block break) also seem to be hopelessly irrecoverable for now. Swing was supposed to do the same thing as motion y did for jump, but its too well behaved as an increasing counter. Maybe partial-tick interpolated values work better (v5 file format then... ugh..)

mike

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