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Beckstrom initially did not want to go to the capital because she was concerned about feeling lonely away from home.
“She hated it. She cried about it,” her boyfriend said.
But with time, she came to enjoy the deployment and bonded with other troops.
In her spare time, he said, she visited monuments and museums, taking pictures and soaking up D.C.’s history.
She was especially interested in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
Sarah Beckstrom, the slain West Virginia National Guard member, took a keen interest in criminal justice and dreamed of one day becoming an FBI agent.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Rick Mason and Rare Feelings:
🎵 Funk Ain’t Being Funky
#RickMasonandRareFeelings

SpinGPT: A Large-Language-Model Approach to Playing Poker Correctly
Narada Maugin, Tristan Cazenave
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22387 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

SpinGPT: A Large-Language-Model Approach to Playing Poker Correctly
The Counterfactual Regret Minimization (CFR) algorithm and its variants have enabled the development of pokerbots capable of beating the best human players in heads-up (1v1) cash games and competing with them in six-player formats. However, CFR's computational complexity rises exponentially with the number of players. Furthermore, in games with three or more players, following Nash equilibrium no longer guarantees a non-losing outcome. These limitations, along with others, significantly restric…

Something you can bring with you the next time you go to a museum.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/ways-of-seeing-seasonal-feeling-2

Another metadata quest: The #Städel #Museum in #Frankfurt has some very fine digital services (cf.

In 2014, NASA awarded a Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract to Boeing to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station with its #Starliner spacecraft; as part of its contract, Boeing was awarded up to six crewed flights to the orbital complex - after a thorough evaluation, the definitive order has been adjusted to four missions, with the remaining two available as options: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/11/24/nasa-boeing-modify-commercial-crew-contract/. The next Starliner flight, known as Starliner-1, will be used by NASA to deliver necessary cargo to the orbital laboratory and allow in-flight validation of the system upgrades implemented following the Crew Flight Test mission last year - NASA and Boeing are targeting no earlier than April 2026 to fly the uncrewed Starliner-1 pending completion of rigorous test, certification, and mission readiness activities.

Desiderata for a biomedical knowledge network: opportunities, challenges and future Directions
Chunlei Wu, Hongfang Liu, Jason Flannick, Mark A. Musen, Andrew I. Su, Lawrence Hunter, Thomas M. Powers, Cathy H. Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22424

Desiderata for a biomedical knowledge network: opportunities, challenges and future Directions
Knowledge graphs, collectively as a knowledge network, have become critical tools for knowledge discovery in computable and explainable knowledge systems. Due to the semantic and structural complexities of biomedical data, these knowledge graphs need to enable dynamic reasoning over large evolving graphs and support fit-for-purpose abstraction, while establishing standards, preserving provenance and enforcing policy constraints for actionable discovery. A recent meeting of leading scientists di…

"I have no internet on my machine anymore". OK, on-site visit.
Me: "What's that connection here?"
"Oh yeah, that colleague added a Wireguard Tunnel on my PC so I can access his server."
M-hm. Let's check the config...
AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0, ::/0
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?