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Post-leave burnout recovery, week 2:
Lots of mixed feelings in returning to work. I really missed my team and my job. Work and the work schedule are each somewhat helpful for recovery. 1:1s with reports and partnerships are a strong highlight of my week!
Motivation while recovering from the tail end of burnout is hard for some types of work as a manager. Burnout makes motivation hard as it is, and lack of context on what's going on makes that harder, and both of those exacerba…

The FT confirms plans to wind down The Next Web's events and media business by the end of September "following a strategic review"; the FT bought TNW in 2019 (Amy Lewin/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/the-next-web-shuts-down/

"A PlayStation game is now the best-selling game on Xbox."
This is like the end of Hundred Years' War ... enemy banners flying, no one admits defeat, but the battlefield’s empty.
https://www.theverge.com/news/770311/plays

CAD model of the #tricycle subframe. The chain ring is very nearly as big as the front wheel (80 teeth!). It drives an epicyclic gearbox mounted in the nose of the vehicle, which also has a disc brake. The epicyclic will drive a secondary chain via a sprocket mounted to the left hand spoke flange, but this is not yet shown. There will be no ratchet on the secondary chain, so the disk brake on the…

SEC filing: Snowflake says an executive shared unauthorized financial guidance with an Instagram influencer; an Oct. 26 video interview features CRO Mike Gannon (Alice Tecotzky/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/influencer-inte…

An influencer's interview with Snowflake's CRO triggered an 8K filing
Mike Gannon said that Snowflake will end the year with just over $4.5 billion in revenue and that "we're getting to $10 billion in a couple of years."

Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Decision-Making Strategy Considering User Satisfaction Feedback in Demand Response Program
Xin Li, Li Ding, Qiao Lin, Zhen-Wei Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02946

Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Decision-Making Strategy Considering User Satisfaction Feedback in Demand Response Program
Demand response providers (DRPs) are intermediaries between the upper-level distribution system operator and the lower-level participants in demand response (DR) programs. Usually, DRPs act as leaders and determine electricity pricing strategies to maximize their economic revenue, while end-users adjust their power consumption following the pricing signals. However, this profit-seeking bi-level optimization model often neglects the satisfaction of end-users participating in DR programs. In addi…

Science Lab: How to fix NFL overtime rules, end tie games forever https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/science-lab-how-to-fix-nfl-overtime-rules-end-tie-games-forever

Superdiffusive fractional dynamics: Unveiling regularity results in systems with general positive self-adjoint operators
Edgardo Alvarez, Ciprian G. Gal, Valentin Keyantuo, Mahamadi Warma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02733

Superdiffusive fractional dynamics: Unveiling regularity results in systems with general positive self-adjoint operators
We investigate the following fractional order in time Cauchy problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \mathbb{D}_{t}^{α}u(t)+Au(t)=f(u(t)), & 1<α<2, \\ u(0)=u_{0},\,\,\,u^{\prime }(0)=u_{1}. & \end{cases}% \end{equation*}% where $\mathbb{D}_{t}^{α}u(\cdot )$ is the Caputo time-fractional derivative of order $α\in (1, 2)$ of the function $u$. Such problems are increasingly used in concrete models in applied sciences, notably phenomena with memory effects. We obtain results on existence and re…

Inferring Dynamic Physical Properties from Video Foundation Models
Guanqi Zhan, Xianzheng Ma, Weidi Xie, Andrew Zisserman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02311 https://

Inferring Dynamic Physical Properties from Video Foundation Models
We study the task of predicting dynamic physical properties from videos. More specifically, we consider physical properties that require temporal information to be inferred: elasticity of a bouncing object, viscosity of a flowing liquid, and dynamic friction of an object sliding on a surface. To this end, we make the following contributions: (i) We collect a new video dataset for each physical property, consisting of synthetic training and testing splits, as well as a real split for real world …

Science Lab: How to fix NFL overtime rules, end tie games forever https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/science-lab-how-to-fix-nfl-overtime-rules-end-tie-games-forever