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Why Every Sunday Feels Like Groundhog Day for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-every-sunday-feels-like-groundhog-day

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

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Interview buiten:
Knap dat Tim probeert om de ideeen van ja21 tot concrete invoerbare ideeën om te zetten met Eerdmans.
Onder de oneliners zit niets om iets te bouwen wat in de buurt van beleid komt.
Maar de grondwet moet wel uitgangspunt zijn. 🙃

Shedding light on classical shadows: learning photonic quantum states
Hugo Thomas, Ulysse Chabaud, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07240 https://

Shedding light on classical shadows: learning photonic quantum states
Efficient learning of quantum state properties is both a fundamental and practical problem in quantum information theory. Classical shadows have emerged as an efficient method for estimating properties of unknown quantum states, with rigorous statistical guarantees, by performing randomized measurement on a few number of copies. With the advent of photonic technologies, formulating efficient learning algorithms for such platforms comes out as a natural problem. Here, we introduce a classical sh…

Resolution scaling governs DINOv3 transfer performance in chest radiograph classification
Soroosh Tayebi Arasteh, Mina Shaigan, Christiane Kuhl, Jakob Nikolas Kather, Sven Nebelung, Daniel Truhn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07191

Resolution scaling governs DINOv3 transfer performance in chest radiograph classification
Self-supervised learning (SSL) has advanced visual representation learning, but its value in chest radiography, a high-volume imaging modality with fine-grained findings, remains unclear. Meta's DINOv3 extends earlier SSL models through Gram-anchored self-distillation. Whether these design choices improve transfer learning for chest radiography has not been systematically tested. We benchmarked DINOv3 against DINOv2 and ImageNet initialization across seven datasets (n>814,000). Two representati…

DOJ actively preparing to issue grand jury subpoenas relating to John Brennan investigation: sources (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-actively-preparing-issue-grand-jury-subpoenas-relating-john-brennan-investigation-sources
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p81#a251106p81

A Broader View of Thompson Sampling
Yanlin Qu, Hongseok Namkoong, Assaf Zeevi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07208 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07208

A Broader View of Thompson Sampling
Thompson Sampling is one of the most widely used and studied bandit algorithms, known for its simple structure, low regret performance, and solid theoretical guarantees. Yet, in stark contrast to most other families of bandit algorithms, the exact mechanism through which posterior sampling (as introduced by Thompson) is able to "properly" balance exploration and exploitation, remains a mystery. In this paper we show that the core insight to address this question stems from recasting Thompson Sa…

In-flight performance of the IXPE telescopes
Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Enrico Costa, Sergio Fabiani, Philip Kaaret, Stephen L. O'Dell, Brian D. Ramsey, Paolo Soffitta, Luca Baldini, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Alessandro Di Marco, Fabio La Monaca, Luca Latronico, Alberto Manfreda, Fabio Muleri, John Rankin, Carmelo Sgr\`o, Stefano Silvestri, Martin C. Weisskopf
https://…

In-flight performance of the IXPE telescopes
We present a comprehensive characterization of the on-orbit imaging performance of the three telescopes on board the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). Each telescope comprises a Wolter-I mirror module assembly and a Gas Pixel Detector focal-plane detector unit (DU). We analyze data from point-like X-ray sources and fit a composite point spread function (PSF) model that we compare with ground calibrations. We study the dependence of the PSF parameters and of the angular resolution, in t…

we drove to negaunee ("iron city") and shopped a little. (i bought a 1963 henry mancini record and a 1930 pamphlet, "how to throw a party.")
negaunee has some cool old buildings.

Explaining raw data complexity to improve satellite onboard processing
Adrien Dorise, Marjorie Bellizzi, Adrien Girard, Benjamin Francesconi, St\'ephane May
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06858

Explaining raw data complexity to improve satellite onboard processing
With increasing processing power, deploying AI models for remote sensing directly onboard satellites is becoming feasible. However, new constraints arise, mainly when using raw, unprocessed sensor data instead of preprocessed ground-based products. While current solutions primarily rely on preprocessed sensor images, few approaches directly leverage raw data. This study investigates the effects of utilising raw data on deep learning models for object detection and classification tasks. We intro…