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2024 NFL Draft: Bill Belichick had highly rated QB prospect atop draft board before Patriots exit, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/ne…

2024 NFL Draft: Bill Belichick had highly rated QB prospect atop draft board before Patriots exit, per report
Will the Pats change course with Jerod Mayo now in charge?

"Britain's economy is highly London-centric. Without the capital, the UK would be poorer per head than Mississippi"
I wonder what these stats look like if you separate out Scotland. It's our energy they're using.

contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

Survey of 3,600 US adults: 73% say a free press is very important, while 84% say media is at least somewhat influenced by corporations and financial interests (Kirsten Eddy/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Most Americans say a free press is highly important to society
Ahead of World Press Freedom Day, 73% of U.S. adults say the freedom of the press is extremely or very important to the well-being of society.

Galactic Structure From Binary #Pulsar Accelerations - Beyond Smooth Models: #DarkMatter find #MilkyWay galaxy is highly dynamic: https://www.uah.edu/news/items/uah-researchers-using-pulsar-measure-ments-to-probe-dark-matter-find-milky-way-galaxy-is-highly-dynamic

Highly-Efficient Persistent FIFO Queues
Panagiota Fatourou, Nikos Giachoudis, George Mallis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17674 https://…

Highly-Efficient Persistent FIFO Queues
In this paper, we study the question whether techniques employed, in a conventional system, by state-of-the-art concurrent algorithms to avoid contended hot spots are still efficient for recoverable computing in settings with Non-Volatile Memory (NVM). We focus on concurrent FIFO queues that have two end-points, head and tail, which are highly contended. We present a persistent FIFO queue implementation that performs a pair of persistence instructions per operation (enqueue or dequeue). The a…

AiRLIHockey: Highly Reactive Contact Control and Stochastic Optimal Shooting
Julius Jankowski, Ante Marić, Sylvain Calinon
https://arXiv.org/abs/2401.14964

AiRLIHockey: Highly Reactive Contact Control and Stochastic Optimal Shooting
Air hockey is a highly reactive game which requires the player to quickly reason over stochastic puck and contact dynamics. We implement a hierarchical framework which combines stochastic optimal control for planning shooting angles and sampling-based model-predictive control for continuously generating constrained mallet trajectories. Our agent was deployed and evaluated in simulation and on a physical setup as part of the Robot Air-Hockey challenge competition at NeurIPS 2023.

ServiceNow, Hugging Face, and Nvidia release free code-generating AI models StarCoder2-3B/7B/15B, the first two of which can run on most modern consumer GPUs (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/28/starcoder-2-is-a-…

StarCoder 2 is a code-generating AI that runs on most GPUs | TechCrunch
StarCoder 2, the follow-up to StarCoder, is a new family of code-generating models that runs highly efficiently.

A highly efficient computational approach for part-scale microstructure predictions in Ti-6Al-4V additive manufacturing
Sebastian D. Proell, Julian Brotz, Martin Kronbichler, Wolfgang A. Wall, Christoph Meier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17580

A highly efficient computational approach for part-scale microstructure predictions in Ti-6Al-4V additive manufacturing
Fast and efficient simulations of metal additive manufacturing (AM) processes are highly relevant to exploring the full potential of this promising manufacturing technique. The microstructure composition plays an important role in characterizing the part quality and deriving mechanical properties. When complete parts are simulated, one often needs to resort to strong simplifications such as layer-wise heating due to the large number of simulated time steps compared to the small time step sizes.…

ServiceNow, Hugging Face, and Nvidia release free code-generating AI models StarCoder2-3B/7B/15B, the first two of which can run on most modern consumer GPUs (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/28/starcoder-2-is-a-…

StarCoder 2 is a code-generating AI that runs on most GPUs | TechCrunch
StarCoder 2, the follow-up to StarCoder, is a new family of code-generating models that runs highly efficiently.