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Practise Creatively, Befriend Problem Spots & Create Your Own Stage - Practising the Piano https://practisingthepiano.com/practise-creat…

Practise Creatively, Befriend Problem Spots & Create Your Own Stage - Practising the Piano
Our online events line-up for May features exciting workshops to help you solve problems, practise more creatively, enjoy performing & more!

Purgatory, tied to online community The Com, claims responsibility for swatting attacks on US universities, airports, and more, charging $20 to $95 per incident (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/purgatory-gores-swatting-us-universities/

This Is the Group That's Been Swatting US Universities
WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of an online group called Purgatory, which charged as little as $20 to call in fake threats against schools.

from my link log —
Intra-procedural lifetime and borrowing analysis in Clang.
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-intra-procedural-lifetime-analysis-in-clang/86291
saved 2025-07-15

ProactiveEval: A Unified Evaluation Framework for Proactive Dialogue Agents
Tianjian Liu, Fanqi Wan, Jiajian Guo, Xiaojun Quan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20973 https://

ProactiveEval: A Unified Evaluation Framework for Proactive Dialogue Agents
Proactive dialogue has emerged as a critical and challenging research problem in advancing large language models (LLMs). Existing works predominantly focus on domain-specific or task-oriented scenarios, which leads to fragmented evaluations and limits the comprehensive exploration of models' proactive conversation abilities. In this work, we propose ProactiveEval, a unified framework designed for evaluating proactive dialogue capabilities of LLMs. This framework decomposes proactive dialogue in…

Erst der Papst und jetzt Trump?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-says-hes-ready-to-be-president-if-donald-trumps-health-fails/

Vinay Prasad,
a critic of broadly administering coronavirus shots
who became the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine and gene therapy regulator in May,
was ousted Tuesday,
according to two people familiar with the situation.

Prasad had recently come under fire from some Republicans and conservative activists,
including far-right activist Laura Loomer,
over his approach to drug approvals and his previous support for Democratic politicians.

Vocal FDA critic who became top agency vaccine regulator abruptly departs
Vinay Prasad, who became prominent as a critic of coronavirus vaccine policy, briefly served as the FDA’s top regulator of vaccines, gene therapies and the blood supply.

Visual prostheses in the era of artificial intelligence technology https://www.dovepress.com/visual-prostheses-in-the-era-of-artificial-intelligence-technology-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-EB "stimulat…

Visual Prostheses in the Era of Artificial Intelligence Technology | EB
the lack of consensus over their efficacy for improving RCPs, highlights a significant knowledge gap that needs to be addressed.

The Guitar Practice Blueprint - GUITARHABITS
#guitar #technique

The Guitar Practice Blueprint - GUITARHABITS
Master your guitar practice routine with The Guitar Practice Blueprint. Build technique, play better, and make every session count.

Polish presidential election too close to call as campaigning enters final hours
Polls show difference between
pro-European Rafał Trzaskowski
and nationalist Karol Nawrocki within the margin of error
https://www.t…

Freeing Your Piano Technique - Practising the Piano
#piano
https://practisingthepiano.com/freeing

Freeing Your Piano Technique - Practising the Piano
Fred Karpoff shares some ideas from his recent workshop on how a whole body approach to technique facilitates effortless piano playing.