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Angry Birds: completed!
I have a strange sense of déjŠ vu. Having completed Angry Birds back in 2010, Rovio continued to update the game with new secrets, levels, and abilities, bringing in new birds and themes from other Angry Bird titles. It has always been the case that a sequel would introduce new concepts, but now, with the ability to update old games, those new concepts can feed backwards as well.

Landschaftlich schönes #FotoDerWoche und eine provokante Frage zu ländlichen Räumen.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index.php/2024/…

Photo of the week: Friedrichshafen - XII
Am vergangenen Sonntag/Montag fand in Wangen im Allgäu eine Fraktionsvorstandsklausur statt, zu der ich mit Zug und Bus angereist bin. Das geht, dauert aber. Von Freiburg aus war die beste Verbindung die über Basel, dann die Bodenseegürtelbahn bis Friedrichshafen, von dort mit einem Bus bis Wangen.

Russische Medien: Hochhaus in Belgorod schwer beschädigt
In der russischen Grenzregion Belgorod ist Berichten zufolge ein mehrstöckiges Wohnhaus bei einem mutmaßlichen Angriff schwer beschädigt worden. Das meldeten die russischen Agenturen Ria Nowosti und Interfax übereinstimmend unter Berufung auf Einsatzkräfte vor Ort. Gouverneur Wjatscheslaw Gladkow machte für den Beschuss die ukrainische Armee verantwortlich. "Die Stadt u…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Selenskyj berichtet von Ausweitung der Kämpfe ++
Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj bestätigt neue Kämpfe nördlich von Charkiw. Die Armee leiste Widerstand. Im russischen Belgorod ist ein Wohnhaus nach einem Angriff eingestürzt. Der Liveblog zum Nachlesen.

Unlocking three key insights on new Packers running back Josh Jacobs https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/unlocking_three_key_insights_on_new_packers_running_back_josh_jacobs/s1_17313_40094798…

Unlocking three key insights on new Packers running back Josh Jacobs
The Green Bay Packers are set to sign running back Josh Jacobs to a four-year, $48 million contract. The deal has $14.8 million in guarantees, just the year 1 money, including a $12.5 million signing bonus. We have already talked about the corresponding Packers decision to move on from Aaron Jones, but there are still some questions to be answered about Jacobs himself. And to tackle those questions, we invited Justin Churchill, who covers the Las Vegas Raiders (and a lot more) for A to Z Sport…

Cioè, gli Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats tornano con un nuovo disco dopo sei anni di silenzio e cos'è? La colonna sonora di un immaginario film poliziottesco/giallo italiano degli anni Settanta con dialoghi originali di Edwige Fenech e Franco Nero :0520:
Mannaggia alle fisse
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Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats are back, announce first album in six years
Inspired by '70s Italian cinema, 'Nell' Ora Blu' will be out May 10

Biz Insider (paywalled) article:
Hur indicated Biden may have forgotten when his son, Beau, died. The transcripts indicate that wasn't the case.
**As he continued to think back nearly a decade, Biden wondered aloud, "What month did Beau die?" before correctly answering his own question, saying: "Oh God, May 30."**
Others present affirmed the year, and shortly after, Hur suggested they take a break, per the Post.

I am so angry at how certain politicians are combining with misinformation/disinformation sources to create huge confusion and misplaced anger and media hyperbole about the carbon tax in BC and Canada, especially when it comes to fuel for "normal" cars and trucks driven by "normal" people.
If you believe the carbon tax is the only or even largest reason gas prices are rising, then you have been lied to.
Here are some carbon tax and fuel facts in BC:
1) F…

This is sadly entirely accurate, and the whole problem...
(Edit: Original is here. Go follow the artist. https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/112417993863156684)

Angry Birds: completed!
I have a strange sense of déjŠ vu. Having completed Angry Birds back in 2010, Rovio continued to update the game with new secrets, levels, and abilities, bringing in new birds and themes from other Angry Bird titles. It has always been the case that a sequel would introduce new concepts, but now, with the ability to update old games, those new concepts can feed backwards as well.

Bias-Augmented Consistency Training Reduces Biased Reasoning in Chain-of-Thought
James Chua, Edward Rees, Hunar Batra, Samuel R. Bowman, Julian Michael, Ethan Perez, Miles Turpin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05518

Bias-Augmented Consistency Training Reduces Biased Reasoning in Chain-of-Thought
While chain-of-thought prompting (CoT) has the potential to improve the explainability of language model reasoning, it can systematically misrepresent the factors influencing models' behavior--for example, rationalizing answers in line with a user's opinion without mentioning this bias. To mitigate this biased reasoning problem, we introduce bias-augmented consistency training (BCT), an unsupervised fine-tuning scheme that trains models to give consistent reasoning across prompts with and witho…