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A Comparison of Three Approaches to Teaching Expressiveness
https://bulletproofmusician.com/a-comparison-of-three-approaches-to-teaching-expressiveness/?utm_source=flipb…

A Comparison of Three Approaches to Teaching Expressiveness
A 2006 study compares three different approaches to teaching expressiveness, and identifies some pros and cons of each.

Comprehensive Comparison Network: a framework for locality-aware, routes-comparable and interpretable route recommendation
Chao Chen, Longfei Xu, Hanyu Guo, Chengzhang Wang, Ying Wang, Kaikui Liu, Xiangxiang Chu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08745

Comprehensive Comparison Network: a framework for locality-aware, routes-comparable and interpretable route recommendation
Route recommendation (RR) is a core task of route planning in the Amap app, with the goal of recommending the optimal route among candidate routes to users. Unlike traditional recommendation methods, insights into the local quality of routes and comparisons between candidate routes are crucial for enhancing recommendation performance but often overlooked in previous studies. To achieve these, we propose a novel model called Comprehensive Comparison Network (CCN). CCN not only uses query-level f…

Where are our splendidly unique Australian universities? Bare-boned cookie-cutter institutions are not the answer. We need, and deserve, multi faceted and accessible university offerings.
https://region.com.au/canberras-universities-need-to-do-more-than-cut…

Canberra's universities need to do more than cut costs | Region Canberra
In the latest season of the hit TV show The Bear, the restaurant receives a lukewarm review that imperils its…

Buccaneers CB Jamel Dean explains hefty pay cut: 'It was just more like I'm comfortable here' https://www.nfl.com/news/buccaneers-cb-jamel-dean-explains-hefty-pay-cut-comfortable-here

A fun collection of random tools by an indie web developer:
#software #tools

I should probably mention this opening: https://careers.cambridge.org/jobs/vacancy/lead-software-engineer-cambridge/6006/description/
Not my dept but does look interesting...

Lead Software Engineer | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Glad to see this. I’ve never played Super Mario Galaxy 2. https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/09/super-mario-galaxy-1-and-2-bundle-confirmed-for-switch-launching-october

Officer Converts Old Train Car into ‘Hospital on Wheels’ to Bring Healthcare to Remote India https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/officer-converts-old-train-car-into-hospital-on-wheels-to-bring-healthcare-to-remote-india/

Officer Converts Old Train Car into 'Hospital on Wheels' to Bring Healthcare to Remote India
Bhusuwal Junction is the best source of employment for locals, but for these employees, medical care was the matter of a long journey.

> Cambridge’s preservationists don’t just mount disks and hope for the best; they sample the raw magnetic signal itself. Specialized hardware, such as the KryoFlux and open-hardware Greaseweazle interfaces, captures the flux transitions — the tiny changes in polarity that encode data — and reconstructs the file structure later in software.

Cambridge University launches project to rescue data trapped on old floppy disks
Cambridge’s 'Future Nostalgia' project is racing to save decades of digital history from vanishing floppy disks.

NASA confirms Moon landing by a private American spacecraft - Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/nasa-confirms-moon-landing-by-private-american-spacecraft-blue-ghost-1/