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Opendoor's new chairman Keith Rabois says "I don't know what most" of its 1400 employees do and the company doesn't need "more than 200 of them" (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/12/opendoors-

Opendoor board chair Rabois says company is 'bloated,' needs to cut 85% of workforce
Keith Rabois was named chairman of Opendoor this week and the company, which he co-founded, hired former Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as its new CEO.

Darren Palmer's Almost Home
From dream to reality, every home is a story waiting to be told — and beloved Aussie interior designer Darren Palmer is on a mission to tell them...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/darren-palm…

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All of which was of the utmost importance for subsequent developments in the medicine of the mind. In its positivist incarnation, this was little more than the combination of the two experiences that classicism had juxtaposed without ever joining them together: a social, normative and dichotomous experience of madness that revolved entirely around the imperative of confinement, formulated in a style as simple as ‘yes or no’, ‘dangerous or harmless’, and ‘good or not good for confinement’, and a finely differentiated, qualitative, juridical experience, well aware of limits and degrees, which looked into all the aspects of the behaviour of the subject for the polymorphous incarnations that insanity might assume. The psychopathology of the nineteenth century (and perhaps our own too, even now) believes that it orients itself and takes its bearings in relation to a homo natura, or a normal man pre-existing all experience of mental illness. Such a man is in fact an invention, and if he is to be situated, it is not in a natural space, but in a system that identifies the socius to the subject of the law. Consequently a madman is not recognised as such because an illness has pushed him to the margins of normality, but because our culture situates him at the meeting point between the social decree of confinement and the juridical knowledge that evaluates the responsibility of individuals before the law. The ‘positive’ science of mental illness and the humanitarian sentiments that brought the mad back into the realm of the human were only possible once that synthesis had been solidly established. They could be said to form the concrete a priori of any psychopathology with scientific pretensions.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

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#Reform der Pflegevericherung #Interview mit Katarina Planer, Professorin für #Pflege und Pflegemangement

Abschaffung des Pflegegrad 1: Bringt sie überhaupt etwas?
Die Bundesregierung überlegt, den Pflegegrad 1 abzuschaffen. Warum das Problem nicht am Pflegegrad 1, sondern woanders liegt, erklärt Pflegewirtin Katarina Planer von der Hochschule Esslingen.

Active Learning and Explainable AI for Multi-Objective Optimization of Spin Coated Polymers
Brendan Young, Brendan Alvey, Andreas Werbrouck, Will Murphy, James Keller, Mattias J. Young, Matthew Maschmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08988

Active Learning and Explainable AI for Multi-Objective Optimization of Spin Coated Polymers
Spin coating polymer thin films to achieve specific mechanical properties is inherently a multi-objective optimization problem. We present a framework that integrates an active Pareto front learning algorithm (PyePAL) with visualization and explainable AI techniques to optimize processing parameters. PyePAL uses Gaussian process models to predict objective values (hardness and elasticity) from the design variables (spin speed, dilution, and polymer mixture), guiding the adaptive selection of sa…

Architecting Resilient LLM Agents: A Guide to Secure Plan-then-Execute Implementations
Ron F. Del Rosario, Klaudia Krawiecka, Christian Schroeder de Witt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08646

Architecting Resilient LLM Agents: A Guide to Secure Plan-then-Execute Implementations
As Large Language Model (LLM) agents become increasingly capable of automating complex, multi-step tasks, the need for robust, secure, and predictable architectural patterns is paramount. This paper provides a comprehensive guide to the ``Plan-then-Execute'' (P-t-E) pattern, an agentic design that separates strategic planning from tactical execution. We explore the foundational principles of P-t-E, detailing its core components - the Planner and the Executor - and its architectural advantages i…

Sources: Polymarket considers an offer valuing it at ~$9B, up from $1B in the summer; Kalshi is close to raising money at a $5B valuation, up from $2B in June (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/pr

Prediction Startup Polymarket Fields Offer for $9 Billion Valuation; Kalshi Nears $5 Billion Financing
Startups that enable people to bet on events such as the New York mayoral race, NFL games and the Federal Reserve rate decisions are in talks to raise more money at multi-billion-dollar valuations, as trading volume and rivalry between the two apps intensifies. Polymarket has considered an offer ...

A profile of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, whose estimated 11% stake is now worth $1B following ICE's $2B investment, as its rivalry with Kalshi intensifies (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciap…

Crypto’s Fastest-Growing Startup Mints World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaire
A $2 billion investment from NYSE parent ICE vaults Polymarket’s 27 year-old founder Shayne Coplan into the three-comma club and intensifies its rivalry with prediction market competitor Kalshi.

Amazon's Kuiper launches 24 satellites via SpaceX's Falcon 9 after four launch attempts were delayed by weather issues, taking its total to 102 in orbit (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/amazon-kuiper-internet-satellites-launch.html

Amazon tops 100 satellites after weather-delayed Kuiper launch
A SpaceX-owned Falcon 9 rocket carried 24 more Kuiper satellites into low-earth orbit, bringing Amazon's constellation to 102 satellites.