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(Soundtrack of the Mighty Mouse theme, but somehow janky: “Here I come to save the day!”)
Thankfully, the United States has only ever had good experiences deploying troops to the Middle East.
🤦‍♂️
https://apnews.com/article/mideast-gaz

US sending about 200 troops to monitor Gaza ceasefire deal
The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and private-sector players. That's according to U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details that weren't authorized for release. They said Thursday that U.S. Central Command is going to establish a “civil-military coordination center” in Israel that will help facilitate the flow…

All of which is the work of either the National Park Service or the D.C. parks department.
Of course, Trump & DOGE fired a bunch of Park Service folks and Congress has been playing games with the D.C. budget, so I guess it gave the Guard something to do. https://bird.makeup/users/macfarlanene

The NFL is alive in Europe! And other thoughts from 10 days abroad with the Vikings https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6697158/2025/10/08/vikings-10-days-in-europe-nfl-international-games-2025/

Revisiting Hallucination Detection with Effective Rank-based Uncertainty
Rui Wang, Zeming Wei, Guanzhang Yue, Meng Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08389 https://

Revisiting Hallucination Detection with Effective Rank-based Uncertainty
Detecting hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) remains a fundamental challenge for their trustworthy deployment. Going beyond basic uncertainty-driven hallucination detection frameworks, we propose a simple yet powerful method that quantifies uncertainty by measuring the effective rank of hidden states derived from multiple model outputs and different layers. Grounded in the spectral analysis of representations, our approach provides interpretable insights into the model's internal re…

What is happening here? F-35s for fighting against drugs traffickers is very strange. An attack against Venezuela would be a good distraction for Trump from everything that is going wrong elsewhere.
https://www.twz.com/air/10-f-35s-deploying

From Noisy Traces to Stable Gradients: Bias-Variance Optimized Preference Optimization for Aligning Large Reasoning Models
Mingkang Zhu, Xi Chen, Bei Yu, Hengshuang Zhao, Jiaya Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05095

From Noisy Traces to Stable Gradients: Bias-Variance Optimized Preference Optimization for Aligning Large Reasoning Models
Large reasoning models (LRMs) generate intermediate reasoning traces before producing final answers, yielding strong gains on multi-step and mathematical tasks. Yet aligning LRMs with human preferences, a crucial prerequisite for model deployment, remains underexplored. The statistically correct objective for preference alignment requires marginalizing over reasoning traces, but this computation is intractable in practice. A common workaround optimizes a single sampled trajectory, which introdu…

"Americans are concerned about crime, but don’t broadly support President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to police U.S. cities according to a new…poll."
"Blackmore, 70, is a retiree…says the Guard deployments feel like an occupation."
"'Are we really going there?' he asks. 'It’s not America to me, to see that — a national force policing everyday lives of Americans on our streets and highways.'"

NPR-Ipsos poll: Americans don’t broadly support Trump’s National Guard deployments
Americans are concerned about crime, but don«t broadly support President Trump»s deployment of the National Guard to U.S. cities, according to a new NPR-IPSOS poll.

Progrès du week-end.
Montage du canon de 25, des officiers et du mortier.
#BoltAction #francais #figurines

NFL eyes Asia as next destination as it bolsters ties with Dublin https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/nfl-eyes-asia-as-next-destination-as-it-bolsters-ties-with-dublin

One thing this article doesn’t get into: what’s next.
So national guard is gardening in the capital carrying guns.
But what follows having armed state militias deployed to a capital in most scenarios in history? Nothing awesome.

Scenes from Trump's National Guard Deployment to D.C.
Their presence has terrified some, relieved others, and left even the troops themselves confused.