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Before everybody get's too excited about available Chinese open weights models, the infrastructure costs for running these models are immense, it's hard to find specific and reliable data but think about half a million dollars of infrastructure costs for 5-15 users according to this linkedin post.

Kimi K3 just dropped. 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M-token context window, open weights. Capabilities comparable to Fable 5. 🔥 And every enterprise buyer is doing the same math right now. Here is… | Miklos Toth
Kimi K3 just dropped. 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M-token context window, open weights. Capabilities comparable to Fable 5. 🔥 And every enterprise buyer is doing the same math right now. Here is what running it yourself actually costs: - 16x NVIDIA H200 GPUs: ~$500,000. That's GPUs only. No chassis, no networking, no power infrastructure. - Model weights on disk: 1 to 1.7TB depending on quantization. - What's left for actual context: somewhere between 550 and 1,250GB of KV cache. Translat…

Senior Bowl Top 300 reveal: 2027 NFL Draft prospects to watch in 2026 https://www.nfl.com/news/senior-bowl-top-300-reveal-2027-nfl-draft-prospects-to-watch-in-2026

Allgäu, Late Summer (2024)
(Almost too cliché, but it doesn't take away its beauty...)
#MorningWalk #LandscapePhotography #Photography

If you're keeping up with #oauth and #app #security, our resident specifications expert, Joe DeCock, summarizes the standards landscape as of summer 2026.

OAuth Identity Chaining, Transaction Tokens, and Human-in-the-Loop: Summer 2026 Identity Standards Recap
Joe DeCock covers three key identity standards milestones from summer 2026: OAuth Identity Chaining reaching Proposed Standard, the Transaction Authorization Challenge draft for human-in-the-loop approval, and Transaction Token chaining across trust domains.

Hugging Face says developers made 151K derivatives based on Qwen models, topping others, making Qwen one of the largest foundations in the open model ecosystem (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/state-of-open-models-summer-2026

State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Three large portions of the Filchner Ice Shelf
—dubbed A22, A23, and A24
—calved into the Weddell Sea off of Antarctica in 1986.
For National Geographic, Chris Heath documents the life and death of an iceberg called A23a,
known at one time as the largest iceberg in the world.
Born when it broke off A23 in 1991,
it was “at least 44 nautical miles long, 40 nautical miles wide, and somewhere close to 2,000 square miles in area, or roughly the size of Bali.”

Cavs announce NBA Summer League roster headlined by Meleek Thomas https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/pro/cavs/2026/07/02/cleveland-cavaliers-reveal-2026-summer-league-team/90786356007/

Theoretical derivation of blood velocity from TOF-MRA based artery centerline
Abrar Faiyaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16498 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.16498 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.16498
arXiv:2607.16498v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography (TOF-MRA) is widely used for structural vascular imaging, but extracting functional hemodynamics like blood velocity typically requires supplementary phase-contrast scans. This study proposes a novel, physics-informed computational framework to extract variable fluid velocity directly from standard TOF-MRA signal profiles. We analytically expand the Bloch equations into Bloch-McConnell flow equations, establishing a mathematical relationship between the spatial decay of longitudinal magnetization and fluid velocity. To validate this derivation and overcome the limitations of constant-velocity assumptions, a MATLAB simulation framework was developed to model fluid flow in two variable-geometry flowing tube cases i.e continuous tapering and focal stenosis -under synthetic scanner noise. A global inverse optimization approach utilizing Dual-Tikhonov regularization was deployed to stably invert the ill-posed transit time integral, actively penalizing high-frequency numerical ringing while preserving structural curve stiffness. The computational sim-ulations successfully recovered ground-truth point-wise velocities, accurately tracking gradual hemodynamic accelerations and sharp stenotic jets. This theoretical framework provides a robust mathematical proof-of-concept that quantitative, localized functional hemodynamic metrics can be extracted from standard structural MRA imaging, estab-lishing a foundation for advanced flow quantification without requiring additional scan time.
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Renner's 2027 NFL Draft scouting series: Ranking the top 10 IOL prospects, with a freak athlete at No. 1

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2027-nfl-draft-iol-rankings-kade-p…

2026 NFL Draft quarterback class: Examining when Fernando Mendoza, eight others could make first starts https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-draft-quarterback-class-examining-when-fernando-mendoza-eight-others-could-make-f…