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Colts' Shane Steichen self-evaluating play calls after collapse to Chiefs https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-shane-steichen-self-evaluating-play-calls-after-collapse-to-chiefs

KI simuliert Evolution: So entstehen Insekten- und Linsenaugen
Ein Forschungsteam hat die Evolution des Auges in einer Physik-Simulation nachgebaut. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, warum die Natur so unterschiedliche Formen wählte.

Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that covid vaccines had caused the deaths of “at least 10 children,”
Twelve former FDA commissioners released an extraordinary warning in the Dec. 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
They wrote that the claims and policy changes in the memo from Vinay Prasad, the head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,
pose “a threat to evidence-based vaccine policy and public h…

Inside the FDA’s Vaccine Uproar - KFF Health News
An internal email claiming covid vaccines killed children triggered a formal response from a dozen past FDA commissioners. The email, sent by the head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, outlines a framework that could have significant impact on the nation’s vaccine policies.

Anthropic details how it had to redesign its take-home test for hiring performance engineers as Claude kept defeating it, and releases the original test (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/AI-resistant-technical-evaluations

Designing AI resistant technical evaluations
What we learned from three iterations of a performance engineering take-home that Claude keeps beating.

@… at least, some proof of your existence.
"In a twist, the findings lend credence to the Australian folk hoax of the “drop bear,” a ferocious, carnivorous variety of koala said to fall upon its victims from the canopy. Paleontologists think Thylacoleo was an adept climber and ambush predator that could dive upon its prey from tree branches or roc…

Evaluating the multiplatform museum in an age of automation | by Indigo Holcombe-James | ACMI LABS (from 2024 - how are these questions shaping up in 2026?)
https://labs.acmi.net.au/evaluating-the-multiplatform-museum-in-an-age-of-a…

Evaluating the multiplatform museum in an age of automation
I gave this talk as part of the Australian Museums and Galleries Association (AMAGA) Evaluation National Network panel convened by Lynda…

Trash icon over the years

2025 has only intensified the struggles of past years. The challenge for us is not "how do we pull through?" but "how do we make a 'new normal' work for us?"
The answer, of course, is not to simply try harder. To prevent 2026 from going like 2025, we need to deliberately re-evaluate our own goals, and our relationships with our jobs.
Learn more in the final issue of the Product Picnic for the year — and if you like it, please subscribe!

Bouncing back from burnout
The causes of burnout are systemic. You can't get out of it just by trying harder.

from my link log —
The essence of LR parsing: Partial evaluation can turn a general parser into a parser generator.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/215465.215579
saved 2025-11-25

What Deion Sanders told Browns QB Shedeur Sanders after first NFL victory: 'Evaluate yourself on the wrong'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/deion-sanders-browns-qb-shede…