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Can art enhance your life? Here’s what I learned from Ali Smith, Tracey Emin, Claudia Winkleman and more https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/nov/10/…

Commanders-Packers on 'Thursday Night Football': What We Learned from Green Bay's 27-18 win https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-packers-on-thursday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-green-bay-s-27-18-win

10 Things We Learned from Broncos' Win Over Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/broncos/onsi/news/10-things-we-learned-broncos-win-raiders

Convergence Theorems for Entropy-Regularized and Distributional Reinforcement Learning
Yash Jhaveri, Harley Wiltzer, Patrick Shafto, Marc G. Bellemare, David Meger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08526

Convergence Theorems for Entropy-Regularized and Distributional Reinforcement Learning
In the pursuit of finding an optimal policy, reinforcement learning (RL) methods generally ignore the properties of learned policies apart from their expected return. Thus, even when successful, it is difficult to characterize which policies will be learned and what they will do. In this work, we present a theoretical framework for policy optimization that guarantees convergence to a particular optimal policy, via vanishing entropy regularization and a temperature decoupling gambit. Our approac…

From Covid-19, we learned that a somewhat coordinated global response is (would be) required, because people travel. Forget about that under the Trump regime and his antivaxx buddy RFK jr.
This will first hurt Americans, but in Europe, we're bound to feel the impact too.
https://tomkahe.com/@GiftA…

übers Radfahren, v.a. in den Niederlanden.
“Think of it this way: Car drivers behave like a bunch of geese. They have the same distance from each other and fly at the same speed, and move almost in military formation. Cyclists move like a swarm of sparrows. There are thousands of them moving in chaos, but there are no collisions. They turn a little bit; they change their speed. You must do the same.”

Capitalism is so broken.
I learned about these two products in the past couple days. 😆 Be sure to control your laserpecker using the iPhone in its pantyhose pocket (aka iScrotum). 😂
laserpecker: #endstagecapitalism #apple #laserpecker

just learned that there's a secret unfinished subway station under our #brooklyn neighborhood. https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com

Inside the eerie, unfinished 1930s subway station under a South Williamsburg street
New York is physically two cities. One is at street level, a grid of mostly brick and steel. The other is underground, a subterranean world of tunnels and tubes—not all of which can be accessed. On…

Exactly where it belongs. https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115699073964279612

Today I learned (@todayilearned@noc.social)
Attached: 1 image TIL that Hitler’s bunker in Berlin is now under a gravel parking lot for an apartment complex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrerbunker #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pjnwk5/til_that_hitlers_bunker_in_berlin_is_now_under_a/

I swear, I haven't stumbled over the English words don/donned so far. I only learned about them two days ago.
Since then, I came across it multiple times in different contexts: a movie, a comic, and a book. 😯
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/don

The abandoned English clay pit
at Barnham is
the oldest evidence in the world
that people (Neanderthal people, in this case)
had learned to not only use fire,
but also create it and control it.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/1

This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires
We didn’t start the fire. (Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.)…

Good things developers never learned that DDT helps you code faster.

Content-Adaptive Inference for State-of-the-art Learned Video Compression
Ahmet Bilican, M. Ak{\i}n Y{\i}lmaz, A. Murat Tekalp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07283 https://

Content-Adaptive Inference for State-of-the-art Learned Video Compression
While the BD-rate performance of recent learned video codec models in both low-delay and random-access modes exceed that of respective modes of traditional codecs on average over common benchmarks, the performance improvements for individual videos with complex/large motions is much smaller compared to scenes with simple motion. This is related to the inability of a learned encoder model to generalize to motion vector ranges that have not been seen in the training set, which causes loss of perf…

How Bill Pulte learned the art of the attack, from his own family to Letitia James (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-pulte-james-schiff-pultegroup-38cb41350da29248c10d4d29134a5730
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p41#a251011p41

I had the honor of participating in Tampa Bay Estuary Program's #OpenScience meeting yesterday and learned about the wonderful work they do there.
Learn more about TBEP: https://tbep.org/
Open Science subcommi…

Had this lock company just let it go, I would've never learned that:
▫️They bullied a YouTuber
▫️Their CEO is a 3x felon
▫️Their lock is shimmed in seconds
#streisandeffect
▶️ 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea. - Ars Technica

10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.
It’s still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs.

Olha, olha, o Conde da Sandocha resolveu capitalizar. Não sabia desta.
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115527966064373831

Today I learned (@todayilearned@noc.social)
Attached: 1 image TIL the Earl of Sandwich owns a chain of sandwich shops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Sandwich_(restaurant) #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1otsjco/til_the_earl_of_sandwich_owns_a_chain_of_sandwich/

Day 18: Mark Oshiro
Having just learned that Oshiro is nonbinary, they're an instant include on this list. In veering extremely heavily towards YA, and losing a spot that would have gone to an absolutely legendary mangaka, anime writer, or feminist philosopher, but "Anger is A Gift" and "Each of us a Desert" are just that good, and I'm trying to steer a bit towards towards lesser-known authors I respect.
I already mentioned "Anger is a Gift" above, but to recap, it's a painful, vivid, and beautifully honest story of queer love, loss, and protest against an oppressive system. CW for racist police murder, intergenerational trauma, and police brutality against highschool students. It's a book a lot of Americans could benefit from reading right now, and while it's fiction, it's not fantasy or sci-fi. Besides the themes and politics, the writing is just really solid, with delicate characterization and tight-plotted developments that are beautifully paced.
To me "Each of us a Desert" is maybe even more beautiful, and Oshiro leaps into a magnificent fantasy world that's richly original in its desolation, dark history, lonely characters, and mythical magic. Particularly the clearly-not-just-superscription but ambiguously-important/powerful magical elements of Oshiro's worldbuilding are a rare contrast to the usual magic-is-real-here's-how-it-works fare, and pulling that off a all as they do is a testament to their craft. The prose is wonderful, probably especially so if you speak Spanish, but I enjoyed it immensely despite only knowing a few words here and there. The rich interiority of the characters, their conflicts both with each other and within themselves, and the juxtaposition of all that against origins in cult-like ignorance allows for the delivery of a lot of wisdom and complex truths.
Between these two books, so different and yet each so powerful, Oshiro has demonstrated incredible craft and also a wide range of styles, so I'm definitely excited to read more of their work and to recommend them to others.
I'm also glad to have finally put a nonbinary author on this list; the others I had in mind won't make it at this point because there's too much genre overlap, although I'll include them in my didn't-make-it list at the end. I've now got just 2 slots left and have counted up 14 more authors that absolutely need to be mentioned, so we'll see what happens.
#20AuthorsNoMen

NFL Week 10 takeaways: What We Learned from Sunday's 12 games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-10-takeaways-what-we-learned-from-sunday-s-12-games

After reading a term paper that demonstrated nothing more than the "author's" brainless use of a brainless statistical model to brainlessly vomit brainless prose, I'm deeply grateful for the flawed result of human thinking that turned up second in the grading pile. It's not amazing but it's really not bad and, more importantly, it shows the student learned something. If nothing else, LLMs have given me a new appreciation for the imperfect but honest work we produce …

Apparently quantum physics is taught in gradeschool these days, and why the heck not! I also learned today how Kepler was nearly finished his ultra-laborious book when he learned Lord Napier had just discovered how logarithms would have made those calculations SO much simpler.
Kepler's book, published posthumously, was banned anyway, but whatever…
Quantum Technology : Education Resources
https://resources.perimeterinstitute.ca/products/quantum-technology

Today I learned about Yorkshire Pudding - and I've decided I need to try my hand at making them.

This recipe seems to be an exhaustive examination of the different myths and factors that surround the famous popover accomplice to decadent Prime Rib...
https://www.seriouseats.com/the-be…

The Best Yorkshire Pudding Recipe
The secret to the ultimate Yorkshire pudding is making the batter in advance. The result is Yorkshire pudding that rises tall, is tender and lightly chewy.

🎉 Nächste Woche starten mastodon.online und mastodon.social mit der Zitier-Funktion!
Mit #Mastodon 4.5 wird das Feature dann allen Instanzen angeboten.
Komfortabel: Wer nicht oder nur eingeschränkt zitiert werden will, kann das einstellen. Eine "detach"-Funktion, wie auf #Bluesky…

Introducing quote posts
Over the years, we’ve learned just how essential quoting is to many of you. Here's a deep dive on how quote posts will work on Mastodon.

from my link log —
Mailchimp's Mandrill outage due to PostgreSQL XID wraparound.
https://mailchimp.com/what-we-learned-from-the-recent-mandrill-outage/
saved 2019-04-01

What We Learned from the Recent Mandrill Outage | Mailchimp
Following a recent outage, we committed to sharing what we learned with our customers. The outage began at 05:35 UTC on February 4, and we resolved the issue...

CaRT: Teaching LLM Agents to Know When They Know Enough
Grace Liu, Yuxiao Qu, Jeff Schneider, Aarti Singh, Aviral Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08517 https://

CaRT: Teaching LLM Agents to Know When They Know Enough
Many tasks require learned models to strategically gather relevant information over multiple rounds of interaction before actually acting on a task. Strategic information gathering requires models to know not only how to effectively acquire information, but also when to stop gathering information and make a decision, in order to avoid overthinking or getting derailed when acting. In this paper, we formalize this problem and introduce Counterfactuals and Reasoning for Termination (CaRT), an appr…

I'm quite impressed by Fluxpose. It's making me consider selling half of my base stations (not all cause you never know if I will ever need them again) and get a kit once I get my hands on the Steam Frame.
I've rooted for BS tracking for so long because it was the best option out there, but the downsides it brings can be quite annoying sometimes. Plus, the Steam Frame is fully portable and BS tracking is not.
Also I recently learned that Fluxpose was made by an Spanish…

Remember when we learned to carefully filter user input, especially before executing that input, and ESPECIALLY when we also learned that deserializing an object from user input had BETTER not have a dangerous constructor? In like 2002?
THAT WAS COOL.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2

...with some fava beans and a nice chianti *slurping noises*
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/orcas-in-mexico-have-learned-to-attack-young-great-white-sharks-by…

Another thing I've learned debugging WiFi issues: having router sitting on the floor is a bad idea. How bad can it be? 10dBm bad.
Raising the router off the floor by just 30cm significantly improved network coverage, including on the floor below it!

Tala Health, which plans to roll out AI agents to help clinicians improve patient care next year, raised a $100M seed led by Sofreh Capital (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/04/tala-health-raises-100-million-se…

Tala Health raises $100 million seed round, as Ritankar Das seeks to build a holding company for the AI era
Titan Holdings has launched a new operating company, Tala Health, Fortune has exclusively learned.

Eagles-Giants on 'Thursday Night Football': What We Learned from New York's 34-17 win https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-giants-on-thursday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-new-york-s-34-17-win

3 lessons learned includes inept special teams play in Cowboys loss to Lions https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/05/lessons-dallas-cowboys-learned-offense-defense-lions…

2027 is the planned manned moon landing.
Extende moon stays may require large, energized "shower rooms". For extravehicular personnel equipment. No demonstrations of dust-repellant clothes and tools have been done.
It will be a serious problem BEFORE it's fixed.
#Space #SpaceTechnology

Wavefunction Flows: Efficient Quantum Simulation of Continuous Flow Models
David Layden, Ryan Sweke, Vojt\v{e}ch Havl\'i\v{c}ek, Anirban Chowdhury, Kirill Neklyudov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08462

Wavefunction Flows: Efficient Quantum Simulation of Continuous Flow Models
Flow models are a cornerstone of modern machine learning. They are generative models that progressively transform probability distributions according to learned dynamics. Specifically, they learn a continuous-time Markov process that efficiently maps samples from a simple source distribution into samples from a complex target distribution. We show that these models are naturally related to the Schrödinger equation, for an unusual Hamiltonian on continuous variables. Moreover, we prove that the…

Introspection in Learned Semantic Scene Graph Localisation
Manshika Charvi Bissessur, Efimia Panagiotaki, Daniele De Martini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07053 https://

Introspection in Learned Semantic Scene Graph Localisation
This work investigates how semantics influence localisation performance and robustness in a learned self-supervised, contrastive semantic localisation framework. After training a localisation network on both original and perturbed maps, we conduct a thorough post-hoc introspection analysis to probe whether the model filters environmental noise and prioritises distinctive landmarks over routine clutter. We validate various interpretability methods and present a comparative reliability analysis. …

Our New FOIA Forum! 11/19, 1PM ET https://www.404media.co/our-new-foia-forum-11-19-1pm-flock/

i think we learned the wrong lessons from left-pad. maybe it would create a better world if any npm user could pull a "stop cord" for the entire silicon valley corporate environment

The conference in the hack.lu conference.
Call for Failure (CfF 0x1) - Over Fail the untold truth behind the magic of cybersecurity.
10-minute talks during hack.lu to present (the/your) biggest failure in cybersecurity you’ve ever experienced and what have you learned from it (or not).
@…

Call for Failure (CfF 0x1) - Over Fail the untold truth behind the magic of cybersecurity
10-minute talks during hack.lu to present (the/your) biggest failure in cybersecurity you’ve ever experienced and what have you learned from it (or not)

This is an important story - and something too few Democrats seem to understand, something too few activists seem to understand.
We need to center peoples needs, not abstract values. The abstract values are essential to guide us in addressing the needs.
(And I fully acknowledge a strong confirmation bias is present here)
We asked critics from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said

This is an important story - and something too few Democrats seem to understand, something too few activists seem to understand.
We need to center peoples needs, not abstract values. The abstract values are essential to guide us in addressing the needs.
(And I fully acknowledge a strong confirmation bias is present here)
We asked critics from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said

Many lessons have been learned in Ukraine, chief among them is to never believe promises made by politicians.
Volunteers are the opposite - they were the first to show up and defend, and they are still showing up, even as governments around the world hides behind lies.
US media won't tell you about the volunteers providing counseling and support for those wounded by Russian cruelty. They never send reporters to find the truth, just cover the lying politicians.
Georgio r…

Khmelnytskyi Counts Its Fallen But No Longer Counts On Others’ Promises
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Parallel-in-Time Solution of Allen-Cahn Equations by Integrating Operator Learning into the Parareal Method
Yuwei Geng, Junqi Yin, Eric C. Cyr, Guannan Zhang, Lili Ju
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07672

Parallel-in-Time Solution of Allen-Cahn Equations by Integrating Operator Learning into the Parareal Method
While recent advances in deep learning have shown promising efficiency gains in solving time- dependent partial differential equations (PDEs), matching the accuracy of conventional numerical solvers still remains a challenge. One strategy to improve the accuracy of deep learning-based solutions for time- dependent PDEs is to use the learned solution as the coarse propagator in the Parareal method and a traditional numerical method as the fine solver. However, successful integration of deep lear…

Nic Chan tells a familiar story and hits on one of three lessons I’ve learned in this scenario:
1. No discounts (project fees are different);
2. Very clear and tight scope with full-price out-of-scope rates;
3. Some clients are just a poor fit.
https://indieweb.social/@NicMakesStuff

https://www.compactmag.com/article/what-bap-learned-from-feminism/
I have no idea why so many people equate matriarchy with equality when they clearly contradict each other.

AWESOME! The video I did together with our lead-trail-maintenance guy for the #deutscheralpenverein Sektion Bad Tölz is online on the official website!
I know that it is WAYS beyond professional video makers. But well - I was the only one available and I learned SO MUCH that day.
It's the one about 'Hanspeter Mair'.

Eagles-Chargers on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from Los Angeles' 22-19 win https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-chargers-on-monday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-los-angeles-22-19-win

What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: How Well do Latent Safety Filters Understand Partially Observable Safety Constraints?
Matthew Kim, Kensuke Nakamura, Andrea Bajcsy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06492

What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: How Well do Latent Safety Filters Understand Partially Observable Safety Constraints?
Safe control techniques, such as Hamilton-Jacobi reachability, provide principled methods for synthesizing safety-preserving robot policies but typically assume hand-designed state spaces and full observability. Recent work has relaxed these assumptions via latent-space safe control, where state representations and dynamics are learned jointly through world models that reconstruct future high-dimensional observations (e.g., RGB images) from current observations and actions. This enables safety …

Jalen Hurts Press Conference: December 10, 2025 https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/video/jalen-hurts-press-conference-december-10-2025

WiFi and #Thread/ #Zigbee networks use overlapping ~2.4Ghz frequencies, and interfere with each other.
I've learned it the hard way. My old gadgets kept losing WiFi connection, so I bought the biggest baddest WiFi router. It made everything way worse!
The router kept picking an "u…

🪞 What we've learned about narcissism over the past 30 years
https://theconversation.com/what-weve-learned-about-narcissism-over-the-past-30-years-258505

What we’ve learned about narcissism over the past 30 years
Narcissism is a picture that includes insecurity, emotional sensitivity and surprising fragility.

Surgeons Are Indian Males and Speech Therapists Are White Females: Auditing Biases in Vision-Language Models for Healthcare Professionals
Zohaib Hasan Siddiqui, Dayam Nadeem, Mohammad Masudur Rahman, Mohammad Nadeem, Shahab Saquib Sohail, Beenish Moalla Chaudhry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06280

Surgeons Are Indian Males and Speech Therapists Are White Females: Auditing Biases in Vision-Language Models for Healthcare Professionals
Vision language models (VLMs), such as CLIP and OpenCLIP, can encode and reflect stereotypical associations between medical professions and demographic attributes learned from web-scale data. We present an evaluation protocol for healthcare settings that quantifies associated biases and assesses their operational risk. Our methodology (i) defines a taxonomy spanning clinicians and allied healthcare roles (e.g., surgeon, cardiologist, dentist, nurse, pharmacist, technician), (ii) curates a profe…

Wow, just learned that NDC Conference deleted the recording of my 2014 opening keynote, A Happy Grain of Sand.
They didn’t have downloads enabled on their Vimeo site and they just told me they don’t keep backups of the talks.
What a dick move.
If you’re speaking for them, make sure you back up your talk videos.
Asshats.
#NDC

This blog post might be interesting for some "12 Things I Learned Writing CLI Tools in #Crystal"
https://dev.to/kojix2/12-things-i-learned-writing-cli-tools-in-…

12 Things I Learned Writing CLI Tools in Crystal
I love the Crystal programming language. For the past two or three years, I have been building...

Got the convergence mostly fixed after trying to fix it previously. Learned a heluva lot, but time to enjoy the fruits of my labor.
#retrogaming #snes #crt

I learned about Repair Cafe by the news its funding is discontinued. But more cities need to support this type of events. In a world of planned obsolescence, the environmental bill is being paid by communal waste collection services. A targeted analysis of which repairs could be most cost-effective for waste management could help justify funding of such initiatives with volunteer-based repairs.

Repair Café - SPEC
SPEC brings together repair volunteers and community members at Repair Cafés in Metro Vancouver to fix household items and divert waste.

xRouter: Training Cost-Aware LLMs Orchestration System via Reinforcement Learning
Cheng Qian, Zuxin Liu, Shirley Kokane, Akshara Prabhakar, Jielin Qiu, Haolin Chen, Zhiwei Liu, Heng Ji, Weiran Yao, Shelby Heinecke, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Huan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08439

xRouter: Training Cost-Aware LLMs Orchestration System via Reinforcement Learning
Modern LLM deployments confront a widening cost-performance spectrum: premium models deliver strong reasoning but are expensive, while lightweight models are economical yet brittle on complex tasks. Static escalation rules and keyword heuristics under-utilize this spectrum and fail to adapt across task types. We present xRouter, a tool-calling-based routing system in which a learned router can either answer directly or invoke one or more external models. The router is trained end-to-end with re…

this morning I managed to wake up at 7:30, get the 8:18 bus to the pub for 9am Celtic kickoff, had a full irish breakfast, and after the match as people were leaving I got a bunch of 🫵🏼 "see you next week for cup final?"
also learned one of the guys lives in my neighborhood and passes my building on his morning runs haha. god football is the best thing to ever happen to me

Deep learning the sources of MJO predictability: a spectral view of learned features
Lin Yao, Da Yang, James P. C. Duncan, Ashesh Chattopadhyay, Pedram Hassanzadeh, Wahid Bhimji, Bin Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03582

Deep learning the sources of MJO predictability: a spectral view of learned features
The Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) is a planetary-scale, intraseasonal tropical rainfall phenomenon crucial for global weather and climate; however, its dynamics and predictability remain poorly understood. Here, we leverage deep learning (DL) to investigate the sources of MJO predictability, motivated by a central difference in MJO theories: which spatial scales are essential for driving the MJO? We first develop a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) to forecast the MJO indices (RMM and …

Look-ahead Reasoning with a Learned Model in Imperfect Information Games
Ond\v{r}ej Kub\'i\v{c}ek, Viliam Lis\'y
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05048 https://

Look-ahead Reasoning with a Learned Model in Imperfect Information Games
Test-time reasoning significantly enhances pre-trained AI agents' performance. However, it requires an explicit environment model, often unavailable or overly complex in real-world scenarios. While MuZero enables effective model learning for search in perfect information games, extending this paradigm to imperfect information games presents substantial challenges due to more nuanced look-ahead reasoning techniques and large number of states relevant for individual decisions. This paper introduc…

pulp forensics, uncovering how william s. burroughs learned about #ayahuasca from a 1949 issue of amazing stories. https://beatdom.substack.com/p/amazing-stories-and-weird-tales-…

Amazing Stories and Weird Tales: Origins of The Yage Letters
Uncovering the origin of William S. Burroughs’ interest in yagé.

NFL Week 14 takeaways: What We Learned from Sunday's 12 games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-14-takeaways-what-we-learned-from-sunday-s-12-games

Rounds of celebratory gunfire rang into the night sky and people cried tears of joy and disbelief on Thursday
as news of a peace deal reached those in devastated Gaza
– and in Israel, where relatives have anxiously awaited the release of hostages detained since the war broke out two years ago.
“It’s a huge day, huge joy,” exclaimed Ahmed Sheheiber, a displaced Palestinian, crying over the phone from his shelter in Gaza City as he learned of the deal.
“I can’t believe …

Dak Prescott Staking Early MVP Claim, and What Else We're Learning in Week 5 https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/what-were-learned-week-5-commanders-chargers-broncos-eagles-cowboys-jets

Prior-Aligned Meta-RL: Thompson Sampling with Learned Priors and Guarantees in Finite-Horizon MDPs
Runlin Zhou, Chixiang Chen, Elynn Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05446 https:…

Prior-Aligned Meta-RL: Thompson Sampling with Learned Priors and Guarantees in Finite-Horizon MDPs
We study meta-reinforcement learning in finite-horizon MDPs where related tasks share similar structures in their optimal action-value functions. Specifically, we posit a linear representation $Q^*_h(s,a)=Φ_h(s,a)\,θ^{(k)}_h$ and place a Gaussian meta-prior $ \mathcal{N}(θ^*_h,Σ^*_h)$ over the task-specific parameters $θ^{(k)}_h$. Building on randomized value functions, we propose two Thompson-style algorithms: (i) MTSRL, which learns only the prior mean and performs posterior sampling wit…

The new Mastodon quote feature can be found via the Boost-button in the web interface: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/introducing-quote-posts/
I would have expected this feature ...

What we learned in Week 10: Despite wins, can Colts and Broncos find more consistency? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46871735/nfl-week-10-2025-season-questions-takeaways-lessons-stats-recap-every-game

I watched this video on how UTF-8 actually works, on the plane yesterday, and I think it’s very good.
For example, I learned about how the bits in codepoint bytes work; I did not know that before.
Definitely worth the time to watch (especially if you skip through the intro parts near the start), if you’re a visual/audio learner, IMO.
https://

Marc Benioff says it "would not shock" him if Salesforce changed its name to Agentforce; the company started using Agentforce for many of its offerings (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says he might rename the company 'Agentforce'
The SaaS pioneer recently learned in focus groups that customers want to talk about AI agents now

Chiefs-Jaguars on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from Jacksonville's 31-28 win https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-jaguars-on-monday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-jacksonville-s-31-28-win

Dak Prescott Staking Early MVP Claim, and What Else We're Learning in Week 5 https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/what-were-learned-week-5-commanders-chargers-broncos-eagles-cowboys-jets

Raiders-Broncos on 'Thursday Night Football': What We Learned from Denver's 10-7 win https://www.nfl.com/news/raiders-broncos-on-thursday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-denver-s-10-7-win

What we learned in Cowboys-Packers 40-40 tie: Pickens is a WR1, Dak is back, OL in flux https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/29/cowboys-george-pickens-wr1-dak-presco…

Representation Potentials of Foundation Models for Multimodal Alignment: A Survey
Jianglin Lu, Hailing Wang, Yi Xu, Yizhou Wang, Kuo Yang, Yun Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05184

Representation Potentials of Foundation Models for Multimodal Alignment: A Survey
Foundation models learn highly transferable representations through large-scale pretraining on diverse data. An increasing body of research indicates that these representations exhibit a remarkable degree of similarity across architectures and modalities. In this survey, we investigate the representation potentials of foundation models, defined as the latent capacity of their learned representations to capture task-specific information within a single modality while also providing a transferabl…

NFL Week 5 takeaways: What We Learned from Sunday's 12 games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-5-takeaways-what-we-learned-from-sunday-s-12-games

What we learned in NFL Week 14: End of an era for Chiefs, Colts look finished https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6871412/2025/12/08/nfl-week-14-takeaways-chiefs-texans-colts/

Cowboys-Lions on 'Thursday Night Football': What We Learned from Detroit's 44-30 win https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-lions-on-thursday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-detroit-s-44-30-win

One thing we learned about each NFL team halfway through 2025 season: Rams on fire; Steelers will hang around

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Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning with Language-Encoded Gated Policy Networks
Rushiv Arora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06138 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0613…

Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning with Language-Encoded Gated Policy Networks
Multi-task reinforcement learning often relies on task metadata -- such as brief natural-language descriptions -- to guide behavior across diverse objectives. We present Lexical Policy Networks (LEXPOL), a language-conditioned mixture-of-policies architecture for multi-task RL. LEXPOL encodes task metadata with a text encoder and uses a learned gating module to select or blend among multiple sub-policies, enabling end-to-end training across tasks. On MetaWorld benchmarks, LEXPOL matches or exce…

Cardinals-Cowboys on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from Arizona's 27-17 win https://www.nfl.com/news/cardinals-cowboys-on-monday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-arizona-s-27-17-win

NFL Week 9 takeaways: What We Learned from Sunday's 12 games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-9-takeaways-what-we-learned-from-sunday-s-12-games

Niners-Rams on 'Thursday Night Football': What We Learned from San Francisco's win https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-rams-on-thursday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-san-francisco-s-win

Giants-Patriots on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from New England's 33-15 win https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-patriots-on-monday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-new-england-s-33-15-win

NFL Week 13 takeaways: What We Learned from Sunday's 11 games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-13-takeaways-what-we-learned-from-sunday-s-11-games

What we learned in NFL Week 5: More Buccaneers late-game magic, Jets hit new low https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6692670/2025/10/06/nfl-week-5-takeaways-baker-mayfield-buccaneers/

Jets-Dolphins on Monday night: What We Learned from Miami's 27-21 win over New York https://www.nfl.com/news/jets-dolphins-on-monday-night-what-we-learned-from-miami-s-27-21-win-over-new-york

Bengals-Broncos on Monday night: What We Learned from Denver's 28-3 win over Cincinnati https://www.nfl.com/news/bengals-broncos-on-monday-night-what-we-learned-from-denver-s-28-3-win-over-cincinnati

Ravens-Dolphins on 'Thursday Night Football': What We Learned from Baltimore's 28-6 win https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-dolphins-on-thursday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-baltimore-s-28-6-win

NFL Week 4 takeaways: What We Learned from Sunday's 13 games https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-week-4-takeaways-what-we-learned-from-sunday-s-13-games

Bears-Eagles on Black Friday: What We Learned from Chicago's 24-15 win https://www.nfl.com/news/bears-eagles-on-black-friday-what-we-learned-from-chicago-s-24-15-win

Chiefs-Cowboys on Thanksgiving: What We Learned from Dallas' 31-28 win https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-cowboys-thanksgiving-what-we-learned-dallas-31-28-win

Packers-Lions on Thanksgiving: What We Learned from Green Bay's 31-24 win https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-lions-on-thanksgiving-what-we-learned-from-green-bay-s-31-24-win

Bengals-Ravens on Thanksgiving: What We Learned from Cincinnati's 32-14 win https://www.nfl.com/news/bengals-ravens-on-thanksgiving-what-we-learned-from-cincinnati-s-32-14-win

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Seahawks-Cardinals on 'Thursday Night Football': What We Learned from Seattle's 23-20 win https://www.nfl.com/news/seahawks-cardinals-on-thursday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-seattle-s-23-20-win

Panthers-49ers on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from San Francisco's 20-9 win https://www.nfl.com/news/panthers-49ers-on-monday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-san-francisco-s-20-9-win

NFL Week 12 takeaways: What We Learned from Sunday's 12 games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-12-takeaways-what-we-learned-from-sunday-s-12-games

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