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Patrick Mahomes on Chiefs' dwindling playoff hopes: 'We know the chances are getting lower and lower' https://www.nfl.com/news/patrick-mahomes-on-chiefs-dwindling-playoff-hopes-we-know-the-chances-are-getting-lo…

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Patrice:
🎵 Sunshine
#NowPlaying #Patrice
https://patricebartwilliams.bandcamp.com/track/sunshine-super-album-version-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/3H9FQ2Vd1kNOGhf5vhTps1

Here's a good chunk of the assigned books for my grad seminar on Canadian history - a few golden oldies, but mostly newer stuff. I've got a good group and am looking forward to a fine term.
#histodons

Roblox expands mandatory age estimations for chat features to all regions using Persona's tech, after a rollout in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/856696/roblox-age-check-estimation-chat

Roblox now requires an age check if you want to chat
After a user’s age has been verified, they’ll be able to chat with others in similar age groups.

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Peter Gabriel:
🎵 Steam
#NowPlaying #PeterGabriel
https://justinswonderdultime.bandcamp.com/track/peter-gabriel-steam-justins-wonderful-time-atmosphere-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2wPTuonKLuHOc3034E7lLY

No son solo los "pendejos" son sus padres también. Y el problema tiene mucho mšs que ver con la mercantilización de la educación que con la supuesta eliminación de la repitencia (Que no es verdad, para que quede claro).
Re: https://x.com/Hanzinho/status/2005659323649949735…

CAGE: An Internal Source Scanning Cryostat for HPGe Characterization
G. Othman, C. Wiseman, T. H. Burritt, J. A. Detwiler, M. P. Held, R. Henning, T. Mathew, D. Peterson, W. Pettus, G. Song, T. D. Van Wechel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06289 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.06289 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.06289
arXiv:2602.06289v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The success of current and future-generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments relies on the ability to eliminate or reduce extraneous backgrounds. In addition to constructing experiments using radiopure materials and handling in underground laboratories, it is necessary to understand and reduce known backgrounds in data analysis. The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless double beta Decay is searching for this decay using 76Ge-enriched high-purity germanium detectors submerged in an active liquid argon veto. A significant background in LEGEND is surface events from shallowly-impinging radiation on detector surfaces. In this paper we introduce the Collimated Alphas, Gammas, and Electrons (CAGE) scanning system, an internal-source scanning vacuum cryostat, designed to perform studies of surface events on sensitive surfaces of HPGe in a surface-lab. CAGE features a collimated radionuclide source inside a movable infrared shield that is able to perform precision scans of detector surfaces by utilizing three independent motor stages for source positioning. This allows detailed studies of pulse shapes as a function of source position and incident angle, where defining features can be extracted and exploited for removing surface backgrounds in data analysis in LEGEND. In this paper, we describe CAGE and demonstrate its performance with a commissioning run with 241Am. The commissioning run was completed with the source at normal incidence, and we estimate a beam spot precision of 3.1 mm, which includes positioning uncertainties and the beam-spot size. Using the 59.5 keV gamma population from 241Am, we show that low-energy photon events near the passivated surface feature risetimes that increase with radial distance from the detector center. We suggest a specific metric that can be used to discriminate low-energy gamma backgrounds in LEGEND with similar characteristics.
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Correlation of Rankings in Matching Markets
R\'emi Castera, Patrick Loiseau, Bary S. R. Pradelski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05304 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05304 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05304
arXiv:2512.05304v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the role of correlation in matching markets, where multiple decision-makers simultaneously face selection problems from the same pool of candidates. We propose a model in which a candidate's priority scores across different decision-makers exhibit varying levels of correlation dependent on the candidate's sociodemographic group. Such differential correlation can arise in school choice due to the varying prevalence of selection criteria, in college admissions due to test-optional policies, or due to algorithmic monoculture, that is, when decision-makers rely on the same algorithms and data sets to evaluate candidates. We show that higher correlation for one of the groups generally improves the outcome for all groups, leading to higher efficiency. However, students from a given group are more likely to remain unmatched as their own correlation level increases. This implies that it is advantageous to belong to a low-correlation group. Finally, we extend the tie-breaking literature to multiple priority classes and intermediate levels of correlation. Overall, our results point to differential correlation as a previously overlooked systemic source of group inequalities in school, university, and job admissions.
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"The attorney general is the people’s attorney, not the president’s attorney,”
as former Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy put it in 2017.
But Trump and Bondi clearly agree that she’s there to work for him,
to protect him, to spare him from the very law enforcement that she is responsible for.
It hearkens back to the medieval model of attorney general as legal representative to the king. 
This is the rotten core of Trump
-- beneath all the makeup and slurre…

We Must Reclaim a Government That Belongs to All of Us
From the White House rubble to the bottomless pit of Epstein, we are in the midst of a nationwide struggle over whose government this really is.

Pro Football Hall of Fame: 'Killer Bs', Rob Gronkowski, Adrian Peterson among likely 2027 candidates

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/football-hall-of-…