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I can’t get enough of #rutgerbregman ‘s first #reithlecture . His analysis of the decay of the West seems accurate to me, but what I really love is his optimism for a future built on a moral revolution. His proposition: just imagine what we could achieve if we self organise and work together…

The Reith Lectures - Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution - 1. A Time of Monsters - BBC Sounds
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman delivers his first BBC Reith Lecture: Moral Revolution.

Sources: X's advertising chief John Nitti, who joined in January, has left; X's CFO Mahmoud Reza Banki left in early October after less than a year in the role (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9a11ffa8-aa4c-40d4-982e-ede163b8a0b2

What if homeowners could control their own electricity flow and slash energy costs?
Schneider Electric and the National Lab of the Rockies have spent a decade exploring exactly that. They're developing smart panels and using AI to reimagine America's energy future—modeling scenarios for 2050 and quantifying how tech can deliver resilience and affordability.

Could American "Spirited Self-Determination" Reshape Energy? - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. How a Decades-Long Partnership Is Unearthing Answers to That and Other Electric Questions By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy, NLR In 2023, four members of Schneider Electric’s Global Research Team were touring a facility at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), formerly ... [continued]

Minnesota Vikings Team Press Conferences | Week 15 vs. Cowboys https://www.vikings.com/video/minnesota-vikings-team-press-conferences-week-15-vs-cowboys-december-10

Saw a clip of a preacher retelling an anecdote about a chess grandmaster being shown a painting of the devil having apparently defeated his opponent at chess for his soul. The grandmaster studied the painting and saw that there was still a path to avoid a checkmate. So the painting contained a secret inspirational message of hope!
Yet when people accurately model the game state from Die Schachspieler and feed it into chess analysis algorithms, Mephistopheles always wins

Game of Life - Board position and Paul Morphy - Chess Forums
There is an painting "Checkmate" that depicts Satan playing against a young man. The board position is supposed to appear hopeless but it is said that Paul Morphy when seeing the painting studied the picture, called for a chess board to be set up and some time after declared the young man has not yet...

There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the
changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts.
Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's
science. Three: Be aware that you live in a malevolent Universe controlled
by Murphy's Law, sometimes offset by Brewster's Factor; that's engineering.

Senator Murphy:
It’s pretty wild that the corruption is so brazen, is so transparent.
Vought sent out this tweet yesterday saying, I’m canceling energy projects in the following states, and listed the states.
And every single one of them is a state represented by two Democratic senators.
And the one Democratic senator who voted for the Republican continuing resolution
—that senator’s state wasn’t on the list.
So, you know, it’s just there for everybody to s…

Transcript: Chris Murphy’s Dark and Unnerving New Warning about Trump
The Democratic Senator has taken the lead in drawing attention to Trump’s authoritarianism. In an interview, he offers a stark new warning that should galvanize his fellow Democrats before it’s too late.

Kae you may know from his #Grammy nomination last year, his work with #BadBadNotGood, and his #TorontoJazzFest Emerging Artist award he couldn't accept in person as he was munching octopus on a beach in #Barcelona at the time, so sent…
Nolan Murphy is well known to #QueenWest fans, ubiquitous sous/bone/vibes/tymp/perc/drum sub in a spectrum of genres, founder/leader/arranger of @… seen at street fests and brass events everywhere, also winner of Emerging Artist by the City of #OwenSound and left #UofT Jazz when they nix'd him pursuing Jazz Tuba, the idiots, what the hell sort of college says tuba isn't 'proper jazz'? Assholes. But I digress…
Me, last third of the trio, you know. I'm just me.
The audience at #JohnnyGs detected a pattern in both surname and phenotypes … 🤣

NEO: No-Optimization Test-Time Adaptation through Latent Re-Centering
Alexander Murphy, Michal Danilowski, Soumyajit Chatterjee, Abhirup Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05635 h…

NEO: No-Optimization Test-Time Adaptation through Latent Re-Centering
Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) methods are often computationally expensive, require a large amount of data for effective adaptation, or are brittle to hyperparameters. Based on a theoretical foundation of the geometry of the latent space, we are able to significantly improve the alignment between source and distribution-shifted samples by re-centering target data embeddings at the origin. This insight motivates NEO -- a hyperparameter-free fully TTA method, that adds no significant compute compared…