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Harvey Weinstein's rape charge retrial ends in a mistrial after the jury foreperson refused to return to the jury room due to threats from other jurors (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywood…

Harvey Weinstein Gets Mistrial on Rape Charge After Threats to Jury Foreperson
“I feel afraid inside there. I can’t be inside there," the jury foreperson said Wednesday.

Mistral launches its first reasoning models: Magistral Small, on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, and Magistral Medium, in preview on Mistral's Le Chat (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/mistral-releases-a-pai…

Mistral releases a pair of AI reasoning models | TechCrunch
Like other reasoning models, Magistral works through problems step-by-step for improved consistency and reliability across topics such as math and physics.

Every tenth of a degree matters; each increment of global warming will bring a relatively larger increase in adverse societal and ecological impacts than the last.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/114843468388096178

'Mysterious order' could give Clarence Thomas an excuse to undo voting rights - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/clarence-thomas-voting-rights-mystery/

Estimating the Joint Probability of Scenario Parameters with Gaussian Mixture Copula Models
Christian Reichenb\"acher, Philipp Rank, Jochen Hipp, Oliver Bringmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10098

Estimating the Joint Probability of Scenario Parameters with Gaussian Mixture Copula Models
This paper presents the first application of Gaussian Mixture Copula Models to the statistical modeling of driving scenarios for the safety validation of automated driving systems. Knowledge of the joint probability distribution of scenario parameters is essential for scenario-based safety assessment, where risk quantification depends on the likelihood of concrete parameter combinations. Gaussian Mixture Copula Models bring together the multimodal expressivity of Gaussian Mixture Models and the…

Mastery Learning Improves Performance on Complex Tasks on PCP Literacy Test
Chandana Srinivas, Elif E. Firat, Robert S. Laramee, Alark Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10164

Mastery Learning Improves Performance on Complex Tasks on PCP Literacy Test
Developing literacy with unfamiliar data visualization techniques such as Parallel Coordinate Plots (PCPs) can be a significant challenge for students. We adopted the Revised Bloom's taxonomy to instruct students on Parallel Coordinate Plots (PCPs) using Mastery Learning in the classroom. To evaluate Mastery Learning's impact, we conducted an intervention in a Data Visualization course to teach students about PCPs using the Revised Bloom's taxonomy with and without Mastery Learning. Based on ou…

Raheem Mostert: 'The focus has been on the details' https://www.raiders.com/video/raheem-mostert-offense-raiders-minicamp-presser-ashton-jeanty-nfl-offseason-061225

Quantum mixture-density network for multimodal probabilistic prediction
Jaemin Seo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09497 https://arxiv.org…

Quantum mixture-density network for multimodal probabilistic prediction
Multimodal probability distributions are common in both quantum and classical systems, yet modeling them remains challenging when the number of modes is large or unknown. Classical methods such as mixture-density networks (MDNs) scale poorly, requiring parameter counts that grow quadratically with the number of modes. We introduce a Quantum Mixture-Density Network (Q-MDN) that employs parameterized quantum circuits to efficiently model multimodal distributions. By representing an exponential nu…

Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
SLAVE: Er, slipping, Master.
AVON: Soolin, take over.
SOOLIN: Give me manual control, Slave. [Goes to the flight controls]
SLAVE: With great relief, Madam. I am somewhat disorien- disor- confused.
VILA: Sounds drunk to me.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/409/82

Trump is so open for (corrupt) business that he’s potentially profiting millions
from a deal with a mysterious crypto company
whose owners and intentions are essentially unknown, at least to those outside Trump’s circle.
However, as is the norm under this administration, the losers are crystal clear: the American people.

Week 24: President Trump Notches Another Mysterious Benefactor
A mysterious investor is the latest entrant into the Trump crypto grift, and more stories from the MAGAswamp.