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USDA is reopening some 2,100 offices to help farmers access $3B in aid despite the ongoing shutdown
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/10/usda-is-reopening-some-2100-offices-to-help-farmers-access-3b-in-aid-despite-the-ongoing-shutdown/

Trevon Diggs offseason release would save Dallas Cowboys over $50M in cap space https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/trevon-diggs-offseason-release-would-save-dallas-cowboys-over-50-million-cap-space

Enriching Object-Centric Event Data with Process Scopes: A Framework for Aggregation and Analysis
Shahrzad Khayatbashi, Majid Rafiei, Jiayuan Chen, Timotheus Kampik, Gregor Berg, Amin Jalali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18830

Enriching Object-Centric Event Data with Process Scopes: A Framework for Aggregation and Analysis
Object-Centric Process Mining enables the analysis of complex operational behavior by capturing interactions among multiple business objects (e.g., orders, items, deliveries). These interactions are recorded using Object-Centric Event Data (OCED) formats, such as the Object-Centric Event Log (OCEL). However, existing formats lack explicit definitions of process scopes, which restricts analysis to individual processes and limits insights to a low level of granularity. In practice, OCED often spa…

How the Raiders Should Approach the Quarterback Position This Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-should-approach-quarterback-position-this-offseason

#jukeboxfridaynight
#Obsessions
Sometimes, obsession leads you to a dark place. A masterpiece by Colter Wall.
Kate McCannon by Colter Wall
https://youtu.be/B7E8n7I6IHw?si=uLN2FaCcONlU1eyE

Planning-Query-Guided Model Generation for Model-Based Deformable Object Manipulation
Alex LaGrassa, Zixuan Huang, Dmitry Berenson, Oliver Kroemer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19199

Planning-Query-Guided Model Generation for Model-Based Deformable Object Manipulation
Efficient planning in high-dimensional spaces, such as those involving deformable objects, requires computationally tractable yet sufficiently expressive dynamics models. This paper introduces a method that automatically generates task-specific, spatially adaptive dynamics models by learning which regions of the object require high-resolution modeling to achieve good task performance for a given planning query. Task performance depends on the complex interplay between the dynamics model, world …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jehnny Beth:
🎵 Obsession
#JehnnyBeth
https://jehnnybeth.bandcamp.com/track/obsession
https://open.spotify.com/track/0xsJgk34qDNgmsAvGQ3W7C

Integral Online Algorithms for Set Cover and Load Balancing with Convex Objectives
Thomas Kesselheim, Marco Molinaro, Kalen Patton, Sahil Singla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18383

Integral Online Algorithms for Set Cover and Load Balancing with Convex Objectives
Online Set Cover and Load Balancing are central problems in online optimization, and there is a long line of work on developing algorithms for these problems with convex objectives. Although we know optimal online algorithms with $\ell_p$-norm objectives, recent developments for general norms and convex objectives that rely on the online primal-dual framework apply only to fractional settings due to large integrality gaps. Our work focuses on directly designing integral online algorithms for …

When I design physical objects, I think in boxes and simple, usually circular-section curves. This has been true when I freehand build physical objects, as well as when I model things on the computer. Fillets are about as crazy as I get.
I'm in awe of artists whose design imaginations extend to "organic" shapes.
Reminds me of music a bit. I was a reasonably good high school musician. Played multiple instruments; did fine in music competition on several of them. That's just en…

Every time I head out, the first thing I ask myself about a product is, "Is it Canadian"? If not, is there a Canadian made version is next.
https://flip.it/obkhGG