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Hah - interesting that this was considered newsworthy: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/576752/picton-man-uses-electric-car-to-cook-hot-breakfast-amid-power-outages during the ongoing windstorm that's knocked out po…

Position Bias Mitigates Position Bias:Mitigate Position Bias Through Inter-Position Knowledge Distillation
Yifei Wang, Feng Xiong, Yong Wang, Linjing Li, Xiangxiang Chu, Daniel Dajun Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15709

Position Bias Mitigates Position Bias:Mitigate Position Bias Through Inter-Position Knowledge Distillation
Positional bias (PB), manifesting as non-uniform sensitivity across different contextual locations, significantly impairs long-context comprehension and processing capabilities. While prior work seeks to mitigate PB through modifying the architectures causing its emergence, significant PB still persists. To address PB effectively, we introduce \textbf{Pos2Distill}, a position to position knowledge distillation framework. Pos2Distill transfers the superior capabilities from advantageous position…

The project “SAPIENCE: Symbols, Preliteracy and Code Evolution” (U Bologna) has 7 post-doc positions open, including one in #DigitalHumanities, #ComputationalLinguistics or #ComputerScience

quick and easy way to build a website for your r package: #rstats #package

Build websites for R packages
Generate an attractive and useful website from a source package. pkgdown converts your documentation, vignettes, README, and more to HTML making it easy to share information about your package online.

Raiders Cornerback Makes Comeback—Switching Positions In The Process https://raiderramble.com/2025/08/23/raiders-cornerback-makes-comeback-switching-positions-in-the-process/

Otrzymaliśmy kilka telefonów od jednego z naszych widzów. Zgodnie z jego życzeniem usuwamy z nich usługi Google oraz chińskie systemy MIUI — instalujemy zamiast nich LineageOS oraz postmarketOS. Będzie materiał z tej operacji 🔥
#lineageos #postmarketos

Nieuwe Amerikaanse douaneregels: tijdelijke stop op pakketten van Duitsland naar VS | Transport Online
https://www.transport-online.nl/97348/nieuwe-amerikaanse-douaneregels-tijdelijke-stop-op-pakketten-van-duitsland-naa…

from my link log —
Bluffing in Scrabble.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10471
saved 2025-09-18 https://dotat.at/:/WNJZZ.html…

Bluffing in Scrabble
It is well known that in games with imperfect information, such as poker, bluffing with some probability can be a component of the optimal strategy. However, as far as we know, nobody has ever exhibited a Scrabble position in which the optimal strategy involves bluffing, or even a Scrabble position in which the optimal strategy is a mixed (i.e., randomized) strategy. We present a carefully constructed Scrabble position, that could actually arise in a tournament game with no invalid words played…

Browns release Tyler Huntley, appear positioned to carry four QBs on 53-man Cleveland roster

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/browns-rel…

Eight Sleep adds an outage mode to its smart beds after complaints they were stuck at sweltering temperatures and in inclined positions during the AWS outage (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/804289/eight-sleep-smart-bed-aws-o…

Eight Sleep adds ‘outage mode’ to smart beds after AWS problems left them frozen
Eight Sleep devices were bricked by Amazon’s server issues on Monday, with users reporting smart bedsstuck at high temperatures and inclined positions.