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Great find of the day:
RISC-V actually defines #platforms now! 🥳
https://github.com/riscv/riscv-profiles/…

riscv-profiles/src/profiles.adoc at 6aecbe43af5289676a87eee085380b75b8aa597e · riscv/riscv-profiles
RISC-V Architecture Profiles. Contribute to riscv/riscv-profiles development by creating an account on GitHub.

Perplexity's head of advertising and shopping Taz Patel has left after nine months; its ad business reportedly generated only about $20,000 in Q4 2024 (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/perplexity-advertising-chief-taz-patel-departs/

EXCLUSIVE: Perplexity Ad Chief Taz Patel Departs
Perplexity’s push into advertising has so far brought in modest revenue as the company eyes new growth and faces mounting legal challenges

Perplexity's head of advertising and shopping Taz Patel has left after nine months; its ad business reportedly generated only about $20,000 in Q4 2024 (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/perplexity-advertising-chief-taz-patel-departs/

EXCLUSIVE: Perplexity Ad Chief Taz Patel Departs
Perplexity’s push into advertising has so far brought in modest revenue as the company eyes new growth and faces mounting legal challenges

Practise Creatively, Befriend Problem Spots & Create Your Own Stage - Practising the Piano https://practisingthepiano.com/practise-creat…

Practise Creatively, Befriend Problem Spots & Create Your Own Stage - Practising the Piano
Our online events line-up for May features exciting workshops to help you solve problems, practise more creatively, enjoy performing & more!

Powerful earthquake in Russia's Far East triggers tsunami warnings, evacuations in Japan and US: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/30/powerful-earthquake-in-russias-far.html

heise | Ewige Chemikalien im Alltag: Warum der Kampf gegen PFAS ein globales Problem ist
Ewige Chemikalien gelangen aus den vielfältigsten Produkten in die Umwelt – und gefährden unsere Gesundheit. Wie groß das Problem ist, zeigt diese Recherche.

Spectral generalized Tur\'{a}n problems
Xizhi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21689 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21689

Spectral generalized Turán problems
Combining two well-studied variants of the classical Turán problem, the generalized Turán problem and the spectral Turán problem, we introduce the spectral generalized Turán problem and establish a general theorem that extends the result of Keevash--Lenz--Mubayi~\cite{KLM14} on the spectral Turán problem in this broader setting. As a quick application, we obtain the spectral Erdős Pentagon Theorem. We also introduce the notion of entropic density for generalized Turán problems, and show …

I want to push back on the idea in the world of tech work that a PIP (performance improvement plan) is about getting rid of someone, that they're not intended to be survivable.
This is completely false. (I'm sure there's instances of it, of course, but the mode and vast majority are, in fact about performance improvement. Sometimes they're shadow layoffs, but that is cruel callous behavior that not everyone will exhibit.)
Now _most people do not survive the PIP process_. This is to be expected: if someone is in fact not performing, and more gentle remedies haven't worked, it's not looking good.
But here's where I get a bit spicy: most performance problems are constitutional problems with management and management style, not individual performance problems. However, since managers are as a class 'in power' somewhat, the individual contributor takes the fall for this structurally.
The intent of a PIP is not to get rid of people. It's to right performance.
However, as a system, PIPs do largely get rid of people who are constitutionally misaligned with management. Even when it's a management problem (and it usually is)

Ursprünglicher Beitrag: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jaelqk2nnlzcgoymtnzuty4q/post/3lsr2em57322r

Microsoft unveils MAI-Voice-1, a speech model that can generate a full minute of audio in under a second on a single GPU, and a text model called MAI-1-preview (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/28/2025/microsoft-unveil…

Microsoft unveils powerful new home-grown AI models
MAI-1-preview is the first foundation model fully built by Mustafa Suleyman’s Microsoft AI division.