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An LLM generates a statistically typical response.
If you ask an LLM whether the world is round, it generates what would be a typical response to the question of whether the world is round. (It will probably be correct, because the typical answer to that question is the correct one.)
If you ask an LLM to provide examples of its own bias, it will generate what would be a typical response to a request to provide examples of bias.
In neither case is the LLM sharing any knowledge or insight other than what is typical.
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One Winning Draft Scenario Revealed For Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-one-winning-draft-scenario-revealed

The International Max Planck Research School for Solar System Science becomes a permanent institution in Göttingen and Braunschweig
The Solar System School, the joint graduate school of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the University of Göttingen, and the Technical University of Braunschweig, is now a permanent fixture in doctoral training in Göttingen and Braunschweig. The Max Planck Society will continue the International Max Planck Research School for Solar Syste…

Here's a ladybug on a Goldenrod, look really close and you'll see little yellow pollen spots on it!
#photo #photography #bug

This would've been my choice:
Children's Games
from One More Round by Enoch Kent
Sweet a cappella ballad from his life growing up playing with kids in the streets of Glasgow
#ListeningClub
#Accordion on the rest of the record

Cowboys former 1st-round pick named Top-10 trade candidate for Bills, Colts https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/25/could-cowboys-trade-mazi-smith-to-one-of-these-afc-teams/86342…

Thanking my fellow Mastodonians for making me aware of the wonders of moss.
I now have two tiny pet mosses, which accidentally became a small zen garden when I needed somewhere to put this little red pepper I'm going to grow into a plant.
#mosstodon

Yesterday we devoured some sweets brought over from India 🇮🇳 by the fabulous grumpy @… 🤤

HBO is the perfect match for It: Welcome to Derry. The good news is I am not dead inside - two or three jump scares got me good 😀 I love the sixties setting.
#ItWelcometoDerry #TV

Finishing up the first ever electronic badge for our Sketching In Hardware conference (the 18th!)
They just need battery holders soldered & programming. A simple but fun design. Designed w/ @… #badgelife

This would've been my choice:
Children's Games
from One More Round by Enoch Kent
Sweet a cappella ballad from his life growing up playing with kids in the streets of Glasgow
https://borealisrecords.bandcamp.com/track/childrens-games

Deblock, an app that lets users manage fiat and digital assets in one place by linking a bank account with a self-owned crypto wallet, raised a €30M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/11/19/deblock-secures-eur30m-series…

Deblock secures €30M Series A to expand on-chain banking in Europe
French crypto-banking startup Deblock has secured €30 million in Series A funding led by Speedinvest, alongside CommerzVentures and Latitude. Existing investors 20VC, Headline, Chalfen Ventures, and Kraken Ventures also participated in the round. Deblock offers a fully on-chain banking solution in Europe that combines features of a traditional bank account with on-chain self-custody. By linking a euro current account with a personal, self-owned crypto wallet, the platform allows users t…

Antonio Pierce says Shedeur Sanders was one of Raiders 'top choices' before his firing https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6831151/2025/11/23/shedeur-sanders-raiders-browns-antonio-pierce/

Bell with another round of layoffs. The r/bell thread seems to think 10% across the country. It’s can't actually remember a time when Bell announced they were 'hiring'.
How is this company one of the 'big’ telecoms and yet continues to offload people?
#Bell
https://flipboard.com/@dailyhive/daily-hive-vancouver-ar91atkoz/-/a-IvwInjurQyG1YqTyz8NjVg:a:3765800918-/0

FairEquityFL -- A Fair and Equitable Client Selection in Federated Learning for Heterogeneous IoV Networks
Fahmida Islam, Adnan Mahmood, Noorain Mukhtiar, Kasun Eranda Wijethilake, Quan Z. Sheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20193

FairEquityFL -- A Fair and Equitable Client Selection in Federated Learning for Heterogeneous IoV Networks
Federated Learning (FL) has been extensively employed for a number of applications in machine learning, i.e., primarily owing to its privacy preserving nature and efficiency in mitigating the communication overhead. Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is one of the promising applications, wherein FL can be utilized to train a model more efficiently. Since only a subset of the clients can participate in each FL training round, challenges arise pertinent to fairness in the client selection process. Over t…

Cowboys to open practice window for injured OL, sign 2nd-round WR to active roster https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/cowboys-open-practice-window-for-injured-ol-sign-2nd-round-wr-to-active-roster

The Philippines just secured its first fixed-bottom offshore wind auctions—a major leap for clean energy in Asia.
The GEA-5 program targets 3.3 gigawatts of capacity, focusing on proven technology that can move to construction faster. This strategic approach positions the country as one of Asia's fastest-advancing offshore wind markets.

First Fixed-Bottom Offshore Wind Project Auctions In The Philippines Secured - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. At the 2025 APAC Wind Energy Summit of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) last September, the Philippines made its strongest commitment yet to building a commercial offshore wind industry (OSW). This month, a breakthrough Green Energy Auction Program Round ... [continued]

Structure of quantum measurements implementable with one round of classical communication
Arthur C. R. Dutra, Ties-A. Ohst, Hai-Chau Nguyen, Otfried G\"uhne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09381

Structure of quantum measurements implementable with one round of classical communication
Measurements that can be implemented via local operations and classical communication (LOCC) constitute a class of operations that is available in future quantum networks in which parties share entangled resource states. We characterise the different classes of measurements implementable with LOCC, where communication is restricted to a single round with a fixed direction. In particular, using the framework of constrained separability problems, we provide a complete characterisation of the clas…

This applies to all of us #Researchers - why do we keep flying all around the world just to give (or watch) some talks that could have been given or watched online???
Yes, in-person conferences are slightly better for "networking"... but is this really worth destroying the planet?!
Quoting @…

Give a round of applause to the Brevard County, FL deputy's office for almost immediately clawing back $1.7m stolen during a real estate transaction BEC scam.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2025/10/14/hacke…

Hackers scammed Brevard County resident out of over $1.7M, sheriff says
A real estate scam nearly left one Brevard County resident out of over $1.7 million, according to the sheriff’s office on Tuesday.

Carson Schwesinger injury: Browns' leading tackler suffers high ankle sprain, to be reevaluated after bye week

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/carson-

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Theo Croker:
🎵 One Pillow (Live at the Round Midnight Prom)
#TheoCroker
https://open.spotify.com/track/7tOLgvowU2OcA1gx44mpxz

One should not sympathize with or idolize anyone, but this person radicalized my views deeply; I cannot speak for others.
Anarchism and Anarcho-syndicalism
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/rocker-rudolf/misc/anarchism-anarcho-syn…

Good Morning #Canada
Did you know that a Dodecahedron is a 12-letter name for any 12-sided shape. And did you also know that on this day in 1962, the Canadian Government decreed that our dodecahedron nickel was decadent and that round was right. Pre-1962 nickels are now pretty worth a nickel, but a coin in "mint condition" has been known to fetch a few pennies more.
Have you noticed there are more coin buying events in your neighbourhoods over the past few years? Some of that activity is driven by buyers taking advantage of people wanting to sell old jewelry, collectibles, or jars of coins that are sitting in the back of drawers or closets. But the rise of digital transactions, particularly increased during COVID when no one wanted to touch your infected money, has increased the collectible value of coins and, in some cases, the actual metal value exceeds the face value.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Numismatist
http://canadiancoinnews.com/otd-12-sided-five-cent-coin-becomes-round/

One of the main questions of my life with its many projects and ideas... The only proven solution for me has been a round-robin approach, rather than a binary decision. So for as long as possible more a question of "when" than "what"...
https://mas.to/@oblique_strategies/115

Oblique Strategies (@oblique_strategies@mas.to)
Attached: 1 image What to maintain? #ObliqueStrategies

Be careful out there... It's #Caturday

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
SERVALAN: He'll soon come round. Travis is very strong. [She goes to inspect Travis.]
JARRIERE: Oh, he once worked for you?
SERVALAN: Yes.
JARRIERE: And now he's an outlaw? Uh, what happened?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/202 B7B2…

Moody Urbanity - TWO 2️⃣
情绪化城市 - 贰 2️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Farage (short for Fascist Anti-democratic Rage?) may well win the next general election. One way to stand a chance to avoid that is to change the system from a first-past-the-post to a proportional one. But there is no incentive for the party in power to do so. An easier possibility, keeping the constituencies as they are, may be a 2-stage election, with the two largest parties coming out of the first to face off in the second round. Constituencies will at least have MPs with 50 % majoritie…

Antonio Pierce says Shedeur Sanders was one of Raiders 'top choices' before his firing https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6831151/2025/11/23/shedeur-sanders-raiders-browns-antonio-pierce/

Follow-the-Perturbed-Leader for Decoupled Bandits: Best-of-Both-Worlds and Practicality
Chaiwon Kim, Jongyeong Lee, Min-hwan Oh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12152 https://

Follow-the-Perturbed-Leader for Decoupled Bandits: Best-of-Both-Worlds and Practicality
We study the decoupled multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem, where the learner selects one arm for exploration and one arm for exploitation in each round. The loss of the explored arm is observed but not counted, while the loss of the exploited arm is incurred without being observed. We propose a policy within the Follow-the-Perturbed-Leader (FTPL) framework using Pareto perturbations. Our policy achieves (near-)optimal regret regardless of the environment, i.e., Best-of-Both-Worlds (BOBW): constan…

More than 1,000 staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received layoff notices,
including in units that respond to infectious-disease outbreaks,
analyze science and health data to develop policy,
and monitor the safety of employees

Among those who initially received lay off notices were leaders of CDC’s response to the growing number of measles cases in the United States and abroad,
including one official who has more than 28 years experience ov…

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown
Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

Gathering in Non-Vertex-Transitive Graphs Under Round Robin
Serafino Cicerone, Alessia Di Fonso, Gabriele Di Stefano, Alfredo Navarra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06064 https://…

Gathering in Non-Vertex-Transitive Graphs Under Round Robin
The Gathering problem for a swarm of robots asks for a distributed algorithm that brings such entities to a common place, not known in advance. We consider the well-known OBLOT model with robots constrained to move along the edges of a graph, hence gathering in one vertex, eventually. Despite the classical setting under which the problem has been usually approached, we consider the `hostile' case where: i) the initial configuration may contain multiplicities, i.e. more than one robot may occupy…

Cowboys' pass rush has diamond in the rough in one of NFL's top rookie leaders https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-pass-rush-diamond-in-rough-one-of-nfl-top-rookie-leaders

I learnt this week that one of our research department secretaries* has been caught up in the round of redundancies in the state that has also affected DMI.
She's looking for other positions, so if you're looking for an efficient, friendly and experienced administrative helper, give me a shout and I'll pass on her details
*Secretary or admin assistant seems a very weak description of what is in fact a highly skilled job.

The Solar System School is now permanent! 🥳🥳
The unique graduate program offers students from all over the world the opportunity to obtain a doctorate in solar system research. 🛰️☀️🔭
Joint PR @…

New Homogeneous Solutions for the One-Phase Free Boundary Problem
Coleman Hines, James Kolesar, Peter McGrath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09409 https://arxi…

New Homogeneous Solutions for the One-Phase Free Boundary Problem
For each sufficiently large integer $k$, we construct a domain in the round $2$-sphere with $k$ boundary components which is the link of a cone in $\mathbb{R}^3$ admitting a homogeneous solution to the one-phase free boundary problem. This answers a question of Jerison-Kamburov, and also disproves a conjecture of Souam left open in earlier work. The method exploits a new connection with minimal surfaces, which we also use to construct an infinite family of homogeneous solutions in dimension fou…

Sometimes hacking a computer means a whole different thing...
In this use, I'm actually hacking (with a hacksaw) the case apart to add an I/O shield (custom made) so I can fit an older motherboard that was not designed for this case.
And thank you to Gateway for making me do this by not using a removable shield and instead stamping every hole they needed and covering them with a sticker if they weren't on this model. 🤦‍♂️

Cowboys Get Bad News on 6-foot-8, 327-Pound Former First Round Pick https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/bad-news-offensive-tackle-tyler-guyton/?adt_ei=[email]

All You Need Is A Fuzzing Brain: An LLM-Powered System for Automated Vulnerability Detection and Patching
Ze Sheng, Qingxiao Xu, Jianwei Huang, Matthew Woodcock, Heqing Huang, Alastair F. Donaldson, Guofei Gu, Jeff Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07225

All You Need Is A Fuzzing Brain: An LLM-Powered System for Automated Vulnerability Detection and Patching
Our team, All You Need Is A Fuzzing Brain, was one of seven finalists in DARPA's Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), placing fourth in the final round. During the competition, we developed a Cyber Reasoning System (CRS) that autonomously discovered 28 security vulnerabilities - including six previously unknown zero-days - in real-world open-source C and Java projects, and successfully patched 14 of them. The complete CRS is open source at https://github.com/o2lab/afc-crs-all-you-ne…

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
CALLY: Two of them would flatten any one of us for about a hundred hours.
AVON: If he comes round, he'll flatten all of us for a good deal longer than that. He ought to be put under restraint.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/6 B7B2

The third-party app store known as AltStore,
one of the first companies to offer an alternative app marketplace in the European Union,
is preparing to connect its platform with the open social web known as the fediverse.
The move would connect users on other open social apps,
like Mastodon or Meta’s Threads,
with updates from apps in a new way.
In addition, the startup is announcing its first funding round from outside investors,
with a $6 million Se…

Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch
The alternative app marketplace AltStore has raised $6 million and launched a Mastodon server.

Fitting the 'Bill': Is Commanders rookie Jacory Croskey-Merritt the next late-round steal at running back?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/fitting

Cowboys urged to trade for former first-round pick to bolster secondary https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-urged-trade-for-former-first-round-pick-bolster-secondary

Raiders, Packers dubbed landing spots for Browns' former first-round pick https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-packers-dubbed-landing-spots-browns-former-first-…

Single-Shot Decoding of Biased-Tailored Quantum LDPC Codes
Devon Campbell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06316 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06316

Single-Shot Decoding of Biased-Tailored Quantum LDPC Codes
Quantum processors are often affected by biased noise and noisy readout, which reduce reliability and reproducibility. This work combines two complementary strategies to address these challenges. The first is bias tailoring, which aligns stabilizers with the dominant error type. The second is single-shot (SS) decoding, which uses metachecks to identify measurement faults from just one noisy round. We implement these ideas in a four-dimensional lifted hypergraph product (4D-LHP) code constructed…

Gutierrez: Carroll vs. Harbaugh Round 7 comes to Las Vegas https://www.raiders.com/news/pete-carroll-jim-harbaugh-rivalry-usc-stanford-raiders-chargers-week-2-monday-night-football

Ravens acquire Titans LB Dre’Mont Jones for fifth-round pick: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6775103/2025/11/03/ravens-titans-trade-dremont-jones/

Was Cowboys 6th-round pick's performance a one-off flash in the pan, or a breakout? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/08/ryan-flournoy-dallas-cowboys-breakout-fluke-or-re…

Cowboys Willing to Trade Ex-First Round Pick Before Deadline: Insider https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/mazi-smith-available-trade/?adt_ei=[email]

Tyler Booker trending towards return for Cowboys, talks learning during rehab process https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-booker-trending-towards-return-for-cowboys-talks-learning-during-rehab-process

And a Zinnia because I always have on in the file
#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling

Butt Fumble Busted and other Week 5 news of former Cowboys https://insidethestar.com/butt-fumble-busted-and-other-week-5-news-of-former-cowboys