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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

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 @…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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

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

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.

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. 🤦‍♂️

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/

WR Amari Cooper returning to Raiders, who drafted him in 2015 first round, on one-year deal https://www.nfl.com/news/wr-amari-cooper-returning-to-raiders-on-one-year-deal

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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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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 @…

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…

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

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

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

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…

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.

Purple coneflowers are everywhere in the mid-summer; I caught these on July 17th -- I took enough pictures of them that I'll still have some to show all winter! One of their many virtues is being native to North America
#photo #photography

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

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-…

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

Renner's QB scouting series for 2026 NFL Draft: Why Fernando Mendoza is one of the safest bets to go Round 1

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft…

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

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…

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…

Conditional Cube Attack on Round-Reduced ASCON
Zheng Li, Xiaoyang Dong, Xiaoyun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15172 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15172

Conditional Cube Attack on Round-Reduced ASCON
This paper evaluates the secure level of authenticated encryption \textsc{Ascon} against cube-like method. \textsc{Ascon} submitted by Dobraunig \emph{et~al.} is one of 16 survivors of the 3rd round CAESAR competition. The cube-like method is first used by Dinur \emph{et~al.} to analyze Keccak keyed modes. At CT-RSA 2015, Dobraunig \emph{et~al.} applied this method to 5/6-round reduced \textsc{Ascon}, whose structure is similar to Keccak keyed modes. However, for \textsc{Ascon} the non-linear l…

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…

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

Why guaranteed money, late signings for second-round picks are an NFL trend to watch https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46038140/nfl-rookie-contracts-second-round-picks-guaranteed-money-holdouts-2025

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

Raiders bring back former 1st-round pick after WR requests trade https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-bring-back-former-1st-round-pick-after-wr-requests-trade-3429763/

Computing Approximately Proportional Allocations of Indivisible Goods: Beyond Additive and Monotone Valuations
Martin Jupakkal Andersen, Ioannis Caragiannis, Anders Bo Ipsen, Alexander S{\o}ltoft
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12453

Computing Approximately Proportional Allocations of Indivisible Goods: Beyond Additive and Monotone Valuations
Although approximate notions of envy-freeness-such as envy-freeness up to one good (EF1)-have been extensively studied for indivisible goods, the seemingly simpler fairness concept of proportionality up to one good (PROP1) has received far less attention. For additive valuations, every EF1 allocation is PROP1, and well-known algorithms such as Round-Robin and Envy-Cycle Elimination compute such allocations in polynomial time. PROP1 is also compatible with Pareto efficiency, as maximum Nash welf…

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/

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]

Amari Cooper, Raiders agree to deal: Las Vegas reuniting with veteran WR on one-year contract, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/amari-c

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

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…

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

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

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

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

Good Morning #Canada
We are wrapping up a Canada-cation with the family at Blue Mountain in Collingwood, Ontario. This area has exploded as a year-round resort since my wife and I skied here in the mid-70s. One of the big tourist attractions that we never visited was Blue Mountain Pottery. Started in 1953 to help increase revenues in the gift shop for the ski resort, it produced pottery with distinctive mixtures of glazes, the most common of which included a blue-green and a dark grey or black glaze. The pottery became popular in Canada in the 1960s and 1970s; it was also exported to the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. After Blue Mountain Pottery closed in 2004, the pottery became popular among collectors, and examples are held by the Royal Ontario Museum and the George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Pottery #CanadaCation
https://www.mountainlifemedia.ca/2014/07/how-pottery-saved-blue-mountain/

A clear WR3 in Miami? Malik Washington hoping chemistry with Tua pays off in big season https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46078346/how-miami-malik-washington-developed-chemistry-tua-tagovailoa

Cowboys Predicted to Replace Micah Parsons With 11-Sack Edge https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-predicted-replace-micah-parsons/?adt_ei=[email]

Recently Departed Cowboy ‘Rankled Teammates’ In Locker Room – Report https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/micah-parsons-not-popular-locker-room/?adt_ei=[email]

Cowboys Sign Veteran Cornerback Who Had ‘Standout’ UFL Season https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/michael-ojemudia-signing/?adt_ei=[email]