2026-06-09 18:26:24
Cowboys’ Rashan Gary Sends Bold Message on 1st Round Pick Caleb Downs https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/rashan-gary-caleb-downs-message/
Cowboys’ Rashan Gary Sends Bold Message on 1st Round Pick Caleb Downs https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/rashan-gary-caleb-downs-message/
Netherlands-based Invisix, which is developing advanced chipmaking measurement tools, raised a €20M seed, with the participation of a "tier-one" chipmaker (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/06/01/invisix-closes-eur20m-seed-rou…
The US military said it is carrying out another round of strikes on Wednesday after Iran attacked ships in Strait of Hormuz a day earlier.
Iran’s Mehr agency said explosions were heard near Konarak and Chabahr.
Iranian reports also said air defenses were engaging “hostile targets” near Bandar Abbas.
Iranian state TV reported further explosions are heard in Abu Musa Island, one of three small islands that are claimed by the United Arab Emirates and provide the backb…
Lining Up Year One Expectations For Raiders Day 3 Picks https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-lining-up-year-one-expectations-day-3-picks
Arts House Listening Program
With a year-round program of dance, theatre, music, sound, new technologies and community projects, Arts House is one of the major forces shaping Melbourne's cultural and social landscape...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpo…
Mailbag: Can red-zone scoring be improved? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-can-red-zone-scoring-be-improved
Sometimes in science people discourage you from talking about wild ideas because what if someone "steals" it.
But that misunderstands several points: you are rarely the first or only person to have an idea, we are all swimming in the same water, reading the same literature, attending the same conferences. It would be odd if only one person has a given idea.
Maybe someone already tried it and found it didn't work. Discussing ideas might help to stop you wasting your time and resources in that case.
And there are more than enough scientific questions to go round!
Ideas are the easy part. Doing the work is the difficult bit.
And so what if someone publishes similar ideas to you beforehand? It's science, it's supposed to be replicable (odd incentives like publish or perish culture notwithstanding) and there is always a new angle to explore.
Science is a group pursuit anyway. It's rare you do everything by yourself, discussion with other scientists is as essential as oxygen. And sometimes the more discussion you have the wilder and cooler the ideas get
#AcademicChatter
https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/117078561059020813
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net - So. Share your wildest ideas. Not because you want to be praised for it. But because you might inspire other strangers with specific knowledge to build stuff inspired by your idea without even telling you. Ideas want to travel to find new friends. Set them free. They might come back to you or not. Just share. That's what the Real Internet is for ;)
Team USA's top scorer, Balogun, received a red card in the game against Bosnia. Which means he would be suspended in the next game.
President Trump called FIFA boss Infantino. Now FIFA states without further explanation that the suspension is lifted, and Balogun can play in the upcoming game against Belgium. Following that, Trump publicly thanked FIFA for that decision.
If that would have happened 2018 in Russia, Putin interfering with the world cup, the explosion of the med…
Renner's 2027 NFL Draft scouting series: Ranking top 10 defensive tackles
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2027-nfl-draft-ranking-top-10-defensive-tackles/…
Lining Up Year One Expectations For Raiders Day 3 Picks https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-lining-up-year-one-expectations-day-3-picks
Ocean warming above 1.5°C triggered year-round marine disruption across globe, study shows #ocean
"Ocean warming above 1.5°C triggered year-round marine disruption across globe, study shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Oceans
Caleb Downs getting 'good learning experience' in Cowboys OTAs https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/caleb-downs-getting-good-learning-experience-in-cowboys-otas
Young voters have the power to decide elections and shape policies that matter to them,
but outdated get-out-the-vote strategies often fail to reach them.
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engaging, educating, and empowering young voters one donut and one conversation at a time.
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we're building a future where voting is a lifelong habit,
civic engagement is second nature,
and the next generatio…
UK non-academic researchers!
UK Research and Innovation have one research funding programme - 'Future Leaders Fellowships' - which allow and support applications from non-academic researchers, i.e. those hosted by business including non-profits. It's well funded, over 4 years, extendable to 7 years. I was lucky enough to get one of these, hosted by the lovely non-profit organisation @…
from my link log —
C23 is coming: here's what's on the menu.
https://thephd.dev/c23-is-coming-here-is-what-is-on-the-menu
saved 2022-08-05
Caleb Downs getting 'good learning experience' in Cowboys OTAs https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/caleb-downs-getting-good-learning-experience-in-cowboys-otas
Regret Minimization in Single-Dimensional Contract-Design with Binary Actions
Riccardo Poiani, Martino Bernasconi, Andrea Celli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06125 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.06125 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.06125
arXiv:2606.06125v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study principal-agent problems in which a principal commits to an outcome-dependent payment scheme (i.e., a contract) in order to induce an agent to take a costly action leading to a favorable outcome. We consider the online extension of the classical (one-shot) principal-agent problem, in which the principal repeatedly interacts with agents by proposing contracts over multiple rounds. The principal has no information about the agents and, crucially, does not observe their actions. As a result, the principal must learn an optimal contract using only the realized outcomes observed at each round. We focus on the setting with binary actions and single-dimensional agent types, where the agent's private type represents their cost per unit-of-effort. For adversarial-type sequences, we provide tight $\Theta(T^{2/3})$ regret guarantees. Remarkably, this rate is completely independent of the number of outcomes $m$. The upper bound is based on two key components: 1) a reduction to a one-dimensional threshold optimization problem and 2) a non-uniform discretization to handle the non-Lipschitz nature of the problem. Moreover, in the case of a single (fixed) hidden type, we show that it is possible to improve the rates and provide a tight $\widetilde{\Theta}(\sqrt{T})$ regret bound. Our algorithm is based on an explore-then-commit strategy where we first approximately learn the hidden type via a stochastic binary search, and then we commit to a ``robustified'' near-optimal contract.
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How Treydan Stukes Continues To Evolve As Future Raiders Standout https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-treydan-stukes-continues-evolve-future-standout
ETH Zurich spinout ZuriQ, which is developing trapped-ion quantum computing processors based on a 2D architecture, raised a $25.5M seed led by Quantonation (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/07/28/zuriq-raises-255m-to-scale-its-b…
✨ SIG-Marcomms Meeting Recap ✨
Our communications community gathered in Helsinki right before #TNC26 for a day of discussions and shared learning. One question was on everyone's mind: how do we move from communications as a reactive function to communications as a strategic force?
What followed were discussions on crisis communications, strategic influence and a round of Lightning…
Erie is NOT happy with this turn of events (we're at the vet's office). #CatsOfMastodon
If AI is so good at coding, shouldn’t we not only see an increase in quantity (∗︎ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/16/we-found-the-missing-ai-apps-and-nobody-downloads-them/), but also in quality?
Similarly, if we’re close to “fully automa…
Canada is all out of sorts. They were playing cautiously, perhaps passively, but have now conceded twice anyway. They'll be through to the knockout stage no matter what happens, but dropping from winning the group to second means they won't play on home soil for the next round.
Soccernomics data shows that home matches are generally a one goal advantage.
#SUICAN
Mailbag: Can red-zone scoring be improved? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-can-red-zone-scoring-be-improved
Late-Round Steal Turning Heads at Raiders Minicamp https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/late-round-steal-turning-heads-at-raiders-minicamp/
NFL players to buy stock in for 2026: Why Justin Herbert, Caleb Downs are set to surge https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-players-to-buy-stock-in-for-2026-why-justin-herbert-caleb-downs-are-set-to-surge
Since his first years as a top player, Jannik Sinner has long had one major weakness.
The hotter it is, the more vulnerable he becomes.
It nearly toppled him at January’s Australian Open, before Novak Djokovic did the job instead.
On Thursday, with temperatures climbing toward the 90s at Roland Garros, Sinner could not endure.
In the second round of the French Open, the world No. 1 fell victim to Juan Manuel Cerúndolo of Argentina, the world No. 56.
He grew dizzy…
Work just did a Star Wars trivia, team building exercise. When it came to the Light Saber identification speed round, my team captain has 8 light sabers so he'd hold one up, "That's this one belonging to-"
We won by the grace of his wife's tolerance of his toy purchases.
Arrrrrgh I didn't check the forecast, I assumed media full of heatwave alerts and warnings and a row of five full sun icons on one of the week ahead things meant ideal weather for re-oiling this #:"-&(ING deck that's been hanging round my neck since last autumn. Disaster dodged really, I was seconds from opening a can of very expensive Osmo decking oil....
Home from a night out on the town with the little one and a bunch of her preschool friends, put her to bed, and back for another round of VM server hardware work.
Swapping one of the GTX 1650s out for another RTX 3050 and adding a fan next to the overheating NIC so I can take the janky zip tied setup down.
Raiders Linked to Possible Signing of Controversial Star Free Agent https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/terrion-arnold-free-agent-rumors/
Cowboys Must Consider Former First-Round OT With Klayton Adams Ties https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-must-consider-former-first-round-ot-klayton-adams-ties
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I'm not a big fan of takes like "the research by Anthropic is just marketing because they only attacked a reduced round AES implementation." (Quoted toot is just one example, I've seen it in several other places).
Attacking reduced round implementations is standard fare in cryptographic research, and valuable on its own, as it can teach us things about which approaches might be valuable in attacking AES with more rounds. Saying "this result doesn't matter / is just marketing because it doesn't break full-round AES" also says that 20 years of academic research into reduced round AES does not matter, which is obviously bonkers.
I am not saying that the Anthropic results are groundbreaking (Matthew Green has a much more detailed take and a lot more background in this than I have). But I *am* saying that I dislike the pracice of dismissing any research done by AI labs just because it was done by an AI lab. The other attack actually led to an algorithm being removed from consideration in the PQ crypto competition, and even though some people say "well, it's just applying a known weakness", this apparently wasn't enough to disqualify it until now.
Or, to quote Matthew Greens article:
> If you’re under the impression that these models are “glorified autocomplete” or that progress is slowing down, I need to urge you: stop thinking that. The models are very intelligent and capable, they are getting better at a fast clip. I can cite measurable and impressive progress over just the past five months on specific types of problem I’ve asked them to look at. If there’s a ceiling out there, I don’t yet see evidence of it. The people who think models are dumb are mostly using Google’s free AI search results, and not interacting with the high-end stuff (which only costs $20, so it’s not out of reach.) And they’re mostly not working in new areas.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/
Cowboys Must Consider Former First-Round OT With Klayton Adams Ties https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-must-consider-former-first-round-ot-klayton-adams-ties
The wee one went back to preschool today after a week off.
I love him to bits, but my goodness, just having a few uninterrupted hours in which to work is amazing!
He was all clear to go back yesterday but husband was not yet up to driving him then. (The round trip takes about an hour - husband has to do it twice a day!)
#Grandparenting
Raiders Late-Round Rookie Turning Heads Early During Training Camp https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/malik-benson-turning-heads-during-training-camp/
Mercury, which provides banking services to startups, raised a $200M Series D led by TCV at a $5.2B valuation, up from $3.5B in March 2025 (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/fintech-mercury-valuation-fundraise-bank-charter.html
Browns, safety Grant Delpit agree to 3-year, $48 million extension: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7416857/2026/07/29/grant-delpit-browns-contract-extension/
I've finished reading Simon Winder's "#Germania" a while ago, but I've been slacking with the review. This is a book about the history of #Germany, in the wide meaning of word. However, it's not your boring detailed history book. The author takes us on a deeply personal journey across German landscape, across tiny towns and great forests, Schlosses, churches and monuments, and uses that as a context to bring the country's surprisingly interesting history to light. And honestly, it works — it is deeply enjoyable, to the point of making me wonder if one day I should actually move to Germany, get a Bahncard 100 and start exploring myself.
I didn't quote the book here, but if I were to choose one quote that really resonated with me, it would be:
"""
Solitary tourism is something that everybody should indulge in. Of course it is a fraudulent solitude because its enjoyment comes from its limited duration and having a cheerful, only very temporarily abandoned main base area. […] And then, suddenly, I am in Vienna, standing in the shadow of a monstrous, derelict flak tower, and completely alone. The virtue of solitary tourism is its infinite ability to absorb boredom. I often find myself almost crippled with anxiety that the companion or companions on a journey might be finding everything wholly without interest, would rather be eating somewhere else, are secretly angry that we have wound up walking down this street rather than that, are contemptuous of my own interests. Solitary tourism cauterizes all this: if a museum is boring beyond all measure there is no pressure to feign interest, you just leave. I am perfectly happy, in a zoned-out way, to crisscross a town, walking for hours, just for the off-chance something curious might be round the next corner – indeed in the confidence that there will always be something curious (there always is). But for each street, each bar, each folklore museum to be converted into an inter-human negotiation creates an entirely different dynamic.
[…]
Quite possibly the pleasure of this way of life would be much reduced in some other countries, particularly more insistently gregarious places such as Italy. German culture puts a high value on temporary solitude of a stagey kind. Perhaps this is its great gift. In some moods I think there is no need to do anything other than read German writers from the first half of the nineteenth century – a sort of inexhaustible storehouse of attitudes flattering to those who just like sometimes to be left alone. Everyone must have at least a part of them that wants to live in a stairless, doorless tower as a sort of intellectual Rapunzel, setting aside, at least in part, the complicated sexual frisson laid out by such an idea. Germany really is thick with ivy-covered turrets and the promise of solitude (Kepler staring at the planets above Prague, Faust conjuring demons) – the great majority presumably built in the nineteenth century in response to the whole literature devoted to the subject. There is one turret in Lübeck, built onto a city guard tower of just outrageous fakeness, which would do me for life.
"""
(Simon Winder, Germania)
And if you follow me, you have evidence that the part about crisscrossing towns is so true: the best things I've posted here I found by complete accident, especially the murals.
#books #bookstodon
from my link log —
Intel underestimates fsin error bounds by 1.3 quintillion.
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underestimates-error-bounds-by-1-3-quintillion/
saved 2026-07-13
Even PGMOL couldn't round this one down, but god how they tried. That was a looong look for a snapshot decision in which we have SAOT to help with exactly that.
#LFC
Raiders 4th-round star named one of most underrated rookies https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-4th-round-star-named-one-most-underrated-rookies/b48305123ef1975f65c2dc66
Here's what Cowboys former 5th-round pick must do to earn game snaps https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/03/cowboys-1-2-punch-skillset-will-determine-rb2-jaydon-blue-2…
Barnwell's NFL trade value guide: The 155 players worth at least one first-round draft pick https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49354774/2026-nfl-trade-tiers-players-worth-first-round-picks-all-32-teams-contract-valu…
Sigma, which sells a cloud-native analytics platform that sits on top of data warehouses, raised an $80M Series E led by Princeville Capital at a $3B valuation (Cristian Dina/The Next Web)
https://thenextweb.com/news/sigma-computing-series-e-80-million-3-b…
Raiders ink one of last two unsigned draft picks https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-ink-one-of-last-two-unsigned-draft-picks-3853684/
The Weapon Who Will Truly Define the Las Vegas Raiders’ Season https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-linderbaum-trench-warfare-impact/
Captain America salutes next to boxes of comic books
#photo #photography #cosplay #ithacon
One Elite Factor Could Solidify Marist Liufau's Spot On Dallas Cowboys Roster https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/one-elite-factor-could-solidify-marist-liufau-spot-on-dallas-cowboys-roster
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EarlierWithJoolsHolland
Thomas Ravenscroft & Pellingman's Sarabande:
🎵 Round of Three Country Dances in One
#ThomasRavenscroft #PellingmansSarabande
https://open.spotify.com/track/4QmB1ZMY9SFoL0EJB3AxxE
Setting Year One Expectations for Raiders' Day 2 Picks https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-setting-year-one-expectations-day-2-picks
Setting Year One Expectations for Raiders' Day 2 Picks https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-setting-year-one-expectations-day-2-picks
Jerry Jones’ Dak Prescott gamble gets fresh validation from major PFF ranking https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/dak-prescott-cowboys-pff-non-first-round-draft-pick/13edf6414ff1bcf706c4fbc4
Raiders sign third-round pick DE Keyron Crawford https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-third-round-pick-de-keyron-crawford-nfl-2026-draft-class
Devonte Wyatt, Packers agree to 3-year contract extension: Reports https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7371158/2026/07/20/devonte-wyatt-packers-contract-extension/
I rewarded myself for #BackToSchool preparation with this book by Anders Kofoed, and it's wonderful. Every Danish home should own it as a beautiful guide to the wildlife and the challenges that we encounter in Danish waters. And then maybe we'd do something finally about our choking seas. A huge recommend on #bookstodon for #DKmastodon from me.
I hope it is translated, the format would do well all round the North and Baltic Seas.
A particularly tasty nugget unearthed today: the Kattegat hosts one of the world's rarest and shallowest of ecosystems, a cold seep which is rather wonderfully named a bubble reef (boblerev) in Danish.
I think we should use this term in English - surely a bubble reef sounds much more appealing than a cold seep?
#biodiversity #marineBiology #Stem #BiodiversityCrisis #danmark
Lions sign former All-Pro LB Devin White in move to bolster defense https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7485557/2026/08/01/lions-devin-white-free-agent-nfl/
Can former Eagles 5th-round Dude Bro replace Cowboys fan favorite? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/19/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-no-77-ol-trevor-keegan-the-nex…
Trade Idea Has Raiders Land Productive WR for 5th-Round Pick https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/kayshon-boutte-trade-idea-patriots/
All Eyes Are on $28.9 Million Playmaker at Cowboys Training Camp https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/caleb-downs-dallas-cowboys-training-camp/
Raiders Issued Major Maxx Crosby Update Amid Training Camp https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-update-amid-training-camp/
Role Call: Caleb Downs primed to make early impact for Cowboys defense https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/role-call-caleb-downs-primed-to-make-early-impact-for-cowboys-defense
Tyree Wilson Gets Blunt on Saints Transition After Raiders Exit https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tyree-wilson-blunt-saints-transition-exit/
Role Call: Caleb Downs primed to make early impact for Cowboys defense https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/role-call-caleb-downs-primed-to-make-early-impact-for-cowboys-defense
Raiders Found a ‘Draft Steal’ in Explosive 6th-Round Wide Receiver https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-malik-benson-rookie-minicamp-steal/
Mailbag: Success of undrafted vs. 7th rounders? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-success-of-undrafted-vs-7th-rounders
Mailbag: Success of undrafted vs. 7th rounders? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-success-of-undrafted-vs-7th-rounders
Raiders Receive Compelling Take on Ex-Lions Taylor Decker https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/compelling-take-ex-lions-taylor-decker/
ESPN names Under-the-radar rookie as Raiders surprise offseason standout https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/06/23/espn-rookie-wr-malik-benson-raiders-surprise-offseason-sta…
Former Dallas Cowboys DE Tragically Passes Away at 36 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/former-dallas-cowboys-de-tragically-passes-away-at-36
Former Dallas Cowboys DE Tragically Passes Away at 36 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/former-dallas-cowboys-de-tragically-passes-away-at-36