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Sumble, which offers an AI sales intelligence service, emerges from stealth and raised a $30M Series A led by Canaan Partners and $8.5M seed led by Coatue (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/sumbl…

Sumble emerges from stealth with $38.5M to bring AI-powered context to sales intelligence | TechCrunch
The founders of machine learning community Kaggle are trying to upend the crowded sales prospecting market with AI. And they're making headway.

Cowboys' KISS method: Pros and cons of simplifying the defense https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/23/pros-cons-simplifying-dallas-cowboys-defense/86298872007/

SAGE: Semantic-Aware Shared Sampling for Efficient Diffusion
Haoran Zhao, Tong Bai, Lei Huang, Xiaoyu Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15865 https://arxiv.…

SAGE: Semantic-Aware Shared Sampling for Efficient Diffusion
Diffusion models manifest evident benefits across diverse domains, yet their high sampling cost, requiring dozens of sequential model evaluations, remains a major limitation. Prior efforts mainly accelerate sampling via optimized solvers or distillation, which treat each query independently. In contrast, we reduce total number of steps by sharing early-stage sampling across semantically similar queries. To enable such efficiency gains without sacrificing quality, we propose SAGE, a semantic-awa…

Maine Senate candidate Platner says tattoo recognized as Nazi symbol has been covered | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/maine-senate-candidate-platner-says-tattoo-recognized-as-nazi-symbol-has-been-covered/

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

How Google predicts the near-future availability of #EV charging points. This new Google Maps feature not only shows current real-time availability, but also predicts availability at the time of your arrival.

Reducing EV range anxiety: How a simple AI model predicts port availability

Many people are cheering for the popping of the "AI" bubble. Maybe it's not that simple though
https://tante.cc/2025/11/23/desire-to-pop/

Desire to Pop
Abstractions are powerful tools. Given enough abstraction everything gets somewhat simple. Somewhat clear. Also somewhat wrong. Abstraction turns everything real, material, consequential into mostly nothing. The abstraction of “a relationship” hides all the love and care and desire it might entail. The abstraction of “the border” hides the violence its defense entails. Given enough abstraction […]

I've probably mentioned that I'm working on switching #Gentoo from our half-broken eselect-ldso logic to #FlexiBLAS. This also involves a transition period where both setups would be supported.
A good thing is that the switch is ABI-compatible with the previous state (or at least it's supposed to be — we're working with upstream on fixing function coverage). Since libblas.so, liblapack.so and the rest are replaced by symlinks, programs that link to them will simply start using FlexiBLAS. So far, so good.
Unfortunately, switching the other way doesn't work as well. Stuff newly built against our libblas.so & co. symlinks naturally reads FlexiBLAS's SONAME from them, and links to libflexiblas directly. So should you decide to switch back, some packages will stay linked to FlexiBLAS and will need to rebuilt.
In order to avoid this, I would have to replace the symlinks with wrapper libraries, having libblas.so.3 and so on SONAMEs, and linking to libflexiblas. Unfortunately, a dummy wrapper isn't going to work — the linker will complain about using indirect symbols from libflexiblas.so. So I would probably have to "reexport" their symbols somehow, and ideally split into appropriate libraries, so that `-Wl,--as-needed` wouldn't drop some of them. But how to do that?
Well, let's look at the existing logic for eselect-ldso — clearly both BLIS and OpenBLAS create some wrappers. So I've spent some time investigating upstream Makefiles, and literally couldn't find the respective targets. I mean, these are quite complex Makefiles, but I'm grepping hard and can't find even a partial match.
As it turns out, these Makefile targets are added by Gentoo-specific patches. And these patches are just horrible. In case of OpenBLAS, they create the wrapper libraries by linking all the relevant .o files from OpenBLAS build, plus the shared OpenBLAS library. So the OpenBLAS symbols relevant to each interface end up duplicated in libblas.so, liblapack.so, etc., and apparently the symbols needed by them are taken from libopenblas.so. The individual interface libraries aren't even linked to one another, so they expose their own duplicate symbols, but use the implementation from OpenBLAS instead.
BLIS is even worse — the patch is simply creating libblas.so and libcblas.so, using all BLIS objects directly, plus symbol visibility to hide symbols irrelevant to the library. So yes, libblis.so, libblas.so and libcblas.so are roughly three separate copies of the same library, differing only in symbol visibility. And of course libcblas.so doesn't use libblas.so.
Truly #GSoC quality.

The Sunflower-Free Process
Patrick Bennett, Amanda Priestley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16355 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16355

The Sunflower-Free Process
An $r$-sunflower is a collection of $r$ sets such that the intersection of any two sets in the collection is identical. We analyze a random process which constructs a $w$-uniform $r$-sunflower free family starting with an empty family and at each step adding a set chosen uniformly at random from all choices that could be added without creating an $r$-sunflower with the previously chosen sets. To analyze this process, we extend results of the first author and Bohman arXiv:1308.3732v5 [math.CO], …

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