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🫣 Rare tissue samples reveal where HIV hides in different parts of body
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Rare tissue samples reveal where HIV hides in different parts of body
Researchers at Western and the University of Calgary have discovered how HIV hides in different parts of the body by embedding itself into the DNA of cells in a tissue-specific manner, offering new insights into why the virus is so difficult to eliminate and cure—even decades after infection and treatment.

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/

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

Snowflake, Salesforce, and others announce the Open Semantic Interchange, a vendor-neutral standard for how business data is defined and shared across platforms (Michael Nuñez/Venturebeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-usd1-trillion-ai-…

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 […]

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], …

Symbol Detection in Inter-Symbol Interference Channels using Expectation Propagation with Channel Shortening
Jannis Clausius, Luca Schmid, Laurent Schmalen, Stephan ten Brink
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17735

Symbol Detection in Inter-Symbol Interference Channels using Expectation Propagation with Channel Shortening
Iterative message passing detection based on expectation propagation(EP) has demonstrated near-optimum performance in many signal processing and communication scenarios. The method remains feasible even for channel impulse responses (CIRs), where the optimal Bahl-Cocke-Jelinek-Raviv (BCJR) detector is infeasible. However, significant performance degradation occurs for channels with strong inter-symbol interference (ISI), where the initial linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) estimate is ina…

twitter: Twitter followers (2010)
A directed network of following relationships from Twitter, from a snowball sample crawl across "quality" users in 2009. A directed edge (i, j) indicates that user i follows user j.
This network has 465017 nodes and 834797 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://network…

Tel Aviv-based Seemplicity, whose AI-based tech automates enterprise vulnerability and exposure management, raised a $50M Series B led by Sienna Venture Capital (Rick Whiting/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/software/2025/remediation-o…

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.