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Scouting Drew Allar: Penn State quarterback similar to Joe Flacco https://www.nfl.com/news/scouting-drew-allar-penn-state-quarterback-similar-to-joe-flacco

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Server-SSDs fassen immer mehr Daten, bald bis zu 246 TByte. Dazu kommen noch schnelleres PCI Express und neue NVMe-Funktionen.
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Measuring IIA Violations in Similarity Choices with Bayesian Models
Hugo Sales Corr\^ea, Suryanarayana Sankagiri, Daniel Ratton Figueiredo, Matthias Grossglauser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14615

Measuring IIA Violations in Similarity Choices with Bayesian Models
Similarity choice data occur when humans make choices among alternatives based on their similarity to a target, e.g., in the context of information retrieval and in embedding learning settings. Classical metric-based models of similarity choice assume independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA), a property that allows for a simpler formulation. While IIA violations have been detected in many discrete choice settings, the similarity choice setting has received scant attention. This is because …

Just finished "The Courageous Princess" by Rod Espinosa. It's... bad. I was really looking forward to it because I recently read "Castle Waiting" by Linda Medley, and it seemed from the cover like it might be from a similar epoch in comics and/or have similar vibes, but it's both a very bland story, and extremely into royalty apologetics, which is the opposite of Castle Waiting and which galls me immensely. It breaks exactly one genre convention (the princess gets fed up with waiting for a prince and rescues herself) but doesn't systematize that into even an ounce of feminism.
"Dealing With Dragon"s by Patricia Wrede is the actually amazing version of this story, although it's not a graphic novel.
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Toward Understanding Similarity of Visualization Techniques
Abdulhaq Adetunji Salako, Christian Tominski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17032 https://

Toward Understanding Similarity of Visualization Techniques
The literature describes many visualization techniques for different types of data, tasks, and application contexts, and new techniques are proposed on a regular basis. Visualization surveys try to capture the immense space of techniques and structure it with meaningful categorizations. Yet, it remains difficult to understand the similarity of visualization techniques in general. We approach this open research question from two angles. First, we follow a model-driven approach that is based on d…

Self-Similar Solutions to a Nonlinear Forward-Backward Parabolic Equation
Tian Jing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14635 https://arxiv.or…

Self-Similar Solutions to a Nonlinear Forward-Backward Parabolic Equation
In this paper, we study the mixed-type equation u u_x = u_{yy}, which behaves as forward and backward parabolic equations depending on the sign of u. The equation arises from the study of boundary layers with separation. We seek solutions that change their type smoothly to better understand the equation. We simplify the equation into a second-order ODE using similarity variables, and prove an existence result by analyzing it as a first-order nonlinear ODE system. This provides us a self-similar…

AWS shuts down its Shanghai AI research lab, following similar moves by other US tech groups, including Microsoft and IBM, to scale back China-based R&D efforts (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a7cdb3bf-9c9d-40ef-951e-3c9f5bafe41d

On the passage times of self-similar Gaussian processes on curved boundaries
Davar Khoshnevisan, Cheuk Yin Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15949 https://

On the passage times of self-similar Gaussian processes on curved boundaries
Let $T_{c,β}$ denote the smallest $t\ge1$ that a continuous, self-similar Gaussian process with self-similarity index $α>0$ moves at least $\pm c t^β$ units. We prove that: (i) If $β>α$, then $T_{c,β}=\infty$ with positive probability; (ii) If $β<α$ then $T_{c,β}$ has moments of all order; and (iii) If $β=α$ and $X$ is strongly locally nondeterministic in the sense of Pitt (1978), then there exists a continuous, strictly decreasing function $λ:(0\,,\infty)\to(0\,,\infty)$ such that …

A look at the invite-only iOS and Android apps for Digg, which now operates similarly to Reddit, with links with a lot of "diggs" moving up the feed (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/apps/763689/digg-mobile-ios-android-app-relaunch…

Digg’s new app is basic, but a great start
Digg has launched its new mobile apps for iOS and Android. I tried the new iOS app out, and it’s bare-bones but promising.

On its 10th anniversary, YouTube Music gets new features, including "Taste Match" playlists similar to Spotify Blend and event notifications through Bandsintown (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/yout

YouTube Music celebrates 10 years with new features that help it compete with Spotify | TechCrunch
YouTube Music is rolling out taste match playlists, comments, badges and more.