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Young players set to announce themselves to NFL after dealing with injuries, early-career struggles

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/young-p

Multi-Timescale Gradient Sliding for Distributed Optimization
Junhui Zhang, Patrick Jaillet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15387 https://…

Multi-Timescale Gradient Sliding for Distributed Optimization
We propose two first-order methods for convex, non-smooth, distributed optimization problems, hereafter called Multi-Timescale Gradient Sliding (MT-GS) and its accelerated variant (AMT-GS). Our MT-GS and AMT-GS can take advantage of similarities between (local) objectives to reduce the communication rounds, are flexible so that different subsets (of agents) can communicate at different, user-picked rates, and are fully deterministic. These three desirable features are achieved through a block-d…

"You put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and recognise themselves inside it."
-Holly Hunter
#acting #coaching

While anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong, the true test is
admission to someone else.

Study: US kids who said their social media, phone, or video game use was "addictive" were 2x-3x more likely to have thoughts of suicide or self-harm by age 14 (Ellen Barry/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…

Real Risk to Youth Mental Health Is ‘Addictive Use,’ Not Screen Time Alone, Study Finds
Researchers found children with highly addictive use of phones, video games or social media were two to three times as likely to have thoughts of suicide or to harm themselves.

"What actually happened was that a minor instability, possibly caused by a solar farm, spiraled into a bigger problem when conventional generators (most of them gas-fired) failed to supply the grid-balancing services they’d been paid for. That in turn caused swaths of power plants to disconnect to protect themselves, similar to what happens in your home when the fuse box trips."
#Spain

As Trump contemplates direct US participation in Israel’s war with Iran,
including the possible use of “bunker buster” bombs on the heavily fortified Fordo uranium enrichment site,
William Kristol has made it known that he still has that hawk in him.
“You’ve got to go to war with the president you have,” he told The New York Times on Wednesday.
“If you really think that Iran can’t have nuclear weapons, we have a chance to try to finish the job.”
In a series o…

Those Sometimes-Trump Neocons Are Returning to the Fold Over Iran
As the president backs Israel’s long-awaited war with Iran, his neoconservative critics find themselves in an awkward position.

On 3-periodic tangled networks and their untangling number
Toky Andriamanalina, Sonia Mahmoudi, Myfanwy E. Evans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15252 https://

On 3-periodic tangled networks and their untangling number
Periodic networks serve as models for the structural organisation of biological and chemical crystalline systems. A single or multiple networks can have different configurations in space, where entanglement may arise due to the way the edges weave around each other. This entanglement influences the functional, physical, and chemical properties of the materials modelled by the networks, which highlights the need to quantify its complexity. In this paper, we describe a diagrammatic representation…

Contra Karp: the way you keep people safe is by making EVERYONE feel safe.
Scared people make themselves enemies. If you make people scared, they will be your enemy FOR THAT. If you make them feel safe, they will cease to be your enemy, or at least cease to pursue the enmity.
If you spend your life trying to make your adversaries afraid of you, you’ll never be safe.

Bust alert: Nine NFL players who are running out of time to prove themselves entering 2025 season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bust-al