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"5 unexpected animal behaviors we learned about in 2025"
#Animals
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/5-unexpecte…

5 unexpected animal behaviors we learned about in 2025
Every year, researchers and people out in nature capture some aspect of animal behavior that’s unusual or unexpected in some way, changing how we understand the natural world. Here are five such examples that Mongabay reported on in 2025: Massive fish aggregation seen climbing waterfalls in Brazil For the first time, scientists observed a “massive […]

NFL Week 14 takeaways: What We Learned from Sunday's 12 games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-14-takeaways-what-we-learned-from-sunday-s-12-games

übers Radfahren, v.a. in den Niederlanden.
“Think of it this way: Car drivers behave like a bunch of geese. They have the same distance from each other and fly at the same speed, and move almost in military formation. Cyclists move like a swarm of sparrows. There are thousands of them moving in chaos, but there are no collisions. They turn a little bit; they change their speed. You must do the same.”

Kevin Terwilliger, #Dell head of product:
"We're very focused on delivering upon the #AI capabilities of a device—in fact everything that we're announcing has an #NPU in it—but what we've learned over the…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Liminianas feat. Laurent Garnier:
🎵 Saul
#NowPlaying #TheLiminianas #LaurentGarnier
https://theliminanas.bandcamp.com/track/saul-1

Raiders-Broncos on 'Thursday Night Football': What We Learned from Denver's 10-7 win https://www.nfl.com/news/raiders-broncos-on-thursday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-denver-s-10-7-win

3 lessons learned includes inept special teams play in Cowboys loss to Lions https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/05/lessons-dallas-cowboys-learned-offense-defense-lions…

from my link log —
Mailchimp's Mandrill outage due to PostgreSQL XID wraparound.
https://mailchimp.com/what-we-learned-from-the-recent-mandrill-outage/
saved 2019-04-01

What We Learned from the Recent Mandrill Outage | Mailchimp
Following a recent outage, we committed to sharing what we learned with our customers. The outage began at 05:35 UTC on February 4, and we resolved the issue...

Prior-Aligned Meta-RL: Thompson Sampling with Learned Priors and Guarantees in Finite-Horizon MDPs
Runlin Zhou, Chixiang Chen, Elynn Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05446 https:…

Prior-Aligned Meta-RL: Thompson Sampling with Learned Priors and Guarantees in Finite-Horizon MDPs
We study meta-reinforcement learning in finite-horizon MDPs where related tasks share similar structures in their optimal action-value functions. Specifically, we posit a linear representation $Q^*_h(s,a)=Φ_h(s,a)\,θ^{(k)}_h$ and place a Gaussian meta-prior $ \mathcal{N}(θ^*_h,Σ^*_h)$ over the task-specific parameters $θ^{(k)}_h$. Building on randomized value functions, we propose two Thompson-style algorithms: (i) MTSRL, which learns only the prior mean and performs posterior sampling wit…

What we learned in NFL Week 14: End of an era for Chiefs, Colts look finished https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6871412/2025/12/08/nfl-week-14-takeaways-chiefs-texans-colts/