When optimization problems have multiple minima, algorithms favor specific... solutions due to their implicit bias. For ordinary least squares (OLS), gradient descent inherently converges to the minimal norm solution among all possible solutions.show more

The last thing veterans need after serving their country... is to be forced into one-size-fits all housing solutions when they’re trying to build their own home or site their RV. My amendment asks Veterans Affairs to allow veterans to use their VA home loan for land to park their mobile home or RV on.show more

Eesee Contributions are now Live! All winners have been... notified through their account dashboards. Please enter your wallet address in the search bar of the transparency page to verify whether you have won a ticket. There is a 3x oversubscription on winners, indicating more selected individuals than available tickets. These users compete on a first-come, first-serve (FCFS) basis to ensure funding completion. IDO Performance: 🟠344M+ assets connected 🟠40,714 participants eesee - The 1st gamified liquidity solution and marketplace on Blast ($1.3B TVL), with official backing and support. eesee is the first mover for RWA solutions on Blast, giving it first dibs on offering real-world yield solutions to Blast's $1B+ liquidity. Contribution for Winners (3-9 PM UTC): Transparency Page:show more

Now, there are a lot of tomatoes in Armenia.... Armenian farmers have blocked the Yerevan-Erekh highway due to problems with selling tomatoes. The farmers are demanding a solution to the supply issue after disruptions in trade with Russia. Interestingly, these same farmers recently voted for Pashinyan, based on promises to facilitate the sale of tomatoes and other products in the European market. To convince the farmers, Pashinyan pledged to personally buy all unsold produce in case of any problems. "Armenia is a very rich country," he stated. "We can afford it!"show more

We’re excited to introduce ShinkaEvolve: An open-source framework that... evolves programs for scientific discovery with unprecedented sample-efficiency. Blog: Code: Like AlphaEvolve and its variants, our framework leverages LLMs to find state-of-the-art solutions to complex problems, but using orders of magnitude fewer resources! Many evolutionary AI systems are powerful but act like brute-force engines, burning thousands of samples to find good solutions. This makes discovery slow and expensive. We took inspiration from the efficiency of nature. ‘Shinka’ (進化) is Japanese for evolution, and we designed our system to be just as resourceful. On the classic circle packing optimization problem, ShinkaEvolve discovered a new state-of-the-art solution using only 150 samples. This is a big leap in efficiency compared to previous methods that required thousands of evaluations. We applied ShinkaEvolve to a diverse set of hard problems with real-world applications: 1/ AIME Math Reasoning: It evolved sophisticated agentic scaffolds that significantly outperform strong baselines, discovering an entire Pareto frontier of solutions trading performance for efficiency. 2/ Competitive Programming: On ALE-Bench (a benchmark for NP-Hard optimization problems), ShinkaEvolve took the best existing agent's solutions and improved them, turning a 5th place solution on one task into a 2nd place leaderboard rank in a competitive programming competition. 3/ LLM Training: We even turned ShinkaEvolve inward to improve LLMs themselves. It tackled the open challenge of designing load balancing losses for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models. It discovered a novel loss function that leads to better expert specialization and consistently improves model performance and perplexity. ShinkaEvolve achieves its remarkable sample-efficiency through three key innovations that work together: (1) an adaptive parent sampling strategy to balance exploration and exploitation, (2) novelty-based rejection filtering to avoid redundant work, and (3) a bandit-based LLM ensemble that dynamically picks the best model for the job. By making ShinkaEvolve open-source and highly sample-efficient, our goal is to democratize access to advanced, open-ended discovery tools. Our vision for ShinkaEvolve is to be an easy-to-use companion tool to help scientists and engineers with their daily work. We believe that building more efficient, nature-inspired systems is key to unlocking the future of AI-driven scientific research. We are excited to see what the community builds with it! Learn more in our technical report:show more

I went to the office of Union Minister G... Kishan Reddy ji for an EQ letter. On average, around 150 people visit his office every day seeking help and solutions for their problems. Anyone can simply walk into the Parliamentary office of Hon’ble Union Minister Shri G. Kishan Reddy. People from across the State come here with their problems, and genuine public issues are addressed with care. Many recommendations and reference letters are written, and regular follow-ups are done with the concerned authorities. Every person who visits the office leaves with a solution and a smile.🙂 Thank you GKR Garu 🙏🙂show more

“Many people ask how elephants scratch an itch. 🐘🌿... We often see them rubbing their flanks, rumps, or heads against trees to relieve itchy skin. But what about their backs? Namwan is here to demonstrate her favorite solution! She has found the perfect scratching stick and knows exactly how to use it to reach those hard-to-scratch places. The best part? When she’s finished, she doesn’t leave it behind—she carries her special scratching stick home with her, ready for the next time she needs it! Elephants are incredibly intelligent and resourceful animals. They often find creative ways to solve everyday problems, and watching them invent their own solutions never fails to amaze us. Sometimes, the simplest moments reveal just how clever ~ and how wonderfully entertaining ~ Elephants can be.” ~ Lek Chailert ❤️. 🎦: Credit: Elephant Nature Park 🐘.show more

Bengaluru first, politics later! The Tunnel Road is not... my personal project - it’s a public initiative for Bengaluru’s future. We had a meeting with Union Minister Shri Nitin Gadkari who advised us and supported on the Tunnel Project as a solution to our city’s traffic woes. State BJP leaders, who are on a warpath against the project, should first listen to their own Union Minister. When tunnel roads are built by the Central government across India, it’s called development - but when we plan one for Bengaluru, it becomes controversial. Bengaluru deserves constructive solutions and progress - not politics. BJP Karnataka R. Ashokashow more

SCHOOL CLOSING ALERT: All Rockwood schools will be closed... tomorrow, Wednesday, January 8, due to hazardous conditions that remain in areas of the district. We also have significant amounts of ice on lots at multiple schools that are not responding well to treatment. We apologize for the inconvenience, and we hope to welcome everyone back very soon when it is safe to do so. All activities, Adventure Club and Community Ed programs for tomorrow are also canceled.show more

Today is #WorldElephantDay 🐘. “Many people ask how elephants... scratch an itch. 🐘🌿 We often see them rubbing their flanks, rumps, or heads against trees to relieve itchy skin. But what about their backs? Namwan is here to demonstrate her favorite solution! She has found the perfect scratching stick and knows exactly how to use it to reach those hard-to-scratch places. The best part? When she’s finished, she doesn’t leave it behind—she carries her special scratching stick home with her, ready for the next time she needs it! Elephants are incredibly intelligent and resourceful animals. They often find creative ways to solve everyday problems, and watching them invent their own solutions never fails to amaze us. Sometimes, the simplest moments reveal just how clever ~ and how wonderfully entertaining ~ Elephants can be.” ~ Lek Chailert ❤️. 🎦: Credit: Elephant Nature Park 🐘.show more

When we met with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte... Mark Rutte, Kyiv had already been hit by three waves of ballistic attacks. I briefed Mark in detail on all the consequences: the destruction and the casualties. This is the constant reality Ukraine is living with. It is impossible to counter this terror against life on your own. We have learned how to intercept cruise missiles and drones. We are now looking for solutions to counter jet-powered “shaheds,” and we already have good results. But against ballistic missiles, for now, the only effective option is Patriot interceptors, which we need practically every day. We discussed our needs for these interceptors and how we can secure a winter support package. Thank you, Mark, for your readiness to look for solutions. This is very important for NATO member states as well, given Russia’s constant threats to go further and destroy the lives of other nations.show more

The problems affecting Washington state are the result of... homemade policy decisions from Olympia – not Washington, D.C. For years, Washington has had among the highest prices for housing, groceries, fuel, and child care. We also suffer from high rates of crime, homelessness, and drug use. All of these problems predate the current federal administration. During the 2025 legislative session, Gov. Bob Ferguson and legislative Democrats enacted $9.2 billion in tax increases – the largest in state history – exacerbating our affordability crisis. Some of those taxes will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2026. State Democrats are also proposing a new statewide payroll tax and Gov. Ferguson is committed to passing a state income tax in 2026. House Republicans oppose new taxes and have offered dozens of solutions to the many problems facing our state, including a framework that would solve the budget deficit without raising taxes or affecting important services.show more

🚨🇺🇸 EXPLOSION AT TEXAS TECH: POWER OUTAGE TO LAST... 48 HOURS An explosion at a substation on Texas Tech’s campus caused power outages, evacuations, and multiple fires Wednesday evening. Officials confirm the power will be out for at least 48 hours, but all fires have now been contained. The Engineering Key was evacuated due to a gas odor, and the Health Sciences Center was cleared as a precaution. Texas Tech canceled classes early for spring break, urging students to check emails for updates. The public is advised to stay away from the area. Source: KCBDshow more

#Mumbai A few times back we went to have... some light food in #KhauGali of #Kurla West, then were shocked to see police were forcing shops to close. I asked one person; he said due to #Holi police are making them close. That's a Muslim-populated area, With all due respect sir Commissioner of Police, Greater Mumbai under which law this was forced? what's the reason to force them to shut their shop at peak hour when many Muslims after taraweeh buy food for sahri? #ramadan2026show more

We did it. We created the 1st VR Ordinal... inscribed directly into Bitcoin. This digital artifact, part of Penrose award-winning film Allumette, may appear unassuming, but she's a technical marvel. Her existence was realized through cutting-edge advancements, such as recursive Ordinals. The complexity? Our VR films, made with Unreal Engine & Unity, have file sizes in the gigabytes. Contrast that with the kilobytes / megabytes in the BTC blockspace available for inscribing data. The innovative solutions to bridge this gap were challenging but fascinating. Happy to share more if there's interest. Props to the gifted group who created her, including some talented & generous humans. But not least of all GenAI, whose essential contributions continue to be a cornerstone of our efforts. This achievement is just the first step in demonstrating what's possible in the integration of VR & blockchain. More developments to come.show more

🚨🇷🇺Russian scientists among first to master compressed light technology... The compact on-chip source of quantum compressed light unlocks new advances in ultra-sensitive quantum sensing and computing 🔸 The advance enables compact, ultra-sensitive sensors based on ‘squeezed’ light 🔸 Squeezed light surpasses the standard quantum limit of classical light, enabling measurements far more precise than previously possible 🔸 The technology could revolutionize medical diagnostics by overcoming a key limitation of existing sensors — the risk of tissue damage when increasing beam power for imaging 🔸 It also paves the way for photonic quantum computers capable of solving complex optimization problems, from improving logistics to streamlining production chains The breakthrough marks a major step forward in photonic technology developmentshow more

I have seen this trending everywhere, APC is now... claiming that Peter Obi’s visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg never happened and that the photos and videos are AI-generated. Most people in APC are actually battling mental health problems, because what other reason would you have, to deny a publicly documented event like Peter Obi’s visit to the EU. That is why we need him to invest in healthcare, so we can rescue these sycophants that have lost their minds. To be clear, Peter Obi was indeed in Strasbourg, where he engaged lawmakers and stakeholders on issues that matter to Nigeria and Africa. He spoke about the economy, insecurity, poverty, youth empowerment, corruption (Tinubu’s middle name), and the need for stronger EU-Africa partnerships. The tragedy is that APC have become so accustomed to Tinubu’s terrible governance that whenever they see a true leader discussing policy, facts, and solutions, especially on an international stage, their first reaction is to shout “AI.” As the saying goes, the empty drum makes the loudest noise, but it is the loaded vessel that moves the harvest. Peter Obi is too busy moving the harvest. You all are not even ready for the places you are about to see him in.show more

Kharkiv region. A Russian missile struck a post terminal.... Ordinary civilian object. Unfortunately, there are killed. My condolences to all of their close ones! As of now, it is known that at least 13 people were injured. First responders and all services are working on the spot. Pressure on the terrorist state must be increased. Every day, we must respond to Russian terror with our results on the frontlines. And we are doing exactly that. Terror and murder will not get Russia anywhere. Terrorists will end up facing justice for everything they have done.show more