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Sunday, August 16, 202639 min read
Daily Reading · Paper of the Day

Goodfellow's linear explanation got the attack right and the cause wrong

Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples handed the field its one-step attack and its first practical defense, then watched the vulnerability it blamed on linear models get traced to the training data itself.

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Investing · Investing Course

At $264, Adobe is a 12% premium and a 30% discount at once

Adobe's conservative and optimistic values are $236 and $518 a share, and a margin of safety is only the distance from the price down to the lower one.

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Parenting · Parenting Research

Fever medicine comforts a sick baby but does not shorten the illness or prevent a seizure

In the same month a baby becomes old enough for ibuprofen, a single rectal reading of 38.0°C still overrides how well the baby looks.

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Daily Reading · Current Events

Somali TPS ends after the Supreme Court put such terminations beyond a court's review

About 700 Somali nationals lose protection from removal, and the judge who paused the termination wrote that she found their racial-discrimination claim strong but saw no way around the June ruling.

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Daily Reading · Tech News

Qwen fits a 27B multimodal model on a single GPU

It interleaves linear and full attention to hold a million-token context cheaply, and its benchmark scores are Alibaba's own, unverified so far.

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Daily Reading · Word of the Day

A word coined for one Prague window now unseats prime ministers

Three men thrown from Prague Castle in 1618 survived the fall, and the term that records it keeps the violence a plain “removal” loses.

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