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Four days in Oxford: Inside the chaotic return of Lane Kiffin to Ole Miss, that turned into pure cinema

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Giants' Jaxson Dart tried to reenter game with knee injury but had jersey taken away: reports From the Chargers to the Colts and Falcons, which of the NFL's eight winless teams are already in panic mode Giants' season-opening high comes crashing down as Jaxson Dart's knee injury overshadows Rams' blowout win Chiefs coach suggests Taylor Swift has sparked Travis Kelce's performance in first two weeks of season Michael Penix Jr. officially named Falcons starter for a short-week trial by fire against Packers ESPN deserves credit for pushing back on Dan Le Batard's false accusation of racism Jerry Jones issues'dangerous' warning after Cowboys topple Commanders behind Dak Prescott's historic day Craig Carton roasts Bears' Caleb Williams for emotional reaction to hamstring injury against Vikings Commanders face critical decision on Jayden Daniels' elbow as specialists review MRI results Dr Siegel shares miracles from his book'The Angels Among Us' Sean Duffy reacts to Democratic pushback on FAA's new AI tool to cut flight delays Rubio questions'point' of NATO after US blocked from bases Mamdani touts'productive' meeting with Trump in New York City Latvian official says Ukraine has'frozen the front' in war with Russia Rubio warns that Iran is'run by lunatic clerics' The absolute gem of a weekend in Oxford has come and gone, with a day of college football that could rival anything we've seen in recent memory. Ole Miss versus LSU delivered pure cinema, largely because of Lane Kiffin's dramatic return to Oxford. Now, all sides can move on until the two teams meet again next year in Baton Rouge. While much of the theatrics surrounding Kiffin's return felt like an attempt to sell tickets to a show that had already sold itself, the weekend still delivered an experience that will be remembered for decades. Both Ole Miss and LSU fans will now come to grips with the fact that life goes on, especially during the 2026 season.


Bet365 Bonus Code: Bet 10, Get 365 on College Football This Weekend, Including LSU vs Ole Miss

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Betr Promo Code FOXNEWS: Get a $200 Bonus Ahead of Today's MLB Action China accelerates its AI build-out, expert warns against a U.S. pause Can AI help create your food? 'Chernobyl moment': GOP lawmaker urges Congress to act on AI before it's too late Holdout Clancy juror says he'DIDN'T HAVE ANY DOUBTS' Nvidia is the'king of kings' in tech as AI chip demand surges Tim Curry remembered by'Mighty Max' co-star Rob Paulsen: 'He made us better' This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If you sign up or place a wager, FOX News may be compensated. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom. LSU Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin reacts to a play against Clemson during the first half at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La., on Sept. 5, 2026.


LSU-Ole Miss showdown intensifies as Tigers star served with lawsuit papers outside football facility

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Reporter for The Athletic fumes over Arch Manning, silent on Josh Jacobs' alleged violence against woman Jordon Hudson dusts herself off and resumes her WAG duties, Belichick vs Sydney Sweeney & 'Gainesville Ripper' Mets are'trash' because they're not listening to former NJ Gov Chris Christie, Stephen A Smith says Orioles pitcher Shane Baz drilled with 105.1 mph line drive in scary scene NFL's battle with drinking and driving continues as Keenan Allen formally charged in Indianapolis Anthony Molina and Matthew Liberatore's struggles make over 8 runs the play for Giants-Cardinals Shota Imanaga's home run struggles and Wrigley wind make over 7.5 the play for Braves-Cubs Jaxson Dart's girlfriend Marissa Ayers shines in Week 1 win, a Giants-Cowboys fan fight & Ole Miss tension MLB's most electric slugger just had one of the slowest, most disrespectful walk-off home runs of all time James Franklin makes Virginia Tech press conference extremely awkward with bizarre'Hey Michael' moment Texans' Azeez Al-Shaair to be fined once again by NFL for wearing Pro-Palestinian personal message on eyeblack Stephen A. Smith calls out NBA star Kawhi Leonard for letting Clippers take the fall for salary cap scandal Sheriff decries Democrat's'disgusting display' at House hearing on sanctuary laws Sheriff decries Democrat's'disgusting display' at House hearing on sanctuary laws Sheriff calls Democrat's questioning at House hearing a'disgusting display' It's urgent for Congress to step in and protect college sports: Sen Ted Cruz Mike Pence warns this Trump move would send a'deafening' message to Putin'COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY': Real estate celebrity calls out $200,000 housing mistake Rand Paul slams Congress over AI regulation: 'I wouldn't put Congress in charge of a McDonald's' Rand Paul slams Congress over AI regulation: 'I wouldn't put Congress in charge of a McDonald's' Ed Sheeran responds to Macklemore backlash amid'Free Palestine' controversy Landry said Ole Miss AD Keith Carter'could have saved some money and waited until Saturday' to find Umanmielen I think they're going to put them on their roster that has to be submitted by Friday afternoon. And then all eyes are going to be on, do they run out of the tunnel Saturday afternoon in Columbia, South Carolina, or in Baton Rouge, Louisiana? And if that's the case, Dan, the SEC is going to have a decision to make. On Tuesday afternoon, however, the rivalry received another jolt outside LSU's football facility. In a lawsuit filed this past July, the Ole Miss athletic department is currently suing former players, and current LSU Tigers, Devin Harper and Princewill Umanmielen, on charges of breach of contract tied to their exit from Oxford following the departure of head coach Lane Kiffin.


Amortized Filtering and Smoothing with Conditional Normalizing Flows

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Bayesian filtering and smoothing for high-dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems are fundamental yet challenging problems in many areas of science and engineering. In this work, we propose AFSF, a unified amortized framework for filtering and smoothing with conditional normalizing flows. The core idea is to encode each observation history into a fixed-dimensional summary statistic and use this shared representation to learn both a forward flow for the filtering distribution and a backward flow for the backward transition kernel. Specifically, a recurrent encoder maps each observation history to a fixed-dimensional summary statistic whose dimension does not depend on the length of the time series. Conditioned on this shared summary statistic, the forward flow approximates the filtering distribution, while the backward flow approximates the backward transition kernel. The smoothing distribution over an entire trajectory is then recovered by combining the terminal filtering distribution with the learned backward flow through the standard backward recursion. By learning the underlying temporal evolution structure, AFSF also supports extrapolation beyond the training horizon. Moreover, by coupling the two flows through shared summary statistics, AFSF induces an implicit regularization across latent state trajectories and improves trajectory-level smoothing. In addition, we develop a flow-based particle filtering variant that provides an alternative filtering procedure and enables ESS-based diagnostics when explicit model factors are available. Numerical experiments demonstrate that AFSF provides accurate approximations of both filtering distributions and smoothing paths.


Notes on Forrรฉ's Notion of Conditional Independence and Causal Calculus for Continuous Variables

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Recently, Forrรฉ (arXiv:2104.11547, 2021) introduced transitional conditional independence, a notion of conditional independence that provides a unified framework for both random and non-stochastic variables. The original paper establishes a strong global Markov property connecting transitional conditional independencies with suitable graphical separation criteria for directed mixed graphs with input nodes (iDMGs), together with a version of causal calculus for iDMGs in a general measure-theoretic setting. These notes aim to further illustrate the motivations behind this framework and its connections to the literature, highlight certain subtlies in the general measure-theoretic causal calculus, and extend the "one-line" formulation of the ID algorithm of Richardson et al. (Ann. Statist. 51(1):334--361, 2023) to the general measure-theoretic setting.



Mutual Information Collapse Explains Disentanglement Failure in $ฮฒ$-VAEs

arXiv.org Machine Learning

The $ฮฒ$-VAE is a foundational framework for unsupervised disentanglement, using $ฮฒ$ to regulate the trade-off between latent factorization and reconstruction fidelity. Empirically, however, disentanglement performance exhibits a pervasive non-monotonic trend: benchmarks such as MIG and SAP typically peak at intermediate $ฮฒ$ and collapse as regularization increases. We demonstrate that this collapse is a fundamental information-theoretic failure, where strong Kullback-Leibler pressure promotes marginal independence at the expense of the latent channel's semantic informativeness. By formalizing this mechanism in a linear-Gaussian setting, we prove that for $ฮฒ> 1$, stationarity-induced dynamics trigger a spectral contraction of the encoder gain, driving latent-factor mutual information to zero. To resolve this, we introduce the $ฮปฮฒ$-VAE, which decouples regularization pressure from informational collapse via an auxiliary $L_2$ reconstruction penalty $ฮป$. Extensive experiments on dSprites, Shapes3D, and MPI3D-real confirm that $ฮป> 0$ stabilizes disentanglement and restores latent informativeness over a significantly broader range of $ฮฒ$, providing a principled theoretical justification for dual-parameter regularization in variational inference backbones.




Rare, deep-sea encounter: California scientists observe 'extraordinary' seven-arm octopus

Los Angeles Times

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Rare, deep-sea encounter: California scientists observe'extraordinary' seven-arm octopus On November 6, 2025, MBARI Senior Scientist Steven Haddock and researchers in MBARI's Biodiversity and Biooptics Team observed a seven-arm octopus (Haliphron atlanticus) during an expedition in Monterey Bay with MBARI's remotely operated vehicle at a depth of approximately 700 meters. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . California scientists captured rare footage of a seven-arm octopus eating a jellyfish.