Welcome to Advanced Matchups! Using the Fantasy Points Data Suite, I’ll dig into coverage shells, blitz rates, individual matchups, and more every week throughout the season. If you believe this is too much overanalysis, Millionaire Maker winner rsbathla disagrees with you, crediting this very article as part of his process. This column is mostly geared toward giving you an edge …
Read More »STOCKHOLM (AP) — John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for research on the weird world of sub-atomic quantum tunneling that advances the power of everyday digital communications and computing. One of the winners said that quantum mechanics research already has wound up in our everyday communications. Speaking from his …
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The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the Universe), states that Earth and humans do not occupy a special or privileged place in the Universe. In cosmological terms, this essentially means that Earth is representative of the norm, and life is likely to exist throughout the cosmos. While our efforts to find …
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News Highlights OpenAI to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs based on a multi-year, multi-generation agreement Initial 1 gigawatt OpenAI deployment of AMD Instinct™ MI450 Series GPUs starting in 2H 2026 SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and OpenAI today announced a 6 gigawatt agreement to power OpenAI’s next-generation …
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stock has recovered well from the weakness seen earlier this year and is up 36% year-to-date, driven by renewed hopes about the company capturing demand in the artificial intelligence (AI) chips market through its new graphics processing units (GPUs) while continuing to gain market share in the CPU server market. Most analysts covering AMD stock remain …
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Altschul, S. F. et al. Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs. Nucleic Acids Res. 25, 3389–3402 (1997). Article CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Steinegger, M. & Söding, J. MMseqs2 enables sensitive protein sequence searching for the analysis of massive data sets. Nat. Biotechnol. 35, 1026–1028 (2017). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Zhang, Y. …
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On Friday, the BYU football team will kickoff the home conference slate against West Virginia. The Cougars are undefeated and looking to remain in the conference title race, while the Mountaineers are coming off a blowout loss to Utah. BYU is heavy favored in this game. The Cougars are currently 19.5-point favorites according to oddsmakers. The advanced analytics are equally …
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For decades, scientists engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have probed the galaxy for signs of artificial radio transmissions. Beginning with Project Ozma in 1960, astronomers have used radio antennas to listen for possible transmissions from other star systems or galaxies. These efforts culminated in January 2016 with the launch of Breakthrough Listen, the most comprehensive SETI effort …
Read More »Steve Cohen’s $8B casino advanced by committee, cementing final field Crain’s New York Business Citi Field casino passes key vote in Queens. Here’s an update on the 8 sites vying for licenses. CBS News NYC casino proposal at Citi Field in Queens is 4th and final plan to advance to NY state consideration ABC7 New York Metropolitan Park receives unanimous CAC approval as …
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A group of financial investors are in “advanced talks” with EA to go private with a valuation worth around $50 billion (£37.5 billion). According to the Wall Street Journal (£), the investors – thought to include equity firm Silver Lake, Affinity Partners, and Saudi Arabia’s controversial Public Investment Fund (PIF) – could announce a deal as soon as next week. …
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