Assessment and Retention of Black Students in Higher Education
 Sherman, T Giles, M Williams-Green, J The Journal of Negro Education volume 63 issue 2 164 (1994)
AlphaPruning: Using Heavy-Tailed Self Regularization Theory for Improved Layer-wise Pruning of Large Language Models
 Lu, H Zhou, Y Liu, S Wang, Z Mahoney, M Yang, Y Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems volume 37 (01 Jan 2024)
Found in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts Better via Plug-and-Play Positional Encoding
 Zhang, Z Chen, R Liu, S Yao, Z Ruwase, O Chen, B Wu, X Wang, Z Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems volume 37 (01 Jan 2024)
A hyperbolic free-by-cyclic group determined by its finite quotients
 Andrew, N Hillen, P Lyman, R Pfaff, C Glasgow Mathematical Journal (04 Apr 2025)
A hyperbolic free-by-cyclic group determined by its finite quotients
 Andrew, N Hillen, P Lyman, R Pfaff, C Glasgow Mathematical Journal (04 Apr 2025)

Song of the Week: The Fortunes - Storm in a Teacup

This little pop classic was co-written by the talented and often overlooked Lynsey De Paul. Happy teatime everyone.

One drop of rain on your window pane
Doesn't mean to say there's a thunderstorm comin'
Rain may pour for an hour or more
But it doesn't matter, you know it doesn't matter

New horizons for inhomogeneous quenches and Floquet CFT
 Jiang, H Mezei, M Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2025 issue 4 (02 Apr 2025)
3d gravity as a random ensemble
 Jafferis, D Rozenberg, L Wong, G Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2025 issue 2 (28 Feb 2025)

Café π news

Waffle Wednesdays - every Wednesday, from 8:30 to 10:30 am, we serve our freshly made waffles with two delicious toppings:
Banana & Chocolate and Bacon & Maple Syrup. 

Bubble tea - Available all day, featuring two flavours:
Pineapple Jasmine, and Passionfruit Jasmine, served with Lychee Boba.

Image: Mary Cassatt - The Tea 

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