Build a VLC Playlist Generator with SmolVLM for Video Highlight Tagging
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Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing
Remember when you thought age verification laws couldn’t get any worse? Well, lawmakers in Wisconsin, Michigan, and beyond are about to blow you away. It’s unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and bypass these invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of VPNs. Yes, really. As of this […]
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How to Speed-Up Training of Language Models
This article is divided into four parts; they are: • Optimizers for Training Language Models • Learning Rate Schedulers • Sequence Length Scheduling • Other Techniques to Help Training Deep Learning Models Adam has been the most popular optimizer for training deep learning models.
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The problem with unions
I mentioned unions in another post and I got a few comments asking what is wrong with unions. Theres nothing wrong with workers coming together and bargaining collectively. The problem is when they try to use the power of government to gain special privileges or harm their competition. For example taxi driver unions trying to ban Uber, hotel workers unions have tried to ban Airbnb, trucker unions support laws that make it harder to be an owner-operator trucker, […]
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CA Fires Spotlight Licensing Carriers for Inmates
California’s recent wildfires were fought by over 780 inmate firefighters who received rigorous taxpayer-funded training. But until recent reforms, many of these trained firefighters faced insurmountable barriers to employment after release—state licensing laws blocked them from the very careers they’d prepared for. lead , Cato scholar Stephen Slivinski examines this issue in a new Washington Post opinion piece, revealing how occupational licensing laws create employment barriers for 70 million Americans with criminal records. The evidence is clear: employment is […]
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COP30: Iniciativas aproximam a Amazônia do mercado editorial brasileiro
Organizações sociais e comerciais e diferentes autores e autoras discutem temas relacionados ao clima e à culinária, aproveitando a Conferência em Belém
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Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro in Search are coming to more countries around the world.
We’re bringing our most intelligent model yet, Gemini 3 Pro, to Google Search in more countries around the world.
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Rare Earths Are Rare in the US Only Because We Choose To Export Environmental Challenges
As has been said by many commentators, rare earths are not particularly rare. Via source, here is an estimate of their abundance in the Earth’s surface: Note by the way the Y-axis is logarithmic so small changes in vertical position can mean a factor of 10 or more difference in concentration. But the rare earths are not unreasonably far off fairly common industrial metals like lead, nickel, copper, and molybdenum and well more common than gold, silver, and […]
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New AI agent learns to use CAD to create 3D objects from sketches
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) is the go-to method for designing most of today’s physical products. Engineers use CAD to turn 2D sketches into 3D models that they can then test and refine before sending a final version to a production line. But the software is notoriously complicated to learn, with thousands of commands to choose from. To be truly proficient in the software takes a huge amount of time and practice. MIT engineers are looking to ease CAD’s learning […]
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