Livros vencedores do Prêmio Sesc têm capas divulgadas
Títulos têm lançamento previsto para o dia 15 de dezembro; obras premiadas foram um romance, coletânea de contos e de poesias
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Video shows SDPD officers kneeling on man who later died for nearly 8 minutes outside bar in Gaslamp Quarter
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Expert Available: How Millionaires Qualify for Food Stamps Through SNAP Loophole
USDA Secretary Rollins promised “structural changes” to SNAP this week amid concerns about widespread fraud in the program. Major reforms to SNAP’s financing model cannot be made without Congress, but USDA can help enforce the program’s eligibility standards by closing a loophole that has allowed millionaires, lottery winners, and households with six-figure assets to receive SNAP benefits through regulation. lead , In a recent blog post titled The SNAP Loophole that Lets Millionaires Receive Food Stamps, the director […]
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TDS Newsletter: How to Design Evals, Metrics, and KPIs That Work
On the challenges of producing reliable insights and avoiding common mistakes The post TDS Newsletter: How to Design Evals, Metrics, and KPIs That Work appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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New control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe
Imagine having a continuum soft robotic arm bend around a bunch of grapes or broccoli, adjusting its grip in real time as it lifts the object. Unlike traditional rigid robots that generally aim to avoid contact with the environment as much as possible and stay far away from humans for safety reasons, this arm senses subtle forces, stretching and flexing in ways that mimic more of the compliance of a human hand. Its every motion is calculated to […]
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MIT scientists debut a generative AI model that could create molecules addressing hard-to-treat diseases
More than 300 people across academia and industry spilled into an auditorium to attend a BoltzGen seminar on Thursday, Oct. 30, hosted by the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (MIT Jameel Clinic). Headlining the event was MIT PhD student and BoltzGen’s first author Hannes Stärk, who had announced BoltzGen just a few days prior. Building upon Boltz-2, an open-source biomolecular structure prediction model predicting protein binding affinity that made waves over the summer, BoltzGen (officially released on Sunday, […]
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Will a Free Spirit Be a Liberal Spirit?
Matthew Meyer I want to thank Steven Pittz for his thoughtful comments on my response essay. He addresses a number of my concerns, and he provides much to reflect upon. That said, I think he slightly misreads my argument and my main concern with his thesis. Specifically, my main worry is not, as he claims, whether it is “appropriate at all to use Nietzsche’s ideas in defense of liberalism.” As I state in my initial response, there are […]
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Amnesty International report details torture, abuse at immigration detention camps in Florida
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Privacy is For the Children (Too)
In the past few years, governments across the world have rolled out different digital identification options, and now there are efforts encouraging online companies to implement identity and age verification requirements with digital ID in mind. This blog is the third in a short series that explains digital ID and the pending use case of age verification. Here, we cover alternative frameworks on age controls, updates on parental controls, and the importance of digital privacy in an increasingly […]
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Your Fridge Is Bigger and Cheaper Today, Thanks to Global Trade and Innovation
Jeremy Horpedahl In the summer of 2024, a passage from J.D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy gained widespread attention on social media platforms, including X/Twitter. Vance described his refrigerator from the 1980s, asserting that it preserved lettuce for weeks beyond the capabilities of contemporary models. This was not just an offhanded comment by Vance, as he also said his takeaway from this anecdote is that “economics is fake.” By “fake,” he means that “we became less good at manufacturing in this […]
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