The Big Lie in Hollywood: The Hollywood Ten Were Not Victims But Villains
Selling “The Big Lies” helps Hollywood to keep alive the fantasy that the Left is the victim rather than the perpetrator of injustice.
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Uncovering new physics in metals manufacturing
For decades, it’s been known that subtle chemical patterns exist in metal alloys, but researchers thought they were too minor to matter — or that they got erased during manufacturing. However, recent studies have shown that in laboratory settings, these patterns can change a metal’s properties, including its mechanical strength, durability, heat capacity, radiation tolerance, and more. Now, researchers at MIT have found that these chemical patterns also exist in conventionally manufactured metals. The surprising finding revealed a […]
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The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 13: LASSO and Ridge Regression in Excel
Ridge and Lasso regression are often perceived as more complex versions of linear regression. In reality, the prediction model remains exactly the same. What changes is the training objective. By adding a penalty on the coefficients, regularization forces the model to choose more stable solutions, especially when features are correlated. Implementing Ridge and Lasso step by step in Excel makes this idea explicit: regularization does not add complexity, it adds preference. The post The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” […]
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Reaching Across the Isles: UK-LLM Brings AI to UK Languages With NVIDIA Nemotron
Celtic languages — including Cornish, Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh — are the U.K.’s oldest living languages. To empower their speakers, the UK-LLM sovereign AI initiative is building an AI model based on NVIDIA Nemotron that can reason in both English and Welsh, a language spoken by about 850,000 people in Wales today. Enabling high-quality AI reasoning in Welsh will support the delivery of public services including healthcare, education and legal resources in the language. “I want every […]
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The Rational Bull Elk
I watch a lot of nature documentaries. I’m not very choosy about the animals covered, whether whales, moles, lions, ants, chameleons, blowfish, or mosquitoes. I’m even fascinated by footage of bacteria under a microscope. I’m usually immersed as I sit in front of my large-screen television, so long as I learn something about the intricacies of the species filmed in vibrant colors. What do they eat and how do they avoid being eaten? What are their life expectancies, […]
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Google’s AI try-on feature for clothes now works with just a selfie
In the past, users had to upload a full-body picture of themselves to virtually try on a piece of clothing. Now, they can use a selfie and Nano Banana will generate a full body digital version of them.
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Why model distillation is becoming the most important technique in production AI
Nebius Token Factory customers use distillation today for search ranking, grammar correction, summarization, chat quality improvement, code refinement, and dozens of other narrow tasks.
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How to pass the AI-900 Azure AI Fundamentals in one day
Author(s): Laura Verghote Originally published on Towards AI. A practical step-by-step guide with study tips, resources, and exam insights that actually work Passing the AI 900 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals exam in a single day might sound bold, but if you already understand basic AI concepts or have cloud experience with another provider, it is absolutely possible. I managed it with solid AI and AWS knowledge, even though I was completely new to Azure. Free full article for […]
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The cost of thinking
Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can write an essay or plan a menu almost instantly. But until recently, it was also easy to stump them. The models, which rely on language patterns to respond to users’ queries, often failed at math problems and were not good at complex reasoning. Suddenly, however, they’ve gotten a lot better at these things. A new generation of LLMs known as reasoning models are being trained to solve complex problems. Like humans, […]
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New software designs eco-friendly clothing that can reassemble into new items
It’s hard to keep up with the ever-changing trends of the fashion world. What’s “in” one minute is often out of style the next season, potentially causing you to re-evaluate your wardrobe. Staying current with the latest fashion styles can be wasteful and expensive, though. Roughly 92 million tons of textile waste are produced annually, including the clothes we discard when they go out of style or no longer fit. But what if we could simply reassemble our clothes […]
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