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The Sonos Beam Gen 2 is over $100 off

The Sonos Beam Gen 2 is over $100 off

A good soundbar is one of the easiest ways to improve the audio quality of your home theater set up. As it happens the Sonos Beam (Gen 2), which is one of our is currently available for its best price to date (at least for a new and not refurbished model). It has dropped by $110 to . That's 22 percent off the regular price, but bear in mind that the offer only applies to the white version.The Sonos Beam does a bang-up job of delivering solid audio from your TV (or music or podcast service). It delivers impressive sound…
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Demystifying Regular Expressions: A Quick Guide

Demystifying Regular Expressions: A Quick Guide

Regular expressions, often abbreviated as regex, are powerful tools used in programming for pattern matching and manipulation of text. They provide a concise and flexible way to search, match, and replace text based on specific patterns. What are Regular Expressions? Regular expressions are sequences of characters that define a search pattern. They are used in various programming languages and tools for tasks such as validation, searching, and string manipulation. Here’s a simple regex example: const regex = /hello/; const text = "hello world"; console.log(regex.test(text)); // Output: true Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode In the example above, the regex /hello/…
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Cute adventure game The Plucky Squire arrives on September 17

Cute adventure game The Plucky Squire arrives on September 17

The Plucky Squire has been one of my most anticipated games ever since it started popping up in showcases a couple of years ago. It was delayed out of 2023 and into this year, unfortunately, but the long wait to play it is almost over. Publisher Devolver Digital and developer All Possible Futures have revealed that The Plucky Squire is coming to PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch on September 17. It'll be available in the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for Extra and Premium members at no additional cost on day one.The action centers around a storybook.…
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Nexus – An analytics tool for Threads

Nexus – An analytics tool for Threads

TL;DR: If you don't feel like reading all of this and just want to try out the app. Scroll to the end. A couple of weeks ago I decided to try out Threads. Which in case you've been living under a rock, is Meta's attempt at making a competitor for Twitter/X. And so far I am having a great time over there. The vibe seems to be much friendlier than on Twitter/X and there are actually interesting discussions going on. However, when I joined there seemed to be missing a very important function and this function is; Analytics. It was…
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Google brings the AI feature that told Americans to eat rocks to six more countries

Google brings the AI feature that told Americans to eat rocks to six more countries

Google is expanding AI Overviews, the feature that summarizes answers to complex questions from the web and presents them at the top of traditional search results, to six more countries — India, Japan, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil and the United Kingdom — from Thursday with support for local languages as well as English.That’s less than three months after AI Overviews launched in the United States and promptly told people to eat rocks and put glue on their pizzas. Bringing them to millions more people begs the question: How do you prevent another glue pizza fiasco in a foreign country?“It’s a challenging…
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CSS Media Queries: Responsive Design

CSS Media Queries: Responsive Design

Introduction:CSS Media Queries are an essential part of responsive web design, allowing websites to adapt to different screen sizes and devices. With the rise of mobile devices and their varying screen sizes, it has become necessary for websites to have a responsive design. CSS Media Queries make this possible by allowing developers to specify different styles for specific devices or screen sizes. Let's delve into the features, advantages, and disadvantages of CSS Media Queries. Advantages:One of the primary advantages of CSS Media Queries is its ability to create fluid and responsive layouts. Media Queries allow the website to adjust its…
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Threads introduces a new analytics platform and the option for multiple drafts

Threads introduces a new analytics platform and the option for multiple drafts

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg just announced some new features coming to Threads that should make it easier for creators and businesses to build followings and connect with fans. The biggest tool is something called Insights, which is basically an analytics platform.Insights gives users a zoom-in view on traffic, with data on the age, gender and location of people who view and engage with content. This information can also be split up into followers and non-followers, to help with conversion. MetaMeta has been testing Insights for a few days now and it looks fairly useful, particularly for folks with large followings.…
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#46 — Find The Category Meeting The Specified Condition

#46 — Find The Category Meeting The Specified Condition

Problem description & analysis:In the Excel table below, the 1st column is the category and the 2nd column contains detailed data whose values are true or false. Task: Find the category whose detail data does not have the true value. The expected result will be Andy and Tim. Solution:Use SPL XLL to get this done: =spl("=?.groups(~1;count(~2)).select(#2==0).(#1)",A1:B6) Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode As shown in the picture below: Explanation:groups() function groups and summarizes data; ~1 represents the 1st child member of the current member; #1 is the 1stcolumn of the table. Source link lol
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Activision is finally addressing those massive Call of Duty download sizes

Activision is finally addressing those massive Call of Duty download sizes

Activision is finally taking some steps to stop Call of Duty games from hogging up hard drive space. The games are notoriously giant but the company is going to lessen the load a bit ahead of the October 25 release of Black Ops 6.How will this work? One big change is that Warzone is being decoupled from the rest of the games with regard to the default download for annual titles. This change happens on August 21, accompanying the launch of Season 5 Reloaded, and should actually help a lot. Warzone is huge (around 130GB) and this can be frustrating…
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The activation functions in PyTorch (5)

The activation functions in PyTorch (5)

Buy Me a Coffee☕ *Memos: My post explains Step function, Identity and ReLU. My post explains Leaky ReLU, PReLU and FReLU. My post explains ELU, SELU and CELU. My post explains GELU, Mish, SiLU and Softplus. My post explains Vanishing Gradient Problem, Exploding Gradient Problem and Dying ReLU Problem. (1) Tanh: can convert an input value(x) to the output value between -1 and 1. *0 and 1 are exclusive. 's formula is y = (ex - e-x) / (ex + e-x). is also called Hyperbolic Tangent Function. is Tanh() in PyTorch. is used in: RNN(Recurrent Neural Network). *RNN in PyTorch.…
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