After 8 years of van life, they were ready to settle down. They bought an abandoned watermill in Portugal to turn into a family home.
05 Aug

After 8 years of van life, they were ready to settle down. They bought an abandoned watermill in Portugal to turn into a family home.

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Brittany and Drew Neumann always knew that giving up van life would require a very special property.The couple, who are YouTubers, had been living on wheels since 2015. After a yearlong trip around North America in an old camper owned by Drew's parents, the couple got married, bought their own van, and spent the next two and a half years traveling around Europe and Africa for their honeymoon. They converted a van and lived in it for five years. Mr and Mrs Adventure After returning to the US in 2018, they continued with van life until mid-2020, when they started…
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I finally understand the hype around the Playdate game Root Bear
05 Aug

I finally understand the hype around the Playdate game Root Bear

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is one of those all the time to new Playdate owners looking for somewhere to start. After months of encountering the title on the internet and vaguely wondering what could be so great about a game where all you do is pour root beer for bears, I finally decided to give it a go this weekend. And, yup, I totally get it now. Root Bear is ridiculously fun — emphasis on ridiculous.Root Bear is a $3 Catalog game in which your goal is to achieve the perfect pour from the root beer tap while picky customers (all bears, of course)…
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Exploring Java’s Stream API
05 Aug

Exploring Java’s Stream API

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Introduction: Java's Stream API is a powerful feature that was introduced in Java 8. It allows developers to efficiently process collections of objects by providing a set of functional-style operations. Streams have become extremely popular among Java developers due to their ability to write concise and expressive code. In this article, we will explore the various advantages, disadvantages, and features of Java's Stream API. Advantages: One of the biggest advantages of Java's Stream API is its ability to process large datasets with ease. Streams use lazy evaluation, which means they only process elements when they are actually needed, thus making…
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Sam Altman and generative AI can’t be trusted, says leading expert
05 Aug

Sam Altman and generative AI can’t be trusted, says leading expert

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Sam Altman, as the CEO of OpenAI and poster boy for artificial intelligence, has made many calls for an AI that will benefit humanity and regulations to ensure the world will get there.But a leading AI expert says the CEO's actions contradict his public pronouncements, and the current path to AI is headed in the wrong direction.In a Saturday column for The Guardian, Gary Marcus, founder of machine learning company Geometric Intelligence and former head of Uber's AI lab, argued that Altman has repeatedly misled the public about his financial stake in OpenAI and questioned how genuine the CEO is…
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Fine Tuning LRASPP MobileNetV3 on IDD Segmentation Dataset
05 Aug

Fine Tuning LRASPP MobileNetV3 on IDD Segmentation Dataset

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In this article, we will carry forward with the series of fine tuning LRASPP MobileNetV3 on the IDD Segmentation dataset. This time, we will train on the entire Indian Driving Dataset (IDD) and export the model to ONNX. Figure 1. Sample output after fine tuning the LRASPP MobileNetV3 on the IDD Segmentation dataset. Following are the previous two articles in the series of training the LRASPP MobileNetV3 segmentation model: Large scale training of deep learning models requires meticulous tuning of hyperparameters. We have already discovered some of those optimal parameters in the previous two articles. Once we trained on the…
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Here’s what goes on behind the scenes in the nerdworld business’ coolest alliance
05 Aug

Here’s what goes on behind the scenes in the nerdworld business’ coolest alliance

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Brennan Lee Mulligan of "Dimension 20" fame remembers when he first met Critical Role's Matthew Mercer, and relates that anecdote with the infectious joy of a man who's found his gaming soulmate.Mulligan was working on "Um, Actually," a web series on the streaming platform Dropout, and for one episode, he was tasked with writing errors into a round of "Dungeons & Dragons" combat laid out in comic panels. Mercer was a guest on that November 2018 episode. At the time, "Critical Role" — the "D&D" Twitch stream that turned the company Mercer co-founded into a key player in the nerdworld…
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Maui tourism still hasn’t recovered since the Lahaina fire. The manager of the resort where ‘The White Lotus’ was shot says now is a great time to visit.
04 Aug

Maui tourism still hasn’t recovered since the Lahaina fire. The manager of the resort where ‘The White Lotus’ was shot says now is a great time to visit.

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A year after a wildfire ripped through Maui and devastated parts of Lahaina Town, tourism has yet to recover — even though right now might be a great time to visit, according to the general manager of the resort where season one of HBO's "The White Lotus" was filmed."Outside of the five square miles of the historic Lahaina Town, which is still closed, all of the rest of Maui is fully open, fully functioning, and actually has been since fairly early after the fires," Ben Shank, the general manager at the Fours Seasons Resort Maui, told Business Insider.In August of…
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Ukraine says it sank a $300 million Russian submarine in what could be another big blow to Putin’s Black Sea Fleet
04 Aug

Ukraine says it sank a $300 million Russian submarine in what could be another big blow to Putin’s Black Sea Fleet

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Ukraine says it struck and sank a Russian Black Sea Fleet submarine and damaged a number of prized S-400 air defense systems in Crimea.In a statement on Telegram, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said the Kilo-class submarine Rostov-on-Don was hit in the port of Sevastopol."The boat sank on the spot," the General Staff said."The destruction of the Rostov-on-Don proves once again that there is no safe place for the Russian fleet in the Ukrainian territorial waters of the Black Sea," it added.Business Insider was unable to independently verify the claim. The Russian Defense Ministry has not yet…
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OpenAI confirms it’s looking into text watermarking for ChatGPT that could expose cheating students
04 Aug

OpenAI confirms it’s looking into text watermarking for ChatGPT that could expose cheating students

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Following a report from The Wall Street Journal that claims OpenAI has been sitting on a tool that can spot essays written by ChatGPT with a high degree of accuracy, the company has shared a bit of information about its research into text watermarking — and why it hasn’t released its detection method. According to The Wall Street Journal’s report, debate over whether the tool should be released has kept it from seeing the light of day, despite it being “ready.” In an update published on Sunday to a May blog post, spotted by TechCrunch, OpenAI said, “Our teams have…
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