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Top draft expert says first round 2024 NFL Draft prospect is going to be like the next Zack Martin https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/top_draft_expert_says_first_round_2024_…

Top draft expert says first round 2024 NFL Draft prospect is going to be like the next Zack Martin
Can you imagine another Zack Martin on the Dallas Cowboys?  Talk about luxury. Well, according to a top NFL Draft expert, it's possible. Recently, he compared a player who could be in the team's range in the first round to the Cowboys legend who's made seven first-team All-Pros since joining the team in 2014. The man in question is Washington offensive lineman Troy Fautanu, who has been considered a first-round prospect since Day 1 with a significant caveat: Nobody seems to fully agree on whet…

Well that is very interesting! Introducing Mistral-Large on Azure in partnership with Mistral AI | Microsoft Azure Blog
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsof…

Introducing Mistral-Large on Azure in partnership with Mistral AI | Microsoft Azure Blog
Microsoft is announcing a multi-year partnership with Mistral AI, bridging the gap between pioneering research and real-world solutions.

The internet feels grim, especially so for those of us who remember the days before the walled gardens.
We miss the messy but innovative landscaping, the use of space beyond the tiny squares our landlords provide us,
the mostly polite strangers who wandered through and remarked on our work or shared their knowledge with us.
But we often forget: that world is still out there.
The walled enclosures that crowded out much of that acre of developed land still reside withi…

We can have a different web
Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02000 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

Africa-Centric Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Multilingual Speech Representation in a Sub-Saharan Context
We present the first self-supervised multilingual speech model trained exclusively on African speech. The model learned from nearly 60 000 hours of unlabeled speech segments in 21 languages and dialects spoken in sub-Saharan Africa. On the SSA subset of the FLEURS-102 dataset, our approach based on a HuBERT$_{base}$ (0.09B) architecture shows competitive results, for ASR downstream task, compared to the w2v-bert-51 (0.6B) pre-trained model proposed in the FLEURS benchmark, while being more effi…

Building Better Humans Project
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Building Better Humans Project | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Building Better Humans Project Host: Glenn Azar Category: Business Sub-Category: Self-Improvement & Advice First Episode: 2016 Inspiration, tips and advice to help you conquer your life…

My car's having new shoes fitted, which is going to take about an hour, so wandered down the hill to Morrisons for a coffee. It's the first time I've been in a Morrisons this early since my parents used to take us for opening time on a Saturday morning (Safeway back then, and back home in time for Live & Kicking). It's Quieter Hour, so no background music or unnecessary noise, and have to agree it's way more serene and pleasant, even without being neurodiverse.

Stability in the Banach isometric conjecture and nearly monochromatic Finsler surfaces
Gautam Aishwarya, Dmitry Faifman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02440 ht…

Stability in the Banach isometric conjecture and nearly monochromatic Finsler surfaces
The Banach isometric conjecture asserts that a normed space with all of its $k$-dimensional subspaces isometric, where $k\geq 2$, is Euclidean. The first case of $k=2$ is classical, established by Auerbach, Mazur and Ulam using an elegant topological argument. We refine their method to arrive at a stable version of their result: if all $2$-dimensional subspaces are almost isometric, then the space is almost Euclidean. Furthermore, we show that a $2$-dimensional surface, which is not a torus or …

Three best fits for Dolphins in first round of 2024 NFL Draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/three_best_fits_for_dolphins_in_first_round_of_2024_nfl_draft/s1_13132_40179479

Three best fits for Dolphins in first round of 2024 NFL Draft
The Miami Dolphins hold the 21st overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, which is set to begin on April 25. Late-season injuries and a number of notable offseason subtractions have left Miami with several holes around the roster that need to be filled in the draft. However, considering that the Dolphins only own six 2024 selections, they could opt to trade the 21st pick to acquire additional draft capital. Even so, since they own a first-round pick for the time being, here are three prospects who w…

I can't agree enough with this. It's also one of the first signals I use in a company to gauge "our employees matter a lot to us" https://botsin.space/@picardtips/112033075964976342

This is typical nonsense "analysis" from the cretins who are cheering on Israel.
"Even if pressure did work initially, for a political solution to be sustainable, Israelis must voluntarily agree, not be pressured into it."
This is an article about why Israel's genocide in Gaza is necessay. So apparently Israelis can only voluntarily agree but Palestinians must be forced with violence. Fuck the Rand corporation.
The Brutal Logic to Israel’s Action…

The Brutal Logic of the Israel-Hamas War
The Biden administration’s delicate, much criticized line recognizes the lack of a coherent alternative strategy.