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Very excited about this! Code to access GRIN will help lots of Google Books partners, and the example might open other doors, as well as the obvious benefits of access to data!
'Institutional Books 1.0: A 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections, refined for accuracy and usability' https://arxiv.org/abs/2506…

Institutional Books 1.0: A 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections, refined for accuracy and usability
Large language models (LLMs) use data to learn about the world in order to produce meaningful correlations and predictions. As such, the nature, scale, quality, and diversity of the datasets used to train these models, or to support their work at inference time, have a direct impact on their quality. The rapid development and adoption of LLMs of varying quality has brought into focus the scarcity of publicly available, high-quality training data and revealed an urgent need to ground the steward…

Unerträglicher Stil, einen versuchten Femizid als "ob aus Liebe oder Hass" zu beschreiben.
An den Waffenschein aka Führerschein müssen viel höhere Bedingungen geknüpft werden.
https://www.radiobonn.de/artikel/siegburger-draengt…

Letitia James, New York’s Democratic attorney general,
has formally announced her intention to intervene in a Texas attempt to penalize a New York doctor accused of mailing abortion pills across state lines,
escalating one of the most consequential fights in the US abortion wars.
The move on Monday tees up a showdown between states that ban abortion and those that protect it
– one that, legal experts say, challenges fundamental constitutional issues and will probably …

New release: FlowIntel 1.6.0 — an open-source case management tool — now with extended support for importing MISP events as cases, a timeline view for attributes, a new templating system for notes, and many other new features!
🔗 https://github.com/flowintel/flowintel/releases/tag/1…

Release Flowintel release version 1.6.0 with new features, modifications on analyzer and dashboard · flowintel/flowintel
This release introduces several new features, including: Templates for notes that can be reused across cases Importing a Flowintel template into a case Creating a case from a MISP event A timeline...

Once upon a time in Switzerland, heading into the vast land of (rapidly declining) ice, leading through a sea of colors... "Like walking through a painting" never felt more true than on that tour...
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#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

📢 EU-Kommission stoppt Zahlungen an Israel
Wegen Israels Vorgehen im Gazastreifen setzt die EU-Kommission ihre Unterstützung für das Land aus. Man werde alle entsprechenden Zahlungen stoppen, sagte Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen im Europaparlament in Straßburg. Es solle allerdings keine Auswirkungen für die Arbeit mit der israelischen Zivilgesellschaft oder der Holocaust-Gedenkstätte Yad Vashem geben. Zudem werde die …
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EU-Kommission stoppt Zahlungen an Israel
Wegen Israels Vorgehen im Gazastreifen setzt die EU-Kommission ihre Unterstützung für das Land aus. Man werde die Zahlungen stoppen, sagte Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen. Auch Sanktionen gegen extremistische Minister seien im Gespräch.

The incredibly noisy magpie lark who comes within inches of me and shrieks with impatience while I put seeds and scraps in the birds feeder each morning has reached a new level of comfort in our encounters and with his endeavours to beat out the other species of birds to the food.
When he saw me this morning, he ran straight towards me and then tagged me as I walked across to the feeder.
At least this morning's excitement didn't come close to bursting my eardrums.
A …

Now Trump is ready to discuss Russia keeping part of Ukraine as reward for its war of aggression, Europe needs to strongly support Ukraine.
Tricky for the EU, which hasn't been very united and courageous recently, and which has some friends of Putin in its midst.

At a farm in Carpinteria,
Salud Carbajal,
a Democratic congressman, was denied entry to the area by federal agents,
in a scene captured on video by the Santa Barbara Independent.
“ICE was conducting a raid using disproportionate displays of force against local farm workers and our agricultural community,”
Carbajal said in a statement after the incident.
“As a member of Congress and representative of the Central Coast,
I have the right to conduct ove…

As we turned into Lone Pine to begin the half-marathon ascent of Mount Whitney,
I got the sense that Frederick had been distilled into a person whose focus was so singular that she only needed someone to show her direction.
That someone was Boyd.
Frederick asked him to pace the miles into the base of the climb,
and it was then that Boyd told her,
finally, that she was on pace to break the age-group record.
This was the final arrow in his quiver.
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What It Takes to Crew the Hardest Race on Earth
Every year, ultrarunners sign up to compete in a brutal race that stretches 135 miles across Death Valley in the high heat of summer. Because of its harsh conditions, the Badwater 135 is perhaps the most intensely crewed ultra in the world, and without these dedicated support teams, for most, the race would be impossible.