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12 min: Russo provides an excellent layoff for Foord, on the left of the penalty area as Arsenal are attacking. Foord has clear sight of goal, but hits a weak shot straight at the keeper.
9 min: So far on commentary we’ve had two mentions of “transitions” [ugh] and one of “second balls”. I guess we’ll take it.
Continue reading...Не сколько, а куда: что я выяснил про шум в SDE-сэмплерах flow-matching моделей
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В моём пет-проекте open-daimon давно есть роутинг между локальными моделями и облаком.
Сразу оговорюсь: публично open-daimon не обновляется, потому что разработку я веду локально, так быстрее. А на его основе у меня уже есть отдельный закрытый проект, который расширяет его возможности, — студия управления агентами. В ней я всё это и тестировал.
Всерьёз захотелось по простой причине: в облаке правила чужие, и меняются они без спроса.
В октябре снова всплыло, что в потребительских условиях Anthropic для жителей ЕЭЗ и Швейцарии прямо написано: не использовать сервисы «в коммерческих или деловых целях». Под эти условия попадают Claude.ai и подписки Pro и Max. То есть разработчик в Европе, который пишет рабочий код в Claude Code по подписке Max, формально их нарушает. Для работы нужен API, Team или Enterprise, а это уже совсем другие деньги.
Вторая история про то, что тебе разрешат делать со своим же железом. Автор Decrypt попросил Claude Opus 5.5 помочь заново получить root на собственном телевизоре LG. Защита модели оборвала запрос и предложила переключиться на Opus 4.8. А исследователь, известный находкой с постоянно включённым микрофоном в телевизорах Samsung, пишет, что OpenAI заблокировала его аккаунт за «Cyber Abuse» после анализа прошивки через ChatGPT. Вместе с аккаунтом пропали примерно $500 на балансе API. OpenAI это не комментировала, так что пока это только его слова.
Направление понятное: ковырять чужое ПО будут запрещать всё чаще, а что считать злоупотреблением, решает производитель.
Читать далееTory leader says apology would be ‘navel-gazing distraction’ and would be used as lever for financial compensation
Kemi Badenoch has said an apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade would be a “navel-gazing distraction”, describing slavery as an evil “in which people from every continent and region participated”.
Speaking to broadcasters on Sunday, Badenoch also questioned whether it was worth future leaders attending the Commonwealth summit, given that it was now dominated by calls for reparations.
Continue reading...The Preventative Departmental Expenditure Limit will be money ringfenced in the budget for preventive policies
John Healey’s debut budget was far from a blockbuster, but it may come to be remembered for the birth of a plucky new character in the tax and spend universe – little PDEL.
It may not have the charm of Disney’s Wall-E, but PDEL (pronounced P-Del), or preventative departmental expenditure limit, to give it its full name, marks a welcome, and potentially very consequential, addition.
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На его отсутствие жалуются геймеры. Его ищут между трудом и отдыхом. Им отчитываются бухгалтеры. Он есть в часах. Он есть в восточной философии. А еще его можно пополнять. Кто он?
Баланс.
Любое животное должно искать баланс – не философский, не психологический и даже не бухгалтерский, а обычный, физический баланс – состояние устойчивости, когда все силы, воздействующие на тело существа, взаимно компенсируют друг друга. Не поддерживаешь равновесие – не можешь двигаться туда, куда тебе надо и не можешь понять, где верх, а где низ, где еда, а где страшный хищник. Поэтому мало-мальски развитые животные обязательно имеют органы, которые помогают им определять свое положение в пространстве и поддерживать равновесие.
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Я собираю персональные системы в Obsidian на заказ. Перед работой с новым клиентом я раскладываю его работу на этапы и выписываю, где уходит время и пропадает информация. У маркетолога на аутсорсе я насчитал 34 таких места. Ниже - система, с которой я бы начал, и три её узла в деталях, с настройками, которые можно повторить у себя.
Это демо-кейс: типовой каркас профессии. Клиенты, гипотезы, конкуренты и цифры в примерах вымышлены.
Obsidian - программа для заметок, которая хранит всё в обычных текстовых файлах на вашем диске. Заметки связываются ссылками, а плагины добавляют таблицы, канбаны, кнопки и шаблоны.
Читать далееWith heir apparent Danny Tommo also in custody, Robinson’s conviction for harassing journalists is blow to anti-migrant movement
The verdict was met with a groan from Tommy Robinson’s supporters, who had sat behind the dock throughout his harassment trial.
It took more than 11 hours of jury deliberations to find the far-right activist guilty of harassment causing fear of violence to two journalists, enough time for a band of lieutenants and hangers-on to get their hopes up that he might be acquitted.
Continue reading...Tonga defeat Samoa 20-18 in raucous atmosphere
England exit tournament on points difference
Sometimes sport does live up to the hype. Any suggestion that there was little riding on this result was evidently nonsense, when weeks of anticipation evolved into a mass display of national pride, the desire to get one over on their Pasifika cousins far greater than wanting to avoid Australia in the semi-finals. Tonga and Samoa flags had flown from cars for several days across the eastern seaboard and five hours before kick-off the streets of Parramatta were throng with huge groups of both nationalities celebrating their cultural bond.
Both teams were basically through to the final four, yet still produced an exhilarating derby that confirmed England’s exit from the Rugby League World Cup on points difference. Fans who’d paid sums previously unheard of for international rugby league tickets on the black market and resale sites will consider it money well spent. Those who got theirs for $20 will consider it the buy of the year.
Continue reading...With heir apparent Danny Tommo also in custody, Robinson’s conviction for harassing journalists is blow to anti-migrant movement
The verdict was met with a groan from Tommy Robinson’s supporters, who had sat behind the dock throughout his harassment trial.
It took more than 11 hours of jury deliberations to find the far-right activist guilty of harassment causing fear of violence to two journalists, enough time for a band of lieutenants and hangers-on to get their hopes up that he might be acquitted.
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Continue reading...Former president has given series of blistering speeches to help candidates in key races – and deployment has proved a hit with party’s progressive wing
That could have been awkward. Barack Obama, campaigning for Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, acknowledged that his fellow Democrat has criticised some aspects of the Obama presidency.
“Yeah, Abdul didn’t agree with some things we wanted to do – that our administration was doing – when I was president,” he told a rally in Detroit. “You know who else doesn’t agree with everything I do? Michelle Obama.” The crowd erupted in laughter. “I’d say about five times a day, she says, ‘You knucklehead. Why you do that?’”
Continue reading...The Republican reckoning tests a party infrastructure reshaped around President Trump since his insurgent rise in 2015 transformed the GOP.
Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani and Democrat JoAnna Mendoza are battling over some of the hardest-fought political turf in America. But for voters, it's more of a proxy fight over the president.
On the eve of what may prove to be a tough election for the GOP, young conservatives vying to be part of the first class of Gen Z Republicans in Congress want a role shaping the party's next chapter.
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The illicit drug supply has changed rapidly over the last few months, with nitazenes, medetomidine, cychlorphine, and other novel synthetic substances appearing in rapid succession. Rapid tests for emerging substances are being developed and marketed with impressive speed, and these can return results within minutes. Law enforcement, medical examiners, employers, community organizations and even the general public can use them, if their states have decriminalized them. Physicians treating overdoses cannot.
The contrast is hard to ignore: A test can be used to fire someone or support a criminal case, yet it remains unavailable to the physician in an emergency room trying to save that person’s life, when minutes are essential.
The divide is largely regulatory. Many tests for emerging drugs are labeled for forensic use only, and clinical tests for living patients require approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a diagnostic tool. As such, they cannot legally be used by medical clinics that adhere to federal law and funding policies.
Tests used in patient care must meet FDA requirements for clinical diagnostics. Point-of-care testing—testing performed at or near the bedside—also requires an additional determination that the test is simple and low-risk enough to qualify for waived status under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA). There is a legitimate reason for that regulatory distinction. Tests used to make medical decisions should be accurate, reliable, and interpreted appropriately. A rapid screen is not definitive toxicology, and it should not be treated as such.
Fentanyl shows why speed matters. In early 2023, we pointed out that rapid fentanyl tests already existed outside clinical medicine, yet hospitals relied on expensive spectrometry testing that could take an hour or longer, if the equipment was available onsite at all. By the time FDA-cleared and CLIA-waived rapid fentanyl tests arrived, the illicit market had already changed again.
Starting in 2020, xylazine spread through the fentanyl supply, introducing a new clinical hurdle: naloxone reverses opioids, but not xylazine. Patients can remain dangerously sedated or unstable even after naloxone is given. Further, xylazine is associated with necrotic skin wounds that increase risk of sepsis, and withdrawal syndromes that are more complex to treat than opioids alone.
Not long after, medetomidine overtook xylazine supplies. It, too, does not react to naloxone, causes profound sedation and cardiovascular instability, and its withdrawal syndrome—which can come on just hours after someone stops using it—can trigger extreme hypertension and tachycardia that has been connected to heart attacks in younger people. Knowing these facts could significantly alter a patient’s treatment or discharge plan.
There are no point-of-care tests for either of these drugs or other alarming and novel chemicals like cychlorphine, an opioid that does not show up on fentanyl tests. Because of that, clinicians have to follow information from law-enforcement seizures, public-health alerts, and months-old fatality data rather than from tests at the bedside. These data are in siloes and not easy to access or combine.
The result is a system that can identify emerging drugs in seized samples and autopsies before clinicians can identify them in living patients. There is a better approach.
The FDA should establish an expedited pathway for clinical tests targeting emerging drug threats, triggered when agencies such as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or the Office of National Drug Control Policy identify a substance of significant and growing public-health concern. The agency already has a dual pathway through which manufacturers can seek a special clearance and a CLIA waiver together. That framework could be prioritized and adapted for emerging drugs rather than forcing each new threat through the ordinary timeline.
Federal agencies could also help fund independent validation. The economics of emerging drugs are unusual: a substance can appear quickly, spread unevenly, and be replaced by something else before a manufacturer can justify the cost of extensive clinical studies. Federal and state agencies could make up this gap if the threat of the new drug is significant. A small market does not mean a small public health or public safety need.
None of this requires pretending a test strip is mass spectrometry. Point-of-care testing should be explicitly treated as presumptive. Positive results can be confirmed when necessary. Clinical care rarely rests on a single perfect source of information, anyway.
Physicians already make decisions by combining an imperfect history, physical examination, vital signs, laboratory results, and response to treatment. A rapid drug screen would simply be another tool in that toolbox that helps dispel the fog of drug supply changes.
Further, the value extends beyond the individual patient. Better hospital data could become an early-warning system rather than a retrospective record of a crisis already underway. Emergency departments are on the front lines of the overdose crisis; they should have access to the most innovative testing tools at the bedside, when minutes can make a difference.
Помните историю о мальчике-волшебнике, который обнаружил у себя мощный магический дар, отправился учиться в школу волшебников и столкнулся там с опасностями, к которым не был готов? Я сейчас говорю про “Волшебник Земноморья” Урсулы Ле Гуин, написанную в 1968 году. Ничего не напоминает?
Ещё одна история с похожим набором тем – это всемирноизвестный “Гарри Поттер” Джоан Роулинг, написанный ей в период с 1990-1995 годы.
Эти истории во многом похожи, но дали совершенно разный читательский и нарративный опыт для миллионов детей и взрослых по всему миру. Но в чём была эта разность, и почему одна история вышла за пределы книг, превратившись в продукт массовой культуры, а другая осталась в рамках цикла и редких попыток вывести историю за пределы авторской вселенной?
В этой статье я хочу исследовать как сложились судьбы этих двух историй, и выяснить, что повлияло на более или менее массовую читательскую привязанность к этим произведениям.
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Всем привет! Эта статья является второй в серии статей про основы глубокого обучения. В прошлой части я рассказал много интересного и полезного новичкам, так что рекомендую перечитать тот пост.
В этой части мы разберём подробнее свёрточные нейронные сети.
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