
При самых низких температурах во Вселенной материя начинает вести себя странно. Когда атомы охлаждаются до температуры чуть выше абсолютного нуля, они начинают проводить электричество без сопротивления, превращаться в облака «суперчастиц» или течь без трения и подниматься по стенкам сосудов.
Существование на самых мелких и холодных масштабах подчиняется законам квантовой статистики, которая определяет поведение бозонов и фермионов — двух семейств фундаментальных частиц, из которых, как считается, состоит всё во Вселенной.
Бозоны — это частицы, переносящие взаимодействия, такие как фотоны или бозон Хиггса. Множество таких частиц может занимать одно и то же квантовое состояние, а это означает, что неограниченное количество бозонов может «перекрываться» друг с другом и вести себя как когерентные волны.
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A leading vendor of the US delicacy that is the pickle has withdrawn from the Great American State Fair in Washington DC after North Carolina’s booth displayed a video containing a Confederate flag.
The Mt Olive Pickle Company, which is located in eastern North Carolina and bills itself as the “#1 bestselling brand of pickles, peppers and relishes in the US”, told local news station WNCT it had been unaware that an image of the flag would be included in a video as part of the state’s exhibit.
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The first American-born Pope marked his home country's 250th birthday by urging it to continue its tradition of "welcoming, protecting and assisting immigrants."
Pope Leo commemorated America’s Independence Day with a letter and a visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa––a gateway for migrants crossing the Mediterranean to European sanctuaries.
In the letter, titled “Letter of his Holiness Pope Leo XIV on the 250th Anniversary of the Founding of the United States of America,” the Chicago native cited the “God-given dignity of every human life,” asserting that each person is “endowed with an inherent worth that calls for reverence, protection and care,” which calls for “safeguarding human life.”
“Defending human life,” Leo added, “also includes welcoming, protecting and assisting immigrants, whose hopes, sacrifices and contribution have formed part of the history of this country from its very beginning.”
Since his appointment in May of last year, Leo has been a vocal advocate of migrant rights, and a persistent critic of the Trump Administration’s immigration crackdown, which he has called “inhumane.”
He continued that effort in his July 4th letter, saying that to welcome “those who have arrived seeking freedom, opportunity and a place to belong … is not only an act of charity, but also a recognition of the dignity that belongs to every human person.”
Leo also used the letter to praise America’s longstanding encouragement of “religious freedom,” describing it as “central to the American promise, protecting both individual dignity and the peaceful coexistence of a diverse people.” The Trump Administration has recently undermined that sentiment, elevating officials who have challenged the longstanding idea of a separation of church and state.
In addition to his letter, Leo gave a speech on Saturday in Lampedusa in which he made a similar appeal to European leaders to address immigration "in a comprehensive manner, integrating immediate relief efforts into a long-term strategic plan capable of receiving, protecting, supporting and integrating migrants."
The Vatican announced in February that Leo would spend the Fourth of July on the island, Italy’s southernmost port, where thousands of migrants each year stop on their perilous and often deadly expedition across the Mediterranean and north to European countries.
Many migrants gathered on Saturday to hear the pontiff, who also called on European leaders to improve conditions in the countries immigrants come from to reduce migration.
Leo’s Saturday pleas to European and American leaders are not unprecedented.
In May of last year, Leo said the dignity of migrants must be respected, speaking to world diplomats and invoking his own immigrant background. "My own story is that of a citizen, the descendant of immigrants, who in turn chose to emigrate," he said before ambassadors at the Vatican.
Then in October, while meeting with migrant advocates visiting the Vatican from the U.S., Leo was moved to tears after viewing videos of people expressing their fear over Trump’s deportation campaign, according Dylan Corbett, an executive director of the Hope Border Institute, who was part of the visiting U.S. delegation and spoke to TIME.
As Trump was cracking down on Chicago’s immigrant community, Leo also met with union leaders in his home town and urged them to stick up for those most vulnerable populations in the city.
“While recognizing that appropriate policies are necessary to keep communities safe, I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable,” Leo said to the union leaders.
While many of Leo’s comments have not specifically targeted Trump, he has at times directly responded to the President’s attacks. In June, after Trump called Leo “WEAK on Crime” and “terrible for Foreign Policy” in response to the Catholic Church criticizing the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, Leo said that he had “no fear of the Trump Administration, or of speaking out loudly about the message of the Gospel.”
По традиции здесь должна быть баннерная картинка, сгенерированная очередной нейросетью, но если уж я решил поделиться своими наблюдениями о том, что нейросетям не стоит доверять бездумно, начинать статью с этого было бы как минимум странно. Заодно глаза отдохнут.
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Самая вычислительно прожорливая индустрия в истории считает на языке, который медленнее C примерно в 70 раз и занял 26-е место из 27 по энергоэффективности. Разбираемся, как Python стал королём ИИ, во сколько обходится его корона — в микросекундах, гигаватт-часах и удвоенном труде инженеров, — и почему новые территории (on-device, edge, локальный инференс) уже отвоёвывают компилируемые языки, в первую очередь Swift. С цифрами, ссылками на первоисточники и разбором честных контраргументов.
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President Trump lauded America's storied history on Saturday night in a speech marking the 250th anniversary of its independence, while also praising his war in Iran, railing against "communists," and vowing to restrict mail-in ballots.
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Hosts take on Australia at Lord’s on Sunday
Nat Sciver-Brunt’s side frustrated by singer’s stint
England have complained they are facing disruption to their World Cup final warm-up at Lord’s on Sunday from an unlikely source: the singer Rita Ora.
Ora is headlining the tournament closing ceremony, which lasts from 2.30pm to 3pm, with the final due to get under way half an hour later. It means that 30 minutes of pre-match warm-up time on the main square will be lost – although the players will have the Nursery Ground available to them throughout.
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Russell fourth, with Norris and Piastri sixth and eighth
Much as Kimi Antonelli said he admired the British Grand Prix, its challenge and sporting spectacle, the Italian was in absolutely no mood to give a British driver so much as a sniff of a chance of enjoying a day in the sun as he swept to a majestic pole position for Sunday’s race.
Were will alone enough, the huge crowd at the old airfield would surely have powered Lewis Hamilton into the top spot, but their vocal support was not enough. Antonelli took his first pole here with the type of precision driving and commitment required on the high-speed blast that rewards drivers who can find the very edge. He did so with an authority and almost unconscious ease that unsurprisingly left his rivals a little deflated.
Continue reading...Morning Dew (Donk) reportedly conceived for Beyoncé’s second album B’Day, which will be reissued for its 20th anniversary in September
She popularised the shock drop in 2013 with the surprise release of her self-titled album. And on Saturday, Beyoncé did it again, dropping a new song out of the blue.
The singer released the new track, titled Morning Dew (Donk), on the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Reports say the track was initially intended for her second album, B’Day, released in 2006.
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Increased security outside after Ecuador team disturbed
England received a hostile welcome as they arrived at their Mexico City hotel for Sunday’s World Cup last-16 tie against Mexico.
England had been hoping to keep their location undisclosed after Mexico supporters used loud speakers, horns and motorcycles to try to disturb the sleep of Ecuador’s players before their last-32 tie, which the co-hosts won 2-0 on Wednesday night.
Continue reading...Officials rescued seven other people after a sudden storm led to a boat sinking on Geneva Lake
Three children died after a boat capsized on Wisconsin’s Geneva Lake during inclement weather on the eve of the US’s semiquincentennial celebrations, and seven other people had to be rescued by emergency responders, according to officials.
A recreational motor boat with 10 passengers, including four children, sank on Friday afternoon as the boat “attempted to navigate to safety as weather conditions deteriorated” amid an intense, sudden storm, the city of Lake Geneva police department said in a statement.
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Оптимизация потребления памяти в ML-библиотеке LANCETNIC
Недавно я столкнулся с проблемой: моя библиотека lancetnic при обучении на больших текстовых датасетах просто перегружала оперативную память. На ноутбуке с 16 ГБ RAM модель не могла обучиться даже на 25 тыс. строк. Я начал разбираться и нашёл пару причин критического перерасхода памяти.

Уверен, что многие, кто когда-либо играл в «Dark Messiah of Might and Magic», находятся в поиске чего-то похожего. Но, к сожалению, за двадцать (!) лет мы так и не получили игры, которая смогла бы приблизиться к «Тёмному Мессии». Что же в нём было такого особенного, и почему никто до сих пор не сумел повторить простую, на первый взгляд, формулу?
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Three children died after a boat capsized on Wisconsin’s Geneva Lake during inclement weather on the eve of the US’s semiquincentennial celebrations, and seven other people had to be rescued by emergency responders, according to officials.
A recreational motor boat with 10 passengers, including four children, sank on Friday afternoon as the boat “attempted to navigate to safety as weather conditions deteriorated” amid an intense, sudden storm, the city of Lake Geneva police department said in a statement.
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