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Back when I started working in Filipino NLP, my standard approach in training models is to encode linguistics knowledge via meticulous data annotation, feature engineering, and extensive testing. Take calamanCy for example: we spent countless hours annotating named-entity recognition (NER) datasets and validating dependency parsing treebanks to train statistical models using frameworks like spaCy. Back then, these components typically power larger systems that handle tasks like information extraction and question …

We’ve recently returned from Long Now’s Nevada Bristlecone Preserve, a mountain habitat of the world’s oldest living trees. Time feels different up there at 11,000 feet, nestled among these ancient organisms that have borne witness to centuries of comings and goings.It was an ideal place to reflect on the founding of The Long Now Foundation as a community where memory, imagination, and the long view could be fostered over millennia. …

When iterating through lists or other iterables in Python, there are often situations where you need not only the value of each item but also its index. Enter the enumerate() function—a powerful, built-in feature of Python that simplifies this task and makes your loops both cleaner and more Pythonic. What Is enumerate()? The enumerate() function lets you iterate through an iterable (like a list, tuple, or string) while keeping track …

33 1/3 South Asia – the newest of our 33 1/3 Global series is here! From the films of Bollywood and Lollywood, to home-grown bhangra hip-hop, Hindu devotional pop and Sufi rock, Sri Lankan rap, Indo jazz and disco, new-wave electronica and diasporic Asian Underground scene, 33 1/3 South Asia takes you on a sonically diverse journey through the most significant soundtracks and albums from the 20th and 21st centuries.This …

This year, Letterform Archive hosted 24 presentations on typography and graphic design. You can still watch them all. All Letterform Lecture videos All Archive Salon videos We presented two dozen lectures and salons in 2024, both online and onsite at the Archive. Unless you’re our biggest fans (thank you!), you likely didn’t get to catch them all. So, here are a few videos that are worth some of your holiday …

Glasgow’s finest punk rockers Dead Pony have released music video for new single ‘Everything Burns’. Following on from the four-piece’s critically acclaimed debut album ‘Ignore This’, they are wasting no time with new music. Captioned as “It’s not about the money. It’s about sending a message…” the video is inspired by the Batman franchise as the band explain: “‘Everything Burns’ is our most fun and adventurous song to date. Perspective …

I’m pretty proud that I managed to keep my iPhone 8 going for over five years (with one battery replacement in that time). But recently it’s been increasingly unreliable, switching itself off at random times, and spontaneously draining the battery after doing anything remotely taxing. This combined with the fact that software updates are no longer available for this model led me to the conclusion that buying a new phone …

After constantly checking the weather and the river levels for what felt like weeks it finally looked as if I would have an opportunity to get out after some grayling. The "hump" caused by Storm Darragh was finally out of the way, the main rivers were fining down nicely and it even looked as if the wind was going to behave as well, albeit until the weekend! Friday therefore saw …

Laravel Nova 5.0 is now ready for upgrade. This release focuses on modernizing Nova's core dependencies while introducing several useful features to improve resource management and field handling.

By Stephen Robinson There was not too much dogfighting for us. It requires a large area and is absolutely defensive.[1] Erich Hartmann Colonel John R. Boyd flew F-86 Sabres during the Korean War and later theorised the Observation-Orientation-Decision-Action (OODA) loop, initially focused on air-to-air combat. At first, Boyd considered the tactical requirements of test flight … Continue reading OODA Loop or Coffee Break? Erich Hartmann and the Forgotten German ‘Decision …

1. c – 235 2. a – 1818 (Fun fact – the second edition, published in 1821 was the first to credit Shelley as the author) 3. a – George Orwell 4. c – Agatha Christie 5. c – The Inklings 6. c – Beetles 7. a – Edward Lear 8. b – Marie Stopes 9. b – Dorset 10. b, Ada Lovelace 11. c – Victor Hugo 12. a …

RUBELLA BALLET WILL be joined by Strip Search Tramp, Gestalt and Haunted Men for a gig in Northampton on Friday 20 December 2024. Yo ho ho and a bottle of Punk Rock all round as Neon Nhilists Rubella Ballet blast out their own Anarcho Anthems to kick Christmas off to a start, well and truly vegan mince pied up! Rubella Ballet, Strip Search Tramp, Gestalt and Haunted MenThe Black Prince, …

The current drone panic on the eastern US seaboard – which started out in New Jersey about a month ago, but has spread to Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and even US bases in the UK and Germany – is, of course, hardly unprecedented. Not only does it bear obvious similarities to the 2019 drone panic in the US Midwest, and to the Gatwick drones panic in …