đź’Ą Check out this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: This is a brief guide to my new art project microgpt, a single file of 200 lines of pure Python with no dependencies that trains and inferences a GPT. This file contains the full algorithmic content of what is needed: dataset of documents, tokenizer, autograd engine, a GPT-2-like neural network architecture, the Adam optimizer, training loop, and inference loop. Everything else is just efficiency. I cannot simplify this any further. This script is the culmination of multiple projects (micrograd, makemore, nanogpt, etc.) and a…
🔥 Explore this awesome post from BBC Sport đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Northern Ireland Football League [NIFL] Some of the reaction to the planned introduction of video assistant referee (VAR) technology in the upcoming BetMcLean Cup final has been “overblown”, says chief executive Gerard Lawlor.His comments It follows two referees stepping down from officiating Premier League matches this weekend, with the use of technology confirmed in next month's decider between Linfield and Glentoran at Windsor Park understood to be a contributing factor in those decisions.Shane Andrews was scheduled to officiate Saturday's Mid-Ulster derby between Glenavon and Portadown…
✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,TV streaming đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Choose the weekVladimirLiterature professor Rachel Weisz M is experiencing middle age and is worried that she may never have a "spontaneous erection" again. Worse still, her academic husband John (John Slattery) not only continues to take advantage of their open marriage situation, but loses his position as a result. Into this chaos comes Vladimir (Leo Woodall), a charming, married professor. Through him, M sees her past – sexy, youthful, unfortunately irretrievable – and becomes dangerously obsessed. Vladimir is adapted…
đź’Ą Check out this must-read post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Security,Security / National Security,THAAD đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: After Israel and The United States launched joint attacks on Iran on Saturday, and Tehran responded with missile attacks across the Gulf, targeting US military bases in those countries. Within hours, the UAE Ministry of Defense confirmed that its air defense systems successfully intercepted several incoming ballistic missiles.According to the ministry, the missiles were destroyed before they hit. However, debris from one of the interceptors fell in Abu Dhabi, killing one civilian. Abu Dhabi is located near several strategic military installations,…
🚀 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: The England Lions are following 'official advice' in the UAE after Iran launched attacks across the Middle East in response to US and Israeli strikes across its territory.The English Cricket Association said in a statement that it was in contact with “security experts and the government” and that the safety and security of its teams was the “top priority.”The Lions - Andrew Flintoff's English development team - are in the UAE for matches against Pakistan Shaheens.They were scheduled to play the second match in…
🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Samsung, with some of its latest updates, is set to remove some core tools from Android’s recovery menu, and it’s unclear why. Every Android smartphone ships with a recovery menu that includes the abilty to reset the device, wipe the cache, apply updates, and more. That’s a very simplified explanation, but it’s a standard feature, and one that you might be most familiar with when manually sideloading Android updates, such as the beta updates Google releases for Pixels. In One UI 8.5, though, Samsung…
🔥 Read this insightful post from BBC Sport đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: At the start of the season, it would have been unreasonable to suggest that. Motherwell are in the mix for the Scottish Premiership title.Whether manager Jens Berthel Askew likes to admit it or not, some things are undeniable for the team now one point behind third-placed Celtic in the league.Saturday's 2-0 win over Dundee United marked their fourth successive clean sheet as they fell one point behind the defending champions.In attack, they have the league's top scorer Tawanda Maswanhasi, and Elijah Gast who is arguably…
đź’Ą Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Brit awards,Music,Culture,CMAT,Wet Leg,Reform UK,Politics âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Artists including CMAT, Wet Leg, Loyle Carner, Wolf Alice and Self Esteem have expressed concern about the rise of Reform UK on the Brit Awards red carpet, saying artists should feel empowered to be political.CMAT, who was nominated for International Artist of the Year at the ceremony in Manchester, said she was "not a big fan of anyone trying to say that art is not a political place".“Everything is politics. But art is politics more than ever, because…
✨ Explore this trending post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Politics,Politics / Disinformation,Iran Attack âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Minutes after Donald Trump announced that the US and Israeli governments had launched a "major combat operation" against Iran in the early hours of Saturday morning, and was flooded with disinformation about the attack and Tehran's response.WIRED reviewed hundreds of posts on X, some with millions of views, that promoted misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.Elon Musk's social media platform is a verifiable mess: In some cases, alleged video footage of the attack shared in posts on X…
đź’Ą Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: I think Newcastle have kept five clean sheets in their first seven league games.In fact, it was on the other side of the pitch that Newcastle had problems at the start of the season as they began life without Alexander Isak, who went on strike in a bid to force a ÂŁ125m move to Liverpool.By contrast, Newcastle now carry a threat - with Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford making a superb save to keep out Sandro Tonali's shot late on - but they look capable of…
