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Son of the Soil review – a bone-chilling Lagos revenge thriller with bruising swagger | film

Son of the Soil review – a bone-chilling Lagos revenge thriller with bruising swagger | film

πŸš€ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Film,Thrillers,Action and adventure films,Nigeria,Africa,Culture,World news πŸ’‘ Key idea: YYou have to respect an action movie whose hero staggers out of the intensive care ward and into an open-air street market wearing a hospital gown with his arms open, his fists visibly hitting the fabric. Star Razak Adoti can't blame his agent, as the actor himself wrote the script for this revenge thriller set in Nigeria, in which his former Special Forces soldier makes a Jack Carter-like return to wreak havoc on the streets of Lagos.Zion (Adoti) made…
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What protects your money best?

What protects your money best?

✨ Discover this awesome post from Investopedia | Expert Financial Advice and Markets News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Bonds,Investing,Alternative Investments πŸ“Œ Here’s what you’ll learn: Key takeaways Individual bonds can offer predictable cash flows, but only if you hold them to maturity and avoid default. Bond funds provide broader diversification and professional management, but do not guarantee capital. Costs are often hidden in the pricing of individual bonds, while bond funds carry clear expense ratios. For fixed-income investors, the choice between owning individual bonds and investing in a bond fund can shape not only returns, but also how predictable your portfolio…
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The long and strange success of the Grateful Dead

The long and strange success of the Grateful Dead

πŸ’₯ Explore this insightful post from BBC Culture πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ’‘ Main takeaway: Garcia told Denslow that times may have changed but the scene remained vital all those years later. "[Haight-Ashbury's hippies] They're still doing pretty much what they were doing back then, but...the difference now is that they have 15 years of experience under their belts and they've become experts at what they do, just like we've become experts at what we do - sort of.'' No...once they saw long hair and eccentricity of any kind, you know, that was it.Getty ImagesThe San Francisco suburb of Haight-Ashbury became…
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πŸš€ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ“Œ Here’s what you’ll learn: Blocked Your request has been blocked due to a network policy. Try logging in or creating an account here to get back to browsing. If you're running a script or application, please register or sign in with your developer credentials here. Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again. if you're supplying an alternate User-Agent string, try changing back to default as that can sometimes result in a block. You can read Reddit's Terms of…
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Theater critics say the West End musical Paddington is practically the tentacles of musicals

Theater critics say the West End musical Paddington is practically the tentacles of musicals

πŸ”₯ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Musicals,West End,Stage,Culture,Theatre,Newspapers,Media,Paddington,Children and teenagers,Books βœ… Here’s what you’ll learn: Paddington is brought to life through the latest animation techniques: James Hamid is his voice and remote puppeteer, while Aarti Shah appears under his furry skin on stage (puppet design by Tahira Zafar). The Brown family is recognizable through the film's star-studded cast: the risk-averse father (Adrienne Der Gregorian), the arty mother (Amy Ellen Richardson), teenage Judy (Delila Bennett-Cardy) and young encyclopedia-reading Jonathan (Jasper Rouse in Night Out), along with houseguest Mrs. Bird (Bonnie Langford, in National…
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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math-V2 Β· Hugging Face

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math-V2 Β· Hugging Face

πŸš€ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: βœ… Here’s what you’ll learn: Downloads last month4,434 ' + message['content']}}{%- endif %}{%- if message['role'] == 'assistant' and message['tool_calls'] is defined and message['tool_calls'] is not none %}{%- if ns.is_last_user or ns.is_only_sys %}{{'<|Assistant|>'}}{%- endif %}{%- set ns.is_last_user = false -%}{%- set ns.is_first = false %}{%- set ns.is_tool = false -%}{%- for tool in message['tool_calls'] %}{%- if not ns.is_first %}{%- if message['content'] is none %}{{'<|tool▁calls▁begin|><|tool▁call▁begin|>'+ tool['function']['name'] + '<|tool▁sep|>' + tool['function']['arguments'] + '<|tool▁call▁end|>'}}{%- else %}{{message['content'] + '<|tool▁calls▁begin|><|tool▁call▁begin|>' + tool['function']['name'] + '<|tool▁sep|>' + tool['function']['arguments'] + '<|tool▁call▁end|>'}}{%- endif %}{%- set ns.is_first = true…
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Why won’t Marvel let Hugh Jackman’s character Wolverine retire in peace? | film

Why won’t Marvel let Hugh Jackman’s character Wolverine retire in peace? | film

πŸ”₯ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Film,Superhero movies,Hugh Jackman,X-Men,Logan,Culture πŸ“Œ Main takeaway: TThis was a time when Hugh Jackman's Wolverine appearance kind of made sense. He burst out of a dungeon in full Weapon Accept it: Fast, self-contained sideshows that understand the sacred rule that such things should be fun and brief. They also arrived at a time when Jackman wasn't carrying the weight of 25 years of audience investment.Last week, in an appearance on the BBC's Graham Norton Show, Jackman revealed that he had stopped himself from saying no to future…
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SmartTube’s official APK was compromised with malware β€” What you should do if you use it

SmartTube’s official APK was compromised with malware β€” What you should do if you use it

✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: βœ… Main takeaway: Earlier this week, the developer of SmartTube, the most popular alternative YouTube app for Android TV and Fire TV devices, announced that his app’s digital signature had been exposed. A new version of the app using a new digital signature has since been released. While everyone is encouraged to switch to the new app, SmartTube’s developer has shared more information with me about what happened that may make you want to take additional precautions if you’ve installed or updated the app recently. SmartTube’s developer told me…
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Alan Carr Tries to Become a Wine Connoisseur: This Week’s Best Podcasts | TV and radio

Alan Carr Tries to Become a Wine Connoisseur: This Week’s Best Podcasts | TV and radio

✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Television & radio,Culture,Podcasting,Alan Carr πŸ’‘ Key idea: Bottoms upβ€œIt's not like a podcast for boys, guys, guys, is it?” says Alan Carr in his first new wine show with comedian Pal Lee Bert. There are tastings, reader dilemmas and a Q&A with wine expert Tom Gilbey. The highlight is the husband's banter. Carr's response when Burt says he wants to turn it back to white so he can have his favorite type of wine when they share a bottle? "You could have told me that off camera...I…
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Do the thinking models actually think?

Do the thinking models actually think?

πŸ’₯ Discover this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ’‘ Main takeaway: Whether machines can think is a classic debate that dates back to the intellectual titans of the 1950s. Turing opens his 1950 article Computing Machinery and Intelligence with: I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" The Hungarian genius, von Neumann, shortly before his death in 1957, prepared a posthumously published monograph The Computer and the Brain on the same topic. In a 1950 article, Programming a Computer for Playing Chess, Shannon writes: chess is generally considered to require "thinking" for skilful play; a solution…
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