The F1 Nation crew are on hand to run through the main talking points ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix.
Briefing war breaks out between advocates for Wes Streeting and those close to Ed Miliband
Andy Burnham’s supporters are divided over who should be his chancellor, with a briefing war breaking out between advocates of the former health secretary Wes Streeting and those close to the energy secretary Ed Miliband.
Some of those advising the Makerfield MP are urging him to choose Streeting if he becomes prime minister, in a bid to reassure the business community and fossil fuel industry.
Continue reading...Carlos Queiroz’s squad hope to repeat the form that almost made Ghana the first African team to reach the semi-finals
Antoine Semenyo was only 10 years old when Ghana came within a Luis Suárez handball of becoming the first African team ever to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup. The Manchester City forward can still vividly recall the emotions that night as he watched with his family in Bexleyheath, south-east London.
“I remember being at my uncle’s house, and we were screaming after the handball, thinking we were going through,” he said in an interview last month. “Watching Ghana play in the World Cup was so special. Mum, Dad, uncles, aunties, cousins all turn up to one house, and we would watch all the games together, celebrating and screaming. Ghana came in [for me] when I was 19 or 20, so I was never going to turn it down.”
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De Argentijnse voetballer Lionel Messi heeft maandag zijn zeventiende én achttiende doelpunt op een wereldkampioenschap gemaakt.
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BRUSSEL (ANP/RTR/AFP) - België heeft maandag vijf visa afgegeven voor een delegatie van de Taliban. Die komt voor een EU-overleg naar Brussel, waar veel ophef is ontstaan over het geplande bezoek. Het bezoek vindt volgens diplomatieke bronnen en diverse media mogelijk dinsdag plaats.
Wegens veiligheidsredenen wordt niet bekendgemaakt wanneer de delegatie in Brussel zal zijn, aldus een woordvoerder van het Belgische ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken. Die meldt ook dat de visa uitsluitend geldig zijn voor België en voor één dag. Er is geen informatie gedeeld over voor wie de visa precies zijn.
De Europese Commissie wil met de machthebbers van Afghanistan praten over de terugkeer van Afghanen naar hun land van herkomst, ondanks kritiek van onder meer mensenrechtenorganisaties. "Elke betrokkenheid van de EU bij uitzettingen naar Afghanistan is roekeloos en gevaarlijk", stelt Amnesty International, die hoopt dat de plannen voor het bezoek en terugkeer van Afghanen worden geschrapt.
Onderdrukking vrouwen
De Taliban kwamen in 2021 weer aan de macht in Afghanistan, rond het vertrek van westerse troepen uit het land. De groepering heeft in het door oorlog verscheurde land ingrijpende beperkingen opgelegd aan vrouwen en meisjes, waaronder beperkingen op het gebied van onderwijs, werk en sport. De onderdrukking treft ook onder anderen journalisten, minderheden en voorvechters van mensenrechten.
Amnesty International zegt dat Afghanistan sinds de val van de door de Verenigde Staten gesteunde regering alleen maar gevaarlijker is geworden. De organisatie meent dat de EU "haar eigen wettelijke verplichtingen negeert" door mensen uit te zetten naar Afghanistan, "vooral de verplichting om niemand terug te sturen naar een situatie waarin zijn of haar leven in gevaar kan zijn".
Circa 20 van de 27 lidstaten hebben vorig jaar in een brief kenbaar gemaakt dat zij Afghanen zonder recht op verblijf, in het bijzonder degenen met een strafblad, willen kunnen terugsturen naar hun thuisland. Een delegatie van de Europese Commissie reisde begin dit jaar af naar Afghanistan voor overleg over de terugkeer van Afghaanse asielzoekers.
UC San Diego researchers are working with Google to build a private cloud from 2,000 retired Pixel Fold motherboards, demonstrating how discarded smartphones could provide useful, low-cost computing capacity. "The full smartphone cluster is expected to launch this fall," reports The Register. "Depending on how well the initial phase goes, we're told the cluster could grow even larger." From the report Once the phone's motherboards have been extracted from their shells, the researchers say that the chips hiding within remain more than potent enough to be useful for a variety of tasks. In many cases, the single-threaded performance of these chips is as good as, if not better than, what you'd find from a many-cored datacenter chip. The Pixel Fold smartphones, which will form the basis of the cluster, are powered by a Google Tensor G2 processor with two 2.85 GHz Cortex-X1, two 2.35 GHz Cortex-A78 and four 1.80 GHz Cortex-A55 Arm cores, a Mali-G710 MP7 GPU, and 12 GB of system memory. Early benchmarking using the SPEC suite suggests that 25-50 phones should deliver performance similar to that of a conventional server.
The major challenge, instead, is distributing workloads across multiple devices, each of which has a handful of cores of one or more varieties, and most have 8-12 GB of memory. UCSD researchers are approaching this challenge from a couple of different angles. The first is by targeting applications that can easily fit within a single device. The second is using Kubernetes to orchestrate container deployments across clusters of 25-50 phones. For this to work, the devices first need to be flashed with a Linux operating system suitable for the job. While Android makes for a great handheld experience, it is not intended for server duty. In the blog post, researchers note that Android includes functionality intended to stop rogue applications from chewing up excessive amounts of memory and draining your battery. In server context, these safety mechanisms are no longer necessary.
[Ryan Kastner, an associate professor of computer science at UCSD] told us this was by no means an easy task, but the team has made steady progress toward getting Linux running smoothly on these devices, including support for the phone's onboard GPUs. Access to some functionality, like the chip's integrated tensor processing unit, remains elusive. Clustering these devices will require networking the phones together. Normally these devices would connect over cellular or Wi-Fi, but at this scale, this not only isn't practical, but also has implications for security, he explained. Instead, the team will employ PCBs that both supply power and break out wired Ethernet networking.
The researchers suggest that many EdTech, grading, and research workloads commonly run by universities in the cloud are small enough to run on the cluster without issue. "The vast majority of these applications are within the capabilities of a single smartphone to host, with the standard grading backend running on small cloud instances," a blog post detailing the planned deployment reads. "Early experiments show that even a moderately-sized cluster of 20 phones is capable of supporting peak submission rates for a 75+ student class."
The major challenge, instead, is distributing workloads across multiple devices, each of which has a handful of cores of one or more varieties, and most have 8-12 GB of memory. UCSD researchers are approaching this challenge from a couple of different angles. The first is by targeting applications that can easily fit within a single device. The second is using Kubernetes to orchestrate container deployments across clusters of 25-50 phones. For this to work, the devices first need to be flashed with a Linux operating system suitable for the job. While Android makes for a great handheld experience, it is not intended for server duty. In the blog post, researchers note that Android includes functionality intended to stop rogue applications from chewing up excessive amounts of memory and draining your battery. In server context, these safety mechanisms are no longer necessary.
[Ryan Kastner, an associate professor of computer science at UCSD] told us this was by no means an easy task, but the team has made steady progress toward getting Linux running smoothly on these devices, including support for the phone's onboard GPUs. Access to some functionality, like the chip's integrated tensor processing unit, remains elusive. Clustering these devices will require networking the phones together. Normally these devices would connect over cellular or Wi-Fi, but at this scale, this not only isn't practical, but also has implications for security, he explained. Instead, the team will employ PCBs that both supply power and break out wired Ethernet networking.
The researchers suggest that many EdTech, grading, and research workloads commonly run by universities in the cloud are small enough to run on the cluster without issue. "The vast majority of these applications are within the capabilities of a single smartphone to host, with the standard grading backend running on small cloud instances," a blog post detailing the planned deployment reads. "Early experiments show that even a moderately-sized cluster of 20 phones is capable of supporting peak submission rates for a 75+ student class."
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SLInstagram | Pensacola Mayoral candidate Ann Hill posts City Council footage: "Jacob Rockwell told City Council he received a red-light camera ticket while he was out of town. His concern goes beyond one citation. He argues these cameras shift the burden from the government proving guilt to citizens proving their innocence—a serious due process concern. A Florida judge recently ruled the state's red-light camera law unconstitutional on similar grounds, though the ruling is expected to be appealed."
Large language models encode their knowledge and reasoning through billions of numbers called "the weights." The amazing capabilities of [LLMs] come through adjusting those weights to better represent world knowledge and tasks.
This site queries all models with something like "Who is name? Give up to 10 results, each with a short description and confidence." We then cluster similar descriptions together and assign a strength score.
The query procedure isn't perfect, you may notice: … Models may [bullshit] biographical details or events that never happened. (via)
This site queries all models with something like "Who is name? Give up to 10 results, each with a short description and confidence." We then cluster similar descriptions together and assign a strength score.
The query procedure isn't perfect, you may notice: … Models may [bullshit] biographical details or events that never happened. (via)
The trailer for Klara and the Sun, directed by Taika Waititi and based on the bestseller by Kazuo Ishiguro.