The EU’s poor record in the Western Balkans over the past decade does not bode well for further enlargement. As we remember the success of 2004, it’s time to remember that the EU once openly embraced a large part of the European continent. It can do so again. On May 1, 2004, the … | Continue reading
One of the challenges of understanding the weight of climate change is that… Tags: climate change, future, Tardigrade | Continue reading
Around 29 million people in the US take a daily dose of aspirin as a preventative measure for cardiovascular disease. And while an age-related increased risk of bleeding has seen it fall out of favor with medical authorities, it's now shaping up as something that might be even mo … | Continue reading
What effect do images have? Why do we look at them? What is our attitude towards them? Professor Annette Haug will be exploring these questions. She is the first scholar at Kiel University (CAU) to receive an ERC Advanced Grant, which is how the European Research Council (ERC) su … | Continue reading
Today's links "Humans in the loop" must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed: The particular torments of reverse-centaurs are drastically under-theorized. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: … | Continue reading
If you buy something—a refrigerator, a car, a tractor, a wheelchair, or a phone—but you can't have the information or parts to fix or modify it, is it really yours? The right to repair movement is based on the belief that you should have the right to use and fix your stuff as you … | Continue reading
💡 “The word for world is forest” — Ursula K. Le Guin We Need To Rewild The Internet #internet #society #longread The story of German scientific forestry transmits a timeless truth: When we simplify complex systems, we destroy them, and the devastating consequences sometim … | Continue reading
"It's both worse and more expensive." Gardener warned against using harmful product to grow vegetables: 'I would remove all that you can now' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event Comment on this. | Continue reading
The public library is one of the ways that savvy users can get free audiobooks and ebooks. They can be read on your smartphone, tablet or e-readers. Kobo e-readers are especially good since they have Overdrive integration in all their devices, making browsing, borrowing, and read … | Continue reading
An explanation of how to implement the Help command, and how to use that to display a PDF document in a SwiftUI View. | Continue reading
Swift/SwiftUI source code to accompany article on adding a PDF Help file to a SwiftUI app for macOS. | Continue reading
"Please tell me that's not a USD price." Customer sparks conversation with photo of frustrating cost of produce at grocery store: 'This infuriates me to no end' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Losing your job is always challenging. A termination can come out of the blue and seriously throw you off track. This is especially the case for expats, who are facing an... | Continue reading
If you’ve ever gazed up at a dark and clear night sky, you might feel the same thing that I do each and every time: a feeling that it’s beckoning us and drawing us in to explore and wonder what’s out there in the great abyss of space. Each point of distant, twinkling light isn’t … | Continue reading
This begs the question of where the line is between meaningful collections and overconsumption. Internet responds to comments from regretful cup collectors: 'Wish I had never started' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
This old white van is something of a neighborhood white board. It gets written over, and then it’s painted over, and then the circle of urban life begins anew. | Continue reading
Die Voraussetzungen, sich an einen sukzessiven Rückgang von Möglichkeiten für den schneeabhängigen Wintersport anzupassen, sind von Standort zu Standort bzw. von Organisation zu Organisation sehr unterschiedlich. Aber gewisse strategische Themen können nur gemeinsam und mehr oder … | Continue reading
The move aims to reduce the amount of microplastics that make their way into our environment. Politician proposes ban targeting laundry detergent pods over harmful effects: 'A multifaceted issue' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Today we have a triple bunk bed plans pdf that we used to solve a space problem in our kids… The post DIY Triple Bunk Beds: Free Printable Plans appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
We have so many great ice cube tray recipes. An ice cube tray is great for making miniature desserts, storing… The post 20 Easy Kids Treats and Things You Can Make In An Ice Cube Tray! appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
It is not very often that you find a casserole recipe out there that doesn't use canned cream soups in it. I don't have anything against them, myself, but when I am cooking for just one or two people it is a bit of a waste to open a full can. I found this recipe on a blog called … | Continue reading
The move should also help to support a growing electric vehicle market. Biden administration announces multimillion-dollar effort to make battery recycling more affordable: 'Puts the U.S. in the driver's seat' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The character is a freelance tank driver, roaming the desert with the tank on a square map. He enters a competition. What does he need to do? Solve a bunch of riddles! Anagrams, basic math, and the music kids listened to in the 80s. Here’s a riddle from the book. You have two 6-s … | Continue reading
Several common measures — like employing a chief diversity officer, offering diversity training or having a diverse board — were not correlated with decreased discrimination in entry-level hiring, the researchers found. But one thing strongly predicted less discrimination: a cent … | Continue reading
Cryptocurrency poker website ‘CoinPoker’ hosted high stakes action this weekend, with celebrity player Tony G and a whale in the… Continue reading 300,000 Tether (USDT) Pot Played At Crypto Poker Site ‘CoinPoker’ – Tony G Vs Whale The post 300,000 Tether (USDT) Pot Played At Cryp … | Continue reading
Chinese auto manufacturer Dongfeng has shoveled some heavy marketing into its M-Hero 917, the big, brawny, quad-motor luxury SUV it launched domestically last year and recently introduced in Switzerland. Continue Reading Category: Automotive, Transport Tags: SUV, Side-by-side, Of … | Continue reading
Following the passage of the Online News Act, the Media Ecosystem Observatory studied the behaviour of Canadian Facebook and Instagram users. The resulting report (PDF) is a brief but useful read. Sara Parker, et al. summarizing two of its findings: The Facebook Pages of national … | Continue reading
The dangers of urban biking are particularly frustrating because cycling is such a valuable practice. Bicyclist sparks conversation after sharing frustrating experience: 'Definitely not safe' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
AI trained on simple heart rate data can predict an episode of the most common heart rhythm disorder, atrial fibrillation, 30 minutes in advance, new research has shown. With plans for it to be incorporated into a smartphone so it can analyze data from a smartwatch, the model wou … | Continue reading
"More Data Breaches Than You Can Shake a Stick At". That seems like a reasonable summary and I suggest there are two main reasons for this observation. Firstly, there are simply loads of breaches happening and you know this already because, well, you read my stuff! Secondly, Ther … | Continue reading
It’s the buffalo of the backyard. Yes, when you’re a kid you live off that hose. It’s your friend. It’s your enemy. It keeps your entire afternoon moving with ritual cool downs, face-spraying entertainment, and lots of rust-and-plastic flavored water to keep you hydrated. Oh sure … | Continue reading
Researchers have developed a security solution for power-hungry AI models that offers protection against two common attacks. | Continue reading
For senior Mikayla Britsch, civil and environmental engineering is a vocation that requires both technical and people skills. | Continue reading
"We're trying to compete with fossil fuels." Company develops technology to harness boundless energy source within ocean — here's why it's important first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The German government has announced that it will launch a new app, through which residents can apply for Bürgergeld citizens’ allowance benefits and receive guidance from the... | Continue reading
Damaged nerve fibers (axons) in the peripheral nervous system can regenerate themselves, but complete functional recovery often doesn’t occur. That’s because the Schwann cells responsible for regeneration stop providing support after about three months. If the restoration of nerv … | Continue reading
The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions By far the most detailed paper on prompt injection I've seen yet from OpenAI, published a few days ago and with six credited authors: Eric Wallace, Kai Xiao, Reimar Leike, Lilian Weng, Johannes Heideck … | Continue reading
Lameazoid Link List for Monday 2024-04-22 22-Apr-2024 – Steam Gaming: Enjoying Palworld Brief Summary: ” I picked up Palworld back in late January, and have put over 100 hours into it, but just have not g” | Continue reading
We introduce phi-3-mini, a 3.8 billion parameter language model trained on 3.3 trillion tokens, whose overall performance, as measured by both academic benchmarks and internal testing, rivals that of models such as Mixtral 8x7B and GPT-3.5 (e.g., phi-3-mini achieves 69% on MMLU a … | Continue reading
"The amount of insects, animals, and flowers is way above what it has ever been!" Professional landscaper shares 'amazing' photos after saving meadows at apartments: 'Wish all apartments and landscapers did this' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
In this article, Justyna Remijn from Inside Creations will share with you some of the best time-saving tips that will help you navigate the renovation process. Renovating your... | Continue reading
Robert Lea, writing about our far-flung friend: NASA’s interstellar explorer Voyager 1 is finally communicating with ground control in an understandable way again. On Saturday (April 20), Voyager 1 updated ground control about its health status for the first time in 5 months. Whi … | Continue reading
"You would think that having an effect of this magnitude would require the resources and funding of a large government." MrBeast builds wells for 500K people in viral video: 'It's something humanity should all be putting in effort to fix' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
"It's hard to have nice things when people specifically go out of their way to do this." National monument forced to shut down after vandalism: 'Makes me angry that people have to damage things like this' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Let’s do an experiment! Everyone likes experiments. It’s what separates people who engage in experiments from people who don’t. As they say, there are ten kinds of people in the world: those that understand binary, and those sick of this joke. If you’ll stop interrupting me, I’d … | Continue reading
‘Even if I could’ve gotten into Harvard, I wouldn’t have gone.’ | Continue reading
Senior Clojure Back-End Engineer at Peruse Technology Inc 130000 - 220000 ** Responsibilities: Development and support of an application, database and associated APIs. Required Technical Skills: Clojure, Datomic, GraphQL and general AWS experience (some or all of: Lambda, API gat … | Continue reading