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KAUST researchers have found a way to significantly increase the speed of training. Large machine learning models can be trained significantly faster by observing how frequently zero results are produced in distributed machine learning that use large training datasets.AI models develop their “intelligence” by being trained on datasets that have been labelled to tell the model how to differentiate between different inputs and then respond accordingly. The more labelled data that goes in, the better the model becomes at performing whatever task it has been assigned to do. For complex deep learning applications, such as self-driving vehicles, this requires enormous...

Though President Biden has been busy ordering federal employees, nursing home employees, and military personnel to take the COVID vaccines and encouraging private employers and state governors to make vaccination a condition of employment, he has not required White House staff to get vaccinated. "The President feels that those who work directly for him are a better class of people and that it would be wrong for him to intrude upon their right to control what goes into their bodies," Press Secretary Jen Psaki explained. "He feels very strongly that the 'my body, my choice' paradigm that bolsters his position...

Does it make Max Boot feel big to tell a former President of the United States to "shut up?" The Washington Post columnist and Never Trumper did just that on today's Morning Joe. In his recent Washington Post column, Boot argued that neither Trump nor Mike Pompeo nor Mike Pence, have any right to criticize Biden's handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal since they set it in motion. Boot summed up his position by trumpeting: "People like Trump and Pompeo just need to find a good opportunity right now to just shut up and stop criticizing something that they set in...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is in a virtual tie with prospective Republican challenger James Craig in next year’s gubernatorial race, according to a poll published Sunday. The poll, conducted August 9–15 by the Detroit Free Press and EPIC-MRA, found Whitmer had 45 percent support compared to James’s 44 percent support. The one-point difference is within the poll’s four-point margin of error and therefore pits the two candidates in a statistical tie. Eleven percent of respondents were undecided.

I work for a large corporation and I am quite certain that they are very strongly considering mandating the vaccination for all of the employees. So Pfizer gets approved today. On the surface, that seems like a bad thing. However, as I think about it, how does the company use the approval of one vaccine to make a mandate for all of the employees. It seems to me if they mandate the vaccine then they must mandate the approved vaccine , but if they mandate the approved vaccine then two thirds of their workforce is working without the approved vaccine....

The woman involved in an alleged stabbing outside Regions Hospital on Tuesday had been arrested and charged two weeks earlier for stabbing a man in Minneapolis. Jewlese Maxine Floyd, 20, of Minneapolis was charged Thursday with one count of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of assault causing substantial bodily harm. Floyd, who was charged Aug. 6 with second-degree assault for the Minneapolis incident, had been released on bail with her next court date set for Sept. 1. According to the criminal complaint, on Tuesday afternoon she was seen at Regions Hospital in St. Paul speaking incoherently and...

Senior Taliban spokesman told the U.K.’s Sky News on Monday that the United States and its ally Britain will face “consequences” if they seek to extend their military presence in Afghanistan to ensure the safe evacuation of their citizens. American President Joe Biden announced this summer that he would withdraw all American troops from the country by August 31. Biden had previously announced in April that the withdrawal would end on September 11, the 20th anniversary of the jihadist attacks that prompted the Afghan War. Both dates were a significant extension of the war from the set withdrawal date under...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- While hundreds of New Mexicans received unsolicited seeds from a mysterious Chinese address, federal investigators are still uncertain about the motivation behind the shipments. 'It was concerning to me because I thought how did they get my name? My address? Everything, um... what kind of information of mine is floating out there for them to just handpick my name and send them off?,' said Angela Alonen, who received a package of unsolicited seeds in the mail. Beginning in early 2020, the New Mexico Department of Agriculture served as a collection point for unsolicited seeds from New Mexicans....

Britain, France and Germany all joined pleas for Joe Biden to delay the US withdrawal from Afghanistan today. As the desperate evacuation continues, the PM will use a virtual meeting of world leaders tomorrow to push for more time to save people from the clutches of the Taliban - something the US president has so far refused to commit to. Nearly 6,000 Britons, Afghan staff and their families have now been airlifted out by the RAF - but there are plans to fly out a further 6,000 this week. French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said he was 'concerned' about...

President Joe Biden is speaking after the Food and Drug Administration announced it has granted full approval to Pfizer and BioNTech for their COVID-19 vaccine to be given to Americans as young as 16, the first COVID-19 vaccine to receive full FDA approval. Health officials hope the new status will encourage more unvaccinated people to get the jab.

In this clip from an interview with FOX News Channel's Tucker Carlson, reporter Lara Logan tries to break through the debate about why the government is saying "no one predicted" the fall of the Afghan government. "The intelligence agencies failed to see this? Seriously? The NSA is known as the crown jewel of intelligence collection in the world," she said. "There isn't a digital signature in existence that they don't collect and store and analyze... The idea that they missed this... Do you have any idea what it takes to do an invasion like this?" "It is as ridiculous as...

President Joe Biden plans to address the coronavirus battle on Monday as more Americans grow sceptical of his handling of the pandemic. The president scheduled a speech on the pandemic for Monday afternoon after the Food and Drug Administration gave full approval for the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. But recent polls show Americans are growing increasingly skeptical of Biden’s response after the surge of the Delta variant of the virus in the United States. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll showed Biden suffering a 12-point drop in his approval rating on the issue.

Some 270 MPs from all parties have been briefed on the crisis in Afghanistan today, according to Sky's chief political correspondent Jon Craig. Many have since spoken to Sky News and said they had come away with the impression UK evacuation flights will end "very soon". There's a strong indication the US may start taking out their troops within the next 48 to 72 hours, MPs believe, and the UK will then follow suit. It means we could see evacuation flights stopping within 48 hours. Craig says the decision on when the air bridge will end will be agreed at...

This video is done from an Indian (from India :-) ) perspective. Saleh is the guy running things from Panjshir...

👀 @kileycnn just now: "The window is absolutely closing pretty rapidly" as the Taliban tells the U.S. it won't extend the Aug. 31 withdrawal date. #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/FI8K5aE4qk — John Cooper (@thejcoop) August 23, 2021 Taliban spokesman warns of ‘consequences’ if Afghan pullout is extended. August 31 is a ‘red line’ according to Suhail Shaheen, a member of the Taliban’s delegation in Doha. Meanwhile Kamala is in Singapore bragging about the withdrawal VIDEO AT LINK..........................

This plan is predicated on the assumption that the GOP will win back a majority in one or both chambers in 2022......I am curious to hear thoughtful comments .......Plan: If the GOP wins a majority in one or both chambers, then I think that our America First representatives, having run as GOP candidates, should, en masse, re-register as Independents, enough to deprive McCarthy and/or McConnell of the gavel and make it known that the "America First Independent Caucus" holds all the power of the vote. I am hoping that bigger brains than mine may be able to figure out how...

Mr Boris Johnson, Prime MinisterMs Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister for ScotlandMr Mark Drakeford, First Minister for WalesMr Paul Givan, First Minister for Northern IrelandMr Sajid Javid, Health SecretaryDr Chris Whitty, Chief Medical OfficerDr Patrick Vallance, Chief Scientific Officer 22 August 2021Dear Sirs and Madam,Our grave concerns about the handling of the COVID pandemic by Governments of the Nations of the UK.We write as concerned doctors, nurses, and other allied healthcare professionals with no vested interest in doing so. To the contrary, we face personal risk in relation to our employment for doing so and / or the risk of being...

SINGAPORE - Shortly after her arrival at the Istana on Monday (Aug 23), United States Vice-President Kamala Harris was presented with a spray of purple-pink orchids named in her honour. The hybrid flowers – a trademark show of Singapore’s orchid diplomacy – came with an official “birth certificate”, which Ms Harris accepted with a laugh.... Joining PM Lee were Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean, Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen, Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong. With Ms Harris were Charge d’Affaires of the US Embassy in Singapore Rafik Mansour, Chief of...

Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but,...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern extended the country’s national COVID-19 lockdown on MondaNew Zealandy, saying the current outbreak has not peaked and more certainty about the Delta variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus is needed. The entire nation will remain at “alert level 4,” until 11:59 p.m. on Aug. 27, the ministry of health announced. The region of Auckland, the epicenter of the latest outbreak of 35 CCP virus cases, will be under the nation’s strictest rules until at least Aug. 31. “We don’t yet believe that we have reached the peak of this outbreak or necessarily the edge...