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Donald Trump, who has a penchant for crowing about hoarding classified documents and the crowd size on Jan. 6, 2021, boasted about acing a basic cognitive test in his continued efforts to prove his self-proclaimed title of an “extremely stable genius.” During a campaign stop in New Hampshire Wednesday night, the former president touted his ability to correctly identify animals of different shapes. “I took it, and I aced it,” he told the crowd of supporters. “I think it was 35… 30 questions. And let me tell you, you…

Although many of us have had a good laugh making fun of the Australian accent on social media, more specifically, of the way they pronounce the word “no” as a prolongated “naaauuur”, one Aussie has shown that the down under way of saying certain things isn’t all the joy it is cut out to be.Taking to her TikTok page, Hannah Sands went on a rant about her fellow Aussie being incapable of pronouncing her son’s name.In a video that she posted, which has received 26,500 views, the musician said: “Some people don’t tell you…

Officials confirmed that the Lakers indeed had possession of the ball when LeBron James called a late-game timeout, a pivotal play in a 106-103 win over the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday in the NBA’s inaugural in-season tournament quarterfinal game.Leading by two points with less than 10 seconds left, Austin Reaves took the inbounds pass. Reaves dribbled between Devin Booker and Kevin Durant, with Durant poking the ball free, seemingly setting up a crucial turnover.On the other side of the court, though, James signaled to an…

Credit: Shift Drive / Shutterstock Hiring is normally featured as a prime example for algorithmic bias. This is where a tendency to favor some groups over others becomes accidentally fixed in an AI system designed to perform a specific task. There are countless stories about this. Perhaps the best known example is when Amazon tried…

In the forest near Wamba, a village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, some of the last remaining bonobos breed, feed and lounge in the trees. Like other great apes, these animals have a rich social life, communicating with their fellows using some 80 types of gestures. Primatologist Kirsty Graham of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland has spent hundreds of hours among this screeching, scratching endangered troupe to decode its members’ nonverbal interactions. This work has confirmed, for example, that when…

Avoid the common pitfalls in applying cross-validation to time series and forecasting models.Photo by aceofnet on UnsplashCross-validation is a staple process when building any statistical or machine learning model and is ubiquitous in data science. However, for the more niche area of time series analysis and forecasting, it is very easy to incorrectly carry out cross-validation.In this post, I want to showcase the problem with applying regular cross-validation to time series models and common methods to alleviate the…

Learn the simple but powerful synonyms feature to improve your search qualityImage by Tumisu in PixabaySynonyms are used to improve search quality and broaden the scope of what is considered a matching. For example, a user searching for “England” might expect to find documents that contain “British” or “UK” as well, although these three words are totally different.The synonyms feature in Elasticsearch is very powerful and can make your search engine more robust and powerful if implemented correctly. In this post, we will…

A 47 year old man lost Rs. 1.23 lakh to cyber fraud while trying to check his PF balance. Check details here. How do you check your Provident Fund (PF) balance? There are several ways using which EPFO members can check the PF balance. One can check PF balance by visiting the official website EPFO, Umang App, SMS service, among others. However, you need to be cautious while checking your PF balance via SMS or missed call as you need to be sure of the number you are typing. As per a recent update, a 47 year old man has…

Are you specifying your Python function arguments correctly?Photo by Shahadat Rahman on UnsplashArguments in Python can be specified in four different ways.They can be specified as:Positional argumentsKeyword argumentsArbitrary argument listsArbitrary keyword argument dictionariesHere’s how to use them correctly.Positional argumentsPositional arguments are, obviously, arguments that are specified by their position.They are mandatory and have no default values.Specifying arguments as positional arguments is the most…

50 Cent reminds Quavo that some of the best music derives from pain.The hip-hop mogul sent the message via Instagram on Wednesday, just a day after the death of Quavo’s cousin and music partner Takeoff. Fif posted a clip from the latest episode of Rich Kleiman’s Out of Office, where music executive Steven Victor discussed 50’s involvement in Pop Smoke’s posthumous debut album. The project—titled Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon—was released in early July 2020, less than five months after Pop Smoke was killed during a…