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A tidy desk, how you code will look like if you use spacy-llm hahaManaging prompts and handling OpenAI request failures can be a challenging task. Fortunately, spaCy released spacy-llm, a powerful tool that simplifies prompt management and eliminates the need to create a custom solution from scratch.In this article, you will learn how to leverage spacy-llm to create a task that extracts data from text using a prompt. We will dive into the basics of spacy and explore some of the features of spacy-llm.spaCy and spacy-llm…

Mongolian music has a long history of producing captivating vocal styles. The best-known is throat singing – a reverberating technique that produces multiple pitches during a single phrase. Raw, earthy and a predominantly male pursuit, throat singing is more of a droning instrumental sound than a means of conveying lyrics. For the Ulaanbaatar-born singer Enkhjargal Erkhembayar, AKA Enji, there is another side to her country’s song – a delicate, dexterous vocal that sits between jazz improvisation and the ceremonial long…

Egyptian film-maker Omar El Zohairy is a brilliant emerging talent with an impressive professional pedigree; he is a former assistant to Yousry Nasrallah (who himself started out as assistant to the celebrated Youssef Chahine) and has won festival prizes with this, his debut feature. It’s a comedy with a little of Woody Allen or Franz Kafka – though with not much of the famous Emily Dickinson quote about what hope is. It is also a social-surrealist parable about a woman’s place in a man’s world. Higher than the animals?…

A joint study from researchers at Brown University and the University of Toulouse has investigated why champagne bubbles rise in a straight line, unlike those in other carbonated beverages.Fluid mechanics researchers found that surfactants give the celebratory drink its stable and signature straight rise of bubbles.Researchers from Brown University and the University of Toulouse discovered that surfactants, soap-like compounds, are responsible for the straight rise of bubbles in champagne. This unique bubble behavior,…

Nepo babies are all the rage, but few families have a business as niche as the McFerrins. Jazz vocalist Bobby is best known as the singer of Don’t Worry, Be Happy, the first a cappella song to top the US charts. More than three decades later, his daughter Madison picked up the baton, releasing two vocal-only EPs that looped and layered her voice into a faintly retro melange of soul and R&B.The artwork for I Hope You Can Forgive MeIt’s fair to say that the younger McFerrin’s work is significantly less grating than the…

Angelina Jolie was among the high-profile guests, who attended the White House state dinner in Washington DC on Wednesday. The actor was accompanied by her son Maddox, 21, for the special occasion hosted for South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee. Also read: Angelina Jolie seen on coffee date with Normal People star Paul Mescal after his split from fiancée Phoebe Bridgers Angelina Jolie and her son Maddox arrive for a state dinner US President Joe Biden and US First Lady Jill Biden hosted…

There are a number of e-bike conversion kits on the market, all offering ways to electrify your existing wheels. Boost has emerged as an option with a more elegant and easier way of doing things than some of its rivals. Rather than wire in controllers, battery hardware and a hall effect sensor, almost all of the necessary gear is built into a custom-made rear-hub motor. Everything else, meanwhile, is included in a circular battery pack that sits inside a bottle cage, or something that looks a lot like it, which is mounted…

Apparently, the new arthouse flex is dropping your opening credits half an hour or more into the film, as in Drive My Car, Long Day’s Journey Into Night – and now Aly Muritiba’s desolate and sophisticated Brazilian romantic quest Private Desert. Here, it’s all the better to accentuate the barren terrain from which it emerges. Brawny police instructor Daniel (Bacurau’s Antonio Saboia) is suspended for attacking a recruit and forced to take on punishing night shifts as a security guard. At home he battles to convince his…

Notebooks to beautiful web apps in no timePhoto by NASA on UnsplashEffective communication is pivotal in all data-driven projects. Data professionals often need to communicate their findings and insights to stakeholders, including business leaders, technical teams, and other data scientists.While traditional methods of communicating data insights, such as PowerPoint presentations and static reports are widely preferred, they are often time-consuming to create.What’s more, these services require one to leave the comfort of…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeHollywood icon Goldie Hawn thinks the Oscars have lost their touch.The actor won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1970 for her breakout role in Cactus Flower. She was nominated again in the Best Actress category for Private Benjamin in 1981.“It used to be elegant,” Hawn told Variety of the Oscars in a new cover story. “I’m not old-fashioned, but sometimes jokes are…