Extraction

China has not formally recognised the Taliban administration but it has significant interests in a country at the centre of a region important for its Belt and Road infrastructure initiative. Chinese company National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) signed a contract with Afghanistan's previous, US-backed government in 2012…

The most important part of any Escape From Tarkov raid is where to extract. Whether you’re carrying quest items, the loot from a player you’ve killed or even a golden lion you’re hoping to flog on the flea market, if you can’t get the loot out, the raid is pointless. READ MORE: 7 tips to making more money in ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Streets of Tarkov, the game’s newest map, has a host of confusing extracts so to make it a little easier and give you a little hope of flogging off that precious loot, NME has visited every…

After Thor: Love and Thunder evolved from a mild disappointment to one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most unpopular installments in the blink of an eye, conspiracy theories began to emerge that Chris Hemsworth actually hated his fourth outing as the titular Odinson, although there’s been very little in the way of tangible evidence. The actor is gearing up for a sequel he seems to be a lot happier with, though, having been praising the in-camera action of upcoming Netflix spectacular Extraction 2. The opener became a…

The Los Angeles City Council opted to end oil and gas drilling within the city’s limits in a historic Friday vote. The decision was unanimous, with 12-0 in favor of a draft ordinance phasing out existing fossil fuel wells and banning new ones. LA will end all of its current oil and gas drilling within the next 20 years,and no new in-city extraction operations will be approved.“When this ordinance goes into place, there will be no new oil and gas production whatsoever,” council member Paul Krekorian said during the…

Over the years, if you’ve watched the Marvel movies in order, you’ve seen Chris Hemsworth maintain an impeccable physique as the God of Thunder. Clearly, the actor behind the self-proclaimed “strongest Avenger” is no stranger to intense workouts and training regimes. However, according to Ross Edgley, a sports scientist and ultra-marathon swimmer who worked with Hemsworth on Limitless, the Thor actor’s training for the Extraction sequel was “obscene.” In an interview with our sister site Tech Radar, Edgley talked about…

Supervised learning with time series. How to create univariate forecasting models using PythonPhoto by Adam Śmigielski on UnsplashIn this post, you’ll learn to apply supervised learning with time series using Python.This includes two things:transforming time series from a sequence into a tabular format;adding new features based on summary statistics.Forecasting is one of the most studied problems in data science. The goal is to predict future values of a time series.Accurate forecasts are invaluable for decision makers.…

Using pretrained transformer language models and part of speech for state-of-the-art keyphrase extractionImage by Author.This post is based on our paper “PatternRank: Leveraging Pretrained Language Models and Part of Speech for Unsupervised Keyphrase Extraction (2022)” accepted to KDIR22. You can read more details about our approach there.📑 To quickly get an overview of the content of a text, we can use keyphrases that concisely reflect its semantic context. Keyphrases describe the most essential aspect of a text. Unlike…

When father-son duo Richard Batenburg Jr. and Rick Batenburg III were approached about turning their cannabis business into a reality TV series, they had an immediate question: Why? “Frankly, we were shocked, because we don’t think we’re that interesting,” Batenburg III said via Zoom from his Denver office on Thursday. “But we’re very excitable and have a high risk tolerance. They saw potential in the family-business concept, so that’s how we ended up as the hub of the show.” The Batenburgs own and operate The Clear,…

A couple of years back, I worked on an Information Extraction (IE) tool called SEER, that helps users extract data from a document. For instance, an investigator wishes to extract all increases and decreases of offenses from a dataset of FBI press releases.Image by Author.SEER learns to automatically extract data from user-given examples of text highlights. It learns the patterns in the highlighted texts and generates extraction rules that match and extract the desired target texts.Each row is an extraction rule. And each…

Chris Hemsworth will be returning with much more action in Extraction 2, as hinted by the actor in the first look of the film. The video also showed a glimpse of actor Golshifteh Farahani in action. Extraction 2 first look was unveiled during the ongoing Tudum: A Netflix Global Fan Event on the streaming platform’s YouTube channel. Also read: Alia Bhatt shares first look of Hollywood film Heart of StoneChris will return as Tyler Rake, a former SASR operator turned black ops mercenary, and Golshifteh will mark her return…