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Losing someone you love is a difficult thing to experience. The painful feelings can hit you at any time, making each moment feel heavy. It helps to have supportive friends or family who will be there for you.One man on Reddit was that source of support for his grieving friend. When it began causing problems with his fiancée, he put the story before people online and asked if he was the jerk for his actions. Bored Panda also reached out to Jill S. Cohen, a grief counselor who works with children and adults, to get her…

Bob Marley: One Love made its debut as part of the 2024 movie schedule this past weekend, and it seems to have connected with audiences. The Marley-centric flick won the box office over Sony's Madame Web in tremendous fashion. Much of the praise for it has gone to its star, Kingsley Ben-Adir, who played the beloved Jamaican singer and sported some fake dreads while doing so. Now, the leading man has provided details on what went into crafting his faux locks for the feature.The Secret Invasion alum was a guest on The…

Tuning-Free Longer Context Lengths For LLMs — A Review of Self-Extend (LLM Maybe LongLM)A simple strategy to enable LLMs to consume longer context length inputs during inference without the need for finetuning.Source: Image created by the author using DALL-E 3In this article we will look at the paper “LLM Maybe LongLM: Self-Extend LLM Context Window Without Tuning” by Hongye Jin et. al. that was just released on arxiv 2 days ago (2nd Jan 2024).Github: https://github.com/datamllab/LongLMLLMs like GPT-3 or BERT are…

Credit: Daisy Daisy/Shutterstock Access to physical activity and sport is not equal. Children and young people with disabilities are less likely to engage in physical activity and sport, as there are significant barriers to their participation. Parents are often vital in helping their children become involved in sport. In our…

Bing Chat seems to now limit the length of conversations, in an attempt to avoid the AI’s occasional, unfortunate divergence from what you might expect from a helpful assistant. Bing Chat has only been live for a little over a week, and Microsoft is already restricting the usage of this powerful tool that should be able to help you get through a busy day.  Microsoft has analyzed the results of this initial public outing and made a few observations about the circumstances that can lead Bing Chat to become less…

When Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis found its king in Austin Butler, this was not going to be an impersonation; it would be the real deal. As soon as the trailer for the new biopic came out, it got us all shaken up at the fantastic performance of this former Nickelodeon star portraying The King with his voice and movements. However, the 31-year-old star spoke about the great lengths he took to play Elvis, including not seeing his family for months.Embodying such a prolific American icon like Elvis Presley was not something that…

LEXINGTON, Ky. —  No matter how big the hype, no matter how high the expectations, Flightline exceeded every marker in his historic win Saturday in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland Race Course.Did he cement his place his horse racing history with his 8¼-length win in the country’s most prestigious race?The almost 40,000 in attendance certainly thought so as they roared with approval and astonishment as he galloped down the stretch at Keeneland. His victory margin was the largest ever for a Classic winner…

There have been several 2022 new movie releases that have given audiences some of the most terrifying spectacles in recent memory, including Jordan Peele’s UFO thriller Nope and Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey, the latter of which took the Predator franchise back to the very beginning. Another movie that saw humans being chased and sometimes viciously attacked by a massively terrifying beast was Baltasar Kormákur’s Beast, which featured its fair share of drama, action and some gnarly and visceral gore.The movie, which followed…

Issa Rae has claimed that the response to the allegations against Ezra Miller have shown “the lengths that Hollywood will go to to protect” alleged offenders.In recent years, a number of allegations have been levelled against Miller, including those of disorderly conduct, assault and burglary.The actor, who uses they/them pronouns, was also accused of grooming and “psychologically manipulating, physically intimidating and endangering the safety and welfare” an 18-year-old by her father.However, the teenager denied that…

Motorola posted a teaser for its upcoming X30 Pro flagship smartphone. This is the same smartphone expected to come equipped with the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset and a 200MP main camera sensor. Motorola may launch the X30 Pro as the Motorola Frontier in markets outside of China. The teaser reveals that the Moto X30 Pro will use three different focal lengths on its camera system in what is an unusual setup in the smartphone realm. 35mm is the widest it goes, matching the ZTE Axon 40 Ultra's main camera that we really…