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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Sixty-one organizations in the U.K. committed to a 20% reduction in working hours for all staff, with no fall in wages, for a six-month period starting in June 2022. The vast majority of companies also retained full-time productivity targets. Now, results from the world's largest trial of a…

The latest album by Heinali is a rather beautiful piece created from field recordings made around his home city – recordings from rail stations, the sound of traffic and birdsong, the dripping of water in a tunnel, the rumbling of trains on a track, the babble of voices in a shopping mall – all sliced up, manipulated, accompanied by synthesisers and transformed into a piece of compelling ambient music. What transforms this niche arthouse project into an urgent piece of work is the fact that the city in question is Kyiv.…

3D printed objects from English (left) and Tariana (right) prototypes (above). Credit: Mike Lucibella Half of the world's languages are endangered and more than a thousand are expected to be lost in coming decades. A team at UCL is using animation software to preserve these languages in an entirely new way. It's estimated that…

Aniket is the co-founder and COO of Biconomy, a plug-and-play API platform, that simplifies blockchain transactions, with lowered transaction prices. He is a seasoned professional with diversified work experience in marketing, investments, and operations. Known for his versatility and flexibility, Aniket is currently leading operations at Biconomy. Analytics Insight has engaged in an exclusive interview with the COO of Bioconomy to have a glimpse into how a universalized blockchain system can include billions of crypto…

Integrating Privacy with Reinforcement LearningPic Credit: Exploring the Unknown by Soma Biswas (Flickr: link, Reposted with Permission)In this article, we focus on enabling recommendations in a conversational context. More concretely, we consider an app that is able to converse with the user, providing interesting and relevant information to the user; either (on-demand) in response to a specific user query or proactively in the form of timely and relevant alerts.Interaction Personalization: While chatbots today are able…

When working with DataFrames, reindexing is common. When a DataFrame is reindexed, an old index (and its associated values) is conformed to a new index, potentially reordering, contracting, or expanding the rows or columns. When a reindex expands a DataFrame, new values are needed to fill the newly created rows or columns: these are “fill values.”When reindexing with Pandas, only a single value, via the fill_value parameter, is permitted. If that fill_value is a type incompatible with the type of one or more columns, the…

Voyager Digital announced its recovery plan after bankruptcy filing but its customers are not happy Voyager Digital is quite eager to act on its recovery plan that will enable users to access their accounts once again. But the firm failed to explicitly mention if it would be able to return all the equivalent funds of the affected users. Voyager posted a blog on Monday, which stated that the firm had roughly US$1.3 billion from the affected users’ funds, along with the US$650 million from its claims against…

Credit: University of Philippines Press As a child in the Philippines during the 1970s, Joi Barrios-Leblanc remembers singing songs that glorified the country's president Ferdinand Marcos, and his U.S-backed regime of martial law that turned the government into a one-man dictatorship that killed, tortured and incarcerated thousands of its citizens.…