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Efforts to locate the actor Julian Sands, more than five months after he went missing while hiking in California, are to be scaled back, the San Bernardino county sheriff’s office has reported.In a statement on Monday, the department said the missing person case for Sands remains open and that search efforts will continue in a “limited capacity”.This follows a major drive on Saturday to locate the actor, involving more than 80 volunteers, deputies and staff as well as two helicopters and a drone crew.“Unfortunately, Mr…

The Last of Us multiplayer game has reportedly hit a snag, with developer Naughty Dog scaling back the team working on the project. As per Bloomberg, publisher Sony has slowed down work on the long-gestating multiplayer experience, as a means to ‘reassess its quality and long-term viability.' The news comes briefly after the studio put out a tweet claiming that the game needs more time to cook, in addition to announcing an undisclosed brand-new single-player title. Fans were expecting updates about The Last of Us…

God of War may be known to have a quite linear story, but there are plenty of optional objectives players can take on if they’re looking for a little extra something. Like its predecessor, God of War Ragnarok has a whole host of armor sets you can craft after completing quests and killing enemies out in the world, adding a fun new challenge to the gameplay and letting you craft your favorite build to unleash Kratos’ ultimate power. One such armor set is the Scaled Dragon Armor, which gives players a nice boost to both…

There are plenty of armor sets for Kratos to wear in God of War Ragnarok, and selecting which one is right for you is most certainly a matter of playstyle. If you're the kind who prioritizes a healthy mix of defense and offense, though, you may want to consider the Dragon Scaled Armor. Not only is this set required for the "Dragon Slayer" trophy--it's also a very well-rounded option.Obtaining the Dragon Scaled Armor will be no quick feat, as it requires you to slay quite a few dragons, drakes, and drekis…

Having familiarised ourselves with the theory behind the Transformer model and its attention mechanism, we’ll be starting our journey of implementing a complete Transformer model by first seeing how to implement the scaled-dot product attention. The scaled dot-product attention is an integral part of the multi-head attention, which in turn, is an important component of both the Transformer encoder and decoder. Our end goal will be the application of the complete Transformer model to Natural Language Processing (NLP). In…

The Biden administration reined in its pledge to forgive up to $20,000 in federal student loans Thursday, narrowing the types of loans eligible for relief.The basic contours of the offer remain the same. Borrowers with incomes of less than $125,000 (or $250,000 for a couple) can qualify for up to $10,000 in debt forgiveness on their federal direct student loans. The amount of relief rises to $20,000 for borrowers who meet the income limit and received a Pell Grant — a form of aid aimed at the neediest applicants — while…

According to 343 Industries, Halo Infinite‘s open-world map underwent “significant scaling back” before it was released. Speaking to the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences on August 1, 343 Industries’ head of creative Joseph Staten revealed that the studio made a lot of changes and cutbacks to Halo Infinite‘s map (via TechRadar). “The team went through a lot of iterations on scope and biome variety before I joined,” Staten said. “Even after I joined the team, we had to make choices about where to scale back.”…

Using color to add meaning to your plots in matplotlibPhoto by Denise Chan on UnsplashBar plots are one of the most basic and useful ways to convey data to our audience. While there are more exciting plots like box plots, violin plots, and heat-maps, no plot is as universally understood by non-technical audiences like the bar plot.On the flip-side, bar plots really are boring. They’re also very simplistic in that they don’t give the audience any intuition on whether the values shown are good, bad, or otherwise.In this…

Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent Holdings reported virtually no growth in first-quarterly revenue, its worst ever such performance, and also missed market estimates as China's economic slowdown and a freeze on new game licences weighed on its business.Revenue totalled CNY 135.5 billion (roughly Rs. 1,55,804) in the quarter ended March, versus CNY 135.3 billion (roughly Rs. 1,55,655 crore) in the same quarter last year, and below an average estimate of CNY 141 billion (roughly Rs. 1,62,200 crore) from 16…