![]() ![]() We aim to expand minds, viewpoints, knowledge, understanding. Hub & Spoke, as you know, is our mighty audio collective of proudly independent podcasts. The new season of The Lonely Palette is achingly close to starting up on Wednesday, June 7, but in the meantime, this week and next we're giving our feed over to some fellow Hub & Spoke shows that might pique your eardrums. Jay Handy Financial Services (for artists!) Helen Reddy, “I Am Woman” (performed at the Mobilize for Women's Lives Rally in Washington in 1989) The Blue Dot Sessions, “Thread Indigo,” “Monder,” “Tall Journey,” “Stephi,” “Morning Glare” Instead, it has become a timeless artwork all its own: directly addressing any viewer from any era, demanding they confront their own politics, and drawing the battle lines between all the external - and internal - tensions that exist not only within the parameters of the abortion debate, but within women themselves. ![]() This flyer, though, was never meant to be a picket sign. In April 1989, Barbara Kruger - an artist, activist, and former magazine layout editor - created a flyer for a pro-choice women’s march in Washington, DC to protest the Supreme Court’s potential overturning of Roe vs. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It didn’t go well for those who resisted him, refusing to recognize Caesar as Lord. ![]() He sent General Pompey to conquer the land in 63 BC. In what sense is Jesus our kyrios, the Lord?Ĭaesar was “the lord” of Palestine because he’d earned the right to the title. The crowd would be more likely to call him Loser than Lord. The head of the Empire was a kyrios: Caesar expected you to call him your lord.īut if you saw a convicted criminal hanging on a cross beside the road, you would not normally call him kyrios. The head of a business was the kyrios: the master, the lord of the business. A kyrios in Greek culture was a master or a ruler. Those verses begin and end by proclaiming Jesus as kyrios - Lord. When we celebrate our Lord, we’re proclaiming the king who gave his life to re-establish the covenant relationship between heaven and earth. We hear this so often we may not see how counter-cultural it is. If your church celebrates the Lord’s Supper, you’ll be familiar with this:Ģ3 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you do this in remembrance of me.”Ģ5 In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks to Fink’s ambitious and visionary leadership!įink has been named one of the ‘World’s Greatest Leaders’ by Fortune, and Barron’s has named him one of the ‘World’s Best CEOs’ for 14 consecutive years. Today, BlackRock is a global leader in investment and financial technology solutions, with a purpose to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Larry Fink is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock Inc. With a whopping US $8.68 trillion assets under management (AUM) reported as of the end of 2020, BlackRock is the world’s largest asset management firm. from nothing to the world’s largest manager of people’s trusted money. Among the men who run Wall Street, it would be hard to find anyone who is not at least a bit in awe of Fink.įounded in 1988 with seven other partners, he built BlackRock Inc. Larry Fink is a highly renowned finance executive who’s known for his extensive knowledge and business acumen in finance and investment management. Tall, balding, and bespectacled- pontificating about interest rates, the dollar, bond yields, and financial regulatory reform- he speaks softly, in a tone that is authoritative and bland, which is nothing like the man off the air. It is no wonder to watch him being regularly interviewed on the television (often on CNBC). For more independent commentary and analysis, visit (‘Larry’) Fink is possibly one of the most important men in finance since the early 2000s. Jeffrey Goldfarb is an assistant editor at Reuters Breakingviews. At some point, though, the stars should align to give BlackRock a chance to return to its private equity funding roots. There would be cultural and tax-related complications in any transaction, of course. Fink some leeway to pay up for the assets. BlackRock’s steady earnings allow it to fetch a price-to-earnings valuation multiple of 17, while the lumpier profit profile of buyout shops mean the listed players trade on anĪverage ratio closer to 11. Other firms could be more available, though.īrand-name private equity shops that haven’t tapped public equity markets, including TPG, Providence Equity and Hellman & Friedman, may soon need to let senior partners cash out. The satisfying idea of a full-circle deal with Blackstone is financially feasible – BlackRock’s market value is $55 billion and Blackstone’s $38 billion, on a fully diluted basis – but unlikely. Fink might be reluctant to try building another alternatives operation, but he could buy one. Hedge funds are starting to chase the same retail investors. The sums must leave a nagging feeling for BlackRock, especially now that it is so big that it can’t hope to increase its existing business as quickly as in the past. The firm now directs about $110 billion of client money to outside so-called alternative investment funds. BlackRock couldn’t generate enough interest, however, and bailed out a couple of years later. In 2011, he brought in a high-profile team to invest directly in deals. Fink has tried to get into buyouts before. It also underscores how lucrative private equity can be compared with BlackRock’s more traditional That is, in part, a result of a cyclically strong period for selling investments made by the firm’s funds. Will unveil nearly identical profit – using the industry’s widely accepted metric of economic net income - when it reports next week. BlackRock just posted net income of $2.9 billion for last year. There’s a huge gap in the amount of assets the two firms manage, but their bottom lines look remarkably similar. ![]() ![]() ![]() Training throughput: About 150 TFLOP per GPU per secondĮstimated cost of training: Equivalent of $2-5M in cloud computing (including preliminary experiments) It was trained on a subset of a preliminary version of the corpus using alpha-weighting per language.įull checkpoint with optimizer states: 2.3TB Tokenization: The BLOOM tokenizer ( link), a learned subword tokenizer trained using:Ī byte-level Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) algorithmĪ simple pre-tokenization rule, no normalization The following tables shows the further distribution of Niger-Congo & Indic languages and programming languages in the training data.ĭistribution of Niger Congo and Indic languages. The pie chart shows the distribution of languages in training data. In 1.6TB of pre-processed text, converted into 350B unique tokens (see the tokenizer section for more.) It is relevant for anyone who wants to know the basics of what the model is learning.ĭetails for each dataset are provided in individual Data Cards, and the sizes of each of their contributions to the aggregated training data are presented in an Interactive Corpus Map. This section provides a high-level overview of the training data. It is useful for people who want to learn more about the model inputs and training footprint. This section provides information about the training data, the speed and size of training elements, and the environmental impact of training. PyTorch (pytorch-1.11 w/ CUDA-11.5 see Github link) NCCL-communications network: a fully dedicated subnetĭisc IO network: shared network with other types of nodes Inter-node connect: Omni-Path Architecture (OPA) Jean Zay Public Supercomputer, provided by the French government (see announcement).Īdditional 32 A100 80GB GPUs (4 nodes) in reserveĨ GPUs per node Using NVLink 4 inter-gpu connects, 4 OmniPath links Objective Function: Cross Entropy with mean reduction (see API documentation). Sequence length of 2048 tokens used (see BLOOM tokenizer, tokenizer description) Layer normalization applied to word embeddings layer ( StableEmbedding see code, paper)ĪLiBI positional encodings (see paper), with GeLU activation functions Modified from Megatron-LM GPT2 (see paper, BLOOM Megatron code): Please see the BLOOM training README for full details on replicating training. It is useful for people interested in model development. This section includes details about the model objective and architecture, and the compute infrastructure. ![]() (Further breakdown of organizations forthcoming.) Send Questions to: as: BigScience, BigScience Language Open-science Open-access Multilingual (BLOOM) Language Model. Release Date Estimate: Monday, 11.July.2022 License: RAIL License v1.0 ( link / article and FAQ) Model Type: Transformer-based Language ModelĬheckpoints format: transformers (Megatron-DeepSpeed format available here) (Further breakdown of participants forthcoming.) Click to expandĪll collaborators are either volunteers or have an agreement with their employer. It is useful for anyone who wants to reference the model. This section provides information about the model type, version, license, funders, release date, developers, and contact information. BLOOM can also be instructed to perform text tasks it hasn't been explicitly trained for, by casting them as text generation tasks. As such, it is able to output coherent text in 46 languages and 13 programming languages that is hardly distinguishable from text written by humans. BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language ModelĬurrent Checkpoint: Training Iteration 95000īLOOM is an autoregressive Large Language Model (LLM), trained to continue text from a prompt on vast amounts of text data using industrial-scale computational resources. ![]() ![]() ![]() When traversing the world between levels, I can click on the left stick to make my party leader automatically run. My favorite touch, though, is a small one. There’s no punishment for not being able to read a random number generator’s mind, which can be an annoyance in traditional RPGs. Anytime I walk into an encounter and find I have a party with the wrong attack type equipped, I can simply switch to someone else and still attack on that turn. ![]() For instance, players can swap characters with another party member as a free action. The visual information is all crystal clear, taking out any guesswork.Ĭombat itself is just as player-friendly, taking great care to remove a lot of frustration from battle. When I choose a move and hover over an enemy, I also get arrows telling me if the attack will be effective or not. The chart of strengths and weaknesses is always displayed in the bottom left corner of the screen during battles, so I’m never left trying to recall what Power moves are weak against. Combat, for instance, uses a “rock paper scissors” system akin to Fire Emblem. Little touches like that are present throughout the game, making it easy to put down for a long period of time and return to. I can press a button to close the menu, but I can pop it back out at any time. I first got that sense when exploring in the third person, as a sidebar on the right side of the screen clearly lays out what every single button does. In fact, it goes out of its way to make sure players never feel lost. It’s a relatively straightforward turn-based RPG that isn’t bogged down by dozens of complicated systems. If you’re not a fan of the source material, One Piece Odyssey is defined by its quality of life decisions. ![]() ![]() The Skid Row recruits weren't the only ones who were hoping for a pay day for waiting in line. George Westbrook, 23, of Compton, and Lamar Mitchell, 43, of Pasadena, were arrested for fighting in line outside of the store, Clawson said.Ībout 200 people were waiting outside the store through the night, Clawson said, noting that officers had been dispatched to patrol the crowd. Minor scuffles broke out at the store overnight and two men were arrested, said Pasadena police Lt. Dariel Johnson, who said she had been waiting in line overnight said, "It's a lot of drama, almost fighting. Other people in line complained about the situation. Apple is allowing customers to buy only two phones per person on launch day. ![]() ![]() One homeless man interviewed by Rich DeMuro of KTLA Morning News said he was promised $20 per phone but was miffed he hadn't been paid. It wasn't immediately clear who coordinated the efforts to bus the people in. Heather told KABC that she and roughly 80 to 100 others from Skid Row came to the Apple store. It's my husband's birthday so it's money," she said. ![]() "They came by and they said they needed people to sit in line for the opening of the new i5, and would we be willing to do it, and I just heard it and I came down and said, 'Sure, why not?'" Mickey from downtown Los Angeles told KABC. As long lines formed outside Apple stores across the country today, tempers flared at one in Pasadena, Calif., where homeless people from Skid Row said they were bused in and paid to save spots on line. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s absolutely zero keyword functionality (which we seem to remember Skylum promising to develop way back when, but that never seems to have happened), nor is there an option to star or color code your files. Luminar Neo doesn’t offer much in the way of image selection, either. If you wish to move a photo to an Album, you must select it and drag it over to the relevant area. Luminar Neo technically lets you do this by creating Albums, but in truth the functionality is insufficient for most serious users you can’t create nested Albums, and there’s no way to automatically add photos to Albums by flagging or favoriting. Many photographers like to take imported files and reorganize by genre, photoshoot date, quality (i.e., “keepers” versus “maybes” versus “deletes”), and so on. To see a full-screen image, you’ll need to double-click, which brings you into the loupe view. You can import photo folders via the Add Photos button in the upper left-hand corner:Īnd you can view your imported photos by selecting the relevant file. We’ve been saying it for years: Luminar’s image organization features – that is, the digital asset management options – are abysmal.Īnd Luminar Neo’s DAM workflow is equally disappointing, on par with Luminar AI and (marginally) worse than Luminar 4.Īs discussed above, you manage your files in the Catalog module. Beginners, in particular, will appreciate the program’s simplicity, and it certainly feels more accessible than editors like ACDSee and Capture One, which are overflowing with tools and panels. Overall, though, the Luminar Neo interface is beautifully designed and requires zero editing experience to understand. There’s no option to batch rename files, which is a big deal to us and plenty of other editors if you want to export 10 landscape photos as “landscape-portfolio-1,” “landscape-portfolio-2,” “landscape-portfolio-3,” etc., you have to export each image individually. Like Luminar Neo’s other features, it’s simple to use – perhaps too simple. Luminar’s Export options are rather basic. Luminar Neo offers two – just two! – modules, Catalog and Edit: Luminar Neo boasts a minimalist layout that manages to simplify photo editing and organization even more than Luminar AI – quite an achievement, given the beautifully streamlined interface offered by the latter. But we can’t wholeheartedly recommend Neo as a Lightroom alternative for intermediate and advanced editors despite the program’s power, its performance remains disappointingly slow, and it’s missing too many features to be a serious all-in-one RAW editor. These features will come as an eventual free update, but Skylum has not unveiled a timeline – so if you’re hoping to put Luminar Neo through its paces right away, then you’re out of luck.Īt the end of the day, Luminar Neo is a decent editing program, and it’ll certainly suit the needs of some beginners. If you buy Neo, you’ll get access to many features – but you’ll need to wait for certain tools, such as Mask AI and Portrait Background Removal AI. Additionally, its local editing features pale in comparison to Lightroom’s new masking panel, and its DAM functionality is frustratingly limited (to say the least).Īnd Luminar Neo, while currently available for purchase, isn’t complete. As you might expect from such a powerful AI photo editor, the program suffers from significant performance issues. That said, Luminar Neo does come with significant drawbacks. Luminar Neo is pretty cheap compared to the competition. You can grab a single-computer version for a one-time payment of $79, which includes plenty of presets and texture overlays, plus access to updates released over the next few years. Luminar Neo is also relatively inexpensive compared to its competitors. ![]() You also get a digital asset management module, which you can use to select “keeper” photos and categorize files by topic, date, and more. You get exposure adjustments, color adjustments, and a black and white converter, along with more advanced tools such as a tone curve and masking. ![]()
![]() Too little light from changing seasons can lead to Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD. Too much blue light from our phones and computers can keep us up at night, caught up in a scroll that feels like an ouroboros. Light can have an effect on your circadian rhythm, sleep, and mood. What to consider when buying the best sunrise alarm clockĮveryone wakes up differently-it’s important to find one that suits your sleep pattern and habits so you don’t find yourself sleeping through your alarm. Other than being a very capable and willing human guinea pig wanting to have a cute little morning routine, I’ve also covered gadgets for Gear Patrol and PopSci, among others. Getting up out of bed can be challenging, especially when you live in one of the cloudiest cities on the East Coast as I do. I hate to brag, but I am a perfect test subject for this story: I’m a heavy sleeper who is prone to snoozing too much, so I know a thing of two about creative, sometimes aggressive alarms. ![]() You won’t get the best use out of your wake-up light if you don’t like using it. We also looked into factors like budget, additional features, app connectivity, and variety of sounds to find something that fits as many lifestyles and kinds of sleepers as we could account for. To find the best sunrise alarm clocks, we looked at critical reviews and peer recommendations, compiled our personal experiences and other user impressions, and conducted heavy research. How we chose the best sunrise alarm clocks
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