A Toronto man has been acquitted of a choking attack on a young girl after a judge ruled that he had been under the influence of marijuana and said that the attack was due to a "psychotic episode." During the attack, he invoked Allah, according to court documents. Ahmed Baig pleaded not guilty to assault causing bodily harm and assault by choking after an August 2023 attack in which he left his home wearing only a towel after vaping cannabis. The towel fell off and he started chasing a family that he encountered in the driveway. "He ran into the driveway and picked up a seven-year-old girl. He threw her to the ground, punched her and strangled her. He then abruptly left the driveway, and a short time later was arrested by police. At the time of arrest, he wore only a T-shirt," Justice Mara Greene wrote, recounting the incident. read more
Data shows small businesses lost hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue during Operation Metro Surge. A Hennepin County program launched to help them ended up shutting down. Nearly half of the applications for taxpayer-funded recovery money were fake. "We caught the fraud before we spent any money," Hennepin County Commissioner Jeffrey Lunde said. Lunde says it was an unfortunate win. In March 2026, Hennepin County Commissioners approved $2 million to help small businesses cover rent or mortgage payments as Operation Metro Surge kept customers away. read more
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A federal appellate court has upheld a decision allowing Hamtramck to ban Pride flags on city-owned property. The ruling, issued Aug. 21 by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, affirmed the Sept. 2025 dismissal by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan of a challenge to Hamtramck's 2023 ban on flying Pride and other group flags on city-owned flagpoles. The court held that even assuming the poles had previously been a forum for private speech, the city is permitted to change the purpose of that forum and restrict the poles to specified flags, making the display government speech. read more
A judge sentenced a former forensic analyst for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to 10 years in prison on Tuesday after authorities said her manipulation of DNA data raised questions about the validity of hundreds of criminal cases. read more
It's just the conventional forces that are funneled into buying ------ military.
They are allowed to purchase what they want as well. This is just the standard issue.
Troops can currently wear non-American-made boots if they purchase them on their own (through allowances). That standard could change, however, as federal lawmakers consider the Better Outfitting Our Troops, or BOOTS, Act.
www.militarytimes.com
Inspectors at Camp Lejeune examined 4,423 boots and found 538 defective pairs, a failure rate of 12.17 percent; July inspections revealed substantially higher defects than April results, indicating notable deterioration in product quality.
Commanders purchased replacement M77 boots from local stores 'at a higher and unanticipated cost' to sustain training, as the Marine Corps confirmed observing 'out-of-the-box workmanship failures' firsthand during the exercise.
ground.news
Well, this is interesting.
2025 - The Marine Corps is developing new footwear after it found that a significant percentage of boots Marines were buying had quality issues, resulting in Marine Corps Exchange stores having to return nearly one-quarter of its boot stocks.
The Optional Boot Program, which was publicized in a service news release last week, is meant to quickly get high-quality boots to Marines through inspections, fleet feedback, real-world testing and industry competition after COVID-era supply chain issues began rattling quality and inflating prices starting years ago.
Having served as program manager for the CSS for two years, Gillikin said that he has received plenty of feedback from Marines about boot quality and cost, and that fit and durability are often top feedback points for footwear. The release from last Friday said that service-approved boots can range between $189 and $399 and, while enlisted Marines receive a uniform allowance, it often doesn't cover the cost of top-rated footwear.
www.military.com
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corky, you don't know the difference between a state run media, and a State that has its own media outlet?
This is why you live in the dumbest county in the dumbest state.
It's far better than the department of disinformation that lumpers were pushing under Biden.
or when Obama banned photographers at WhiteHouse events
www.motherjones.com
And far better than controlling "independent" news outlets.
DOT blamed Amtrak.
Amtrak blamed NJ Transit.
NJ Transit acknowledges a work crew cut the line - BUT NJT is investigating because it says the utility markings on this project were off by 10 feet.
NJT says 36 of 56 severed fiber lines have been repaired and should be back on line soon
x.com
This is interesting, I figured since parochial that Kentucky had many political powerful families.
Patronage Politics in Eastern Kentucky: The Turner Family of Breathitt County
uknowledge.uky.edu
There are even "bourbon boss families" or dynasties, ending around 1970, that go back to prohibition days.
Interesting State, I didn't visit her, on my adventures back east, perhaps next time.
This just another way of saying you compressed the algorithm after a data center did all the heavy lifting, right?
#25 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-09-20 09:04 PM | Reply
No.
#33 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG
Its called transfer learning, and the biggest version of RNFM so far is training on UH Carya Cluster which is very powerful but definitely not data center scale.
#34 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG
Somewhat confusing. You describe distilling in #22, then call it transfer learning which is different, typically a little model size increase, distillation is part of the techniques use to compress and optimize models. Similar processes different inputs.
This is your datacenter -> near edge (1st tier)-> far edge pipeline (2nd tier).
Typically you start with a large model distill it, the use the distillation to create similar or transfer models from the "teacher".
Its fair to call Carya Cluster is a data center and distillation as compression.
While recursive self-improvement trapped inside a closed silicon loop inevitably plateaus, bringing humans into the loop changes the equation. Human-AI collaboration injects outside perspective, physical agency, and unstructured intuition into the system, directly tackling the core bottlenecks.
At a theoretical level all of this takes time to happen. Think of how long it takes a human to accomplish what it knows/learns. It requires feedback and often alot of it over a long period of time. Continual learning systems are very prone catastrophic forgetting, there's an architectural issue that needs to be addressed for this to be corrected. The problem currently is we don't understand how LLMS do what they do. How they compress information, and how the decompression occurs we just know its efficient.
Here's a great introduction to the idea of compression as intelligences.
youtu.be
No, lying and uneducated is suggesting that anyone serious thinks the natives were just weed-smoking love bugs.
Ridiculous as usual, the nobel savage is an American stereotype. Just watch Dances With Wolves to get it.
Typical Liberal narratives are that primitive peoples are seen as good and moral, in harmony with nature. At first, the races in North America traded and got along, but soon the natives were provoked to war. By the mid 1800s, they were "the wretched Indians" who had to go.
Its so funny how Americans like to play both sides, watch your own propaganda FFS.