Source: All the Exciting Media Outlets Are Dying. What the Hell Comes Next?
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The closure of BuzzFeed News is the latest casualty in the eroding media landscape. The loss of talent and publications means fewer critical onramps for emerging writers and less diversity and fun for readers.
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Source: The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, With Familiar (Rich) Winners
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Eric Pearl, American financial adviser, has millions of dollars in untaxed capital gains on his stock portfolio. He suggests the wealthy don’t earn an income to avoid tax, as capital gains on investments are only taxed when sold for cash. Pearl believes reforming the tax system is necessary, as the rich hold a monopoly over resources and opportunity that poses a threat to social stability and economic growth.
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💰 The wealthy can avoid paying tax by earning capital gains that are only taxed when sold for cash.
💸 Securities-based loans allow people with only a couple of million to borrow low-cost funds against investments at a rate of return exceeding the rate of interest on the loan.
💼 Eric Pearl is the chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, a nonprofit group pushing for the wealthy to pay more in taxes as the rich monopolize resources and opportunity, endangering the economy.
Source: How to run Llama 13B with a 6GB graphics card
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LLama 13B can now run with a 6GB graphics card thanks to changes in CUDA/cuBLAS. It is possible to vary the number of transformer layers used to fit low VRAM. The 7B model works with 100% of the layers on the card.
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Source: Powerful chemotherapy drug reaches brain tumors using novel ultrasound technology
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A skull-implantable ultrasound device has been used in the first in-human clinical trial to permeate the blood-brain barrier, which has previously been an impediment to treating deadly brain cancer glioblastoma. The chemotherapy that’s usually administered to this tumor cannot permeate the blood-brain barrier, however, patients successfully received up to six cycles of treatment after the device was used to open the barrier. The ultrasound-based opening of the barrier led to a four- to six-fold increase in drug concentrations in the human brain with two different powerful chemotherapy drugs.
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Source: Building a Frontend Framework; Reactivity and Composability With Zero Dependencies
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This article discusses building a frontend framework that enables increased reactivity and composability without any dependencies, demonstrating with examples from popular frameworks, Vue and React.
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