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The MTA is abandoning bus and train alerts on Twitter
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority says it will no longer post service alerts and information on Twitter, citing doubts about the platform’s reliability. It’s directing riders to its website, apps, and email or mobile alerts instead.
“We’ve loved getting to know you On Here, but we don’t love not knowing if we can to communicate with you each day,” the MTA account tweeted in a thread on Thursday evening. “For the MTA, Twitter is no longer reliable for providing the consistent updates riders expect. So as of today, we’re saying goodbye to it for service alerts and information.”
The MTA provides service info in real time, 24/7.
We do this through https://t.co/8rwbuwle0p, our apps, email & text alerts, and, until recently,…
Man killed by a flying COW that was hit by a train and flung 100ft in freak accident while urinating on tracks
A PENSIONER who was urinating on a train track died in a freak accident when he was hit by a flying cow.
Shivdayal Sharma, 82, died instantly after an express train rammed the beasts and launched it 100ft into the air.
The wandering cow was killed by a high speed train[/caption]
The odd incident happened in Alwar, India, where the cow had wandered onto nearby train tracks.
Another person was standing nearby and narrowly escaped being struck by the projectile animal, reports say.
The trains which run through the area where Sharma was can reach speeds of up to 100mph.
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that measures such as garbage and vegetation removal had begun to cull the pesky cows.
The accident has caused many to rally for better regulation on the train route, which allegedly sees a lot of incidents with cows on the train tracks.
One railway even went as far to begin erecting metal fences along the train tracks to prevent wandering cows.
Earlier this week, a farmer narrowly escaped being trampled by a rampaging cow in a horrifying video.
Shocking video shows experienced farmer Dani Blair being attacked by the cow in a calving pen before her husband Matthew managed to intervene.
The horrifying CCTV shows the cow headbutting Dani into the wall.
As she attempts to regain control of the situation she is thrown in the air and lands on the floor of the barn.
When Matthew enters the ring the cow bucks her head once more before calming down as Dani manages to crawl out the gate.
The cow’s carcass was projected mid-air[/caption]
Gollum dev says it’s charging for the precious Elvish-language DLC because it had to train voice actors in how to speak it
Amazon CEO Says ‘Really Good’ AI Models Take ‘Billions of Dollars’ To Train
Through its Bedrock generative AI service, Amazon Web Services will offer access to its own first-party language models called Titan, as well as language models from startups AI21 and Google-backed Anthropic, and a model for turning text into images from startup Stability AI. One Titan model can generate text for blog posts, emails or other documents. The other can help with search and personalization. “Most companies want to use these large language models but the really good ones take billions of dollars to train and many years and most companies don’t want to go through that,” Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Thursday. “So what they want to do is they want to work off of a foundational model that’s big and great already and then have the ability to customize it for their own purposes. And that’s what Bedrock is.”
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Why you don’t need big data to train ML
Is Lindsell Train Global Equity still a good investment for an ISA or SIPP?
The Lindsell Train Global Equity fund is owned by many ISA and SIPP investors. Here, Edward Sheldon provides a review of the product.
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California’s Rain Slows Construction for Its High-Speed Bullet Train
But while standing water at some locations has prevented work crews from reaching their job sites, the Central Valley director for the Cailfornia High-Speed Rail Authority said it’s the prospects for a lengthy summer run of water in local irrigation canals that present a greater potential disruption to construction later this year….
At the Tule River viaduct near Highway 43 and Avenue 144 south of Corcoran, drone video posted to social media on March 22 by the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office shows vehicles stranded in floodwaters and support columns for the structure sticking out of the water. “There’s a lot of work we can’t get to,” Garth Fernandez, who heads up the rail agency’s Central Valley region, told The Fresno Bee in a telephone interview this week. “So at Tule River and Deer Creek, right now we are not working. … We don’t even have access to that (Deer Creek) site right now because it’s all under water.” Fernandez added that in the meantime, the rail agency and its contractor have turned their attention to providing what help they can to nearby communities that are being affected by flooding….
While some construction locations are facing delays because of standing flood water, crews have been able to continue working at other sites in Madera, Fresno, Kings and Kern counties — a 119-mile stretch covered by three separate construction contracts…. So far, no significant damage has been reported on any of the high-speed rail structures that have been completed or are in various stages of construction. “From north to south, water is flowing underneath all of our completed structures,” Fernandez said. “All of our structures are on piles and deep foundations, so I don’t believe we’ll have an issue with damage to our structures… We may have some areas of erosion, some embankments washed out in a couple of places, but that minor damage can be resolved rather easily,” he added. “But for all of our major structures, the current reporting is that we are holding good.”
The rail line has been designed to cope with major floods; viaducts and a railbed that will elevated above the level of the surrounding land are expected to minimize the risk of damage from future floods, Fernandez said. “Our facilities are designed for a 100-year flood, so (the current events are) showing that our design is actually working,” he said. “It’s designed in a way that even though it’s a large system north to south, it’s able to convey all the flood water past our embankments and our alignment.”
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Train strikes planned in March and April suspended
How to train your chatbot through prompt engineering
One reason artificial intelligence-based chatbots have taken the world by storm in recent months is because they can generate or finesse text for a variety of purposes, whether it’s to create an ad campaign or write a resume.
These chatbots are powered by large language model (LLM) algorithms, which can mimic human intelligence and create textual content as well as audio, video, images, and computer code. LLMs are a type of artificial intelligence trained on a massive trove of articles, books, or internet-based resouerces and other input to produce human-like responses to natural language inputs.
A growing number of tech firms have unveiled generative AI tools based on LLMs for business use to automate application tasks. For example, Microsoft last week rolled out to a limited number of users a chatbot based on OpenAI’s ChatGPT; it’s embedded in Microsoft 365 and can automate CRM and ERP application functions.