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I’m not a fan of Pilgrim’s Progress. I know. It’s a Christian classic. The very late and extremely great J. I. Packer said that Christians should read John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress every year. Nope. Sorry, Jim. I’m not doing that. Here’s why: I realise that within my own tribe of conservative evangelicals that what I’m saying here is heresy. It’s almost on a par with denying penal substitutionary atonement. (I fully affirm this doctrine.

In a talk with Tucker Carlson, Putin uttered sentences about the past.  I will explain how Putin is wrong about everything, but first I have to make a point about why he is wrong about everything.  By how I mean his errors about past events.  By why I mean the horror inherent in the kind of story he is telling.  It brings war, genocide, and fascism. Putin has read about various realms in the past.

Much has been written about the male vs. the female gaze in art—most commonly in film, photography, literature, and figurative visual art—as a framework to understand the way an artist depicts another person as well as the effect that that depiction has on the viewer. Historically, we consider the male gaze as one that empowers men while objectifying and subjugating women for men’s pleasure. The female gaze casts women more frequently as subjects (instead of objects) and, in cases when women do appear as objects of attention or desire, it imbues them with agency and autonomy.

PyTorch is a popular open-source machine learning library known for its flexibility and dynamic computation graph. However, when it comes to optimizing certain mathematical operations, it falls short. One example of this is its approach to matrix multiplication, which, in some cases, lacks basic optimizations. In this article, we'll explore PyTorch's shortcomings when it comes to optimizing matrix multiplication and discuss a specific scenario where it doesn't use the most efficient approach.

Confidence and Joy is a newsletter by Emily and Amelia Nagoski. Subscribe here. You can also follow Emily on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook! This week's question has it all – love, sleep, science, and orgasms. Let's dig in! Q: Hi I’m a 42 year old cisgender woman. I’ve never been lucky enough to experience orgasm naturally (without help from a vibrator). However in the last few years, I occasionally wake up to my body having an orgasm all by itself.

Tyler Milliken is an associate producer for Zolak and Bertrand on 98.5 The Sports Hub, Co-Host of the very popular “Name Redacted Podcast” and overall Boston sports media star. Milliken talks about how he gained popularity in the Red Sox media world, his gratitude for all the help and guidance he has received from others in the industry and opens up about his very busy life during the baseball season. He also reveals which player from the 2007 championship team he would have on the 2024 Red Sox, what he would deem a “successful” 2024 Red Sox season, a day in his life and much more!

I noticed that the synthetic insulation degrades fairly quickly up to a certain point (I read 20-30%) and then a little more over a slower period (especially how we use it), up to 50%(I just thought I was getting older each year and feeling the cold more). I read somewhere that pile and fleece lose some loft from compression, but it can be restored by fluffing it in a dryer or shacking it out vigorously.

(Esquinas, second from left, facing camera, and Jordan, far right, playing cards.) You might not remember the name Richard Esquinas. But if you were a sports fan in 1993 following the NBA, you damn sure heard his story. Esquinas was the San Diego sports executive who self-published a book during the 1993 NBA playoffs, claiming to have won $1.252 million f… ncG1vNJzZmiqlZaxq63CpGWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXymxMKlrKyhppp6snnAp5tmmV2strW0jGpwcmtdn7yzsMCn

In June, I wrote this essay/review of Sam Lipsyte’s recent novel No One Left to Come Looking For You, a screwball noir set in New York City’s (post)punk scene of the early ‘90s. Since discovering the satirist/lyric-wizard around 2009, Lipsyte has become one of my favourite writers – in short stories, novels and non-fiction. He writes “characters [who] exist in a fog of neoliberal precarity and despair, hustling for affection, for drugs, for a paycheck, for a new story to tell, ranting and bantering their way from one dead end to the next” and is never not funny.