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Princeton right tackle Jalen Travis projects as a late-round prospect in the 2024 NFL Draft. The former three-star recruit still needs technical development, but he merits watching this coming college football season. Visit my Twitter account @Sam_Teets33 for more opinions on prospects, clips, and the latest football content. Classification: Junior right tackle from Minneapolis, Minn. Background: Travis was a three-star recruit from DeLaSalle High School in Minneapolis, Minn. in the class of 2020.

Escovitch and oxtails have joined the West Side Bazaar menu, with Dwayne Fitzroy Jones launching Chef BigWayne Jamaican Cuisine to join the other seven restaurant operations at the  1432 Niagara St. community center. Born in Montego Bay, Jones worked his way from dishwasher to cook at the Iberostar all-inclusive resort complex. Jones followed his wife-to-be Brianna back to Buffalo, where he launched his first restaurant operation March 1. Ackee puffs ($5.

Transformer architectures have been the dominant paradigm in LLMs leading to exceptional advancements in research and development. The question of whether transformers will be the final architecture to reach AGI versus the real possibility of new architecture paradigm has been a passionate topic of debate in the AI community. Recently, researchers from Princeton University and Carnegie Mellon proposed the Mamba architecture based on state space models(SSMs) which has become the most viable alternative to transformers.

When you taste jambu (Splilanthes oleracea or Acmella oleracea), an Amazonian herb with an oval shaped, bright yellow flower, your taste buds begin to tingle. Within moments your lips are numb as if you had taken an… ncG1vNJzZmimlazEsL7LnZyrZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe8mapJutXZa7pXnIrapmnZyasLW%2ByJxkpZ2Rq7K0ecCnmw%3D%3D

I dimly recall watching the 1987 comedy Real Men as a child and being impressed by its weirdness. I remembered almost nothing about it except for a pen and space aliens.  So it was surreal revisiting it thirty-six years later for my exhaustive exploration of the complete filmography of James Belushi and discovering that it is every bit as bizarre as I imagined it would be, if not more so. 

Full podcast here: The Tim Ferriss Show #530: Sir James Dyson — Founder of Dyson and Master Inventor on How to Turn the Mundane into Magic. All quotes below are from James Dyson: Whenever I look at anything, I wonder how it works, and then I wonder how it could work better. Could I make it work better? Is there a technology I could use? Is there a way I can reconfigure it?

It’s been two years since James Mtume died. But on his birthday, January 3, I wanted to invoke his spirit and honor his mentorship. When I was thirteen, I spend the summer in the Model Cities program, a government initiative to calm the ghettos after the ‘60s riots that put kids in schools and paid them a stipend. It was one of those “wasteful” liberal programmed that would be scrapped by Richard Nixon when he launched his “war or drugs.

It has a boring white cover. But actually, it’s just understated. The man’s name, the titles of the songs, and no announcement that these are his best-known hits, that’s recognisable by their inclusion. It was released in 1976 (as was I). And it was one of the first CDs we owned in our house. We weren’t early adopters to the CD format, my dad had invested in records, and didn’t see the point in rushing to get CDs.

CRAFT TALK By Jami Attenberg CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight. (In 2024 it begins 6/1!) ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjXJ8j2muqKqUqLynv9SmpJ6q