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Local response normalization (LRN) in deep learning – simplified!

Understand Local Response Normalization (LRN) in deep learning: what it is, why it was introduced, and how it works in ...
Reuters

US annual consumer inflation slows in November, but report distorted by missing data

WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - U.S. consumer prices rose less than expected in the year to November, but households still faced affordability challenges as the costs of basic goods and services like ...
The Conversation

Most normal matter in the universe isn’t found in planets, stars or galaxies – an astronomer explains where it’s distributed

Chris Impey has received funding from NASA, NSF, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Templeton Foundation. If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which ...
The Atlantic

The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. The Common Crawl Foundation is little known outside of Silicon Valley. For more ...
techtimes

California Just Made It Easier to Stop Companies From Selling Your Data With One Click

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a new privacy law requiring web browsers to make opting out of data sales simple and accessible for all users, just over a ...
Bloomberg L.P.

BLS Says Database Lockdown ‘Normal’ Ahead of August Jobs Report

The Bureau of Labor Statistics downplayed a lockdown of its online databases after warning of technical difficulties in the moments before the release of the closely watched August employment report. ...
The Droid Guy

Why Mint Customers Suddenly See Unexplained Data Spikes After Years of Normal Usage

If you’ve been cruising along with Mint Mobile for years without ever busting your data cap, you’re not alone in feeling baffled when things suddenly change. Many long-time subscribers are reporting ...
NPR

Argentina is an example of what happens when a country manipulates inflation data

Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics head. In Argentina, the government manipulated the inflation rate. Economists went rogue to calculate the real rate, and people lost trust in the numbers.
Wall Street Journal

What Happens When Politicians Meddle With Economic Data: Argentina’s Example

President Trump fired the head of the BLS, claiming manipulated jobs numbers after a report of slowed hiring. While revisions were more dramatic than usual, these numbers are always revised. WSJ ...
The New York Times

Why the B.L.S. Regularly Revises Jobs Data

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big downward revision as “rigged.” By Ben Casselman Graphics by Keith Collins and ...
Greenwich Time

When it comes to finance, ‘normal’ data is actually pretty weird

(THE CONVERSATION) When business researchers analyze data, they often rely on assumptions to help make sense of what they find. But like anyone else, they can run into a whole lot of trouble if those ...