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A new performance system could avoid bonus and stock grant payments.

Google’s parent company Alphabet, which so far seemed immune to layoffs in the tech industry, is preparing to lay off as many as 10,000 employees. To do so, it has brought in a new system of ranking employee performance, Forbes.

Tech companies that rode the growth wave during the pandemic years have now begun to cut down their workforce amidst fears of a looming recession. Earlier this month, Meta announced that it was trimming its workforce, and Amazon too, has followed suit.

Almost 50 years after the death of the legendary Bruce Lee, researchers may have actually found the cause; too much water.

Almost 50 years ago, on July 20, 1973, the legendary martial artist Bruce Lee passed away at 32 years of age. Supposedly in the prime of his life and incredibly physically fit, his unexpected death shocked his fans.

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November is Stomach Cancer Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about treating stomach cancer.

More than 26,000 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with stomach cancer this year, and more than 11,000 people will die of the disease, according to the American Cancer Society. Stomach cancer accounts for about 1.5% of all new cancers diagnosed in the U.S. each year.

Stomach cancer, also known as gastric cancer, can affect any part of the stomach. In most of the world, stomach cancers form in the main part of the stomach. In the U.S., stomach cancer is more likely to affect the area where the esophagus meets the stomach. Where the cancer occurs in the stomach is one factor health care professionals consider when determining treatment options.

In the “underground economy” for soil nutrients, fungi strike hard bargains and punish plants that won’t meet their price.

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Cybersecurity is an expensive business. To prepare to address sophisticated threat actors, an enterprise needs to maintain a complete security operations center (SOC) filled with state-of-the-art technologies and experienced professionals who know how to identify and mitigate threats.

All of these factors add up. According to a new report released by threat prevention provider Perception Point and Osterman Research, organizations pay $1,197 per employee yearly to address cyber incidents across email services, cloud collaboration apps or services, and web browsers.

Skyscrapers dominate city skylines, but these massive glass-walled structures can be made more energy efficient through the addition of thermally efficient photovoltaic (PV) windows, according to an analysis by researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Their findings, published in the journal One Earth, outline building design rules that can yield a structure with net-zero or even net-positive energy consumption.

“There are preconceived notions of what an energy-efficient building looks like, and it usually is not highly glazed, and it probably isn’t very tall,” said Lance Wheeler, a scientist at NREL who specializes in integrating PV technology into windows. “We found that there are other ways to build high-efficiency buildings.”

In this video we discuss the different types of civilizations mention in the Culture series by Iain M. Banks. This video wont have any major spoilers for the series.

Art: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16JYYq4_SqGtPirGfSc6otg_a…sp=sharing.

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Before a machine-learning model can complete a task, such as identifying cancer in medical images, the model must be trained. Training image classification models typically involves showing the model millions of example images gathered into a massive dataset.

However, using real image data can raise practical and ethical concerns: The images could run afoul of copyright laws, violate people’s privacy, or be biased against a certain racial or ethnic group. To avoid these pitfalls, researchers can use image generation programs to create synthetic data for model training. But these techniques are limited because expert knowledge is often needed to hand-design an image generation program that can create effective training data.

Researchers from MIT, the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, and elsewhere took a different approach. Instead of designing customized image generation programs for a particular training task, they gathered a dataset of 21,000 publicly available programs from the internet. Then they used this large collection of basic image generation programs to train a computer vision model.

Inspired by the results of a game-playing neural network, mathematicians have been making unexpected advances on an age-old math problem.