PILnet NGO partners and law firms are working together to create guidelines for Belarusian parents on obtaining documents for their newborns without having to return home at great personal risk. | PILnet
WHITEFISH POINT, MICH.- Actual Flying boats at Whitefish Point? Not really, but for about 5 minutes last week, we saw the rare USCG Type TR Motor Lifeboat CG 36381 being lifted by a huge crane and “flying” over the roofs of our campus! But it didn’t start there. The beautifully restored 36-foot-long| Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society
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Editor’s note from Protect Thacker Pass: This story, which broke last week, is the latest roadblock for Lithium Nevada Corporation. Mr. Bartell’s relentless resistance to the Thacker Pass mine must be commended. He was always kind to us at Thacker Pass, and has fought this project long and hard. Based on this decision, LNC must […]| Protect Thacker Pass
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It’s not something any of us like to dwell on, but while confronting mortality can be difficult, no one wants to leave their loved ones with unnecessary financial or bureaucratic burdens. Advance planning can provide peace of mind for those near the end of life, but unfortunately, seniors with limited financial means are often unable to access legal services to prepare the documents needed. PILnet partnered with a Hong Kong based organization to provide pro bono legal services for low incom...| PILnet
1. Intro Overall, this has been an incredibly instructive journey in the world of feed-forward CNNs. Aside from developing an excellent cat vs. dog classifier called KITNN, I’ve learnt a lot and accomplished several personal milestones in my personal development as a researcher. 2. What I Sought to Do Early on, I decided I’d like … Continue reading Final Summary| Olexa Bilaniuk's IFT6266H16 Course Blog
After appropriately patching Keras, I proceeded with PReLUs. Unfortunately, I’ve not matched plain ReLUs for this task, albeight I came close. At Epoch 61, I scored a low of 1.72% training and 2.84% validation error, passably good but not as good as the 2.48% validation error my plain ReLU network achieved. The training curves can … Continue reading Close, but no cigar: PReLUs give ~2.84%| Olexa Bilaniuk's IFT6266H16 Course Blog
In my previous post, I had brought up as a possible research direction that the SqueezeNet authors had used sparsification, which broadly speaking involves: Train the neural network until it stops …| Olexa Bilaniuk's IFT6266H16 Course Blog
After removing dropout from the input, and training for 193 epochs with three manual lowerings of the learning rate, I’ve now arrived at 2.06% training error and 3.32% validation error, using a full-sized SqueezeNet with CUBAN-style input layers. This is in contrast to the same network but with dropout applied on the input, which got … Continue reading New Success with SqueezeNet: 3.32% Validation Error| Olexa Bilaniuk's IFT6266H16 Course Blog
In a previous post I had described how I had stripped down SqueezeNet in order to make it fit on my Nvidia GTX 765M card. Adding the CUBAN input layers more than tripled the memory requirements of the first convolution, and put me at the very edge of available memory on my GPU. Desirous to … Continue reading Trying to Scale Up to Full-Size SqueezeNet| Olexa Bilaniuk's IFT6266H16 Course Blog
Two weeks ago, I realized that my pure-Theano code simply wasn’t scaling. It was too difficult to test anything at all, because it required changes all over the place. I would also have to im…| Olexa Bilaniuk's IFT6266H16 Course Blog
The MARIO project hosted its final central training in Budapest, equipping the last batch of grassroots Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) across the European Union with the tools to champion minority rights and amplify underrepresented voices in their local, national, and EU contexts.| PILnet
We have a new team member! Passionate, mission driven, and community focused – Ashley Rossini is incredibly excited to join The Loop Dallas! The post A New Team Member at The Loop Dallas and our Dallas Business Journal Executive Insights Interview appeared first on The Loop Dallas.| The Loop Dallas
In 10 years, The Loop Dallas has gone from an idea to an award-winning project that will be a legacy asset and amenity for Dallas. I am thrilled to announce that The Loop Dallas was honored with the prestigious Community Impact Award in the Dallas Business Journal 2024 Best Real Estate Deals, nonprofit category. This recognition is a testament to the hard work, dedication, and vision of everyone involved. The post Community Impact Award Recipient in the Dallas Business Journal 2024 Best Real ...| The Loop Dallas
For most travelers, an airline ticket is a guarantee of movement. But for stateless people, refugees, and asylum seekers in Europe, that ticket is often worthless. Airlines, fearing fines from immigration authorities, sometimes deny boarding to travelers with documents the airline doesn’t understand, even when the travelers have the legal right to enter the destination country. This practice turns commercial carriers into unofficial border guards, needlessly restricting mobility and cutting...| PILnet
Hello, Community! The December update is here! The biggest highlight of this month is the 1.4.1 release but there was lots of work in the rolling release as well, both from the maintainers team and from our contributor community. One of the biggest news in the rolling release is that we are ready to update FRR — our routing protocol stack — to the latest 10.2 release. That will allow us to get rid of the legacy OpenNHRP daemon that we use for DMVPN and use FRR's built-in NHRP implementati...| VyOS - Blog
Hello, Community! The November update is here. This post is short, but not all we've done lately: many internal changes in the configuration system will soon significantly improve commit speeds and open up a path to even more significant improvements. The 1.4.1 release is around the corner, together with the first VyOS Stream image — all built by the new CI system that produces tarballs with the corresponding source code for every image. But now, let's focus on the changes we made in the ro...| VyOS - Blog
Hello, Community! The October update, which summarizes our work in September, is here. The maintainers and community contributors were busy: four new features, multiple small improvements, and a few bug fixes. Then, there is secure boot implementation, but that will get its blog post when the last bits fall into place!| VyOS - Blog
Hello, Community! This month's development news includes many bug fixes and features, including remote access IPsec using VTI interfaces, support for WPA enterprise clients, and machine-readable tech support reports.| VyOS - Blog
Hello, Сommunity! This summer is anything but a slow news season, but if you need a break from world events, here's a VyOS development update for you — a purely technical read. Our development efforts in June brought a reorganized (and much faster) config syntax migration subsystem, improvements in QoS and reverse proxy; support for raw firewall tables, and more.| VyOS - Blog
Hello, Community! While VyOS 1.4/Sagitta has taken its final shape, and we are working to smoothen any remaining sharp edges (especially in migration scripts), the upcoming 1.5/Circinus branch is the new frontier where we can go wild and experiment freely. Safe features from the current branch are still backported to 1.4/Sagitta. Still, we already have non-back portable features — such as improvements to the new DHCP server implementation based on Kea rather than the now-obsolete ISC DHCP s...| VyOS - Blog
Hello, community! Curious what we've been up to in January? Our main focus is the final stabilization of the 1.4.0/Sagitta branch, and we will soon make the first EPA (Early Production Access) release — after that point, config syntax and behavior will not change in the 1.4 LTS release lifetime, and all radical changes will go to the upcoming 1.5/Circinus branch. Quite a lot of things are happening in the development branch, and many of those improvements are also backported to 1.4, includi...| VyOS - Blog
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includes support for Suricata IDS, removal of UPnP in the rolling release, and many smaller improvements #vyos #project #update| blog.vyos.io
includes nitial implementation of CGNAT in rolling release and many other improvements, such as binding SSH to multiple VRFs and more!| blog.vyos.io
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Is here, with new services available for config sync, LUKS support, and many small improvements in multiple components — read on for details!| blog.vyos.io
El Problemo. As Guillaume Berger warned me of here, it turns out that when you ask Keras to do PReLUs, it allocates one learnable “alpha” parameter per neuron! Consequence: I went from …| Olexa Bilaniuk's IFT6266H16 Course Blog
First, an idea that didn’t work. I hypothesized that images shouldn’t need to be rotated as far as 60 degrees and that 30 degrees might be enough. Wrong. This caused training to plateau…| Olexa Bilaniuk's IFT6266H16 Course Blog
I’ve just created a new SqueezeNet-based model with Keras, which reuses some of my ideas from CUBAN, my IFT6390 project. In that project I had been using: “Fine” filters, run on t…| Olexa Bilaniuk's IFT6266H16 Course Blog
By addressing the challenges outlined in the Digital Audio Supply Chain Mapping Report, this project seeks to streamline processes, align standards, and enhance the overall consumer experience.| Book Industry Communication
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