Author: Awais
It isn’t just a phrase from Game of Thrones. Winter is indeed coming, and there’s not much any of us can do about it. As homeowners, we have to prepare our homes to keep our families safe and warm during the colder months. Even if you don’t live in a climate where it gets particularly chilly in the winter, there’s at least a drop in the average temperature that you need to prepare for. But if you live in a place that has to prepare for snow and particularly inclement weather, there are some steps you should take before it’s…
Why It Works Coating each portion of dough in sesame seeds before baking gives the cookies a gentle crunch, lets the seeds toast in the oven, and reinforces the warm, nutty flavor of the tahini.Freezing the raw dough briefly firms the butter, helping the cookies hold their shape after baking.Pressing the indentation partway through baking locks in a defined shape, since the edges of the cookies are set but the centers are still soft. Adding the jam at this point gives it time to thicken and set without leaking, while keeping it from overcooking. Holiday cookie season calls for recipes…
Google is expanding its customer lifecycle tools in Google Analytics with new audience templates and dynamic remarketing features that help you target and re-engage high-value customers more easily. Driving the news. Google rolled out two suggested audience templates in Google Analytics that let you instantly build lifecycle segments: High-Value Purchasers: Built on purchase count or lifetime value, with a new LTV percentile field that helps marketers isolate their top-tier customers. Disengaged Purchasers: Based on days since last purchase, giving brands a simple way to re-engage lapsed buyers. These templates sync directly with Google Ads customer lifecycle goals, including high-value acquisition…
A lead generation funnel is a step-by-step process of moving prospects through five defined stages—awareness, interest, desire, action, and conversion—with the ultimate goal of turning them into customers. If years of playing Mario Party’s mini fishing game taught me anything, it’s that casting at random and hoping for the best is a great way to end up at the bottom of the leaderboard. In the game, that kind of chaos is part of the charm. But when it comes to lead generation strategies, it’s a shining example of what not to do. What you need is the opposite of chaos:…
Amazon has quietly removed its AI-generated English dubs for several anime after days of vicious ridicule. Voice actors and anime fans alike slammed the Banana Fish, No Game No Life: Zero, and Vinland Saga AI dubs, calling them “soulless,” “disrespectful,” and “hilariously bad.” Clips of Amazon’s AI-generated anime dubs began circulating on social media after they were added to Prime Video last month. Labelled as “AI beta” under Prime Video’s audio language options, the laughably awful AI-generated voices gained significant attention and widespread mockery for their awkward, flat delivery. Numerous voice actors have lambasted Amazon’s AI dubs, with the National Association…
The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth for the last quarter of a century. But it was only this week that all eight of its docking ports were filled at the same time. The spacecraft currently docked at the orbital outpost are: two SpaceX Dragons, a Cygnus XL, JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) HTV-X1, two Russian Soyuz crew spacecraft, and two Russian Progress cargo ships. The record-breaking moment came on Monday with the reinstallation of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft to the Earth-facing port of the station’s Unity module. The Cygnus XL arrived at the station in…
How much will the Galaxy Z TriFold cost? It’s going to be the most expensive phone most people have ever seen. But how much will it cost, and more importantly, how much will you actually pay? I have an idea.The Huawei Mate XT Ultimate is the most expensive phone on the global market right now, and it’s only available in select markets in Asia. It’s the first trifold phone, but its design is notably different from Samsung’s Galaxy Z TriFold. It also costs the equivalent of $3,400 locally, based on my online shopping and currency conversion. The Huawei Mate XT…
Finding recipes for two servings can be a challenge. It often requires scaling down a larger recipe, but who has time for math when you’re just trying to get dinner on the table? Ditch the calculator, and feast your eyes on this handpicked collection of recipes perfect for a pair. You’ll find a majority of complete meals, and for those where you may want a side, we’ve included pairings that will complement your meal. With simple and satisfying recipes like Loaf Pan Lasagna, Broccoli Cheddar Creamy Beans, and Quick Chicken Pho, you’ll find plenty of delicious options to choose from.…
Consumers, especially Gen Z, are pickier than ever. Prices are higher and the economy is in flux, meaning they need to make sure every box is checked before making a purchase. Is the product high quality? What do other people say about their experience with the brand? Is there something better out there? Brand loyalty, once commonplace, is now rare at best. The race to win over consumers is intensified by challenger brands disrupting every industry. With so many alternatives to choose from, to emerge on top requires gaining deep brand trust—from creating the best quality products and being transparent…
[Submitted on 30 Sep 2025 (v1), last revised 2 Dec 2025 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled Beyond Pixels: Efficient Dataset Distillation via Sparse Gaussian Representation, by Chenyang Jiang and 5 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Dataset distillation has emerged as a promising paradigm that synthesizes compact, informative datasets capable of retaining the knowledge of large-scale counterparts, thereby addressing the substantial computational and storage burdens of modern model training. Conventional approaches typically rely on dense pixel-level representations, which introduce redundancy and are difficult to scale up. In this work, we propose GSDD, a novel and…