Author: Awais
We’ve all gone to the dark place at least once, where we believe the person serving us in a restaurant has forgotten—or worse!—is purposely avoiding us. How else can I explain my perpetually empty glass, or that they haven’t deposited the bill even though they know I’m going to a show after dinner? Their prolonged absence is more likely unintentional—because the restaurant is overbooked and understaffed or the server is also juggling a table of 20. Or maybe, like me, they’re having a bad day.But when and how should we speak up, as we battle feelings of indignation that our…
This edited excerpt is from “B2B Content Marketing Strategy” by Devin Bramhall ©2025, and is reproduced and adapted with permission from Kogan Page Ltd. Marketing can contribute to company growth in many different ways: Net new sales, customer retention, reduces risk from competitors, sometimes creates new revenue streams (like events) that impact more than one company goal, bringing a product to market successfully, feature adoption/upsells, to name a few. The challenge marketers have is convincing multiple stakeholders that their work did, in fact, contribute to any of these areas. Even if you have goals and agreed-upon metrics to measure success,…
[Submitted on 2 Jun 2025 (v1), last revised 1 Dec 2025 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled T-SHIRT: Token-Selective Hierarchical Data Selection for Instruction Tuning, by Yanjun Fu and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Instruction tuning is essential for Large Language Models (LLMs) to effectively follow user instructions. To improve training efficiency and reduce data redundancy, recent works use LLM-based scoring functions, e.g., Instruction-Following Difficulty (IFD), to select high-quality instruction-tuning data with scores above a threshold. While these data selection methods often lead to models that can match or even exceed the performance of…
Raspberry Pi is increasing the price of several single-board computers in an attempt to offset soaring memory costs. The updates are being applied immediately and affect Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5, with prices increasing by $5 to $25 depending on the model and amount of RAM. The 16GB memory variants of the Compute Module 5 are also being raised by $20, now starting at $140.“The current pressure on memory prices, driven by competition from the AI infrastructure roll-out, is painful but ultimately temporary,” Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton said in the announcement. “We remain committed to driving down…
If your Windows PC is booting slowly, there’s a fix for that, but what if it’s not booting at all? There are instances when your Windows machine refuses to boot or crashes. Such a situation creates panic when our important files, data, and documents are at stake. This has happened to me quite a few times, and it’s why I always keep a rescue USB with me. It has a set of tools that have saved many Windows PCs—including mine. And if the computer is beyond saving, with these tools, you can at least recover your data. SystemRescue The all-in-one…
This year, we enlisted a group of tastemakers—Bon Appétit and Epicurious staffers, food writers and editors, cookbook authors, and chefs—to nominate their favorite new cookbook of 2025. The list included a collection of 16 stellar titles, with new releases from renowned authors like Samin Nosrat, Alison Roman, and Hetty Lui McKinnon. These books touched our hearts in many ways, sharing impassioned essays, teaching us invaluable techniques, and delivering stellar recipes.Lucky for us, Epicurious has a vast archive of dishes from the pages of our favorite cookbooks of the year. To start, make Sofrito Bolognese from Kiera Wright-Ruiz’s My (Half) Latinx…
Most creators use Buffer to schedule posts. I turned it into a creativity lab — and in 90 days, my impressions tripled and my newsletter passed 1,700 subscribers.After 12 years of working at Netflix, I assumed I knew how to handle content systems. But stepping into the creator economy was a different game. I needed more than a scheduling tool — I needed a way to capture ideas as fast as they came to me.That’s when Buffer shifted from a scheduler into the missing piece of my creative process. With it, I built a system that turned scattered thoughts into…
Take it from me: Spending an hour with Melinda French Gates will restore at least an iota of your faith in humanity. The billionaire philanthropist, investor, and longtime advocate for women’s and girls’ rights is the rare example of an über-wealthy American who takes seriously the responsibility that their wealth confers.In Gates’ case, she’s now channeling much of that responsibility—and billions of her own dollars—into Pivotal Ventures, a collective of organizations focused on advancing women’s interests in the US and around the world. Most recently, Pivotal announced $250 million in awards to women’s health organizations in 22 countries. Given the…
What’s happened? After months of leaks and anticipation, Samsung has officially unveiled the Galaxy Z TriFold, its first tri-folding smartphone and a global rival to Huawei’s Mate XTs Ultimate. The device opens to a 10-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X display with 1600-nit peak brightness and a 120Hz adaptive refresh rate. The 6.5-inch FHD+ cover screen (borrowed from the Fold 7) is even brighter at 2600 nits, supports 120Hz, and packs a higher 422 ppi density than the inner panel’s 269 ppi. It’s powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy (3nm), not Qualcomm’s newest chip, but still delivering near-flagship CPU and…
Why It Works Melting anchovies in butter creates the savory backbone for the sauce.Cooking the pasta in a small amount of water produces super-starchy pasta water that is ideal for emulsifying the sauce.Finishing the pasta in the sauce ensures that the noodles are well-coated and al dente. There are sauces that enjoy universal acclaim with off-the-charts Tomatometer and audience scores—sauces like carbonara, vodka, and Marcella Hazan’s tomato-butter sugo. They’re the pasta equivalent of season four of The Wire, or My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: undisputed classics. At the other end of the spectrum are the under-appreciated sauces with smaller but…