The official death toll of the earthquake that shattered central Myanmar surpassed 1,600 people, the country’s military leaders said on Saturday, as desperate rescue workers raced to find survivors and began grappling with a monumental disaster in a nation already racked by civil war. The powerful earthquake struck on Friday near Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, and volunteer emergency workers …
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“Through this adaptive learning process, the model refines its predictions to enhance quality,” the company explained. And finally in the continuous improvement phase, enterprise users create data, which are essentially different LLM inputs, by interacting with the model, which can be used to optimize model performance further. TAO can increase the efficiency of inexpensive models Databricks said it used TAO …
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US President Donald Trump has made his clearest commitment not to fire anyone over the embarrassing leak of his administration’s plans for an airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen. “I don’t fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts,” Mr Trump said in an interview with NBC News’ Kristen Welker on Saturday. He also expressed confidence in …
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In the chaos of Friday’s earthquake, a Thai woman gave birth to a baby girl on a rolling bed in a hospital as it was being evacuated.
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Relief efforts continue in Southeast Asia after a devastating 7.7 earthquake shook Myanmar and its neighbors on Friday, March 28. Per an update shared by the Myanmar authorities on Saturday, the death toll has risen above 1,600. In addition, authorities report over 3,000 people are injured, with over 100 others missing. Meanwhile, in Thailand, Bangkok city authorities have reported 10 …
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French President Emmanuel Macron recently announced €2 billion more in arms for Kiev Thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of Paris on Saturday, protesting French President Emmanuel Macron’s and NATO’s militaristic approach to the Ukraine conflict. On Wednesday, Macron announced a new €2 billion ($2.16 billion) military aid package for Ukraine, after weeks of attempting to drum up support …
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The Giant Plastic Tap installation by Canadian artist Benjamin Von Wong. by Diwash Gahatraj (new delhi) Friday, March 28, 2025 Inter Press Service NEW DELHI, Mar 28 (IPS) – “The size of the faucet highlights the magnitude of the problem. It makes the problem impossible to ignore. We’re used to throwing things ‘away’—but when we’re confronted with what happens when ‘away’ …
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Images of old Damascus and Aleppo adorn the walls of a modest restaurant tucked into Bole Michael, a working-class neighbourhood near Addis Ababa’s international airport. Chatter in Arabic and Amharic fills the air, mingling with the sizzling of a grill roasting a giant shawarma skewer and oil crackling around crunchy kebeiba (bulgur and ground meat balls). …
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Myanmar earthquake: Moment rescuers pull woman alive from rubble The number of people known to have died following the devastating earthquake in Myanmar has risen to more than 1,600, with people in some areas telling the BBC they had been left to dig through rubble for their loved ones with their bare hands. An acute lack of equipment, patchy communication …
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Aubonrat Setnawet, an electrician’s helper, was working with her husband on the 23rd floor of a new office tower on the northern edge of Bangkok moments before disaster struck. She needed to get some equipment, so she took the construction elevator to the ground floor. Suddenly, she felt the ground sway beneath her and, with two sharp cracking sounds, the …
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