Mistrust Spreads With the Ebola Virus in Congo

new video loaded: Mistrust Spreads With the Ebola Virus in Congo transcript Back transcript Mistrust Spreads With the Ebola Virus in Congo In a remote mining town at the center of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak, grief and mistrust are complicating efforts to stop the virus. Health workers are trying to treat the…

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Govt eyes centralised tax model to curb official-taxpayer contact – Business

• Field officers to lose powers to issue notices, conduct audits• Reforms aim to curb collusion, harassment• Phased rollout planned from October ISLAMABAD: The government has approved in principle a plan to introduce a centralized digital tax operating model, under which audits and assessments would be handled by “faceless” wings in Islamabad to reduce official…

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Building a Semantic Search Engine and Open-Status Classifier over the ResearchMath-14k Dataset

from sentence_transformers import util def search(query, k=5): q = model.encode([query], normalize_embeddings=True) sims = util.cos_sim(q, emb)[0].cpu().numpy() idx = sims.argsort()[::-1][:k] print(f’\n=== Query: “{query}” ===’) for rank, i in enumerate(idx, 1): row = work.iloc[i] print(f”\n[{rank}] sim={sims[i]:.3f} | {row[‘taxonomy_level_1’]} ” f”| status={row[‘open_status’]}”) print(” “, row[TEXT_COL][:260].replace(“\n”, ” “), “…”) search(“rational points on hyperelliptic curves”) search(“multiplicativity of maximal output p-norm of…

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Walmart investors reject AI workplace report

Walmart investors on Thursday voted against a shareholder proposal asking it to report on how its use of AI is affecting the well-being of its workforce, according to preliminary voting results from the retailer’s annual shareholders’ meeting. The proposal, filed by investor United for Respect, comes in the teeth of Walmart’s escalating battle against Amazon…

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Defense tech, AI, and fundraising take center stage at StrictlyVC Los Angeles

With just two weeks to go, StrictlyVC Los Angeles is quickly approaching. On Thursday, June 18, at The Aerospace Corporation Campus in El Segundo, investors, founders, and tech leaders will gather for an evening of conversation exploring some of the most consequential shifts taking place across venture capital, defense technology, artificial intelligence, and advanced industry. Secure your spot here….

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