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Screengrab of Riyan Parag’s bizarre no-ball.© X (Twitter) The second T20I between India and Bangladesh saw a delivery by Riyan Parag being called a no-ball for a very rare reason. Bowling his very first over in the 11th over of the Bangladesh innings, Parag decided to switch things up on the fourth ball. Parag tried a bizarre sling action, somewhat similar to former India batter Kedar Jadhav’s wide action. The trick backfired massively, as Parag ended up stepping outside the pitch tramlines, and rightly saw the ball signalled a no-ball. Watch: Riyan Parag’s bizarre no ball What was…

Time series forecasting is a critical component in various industries for making informed decisions by predicting future values of time-dependent data. A time series is a sequence of data points recorded at regular time intervals, such as daily sales revenue, hourly temperature readings, or weekly stock market prices. These forecasts are pivotal for anticipating trends and future demands in areas such as product demand, financial markets, energy consumption, and many more. However, creating accurate and reliable forecasts poses significant challenges because of factors such as seasonality, underlying trends, and external influences that can dramatically impact the data. Additionally, traditional forecasting…

As inflation slowly moderates, US consumers continue to feel the pinch of higher food costs. Value retailers are seeing more foot traffic as shoppers shift to store brands and cut back on non-food expenses. According to Circana, formerly IRI and The NPD Group, consumers are looking for ways to make their budgets stretch, from canceling subscriptions to favoring at-home meals over dining out.The Value of At-Home MealsDuring the 12 months leading up to March 2023, foodservice costs were 4.3 times higher than at-home meals. With the average retail meal costing just $1.78 compared to $7.48 at a restaurant, it’s no…

WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday held their first call in seven weeks, a conversation that comes as Israel expands its ground incursion into Lebanon and considers how to respond to Iran’s recent ballistic missile attack.Vice President Kamala Harris joined the call, according to the White House.Netanyahu’s office, meantime, confirmed that the prime minister had recently spoken with former President Donald Trump. The Republican, who is the midst of a close White House race against Harris, called Netanyahu last week and “congratulated him on the intense and determined operations that…

Large language models and the applications they power enable unprecedented opportunities for organizations to get deeper insights from their data reservoirs and to build entirely new classes of applications. But with opportunities often come challenges. Both on premises and in the cloud, applications that are expected to run in real time place significant demands on data center infrastructure to simultaneously deliver high throughput and low latency with one platform investment. To drive continuous performance improvements and improve the return on infrastructure investments, NVIDIA regularly optimizes the state-of-the-art community models, including Meta’s Llama, Google’s Gemma, Microsoft’s Phi and our own NVLM-D-72B,…

Raveendran said that after raising the loan, Byju’s needed to use the funds for its international expansion. | File Photo: Photographer: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg4 min read Last Updated : Oct 09 2024 | 9:22 PM ISTBy Steven Church and Anto Antony The founder of Byju’s, a once high-flying Indian education company that defaulted on its US debts, denied that he orchestrated a scheme to fraudulently transfer $533 million away from lenders.   On the day a judge is considering the lenders’ fraudulent transfer claims against his company, Byju Raveendran outlined for the first time in court his explanation for what…

File image of PV Sindhu.© AFP Indian shuttler Kiran George moved to round of 16 of the ongoing Arctic Open on Wednesday. In his round of 32 match, George beat the Chinese Taipei’s Wang Tzu Wei by 23-21, 21-18 in straight games to reach the next round. Also, Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen moved into the pre-quarters round after Denmark’s Rasmus Gemke’s withdrew from the match due to injury. PV Sindhu on Tuesday crashed out of the Arctic Open 2024 after a defeat against Canada’s Michelle Li in the first round. Sindhu faced problems from the start of…

President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are expected to speak on Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the plans.It will mark the first phone call between the two leaders in months, and since fighting has intensified in the Middle East as Israel continues its war against Hamas in Gaza while also seeking to root out Hezbollah infrastructure in Lebanon.Biden and Netanyahu are expected to discuss Israel’s plans to strike Iran during their conversation, according to a source familiar with the matter.The call was first reported by Axios.Israel is currently weighing its response to a missile attack…

Hurricane Milton is threatening to overshadow presidential campaigning as it menaces Florida.The storm has already scrambled Donald Trump’s schedule. He put off a virtual event Tuesday night focused on health care and postpone a Univision town hall in Miami. He’s scheduled to be in Pennsylvania on Wednesday.Vice President Kamala Harris will virtually attend a briefing on the storm and the federal response that President Joe Biden is receiving Wednesday at the White House. Harris plans to head to Nevada and Arizona on Thursday. She spent Tuesday in New York taping interviews on ABC’s “The View,” with radio personality Howard Stern…

This summer, 350 participants came to MIT to dive into a question that is, so far, outpacing answers: How can education still create opportunities for all when digital literacy is no longer enough — a world in which students now need to have AI fluency?The AI + Education Summit was hosted by the MIT RAISE Initiative (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with speakers from the App Inventor Foundation, the Mayor’s Office of the City of Boston, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, and more. Highlights included an onsite “Hack the Climate” hackathon, where teams of beginner…