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complexities,perplexities or some thoughts I had at 2am about kento & hiromi

idk im just ramblin' here - u been warned

When i first fell for nanami kento, i thought it was because of his commitment to his principles, the steadfastness in that regard.

i definitely find a parallel of that in Higuruma, even though it was less tempered idealism than "lost (his) temper" idealism - Yet if anything, that tragic outburst of murderous passion is testament of his obsession and zeal. It's his temporary denial and anguish that underscores years of enduring such bitterness and frustration, the decades long slog proving the strength of his willpower, that accumulates into one terrible moment of weakness; a process that simultaneously corroborates and yet is corrosive to his convictions. And now his conscience will have to suffer that slip-up forever.

Something has died in him; if it wasn't already dying for a long time. What survives, subsequently? Or what is rebirthed? I don't regard his psychotic break as fragility. After all, can we recognise someone's strength only after they've been pushed to a breaking point? And it takes a different sort of strength of will to rebuild, to live past who you thought you were, to accept becoming someone you thought you'd never be. Maybe it even takes an admission of weakness, and gentleness...

Higuruma ultimately finds his North Star again, remembers why he became an attorney, it's a return to his original beliefs; There's a definite through line despite the ramification of his actions, the kind of consistency and commitment which I find so compelling, that's a quality he shares with Nanami.

But Nanami's lapse is far less ruinous, his escapist delusion leads him to play a salaryman for a few years, compared to Higuruma becoming a damning executioner in a day. When Nanami rediscovered his purpose, he just shrugged off the corporate schtick and becomes a jujutsu sorceror again, in a sense accepting what he knew he was destined for from an early age. He accepts the truth and returns to a reality already familiar, albeit unpleasantly familiar, to him.

For Higuruma there's so such going back. That "reality" has vanished. No old job or routine he can simply pick up again.

Higuruma's "getting lost" has much bigger consequences - he can no longer be a lawyer, what was once his calling are now mere echoes of the past, reminders of the things that made him him.

The years of effort molding his identity have been entirely stripped away, by his own hands. Imagine all that pain and confusion on top of how hard it is for him to navigate through his guilt - fighting Sukuna was meant to be an act of, if not absolution then penance, hell, probably even capital punishment. But he didn't die so now what? it's just...purgatory for him?

Adding to that, he's supposed to be the 'next' Gojo Satoru? Perceived that way for his power alone? Admired or even looked up to, in some respects? How laughable. How cruel.

Pressured to live up to that mantle, when he already has such a hollowed out sense of self, I suspect being valorised that way is a further type of torturous erosion. But I also know Higuruma isn't the type to permit himself to wallow in such self-pity for long; ironically in a way that makes him resemble Satoru, he won't let reputation define who he is. So, I don't think that bothers him as much.

The real challenge is finding out how to operate in a new system, above or outside the laws he once upheld, in a way that's aligned to his fundamental values, to preserve some version of his old self. Now he's in a job where he can make the call to kill curse users, at his own discretion? Who's going to question his judgement, besides himself? What's the line between vigilante justice and divine retribution?

So, I honestly don't know if Higuruma can even adhere to those same strict ethical codes he had before, how much his basic sense of right and wrong has shifted or will shift due to the nature of his new work.

Which is all to say, I wonder now if maybe the appeal I see in Higuruma isn't exactly steadfastness at all, but flux instead; that is, the seemingly contradictory responsibility and impetus of self-determination, through the construct and malleability of moral choices. If there is anything consistent, any proof which makes him an unquestionably principled character, perhaps it would be the very questioning and interrogation of which of his actions are right and fair, a thorough self-examination. If I love Nanami for his stalwart certainty, strangely I'm equally drawn to Higuruma for his rigourous scrutiny, his so-called "uncertainties", how he holds space for...not doubt, but other perspectives and possibilities. And how he finds his way through that maze of multiplicities, whether he's stumbling or striding, I want to accompany him on that journey. Goodness, restraint, mercy...none of these are foregone conclusions with him; that's what makes him so enticing to me.

also yall seen that nose of his? sheesh

anw obvsly can't stop yapping about them my inbox is open if anyone wants to yak about how they will fold you in half are so unique

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and if have to lose the vote and go down in flames i sure as hell am taking everybody else’s pretence of integrity with me

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IBM’s Strategic Acquisition of Seek AI and the Launch of Watsonx AI Labs in New York City

In a significant move to bolster its position in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector, IBM has acquired Seek AI, a data analysis startup specializing in natural language processing for enterprise data queries. Concurrently, IBM announced the establishment of Watsonx AI Labs, an AI accelerator located in New York City. These initiatives underscore IBM’s commitment to advancing AI technologies and fostering innovation within the enterprise sector.

Understanding Seek AI and Its Innovations

Founded in 2021 by Sarah Nagy, Seek AI has developed a platform that enables users to interact with enterprise data using natural language. This technology allows individuals to pose questions in everyday language, which the system then translates into database queries, facilitating intuitive and efficient data analysis. Seek AI’s solutions have been particularly impactful in sectors such as e-commerce, financial services, and consumer packaged goods, where rapid data insights are crucial for decision-making.

Timeline and Strategic Planning Behind the Acquisition

IBM’s acquisition of Seek AI is part of a broader strategy to enhance its AI capabilities, particularly in natural language processing and data analytics. The planning for this acquisition began in early 2025, with IBM identifying Seek AI’s technology as complementary to its existing AI portfolio. The deal was finalized and publicly announced on June 2, 2025.

Key Figures and Their Roles

The acquisition brings Sarah Nagy, Seek AI’s founder and CEO, into IBM’s fold. Nagy’s expertise in data analytics and AI will be instrumental in integrating Seek AI’s technology into IBM’s offerings. Additionally, Ritika Gunnar, IBM’s General Manager of Data and AI, has been a pivotal figure in orchestrating the launch of Watsonx AI Labs and aligning it with IBM’s strategic objectives.

Significance of the Acquisition and the AI Accelerator

This acquisition is significant for several reasons:

Technological Enhancement: Integrating Seek AI’s natural language processing capabilities enhances IBM’s AI solutions, making them more user-friendly and accessible to enterprise clients.

Market Positioning: By acquiring a startup with innovative technology, IBM strengthens its position in the competitive AI market, particularly in the realm of enterprise data analytics.

Innovation Hub: The establishment of Watsonx AI Labs in New York City positions IBM at the heart of a vibrant tech ecosystem, fostering collaboration and innovation.

Rationale Behind IBM’s Strategic Moves

An AI Lab—short for Artificial Intelligence Laboratory—is a dedicated center for the research, development, and application of AI technologies. These labs are typically operated by universities, tech giants, startups, or public-private partnerships. The goal is to advance the state of artificial intelligence through cutting-edge experiments, model development, ethical testing, and product innovation.

Unlike a regular software development unit, AI labs are innovation-driven, where the focus lies on solving complex problems using machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and even robotics. They serve as hubs for technologists, researchers, students, and entrepreneurs to collaborate, ideate, and build the future of intelligent systems.

AI Labs operate at the intersection of technology, business, and academia. Here’s what typically happens within these innovation centers:

1. Pioneering AI Research

The primary mission of most AI Labs is to drive advanced research in areas like deep learning, generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and reinforcement learning. These labs often publish white papers, participate in global AI challenges, and contribute to the open-source AI ecosystem.

Read More : IBM’s Strategic Acquisition of Seek AI and the Launch of Watsonx AI Labs in New York City

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The Big Bucks in Gen AI Investments

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/the-big-bucks-in-gen-ai-investments/

The Big Bucks in Gen AI Investments

Two massive strategic VC funds were announced this week.

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Edge 433: Our series about SSM continues with the introduction of the SAMBA model and the concept and SSMs for long-context windows. We review the original SAMBA paper and Microsoft’s Task Weaver agent for analytic workloads.

Edge 434: We dive into DeepMind’s amazing GameNGen model that can simulate an entire game of Doom in real time.

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📝 Editorial: The Big Bucks in Gen AI Investments

Mega financing rounds are the norm in this wave of generative AI, but have you ever wondered where the money comes from? One might assume that venture capital (VC) funds are driving the massive valuations of foundation model startups. After all, firms like Thrive Capital have been active in major rounds at OpenAI. However, that assumption would be misleading. The traditional VC industry is simply too small to sustain regular rounds of tens of billions of dollars. The main source of capital for foundation model makers is coming from strategic investors, specifically the hyperscalers such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and NVIDIA.

This phenomenon is unique to this wave of generative AI and is based on three key factors:

The capital required to continue pushing the scaling laws of foundation models is in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

The business model for most large foundation model makers revolves around achieving AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), which, as an investment thesis, is too long-term for most VCs.

Much of that investment is used for cloud computing hours and GPU purchases, effectively returning the money to the investors themselves.

Just this week, Microsoft and BlackRock announced a massive $30 billion fund focused on AI infrastructure. The alliance combines Microsoft’s strategic view of the AI market with BlackRock’s global fundraising capabilities. This may be one of the largest tech investment funds ever raised with a single focus. Also this week, Salesforce announced plans to expand its AI venture investments to $1 billion, marking the most ambitious strategic VC initiative among SaaS providers.

The trend of strategic capital displacing financial VCs in foundation model markets is likely to accelerate as the scaling laws of these models continue to push forward. Ironically, it seems the VC industry is being disrupted by AI itself.

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🔎 ML Research

Eureka

Microsoft Research published a paper proposing a framework and methology for evaluating foundation models. Eureka supports both language and multimodal evalaution pipelines —> Read more.

Neptune

Google Research published a paper introducing Neptue, a new dataset for long-term video understanding. Neptune includes question-answering scenarios for videos up to 15 minutes long —> Read more.

GRIN

Microsoft Research published a paper detailing GRIN: GRadient-INformed MoE, a new MoE architecture that incorporates expert routing based on sparsed gradient optimizations. With just 6.6B parameters, GRIN outperforms much larger models in reasoning and math evaluations —> Read more.

Qwen2.5-Coder

Alibaba Research published the technical report for Qwen2.5-Coder. The research covers the details of 1.5B and 7B variarios trained in 5.5 trillion tokens —> Read more.

NVLM

NVIDIA Research published a paper detailing NVLM, a family of frontier-class multimodal large language models. The model seems to achieve performance comparable to GPT-4o and Llama 3.1 especially on language tasks —> Read more.

Self-Correcting LLMs

Google DeepMind published a paper outlining SCoRe, a technique for developing self-correcting LLMs using reinforcement learning. SCoRe uses data self-generated data that translate into self-correction traces which steer the model into a specific direction —> Read more.

🤖 AI Tech Releases

Opik

Comet ML open sourced Opik, a tool for monitoring and evaluating foundation models —> Read more.

SQL Console for AI Datasets

Hugging Face released a SQL console for its dataset repository —> Read more.

Gen AI for YouTube

Google DeepMind announced new gneerative AI features for YouTube creators —> Read more.

🛠 Real World AI

Jupyter Notebooks at Meta

Meta discusses the best practices and frameworks for using Jupyter notebooks in their ML infrastructure —> Read more.

ML Pipelines at Yelp

Yelp discusses the use of Cassandra and Spark in their ML pipelines —> Read more.

📡AI Radar

Digital art legend Refik Anadol unveiled a large nature model built by fine-tuning Llama.

Microsoft and BlackRock partnered to launch a massive $30 billion AI investment fund.

Black Forest Labs, the image generator behind Grok, is raising $100 m illion at $1 billion valuation.

Salesforce Ventures expands its AI investments to $1 billion.

AI video platform Runway anchored a partnership with Hollywood’s Liongates Studios.

AI coding editor Supermaven raised $12 million in a new round.

AI for meetings platform Fathom raised $17 million in new funding.

AI sales automation platform Rep.ai raised $7.5 million to boost its AI digital-twin solution.

11x.ai raised $24 million to build AI digital employees.

Chatbot Arena has a dedicated site.

OpenAI might remove its nonprofit structure after the current fundraise.

AI content platform Typeface announced two new acquisitions.

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VergeIO Launches 24/7 VMware Migration Labs: Seamless, Hands-On Virtualization Experience @VergeIO_Inc #VMwareMigration #UltraconvergedInfrastructure

VergeIO Unveils Revolutionary 24/7 Self-Paced Hands-On VMware Migration Labs September 17, 2024 — Ann Arbor, Michigan — VergeIO, a pioneer in ultraconverged infrastructure (UCI), has launched a suite of innovative, self-paced hands-on labs aimed at transforming the way IT professionals migrate from VMware to VergeOS. In collaboration with TechAccelerator, VergeIO’s new lab offerings provide a…

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Jamshedpur Women's University Unveils New Facilities

Education Minister inaugurates auditorium, computer lab, and seminar hall Jamshedpur Women’s University inaugurates new facilities to enhance educational infrastructure and student experience. JAMSHEDPUR – Education Minister Champai Soren inaugurated new facilities at Jamshedpur Women’s University’s Bistupur Campus. Jamshedpur Women’s University celebrated a significant expansion with the…

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Things the Biden-Harris Administration Did This Week #39

October 18-25 2024.

President Biden issued the first presidential apology on behalf of the federal government to America's Native American population for the Indian boarding school policy. For 150 years the federal government operated a system of schools which aimed to destroy Native culture through the forced assimilation of native children. At these schools students faced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, and close to 1,000 died. The Biden-Harris Administration has been historic for Native and Tribal rights. From the appointment of the first ever Native American cabinet member, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, to the investment of $46 billion dollars on tribal land, to 200 new co-stewardship agreements. The last 4 years have seen a historic investment in and expansion of tribal rights.

The Biden-Harris Administration proposed a new rule which would make contraceptive medication (the pill) free over the counter with most Insurance. The new rule would ban cost sharing for contraception products, including the pill, condoms, and emergency contraception. On top of over the counter medications, the new rule will also strength protections for prescribed contraception without cost sharing as well.

The EPA announced its finalized rule strengthening standards for lead paint dust in pre-1978 housing and child care facilities. There is no safe level of exposure to lead particularly for children who can suffer long term developmental consequences from lead exposure. The new standards set the lowest level of lead particle that can be identified by a lab as the standard for lead abatement. It's estimated 31 million homes built before the ban on lead paint in 1978 have lead paint and 3.8 million of those have one or more children under the age of 6. The new rule will mean 1.2 million fewer people, including over 300,000 children will not be exposed to lead particles every year. This comes after the Biden-Harris Administration announced its goal to remove and replace all lead pipes in America by the end of the decade.

The Department of Transportation announced a $50 million dollar fine against American Airlines for its treatment of disabled passengers and their wheelchairs. The fine stems from a number of incidences of humiliating and unfair treatment of passages between 2019 and 2023, as well as video documented evidence of mishandling wheelchairs and damaging them. Half the fine will go to replacing such damaged wheelchairs. The Biden administration has leveled a historic number of fines against the airlines ($225 million) for their failures. It also published a Airline Passengers with Disabilities Bill of Rights, passed a new rule accessible lavatories on aircraft, and is working on a rule to require airlines to replace lost or damaged wheelchairs with equal equipment at once.

The Department of Energy announced $430 million dollars to help boost domestic clean energy manufacturing in former coal communities. This invests in projects in 15 different communities, in places like Texas, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Michigan. The plan will bring about 1,900 new jobs in communities struggling with the loss of coal. Projects include making insulation out of recycled cardboard, low carbon cement production, and industrial fiber hemp processing.

The Department of Transportation announced $4.2 billion in new infrastructure investment. The money will go to 44 projects across the country. For example the MBTA will get $400 million to replace the 92 year old Draw 1 bridge and renovate North Station.

The Department of Transportation announced nearly $200 million to replace aging natural gas pipes. Leaking gas lines represent a serious public health risk and also cost costumers. Planned replacements in Georgia and North Carolina for example will save the average costumer there over $900 on their gas bill a year. Replacing leaking lines will also remove 1,000 metric tons of methane pollution, annually.

The Department of the Interior announced $244 million to address legacy pollution in Pennsylvania coal country. This comes on top of $400 million invested earlier this year. This investment will help close dangerous mine shafts, reclaim unstable slopes, improve water quality by treating acid mine drainage, and restore water supplies damaged by mining.

Data shows that President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (passed with Vice-President Harris' tie breaking vote) has saved seniors $1 billion dollars on out-of-pocket drug costs. Seniors with certain high priced drugs saw their yearly out of pocket costs capped at $3,500 for 2024. In 2024 all seniors using Medicare Part D will see their out of pocket costs capped at $2,000 for the year. It's estimated if the $2,000 cap had been in effect this year 4.6 million seniors would have hit it by June and not have had to pay any more for medication for the rest of the year.

The Department of Education announced a new proposed rule to bring student debt relief for 8 million struggling borrowers. The Biden-Harris Administration has managed despite road blocks from Republicans in Congress, the courts and law suits from Republican states to bring student loan forgiveness to 5 million Americans so far through different programs. This latest rule would take into account many financial hardships faced by people to determine if they qualify to have their student loans forgiven. The final rule cannot be finalized before 2025 meaning its fate will be decided at the election.

The Department of Agriculture announced $1.5 billion in 92 partner-driven conservation projects. These projects aim at making farming more susceptible and environmental friendly, 16 projects are about water conservation in the West, 6 support use of innovative technologies to reduce enteric methane emissions in livestock. $100 million has been earmarked for Tribal-led projects.

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Installing GitLab, Runner, and Container Registry on Your Home Server

Everything You Need to Install GitLab, Runner, and Container Registry @gitlab #gitlab #devops #cicd #continuousintegration #continuousdeployment #iac #containers #homelab #homeserver #virtualization #vhtforums #selfhosted #selfhosting #nginxproxymanager

So, I wanted to create a concise guide to help you guys get up and running with GitLab, the GitLab Runner, and GitLab Registry. I spent quite a bit of time working on this in my home lab and hammering out the details so you don’t have to! Let’s look at everything you need to install GitLab, GitLab runner, and GitLab container registry. Table of contentsWhy GitLab?My setupPrerequisites and…