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[itbabasachinsharma]

अपने कंप्यूटर में इंटरनेट की स्पीड कैसे बढ़ाये ? Net Ki Speed Kaise Badhaye CMD Se | By Sachin Sharma

[benella]

India Classifieds: The Emergence of Free Classifieds 

In this modern digital era, the manner in which individuals purchase, sell, and find services has undergone a sea change. Paper-based newspaper classifieds have been replaced by quicker, more convenient, and, in many cases, free online spaces. Among the top platforms that serve this increasing need is Benella.in – a rapidly expanding platform for India-based classified ads in India that connects buyers and sellers across a multitude of categories.

What Are Classified Ads?

Classified ads are brief ads usually listed by category. They are utilized to advertise goods and services, employment opportunities, property, cars, and more. Although such ads previously existed mainly in print media, the internet has made them reach much farther and more effectively.

Online classified websites enable users to place ads in an instant, with wider visibility and usually free of charge. This ease has made them very popular among people, small businesses, and service providers.

The Rise of Classified Ads in India

India with its huge population and increasingly large user base on the net has seen a proliferation of online classifieds. With the widespread use of smartphones and growing internet penetration even in villages, sites that provide free classifieds are gaining strong momentum.

Whether one wishes to sell an old computer, lease a house, search for a job, or advertise a tuition service, online classified websites are an easy and low-cost way to do so.

Why Opt for Benella.in for Free Classified Ad Posting?

Among the many sites providing classified ads in India, Benella.in is special because of its ease of use, extensive reach, and totally free ad posting sites. Here's why Benella.in is fast becoming a first choice:

1. Free Ad Posting

One of the biggest advantages of using Benella.in is that it allows users to post ads without any charges. Unlike some other platforms that limit free postings or require premium subscriptions for visibility, Benella.in makes its services accessible to everyone.

2. Wide Range of Categories

Benella.in supports a wide array of ad categories including:

Jobs

Real Estate

Automobiles

Electronics

Services

Education

Pets

Matrimonial

This diversity enables users to effectively target their audience and locate precisely what they are searching for without any inconvenience.

3. Localized Listings

Another important aspect that differentiates Benella.in is its emphasis on localized classified listings. Users can conveniently search and place ads in their own cities or states, which ensures more targeted and faster responses.

4. Easy-to-Use Interface

Whether you are an internet user or a beginner, Benella.in provides a seamless experience. The simple, intuitive design makes posting and managing the ads easy, even for users with less internet know-how.

5. Safe and Verified

Safety is a top priority in the online classifieds market. Benella.in prioritizes the safety of users by providing features to authenticate listings and report misuse, thus creating a safer platform for all users.

How to Post a Free Classified Ad on Benella.in?

Posting your ad on Benella.in is easy and fast. Here's how to do it step by step:

Go to Benella.in

Choose the right category for your ad.

Enter the required details, including title, description, price, and location.

Add pictures to make your ad more attractive.

Submit your ad and wait for approvals (if any).

Once posted live, your advertisement is seen by thousands of possible buyers or clients searching that category or area.

Advantages of Utilizing Free Classifieds India

Free classifieds websites such as Benella.in have many more benefits compared to conventional advertising:

Affordable: No requirement of spending money on costly promotions.

Reach: Your ads can be viewed by anybody throughout the country.

Flexibility: Simple to edit, make changes, or delete ads if necessary.

Speed: Immediate posting and immediate replies.

Eco-friendly: No printing or paper waste involved.

These advantages have turned online classifieds into a first-stop solution for individuals and companies alike.

The more informative and credible your ad appears, the better are the chances of receiving prompt and serious inquiries.

Final Thoughts

With millions of individuals logging online daily to search, purchase, and sell, Indian online classified ads have emerged as an essential component of e-commerce. Whether you are a small business owner seeking to increase your visibility, an individual seeking to clear out your house, or someone providing services, sites like Benella.in offer a great platform to reach the correct audience – absolutely free.

So why delay? Come to Benella.in today and begin posting your free classifieds in a few easy clicks. It's time to make the most of this easy, effective, and inexpensive means of advertising in India.

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[caltropspress]

Spittin' Wicked Randomness with Small Professor

or, Bizarre Rides II the Pharthest Cyde; 

or, A beginning doesn’t need an ending, only a portal

Make your body a temple. Make your home a shrine. You are a God, live like one!

—Timothy Leary, “You Are A God, Act Like One!” (1967)

Psycholinguistic structural confusion leads to insidious beat wrecking missions and continuous speech recognition, prescription, vocal anecdotal object impressions…. Synergistic sample arrangements.

—Jungle Brothers, “Trials of an Era” (1993)

EXORDIUM

I long for the anonymity the internet once provided. Everyone was faceless. Vacant visages—not even an avatar. I’ll often try to remanufacture this premillennial experience for myself. I deliberately avoid seeking images to accompany the names I see on the screen. Many people nowadays—most people, the writer bemoaned—make this nearly impossible. Vanity of vanities—all is vanity! But I do try, I do. I look away; I increase the scroll speed; I squint to blur and becloud. Like Iris DeMent desired, I try to let the mystery be. On Rakim’s plodding “The Mystery (Who Is God?),” the God MC suggests you can solve the mystery if you realize the answer revolves around your history. But I need the mystery to stay intact. So many years on, and I’m still figuring out da mystery of chessboxin’, looking all the way back to when Wu-Tang was in black hoodies on the man-sized chessboard—cloaked rooks shouting peace to all the crooks with bad looks. “You cannot hook up a 100 million years of sensory-somatic revelation to your puny, trivial personality chess board,” so says Timothy Leary. I’m inclined to agree.

Aside from his music, I’ve known Small Professor—Jamil Marshall, if we split the veil—only through his words, through his text on my chosen screens: pixelated patterns of character images. But late last year, I stumbled across an image of him appearing not unlike a cloaked rook. Draped in a black robe, Small Professor appeared beside his Wrecking Crew brethren as a Sith Lord. The occasion was a Halloween performance at Cratediggaz Records in South Philly. Small Professor’s face was hidden, and so I could fuck with this type of qualified exposure. His shrouded appearance elevated my intrigue rather than diminished it. This was no flashbulb, soul-capturing, photographic evidence of existence; this was no selfie self-absorption; this was simply some spooky shit. 

Of the many messages that Small Professor measures out into the ether[net], the ones that have frequently caught my attention make some mention of hallucinogenic drugs. Here again, we have [e]strange bedfellows—that being technology and drugs. Twinned conceptualizations: drugs as teknology; teknology as drugs [scanned as tricknology, too, two]. Programming in the Silicon [Uncanny] Valley with the capital-I Internet reformatted as a Third [Eye]nternet. You scream as it enters your bloodstream. “Build, elevate to a higher comprehension, / Let your third eye rise above evil interventions,” if we’re properly tuned in to the Jungle Brothers’ “Troopin’ on the Down Low.” Teknology and drukqs might be more familiar than we (Eye) thought.

As we know from Jesse Jarnow, psychedelic saints were known as “heads,” which, underground hip-hop stalwarts of a certain age will wreckonize as an honorific for their own dedication to a way of life and listening. Stewart Brand, author and publisher of the Whole Earth Guide, would later speak of computers and online communities as the most auspicious collective force “since psychedelics.” Hua Hsu brings this to my total attention, but with my full cooperation (word to Def Squad), so there’s a few more things I’d like to mention. Computer science research centers saw networking and information sharing as devout acts “borrowed directly from Deadhead communalism.” Again, not dissimilar from the tape trading so crucial to the spread of this thing of ours called hip-hop. John Morrison writes of how “hip-hop owes much of its early development and propagation to an underground economy,” to the “recording and circulation of cassette tapes of park jams, live battles, DJ sets, and radio broadcasts” that brought a burgeoning and insurgent art form to the masses. The backchannels and clandestine conduits that made this dissemination possible suggest a secret organization with figures like Geechie Dan and Elvis “The Tapemaster” Moreno as its stewards. These cross-cultural, cross-generational connections exist despite Jerry Garcia’s abhorrence of rap as a legitimate musical form [see below: “Deadhead” diss-poem]. Small Professor centers himself within the radial lines of this complex mandala. His production isn’t strictly for the psych heads, or the hip-hop heads—his musick is For the Headz at Company Z. 

Small Professor understands the possibility and catalytic practices of rappers, much like William S. Burroughs did: “With computerized tape recorders & sensitive throat microphones we could attain insight into the nature of human speech & turn the word into a useful tool instead of an instrument of control in hands of a misinformed and misinforming press.” Somewhere you can hear the echoing call of Newwwspaaaaperrrr from the  Jungle Brothers’ “Book of Rhyme Pages,” a song with a prophetic register, a song that reads. 

In Burroughs’ essay “Academy 23: A Deconditioning,” which appeared in the San Francisco Oracle (c. 1966-1968), the beatific junky proposes that “academies be established where young people will learn to get really high…high as the Zen master is high when his arrow hits a target in the dark…high as the Karate master when he smashes a brick with his fist…high…weightless…in space.” As high as Wu-Tang get, I might add, Allah allow us pop this shit. Burroughs believes it’s “[t]ime to look beyond this cop rotten planet.” The students in Academy 23 “would receive a basic course consisting of training in the non-chemical disciplines of Yoga, Karate, prolonged sense withdrawal, stroboscopic lights, the constant use of tape recorders to break down verbal association lines. Techniques now being used for control of thought could instead be used for liberation.”

Small Professor is already present in such an academy, his “lab”—be it Albert Hofmann’s Sandoz Laboratory or RZA’s antediluvian lab. Like Bobby Digital, Small Professor experiences the “Lab Drunk,” the studio stupor: Stumbled into the lab half-drunk—honey-dipped, stinking blunts. The neural activity of Madlib’s psilocybin; the mind expansion of MKUltramagnetic; outlaw practices: tripping on LSD or sampling on an MPC—same diff, really. “The experience,” Leary wrote in the East Village Other, “must be communicated, harmonized with the greater flow.”

PART I

[December 23, 2023 | 9:10 PM] 

Small Professor:  Ah, fuck. I was supposed to plan this out. Just took 2 tabs to the dome officially at 9:00 PM. At some point tonight I will be looking around at my room like I just got here from outer space.

[10:14 PM]

Caltrops Press:  Where’s your head at right now?

SP:  Difficult to see. Always in motion is the right now (to paraphrase Yoda). Right now I am listening to “Right Now” (HAIM, live).

CP:  Are you alone?

SP:  I believe that to be true, but we can never be 100% sure, can we? I don’t presume to speak for you of course, but I’d wager that you may have, at least once, considered that The Truman Show could be real life, after all. According to this, though, yes:

CP:  Somebody once said, “Every day is Truman Show. True men show their face and expose flesh…” Do you think acid allows you to see beyond this reality?

SP:  No. It allows me to see this one more clearly. Time, or whatever it is that we collectively agree is this forward feeling momentum, seems to slow. So you (me) see the same things that you see everyday, but that your brain kinda knocks aside after a while. Things look new.

CP:  Are you typically playing music when you trip? Does the music slow down? Not literally. But do you process it differently? And, of course, I’m curious if you ever try to make music in this state?

SP:  I like making music that barely makes sense in whatever state I’m in at that time, so when I come back to it I’m even more confused. Like leaving yourself a drunk voicemail, but on purpose. I’m generally high—it’s just a matter of how. And to the last question: Do or do not, there is no try. 

PremRock:  I think [Small Professor's] work has benefited from discovering [hallucinogens]. He’s pretty passionate about ’em! I think it’s made him more expansive and he’s more eager to try far out ideas. He was always psychedelic in nature, but this just provided more of a conduit.

Zilla Rocca:  Even without shroomz he always had a bugged-out sense of melody, rhythm, and layered samples. Smalls has always been a seeker. We connect like that. We love unearthing old rap to learn from it while appreciating all the new styles.

When brothers start buggin’, I bug the most.

—Jungle Brothers, “Simple As That”

CP:  I’ve never fucked with psychedelics, so I generally have either a romantic or sensational notion of what it must be like. Have you ever had any experiences where things went really weird, or have you ritualized it enough so that you know what to expect? Like it’s become yoga or meditation for you by this point. 

SP:  Yeah, it’s pretty meditative. The first time I had acid was so surreal that nothing else could dream to compare.

CP:  When was that? Do you still remember the details?

SP:  Well, first of all, I couldn’t have started such a journey without such caring guides, for they did not have to take time from their lives to explain how much to take, how much not to, to be mindful of the kind of media you’re ingesting while in that space—like nothing too scary and shit like that. They specifically said, “Maybe watch a comedy tonight. Something on the lighter side of things.”

CP:  I’ve heard that’s important, having a guide.

SP:  So I believe I initially started off with the smallest amount I could take, cuz I didn’t know any better. But the effect was immediate. I remember going outside and just standing in an empty parking spot in front of my crib and watching it rain. It was night already. I was like, Wow, this is the best rain I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot of rain. And then I went out to get more tree. On my way home though, so…okay. How do I explain this? So, my Lyft driver on my way back to my house, he and I strike up a conversation. At the end of our talk, which included a phone call to someone of high stature in the 5% community who spoke to me directly, I embarked on the path to knowledge of self.

CP:  Like, sincerely? Or only until you stopped being high?

SP:  Well, I know now it started there. But I’ve always known that I am god, in some way. It’s just that, after you find out, what do you do with that knowledge of your own god-dom? That’s one thing I can appreciate about psychedelics. It’s like, Alright, well, if I know my brain is capable of such a thought or a piece of music in this one state, then I should be able to get back to it.

CP:  I get that. Like, “I’ve done this before, so I can surely do it again.” But, for so many artists, they struggle to capture whatever it is. I know a lot of times I’ll look back on something I’ve written and then ask myself, How did that even happen? Because the process—the making of something—is often so unconscious. 

Curly Castro:  Smalls calls me after the fact (bka “a trip”) and regales me with a cornucopia of odd and odder occurrences. I will say that one time [redacted] and that’s when [redacted] and what could say after [redacted]. I just told him, Say Less.

CP:  How long will this trip last? You took two tabs at 9 PM, and it’s been 4.5 hours.

SP:  Oh, I’ll be up for a while. Night hasn’t even begun.

CP:  I need to crash because I’ve got to be up early. But keep dropping whatever random thoughts you have here. We’ll call this Part 1.

SP:  Fantastic, Pt. 1

SP:  “God is never small.” Those are the words that man said, and my reply was, “...I am? I am. Ohhhh. I am.”

[Small Professor links me to a video showing Donald Lawrence & The Tri-City Singers performing “I Am God.”]

SP:  Also, I’m quite proud of the fact that my government name [Jamil], oddly Arabic considering how Christian my dear mother is, quite literally translates to “Beautiful Ruler,” with my first name actually meaning “god” in certain places (“Jamil” is one of Allah’s 99 aliases—I found that out earlier this year). My mom HATES THIS BOYEEEEE. She thought it just meant “handsome.”

SP:  Words mean things but don’t have to.

SP:  [Denmark Vessey & Scud One’s Cult Classic] (This is my official trip soundtrack.) “Throw bricks at him if you can’t build wit ’em, / Whoever marquee, top bill, I’ll Kill Bill ’em.”

SP:  It’s 8:23 AM. Still trippin’.

PART II

[December 24, 2023 | 9:15 AM] 

CP:  You awake? If so, talk to me about “Dettol.”

SP:  I feel like that beat was made along with a few others in that same span of time with Roc Marci in mind. Not only in terms of the drum un-emphasis but also being intentional about giving an MC room to operate, to breathe. On Midnight Marauders, both “Electric Relaxation” and “Lyrics To Go” are special beats because they operate within the parameters of 4/4 time but the bar lengths aren’t the typical 8. On “Dettol,” you have mostly 8-bar loops until it shifts to 12 for one measure, and then it starts over. (Not sure about my beat math there.) So the Armand Hammer guys had to each approach that in their own way. Couldn’t have drawn it up any better. “Numbers look crooked like King Kong shook it.”

CP:  (That’s your second Slum Village reference in this convo.) Paraffin was the first album I heard by them, so that beat would’ve been the third Armand Hammer song I heard overall. And that “giving them space” idea definitely benefited me—a guy who hadn’t been paying attention for years, specifically because lyrics weren’t grabbing me like they used to. 

The psychedelic experience is not just an internal, private affair. The “turned on” person realizes that he is not an isolated entity, a separate social ego, but rather one transient energy process hooked up with the energy dance around him.

—Timothy Leary, “You Are A God, Act Like One!”

CP:  How did you originally connect with woods and ELUCID? 

SP:  I may have been aware of ELUCID as early as 2005 by way of his Tanya Morgan/Lessondary/Okayplayer fam associations, but 2007 when he dropped Smash & Grab is when I instantly knew, Ah, this guy’s one of the best rappers ever. By 2009, that became, The best ever. That was the Myspace era, so we connected on there musically but also on some homie shit. We were working on a song of his in like 2011 or ’12 for the BIRD EAT SNAKE mixtape, “Dumb Out.” 

ELUCID:  BIRD EAT SNAKE is a whole lifetime ago. I had just met woods. I was also just beginning to develop the Cult Favorite record with AM Breakups. I was super charged creatively and was fortunate enough to have a lot of space to develop that. “Dumb Out” was such a strange beat that made my pen move immediately. Nothing overthought or drawn out. Just really chunky, vibed out, and punchy energy. I just began to acquire these attributes during the making of that tape. 

CP:  “Don’t eat the brown acid…”

SP:  Originally woods was supposed to be on there. I distinctly remember this being one of the first times I heard him because…okay. He recorded a verse on this beat and ELUCID sent his acapella but no reference to guide from. And I’m very good at matching up acapellas, so the fact that I could make no sense of his flow—where to place it in the mix—always stuck out to me. 

CP:  Is that why he didn’t end up on the song?

SP:  I don’t believe so. That would be funny if true, though. Because it feels like I have more music with those two than what tangibly exists. 

CP:  Also funny because, as their audience has grown—exponentially of late—the “discourse” returns to whether woods raps “on beat” or not.

SP:  Once I understood that the question of if he’s rapping on- or off-beat is the wrong one—when it should be, Why do I hear this as off-beat? How do I hear what he heard to deliver it that way?—that’s when it clicked for me.

CP:  Was “My Blank Verse” your first beat for them officially?

SP:  That was the very first song me and ELUCID made together. Don’t think it was for anything in particular, initially.

CP:  Got it. So it wasn’t approached as an Armand Hammer track, per se. Just ended up on an AH project. When did you connect with ELUCID in person?

SP:  I wanna say I met him in person at a show in Philly, at the Khyber. But the time I remember the most is when I was in Brooklyn with him (this actually might have been when we met up to record “My Blank Verse”), and he showed me the block where B.I.G. grew up. I like to imagine my power levels increasing on that day due to the residual holy hip-hop energy on the premises.

CP:  That’s dope. I’m surprised to hear you recorded the track in person. Both because so much is done remotely now—the producer and the MC separate—and also because ELUCID, I’ve read, is pretty private when it comes to recording. Maybe that came later, though.

SP:  Yes, that did come later to my knowledge. But also, I’m special. 

ELUCID:  This was the era when Willie Green’s studio was still in his apartment. I had just started recording with Backwoodz, and “My Blank Verse” was indeed recorded that afternoon. I usually don’t have people hanging in the studio while I record, but I think my comfort level with Jamil speaks to the ease I feel in our dealings.

SP:  I also remember going to meet ELUCID in New York specifically to get a flash drive that had he and woods’s verses for the Sean Price “Midnight Rounds” song they all should have been on together. His internet was down.

CP:  Why didn’t that track come to fruition?

SP:  woods’s hook was an interpolation of Apache’s “A Fight” (because, midnight rounds). The label was like, “Oh nah!” Word for word! Bar for bar! Sean P would have appreciated it.

CP:  Jersey’s own.

billy woods:  At that point in my “career,” I was kinda disappointed to get cut but not surprised. I guess I had a long history being snubbed regularly by peers and institutions in the indie music scene, so it just seemed like, Yeah, more of the same. I was pleasantly surprised to be invited, and unpleasantly unsurprised to be disinvited.

SP:  So, kept ELUCID’s verse and subbed in my man Castle, making this song the spiritual successor to a track I did on me and Guilty Simpson’s Highway Robbery, also featuring those two. Things fall apart, but they also come together. How they’re supposed to.

CP:  What’s the story behind “No Grand Agenda”? Also, where are we at in terms of the trip?

SP:  It’s slowing but at a light jog now. The beat for “No Grand Agenda” was originally part of an album I did made up entirely of exactly 1-minute long songs called You’re Killin’ Me Smalls. There were 60 songs. ELUCID was one of the only rappers I sent it to, specifically because it wasn’t “supposed” to be for raps. I had an ex who stomped out my computer and hard drives one day, including the original files for this project. All except for that one.

SP:  “Are we sure there’s no grand agenda?” And ELUCID took my stems and arranged it how he heard it. It was meant to loop in on itself, like the other songs on that project. It was originally named “Kelvin Spacey,” and I’m sure I’m misremembering but I wanna say “Dettol” was originally named “Kelvin Duckworth,” if only to verify Zilla Rocca’s guess that I was the producer in question that had sent woods a beat named after his favorite Portland Trailblazer.

CP:  So you’re saying, like any good friend, ELUCID jacked that beat?

SP:  Oh, I remember him asking to rap on it, perhaps for nothing in particular at the time. But who am I to deny the goat? And it’s obvious to me that this is how it was supposed to go; ain’t nothing coincidental or accidental, dunn.

ELUCID:  The making of “No Grand Agenda” was a cornerstone for a foundational era of style for me. I felt like I made a song that seamlessly weaved both verse and chorus in a way that felt absolutely hypnotic. It was a new belt for me, this sense of control. Small Pro was one of the first producers to trust me enough to send his beat stems. During this period is where I began producing more of my own music, so I also wanted to arrange the song how I heard it. Thankfully, Jamil dug it. 

CP:  What do you like about ELUCID’s rapping?

SP:  Some of it is the voice. Some of it is the things that he’s saying. But mostly, my favorite rappers all share this in common: they can get busy on any style of beat, any tempo, any sound, any Small Pro time puzzle. I was listening back to his older stuff a little while ago and heard him doing whole specific styles on one song, and never doing it again. The versace, versace flow, in particular. It felt like he was bored at the time and peered ahead three years to see how everyone was rapping, came back, did it, and that was that.

ELUCID:  [Working with Small Pro] is a special thing. Something that I’m still exploring. I think a Small Pro x ELUCID tape would be ill. Knowing his attention and care in the translation of my bars and flows is the type of partnership real MCs aspire to. It just hasn’t happened yet!

SP:  He and woods both have had a way of inspiring me through specific lines. “Go where the drummer commanded me,” for example. It’s me. I’m the drummer. And woods, a few songs before “Dettol” says, “Beg producers to take out the drums,” which he said was meant to be a joke, but I took it literally and started making beats that could exist with or without drums equally. 

All of my Backwoodz-related songs are credited as “Small Pro,” not “Small Professor.” I was on shrooms the week after my birthday earlier this year when I realized those are now different entities. Especially because woods was once like, “Wait, you did ‘No Grand Agenda’?” And I was like, “I did….I think? No, that was Small Pro.”

The last full project I—or I—did before moving back to Philly was a reimagining of A Jawn Supreme 1-3 from the Small Pro remix perspective. It was my—or my—first time remixing my own music, hearing things without the drums I put on them originally. It was an enlightening time. I hear voices at the fortress.

CP:  I think it’s rare for a producer to be so attentive to what the MCs are saying, let alone to look at what they’re saying as guideposts. The idea of a differentiation between “Small Pro” and “Small Professor” is interesting. Where does the Small Pro path ultimately lead? Into this larger Armand Hammer universe?

SP:  I feel like when I started out making beats my natural inclination has been to make things as busy as possible. Small Pro is like, What if I take away instead of adding? Or, How can I still have a million things going on in the track but it sounds bare or like, not done? “My girl say this beat sound unfinished, / I said, ‘Yeah, that’s where my voice go.’”

SP:  (Not sure when I passed out. I knew the crash was inevitable.)

[December 24, 2023 | 6:47 PM]

SP:  To your point about it leading to the AH-verse, that may be part of it too. They’ve both inspired me as rappers but also their production decisions and choices—ELUCID quite literally, as his production has always confounded me, but woods too. Two producers who have had just as much an influence on me as anybody I worshiped when first starting out are August Fanon and Messiah Musik—modern legends. Fanon can make beats for literally anyone. But Messiah’s natural style is one that both Hammers can sound great on from the get-go, whereas I have to consciously get myself into that mode. They also both sometimes do odd and potentially challenging things regarding time in their beats, as I do, but in their own way.

CP:  Do I remember seeing you mention somewhere that you still use Fruity Loops and Cool Edit?

SP:  Yup. I wanna say since 2008. Well, technically since 2003. But I’ve been using the same versions of those two programs for a minute now. Still using Windows XP, too. It’s comforting to me. And ridiculous. Like Rasheed Wallace faithfully wearing Air Force 1s his whole playing career.

CP:  I love that. Some real “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” ethos. Any rules for yourself when it comes to sampling? Strictly vinyl or are you irreligious when it comes to source format?

SP:  98% of my beats are made from mp3s. The remaining fraction is YouTube or some other source. Haven’t used vinyl for sampling purposes in many years but ironically try to make my beats sound like vinyl. As far as rules, everything I thought was law were things I later learned the musicians I look(ed) up to sneered at. 

CP:  Ain’t that the truth. Very little is sacred when it comes to process, I find. That’s a lot of ego. What efforts do you make to have the beats “sound” like vinyl?

SP:  On “Dettol” is my go-to record crackle sample. That’s also in 98% of my beats, and something I specifically remember was like, corny or something, but—ah, here it is: Slum Village reference #3 to fulfill the rule—on “Hold Tight” Dilla uses a needle pop as a snare bolster as well as the accompanying static. It’s there for added depth and texture but also can act as a counter-rhythm to your percussion. Reality features an inherent level of static in the form of cosmic microwave background radiation around us at all times. Art imitates life.

[December 25th, 2023 | 11:41 AM]

CP:  “No Christmas this Christmas…”

CP:  I always like to think of the story—apocryphal or not—of Evil Dee using bacon grease hissing on the stove for extra crackle.

SP:  The turntable hum is freakable too. Makes for a great bass sound but also something you can feel.

CP:  Do you ever have acid trips accidentally interfere with other obligations? I imagine you’re always planning for a blocked out number of hours. But best laid plans…

SP:  There’s a recovery period the next day, so that can be interesting to navigate. But yeah, I usually am in my room avoiding external interactions on whatever kind of trip it is. In my experience with acid, you gain more control over your “self,” and shrooms is the opposite, where your sense of self and awareness is reduced. Go home, brain—you’re drunk.

CP:  The loss of control is something I just can’t handle. Have you ever found yourself in a situation on shrooms where you emerge later, like, “Damn, that was a bad look”?

SP:  Yeah. My first time taking an 8th to the face (I ate it on a burger) after getting to and past the point of looking in a mirror and not recognizing my face for a sec. I later came upstairs and my BM had made some, like, lasagna? And it was so good that I’m just there demolishing it over the stove—like I was Garfield. Her friend walked in the kitchen at that moment and I should have been mortified, but in that moment there was only delicious lasagna.

CP:  Real Gs move in silence like lasagna…

CP:  Listening to Terror Management on Xmas morning. Is “Marlow” your beat/song with the most synchronicity between you and the rapper?

SP:  It’s up there. That album is interesting to me because of the repeating motif of having two beats from different producers for one song—always thought that was cool. The intro on that beat had the spoken part added after the fact, so it did really feel like some good ole fashioned teamwork. 

CP:  And specifically the serendipity of you naming the beat for your late father, correct? I imagine an artist won’t typically name their song after the name of the beat. Was there a reason you named that beat, out of so many, after your father?

SP:  Originally it was a play off of the artist’s name I sampled (a lot of my song titles are born this way), but I can also say it makes me think of my father’s dark side. He was one of the happiest, generally cheerful people I’ve ever known, but I’ve seen him go into green belt mode when pushed too far—only a few times, but it was like, Oh snap. 

woods closed his set with “Marlow” at a Philly show last year shortly after my pops passed, and it’s one of the nicest gestures anyone has done for me. I was at the bar crying like a newborn fucking baby, god.

billy woods:  That was a special moment for me, too. I really love that song. Pro and I have not worked that much together, but a lot of what we have done is really dope. He has produced a handful of Armand Hammer songs but they all hit, in my opinion. But [“Marlow”] is a song I really love and has come in and out of my setlist, but always makes it back in. The fact that it happened at that moment, and that it had that extra meaning for him was an honor for me.

SP:  That album [Terror Management] as a whole has always intrigued me because of the repeating motif of two producers each having a beat on one track (this happens on some Armand Hammer albums too, now that I think about it, but it’s a different effect when it’s two MCs on each beat instead of one). 

CP:  Lots of doubles—the name, the sides of your father, “Small Pro” versus “Small Professor,” two beats, etc. Double-consciousness, perhaps. Not necessarily in a Du Bois sense; more so in the sense of realities. 

SP:  I’m all about man’s rugged duality.

CP:  Did you and your father connect over music?

SP:  Oh, absolutely. Our music rooms were down the hall from one another when I got started in college, and over the years he would start wandering in to hear what I was working on. Eventually, as he started transitioning into working in DAWs, he would ask for advice with things he knew I would be able to help with. He loved showing me whatever he was working on, and I knew he valued my opinion as one of the people responsible for a lot of my music edumacation in the first place. 

[December 26, 2023 | 12:26 AM]

CP:  Would you reciprocate and show him what you were working on? Did he look upon hip-hop favorably?

SP:  He was from probably the last generation that didn’t grow up with hip-hop, and by and large it was probably offensive to him on two fronts: as a pretty religious dude the language and subject matter was too much, and musically all he heard were the loops, repetition, and sounds he loved and recognized being used all over again in an inferior, simple way. (I found a lot of the samples from Mobb Deep’s second album amongst his tape collection.) But over the years, as he saw how seriously I took it—as well as being impressed as a person who played 7-8 instruments by what I was able to do with two computer programs and mp3s—he was able to appreciate it as an artform (at least, the production side) even if it wasn’t quite his thing. 

He’s also half the reason I’ve always been enamored with non-common time signatures, a key feature in a lot of the music he dug—that Weather Report, Yellowjackets, Return to Forever, Herbie Hancock, Steely Dan, late ’70s, early ’80s chamber. My mother was more into “traditional” jazz and classical. They shared gospel personally—and professionally—as working church musicians. On my first album, there’s a 5/4 beat that I remember excitedly showing him because it took me forever to get the chops lined up in an un-choppy fashion, and there’s a switch on there between drum pattern grooves much like what you would find on a jazz fusion-type song. I felt like if I could impress him, I must be doing something right. The last time we hung out before the cancer did him in, he was showing me how far he had gotten learning how to play drums, and I got on the sticks and tried to replay the patterns on some of my beats (emphasis on tried). The “trouble don’t last” jawn, in particular, to which he responded by telling me I was already a drummer. Memories live. 

The times I saw his email pop up in my Bandcamp purchase notifications, I figured it was just a proud dad supporting his firstborn…nah, he was actually listening. His favorite project was the album I did along with my group Them That Do, which was my version of Madlib’s Shades of Blue on the beat tip. Besides digging the actual sound (updated jazz rap), I think he was most taken by the fact that he couldn’t quite tell what was sampled from where and that I had made all these sound from sometimes vastly different records seem like they were supposed to be together, and the beats made sense from the perspective of a person who understood music theory.

CP:  “I said, Well Daddy, don’t you know that things go in cycles.” Beautiful that you guys got to share those moments.

SP:  (I even said the part about two beats on Terror Management twice.)

SP:  My brother (the actual drummer of the family) just sent me “Spain” by Chick Corea, one of our dad’s favorites. Speaking of my brother—who I credit with teaching me how to program drums and how to count bars and all that—one time we were on our way to church with my dad, and Steely Dan’s “Black Cow” was on. Pops started to try to explain the lyrics, what a “black cow” was, why they were very high…all that. 

So a few years back I was proud to send [my father] “Gas Drawls” from Operation Doomsday because this story has always cracked me up, but also that’s a great-ass sample chop (and one that he appreciated, as opposed to the time my broski and I were buggin’ out over the beat for Jay-Z’s “Kingdom Come” and he was like, Is nobody doing anything original anymore?). 

[December 28, 2023 | 12:56 AM]

CP:  You should’ve sent him Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz after “Gas Drawls” and been like, “See.” As a drummer, does your brother fall more in line with your musical tastes or your father’s? 

SP:  I’d definitely say my brother has a much more diverse and varied musical vocabulary/understanding/tastes than I. We both grew up hearing, and then eventually listening, to rap. Twenty-three to twenty-four years ago when the neo-soul era was beginning, we were smack-dab in the middle of it, in the literal eye of the storm. Things Fall Apart, Like Water For Chocolate, Black on Both Sides, Reflection Eternal were just coming out. Musiq Soulchild was on the radio. Voodoo (which I didn’t get into until much later when I listened to it riding through Zanesville, Ohio countryside in 2007 [it’s still “Brown Sugar” over everything, though]) was everywhere. But there was also his actual school music education from primary to college, as well as listening to people from all instinctive travels and paths of rhythm, so he knows it all—or because he’d be like, “Shiiii, no I don’t!—a bit about a bit.”

I keep saying “my brother” when I have two. My younger bro is the drummer but my older brother’s tape collection was everything in high school (actually, even before that I was stealing his It Was Written tape when I was in seventh grade to play on the way to school). Being eleven years older, he was in high school when the great 90s east coast revolution was happening, and his Nike shoebox archives reflected the sounds of the time. As far as his tastes go, if DMX was still with us and dropped an album today, he’d get it without a second thought.

[December 28, 2023 | 11:10 PM]

CP:  Sorry to trail off. Got a bit busy on my side. Would you be down to hit me with a handful of your most interesting beat names at the moment?

CP:  This is art.

SP:  The “Will Smith as…” series is new. They all slap.

[Small Professor posts a since-deleted message on X quoting Werner Herzog talking about stealing a 35mm camera from a Munich film school. The quote: “I don’t consider it theft. It was just a necessity. I had some sort of natural right to this tool. If you need air to breathe, and you are locked in a room, you have to take a chisel and hammer and break down a wall. It is your absolute right.”]

CP:  I love this. “A natural right” to make something. Like a compulsion within. (I also love Herzog, so I appreciate the anecdote.) Do you remember where you first acquired that cracked Fruity Loops (and maybe Cool Edit, too)? If I think back, I probably had a friend hand me a disk, a CD-RW, back in like 1999 or something. God knows what sketchy site he downloaded them from.

SP:  In college when I first started doing beats, I torrented everything—movies, programs, especially music—with nary a second thought. It’s a good way to give your computer a bad cold, which I did on several occasions. And I too appreciate Herzog because I love no myth more than my own as well.

CP:  Have you got any myths on par with rescuing celebrities from wrecked cars or nonchalantly brushing off bullets to your abdomen?

SP:  No, but I can say I did albums with both Sean Price and MC Paul Barman.

CP:  Indisputable. I think this is an appropriate spot to (un)officially close this. Anything else you want to talk about?

SP:  Gotta give a shout-out to the Jungle Brothers for making Crazy Wisdom Masters in 1991. PremRock told me legend was that they made it on shrooms and when I listened to it on acid I was like, Oh, yeah, y’all were high as fuck when this was made. I could tell not only because the music itself is bugged out but even the pace of the record is accelerated. They had some songs on there that were a minute-and-thirty-seconds but so much was going on , sometimes different things in either stereo channel that it gives off the effect of being on a trip and you’re noticing—for what feels like the first time again—that everything is happening everywhere at once.

Listen to Crazy Wisdom Masters when you get a chance. It’s a personal classic that I’ve listened to at least fourteen times this month. Warner Brothers did them dirty (this was their M.O. apparently—this was the same time period they were beefing with Prince) by delaying the entire record two years and having them clean up the tracks, and disrupting the carefully curated listening experience by taking tracks away and rearranging the entire thing. J Beez wit the Remedy, the resulting hodgepodge, would drop on my birthday in 1993, and when I first heard it, I was like, Hmm, something’s awry here, and that’s how I found out about Crazy Wisdom Masters. 

CP:  I think I downloaded it or thought about downloading it recently when people started talking about it again. Is there a “definitive” version to look for? I know Bill Laswell had uploaded a version to his Bandcamp page a while back. 

SP:  That’s a good question. The version I found that concludes with “For the Headz At Company Z” is the album as the god(s) intended.

Just as Small Pro is distinguished from “Small Professor”, “Crazy Wisdom Masters” is a distinct personality from “Jungle Brothers.” Small Pro is a definitive, lost Laswell version—a ra ra kid who catches wreck with randomness. He doesn’t channel, but grooves, as the most psychoactive Afrika Baby Bam and Mike G doppelgänger. We end up doubled-over; “dope-sick,” if you will. You sleep on it, then you wake up in the morning and dwells on it, as Small Pro casts his spells on it. (It’s as Simple As That.) SP’s Comin’ Through, and when he does, multiple realities accelerate as he explores radical possibilities. He’s chewing on the chemicals and raising up the levels on the decibels. We—his audience of lab assistants, his dilated pupils [and peoples]—“experience the ultimate, the infinite.”

Images:

Most images are from the Vol. 1, No. 10 October issue of the San Francisco Oracle or unknown issues of the Chicago Seed | Small Professor “Sith Lord” photo courtesy of Matthew Shaver for WXPN | The Grateful Dead tapers section photo, Unknown | Screenshots by Small Professor | Apache tape photo by Caltrops Press | Gilbert Shelton, “The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers,” East Village Other (detail) | “Deadhead” poem by Joseph Rathgeber

[auroras-void]

I organize my hotbar differently depending on what I'm doing, it varies wildly and I'm not super consistent about it but there's usually a reason why I lay things out.

Generally though my most important heuristic is I tend to try to maximize flexible slots and inventory space for building materials and shulker boxes/crates over having lots of regular tools available to me. I keep those in a toolbox of some kind be it an ender chest box or a backpack or a literal toolbox.

For starters even in vanilla I play with tweakeroo so I try to only have one hotbar slot dedicated to tools. Even with that though I generally try to put away extra tools into a shulker box or a backpack.

Weapons come off my hotbar if I'm building something. Food typically goes in offhand. In modded I don't carry torches either because I usually have some sort of alternative way to spawnproof an area that doesn't rely on lighting. Like claimed chunks, megatorch, spawnproof beacon radius, peaceful surface, or no hostiles around campfires. I also usually play with creeper explosions off so sometimes I'll just tolerate having to fish out a weapon whenever a mob shows up, which is pretty infrequent if you spam beds around your workspace and keep extra on you and work on the surface.

What exactly does make it onto my hotbar really depends on the kind of infrastructure I have or the tools in my modpack. If I have some way to increase fist break speed for example tools might come off my hotbar entirely for some tasks. Slot 1 might become a mobility tool, or I might just go full creative hotbar. I also usually will keep some sort of access to storage, be it a wireless terminal or a stack of ender chests.

In modded whatever storage I can bind a hotkey to also usually becomes an extension of my hotbar. How I organize it depends on how it works though. Most common though is definitely a backpack bound to mouse4 that I keep absolutely *loaded* with any tool I could possibly need, by far my favorite way to organize things.

I can keep wiring, redstone, pipes, conduits, cables, shulker boxes, wrenches, hammers, wirecutters, multitools, spellbooks, torches, buckets of water and lava, ice, potions, mana, compasses, clocks, meters, maps, wands, scaffolding, computers, robots, swords, daggers, cutlasses, falchions, claymores, spears, halberds, sponges, lighters, gapples, spare picks, hoes, the one ring to rule them all, wings, rails, carts, railguns, explosives, jetpacks, meme items, nets, leads, gears, shafts, chains, wax, crafting materials, pulleys, grappling hooks, pearls, goggles, scuba gear, space suits, soul sand, magma, kelp, string, spyglasses, rulers, sextants, astrolabes, measuring tape, portal guns, gravity guns, spud guns, regular guns, animal feed, emeralds, beehives, asphalt, liquid concrete, monitors, blood sacrifices, shields, armor, hazmat suits, villager work stations, coal, oil, wizard robes, instruction manuals, severed heads of my enemies, case of loaded firework crossbows, precious jewels, barrels, drums, fluid tanks, cursed artifacts, note blocks, juke boxes, a 12 piece symphony orchestra, chisels, covers, fishing rods, facades, frames, valves, cranks, handles, miniature black holes, saws, server currency, law textbooks, dimensional rifts, bells, doors, arrows, tablets, ammunition, crafting blocks, cannons, chunk overload books, dyes, hard drives, warp drives, tridents bounce pads, medium amethyst crystals, wither skulls, crates, chalk, candles, totems, mud, bundles, half an ikea warehouse worth of furniture, anvils, remotes, cactus, batteries, generators, iron rods, buttons, levers, lamps, knives, myalite, notebooks, pedestals, item frames, debug sticks, barriers, end gateways, firework rockets, space rockets, beacons, missile rockets, slime, honey, ichor, coagulated blood, superglue, nets, cages, drawers, quarries, drills, cranes, planes, trains, automobiles, cutting boards, nuclear launch codes, blueprints, spell slates, fast travel, ladders, vines, rope, fertilizer, bonemeal, *anything* I can think of that I could even maybe possibly need some day I'll carry it there. Like I'm joking about way fewer of these than you'd think lol I'd say I've carried most of these in my backpack at least as a one off, and maybe the majority at least one time regularly before. (try to guess which of the weird ones I'm serious about lol)

Even in vanilla I always keep at least one shulker box that acts as a toolbox that I always fill to the brim.

Really everything is about flexibility.

Out of curiosity, does anyone else organize their Minecraft survival hotbars? This is how mine looks, for example, with slots 1-4 being my sword + tools, slot 5 being my bow, slot 6 being food, slot 7 & 8 being miscellaneous, and slot 9 being for torches. I'm not sure if this is standard, but it's how I've always done it.

[globetechno]

Proven Guide to Calculate RPA ROI for Your Business

Implementing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a smart move for businesses looking to improve efficiency and cut costs, but to truly evaluate its success, understanding your RPA ROI is crucial. Calculating RPA ROI helps organizations assess the financial benefits gained from automating tasks versus the costs of implementation. Whether you're exploring automation for the first time or scaling up, knowing how to measure returns is essential for making data-driven decisions.

Why Measuring RPA ROI Matters 

Measuring the ROI of RPA solutions allows businesses to quantify the value automation brings. From reducing manual errors and increasing productivity to freeing up employee time for high-value tasks, the benefits can be significant. However, to maximize those benefits, it’s important to partner with a trusted RPA ROI Company that understands your business goals. 

Key Factors That Affect RPA ROI 

To calculate RPA ROI effectively, consider the following factors: 

Initial Investment: Includes software, infrastructure, and setup costs. 

Implementation Time: Longer implementation affects when you start seeing returns. 

Operational Cost Savings: Evaluate reductions in labor and process costs. 

Process Efficiency Gains: Speed and accuracy improvements in workflows. 

Scalability: The ability to reuse or expand bots for other departments. 

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[websenor00]

WordPress Update Problems? Here’s How to Fix Them (No Tech Skills Needed)

Keeping your WordPress website up to date is critical for security, speed, and access to new features. But let’s face it—when an update fails, it can feel like the whole site is crashing down, especially if you don’t have a technical background.

Don’t panic.

Most WordPress update errors are easy to fix with a bit of guidance. In this beginner-friendly guide, we’ll break down why updates fail and what you can do to resolve them—no developer required.

🛑 Why Do WordPress Updates Fail?

WordPress runs on a system of interconnected parts: the core platform, themes, and plugins. If one of these components doesn’t align properly during an update, things can break.

Here are some of the most common causes:

📡 Poor internet connection that interrupts the update

🔌 Conflicts between plugins

🎨 Theme incompatibility

💾 Insufficient server memory or time limits

🔐 Incorrect file and folder permissions

🧩 Corrupted or incomplete update files

The first step toward fixing any problem is understanding where it’s coming from.

🛠️ How to Fix WordPress Update Errors (Step by Step)

✅ 1. Back Up Your Site First

Before trying anything, create a full backup of your website using a plugin like UpdraftPlus or BackupBuddy. This gives you a safety net in case something goes wrong during the troubleshooting process.

✅ 2. Clear Your Cache (It Might Be That Simple)

Sometimes, your browser or caching plugin is the culprit—not the update itself.

Clear your browser cache (Ctrl+Shift+R or Command+Shift+R on most browsers)

If you use a caching plugin (like WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache), clear your site cache too

Now try updating WordPress again.

✅ 3. Use Troubleshooting Mode to Find Plugin Conflicts

Conflicting plugins are a frequent reason for failed updates.

You can use the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin to safely test your site:

Install and activate the plugin

Enable troubleshooting mode—this disables all plugins temporarily (just for you)

Try updating again

If it works, re-enable plugins one by one until the error returns

That last plugin activated is your likely culprit.

✅ 4. Check Your Hosting Settings

Shared hosting plans often limit memory and execution time, which can stop updates mid-process.

Ask your host:

What’s the PHP memory limit? (It should be at least 256MB)

What’s the maximum execution time? (Aim for 300 seconds)

Can they increase these limits for better stability?

Sometimes, simply switching to a better hosting plan solves everything.

✅ 5. Try a Manual WordPress Update

If automatic updates aren’t working, a manual update might do the trick.

Here’s a simple guide:

Download the latest WordPress version from WordPress.org

Unzip the files on your computer

Use FTP software like FileZilla to connect to your website

Replace the wp-admin and wp-includes folders with the new ones

Do not touch the wp-content folder (it holds your themes and plugins)

Open your site—if needed, it will ask to update the database. Just click the button

Done right, this is a safe and effective fix.

✅ 6. Adjust File Permissions (If You’re Getting Permission Errors)

WordPress needs the correct file permissions to update itself.

Use a plugin like WP File Manager or ask your hosting provider to set:

Folders to 755

Files to 644

These permissions allow WordPress to work smoothly without opening security risks.

✅ 7. Stuck in Maintenance Mode? Here’s How to Exit

Sometimes an update gets interrupted, leaving your site stuck in maintenance mode with this message:

“Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.”

To fix this:

Log into your hosting account (e.g., cPanel or via FTP)

Go to the root folder of your WordPress site

Delete the file named .maintenance

Refresh your site—it should return to normal

This is one of the easiest fixes on the list.

💬 When You Should Call in the Experts

If you’ve tried everything and the update still won’t work—or if you're unsure about any step—it’s perfectly okay to ask for help.

Here’s who you can turn to:

Your web hosting support team

A WordPress specialist

Or a reliable web development company like Websenor

✅ Final Thoughts: Keep WordPress Simple with Websenor

WordPress update errors can seem intimidating, but most are fixable with a calm, step-by-step approach—even if you're not a tech expert. The key is to:

Back up first

Rule out the simple causes

Test safely before changing live settings

Know when to ask for help

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[midwest-dex]

Manaka has a minigame similar to HGSS’s Pokeathalon in Pokemon Baseball, where you arrange some number of Pokemon into a team and play against teams from computers or other players. The number I’m less sure on; either doing a smaller game with a team of 6 (two base fielders, two outfielders, the pitcher, and the catcher) or the normal 9 (potentially more via relief pitcher or pinch hitter). Either way, the minigame will probably be 3 innings rather than 9.

Pokemon Baseball uses the same 5 stats of the Pokeathalon: Speed, Power, Stamina, Skill, and Jump, with each position using three or more for their various tasks. Unlike Pokeathalon, a lot of this would be automated, with the player perhaps giving some strategic leanings rather than controlling the Pokemon directly.

For a crash course on those stats, every Pokemon species has Baseline and Maximum Potential values for each stat, from 1 to 5. On individual Pokemon, each stat can be reduced or increased up to the Species Maximum by three things 1) the Pokemon’s nature, 2) the last Aprijuice they drank, 3) a variable amount that changes every day. I’ll simplify the Aprijuice system, but it will maintain the maximum net boost of +5 spread across the stats, so while Sunkern does have perfect potential and can max out any stat, it has a bad baseline, so can’t max out every stat at once. Now, for how they get used:

Batter Power is used to determine how hard a Pokemon hits pitches, with high power batters swinging for the fences and low power often opting for bunts. Skill affects the accuracy of the Pokemon’s swings, impacting foul balls and if the Pokemon should swing at pitches outside the strike zone. Stamina affects how the Pokemon handles wild pitches; high Stamina Pokemon are more likely to let themselves be Hit-By-Pitch for the free walk.

Runner Speed modifies the Pokemon’s speed around the bases Jump is used for sliding, if a runner and fielder are very near a base, the runner will slide and the two Pokemon will have a Jump contest to see who tags the base first Skill is used to judge when the runner will attempt to steal bases. A very low skill runner will never attempt this. Every level of skill gives the Pokemon a more accurate view of if it will succeed a stolen base attempt.

Fielder Jump is used by the infielders to contest slides, and by the outfielders to catch potential home-run balls. Speed as always modifies move speed, for outfielders to get to ground balls and infielders to get to bunts. Power modifies how far a Pokemon can throw. This is usually not relevant for infielders, but does matter for outfielders as it reduces the amount of distance the Pokemon needs to run. Skill affects the Pokemon’s skill at being in the right place for a catch. Average skill Pokemon will be able to pick up Pop Flys, and higher skill will give you better chances to pull off double plays and deny home runs.

Pitcher Stamina is the most important stat for the pitcher, with the Pokemon becoming more tired over the course of the game, decreasing their stats. This may tie into a mechanic with relief pitchers, either one of the player’s Pokemon, or a Smeargle to keep team count down Power affects how hard the pitcher throws, but it is a double edged sword. A higher power pitch is harder to hit, but will go further if it is hit. Skill plays the more active role for the pitcher. Low skill Pokemon are more likely to throw Wild Pitches, while high skill Pokemon can mix up their pitches to make it harder for the batter.

Catcher Skill is the most active stat for the catcher, with their skill modifying that of the pitches, the fielder’s ability to make double plays, making it harder for runners to steal bases, and punishing the batter’s mistakes. Stamina is an important resource to the catcher, but less so than the pitcher. A catcher will start with a 25% boost to their stats, which degrades down to 10% reduction over the game, the rate defined by the Stamina. Catchers will bottom out at 90% effectiveness though, while Pitchers with poor Stamina can just keep getting worse and worse. Power modifies the catcher’s throw distance, which is mostly relevant for defending stolen bases. Jump and Speed are very rarely relevant to the catcher, but its possible it could come up if the batter bunts and a fast runner on third base is forced home.

Each of the five stats has their best position, but every Pokemon will be a Batter and Runner, while only two will be Pitcher and Catcher, making Power and Speed more relevant and Stamina less relevant. I’m not sure if there’s a way to adjust for that other than adding the tiredness mechanic to the other positions, which I don’t want to do.

[sharon-ai]

AI Meets Sustainability: Sharon AI & New Era Helium’s 250 MW Data Center

A Game-Changer for AI and Sustainable Energy

In a bold move toward sustainable, high-performance computing, Sharon AI and New Era Helium are developing a massive 250 MW net-zero data center in the heart of Texas’ Permian Basin. This project represents a major leap forward, proving that cutting-edge AI technology and clean energy can go hand in hand.

Expanding to Meet Growing AI Demands

What started as a 90 MW facility quickly scaled up to 250 MW due to increasing demand from companies seeking powerful and sustainable data solutions. The rapid expansion underscores the growing need for eco-friendly,high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure that can handle AI workloads efficiently.

Key Milestones Shaping the Project

A Strong Foundation: Sharon AI and New Era Helium signed a binding Letter of Intent (LOI), marking the official start of their collaboration.

Choosing the Right Location: The Permian Basin was selected for its abundant natural gas resources, ensuring a reliable and sustainable power supply.

Next Steps: The final joint venture agreement is on track to be completed by December 23, 2024.

Stable Energy Supply: A fixed-cost energy agreement guarantees price stability for five years, with the option to extend up to 15 years.

The Perfect Blend: AI Innovation Meets Clean Energy

This partnership is about more than just building another data center—it’s about rethinking how we power AI. The facility will provide the high-performance infrastructure needed to support AI training, deep learning, and large-scale computing, all while maintaining a strong commitment to sustainability.

Will Gray II, CEO of New Era Helium, shared his excitement: “This isn’t just about energy. It’s about creating the foundation for a smarter, more efficient digital future.”

Sharon AI: Pushing the Boundaries of Data Center Technology

Sharon AI is leading the charge in designing and managing this next-generation facility. With advanced liquid-cooling technology and Tier III infrastructure, the data center will be optimized for AI workloads. Partnering with industry giants like NVIDIA and Lenovo, Sharon AI ensures seamless, high-speed performance for businesses relying on AI-driven solutions.

Wolf Schubert, CEO of Sharon AI, put it best: “This project is a huge step forward in sustainable AI infrastructure. We’re bringing together the best technology and energy solutions to create something truly groundbreaking.”

New Era Helium: Powering the Future Sustainably

New Era Helium is making sure that powering this data center doesn’t come at the cost of the environment. Their approach includes constructing a state-of-the-art gas-fired power plant with built-in carbon capture technology, reducing emissions while maintaining energy efficiency.

By locking in a long-term energy deal, the project ensures cost predictability and a steady, sustainable power supply—critical elements for businesses that depend on high-performance computing.

Why Texas’ Permian Basin?

The Permian Basin isn’t just rich in natural gas—it’s also an ideal location for large-scale data centers. With the necessary energy infrastructure already in place, the region offers a unique opportunity to build a truly sustainable AI-powered computing hub. The project is expected to attract major enterprises looking for reliable, cost-effective, and eco-friendly computing solutions.

A New Era for AI and Green Data Centers

Sharon AI and New Era Helium’s 250 MW net-zero data center is more than just another tech project—it’s a glimpse into the future of AI computing. With sustainability at its core and the latest innovations driving performance, this facility is poised to set a new industry standard.

With the joint venture agreement expected to wrap up by December 23, 2024, this initiative is well on its way to becoming a global leader in AI-powered, energy-efficient data centers.

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Top 5 Programming Languages You Should Learn in 2024

Learning the proper programming languages could make a big difference on your profession. With technology advancing unexpectedly, some programming languages stand out more than others in 2024. Whether you’re just beginning out in coding or looking to upgrade your talents, this listing will help you pick out the quality languages to learn.

Let’s take a look at the top 5 programming languages you should learn in 2024!

1. Python

Why Learn Python?

Python has been one of the maximum popular programming languages for several years—and it’s no longer going anywhere. It’s broadly used in net improvement, records analysis, synthetic intelligence (AI), system learning (ML), and even automation.

Key Advantages:

Easy to Learn: Python is thought for its easy, readable syntax, making it a wonderful choice for novices.

Versatile: Python is used in a extensive form of fields, from facts science to net apps, making it a language with infinite opportunities.

Huge Community: With a massive variety of libraries and frameworks (like Django and Flask), you may without problems locate equipment and help for almost any undertaking.

In 2024, Python will continue to be in high demand, Especially with the increasing focus on AI, statistics technological know-how, and automation.

2. JavaScript

Why Learn JavaScript?

JavaScript is the spine of net improvement. It powers interactivity on web sites, from simple animations to complicated web apps. If you’re looking to build interactive web sites or complete-fledged internet applications, JavaScript is a need to.

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JavaScript's versatility and consistent call for in internet improvement make it a pinnacle language to analyze in 2024.

3. Go (Golang)

Why Learn Go?

Go, additionally called Golang, is a programming language developed with the aid of Google. It's turning into more famous, specially for building fast, reliable, and scalable software program, particularly in cloud computing and microservices.

Key Advantages:

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Why Learn Java?

Java is one of the most depended on and widely used programming languages, in particular in large-scale enterprise packages, Android app development, and agency structures. Although it's been round for many years, Java nevertheless holds a robust role in 2024.

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5. Rust

Why Learn Rust?

Rust is a structures programming language designed for safety and overall performance. While it’s more recent than a number of the other languages in this listing, its reputation is rising rapid, especially in areas like game improvement, block chain, and systems programming.

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C#: Great for sport improvement (with Unity) and corporation packages.

Swift: The pass-to language for iOS and macOS app development.

Kotlin: An opportunity to Java for Android improvement, with a greater modern syntax.

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Embedded System Innovations with Industry Leaders including Nav Sooch: Semiconductor Advancements in IoT Devices

The semiconductor industry plays a pivotal role in the advancement of technology, particularly within the realm of the Internet of Things (IoT). Embedded systems, which form the backbone of IoT devices, rely heavily on semiconductor innovations to enhance functionality, efficiency, and connectivity. As IoT devices become increasingly integral to everyday life, the demand for advanced semiconductor solutions that offer improved performance and energy efficiency continues to grow. This blog explores the latest advancements in semiconductor technology and their impact on embedded systems in IoT devices, examining how these innovations drive progress and shape the future of connected technology.

Enhanced Processing Power

Professionals like Nav Sooch highlight that advancements in semiconductor technology have significantly improved the processing power of embedded systems in IoT devices. Modern semiconductors, such as System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions, integrate multiple functions into a single chip, allowing for enhanced computational capabilities. These SoCs often include CPUs, GPUs, and other specialized processors that work in unison to handle complex tasks more efficiently.

With increased processing power, IoT devices can manage more sophisticated algorithms and handle larger datasets in real time. This improvement is crucial for applications that require high-speed data processing, such as smart home systems and industrial automation. By leveraging these advanced semiconductors, device manufacturers can create more capable and responsive embedded systems that enhance user experiences and operational efficiency.

Improved Energy Efficiency

Energy efficiency, as pointed out by leaders such as Nav Sooch, is a critical consideration in the design of IoT devices, especially given their widespread deployment and the need for long-lasting performance. Recent semiconductor advancements have focused on reducing power consumption while maintaining high performance levels. Low-power processors and energy-efficient memory technologies are examples of how the industry addresses these needs.

These innovations are particularly beneficial for battery-operated IoT devices, such as wearables and remote sensors, where extended battery life is essential. By incorporating energy-efficient semiconductors, manufacturers can design devices that offer prolonged operational periods between charges, reducing maintenance and operational costs. Enhanced power management features also contribute to the overall sustainability of IoT solutions, aligning with broader environmental goals.

Integration of AI and Machine Learning

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities into IoT devices has been significantly accelerated by advancements in semiconductor technology. Industry leaders including Nav Sooch mention that specialized chips, such as AI accelerators and ML processors, are designed to handle the computational demands of these technologies. These chips enable IoT devices to perform complex tasks like pattern recognition and predictive analytics directly on the device.

The ability to process AI and ML algorithms locally enhances the functionality of IoT devices, allowing for more intelligent and autonomous operation. For instance, smart cameras equipped with AI can recognize and classify objects in real time, while predictive maintenance systems can analyze data trends to anticipate equipment failures. This shift towards edge computing reduces the need for cloud-based processing, improving response times and reducing data transmission costs.

Advances in Connectivity

Connectivity is a fundamental aspect of IoT devices, and semiconductor innovations have greatly expanded the capabilities of these systems. The development of advanced wireless communication technologies, such as 5G and low-power wide-area networks (LPWAN), has transformed how IoT devices connect and communicate. Semiconductors that support these technologies enable faster data transfer rates and more reliable connections.

Professionals like Nav Sooch underline that these advancements facilitate the creation of more complex and interconnected IoT ecosystems. For example, 5G-compatible chips can support high-speed data transmission for applications like smart cities and autonomous vehicles. Similarly, LPWAN semiconductors enable long-range communication for remote sensors and agricultural IoT solutions. By integrating these advanced connectivity options, manufacturers can build more robust and versatile IoT devices that meet the evolving demands of various industries.

Miniaturization and Form Factor Innovations

The trend towards miniaturization in semiconductor technology has enabled the development of smaller and more compact IoT devices without compromising performance. Innovations in semiconductor fabrication processes, such as advanced lithography techniques and 3D stacking, have allowed for the creation of smaller chips with increased functionality.

Miniaturization is particularly important for wearable devices and embedded systems where space is limited. Leaders such as Nav Sooch note that smaller semiconductors allow for the integration of more features into a compact form factor, enabling the development of sleek and unobtrusive devices. This trend also supports the growth of new IoT applications in areas such as healthcare and consumer electronics, where space constraints and form factor are critical considerations.

Enhanced Security Features

As IoT devices become more prevalent, security has become a paramount concern. Semiconductor advancements have introduced enhanced security features to address the growing threat of cyberattacks. Modern semiconductors often include built-in security mechanisms, such as hardware encryption and secure boot processes, to protect sensitive data and ensure device integrity.

These security features are crucial for safeguarding IoT devices from vulnerabilities and unauthorized access. For instance, secure elements and trusted execution environments (TEEs) can protect encryption keys and sensitive information from potential breaches. By integrating robust security measures at the semiconductor level, manufacturers can enhance the overall security posture of IoT devices and build trust with users.

The advancements in semiconductor technology have profoundly impacted the development of embedded systems in IoT devices. Enhanced processing power, improved energy efficiency, and the integration of AI and ML capabilities are driving innovations that make IoT devices more powerful and versatile. Additionally, advances in connectivity, miniaturization, and security features are contributing to the growth and evolution of IoT applications. As these technologies continue to evolve, they will play a critical role in shaping the future of connected devices and their impact on various industries. Embracing these semiconductor advancements will enable manufacturers to create more efficient, intelligent, and secure IoT solutions, paving the way for a more connected and innovative world.

The semiconductor industry plays a pivotal role in the advancement of technology, particularly within the realm of the Internet of Things (IoT). Embedded systems, which form the backbone of IoT devices, rely heavily on semiconductor innovations to enhance functionality, efficiency, and connectivity. As IoT devices become increasingly integral to everyday life, the demand for advanced semiconductor solutions that offer improved performance and energy efficiency continues to grow. This blog explores the latest advancements in semiconductor technology and their impact on embedded systems in IoT devices, examining how these innovations drive progress and shape the future of connected technology.

Enhanced Processing Power

Professionals like Nav Sooch highlight that advancements in semiconductor technology have significantly improved the processing power of embedded systems in IoT devices. Modern semiconductors, such as System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions, integrate multiple functions into a single chip, allowing for enhanced computational capabilities. These SoCs often include CPUs, GPUs, and other specialized processors that work in unison to handle complex tasks more efficiently.

With increased processing power, IoT devices can manage more sophisticated algorithms and handle larger datasets in real time. This improvement is crucial for applications that require high-speed data processing, such as smart home systems and industrial automation. By leveraging these advanced semiconductors, device manufacturers can create more capable and responsive embedded systems that enhance user experiences and operational efficiency.

Improved Energy Efficiency

Energy efficiency, as pointed out by leaders such as Nav Sooch, is a critical consideration in the design of IoT devices, especially given their widespread deployment and the need for long-lasting performance. Recent semiconductor advancements have focused on reducing power consumption while maintaining high performance levels. Low-power processors and energy-efficient memory technologies are examples of how the industry addresses these needs.

These innovations are particularly beneficial for battery-operated IoT devices, such as wearables and remote sensors, where extended battery life is essential. By incorporating energy-efficient semiconductors, manufacturers can design devices that offer prolonged operational periods between charges, reducing maintenance and operational costs. Enhanced power management features also contribute to the overall sustainability of IoT solutions, aligning with broader environmental goals.

Integration of AI and Machine Learning

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities into IoT devices has been significantly accelerated by advancements in semiconductor technology. Industry leaders including Nav Sooch mention that specialized chips, such as AI accelerators and ML processors, are designed to handle the computational demands of these technologies. These chips enable IoT devices to perform complex tasks like pattern recognition and predictive analytics directly on the device.

The ability to process AI and ML algorithms locally enhances the functionality of IoT devices, allowing for more intelligent and autonomous operation. For instance, smart cameras equipped with AI can recognize and classify objects in real time, while predictive maintenance systems can analyze data trends to anticipate equipment failures. This shift towards edge computing reduces the need for cloud-based processing, improving response times and reducing data transmission costs.

Advances in Connectivity

Connectivity is a fundamental aspect of IoT devices, and semiconductor innovations have greatly expanded the capabilities of these systems. The development of advanced wireless communication technologies, such as 5G and low-power wide-area networks (LPWAN), has transformed how IoT devices connect and communicate. Semiconductors that support these technologies enable faster data transfer rates and more reliable connections.

Professionals like Nav Sooch underline that these advancements facilitate the creation of more complex and interconnected IoT ecosystems. For example, 5G-compatible chips can support high-speed data transmission for applications like smart cities and autonomous vehicles. Similarly, LPWAN semiconductors enable long-range communication for remote sensors and agricultural IoT solutions. By integrating these advanced connectivity options, manufacturers can build more robust and versatile IoT devices that meet the evolving demands of various industries.

Miniaturization and Form Factor Innovations

The trend towards miniaturization in semiconductor technology has enabled the development of smaller and more compact IoT devices without compromising performance. Innovations in semiconductor fabrication processes, such as advanced lithography techniques and 3D stacking, have allowed for the creation of smaller chips with increased functionality.

Miniaturization is particularly important for wearable devices and embedded systems where space is limited. Leaders such as Nav Sooch note that smaller semiconductors allow for the integration of more features into a compact form factor, enabling the development of sleek and unobtrusive devices. This trend also supports the growth of new IoT applications in areas such as healthcare and consumer electronics, where space constraints and form factor are critical considerations.

Enhanced Security Features

As IoT devices become more prevalent, security has become a paramount concern. Semiconductor advancements have introduced enhanced security features to address the growing threat of cyberattacks. Modern semiconductors often include built-in security mechanisms, such as hardware encryption and secure boot processes, to protect sensitive data and ensure device integrity.

These security features are crucial for safeguarding IoT devices from vulnerabilities and unauthorized access. For instance, secure elements and trusted execution environments (TEEs) can protect encryption keys and sensitive information from potential breaches. By integrating robust security measures at the semiconductor level, manufacturers can enhance the overall security posture of IoT devices and build trust with users.

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The semiconductor industry plays a pivotal role in the advancement of technology, particularly within the realm of the Internet of Things (IoT). Embedded systems, which form the backbone of IoT devices, rely heavily on semiconductor innovations to enhance functionality, efficiency, and connectivity. As IoT devices become increasingly integral to everyday life, the demand for advanced semiconductor solutions that offer improved performance and energy efficiency continues to grow. This blog explores the latest advancements in semiconductor technology and their impact on embedded systems in IoT devices, examining how these innovations drive progress and shape the future of connected technology.

Enhanced Processing Power

Professionals like Nav Sooch highlight that advancements in semiconductor technology have significantly improved the processing power of embedded systems in IoT devices. Modern semiconductors, such as System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions, integrate multiple functions into a single chip, allowing for enhanced computational capabilities. These SoCs often include CPUs, GPUs, and other specialized processors that work in unison to handle complex tasks more efficiently.

With increased processing power, IoT devices can manage more sophisticated algorithms and handle larger datasets in real time. This improvement is crucial for applications that require high-speed data processing, such as smart home systems and industrial automation. By leveraging these advanced semiconductors, device manufacturers can create more capable and responsive embedded systems that enhance user experiences and operational efficiency.

Improved Energy Efficiency

Energy efficiency, as pointed out by leaders such as Nav Sooch, is a critical consideration in the design of IoT devices, especially given their widespread deployment and the need for long-lasting performance. Recent semiconductor advancements have focused on reducing power consumption while maintaining high performance levels. Low-power processors and energy-efficient memory technologies are examples of how the industry addresses these needs.

These innovations are particularly beneficial for battery-operated IoT devices, such as wearables and remote sensors, where extended battery life is essential. By incorporating energy-efficient semiconductors, manufacturers can design devices that offer prolonged operational periods between charges, reducing maintenance and operational costs. Enhanced power management features also contribute to the overall sustainability of IoT solutions, aligning with broader environmental goals.

Integration of AI and Machine Learning

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities into IoT devices has been significantly accelerated by advancements in semiconductor technology. Industry leaders including Nav Sooch mention that specialized chips, such as AI accelerators and ML processors, are designed to handle the computational demands of these technologies. These chips enable IoT devices to perform complex tasks like pattern recognition and predictive analytics directly on the device.

The ability to process AI and ML algorithms locally enhances the functionality of IoT devices, allowing for more intelligent and autonomous operation. For instance, smart cameras equipped with AI can recognize and classify objects in real time, while predictive maintenance systems can analyze data trends to anticipate equipment failures. This shift towards edge computing reduces the need for cloud-based processing, improving response times and reducing data transmission costs.

Advances in Connectivity

Connectivity is a fundamental aspect of IoT devices, and semiconductor innovations have greatly expanded the capabilities of these systems. The development of advanced wireless communication technologies, such as 5G and low-power wide-area networks (LPWAN), has transformed how IoT devices connect and communicate. Semiconductors that support these technologies enable faster data transfer rates and more reliable connections.

Professionals like Nav Sooch underline that these advancements facilitate the creation of more complex and interconnected IoT ecosystems. For example, 5G-compatible chips can support high-speed data transmission for applications like smart cities and autonomous vehicles. Similarly, LPWAN semiconductors enable long-range communication for remote sensors and agricultural IoT solutions. By integrating these advanced connectivity options, manufacturers can build more robust and versatile IoT devices that meet the evolving demands of various industries.

Miniaturization and Form Factor Innovations

The trend towards miniaturization in semiconductor technology has enabled the development of smaller and more compact IoT devices without compromising performance. Innovations in semiconductor fabrication processes, such as advanced lithography techniques and 3D stacking, have allowed for the creation of smaller chips with increased functionality.

Miniaturization is particularly important for wearable devices and embedded systems where space is limited. Leaders such as Nav Sooch note that smaller semiconductors allow for the integration of more features into a compact form factor, enabling the development of sleek and unobtrusive devices. This trend also supports the growth of new IoT applications in areas such as healthcare and consumer electronics, where space constraints and form factor are critical considerations.

Enhanced Security Features

As IoT devices become more prevalent, security has become a paramount concern. Semiconductor advancements have introduced enhanced security features to address the growing threat of cyberattacks. Modern semiconductors often include built-in security mechanisms, such as hardware encryption and secure boot processes, to protect sensitive data and ensure device integrity.

These security features are crucial for safeguarding IoT devices from vulnerabilities and unauthorized access. For instance, secure elements and trusted execution environments (TEEs) can protect encryption keys and sensitive information from potential breaches. By integrating robust security measures at the semiconductor level, manufacturers can enhance the overall security posture of IoT devices and build trust with users.

The advancements in semiconductor technology have profoundly impacted the development of embedded systems in IoT devices. Enhanced processing power, improved energy efficiency, and the integration of AI and ML capabilities are driving innovations that make IoT devices more powerful and versatile. Additionally, advances in connectivity, miniaturization, and security features are contributing to the growth and evolution of IoT applications. As these technologies continue to evolve, they will play a critical role in shaping the future of connected devices and their impact on various industries. Embracing these semiconductor advancements will enable manufacturers to create more efficient, intelligent, and secure IoT solutions, paving the way for a more connected and innovative world.

dvancements in semiconductor technology have profoundly impacted the development of embedded systems in IoT devices. Enhanced processing power, improved energy efficiency, and the integration of AI and ML capabilities are driving innovations that make IoT devices more powerful and versatile. Additionally, advances in connectivity, miniaturization, and security features are contributing to the growth and evolution of IoT applications. As these technologies continue to evolve, they will play a critical role in shaping the future of connected devices and their impact on various industries. Embracing these semiconductor advancements will enable manufacturers to create more efficient, intelligent, and secure IoT solutions, paving the way for a more connected and innovative world.

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How to ensure maximum ROI from your IDP in mortgage document processing

Processing mortgage applications entails dealing with a massive pile of documents necessary to verify customers’ loan worthiness and clear approvals. This task is often carried out manually, resulting in reporting errors, missing documents, and an unending waiting period before closure. This has consequences like the loss of time, wasted employee effort, and, eventually, a drop in the lender’s credibility to process a fast mortgage.

Although certain technologies, such as Optical Character Recognition (OCRs), have been used by mortgage lenders to speed up the process to some extent. However, these still do not meet industry standards to assess all documents needed for mortgage approvals. Furthermore, indexing, document sorting, and data extraction are other recurrent issues mortgage lenders face. These can be pretty strenuous for the lending institute unless the entire process is optimized for speed and accuracy. It is also tiresome for the customers, as the clarity over the whole procedure reduces and may result in a decline in customer experience.

An intelligent mortgage document automation system can effectively solve this issue for you. It can improve process efficiency and offer faster approvals with more accuracy. The solution, Intelligent Document Processing, or IDP, carries out end-to-end mortgage document processing and creates more impact during loan processing.

Automation of document processing in the mortgage industry allows you to optimize the entire value chain. It can

Reduce operating costs

Improve turn-around-time

Offer higher accuracy

Provide enhanced solutions faster

Increase the degree of customer experience, driving retention and brand advocacy

These are clear and tangible operational benefits that improve customer satisfaction and can be measured by metrics such as improvement in net promoter scores (NPS) and ROI due to increased efficiency and service quality.

How do IDP solutions deliver value in the mortgage industry?

Leveraging IDP solutions in the mortgage industry allows you to utilize several tech-based capabilities that are key to improving efficiency and accuracy. The most effective technologies behind the IDP solutions are:

Computer Vision for image cleanup — When customers submit a copy of their documents, they may contain images that are often photographed or photocopied using an external device, making data retrieval difficult. IDP uses computer vision technology to ensure clarity in such documents by making them as clean and noise-free as possible. It helps improve data extraction by implementing accurate image preprocessing. It also offers preset options based on the type of documents, which lets you extract the right data and record it safely.

OCRs — Although OCRs have been in use for some time in the mortgage industry, the latest capabilities allow the IDP engines to enhance the impact by deploying multiple OCRs for data extraction. These are based on machine learning algorithms, which switch to the best-suited one based on the confidence and accuracy of the module. This maximizes your IDP coverage and accuracy in the documents processed.

Artificial Intelligence — The inclusion of AI in IDP solutions has been a game changer in improving the speed and accuracy of mortgage document processing. It effectively helps identify patterns, gather insights, troubleshoot anomalies, and does a lot more as it learns different aspects of its applications. AI imitates human behavior but offers unmatched processing power to gather intelligence and provide better solutions in document processing.

Machine Learning — Machine learning is one of the primary features of AI and the reason for AI being so efficient. It is a “self-learning” mechanism that identifies repetitive tasks and learns from patterns that evolved during the processes. Consequently, it improves the document and data extraction process quality by emulating tasks more efficiently. It also identifies any data gaps and raises an alert that allows lenders to improve accuracy. Machine Learning further utilizes another capability called NLP or Natural Language Processing to identify the ‘language’ of the documents, irrespective of the source, and finds its relevance to the process. Naturally, it helps index, analyze, and document the data in the ‘right order’ for accurate validation of mortgage approvals.

Maximizing your ROI in IDP depends on the following: –

Despite the technological advancement in Intelligent Document Processing solutions, ROI optimization depends on certain factors. The primary among these are:

Implementation — The IDP solution you chose needs fine-tuning according to your needs and offerings in the mortgage industry, where the process and scope are defined optimally. Having generic processes might reduce the functionality or impact of IDPs. However, if you integrate the solution as per the specification of the lenders, it can offer faster implementation quality consistently according to specific use cases.

Process Integration — IDP solutions should map processes, and processes should be tweaked to match the IDP. It’s a two-way street. You should identify the proper business rules and set up the workflow engines in the IDP based on the processes to improve the ROI of IDP solution adoption.

Adoption and Adaptation — IDP solutions are machine-based enhancements that improve operational and process efficiencies. However, you can leverage the process accuracy and generate maximum impact only with optimal organizational adoption. Further, you should identify subprocesses and implement the solution according to the required capabilities to improve the ROI significantly.

Conclusion:

Maximizing the ROI of IDP investments depends on the proper adoption and execution of the IDP capabilities. Unless both happen, leveraging technologies such as AI and ML in the IDP solution can become cumbersome.

If you want to integrate IDP solutions into your mortgage business processes to simplify them, get in touch with us here, or email us at (example@docvu.ai).

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When Media Collide (26-10-2007)

Context: I saw three different countries' coverage of various parts of the Brazillian Grand Prix (Speed TV for the USA, the channel that had the Spanish coverage and ITV for the UK). This inspired me to have a big long rant about press coverage. Some things never change.

I saw Speed TV's coverage of Brazil qualifying this year (long story involving an internet connection and some possibly-illegal behaviour), since ITV wouldn't broadcast live. While some aspects were really irritating (the whole thing was delayed 15 minutes to make way for NASCAR truck qualifying, and they missed loads of Q1 and Q3 due to ads), I envied the Americans their sane and balanced commentary line-up. David Hobbs seems very fair-minded, and although Peter Windsor has some biases, he seems to keep them much more restrained than James Allen.

In addition, I accidentally stumbled on some Spanish commentary some time later. I have no idea how the Spaniards put up with it, because the commentators seem to have the habit of talking over one another whenever anything exciting happens. While this may convey the excitement of F1 well, I cannot say that it increased my understanding of what the commentators thought very much���

ITV do have serious bias problems, and is clearly aimed at part-time fans. This increases ratings at the expense of commitment - and you need commitment to stick with F1 any length of time. Thankfully, we have Martin Brundle, but I have taken to watching the music channels for the first half-hour of ITV's hour-long build-up to avoid the outbreaks of Lewisteria the other people on ITV have got. I also stop watching the races as soon as the podium ceremony is done, unless a driver I support other than Hamilton has made it to the podium, for the same reason. Consequentially, I haven't watched any post-race press conferences this year.

Most races are currently directed by Bernie's organisation. I sometimes suspect they hired all the Austrian GP camera directors, because the same problems of bias and looking at fresh air are evident in the shots as they were in the coverage of the Austrian rounds before FOM got greedy. If only they'd asked one of the better countries to take over the camera work, we'd have a much better result.

The internet coverage is abysmal. I can't get formula1.com to work on my computer most of the time, so I can't comment on the live timing. What I can say is that on the rare occasion I have been able to get onto the site, the usability for people like me has been virtually non-existent. The FIA's site is not much of an improvement, and is in fact less usable and reliable than in its previous iteration (and Ollie, you needn't feel inferior on this sort of matter - this blog is highly accessible and would score well on any internet usability test).

The solution for the internet is three-fold:

1) Let people put clips on YouTube and similar free non-downloadable sites, so long as they were short (I believe YouTube's limit is 10 minutes a clip, and I think this is sensible to allow step 2) to work). 2) Have a central place where full races can be watched on a pay-per-race system (perhaps £3-5 per race). These basic races would have just the FOM-recorded video and sound, and would go from the 5-minute mark before races to the end of the race, plus podium and full post-race press conference. For an extra fee (£1, perhaps), the user could access the commentary from the professional provider of their choice, including all pre- and post-race content (this would be identical to whatever that channel broadcast, except without ads and with any content the broadcaster would like that would only work on the Net). The £1 supplement would go entirely to the broadcaster whose content was being viewed. This would set up competition between the broadcasters (all stations like extra money!), would reduce bias considerably (to get more viewers) and garner extra money for FOM (the FOM loves extra money!) 3) The third-party internet world needs to be embraced. Since the protaganists have, for the most part, proved completely unable to understand or cater for the requirements of the obsessive internet-based F1 fan. The likes of itv-f1.com would benefit from acknowledging these sites, perhaps by adding links to more detailed sources at the end of their news items (ITV itself is generally slow on the uptake as well as low on detail). Also, the good sites should be elevated in status, to the point where they are considered the equal of any traditional credentialed source.

The FIA's idea of posting regulations to the internet is good, but it is rather lazy in its uploading of said rules (new 2008 and 2009 Technical Regulations were announced yesterday and still haven't been posted!). Plain-language explanations would not only benefit us - given the problems various teams have had in the last couple of years, it would surely improve the running of the sport as well. But that's another story.

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Telecom Solutions: A Background: From Landlines to 5G and Beyond

Since the beginning, telecom solutions have advanced substantially, converting the way we connect with the enterprise and engage. The interesting adventure of telecom solutions, from the lowly landline to the current 5G era, is marked with the aid of quick trends and regular breakthroughs. In this text, we will look at how telecom answers have modified through the years and speculate about what the future may additionally preserve.

The Era of Landlines

The tale of telecom answers begins with the discovery of the smartphone via Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. This groundbreaking technology allowed human beings to communicate over lengthy distances for the first time, marking a great shift from traditional face-to-face interactions. Early telecom solutions were based on copper cord landlines, which related homes and organizations via a network of physical cables. These landlines had been exceptionally simple however provided a reliable means of communique.

Throughout the 20 th century, landlines have become extra superior with the introduction of rotary dial telephones and later push-button telephones. Despite those improvements, the center generation remained in large part the same: analog signals transmitted over copper wires. While landlines had been a main bounce ahead, in addition they had limitations, consisting of the incapacity to transmit facts past voice verbal exchange and the reliance on physical infrastructure.

The Rise of Mobile Phones

Cell phones became quite simply available inside the 1980s and 1990s, ushering in a very new era of telecom answers. Although being heavy and pricey, the original mobile phones allowed customers to have interaction freely with out being related to a landline. Mobile telephones used radio waves to transmit alerts, which allowed users to make calls from truly everywhere within coverage regions.

With advances in generation, cellular phones have grown in length and fee. The 2nd technology (2G) community entered the scene early within the Nineties, bringing virtual communications into the combination and permitting textual content messaging and more strong cellular communications. The improvement of 3G networks, which improved cellular telephone capabilities by taking into account faster information switch and internet access, turned into discovered within the early 2000s.

The Smartphone and 4G Era

The actual game-changer in telecom answers turned into the creation of smartphones in the late 2000s. These hybrid devices mixed the skills of a computer with a telephone, enabling customers to browse the net, check emails, and run more than one applications. The advent of the iPhone via Apple in 2007 basically altered the telephone landscape and opened the door for an entirely new technology of innovation.

Over the identical length, 4G LTE (Long-Term Evolution) networks were deployed, supplying even better statistics quotes and higher connectivity.. With 4G, customers could movement excessive-definition films, play on-line games, and experience more seamless internet browsing. This advancement in telecom answers transformed the manner people interacted with technology and opened up new opportunities for cellular applications and services.

The Dawn of 5G Technology

In recent years, 5G era has emerged as the next main improvement in telecom technologies. 5G is anticipated to provide formerly unheard-of speeds, decrease latency, and extra capability than its predecessors. This era is constructed to aid virtual fact (VR), augmented fact (AR), and the Internet of Things (IoT) so you can keep up with the ever-increasing demands of present day programming.

One of the most exciting factors of 5G is its potential to enable new use instances and innovations. For example, 5G can facilitate real-time conversation in self reliant vehicles, letting them change data speedy and efficiently. It can also enhance far off healthcare offerings via enabling super video consultations and real-time monitoring of affected person facts.

Moreover, 5G networks are designed to be extra green and scalable, this means that they can help a bigger range of linked gadgets simultaneously. This is critical as more devices come to be internet-linked and call for for data continues to rise.

Looking Ahead: Beyond 5G

As we look to the destiny, the evolution of telecom solutions is some distance from over. Researchers and engineers are already exploring the subsequent era of wi-fi technology, regularly referred to as 6G. While 6G is still in the early tiers of improvement, it's miles expected to build at the advancements of 5G and in addition enhance connectivity, speed, and reliability.

One of the capability features of 6G is the combination of artificial intelligence (AI) into network control and optimization. AI could assist improve network performance, are expecting and mitigate problems, and provide extra customized offerings to users. Additionally, 6G may aid even more advanced applications, inclusive of advanced holographic communications and immersive virtual reports.

Conclusion

The evolution of telecom answers from landlines to 5G and past showcases the brilliant development made in communication era during the last century. Each advancement has delivered new opportunities and converted the manner we connect to each other and the world around us. As we preserve to push the boundaries of era, the future of telecom solutions holds thrilling possibilities that promise to similarly beautify our lives and shape the manner we engage with the virtual world.

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How can organizations measure the return on investment (ROI) of automation AI initiatives?

Measuring the return on investment (ROI) of automation AI initiatives is crucial for organizations to understand the value and effectiveness of their investments. Here are several steps and key metrics that organizations can use to measure ROI effectively:

1. Define Clear Objectives:

Business Objectives: Specify the objectives of the AI program in terms of cost savings, revenue expansion, better customer happiness, or increased operational efficiency. KPIs: Set up KPIs (key performance indicators) in line with these goals. For example, shorter processing times, better precision, greater client retention rates, or decreased error rates.

2. Determine Costs:

Initial Investment: Take into consideration the hardware, software, and development costs associated with putting AI into practice. Operational Costs: Take into account continuous expenses including upkeep, upgrades, instruction, and assistance. Include the costs of integrating AI into currently in place systems and procedures when calculating integration costs.

3. Calculate Direct Benefits:

Cost Savings: Calculate the savings that result from fewer labor hours worked, less mistakes made, and increased productivity. Compute the savings from automating repetitive chores that employees used to complete, for instance. Growth in Revenue: Monitor revenue growth attributable to artificial intelligence (AI), including enhanced customer engagement, smarter pricing tactics, and higher sales via tailored marketing. Gains in Productivity: Calculate productivity gains by observing things like quicker processing speeds, higher throughput, or better-quality output.

4. Assess Indirect Benefits:

Customer Satisfaction: To assess how AI is affecting the customer experience, consider using customer satisfaction scores, Net Promoter Score (NPS), and customer feedback. Employee Satisfaction: Assess shifts in staff engagement and satisfaction, as AI can free up personnel to concentrate on more strategic and fulfilling work. Market Position: Evaluate how AI-driven innovation and efficiency have improved brand perception and market competitiveness.

5. Compare Performance Against Baseline:

Baseline Metrics: Establish baseline measurements so you have something to compare against before integrating AI. It helps in comprehending the observable advancements made possible by AI. Pre-and-Post Analysis: To demonstrate the influence of the project, compare performance measures before and after AI implementation.

6. Use Financial Metrics:

ROI Calculation: Use the formula ROI = (Net Benefit / Total Investment) x 100%. The overall benefits less the whole costs is known as the net benefit. Payback Period: Determine the payback period—the amount of time needed for cost savings and revenue growth from the AI investment—before making the investment.Value at Net Present (NPV): By discounting future expenses and benefits to their present values, you can find the net present value (NPV) of the AI initiative. An investment is profitable if the NPV is positive.

7. Monitor and Adjust:

Continuous Monitoring: To keep tabs on the AI initiative's continuing performance, periodically review financial measures and KPIs. Adjustments: Based on the data, be ready to make adjustments. Examine the causes of any underperformance in certain areas and adjust the AI methods accordingly.

8. The qualitative analysis method

Stakeholder input: To comprehend the wider effects of AI on the company, get input from stakeholders such as partners, customers, and staff. Benchmarking and Case Studies: Examine case studies and compare the outcomes with industry norms to understand the significance and pinpoint optimal methodologies.

By systematically measuring these aspects, organizations can gain a comprehensive understanding of the ROI of their automation AI initiatives, helping them make informed decisions and optimize their strategies for maximum impact.

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Essential Server Buying Guide for Small Businesses

As your small business grows beyond a handful of employees, it's likely time to consider investing in a server. The term "server" can refer to hardware, software, or the functionality of both, and choosing the right server for your business can be a daunting task. This guide will help you navigate your options and make an informed decision.

Understanding Your Needs

Before diving into the specifics, ask yourself the following questions to determine your server needs:

Are you buying for file sharing?

Will it be predominantly used for email?

Does your workforce need to connect remotely?

Is it going to be used for data backup?

How much space do you have available to accommodate the server?

Server Hardware and Functionality

At a hardware level, servers are similar to standard PCs but are designed for 24/7 operation and often include additional features like ECC memory and redundant components to ensure continuous operation. Key hardware components include:

CPU: The number of cores and clock speed determine the server's ability to handle multiple tasks.

Memory (RAM): More RAM allows for better performance, especially under heavy load.

Storage: Multiple bays for hard drives and options for RAID configurations ensure data redundancy and fast access.

Choosing the Right Server Type

File Servers

File servers or Network Attached Storage (NAS) are used for storing and sharing files across a network. Look for:

Multiple hot-swappable drive bays

Configurable hardware/software RAID options

Low-power CPU for efficient operation

Domain Controllers

Domain controllers manage user authentication and access levels. They are crucial for businesses with multiple users and devices. Look for:

Virtualization-capable CPU (any 64-bit CPU)

At least 4 GB of RAM

Database Servers

Database servers handle large volumes of data and user queries. They are essential for applications and websites built on a database layer. Look for:

Hard drives rated for fast writes

Large CPUs (12- or 16-core)

Backup 'slave' servers for read-only databases

Web Servers

Web servers host websites and use HTTP to present web pages. They often work with a database server. Look for:

Hardware redundancy (especially for e-commerce sites)

Increased RAM capacity for better performance

Email Servers

Email servers, such as Microsoft Exchange, use specific protocols (SMTP, POP3, IMAP) to send and receive messages. Dedicating hardware to this task is recommended for optimal operation. Look for:

Similar specifications as a file server

Application Servers

Application servers centralize applications within their native framework (Java, PHP, .NET, various flavors of .js), improving performance and reducing maintenance costs. Look for:

Enterprise-grade storage bays (SAS hard drives)

ECC RAM

Choosing the Right Form Factor

Servers come in various physical form factors, including tower, rackmount, and blade:

Tower: Resembling desktop computers, tower servers are suitable for small businesses needing one or two servers. They don't require additional mounting hardware but take up more space as you add more servers.

Rackmount: These servers are installed in a rack chassis, which can hold multiple servers in slots. They are ideal for businesses needing several servers in a consolidated space.

Blade: Blade servers are more space-efficient than rackmount servers but require careful cooling and a larger initial investment. They are suitable for larger server rooms.

Server Operating Systems

A server operating system (OS) is more advanced and stable than a desktop OS, supporting more RAM, efficient CPU usage, and a greater number of network connections. The OS enables the server to perform various roles, such as:

Mail server

File server

Domain controller

Web server

Application server

Administrators use the server OS to authenticate users, manage applications and file storage, set up permissions, and perform other administrative tasks.

Conclusion

Choosing the right server for your small business involves understanding your specific needs, selecting appropriate hardware, and deciding on the best form factor and operating system. By carefully considering these factors, you can ensure your server investment supports your business's growth and operational efficiency.