Black Lagoon Roberta She is the strongest in the whole series. Photo by I AM Nik Thanks for assistant: 萌萌 & @Changshin_Vona #cosplay# #blacklagoon# #黑礁# #ブラックラグーン# #広江礼威# #コスプレ#

OHIO FRAUDSTERS FLEE TO AFRICA Roberta Acheampong and Godfred Owusu-Sekyere, a couple formerly living in Ohio, have been charged with TWELVE felonies for stealing $9.3 MILLION in Medicaid funding through their mental health clinic. The couple FLED to Africa and is now believed to be living in Kenya or Ghana. Every. Single. Day.

Lithuania has deployed around 100 troops to its border with Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad, bracing for a potential influx of Russians fleeing a new mobilization, Defense Minister Robertas Kaunas said

TL;DR Advanced encoders were losing to older models on sparse retrieval for one surprising reason: a vocabulary mismatch. Fixing it with just 20k adaptation steps sets a new BEIR state of the art. Title: Why Advanced Encoders Lag on Sparse Retrieval? The Answer and an Approach to Bridging Vocabulary Gaps URL: Key points 🔤 Raw case-sensitive vocabularies were splitting single meanings across redundant surface forms 🧩 The proposed Vocabulary Transfer method migrates vocabularies in 3 lightweight steps 📊 ModernBERT-VT hits nDCG@10 52.4 on BEIR, a new SOTA 💥 A collapsed RoBERTa-large jumps from BEIR score 1.4 to 51.3 ⚡ Uses under 0.2% of the original pretraining token budget 🧪 Near-optimal performance reached in just 500 MLM steps 🧬 Also works for domain-specific vocabularies like chemistry It's a nice reminder that what looked like an architectural ceiling turned out to be a fixable vocabulary design problem. #InformationRetrieval# #LLM#

🇸🇦🛢🇪🇬 Continued flow of Oil Tankers transporting crude from Saudi Yanbu port to Ain Sokhna in Egypt, from where Oil is moved to the port of Sidi Kerir via the SUMED pipeline, then onto Saudi Oil Tankers in the Med Sea, theorically out of Yemen's range. Meanwhile, first Saudi VLCC Tankers enter the Med Sea after a trip around Africa, most likely heading to Sidi Kerir. *This is the same network of Tankers used by the US to smuggle oil out of the Persian Gulf. (MOMBASA B that was struck on July 14, KENYA B, ROBERTA B are all managed by south korean-registered SINOKOR)