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.

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)

Robert Kiyosaki has been telling everyone he’s $1.2 billion in debt as proof his philosophy works. His own business partner says that’s not his debt. Kim Kiyosaki told Vanity Fair last month the $1.2 billion sits across roughly 1,500 apartment units owned with a group of investors. She put his actual personal share at $30 to $60 million. So the number he’s been repeating for over a year is somewhere between 20 and 40 times his real exposure. His famous line is “if I go under, the bank goes under, it’s the bank’s problem not my problem.” That only works if you’re actually on the hook. Every asset sits in its own LLC, so if a project fails the bank eats it and nothing touches him. Which isn’t a philosophy. It’s just structuring. Worth knowing this has already happened. Rich Global LLC filed Chapter 7 in 2012 after a $24 million judgment. The company went under, he didn’t. The lesson people take from him is use debt to get rich. The actual lesson is put every deal in a separate entity so the losses land somewhere else. One is teachable at scale. The other requires lawyers and partners willing to hold the bag.