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Title: Breathlessness and dysfunctional breathing in patients with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS): The impact of a physiotherapy intervention

Date: January 2020 Published in: Autonomic Neuroscience Publicly available: It is now.

Citation: Reilly, C. C., Floyd, S. V., Lee, K., Warwick, G., James, S., Gall, N., & Rafferty, G. F. (2020). Breathlessness and dysfunctional breathing in patients with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (pots): The impact of a physiotherapy intervention. Autonomic Neuroscience, 223, 102601. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autneu.2019.102601

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[maadlaswelt]

Uiuiuiuiui, manchmal trifft man auf Menschen…

Es war REHAB in Karlsruhe (15.-17.06.23) und ich wollte hin. Von Rollstuhl-Verladesystemen fürs Auto, über das beeindruckende Handquad Manul® 4×4 der Tretzeug GmbH bis hin zur Frauenselbsthilfe Krebs Landesverbande Baden-Württemberg/Bayern e.V. Und der ILCO waren so einige Aussteller vertreten, jedoch vermisste ich auch bestimmte Rollstuhlhersteller.

Nach viel Information, etwas Ernüchterung, neuen Eindrücken und tollen Gesprächen stand mein Messeabschied schon wieder bevor und es ging wieder mit dem Messeshuttle zurück zum Hauptbahnhof Karlsruhe.

Am Gleis angekommen hatte ich leider eine etwas unschöne Begegnung.

Ich finde toll, dass sich auch die DB auf die REHAB in Karlsruhe eingestellt und Personal zur Verfügung gestellt hat, um den Besuchern mit Hilfebedarf in die Züge zu helfen. Ich selbst hatte keine Hilfeleistung bei der Mobilitätszentrale angemeldet, da ich im Bereich der Regionalbahn selbständig zurecht komme.

Dies teilte ich auch einen offensichtlichen Mitarbeiter von „bwegt“ mit, worauf mich dieser als „unverschämt“ betitelte.

Den ganzen Bericht (und ausführliche Ablaufbegebenheit mit dem Bahnmitarbeiter) findet ihr wie gewohnt auf:

http://www.facebook.com/maadlas

Bin ich undankbar und unverschämt wenn ich die bereitgestellte Hilfe nicht in Anspruch nehmen möchte?

Ich wünsche euch eine gute Zeit und viele tolle Kontakte mit euch bekannten und unbekannten Menschen.

Liebe Grüße aus meiner kleinen, aktivierenden, „auf den Boden der Tatsachen holenden“, kommunizierenden, beeindruckten Welt 🌍🐮🌸

Susanne

Evtl. Werbung ist unbezahlt

[kob131]

SPeaking of DB, what do you think about Giorno vs Joker? IIRC it's heavily interpretation heavy, but I'm curious to think on who you think would win.

Well, let's start by laying down the ground work in assuming that Joker's feats are equivalent to slaying a God. I still don't know if the creatures like Yaldaboth are truly gods (as in, comparable to SMT's YHVH or Lucifer) but let's say that Sataneal could make Joker a God Slayer.

In terms of destructive power, I'd say Joker is a winner. Obviously. Giorno has never faced a foe even near a God's level of power. Even beyond that, I would think the higher tiers of attacks from Personas probably match the more destructive Stands like Killer Queen. Unlike Golden Experience, which relies on Giorno's quick thinking and abuse of its power to win fights, not raw strength.

Versatility though, I'd honestly say goes to Giorno. If we use P5 The Animation as the basis for what Personas Joker can use, Joker has a good variety of moves between physical attacks with Yoshitsunne and Hecatoncheir, magic with Beelzebub and Vishnu, status through numerous Personas, healing through Pixie, simple range through Seth and White Rider and of course the sheer power of Sataneal. ... But Giorno's power lets him call upon any known animal on planet Earth as a weapon. Not as destructive as Joker's Personas but all Giorno would need is to create an animal with a toxic enough venom or poison and fling them at Joker to kill him (unless Joker can cure status). And because the animals can and will work autonomously from Giorno, he can run and hide while Joker NEEDS to direct his Personas. Which can be impaired by Giorno overloading Joker with life energy. You also have to remember that any damage Joker performs on an animal Golden Experience gives life to will reflect that damage back, making it extra dangerous.

Speaking of- healing ability. This is a weird one. Joker's healing doesn't require raw materials nor time like Giorno's Golden Experience. But it does use his finite resources in MP whereas Stands simply require focus from the user. It's weird where Joker's healing is superior to Giorno's but it's more finite than his.

We have intelligence which...I don't know. Joker is undoubtly intelligent (you wouldn't be able to wrangle the Phantom Thieves and use Personas effectively if you weren't smart in some way) but JoJo as a series basically works as a series of Puzzle Bosses which constantly require you to think outside the box and use EVERYTHING you have to beat them. It's also a written series so there's more time to showcase Giorno's cleverness than a video game/deliberately gimped anime where Joker is restricted.

And then, we have...the arrowheaded elephant in the room. Gold Experience Requiem. A stand that existed for about 4 chapters, had one fight and that's ALL we know in canon. GER's power is very...undefined. We know it's a lot stronger than GE and it's sentient. But it's ability to 'return to zero'?

All we know is it undoes...something.

Does it have to happen to Giorno to work? Maybe, but GER can undo King Crimson's time skip which wasn't necessarily targeted at Giorno. Diavolo intended on using it to kill Giorno but it wasn't directly AIMED at him.

Does it have a range for this? It literally has 'null' for stats so who knows?

Is it incapable of stopping extremely powerful attacks, like nukes? I dunno. It stopped King Crimson which isn't a nuke but is fucking with goddamn TIME.

Does Giorno need to be conscious? Maybe not, Giorno wasn't conscious when GER was reversing the time skip but we don't know if it could, say, stop an attack on a sleeping Giorno.

Could you overcome GER with a god's power? Maybe. Dio Over Heaven in the Eyes of Heaven game couldn't care less about it but that's a non-canon video game and Joker MIGHT be able to resist Dio Over Heaven's ability to rewrite reality.

It honestly depends on if you think Joker's 'will to rebellion' can overcome GER. It was able to overcome Yaldabath's overwritting of the world but GER is a Stand that, itself, fucks with Fate. Both Joker and Giorno are people who break fate itself to be heroes. So...it's really fucking hard to judge.

If you take out GER and Sataneal, Joker likely wins. He's just stronger with powerful options to overwhlem Giorno, who comes from an at least semi-realistic world. There is a chance Joker blows himself up from attacking an animal with a strong attack but Joker's Personas tend to resist at worst the elements they use. But with GER, it all comes down to whose will to overcome is stronger.

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Sony Semiconductor Solutions to Release the Industry's First CMOS Image Sensor for Automotive Cameras That Can Simultaneously Process and Output RAW and YUV Images

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (SSS) has announced the upcoming release of the ISX038 CMOS image sensor for automotive cameras, the industry's first*1 product that can simultaneously process and output RAW*2 and YUV*3 images. The new sensor product has proprietary ISP*4 inside and can process and output RAW and YUV images simultaneously. RAW images are required for external environment detection and recognition in advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving systems (AD), while the YUV images are provided for infotainment applications such as the drive recorder and augmented reality (AR). By expanding the applications a single camera can offer, the new product helps simplify automotive camera systems and saves space, cost, and power. *1   Among CMOS sensors for automotive cameras. According to SSS research (as of announcement on October 4, 2024).*2   Image for recognition on a computer.*3   Image for driver visual such as recording or displaying on a monitor.*4   Image signal processor – a circuit for image processing. Model nameSampleshipment date(planned)Sample price(including tax)ISX038 1/1.7-type (9.30 mm diagonal)8.39- effective-megapixel*5CMOS image sensorOctober 2024¥15,000*6 *5   Based on the image sensor effective pixel specification method.*6   May vary depending on the volume shipped and other conditions. The roles of automotive cameras continue to diversify in line with advances in ADAS and AD and increasing needs and requirements pertaining to the driver experience. On the other hand, there is limited space for installing such cameras, making it impossible to continue adding more indefinitely, which in turn has created a demand to do more with a single camera. The ISX038 is the industry's first*1 CMOS image sensor for automotive cameras that can simultaneously process and output RAW and YUV images. It uses a stacked structure consisting of a pixel chip and a logic chip with signal processing circuit, with the SSS' proprietary ISP on the logic chip. This design allows a single camera to provide high-precision detection and recognition capabilities of the environment outside the vehicle and visual information to assist the driver as infotainment applications. When compared with conventional methods such as a multi-camera system or a system that outputs RAW and YUV images using an external ISP, the new product helps simplify automotive camera systems, saving space, costs, and power.  ISX038 will offer compatibility with the EyeQ™6 System-on-a-Chip (SoC) currently offered by Mobileye, for use in ADAS and AD technology. Processing and output of Sony's ISX038 sensor (right) compared to conventional image sensors (left) Main Features - Industry's first*1 sensor capable of processing and outputting RAW and YUV images simultaneouslyThe new sensor is equipped with dedicated ISPs for RAW and YUV images and is capable of outputting two types of images simultaneously with image quality optimized for each application on two independent interfaces. Expanding the applications a single camera can offer helps build systems that save space, costs, and power compared to multi-camera systems or systems with an external ISP. - Wide dynamic range even during simultaneous use of HDR and LED flicker mitigationIn automobile driving, objects must be precisely detected and recognized even in road environments with significant differences in brightness, such as tunnel entrances and exits. Automotive cameras are also required to suppress LED flicker, even while in HDR mode, to deal with the increasing prevalence of LED signals and other traffic devices. The proprietary pixel structure and unique exposure method of this product improves saturation illuminance, yielding a wide dynamic range of 106 dB even when simultaneously employing HDR and LED flicker mitigation (when using dynamic range priority mode, the range is even wider, at 130 dB). This design also helps reduce motion artifacts*7 generated when capturing moving subjects. *7   Noise generated when capturing moving subjects with HDR. - Compatibility with conventional products*8This product shares the same compatibility with SSS' conventional products,*8 which have already built a proven track record for ADAS and AD applications with multiple automobile manufacturers. The new product makes it possible to reuse data assets collected on previous products such as driving data from automotive cameras. This helps streamline ADAS and AD development for automobile manufacturers and partners. *8 SSS' IMX728 1/1.7 type 8.39 effective megapixel CMOS image sensor. - Compliant with standards required for automotive applicationsThe product is qualified for AEC-Q100 Grade 2 automotive electronic component reliability tests by mass production. Also, SSS has introduced a development process compliant with the ISO 26262 road vehicle functional safety standard, at automotive safety integrity level ASIL-B(D). This contributes to improve automotive camera system reliability. Key Specifications Model nameISX038Effective pixels3,857×2,177(H×V), approx. 8.39 megapixelsImage sizeDiagonal 9.30mm (1/1.72-type)Unit cell size2.1μm×2.1μm (H×V)Frame rate (all pixels)30fps (RAW&YUV dual output)Sensitivity (standard value F5.6, 1/30 secondcumulative)880mV (Green Pixel)Dynamic range (EMVA 1288 standard)106 dB (with LED flicker mitigation)130 dB (dynamic range priority)InterfaceMIPI CSI-2 serial output (Single port with 4-lanes / Dual port with 2-lanes per port)Package192pin BGAPackage size11.85mm×8.60mm (H×V) SOURCE Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation Photo of Sony's ISX038 CMOS image sensor for automotive cameras Read the full article

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Dragon Ball Super 116

GOKU VS. KEFLA: THE FINAL ROUND

This is it!  The climactic conclusion of the best fight in Dragon Ball Super!  There must be a winner!

Against all odds, Goku has somehow tapped into Autonomous Ultra Instinct for a second time!  Whis never dreamed he would figure it out ever again, much less a few minutes after the first time!  So Kefla’s doomed, right?   Well don’t write her off yet.  Kefla’s still got a lot left in the tank.  For example, she decides to see Goku’s Ultra Instinct and raise him Super Saiyan 2!  Well, that might not sound like a big deal, but when a Fused Saiyan does it, it means a lot.

And there’s the abs.  When I got to these episodes, I was kind of shocked by how skinny Kefla was in her base form, and then she went Super Saiyan and bulked up, but not as much as I remembered.  Now at SSJ2, she’s starting to look more like I remembered.  The key to this is that she’s combining Caulifla’s SSJ and SSJ2 forms with Kale’s Legendary Super Saiyan form, which gets more muscular the stronger she becomes.  So I guess they had to start with a pretty skinny Kefla, because they couldn’t have her beef up as big as Kale, or that would defeat the idea of it being a fusion with a smaller character. 

Oh this is a really cool shot of the arena. 

So it’s pretty much like we saw the last time Goku used this power.  Jiren couldn’t touch him, and neither can Kefla now.  And it’s not for lack of trying.  As strong as Kefla is, I think there’s a solid argument that she could give Jiren a run for his money. 

Okay, I think her hair tie is gone now, the same way Kale always loses hers when she transforms.  Kefla’s hair has always confused me so just knowing that there’s been a hair tie involved is a relief.  

Meanwhile, Vegeta watches Goku playing the artful dodger and he finally gets a clue: this was the ideal style that Whis told them about in Resurrection F.  Vegeta’s all mad that Goku went and surpassed him again.  Sure, Vegeta, he did it just to spite you, because that’s what everything is about, after all.

Here’s a cool spot where Kefla flies after Goku who falls off the side of a cliff, and then he digs his heels into the rock and leans back so Kefla can’t hit him.  Wild.

Or, rather, he does this so he can hit her.  But that’s the trick, you see....

As powerful as Goku has become in this state, he’s mostly only able to use it for defense.  Kefla can’t even touch Goku, but on the other hand, Goku’s attacks aren’t nearly as strong as Kefla was expecting.  He makes a little headway with it, but he’s still not hitting her hard enough to defeat her.  And maybe he could take his time with this and wear her down, but he doesn’t have that long.  The UI power could wear off any second now. 

As Whis explains to the others, even those who can use Ultra Instinct have trouble using it offensively.  Goku’s problem is that he’s still having to use his brain to tell his body how to attack, and that interferes with his body acting autonomously for defense.  That’s why his attacks are so weak.  And if he doesn’t figure out a solution soon, he’ll run out of juice and Kefla will win.

So Goku calls his shot: He’s going to end this fight with one more attack.

Kefla doesn’t take kindly to this, and ramps up her power even further.  Now she’s shooting concentrated ki blasts in every direction, and they rip up everything they touch. 

She just starts slinging all this red shit everywhere, and Goku hops and flips through it as he moves in closer to her...

And the whole time, he’s chargin’ up...

Kefla’s just screaming and cackling like a maniac.  I really have to hand it to the dub VA’s for this, Elizabeth Maxwell (Caulifla) and Dawn Bennet (Kale).  DBS was the first time I ever watched a Dragon Ball series in Japanese first, and I was curious how the dub would handle the new characters, and I’m really pleased with Kefla’s manic energy.  They nailed it. 

She keeps firing red lasers, but Goku’s getting closer and closer...  Finally he jumps toward her, ready to fire...

Ah, but that plays right into her hands!  Remember, no flying in the Tournament of Power, so now that Goku’s jumping at her, he can’t steer or dodge!  So now she can concentrate all that power she was slinging around every direction, and aim it right at him!

THE POWER OF...!

CHRISTMAAAAAASSSSS!

But then Goku just does this sweet midair flip and skates along the front of her blast, using his ki ball like a weird little skateboard!

HOW THE FUCK IS HE DOING THIS?! 

KALE LOOKS UP AND SHE’S LIKE “AWWWWW SHIT!”

HAPPY...!

HANUKKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Kefla gets blasted through the stage!  Then her Potara shatter, and coincidentally...

... the Fusion dissolves, and so it’s Caulifla and Kale who tumble to the bench!

They’re OUT. 

Kale apologizes for losing, while Caulifla cries out for revenge.  Yes!  Fight Goku again!  Give us Kefla/Goku II!  Make it happen!

So now Team Universe 6 is down to just two fighters: Saonel and Pilina. They vow to win, but come on.  What chance could they have?

Meanwhile, that last round with Kefla finally got Jiren’s attention.  At least he’s not meditating like he planned to do for the second half.

As for Goku, he’s tapped out all over again.  I guess it’s a net positive, since at least this time around he won a fight with Ultra Instinct instead of eating a super punch from Jiren.  But still, if he plans to defeat Jiren, he’ll have to do Ultra Instinct a third time, and can he even handle that?  Well, those are matters for later episodes.  As for this one, what else can I say but:

This was a brilliant finish to a classic fight.  A lot of dumbasses out there were only happy to see Caulifla and Kale eliminated from the competition because they hated those two.  But discerning Caulifla and Kale likers, such as myself, know the truth, that Episodes 113-116 were a bona fide barn-burner, and the best of what Dragon Ball Super had to offer.  Show me a fight in GT that came anywhere close to this.  No, don’t bother, because I already watched GT recently, and I have 65 haikus that say there isn’t one. 

I’ll admit, there have been times where I thought this liveblog was a mistake, because most of the stuff I’ve been covering has been pretty weak.  A lot of it is downright terrible.  But I knew the Tournament of Power would cheer me up, and that these four episodes in particular would really cheer me up, and I was right.  It’s like all the frustration and regret from before has metled away.  There’s 15 episodes of Super left to go, and I’m refreshed and ready to tackle ‘em!

Well, later, I think. 

[betamax65]

So nun kann ich noch bis Ende des Monats über das #Deutschlandticket nachdenken.

Warum ich es für den Weg von/zur #Arbeit nicht nutzen möchte habe ich ja bereits genügend berichtet. In der #Freizeit ist es scheinbar auch nicht wirklich praktisch.

Am #Wochenende also mit der #RE1 (verkehrt zwischen #Rostock und #Hamburg) gefahren.

Auf der Hinfahrt am #Samstag war der Zug bereits in #Rostock überfüllt und man stand dann mehr oder weniger dicht gepresst aneinander. Je dichter man sich Hamburg angenähert hatte, desto mehr strömten in den Zug. In #Schwerin wurde dann durch die #DeutscheBahn die #Bundespolizei beauftragt, den Zug so weit zu räumen, das eine Weiterfahrt möglich ist. Mich hat es zum Glück nicht getroffen. Hätte ich aussteigen müssen, dann hätte ich gleich wieder umkehren können. Zum Spiel des #FCStPauli #fcsp hätte ich es dann nicht mehr geschafft, da der Zug eine Stunde später dann bedeutet hätte das ich nicht nur eine Stunde in Schwerin gewartet hätte sondern dann wahrscheinlich erst Mitte der 2. Halbzeit im Stadion gewesen wäre (wir hatten zu dem Zeitpunkt auch bereits schon deutlich Verspätung, ich war 5 Minuten vor Anpfiff im Stadion, anstelle von 1 Stunde). Um zu verdeutlichen wie eng es war: Meine #Apple #Watch, die ja in der Lage ist zu registrieren ob ich sitze oder stehe, hat mich aufgefordert aufzustehen und zu bewegen (obwohl ich ja stand).

Die Rückfahrt habe ich dann kurzfristig auf den #Sonntag (geplant war Samstag) verlegt, da ich den Rückreiseverkehr vom #CSDHamburg entgehen wollte. Aber auch hier hat sich erwiesen, das diese Taktik nur so semi war. Als ich auf den Bahnsteig im #Hauptbahnhof angekommen war (15 Minuten vor Abfahrt) stand der Zug bereits da, und war auch schon so weit gefüllt, das kein #Sitzplatz mehr zur Verfügung stand. Ich habe mich dann auf einer kleinen #Kofferablage gesetzt (zum Glück hatte ich das #Arschkissen für das Stadion ja dabei) und habe dort eingezwängt (geschätzt so eine Breite von 50 cm hatte diese Lücke) auf bessere Zeiten gewartet. In Schwerin hat sich das dann verbessert da dort viele Leute ausgestiegen sind und man dann endlich ein #Sitzplatz erobern konnte.

Im Gespräch mit anderen Reisenden stellte sich raus (ich gebe das mal ungefiltert weiter, beurteilen kann ich es nicht), das diese Züge am Sonntag immer so voll sind. Also praktisch der IST-Zustand und nicht ein unglücklicher Zufall.

Die Frage ist ja nun, warum reagiert die #DeutscheBahn nicht auf besondere Situationen wie z.B. #CSD in Hamburg und setzt vielleicht ein Zug mehr ein, bzw. hängt mehr #Waggons an? Wenn die Züge am Sonntag so voll sind, müsste man das bei der #DB ja längst auch erkannt haben und Maßnahmen ergreifen (wenn man denn will). Ich habe ja Verständnis dafür wenn es aus personeller Sicht und Problemen in der Infrastruktur nicht zu mehr Fahrten reicht, aber die vorhandenen mit zusätzlichen Waggons bei besonderen Anlässen aufzustocken ist da keine Frage des personal oder Infrastruktur, sondern rein eine Frage des Willens!

Ich glaube inzwischen nicht mehr das es eine #Verkehrswende geben wird. Wenn man bedenkt das die Einführung eines #Deutschlandtaktes auf das Jahr 2070 verschoben wurde, wird wahrscheinlich die Generation, die heute geboren wird, auch im #ÖPNV kaum eine Alternative finden bis diese in #Rente geht!

Man sollte evtl. darüber nachdenken, den #Schienenverkehr komplett aufzulösen und das eingesparte #Geld in die #Forschung für autonome, vernetzte #Autos zu verwenden um der #Bevölkerung dadurch #mobil zu halten. #49euroticket

[akashkr759]

Delhi School of Business – VIPS Technical Campus: Eligibility, Ranking, Courses, Fees, Admission, Placement and Cut-off

Delhi School of Business (Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies-Technical Campus) was founded in 2012. This autonomous institution, administered by VIPS-TC, is situated on a sprawling 5-acre campus in the core of Delhi. The Delhi Business School provides postgraduate and doctoral programs in the realm of Management. Delhi School of Business – VIPS Technical Campus is recognized and accredited by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi, and has received accreditation from the National Board of Accreditation (NBA). DBS was honored as the Outstanding B-School in India at the World Education Summit 2024. For More: https://radicaleducation.in/?p=50521&preview=true

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What If AI Could Fully Automate Database Management for Organizations?

Imagine a future where AI platforms like Db Sensei could completely automate database management processes, making data handling seamless and intuitive. What implications would this have for organizations?

Main Content:

Scenario: Envision an AI system that autonomously monitors, optimizes, and maintains databases, adjusting performance metrics based on real-time needs without human intervention.

Analysis:

Potential Benefits:

Seamless Operations: Businesses could enjoy uninterrupted access to their data, leading to improved efficiency and decision-making.

Enhanced Resource Allocation: Human resources could focus on strategic initiatives rather than routine database management tasks.

Improved Data Accessibility: Faster performance and automated management would enhance user access to critical data.

Challenges:

Data Security: Ensuring that automated systems maintain robust security measures to protect sensitive information.

Quality Assurance: Balancing automation with the need for human oversight to ensure data accuracy and relevance.

How do you envision AI transforming the future of database management? Would you embrace such advancements, or do you have concerns?

Share your thoughts!

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Teaching Tomorrow's Leaders with Eco Pals

On 3 August, Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous, Bengaluru held a leadership camp led by Fr Anil D’sa SBD director of DB Yuva Spandana and the founder of Eco Pals, along with the rest of his team. This event focused on understanding leadership through the principles observed in nature. Fr Anil  spoke about daily self-reflection for building confidence and discussed the three pillars of education:…

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The Most Important Algorithm for Transformers

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/the-most-important-algorithm-for-transformers/

The Most Important Algorithm for Transformers

FlashAttention has a new version. Plus some important research milestones and major funding activity in AI.

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Next Week in The Sequence:

Edge 413: Our series about autonomous agents continues with an exploration of semantic memory. We review Meta AI’s MM-LLM research to augment video models with memory and we dive into the Qdrant vector DB stack.

Edge 414: We dive into HUSKY, a new agent optimized for multi-step reasoning.

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📝 Editorial: The Most Important Algorithm for Transformers

There are few algorithms that have had as much impact on the recent generation of transformer architectures as FlashAttention. Originally developed by researchers from Princeton University, including the renowned Tri Dao, FlashAttention and its successor FlashAttention-2 were able to improve the performance of attention mechanisms in GPUs by minimizing read-writes. Almost immediately after the original publication, FlashAttention was rapidly adopted within the new generation of transformers. There were not many complaints about FlashAttention, but one of the few was that it was unable to take full advantage of new hardware architectures. For instance, FlashAttention-2 is only able to achieve 35% utilization of max FLOPs in H100 GPUs.

But now we have a new version.

Last week, a group of AI researchers from Meta, Princeton University, NVIDIA, and other AI labs published the paper and open-source code for FlashAttention-3. The new version of the method uses several techniques to speed up attention in H100 GPUs, exploiting the asynchrony of the tensor cores. The result is simple: FlashAttention-3 is blazing fast. The new model achieves 75% theoretical max FLOP utilization in H100, which results in practical 1.5-2x performance improvements. The new algorithm is also able to use lower precision numbers, which reduces the memory footprint.

FlashAttention-3 is an exciting development in generative AI algorithms. This method will almost certainly lead to improvements in large context windows in LLMs and better inference performance on modern GPU architectures. Impressive progress!

🔎 ML Research

FlastAttention-3

A group of AI researchers from Meta, Princeton University, Together AI, NVIDIA and others published a paper unveiling the new version of the famous FlastAttention algorithm. FlashAttention-3 takes advantages of the latest GPU advancements achieving 2x the performance of its predecessor and also exceling in long context LLM tasks —> Read more.

Sub-Billion Parameter Models for Mobile

Meta AI published a paper introducing MobileLLM, a sub-billion parameter model optimized for on-device scenarios. MobileLLM uses a specific structure of embedding and attention layers that optimizes its efficiency relative to its size —> Read more.

Generative Teaching for Agents

Microsoft Research published a paper unveiling AgentInstruct, an agentic framework for creating syntethic data. Specifically, AgentInstruct focuses on datasets used for instruction tuning of base models —> Read more.

Evaluating Multimodal Foundation Models

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University published a paper introducing the holitic evaluation of multimodal models(HEMM) framework . HEMM sets the primitives to systematically evaluate multimodal models across different tasks such as basic skills, information flow, and real-world use cases —> Read more.

A Unified AI Database

Microsoft Research published a paper proposing VBase, the foundation for a unified database for vector, relational and scalar data types. The core of VBase is based on a property called relaxed monotonicity that enables the unification of the different data types models —> Read more.

Contamination in Code Generation Benchmarks

Researchers from Cohere published a paper providing evidence of the levels of contamination of code generation benchmarks in major LLMs. The paper also proposes a Less Basic Python Problems, a new benchmark more resilient to contamination —> Read more.

Autoregressive Models for Text-Image Generation

The team bedhind the Generative AI Research Lab(GAIR) published a paper unveileing ANOLE, an autoregressive multimodal model for image and text generation. ANOLE is based on Meta AI’s Chameleon which guarantees a data and parameter efficient fine-tuning strategy —> Read more.

🤖 Cool AI Tech Releases

Claude High Quality Prompts

Anthropic released some features to evaluate and generate high quality prompts for Claude —> Read more.

MInference

Microsoft released some demos of its MInference method for optimizing LLM inference performance —> Read more.

AutoGen Models

Microsoft AutoGen added support for non OpenAI models —> Read more.

🛠 Real World AI

Ad Inference at Meta

Meta shares some details about the AI inference architecture powering its ad serving system —> Read more.

📡AI Radar

Hebbia, a platform that uses AI to analyze large documents, raised $130 million in new funding.

OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboraty announced a strategic alliance for bioscience research.

Defense AI startup Helsing raised $487 million to expand to countries neighboring Russia.

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Title: Breathlessness and dysfunctional breathing in patients with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS): The impact of a physiotherapy intervention

Date: January 2020 Published in: Autonomic Neuroscience Publicly available: It is now.

Citation: Reilly, C. C., Floyd, S. V., Lee, K., Warwick, G., James, S., Gall, N., & Rafferty, G. F. (2020). Breathlessness and dysfunctional breathing in patients with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (pots): The impact of a physiotherapy intervention. Autonomic Neuroscience, 223, 102601. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autneu.2019.102601

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Abbreviations:

BPAT: breathing pattern assessment tool

COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

DB: dysfunctional breathing

HVS: hyperventilation syndrome

POTS: postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome

Article summary

Abstract

Introduction

POTS is a chronic syndrome with complex symptoms of orthostatic intolerance. It is defined as an increase in heart rate of ≥ 30bpm in adults (≥40 bpm in children) within 10 minutes of standing with no orthostatic drop in blood pressure.

POTS is more common in women. Symptoms can be debilitating (impairment comparable to congestive heart failure and COPD) and include palpitations, light headedness/syncope, chest discomfort, breathlessness, neuropathic pain, chronic fatigue, poor sleep efficience, gastrointestinal symptoms, syncope, cognitive slowing, and psychological distress.

Breathlessness is a common symptom in POTS. Breathlessness is often attributed to changes in breathing pattern, frequency, and/or quality occuring alongside cardiac symptoms. Breathlessness can be episodic, triggered by physical activity, stressful thoughts and events.

Dysfunctional breathing (DB) is an umbrella term describing breathing disorders where chronic changes in breathing pattern result in breathlessness and other symptoms without respiratory or cardiac disease. The most studied form of DB is hyperventilation syndrome (HVS)

Boulding et al. (2016) suggest classifying dysfunctional breathing into the following: 1) Hyperventilation syndrome (a respiratory pattern associated with symptoms both related to respiratory alkalosis and independent of hypocapnia), 2) Periodic deep sighing (frequent sighing with an irregular breathing pattern), 3) Thoracis dominant breathing (a respiratory pattern occurring separate to somatic disease may be considered dysfunctional and results in dyspnoea), 4) Forced abdominal expiration (inappropriate and excessive use of abdominal muscle contraction to aid expiration), 5) Thoraco-abdominal asynchrony (a respiratory pattern in which there is delay between rib cage and abdominal contraction resulting in ineffective breathing movements)

Patients with POTS often undergo extensive investigations due to the complexity of potential comorbidities but there is no guidance or consensus on the assessment of breathlessness.

Methods

Retrospective study of POTS patients referred to repiratory physiotherapy

Respiratory physiotherapy outpatient's referral criteria: tests performed and identification of DB/HVS are explained

Physiotherapy assessment and outcome measures

A standardised physiotherapy assessment of symptoms was performed on all patients (details provided in the paper)

Physiotherapy intervention:

The physiotherapy intervention was standaradised in terms of education and breathing re-training exercises and was delivered by a consultant physiotherapist of a highly specialised respiratory physiotherapist. Each patient was assessed and treated by the same physiotherapist.

Physiotherapy treatment

The educational component focused on patient's understanding of respiratory physiology and the mind-body link

Breathing re-training intervention involved teaching breathing control (details provided). The breathing retraining exercises were standardised and progressive. All techniques used were standard respiratory physiotherapy techniques commonly applied for acute and chronic respiratory disease. Their use for breathlessness in POTS had no previously been assessed.

Patients were discharged when they were confident to continue the re-training programme independently or if they did not attend for follow-up appointments.

Data analysis: details and figures provided in the paper

Results

Demographic information is given in Table 1

Signficiant improvements were observed and are noted in Table 2

Discussion

This paper is the first to characterise DB/HVS and investigate the impact of physiotherapy in POTS. The results indicate that breathing retraining results in significant improvements in breathing pattern and symptom burden thus potentially improving their health related quality of life. Further studies are needed.

Significance of the findings

it is estimated that DB/HVS affects 10% of the general population and is more prevalent in women than men. Patients with POTS who reported respiratory symptoms had DB/HVS. DB/HVS may coexist alongside chronic respiratory diseases and COPDalthough the relationship is unclear.

Although there were statistically significant improvements for the patient cohort as a whole, not all patients had complete resolutions of their DB/HVS and there are several limitations in interpreting the results for this study.

Unexplained breathlessness or 'air hunger' are predominant symptoms of DB/HVS and can result in significant patient morbidity and an array of non-respiratory symptoms which can themselves provoke anxiety/panic and further breathing irregularity

Whilst orthostatic tachycardia is the main symptom of POTS, orthostasis causes a variety of other symptoms through a vaireity of different mechanisms. The paper provides an overview of the hypothesised mechanisms.

Psychological influences (stress, axniety, depression, etc.) are highly prevalent in POTS patients and predispose them to DB/HVS. The impact of this study's intervention could, therefore, be partly related to a change in anxiety thanks to education, greater understanding of DB/HVS, and empowerment.

Proposed improvements for further studies include the inclusion of pre-post PaCO2 measurements, the exclusion of asthma and pulmonary hypertension, analysis of why patients attended appointments (and addressing the issues)

Access to respiratory physiotherapy outpatient services is limited across the NHS and many POTS patients are instead seen by muscluloskeletal physiotherapists due to comorbidities. Increased awareness may improve treatment for these patients

More data is needed to investigate the prevalence of dysfunctional breathing in POTS and how it relateds to other chronic conditions. More detailed investigation and assessment guidelines and techniques are needed.

Limitations

No control data were available

Outcome measures were potentially not sensitive to non-hyperventilatory dysfunctional breathing

Observational nature and small sample size did not allow exploration of the role of confounding variables

A selection bias may have been introduced due to this being a convenience sample

The Nijmegen score used to characterise these patients has not been validated in this patient population. Its limitations highlight the need for a holistic POTS-specific measure.

Physiological outcome measures for the diagnosis of HVS are often limited to specialist services so alternative diagnostic tests are sought. The Breathing Pattern Assessment Tool (BPAT) has demonstrated good sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of DB in refractory asthma. Responsiveness of the BPAT to treatment remains to be ascertained.

Measuring Neural Respiratory Drive (NRD) in breathlessness patients with POTS may be advantageous. NRD provides a global measure of breathlessness and a physiological correlate to breathlessness but there is no data on whether NRD is increased in POTS or on NRD pre-post respiratory interventions

Conclusion

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1.4.1    Primary

1.4.2    Secondary

1.4.2.1   Paid sources

1.4.2.2   Public sources

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2.3    Regional trends

2.4    Service trends

2.5    Mode trends

2.6    Type trends

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3.10.2.2    Growing global political instability

3.11    Growth potential analysis

3.12    Porter’s analysis

3.13    PESTEL analysis

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