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RAF Hudson Mk.V Bombers from 48 Squadron photographed in flight in 1942

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India approves development of the 5ª generation 'AMCA' fighter

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 03/07/2024 - 20:03in Military

In a significant move, the Indian Cabinet Security Committee approved the fifth-generation Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) poaching project to be executed by the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO).

With an estimated cost of approximately US$ 2 billion, the project will be carried out by the Aeronautical Development Agency of the Defense Research and Development Organization. The goal is to develop poaching and its associated technologies in collaboration with several public and private sector entities. The plan includes the construction of approximately five prototypes within a period of about five years.

According to sources, the project will involve the production of the prototype by industry players, including the public sector company Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.

AMCA ??

As CCS Chaired by PM Modi Clears India Stealth Fighter Jet Program. The total Program cost would be Rs 15,000 Cr & total 5 Prototype will be built in 5 Years with first Proto Roll out in 3 Year

All the Tech required for it already built & devloped.

— Vivek Singh (@VivekSi85847001) March 7, 2024

The government has actively sought the development of national technologies in the defense sector.

The Ministry of Defense predicts that the fifth-generation aircraft project will create numerous employment opportunities and may result in substantial commercial contracts worth millions of dollars for Indian companies. This initiative is expected to generate large-scale employment opportunities.

Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Indian Air Force has significantly strengthened its support for Indian fighter aircraft projects. This is evidenced by the government's acquisition of more than 200 light combat aircraft and the approval of engines for the LCA Mark-2 project.

The introduction of the AMCA into operational functions is expected to begin after 2030. The two initial squads are planned to be equipped with GE-414 engines, while discussions are underway for the co-development of more powerful engines for the subsequent squads.

India is expected to introduce more than 200 of these advanced fifth-generation fighters, which will also contribute to the country's ability to develop future generations of jet fighters in the domestic market.

Source: ANI

Tags: Military AviationHAL - Hindustan Aeronautics LimitedHAL AMCA - Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft/Advanced Medium Combat AircraftIAF - Indian Air Force/Air Force of India

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Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, he has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. He uses Canon equipment during his photographic work in the world of aviation.

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On January 4, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta €390 million ($414 million) for violating Europe’s privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and directed the company to bring its data processing operations into compliance within 3 months. Shortly thereafter, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), which consists of all the European data protection authorities, released the text of its binding decision that dictated the Irish DPC’s ruling. The key finding is that Meta cannot rely upon its contract with users as providing a sufficient legal basis for processing user data for personalized ads. If upheld on appeal, this decision might require social media companies and other online businesses to significantly revise their data-focused advertising business model in the name of protecting privacy.

I want to discuss the EDPB’s decision in two parts. In this post, I will first analyze its legal basis and assess its likely business implications.  In the next part, I will consider whether this decision holds some lessons for policymakers as they seek to revise U.S. laws to protect privacy more adequately.

The European Privacy Approach

The European Union’s GDPR became effective in 2018. It requires companies to have a legal basis for data processing, the European term of art for collecting and using personal information. “Processing shall be lawful,” says Article 6 of GDPR, “only if and to the extent that at least one of the following applies,” and includes a list of legal bases for data processing.

The key bases are fulfillment of a contract, consent, and legitimate interest. Under fulfillment of a contract, processing is lawful only if it is “necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract.” Under consent, processing is lawful only if “the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes.” Under legitimate interest, processing is lawful only if it is “necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party…”

The interpretation of these key legal terms of contractual necessity, consent, and legitimate interest is complex and contested. But for the purpose of understanding the broad outlines of the EDPB’s decision, the uses of the different legal bases can be simplified as follows.

Contractual necessity

Contractual necessity applies when the company needs personal information to fulfill a contract that they have made with you to provide service.  An online retail stores clearly needs users’ contact details in order to send the items they have purchased.  The store can rely on contractual necessity in this case as the basis for collecting and using this information.

Consent

Consent is the legal basis to use if a company wants to process personal information that is not needed to provide service to the customer.  If a company wants to collect users’ zip codes at the point of sale, it must ask the customers’ permission and tell them why it wants the information (understanding the company’s customer base for instance, or direct marketing). If the customers refuse, the company must still sell them what they want to buy. If the customers provide the store with their zip codes in these circumstances, they have consented, and the company can claim that as its legal basis for collecting the information.

Legitimate interest

Legitimate interest applies when neither of the other two apply. If a company wants to collect and use user information for direct marketing but has not obtained consent and does not need the information to provide a service, it can nevertheless obtain it and use it if it can show that it has a real business need for the information, an urgent need that overrides any interest the consumers have in protecting their privacy. The comment on legitimate interest in GDPR Recital 47 says that fraud prevention and direct marketing could be justified under legitimate interest. Neither consent nor contractual necessity would be required for data use justified under legitimate interest.

Further, Article 21 of GDPR limits the use of legitimate interest as a basis for direct marketing. This article provides users with an absolute right to object to direct marketing. A company can assert its legitimate interest as a basis for direct marketing, but as soon as a user objects it must honor this request to stop direct marketing. This right to object overrides any claim of business interest.

The European Data Protection Board’s Meta Decision

The Irish Data Protection Commission’s (DPC) January 4, 2023 announcement was the product of a complex process. Meta claimed to the Irish DPC that its legal basis for processing user data for personalized social media services and for advertising purposes was contractual necessity. The Irish DPC essentially agreed, but its decision was challenged by other European data protection authorities, which triggered a process of negotiation to seek a resolution of that dispute. The dispute resolution procedure failed and, pursuant to procedures set out in the GDPR, the issue was referred to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), a body that consists of all the European Union’s data protection authorities. The EDPB is authorized to issue binding decisions to ensure that the national data protection authorities apply the provisions of the GDPR in a correct and consistent manner.

On December 9, 2022, the EDPB announced that it had “settled” the question of whether or not the processing of personal data for the performance of a contract is a suitable legal basis for social media behavioral advertising. In conformity with that binding decision, the Irish DPC announced in January, that it was reversing itself and rejecting contractual necessity as the basis for Meta’s processing of personal data for advertising purposes. While this decision is formally one made by the Irish DPC, it effectively was determined by the collective body of European data protection commissioners. A few days later on January 11, the Irish DPC released the text of its decision, and the following day the EDPB released the text of its binding decision that had dictated the Irish DPC’s ruling.

The EDPB ruling is the key one for understanding the basis of this decision. It finds in the record it reviewed in coming to its decision information that reveals “the complexity, massive scale and intrusiveness of the behavioural advertising practice that Meta IE conducts…” (Par 96).  This indicates immediately its suspicion of Meta’s data practices, revealing that it will need substantial evidence to indicate that this “massive” collection of data for personalized ads is needed to provide social media service.

On the basis of the “objectives” and “normative context” of GDPR and of earlier European court decisions the EDPB concludes that GDPR “treats personal data as a fundamental right inherent to a data subject and his/her dignity, and not as a commodity data subjects can trade away through a contract.” (Par. 100, 101). This reassertion of the fundamental premise of European privacy law that privacy is prior to business interests is a guiding principle of the decision.

The EDPB recognizes that while data subjects cannot arbitrarily trade away their privacy, they are permitted under GDPR Article 6 to provide personal information needed to obtain a service. So, the EDPB turns to the question of “whether behavioural advertising is objectively necessary for Meta” to provide its service. (Par. 111). If it is, then Meta may claim contractual necessity; if it is not, then Meta may not.

EDPB then argues that personalized advertising is not needed to provide social media services. It asserts that if “there are realistic, less intrusive alternatives, the processing is not “necessary”. (par. 120). It considers that there are such alternatives including “contextual advertising based on geography, language and content, which do not involve intrusive measures such as profiling and tracking of users.” (Par. 121). Meta has found it useful for it business purposes to generate revenue through personalized ads. But that is not contractual necessity, since there are realistic alternative funding mechanisms. EDPB concludes that personalized advertising “is useful but not objectively necessary for performing the contractual service, even if it is necessary for the controller’s other business purposes.” (Par. 121).

EDPB also argues that processing for the purposes of personalized adverting cannot be necessary to provide social media services in light of the data subject’s “absolute right” to object to data processing for purposes of direct marketing under Article 21 of GDPR. Data processing for the purposes of personalized ads “cannot be necessary to perform a contract if a subject has the possibility to opt out from it at any time, and without providing any reason.” (Par 122).

EDPB notes that an important consideration in its rejection of Meta’s contractual necessity justification is that “the main purpose for which users use Facebook and accept the Facebook Terms of Service is to communicate with others, not to receive personalised advertisements.” (Par 124)

Next Steps

The consensus among analysts is that for the immediate future Meta will be able to continue to fund its operations through personalized ads. Matt Perault at New Street Research, for instances, considers that the EDPB judgment “won’t affect its ads business in the short run.” Meta’s reaction to the decision bears out this analysis. In a company-issued blog post, Meta says it thinks its legal justification of contractual necessity “respects” GDPR and complains about the lack of “regulatory clarity” on the issue.  The company said it would appeal both the ruling and the size of the fines, noting that the European courts may yet reach “a different conclusion altogether.” Presumably, it would also ask a court to stay the implementation of the ruling during the pendency of the appeal, which would allow its personalized ad business to continue uninterrupted, potentially for years.

Even if Meta fails to obtain a stay, it is open to the company to revise its legal basis and to present an alternative justification for its data processing. This could be consent, but Meta seems uninterested in pursuing this option. In the same blog post, it says that the EDPB decision does not “mandate the use of Consent” as a legal basis for its data processing. It rejects the idea that it can no longer offer personalized ads unless each user’s agreement has been obtained. And it holds out the prospect of “another available legal basis under GDPR” for personalized advertising.

But the only plausible alternative legal basis other than consent or contractual necessity would be legitimate interest. Legitimate interest is a complex legal basis that would require Meta to show its legitimate interest in personalized advertising overrides “the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data.” If Meta pursues that route, it could submit a justification to the Irish DPC based on legitimate interest and try to satisfy the heavy burden involved in defending that legal basis.

The Irish DPC order says that Meta must “bring its processing operations into compliance with GDPR” within three months. Meta could argue, however, that it had complied with the ruling by providing this alternative legal basis of legitimate interest and should be allowed to provide personalized ads until the Irish DPC has had a chance to evaluate this new claim, which could take months or years. The Irish DPC may very well accept this argument, which would provide a significant delay in any operational changes. It is worth remembering that the objection to Meta’s contractual necessity justification was filed four years ago and will likely continue several more years with appeals.

In the longer term, however, Meta faces a seemingly insuperable hurdle in maintaining its personalized ad business in its current form, even if it succeeds in its legitimate interest justification. This is because Article 21 of GDPR provides an absolute right for users to object to the processing of their personal information for direct marketing, which would include personalized ads on social media. Even if Meta successfully invokes legitimate interest to justify the use of personal information for personalized ads, it must still honor this absolute right for users to object.

Will Meta change its existing ad model to comply?

Observing this right to object is likely to mean that Meta would have to offer its users the alternative of receiving the personalized social media services without also receiving personalized ads. Providing users with a choice, however, is extraordinarily risky for Meta’s personalized ad business. When Apple gave its app store users a yes or no choice on whether they wanted apps to track them for purposes of serving ads, 96% of U.S. citizens rejected personalized ad tracking. It is for this reason that analysts are concerned that in the long run Meta’s personalized ad model is in trouble. Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, for instance, thinks that the ruling could put “5 to 7 percent of Meta’s overall advertising revenue at risk.”

The alternative to a social media service paid for by personalized ads might well become an increasingly important part of Meta’s business model. The company could seek to fund this alternative through contextual ads alone. But it could also offer users an alternative of paying a fee to receive a personalized social media service free of targeted ads, a model that is widely followed in other services such as streaming music. Whether the fee could be set so high ($100 a month, for instance) that as a practical matter it forced users to accept personalized ads would be a question for the Irish DPC to address when it approves or rejects Meta’s proposal for coming into compliance with GDPR. Assessing the commercial necessity of Meta’s rates would force the agency into the new and uncomfortable position of economic regulator supervising the rates that Meta could charge its users.

Despite the potentially far-reaching nature of the ruling for Meta’s personalized ad business, it is also worth remembering that it might not mean that the company will collect any less personal information or no longer construct detailed profiles of its users. The ruling simply says that Meta cannot collect information or construct profiles for the purpose of serving personalized ads under its contractual necessity basis. The ruling seems to allow Meta to continue to collect and use personal information on the basis of its terms of service for the purpose of providing personalized social media services. So, users who accept Meta’s terms of service will still be allowing the company to collect and analyze information derived from their use of the social media platform for the purpose of ranking, prioritizing, and recommending material posted by other users. Nothing in the decision appears to mean that Meta will have to stop offering algorithmically driven social media service. It would not, for example, be required to provide a chronological feed as one or the only alternative for its users.  The ruling imposes no limitation on algorithmic amplification based on personal information.

Moreover, the ruling does not say that Facebook or Instagram must be ad-free. The ads that appear on these services that many find to be annoying and intrusive will likely continue and might even increase. But now these ads would not be personalized. They would be static ads that would be shown indifferently to all users or targeted contextually to all users in a certain location or who speak a given language. Even a fee-based service might contain these non-personal ads.

Conclusion

Privacy advocates might then wonder what they have concretely gained from this apparent victory. Social media surveillance likely will not diminish, nor will the bombardment of users by distracting and confusing commercial advertising. Still, an important precedent has been set, one that vindicates the primacy of privacy rights. The decision delivers a message to all social media companies and other digital companies that they must respect the privacy interests of their users first. Their commercial interests are secondary. To paraphrase the great philosopher of human rights, Immanuel Kant, businesses must first be certain that they are respecting people’s fundamental rights, including their privacy rights. Only then are they entitled to look around for ways to satisfy their economic interests.

In a forthcoming blog, I will look at whether U.S. policymakers should reimagine for the U.S. context the European privacy requirement to demonstrate a legal basis for personal data use and if so, what the implications might be for the data practices of social media companies and other digital companies in the U.S.

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I searched up Adrienne's name and on wikipedia her death date is listed as December 25th. Wasn't her death date the 24th or I misremembered the date right now? 'Cause didn't she died at the same day as Georges' birth, that was Dec. 24th?

Dear @msrandonstuff,

that is a very good question because both dates are sometimes wrongly given, and this matter caused me more than one headache when I first started focusing on the La Fayette’s.

In very short, Adrienne died on her sons 28th birthday, the 24th of December 1807.

The best proof we have is the official registration of Adrienne’s death. The original document has been destroyed (with many, many more documents) but there is a reconstruction of the document.

In the top left-hand corner, we can read the date of death as “24 Décembre 1807”. In the main text we can read that the death was registered on December 25, but that Adrienne died “hier” meaning “yesterday”.

This official document should be enough to secure the date, but on top of that we also have a letter from La Fayette to his dear friend La Tour-Mauburg, written throughout January of 1808:

Another time she [Adrienne] fell into an ecstasy of joy at the thought of an anniversary dear to our hearts, of the day when, twenty-eight years before, she had given me George. That anniversary was the day of her death.

Mme de Lasteyrie, Life of Madame de Lafayette, L. Techener, London, 1872, p. 414.

Here is Georges’ Acte de Naissance to verify the date.

We also have a quote from Jules Cloquet Germain’s book. Germain was a close family friend and La Fayette’s physician. He certainly knew when Adrienne died.

She was a model of heroism, and likewise of every virtue. During her captivity and her misfortunes, her blood imbibed the poison which, after protracted sufferings, terminated her existence on the 24th December, 1807.

Jules Germain Cloquet, Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette, Baldwin and Cradock, London, 1835, p. 211.

You see, we have official documentation and the accounts from close family members. The only accounts that differ slightly, is from Adrienne’s sister Pauline. Her Memoirs suggest at one point the 25th (technically the 26th, because Pauline says that Adrienne died fifteen minutes past midnight) and a few pages later it reads as if Adrienne died on the 24th.

So why all this confusion? First if all, the English Wikipedia entry that you mentioned is the only one to give the 25th as the day she died. The French, Spanish and Simple English version for example all cite the 24th. In this case, it probably was just a mistake, a typo or something along the line. We see something similar in one of the earliest and most readily available English translations of Life of Madame de Lafayette. Here, Georges’ birthday is given as the 23rd of December 1779 while the French original clearly states the 24th. In other words, mistakes, in the process of translating and in the process of printing, do happen. Another problem is, that many sources give Adrienne’s day of death simply as “Christmas” without a specific date. Different cultures celebrate Christmas on different days and even within the same culture there may be different practices and/or changes over time.

In France for example, the 25th of December is a public holiday, and more and more families have their main Christmas celebrations on this day while other still celebrate on the more “traditional” 24th. Many families also celebrate on both days and meet with one part of the family on the 24th and with the other on the 25th. In Germany, as another example, the 25th and the 26th are public holidays (the first and the second Christmas day) but most families will have their main celebration and gift-giving on the 24th (that is no public holiday.)

These are my two cents on why there is sometimes confusion but also the answer to when Adrienne actually died. I hope you have/had a gorgeous day!

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Lovecraft and animals, Part 6: Dogs - Lovecraft was not particularly enthusiastic about dogs, still they make a showing in his tales on occasion. There is of course the story, THE HOUND. The Hound features a pair of 'gentleman grave robbers' who are clearly modeled on Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Lovecraft had been a dedicated fan of Conan Doyle's stories of the great detective as a boy. The youthful Lovecraft formed his own mock detective agency with other local boys. THE HOUND was obviously a grotesque homage to Doyle's great tale, THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. In Lovecraft's "Hound" tale the Holmes-like leader of the pair of 'resurrectionists' (as grave robbers were occasionally called) is named St. John. His friend and chronicler remains nameless. After stealing a jade amulet of a winged and hound-like corpse-eating demon from a gravesite in Holland the pair are pursued by a monster who may well be the model of the amulet come to life. In retrospect Lovecraft did not care for this tale. As Lovecraft defined the ghouls that appear in some of his tales they are described in somewhat dog-like terms. Dirty, slavoring, loping in gait, HPL's own drawing of a ghoul resembles a sort of canine/human hybrid. For all Lovecraft's generally negative feelings regarding dogs there is a 'hero' dog in one of his tales. The savage guard dog who rips Wilbur Whateley to shreds probably saves all life on earth in doing so. Wilbur is trying to steal a copy of the fabled Necronomicon from a library in Arkham. This edition contains a ritual that will permit Wilbur and his gigantic invisible 'twin' brother to clear off the earth if he is successful. Wilbur's grotesque and utterly alien body is revealed once his clothing is torn off by our dog- hero. After his death Wilbur's remains dissolve into a pool of sticky white liquid. The story all this occurs in of course is THE DUNWICH HORROR. (Exhibit 414)

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Ok I think I have everything in order, so I'd like to apply as Ericht Samaya from gundam! app and stats pages are both linked from the sidebar.

Welcome to scenic Isola Radiale, Space Oomfie!

You will be housed in CONDO 414.

You will receive your Aerial Rebuild at 1/144 (model) size with no weapons and you can control it with permet override for thirty minutes per day.

– mod pleiades.

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shinzo abe was the face of japanese fascism and the amount of evil he inherited and proudly continued the legacy of can't be fully expressed in a social media post. a lot of korean ainu ryukyu southeast asian and chinese people (along with jpn people that oppose the state) are celebrating today with their loved ones that an evil man has been made to feel a fraction of the pain he caused and died like so many of us did at his and his ancestors' and political party's hands. it's really unfortunate that more of us could die because of this, that he could become a martyr for japanese fascism as they mobilize in retaliation and a reason for the US empire to tighten its hold in asia. japanese fascists are not subtle about their genocidal goals and have had a special grudge against the entire korean peninsula since the 1500s, when they failed to conquer us during the joseon dynasty. they annexed us with US permission from 1910 to 1945 and that was not enough for them. abe and the nippon kaigi's official platform is that they want a return of the japanese empire, it's genuinely terrifying thinking about what they will be capable of now.

3,574 notes - Posted July 9, 2022

#3

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#2

8,555 notes - Posted July 8, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

link to article here

edit: this article is actually wrong on several accounts because it was a white guy that wrote it and probably didn't fact check! her name is actually yoon kim myung-woo and she is the third owner of lesvos starting 1999, which started in sinchon in 1996 and has moved to hongdae! it is in fact the first lesbian bar in seoul and there are now several more lesbian bars, clubs, and cafes. yoon kim myung-woo is a very respected and well known figure in the vibrant and fast growing skorean lgbt community that comes to speak at many gay and trans events.

also the article is primarily about the difficulty of passing the lgbt nondiscrimination bill and some key activists in the movement. please read it with a grain of salt because it does not mention at all the role of US neocolonial power and US militarism in south korean political conservatism! there would be no law prohibiting same sex relations in the military if the rok military was not modeled off of US military structure and law! and it would not be such a large factor in gay and trans people's lives if the US would let the korean war and armistice end so mandatory military conscription of every person assigned male in the country could finally end.

36,358 notes - Posted December 1, 2022

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1930 Pierce-Arrow Model B Roadster

Issued by Esval Models in 2016. It is 1:43 scale and crafted in resin. A Limited Edition, # 414 of 500. The model is finished in Medium Red & Maroon.

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I posted 3,651 times in 2022

That's 3,232 more posts than 2021!

163 posts created (4%)

3,488 posts reblogged (96%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@chronicallylatetotheparty

@ninoisntluka

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@jascurka

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#fave - 665 posts

#ml - 540 posts

#swearing tw - 415 posts

#tw swearing - 414 posts

#swearing cw - 413 posts

#cw swearing - 413 posts

#swearing - 412 posts

#funny - 277 posts

#star wars - 256 posts

#art - 236 posts

Longest Tag: 137 characters

#sorry i can’t hear you i’m too busy imaging fanfiction i’ll never write for star wars animated series and miraculous ladybug and amphibia

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

abby is my fave from turning red. I love little angry asian girls

36 notes - Posted March 14, 2022

#4

ive seen so many people say din djarin is grogu’s dad, but I don’t agree with that.

Going off of the “han solo is chewbacca’s dog” headcanon, and since grogu’s species lives centuries longer than wookies, I don’t think the mandalorian is even a pet for grogu. grogu is 50 years old, and he has enough awareness and force capability to help mando out sometimes, but he still has the mental maturity of a baby (which I kind of think is weird, since he’s lived for half a century, and Yoda died when he was in his 900s, so Grogu’s gonna go thru puberty and his young adulthood and his middle ages and what not in only like 17 more half centuries?? whack), so basically

Mando is just a babysitter that Grogu is heavily emotionally attached to, and he will always remember Din fondly, but Grogu’s gonna get new babysitters and, when he’s matured, short-term besties since he just outlives absolutely everyone

37 notes - Posted March 5, 2022

#3

Honestly, I don’t really know why Adrien is so famous and popular in-universe. He’s just a model, and a child model at that. Sure he is “the face of Gabriel’s brand,” but I assume Gabriel doesn’t mainly make clothes for kids?? He definitely doesn’t present himself as a kids brand. So Adrien is probably just the main model for the youth/teen line of clothes.

I know Gigi Hadid and Bella Hadid and the Jenners and the Kardashians and such are famous models, but they are also adults. I guess Kylie Jenner became famous at a pretty young age, but she was also tied to a ton of entertaining family drama. So I don’t see Adrien being incredibly famous unless he became a meme (which I doubt Gabriel would allow that to happen).

I would understand maybe a relatively small circle of fans being obsessed with him, and maybe in-universe he really is just a local celebrity. But the show kind of portrays him as being young Justin Bieber levels of famous, and singers are generally more well known than models.

If anyone else has any thoughts on this, feel free to reblog! I’m interested to know others’ takes on this.

52 notes - Posted January 13, 2022

#2

ok I see y’all with the Jedi ocs who have forbidden relationships. I see the people shipping Jedi with other characters (*cough cough* anakin x padme, codywan, aayla x bly *cough cough*) (no shade bc I ship too). I see the Jedi!reader x clone trooper fics.

But i raise you

acearo Jedi who has no interest in relationships at all

sure this Jedi still bonds with their master like a parent/child relationship; what Jedi doesn’t?

this Jedi becomes close friends with other Jedi and sees their clone squad as siblings

this Jedi might even make friends outside of the GAR and Jedi order. maybe some civilian friends

but this Jedi just. never had an inkling of attraction for everyone. They just wanna protect the galaxy and have some laughs.

maybe this Jedi is completely oblivious to any romantic or sexual relationships/attraction/tension going on around them. Maybe this Jedi just doesn’t care. Either way, i think this has a lot of comedy potential (and maybe angst potential)

instead of a Jedi with a forbidden relationship, how about this?

Yoda: the Jedi way, attachment is not. In your future, marriage and family you will not find. Always first, the good of the galaxy comes.

aroace Jedi: okie dokie :)

Yoda: … no questions you have?

aroace Jedi: nope that sounds like a plan to me. Now if you’ll excuse me, I would like to meditate in my room alone by myself before dinner.

Yoda: easiest Jedi, this is

just *aroace jedi* :D

61 notes - Posted December 6, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I find it funny that, in Turning Red, Ming says “who do they think they are? Celine Dion?” And, in the spotify playlists, both Miriam and Priya have Celine Dion in their playlists.

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I posted 7,058 times in 2022

That's 1,756 more posts than 2021!

3,191 posts created (45%)

3,867 posts reblogged (55%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@rthko

@sacredstem

@androidboy

@eightfourone

@sawcleaver

I tagged 3,934 of my posts in 2022

Only 44% of my posts had no tags

#art - 470 posts

#models - 394 posts

#boys - 381 posts

#<3 - 311 posts

#places - 191 posts

#fave - 186 posts

#clothes - 129 posts

#quotes - 83 posts

#photography - 77 posts

#video - 57 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#i mean maybe they're just the most obvious to me but i feel like if you look at a popular post you'll be sure to find at least one of these

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

discovering Jára Cimrman has made my day actually. nothing else is funnier in the world

181 notes - Posted November 13, 2022

#4

nooooooo these people are real?? @death2america

also lmao they have no scientific backing in their videos at all.....

217 notes - Posted February 7, 2022

#3

i sit and watch every single manscaped ad in hopes that evil pikachu man does not return

414 notes - Posted June 25, 2022

#2

CBT vs DBT (cock and ball torture vs dick and ball torture)

460 notes - Posted July 20, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

me when i get to eat pozole

470 notes - Posted July 10, 2022

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From September 23rd to September 27th, 2024

23-09-2024

DEPECHE MODE “Construction Time Again”; THE GO-GO'S “Vacation”; VELVET REVOLVER “Contraband”; MUDHONEY “Tomorrow Hit Today”; SMASHING PUMPKINS “Zeitgeist”; FREDDIE HUBBARD “Hub-Tones”; IGGY POP & JAMES WILLIAMSON “Kill City”; WIPERS “Follow Blind”; CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE “A World Without Dave”; SZA “Z”; MEAT PUPPETS “Up On The Sun”; MARTIN HAYES & DENNIS CAHILL “The Lonesome Touch”; RICHARD THOMPSON “Faithless”; THE DICTATORS “Manifest Destiny”; ORBITAL “Diversions”; ELBOW “The Seldom Seen Kid”

24-09-2024

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO “A Man Under The Influence”; PRINCE “Hit N Run Phase One”; UNDERTONES “Hypnotised”; MEAT PUPPETS “Meat Puppets”; HAIM “Days Are Gone”; BILLY BRAGG & THE BLOKES “Mermaid Avenue Tour”; RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS “One Hot Minute”; GOMEZ “In Our Gun”; MIKE OLDFIELD “Five Miles Out”; RICHARD THOMPSON “Henry The Human Fly”; HOTHOUSE FLOWERS “Home”; FANNY “Fanny”; AFGHAN WHIGS “Gentlemen”; THE DICTATORS “Bloodbrothers”; LOS LOBOS “By The Light Of The Moon”

25-09-2024

SHE & HIM “Volume One”; ELIZA CARTHY & THE KINGS OF CALICUTT “Eliza Carthy & The Kings Of Calicutt”; ADD N TO (X) “On The Wires Of Our Nerves”; BILLY BRAGG “Live & Dubious EP”; PENTANGLE “The Pentangle”; AFGHAN WHIGS “Up In It”; VARIOUS ARTISTS “T2 Trainspotting Original Soundtrack”; SERGE GAINSBOURG “L'Homme A Tete De Chou”; BLACK SABBATH “13”; THE DAMNED “Damned Damned Damned”; SENSELESS THINGS “Empire Of The Senseless”; CHUMBAWAMBA “English Rebel Songs 1381-1984”; THE CURE “The Top”; FUNKADELIC “Tales Of Kidd Funkadelic”

26-09-2024

PRINCE “Lovesexy”; SAMIAM “You Are Freaking Me Out”; ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO “Big Station”; SAMPHA “Lahai”; MEGAN THEE STALLION “Megan”; THE WEDDING PRESENT “Leicester Polytechnic, 05-05-1987”; NEW MODEL ARMY “Raw Melody Man”; ESOTERIC “The Pernicious Enigma”; FOO FIGHTERS “Medicine At Midnight”; FRANZ FERDINAND “Live At The Paradiso, Amsterdam,07-11-2003”; THE BREEDERS “Last Splash”

27-09-2024

BLIND GUARDIAN “At The Edge Of Time”; THE WEDDING PRESENT “El Rey”; ESOTERIC “Paragon Of Dissonance”; CAN “Rite Time”; DJO “Twenty Twenty”; ARCTIC MONKEYS “The Car”; VENT 414 “Vent 414”; SCREAMING TREES “Uncle Anesthesia”

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Corporate Training Market - Forecast(2024 - 2030)

Corporate Training Market Overview

The Corporate Training Market is estimated to surpass $414 billion mark by 2026

 growing at an estimated CAGR of more than 5.1%

 during the forecast period 2021 to 2026. The rising costs of instructor-led, classroom-based training is one factor in the increased use of eLearning. Also, the need for continuous, life-long learning has gradually driven its growth. Corporate training refers to a system of professional development activities provided to educate employees. In simple terms it is referred as corporate education to train their employees on specific aspects of their job processes or responsibilities which are designed in-house. Corporate training includes certification of professional skills, skill building services, standardized quality content development and delivery.

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Report Coverage

The report: “Corporate Training Market– Forecast (2021-2026)”

, by IndustryARC covers an in-depth analysis of the following segments of the Corporate Training Market.By Type :

 Instructor Led, Online, and Blended.By Product :

 Technical Courses, Soft Skills Courses

, Brand Training, Compliance Training

, Sales Training, Safety Training, Product and Services Training and Others.By End User : 

Manufacturing, Healthcare, BFSI, IT, Retail, Hosptality. Government, Business and Professional Services and others.By Geography 

: North America (U.S, Canada, Mexico), South America(Brazil, Argentina and others), Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia and Others), APAC(China, Japan India, SK, Aus and Others), and RoW (Middle east and Africa).

Key Takeaways

Corporate training is intended to enrich the professional skill set of employees through activities and lessons, and help them improve their work performance, resulting in organizational productivity. 

The advent of the Internet has created a new platform for the corporate training market. Now conglomerates all over the world are heavily reliant on e-learning and other corporate models such as M-learning as these are considered to be the most time-saving solutions. 

HR learning software is the most popular corporate training option for the companies this year. Most of the corporate companies are now preferring online HR modules to train their employees about the company regulations and rules. According to industry experts, companies are now interested in improving their HR technology. Furthermore, HR learning software has turned out to be an essential component in most of the corporate training regimens.

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Corporate Training Market Segment Analysis - By Product

Soft skills courses are a fast growing market in corporate training. Soft skills courses are delivered at both academic as well as commercial level through various programs which may be online i.e. m-based or through classroom also for the professional development. To obtain the additional training more accessible to employees the training can be offered in a variety of ways and different options. The popular techniques used for training include experiential learning methods, role playing, case studies etc. The major client base currently includes official setups of corporates and also individuals which look to inculcate this skillset in their progress reports.

Corporate Training Market Segment Analysis - By Type

Organizations are now taking advantage of various digital tools such as a standardized classroom-based, instructor-led framework, for a new kind of learning experience. These tools make training interactive, virtual, mobile, and available on-demand by the student. A Learning Management System with robust capabilities can help a company build a training library, to ensure that employees are prepared with the skills and knowledge to meet current and future challenges. Millennial generation estimated to project employees by 2025

, grew up with mobile phones, laptops, and social media, so they expect the same type of access to technology at work. Besides, they don’t prefer classroom learning instead they prefer training which is online and is accessible when and where they need it.

Corporate Training Market Segment Analysis - By Geography

North American region dominated the global Corporate Training market with a share of over 37% in 2020. This hefty market share is attributed to the advanced technological innovations in the e-learning services and tools. The presence of a number of enterprises and the ballooning start-up culture in the region are the main factors supporting the corporate training market growth. However, APAC and Europe corporate training markets follow close behind, led by an increase in government-funded projects in rural areas catalyzed by the accelerating adoption of e-learning techniques. Additionally, the massive population equipped with the Internet, residing in the region is considered as one of the major reasons to lead the online corporate training market.

Corporate Training Market Driver

Rise of Video Based Learning

Video-based e-learning is emerging as one of the most functional forms of learning. The integration of videos in the learning process, both uploaded and streamed, is the consequence of advancement in high-speed internet networks. Video-based learning adds various dimensions to learning techniques

. For instance, taking notes, providing feedback, clearing doubts, and tracking progress have become easy tasks through integration with video. Additionally, video-based learning gives the user the freedom to watch the video at any point of time and at any location; and students can also rewind, store, and re-watch the content at their convenience. The robust growth in wireless network connectivity is supporting the growth of e-learning software.

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Utilization of AI in Corporate Training

Artificial intelligence is paving its way into corporate training solutions. Service providers are relying on bots that guide learners through the software. Integrating artificial intelligence with LMS for corporate training can help predict the learner’s behavior, thereby helping the program generate personalized learning patterns. Voice-guided bots are being employed within the corporate training ecosystem to ensure an interactive learning experience. The shift to micro learning is also helping with these AI based training solutions. Micro-learning refers to a specific pattern of learning. This pattern involves learning through brief modules that include quizzes, small games, and videos. This pattern has significantly improved the average retention capacity among people thereby driving demand.

Corporate Training Market Challenges

Budgetary Concerns Limiting Corporate Training

The major challenge for the growth of the corporate training market is regarding cost issues. Despite of its deployment in various industries such as healthcare, IT and Professional Services, However, corporate training solutions are often too generalized and expensive for deployment in these industries. Corporate training is available in the market at a highly expensive, so they are acquiring demand from a very limited section of the market. The utilization of internal training solutions that offer a highly customized and cheaper option will limit the external corporate training market.

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Market Landscape

Product launches, acquisitions, and R&D activities are key strategies adopted by players in the Corporate Training Market. Adobe Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., City & Guilds Group, D2L Corp., Franklin Covey Co., GP Strategies Corp., John Wiley & Sons Inc., NIIT Ltd., Skillsoft Ltd., and Wilson Learning Worldwide are considered to be the key players of the Corporate Training Market.

Acquisitions/Technology Launches/Partnerships

Curricula closed a $3 million growth investment from RCP Equity for its “fun, story-based security awareness training platform”.

Wiley, a research and education provider, acquired Madgex, a provider of job board software and career center services.

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NeuroPace Enhances iEEG Data Analysis with AlloyDB Omni

What is iEEG

Mountain View-based NeuroPace, Inc. makes the FDA-approved RNS System responsive neurostimulator device for people with refractory focal onset epilepsy. A lead with four electrode connections can be connected to a neurostimulator in up to two ways. Both the delivery of electrical pulses and the detection of aberrant patterns unique to each patient are controlled by physicians. Intracranial electroencephalograms, or iEEGs, are recorded by the device and span four channels with a sample rate of 250 Hz each. Typically, the recordings contain roughly 90 seconds of data. Almost 5,000 patients have provided over 16 million iEEG files to date.Image Credit to Google Cloud

Determining efficient stimulation patterns for the reduction of seizures is a primary research objective at NeuroPace. A theory posits that treatment settings that have proven successful for patients with comparable iEEG activity may also work for newly diagnosed patients or patients requiring modifications to their current stimulation regimen, thus potentially enhancing the traditional trial-and-error method of determining stimulation programming settings.

Physicians can swiftly identify similar patient profiles based on chosen iEEG files if large-scale iEEG data is searched for similar brain activity patterns. This is necessary for such data-driven procedures to be feasible. Previously, locating similar iEEG files among patients necessitated a convoluted processing pipeline that included grouping iEEG data within patients, locating cluster centres, and locating approximate nearest neighbours (ANN) from other patients using dimensionality reduction techniques like PCA and t-SNE. The flexibility and practical utility of the programme were limited because the approximate nearest neighbours were only computed once every several months using a small sample of new patient iEEG recordings.

Positively, vector databases may now be queried directly for comparable vector embeddings thanks to recent developments. Without having to complete clustering procedures beforehand, this invention may allow doctors to choose any iEEG file from a patient and locate comparable cross-patient iEEG data. As fresh iEEG files become available, all that is needed is to keep the vector database updated. Improved scalability could result from this reduction, which would make it much easier to query comparable iEEG files over millions of entries.

Using embedding models to turn iEEG data into vectors, the NeuroPace  AI team and Google Cloud developers carried out a proof-of-concept study. The vector data was then stored in a vector database called AlloyDB for PostgresQL. AlloyDB is a fully managed database that performs vector similarity searches based on the pgvector extension and is compatible with PostgreSQL, making it ideal for heavy transaction workloads.

AlloyDB Omni

AlloyDB Omni, a version of the database that can be downloaded and used anywhere, further permits on-premises hosting of the database, preserving the data inside the confines of an on-prem HIPAA-compliant environment. Reducing reliance on external network connectivity by having the database on-premise also lessens the chance of application outages that might arise from hosting the database externally while the remainder of the application is hosted on-premise.

Google Cloud handled almost 1.2 million iEEG files from 414 clinical trial participants in this proof-of-concept project. 20 patients’ worth of data were used for testing, and 394 patients’ data were added to the AlloyDB cloud service. A unique embedding model created by the NeuroPace  AI team converted each iEEG file into a spectrogram image and then into vectors. After that, 50 randomly chosen iEEG files from the test cohort were utilised to query the AlloyDB vector database, which now contained these vectors (Figure 2).Image credit to Google Cloud

AlloyDB with PGvector offers three distinct index types (Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW), IVFFLAT, and IVF) that help reduce latency while conducting similarity searches in comparison to a brute-force search:

Using a graph-based technique, HNSW creates several layers of interconnected nodes to create more effective search pathways even for big datasets.

The {IVFFLAT} index balances speed and accuracy by first grouping vectors into coarse groups using a tree-based clustering technique, and then conducting a more thorough search inside the most comparable clusters.

Google AlloyDB Omni

A recent addition to AlloyDB  AI enhancements is the new “IVF” index, which increases the total number of dimensions supported per vector and dramatically reduces query time by utilising deeper integrations with AlloyDB query processing in addition to Google quantization techniques.

In actuality, distinct indices (as well as the corresponding algorithms) can perform very differently under very diverse use situations. Google  Cloud conducted a detailed benchmarking across IVF and HNSW indexes for the NeuroPace use case of locating similar cross-patient iEEGs. Recall, or the percentage of results in brute-force queries, and latency, or how quickly the query could finish, were both measured.

An analysis of the performance of these two approximate nearest neighbour (ANN) algorithms shows that IVF has high recall rates (~0.9) and a median query latency of roughly 60 ms, while HNSW indexing performed slightly worse (0.8) and was slower (median query latency of 160 ms) than IVF. To balance speed and latency, both indexes provide a variety of characteristics.

While brute force took about 14.7 seconds to find comparable iEEG data, both approaches performed noticeably better in terms of query time. The histogram of the recall and query latency for the two distinct indexing strategies in comparison to brute force. The output of a single sample iEEG query file from a test patient is displayed .

These results excite NeuroPace, since they could further the research towards effectively navigating large amounts of iEEG data. The development of algorithms that help determine the best programming settings for the RNS System may be made possible by this breakthrough. The new ScaNN index from AlloyDB may potentially help to further enhance usability and performance, and Google Cloud is eager to test it out.

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