The pandas team has released pandas 3.0.0, a major update that changes core behaviors around string handling, memory semantics, and datetime resolution, while removing a substantial amount of ...

Standard RAG pipelines treat documents as flat strings of text. They use "fixed-size chunking" (cutting a document every 500 ...

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1 Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, China 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Yin Zhou NO.3 Hospital, Ningbo, China Background: Acute ischemic stroke ...

Can you capture deep-sky detail like the Needle Galaxy from a light-polluted white zone? Here’s how I tackled it—with over 1500 subframes and careful pre-processing in PixInsight. Watch the full ...

This request was rejected before here (#1523) because preprocessing the image is not useful for OCR accuracy anymore. I agree with this. However preprocessing can still be beneficial for image ...

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand an underground gas network in the capital of Peru unearthed two pre-Incan tombs on Thursday that are more than 1,000 years old. One of the tombs was empty ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Javier Hasse is a cannabis and psychedelics reporter and book author. Once dismissed as a beginner’s crutch for people who ...

Burmese pythons, an invasive species in the Everglades, are being hunted and their skins used for luxury goods. Hunters like Zach Hoffman and Amy Siewe detail the process of skinning and preparing ...

Cashews are Côte d’Ivoire’s second most important export commodity after cocoa, and a crucial source of cash for smallholders and processors in the poorer north of the country. From 380,000 tons in ...