Hello, Insiders. I'm just going to say it: Go USA! Yes, I'm referring to World Cup soccer. The US men's team advanced to the knockout stage yesterday — but not without a number of injuries to our star players. So, well, that was a fun game … but I felt like throwing up for 90 minutes straight. I can't wait for the next match.
A Virginia Walmart shooting survivor says she reported "disturbing and threatening behavior" from the gunman — but the superstore let him keep working. Read more.
Amid FTX's collapse, Caroline Ellison was worried employees would quit or take time off, per the NYT. It's one of many texts that show the chaos in FTX's final days. Read them here.
The Spanish coast guard rescued three men who spent 11 days balancing on a ship's rudder from Nigeria to the Canary Islands. See the harrowing picture.
The big story
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Secret memo reveals Bush rewriting the history of the 9/11 attacks — and the warnings he'd tuned out.
On April 29, 2004, President George W. Bush hosted an extremely unusual meeting at the White House: Members of the 9/11 Commission got to ask him and Vice President Dick Cheney anything they wanted about the September 11th attacks.
The words spoken in that room remained secret for nearly two decades. Now, with a newly declassified memo, we can finally read what Bush said. His own account of what he knew, and when, differs substantially from the one presented by the 9/11 Commission's report.
The record shows that CIA director George Tenet did everything he could to get Bush to focus on imminent threats from Al Qaeda, senior correspondent Mattathias Schwartz reports. Bush just wasn't interested.
To understand how Bush escaped blame for 9/11 — winning a second term despite having presided over one of the gravest and most costly failures in presidential history — you need to understand exactly what happened that day in the Oval Office almost 20 years ago.
Women's clothing sizes are so damn frustrating. A 1930s eugenics experiment is to blame. Author Heather Radke explains men had their measurements taken when they joined the army, so tons of data existed. But for women, measuring squads visited households — and only maintained white women's measurements. Here's how women's clothing sizes came to be.
The latest terrible news for the stock market: The economy is booming again. For the average person, this resilient economy is a double edged sword. The start of 2023 will seem great — household finances and the labor market will be strong. But a swift kick from interest rates could lead to some serious pain down the line. Here's what to expect.
"I make around $14,000 a month ghostwriting on Fiverr." Billy McIntyre, 32, is a freelancer in Las Vegas who's written people's memoirs, articles, and books. He shared how he built a lucrative business via the freelance service marketplace Fiverr — and now he works just five hours a day. Read how he did it.
Elon Musk has fired so many Twitter workers by mistake that HR created a new way to quickly re-onboard them. With the large number of layoffs, resignations, and firings at Twitter, HR developed an "accidental termination" category to quickly identify and rehire those mistakenly caught in the crossfire, according to people familiar with the company. What's happening inside Twitter.
No, falling home prices doesn't make buying a house more affordable. Home prices are falling at the fastest rate since the Great Recession, yet most mortgage borrowers are already paying double than what they would have last year — and it's only expected to get more expensive in 2023. Here's why.
Today's sound bite
"For the first time, a drug has been shown to slow early-stage Alzheimer's. The 18-month clinical trial of Lecanemab saw it slow the impact of the disease in about a quarter of people."
We have a super exciting post on comparing the 3 latest YOLO models - a study that many of our Blog readers and Youtube subscribers have been requesting. So, after 2 months of extensive experiments and testing, we are here to disclose our findings!
We hope this will serve as a guide for anyone working on Object Detection or confused about which YOLO model to choose.
We will keep updating this post so that it is up to date with the other models of the YOLO family as well as other State-of-the-art models as we come across and work with more object detection models.
In today's blog post, you will learn about the following:
Which YOLO model to choose for the best FPS?
What about inference speed on CPU vs GPU?
Which YOLO model is the most accurate?
Which Model Family performs consistently?
Trade-off between Tiny, Small, Medium, or Large model?
As you'll know, the Amazon Black Friday deals have now come to an end, as have most other retailers. However, the Gaggia Black Friday deals end tonight, and some Sage Deals still remain.
I've updated the Black Friday deals post to reflect the deals currently available:
It's worth keeping an eye on the Sage Appliances website if you've been waiting to pull the trigger on a Sage machine. They appear to be making changes to their sales just for a day or so.
These are the deals currently available from Sage Appliances:
Barista Express
Normal Price: £629.95 Black Friday Price: £479.99 Extra 15% off price: £407.96
Fancy making your own bread? The 15% discount code applies to ALL products on the Sage Appliances website, not just coffee machines. The Pizza oven isn't on offer at present, but their bread maker is.
The Custom Loaf
Normal Price £249.95 Black Friday Price £189.95 Extra 15% off price £ 161.46 Save £88.49
If you're one of the many people who've been holding out for a Black Friday deal on one of the machines that hasn't been on offer at Sage Appliances as of yet, I'd keep an eye on the Sage Appliances website in the coming days.
They seem to have put most of their other machines on some kind of deal over the Black Friday period, and I'm not sure why they've not done the same on the others.
Now that the busy Black Friday period has come to an end, we may see some deals on the machines that weren't on offer during this period, either between now and Christmas, or just after Christmas.
Gaggia
The Gaggia Direct Deals end tonight. There are some lovely deals there, including the Gaggia Classic, and most of their bean to cup machines.
The Black Friday deals at The Coffeeworks end tonight.
Keep in mind that if you're thinking of grabbing a subscription, if you subscribe before tonight, you get 15% off all the subsequent orders within that subscription (and you can end/pause at any time) as well as an additional 15% on top of this permanent 15%, on the first order in your subscription.
