This Mother's Day, gift Mom tech gadgets that simplify life, connect and show love. Tech expert Kurt Knutsson offers some ideas. Stuck on what to get Mom this Mother's Day? Flowers are nice, but if you really want to wow her, how about something that blends thoughtfulness with a little tech? We're not talking about complicated robots; think clever gadgets that make life easier, keep her connected and maybe even add a bit of sparkle to her day. From a cutting-edge smartwatch to a smart mug that keeps her coffee just right – because who has time for lukewarm?

Modern time-series forecasting models often fail to make full use of rich unstructured information about the time series themselves. This lack of proper conditioning can lead to obvious model failures; for example, models may be unaware of the details of a particular product, and hence fail to anticipate seasonal surges in customer demand in the lead up to major exogenous events like holidays for clearly relevant products. To address this shortcoming, this paper introduces a novel forecast post-processor -- which we call LLMForecaster -- that fine-tunes large language models (LLMs) to incorporate unstructured semantic and contextual information and historical data to improve the forecasts from an existing demand forecasting pipeline. In an industry-scale retail application, we demonstrate that our technique yields statistically significantly forecast improvements across several sets of products subject to holiday-driven demand surges.

The vast collection of Holocaust survivor testimonies presents invaluable historical insights but poses challenges for manual analysis. This paper leverages advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to explore the USC Shoah Foundation Holocaust testimony corpus. By treating testimonies as structured question-and-answer sections, we apply topic modeling to identify key themes. We experiment with BERTopic, which leverages recent advances in language modeling technology. We align testimony sections into fixed parts, revealing the evolution of topics across the corpus of testimonies. This highlights both a common narrative schema and divergences between subgroups based on age and gender. We introduce a novel method to identify testimonies within groups that exhibit atypical topic distributions resembling those of other groups. This study offers unique insights into the complex narratives of Holocaust survivors, demonstrating the power of NLP to illuminate historical discourse and identify potential deviations in survivor experiences.

It's been just over a week since Kate Middleton, the internet's favorite "missing person," claimed that a photoshopped image of her with her children on U.K. Mother's Day was edited by her, for unspecified reasons. Then, on Monday, we had our first recorded sighting of the princess, out shopping with Prince William at the Royal Farms Windsor Farm Shop, near Windsor Castle. The video was released by TMZ and the Sun, and stills from it were plastered on the front pages of all the British tabloids Tuesday. Supposedly, it was taken by a 40-year-man, Nelson Silva, who lives nearby and was quoted in TMZ as saying: "Kate looked happy and relaxed. They look happy just to be able to go to a shop and mingle.

Two factors had an effect on the deals we saw this week: spring sales and early Mother's Day promotions. Even if you don't need a gift for a mom or it's still cold (or weirdly summery hot) where you are, you can snag a decent price on some of our recommended tech. Like our top budget robot vacuum, iRobot's Roomba 694, which dropped back down to $179. Apple's only sub-$1,000 laptop, the MacBook Air M1, is $200 off at Best Buy only. We also saw a few deals on gadgets we like for the kitchen, like our favorite air fryer and a Vitamix blender. Both the latest and previous generation standard iPad are on sale, as is the older, but still-great M1 MacBook Air.

Yes, you have your R2-D2, your BB-8, Data (Brent Spiner), even WALL-E. So while we still can, take notes on these robots before they become our technological overlords. Not only are the Fem-bots evil, they are Evil's evil. Dr. Evil's (Mike Myers), to be precise. Attractive and seductive, the Fem-bots were a means of distracting, and killing, Austin Powers (Mike Myers), not only with their agility but with their "machine gun jubblies," guns protruding from their breasts.

I would like to point out that if I have a digital NFT exhibition with my "The Art of No Limits" collection, I can also exhibit your NFT there. If you want, then with the name of the NFT owner, but I would clarify this with you beforehand. The same applies to my other NFT collections.

Mother's Day is just around the corner, and in honor of that fact, several retailers are now discounting a wide range of tech and accessories. We're seeing some of the lowest prices we've seen on a variety of items, ranging from the latest Kindle Paperwhite to the new Echo Show 15, as well as some of the best fitness trackers, streaming sticks, and noise-canceling wireless earbuds you can buy. That means you can still get a great deal on a present for your mom if you haven't bought one already -- or if you simply want to pick up something nice for yourself. Below, we've collected some of the top deals on tech and gadgets so you can save on a great gift ahead of the holiday. Take a look, and be sure to also peruse our 2022 Mother's Day Gift Guide, which can help you quickly narrow the field so your present will arrive in time. The Echo Show 8 is the midsized smart display in Amazon's current Echo lineup and can be used to display the weather, news, calendars, grocery lists, and more.

When this idea came to me I first thought to write about it in french but I am now writing it in English. In fact it just a minute ago when I was on the rooftop of my mother's home I heard the song of the chickens that I remembered this idea I had weeks ago when I was in the same setting listening to these same chickens. What this idea about is caring about animals because listening to these chickens remembered how important it is to take the time to see how animals behave and to learn from them because like us they do have means of communication that could be insightful even if these means of communication are not as efficient as the internet and all these new technology gadget that we using in our everyday life for interacting. Like us most animals use their voices to communicate and while hearing these chickens singing at the beginning of the dawn each one of them was making its partition after the others and some of them being near and other far away. It was obvious the song of one induced the song of another and so one like a domino effect what made willing to spot each of them and know where they are.

He's a certified drug and alcohol counselor who opened a sober living house at the peak of last winter's deadly COVID-19 surge and is on-site at least six days a week. She works for a production company, colonized their kitchen table for her two outsize computer monitors and has stayed largely locked up in their 600-square-foot Mar Vista apartment, where they now dine on TV trays. "When L.A. was, like, the worst place on Earth for COVID, I was going out and looking at three houses a day," scouting locations for Hyperion Sober Living, said co-owner Jack Shain. Shain's job means he's out in the world nearly every day, where it's impossible to tell the vaccinated from the sick. Cara Ferraro's allows her to stay home with the cats, her anxiety and the ever-present pile of dishes in the sink.