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Six million antelope storm through a pocket of Africa that’s nearly impossible to get to, but the Journal caught them on camera

I miss characters such as Bunny Mellon. Her expenditure was actually quite disgusting. Her lifestyle unsustainable even when she was alive. But I do long for the silliness of people who choose to spend their millions on bejewelled sunflowers and suites of bespoke gardening hats and gloves.

The big question is how many tokens per hour can you get out of a local model. My M5 Max testing seems to be in the 10-40 tokens per second range for a serious model like Gemma4:31b. At 10 tokens per second that’s 36000 tokens per hour.

The chips with slight imperfections still function well. Apple has found ways to repurpose these chips in later product releases. For example, A18 Pro chips with 6 GPU cores originally appeared in 2024 in the iPhone 16 Pro models. Yet some of the chips only had 5 functioning GPU cores; these ones were put in a separate bin. The sixth, defective core was disabled, leaving a still good chip and allowing them to be used in the MacBook Neo.

Hoodmaps.com now also has crime data!

But furor in the village over Imes and various development proposals, including the Lodgic Building purchase, extends beyond the Village Board. As of April 20, there had been more public records requests filed in the village of roughly 2,100 people than there had been in the city of Madison. (The Cap Times has filed records requests with both municipalities.)

A great many of these company terms originate in one of the first books printed in English after the invention of the Gutenberg Press: the Boke of Seynt Albans [Book of Saint Albans], also known as The Book of Hawking, Hunting, and Blasing of Arms. Anonymously published in 1486 and written largely in verse, it was lauded as the work of “a gentleman of excellent gifts” — until it was discovered that the author was a woman named Juliana Barnes.

Almost a decade ago, Scott Wilson, the chief investment officer at Washington University in St. Louis, placed about $50 million of the school’s money in SpaceX.  That bet ultimately has surged to become more than 10% of the school’s now $17 billion of assets, most of which is its endowment. The stake was largely made through co-investments plus money in later rounds through outside private equity and venture capital managers.

It was Marty who first turned me on to the absolute degeneracy of the Health Care Swamp. While I was still spouting Republican talking points about how we have to protect the “free market” in health care (editor’s note: health care is neither free nor a market), he was exposing just how failed and distorted that market was. He was publishing on how doctors in different specialties were reimbursed for the volume of their procedures, not the quality of their care, at great cost and risk to patients. He and his team convened groups of expert physicians in every specialty and facilitated their development of a new type of quality metric, asking them to agree on the most indefensible types of overtreatment in their specialty and then using Medicare data to provide every doctor in that specialty his or her rate of that overtreatment. This idea morphed into his team’s creation of a powerful set of “appropriateness” measures that are now used across the country (including in my business helping employers steer their workers to high quality care).

She wanders around the warehouse, which is piled with suitcases, locates her own piece and then coolly makes her way back out. The workers in the warehouse seem to be not that interested in the strange figure rummaging among their shelves. Such is the grit and ingenuity of a woman who will not be parted from her Chanel slingbacks and Alaïa flats.