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Rajeev Kumar

Kala Festival brings Sitar maestro Purbayan Chatterjee, to create an unforgettable evening of Indian Classical Roots & Contemporary Brilliance to London for all the music lovers.

Prepare for a night that transcends musical boundaries as "Bandish Bandwagon" takes you on a journey from timeless ragas to modern masterpieces. This exclusive double-bill event celebrates the evolution of Indian classical music in two sessions, blending tradition with innovation in an unforgettable symphony of strings, keys, and percussion.

Tickets at harrowarts.com/whats-on/event/

HarrowBandish Bandwagon: Tradition to TrendWe're a multi-artform venue based in the London Borough of Harrow.
#Music#LiveMusic#IndianClassical
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Chuck Darwin

On December 5, right-wing culture warriors instructed lawmakers attending the
American Legislative Exchange Council’s ( #ALEC )
"States and Nation Policy Summit"
in Washington, D.C.,
on the steps their states can take to upend policies and practices
designed to help address the unfolding climate emergency and diversify workforces.

CRC Advisors Senior Vice President 💥#Mike #Thompson 💥led the workshop
“Battles Won, War Continues:
The Left, ESG and State Policy,”
according to materials obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).

In 2020, #Greg #Mueller and #Leonard #Leo, who played an integral role in Trump’s effort to pack the federal judiciary with right-wing judges,
founded CRC Advisors
— the group Thompson represents
— to “funnel big money and expertise across the conservative movement.”

Although not as well known as Leo,
Thompson, a member of ALEC’s private sector advisory board,
is an important Christian Right operative
who plays multiple leadership roles in campaigns and communications.

Thompson’s public relations skills were on full display in his remarks
demonizing the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ),
“a global coalition of leading financial institutions committed to accelerating the decarbonization of the economy”
in order to preserve the planet from further destruction.

Thompson argued that large asset managers and banks that participate in GFANZ
— including BlackRock, State Street, Wells Fargo, City Bank, Morgan Stanley, Chase, and Bank of America
— are breaking antitrust law by utilizing sustainable investment strategies.

Thompson provided an example of a lawsuit against BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard
filed last month by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and 10 other Republican attorneys general
— all active members of the fossil-fuel backed "Republican Attorneys General Association" ( #RAGA )
— alleging that the three companies violated antitrust law in colluding to raise electricity prices through their investments.

“The states have filed an antitrust lawsuit and they detail in it all of the evidence where those three companies were colluding to keep coal in the ground and from coming to market,
thus, driving up the price and violating antitrust law,”
Thompson told workshop participants.

The PR professional neglected to mention that CRC Advisors is a paid consultant of RAGA
or that his boss Leo’s "Concord Fund" has funneled $3.5 million to the pay-to-play group this year
and $20.3 million since the organization was founded in 2014, according to CMD’s analysis of its tax filings.

#Sal #Nuzzo, the first workshop presenter, is executive director of
"Consumers Defense",
the sister organization of Consumers’ Research,
which is a vice-chairman sponsor of ALEC’s summit and a driver of the right-wing’s manufactured crisis around “woke” capitalism.

Nuzzo argued that reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 through renewable energy production would force Americans to cede
“two-thirds of [the] U.S. electricity generation supply chain to the Communist Party of China.”

He didn’t cite a source for this claim, nor does the group’s website provide any research substantiating it.

Nuzzo also attempted to raise the alarm with lawmakers from states that depend on agriculture
by claiming that the Left has “shifted their attacks and tactics into the agriculture space”
in response to anti-ESG legislation passed over the last three legislative cycles
and has moved to prevent farmers from getting access to loans.

“The [Left’s] coordinated attacks on agriculture are occurring at all levels.
They’re at the producer level.
They’re at the distributor level.
They’re at the consumption and sales level,”
Nuzzo claimed.

“If farming interests cannot get financing, [farmers] cannot operate.”

#Paul #Watkins, founder of "Fusion Law" and both a senior legal fellow at "Consumers’ Research"
and a special counsel with "Heritage Action", made a number of claims in his presentation
based on his belief that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives are discriminatory,
and therefore illegal.

As a member of ALEC’s "Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force", he is involved in drafting and voting on most of the group’s pro-fossil fuel policies alongside lawmakers and polluting industry lobbyists.
exposedbycmd.org/2024/12/07/to

EXPOSEDbyCMD · Top Leonard Leo Lieutenant Leads ALEC Bootcamp Against “Woke” Capitalism - EXPOSEDbyCMDOn December 5, right-wing culture warriors instructed lawmakers attending the American Legislative Exchange Council’s States and Nation Policy Summit in Washington, D.C., on the steps their states can take to upend policies and practices designed to help address the unfolding climate emergency and diversify workforces.
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Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ

Raga is a 1971 documentary film about the life and music of Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar, produced and directed by Howard Worth. It includes scenes featuring Western musicians Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison, as well as footage of Shankar returning to Maihar in central India, where as a young man he trained under the mentorship of Allauddin Khan. The film also features a portion of Shankar and tabla player Alla Rakha's acclaimed performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.

The majority of the documentary was shot in the late 1960s, during a period when Shankar's growing popularity saw Indian classical music embraced by rock and pop musicians and their audiences. Financial problems then delayed production until Harrison provided assistance through the Beatles' company Apple Films. In addition to actively promoting Raga, Harrison produced the soundtrack album – a project that led directly to he and Shankar staging the Concert for Bangladesh in August 1971.

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soulvlog.blogspot.comRaga A Journey Into The Soul Of India (1971) Raga is a 1971 documentary film about the life and music of Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar, produced and directed by Howard Worth. It include...
#Sitar#India#Music
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Habr

[Перевод] Оценка RAG: Полное руководство по модульному тестированию RAG в CI/CD

Генерация дополненного извлечения (RAG) стала самым популярным способом предоставления LLM дополнительного контекста для создания адаптированных выходных данных. Это отлично подходит для приложений LLM, таких как чат-боты или агенты ИИ, поскольку RAG предоставляет пользователям гораздо более контекстуальный опыт, выходящий за рамки данных, на которых обучались LLM, такие как GPT-4. Неудивительно, что практикующие LLM столкнулись с проблемами оценки приложений RAG во время разработки. Но благодаря исследованиям, проведенным RAGA, оценка общих характеристик генератора-извлекателя систем RAG в 2024 году является в некоторой степени решенной проблемой. Однако создание приложений RAG до сих пор остается проблемой — вы можете использовать неправильную модель встраивания, плохую стратегию фрагментации или выводить ответы в неправильном формате, что как раз и пытаются решить такие фреймворки, как LlamaIndex. Но теперь, по мере того как архитектуры RAG становятся все более сложными, а сотрудничество между специалистами LLM в этих проектах усиливается, возникновение критических изменений становится более частым, чем когда-либо.

habr.com/ru/articles/865420/

ХабрОценка RAG: Полное руководство по модульному тестированию RAG в CI/CDГенерация дополненного извлечения (RAG) стала самым популярным способом предоставления LLM дополнительного контекста для создания адаптированных выходных данных. Это отлично подходит для приложений...
#RAG#LLM#RAGA
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Habr

[Перевод] Оценка приложений RAG с помощью RAGA

Фреймворк с метриками и данными, сгенерированными LLM, для оценки производительности конвейера с дополненной генерацией данных.

habr.com/ru/articles/861792/

ХабрОценка приложений RAG с помощью RAGAФреймворк с метриками и данными, сгенерированными LLM, для оценки производительности конвейера с дополненной генерацией данных. Стилизованная панель мониторинга производительности для расширенной...
#RAG#RAGA#llm
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neddyo

Short stop at home to charge the phone a little and then a late night CitiBike to Red Hook...

One of the cooler livemusic happenings I know of is Ragas Live: 24 hours straight of ragas and the raga-inspired. The middle-of-the-night scene here is wild. Like a sleepover party for drone-loving music nerds.

We'll see how long I last.

#nycfreaks#livemusic#brooklyn
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Leonard Leo’s Concord Fund Tops Funders of Republican Attorneys General Association
exposedbycmd.org/2024/10/15/le

* $1.5M to Republican Attorneys General Association in Q3 2024
* top funder of right-wing group leading opposition to abortion rights

Leonard Leo’s Concord Fund is RAGA’s Top Funder
mastodon.social/@persagen/1108

Leonard Leo’s Concord Fund Tops Funders of Republican Attorneys General Association https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/10/15/leonard-leos-concord-fund-again-tops-funders-of-republican-ag-group-in-third-quarter * $1.5M to Republican Attorneys General Association in Q3 2024 * top funder of right-wing group leading opposition to abortion rights Leonard Leo’s Concord Fund is RAGA’s Top Funder https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110815267046731271 #LeonardLeo #ConcordFund #RepublicanAttorneysGeneralAssociation #RAGA #ChristianRight #billionaires #libertarianism #GOP #protofascism #85Fund #FreedomMarbleTrust #misogyny #WealthTax
#LeonardLeo#ConcordFund#RepublicanAttorneysGeneralAssociation
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