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#editors-note

Editor's note: This will begin our annual season in review.Over the next week, we will be dishing out or position by position ratings as well as looking back at the job done by ' manager.So, please, keep a look on both the website as well as the podcast for what we have in store as we look back on a tumultuous 2022-23 season.

2023 Player ReviewsAs a fourth line role player, Jonah Gadjovich did precisely what the Sharks wanted/needed him to do.While San Jose Sharks General Manager Mike Grier has yet to land those high end, high talent players for the Sharks, he has done a great job of rounding out the bottom six.During his first offseason, Grier created a game plan for the Sharks.

2023 Player ReviewsThe young forward did not excel during his short time in San Jose, but it is way too early to give up.When the San Jose Sharks traded star forward Timo Meier to the New Jersey Devils, fans knew they needed a big return to make the deal worth it.Never mind that it would be difficult for the team to sign Meier in the offseason, San Jose needed to get something massive back in return for one of the top power forwards in the league.

Editor's note: Robert Crowe is a speaker for ODSC Europe this June.Be sure to check out his talk, "Production ML for Mission-Critical Applications," there!Deploying advanced machine learning technology to serve customers and/or business needs requires a rigorous approach and production-ready systems.

Editor's note: The authors are speakers for ODSC Europe this June.Be sure to check out their talk, "Generative NLP models in customer service.How to evaluate them?Challenges and lessons learned in a real use case in bankingThe challenge of evaluation: the need for human criteria ," there!With the increasing use of digital communication, daily interactions between customer service agents and clients have shifted from traditional phone calls to chat and text messages.

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1. Millions of WordPress websites have been vulnerable to a critical 10-year-old vulnerability in Jetpack, which has now been patched.
2. Attackers could have exploited the vulnerability to gain access to user information, including passwords, and even take control of the server hosting the WordPress website.

Employees at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Park Slope are looking to unionize, making them the second New York City branch of the book emporium to organize, they announced Thursday.Roughly 30 workers at the 7th Avenue store near 6th Street have already signed authorization cards in order to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, according to the RWDSU, and notified management of their intention to unionize on May 25.

It's Monday: You're staring down another week of work and need some convincing there's a reason to feel anything but dread - something to give you hope you'll make it to Friday.You need good dad jokes to share with coworkers, like work jokes that'll help buck up the whole team.Having an arsenal of funny work-appropriate jokes at your disposal can be handy for lifting the mood and boosting morale when the stress of work (and everything else in life) gets the better of us.

Editor's note: this post is part of a series by the Diversity Pilots Initiative, which advances inclusive innovation through rigorous research.The first blog in the series is here and resources from the first conference of the initiative are available here.- Jason By: Piers Blewett, Principal at Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner (SLW) (This post is part of a series by the Diversity Pilots Initiative, which advances inclusive innovation through rigorous research.

We're at the tipping point for ChatGPT and other AI-powered chatbots.Right now most attention is focused on Microsoft and Google's use of them.The discussion so far has been mostly about the impact on marketing and SEO.But what about the impact on martech?Christopher Penn, co-founder and chief data scientist at TrustInsights.ai, says it is already creating big changes and opportunities.

Editor's Note: This video contains contain graphic content that may be upsetting to viewers.Newly releasedbody camera footage of Chicago police fatally shooting a man during a mid-April foot chase appears to show the man holding a gun as he turns toward police.Chicago police shot and killed Reginald Clay Jr., 24, in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the morning of April 15.

1. Adobe’s new generative AI tool, called “Neural Filters”, allows for creative expression and experimentation with photos and images.
2. Neural Filters can apply effects to images with realistic details and textures, giving them a more natural look.
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Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan has unveiled a new solo single titled "This Is the Song," addressing his longterm battle with panic disorder.The track has been released as part of a three-song EP in conjunction with Mental Health Awareness Month.In the acoustic song, the veteran rocker sings, "This is the song that's gonna save my life/ As I scrape for sanity/ Tried Lexipro and what else I don't know/ But still they can't agree."

Editor's note: May marks Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, which celebrates the histories of Americans hailing from across the Asian continent and from the Pacific islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.NPR's Picture Show will be bringing stories from these communities to our audience this month.

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Editor's note: Madhav Thaker and Chen Karako-Argaman are speakers for ODSC East this May 9th-11th.Be sure to check out their talk, "Generating Content-based Recommendations for Millions of Merchants and Products," there!Shopify is an all-in-one commerce platform that provides businesses the infrastructure to create and scale their own online store and sell products or services.

John Underwood in 1981.(Tony Triolo/Getty Images)John Underwood, a star writer during the early days of Sports Illustrated who formed an unlikely bond with the irascible Red Sox slugger Ted Williams that led them to co-write two acclaimed books about baseball, including " The Science of Hitting," died April 12 at his home in Miami.

Editor's Note: This interview contains a discussion of self-harm.If you or someone you know may be considering suicide or is in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.In Limbo is not your typical graphic novel by a first-generation American.Instead of focusing on race and identity like many books by authors of this genre, relationships and mental health take center stage in Deb J.J. Lee's debut young adult memoir, published last month by First Second Books.

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State lawmakers on Thursday introduced new legislation to crack down on deed thieves, scammers who seek to steal properties, often from Black and Latino homeowners.And state Attorney General Letitia James is championing the cause in a bid to keep New Yorkers in their homes and protect generational wealth.

AUSTIN, Texas Editor's note: The above video was published in September 2021.A Travis County jury convicted a man in connection with the death of a 20-year-old woman a year and a half ago in northeast Austin.The Travis County District Attorney's Office said Thursday that the jury convicted Frank Lee Nobles, 31, of murder on March 9.

If the scaffolding surrounding the Brooklyn Supreme Court building on Adams Street was a person, it would be preparing to finish its sophomore year of high school - and the city spends more money each year keeping the structure propped up than it does on the average public school student.The scaffolding - or "sidewalk shed," as it's more formally known - has been wrapped around the courthouse at 360 Adams Street since 2007.

Nebraska state Sen. John Fredrickson (D) is going viral for breaking down in tears as he apologized to transgender people for Republican state senators' vicious attacks and disgusting comments about trans people.Transgender people have been targeted by the religious right and Republican politicians repeatedly in recent years - both in the state and at the federal level.

In the comments section of a recent post, Tomato Can referenced an article on fivethirtyeight.comcalled "The Best Way To Derail An NBA Offense?Make It Waste Time."Time on the shot clock is an offense's most valuable resource.Without it, a team is dead in the water, no matter the skill level of its players.

Thirty years after their debut, original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are reuniting in a new Netflix special.Entitled Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always, the scripted project premieres on April 19th.In anticipation, watch the newly revealed trailer below.Based on the franchise's slogan "once a Ranger, always a Ranger," Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always sees the original Rangers come "face to face with a familiar threat from the past.

Editor's note: Jonas Mueller is a speaker for ODSC East this May 9th-11th.Be sure to check out his session, "Improving ML Datasets with Cleanlab, a Standard Framework for Data-Centric AI," there!Anybody who has worked on a real-world ML project knows how messy data can be.While most ML classes teach students about modeling a fixed dataset, experienced data scientists know that improving data brings higher ROI than tinkering with models.

With our recently released Top 33 Dodgers prospect list, it's a good time to look at how the national publications ranked Dodger prospects heading into 2023.Speaking of our list, here is our Top 10:
And now, onto the composite Top 10.
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Editor's Note: BA = Baseball America, BP = Baseball Prospectus, FG = FanGraphs, ESPN = Kiley McDaniel, Law = The Athletic, MLB = MLB Pipeline, PL = Prospects Live --
Josh and I are part of the consensus when it comes to the Top 5 in the system.

With their season on the brink of collapse and reeling from a three-game losing streak, the Washington Wizards reached deep inside and summoned a supreme effort to defeat the mighty Detroit Pistons and take a courageous step towards making the NBA play-in games.The Pistons came to town seeking to avenge a narrow defeat at the hands of these very Wizards just days before in Detroit.

As the city gears up for its big overhaul of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, local politicians are urging the federal Department of Transportation to keep the roadway at two lanes in each direction, rather than widening it back to six full traffic lanes.The Adams administration is working to finalize its proposal to redesign the decrepit triple cantilever portion of the BQE in Brooklyn Heights, and plans to request funding for the project from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal through the U.S. DOT.

When Gabriela Nigretti couldn't get pregnant, she embarked on a fertility journey, which she candidly shared on social media.When the in Milford, Connecticut, data annotation manager started in vitro fertilization (IVF), she announced it as if she were announcing a pregnancy, in part, to reduce the stigma and isolation associated with infertility.

Time is money, and in Silicon Valley, that saying is exceedingly true.So when news got out that Google could postpone construction on its highly-anticipated San Jose megacampus, it raised eyebrows and concerns.At stake is roughly 25,000 jobs and $155 million for a community fund that will be used to pay for education, job training and to try to prevent displacement following Downtown West 's construction.