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In Iran war, VAR models ease cliff effect on Ice and CME margins

Amid the global energy fallout from the Iran conflict, a small glimmer of light has emerged – a reduction in the big ‘step changes’ in margin revisions seen after the onset of the war in Ukraine. Data ...
TheServerSide

Run Llama LLMs on your laptop with Hugging Face and Python

There are numerous ways to run large language models such as DeepSeek, Claude or Meta's Llama locally on your laptop, including Ollama and Modular's Max platform. But if you want to fully control the ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Li, H., Zhou, D., Hu, J. and Guo, L. (2022) Dynamic Linkages among Oil Price, Green Bond, Carbon Market and Low-Carbon Footprint Company Stock Price: Evidence from the TVP-VAR ...

ABSTRACT: We explore the effects of EPU and TPU, the main raw material prices (coke and iron ore), the exchange rate of the second raw material (iron ore) importing country to China (CNYAUD) on steel ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Yang, C., Niu, Z. and Gao, W. (2022) The Time-Varying Effects of Trade Policy Uncertainty and Geopolitical Risks Shocks on the Commodity Market Prices: Evidence from the TVP ...

ABSTRACT: We explore the effects of EPU and TPU, the main raw material prices (coke and iron ore), the exchange rate of the second raw material (iron ore) importing country to China (CNYAUD) on steel ...
Phys.org

AI diffusion models tailor drug molecules to custom-fit protein targets, speeding drug development and evaluation

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have developed a bold new approach to drug development and discovery that could dramatically accelerate the creation of new medicines. UVA's ...
Ars Technica

Running local models on Macs gets faster with Ollama’s MLX support

Ollama, a runtime system for operating large language models on a local computer, has introduced support for Apple’s open source MLX framework for machine learning. Additionally, Ollama says it has ...
Ars Technica

OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...
The Conversation

1 protein to rule them all – why crowning the protein that makes jellyfish glow green as a model can help scientists streamline biology

Green fluorescent protein has an iconic structure. National Institute of General Medical Sciences/National Institutes of Health via Flickr, CC BY-NC Fruit flies, mice, zebra fish, yeast and the tiny ...
Motor Trend

Tesla Deletes “Standard” From Its Cheapest Models, Adds Model Y Variant

Update 2/4/26: Tesla has updated the entry-level Model 3 and Model Y by removing the “Standard” nomenclature and adding an AWD option for the Model Y. Our original story on these models was published ...
Wired

AI Models Are Starting to Learn by Asking Themselves Questions

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence. Save this story Save this story Even the smartest artificial intelligence ...