Who is Christian Sturdivant? ISIS-inspired teen captured by FBI before he could pull off ‘terrorist attack’ in North Carolina on New Year’s Eve

An 18-year-old from Mint Hill, North Carolina, is accused of plotting a deadly New Year’s Eve attack in support of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, before FBI agents moved in to stop him. The suspect was identified as Christian Sturdivant, who planned to stab civilians at public locations using knives, firearms and hammers,…

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SSC releases exam and self-slotting schedule for CGL Tier-2, MTS, Havaldar and GD Constable exams

The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has made an essential announcement about the test schedule of various recruitment examinations, which mainly include the SSC CGL Tier, 2 examination, SSC Multi, Tasking Staff (MTS) and Havaldar Examination 2025, SSC Constable (GD) Examination 2026. Besides the exam dates, SSC has also made an announcement regarding some exams’ self,…

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Farah Khan’s cook Dilip asks Nitin Gadkari to build a road in his Darbhanga village; Farah’s epic reaction steals the show |

Farah Khan hosted Nitin Gadkari on her vlog, bringing cook Dilip from Bihar who cheekily requested village roads. Farah’s hilarious forehead smack and quip on flyovers stole the show, as Gadkari smiled. Her 2024 YouTube cooking series with Dilip’s charm went viral, landing ads and SRK cameos. Choreographer-director Farah Khan recently welcomed Union Minister for…

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Why lizards, rats, cockroaches, ants and spiders show up in your home during winter and how to get rid of them |

Winter quietly changes how homes behave. Windows stay shut, sunlight reduces and warm air lingers indoors. Corners that felt dry in summer begin holding moisture. Kitchens stay warm long after cooking is done. While this feels comfortable for people, it also creates exactly what pests look for. Lizards, rats, cockroaches, ants and spiders do not…

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‘India has right to defend’: Jaishankar hits out at ‘bad neighbours’ — what he said on neighbourhood policy | India News

NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Friday spoke about India’s neighbourhood policy, saying that “you can have bad neighbours… unfortunately, we do” a veiled swipe at Pakistan.Ties between New Delhi and Islamabad, long strained, further deteriorated after the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 civilians in Jammu and Kashmir, an attack was designed…

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Word embeddings in NLP

We will discuss word embeddings this week. Word embeddings represent a fundamental shift in natural language processing (NLP), transforming words into dense vector representations that capture semantic and syntactic meaning. Moving beyond sparse, context-agnostic methods such as bag-of-words and one-hot encoding, modern embedding techniques (from Word2Vec to transformers) enable machines to capture linguistic relationships and…

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