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9 Rules For Loving Someone Without Losing Yourself, According To Psychology | Lianne Avila

9 Rules For Loving Someone Without Losing Yourself, According To Psychology | Lianne Avila

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In the beginning, love is grand. It’s just you and your partner. You can’t seem to get enough of each other. Slowly, over time, your relationship becomes less important, and you begin to drift away. Love is a splendid thing and it does make the world go round, but if you want to stay together, then be prepared to work at it. That doesn’t mean sacrificing who you are, but it does mean softening and finding space for your partner. It’s all about loving someone despite what life throws at you. 9 rules for loving someone without losing yourself, according to psychology: 1. Kiss for six seconds daily Mikhail Nilov | Pexels You read that right. In our busy world most of the time we give our partner a peck. You need to stop and kiss on the lips for six seconds. It’s not really that long and the physiological effects are great. 2. Learn one important thing about your partner’s day Jack Sparrow | Pexels This is also known as “departing”. Before your partner leaves for the …

OpenAI unveils new alignment method Rules Based Rewards

OpenAI unveils new alignment method Rules Based Rewards

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI announced a new way to teach AI models to align with safety policies called Rules Based Rewards.  According to Lilian Weng, head of safety systems at OpenAI, Rules-Based Rewards (RBR) automate some model fine-tuning and cut down the time required to ensure a model does not give unintended results.   “Traditionally, we rely on reinforcement learning from human feedback as the default alignment training to train models, and it works,” Weng said in an interview. “But in practice, the challenge we’re facing is that we spend a lot of time discussing the nuances of the policy, and by the end, the policy may have already evolved.” Weng referred to reinforcement learning from human feedback, which asks humans to prompt a model and rate its answers based on accuracy or which version they prefer. If a model is not meant to respond a certain way—for example, sound friendly or refuse to answer “unsafe” requests like asking for …

Banks face new rules to secure access to cash from September | Business News

Banks face new rules to secure access to cash from September | Business News

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Efforts to secure access to cash for consumers and businesses are being stepped up through a series of new rules to be imposed by the City watchdog. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said that from 18 September, banks and building societies would face greater obligations to weigh if local communities lack access to services, like branches and ATMs, and to plug “significant gaps”. The new obligations would require them to act if assessments, which can be requested by local areas, find difficulties in the provision of basic services including the ability to bank cash. Lenders would also have to keep a service, including a branch or cash machine, open until such time as a replacement is identified or operational. Failures to abide by the rules could ultimately lead to an unlimited fine, the FCA said. The regulatory framework covers the operations of the 14 largest lenders on the high street. They will have the ability to review cash provision every two years. The banking sector has long been accused of leaving communities cut off through …

Portrayal of character in Steve Coogan’s film The Lost King is defamatory, judge rules | UK news

Portrayal of character in Steve Coogan’s film The Lost King is defamatory, judge rules | UK news

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The portrayal of a former university official in Steve Coogan’s film about the discovery of the remains of Richard III is defamatory, a high court judge has ruled. Richard Taylor, a former deputy registrar at the University of Leicester, is suing Coogan, the production company Baby Cow and the distributors Pathe. He claims the 2022 movie The Lost King shows his character, played by Lee Ingleby, behaving in an “abominable way” towards the amateur historian Philippa Langley, played by Sally Hawkins, who spearheaded the dig. Taylor claims the film shows him taking credit for himself and the university that was rightfully Langley’s for the 2012 discovery of Richard III’s remains in a Leicester car park more than 500 years after the king’s death. The defendants denied that the film portrayed such a “saint and sinner” narrative but, in a judgment published on Friday, Judge Lewis said its portrayal of the former university employee was defamatory. Lewis said: “The character Mr Taylor was portrayed throughout the film in a negative light. At no point was he …

Bronson Battersby: Boy, 2, found dead next to father’s body died of dehydration, coroner rules | UK News

Bronson Battersby: Boy, 2, found dead next to father’s body died of dehydration, coroner rules | UK News

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A two-year-old boy found dead next to the body of his father died of dehydration, a coroner has ruled. Bronson Battersby was discovered dead between the legs of Kenneth Battersby at their home in Skegness, Lincolnshire, in January. An inquest into the toddler’s death was told he “appeared to be quite malnourished” when he was found. A brief hearing at Greater Lincolnshire Coroner’s Court on Thursday was told that the pair’s bodies were discovered after a neighbour called police on the afternoon of 9 January. Bronson’s body was formally identified by a detective sergeant on 15 January, three days after a post-mortem examination carried out at Leicester Royal Infirmary which confirmed his cause of death as dehydration. Image: Bronson Battersby with mum Sarah Piesse Claire Rimmer, a detective inspector of Lincolnshire’s eastern protecting vulnerable persons unit, also gave evidence to the hearing, detailing the circumstances in which Bronson’s body was found. Ms Rimmer said Bronson lived with his father, who had separated from the toddler’s mother, in a basement flat in Prince Alfred Avenue. The …

Hot heads: 13 unwritten rules for spice lovers | World of Flavour – With Encona

Hot heads: 13 unwritten rules for spice lovers | World of Flavour – With Encona

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They say that variety is the spice of life but, as all spice lovers know, spice is the way to add variety to your life – or at least your meals. Another thing all serious chilli connoisseurs know is that being part of the club comes with certain dos and don’ts. Here are 13 rules that spice lovers will instantly understand. 1. A restaurant without hot sauce is a no-noChilli sauce should be a standard table-top condiment, and we won’t hear a word otherwise. As we can’t always rely on the chef to perfectly season our food, we at least need the option to add some heat at the table. 2. True connoisseurs carry a bottle of hot sauce with them at (almost) all timesIf this is you, you’re in good company. From Beyoncé to Naomi Campbell and, unexpectedly, Hillary Clinton, the “I got hot sauce in my bag” crew is elite. 3. Finding new ways to add spice to your life is an ongoing pursuitCase in point: I recently discovered Encona’s brand new range …

Sweat wisely! 22 etiquette rules for exercise – from swimming lanes to selfies | Fitness

Sweat wisely! 22 etiquette rules for exercise – from swimming lanes to selfies | Fitness

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Outdoor runners have got their euphoria. In every other setting, exercise unleashes a load of more complicated emotions, many of them very strong. To be a novice in a class or at the gym is to be in an extremely vulnerable state: one mean look can send you home, a clique of friends can make you feel like an outsider. When you know what you’re doing, it fills you with a powerful self-satisfaction, but when you have an environment in which half the people are poleaxed by insecurity, and the other half are much too secure, there’s a lot that can go wrong. Nobody can change that, but etiquette does help. Here are the experts’ rules on the etiquette of fitness environments. In the gym If you don’t know how to use it, ask someoneAnna Jenkins, 51, is the founder of We Are Fit Attitude, with decades of personal training experience. She asked her clients and trainers for some gym etiquette tips. One woman said: “I was too proud to ask questions about how to …

Court rules North Carolina Catholic school could fire gay teacher who announced his wedding online

Court rules North Carolina Catholic school could fire gay teacher who announced his wedding online

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Catholic school in North Carolina had the right to fire a gay teacher who announced his marriage on social media a decade ago, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, reversing a judge’s earlier decision. A panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, reversed a 2021 ruling that Charlotte Catholic High School and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte had violated Lonnie Billard’s federal employment protections against sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The school said Billard wasn’t invited back as a substitute teacher because of his “advocacy in favor of a position that is opposed to what the church teaches about marriage,” a court document said. U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn determined Billard — a full-time teacher for a decade until 2012 — was a lay employee for the limited purpose of teaching secular classes. Cogburn said a trial would still have to be held to determine appropriate relief for him. A 2020 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court declared Title …