Iran war slashes gas supply, fertilizer up 30%

Spark re‑evaluates CTEs each time, so blindly caching hurts. Cache only medium‑sized intermediate results that are reused at fan‑out points and fit comfortably in memory; skip tiny tables and datasets too big to stay resident. Use the Spark UI or eager cache calls to verify memory impact and keep jobs fast.

Andy Kirk logged every Seinfeld episode and built an interactive visual that tracks character screen time, episode length and plot motifs across nine seasons. The charts reveal the rise of recurring side‑characters, shifting story structures and subtle pacing changes, showing how data viz can dissect even a classic sitcom.

The conflict with Iran has cut 17% of global natural‑gas output and over 30% of nitrogen‑fertilizer production, according to Reuters’ data visualisation. That shortfall is already driving U.S. and European fertilizer prices higher, squeezing growers and nudging food costs upward. The story highlights how geopolitics ripple through the energy‑food chain.

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Hugging Face Diffusers now supports Nunchaku’s 4‑bit SVDQuant engine, letting you load a quantized checkpoint with a single from_pretrained() call. The NVFP4 kernels cut VRAM from ~24 GB to ~12 GB and generate 1024×1024 images in ~1.7 s on an RTX 5090, unlocking faster, cheaper diffusion inference.

An enterprise‑grade RAG pipeline stages a cheap, on‑prem LLM to pre‑filter queries, then hands only the top results to an expensive hosted model. The authors benchmark twenty open‑source models, showing up to 70% cost reduction without hurting answer quality, and they close the loop with automated validation to keep the cascade tuned.

GraphEval offers a structured two-stage framework that builds a triple graph from model output and checks each triple against a ground‑truth knowledge base using an NLI model, flagging contradictions as hallucinations. The KDNuggets walkthrough shows a lightweight code demo, making the method easy to test and improving explainability of LLM errors.

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