Sahra Residential Building / MA OfficeSave this picture! Mahmood EbrahimiResidential ArchitectureKerman, IranArchitects: MA OfficeAreaArea of this architecture projectArea:2000 mYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2023 PhotographsPhotographs:Mahmood Ebrahimi Lead Architects: Mahmood Ebrahimi, Ali Bahmanyar More SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Text description provided by the architects. Sahra Building is located near Khaju Square in Kerman, a lower-middle-class urban area. Its surroundings include a large dirt lot inhabited by homeless people, a historic ice house from the Qajar era, several old mud-brick houses, and a street featuring the area's newer developments.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The project faced several challenges, including an asymmetrical and irregular plot with non-parallel sides. The client had specific requests and lifestyle requirements that needed to be addressed. They asked for four identical residential units in four floors for the family, resulting in an identical floor plan design. Another requirement was to create plans with separate public and private areas to bar guests' views of the private spaces. Designing the balconies posed another challenge due to the client's lifestyle; they couldn't be open or visible from the outside, but completely enclosing them would diminish the special character of the balconies. The client also requested an economical and affordable building design due to a limited budget.Save this picture!Save this picture!According to municipal regulations, the plot's position allowed for a 70% extension of the construction limit on the eastern side towards the south. Utilizing this option solved three issues: first, it oriented the main bedroom towards the dirt lot instead of the neighboring property; second, it concealed the main balcony behind the protruding volume, providing more privacy from the street; and third, it allowed the building's volume to sit on the plot's walls, resolving the irregular shape by transforming it into a base for the volume and orienting the building towards the alley.Save this picture!Save this picture!The balconies were placed on the southside for better lighting and views, and to create distance between windows and the building's edge for improved privacy and sun control. An operable wooden shell was designed for the southern side of the balconies, allowing for adjustable visibility, sunlight, and wind exposure.Save this picture!To strengthen the building's connection with the neighborhood and surroundings, all materials were sourced from the local environment. The bricks used in the construction match the color of the surrounding dirt lot and mud-brick houses. These bricks were produced in Kerman but had limited dimensions. To address this issue, local labor was employed to cut and prepare the bricks for use in the building. The operable southern shell was made from bamboo, which grew in front of the building. This material was cost-effective, complemented the bricks well, and added excellent sensory qualities to the balconies.Save this picture!Save this picture!Sahra Building aimed to meet its inhabitants' needs, culture, and lifestyle while establishing a solid connection with its surroundings. Our goal was to create a homogeneous building that emerged from its environment and neighborhood while maintaining its unique architectural identity.Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessProject locationAddress:Kerman, IranLocation to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.About this officePublished on December 22, 2024Cite: "Sahra Residential Building / MA Office" 21 Dec 2024. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1024741/sahra-residential-building-ma-office&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

A Destiny 2 player has turned Marvel's Midnight Suns into Guardians and shared the result online. The wide variety of gear and shaders helps the Destiny 2 community exercise their creativity in often impressive ways. They create original ideas or recreate well-known characters from other IPs.

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We may earn a commission from links on this page.One bit of wisdom that has come to me with age is that, sometimes, there is value in doing things the way they've always been done. Just because something can be modernized doesn't always mean it needs to be. The best example of this, to me, is the humble filing cabinet. Yes, you can (and still should) digitize all your documents, since that makes them searchable and easy to find, but there are still great reasons to keep a real-deal, physical filing cabinet in your home. First of all, filing cabinets aren't just for files. The one I use has two drawers for file folders, but a smaller third drawer at the top that is ideal for office supplies. I'm a diehard supporter of the Organizational Triangle as a method to keep my home in order and that technique calls for everything you own to have a designated storage space and be stored with similar items. Keeping highlighters, a magnifying glass, staplers, etc. together with the stuff you use them for is an ideal organizational system. The ones with extra storage space are typically taller than your one-off file storage boxes, too, so they provide helpful flat space that can be used for more storage or as a writing surface in a pinch. If all-in-one organization is your interest, try a file cabinet like this: LYS SOHO 3-Drawer File Cabinet $109.99 at Amazon Get Deal Get Deal $109.99 at Amazon Some documents can't be digitizedI am the person my friends and family members call on when they want help finding digital documents. I'm a meticulous organizer of my computer and phone and spend a lot of free time (generously) helping my loved ones organize their devices, too. But I learned this trait from my mom, who is diligent about physical document organization. When I need a copy of my birth certificate, that woman can produce it in seconds because it's placed carefully in a clearly labeled folder in one of her many filing cabinets. Documents like thatcertificates, social security cards, etc.tend to need to be originals to count when it matters, like when you're opening an account or getting your passport. Digital copies can only get you so far most of the time, so having a dedicated, labeled, organized storage space for the real stuff is key. But other kinds of documents also need the physical treatment. In my mom's job, for instance, some of the docs she handles are sensitive and can't be digitized. A locked file cabinet is her best friend in that case. Other documents she handles are required to be kept for a certain amount of time before being destroyed. She tells me she doesn't see the point of digitizing them just to delete them, so she keeps them in a special drawer of her file cabinet, then shreds them when the time is up. What you need in this case is a lockable filing cabinet, like this: VASAGLE 2 Drawer File Cabinet with Lock $79.99 at Amazon Get Deal Get Deal $79.99 at Amazon Both drawers on this model lock independently with keys, which I like more than the cabinets that have one lock at the top that controls all the drawers. Filing cabinets offer safety and protectionFollowing a very memorable incident in which my childhood dog tore apart not only my parents' cardboard file boxes, but the files within them, my family switched to heavy-duty filing cabinets. In addition to ones that lock like the cabinets above, you can even get ones that are fire- and water-resistant. Yes, you can protect your documents from fire, water, and other physical threats by digitizing them, but the fact still remains you will always have important docs on hand in your home. Instead of keeping them piled up on a shelf, invest in a quality protective file cabinet or box. Some are pretty pricey, so it's a good idea to determine how much you really need to store in something so hardcore, but you can also find smaller ones on the cheaper side, like this: SentrySafe 1170 Fireproof Box with Key Lock $46.56 at Amazon $59.99 Save $13.43 Shop Now Shop Now $46.56 at Amazon $59.99 Save $13.43 General filing cabinet tipsIn my experience, the best way to use filing cabinets is by getting really nitty-gritty with your organization. I'm talking about labeled folders for everything. Each tax year should have its own folder. Each income source, asset, and person in your family should have one. In addition to clear labeling, I recommend using a variety of colors to represent all the different categories. You can get 100 multi-colored folders for $18.99. Categorizing and organizing your documents and necessary items physically has a lot of benefits. I've found that it can actually be easier to pull open a drawer and look for something than to open and close a bunch of tabs and files on the computer. Plus, when you take the time to hand-write a label and physically handle a document, you really entrench it into your mind. It'll be easier to remember where it is in a pinch for the same reason it's easier to recall hand-written notes over digital ones when you're studying. I'm a file cabinet evangelist, I guess, and I think every home should have at least one. You don't have to break the bank to do it or turn your back entirely on modernity. In fact, the easiest way to get a cheap one is by embracing modernity: Check Buy Nothing groups on Facebook or the free giveaways section of Craigslist regularly, as filing cabinets are usually abundant on there. When offices close or remodel, they give away a lot of stuff.

The holidays are here, and with them, all kinds of winter-themed updates to your favorite online games. Seasonal events are common in games like Final Fantasy XIV and Fortnite, but recent game of the year winner Astro Bot is surprising players with a brand-new level thats already becoming a holiday classic.Titled "Winter Wonder," the level does take a bit of doing to get to. Most importantly, you need to beat the main Astro Bot campaign before you can unlock it, so if youre brand new to Sonys award-winning platformer, be prepared to spend eight to ten hours playing it before you can get in the festive mood.Once thats done, youll just need to load into the main universe hub where you normally access the games major areas, called galaxies. It wont be too long before youll see a small flying planet wearing a Santa hat. Smack into it (use R2 to boost if youre having trouble) and the planet will move to the right side of your screen and morph into the level in question. Now, simply fly over it and press X to begin playing.Once youre in the level, youll be treated to a snowy platforming paradise with 15 gifts to chase down, each containing different bots, speeders, and costumes to unlock. I wont spoil your presents early, but even playing as efficiently as possible, getting everything should take you about 15 minutes. Along the way, youll run and jump across gingerbread houses, ball pits full of ornaments, candy cane gardens, and fields with grazing robotic reindeer (and maybe the odd elephant or monkey).Winter Wonder isnt the first free post-game level to be added to Astro Bot, with five speedrun-focused challenges having preceded it over the past few months, but it is possibly the one with the most staying power. The vibes here are just immaculate, and I could easily see replaying it becoming a new holiday tradition in some households.

Now that Apple has finally brought OLED to the iPad in the form of the most recent iPad Pro, its next goal seems to be foldable devices. According to Bloombergs Mark Gurman, the iPhone maker is working towards releasing a foldable iPad by 2028, while the Wall Street Journal says the company hopes to have a foldable iPhone on the market in 2026.The iPad news comes courtesy of Gurmans Power On newsletter, where the reporters (unnamed but frequently reliable) sources tell him that the folding iPad would be a whopping 18.8-inches and would be like two iPad Pros side-by-side. For comparison, the current iPad Pro caps out at 13-inches, and even the MacBook Pro only gets as large as 16 inches.This isnt the first time Gurman has reported on a folding iPad, as he previously covered a rumored 20-inch iPad meant to work like a MacBook, but with a touchscreen instead of a keyboard. This rumor originally came from Display Supply Chain Consultant Ross Young, but Gurmans sources did confirm to him that Apple is considering such a device. If it comes to market, Young says it would likely be in 2026, although Gurmans most recent rumors seem to indicate the 2028 device might supplant it.Regarding the folding iPhone, the Wall Street Journal says itll have a bigger screen than the 16 Pro Max and should hit the market in 2026. Technically, The Information was the first to report on this phone way back in July, and Gurmans gotten in on the speculation too, saying not to expect it before 2026 at the earliest.As for why these devices are projected for so far out when companies like Asus and Samsung are already putting out foldable tablets and phones, its likely because Apple is working on a nearly invisible crease, which might be what it takes to compete in an increasingly intense market space.Returning to the iPad, Gurman technically wasnt the first to report on the rumored 18.8-inch device, as market research firm Omdia had previously predicted that one was in development. However, Gurmans reporting adds significant credence to the idea.Gurman also says that the device, while not confirmed to be running MacOS, will have elements of both, including being advanced enough to run macOS apps.That should help justify the size a bitlike Asus Zenbook Fold line, a folding Apple tablet will likely be able to connect to an external keyboard, allowing it to also serve as a sort of portable desktop environment. That said, Korean outlet The Elec has previously said that Apple is considering 7- or 8- inch folding tablets as well, although that publications timelines dont fully match up with the other reporting, so Apple might still surprise us all yet.

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Molecule discovery is important in various scientific research fields, particularly pharmaceuticals and materials science. While the emergence of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has revolutionized this field by enabling the representation of molecules as graphs and facilitating property predictions, it faces difficulties in generalizing across different tasks, requiring substantial task-specific data collection. These approaches show limitations in generating molecules with customized properties. The integration of LLMs into molecule discovery faces hurdles in effectively aligning molecular and textual data along with challenges in dataset availability and evaluation metrics that capture the aspects of new molecule discovery.Various artificial intelligence approaches have been developed to enhance molecule discovery. Integration of machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing has enabled more complex analysis of biological and chemical data. Methods like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for structural analysis, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for sequential data processing, and Transformer-based networks for complex pattern recognition. Text-based Molecule Generation (Text2Mol) emerged as a beneficial approach, utilizing natural language descriptions for molecule retrieval. While models like MolT5 show initial success with SMILES string generation, subsequent developments like KVPLM, MoMu, and 3DMoLM enhanced capabilities using molecular graphs and spatial configurations.Researchers from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Shanghai AI Lab have proposed TOMG-Bench (Text-based Open Molecule Generation Benchmark), the first comprehensive benchmark designed to evaluate LLMs capabilities in open-domain molecule generation. It introduces three major tasks: molecule editing (MolEdit), molecule optimization (MolOpt), and customized molecule generation (MolCustom), with each task further divided into three subtasks containing 5,000 test samples. Researchers also developed an automated evaluation system to evaluate the quality and accuracy of generated molecules. Through extensive testing of 25 LLMs, TOMG-Bench reveals crucial insights into current limitations in text-guided molecule discovery.The TOMG-Bench evaluation framework uses four distinct categories of models. The first category, proprietary models, includes commercial API-accessible systems like GPT-4-turbo, GPT-3.5-turbo, Claude-3.5, Claude-3, and Gemini-1.5-pro. The second category features open-source general LLMs with instruction-following capabilities, including various versions of Llama-3, Mistral-7B, Qwen2-7B, yi-1.5-9B, and chatglm-9B. The third category consists of LLMs fine-tuned on the ChEBI-20 dataset, including different versions of MolT5 and BioT5-base. The final category focuses on OpenMolIns fine-tuned LLMs, featuring Galactica-125M, Llama3.2-1B-Instruct, and Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, with Galactica-125M being tested across five different data sizes of OpenMolIns.The evaluation results from TOMG-Bench show that Claude-3.5 emerged as the top performer with a weighted average accuracy of 35.92%, followed closely by Gemini-1.5-pro at 34.80%. Further, open-source models show remarkable progress, with Llama-3-70B-Instruct achieving 23.93% accuracy, outperforming GPT-3.5-turbos 18.58%. However, models trained specifically on the ChEBI-20 dataset show limited effectiveness, with BioT5-base, despite being the claimed state-of-the-art model for text-based molecule generation, achieving only 4.21% weighted average accuracy. These models particularly struggled with molecular editing operations and customized molecule generation tasks.In this paper, the researchers introduced TOMG-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating LLMs capabilities in open-domain molecule generation. Through comprehensive testing of 25 LLMs, the benchmark has effectively highlighted both the limitations of existing molecule generation approaches and the promising potential of general LLMs in this field. The successful implementation of OpenMolIns instruction tuning has shown remarkable improvements, enabling models to achieve performance levels comparable to GPT-3.5-turbo. However, it faces certain limitations, like insufficient prompt diversity which could lead to instruction overfitting, and potential inaccuracies in the distribution of molecular components such as atoms, bonds, and functional groups compared to real-world scenarios.Check out the Paper. All credit for this research goes to the researchers of this project. Also,dont forget to follow us onTwitter and join ourTelegram Channel andLinkedIn Group. Dont Forget to join our60k+ ML SubReddit. Sajjad Ansari+ postsSajjad Ansari is a final year undergraduate from IIT Kharagpur. As a Tech enthusiast, he delves into the practical applications of AI with a focus on understanding the impact of AI technologies and their real-world implications. He aims to articulate complex AI concepts in a clear and accessible manner. [Download] Evaluation of Large Language Model Vulnerabilities Report (Promoted)

Image: NintendoTo celebrate the recent arrival of Super Mario Party Jamboree, Nintendo's mobile runner game Super Mario Run is hosting a special limited-time event.This includes three types of missions to participate in - including Rainbow Galleria Missions, Goomba Lagoon Missions, and King Bowser's Keep Missions. If you complete these missions you'll unlock special Mario Party-themed statues.Image: NintendoThese missions are active between now and 29th January 2025 and you can keep up to date on your progress by tapping the mission icon in the top-right area of your kingdom. This cross-over event in Super Mario Run follows a Mario & Luigi: Brothership event in November. All aboard!Family-friendly good times aheadSubscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube789kWatch on YouTube Have you played Mario Run or the new Mario Party yet? Will you be checking out this latest event? Let us know in the comments.[source nintendo.com]Related GamesSee AlsoShare:00 Liam is a news writer and reviewer for Nintendo Life and Pure Xbox. He's been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of Mario and Master Chief. Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...Related Articles'Hyperdimension Neptunia' & 'Death End' Switch Releases Scrapped For "Not Complying With Nintendo Guidelines"Death end re;Quest: Code Z still on for PS5/4, thoughToby Fox Shares Another Development Update On Deltarune Chapter 3, 4 & 5"Progress has still been steady"'Switch 2' Is Projected To Be The "Clear Winner" In The Next Console GenerationWhile either Sony or Microsoft will "struggle mightily"