Author: R Jemaiel

Syria’s Regime Change Reorders Geopolitical Risk For Middle East

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In a stunning development over the weekend, Syrian rebel groups overthrew the dictator Bashar al-Assad, who reportedly has fled to Russia... Here’s a quick recap of a select batch of initial observations from various sources as Syria enters a new era, one that’s uncertain with potentially positive and negative aftershocks felt around the world... “The Iranian hegemonic project in Syria, too...

Macro Briefing: 9 December 2024

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” US payrolls rose 227,000 in November, well above expectations...The fall of Syria’s president over the weekend puts the nation on uncertain path and poses new risks for the Middle East and beyond... “The Assad regime’s sudden collapse in Syria marks a profound and far-reaching geopolitical shift,” notes SpecialEurasia, a consultancy... “The rapid Syrian opposition military gains, sp...

Best Of Book Bits 2024: Part I

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Happy reading● Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World Robert Jisung Park Review via International Monetary Fund As the world warms, anxiety over the effects continues to rise... This book explains how the world is slowly, but surely, facing a future in which economic growth is no longer assured... In fact, growth has already been trending downwards in most of the world’s most import...

AWS Network Firewall Geographic IP Filtering launch

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In this blog post, we discuss Geographic IP Filtering, a new feature of Network Firewall that you can use to filter traffic based on geographic location and meet compliance requirements... This includes restricting traffic to and from their workloads in Amazon Web Services (AWS) to certain geographies because of security risk... As new IP addresses are assigned by the Internet Assigned Numbers Au...

Mistral-NeMo-Instruct-2407 and Mistral-NeMo-Base-2407 are now available on SageMaker JumpStart

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Today, we are excited to announce that Mistral-NeMo-Base-2407 and Mistral-NeMo-Instruct-2407—twelve billion parameter large language models from Mistral AI that excel at text generation—are available for customers through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart... You can try these models with SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub that provides access to algorithms and models that can be depl...

Efficient satellite imagery supply with AWS Serverless at BASF Digital Farming GmbH

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The subscription management components handle subscription creation, updates, and deletions, while the actual data downloading and processing occurs in AWS Step Functions... An AWS Lambda API function manages subscriptions... Subscriptions contain geometry, data provider, as well as start and end date and other parameters, which are stored in the subscription database (Step 7) before a message ...

Research Review | 6 December 2024 | Index and Passive Investing

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These effects are sufficiently strong to cause the aggregate market to rise even when flows are entirely due to investors switching from active to passive... Primarily due to this spillover mechanism, we find that when index investors are mostly extrapolators, all consistent with empirical evidence, index stocks have higher and more volatile prices, comove more with other index stocks, exhibit st...