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Sabrina Carpenter’s new album ‘Short n’ Sweet’ is a masterful indictment of modern dating

Sabrina Carpenter’s new album ‘Short n’ Sweet’ is a masterful indictment of modern dating

Despite its cheeky title, Sabrina Carpenter's new album "Short n' Sweet" arrived on Friday with a tall order to fill.Carpenter's sixth album was preceded by smash hits "Espresso" and "Please Please Please," which peaked at No. 2 and No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively, and dominated the annual contest for song of the summer. But "Short n' Sweet" isn't just Carpenter's most anticipated release to date. It's the best, most idiosyncratic work of her career.Carpenter literally stands at 5 feet, as she clarifies in the album's opening track, but the title isn't simply derived from her Polly Pocket…
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Reasoning and Tools for Human-Level Forecasting

Reasoning and Tools for Human-Level Forecasting

arXiv:2408.12036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models (LMs) trained on web-scale datasets are largely successful due to their ability to memorize large amounts of training data, even if only present in a few examples. These capabilities are often desirable in evaluation on tasks such as question answering but raise questions about whether these models can exhibit genuine reasoning or succeed only at mimicking patterns from the training data. This distinction is particularly salient in forecasting tasks, where the answer is not present in the training data, and the model must reason to make logical deductions. We present Reasoning and Tools…
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CooPre: Cooperative Pretraining for V2X Cooperative Perception

CooPre: Cooperative Pretraining for V2X Cooperative Perception

arXiv:2408.11241v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) cooperative perception methods rely on accurate multi-agent 3D annotations. Nevertheless, it is time-consuming and expensive to collect and annotate real-world data, especially for V2X systems. In this paper, we present a self-supervised learning method for V2X cooperative perception, which utilizes the vast amount of unlabeled 3D V2X data to enhance the perception performance. Beyond simply extending the previous pre-training methods for point-cloud representation learning, we introduce a novel self-supervised Cooperative Pretraining framework (termed as CooPre) customized for a collaborative scenario. We point out that cooperative point-cloud sensing compensates for information loss among…
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FactorLLM: Factorizing Knowledge via Mixture of Experts for Large Language Models

FactorLLM: Factorizing Knowledge via Mixture of Experts for Large Language Models

arXiv:2408.11855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent research has demonstrated that Feed-Forward Networks (FFNs) in Large Language Models (LLMs) play a pivotal role in storing diverse linguistic and factual knowledge. Conventional methods frequently face challenges due to knowledge confusion stemming from their monolithic and redundant architectures, which calls for more efficient solutions with minimal computational overhead, particularly for LLMs. In this paper, we explore the FFN computation paradigm in LLMs and introduce FactorLLM, a novel approach that decomposes well-trained dense FFNs into sparse sub-networks without requiring any further modifications, while maintaining the same level of performance. Furthermore, we embed a router…
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The 9th-gen iPad is cheaper than ever at $199, plus the rest of this week’s best tech deals

The 9th-gen iPad is cheaper than ever at $199, plus the rest of this week’s best tech deals

Even if you're not a student, you can still take advantage of the many back to school sales out there. As we do each Friday, we searched around to see if any of the tech we've previously covered and recommend is currently on sale. We spotted the lowest price yet on the 9th-generation iPad — it may be discontinued, but $200 for a capable Apple tablet is still a sweet deal. Our current favorite wireless headphones, the Sony WH-1000XM5 are back down to their July Prime Day price. And Amazon is throwing in a free smart bulb on top of…
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The TikTok-famous designer behind Ella Emhoff’s DNC dress said it was a modern take on a tea party look

The TikTok-famous designer behind Ella Emhoff’s DNC dress said it was a modern take on a tea party look

The Democratic National Convention came to a close on Thursday with fanfare, as Kamala Harris finally made her address to attendees.Several members of Harris' family also appeared onstage to share their stories of the vice president, including her niece Meena Harris, her goddaughter Helena Hudlin, and her stepdaughter Ella Emhoff.Emhoff, 25, made multiple appearances at the DNC, but Thursday marked the first time she took to the stage herself — and she did it in a custom dress made by viral designer Joe Ando.Ella Emhoff's DNC look was customEmhoff, an artist, designer, and the internet's beloved "First Daughter of Bushwick,"…
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Handling Timestamp Column Changes in Laravel Migrations with PostgreSQL

Handling Timestamp Column Changes in Laravel Migrations with PostgreSQL

When working with Laravel migrations, developers may encounter issues when trying to change a column's type to timestamp, especially in a PostgreSQL environment. The problem arises from Laravel's reliance on Doctrine DBAL, which doesn’t natively support the timestamp type. The Problem: When using the change() method in Laravel migrations, a DoctrineDBALException may be thrown, stating that the timestamp type is unknown. This is because Doctrine DBAL does not support certain native database types, like timestamp, out of the box. The Workaround: To address this issue, a practical solution is to avoid using change() and instead, drop the column and recreate…
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Every Kennedy family member that opposes RFK Jr.’s presidential campaign

Every Kennedy family member that opposes RFK Jr.’s presidential campaign

Since the day he declared for office, Democratic-turned-Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been chastised by his fellow Kennedys for being a threat to President Joe Biden's chances at reelection."I hear some of my family will be endorsing President Biden today," Kennedy posted. "I am pleased they are politically active — it's a family tradition. We are divided in our opinions but united in our love for each other."Other family members have kept their support much more low-key."We love our brother. We love our party. And we love our president," Christopher Kennedy told Politico shortly after RFK Jr. decided…
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