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Starbucks’ new CEO can work from California, and he’s set to make more than the last CEO

Starbucks’ new CEO can work from California, and he’s set to make more than the last CEO

Brian Niccol is set to receive one of the highest compensation packages for a CEO of a publicly traded company — and he can work remotely.He's heading to Seattle-based Starbucks from Chipotle, to lead the coffee giant as it faces activist investors and other issues.Niccol can work out of a remote office in Newport Beach, California, where he previously helmed Chipotle, according to an SEC filing on Wednesday, which detailed Niccol's employment terms.The new CEO's base compensation is $1.6 million a year, with an annual bonus that could range from over twice to four times his salary, depending on the…
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MathBridge: A Large-Scale Dataset for Translating Mathematical Expressions into Formula Images

MathBridge: A Large-Scale Dataset for Translating Mathematical Expressions into Formula Images

arXiv:2408.07081v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding sentences that contain mathematical expressions in text form poses significant challenges. To address this, the importance of converting these expressions into formula images has been highlighted. For instance, the expression ``x equals minus b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus four a c, all over two a'' is more readily comprehensible when displayed as an image $x = frac{-b pm sqrt{b^2 - 4ac}}{2a}$. To develop a text-to-image conversion system, we can break down the process into text-to-LaTeX and LaTeX-to-image conversions, with the latter being managed with by existing various LaTeX…
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Adyen’s Net Revenue Beats Estimates After Winning New Clients

Adyen’s Net Revenue Beats Estimates After Winning New Clients

Adyen NV’s net revenue beat estimates in the first half of the year as it added new customers and existing merchants processed more transactions through the Dutch payments company.Adyen, which handles e-commerce payments for large enterprises and through point-of-sale terminals in physical stores, said net revenue increased 24% from a year earlier to €913.4 million ($1 billion) for the six months through June. That compares with an average estimate of €908.9 million in a Bloomberg survey of analysts. Source link lol
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Vision Language Model for Interpretable and Fine-grained Detection of Safety Compliance in Diverse Workplaces

Vision Language Model for Interpretable and Fine-grained Detection of Safety Compliance in Diverse Workplaces

arXiv:2408.07146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Workplace accidents due to personal protective equipment (PPE) non-compliance raise serious safety concerns and lead to legal liabilities, financial penalties, and reputational damage. While object detection models have shown the capability to address this issue by identifying safety items, most existing models, such as YOLO, Faster R-CNN, and SSD, are limited in verifying the fine-grained attributes of PPE across diverse workplace scenarios. Vision language models (VLMs) are gaining traction for detection tasks by leveraging the synergy between visual and textual information, offering a promising solution to traditional object detection limitations in PPE recognition. Nonetheless, VLMs…
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Language Models as Models of Language

Language Models as Models of Language

arXiv:2408.07144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This chapter critically examines the potential contributions of modern language models to theoretical linguistics. Despite their focus on engineering goals, these models' ability to acquire sophisticated linguistic knowledge from mere exposure to data warrants a careful reassessment of their relevance to linguistic theory. I review a growing body of empirical evidence suggesting that language models can learn hierarchical syntactic structure and exhibit sensitivity to various linguistic phenomena, even when trained on developmentally plausible amounts of data. While the competence/performance distinction has been invoked to dismiss the relevance of such models to linguistic theory, I argue…
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A Ukrainian soldier said Russian troops in Kursk were ‘sitting in the forest and drinking coffee,’ unaware they were being invaded

A Ukrainian soldier said Russian troops in Kursk were ‘sitting in the forest and drinking coffee,’ unaware they were being invaded

A Ukrainian soldier who participated in the first forays of last week's Kursk incursion said his unit caught Russian troops completely by surprise as the latter were having coffee.The FT wrote that the soldier, identified as Volodymyr, was part of a unit operating a US-provided Stryker armored fighting vehicle.Volodymyr told the outlet that his unit entered Kursk in the late morning of August 6, and soon found a group of Russian troops "sitting in the forest, drinking coffee at a table.""Then our Stryker drives right into their table," he said, per the FT."We killed many of them on the first…
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Cisco Gives Upbeat Sales Forecast Even as It Cuts Jobs

Cisco Gives Upbeat Sales Forecast Even as It Cuts Jobs

Cisco Systems Inc., the biggest maker of computer networking equipment, gave a bullish revenue forecast for the current period thanks to a rebound in orders, but announced plans to cut thousands of jobs as part of a strategy shift. Sales will be $13.65 billion to $13.85 billion in the fiscal first quarter, which ends in October, the company said in a statementBloomberg Terminal Wednesday. Analysts had estimated a number at the very low end of that range. Source link lol
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Sonos, still trying to fix its broken app, lays off 100 employees

Sonos, still trying to fix its broken app, lays off 100 employees

Sonos has laid off around 100 employees on Wednesday, first reported by The Verge and confirmed to Engadget. Workers from the company’s marketing department allegedly bore the brunt of the hit. The cuts come as Sonos tries to simultaneously sell the public on its new Ace headphones and fix the rebuilt Sonos mobile app, which CEO Patrick Spence admitted was the result of his push for development speed.The company confirmed the layoffs in a statement to Engadget. “We made the difficult decision to say goodbye to approximately 100 team members representing 6 percent of the company,” Spence said in a…
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Why It’s Time to Ditch PHP for Good?

Why It’s Time to Ditch PHP for Good?

In the ever-evolving landscape of web development, full-stack developers are presented with a multitude of programming languages and technologies to choose from. One such language that has been widely used for web development is PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor). However, in this blog post, we'll explore the reasons why some full-stack developers might consider not learning PHP and instead focus on other technologies that align better with their goals and preferences. The modern web development ecosystem offers a rich selection of programming languages and frameworks, each catering to specific needs and use cases. From JavaScript-based front-end frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue.js…
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DisCoM-KD: Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation via Disentanglement Representation and Adversarial Learning

DisCoM-KD: Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation via Disentanglement Representation and Adversarial Learning

arXiv:2408.07080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-modal knowledge distillation (CMKD) refers to the scenario in which a learning framework must handle training and test data that exhibit a modality mismatch, more precisely, training and test data do not cover the same set of data modalities. Traditional approaches for CMKD are based on a teacher/student paradigm where a teacher is trained on multi-modal data with the aim to successively distill knowledge from a multi-modal teacher to a single-modal student. Despite the widespread adoption of such paradigm, recent research has highlighted its inherent limitations in the context of cross-modal knowledge transfer.Taking a step…
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