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The long tale of the yacht linked to a Russian oligarch and abandoned in the Caribbean for more than 2 years finally draws to a close
23 Jul

The long tale of the yacht linked to a Russian oligarch and abandoned in the Caribbean for more than 2 years finally draws to a close

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An undisclosed buyer has finally stepped up to the helm of the Alfa Nero superyacht, ending a two-year-long saga, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.That buyer agreed last week to pay $40 million, a huge discount to the $67.6 million that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt bid last year, a deal he eventually abandoned.The Antigua and Barbuda government sold the superyacht, which houses an infinity pool that converts to a helipad or dancefloor.The massively discounted price can be attributed to authorities' need "to get the boat sold," Richard Higgins, a broker who represented the buyer, told Bloomberg.Higgins said the European buyer, whose…
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Compact Language Models via Pruning and Knowledge Distillation
23 Jul

Compact Language Models via Pruning and Knowledge Distillation

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[Submitted on 19 Jul 2024] View a PDF of the paper titled Compact Language Models via Pruning and Knowledge Distillation, by Saurav Muralidharan and 8 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) targeting different deployment scales and sizes are currently produced by training each variant from scratch; this is extremely compute-intensive. In this paper, we investigate if pruning an existing LLM and then re-training it with a fraction (<3%) of the original training data can be a suitable alternative to repeated, full retraining. To this end, we develop a set of practical and effective compression best practices…
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23 Jul

Equinix announced the acquisition of three data centers

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Follows Company’s Recent Expansions in Malaysia and Indonesia as Southeast Asia Grows as a Digital Hub Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world’s digital infrastructure company®, today announced its planned entry into the Philippines with the acquisition of three data centers from Total Information Management (“TIM”), a leading technology solutions provider. Following the recently announced expansions in Malaysia and Indonesia, this strategic move aims to help businesses expand and capitalize on the digital opportunity of the fast-growing Southeast Asia region. The all-cash transaction represents a multiple of approximately 15x the projected EBITDA at full utilization and is expected to close in 2H 2024, subject to customary closing conditions. The acquisition…
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The best foldable phones for 2024
23 Jul

The best foldable phones for 2024

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Folding smartphones have come a long way since the original Samsung Galaxy Fold came out in 2019. They’re smaller, more durable and, even if they aren’t exactly the most budget-friendly phones, they’re more affordable now, too. Whereas you may not have considered a foldable phone as your daily driver five years ago, they’re much more viable options today — and you have many more to choose from. If you’ve been toying with the idea of switching to a folding phone, or you’re ready to upgrade the foldable you already have, we at Engadget can help with your decision-making process. We've…
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I’m remarried but still have the instincts of a single mom. I always ensure I make enough money to support my son on my own.
23 Jul

I’m remarried but still have the instincts of a single mom. I always ensure I make enough money to support my son on my own.

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I had been a single mom for seven years when I moved in with my now-husband. We've been married for almost three years, and my son is 10, but I still feel like a single mom in many ways.While my husband is an amazing stepfather, he and my son are friends more than anything else. And since my husband isn't his father, it doesn't feel right to depend on him to care for my son in every way a parent would.I still make the parental decisionsMy husband supports me as I parent my son, such as having my back when…
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Trading Devil Final: Backdoor attack via Stock market and Bayesian Optimization
23 Jul

Trading Devil Final: Backdoor attack via Stock market and Bayesian Optimization

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arXiv:2407.14573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Since the advent of generative artificial intelligence, every company and researcher has been rushing to develop their own generative models, whether commercial or not. Given the large number of users of these powerful new tools, there is currently no intrinsically verifiable way to explain from the ground up what happens when LLMs (large language models) learn. For example, those based on automatic speech recognition systems, which have to rely on huge and astronomical amounts of data collected from all over the web to produce fast and efficient results, In this article, we develop a backdoor…
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Defining tasks, brokers, workers, and backends in Celery
23 Jul

Defining tasks, brokers, workers, and backends in Celery

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Celery can be daunting to learn. While its documentation is comprehensive, it has a tendency to skip the basics. This post will define four of the main concepts in Celery, discuss the relationship between Celery and Kombu, and use a few code examples to illustrate how Celery might be useful in real applications. The examples will use the Django web framework and its @shared_task decorator, but the concepts are also applicable to Flask, FastAPI, and others. Tasks, Brokers, Workers, and Backends You'll be hard pressed to find a place on the current Celery documentation that clearly spells out what it…
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ESCAPE: Energy-based Selective Adaptive Correction for Out-of-distribution 3D Human Pose Estimation
23 Jul

ESCAPE: Energy-based Selective Adaptive Correction for Out-of-distribution 3D Human Pose Estimation

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arXiv:2407.14605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite recent advances in human pose estimation (HPE), poor generalization to out-of-distribution (OOD) data remains a difficult problem. While previous works have proposed Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) to bridge the train-test domain gap by refining network parameters at inference, the absence of ground-truth annotations makes it highly challenging and existing methods typically increase inference times by one or more orders of magnitude. We observe that 1) not every test time sample is OOD, and 2) HPE errors are significantly larger on distal keypoints (wrist, ankle). To this end, we propose ESCAPE: a lightweight correction and selective…
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