Flush With Cash, Tether Has Got Microsoft, Google, and Amazon in Its Crosshairs

Flush With Cash, Tether Has Got Microsoft, Google, and Amazon in Its Crosshairs

WIRED: This year, Tether has moved to diversify its business model with a push into venture capital. Tell me about the rationale.Ardoino: Tether has become extremely profitable in the last two years thanks to the increase in interest rates. When Tether started, you could make 0.2 percent on the reserve, but today you can make 5.5 percent. Of course, that might be time-limited—we are hearing about potential rate cuts—but it’s very hard even with inflation at 3 or 4 percent to go back to the 0.2 percent scenario.In the last 24 months, Tether has accrued around $11.9 billion profit. With…
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Shaping the Future of E-Commerce: Wings Engine Unlocks a New 3D Shopping Experience

Shaping the Future of E-Commerce: Wings Engine Unlocks a New 3D Shopping Experience

The integration of Wings Engine with e-commerce is quietly becoming a powerful force in the industry, bringing an unprecedented shopping experience to both consumers and merchants. Imagine that while browsing an e-commerce platform, instead of just seeing flat product images, you can meticulously view every detail of the product through 3D models, rotating, zooming in, and out from different angles, and even experiencing how the product would look in a real-life setting. This is all thanks to Wings Engine. As an advanced 3D engine, Wings Engine allows e-commerce platforms to easily implement 3D visualization of products, providing consumers with a…
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See inside some of the coolest offices of Big Tech firms

See inside some of the coolest offices of Big Tech firms

Big Tech firms are renowned for their unique and often large office spaces.Google's headquarters is a top tourist attraction, while Pinterest's Dublin office has its own pub.Take a look at some of the coolest tech firm offices.  Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. download the app By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email. Big Tech firms are often commended for their striking…
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Confident magnitude-based neural network pruning

Confident magnitude-based neural network pruning

arXiv:2408.04759v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pruning neural networks has proven to be a successful approach to increase the efficiency and reduce the memory storage of deep learning models without compromising performance. Previous literature has shown that it is possible to achieve a sizable reduction in the number of parameters of a deep neural network without deteriorating its predictive capacity in one-shot pruning regimes. Our work builds beyond this background in order to provide rigorous uncertainty quantification for pruning neural networks reliably, which has not been addressed to a great extent in previous literature focusing on pruning methods in computer vision…
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I don’t let my emotions get in the way of my business. Here’s how I overcome 6 common frustrations.

I don’t let my emotions get in the way of my business. Here’s how I overcome 6 common frustrations.

Business is simply a blend of math and emotions. As Warren Buffett said, "Until you can manage your emotions, don't expect to manage money."The money part is easy to understand. Emotions are the messy part. We attach meaning and self-worth to money, which halts our success.I started my career in sales and business development in adtech in 2007 and became a full-time life coach in 2014. Conversations I've had about divorce, politics, parenting, and sexuality were less emotionally charged than conversations around money.As a woman with a high school education who grew up on welfare and is now an entrepreneur…
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FewShotNeRF: Meta-Learning-based Novel View Synthesis for Rapid Scene-Specific Adaptation

FewShotNeRF: Meta-Learning-based Novel View Synthesis for Rapid Scene-Specific Adaptation

[Submitted on 9 Aug 2024] View a PDF of the paper titled FewShotNeRF: Meta-Learning-based Novel View Synthesis for Rapid Scene-Specific Adaptation, by Piraveen Sivakumar and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:In this paper, we address the challenge of generating novel views of real-world objects with limited multi-view images through our proposed approach, FewShotNeRF. Our method utilizes meta-learning to acquire optimal initialization, facilitating rapid adaptation of a Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) to specific scenes. The focus of our meta-learning process is on capturing shared geometry and textures within a category, embedded in the weight initialization. This approach expedites the…
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Elon’s politics: how Musk became a driver of elections misinformation

When Elon Musk took over as owner of Twitter, researchers and elections officials feared a rampant spread of misinformation that would lead to threats and harassment and undermine democracy.Their fears came true – and Musk himself has emerged as one of its main drivers.The tech billionaire has cast doubt on machines that tabulate votes and mail ballots, both common features of US elections. He has repeatedly claimed there is rampant non-citizen voting, a frequent Republican talking point in this election.Musk, the ultra-wealthy owner of Tesla and other tech companies, is scheduled to interview Donald Trump on Monday, where they are…
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GPT-3 Powered Information Extraction for Building Robust Knowledge Bases

GPT-3 Powered Information Extraction for Building Robust Knowledge Bases

arXiv:2408.04641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work uses the state-of-the-art language model GPT-3 to offer a novel method of information extraction for knowledge base development. The suggested method attempts to solve the difficulties associated with obtaining relevant entities and relationships from unstructured text in order to extract structured information. We conduct experiments on a huge corpus of text from diverse fields to assess the performance of our suggested technique. The evaluation measures, which are frequently employed in information extraction tasks, include precision, recall, and F1-score. The findings demonstrate that GPT-3 can be used to efficiently and accurately extract pertinent and…
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A guide to all of Taylor Sheridan’s latest and upcoming ‘Yellowstone’ spinoffs, sequels, and other projects

A guide to all of Taylor Sheridan’s latest and upcoming ‘Yellowstone’ spinoffs, sequels, and other projects

Since pivoting away from acting, Sheridan has become one of the most prolific screenwriters in Hollywood and helped redefine the Western genre with his hit series "Yellowstone."And that number could be set to increase as his slate of "Yellowstone" spinoffs and other shows grows.While "Yellowstone" may be ending this year, following on from the success of "1883" and "1923," Sheridan will continue expanding the franchise with several other prequels, sequels, and spinoffs.Here's everything we know about all the Sheridan-helmed projects currently in development. Source link lol
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