H2 Forecast: Who’s Next To IPO?
23 Jul

H2 Forecast: Who’s Next To IPO?

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Last year right around this time there were rumblings of the slumbering IPO market finally reawakening. It kinda did with a few big names like Arm Holdings and Instacart testing the waters, but more hope was held out for the first half of this year. However, the IPO window so far in 2024, while slightly ajar, certainly has not seen the barrage of long-private, venture-backed companies go public many expected. Instead the IPO pipeline has produced just a trickle of big-name companies such as online platform Reddit and chip startup Astera Labs making the leap to the public market. There…
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How to Build Your Own Distributed KV Storage System Using the etcd Raft Library (2)
23 Jul

How to Build Your Own Distributed KV Storage System Using the etcd Raft Library (2)

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This is the second article in the series "How to Build Your Own Distributed KV Storage System Using the etcd raft Library" - raftexample Log Compaction and Snapshot. Introduction In the first article, we learned and became familiar with the structure of raftexample and the processing flow of a write request. In this article, we will interpret the log compaction and snapshot handling logic in raftexample. Log Compaction and Snapshot The Raft log continuously grows as the cluster operates normally and processes client requests. In practical applications, we need a mechanism to limit the unlimited growth of the log to…
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Evaluating language models as risk scores
23 Jul

Evaluating language models as risk scores

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arXiv:2407.14614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current question-answering benchmarks predominantly focus on accuracy in realizable prediction tasks. Conditioned on a question and answer-key, does the most likely token match the ground truth? Such benchmarks necessarily fail to evaluate language models' ability to quantify outcome uncertainty. In this work, we focus on the use of language models as risk scores for unrealizable prediction tasks. We introduce folktexts, a software package to systematically generate risk scores using large language models, and evaluate them against benchmark prediction tasks. Specifically, the package derives natural language tasks from US Census data products, inspired by popular tabular…
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The Research of Group Re-identification from Multiple Cameras
23 Jul

The Research of Group Re-identification from Multiple Cameras

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arXiv:2407.14620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object re-identification is of increasing importance in visual surveillance. Most existing works focus on re-identify individual from multiple cameras while the application of group re-identification (Re-ID) is rarely discussed. We redefine Group Re-identification as a process which includes pedestrian detection, feature extraction, graph model construction, and graph matching. Group re-identification is very challenging since it is not only interfered by view-point and human pose variations in the traditional re-identification tasks, but also suffered from the challenges in group layout change and group member variation. To address the above challenges, this paper introduces a novel approach…
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For the Director of Wicked, There’s No Place Like Silicon Valley
23 Jul

For the Director of Wicked, There’s No Place Like Silicon Valley

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You seem to do that in your movies too—tie things up with a bow, give the audience a satisfying ending. Should we expect the same from Wicked?I’ve thought a lot about what Wizard of Oz means. It’s the American fairytale, to follow the yellow brick road. There’s someone who’s going to give you your heart’s desire at the end of it, but you have to prove yourself. And yet nicely contained stories don’t actually exist. Life just keeps going. In my work now, I’m trying to almost dissect the idea of happy endings. Especially with Wicked, which is all about…
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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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