Texas Startup Funding Declines, Led By Dip In Austin-Area Investment

Texas Startup Funding Declines, Led By Dip In Austin-Area Investment

In startup circles, it’s popular to predict that funding to smaller innovation hubs will rise and that Silicon Valley will lose some of its dominance. In reality, however, that’s not how things are playing out. Certainly, at least, that’s not what’s playing out in Texas. Funding to Lone Star State startups in 2024 is on track to decline year over year, even as overall U.S. venture funding has been perking up, driven by record investment around artificial intelligence. Per Crunchbase data, Texas companies have raised just over $3 billion in seed through growth-stage financing so far this year. Of that,…
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Time Matters: Examine Temporal Effects on Biomedical Language Models

Time Matters: Examine Temporal Effects on Biomedical Language Models

arXiv:2407.17638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time roots in applying language models for biomedical applications: models are trained on historical data and will be deployed for new or future data, which may vary from training data. While increasing biomedical tasks have employed state-of-the-art language models, there are very few studies have examined temporal effects on biomedical models when data usually shifts across development and deployment. This study fills the gap by statistically probing relations between language model performance and data shifts across three biomedical tasks. We deploy diverse metrics to evaluate model performance, distance methods to measure data drifts, and statistical…
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French rail network hit by ‘acts of sabotage’ in latest sign of transport woes for Paris during the Olympics

French rail network hit by ‘acts of sabotage’ in latest sign of transport woes for Paris during the Olympics

France's rail network has been hit by a series of "malicious acts" that have damaged transport routes leading to the capital, causing cancellations and disruption just hours before the Paris Olympics opening ceremony."Last night, SNCF was the victim of several simultaneous malicious acts affecting the Atlantique, Northern and Eastern high-speed lines," the SNCF, France's train operator, said in a statement."Deliberate fires were set to damage our facilities," the operator said, adding that another incident "has been thwarted on South East high speed line."The three affected lines, which are part of the TGV rail network, connect Paris to Bordeaux in the…
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Gran Tourismo 7’s more realistic physics update is launching cars into orbit

Gran Tourismo 7’s more realistic physics update is launching cars into orbit

Yesterday's Gran Turismo 7 game update 1.49 introduced all-new physics that have added extra realism and generally improved gameplay. However, the change is also causing some bizarre problems in specific situations, making cars bounce violently or just get hurled into the air.The physics updates are generally positive, adding "more natural cornering physics and acceleration/deceleration stability levels," according to the developer. Similar changes to tire physics and steering allow a more challenging and rewarding driving experience overall.However, some bugs appear to have crept in as well, according to gtplanet and posts on Reddit's r/granturismo. High-horsepower vehicles, often with engine swaps and…
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Pretraining a Neural Operator in Lower Dimensions

Pretraining a Neural Operator in Lower Dimensions

[Submitted on 24 Jul 2024] View a PDF of the paper titled Pretraining a Neural Operator in Lower Dimensions, by AmirPouya Hemmasian and 1 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:There has recently been increasing attention towards developing foundational neural Partial Differential Equation (PDE) solvers and neural operators through large-scale pretraining. However, unlike vision and language models that make use of abundant and inexpensive (unlabeled) data for pretraining, these neural solvers usually rely on simulated PDE data, which can be costly to obtain, especially for high-dimensional PDEs. In this work, we aim to Pretrain neural PDE solvers on Lower Dimensional…
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Global Funding To Financial Services Slowed Down In The Past 5 Quarters

Global Funding To Financial Services Slowed Down In The Past 5 Quarters

Global funding to private companies in financial services — a leading sector for investment — has slowed significantly in the past five quarters. In the second quarter of 2024, financial services companies raised $9.7 billion, up a bit year over year and up 17% quarter over quarter from the $8.3 billion invested in the sector in the same quarter in 2023. However, funding for the past quarter was down 75% from the market peak of Q2 2021, when more than $40 billion was invested. Over the past five quarters, funding to financial services companies trailed below $10 billion each quarter,…
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PatchEX: High-Quality Real-Time Temporal Supersampling through Patch-based Parallel Extrapolation

PatchEX: High-Quality Real-Time Temporal Supersampling through Patch-based Parallel Extrapolation

arXiv:2407.17501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-refresh rate displays have become very popular in recent years due to the need for superior visual quality in gaming, professional displays and specialized applications like medical imaging. However, high-refresh rate displays alone do not guarantee a superior visual experience; the GPU needs to render frames at a matching rate. Otherwise, we observe disconcerting visual artifacts such as screen tearing and stuttering. Temporal supersampling is an effective technique to increase frame rates by predicting new frames from other rendered frames. There are two methods in this space: interpolation and extrapolation. Interpolation-based methods provide good image…
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