Meet 2024 BigDATAwire Person to Watch Chisoo Lyons

Meet 2024 BigDATAwire Person to Watch Chisoo Lyons

Women make up 15% to 22% of data science professionals, research from the Boston Consulting Group shows. One of the women who is hoping to increase that number is Chisoo Lyons, the executive director of Women in Data Science Worldwide (WiDS) and a BigDATAwire 2024 Person to Watch. WiDS started in 2015 with a one-day technical conference at Stanford University to give women a voice in data science. Since then, the group has expanded significantly, and it now touches more than 150,000 participants across 160 countries via conferences, datathons, podcasts, upskilling workshops, its Next Gen outreach program, the WiDS Academy,…
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The best mesh Wi-Fi systems of 2024

The best mesh Wi-Fi systems of 2024

The frustrations of a traditional Wi-Fi router tend to be more noticeable when you live in a larger or busier household. Constant buffering while trying to stream a movie or music cutting out when you want to bust out to some moves using your smart speaker; it’s frankly annoying. That’s where a mesh Wi-Fi system can make a difference. Unlike traditional Wi-Fi routers, which send a single signal from just one point, a mesh system uses multiple nodes (or satellites) placed around your home to create a more reliable, consistent connection. These nodes work together to blanket your entire space…
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The Birthday Problem: Probability in Action

The Birthday Problem: Probability in Action

Hi Guys, I recently read a cool article about the birthday problem, and I think I'm going to make a blog post on it. What Does the Birthday Problem Entail? Let's assume you're in a room with just 23 people—there's actually a 50-50 chance that two of you have the same birthday. Understanding the Mathematics Behind the Problem We can try to figure out the chance that people share the same birthdays, but it's actually easier to calculate the chance that nobody shares a birthday and subtract it from 1 (Remember probability!). How Does That Work? Quick Assumptions: The first…
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FuseGPT: Learnable Layers Fusion of Generative Pre-trained Transformers

FuseGPT: Learnable Layers Fusion of Generative Pre-trained Transformers

arXiv:2411.14507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across diverse domains through the extensive scaling of model parameters. Recent works observe the redundancy across the transformer blocks and develop compression methods by structured pruning of the unimportant blocks. However, such straightforward elimination will always provide irreversible performance degradation. In this paper, we propose FuseGPT, a novel methodology to recycle the pruned transformer blocks to further recover the model performance. Firstly we introduce a new importance detection metric, Macro Influence (MI), to detect the long-term influence of each transformer block by calculating their loss of information…
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Moving internationally taught me how to declutter. Now, my husband and I live a minimalist lifestyle.

Moving internationally taught me how to declutter. Now, my husband and I live a minimalist lifestyle.

I've moved multiple times over the past five years, including two international moves.I've learned a lot about decluttering and letting go of material things during this time.Now, my husband and I live a minimalist lifestyle.There's nothing like a move to prompt a thorough decluttering session. An international move makes the mission even more pressing. Over the past five years, as I moved from Canada to the UK and back again, I've absolutely mastered the art of decluttering.My first move was fairly easy. I'd been living in a shared rental with roommates, so I only needed to pack up my room.…
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LLaVA-MR: Large Language-and-Vision Assistant for Video Moment Retrieval

LLaVA-MR: Large Language-and-Vision Assistant for Video Moment Retrieval

arXiv:2411.14505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are widely used for visual perception, understanding, and reasoning. However, long video processing and precise moment retrieval remain challenging due to LLMs' limited context size and coarse frame extraction. We propose the Large Language-and-Vision Assistant for Moment Retrieval (LLaVA-MR), which enables accurate moment retrieval and contextual grounding in videos using MLLMs. LLaVA-MR combines Dense Frame and Time Encoding (DFTE) for spatial-temporal feature extraction, Informative Frame Selection (IFS) for capturing brief visual and motion patterns, and Dynamic Token Compression (DTC) to manage LLM context limitations. Evaluations on benchmarks like Charades-STA and…
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Towards Next-Generation Medical Agent: How o1 is Reshaping Decision-Making in Medical Scenarios

Towards Next-Generation Medical Agent: How o1 is Reshaping Decision-Making in Medical Scenarios

arXiv:2411.14461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become essential in modern healthcare, with large language models (LLMs) offering promising advances in clinical decision-making. Traditional model-based approaches, including those leveraging in-context demonstrations and those with specialized medical fine-tuning, have demonstrated strong performance in medical language processing but struggle with real-time adaptability, multi-step reasoning, and handling complex medical tasks. Agent-based AI systems address these limitations by incorporating reasoning traces, tool selection based on context, knowledge retrieval, and both short- and long-term memory. These additional features enable the medical AI agent to handle complex medical scenarios where decision-making should be built…
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Influencers are using AI ‘women’ to lead people to OnlyFans and Fanvue — where more AI awaits

Influencers are using AI ‘women’ to lead people to OnlyFans and Fanvue — where more AI awaits

AI models are appearing on adult-content sites like OnlyFans and Fanvue — sometimes with stolen images.And some people are selling courses for $220 on how to make your own lucrative AI adult creator.Does AI harm adult creators? And do subscribers even know they're talking to a computer?Last winter, there were a few news items about how AI might be replacing humans in a surprising job: online influencer. The articles said a crop of new Instagram influencers had amassed large followings and even secured brand deals. There was one catch: The influencers were AI.Some of these AI influencers, like Lil Miquela,…
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