The Philippines’ vice president has publicly threatened to assassinate her boss and his wife

The Philippines’ vice president has publicly threatened to assassinate her boss and his wife

The Philippines' top two officials are beefing so hard that one threatened to assassinate the other.Vice President Sara Duterte said on Saturday that she'd spoken to a hitman to kill her boss and his wife.She said that if she were to be killed, the hitman would carry out her orders.Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte openly threatened on Saturday to assassinate the country's president, marking the deepest fracture yet in an alliance they once formed for the 2022 election.Duterte made the threat in reference to unspecified potential harm that could befall her, saying she'd spoken to a hitman in case anything…
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LLaSA: Large Language and Structured Data Assistant

LLaSA: Large Language and Structured Data Assistant

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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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