Dozens of stores you once loved that don’t exist anymore

Dozens of stores you once loved that don’t exist anymore

Declining foot traffic and rising e-commerce have led thousands of stores to permanently close. Former household names like Borders, Circuit City, and Blockbuster are now just retail history. BI rounded up dozens of once-beloved stores that no longer have a meaningful brick-and-mortar presence. Brick-and-mortar retail is a tough business.One day, your favorite brand can be riding high and enjoying strong sales from loyal customers, while the next it's fighting for survival and fending off creditors.The only constant is change, especially as emerging trends, shopping patterns, and e-commerce players take larger pieces of the pie.Here's a look back at some of…
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Sony’s cloud streaming makes the PlayStation Portal far more useful

Sony’s cloud streaming makes the PlayStation Portal far more useful

"At least give us true cloud gaming." That's what I asked for at the end of , a $200 device I ultimately found frustrating because it could only do one thing: Stream games from your PlayStation 5. A year later, Sony has . The company has started testing cloud streaming on the Portal for PlayStation Plus Premium members, giving them instant access to more than 120 PS5 titles. And for once, I've started to hate this thing a bit less.After cloud streaming a bit of Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Control and Demon's Souls, I have just one question for Sony: Why…
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Understanding JavaScript Prototypes: A Key to Mastering OOP

Understanding JavaScript Prototypes: A Key to Mastering OOP

Because JavaScript is a prototype-based language, objects in the language inherit attributes and functions from prototypes. This design pattern is essential to comprehending JavaScript's object-oriented programming (OOP). Understanding prototypes and how to utilize them will be crucial if you want to learn more about JavaScript. This post will discuss the idea of prototypes, how to use them, and how they allow for more effective, reusable, and optimized code. What is an Object in JavaScript? Before moving on to prototypes, let's clarify what a JavaScript object is. A JavaScript object is fundamentally a collection of key-value pairs. JavaScript objects are flexible…
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The best Black Friday SSD deals from Samsung, WD, Crucial and others

The best Black Friday SSD deals from Samsung, WD, Crucial and others

While itself may be a week away, many retailers have already kicked off their official holiday sales. That means it’s a better time than usual to be in the market for new storage gear. If you have a PC, tablet, or any other device in need of a boost, we’ve rounded up the best Black Friday SSD and storage deals we could find below.Before you dive in, keep in mind that storage prices have generally trended upwards in the past year, so many of the discounts below aren’t quite all-time lows. Still, some are, and each is at least the…
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The RAT Algorithm Finds Its Way

The RAT Algorithm Finds Its Way

IntroductionImagine a robot in a maze trying to find the exit efficiently. The Rat in a Maze problem illustrates this scenario, and it’s a great way to learn about backtracking algorithms. This algorithm isn't just for mazes—its principles are widely applicable in fields like robotics, game design, and even logistics. Understanding the AlgorithmThe Rat in a Maze problem uses backtracking to explore all possible paths from the start to the exit. The algorithm follows a recursive approach: Start from the initial cell.Move forward in one of the four directions (right, down, left, up).Check if the move is valid (within bounds,…
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NBMLSS: probabilistic forecasting of electricity prices via Neural Basis Models for Location Scale and Shape

NBMLSS: probabilistic forecasting of electricity prices via Neural Basis Models for Location Scale and Shape

[Submitted on 21 Nov 2024] View a PDF of the paper titled NBMLSS: probabilistic forecasting of electricity prices via Neural Basis Models for Location Scale and Shape, by Alessandro Brusaferri and Danial Ramin and Andrea Ballarino View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Forecasters using flexible neural networks (NN) in multi-horizon distributional regression setups often struggle to gain detailed insights into the underlying mechanisms that lead to the predicted feature-conditioned distribution parameters. In this work, we deploy a Neural Basis Model for Location, Scale and Shape, that blends the principled interpretability of GAMLSS with a computationally scalable shared basis decomposition, combined by linear…
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COOD: Concept-based Zero-shot OOD Detection

COOD: Concept-based Zero-shot OOD Detection

arXiv:2411.13578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How can models effectively detect out-of-distribution (OOD) samples in complex, multi-label settings without extensive retraining? Existing OOD detection methods struggle to capture the intricate semantic relationships and label co-occurrences inherent in multi-label settings, often requiring large amounts of training data and failing to generalize to unseen label combinations. While large language models have revolutionized zero-shot OOD detection, they primarily focus on single-label scenarios, leaving a critical gap in handling real-world tasks where samples can be associated with multiple interdependent labels. To address these challenges, we introduce COOD, a novel zero-shot multi-label OOD detection framework. COOD…
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Black Friday deals on MasterClass subscriptions are as low as $7 per month

Black Friday deals on MasterClass subscriptions are as low as $7 per month

A MasterClass subscription is perhaps one of the best gifts you can get for yourself if you love learning new things or honing your skills, and now you can subscribe for up to 50 percent off. The MasterClass Black Friday sale currently has membership starting at $7 per month, but arguably the best deal is on MasterClass Premium, which is $10 per month right now instead of the usual $20 per month. With that tier, you'll be able to access classes on six devices, and it also includes offline viewing capabilities.A subscription will let you view more than 200 classes…
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Velocitune: A Velocity-based Dynamic Domain Reweighting Method for Continual Pre-training

Velocitune: A Velocity-based Dynamic Domain Reweighting Method for Continual Pre-training

arXiv:2411.14318v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: It is well-known that a diverse corpus is critical for training large language models, which are typically constructed from a mixture of various domains. In general, previous efforts resort to sampling training data from different domains with static proportions, as well as adjusting data proportions during training. However, few methods have addressed the complexities of domain-adaptive continual pre-training. To fill this gap, we propose Velocitune, a novel framework dynamically assesses learning velocity and adjusts data proportions accordingly, favoring slower-learning domains while shunning faster-learning ones, which is guided by a scaling law to indicate the desired…
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