February 18, 2006

February 18, 2006 by yorksranter 1 comment

DSR: Best Yet?

I am the third highest result on Yahoo! UK for “illegal penis enlargement operations in the Philippines”, which is about as sleazy as it’s possible to get. Penis enlargements…illegal penis enlargements..illegal penis enlargements in the Philippines. What the searcher was probably after was this story from the Taipei Times of August 26, 2005… Philippines:Penis enlargements…

February 18, 2006 by yorksranter 0 comments

Sunset Clauses

Remember how Blair so graciously conceded a review of the Prevention of Terrorism Act? A sunset clause? Well, one year on, the terrorism having not been prevented, the mind-buggering absurdities (remember the man who’s only a danger to national security at night?) still glaring, the principle of punishment without trial or charge still in place,…

February 18, 2006 by yorksranter 1 comment

Why are there so many CCTVs here?

A cracking post on why there are so many CCTVs, from the Cambridge University Computer Lab’s security research folk. Apparently it’s simply because the government put up a lot of money conditional on doing CCTV with it. The UK public sector historically loves use-it-or-lose-it accounting, despite the fact that it is completely fucking stupid. It’s…

February 18, 2006 by yorksranter 0 comments

Imagine getting into a fight with the fucker

Iranian foreign minister says “The Islamic Republic of Iran demands the immediate withdrawal of British forces from Basra”. Jesus, it’s my Jeff Wode theory of terrorism in action again. “That wouldn’t wash with Jeff. He’d like a bit of pleading. Adds spice to it. In fact, he’d probably tell you what he was going to…

February 18, 2006 by yorksranter 2 comments

Comments Spam

There has been a certain amount of comments spam advertising a variety of sites that claim to sell hotel rooms. It comes in, of course, from a wide range of IPs around the world belonging to insecure PCs. As usual, the best way to deal with most Internet annoyances is the economic way: target the…

HBM memory supply to scale in 2025
each HBM3E chip has a capacity of 24Gb, which is a 50% increase over the 16Gb of HBM3. With greater single-chip capacity of HBM and increasing GPU integration of HBM, large-scale mass production of HBM3E will require more overall DRAM capacity. According to industry analysts, HBM3E employs approximately two to three times the wafer volume […]
Towards Cross-Cultural Machine Translation with Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Multilingual Knowledge Graphs
Finally, we feed the hidden states 𝐡+kg+e to the decoder of the MT model, which is now able to also attend to the entity embeddings from the retriever and fuse them with its hidden states. Our intuition is that the embeddings 𝐞i from the knowledge retriever can contain useful fine-grained, latent information about the retrieved […]
Divide-or-Conquer? Which Part Should You Distill Your LLM? - Apple Machine Learning Research
These results indicate that by using smaller, distilled problem decomposition models in combination with problem solving LLMs we can achieve reasoning with cost-efficient inference and local adaptation // Apple is doing a lot of these! this one has a model that makes a plan, and then the plan is executed by other task specific models
4M-21: An Any-to-Any Vision Model for Tens of Tasks and Modalities
We are able to train a single unified model on diverse modalities by encoding them with modality-specific discrete tokenizers (see fig. 3). For image-like modalities, e.g. RGB or edges, we train ViT-based [24] VQ-VAE [63] tokenizers to map the inputs into a small grid of discrete tokens. For modalities like 3D human poses or image […]
The Fraudulent Science of Success - The Atlantic
Among the four research papers in which Gino was accused of cheating is one about the human tendency to misreport facts and figures for personal gain. Which is to say: She was accused of faking data for a study of when and how people might fake data. Amazingly, a different set of data from the […]
Generalizable Autoregressive Modeling of Time Series Through Functional Narratives - Apple Machine Learning Research
Analogous to the next word prediction task in languages that learns narratives by connecting different words, our autoregressive transformer aims to learn the Narratives of Time Series (NoTS) by connecting different functions in time // transformers are good at predicting the next word, if we look at a time series as a sentence of functions, […]
2410.09407v1.pdf
great paper! doing complicated agent stuff on a phone without RAGging. also MS Phi shines again. why why would Apple do that...
A Hackney Story - The Fence
Another drug dealer who sold crack and heroin as a young man in Hackney over the 1990s and 2000s, and who does not want to be identified because he still sells cocaine [well, that's a good reason!], remembers that LOM was a bigger threat than the police. // also contains the controversial assertion that Hackney […]
Nvidia outpaces revenue estimates with strong data center growth amid mixed analyst reactions
q-o-q now 17%
Japan expected to announce additional US$1.3 billion investment in Rapidus
The government's increased stake in Rapidus through direct investment allows it greater control and governance over the company, marking the first time it will hold equity in Rapidus. By October 2027, when Rapidus is set to begin mass production of 2nm chips, the government plans to exchange factory assets for shares in the company.