May 10, 2014

May 10, 2014 by yorksranter 1 comment

Worthwhile Norwegian website

Oh, neat. When you’re next stumped trying to find that EU document, remember that Norway may not be in the EU but it has to implement the acquis communautaire, and it has really powerful FOI legislation. And off you go to the Ministry of Government Administration, Reform, and Church Affairs and their search engine. Note;…

May 10, 2014 by yorksranter 4 comments

Bringing water to the table

Eli Rabett has a collection of links to John Fleck’s blogs on the incredible project to send an artificial spring flood down the Colorado River’s delta. Go, read. But the really fascinating thing is the political and diplomatic process that brought it about. I’ve occasionally said that people don’t fight wars over water anywhere near…

May 10, 2014 by yorksranter 5 comments

The politics of control, or what Labour can learn from the ‘kippers

What links all these items? YouGov – 56% support rent controls. 33% against. Tories are going to have to come with a new attack line… — roadto326 (@roadto326) May 4, 2014 No, its not a "lurch to the Left" : even 52% of Tory voters support renationalisation of rail and energy .. pic.twitter.com/ZEfDWMeNXX — Labour…

May 10, 2014 by yorksranter 4 comments

Don’t beat Phil.

So #BeatPhil. This came up on twitter last night, but it’s been annoying me for a while. Alternatively, #BeatPhil by rejecting the implied link between income and human worth pic.twitter.com/8bV7GNuKK3 — Nathan Midgley (@nathanmesq) May 9, 2014 “Phil” is a character the London School of Business & Finance’s ad agency has come up. We are…

May 10, 2014 by yorksranter 1 comment

Satellites to new heights

I’ve recently seen someone from the Satellite Applications Catapult come up on the UKNOF mailing list, asking about how best to get dark fibre from their Harwell offices into London with a view to distributing lots of satellite imagery. Obviously a CDN is the way to go, but the first thing that came to mind…

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.
BYD-designed, TSMC-made automotive chip rumored to involve MediaTek collaboration
oooh