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Liquidity has been a longstanding challenge that I, as the founder of eShares, have been determined to address for nearly a decade. Our initial vision was to become the “Nasdaq for Private Markets” and provide a solution to the liquidity problem faced by founders, employees, and angel investors. However, our journey has had mixed results. […]
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In this paper, the authors tackle the computational complexity and generalization issues in transformer models. They announce that transformers are not Turing complete, but propose a new architecture called Find+Replace transformers that is Turing complete. The authors empirically demonstrate that Find+Replace transformers outperform GPT-4 on challenging tasks, making them more effective at generalization. They highlight […]
The author questions whether holding a remote control to your head actually improves its functionality, criticizing the poorly designed experiment that only samples instances where the remote wasn’t working without the head involved. They suggest that this is a clear case of selection bias and argues that just because the remote starts working after putting […]
Polars is a DataFrame library designed for high performance in data wrangling. It has a multi-threaded query engine written in Rust, allowing for effective parallelism. The library’s vectorized and columnar processing enables cache-coherent algorithms and high performance on modern processors. Polars is easy to use, with intuitive expressions that empower users to write readable and […]
The authors present Mixtral 8x7B, a Sparse Mixture of Experts (SMoE) language model. Mixtral has a similar architecture to Mistral 7B, but with the distinction that each layer is made up of 8 feedforward blocks or experts. At each layer and for each token, a router network selects two experts to process the current state […]
A paper published in Ocean and Coastal Management titled “Multiple lines of evidence highlight the dire straits of yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean” reveals that yellowfin tuna populations are at risk of disappearing from dishes such as sashimi and poke bowls due to over-exploitation. The study shows that the global biomass of yellowfin tuna […]
Astrobotic’s Peregrine spacecraft encountered an anomaly shortly after its launch, jeopardizing its mission to land on the moon. The spacecraft initially entered a “safe, operational state” after deployment, but then faced a problem with maintaining a sun-pointing orientation, which could impact its ability to generate power. The company developed a maneuver to reorient the spacecraft […]
The State of Oklahoma has received its first three electric vehicles from Canoo as part of its fleet modernization initiative. These Lifestyle Delivery Vehicles (LDVs) are the first of their kind in the state fleet and have been assigned to various departments. Oklahoma Governor J. Kevin Stitt expressed excitement about the return of vehicle manufacturing […]
To enable motion sensors on iOS devices running iOS 12, you will need to open the settings and scroll down to locate Safari. From there, scroll down again until you find “Motion & Orientation Access” and ensure that the switch is toggled on. For Android devices, open the Chrome browser and tap the main menu […]
bigFORTH is a native code Forth that is available for Linux and Windows 2000/XP under GPL. It offers a powerful compiler that generates optimized native code for the i386 processor. The most unique feature of bigFORTH is the graphical user interface, MINOS, and the form editor, Theseus. It also includes versatile tools such as a […]