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Together Research is focused on developing new architectures for efficient sequence modeling. They have recently introduced the StripedHyena models, including StripedHyena-Hessian-7B (SH 7B) and StripedHyena-Nous-7B (SH-N 7B). These models combine attention and gated convolutions to achieve competitive performance with the best open-source Transformers. StripedHyena is faster and more memory efficient for training and generation, outperforming […]
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Gaussian splatting has experienced a surge of research activity in recent months, with new papers being published regularly. Several notable developments have occurred, including the release of SuperSplat by PlayCanvas, a tool for online splat editing, and the addition of Gaussian splat support by Spline. Various research projects have explored different aspects of Gaussian splatting, […]
In the ongoing copyright litigation between Getty Images and Stability AI, the court has issued its first order. Getty Images, a provider of stock photographs, has sued Stability AI for copyright infringement, database right infringement, trade mark infringement, and passing off. Getty alleges that Stability AI scraped images from their website without permission and used […]
The US Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Inhance Technologies to cease production of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) created through its fluorination process. The process, used to treat millions of plastic containers every year, has been found to create nine PFAS, including three highly toxic ones. The agency is concerned that these substances can leach […]
The FDA has approved the first-ever CRISPR-based medicine, called Casgevy, for the treatment of sickle cell disease. Developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, Casgevy has shown the potential to eliminate recurrent episodes of debilitating pain caused by sickle cell. The therapy works by precisely repairing DNA mutations, offering a potential long-term cure for the […]
Beeper, the company that brought iMessage features to Android users, is currently experiencing an outage. The app, including the newly released Beeper Mini, is displaying error messages and failing to send texts. The CEO of Beeper, Eric Migicovsky, claims that Apple is to blame for cutting off Beeper Mini’s functionality. Migicovsky argues that Beeper Mini […]
In this web content, the author shares their personal experience of setting up a smart home and the challenges they faced due to poor Wi-Fi connectivity. They highlight the importance of considering the materials used in construction that obstruct Wi-Fi signals and emphasize the need for better digital infrastructure in homes. The author mentions that […]
Summary: The author discusses their experience trying to bring old Apple computers, an iMac from 2007 and a MacBook from 2008, back to life by installing a lightweight Linux distribution. They explore using antiX Linux and MX Linux with Fluxbox desktop. The process of installation and troubleshooting is detailed for both machines. The author finds […]
The Onyx programming language has its own community on Discord, where enthusiasts can come together to discuss language features and help each other with any problems they may be facing. This open source project encourages contributions from the community, making it a collaborative effort. The official source of Onyx is the onyx-lang/onyx GitHub repository. Exciting […]
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive understanding of the complexity of $c$-coloring $chi$-chromatic graphs using distributed algorithms in various models of distributed computing. We demonstrate that these problems do not offer any distributed quantum advantage. Firstly, we present a new distributed algorithm that can identify a $c$-coloring in $chi$-chromatic graphs in approximately $tilde{mathcal{O}}(n^{frac{1}{alpha}})$ rounds. […]