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Freitag’s newest messenger bag is made from trash to last
A carryall you can take anywhere. I remember the day: a sinewy bicycle messenger skillfully weaved through honking automobiles and came to a stop at the traffic light in front of me. But instead of dropping a foot, he balanced high above his fixed-gear pedals for nearly a minute, his crossbody bag bulging against the…
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Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say
Larger models can pull off a wider variety of feats, but the reduced footprint of smaller models makes them attractive tools.
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A Coding Implementation on Introduction to Weight Quantization: Key Aspect in Enhancing Efficiency in Deep Learning and LLMs
In today’s deep learning landscape, optimizing models for deployment in resource-constrained environments is more important than ever. Weight quantization addresses this need by reducing the precision of model parameters, typically from 32-bit floating point values to lower bit-width representations, thus yielding smaller models that can run faster on hardware with limited resources. This tutorial introduces…
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NVIDIA AI Releases Introduce UltraLong-8B: A Series of Ultra-Long Context Language Models Designed to Process Extensive Sequences of Text (up to 1M, 2M, and 4M tokens)
Large language mdoels LLMs have shown remarkable performance across diverse text and multimodal tasks. However, many applications, such as document and video understanding, in-context learning, and inference-time scaling, demand the ability to process and reason over long sequences of tokens. The limited context window of LLMs poses a significant challenge in these situations, as critical…
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Homeland Security Email Tells a US Citizen to ‘Immediately’ Self-Deport
An email sent by the Department of Homeland Security instructs people in the US on a temporary legal status to leave the country. But who the email actually applies to—and who actually received it—is far from clear.
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LightPROF: A Lightweight AI Framework that Enables Small-Scale Language Models to Perform Complex Reasoning Over Knowledge Graphs (KGs) Using Structured Prompts
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, with abilities on complex zero-shot tasks through extensive training data and vast parameters. However, LLMs often struggle with knowledge-intensive tasks due to limited task-specific prior knowledge and understanding capabilities. LLMs need access to reliable and continuously updated knowledge bases for effective reasoning, with Knowledge Graphs (KGs)…
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Step by Step Guide on Converting Text to High-Quality Audio Using an Open Source TTS Model on Hugging Face: Including Detailed Audio File Analysis and Diagnostic Tools in Python
In this tutorial, we demonstrate a complete end-to-end solution to convert text into audio using an open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model available on Hugging Face. Leveraging the capabilities of the Coqui TTS library, the tutorial walks you through initializing a state-of-the-art TTS model (in our case, “tts_models/en/ljspeech/tacotron2-DDC”), processing your input text, and saving the resulting synthesis…
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Science Saru’s The Ghost in the Shell series gets a new teaser trailer
The Ghost in the Shell is coming in 2026. A new teaser trailer for Science Saruâs The Ghost in the Shell anime series has been announced on the official Ghost in the Shell website in a post spotted by Anime News Network. The post also revealed some of the staff heading up the series, which…
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Bigger isn’t always better: Examining the business case for multi-million token LLMs
Are we unlocking new frontiers in AI reasoning, or simply stretching the limits of token memory without meaningful improvements?Read More
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Bungie’s slick-looking Marathon shooter arrives on September 23rd
The creators of Halo and Destiny are finally ready to show off their next big project: Marathon. It’s a long-awaited title from Bungie and revives the classic Marathon IP in the form of a PvPvE extraction shooter. After a teaser nearly two years ago, the Sony-owned studio just spent an hour showing off Marathon gameplay…