Nvidia’s new technique cuts LLM reasoning costs by 8x without losing accuracy

Nvidia researchers developed dynamic memory sparsification (DMS), a technique that compresses the KV cache in large language models by up to 8x while maintaining reasoning accuracy — and it can be ...
Reuters

China's ByteDance signs deal to form joint venture in step to avoid US TikTok ban

WASHINGTON/HONG KONG, Dec 19 (Reuters) - TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, on Thursday signed binding agreements to hand control of the short video app's U.S. operations to a group of investors, ...
TechCrunch

OK, what’s going on with LinkedIn’s algo?

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...
GitHub

LZHAM - Lossless Data Compression Codec

LZHAM is a lossless data compression codec written in C/C++ (specifically C++03), with a compression ratio similar to LZMA but with 1.5x-8x faster decompression speed. It officially supports Linux x86 ...
Pensacola News Journal

Spotify finally adds one of its most anticipated features. When you can check it out:

Spotify announced that Premium plan subscribers can now stream lossless audio in up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC. Lossless audio allows people to listen to music without losing information usually lost ...
IEEE

A Lossless Layered-Based Non-Encoding Plain Text Compression and Encryption Algorithm Utilizing Binary Fragmentation and Defragmentation Technique

Abstract: This paper proposes an innovative fusion of encryption and compression techniques that optimizes data handling and security. The approach employs a layered non-encoding ...
NPR

Argentina is an example of what happens when a country manipulates inflation data

Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics head. In Argentina, the government manipulated the inflation rate. Economists went rogue to calculate the real rate, and people lost trust in the numbers.
MIT Technology Review

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Design Algorithm of FIR Filter Based on Coefficient Compression ()

College of Rail Transit Locomotive and Rolling Stock, Hunan Railway Professional Technology College, Zhuzhou, China. Many people have made efforts to design and improve high-performance FIR filters, ...
Observer

Professor awarded patent for innovative data encryption and compression method

Dr. Ziya Arnavut of the State University of New York at Fredonia has received a patent for a software invention that provides a cost-effective method of encrypting data during transmission. The ...
The Conversation

Astronomy has a major data problem – simulating realistic images of the sky can help train algorithms

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