2025-05-26
A Survey of Image Captioning Techniques and Vision-Language Pre-training Strategies
Reviews image captioning (detector-based vs. grid) and VL pre-training (contrastive vs. fusion), positioning LightCap as a novel, efficient CLIP-based approach.
The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women
The so-called "paper of record" has, for some reason, published an article with a strange and bigoted claim about Asian women — and the claim accompanying it is so dumb,...
New AI "LightCap" Shrinks Image Captioning for Your Phone, Runs on CPU
LightCap: a tiny, fast image captioner using CLIP & distillation. 75% smaller, SOTA on COCO (136.6 CIDEr), 188ms/CPU. Ready for mobile!
Concluding Remarks on Consistency Large Language Models and Future Directions
CLLMs offer a simpler, more efficient approach to LLM acceleration without extra architectures or draft models, achieving significant speedup gains.
Empirical Analysis of CLLM Acceleration Mechanisms and Hyperparameter Sensitivity
CLLMs show 2-6.8x improvements in fast-forwarded/stationary tokens. Ablations reveal dataset size, sequence length, and loss design impact performance.
Benchmarks Don't Lie: CLLMs Deliver on Both Speed and Smarts
CLLMs achieve 2.4-3.4x speedup on Spider, GSM8K, and MT-bench while maintaining quality, outperforming Medusa and speculative decoding baselines.
C64 memories - World Class Leader Board (Golf)
In this video I take a look at Commodore 64 "World Class Leader Board" published in 1987 by Access Software. The disk version with "press play on tape" dongle, dynamic...
The Most Dangerous Metrics Are the Ones Everyone Trusts (and No One Validated)
Even the cleanest dashboards can lie. This article breaks down how unchecked metrics mislead teams and why great data engineering starts with skepticism, not a
D&D.Sci: The Choosing Ones [Answerkey and Ruleset]
Published on May 26, 2025 9:43 AM GMTThis is a followup to the D&D.Sci post I made nine days ago; if you haven’t already read it, you should do so...
Worthless noise isn’t information
Data becomes information when at least one of two related things are true: If you’re not getting one of these things, then the data is simply noise. A distraction that...
AI’s Cost Crisis: How to Avoid Overpaying for Compute in 2025
AI infrastructure costs threaten startups through expensive GPUs, unpredictable demand, and mandatory long-term contracts requiring strategic planning.
Bitcoin Conference 2025 - Should I Go? Should I Stay?
I'm excited to await the hackathon results and connect with fellow Bitcoin builders from around the world, regardless of the outcome.
“Lilo & Stitch” and “Mission: Impossible” Show Why Theaters Matter in a Streaming World
"Lilo & Stitch" and "Mission: Impossible -- The Final Reckoning: are creating the biggest one-two punch in the box office since the phenomenal theatrical success of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer." #StitchImpossible...
History Shows That UK Investors Should Avoid Panicking Over Stock Market Uncertainty in the US
It’s been a turbulent year on Wall Street, and given the exposure that many UK investors have to US markets, it’s understandable that there’s plenty of concern.
Don't Mix Data Access Concerns With Essential Business Behavior
Passing databases creates accidental coupling and breaks business encapsulation.
Behind the Startup: How OpenLedger is Building a Blockchain-Native AI Ecosystem
OpenLedger is decentralizing AI with transparent data attribution, rewards, and agent-based economies. Learn how their team plans to make AI accountable.
Beyond Democracy: A System Where Citizens Vote with Their Taxes
Published on May 25, 2025 5:00 PM GMTA problem with all systems of government is that whenever a person is given power over something, he can do whatever he wants...
Dell's Memorial Day deals bring RTX5090 Alienware machine prices down-to-Earth. Well, almost.
These are still pretty expensive machines, but they've got the guts to match.
The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No
The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 18/20 - Sim City...
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