Month: January 2025

ZeroShape: A Comparison to SOTA Methods

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Related Work 3. Method and 3.1. Architecture 3.2. Loss and 3.3. Implementation Details 4. Data Curation 4.1. Training Dataset 4.2. Evaluation Benchmark 5. Experiments and 5.1. Metrics 5.2. Baselines 5.3. Comparison to SOTA Methods 5.4. Qualitative Results and 5.5. Ablation Study 6. Limitations and Discussion 7. Conclusion … Read more

Introducing ZeroShape’s Baselines: The 5 State-of-the-Art Baselines We Considered

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Related Work 3. Method and 3.1. Architecture 3.2. Loss and 3.3. Implementation Details 4. Data Curation 4.1. Training Dataset 4.2. Evaluation Benchmark 5. Experiments and 5.1. Metrics 5.2. Baselines 5.3. Comparison to SOTA Methods 5.4. Qualitative Results and 5.5. Ablation Study 6. Limitations and Discussion 7. Conclusion … Read more

ZeroShape: The Metrics and Evaluation Protocol That We Used

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Related Work 3. Method and 3.1. Architecture 3.2. Loss and 3.3. Implementation Details 4. Data Curation 4.1. Training Dataset 4.2. Evaluation Benchmark 5. Experiments and 5.1. Metrics 5.2. Baselines 5.3. Comparison to SOTA Methods 5.4. Qualitative Results and 5.5. Ablation Study 6. Limitations and Discussion 7. Conclusion … Read more

Refactoring 021 – Remove Dead Code

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Clean up the trash TL;DR: Eliminate unused functions, constants, and “just-in-case” code. Problems Addressed Dead Code Just-in-case code Reduced maintainability Anchor Boats Cognitive Load Related Code Smells https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-ii-o96s3wl4?embedable=true https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-xi-sit35t1?embedable=true https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-xxx?embedable=true Steps Ensure your code has good functional coverage. Identify unused functions and constants by reviewing your code or using static analysis tools. Analyze the added … Read more

Robinhood, already a ‘comeback’ stock, has even more aggressive plans for 2025

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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev has a lot to celebrate this holiday season. After a bumpy few years following Robinhood’s 2021 IPO — a period during which shares of the commission-free trading app plummeted by more than 90% after it abruptly restricted trading in some meme stocks —  the 12-year-old company was just declared Yahoo Finance’s … Read more

Silicon Valley stifled the AI doom movement in 2024

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For several years now, technologists have rung alarm bells about the potential for advanced AI systems to cause catastrophic damage to the human race. But in 2024, those warning calls were drowned out by a practical and prosperous vision of generative AI promoted by the tech industry – a vision that also benefited their wallets. … Read more

Popeye and Tintin are now in the public domain

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Popeye’s first appearance in E.C. Segar’s Thimble Theatre comic strip. | Image: King Features It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created in 1929, including the earliest versions of Popeye and the Belgian comic book character Tintin, are now free to … Read more