Month: July 2025

BTC’s 200-Week Average Rises to $50K to Suggest Long-Term Market Strength

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The 200-Week Simple Moving Average (200WMA) for bitcoin BTC is approaching $50,000, currently sitting at approximately $49,223, according to Glassnode data. This is one of the very few indicators in bitcoin that has only risen over time. The 200WMA has historically provided significant support levels. During the 2015 bear market, it offered support around $200. … Read more

How U.S. Copyright Law Applies to LLM Training

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:::tip ANDREA BARTZ, CHARLES GRAEBER, and KIRK WALLACE JOHNSON v. ANTHROPIC PBC, retrieved on June 25, 2025, is part of HackerNoon’s Legal PDF Series. You can jump to any part in this filing here. This is part 4 of 10. ::: ANALYSIS Section 107 of the Copyright Act identifies four factors for determining whether a given use … Read more

Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping

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Cloudflare, a cloud infrastructure provider that serves 20% of the web, announced Tuesday the launch of a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between website owners and AI companies — ideally giving publishers greater control over their content. For the last year, Cloudflare has launched tools for publishers to address the rampant rise of AI … Read more

Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default

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The major internet architecture provider Cloudflare will now block known AI web crawlers by default to prevent them from “accessing content without permission or compensation,” according to an announcement on Tuesday. With the change, Cloudflare will start asking new domain owners whether they want to allow AI scrapers, and will even let some publishers implement … Read more

QDyLoRA in Action: Method, Benchmarks, and Why It Outperforms QLoRA

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Proposed Method: Quantized DyLoRA Experiments and Evaluation On the semi-sorted behavior of QDyLoRA Conclusion, Limitations, and References A. Supplementary Material A.1. Hyperparameters A.2. Generated Text Quality 2 Proposed Method: Quantized DyLoRA Following QLoRA (Dettmers et al., 2023), we used 4-bit Normal Float (NF4) for storing the double quantized … Read more

American Bitcoin, Backed by Eric and Donald Trump Jr, Pulls In $220M to Accumulate BTC

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American Bitcoin Corp, a Miami-based mining company majority owned by Hut 8 (HUT) and backed by the Trump family, has raised $220 million from accredited investors, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The raise topped its target of $200 million, and it also accepted about $10 million worth of bitcoin … Read more

Beyond Static Ranks: The Power of Dynamic Quantization in LLM Fine-Tuning

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:::info Authors: (1) Hossein Rajabzadeh, University of Waterloo and Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab (hossein.rajabzadeh@uwaterloo.ca); (2) Mojtaba Valipour, University of Waterloo (mojtaba.valipour@uwaterloo.ca); (3) Tianshu Zhu, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab (tianshu.zhu@huawei.com); (4) Marzieh Tahaei, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab (marzieh.tahaei@huawei.com); (5) Hyock Ju Kwon, (hjkwon@uwaterloo.ca); (6) Ali Ghodsi, (ali.ghodsi@uwaterloo.ca); (7) Boxing Chen, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab (boxing.chen@huawei.com); (8) … Read more

More Than a Feeling: Visualizing Why Filter Atoms Outsmart LoRA in Fine-Tuning

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Preliminary Methods Experiments Related Works Conclusion and References Details of Experiments Additional Experimental Results 7 Details of Experiments 7.1 Details of Datasets VTAB dataset is uniquely challenging and well-suited for the evaluation of parameter-efficient tuning methods in the context of few-shot knowledge transfer. VTAB-1k encompasses a diverse range … Read more

Strategy’s Perpetual Preferred Stocks May Be Front Running S&P 500 Inclusion

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Disclaimer: The analyst who wrote this article has shares in Strategy (MSTR)Strategy’s (MSTR) perpetual preferred shares may be anticipating the bitcoin-accumulation company’s inclusion in the S&P 500 index after the largest cryptocurrency posted a record-high monthly close at a price some analysts calculate lifted quarterly earnings to a level that qualifies it for the U.S. … Read more

Tuning the Pixels, Not the Soul: How Filter Atoms Remake ConvNets

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Preliminary Methods Experiments Related Works Conclusion and References Details of Experiments Additional Experimental Results 5 Related Works 5.1 Pre-training and Fine-tuning The standard practice of pre-training and fine-tuning [13,17,60,70] entails models initially undergoing pre-training on datasets such as ImageNet-21K, BookCorpus, and Common Crawl [46, 51, 79]. Subsequently, these … Read more

Keep the Channel, Change the Filter: A Smarter Way to Fine-Tune AI Models

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Preliminary Methods Experiments Related Works Conclusion and References Details of Experiments Additional Experimental Results 3 Methods In this section, we decompose convolution filters over a small set of filter subspace elements, referred to as fitler atoms. This formulation enables a new model tuning method via filter subspace by … Read more

Keep the Channel, Change the Filter: A Smarter Way to Fine-Tune AI Models

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:::info Authors: (1) Wei Chen, Purdue University, IN, USA (chen2732@purdue.edu); (2) Zichen Miao, Purdue University, IN, USA (miaoz@purdue.edu); (3) Qiang Qiu, Purdue University, IN, USA (qqiu@purdue.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Preliminary Methods Experiments Related Works Conclusion and References Details of Experiments Additional Experimental Results Abstract. Efficient fine-tuning methods are critical to … Read more