How to Convert Cubic Bézier Curves into Euler Spirals for GPU Optimization

Table Of Links ABSTRACT 1 INTRODUCTION 2 FLATTENING AND ARC APPROXIMATION OF CURVES 3 EULER SPIRALS AND THEIR PARALLEL CURVES 4 FLATTENED PARALLEL CURVES 5 ERROR METRICS FOR APPROXIMATION BY ARCS 6 EVOLUTES 7 CONVERSION FROM CUBIC BÉZIERS TO EULER SPIRALS 8 GPU IMPLEMENTATION 9 RESULTS CONCLUSIONS, FUTURE WORK AND REFERENCES CONVERSION FROM CUBIC BÉZIERS … Read more

WannaCry: When Crypto Was on Most Screens Worldwide

It was Friday, May 12, 2017, when a lot of people across the world turned on their computers (or even ATMs, ticket machines, and POS terminals) and got the same nasty surprise. Instead of spreadsheets or hospital patient records, screens lit up with a black-and-red ransom note. The note, titled “Wanna Decrypt0r,” and later known … Read more

Trump says US will restart nuclear weapons testing 

The Nobel committee will love this. | Image: Getty President Donald Trump says he has instructed the Pentagon to immediately start testing nuclear weapons, citing a need to match “other countries [sic] testing programs.” Trump’s post on Truth Social included very few details on the nature of the tests, but says the “process will begin … Read more

Here’s Why AI Researchers Are Talking About Sparse Spectral Training

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work Low Rank Adaptation 3.1 LoRA and 3.2 Limitation of LoRA 3.3 ReLoRA* Sparse Spectral Training 4.1 Preliminaries and 4.2 Gradient Update of U, VT with Σ 4.3 Why SVD Initialization is Important 4.4 SST Balances Exploitation and Exploration 4.5 Memory-Efficient Implementation for SST and 4.6 Sparsity … Read more

Can Sparse Spectral Training Make AI More Accessible?

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work Low Rank Adaptation 3.1 LoRA and 3.2 Limitation of LoRA 3.3 ReLoRA* Sparse Spectral Training 4.1 Preliminaries and 4.2 Gradient Update of U, VT with Σ 4.3 Why SVD Initialization is Important 4.4 SST Balances Exploitation and Exploration 4.5 Memory-Efficient Implementation for SST and 4.6 Sparsity … Read more