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Amazon's Best Fire TV Stick Is Almost Half Off (2026)
The Fire TV Stick 4K Max is a cheap way to stream content and is especially tailored for Prime Video devotees. The Fire TV stick still looks the same but has new capabilities. And, if you have a newer TV, it probably has a built-in streaming interface. You may be just fine with that, but if you're still rocking an older and dumber TV, or want to better tailor your experience, a stand-alone streaming device is the way to go. If your home is already using Alexa devices, an Amazon Fire Stick streamer will fit perfectly into that system.
Ancient Roman curse tablet conjures Egyptian demon magic
Four enslaved people may have crafted the newly discovered artifact. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy . Magical remedies were an everyday part of life in ancient Rome, but their intended outcomes weren't always for the greater good.
How some people's brains make an extraordinary recovery from stroke
How some people's brains make an extraordinary recovery from stroke A well-known actor who had experienced a stroke was treated by stroke specialist Sandor Nardai. The actor had been left with aphasia, or an impaired ability to speak - brutal for anyone, but "probably the most devastating thing that could happen to an actor", says Nardai. After three months of recovery, though, the actor was able to say some words. After a year, he voiced a commercial. Remarkably, he eventually got well enough to return to live theatre, says Nardai, who is at Semmelweis University in Hungary.
Kylie Jenner collaborates with Meta on 359 AI glasses with built-in cameras - and they even sing 'Rise and Shine' to you in the morning
Financial experts say the American Dream is dead and they reveal who's to blame I lost almost 100lb and my friends keep asking me if I'm using fat jabs. Here's EXACTLY what happened with each of them and the surprising truth about who was best - and worst! Kanye West feeds wife Bianca Censori a cherry as she almost bursts out of tiny'kitten' bikini on daring new shoot Kylie Jenner collaborates with Meta on ยฃ359 AI glasses with built-in cameras - and they even sing'Rise and Shine' to you in the morning Daily Mail journalists select and curate the products that feature on our site. From clip-in extensions to vodka sodas, Kylie Jenner already has a range of weird and wonderful products under her belt. Now, the billionaire has expanded her business empire into wearables.
Reframing Gaussian Splatting Densification with Complexity-Density Consistency of Primitives
The essence of 3DGaussian Splatting (3DGS) training is to smartly allocate Gaussian primitives, expressing complex regions with more primitives and vice versa. Prior researches typically mark out under-reconstructed regions in a renderingloss-driven manner. However, such a loss-driven strategy is often dominated by low-frequency regions, which leads to insufficient modeling of high-frequency details in texture-rich regions. As a result, it yields a suboptimal spatial allocation of Gaussian primitives. This inspires us to excavate the loss-agnostic visual prior in training views to identify complex regions that need more primitives to model.
Dynamic and Chemical Constraints to Enhance the Molecular Masked Graph Autoencoders
Masked Graph Autoencoders (MGAEs) have gained significant attention recently. Their proxy tasks typically involve random corruption of input graphs followed by reconstruction. However, in the molecular domain, two main issues arise: the predetermined mask ratio and reconstruction objectives can lead to suboptimal performance or negative transfer due to overly simplified or complex tasks, and these tasks may deviate from chemical priors. To tackle these challenges, we propose Dynamic and Chemical Constraints (DyCC) for MGAEs. This includes a masking strategy called GIBMS, which preserves essential semantic information during graph masking while adaptively adjusting the mask ratio and content for each molecule. Additionally, we introduce a Soft Label Generator (SLG) that reconstructs masked tokens as learnable prototypes (soft labels) rather than hard labels. These components adhere to chemical constraints and allow dynamic variation of proxy tasks during training. We integrate the model-agnostic DyCC into various MGAEs and conduct comprehensive experiments, demonstrating significant performance improvements. Our code is available at https://github.
Cost Sensitive Freeze thaw Bayesian Optimization for Efficient Tuning
In this paper, we address the problem of cost-sensitive hyperparameter optimization (HPO) built upon freeze-thaw Bayesian optimization (BO). Specifically, we assume a scenario where users want to early-stop the HPO process when the expected performance improvement is not satisfactory with respect to the additional computational cost. Motivated by this scenario, we introduce utility in the freezethaw framework, a function describing the trade-off between the cost and performance that can be estimated from the user's preference data. This utility function, combined with our novel acquisition function and stopping criterion, allows us to dynamically continue training the configuration that we expect to maximally improve the utility in the future, and also automatically stop the HPO process around the maximum utility. Further, we improve the sample efficiency of existing freezethaw methods with transfer learning to develop a specialized surrogate model for the cost-sensitive HPO problem. We validate our algorithm on established multifidelity HPO benchmarks and show that it outperforms all the previous freezethaw BO and transfer-BO baselines we consider, while achieving a significantly better trade-off between the cost and performance. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/db-Lee/CFBO.
Differentiable Generalized Sliced Wasserstein Plans
Optimal Transport (OT) has attracted significant interest in the machine learning community, not only for its ability to define meaningful distances between probability distributions - such as the Wasserstein distance - but also for its formulation of OT plans. Its computational complexity remains a bottleneck, though, and slicing techniques have been developed to scale OT to large datasets. Recently, a novel slicing scheme, dubbed min-SWGG, lifts a single one-dimensional plan back to the original multidimensional space, finally selecting the slice that yields the lowest Wasserstein distance as an approximation of the full OT plan. Despite its computational and theoretical advantages, min-SWGG inherits typical limitations of slicing methods: (i) the number of required slices grows exponentially with the data dimension, and (ii) it is constrained to linear projections. Here, we reformulate min-SWGG as a bilevel optimization problem and propose a differentiable approximation scheme to efficiently identify the optimal slice, even in high-dimensional settings. We furthermore define its generalized extension for accommodating to data living on manifolds. Finally, we demonstrate the practical value of our approach in various applications, including gradient flows on manifolds and highdimensional spaces, as well as a novel sliced OT-based conditional flow matching for image generation - where fast computation of transport plans is essential.
Cooperative Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Question Answering: Mutual Information Exchange and Ranking by Contrasting Layers
Since large language models (LLMs) have a tendency to generate factually inaccurate output, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has gained significant attention as a key means to mitigate this downside of harnessing only LLMs. However, existing RAG methods for simple and multi-hop question answering (QA) are still prone to incorrect retrievals and hallucinations. To address these limitations, we propose CoopRAG, a novel RAG framework for the QA task in which a retriever and an LLM work cooperatively with each other by exchanging informative knowledge, and the earlier and later layers of the retriever model work cooperatively with each other to accurately rank the retrieved documents relevant to a given query. In this framework, we (i) unroll a question into sub-questions and a reasoning chain in which uncertain positions are masked, (ii) retrieve the documents relevant to the question augmented with the sub-questions and the reasoning chain, (iii) rerank the documents by contrasting layers of the retriever, and (iv) reconstruct the reasoning chain by filling the masked positions via the LLM. Our experiments demonstrate that CoopRAG consistently outperforms state-of-the-art QA methods on three multi-hop QA datasets as well as a simple QA dataset in terms of both the retrieval and QA performances.