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Cats love to massacre bugs, and scientists have the videos to prove it

Popular Science

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Nearly one in three U.S. households harbor a cold-hearted killer. Some even have a well-known proclivity for torture. And while the popular pets are best known for downing birds and cornering mice, they are also adept at hunting all manner of bugs. Host a cat in your home long enough and you'll likely become accustomed to regular deliveries of amputated insect legs, wings, or the occasional whole carcass.


Stochastic Composite Mirror Descent: Optimal Bounds with High Probabilities

Neural Information Processing Systems

Although much theoretical analysis has been performed to understand the practical behavior of SGD and SCMD, the existing theoretical results are still not quite satisfactory. Firstly, most of the existing theoretical results are stated in expectation which inevitably ignore some information on high-order moments of the random variable we are interested in.





TETRIS: TilE-matching the TRemendous Irregular Sparsity

Neural Information Processing Systems

Compressing neural networks by pruning weights with small magnitudes can significantly reduce the computation and storage cost. Although pruning makes the model smaller, it is difficult to get a practical speedup in modern computing platforms such as CPU and GPU due to the irregularity.


Roundtables: Surviving the New Age of Conspiracies

MIT Technology Review

Watch a subscriber-only conversation unpacking our new series, "The New Conspiracy Age," and how this moment is changing science and technology. Everything is a conspiracy theory now. Watch a discussion with our editors and Mike Rothschild, journalist and conspiracy theory expert, about how we can make sense of them all. What it's like to be in the middle of a conspiracy theory (according to a conspiracy theory expert) It's surprisingly easy to stumble into a relationship with an AI chatbot Rhiannon Williams OpenAI's new LLM exposes the secrets of how AI really works Will Douglas Heaven It's surprisingly easy to stumble into a relationship with an AI chatbot The idea that machines will be as smart as--or smarter than--humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you'll see it's a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies do. The experimental model won't compete with the biggest and best, but it could tell us why they behave in weird ways--and how trustworthy they really are.