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A continuation of the Alpha Engineer's journey: Sometimes the most powerful lessons come not from acceptance, but from the clarity that rejection provides.

Impact of counterspeech studied via diverse methods across 5 languages, 9 countries, platforms like Twitter, targeting Islamophobia, racism, etc.

Counterspeech challenges hate via strategies like facts or humor. It's classified by speaker, strategy, recipient, and purpose for impact.

Explores how Griffin’s local attention and recurrent layers outperform traditional Transformers, improving language modeling at scale and faster inference.

OpenAI’s new Agents SDK simplifies building goal-driven AI agents, while MCP (Model Context Protocol) gives them real-world data access. This guide shows how to combine them using Bright Data’s MCP server and Gemini LLM to build powerful, context-aware agents.

Mawari’s vTubeXR platform reshapes VTuber-fan interaction with immersive 3D technology, debuting at Expo 2025 Osaka alongside top VTuber agencies.

Aleo Founder Howard Wu on privacy, ZK cryptography, and how compliant confidential computing is reshaping Web3 infrastructure.

LightCap’s 188ms mobile inference, visual concept retrieval, and channel attention visualizations prove efficient, accurate captioning on COCO.

LightCap excels on Nocaps across domains. Future work includes efficient CLIP, end-to-end training, and more pre-training data for better results.

This blog post is about Go 1.22’s new math/rand/v2 package, the first “v2” in the standard library.

Counterspeech counters online hate via supportive rebuttals. This review bridges social and computer science to enhance automated generation.

HackerNoon shares an awesome tech company from our tech company database. This week, we showcase Obyte, a decentralized cryptocurrency platform that uses Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) technology instead of a traditional blockchain.

LightCap: 188ms inference time on mobile, 98% FLOPs reduction, outperforms SOTA on COCO and nocaps with tiny model size.

LightCap, trained on 5.8M image-text pairs, excels on COCO and nocaps using BLEU@4, METEOR, CIDEr, SPICE; ablations show each module’s performance boost.

LightCap uses CLIP’s grid features, a visual concept extractor, cross-modal modulator, TinyBERT fusion, and ensemble heads for efficient captioning.

Reviews image captioning (detector-based vs. grid) and VL pre-training (contrastive vs. fusion), positioning LightCap as a novel, efficient CLIP-based approach.

LightCap: a tiny, fast image captioner using CLIP & distillation. 75% smaller, SOTA on COCO (136.6 CIDEr), 188ms/CPU. Ready for mobile!

CLLMs offer a simpler, more efficient approach to LLM acceleration without extra architectures or draft models, achieving significant speedup gains.

CLLMs show 2-6.8x improvements in fast-forwarded/stationary tokens. Ablations reveal dataset size, sequence length, and loss design impact performance.

CLLMs achieve 2.4-3.4x speedup on Spider, GSM8K, and MT-bench while maintaining quality, outperforming Medusa and speculative decoding baselines.

Even the cleanest dashboards can lie. This article breaks down how unchecked metrics mislead teams and why great data engineering starts with skepticism, not a

AI infrastructure costs threaten startups through expensive GPUs, unpredictable demand, and mandatory long-term contracts requiring strategic planning.