The first difficulty in trying to fit an exponential distribution to data is that the data may not follow an exponential distribution. Nothing grows exponentially forever. Eventually growth slows down. The simplest way growth can slow down is to follow a logistic curve, but fitting a logistic curve has its own problems, as detailed in the previous post. Suppose you are convinced that whatever you’re wanting to model follows an exponential curve, at least over the time scale […]

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Key Highlights: Europe is one of the markets across the globe where tech giants find themselves under heavy scrutiny from the European Commission. Meta, this time, has found itself in a spot of bother after introducing a WhatsApp policy that blocks third-party AI providers.  Italy’s antitrust regulator asks Meta to suspend its WhatsApp policy that blocks third-party AI providers Earlier this month, the European Commission launched a separate investigation into this matter. At the time, the regulator announced […]

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arXiv:2601.02368v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-scenario recommendation is pivotal for optimizing user experience across diverse contexts. While Multi-gate Mixture-of-Experts (MMOE) thrives in ranking, its transfer to the matching stage is hindered by the blind optimization inherent to independent two-tower architectures and the parameter dominance of head scenarios. To address these structural and distributional bottlenecks, we propose Distillation-based Scenario-Adaptive Mixture-of-Experts (DSMOE). Specially, we devise a Scenario-Adaptive Projection (SAP) module to generate lightweight, context-specific parameters, effectively preventing expert collapse in […]

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I tend to spend a lot of time in the command-line tools when working with the public cloud computing providers. It is fast, scriptable, and… strangely empowering. Over the last year as a Product Manager on Google Cloud Platform, I have been thinking a lot about improving the developer experience. Obviously, one of the crucial parts of this experience is the command-line access to the cloud. To improve this experience, we have launched gcloud: a command-line tool for […]

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How do you deploy your Python application without getting locked into an expensive cloud-based service? This week on the show, Michael Kennedy from the Talk Python podcast returns to discuss his new book, “Talk Python in Production.” [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered to your inbox every couple of days. >> Click here to learn more and see examples ]

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One of the fiddly parts of regular expressions is how to handle line breaks. Should regular expression searches be applied one line at a time, or should an entire file be treated as a single line? This morning I was trying to track down a LaTeX file that said “discussed in the Section” rather than simply “discussed in Section.” I wanted to search on “the Section” to see whether I had a similar error in other files. Line […]

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