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1 week agoQUIC will soon be as important as TCP
QUIC is expected to play a crucial role similar to TCP, necessitating more comprehensive coverage in future editions.
PolarQuant is doing most of the compression, but the second step cleans up the rough spots. Google proposes smoothing that out with a technique called Quantized Johnson-Lindenstrauss (QJL).
TurboQuant is a novel way to shrink AI's working memory without impacting performance, allowing AI to remember more information while taking up less space and maintaining accuracy.
Both work with Linux's existing swapping mechanism. Swapping (called paging in Windows) is a way for the kernel to handle running low on available RAM. It chooses pages of memory that aren't in use right now and copies them to disk, then those blocks can be marked as free and reused for something else.