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Thursday, August 13, 202649 min read
Daily Reading · Paper of the Day

DeiT beat ViT-B/16's JFT-300M accuracy training on ImageNet alone

A modernized convolutional network on a modern recipe ties ViT at matched size, so most of what looked like a data-scale win for the transformer was the training recipe.

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Investing · Company Analysis

Cerebras's revenue concentration barely fell as its second-biggest customer changed

Cerebras's newest 10-Q shows the two related-party customers that once carried 88% of revenue falling to 59%, while a customer the filing never names took 32% of the second quarter's revenue on its own.

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Parenting · Parenting Research

No trial behind the “first tooth” rule enrolled a child younger than one

The varnish and supplement guidance rest on the same trials that stopped at age one, where the drops still prescribed to a six-month-old in low-fluoride water now carry an October 2025 FDA warning.

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Daily Reading · Current Events

The ACLU asks a court to block Trump's citizenship order

Filed August 11 in New Hampshire, the request targets an order that stops recognizing citizenship for children linked to terror groups, foreign diplomats, birth tourism, or certain territories, with agencies required to issue public guidance on its implementation by September 5.

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Daily Reading · Tech News

A Security builds a zero-click Zoom exploit chain with fewer than 20 AI prompts

Zoom has already patched the three linked CVEs, closing out a disclosure that began with a private report to the company in June.

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Daily Reading · Word of the Day

One witness's odd word gave New Deal critics a name for waste

On April 3, 1935, a New York relief-hearing witness's answer launched "boondoggle" into national politics, and both Roosevelt's critics and Roosevelt himself were soon fighting over what it should mean.

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