Vector Marketing, Cutco's parent company, had its hiring practices called into question by a TikToker who used a Spider-Man motif.

That doesn’t make Vector or Cutco a pyramid scheme. But the fact that the company is so reluctant to own its multilevel marketing status is a red flag.

Pyramid Vector Quantization [1] (PVQ) is discussed as an effective quantizer for CNNs weights resulting in highly sparse and compressible networks. Properties of PVQ are exploited for the elimination ...