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US Post Office phishing sites get as much traffic as the real one

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Security researchers analyzing phishing campaigns that target United States Postal Service (USPS) saw that the traffic to the fake domains is typically similar to what the legitimate site records and it is even higher during holidays. [.

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Label-Efficient Sleep Staging Using Transformers Pre-trained with Position Prediction

Machine Learning Research at Apple

Sleep staging is a clinically important task for diagnosing various sleep disorders but remains challenging to deploy at scale because it requires clinical expertise, among other reasons. Deep learning models can perform the task but at the expense of large labeled datasets, which are unfeasible to procure at scale. While self-supervised learning (SSL) can mitigate this need, recent studies on SSL for sleep staging have shown performance gains saturate after training with labeled data from only

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Atomic nucleus excited with laser: A breakthrough after decades

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The "thorium transition", which physicists have been looking for for decades, has now been excited for the first time with lasers. This paves the way for revolutionary high precision technologies, including nuclear clocks.

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AI Could Change DUI Terms for Future Turo Insurance Policies

Smart Data Collective

AI is helping insurance companies better deal with DUIs when writing policies.

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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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Haunting Sounds from the Largest Living Thing

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We can now hear one of the largest and most ancient living organisms on Earth whisper with the tremble of a million leaves echoing through its roots.

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How to make data science projects more open and inclusive

DrivenData Labs

Data science has enormous potential to improve lives, from detecting cancer to responding to flood disaster events. However, these benefits are not felt equally. Implementing advanced machine learning methods requires training, resources, and time, making data science work subject to existing widespread inequalities based on race, gender, geography, and more.

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Building MS-DOS 4.00 on FreeDOS [video]

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You probably saw recently that Microsoft and IBM released the source code to MS-DOS 4.00 on GitHub. This is under the MIT License, which is an open source li.

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'Catastrophic grid failure' a possibility for Texas solar/wind/battery storage

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ERCOT and clean energy developers haven’t been able to reach consensus on how to address potential flaws that pose risks to the grid.

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Kevin Kelly: 101 Additional Advices

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Six years ago I celebrated my 68th birthday by gifting my children 68 bits of advice I wished I had gotten when I was their age.

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FreeBee: AT&T Unix PC emulator

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FreeBee -- AT&T UNIX PC emulator I'm developing an emulator for the AT&T UNIX PC. Currently it can boot the 3B1 UNIX operating system and run acceptably. There are some documents and other items here which may be useful to 3B1 owners. The emulator currently boots 3B1 UNIX, and thanks to the hard efforts of many people, can run a wide variety of software (including, thanks to Jesse, the C compiler and MGR windowing system!).

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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DEC PDP-1 emulator running "Spacewar", the earliest known digital video game

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Play the original Spacewar!, the classic 1960s video game on a virtual PDP-1. Emulation of the first video game ever (with accurate screen graphics) in plain HTML5.

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Apple Vision Pro Successor Not Expected Until End of 2026

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A second-generation Apple Vision Pro may not arrive before end of 2026, but the company has yet to figure out a way to bring down cost

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The Invention of the Integrated Circuit: Jean Hoerni's Patent Notebook

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This week marks 65 years since Jean Hoerni applied for a patent for his 'planar process' a key step towards the creation of the modern monolithic integrated circuit.

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Catholic Group Quickly Defrocks AI Priest Father Justin

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A Catholic group has defrocked an AI-generated priest chatbot after it stirred controversy among the faithful.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Pearls Before Breakfast: Can a great musician cut fog of rush hour? (2007)

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Joshua Bell is one of the world’s greatest violinists. His instrument of choice is a multimillion-dollar Stradivarius. If he played it for spare change, incognito, outside a bustling Metro stop in Washington, would anyone notice?

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Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for 1-year-old baby

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An IT glitch leaves the cabin crew expecting to welcome a baby on board rather than a centenarian.

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The AI expert who cited himself thousands of times on scientific paper

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Juan Manuel Corchado is the only candidate for the top position at the prestigious University of Salamanca in Spain despite artificially boosting his metrics to look like a world eminence

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Deceit, Desire, and the Literature Professor: Why Girardians Exist (2012)

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Mr. Casaubon called the future volumes. the Key to all Mythologies.—George Eliot, Middlemarch Here are two readings of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Which do you think we should be teaching in our schools and universities?[1]Reading 1. Hamlet is unhappy because he, like all of us, has no desires of his own, and therefore has no being, properly speaking. The best he can do is to find another person to emulate, since that’s the only way anyone ever develops the motivation to do anything.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can't correct it

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noyb today filed a complaint against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI with the Austrian DPA

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Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree

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From the Zed Blog: In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten asks the founders — Nathan, Max, Antonio — about the data structures at the heart of Zed: Rope and SumTree.

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Ollama v0.1.33 with Llama 3, Phi 3, and Qwen 110B

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Models: Llama 3: a new model by Meta, and the most capable openly available LLM to date Phi 3 Mini: a new 3.8B parameters, lightweight, state-of-the-art open model by Microsoft. Dolphin Llama 3: T.

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Google surpasses $2T market cap

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Google parent Alphabet stock is up more than 23% so far this year, and more than 59% over the last 12 months

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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Tales from an Attic

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Suitcases once belonging to residents of a New York State mental hospital tell the stories of long-forgotten lives

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The Pen, Mightier

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We care about what our words look like because we somewhere believe that this says something about who we are beyond font or scrawl.

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How do satellites communicate with a GPS system? (2018)

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Antennas provide the wireless linkage required for any satellite-based system. Here's a look at the many antennas of GPS.

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Did we lose our way in making efficient software? – ~30 MB doc file vs. browser

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Yesterday, my father told me he needed to install Microsoft Word on his laptop to work on his doc file.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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LoRA+: Efficient Low Rank Adaptation of Large Models

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In this paper, we show that Low Rank Adaptation (LoRA) as originally introduced in Hu et al. (2021) leads to suboptimal finetuning of models with large width (embedding dimension). This is due to the fact that adapter matrices A and B in LoRA are updated with the same learning rate. Using scaling arguments for large width networks, we demonstrate that using the same learning rate for A and B does not allow efficient feature learning.

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Personal computing paves the way for personal library science

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How the past of Personal Computing gives us a hint into the future of Personal Library Science

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Scaling to Count Billions

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How we built a scalable and reliable content usage counting service.

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Call-to-Action on SB 1047 – Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act

Hacker News

California legislators, under the influence of Effective Altruism activists, are trying to sneak through a disastrous bill for open-source AI and the technology industry generally. SB 1047 creates an unaccountable Frontier Model Division that will be staffed by EAs with police powers, and which can throw model developers in jail for the thoughtcrime of doing AI research.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.