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Introducing Databricks Assistant Autocomplete

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We are excited to introduce Databricks Assistant Autocomplete now in Public Preview. This feature brings the AI-powered assistant to you in real-time, providing.

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Top 10 YouTube Channels to Master Python

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Introduction This article highlights 10 exceptional YouTube channels that provide comprehensive tutorials, practical guidance, and engaging content for mastering Python programming. These channels cover various aspects of Python, from statistics to machine learning, AI, and data science. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced programmer, these channels help you advance your Python knowledge.

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What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses | 3Blue1Brown [video]

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I had the pleasure of being invited to give Harvey Mudd's commencement speech this year.Reposted here with permission from the UniversityTimestamps:0:00 - En.

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Here’s How Gemini for Gmail Can Transform Your Inbox

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Introduction Gemini for Gmail is an advanced AI tool that enhances your email experience. It integrates seamlessly into your Gmail interface, offering features that streamline email management and boost productivity. With Gemini, users can summarize lengthy email threads, draft responses, and find specific information from previous emails and Google Drive files.

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Russia's glide bombs devastating Ukraine's cities on the cheap

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Russia is increasingly using budget "glide bombs" to advance its offensive in Ukraine.

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Synthflow AI: The Ultimate Tool for Automating Your Business Calls

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Introduction Conversational AI has emerged as a transformative technology in recent years, fundamentally changing how businesses interact with customers. By leveraging natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning, conversational AI systems can understand and respond to human language, creating more engaging and efficient interactions. This technology powers chatbots, virtual assistants, and voice agents, facilitating customer […] The post Synthflow AI: The Ultimate Tool for Autom

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Automatic Creative Selection with Cross-Modal Matching

Machine Learning Research at Apple

Application developers advertise their Apps by creating product pages with App images, and bidding on search terms. It is then crucial for App images to be highly relevant with the search terms. Solutions to this problem require an image-text matching model to predict the quality of the match between the chosen image and the search terms. In this work, we present a novel approach to matching an App image to search terms based on fine-tuning a pre-trained LXMERT model.

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Coding My Handwriting

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Coding my handwriting in Javascript - how I did it and what I’m doing with it.

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ContextQ: Generated Questions to Support Meaningful Parent-Child Dialogue While Co-Reading

Machine Learning Research at Apple

Much of early literacy education happens at home with caretakers reading books to young children. Prior research demonstrates how having dialogue with children during co-reading can develop critical reading readiness skills, but most adult readers are unsure if and how to lead effective conversations. We present ContextQ, a tablet-based reading application to unobtrusively present auto-generated dialogic questions to caretakers to support this dialogic reading practice.

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The Toilet Theory of the Internet

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Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Glossary: Controlling AI Systems

Cassie Kozyrkov

Understanding the words used to describe various aspects of making AI do what you need it to Continue reading on Medium »

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Apple geofences third-party browser engine work for EU devices

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Rival coders must have Europe-based staff to build and test non-WebKit surfing

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Glossary: Controlling AI Systems

Cassie Kozyrkov

Understanding the words used to describe various aspects of making AI do what you need it to Continue reading on Towards Data Science »

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The Lunacy of Artemis

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For the first time since the 1960's, it looks doubtful whether the US space agency is even capable of getting us to the Moon.

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Why We Urgently Need AI Control Systems

Cassie Kozyrkov

A perpendicular take to AGI fear-mongering Continue reading on The Startup »

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Anthropic: Reflections on Our Responsible Scaling Policy

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Last summer we published our first Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), which focuses on addressing catastrophic safety failures and misuse of frontier models. In adopting this policy, our primary goal is to help turn high-level safety concepts into practical guidelines for fast-moving technical organizations and demonstrate their viability as possible standards.

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How to recuperate for all time erased photographs on Windows?

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Forever erasure of photographs on your Windows gadget can be an upsetting encounter. Such a circumstance as a rule happens when you’ve purged the Reuse Container or utilized Shift + Erase to erase the documents, including photographs. Whenever you experience that your photographs are lost everlastingly, don’t lose trust! There are a few photograph recuperation techniques accessible that you can apply to recuperate for all time erased photographs.

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Microsoft set to unveil its vision for AI PCs

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Microsoft Build 2024 starts Tuesday, and the company is expected to talk about how Windows will power new "AI PCs.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Recap: “She Speaks Data” Series – Unlocking Product Growth with Big Data, Data Science, and Machine Learning

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NW chapter recently hosted a session as part of the “She Speaks Data” series, organized by the Women in Big Data (WIBD) Northwest Chapter. The event featured Poornima Muthukumar, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft, who shared her expertise on leveraging data science to drive product growth and innovation. Event Overview On May 16 th, 2024, Poornima Muthukumar presented using big data, data science, and machine learning to create impactful products.

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Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for Nvidia Users

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Ubuntu first switched to using Wayland as its default display server in 2017 before reverting the following year.

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Hertz Charging a Tesla Renter for Gas Was Not an Isolated Incident

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Swarming Proxima Centauri: Picospacecraft Swarms over Interstellar Distances

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Tiny gram-scale interstellar probes pushed by laser light are likely to be the only technology capable of reaching another star this century.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Rare things become common at scale

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Software doesn't scale through architecture and automation alone. New, more difficult problems appear that didn't exist before, causing new downstream consequences.

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I'm a Former Surgeon General and I Couldn't Believe My $10k Medical Bill

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Everyone must be able to access necessary care without fear of financial ruin

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4K 1000Hz Monitor Exhibited

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DisplayWeek 2024 is in full swing, an annual gathering of industry insiders of the display manufacturing industry, including display components and display testing. Even as the Blur Busters website has been slow to be updated (as of May 2024), Blur Busters has been super-busy behind the scenes! Here's some eye candy: Blur Busters Showing Display Tester Device at Nanosys Booth Nanosys develops and manufactures quantum dots, for the latest displays on the market.

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Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD

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In today's article, we're embarking on something unprecedented! We'll guide you step by step through the process of transforming an SSD equipped with QLC NANDs into an SLC SSD, significantly enhancing its durability and overall performance!

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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The problem with new URL(), and how URL.parse() fixes that

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As someone building a browser I need to parse a lot of URLs. Partially to validate them, but also to normalize them or get specific parts out of the URL. The URL API in browsers lets you do that, but it’s ergonomics aren’t ideal.

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Fiat brings back its 500e electric model for 2024, with 149 mile range

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Fiat's 500e electric car has been revamped with a better range and updated retro style.

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"No Mow May" Won't Fix Our Biodiversity Problems

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Lawns and our relationship with them are, well, kind of complicated.

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Italy's $12.7B Bridge to Sicily [video]

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Italy is planning to build the World’s Longest Suspension Bridge connecting the island of Sicily to the Italian mainland!For more skyscraper & megaproject co.

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?