Machine Learning Research at Apple

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Machine Translation (MT) enables people to connect with others and engage with content across language barriers. Grammatical gender presents a difficult challenge for these systems, as some languages require specificity for terms that can be ambiguous or neutral in other languages. For example, when translating the English word "nurse" into Spanish, one must decide whether the feminine "enfermera" or the masculine "enfermero" is appropriate.

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Introduction Agentic AI is an exciting concept! It’s all about creating AI that can work on its own, without us constantly telling it what to do. Think of it like having a super-smart assistant; it doesn’t just sit there waiting for orders, but predicts what you need and gets it done. This idea is getting […] The post What do Top Leaders have to Say About Agentic AI?

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Machine Learning Research at Apple

OCTOBER 6, 2024

We present a foundation model for zero-shot metric monocular depth estimation. Our model, Depth Pro, synthesizes high-resolution depth maps with unparalleled sharpness and high-frequency details. The predictions are metric, with absolute scale, without relying on the availability of metadata such as camera intrinsics. And the model is fast, producing a 2.25-megapixel depth map in 0.3 seconds on a standard GPU.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

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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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AssemblyAI

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Staying ahead means embracing the right tools at the right time, and Speech AI is transforming how companies interact with customers, process information, and make decisions. You probably already use Speech AI technology every day without even realizing it. Voice assistants on your phone, live transcriptions on your TV show, or even a phone call with a bot to schedule an appointment—these are all examples of Speech AI in action.

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Hacker News

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Highly dependent on imported fossil fuels, soon to shutter its last nuclear plant, and slow to build out renewables, the world’s largest producer of advanced computer chips is heading toward an energy crunch.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Researchers have developed a hybrid technology that would combine Wi-Fi with the Long Range (LoRa) networking protocol, yielding a new long-distance wireless concept called WiLo. The international research team has developed their proposed WiLo tech to be used on existing Wi-Fi and LoRa hardware.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

How a modern AVX instruction shares a similar design with a 1985 blitter chip, by Arnaud Carré

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Facebook parent company Meta last week added new AI features to its camera-equipped Ray-Ban Meta Glasses. You can use the camera feature on the.

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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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Hacker News

OCTOBER 6, 2024

An alleged unboxing video for an unannounced 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M4 chip was uploaded to YouTube today by Russian channel Wylsacom. The.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Engineer Wenting Zhang endeavored to build his own full-frame camera, spending years creating the Sitina S1 and open-sourcing the entire project. Find out what it takes to design and build a digital camera from the ground up.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

A new way of thinking about the history of the Earth.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Download the WiFi4EU app.

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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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Hacker News

OCTOBER 6, 2024

When children turn 13, they age out of the data protections provided by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Then, they become targets for data collection from data brokers that collect their information from social media apps, shopping history, location tracking services, and more.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Introduction When modeling a Postgres database, you probably don’t give much thought to the order of columns in your tables. After all, it seems like the kind of thing that wouldn’t affect storage or performance. But what if I told you that simply reordering your columns could reduce the size of your tables and indexes by 20%? This isn’t some obscure database trick — it’s a direct result of how Postgres aligns data on disk.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Can you still make a fortune off a domain name?

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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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OCTOBER 6, 2024

A new comprehensive review of the data suggests the "benefits of fluoridating water have declined in recent decades.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Sometimes, a seemingly simple and obvious solution can lead to a series of problems later on. This is especially true when adding retries.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Is server-side JavaScript just PHP all over again? Not so fast! Dive into the evolution of web development from PHP to modern full-stack JavaScript frameworks. Discover why this isn't a step backward but a leap forward in building powerful, efficient web applications.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

A marine biologist and photographer gets up close and personal with mysterious pygmy seahorses.

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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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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Gustav Klimt is world-renowned for his glittering gold canvases. But what inspired the Austrian artist's fascination with the color?

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

The XFCE developers are aiming to release the XFCE version 4.20 with the introduction of preliminary Wayland support in December 2024.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Anyone who has implemented a simple HTTP server can tell you that it is a really simple protocol. Basically, it’s a text file that has some specific rules to make parsing it easier. All HTTP requests look something like this: 1 GET /path HTTP/1.1rn Host: aarol.devrn Accept-Language: en,fi-FIrn Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflatern rn The first line is the “request line”, and it has the requested method, path and HTTP version.

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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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Hacker News

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Sometimes a single patient alters a career, as with Chan’s Shchetinina.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Anthropology has been bad at capturing the living conditions of women. A kidnapped woman who returned to civilization was the exception.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Relatively few people are lefties, and it’s a puzzle why.

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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?