Delta Live Tables Now Generally Available on Google Cloud
databricks
AUGUST 13, 2023
Today we are announcing the general availability of Delta Live Tables (DLT) on Google Cloud. DLT pipelines empower data engineers to build reliable.
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Improving the Quality of Neural TTS Using Long-form Content and Multi-speaker Multi-style Modeling
Machine Learning Research at Apple
AUGUST 13, 2023
Neural text-to-speech (TTS) can provide quality close to natural speech if an adequate amount of high-quality speech material is available for training. However, acquiring speech data for TTS training is costly and time-consuming, especially if the goal is to generate different speaking styles. In this work, we show that we can transfer speaking style across speakers and improve the quality of synthetic speech by training a multi-speaker multi-style (MSMS) model with long-form recordings, in add
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How to parent more predictably (2018)
Hacker News
AUGUST 13, 2023
(As with anything else I write about parenting, this is mostly just my observations with my own two kids and may not generalize as well as I think it does.) A few weeks ago I wrote about why I think it's valuable for parents to be predictable.
How new AI demands are fueling the data center industry in the post-cloud era
AUGUST 13, 2023
The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) means a rapid increase in data use and a new era of potential data center industry growth over the next two years and beyond.
Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data
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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?
SBF was scheduled to speak to a Stanford class in a Tech ethics course
Hacker News
AUGUST 13, 2023
Alleged fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, his parents and a close circle of friends are fighting a slew of legal cases. Their relationships to Stanford are everywhere — and ongoing.
College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT
AUGUST 13, 2023
The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester. OpenAI's ChatGPT is advancing every day.
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AI fears overblown? Theoretical physicist calls chatbots ‘glorified tape recorders’
AUGUST 13, 2023
New York CNN — The public’s anxiety over new AI technology is misguided, according to theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. In an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, the futurologist said chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT will benefit society and increase productivity.
Access to knowledge is a human right – Alexandra Elbakyan
Hacker News
AUGUST 13, 2023
Access to knowledge is a human right. That was the idea Sci-Hub was fighting since 2011. In 2015, I got a first lawsuit in the United States. The reason: Sci-Hub provided free access to academic journals, violating the copyright.
Professors have a summer assignment: Prevent ChatGPT chaos in the fall
AUGUST 13, 2023
Soon after ChatGPT was released in November, Darren Keast noticed students in his college English composition class turning in essays that read as if they’d been written by machine.
Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to 8 years in prison
Hacker News
AUGUST 13, 2023
An Associated Press report says Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky has been sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty of spreading false information about the Russian military in on
Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time
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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.
Sure AI is hot, but is it an actual market or a platform piece?
AUGUST 13, 2023
Companies of all stripes have begun embracing generative AI as a way to increase productivity and possibly even replace some workers. But the base technology has been around for decades.
I’ll Never Be an Astronaut
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AUGUST 13, 2023
Developing Aortic Stenosis due to a Bicuspid Aortic Valve This is one doctor's experience as an explainer to friends, family and anyone who has a bicuspid aortic valve or who, for whatever reason, has developed Aortic Stenosis. Early days I was born half way through 1967. My mother was barely 27.
Two areas where the chatbot Claude outshines ChatGPT
AUGUST 13, 2023
Anthropic’s chatbot can analyze up to 75,000 words at a time, and lets you attach multiple files and direct the bot on aspects you want to analyze. Claude has surprising capabilities, including a couple you won’t find in the free version of ChatGPT.
Bypassing YouTube video download throttling
Hacker News
AUGUST 13, 2023
Have you ever tried to download videos from YouTube? I mean manually without relying on software like youtube-dl, yt-dlp or one of âtheseâ websites. Itâs much more complicated than you might think.
How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering
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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.
Time To Redesign Your Career For The Age Of Artificial Intelligence
AUGUST 13, 2023
It’s clear that technology professionals will see their roles transformed with artificial intelligence, requiring skills refreshes and learning new approaches.
LangChain Agent Simulation – Multi-Player Dungeons and Dragons
Hacker News
AUGUST 13, 2023
In this notebook, we show how we can use concepts from CAMEL to simulate a role-playing game with a protagonist and a dungeon master. To simulate this game, we create an DialogueSimulator class that coordinates the dialogue between the two agents.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Fools a Third of Users Despite 52% Wrong Answers, Purdue Study Finds
AUGUST 13, 2023
Purdue University's study exposes ChatGPT's inaccuracies in answering software engineering questions, highlighting verbosity and conceptual errors despite user preference for its language style.
Floor Mouse (2018)
Hacker News
AUGUST 13, 2023
Update 2018-07-20: my wrists have calmed down some and I'm worried about hurting my knee, so I've switched to mousing lefty but still "clicking" by using keys on the keyboard. Update 2019-11-07: about a year ago I switched to using my laptop full time, with an external monitor. The trackpad can be used from enough different positions that my wrists have stayed just (barely) this side of ok.
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.
What’s the True Threat of AI? Diminishing Human Thought and Creativity
AUGUST 13, 2023
OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT has sparked extensive discussions in media and scientific circles regarding the potential threat of AI. Amidst these dialogues, a significant and pressing concern comes to the forefront—namely, the profound influence that AI could exert over human cognitive capacities and the innate creativity that defines our species. As the discourse unfolds, it.
(Oversimplified) History of Retro Game Consoles for Programmers
Hacker News
AUGUST 13, 2023
As game developers, we can learn a lot from the past. Let's look at the history of game consoles to understand the driving forces that helped shape the modern gamedev technologies we use today.
This AI John Lennon song is giving me chills - and no, it's not the Beatles song we're waiting for
AUGUST 13, 2023
The “final” song from The Beatles is reportedly being released to the public any day now, following ex-Beatle Paul McCartney’s remarks earlier this …
Testing your animation refresh rate with CSS
Hacker News
AUGUST 13, 2023
(Seems to behave weirdly on multi-monitor mixed-refresh-rate setups. Also, if you use Reduced Motion, make sure to turn it off for the animation to work) To read it, look for the lowest number which isnât turning and which appears in dark text (ie isnât flickering on alternate frames). Original version, supports 30/48/50/60/90/120/144hz: Warning: flickering imagery, open at your discretion.
Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements
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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.
Are corporations going to ban the use of ChatGPT?
AUGUST 13, 2023
As more workers around the world adopt the generative AI chatbot for menial tasks, some corporations have begun to push back in fear of data and IP security concerns.
Dolphin Emulator Progress Report: May, June, and July 2023
Hacker News
AUGUST 13, 2023
This has been a bit of a tumultuous summer for the project, but now things are returning to normalcy. For those who somehow missed it, the Dolphin on Steam project has ceased after contact between Valve and Nintendo. Though we disagree with their stance and decision, we respect Valve's right to impose whatever restrictions they want within their private storefront.
Should We "Move Fast And Break Things" With AI?
AUGUST 13, 2023
In Silicon Valley, the mantra of "move fast and break things" has been a guiding principle. But a new poll shows most Americans disagree with that when it comes to AI.
The Cost of Convenience
Hacker News
AUGUST 13, 2023
It is tempting to build abstractions so developers have to do less and build more. However, this can easily end up causing frustrations with developers if not done right.
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.
Gorilla — Enhancing Large Language Models’ Ability to Use API Calls
Towards AI
AUGUST 13, 2023
Last Updated on August 16, 2023 by Editorial Team Author(s): Marcello Politi Originally published on Towards AI. A Finetuned LLaMA-based Model to Improve LLMs’ API Call Accuracy and Adaptability Photo by Valentin Jorel on Unsplash This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Large Language Models today are limited in the amount of information they can capture in their weights, and furthermore, they have a limited context.
Is Venus in some way tidally locked to Earth? (2020)
Hacker News
AUGUST 13, 2023
The video here demonstrates how Earth sees the same face of Venus every inferior conjunction (i.e., two planets are the closest to each other): [link] (or http.
Document Intelligence Series?—?Part-1: Table Detection with YOLO
Mlearning.ai
AUGUST 13, 2023
Document Intelligence Series — Part-1: Table Detection with YOLOv8 Photo by Mr Cup / Fabien Barral on Unsplash Introduction When dealing with unstructured data, you frequently encounter a situation where you must seek a resolution to efficiently retrieve information from a table within any document. Pytesseract is one of python libraries which can help you perform OCR on documents to get all the text present in it.
The Namco ND-1: Taking 2D for Granted
Hacker News
AUGUST 13, 2023
Last year, I covered the CAVE CV-1000, an early-2000âs arcade platform that was the last gasp of dedicated 2D hardware, with a RISC CPU and a blitter. But th.
How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics
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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.
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