Sat.Jan 11, 2025

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TransPixar AI: Adobe’s Answer to Hollywood-level VFX!

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Generative AI has given us all many superpowers, including the ability to generate professional-level content, code, images, and even videos! In 2025, it’s now the turn for VFX. Leading the charade is TransPixarAI, the world of visual effects (VFX) is undergoing a monumental shift. Adobe Research leads this groundbreaking research in collaboration with the Hong […] The post TransPixar AI: Adobes Answer to Hollywood-level VFX!

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Wonder Plumbers, Why Data Engineers Are The Unsung Heroes

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

The drive to encourage students (and anyone keen to learn) throughout the computer science industry is dominated by messaging designed to encourage people to gain cert.

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Building AI Reading Club: Features & Behind the Scenes

Eugene Yan

Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like.

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Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork

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Matt Mullenweg has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress community members, including two with plans to fork WordPress.

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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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Anthropic’s chief scientist on 5 ways agents will be even better in 2025

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The hottest topic in AI is only just getting started. Agents are the hottest thing in tech right now.

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JPMorgan Reportedly Ending Remote Work for More Than 300k Employees

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JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the U.S., reportedly plans to end remote work and require more than 300,000 employees to be in the office five days a week.

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Ingrid Daubechies Awarded National Medal of Science

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ChatGPT Is Under Attack For Its Use Of Water — But How Does That Even Work?

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AI tools have been blamed for straining water supplies that could help put out wildfires in the Los Angeles area.

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Homomorphic Encryption in iOS 18

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A mathematical miracle enables Apple's servers to process your photos while never knowing anything about them

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AI was meant to cut health care costs. It turns out to need expensive human support

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Preparing cancer patients for difficult decisions is an oncologists job. They dont always remember to do it, however.

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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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Contemplative LLMs

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Let the LLM 'contemplate' before answering

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7 ChatGPT hacks to maximize your productivity — here's how to try them

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ChatGPT has undeniably transformed the AI landscape, seamlessly integrating into daily tasks to enhance efficiency and productivity.

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Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken

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Posted by Joshua Bloch, Software EngineerI remember vividly Jon Bentley's first Algorithms lecture at CMU, where he asked all of us incoming Ph.D.

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Human flourishing in the Age of AI

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Challenges, strategies, & opportunities.

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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 the Weak Nuclear Force Is Short Range

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The "range" of a force is a measure of the distance across which it can easily be effective. Some forces, including electric and magnetic forces and gravity, are long-range, able to cause dramatic effects that can reach across rooms, planets, and even galaxies.

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How I Force ChatGPT Search to Use High-Quality Sources

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Using ChatGPT to gather data can save you a significant amount of time.

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NASA to explore two landing options for returning samples from Mars

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To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity, NASA announced Tuesday a new

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ChatGPT-5 is coming soon—here’s how you can prepare

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When it drops, will you be a master or scrambling to catch up? ChatGPT is impressive now, but the newest version will make it look like childs play. Rumored to come in early 2025, its expected to jump from 75 billion GPUs to a mild-blowing 10 trillion.

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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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'So immoral': gig economy workers forced to pay fee to receive their wages

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Retail assistants on low pay using YoungOnes platform told to wait up to 30 days for earnings or be charged for quick payment

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Why Data & AI Literacy are Important Skills for K-12 Students

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Other countries have already made data literacy and AI literacy part of their K-12 curriculum. Every day, 402.

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Kenney.nl: Free Game Assets

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I talked to Meta’s Black AI character. Here’s what she told me.

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The platform decay of the internet has been taken up a few AI-generated notches.

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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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TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona

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The Next Stage of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Revolution Has Arrived -- Say Hello to Digital Labor

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What happens when AI starts writing its own instructions? Digital labor is evolving faster than you think.

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Track your devices via Apple FindMy network in Go/TinyGo

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Track personal Bluetooth devices via Apple's "Find My" network using OpenHaystack and Macless-Haystack with tools written in Go/TinyGo.

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How Nvidia is creating a $1.4T data center market in a decade of AI - SiliconANGLE

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A trillion-dollar shift unfoldsWe are witnessing the rise of a completely new computing era.

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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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Why I Chose Common Lisp

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AI Isn’t Magic, and It Isn’t a Strategy Either

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There was an axiom we used in venture capital that said that the industry had a memory of only 10 years. Whatever was learned 10 or more years past, in other wordsfrom what to avoid, to what to prioritizewas said to be forgotten, only to be painfully re-learned repeatedly at decade intervals.

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Stop Trying to Schedule a Call with Me

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Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me - The harassment by SaaS

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Human flourishing in the Age of AI

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Challenges, strategies, & opportunities.

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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?