The Rise Of ‘Adaptive’ Applications
Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Applications are changing. So much so that we use the term ‘adaptive applications’ to define apps that are in some way more changeable and chameleonic in their nature.
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Generating Molecular Conformers with Manifold Diffusion Fields
Machine Learning Research at Apple
DECEMBER 3, 2023
This paper was accepted at Generative AI and Biology workshop at NeurIPS 2023. In this paper we tackle the problem of generating a molecule conformation in 3D space given its 2D structure. We approach this problem through the lens of a diffusion model for functions in Riemannian Manifolds. Our approach is simple and scalable, and obtains results that are on par with state-of-the-art while making no assumptions about the explicit structure of molecules.
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Spotify will reduce total headcount by 17% across the company
Hacker News
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Earlier today, CEO Daniel Ek shared the following note about the company’s organizational changes with all Spotify employees. Team, Over the last two years, we’ve put significant emphasis on building Spotify into a truly great and sustainable business – one designed to achieve our goal of being the world’s leading audio company and one that.
Key Congress staffers in AI debate are funded by tech giants like Google and Microsoft
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Big tech companies are funneling money through a science nonprofit to help pay the salaries of AI staffers in Congress — and it’s just one example of the increasing influence outside-funded fellows are exerting on tech policy in Washington.
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?
Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding
Hacker News
DECEMBER 3, 2023
On November 16th, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, published a detailed breakdown of the popular encrypted messaging app’s running costs for the very first time. The unprecedented disclosure’s motivation was simple - the platform is rapidly running out of money, and in dire need of donations to stay afloat. Unmentioned by Whittaker, this budget shortfall results in large part due to the US intelligence community, which lavishly financed Signal’s creation and maintenance over several year
There’s a gap between AI talk and businesses actually using it
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Major companies can’t stop talking about artificial intelligence tools, but few businesses report using them. America’s biggest companies can’t stop hyping artificial intelligence to investors, but new data shows few businesses are putting the technology to actual use.
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Fast Optimal Locally Private Mean Estimation via Random Projections
Machine Learning Research at Apple
DECEMBER 3, 2023
We study the problem of locally private mean estimation of high-dimensional vectors in the Euclidean ball. Existing algorithms for this problem either incur sub-optimal error or have high communication and/or run-time complexity. We propose a new algorithmic framework, ProjUnit, for private mean estimation that yields algorithms that are computationally efficient, have low communication complexity, and incur optimal error up to a 1+o(1)-factor.
GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text
Hacker News
DECEMBER 3, 2023
While Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance in many tasks, much about their inner workings remains unclear. In this study, we present novel experimental insights into the resilience of LLMs, particularly GPT-4, when subjected to extensive character-level permutations. To investigate this, we first propose the Scrambled Bench, a suite designed to measure the capacity of LLMs to handle scrambled input, in terms of both recovering scrambled sentences and answering questi
Manifold Diffusion Fields
Machine Learning Research at Apple
DECEMBER 3, 2023
This paper was accepted at the Diffusion Models workshop at NeurIPS 2023. Score-based models have quickly become the de facto choice for generative modeling of images, text and more recently molecules. However, to adapt a score-based generative modeling to these domains the score network needs to be carefully designed, hampering its applicability to arbitrary data domains.
Tyrian purple: Ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold
Hacker News
DECEMBER 3, 2023
For millennia, Tyrian purple was the most valuable colour on the planet. Then the recipe to make it was lost. By piecing together ancient clues, could one man bring it back?
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.
Pre-trained Language Models Do Not Help Auto-regressive Text-to-Image Generation
Machine Learning Research at Apple
DECEMBER 3, 2023
This paper was accepted at the workshop I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better! (ICBINB) at NeurIPS 2023. Recent advances in image tokenizers, such as VQ-VAE, have enabled text-to-image generation using auto-regressive methods, similar to language modeling. However, these methods have yet to leverage pre-trained language models, despite their adaptability to various downstream tasks.
American Librarians Helped Defeat the Nazis
Hacker News
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Recruited to the war effort thanks to their deft research skills and technological know-how, librarians used microforms to gather and share intelligence with Allied forces.
Controllable Music Production with Diffusion Models and Guidance Gradients
Machine Learning Research at Apple
DECEMBER 3, 2023
This paper was accepted at the NeurIPS 2023 workshop on Diffusion Models. We demonstrate how conditional generation from diffusion models can be used to tackle a variety of realistic tasks in the production of music in 44.1kHz stereo audio with sampling-time guidance. The scenarios we consider include continuation, inpainting and regeneration of musical audio, the creation of smooth transitions between two different music tracks, and the transfer of desired stylistic characteristics to existing
Paper vs. Devices: Brain Activation Differences During Memory Retrieval
Hacker News
DECEMBER 3, 2023
It remains to be determined how different inputs for memory-encoding, such as the use of paper notebooks or mobile devices, affect retrieval processes. We compared three groups of participants who read dialogues on personal schedules and wrote down the scheduled appointments on a calendar using a paper notebook (Note), an electronic tablet (Tablet), or a smartphone (Phone).
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.
Meta's AI chief doesn't think AI super intelligence is coming anytime soon, and is skeptical on quantum computing
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Meta's chief scientist and deep learning pioneer Yann LeCun said he believes that current AI systems are decades away from reaching some semblance of …
World’s Largest Floating Solar Power Plant Taking Shape On Hydropower Plant
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DECEMBER 3, 2023
Plans are already in the works to expand a new floating solar power plant in Indonesia, setting the stage for similar projects around the world. The post World’s Largest Floating Solar Power Plant Taking Shape On Hydropower Plant appeared first on CleanTechnica.
The Who’s Who Behind the Modern Artificial Intelligence Movement
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Before chatbots exploded in popularity, a group of researchers, tech executives and venture capitalists had worked for more than a decade to fuel A.I.
Let's learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one
Hacker News
DECEMBER 3, 2023
In my day job, I work on a JavaScript framework (LWC). And although I've been working on it for almost three years, I still feel like a dilettante. When I read about what's going on in the larger framework world, I often feel overwhelmed by all the things I don't know.
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.
Can an AI chatbot be convicted of an illegal wiretap? A case against Gap's Old Navy may answer that
DECEMBER 3, 2023
With generative AI tools like ChatGPT bound to create more powerful personal assistants that can take over the role of customer service agents, the …
How Elon Musk and Larry Page’s AI Debate Led to OpenAI and an Industry Boom
Hacker News
DECEMBER 3, 2023
The people who were most afraid of the risks of artificial intelligence decided they should be the ones to build it. Then distrust fueled a spiraling competition.
OpenAI’s GPT store might not have killed the company—but it could still threaten AI startups
DECEMBER 3, 2023
The tumult that came before OpenAI’s grand unraveling highlights the perils of building on someone else’s technology. In the days and weeks before Sam Altman was unceremoniously fired from OpenAI—then reinstated over the course of a long, confusing weekend—the company was flying high.
Study: Students would be willing to pay $28 to have peers deactivate TikTok
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DECEMBER 3, 2023
Large shares of consumers use Instagram and TikTok out of a fear of missing out rather than genuine interest and, as a result, are worse off than if.
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.
7 Key Differences Between How Leaders And Managers View ChatGPT
DECEMBER 3, 2023
ChatGPT, Claude, Scribe, AlphaCode, Bard, DALL·E 2, and other generative AI have been part of the workplace for about a year, and virtually everyone inside organizations has been looking at, and thinking about, AI. Some employees are experiencing FOBO—the Fear of Becoming Obsolete.
Medicare Advantage Popular with Seniors – But Not Hospitals and Doctors
Hacker News
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Some hospitals and physician groups are rejecting Medicare Advantage plans over payment rates and coverage restrictions, causing turmoil for patients.
The OpenAI Drama Shows We've Entered the Age of the Employee
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Labor holds more cards than ever. Here's how your company needs to adjust. The failed ouster of Sam Altman was a microcosm of current power dynamics in corporate America.
Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in gaming benchmark
Hacker News
DECEMBER 3, 2023
ComputerBase benchmarked three different Linux operating systems and found that all three can achieve better gaming performance than Windows 11.
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.
Larry Page accused Elon Musk of favoring human species over digital life forms during an argument about the dangers of AI at Musk's 44th birthday
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Larry Page and Elon Musk argued about AI at Musk's 44th birthday party in 2015. Page reportedly said humans would eventually merge with machines.
Inside Job: How a Hacker Helped Cocaine Traffickers Infiltrate Europe's Ports
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DECEMBER 3, 2023
Europe’s commercial ports are top entry points for cocaine flooding in at record rates. The work of a Dutch hacker, who was hired by drug traffickers to penetrate port IT networks, reveals how this.
From Learning To Earning: How To Use AI To Get Your Next Promotion
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Understanding how to use AI gives you additional knowledge about various aspects of your business than your less-informed peers. 81% of surveyed professionals feel that AI will help them progress in their careers, whether by saving time, strengthening their networks, or changing the way they work. Knowing how to use the technology isn’t enough: to leverage your proficiencies to make a real career change, you’ll need to know how to market your skills.
Is technology harming our brains?
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DECEMBER 3, 2023
Technology and our reliance on it is limiting our critical thinking capabilities and ultimately harming our brains — but can we stop it?
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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