Machine Learning Research at Apple

JANUARY 17, 2025

Large pretrained models are showing increasingly better performance in reasoning and planning tasks across different modalities, opening the possibility to leverage them for complex sequential decision making problems. In this paper, we investigate the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) for reinforcement learning (RL) across a diversity of interactive domains.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

A not-to-be-missed list of elegant Python solutions to perform common programming and processing tasks in a single line of code.

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Machine Learning Research at Apple

JANUARY 17, 2025

This paper presents an efficient decoding approach for end-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E-ASR) with large language models (LLMs). Although shallow fusion is the most common approach to incorporate language models into E2E-ASR decoding, we face two practical problems with LLMs. (1) LLM inference is computationally costly. (2) There may be a vocabulary mismatch between the ASR model and the LLM.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

A product data scientist breaks down why AI wont replace us anytime soon.

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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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insideBIGDATA

JANUARY 17, 2025

By Ainsley Lawrence IT teams spend countless hours monitoring alerts, diagnosing system issues, and maintaining infrastructure performance. Thankfully, this is changing with the advent of AI IT specialists should be leading the charge for innovation rather than shying away.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 17, 2025

A huge private bathhouse is found after lying hidden for 2,000 years under volcanic rock and ash.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

The Supreme Court has ruled to uphold the TikTok ban, meaning that the video app is poised to be shuttered in the U.S. this weekend.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

Researchers discovered long-lost computer code and used it to resurrect the early chatbot ELIZA.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 17, 2025

The billionaire Frank McCourt is launching a peoples bid to buy the app, replace its addictive algorithm, and give users greater control of their data. Is it a publicity stunt or a sincere attempt to reform the digital age?

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JANUARY 17, 2025

ELIZA is famous as a rudimentary artificial intelligence and the first ever chatbot, but versions found online today are actually knock-offs because the original computer code was lost - until now

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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

JANUARY 17, 2025

Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and some Google Translate.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

Update: OpenAI officially announced this feature one week after some users reported the arrival, and then disappearance, of the new options. Its possible they went live prematurely.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 17, 2025

When it comes to infrastructure engineering, building a data center is probably closer to building a house than to deploying a Terraform stack.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

When people think of generative AI, many envision it working as part of a system of engagement a customer service agent, a supply chain

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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

JANUARY 17, 2025

Before Marie Kondo stormed into the global consciousness, Hideko Yamashita taught Japan the art of creating tidier spaces.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

Chinese AI makers have learned to build powerful AI models that perform just short of the U.S.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 17, 2025

In the early 1990s, Toyota saw that environmental awareness and tighter emissions regulations would shape the future of the automotive industry. The company aimed to create an eco-friendly, efficient vehicle that would meet future standards. In 1997 Toyota introduced the Prius to the Japanese market. The car was the worlds first mass-produced hybrid vehicle that combined gasoline and electric power to reduce fuel consumption and emissions.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

ChatGPT tasks offers AI prompt scheduling and automation, but what happens when things go wrong?

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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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JANUARY 17, 2025

And a plea to think seriously about climate change without getting distracted

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JANUARY 17, 2025

If you missed the recent live, subscriber-only Q&A about money and AI scams with WIREDs advice columnist Reece Rogers, you can watch the replay here.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Research led by the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University, raises serious concerns about bias in the UK criminal justice system due to negative stereotyping of

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JANUARY 17, 2025

Machine learning (ML) is now a part of our daily lives, from the voice assistants on our mobiles to advanced robots performing tasks similar to humans.

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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

Hacker News

JANUARY 17, 2025

$30 billion company want's you to pay $5 for using your own camera as a webcam

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JANUARY 17, 2025

As we move farther into the New Year, chances are, youre setting goals to advance your career and boost earning potential. The first quarter of the New Year brings performance evaluations plus bonuses and promotion decisions.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Darrin Bell won a major cartooning award in 2019.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

Dive Brief: Nearly all workers using AI say the technology has enabled them to focus more on strategy, problem-solving and other higher-level

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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

JANUARY 17, 2025

This is what getting hooked on Solitaire taught me about playing cards, math, and human history.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

A recently surfaced research paper has brought the contentious conversation surrounding artificial intelligence into the realm of actual play.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Explore games that uncover how digital product design influences your choices, behaviors, and the world around you.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

Artificial intelligence might feel futuristic and exciting, but behind its rapid rise lies an environmental toll tech companies aren't eager to talk

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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?