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A Complete Introduction to Using BERT Models

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Overview This post is divided into five parts; they are: Why BERT Matters Understanding BERT's Input/Output Process Your First BERT Project Real-World Projects with BERT Named Entity Recognition System Why BERT Matters Imagine you're teaching someone a new language.

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The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

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Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musks companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

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OpenAI Releases AI Agent Designed to Act Like a Research Analyst

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The feature, called Deep Research, is designed to speed up tasks that would take a person many hours.

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Federal government grant award search

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Joe Is Done

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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?

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European AI allies unveils LLM alternative to Big Tech, DeepSeek

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As Chinas DeepSeek threatens to dismantle Silicon Valleys AI monopoly, a European alliance has emerged with an alternative to techs global order. They call their project OpenEuroLLM.

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Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads

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How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.

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The Legacy of Lies in Alzheimer's Science

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Fraud in research needs to end.

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Tech war: Huawei cloud unit powers DeepSeek models in China’s bid for AI autonomy

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The cloud-computing unit of Huawei Technologies has worked overtime with a local company during the Lunar New Year holidays to make DeepSeeks

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Costa Rican Supermarket Wins Trademark Battle Against Nintendo

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A small supermarket in Costa Rica named "Super Mario" has successfully defended its trademark against video game giant Nintendo.

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Is DeepSeek China’s Sputnik Moment?

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The Chinese companys low-cost, high-performance A.I. model has shocked Silicon Valley, and a longtime China watcher warns that the West is being leapfrogged in many other industries, too.

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices: DAG Writing

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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The Nation Needs a Shipbuilding Revolution

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The luxuries of yesterdays Navy are todays urgent shipbuilding necessities.

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OpenAI Plans to ‘Replace Smartphones’ With New AI Device

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Open AI CEO Sam Altman told Nikkei Asia that the company is planning to build the device in partnership with former Apple chief design officer Jony Ive.

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Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card (2020)

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As seen on Hackaday! TL;DR - The SanDisk High Endurance cards use SanDisk/Toshiba 3D TLC Flash. It took way, way more work than it should have to figure this out (thanks for nothing, SanDisk!). In contrast, the SanDisk MAX Endurance uses the same 3D TLC in pMLC (pseudo-multi-level cell) mode.

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How psychologists kick-started AI by studying the human mind

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Many people think of psychology as being primarily about mental health, but its story goes far beyond that.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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Life Is More Than an Engineering Problem – Interview with Ted Chiang

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Julien Crockett speaks with Ted Chiang about the search for a perfect language, the state of AI, and the future direction of technology.

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OpenAI's CEO makes concerning prediction about 'AI Agents' joining the workforce: 'We are here for the glorious future'

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AI is a hot topic right now, as tech companies are investing heavily in developing machine learning applications for a wide range of uses.

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ScatterBrain: Unmasking the shadow of PoisonPlug's obfuscator

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We been tracking multiple espionage operations conducted by China-nexus actors utilizing POISONPLUG.SHADOW malware.

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Researchers used AI to build groundbreaking nanomaterials lighter and stronger than titanium

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The research team, led by Professor Tobin Filleter, has engineered nanomaterials that offer unprecedented strength, weight, and customizability. These materials are composed of tiny building blocks, or repeating units, measuring just a few hundred nanometers so small that over 100 lined up would barely match the thickness of a human hair.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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GarminDB

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Download and parse data from Garmin Connect or a Garmin watch, FitBit CSV, and MS Health CSV files into and analyze data in Sqlite serverless databases with Jupyter notebooks.

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How Leaders Can Leverage AI For Data Management And Decision-Making

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In todays digital economy, data is no longer just an assetit is the lifeblood of every high-performing organization. From business intelligence to operational efficiency, success is increasingly determined by how well companies harness, analyze, and act on data.

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Solar Plant Accidentally Incinerates Up to 6k Birds a Year (2016)

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A rare and unusual type of solar power plant that concentrates sunlight in California is accidentally killing up to 6,000 birds every year, with staff reporting that the birds keep flying into its concentrated beams of sunlight, and spontaneously bursting into flames.

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Can we please stop calling AI-generated images “photographs?”

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The introduction of artificial intelligence into photography has created opinions nearly as varied as political ideals.

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The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.

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Tiny vanes glued to planes promise big savings for US Air Force

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A surprisingly simple tweak is making a venerable military transport aircraft more efficient. Literally gluing a few microvanes to the rear fuselage of a C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane can result in fuel savings in the tens of millions of dollars.

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OpenAI’s new ChatGPT agent is ‘like a superpower,’ says CEO Sam Altman

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OpenAI has just announced a new AI tool called Deep Research.

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Integrated magneto-optics with ultra-high endurance for photonic inmem computing

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Processing information in the optical domain promises advantages in both speed and energy efficiency over existing digital hardware for a variety of emerging applications in artificial intelligence and machine learning. A typical approach to photonic processing is to multiply a rapidly changing optical input vector with a matrix of fixed optical weights.

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I Tried Running DeepSeek Locally on My Laptop: Here’s How It Went

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Running an AI model without an internet connection sounds brilliant but typically requires powerful, expensive hardware.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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Polish city is using mussels to monitor water quality

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A city in Poland is relying on the mechanisms of mussels to safeguard its population from polluted drinking water.

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NSFocus: DeepSeek AI hit with 'well planned' DDoS attacks | TechTarget

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Cybersecurity vendor NSFocus said AI startup DeepSeek endured multiple waves of DDoS attacks from attackers since its reasoning model was released

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Wolves explain America's urban-rural divide

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Colorado reintroduced wolves to stimulate the environment. Theyve also disrupted a traditional industry and way of life.

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AI in Krita could be your new secret weapon – I test it out

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How to add local AI rendering, and my top tips for getting it right.

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Introducing CDEs to Your Enterprise

Explore how enterprises can enhance developer productivity and onboarding by adopting self-hosted Cloud Development Environments (CDEs). This whitepaper highlights the simplicity and flexibility of cloud-based development over traditional setups, demonstrating how large teams can leverage economies of scale to boost efficiency and developer satisfaction.