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FEBRUARY 9, 2025

*Primary Contributors Attention is a key part of the transformer architecture. It is a sequence-to-sequence mapping that transforms each sequence element into a weighted sum of values. The weights are typically obtained as the softmax of dot products between keys and queries. Recent work has explored alternatives to softmax attention in transformers, such as ReLU and sigmoid activations.

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Tutorials and articles of Inigo Quilez on computer graphics, fractals, demoscene, shaders and more.

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In a new essay on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is open to a compute budget, among other strange-sounding ideas, to enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI and ensure the benefits of the technology are widely distributed.

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Two months after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed, the insurer's parent company is going after people who say it denies too many claims.

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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

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Yes, some work will be replaced, but new jobs will be discovered in emerging industries. A recent meme captures the gnawing artificial-intelligence backlash: A worker says, AI turns this single bullet point into a long email I can pretend I wrote.

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An Open Letter To JD Vance From A Former CIA Officer On The Counterintelligence Risks Of Smartwatches Mr. Vice President, Congratulations on your ascendancy to the Vice President of the United States of America. While we are an apolitical platform, we wish you nothing but success, the country depends on you.

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Looking at AI-generated art shows that machines may never truly understand the human mind, because there are states of mind that can never be automated.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2025

There's a new race in space, but it's not where you might think. It's happening close to home in the nearest bit of space, right on the edge of Earth's atmosphere.

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Working with artificial intelligence can sometimes feel more like an art than a science. That's why many companies are turning to consulting firms for guidance on how to maximize the technology.

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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?

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One indicator of flu activity is the percentage of doctors office visits driven by flu-like symptoms. Last week, that number was clearly higher than the peak of any winter flu season since 2009-2010.

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OpenAI has a problem: each time it releases an advanced new AI, it's getting copied almost instantly.

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Dominican priests react to the visage of a holy man they have grown to know and love.

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Can you tell the difference between a poem written by a human and one crafted by AI? New research suggests most people cantand surprisingly, they even prefer AI-generated poetry for its rhythm and beauty.

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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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A TL;DR version of Andrej Karpathy's "Deep dive into LLMs like ChatGPT" video.

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The writing is on the wall. AI will replace many more jobs this year. Experts predict that AI will replace full-time careers in 2025reducing the number of jobs and creating a greater reliance on gig employment and freelancers.

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Sure, who wouldnt want to lose a few pounds?

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OpenAI made a last-minute Super Bowl debut, pitching its flagship product, ChatGPT, as humanitys latest breakthrough innovation.

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Try experimental demos featuring the latest AI research from Meta.

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Late last year, ChatGPT was used by a Victorian child protection worker to draft documents.

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Habana Labs was supposed to challenge Nvidia. Instead, Intel drove it into the ground.

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Here are five things in business tech news that happened this week and how they affect your business.Did you miss them? Business Tech News #1 OpenAI launches new AI tool to facilitate research tasks.

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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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What can Apple do in the face of a UK order to weaken encryption worldwide? Decentralize iCloud, to start.

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ChatGPTs new Operator mode is its first step towards becoming an AI agent a new type of AI tool that carries out far more complex tasks without the need for human intervention. But what exactly can it do?

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Southern California Edison said video evidence had led it to look more broadly at whether its equipment might have been the cause of the deadly blaze.

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OpenAI made its Super Bowl debut with a 60-second spot positioning ChatGPT as the next major leap in human innovation.

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PostgreSQL (Postgres) is one of the most powerful and popular relational database management systems available today.

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Its still January, and theres already been quite a lot of discourse in and around MIT about the state of technology right now. Breaking news includes this concern about DeepSeeks new model and how it affects the U.S. tech industry.

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Deep Dive delves into hot issues in Hong Kong and mainland China.

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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.