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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

[SPONSORED POST] With the transformation of medicine from analog to digital, plus the rise of new data-generating devices for health tracking and genomic information, we can look forward to a new world in which virtually every aspect of a patient's medical history can be communicated, stored, and manipulated. For each patient, this huge body of data represents a sort of digital twin, a treasure trove of useful medical information and insights that could become invaluable in developing patient tr

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Managing the environment of an application in a distributed computing environment can be challenging. Ensuring that all nodes have the necessary environment to.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

NVIDIA today announced it has supercharged the world’s leading AI computing platform with the introduction of the NVIDIA HGX™ H200. Based on NVIDIA Hopper™ architecture, the platform features the NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU with advanced memory to handle massive amounts of data for generative AI and high performance computing workloads.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Today, we introduce the new availability of named arguments for SQL functions. With this feature, you can invoke functions in more flexible ways.

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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?

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this contributed article, Mike Loukides, Vice President of Emerging Tech Content at O’Reilly Media, makes the argument that the number of programmers who will be “replaced by AI” will be small and explains how the use of AI will change the discipline for the better.

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack. All down for millions of people. How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld of cybercrime and broke the internet—then went to work for the FBI.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We propose a framework for classifying the capabilities and behavior of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) models and their precursors. This framework introduces levels of AGI performance, generality, and autonomy. It is our hope that this framework will be useful in an analogous way to the levels of autonomous driving, by providing a common language to compare models, assess risks, and measure progress along the path to AGI.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The new class-leading H200 has more memory capacity and bandwidth, speeding up its work with generative AI and LLMs. Nvidia is introducing a new top-of-the-line chip for AI work, the HGX H200. The new GPU upgrades the wildly in demand H100 with 1.4x more memory bandwidth and 1.

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Section 702 is the controversial and much-abused mass surveillance authority that expires in December unless Congress renews it. EFF and others have been working hard to get real reforms into the law and have opposed a renewal, and now, we’re hearing about a rushed attempt to tie renewal to funding.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

One of the sad truths of American life is that sexual material tends to be on the cutting edge of technology. This probably dates back to Gutenberg, but more recently we’ve seen it with VCRs and then streaming video.

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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.

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

LEDs, cathode ray tubes, blinky lights - move over. Once you've seen dancing animated black goo frolicking in space to sound, you never go back. Love Hultén has been plus-ing their custom instruments with ferrofluids, and the results are simply magical.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Generative AI is all anyone can talk about. It is a breakthrough technology with transformational promises across numerous domains — even human life itself.

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A survey of college professors indicates that most fields of study don’t require many of the math topics that high school students learn in high school. Credit: Kevin Wolf/ Associated Press The typical ambitious high school student takes advanced algebra, trigonometry, pre-calculus and calculus. None of that math may be necessary for the vast majority of undergraduates who don’t intend to major in science or another STEM field.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The “bounties” feature has mostly been used to recreate women (big surprise.) Civitai, an online marketplace for sharing AI models, just introduced a new feature called “bounties” to encourage its community to develop passable deepfakes of real people, as originally reported by404 Media.

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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.

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Ruby on Rails has one of the most faithful communities online, it also has one of the most controversial, rabble-rousing creators out there, Danish programme.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Not everyone wants AI to do everything for them. Will the risk of losing transparency and visibility into code change how GitHub made collaborative coding so powerful?

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Despite the house fraud in Altadena, each house in the LA neighborhood is still popular today. Find out about the con man behind the scam and where he disappeared to.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Want to break into data science? Start upskilling today with these free courses to learn programming, data analysis, and machine learning.

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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.

Hacker News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog we discuss how the transformer architecture naturally extends over external memories, and share empirical results which leverage this capability to succeed where RAG has struggled. These methods are innate (don’t require fine tuning) and outperform popular retrieval augmented generation methods.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A new ChatGPT feature lets you upload files full of data or code, but it also makes them vulnerable to exfiltration.

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Google Bard allowed an adversary to inject instructions via documents and exfiltrate the chat history by injecting a markdown image tag.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Want to learn more about AI but don't know where to start? Check out these free AI training courses from AWS.

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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.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Computers Are Social Actors (CASA) theory is the most important theoretical contribution that has shaped the field of human–computer interaction. The theory states that humans interact with computers as if they are human, and is the cornerstone on which all social human–machine communication (e.g., chatbots, robots, virtual agents) are designed.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

DALL-E Mini has entered the AI image generation race as an unexpected contender, boasting its own distinct capabilities and limitations. In a comparative analysis, DALL-E Mini, particularly the version developed by Craiyon, exhibits remarkable potential, especially in relation to image quality and simplicity of prompts. Especially in the last year, artificial intelligence and the benefits of this technology are changing our lives.

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Nepal’s government has decided to ban the popular social media app TikTok, saying it was disrupting “social harmony” in the country.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We propose using a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) as reverse transition operator (kernel) within the Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models (DDIM) framework, which is one of the most widely used approaches for accelerated sampling from pre-trained Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM). Specifically we match the first and second order central moments of the DDPM forward marginals by constraining the parameters of the GMM.

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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.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A queue of ships waiting to use the canal has been growing in recent months amid a deep drought that has restricted passage.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Using a vision-inspired keyword spotting framework, we propose an architecture with input-dependent dynamic depth capable of processing streaming audio. Specifically, we extend a Conformer encoder with trainable binary gates that allow to dynamically skip network modules according to the input audio. Our approach improves detection and localization accuracy on continuous speech using Librispeech's 1,000 most frequent words while maintaining a small memory footprint.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.

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Autoregressive models for text sometimes generate repetitive and low-quality output because errors accumulate during the steps of generation. This issue is often attributed to exposure bias - the difference between how a model is trained and how it is used during inference. Denoising diffusion models provide an alternative approach in which a model can revisit and revise its output.

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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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