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Structuring Inputs and Outputs in Multi-agent systems Using CrewAI

Analytics Vidhya

Looking to enhance the performance of your agent-based systems? One of the most effective strategies is to structure both the inputs and intermediate outputs shared between agents. In this article, we’ll explore how to organize inputs, manage placeholders for passing data, and structure outputs to ensure that each agent delivers the desired results.

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Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong

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Language is said to make us human. What if birds talk, too?

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Efficient Source-Free Time-Series Adaptation via Parameter Subspace Disentanglement

Machine Learning Research at Apple

The growing demand for personalized and private on-device applications highlights the importance of source-free unsupervised domain adaptation (SFDA) methods, especially for time-series data, where individual differences produce large domain shifts. As sensor-embedded mobile devices become ubiquitous, optimizing SFDA methods for parameter utilization and data-sample efficiency in time-series contexts becomes crucial.

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Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations

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About two-thirds of teachers report regularly using tools for detecting AI-generated content. At that scale, even tiny error rates can add up quickly.

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

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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Data-driven Attribution Modeling

Data Science Blog

In the world of commerce, companies often face the temptation to reduce their marketing spending, especially during times of economic uncertainty or when planning to cut costs. However, this short-term strategy can lead to long-term consequences that may hinder a company’s growth and competitiveness in the market. Maintaining a consistent marketing presence is crucial for businesses, as it helps to keep the company at the forefront of their target audience’s minds.

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Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products

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Missing logs could make it more difficult to identify unauthorized access to the customers' networks during that two-week window.

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Apple's New iPad Mini Highlights the Company's AI Advantage

Hacker News

Apple’s new iPad mini highlights the company’s secret advantage in artificial intelligence. Also: Sonos weighs a headphone reboot after a sluggish start; Amazon rolls out a color Kindle; and Jony Ive-designed jackets arrive. On the management front, Apple’s chief people officer and top recruiter depart, and the company names new hardware leaders.

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Partners are the linchpin for scaling enterprise AI success

IBM Journey to AI blog

IBM today announced new advances in AI technology that continue to make it easier for businesses to transform with choice, openness and trust. Most notable is the launch of powerful new Granite models, which outperform or match the performance of similarly sized models from leading model providers. We also introduced the next generation of watsonx Code Assistant for general purpose coding and debuted new tools for building and deploying AI applications and agents, all designed with specific ente

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The World’s $100T Fiscal Timebomb Keeps Ticking

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Even before global finance chiefs fly into Washington over the next few days, they’ve been urged in advance by the International Monetary Fund to tighten their belts.

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How to Learn Artificial Intelligence From Scratch in 2024?

Pickl AI

Summary: Learning Artificial Intelligence involves mastering Python programming, understanding Machine Learning principles, and engaging in practical projects. This structured approach prepares you for a successful career in the rapidly growing AI field. Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries worldwide, with applications in healthcare, finance, and technology.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

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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A recent surge in global warming is not detectable yet

Hacker News

The global mean surface temperature is widely studied to monitor climate change. A current debate centers around whether there has been a recent (post-1970s) surge/acceleration in the warming rate. Here we investigate whether an acceleration in the warming rate is detectable from a statistical perspective. We use changepoint models, which are statistical techniques specifically designed for identifying structural changes in time series.

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How technology and information sharing can help AUKUS protect the Indo-Pacific

IBM Journey to AI blog

Three years ago, Australia, the UK and the US launched AUKUS, a trilateral security partnership to enhance stability in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. AUKUS is organized around two key pillars: supporting the Royal Australian Navy with nuclear-powered submarines and advancing military technology, such as AI (artificial intelligence), quantum computing and cybersecurity.

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TikTok owner sacks intern for sabotaging AI project

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Chinese technology giant ByteDance denied reports that the incident caused more than $10m of damage.

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Gen AI for Marketing - From Hype to Implementation

Iguazio

Gen AI has the potential to bring immense value for marketing use cases, from content creation to hyper-personalization to product insights, and many more. But if you’re struggling to scale and operationalize gen AI, you’re not alone. That’s where most enterprises struggle. To date, many companies are still in the excitement and exploitation phase of gen AI.

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

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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3D-Printed Active Electronics

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Researchers produced 3D-printed, semiconductor-free logic gates, which perform computations in active electronic devices. As they don’t require semiconductor materials, they represent a step toward 3D printing an entire active electronic device.

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The History of the Barcode

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Few people think twice about barcodes, but in the 75 years since they were first dreamed up, they have helped save lives, gone into space and stoked fears of the Antichrist.

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The AI Investment Boom

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AI Demand is Driving Skyrocketing US Investment in Computers, Data Centers, and Other Physical Infrastructure

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World Conker Championships men's winner cleared of cheating

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David Jakins, 82, known as "King Conker", said he kept a steel chestnut in his pocket for "humour value"

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

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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Apple's macOS Sequoia lets you snap windows into position

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Create window tiles with macOS Sequoia.

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How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan

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Curious about living in Japan? Learn from Christian, one of the first digital nomad visa holders, as he shares his experience and tips for obtaining the visa.

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Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

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Italy has an administrative blocking mechanism and a technical blocking platform, Piracy Shield, operated by rightsholders in the private sector. Up until now, AGCOM, Italy’s independent telecoms regulator, has been Piracy Shield’s greatest supporter, at least of those not already benefiting financially from the activities of football league Serie A, currently the only beneficiary of Piracy Shield blocking.

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WebGPU-Based WiFi Simulator

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Calculate the Wifi signal strength in your house using a powerful physics simulation engine. Find the best place to put your Wifi router.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

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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Syncthing Android App Discontinued

Hacker News

Unfortunately I don’t have good news on the state of the android app: I am retiring it. The last release on Github and F-Droid will happen with the December 2024 Syncthing version. Reason is a combination of Google making Play publishing something between hard and impossible and no active maintenance. The app saw no significant development for a long time and without Play releases I do no longer see enough benefit and/or have enough motivation to keep up the ongoing maintenance an app requires.

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Six top Alzheimer's researchers accused of fraud

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@moreisdifferent: List of high-level Alzheimer's researchers accused of credible fraud:🧵 #1 - Marc Tessier-Lavigne Genentech pointed out problems in his 2009 Nature paper in 2012. After an expose by @tab_delete, he.

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The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint

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You pipsqueaks want memory safety? We'll show you memory safety!

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The Ultimate Conditional Syntax

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Functional programming languages typically support expressive pattern-matching syntax allowing programmers to write concise and type-safe code, especially appropriate for manipulating algebraic data types. Many features have been proposed to enhance the.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

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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1 in 6 Companies Are Hesitant to Hire Recent College Graduates

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Intelligent.com surveyed business leaders involved in hiring decisions to explore attitudes toward hiring recent college grads.

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Making Castro’s Feeds Update Faster the Lazy Way

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Optimizing Castro's worker jobs to get your podcasts to you more quickly

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Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

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Sabotage Evaluations for Frontier Models

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A new paper on AI safety evaluations from Anthropic's Alignment Science team

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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?