Sat.Dec 09, 2023 - Fri.Dec 15, 2023

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Most companies using AI are 'lighting money on fire,' says Matthew Prince

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The outspoken CloudFlare founder said the time and money that businesses are pouring into early AI projects are unlikely to yield returns, and he blasted cloud providers for making the problem worse.

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Building an LLM Model using Google Gemini API

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Introduction Since the release of ChatGPT and the GPT models from OpenAI and their partnership with Microsoft, everyone has given up on Google, which brought the Transformer Model to the AI space. More than a year after the GPT models were released, there were no big moves from Google, apart from the PaLM API, which […] The post Building an LLM Model using Google Gemini API appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Do Developers Care About Cloud?

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

Software application developers care about their code, they fret over whether their software is bug-free and functional, they spend sleepless nights running through de.

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Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests

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A.I. tools like ChatGPT did not boost the frequency of cheating in high schools, Stanford researchers say. Last December, as high school and college students began trying out a new A.I.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

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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McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup

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Kytch, the company that tried to fix McDonald’s broken ice cream machines, has unearthed a 3-year-old email it says proves claims of an alleged plot to undermine their business.

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Prodigy-Segment for Pixel Segmentation

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We've recently introduced Prodigy Plugins which extend the features of Prodigy by adding direct support for 3rd party integrations. One of these plugins is P.

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GE’s Breakthrough In ‘Detonating’ Hypersonic Propulsion Is A Big Deal

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GE Aerospace GE Aerospace says it successfully demonstrated an advanced jet propulsion concept that involves a dual-mode ramjet design utilizing rotating detonation combustion. This could offer a pathway to the development of new aircraft and missiles capable of flying efficiently at high supersonic and even hypersonic speeds across long distances. A press release that GE Aerospace put out today offers new details about what it says “is believed to be a world-first hypersonic dual-mode ram

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'It's all gone': CAR-T therapy forces autoimmune diseases into remission

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Engineered immune cells, most commonly used to treat cancers, show their power against lupus and other immune disorders. Engineered immune cells, most commonly used to treat cancers, show their power against lupus and other immune disorders.

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Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android

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Today, Mozilla announced more than 450 new extensions (software that adds new features or functionality to the browser) to users on Firefox for Android at Mozilla’s AMO Android page. This milestone marks the launch of a new open extension ecosystem on mobile where developers are now free to create and publish extensions and users can easily access and install them on Firefox for Android.

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Weak-to-strong generalization

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We present a new research direction for superalignment, together with promising initial results: can we leverage the generalization properties of deep learning to control strong models with weak supervisors?

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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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The Most Dangerous Canadian Internet Bill You’ve Never Heard Of Is a Step Closer to Becoming Law

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After years of battles over Bills C-11 and C-18, few Canadians will have the appetite for yet another troubling Internet bill. But given a bill that envisions government-backed censorship, mandates age verification to use search engines or social media sites, and creates a framework for court-ordered website blocking, there is a need to pay attention.

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Ubiquiti users report having access to others’ UniFi routers, cameras

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Since yesterday, customers of Ubiquiti networking devices, ranging from routers to security cameras, have reported seeing other people's devices and notifications through the company's cloud services. [.

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In Indonesia, humanity's oldest art is flaking away. Can scientists save it?

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Ancient humans painted scenes in Indonesian caves more than 45,000 years ago, but their art is disappearing rapidly. Researchers are trying to discover what’s causing the damage and how to stop it — before the murals are gone forever.

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Coinbase targets financially vulnerable young adults

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New advertisements by Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange, prey on the financial anxieties of Gen Z and other young adults. The ads, which are on heavy rotation on cable television, depict the modern economic system as rigged. In one of the ads, a young woman gets good grades, goes to college, and ends up saddled with debt. After she enters the workforce, it becomes impossible for her to afford to buy a house or start a family.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

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.

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‘Green Roads’ Are Plowing Ahead, Buffering Drought and Floods

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As the developing world witnesses a boom in road building, a movement to retrofit existing roads is gathering steam. Using embankments, channels, and dikes, so-called “green roads” harvest excess water for use in irrigation and flood prevention, while slashing maintenance costs.

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Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'

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At Intel’s Meteor Lake launch event, Pat Gelsinger went on the offensive against Nvida, claiming the whole industry is motivated to move beyond CUDA, and that Intel is well positioned

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DeepMind AI outdoes human mathematicians on unsolved problem

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Large language model improves on efforts to solve combinatorics problems inspired by the card game Set. Large language model improves on efforts to solve combinatorics problems inspired by the card game Set.

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How Lego builds a new Lego set

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The $80 Lego Ideas Polaroid OneStep is a 516-piece recreation of the classic 1977 OneStep SX-70 instant camera. Here’s The Verge’s exclusive peek at how it went from fan creation to final product.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

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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First look at asteroid dust brought to Earth offers surprises

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Researchers have begun examining the pristine space rocks collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Researchers have begun examining the pristine space rocks collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.

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Tesla Recalls 2M Cars to Fix Autopilot Safety Flaws

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Tesla Inc. filed a recall covering more than 2 million vehicles after the top US auto-safety regulator determined its driver-assistance system Autopilot doesn’t do enough to prevent misuse.

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Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted

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Over a decade ago, I pointed out that as Google kept trying to worm its way deeper into our lives, a key Achilles' heel was its basically non-existent customer service and unwillingness to ever engage constructively with users the company f s over.

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Can a Transformer Represent a Kalman Filter?

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Transformers are a class of autoregressive deep learning architectures which have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance in various vision, language, and robotics tasks. We revisit the problem of Kalman Filtering in linear dynamical systems and show that Transformers can approximate the Kalman Filter in a strong sense. Specifically, for any observable LTI system we construct an explicit causally-masked Transformer which implements the Kalman Filter, up to a small additive error which is

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

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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We asked GPT-4 and Chinese rival ERNIE the same questions. Here’s how they answered

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Hong Kong CNN — ERNIE Bot 4.0, run by Chinese tech giant Baidu, is touted to be in the same league as industry darling chatbot GPT-4. Unveiled in October and launched to paying subscribers in November, ERNIE 4.

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Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models

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Phi-2 is now accessible on the Azure model catalog. Its compact size and new innovations in model scaling and training data curation make it ideal for exploration around mechanistic interpretability, safety improvements, and fine-tuning experimentation on a variety of tasks.

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Mind-reading AI can translate brainwaves into written text

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A system that records the brain's electrical activity through the scalp can turn thoughts into words with help from a large language model – but the results are far from perfect

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Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer’s code repos

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Miklos Daniel Brody, a cloud engineer, was sentenced to two years in prison and a restitution of $529,000 for wiping the code repositories of his former employer in retaliation for being fired by the company. [.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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New insights into neural end-of-life

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Their study reveals that during anoxia, or oxygen deprivation, the brain undergoes a series of changes, including a massive release of glutamate and a surge in gamma and beta waves, potentially linked to near-death experiences.

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Delta Dental says data breach exposed info of 7 million people

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Delta Dental of California is warning almost seven million patients that they suffered a data breach after personal data was exposed in a MOVEit Transfer software breach. [.

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FISA "Reform" Bill Would Greatly Expand the Entities Forced to Surveil Users

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Yesterday the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence unanimously approved the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023 (FRRA), which would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA 702). The full House is expected to vote on this bill next Tuesday. Like other competing reauthorization bills that have been introduced (see here and here), the FRRA would impose new restrictions on the government’s access to and use of information about U.S. persons that

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Beeper Mini is back

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Bug fixes and other improvements We've created an updated version of Beeper Mini that fixes an issue that caused messages not to be sent or received. You can get the update directly from beeper.com/update on your phone. We are still doing some final testing before submitting the update to the Google Play Store for distribution to all users.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.