DECEMBER 28, 2023
Three major news headlines in the past week have soured the generative AI party: a lawsuit from the NY Times, a new image model that copies frames from movies and the discovery of child abuse images in a popular dataset.
Analytics Vidhya
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Introduction Large Language Models have been the backbone of advancement in the AI domain. With the release of various Open source LLMs, the need for ChatBot-specific use cases has grown in demand. HuggingFace is the primary provider of Open Source LLMs, where the model parameters are available to the public, and anyone can use them […] The post A Comprehensive Guide to Implement HuggingFace Models Using Langchain appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
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Eugene Yan
DECEMBER 23, 2023
Sending helpful & engaging pushes, filtering annoying pushes, and finding the frequency sweet spot.
Dataconomy
DECEMBER 27, 2023
The Web3 phenomenon has been a unique entrant into the modern world. It offers many significant advantages, and with key features like immutability, digital tokens, automated smart contracts, and DAOs, we are able to have secure yet decentralized organizations that span across the globe. The potential for the use cases built out of these innovations have only begun to scratch the surface of what is possible.
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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?
Hacker News
DECEMBER 29, 2023
Foreigners will be able to work remotely in Korea for up to two years with the new workcation visa that will be created next year, also being able to bring their families along.
Analytics Vidhya
DECEMBER 29, 2023
Apple has quietly introduced Ferret, its first open-source multimodal large language model (LLM), marking a significant departure from its traditional secretive approach. Developed in collaboration with Columbia University, Ferret integrates language understanding with image analysis, promising groundbreaking applications in various fields. This strategic move reflects Apple’s commitment to stay at the forefront of the rapidly […] The post Apple Secretly Launches Its First Open-Sourc
Data Science Current brings together the best content for data science professionals from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Dataconomy
DECEMBER 27, 2023
The Tesla autopilot hacker, or should we say, “hackers,” found a very easy way to hack into the car’s system and unveil the “Elon mode.” According to the doctorate research students, it was very easy. Three students from Berlin—Niclas Kühnapfel, Christian Werling, and Hans-Niklas Jacob—found a big problem with Tesla cars.
Hacker News
DECEMBER 29, 2023
For decades, Scott Frank earned up to three hundred thousand dollars a week rewriting other people’s screenplays—from “Saving Private Ryan” to “The Ring.” Finally, he decided to stop playing ventriloquist.
FlowingData
DECEMBER 29, 2023
Data continues on its upwards trajectory and with it comes the importance of visualization. Many charts were made in 2023. If I liked something, it was on FlowingData. These are my ten favorites from the year.
DECEMBER 29, 2023
This was a breakout year for electric vehicles in America. One day in late November, I cradled a red Samsung flip phone in my hands as if it was a ruby gemstone. To me, it was just as precious.
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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.
Dataconomy
DECEMBER 27, 2023
“Why is TikTok asking for my passcode?” is the question of the day. Millions of TikTok users faced a bizarre request from the popular social media app today. Imagine this: You’re all set to delve into the captivating world of TikTok, ready to scroll through endless videos, and suddenly, your iPhone throws you a curveball—a demand for your passcode.
Hacker News
DECEMBER 29, 2023
This December, if there's one tech New Year's resolution I'd encourage you to have, it's switching to the only remaining ethical web browser, Firefox. According to recent posts on social media, Firefox's market share is slipping. We should not let that happen.
Towards AI
DECEMBER 29, 2023
Last Updated on December 30, 2023 by Editorial Team Author(s): Eduardo Muñoz Originally published on Towards AI. A brief description of this adaptation of Reinforced Self-Training (ReST) to an agentic configuration. Picture by Aaron Burden from Unsplash This article describes a very interesting and inspiring proposal to improve a ReAct agent with reasoning and action response with external knowledge.
DECEMBER 29, 2023
Earlier this year, GitHub rolled out Copilot Chat, a ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot for organizations subscribed to Copilot for Business. Copilot Chat more recently came to individual Copilot customers — those paying $10 per month — in beta. And now, GitHub’s launching Chat in general availability for all users. As of today, Copilot Chat is available in […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
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
DECEMBER 29, 2023
Multiple information-stealing malware families are abusing an undocumented Google OAuth endpoint named "MultiLogin" to restore expired authentication cookies and log into users' accounts, even if an account's password was reset. [.
Hacker News
DECEMBER 28, 2023
A major difference between Ethereum and most other (finality-bearing) proof of stake systems is that Ethereum tries to support a very high number of validators: we currently have 895,000 validator objects and a naive Zipf’s law analysis implies that this corresponds to tens of thousands of unique invididuals/entities. The purpose of this is to support decentralization, allowing even regular individuals to participate in staking, without requiring everyone to give up their agency and cede control
Hacker News
DECEMBER 27, 2023
To understand neurological complications of COVID-19 better both acutely and for recovery, we measured markers of brain injury, inflammatory mediators, and autoantibodies in 203 hospitalised participants; 111 with acute sera (1–11 days post-admission) and 92 convalescent sera (56 with COVID-19-associated neurological diagnoses). Here we show that compared to 60 uninfected controls, tTau, GFAP, NfL, and UCH-L1 are increased with COVID-19 infection at acute timepoints and NfL and GFAP are si
Hacker News
DECEMBER 28, 2023
Once upon a time, if you cracked open the pages of IEEE Spectrum you could spot full-page advertisements for analog computers , boasting of their ease of use and even—in the case of one model built into a cart with wheels—their portability. Engineers connected potentiometers and op-amps to set up representations of knotty differential equations and read the solutions as varying output voltages.
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.
DECEMBER 28, 2023
Riders on the subway in New York City might have noticed a new addition to the transit system: a robot named K5. K5 is a crime-fighting machine that is supposed to make the subway safer and more secure. But is it really a good idea to have a robot watching over us?
Hacker News
DECEMBER 28, 2023
A Linux developer has eschewed boring traditional landscape and portrait monitor orientations and is championing diagonal modes, with 22 degrees claimed to be the sweet spot.
Hacker News
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Today, on December 27, 2023, we ( Boris Larin , Leonid Bezvershenko , and Georgy Kucherin ) delivered a presentation, titled, “Operation Triangulation: What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers”, at the 37th Chaos Communication Congress (37C3), held at Congress Center Hamburg. The presentation summarized the results of our long-term research into Operation Triangulation, conducted with our colleagues, Igor Kuznetsov , Valentin Pashkov , and Mikhail Vinogradov.
DECEMBER 27, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times is striking back against the threat that artificial intelligence poses to the news industry, filing a federal lawsuit Wednesday against OpenAI and Microsoft seeking to end the practice of using its stories to train chatbots.
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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.
Hacker News
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Understanding how human memory and learning works, the differences between beginners and experts, and practical steps developers can take to improve their learning, training, and recruitment.
Hacker News
DECEMBER 29, 2023
Last week US Steel announced it was being acquired by Japanese steel company Nippon Steel. The milestone gives an opportunity to look back at what once was the largest and most important company in the US (and arguably the world), and how it slowly declined.
Hacker News
DECEMBER 26, 2023
A pretty major milestone has been achieved: Britain has become the first major country to halve its carbon emissions. The rapid pace of UK environmental progress means that our output is now below 319 million tonnes – half the 652 million tonnes at our 1970 peak.
DECEMBER 26, 2023
You no longer need the Bing mobile app to access Copilot on Android devices. Microsoft has quietly launched a dedicated Copilot app for Android. The new app is available in the Google Play Store, offering access to Microsoft’s AI-powered Copilot without the need for the Bing mobile app.
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.
Hacker News
DECEMBER 25, 2023
For some, nothing that beats the sweet, creamy, slightly baked flavour of British chocolate, while others find it an affront to their tastebuds. But why does it taste that way at all?
Hacker News
DECEMBER 25, 2023
The source code for Grand Theft Auto 5 was reportedly leaked on Christmas Eve, a little over a year after the Lapsus$ threat actors hacked Rockstar games and stole corporate data. [.
Hacker News
DECEMBER 25, 2023
As the world grapples with the escalating impacts of climate change, our hopes rely on the innovation and implementation of technical solutions, particularly solar, as we scale toward annual deployments of 1 terawatt and beyond.
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Tang Tam joins a recent exodus of designers at Apple. Apple's designer exodus continues as product design chief Tang Tan is leaving the company and joining Jony Ive's design firm LoveFrom, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
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.
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