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How to Build a Multilingual Chatbot using Large Language Models?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction This article covers the creation of a multilingual chatbot for multilingual areas like India, utilizing large language models. The system improves consumer reach and personalization by using LLMs to translate questions between local languages and English. We go over the architecture, implementation specifics, advantages, and required actions.

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Stable Diffusion Project: Reviving Old Photos

Machine Learning Mastery

Photography has been around for more than a century. There are many old photos around, and probably your family has some, too. Limited by the camera and film of the time, you may have photos of low resolution, blurry, or with folds or scratches. Restoring these old photos and making them like new ones taken […] The post Stable Diffusion Project: Reviving Old Photos appeared first on MachineLearningMastery.com.

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Google Arts and Culture site I didn't know existed

Hacker News

Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Single Vs Multi-Task LLM Instruction Fine-Tuning

Towards AI

Author(s): Youssef Hosni Originally published on Towards AI. The comparative advantages and challenges of single-task versus multi-task fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) are explored. The discussion begins with single-task fine-tuning, highlighting its benefits and drawbacks, including the issue of catastrophic forgetting. It then transitions to an overview of multitasking fine-tuning, examining both its challenges and potential benefits.

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Provide Real Value in your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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Self-healing 'living skin' can make robots more humanlike

Hacker News

A combination of cultured cells and silicone could help robots appear more human in future thanks to realistic skin elasticity. And they can smile like us too.

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De-Mystifying Embeddings

Towards AI

Last Updated on June 30, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Shashank Bhushan Originally published on Towards AI. Understanding What Embeddings Are Embeddings, sometimes also referred to as Feature representation, are a widely used technique/concept in Neural Network based machine learning. They are usually taken from an intermediate or hidden layer of a Deep Neural Network.

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Auto-Streamlit Studio

Towards AI

Last Updated on June 30, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Stavros Theocharis Originally published on Towards AI. Introduction In the rapidly evolving landscape of web application development and artificial intelligence, having the right tools at your disposal can significantly streamline your workflow and boost productivity. Enter AutoStreamlit Studio, an intelligent assistant designed to simplify the creation of Streamlit applications.

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Boeing Agrees to Buy Spirit AeroSystems, a Longtime Supplier

Hacker News

The multibillion-dollar deal will reverse a decision the plane maker made two decades ago to outsource production of key parts to independent suppliers.

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Bridging the Implementation Gap of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Towards AI

Author(s): Eera Bhatt Originally published on Towards AI. Each year, we spend so much time and money developing new machine learning models, but most of them never get used in a practical setting. Sadly, this issue is even worse in the healthcare industry. Photo by Testalize.me on Unsplash A.I. in medicine. Because of COVID-19, a lot of us know about AI and are also familiar with its applications in medicine, but let’s summarize them for anyone who needs it.

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MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating AI

Hacker News

Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are overestimating generative AI's capabilities and it's time to put the brakes on the hype.

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Entity Resolution: Your Guide to Deciding Whether to Build It or Buy It

Adding high-quality entity resolution capabilities to enterprise applications, services, data fabrics or data pipelines can be daunting and expensive. Organizations often invest millions of dollars and years of effort to achieve subpar results. This guide will walk you through the requirements and challenges of implementing entity resolution. By the end, you'll understand what to look for, the most common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid, and your options.

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How I built my own custom 8-bit Quantizer from scratch: a step-by-step guide using PyTorch

Towards AI

Last Updated on June 30, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Milan Tamang Originally published on Towards AI. A step-by-step approach to build custom 8-bit quantizers from scratch using PyTorch and quantize facebook/opt-350m. Image by writer: MYQ (My Quantizer) quantizes the Facebook/opt-350 model and reduces the size by 54% Are you curious how popular quantizers such as BitsAndBytes, AWQ, and GGUF work under the hood?

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Can a law make social media less 'addictive'?

Hacker News

New York just passed a law on "addictive" social media feeds for children, but some researchers are questioning what that actually means.

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War Can’t Stop Israeli Startups Determined To Thrive In The Desert

Gil Press for Forbes

Israeli startups BionicHIVE and Carrar, managed by people that defy the odds, are based in the town of Sderot, located less than a mile from Gaza.

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DOJ to offer Boeing "sweetheart" plea deal in pursuit of criminal charges

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The US Justice Department is nearing an agreement with Boeing that would include a corporate monitor and a fine in exchange for a guilty plea to criminal charges — an offer the lawyer representing the families of victims of two fatal 737 Max crashes harshly rebuked as a “sweetheart deal.

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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.

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Commercial vs. Self-Hosted LLMs: A Cost Analysis & How to Choose the Right Ones for You

Iguazio

As can be inferred from their name, foundation models are the foundation upon which developers build AI applications for tasks like language translation, text summarization, sentiment analysis and more. Models such as OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini, Meta’s Llama and Anthropic’s Claude, are pre-trained on vast amounts of text data and have the capability to understand and generate human-like language.

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Walmart first major retailer in North America to deploy hydrogen semi truck

Hacker News

Walmart Canada continues its march towards a 100% alternative fuel fleet with the deployment of its first hydrogen fuel cell-powered Nikola Tre.

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Commercial vs. Self-Hosted LLMs: A Cost Analysis & How to Choose the Right Ones for You

Iguazio

As can be inferred from their name, foundation models are the foundation upon which developers build AI applications for tasks like language translation, text summarization, sentiment analysis and more. Models such as OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini, Meta’s Llama and Anthropic’s Claude, are pre-trained on vast amounts of text data and have the capability to understand and generate human-like language.

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Goldman Sachs says the return on investment for AI might be disappointing

Hacker News

Tech companies are spending big on AI, but so far have little to show for it. A Goldman Sachs report gives AI investments mixed reviews.

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The Project Clinic: Assessing Project Health, Planning, and Execution

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar

Picture your projects as patients, each with its own unique rhythm and pulse, thriving under your care 🥼 🩺 Step into the role of an innovative project doctor in our upcoming webinar! This session is your guide to evaluating the health of your projects through Waterfall and Agile practices like Scrum and Kanban. We’ll explore the vital signs of project success through the lens of the “iron triangle” metrics, using deliverables as tracers.

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WhatsApp Android beta reveals Llama 3 405B option

Hacker News

Discover what's new in the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.24.14.7 update: WhatsApp is working on a feature to choose the Meta AI Llama model!

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Unification in Elixir

Hacker News

Pattern matching is a pervasive and powerful tool in Elixir. This isn't too surprising if you know a little about the history of Elixir's parent language, Erlang. Erlang was originally inspired by and written in Prolog, a logic programming language where pattern matching has first-class support.

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Hoping for a Miracle to Save the Ogallala Aquifer? Prepare for the New Dust Bowl

Hacker News

No rainmaker, no aqueduct, and no prayer will save western Kansas from the depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer.

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Quaternions in Signal and Image Processing

Hacker News

Quaternions are still largely misunderstood and often considered an “exotic” signal representation without much practical utility despite the fact that they have been around the signal and image processing community for more than 30 years now. The main aim of this article is to counter this misconception and to demystify the use of quaternion algebra for solving problems in signal and image processing.

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Using Data & Analytics for Improving Healthcare Innovation and Outcomes

In the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, delivering data insights to end users or customers can be a significant challenge for product managers, product owners, and application team developers. The complexity of healthcare data, the need for real-time analytics, and the demand for user-friendly interfaces can often seem overwhelming. But with Logi Symphony, these challenges become opportunities.

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Chaos Engineering in Front End Development: Enhancing Application Resilience

Hacker News

In the dynamic world of web development, ensuring the resilience and reliability of frontend applications has become increasingly critical. As user expectations soar and application complexity grows, developers must adopt robust strategies to maintain high-quality, fault-tolerant systems. Enter Chaos Engineering – a discipline traditionally associated with backend systems and infrastructure, now making significant inroads into frontend development.

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Weavers and Concluders: Two communication styles (2021)

Hacker News

People expect that we all have the same communication instincts, but there are at least two communication styles that, without knowledge of them, will result in a lifetime of missed connections.

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A Large-Scale Structured Database of a Century of Historical News

Hacker News

In the U.S. historically, local newspapers drew their content largely from newswires like the Associated Press. Historians argue that newswires played a pivotal role in creating a national identity and shared understanding of the world, but there is no comprehensive archive of the content sent over newswires. We reconstruct such an archive by applying a customized deep learning pipeline to hundreds of terabytes of raw image scans from thousands of local newspapers.

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Userland rootkits are lame (2022)

Hacker News

Many people may not know this, but fifteen…twenty years ago I knew a thing or two about rootkit development. I wrote detection software for a few years as well. Back then modifying the shared libraries on the disk was also vector for userland rootkits.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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Why monotonous repetition is unsatisfying

Hacker News

Human beings prefer ordered complexity and not randomness in their environment, a result of our perceptual system evolving to interpret natural forms. We also recognize monotonously repeating forms as unnatural. Although widespread in today’s built environment, such forms generate reactions ranging from boredom to unease. Christopher Alexander has introduced rules for generating forms adapted to natural geometries, which show structured variation with multiple symmetries in a hierarchy of scales

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The Mysterious, Deep-Dwelling Microbes That Sculpt Our Planet

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Earth’s crust teems with subterranean life that we are only now beginning to understand.

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Show HN: Drop-In SQS Replacement Based on SQLite

Hacker News

A drop-in replacement for SQS designed for great developer experience and efficiency. - GitHub - poundifdef/SmoothMQ: A drop-in replacement for SQS designed for great developer experience and efficiency.

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Multivitamin does not improve longevity

Hacker News

This cohort study examines the association of multivitamin use with mortality risk in 3 large, geographically diverse cohorts of generally healthy US adults.

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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.