APRIL 18, 2025
The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. Members pay annual dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership opportunities, events and more. It’s been five years since the intense early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and the first round of lockdowns that mandated work-from-home for companies around the world.
Machine Learning Mastery
APRIL 18, 2025
This post is divided into three parts; they are: Building a Semantic Search Engine Document Clustering Document Classification If you want to find a specific document within a collection, you might use a simple keyword search.
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APRIL 18, 2025
Inside a secretive lab in Santa Barbara, California, scientists at Alphabet are working on one of the company's most ambitious bets yet. They're attempting to develop the world's most advanced quantum computers. Last year, Google unveiled a breakthrough chip called Willow, which it says can solve a problem unimaginably faster than a classical computer.
Towards AI
APRIL 18, 2025
Author(s): Youssef Hosni Originally published on Towards AI. Docker containers offer significant advantages for machine learning by ensuring consistent, portable, and reproducible environments across different systems. By encapsulating all dependencies, libraries, and configurations in a container, Docker eliminates compatibility issues and the it works on my machine problem.
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.
Hacker News
APRIL 18, 2025
A system design is given for a computer capable of efficient execution of APL source statements and programs. The system is organized in a new type computer architecture based upon the storage of matrices and vectors in cellular logic arrays. Almost all of the scalar, mixed, and composite fixed point APL operations are implemented on the machine by algorithms given in this paper.
APRIL 18, 2025
Scammers are using artificial intelligence to alter their appearance and build fake profiles to apply for remote job postings, research
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APRIL 18, 2025
Not long ago, few people in China had heard of Mililing, a sleepy village nestled in a remote corner of southern Guangdong province.
Hacker News
APRIL 18, 2025
Parkinson’s disease is caused by the loss of dopamine neurons, causing motor symptoms. Initial cell therapies using fetal tissues showed promise but had complications and ethical concerns1–5. Pluripotent stem (PS) cells emerged as a promising alternative for developing safe and effective treatments6. In this phase I/II trial at Kyoto University Hospital, seven patients (ages 50–69) received bilateral transplantation of dopaminergic progenitors derived from induced PS (iPS) cell
APRIL 18, 2025
That could mean intelligence is a fundamental property that structures like the brain interact with. The universe has no brain.
Hacker News
APRIL 18, 2025
Judge says tower dumps violate the 4th amendment, but will let the cops do it this one time, as a treat.
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.
APRIL 18, 2025
Future AI might not need supercomputers thanks to models like BitNet b1.58 2B4T.
Hacker News
APRIL 18, 2025
There are so many factors that can influence how we perceive others, which in turn can determine the people we choose as platonic friends or romantic mates. We certainly make snap judgments based on physical appearance, but scent can have a powerful influence, too. According to a new paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, two heterosexual women meeting for the first time rely partly on scent to judge whether they want to be friends with each other, deciding within minutespractically
APRIL 18, 2025
Success demands more success. Earlier this week, The Verge reported that OpenAI is developing its own social network to compete with Meta and X. The product may never see the light of day, but the idea has a definite logic to it.
Hacker News
APRIL 18, 2025
Chris Krebs affirmed the 2020 election was secure. Now he's the target of an Executive Orderand the cybersecurity industrys silence is enabling a dangerous precedent.
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
APRIL 18, 2025
ChatGPT, OpenAIs text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users.
Hacker News
APRIL 18, 2025
Defold is a free and open game engine used for development of console, desktop, mobile and web games.
APRIL 18, 2025
ChatGPT-generated action figures and Studio Ghibli-inspired illustrations have dominated the internet in recent weeks, reigniting artists' concerns about their livelihoods. Joy Cardao said she used to get commissioned almost every week to create anime-inspired art.
Hacker News
APRIL 18, 2025
Sonic Heritage is a global tour to examine the role sound plays in the UNESCO-listed spaces deemed the worlds most culturally significant.
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.
APRIL 18, 2025
A new study has used machine learning to identify the key predictors of physical activity adherence, analyzing data from nearly 12,000 individuals.
Hacker News
APRIL 18, 2025
According to reports, Synology plans to restrict features to its own branded hard drives with the new 2025 Plus models.
APRIL 18, 2025
The real value of AI isn't in what you ask it's in how you shape the conversation. Mastering prompt interactions means better content, sharper thinking and fewer generic outputs. By now, most marketers have experimented with ChatGPT.
Hacker News
APRIL 18, 2025
In January 2021, Joshua Rozells ventured out into the Pinnacles Desert in Western Australia, intending to photograph a star trail. But after shooting for more than three hours and reviewing his images, he realized that the light patterns he captured weren’t what he had hoped for. “There were satellite trails visible in almost every single photo,” he wrote on Instagram. “Instead of trying to get rid of them for a star trail, I decided to put the satellite trails together i
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
APRIL 18, 2025
The Plaud NotePin is a fantastic AI device for those looking to record and transcribe in-person meetings, classes and brainstorming sessions. Here's how it has helped me.
Hacker News
APRIL 18, 2025
Exclusive: 'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge
APRIL 18, 2025
OpenAI has seen an exponential increase in signups over the last few weeks as many as 1 million per hour thanks to ChatGPTs new in-chat
Hacker News
APRIL 18, 2025
A new challenge to a 280-year-old unsolved mathematical problem
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.
APRIL 18, 2025
A mistranslated term and a scanning glitch birthed the bizarre phrase vegetative electron microscopy
Hacker News
APRIL 18, 2025
Official code repo for the O'Reilly Book - "Hands-On Large Language Models" - HandsOnLLM/Hands-On-Large-Language-Models
APRIL 18, 2025
You self-custody your bitcoin. Why not control your AI agent too? David Minarsch says we shouldnt be trusting important tasks to rental agents.
Hacker News
APRIL 18, 2025
Students in Lamar can no longer learn about the state of Virginia on their online research database due to the ban
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?
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