Machine Learning Research at Apple

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Machine Translation (MT) enables people to connect with others and engage with content across language barriers. Grammatical gender presents a difficult challenge for these systems, as some languages require specificity for terms that can be ambiguous or neutral in other languages. For example, when translating the English word "nurse" into Spanish, one must decide whether the feminine "enfermera" or the masculine "enfermero" is appropriate.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Introduction Agentic AI is an exciting concept! It’s all about creating AI that can work on its own, without us constantly telling it what to do. Think of it like having a super-smart assistant; it doesn’t just sit there waiting for orders, but predicts what you need and gets it done. This idea is getting […] The post What do Top Leaders have to Say About Agentic AI?

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Machine Learning Research at Apple

OCTOBER 6, 2024

We present a foundation model for zero-shot metric monocular depth estimation. Our model, Depth Pro, synthesizes high-resolution depth maps with unparalleled sharpness and high-frequency details. The predictions are metric, with absolute scale, without relying on the availability of metadata such as camera intrinsics. And the model is fast, producing a 2.25-megapixel depth map in 0.3 seconds on a standard GPU.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

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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?

Pickl AI

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Summary: This blog explores the key differences between ETL and ELT, detailing their processes, advantages, and disadvantages. Understanding these methods helps organizations optimize their data workflows for better decision-making. Introduction In today’s data-driven world, efficient data processing is crucial for informed decision-making and business growth.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Highly dependent on imported fossil fuels, soon to shutter its last nuclear plant, and slow to build out renewables, the world’s largest producer of advanced computer chips is heading toward an energy crunch.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Researchers have developed a hybrid technology that would combine Wi-Fi with the Long Range (LoRa) networking protocol, yielding a new long-distance wireless concept called WiLo. The international research team has developed their proposed WiLo tech to be used on existing Wi-Fi and LoRa hardware.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

How a modern AVX instruction shares a similar design with a 1985 blitter chip, by Arnaud Carré

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Facebook parent company Meta last week added new AI features to its camera-equipped Ray-Ban Meta Glasses. You can use the camera feature on the.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

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Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

An alleged unboxing video for an unannounced 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M4 chip was uploaded to YouTube today by Russian channel Wylsacom. The.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Engineer Wenting Zhang endeavored to build his own full-frame camera, spending years creating the Sitina S1 and open-sourcing the entire project. Find out what it takes to design and build a digital camera from the ground up.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

A new way of thinking about the history of the Earth.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Download the WiFi4EU app.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

When children turn 13, they age out of the data protections provided by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Then, they become targets for data collection from data brokers that collect their information from social media apps, shopping history, location tracking services, and more.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Introduction When modeling a Postgres database, you probably don’t give much thought to the order of columns in your tables. After all, it seems like the kind of thing that wouldn’t affect storage or performance. But what if I told you that simply reordering your columns could reduce the size of your tables and indexes by 20%? This isn’t some obscure database trick — it’s a direct result of how Postgres aligns data on disk.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Can you still make a fortune off a domain name?

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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

A new comprehensive review of the data suggests the "benefits of fluoridating water have declined in recent decades.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Sometimes, a seemingly simple and obvious solution can lead to a series of problems later on. This is especially true when adding retries.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Is server-side JavaScript just PHP all over again? Not so fast! Dive into the evolution of web development from PHP to modern full-stack JavaScript frameworks. Discover why this isn't a step backward but a leap forward in building powerful, efficient web applications.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

A marine biologist and photographer gets up close and personal with mysterious pygmy seahorses.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Gustav Klimt is world-renowned for his glittering gold canvases. But what inspired the Austrian artist's fascination with the color?

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

The XFCE developers are aiming to release the XFCE version 4.20 with the introduction of preliminary Wayland support in December 2024.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Anyone who has implemented a simple HTTP server can tell you that it is a really simple protocol. Basically, it’s a text file that has some specific rules to make parsing it easier. All HTTP requests look something like this: 1 GET /path HTTP/1.1rn Host: aarol.devrn Accept-Language: en,fi-FIrn Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflatern rn The first line is the “request line”, and it has the requested method, path and HTTP version.

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Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Sometimes a single patient alters a career, as with Chan’s Shchetinina.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Anthropology has been bad at capturing the living conditions of women. A kidnapped woman who returned to civilization was the exception.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Relatively few people are lefties, and it’s a puzzle why.

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