Sun.Apr 06, 2025

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Apple Workshop on Natural Language Understanding 2024

Machine Learning Research at Apple

Progress in natural language processing enables more intuitive ways of interacting with technology. For example, many of Apples products and services, including Siri and search, use natural language understanding and generation to enable a fluent and seamless interface experience for users.

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Announcing the APJ Databricks Smart Business Insights Challenge: Empowering Data-Driven Decision Making with AI and BI

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At Databricks, we believe the future of business intelligence is powered by AI. Thats why were thrilled to announce the Databricks Smart Business Insights Challenge.

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Decomposing the effect of normal aging and Alzheimer’s disease in brain morphological changes via learned aging templates

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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) subjects usually show more profound morphological changes with time compared to cognitively normal (CN) individuals. These changes are the combination of two major biological processes: normal aging and AD pathology. Investigating normal aging and residual morphological changes separately can increase our understanding of the disease.

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Capital Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians

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Tracking Capitol Hill politicians trades can provide valuable insights for your investment research. Learn about the STOCK ACT and discover our free solution to track US politician trades.

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

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.

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China has spent billions of dollars building far too many data centers for AI and compute - could it lead to a huge market crash?

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Chinas AI infrastructure boom is faltering, as according to a report in MIT Technology Review, the country built hundreds of data centers to support

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'Minecraft Movie' Leaks Online: Full Unfinished Version Shared

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An unfinished version of 'A Minecraft Movie,' a video game adaptation with Jack Black and Jason Momoa, leaked online featuring uncompleted effects.

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SF Mayor Lurie to tech CEOs: 'How can we get you back?'

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San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie wants to bring his city back to its glory days.

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World’s first photon-based NPU is 50x faster and uses 30x less power

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Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to shape your daily life, from online shopping to medical research.

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Data centers contain 90% crap data

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Meta Announces Release of New Llama 4 AI Models

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

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.

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Neutron Stars Hint at Another Dimension

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Are the mysterious stars clues to one of the greatest mysteries in the universe?

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Back to the Future was released 40 years ago — here's all the AI they predicted that we have (and what they missed)

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In 1985, Back to the Future introduced audiences to a vision of 2015 filled with flying cars, hoverboards, and self-lacing shoes.

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Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia

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On many Unix-based operating systems, rsync is a command line tool for transferring and synchronizing files on a computer, either between storage attached directly to the computer or between another computer located elsewhere on a network.

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Generative AI Is Freely Giving Mental Health Advice For DSM-5 Mental Disorders

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In todays column, I am continuing my ongoing series about the impact of generative AI in the health and medical realm.

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

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

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Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted

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I hope the media will look into this

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Chat-GPT Danger: 5 Things You Should Never Tell The AI Bot

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ChatGPT has changed the way many of us work and live our day-to-day lives. According to recent stats, over 100 million of us use it every day to process over one billion queries.

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Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other

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Among motorcyclists, there is a persistent rumor that Teslas are dangerous to ride around in traffic. Whether its their silent electric drivetrain, extreme acceleration, or self-driving technology supposedly failing to see motorcycles, every biker seems to know someone whos had a close call with a Tesla.

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60 Minutes visits DeepMind, Google's artificial intelligence laboratory

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Next week, 60 Minutes returns to DeepMind, Google's laboratory for artificial intelligence, where robots are learning to reason.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

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.

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Writing C for Curl

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It is a somewhat common question to me: how do we write C in curl to make it safe and secure for billions of installations? Some precautions we take and decisions we make. There is no silver bullet, just guidelines.

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Freepik Review: A Swiss Army Knife of the Best AI Art Tools—For Cheap

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From stock image provider to full AI creative suite, Freepik has quietly become one of the most versatile platforms for digital creators.

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How to Make Superbabies

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EDIT: Read a summary of this post on Twitter

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DeepSeek readies the next AI disruption with self-improving models

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The folks over at buzzy Chinese AI lab, DeepSeek, are working on a new series of AI models called DeepSeek-GRM that employ a novel self-improving approach.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

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

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Glamorous Toolkit

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Glamorous Toolkit is the Moldable Development Environment.

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Understanding Kernel Methods in Machine Learning Simply

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Summary: Kernel methods in machine learning solve complex data problems using smart functions like the kernel trick. These methods boost model performance without heavy computations. They are widely used in image processing, finance, and bioinformatics. Learn how they work and how to apply them in real-world projects through Pickl.AIs data science courses.

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MonkeysPaw – a prompt-driven web framework in Ruby

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Be careful what you wish for.

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Microsoft is offering free AI skills training for everyone - how to sign up

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Microsoft's 50-day AI Skills Fest is open to beginners and pros. Register now for free access to AI lessons and help Microsoft win a Guinness World Record (seriously).

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

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.

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Microcomputers – The First Wave: Responding to Altair

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[This post is part of A Bicycle for the Mind. The complete series can be foundhere.] Don Tarbell: A Life in Personal Computing In August 1968, Stephen Gray, sole proprietor of the Amateur Computer Society (ACS), published a letter in the society newsletter from an enthusiast in Huntsville, Alabama named Don Tarbell.

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Deep Learning vs. Neural Networks: A Detailed Comparison

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Summary: Deep Learning vs Neural Network is a common comparison in the field of artificial intelligence, as the two terms are often used interchangeably. However, they differ in complexity and application. Neural Networks are foundational structures, while Deep Learning involves complex, layered networks like CNNs and RNNs, enabling advanced AI capabilities such as image recognition and natural language processing.

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Microsoft's Quake 2 AI experiment sparks negative reactions

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The Xbox firm has launched a version of Quake powered by generative AI…

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Reasoning vs. Non-Reasoning AI Models: What's the Difference?

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Standard AI models deliver pattern-matched responses, delivering accurate but limited answers to your questions.

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

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?