Sat.Apr 19, 2025

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Stop Blaming the LLM-as-Judge; Fix Your Process Instead

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Applying the scientific method, building via eval-driven development, and monitoring AI output.

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Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds data loss and performance issues

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A year-two update on the How long can SSDs store data unpowered video series is another reminder about the importance of regular backups.

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An AI Customer Service Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess

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When an AI model for code-editing company Cursor hallucinated a new rule, users revolted.

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Scientists claim to have found colour no one has seen before

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Contested discovery achieved by experiment firing laser pulses into eyes, stimulating retina cells

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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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Stop sorting your garbage with this new technology

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Ever wondered what happens to the recyclables you carefully sort and place in your bin? For years, recycling has been a crucial part of our efforts to reduce waste and protect the environment. However, the recycling industry has faced significant challenges, from rising costs to labor shortages.

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Packing Input Frame Context in Next-Frame Prediction Models for Video Generation

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Librarians Are Dangerous

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AI paper by 4 Chinese paved way for ChatGPT, AlphaGo. It’s set for greater glory by 2030

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The most-cited scientific paper of the 21st century was written by four Chinese researchers in 2016, and it is on track to become the most-cited

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Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work

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A field guide to responsible AI-assisted development

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The Rise And Rise Of Reinforcement Learning: AI’s Quiet Revolution

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A quiet revolution is reshaping artificial intelligence, and its not the flashy one grabbing headlines. While chatbots and image generators dazzle, reinforcement learning, a method refined in academia over the past two decades, is powering the next generation of AI breakthroughs.

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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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The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2

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I guess you have all heard about the growing problem of AI companies trying to aggressively collect whatever data they can get their hands on to train their models. This has caused an explosive surge in web crawlers relentlessly hitting servers big and small. But who runs these crawlers? Turns out it could be you!

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ChatGPT can remember more about you than ever before – should you be worried?

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ChatGPTs memory used to be simple. You told it what to remember, and it listened.

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A Map of British Dialects

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This map took me a long time to make, and is very detailed, but will always be incomplete and inaccurate due to the nature of language. Why this map is so detailed The diversity of English dialects in the United Kingdom is enormous.

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AI-generated videos now possible with gaming GPUs with just 6GB of VRAM

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FramePack allows you to generate a one-minute clip at 30 FPS using a 13-billion parameter model on a 6GB graphics card.

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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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A unique sound alleviates motion sickness

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A research group led by Takumi Kagawa and Masashi Kato at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine has discovered t.

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I write about AI for a living — here's my top 5 ChatGPT prompt tips

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While using tools like ChatGPT doesnt involve rocket science, it does make you an engineer of sorts.

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Solidjs: Simple and performant reactivity for building user interfaces

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Solid is a purely reactive library. It was designed from the ground up with a reactive core. It's influenced by reactive principles developed by previous libraries.

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OpenAI CEO: Being courteous to ChatGPT is an expensive waste

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Sam Altman reveals that using polite language with chatbots like ChatGPT wastes millions of dollars in electricity and computing resources, urging a

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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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Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars

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Whether anything ever lived on Mars is unknown. And the present environment, with harsh temperatures, intense radiation, and a sparse atmosphere, isnt exactly propitious for life. Despite the red planets brutality, lichens that inhabit some of the harshest environments on Earth could possibly survive there. Lichens are symbionts, or two organisms that are in a cooperative relationship.

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AI stuns researchers by rewriting its own code to overcome limitations

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In an unprecedented development that challenges our understanding of artificial intelligence boundaries, researchers at Sakana AI have witnessed their

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Can we still recover the right to be left alone?

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The political theorist Lowry Pressly thinks weve abandoned a more creative and humanist definition of the concept.

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How Meta’s AI pirates hijacked my voice as a writer

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How did someone like me, a writer of one critically acclaimed memoir, get her voice hijacked by Mark Zuckerbergs artificial intelligence

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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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The Last of Their Kind

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Are efforts to resurrect the northern white rhino more technological hubris than genuine conservation?

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You and Your Kids Can Develop Future-Proof Tech Skills for Only $56

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Develop future-proof tech skills even if you have no previous tech experience, such as data storytelling, Python, ChatGTP, Internet of Things and more. Data storytelling will account for 75% of all data consumed by 2025, according to research and advisory firm Gartner.

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Living with Lab Mice

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A philosopher reflects on their unexpected roommates

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I tested ChatGPT vs Midjourney V7 with 7 AI image prompts — it wasn’t even close

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Both Midjourney and ChatGPT have recently released new versions of their AI image generators.

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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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Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

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Famed AI researcher launches controversial startup to replace all human workers everywhere

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Every now and then, a Silicon Valley startup launches with such an absurdly described mission that its difficult to discern if the startup is for real or just satire.

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Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale

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Bill Gates reveals how AI will solve issues in two key professions after revealing the only three jobs he thinks will survive

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has revealed that the long-standing shortage of doctors and teachers might soon be over as AI would come in to support.

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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?