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14 Powerful Techniques Defining the Evolution of Embedding

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You know how, back in the day, we used simple wordcount tricks to represent text? Well, things have come a long way since then. Now, when we talk about the evolution of embeddings, we mean numerical snapshots that capture not just which words appear but what they really mean, how they relate to each other […] The post 14 Powerful Techniques Defining the Evolution of Embedding appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Apple Machine Learning Research at ICLR 2025

Machine Learning Research at Apple

Apple researchers are advancing machine learning (ML) and AI through fundamental research that improves the worlds understanding of this technology and helps to redefine what is possible with it. To support the broader research community and help accelerate progress in this field, we share much of our research through publications, open source resources, and engagement at conferences.

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I Tried to Build Image Captioning App With OpenAI Codex CLI

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OpenAI Codex CLI is an opensource command-line tool that brings the power of OpenAIs latest reasoning models directly to your terminal. Think of it as a lightweight AI coding assistant that lives in your shell: it can read your code, modify files, and even execute commands in your project environment. This means you can ask […] The post I Tried to Build Image Captioning App With OpenAI Codex CLI appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Pushing the Limits of LLM Quantization via the Linearity Theorem

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Quantizing large language models has become a standard way to reduce their memory and computational costs. Typically, existing methods focus on breaking down the problem into individual layer-wise sub-problems, and minimizing per-layer error, measured via various metrics. Yet, this approach currently lacks theoretical justification and the metrics employed may be sub-optimal.

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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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o3 vs o4-mini vs Gemini 2.5 pro: The Ultimate Reasoning Battle

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AI models keep getting smarter, but which one truly reasons under pressure? In this blog, we put o3, o4-mini, and Gemini 2.5 Pro through a series of intense challenges: physics puzzles, math problems, coding tasks, and real-world IQ tests. No hand-holding, no easy winsjust a raw test of thinking power. Well break down how each […] The post o3 vs o4-mini vs Gemini 2.5 pro: The Ultimate Reasoning Battle appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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New Proof Settles Decades-Old Bet About Connected Networks

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According to mathematical legend, Peter Sarnak and Noga Alon made a bet about optimal graphs in the late 1980s. Theyve now both been proved wrong.

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Mistaking Mary Magdalene

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The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more imaginative approaches to faith.

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Your politeness could be costly for OpenAI

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I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying please and thank you to their models.

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The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users' Emotional State

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Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

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The AI-powered robot army that packs your groceries in minutes

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Imagine a grocery store where your entire order is picked, packed and ready for delivery in just five minutes without a single human hand touching your food.

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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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Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after

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New models and new thresholds

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What's next in artificial intelligence according to a tech visionary who may hold the cards to our future

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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, one of the only people in the world with a Nobel Prize for work on artificial intelligence, shares what's next for the world of AI.

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The Movie Mistake Mystery from "Revenge of the Sith"

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ChatGPT is now a potent tool for finding the locations of photos, raising doxxing concerns

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Some are concerned about the privacy implications and the potential for doxing.

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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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From A to B: Algorithms That Power Google Maps Navigation

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Last Updated on April 21, 2025 by Editorial Team Author(s): Atharva Deshmukh Originally published on Towards AI. Imagine planning a trip across town or to a completely different city. You open Google Maps, type in your destination, and within seconds, it shows you the quickest route complete with estimated arrival time, traffic updates, alternative paths, and even public transport options.

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Community Colleges Hit By Wave of ‘Bot’ Students Using AI to Cheat Student Aid

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Fake students using AI-generated coursework swindled roughly $6.5 million in student aid from September 2021 through December 2023, according to California state statistics.

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Why on Earth is OpenAI buying Windsurf?

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$3 billion seems high to me. Google is on a warpath. And Apple shoots itself in the foot, twice.

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Vibe Coding: The Future of Programming

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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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Signal Carnival

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ChatGPT Creeps People Out by Calling Them by Name Without Being Asked

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The quirk only appears to impact certain models of ChatGPT, like OpenAI o3, that show their work when answering questions.

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Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs

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Explore Gemma 3 models now offering state-of-the-art AI performance on consumer GPUs with new int4 quantized versions optimized with Quantization Aware Training (QAT).

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AI might be coming for your job, but it can't take your creativity

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The pitfalls of designing with AI. AI is here, its loud, and its got Opinions on your workflow.

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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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I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a LICENSE to use their camera [video]

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Microsoft's BitNet shows what AI can do with just 400MB and no GPU

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The BitNet b1.58 2B4T model was developed by Microsoft's General Artificial Intelligence group and contains two billion parameters internal values that enable the model to understand and generate language. To compensate for its low-precision weights, the model was trained on a massive dataset of four trillion tokens, roughly equivalent.

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Physicists Designed a Quantum Rubik's Cube and Found the Best Way to Solve It

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Quantum physics already feels like a puzzle, but now scientists have made it more literal.

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Why writing with ChatGPT actually makes my life harder

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I remember when ChatGPT first appeared, and the first thing everyone started saying was Writers are done for.

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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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Demystifying decorators: They don't need to be cryptic

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"What on Earth is going on with decorators?" Is this you? They're not as hard as you think.

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Expert reveals the phones AI fans need to push Gemini & ChatGPT to the limit

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One of the most obvious and honestly, the dullest trends within the smartphone industry over the past couple of years has been the incessant talk

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'Nobody has done this before': Britain's beloved steam trains trial technology

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In-cab digital signalling was tested last week as part of a project to secure the future of main-line locomotives

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Revisiting The Humanities In The Age Of AI

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In some ways, a lot of people see it as a zero-sum game as computation and technical skills and STEM eclipsing those old disciplines of art, and culture, and language. Theres no doubt were in a new world where technicality is playing a larger role.

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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?