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What is bug surface area?

What is bug surface area?

One of the tricky problems while building software is finding the constant balance between releasing new features and dealing with technical debt. One common form of technical debt is bug surface area. Simply put, it's the phenomena where as you develop new features the number of bugs increases at a much faster rate. Why should you care? A larger bug surface area can lead to increased maintenance costs, reduced user satisfaction, and longer development cycles. These problems happen because in any non-trivial project features interact with each other, which creates more opportunities for bugs to creep in. Moreover, if new…
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UK regulator to examine Amazon investment in AI startup Anthropic

Amazon’s $4bn investment into US artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is to be examined in the latest investigation into technology tie-ups by the UK’s competition watchdog.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Thursday that it was launching a preliminary investigation into the deal, before deciding whether to refer it for an in-depth review.The deal, announced in March, included a $4bn (£3.16bn) investment in Anthropic from Amazon, and a commitment from Anthropic to use Amazon Web Services “as its primary cloud provider for mission critical workloads, including safety research and future foundation model development”.The regulator said it was “considering whether it…
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5 things you should lie about in interviews, according to a recruiting expert

5 things you should lie about in interviews, according to a recruiting expert

Joel Lalgee spent around a decade working as a recruiter at various agencies until about two years ago.Now, the 36-year-old shares job market insights and recruiter tips on his social media accounts and podcast. He recently made a video about five things candidates should lie about during interviews."The job market is absolutely brutal, and it's extremely competitive," Lalgee said in the video. "So when it comes to interviews, you want to answer and say the right things."Lalgee told Business Insider he doesn't advocate for lying about skills or experience. But when it comes to the interview process, candidates need to…
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Disrupting one of the world’s dirtiest industries: Meet the 3D loom

Disrupting one of the world’s dirtiest industries: Meet the 3D loom

Could a 3D robotic loom be the answer to making fast fashion faster and more sustainable? Unspun’s patented loom (so proprietary that we had to blur it for the video) can create clothing that fits you seamlessly every time, with just a scan of your phone, and far less waste than other clothing production methods.  Unspun is pioneering a different method of apparel production out of Oakland, California. By utilizing three-dimensional weaving, the start-up is building garments from the ground up, perfectly customized for the wearer’s dimensions. So, how could this technology reform one of the world’s dirtiest industries? Follow…
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Nvidia Has Lost $900 Billion Even as AI Spending Plans Ramp Up

Nvidia Has Lost $900 Billion Even as AI Spending Plans Ramp Up

On the surface, Nvidia Corp.’s $900 billion selloff since its June record would suggest the artificial intelligence spending boom that propelled it there is cooling. But the undercurrents tell a far less dire story.Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. — together accounting for more than 40% of Nvidia’s revenue — have all said they will keep investing billions into AI infrastructure. Meanwhile, Super Micro Computer Inc. — which makes data center servers used in AI — told investors it expects to generate up to $30 billion in sales over the next year, blowing away analyst expectations.…
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Probabilistic Scores of Classifiers, Calibration is not Enough

Probabilistic Scores of Classifiers, Calibration is not Enough

arXiv:2408.03421v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In binary classification tasks, accurate representation of probabilistic predictions is essential for various real-world applications such as predicting payment defaults or assessing medical risks. The model must then be well-calibrated to ensure alignment between predicted probabilities and actual outcomes. However, when score heterogeneity deviates from the underlying data probability distribution, traditional calibration metrics lose reliability, failing to align score distribution with actual probabilities. In this study, we highlight approaches that prioritize optimizing the alignment between predicted scores and true probability distributions over minimizing traditional performance or calibration metrics. When employing tree-based models such as Random…
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e-Health CSIRO at RRG24: Entropy-Augmented Self-Critical Sequence Training for Radiology Report Generation

e-Health CSIRO at RRG24: Entropy-Augmented Self-Critical Sequence Training for Radiology Report Generation

arXiv:2408.03500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Shared Task on Large-Scale Radiology Report Generation (RRG24) aims to expedite the development of assistive systems for interpreting and reporting on chest X-ray (CXR) images. This task challenges participants to develop models that generate the findings and impression sections of radiology reports from CXRs from a patient's study, using five different datasets. This paper outlines the e-Health CSIRO team's approach, which achieved multiple first-place finishes in RRG24. The core novelty of our approach lies in the addition of entropy regularisation to self-critical sequence training, to maintain a higher entropy in the token distribution. This…
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Google and Meta reportedly teamed up for ads targeting young teens

Google and Meta reportedly teamed up for ads targeting young teens

Google worked with Meta to roll out ads that targeted young teens even if it's against the former's rules, according to the Financial Times. Based on the documents seen by the publication, Google worked on a marketing project designed to advertise Instagram to YouTube users within the 13- to 17-year-old age range. Google had blocked age-based ad targeting for users under 18 years ago, but the company reportedly found and used a loophole.Since they couldn't go for the demographic they wanted to reach, they instead targeted a group of users Google had labeled as "unknown." Google's staff proposed the group…
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Read the pitch decks from media and entertainment startups that have raised millions to disrupt Hollywood

Read the pitch decks from media and entertainment startups that have raised millions to disrupt Hollywood

Tech is disrupting all areas of media and entertainment, and investors are rushing to cash in. Startups are attracting millions in investments to change how content is made, distributed, and more. Here are 24 pitch decks that startups used to fundraise for pre-seed and Series A rounds and beyond. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. download the app By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom…
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Empirical Analysis of Large Vision-Language Models against Goal Hijacking via Visual Prompt Injection

Empirical Analysis of Large Vision-Language Models against Goal Hijacking via Visual Prompt Injection

arXiv:2408.03554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We explore visual prompt injection (VPI) that maliciously exploits the ability of large vision-language models (LVLMs) to follow instructions drawn onto the input image. We propose a new VPI method, "goal hijacking via visual prompt injection" (GHVPI), that swaps the execution task of LVLMs from an original task to an alternative task designated by an attacker. The quantitative analysis indicates that GPT-4V is vulnerable to the GHVPI and demonstrates a notable attack success rate of 15.8%, which is an unignorable security risk. Our analysis also shows that successful GHVPI requires high character recognition capability and…
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