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Crunchbase Monthly Recap May 2024: AI Leads Alongside An Uptick In Billion-Dollar Rounds

Crunchbase Monthly Recap May 2024: AI Leads Alongside An Uptick In Billion-Dollar Rounds

Venture funding rebounded in May to reach $31 billion, the highest monthly tally so far this year. Investment was up over 40% month over month and 29% year over year, with AI leading as the sector that raised the most funding. A spate of billion-dollar fundings contributed to the total, with $11 billion — over a third of capital raised last month — invested in six companies in rounds at $1 billion or more. This was the highest count of billion-dollar fundings in a single month since the venture market slowdown began in 2022. Elon Musk’s xAI raised the largest…
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Ex-Meta engineer sues company, claiming he was fired over handling of Palestine content

Ex-Meta engineer sues company, claiming he was fired over handling of Palestine content

Ferras Hamad, who used to be an engineer working with Meta's machine learning team, has accused the company of firing him over his handling of Palestine-related Instagram posts in a lawsuit. According to Reuters, he is accusing the company of discrimination, wrongful termination and showing a pattern of bias against Palestinians. Hamad said he noted procedural irregularities on how the company handled restrictions on content from Palestinian Instagram personalities, which prevented them from appearing in feeds and searches. One particular case that involved a short video showing a destroyed building in Gaza seemingly led to his dismissal in February.Hamad discovered…
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CoLa-DCE — Concept-guided Latent Diffusion Counterfactual Explanations

CoLa-DCE — Concept-guided Latent Diffusion Counterfactual Explanations

arXiv:2406.01649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in generative AI have introduced novel prospects and practical implementations. Especially diffusion models show their strength in generating diverse and, at the same time, realistic features, positioning them well for generating counterfactual explanations for computer vision models. Answering "what if" questions of what needs to change to make an image classifier change its prediction, counterfactual explanations align well with human understanding and consequently help in making model behavior more comprehensible. Current methods succeed in generating authentic counterfactuals, but lack transparency as feature changes are not directly perceivable. To address this limitation, we introduce…
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Release Notes for Deephaven versions 0.16 & 0.17 | Deephaven

Release Notes for Deephaven versions 0.16 & 0.17 | Deephaven

Contributors at Deephaven are focused on doing everything possible to make its engine and APIs easy to use. We want Deephaven to be deployable via various patterns, as it is an empowering solution for a large range of data-driven applications and analytical experiences.The complete 0.16.0 and 0.17.0 release notes can be found on GitHub.Simplified Docker​Deephaven has been reorganized to reduce complexity. Previously, the services itemized below each respectively had their own image. They’ve now been centralized in a single container. In addition to serving the deephaven-core engine, this single image is able to:serve the Web-UI directly,provide a proxy for gRPC-web,…
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An approximation-based approach versus an AI one for the study of CT images of abdominal aorta aneurysms

An approximation-based approach versus an AI one for the study of CT images of abdominal aorta aneurysms

[Submitted on 3 Jun 2024] View a PDF of the paper titled An approximation-based approach versus an AI one for the study of CT images of abdominal aorta aneurysms, by Lucrezia Rinelli and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:This study evaluates two approaches applied to computed tomography (CT) images of patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm: one deterministic, based on tools of Approximation Theory, and one based on Artificial Intelligence. Both aim to segment the basal CT images to extract the patent area of the aortic vessel, in order to propose an alternative to nephrotoxic contrast agents for diagnosing…
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Niobuim Raises $5.5 Million, Tapes Out FHE Chip – EE Times

Niobuim Raises $5.5 Million, Tapes Out FHE Chip – EE Times

//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) accelerator startup Niobium has taped out its first chip and raised $5.5 million in seed funding. Niobium’s initial chip will accelerate FHE by a factor of 1,000-5,000 versus standard CPUs, Niobium CEO Kevin Yoder told EE Times. FHE is an encryption scheme that allows computation on encrypted data without decryption, with huge potential for the processing of sensitive data in the cloud. However, it is so computationally intensive that FHE is not currently practical to implement. Hardware accelerators for FHE are emerging from companies including Cornami,…
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OMNIVISION Announces Intelligent Sensor for Facial Recognition

The OV01D1R sensor features OMNIVISION’s innovative integrated camera solution, with mono-IR + AON in a single, low-power camera OMNIVISION, a leading global developer of semiconductor solutions, including advanced digital imaging, analog, and touch & display technology, today announced the new OV01D1R intelligent CMOS image sensor, the first sensor for the computing industry to address human presence detection (HPD), infrared (IR) facial authentication and always-on (AON) technology with a single sensing camera – while retaining low power consumption and operating independently from the laptop’s RGB camera. Biometric authentication and HPD are becoming increasingly common in laptops due to the need for privacy and the convenience of immediate…
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Billionaire Tesla shareholder Ron Baron says he supports Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package

Billionaire Tesla shareholder Ron Baron says he supports Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package

Tesla shareholder Ron Baron has backed Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package. The investor said that without Musk, there would be "no Tesla" in an open letter. Tesla is battling to win over shareholders and ratify Musk's 2018 compensation plan. 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 of the email. Tesla shareholder Ron Baron has backed Elon Musk's $56…
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OLoRA: Orthonormal Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

OLoRA: Orthonormal Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

arXiv:2406.01775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The advent of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized natural language processing, enabling unprecedented capabilities in understanding and generating human-like text. However, the computational cost and convergence times associated with fine-tuning these models remain significant challenges. Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has emerged as a promising method to mitigate these issues by introducing efficient fine-tuning techniques with a reduced number of trainable parameters. In this paper, we present OLoRA, an enhancement to the LoRA method that leverages orthonormal matrix initialization through QR decomposition. OLoRA significantly accelerates the convergence of LLM training while preserving the efficiency benefits of…
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How I Overcame The Imposter Syndrome

How I Overcame The Imposter Syndrome

The first law to having a long a healthy career in software development is to embrace your imposter. We like to complain in the industry all the time about imposter syndrome. And it is a real psychological thing that some people have. But I think we often claim that we are experiencing an imposter syndrome and we are not. We are just programmers! Let me give you an example. Myself, after over 10 software projects, every project I joined, and this includes the project I worked on last year. For the first three months of that project, I'm swimming in…
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