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Australia ends legal fight for X to remove violent stabbing video

Australia ends legal fight for X to remove violent stabbing video

Australia's independent regulator for online safety has ended its bid to remove a violent video from X (formerly Twitter).On April 15, a clergyman was stabbed in Sydney, Australia, and, like some other horrific incidents these days, it was broadcast online. Australia's national regulator, eSafety, requested that all social media platforms take down the video. While eSafety claims Meta, Google, TikTok and more removed it, X only stopped Australian viewers from accessing the video — something a VPN can easily circumvent. When eSafety pushed for it to be fully taken down, X's CEO Elon Musk called the request an assault on free…
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Slack and Machine Learning: Use real-time Python to elevate work culture | Deephaven

Slack and Machine Learning: Use real-time Python to elevate work culture | Deephaven

Deephaven is a query engine that excels at working with real-time data. Data scientists and developers use Deephaven to analyze capital markets, blockchains, cryptocurrency, gaming, sports, and e-commerce. Why not use it for addressing ethical issues and improving an organization's climate as well?According to the MIT Sloan Management Review, toxic work culture is the biggest reason why people quit their jobs. Their research estimates it’s 10 times more important than salary.Modern machine learning algorithms make recognizing toxic content in business messaging tools doable. Deephaven's real-time capabilities make it easy.Today, we'll demonstrate how to create a working prototype of a solution…
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Putin and his Kremlin clique are rolling out their own kids at the ‘Russian Davos’

Putin and his Kremlin clique are rolling out their own kids at the ‘Russian Davos’

It's the time of the year for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum — or the "Russian Davos," as it's sometimes called.This list of high-profile world leaders has become substantially shorter since Russia invaded Ukraine, triggering sweeping sanctions against Putin's regime.This year, the biggest names attending the event include Bolivian President Luis Arce and Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa.But the four-day economic forum, which started on Wednesday, now also features the children of the Kremlin's top echelons, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.The nepo babies in attendance include Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova, Putin's low-profile daughters. Vorontsova, a 39-year-old endocrinologist, is representing the…
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Exploring the Potential of Polynomial Basis Functions in Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks: A Comparative Study of Different Groups of Polynomials

Exploring the Potential of Polynomial Basis Functions in Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks: A Comparative Study of Different Groups of Polynomials

arXiv:2406.02583v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a comprehensive survey of 18 distinct polynomials and their potential applications in Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) models as an alternative to traditional spline-based methods. The polynomials are classified into various groups based on their mathematical properties, such as orthogonal polynomials, hypergeometric polynomials, q-polynomials, Fibonacci-related polynomials, combinatorial polynomials, and number-theoretic polynomials. The study aims to investigate the suitability of these polynomials as basis functions in KAN models for complex tasks like handwritten digit classification on the MNIST dataset. The performance metrics of the KAN models, including overall accuracy, Kappa, and F1 score, are evaluated…
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Building a CRUD Application with Node.js, Express, and MySQL

Building a CRUD Application with Node.js, Express, and MySQL

In this blog, we'll walk through creating a simple CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) application using Node.js, Express, and MySQL. This tutorial will guide you through setting up the project, configuring the database, and implementing the CRUD operations. Project Setup Step 1: Initializing the Project Create a new directory for your project and initialize it with npm: mkdir crud-nodejs cd crud-nodejs npm init -y Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Install the necessary dependencies: npm install express mysql2 dotenv body-parser npm install --save-dev nodemon Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Step 2: Project Structure Create the following project structure: crud-nodejs…
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3D-HGS: 3D Half-Gaussian Splatting

3D-HGS: 3D Half-Gaussian Splatting

arXiv:2406.02720v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Photo-realistic 3D Reconstruction is a fundamental problem in 3D computer vision. This domain has seen considerable advancements owing to the advent of recent neural rendering techniques. These techniques predominantly aim to focus on learning volumetric representations of 3D scenes and refining these representations via loss functions derived from rendering. Among these, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) has emerged as a significant method, surpassing Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs). 3D-GS uses parameterized 3D Gaussians for modeling both spatial locations and color information, combined with a tile-based fast rendering technique. Despite its superior rendering performance and speed, the use…
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Self-Control of LLM Behaviors by Compressing Suffix Gradient into Prefix Controller

Self-Control of LLM Behaviors by Compressing Suffix Gradient into Prefix Controller

arXiv:2406.02721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose Self-Control, a novel method utilizing suffix gradients to control the behavior of large language models (LLMs) without explicit human annotations. Given a guideline expressed in suffix string and the model's self-assessment of adherence, Self-Control computes the gradient of this self-judgment concerning the model's hidden states, directly influencing the auto-regressive generation process towards desired behaviors. To enhance efficiency, we introduce Self-Control_{prefix}, a compact module that encapsulates the learned representations from suffix gradients into a Prefix Controller, facilitating inference-time control for various LLM behaviors. Our experiments demonstrate Self-Control's efficacy across multiple domains, including emotional modulation,…
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My journey from DeepMind intern to mentor

My journey from DeepMind intern to mentor

Life at DeepMind Published 8 September 2022 Former intern turned intern manager, Richard Everett, describes his journey to DeepMind, sharing tips and advice for aspiring DeepMinders. The 2023 internship applications will open on the 16th September, please visit https://dpmd.ai/internshipsatdeepmind for more information.What was your path to DeepMind?Like many people, I loved playing multiplayer video games growing up. The interactions between human players and seemingly intelligent computer-controlled players fascinated me, and I dreamed about a career in AI. This dream led me to pursue an undergraduate degree in computer science; a common (but not exclusive!) pathway into the industry. However, after…
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Get ready to make less money off your investments, says a private equity executive

Get ready to make less money off your investments, says a private equity executive

A leading private equity executive just warned that investors are in for a "pretty dry spell for a few years.""I'm here to tell you everything is not going to be OK," Scott Kleinman, the co-president of Apollo Global Management, said at a session during Berlin's SuperReturn International conference on Wednesday.Managers have to adjust their financial projections for deals struck in the looser world of zero interest rates, when financing was cheap and consumers spent more. "It's going to be a little bit tougher for private equity firms to see the types of returns they were looking for, versus in years…
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