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27 May

From garage to global: new program fast-tracks Ukrainian defence startups

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A new defence tech initiative, the Defenсe Builder Accelerator, has launched in Ukraine. It's a four-month intensive training program designed for Ukrainian defence startups to secure the first investments and transition from "garage" production to creating a tech company. Specifically, the program aims to enable the development of technologies tailored to the needs of Defence Forces that meet real battlefield requirements. After completing the program, startups gain access to capital and investors. The accelerator was founded by Ivan Kaunov (CEO), an officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and Kateryna Bezsudna (COO). Before the accelerator, they launched their own defence startup,…

26 May

The ethics of advanced AI assistants

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Responsibility & Safety Published 19 April 2024 Authors Iason Gabriel and Arianna Manzini Exploring the promise and risks of a future with more capable AIImagine a future where we interact regularly with a range of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) assistants — and where millions of assistants interact with each other on our behalf. These experiences and interactions may soon become part of our everyday reality.General-purpose foundation models are paving the way for increasingly advanced AI assistants. Capable of planning and performing a wide range of actions in line with a person’s aims, they could add immense value to people’s lives…

26 May

Chrome extensions may slow down browsing significantly – gHacks Tech News

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Extensions are one of the greatest strengths of web browsers. They allow users to extend functionality, but this comes at a cost. A test of the 5000 most popular Chrome extensions showed that extensions may slow down the browsing experience significantly, with one notable exception. The team at Debugbear analyzed the performance impact of Chrome extensions in various ways, including impact on CPU processing and website load time. Here are the key findings: Even on basic websites, some Chrome extensions added 500ms or more to the processing time. 86% of tested extensions have minimal impact on simple websites. 1.7% of…

26 May

Hannover Messe 2024: We’re All In This Together

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The smart manufacturing world’s big event of the year, Hannover Messe, saw 130,000 visitors descend on the German city of Hannover last week. Numbers were reported as very similar to last year and still much lower than before the pandemic: Might this be the new normal for trade shows, as casual freebie-trawlers stay at home while more serious commercial prospects still value the opportunity to supplement their online research and webinar-watching with some intense face-to-face conversation? My immediate impressions were: China remains important to this European event. Chinese exhibitors were everywhere, running the gamut from tiny booths offering cheap industrial…

26 May

Unstructured

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Briefings highlight generational AI scaleups, startups, and projects. I was fortunate to have chatted with co-founder & CEO Brian Raymond. Read on to learn more about his unconventional path from constitutional design expert to AI, how Unstructured came to be, and why it is a generational company. Unstructured simplifies the process of converting unstructured data into a format usable for AI, specifically focusing on Large Language Models (LLMs). Users simply upload raw files containing natural language to Unstructured's API and receive back clean data, bypassing the need for custom Python scripts, regular expressions, or open-source OCR packages.Why Unstructured is a…

26 May

Are weight-loss meds the next wonder drugs?

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This article is an installment of Future Explored, a weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like this one straight to your inbox by subscribing here.If the COVID-19 vaccines were the most significant FDA approvals of the 2020s so far, GLP-1 agonists to treat obesity are a strong runner up.Though these drugs have been used to treat type 2 diabetes for nearly two decades, it wasn’t until 2021 that the FDA approved one of them — Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy (semaglutide) — as a treatment for obesity. Clinical trials showed that people lost 10-20% of their body weight.This was huge.…

26 May

Prompting Fundamentals and How to Wield them Effectively

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Writing good prompts is the most straightforward way to get value out of large language models (LLMs). However, it’s important to understand the fundamentals even as we apply advanced techniques and prompt optimization tools. For example, there’s more to Chain-of-Thought (CoT) beyond simply adding “think step by step”. Here, I’d like to share some prompting fundamentals to help you get the most out of LLMs. Aside: By know we should know that we need reliable evals before doing any major prompt engineering. Without evals, how would we measure improvements and regressions? Here’s my usual workflow: (i) manually label ~100 eval…

26 May

Someone made a Flappy Bird tribute for the Playdate that lets you use the crank to fly

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Ah, Flappy Bird. It’s been a long time since I last gave any thought to the game-turned-cultural-phenomenon that briefly had us all in a chokehold a decade ago. At least, that was the case until this morning, when I stumbled upon a Reddit post announcing a Flappy Bird tribute for the Playdate and, without a moment’s hesitation, sideloaded it onto my device. Now here I am, absolutely hooked on this maddening little game once again. And, using the crank to control that silly looking bird, it's even harder this time around. FlappyBird by Chibisuke is free and available to download…

26 May

Rapid grouping and ungrouping | Deephaven

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Deephaven is commonly used to manipulate huge amounts of data — multiple tables, billions of rows, and hundreds of columns. It's built to excel in both versatility of operations and speed of execution.In this article, we'll explore how Deephaven optimizes memory usage for rapid grouping and ungrouping, and then cover how choosing the right selection method can change the execution time of operations by orders of magnitude. Finally, we'll delve into strategies you can employ to write the most efficient queries possible.Deephaven saves time automatically where possible, but it's still up to you to write efficient queries. We'll offer techniques…

26 May

India to Build Chip Manufacturing Ecosystem, Talent Pool – EE Times

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//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> India is known for its semiconductor design expertise, which has been successfully nurtured since the 1980s. However, manufacturing capability and capacity has been limited despite having built a fab as far back as 1983 in the form of Semiconductor Complex Limited (SCL), established by M.J. Zarabi, considered one of the pioneers of the current chip industry in India. The geopolitics of recent years have changed that inertia in developing the manufacturing ecosystem, and now there are several active efforts to build that capacity and resilience in the electronics and system…