27 May

Why the National Spelling Bee is more vital than ever in the age of AI

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A question that I perennially encounter when I tell people that I am a professional spelling bee tutor is: “Why bother with spelling bees when we have spell check?” It’s an eminently understandable response, especially when it comes from people who have never watched a bee. Cell phones and computers have no problem storing the entire corpus of the English dictionary and consulting it at a moment’s notice. Like all games and sports, spelling bees aren’t strictly speaking necessary or useful – at least not in an immediately practical way. Yet questions about spelling bees’ utility (or lack thereof) miss…
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Data Augmentation Method Utilizing Template Sentences for Variable Definition Extraction
27 May

Data Augmentation Method Utilizing Template Sentences for Variable Definition Extraction

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The Ninja Creami ice cream maker is down to $149 for Memorial Day
27 May

The Ninja Creami ice cream maker is down to $149 for Memorial Day

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It’s officially ice cream season, and if you’ve been wanting to try your hand at making the dessert yourself, Walmart has a deal you might be interested in. The Ninja Creami ice cream maker is $50 off right now, bringing the price down to $149 — the best price we’ve seen for it all year. The Creami is designed for ease of use and gives you control over the texture of the finished product, so you can make ice cream, sorbet, milkshakes and other kinds of frozen treats.NinjaThe deal applies to the Ninja Creami model with 5 one-touch progams: Ice…
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We found over 300 million young people had experienced online sexual abuse and exploitation over the course of our meta-study
27 May

We found over 300 million young people had experienced online sexual abuse and exploitation over the course of our meta-study

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It takes a lot to shock Kelvin Lay. My friend and colleague was responsible for setting up Africa’s first dedicated child exploitation and human trafficking units, and for many years he was a senior investigating officer for the Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre at the UK’s National Crime Agency, specialising in extra territorial prosecutions on child exploitation across the globe. But what happened when he recently volunteered for a demonstration of cutting-edge identification software left him speechless. Within seconds of being fed with an image of how Lay looks today, the AI app sourced a dizzying array of online photos…
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Stretchable e-skin could give robots human-level touch sensitivity
27 May

Stretchable e-skin could give robots human-level touch sensitivity

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A first-ever stretchy electronic skin could equip robots and other devices with the same softness and touch sensitivity as human skin, opening up new possibilities to perform tasks that require a great deal of precision and control of force. The new stretchable e-skin, developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, solves a major bottleneck in the emerging technology. Existing e-skin technology loses sensing accuracy as the material stretches, but that is not the case with this new version. "Much like human skin has to stretch and bend to accommodate our movements, so too does e-skin," said Nanshu…
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Data Machina #237
27 May

Data Machina #237

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AI Code Generation: A New Paradigm. Several developer surveys indicate that devs -especially Sr. devs- who use AI tools are “more productive.” Today you can use lots of AI tools for code completion, pair programming, data generation, an even having a team of AI coding agents to complete tedious tasks for you. Back in October, the team at DeepSense wrote an excellent blogpost on the state of the art in AI coding agents, detailing the pros & cos, and workflows of each AI coding agent. Worth mentioning that -fundamentally- all these AI coding agents are mostly based on prompt engineering,…
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Release notes for Deephaven version 0.31.0 | Deephaven
27 May

Release notes for Deephaven version 0.31.0 | Deephaven

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Deephaven Community Core version 0.31.0 was recently released. Deephaven's final release of 2023 brings several bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements. Let's talk about some noteworthy updates from the release.Deephaven's Python API now supports type hints for functions that:Return arrays, lists, or other sequences of data.Have optional returns.This means that the query engine fully supports your functions that return lists, arrays, or (optionally) nothing. The best way to show what this means is through code. Keep reading to see these new features in example queries.Arrays, lists, and sequences​Users often work with data that's grouped into arrays in tables. Python functions that…
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Large Language Models and Nearest Neighbors
27 May

Large Language Models and Nearest Neighbors

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Instead of jumping on the latest trend of the week, I wanted to dive into a recent, fascinating application of nearest-neighbor methods in the context of large language models (LLMs) that made big waves in July.You may know that I like simple yet elegant and baselines, but I also found this method quite refreshing given that most of the current research is about scaling already massive LLMs. While they may not scale to all kinds of problems where LLMs currently excel, seemingly simple methods such as nearest neighbor algorithms have a certain beauty to them. It also shows that there…
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Does ChatGPT have a liberal bias?
27 May

Does ChatGPT have a liberal bias?

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Previous research has shown that many pre-ChatGPT language models express left-leaning opinions when asked about partisan topics. But OpenAI said in February that the workers who fine-tune ChatGPT train it to refuse to express opinions when asked controversial political questions. So it was interesting to see a new paper claim that ChatGPT expresses liberal opinions, agreeing with Democrats the vast majority of the time.Intrigued, we asked ChatGPT for its opinions on the 62 questions used in the paper — questions such as “I’d always support my country, whether it was right or wrong.” and “The freer the market, the freer…
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