Why you should use Winston for Logging in JS

Why you should use Winston for Logging in JS

Winston JS is a popular open-sourced Javascript logging library used to write logs in code with support extending upto multiple transport. A transport helps the log to be present at multiple levels, be it storage at database level but logs on the console. The transports can be either console, database, files or remote servers making it highly flexible to get logs as per the requirements. The core transports that are part of Winston are Console, File and HTTP while there is option to write logs in third-party transports like MongoDb, CouchDb and Redis. The additional transports are written by the…
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Stopping malaria in its tracks

Stopping malaria in its tracks

Impact Published 13 October 2022 Developing a better malaria vaccine with the help of AI that could save hundreds of thousands of lives every yearWhen biochemist Matthew Higgins established his research group in 2006, he had malaria firmly in his sights. The mosquito-borne disease is second only to tuberculosis in terms of its devastating global impact. Malaria killed an estimated 627,000 people in 2020, mostly children under five, and almost half of the world’s population is within its reach, though Africa is by far the hardest hit. Symptoms of infection can begin with just a fever and a headache, making…
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AI researchers build ‘future self’ chatbot to inspire wise life choices

If your carefully crafted life plan has been scuppered by sofa time, bingeing on fast food, drinking too much and failing to contribute to the company pension, it may be time for a chat with your future self.Without ready access to a time machine, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have built an AI-powered chatbot that simulates a user’s older self and dishes out observations and pearls of wisdom. The aim is to encourage people to give more thought today to the person they want to be tomorrow.With a profile picture that is digitally aged to show youthful…
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TimeCMA: Towards LLM-Empowered Time Series Forecasting via Cross-Modality Alignment

TimeCMA: Towards LLM-Empowered Time Series Forecasting via Cross-Modality Alignment

arXiv:2406.01638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The widespread adoption of scalable mobile sensing has led to large amounts of time series data for real-world applications. A fundamental application is multivariate time series forecasting (MTSF), which aims to predict future time series values based on historical observations. Existing MTSF methods suffer from limited parameterization and small-scale training data. Recently, Large language models (LLMs) have been introduced in time series, which achieve promising forecasting performance but incur heavy computational costs. To solve these challenges, we propose TimeCMA, an LLM-empowered framework for time series forecasting with cross-modality alignment. We design a dual-modality encoding module…
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End-to-End Rate-Distortion Optimized 3D Gaussian Representation

End-to-End Rate-Distortion Optimized 3D Gaussian Representation

arXiv:2406.01597v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become an emerging technique with remarkable potential in 3D representation and image rendering. However, the substantial storage overhead of 3DGS significantly impedes its practical applications. In this work, we formulate the compact 3D Gaussian learning as an end-to-end Rate-Distortion Optimization (RDO) problem and propose RDO-Gaussian that can achieve flexible and continuous rate control. RDO-Gaussian addresses two main issues that exist in current schemes: 1) Different from prior endeavors that minimize the rate under the fixed distortion, we introduce dynamic pruning and entropy-constrained vector quantization (ECVQ) that optimize the rate and…
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John Oliver recreates Red Lobster restaurant using auctioned-off furniture because ‘any random idiot could run a Red Lobster better than these companies have’

John Oliver recreates Red Lobster restaurant using auctioned-off furniture because ‘any random idiot could run a Red Lobster better than these companies have’

John Oliver cooked Red Lobster by purchasing the entire contents of one defunct restaurant and recreating his own version of the struggling seafood chain.Oliver then revealed that his crew participated in an auction to purchase the contents of a previous Red Lobster location in Kingston, New York. Restaurant liquidator TAGeX Brands previously confirmed to Business Insider that Red Lobster shut down dozens of locations across the US in May. The TAGeX Brands website shows that the Kingston location is no longer available for auction.Oliver then used the purchased items to recreate the restaurant in the show's studio."The frustrating thing is,…
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Adapting PromptORE for Modern History: Information Extraction from Hispanic Monarchy Documents of the XVIth Century

Adapting PromptORE for Modern History: Information Extraction from Hispanic Monarchy Documents of the XVIth Century

arXiv:2406.00027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic relations among entities are a widely accepted method for relation extraction. PromptORE (Prompt-based Open Relation Extraction) was designed to improve relation extraction with Large Language Models on generalistic documents. However, it is less effective when applied to historical documents, in languages other than English. In this study, we introduce an adaptation of PromptORE to extract relations from specialized documents, namely digital transcripts of trials from the Spanish Inquisition. Our approach involves fine-tuning transformer models with their pretraining objective on the data they will perform inference. We refer to this process as "biasing". Our Biased…
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AI workers demand stronger whistleblower protections in open letter

AI workers demand stronger whistleblower protections in open letter

A group of current and former employees from leading AI companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic has signed an open letter asking for greater transparency and protection from retaliation for those who speak out about the potential concerns of AI. “So long as there is no effective government oversight of these corporations, current and former employees are among the few people who can hold them accountable to the public,” the letter, which was published on Tuesday, says. “Yet broad confidentiality agreements block us from voicing our concerns, except to the very companies that may be failing to address these…
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