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UK Dynamism Fund

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Bain tests software takeover targets by vibecoding AI replicas

ft.com
32 points·by macleginn·il y a 19 jours·50 comments

Surprising Usefulness of Amazon's Quick Desktop

theregister.com
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NHS to grant Palantir contractors unlimited access to patient data

ft.com
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China lures home its top AI talent from Silicon Valley

ft.com
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Tiny Corp's Exabox

twitter.com
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Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta

thetimes.com
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NHS staff boycott Palantir's data platform over ethical concerns

ft.com
12 points·by macleginn·il y a 3 mois·0 comments

Mistral raises $830M to build Nvidia-powered AI centres in Europe

ft.com
9 points·by macleginn·il y a 3 mois·2 comments

Mistral CEO: AI companies should pay a content levy in Europe

ft.com
7 points·by macleginn·il y a 4 mois·3 comments

Maximum living organism speeds from bacteria to elephants and whales (2015)

fermatslibrary.com
1 points·by macleginn·il y a 4 mois·0 comments

How The Pentagon Got Hooked on AI War Machines

bloomberg.com
3 points·by macleginn·il y a 4 mois·0 comments

Japan antitrust watchdog raids Microsoft over cloud services concerns

asia.nikkei.com
2 points·by macleginn·il y a 5 mois·0 comments

SIMD in Pure Python (2024)

da.vidbuchanan.co.uk
3 points·by macleginn·il y a 5 mois·0 comments

Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage

nature.com
5 points·by macleginn·il y a 5 mois·0 comments

Palantir Captured the UK Ministry of Defence

ft.com
61 points·by macleginn·il y a 5 mois·4 comments

Can Opus 4.6 Do Category Theory in Lean?

stephendiehl.com
4 points·by macleginn·il y a 5 mois·0 comments

OpenAI Tapped for Voice Control Tech in US Drone Swarm Challenge

bloomberg.com
1 points·by macleginn·il y a 5 mois·1 comments

SpaceX to Compete in Pentagon Contest for Autonomous Drone Tech

bloomberg.com
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macleginn
·hier·discuss
For context, I have access to MS Copilot through my workplace. To see what it looks like, I have tried to login through https://copilot.microsoft.com/ , where I was informed that my account, although recognised, is not yet supported. However, I can get more or less the same chat window, with access to all the data, through https://m365.cloud.microsoft/ A redirect could have been useful.
macleginn
·il y a 5 jours·discuss
The overall resemblance to Ticket to Ride's Indian map is rather striking.
macleginn
·il y a 15 jours·discuss
Given the sheer volume of the output, it is conceivably difficult to maintain the quality of the plots/characters, even if the animation is stable or even improving. As a byproduct of that, more and more ambitious/batshit source texts are being animated, which sometimes works well (Dandadan) and sometimes doesn't (Uzumaki).
macleginn
·il y a 16 jours·discuss
They are poor at generalising from a small number of examples; this is why the real generalisation power is achieved in pre-training.
macleginn
·il y a 16 jours·discuss
Unremarkable base model will remain an unremarkable fine-tuned model that memorised a couple thousand of input-output pairings.
macleginn
·il y a 19 jours·discuss
They normally don't do self-set-up real-time monitoring though.
macleginn
·il y a 20 jours·discuss
Ok, cool, depends on application, probably.
macleginn
·il y a 20 jours·discuss
Yes, they do have money to burn, and this will bring some improvements for sure, but active learning has never really worked out, has it? And even 10% of the educated population doing this for, like, 50 years is not that much data, while normally each accuracy percentage is more and more data-expensive.
macleginn
·il y a 20 jours·discuss
Not the worst way to make money, but if internet-scale data were not enough to reduce errors to a somewhat tolerable margin, how much data do they hope to collect in this manner?
macleginn
·il y a 20 jours·discuss
> Noone is really caring about hallucinations on point facts these days though, it is much more about complex reasoning tasks.

The boundary is pretty thin there though. E.g., Gemini recently told me that a certain papers claims that two frameworks are mathematically equivalent, while the paper shows the opposite, and yesterday Google's AI overview told me that no World Cup matches were scheduled for that day despite their being several of them. The model probably used complex reasoning to arrive at both (incorrect) answers, but superficially they look like basic errors of fact.
macleginn
·il y a 21 jours·discuss
The main problem here is that hallucination suppression doesn’t generalise. We can penalise models for incorrect answers on a wide range of questions, but this doesn’t lead to the emergence of a coherent worldview, which, coupled with logical abilities, is the only true remedy against hallucinations. With current architectures, hallucinations will likely persist on open-domain tasks forever.
macleginn
·il y a 22 jours·discuss
It's been 63 euro for some months now.
macleginn
·il y a 23 jours·discuss
TL;DR: "Your body passes through a ring of underwater sensors, each acting like a dolphin, using its echolocation. The sensors send ultrasonic sound waves through your body from every angle. With enough waves, and enough angles, we form an image of what's happening inside your body."

Dolphins aside, is this basically a new angle on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasound_computer_tomography?
macleginn
·le mois dernier·discuss
The actual paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6787638
macleginn
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
In many places, there is a distinction between "master's through research" (a gateway to PhD) and "master's through study" (more coursework, less independent research, a gateway to r-n-d-level positions in the industry).
macleginn
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
But nobody has 4 + 4? The traditional system was in Europe 5 + 3, now we mostly have 3/4 + 2 + 3 (Europe) or 3 + 1 + 3 (UK/Ireland).

I don't have a lot of experience with the US system, but from my experience after 3/4 years newly minted postgrads are probably not yet ready to knowingly commit to 5 years of specialised training. European-style MA/MSc's often feel "useless" because they actually help people switch course and find a new footing. However, good master's programmes are either flexible enough for advanced students to take more specialised modules or have high demands to begin with.
macleginn
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
There may be issues with the implementation, but masters only programmes are absolutely commonplace in Europe. Some are better, some are worse, but good ones are genuinely helpful for people to, e.g., upskill before going into industry or decide whether they want to do a PhD.
macleginn
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
https://archive.is/nu26P
macleginn
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
An old C++ library using a related approach (DAWG) was seemingly created by a Japanese programmer: https://code.google.com/archive/p/dawgdic/

It was later used to power a popular Python package for processing Russian morphology (pymorphy).
macleginn
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
It doesn't really matter if the model cannot make a good educated guess about calories in the food if it cannot give a consistent response given the same input.