16 Best Black Friday Microsoft Deals (2022): Xbox Series S, Surface Laptops
Right now, you’ll find discounts on Windows laptops and hundreds of video games on the Microsoft Store.
A Fire Upon the Deep Is Mind-Blowing Space Opera
Artificial neural networks learn better when they spend time not learning at all
Researchers discuss how mimicking sleep patterns of the human brain in artificial neural networks may help mitigate the threat of catastrophic forgetting in the latter, boosting their utility across a spectrum of research interests.
‘Butterfly bot’ is fastest swimming soft robot yet
Inspired by the biomechanics of the manta ray, researchers have developed an energy-efficient soft robot that can swim more than four times faster than previous swimming soft robots. The robots are called ‘butterfly bots,’ because their swimming motion resembles the way a person’s arms move when they are swimming the butterfly stroke.
Palantir’s Response to the FTC on ‘Commercial Surveillance and Data Security’ Rulemaking
Suggestions for establishing a culture of data responsibility Introduction Part of building and deploying privacy-protective technology is also fostering a community of responsibility around its development and use. This idea is central to the mission of Palantir’s Privacy & Civil Liberties Engineering team. It is also a guiding principle that drives us to share our …
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For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks
by Christos G. Bampis, Li-Heng Chen and Zhi Li When you are binge-watching the latest season of Stranger Things or Ozark, we strive to deliver the best possible video quality to your eyes. To do so, we continuously push the boundaries of streaming video quality and leverage the best video technologies. For example, we invest in …
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Match Cutting at Netflix: Finding Cuts with Smooth Visual Transitions
By Boris Chen, Kelli Griggs, Amir Ziai, Yuchen Xie, Becky Tucker, Vi Iyengar, Ritwik Kumar Special thanks to Anna Pulido, Luca Aldag, Shaun Wright and Sarah Soquel Morhaim Creating Media with Machine Learning episode 1 Introduction At Netflix, part of what we do is build tools to help our creatives make exciting videos to share with the world. …
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The Data Cards Playbook: A Toolkit for Transparency in Dataset Documentation
Posted by Mahima Pushkarna, Senior Interaction Designer, and Andrew Zaldivar, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Google Research As machine learning (ML) research moves toward large-scale models capable of numerous downstream tasks, a shared understanding of a dataset’s origin, development, intent, and evolution becomes increasingly important for the responsible and informed development of ML models. However, knowledge …
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AlexaTM 20B is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Today, we announce the public availability of Amazon’s state-of-the-art Alexa Teacher Model with 20 billion parameters (AlexaTM 20B) through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, SageMaker’s machine learning hub. AlexaTM 20B is a multilingual large-scale sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) language model developed by Amazon. You can use AlexaTM 20B for a wide range of industry use-cases, from summarizing financial reports …
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How Yara is using MLOps features of Amazon SageMaker to scale energy optimization across their ammonia plants
Yara is the world’s leading crop nutrition company and a provider of environmental and agricultural solutions. Yara’s ambition is focused on growing a nature-positive food future that creates value for customers, shareholders, and society at large, and delivers a more sustainable food value chain. Supporting our vision of a world without hunger and a planet …