11 Great Apple Deals on MacBooks, iPads, and AirPods (April 2025)
It might be smart to upgrade your hardware now if it’s on its last legs. We’ve vetted these deals to ensure you’re getting a real discount.
Tiny, soft robot flexes its potential as a life saver
A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an international team is pioneering such adaptable robots by integrating flexible electronics with magnetically controlled motion.
Probabilistic algorithm targets social media’s fake news problem
Fake news across social media is becoming ever easier to spread and more difficult to detect. That’s thanks to increasingly powerful artificial intelligence (AI) and cuts to fact-checking resources by major platforms.
HiDream-I1: New Open-Source Base Model
HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/HiDream-ai/HiDream-I1-Full GitHub: https://github.com/HiDream-ai/HiDream-I1 From their README: HiDream-I1 is a new open-source image generative foundation model with 17B parameters that achieves state-of-the-art image generation quality within seconds. Key Features ✨ Superior Image Quality – Produces exceptional results across multiple styles including photorealistic, cartoon, artistic, and more. Achieves state-of-the-art HPS v2.1 score, which aligns with human …
Example Applications of Text Embedding
This post is divided into five parts; they are: • Recommendation Systems • Cross-Lingual Applications • Text Classification • Zero-Shot Classification • Visualizing Text Embeddings A simple recommendation system can be created by finding a few of the most similar items to the target item.
Using Auto Classes in the Transformers Library
This post is divided into three parts; they are: • What Is Auto Classes • How to Use Auto Classes • Limitations of the Auto Classes There is no class called “AutoClass” in the transformers library.
Apple Workshop on Natural Language Understanding 2024
Progress in natural language processing enables more intuitive ways of interacting with technology. For example, many of Apple’s products and services, including Siri and search, use natural language understanding and generation to enable a fluent and seamless interface experience for users. Natural language is a rapidly moving area of machine learning research, and includes work …
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Llama 4 family of models from Meta are now available in SageMaker JumpStart
Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Llama 4 Scout and Maverick models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and coming soon in Amazon Bedrock. Llama 4 represents Meta’s most advanced multimodal models to date, featuring a mixture of experts (MoE) architecture and context window support up to 10 million tokens. With native multimodality and early fusion …
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Scientists Claim to Have Brought Back the Dire Wolf
Startup Colossal Biosciences has edited the DNA of a gray wolf to produce what it says is a de-extincted animal. Does that make it a true dire wolf?
Nurture more important than nature for robotic hand
How does a robotic arm or a prosthetic hand learn a complex task like grasping and rotating a ball? Researchers address the classic ‘nature versus nurture’ question. The research demonstrates that the sequence of learning, also known as the ‘curriculum,’ is critical for learning to occur. In fact, the researchers note that if the curriculum …
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