Barbie Phone by HMD: An All-Pink Glittery Dumb Phone That Flips
You get a pink battery, pink charging cable, and a litany of shiny add-ons—stick-on gems, charms, and a beaded lanyard—to trick out HMD’s new Barbie-themed handset.
FLUX is smarter than you! – and other surprising findings on making the model your own
I promised you a high quality lewd FLUX fine-tune, but, my apologies, that thing’s still in the cooker because every single day, I discover something new with flux that absolutely blows my mind, and every other single day I break my model and have to start all over 😀 In the meantime I’ve written down …
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10 Must-Know Python Libraries for Machine Learning in 2024
As we progress through 2024, machine learning (ML) continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Python, with its rich ecosystem of libraries, remains at the forefront of ML development. In this post, we’ll explore the top 10 Python libraries dominating the ML scene in 2024, how the field has changed since 2020, and the key …
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Capturing Curves: Advanced Modeling with Polynomial Regression
When we analyze relationships between variables in machine learning, we often find that a straight line doesn’t tell the whole story. That’s where polynomial transformations come in, adding layers to our regression models without complicating the calculation process. By transforming our features into their polynomial counterparts—squares, cubes, and other higher-degree terms—we give linear models the …
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Ensuring Compliance in Chatbot Deployment for Regulated Industries
Chatbots are rapidly growing in popularity across a spectrum of sectors thanks to their convenience in handling basic customer service needs, such as answering questions. In fact, approximately 67% of consumers have utilized chatbots for quick interactions, with 86% reporting positive experiences using them. However, deploying chatbots in heavily regulated sectors such as finance, healthcare, and …
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Human Rights and Technology
Palantir’s Privacy-First Engineering Approach Introduction Palantir is a mission-driven company, and this mission orientation is reflected in the institutions we support, the products we develop, and the internal culture we foster. Our commitment to privacy engineering has been a cornerstone of our operations for the past 20 years. From addressing the challenges faced by our …
Improve Your Next Experiment by Learning Better Proxy Metrics From Past Experiments
By Aurélien Bibaut, Winston Chou, Simon Ejdemyr, and Nathan Kallus We are excited to share our work on how to learn good proxy metrics from historical experiments at KDD 2024. This work addresses a fundamental question for technology companies and academic researchers alike: how do we establish that a treatment that improves short-term (statistically sensitive) outcomes …
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Secure RAG applications using prompt engineering on Amazon Bedrock
The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) in enterprise IT environments presents new challenges and opportunities in security, responsible artificial intelligence (AI), privacy, and prompt engineering. The risks associated with LLM use, such as biased outputs, privacy breaches, and security vulnerabilities, must be mitigated. To address these challenges, organizations must proactively ensure that their use …
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A multimodal search solution using NLP, BigQuery and embeddings
Today’s digital landscape offers a vast sea of information, encompassing not only text, but also images and videos. Traditional enterprise search engines were primarily designed for text-based queries, and often fall short when it comes to analyzing visual content. However, with a combination of natural language processing (NLP) and multimodal embeddings, a new era of …
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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s Arrest Linked to Sweeping Criminal Investigation
French authorities detained Durov to question him as part of a probe into a wide range of alleged violations—including money laundering and CSAM—but it remains unclear if he will face charges.