Statistical Deconvolution for Inference of Infection Time Series

Accurate measurement of daily infection incidence is crucial to epidemic response. However, delays in symptom onset, testing, and reporting obscure the dynamics of transmission, necessitating methods to remove the effects of stochastic delays from observed data. Existing estimators can be sensitive to model misspecification and censored observations; many analysts have instead used methods that exhibit …

The Slingshot Mechanism: An Empirical Study of Adaptive Optimizers and the Grokking Phenomenon

This paper was accepted to the “Has it Trained Yet?” (HITY) workshop at NeurIPS 2022. The grokking phenomenon as reported by Power et al., refers to a regime where a long period of overfitting is followed by a seemingly sudden transition to perfect generalization. In this paper, we attempt to reveal the underpinnings of Grokking …

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Infinite Nature: Generating 3D Flythroughs from Still Photos

Posted by Noah Snavely and Zhengqi Li, Research Scientists, Google Research We live in a world of great natural beauty — of majestic mountains, dramatic seascapes, and serene forests. Imagine seeing this beauty as a bird does, flying past richly detailed, three-dimensional landscapes. Can computers learn to synthesize this kind of visual experience? Such a …

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Cost-effective data preparation for machine learning using SageMaker Data Wrangler

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler is a capability of Amazon SageMaker that makes it faster for data scientists and engineers to prepare high-quality features for machine learning (ML) applications via a visual interface. Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for ML from weeks to minutes. With Data Wrangler, you can …

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Generate images from text with the stable diffusion model on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

In December 2020, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a capability of Amazon SageMaker that helps you quickly and easily get started with machine learning (ML). JumpStart provides one-click fine-tuning and deployment of a wide variety of pre-trained models across popular ML tasks, as well as a selection of end-to-end solutions that …

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Run text generation with GPT and Bloom models on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

In December 2020, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a capability of Amazon SageMaker that helps you quickly and easily get started with machine learning (ML). JumpStart provides one-click fine-tuning and deployment of a wide variety of pre-trained models across popular ML tasks, as well as a selection of end-to-end solutions that …

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Palantir Foundry for Positive Disruption

Editors Note: How and why Palantir Foundry is used differs across every organization — but the need for positive disruption is a common theme across all our implementations. In this blog post, former CTO for the Prime Minister’s Office in the Government of Israel and Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer Eran Witkon explains how Foundry compliments existing IT …

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How Anyone Can Integrate SAP Data in Hours

Your step-by-step guide to accelerating SAP data integration, unlocking insights, and building operational workflows with Palantir HyperAuto. Enterprise resource planning software is the brain of big business. Whether it’s revenue and expenses, suppliers and inventory, materials and manufacturing, project management and payroll — ERP is the organizer behind the organization. It’s only natural that any data team …

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DALL·E API Now Available in Public Beta

Starting today, developers can begin building apps with the DALL·E API. Read documentation Developers can now integrate DALL·E directly into their apps and products through our API. More than 3 million people are already using DALL·E to extend their creativity and speed up their workflows, generating over 4 million images a day. Developers can start …

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Consistent caching mechanism in Titus Gateway

by Tomasz Bak and Fabio Kung Introduction Titus is the Netflix cloud container runtime that runs and manages containers at scale. In the time since it was first presented as an advanced Mesos framework, Titus has transparently evolved from being built on top of Mesos to Kubernetes, handling an ever-increasing volume of containers. As the number …