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Lightweight AI model facilitates high-quality image generation without direct transmission of sensitive data
Lightweight AI model facilitates high-quality image generation without direct transmission of sensitive data A new ultra-lightweight artificial intelligence (AI) model has been developed that assists in generating high-quality images without directly sending sensitive data to servers. This technological advancement paves the way for the safe utilization of high-performance generative AI in environments where privacy is…
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Photonic computing needs more nonlinearity: Acoustics can help
Photonic computing needs more nonlinearity: Acoustics can help Neural networks are one typical structure on which artificial intelligence can be based. The term “neural” describes their learning ability, which to some extent mimics the functioning of neurons in our brains. To be able to work, several key ingredients are required: one of them is an…
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STAT+: Trump administration launches probe into pharmaceutical imports
STAT+: Trump administration launches probe into pharmaceutical imports The Trump administration disclosed it formally opened an investigation into the extent to which the importation of certain pharmaceuticals may threaten national security, a move that is a widely anticipated prelude to imposing tariffs on a potentially large number of medicines. In a Federal Register notice published…
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STAT+: Canada advances an antitrust probe into Express Scripts over ‘patient steering’ and pharmacy fees
STAT+: Canada advances an antitrust probe into Express Scripts over ‘patient steering’ and pharmacy fees Canadian officials have obtained a court order that requires Express Scripts to produce documents in connection with an investigation into whether the pharmacy benefits manager violated antitrust laws. The Competition Bureau is examining whether the company forced or induced Canadians…
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Pfizer discontinues its experimental GLP-1 pill
Pfizer discontinues its experimental GLP-1 pill Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Morning. Today, we discuss interesting new gene-editing data from Verve, see the NIH starting to convene advisory councils again, and more. Read the rest… Meghana Keshavan Go to statnews
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Pfizer halting GLP-1 work, FDA use of contractors, and more
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Pfizer halting GLP-1 work, FDA use of contractors, and more Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was relaxing and refreshing because, once again, that predictable routine of meetings, deadlines, and the like has returned. After all, the world keeps spinning. And to…
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Japan’s Metaplanet Buys Another $26M in Bitcoin Amid Tariff Market Uncertainty
Japan’s Metaplanet Buys Another $26M in Bitcoin Amid Tariff Market Uncertainty Metaplanet has acquired a total of over 4,500 BTC and intends to buy more this year as investors try to unpack the latest in U.S. tariffs. Callan Quinn Go to decrypt.co
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Mantra Token Crashes 90% in One Hour, Team Blames ‘Reckless Liquidations
Mantra Token Crashes 90% in One Hour, Team Blames ‘Reckless Liquidations Mantra’s co-founder has denied any team involvement, pointing to forced exchange liquidations during a low-liquidity trading period. Vince Dioquino Go to decrypt.co
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Man Pleads Guilty to Submitting False Tax Returns Tied to $13M CryptoPunks Sales
Man Pleads Guilty to Submitting False Tax Returns Tied to $13M CryptoPunks Sales Waylon Wilcox sold millions in CryptoPunks NFTs but told the IRS he hadn’t touched digital assets. Now he’s facing prison time. Callan Quinn Go to decrypt.co
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Bitcoin Price Slides as Trump’s Weekend Tariff Messaging Jolts Crypto Markets
Bitcoin Price Slides as Trump’s Weekend Tariff Messaging Jolts Crypto Markets Bitcoin dropped over 2% on Sunday as Trump’s mixed signals on China tariffs spooked crypto traders and stoked inflation fears. Sebastian Sinclair Go to decrypt.co
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This Week in Crypto Games: Gaming Tokens Crash Out, Eve Frontier Opens Up
This Week in Crypto Games: Gaming Tokens Crash Out, Eve Frontier Opens Up Catch up on this week’s biggest crypto and NFT gaming news and find some weekend reads in our latest roundup. Andrew Hayward Go to decrypt.co
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Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 14 Apr, 2025 – 21 Apr, 2025
Weekly Entering & Transitioning – Thread 14 Apr, 2025 – 21 Apr, 2025 Welcome to this week’s entering & transitioning thread! This thread is for any questions about getting started, studying, or transitioning into the data science field. Topics include: Learning resources (e.g. books, tutorials, videos) Traditional education (e.g. schools, degrees, electives) Alternative education (e.g.…
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Dynamic model can generate realistic human motions and edit existing ones
Dynamic model can generate realistic human motions and edit existing ones When exploring their surroundings, communicating with others and expressing themselves, humans can perform a wide range of body motions. The ability to realistically replicate these motions, applying them to human and humanoid characters, could be highly valuable for the development of video games and…
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‘Slow travel’ start-up launches cross-Channel crossings by sail
‘Slow travel’ start-up launches cross-Channel crossings by sail The crossing may be “a bit choppy,” Captain Andrew Simons warns a dozen of his passengers waiting in the French port of Boulogne to cross the Channel with only wind to get them to England. Go to techxplore
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Ericsson unveils new wireless branch architecture
Ericsson unveils new wireless branch architecture Ericsson has launched a new line of wireless-first branch architecture designed to support AI-powered operations. The new architecture is anchored by the Ericsson Cradlepoint E400 routing and security appliance, which provides integrated support for the latest 5G, Wi-Fi and LEO satellite wide area networking (WAN) technologies. This appliance is…
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Trump is ‘fully fit’ to serve as commander in chief, his doctor says after recent physical
Trump is ‘fully fit’ to serve as commander in chief, his doctor says after recent physical WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Donald Trump’s doctor says the oldest man elected president is “fully fit” to serve as commander in chief as the White House released results Sunday of Trump’s recent physical exam. The 78-year-old Trump is 20 pounds…
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STAT+: Tennessee officials find Express Scripts violated law governing commercial pharmacy claims
STAT+: Tennessee officials find Express Scripts violated law governing commercial pharmacy claims In an unusual move, an audit of commercial health plans by Tennessee officials found that Express Scripts, one of the largest pharmacy benefit managers in the United States, violated state laws in its dealings with pharmacies, according to newly released documents. Specifically, the…
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How a Philosopher Who Criticized Trump and Musk Turned Out to Be an AI Experiment
How a Philosopher Who Criticized Trump and Musk Turned Out to Be an AI Experiment An Italian publisher used AI to create a fictional Hong Kong philosopher whose critique of Trump and Musk became a sensation. Vince Dioquino Go to decrypt.co
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Professor Coin: What’s Driving Cryptocurrency Adoption Around the World
Professor Coin: What’s Driving Cryptocurrency Adoption Around the World Adoption of cryptocurrencies varies widely across the globe, as a series of recent academic studies demonstrates. Andrew Urquhart Go to decrypt.co
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Scottish School Will Accept Bitcoin Payments, May Launch BTC Reserve
Scottish School Will Accept Bitcoin Payments, May Launch BTC Reserve Lomond School said it’s moving forward with accepting BTC payments after families asked it to. Mathew Di Salvo Go to decrypt.co
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Researchers unveil nearly invisible brain-computer interface
Researchers unveil nearly invisible brain-computer interface Georgia Tech researchers have developed an almost imperceptible microstructure brain sensor to be inserted into the minuscule spaces between hair follicles and slightly under the skin. The sensor offers high-fidelity signals and makes the continuous use of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) in everyday life possible. Go to techxplore
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Stainless steel strengthened: Twisting technique creates submicron ‘anti-crash wall’
Stainless steel strengthened: Twisting technique creates submicron ‘anti-crash wall’ A combined team of metallurgists, materials scientists and engineers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shandong University and the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a way to make stainless steel more resistant to metal fatigue. In their study published in the journal Science, the group…
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Using text-generating AI to power nuclear research
Using text-generating AI to power nuclear research Text-generating AI programs like ChatGPT are known for everyday tasks like answering questions, but that’s not all they’re good for. These AI agents can use their text-parsing powers to help further nuclear science and assist health physicists, as shown by nuclear engineering graduate student Zavier Ndum’s research. Go…
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Roundhill Investment Wants to Launch an ETF Focused on Humanoid Robots
Roundhill Investment Wants to Launch an ETF Focused on Humanoid Robots After launching Bitcoin and AI-themed ETF, Roundhill Investment aims to launch an ETF focused on companies developing humanoid robots. Jason Nelson Go to decrypt.co
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Why Fartcoin Is Blasting Off Again Amid Crypto Market Chaos
Why Fartcoin Is Blasting Off Again Amid Crypto Market Chaos It has been all gas and no brakes for Fartcoin lately, with the Solana meme coin nearly doubling in price over the last week. Logan Hitchcock Go to decrypt.co
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Crypto Exchanges Like Coinbase May Soon Get a Regulatory Sandbox to Play In
Crypto Exchanges Like Coinbase May Soon Get a Regulatory Sandbox to Play In SEC leadership floated the possibility Friday of regulatory exemptions that would allow crypto exchanges to experiment with the trading of tokenized securities. Sander Lutz Go to decrypt.co
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Public Keys: High Hopes for HOOD, Custody Battle for Coinbase, and Analysts’ Favorite Metric
Public Keys: High Hopes for HOOD, Custody Battle for Coinbase, and Analysts’ Favorite Metric Robinhood and MARA Holdings mark weekly gains, Coinbase gets competition for its custody business, and weighing the upcoming GDP report. Stacy Elliott Go to decrypt.co
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Bitcoin Caps Rollercoaster Week Where It Began
Bitcoin Caps Rollercoaster Week Where It Began On Monday, Bitcoin slipped as low as $74,700. André Beganski Go to decrypt.co
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Sesame Speech Model: How This Viral AI Model Generates Human-Like Speech
Sesame Speech Model: How This Viral AI Model Generates Human-Like Speech Recently, Sesame AI published a demo of their latest Speech-to-Speech model. A conversational AI agent who is really good at speaking, they provide relevant answers, they speak with expressions, and honestly, they are just very fun and interactive to play with. Note that a…
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Learnings from a Machine Learning Engineer — Part 6: The Human Side
Learnings from a Machine Learning Engineer — Part 6: The Human Side In my previous articles, I have spent a lot of time talking about the technical aspects of an Image Classification problem from data collection, model evaluation, performance optimization, and a detailed look at model training. These elements require a certain degree of in-depth expertise, and they (usually) have well-defined…
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Are You Sure Your Posterior Makes Sense?
Are You Sure Your Posterior Makes Sense? This article is co-authored by Felipe Bandeira, Giselle Fretta, Thu Than, and Elbion Redenica. We also thank Prof. Carl Scheffler for his support. Introduction Parameter estimation has been for decades one of the most important topics in statistics. While frequentist approaches, such as Maximum Likelihood Estimations, used to…
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What is a compiler?
What is a compiler? A compiler is a special program that translates a programming language’s source code into machine code, bytecode or another programming language. Go to techtarget
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Agentspace vs. Rovo: A new battlefront in enterprise search
Agentspace vs. Rovo: A new battlefront in enterprise search Aligning DevOps and business teams using agentic AI prioritizes effective data and knowledge management and prompts fresh enterprise search offerings. Go to techtarget
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Informatica Expands IDMC on Google Cloud, Supercharging AI-Ready Data
Informatica Expands IDMC on Google Cloud, Supercharging AI-Ready Data Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, is announcing an expansion of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform services on Google Cloud, now featuring support for the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Go to dbta
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Aerospike Graph 2.5.0 Powers Real-Time Identity Graphs
Aerospike Graph 2.5.0 Powers Real-Time Identity Graphs Aerospike is introducing Aerospike Graph Service (AGS) 2.5.0, supporting strong consistency (SC) in graph workloads to enable guaranteed atomicity and isolation for real-time graph updates. Go to dbta
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Plotly Dash Enterprise 5.7 Builds Intelligent and Secure Apps in the AI Era
Plotly Dash Enterprise 5.7 Builds Intelligent and Secure Apps in the AI Era Plotly, the premier Data App platform for Python, is releasing Dash Enterprise (DE) 5.7, a significant update to the company’s platform, used for building interactive data applications and data visualization dashboards, adding enhancements that improve the platform’s AI-powered development capabilities, strengthen enterprise…
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IBM Centers Focus on Enterprise and Application Resilience with Latest Solutions
IBM Centers Focus on Enterprise and Application Resilience with Latest Solutions IBM, in an effort to combat today’s landscape of application complexity, is debuting IBM Concert Resilience Posture, a transformative AI-driven observability and remediation solution that enables repeatable, scalable understanding of an enterprise’s resilience posture. Go to dbta
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A fluid battery that can take any shape
A fluid battery that can take any shape Using electrodes in a fluid form, researchers at Linköping University have developed a battery that can take any shape. This soft and conformable battery can be integrated into future technology in a completely new way. Their study has been published in the journal Science Advances. Go to…
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Transforming real-world doors into gateways to the virtual world: The future of mixed reality
Transforming real-world doors into gateways to the virtual world: The future of mixed reality People seeking to feel fully immersed in virtual environments will soon be able to experience a revolutionary approach to spatial computing that bridges the gap between real and digital worlds. A collaborative research team from NTT DOCOMO, Inc. and Nara Institute…
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Taking the heat off: Smarter cooling technology tackles climate challenge
Taking the heat off: Smarter cooling technology tackles climate challenge EU researchers are developing a smarter system of sustainable cooling, replacing toxic refrigerants with safer, more efficient, and recyclable metals. Go to techxplore
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Augmented reality improves carpentry ease and precision
Augmented reality improves carpentry ease and precision A system developed at EPFL uses augmented reality (AR) to help carpenters make extremely precise timber cuts without having to measure or mark up beams. Its hybrid approach stands to make digitally assisted technology affordable for small businesses, woodworkers and construction professionals in developing countries. Go to techxplore
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Ultra-thin cooling solution for mobile devices unlocks slimmer, high-performance technology
Ultra-thin cooling solution for mobile devices unlocks slimmer, high-performance technology Scientists from Nagoya University in Japan have developed an innovative cooling device—an ultra-thin loop heat pipe—that significantly improves heat control for electronic components in smartphones and tablets. This breakthrough successfully manages heat levels generated during intensive smartphone usage, potentially enabling the development of even thinner…
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STAT+: Key NIH grant review panels resume meeting, but are not ‘back to normal’
STAT+: Key NIH grant review panels resume meeting, but are not ‘back to normal’ After being indefinitely suspended in the first days of the Trump administration, key National Institutes of Health committees that approve research grants resumed meeting this week. It appears to be a positive step toward restoring the flow of billions of dollars…
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STAT+: Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings
STAT+: Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us, and we’ll share it with others. That’s right. Send us your changes, and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is…
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STAT+: Trump to end federal funding of certain non-medical services in Medicaid
STAT+: Trump to end federal funding of certain non-medical services in Medicaid WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Thursday that it will no longer help states fund non-medical services that often are aimed at improving housing and nutrition for people in the Medicaid program. The change is a departure from the Biden administration’s efforts to…
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Doctors remove pig kidney from an Alabama woman after a record 130 days
Doctors remove pig kidney from an Alabama woman after a record 130 days WASHINGTON — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday — a disappointment in the ongoing quest for animal-to-human transplants.…
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STAT+: FDA plans to phase out animal testing in drugs in what it calls a ‘paradigm shift’
STAT+: FDA plans to phase out animal testing in drugs in what it calls a ‘paradigm shift’ In an unexpected move, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced plans this week to reduce — and possibly replace — animal testing with other methods for developing certain medicines in a bid to lower R&D costs and,…
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Coinbase CLO Slams FDIC for ‘Absurd’ Delays in Crypto Debanking Records Lawsuit
Coinbase CLO Slams FDIC for ‘Absurd’ Delays in Crypto Debanking Records Lawsuit Coinbase opposed FDIC’s request for a 16-day delay in a FOIA case, calling the agency’s stall tactics “legally incorrect.” Vismaya V Go to decrypt.co
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Crypto Competitors Grayscale and Osprey Settle Two-Year Tussle Over Bitcoin ETFs
Crypto Competitors Grayscale and Osprey Settle Two-Year Tussle Over Bitcoin ETFs A Connecticut court filing reveals the pair have agreed to settle. Now they have 45 days or less to figure out how to go about it. Vince Dioquino Go to decrypt.co
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Arizona’s Bitcoin Mining Bill Advances to Governor’s Desk
Arizona’s Bitcoin Mining Bill Advances to Governor’s Desk Arizona moves to shield blockchain and AI computing at home while racing other states on Bitcoin reserve bills. Vismaya V Go to decrypt.co
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Startup CEO Charged After ‘AI’ Turns Out to Be Humans in the Philippines
Startup CEO Charged After ‘AI’ Turns Out to Be Humans in the Philippines Investors wanted an AI unicorn. Instead, they got a very expensive customer service team in Southeast Asia. Callan Quinn Go to decrypt.co
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Ross Ulbricht to Speak at Bitcoin Conference in First Public Appearance Since Trump Pardon
Ross Ulbricht to Speak at Bitcoin Conference in First Public Appearance Since Trump Pardon Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht will give a speech in Las Vegas next month in his first public appearance since he was pardoned. Callan Quinn Go to decrypt.co
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Can SGD Select Good Fishermen? Local Convergence under Self-Selection Biases and Beyond
Can SGD Select Good Fishermen? Local Convergence under Self-Selection Biases and Beyond arXiv:2504.07133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We revisit the problem of estimating $k$ linear regressors with self-selection bias in $d$ dimensions with the maximum selection criterion, as introduced by Cherapanamjeri, Daskalakis, Ilyas, and Zampetakis [CDIZ23, STOC’23]. Our main result is a $operatorname{poly}(d,k,1/varepsilon) + {k}^{O(k)}$…
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Throughput-Optimal Scheduling Algorithms for LLM Inference and AI Agents
Throughput-Optimal Scheduling Algorithms for LLM Inference and AI Agents arXiv:2504.07347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As demand for Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI agents rapidly grows, optimizing systems for efficient LLM inference becomes critical. While significant efforts have targeted system-level engineering, little is explored through a mathematical modeling and queuing perspective. In this paper, we…
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Gradient-based Sample Selection for Faster Bayesian Optimization
Gradient-based Sample Selection for Faster Bayesian Optimization arXiv:2504.07742v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian optimization (BO) is an effective technique for black-box optimization. However, its applicability is typically limited to moderate-budget problems due to the cubic complexity in computing the Gaussian process (GP) surrogate model. In large-budget scenarios, directly employing the standard GP model faces significant…
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Performance of Rank-One Tensor Approximation on Incomplete Data
Performance of Rank-One Tensor Approximation on Incomplete Data arXiv:2504.07818v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We are interested in the estimation of a rank-one tensor signal when only a portion $varepsilon$ of its noisy observation is available. We show that the study of this problem can be reduced to that of a random matrix model whose spectral…
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Smoothed Distance Kernels for MMDs and Applications in Wasserstein Gradient Flows
Smoothed Distance Kernels for MMDs and Applications in Wasserstein Gradient Flows arXiv:2504.07820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Negative distance kernels $K(x,y) := – |x-y|$ were used in the definition of maximum mean discrepancies (MMDs) in statistics and lead to favorable numerical results in various applications. In particular, so-called slicing techniques for handling high-dimensional kernel summations profit…
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The Basis of Cognitive Complexity: Teaching CNNs to See Connections
The Basis of Cognitive Complexity: Teaching CNNs to See Connections Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information. Paulo freire One of the most heated discussions around artificial intelligence is: What aspects of human learning is it capable of capturing? Many authors suggest that artificial intelligence models do not possess the same…
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The Invisible Revolution: How Vectors Are (Re)defining Business Success
The Invisible Revolution: How Vectors Are (Re)defining Business Success In a world that focuses more on data, business leaders must understand vector thinking. At first, vectors may appear as complicated as algebra was in school, but they serve as a fundamental building block. Vectors are as essential as algebra for tasks like sharing a bill…
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How to Measure Real Model Accuracy When Labels Are Noisy
How to Measure Real Model Accuracy When Labels Are Noisy Ground truth is never perfect. From scientific measurements to human annotations used to train deep learning models, ground truth always has some amount of errors. ImageNet, arguably the most well-curated image dataset has 0.3% errors in human annotations. Then, how can we evaluate predictive models…
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Ivory Tower Notes: The Problem
Ivory Tower Notes: The Problem Did you ever spend months on a Machine Learning project, only to discover you never defined the “correct” problem at the start? If so, or even if not, and you are only starting with the data science or AI field, welcome to my first Ivory Tower Note, where I will address…
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8 examples of document version control
8 examples of document version control Document version control can help organizations improve their content management strategies if they choose the right approach, like labeling copies and purging old drafts. Go to techtarget
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Portnox Raises $37.5M in Series B Funding, Transforming Zero-Trust Security with Unified Access Control
Portnox Raises $37.5M in Series B Funding, Transforming Zero-Trust Security with Unified Access Control Portnox, a leading provider of cloud-native, zero-trust access control solutions, announced it has closed a $37.5 million Series B funding round, enabling the company to accelerate product innovation, expand market reach, and further empower resource-constrained security teams with accessible, enterprise-grade zero…
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Cohesity and Google Expand Partnership to Intelligently Tackle Cyber Resilience
Cohesity and Google Expand Partnership to Intelligently Tackle Cyber Resilience Cohesity, the leader in AI-powered data security, is broadening its existing partnership with Google Cloud to fortify enterprise cyber resilience with a variety of new capabilities. Go to dbta
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The Smart Automation Playbook: Elevating SQL Server Performance
The Smart Automation Playbook: Elevating SQL Server Performance As today’s database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database management. When DevOps teams and DBAs combine effective automation with Microsoft SQL Server use, it allows organizations to experience better server monitoring and…
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Mainframes, COBOL, and the Future of Legacy Databases
Mainframes, COBOL, and the Future of Legacy Databases For decades, mainframes and COBOL-based systems have been the backbone of enterprise computing, powering industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and government. Despite the rise of modern database technologies and cloud-based solutions, legacy databases remain deeply embedded in mission-critical operations. Go to dbta
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Putting Fun in Functional Dependency
Putting Fun in Functional Dependency Everyone knows and loves the first three normal forms. We go through the process of normalization to remove redundancies in our data structures. But the redundancies we remove have nothing to do with trying to save space. Instead, the desire is to prevent maintenance anomalies. The normalization process involves stepping…
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UK government urged to tackle inequality in ‘low-carbon tech’ like solar panels and electric cars
UK government urged to tackle inequality in ‘low-carbon tech’ like solar panels and electric cars The UK government needs to go beyond offering subsidies for low-carbon technologies (LCTs) like electric cars and solar panels for energy and heating, if it is to meet its net-zero targets by 2050, a new report from the University of…
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Using liquid air for grid-scale energy storage
Using liquid air for grid-scale energy storage As the world moves to reduce carbon emissions, solar and wind power will play an increasing role in electricity grids. But those renewable sources only generate electricity when it’s sunny or windy. So to ensure a reliable power grid—one that can deliver electricity 24/7—it’s crucial to have a…
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Google accused of harming kids by secretly grabbing data from school-provided tech products
Google accused of harming kids by secretly grabbing data from school-provided tech products Google is secretly using its education products, including those used in many Bay Area schools, to identify students individually, track their online activity including sites they visit and links they click, and “steal” their personal data for profit, a lawsuit filed by…
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Hackers breach Morocco’s social security database in an unprecedented cyberattack
Hackers breach Morocco’s social security database in an unprecedented cyberattack Morocco’s social security agency said troves of data were stolen from its systems in a cyberattack this week that resulted in personal information being leaked on the messaging app Telegram. Go to techxplore
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Digital tech’s rapid pace outstrips safety research, say researchers
Digital tech’s rapid pace outstrips safety research, say researchers Scientific research on the harms of digital technology is stuck in a “failing cycle” that moves too slowly to allow governments and society to hold tech companies to account, according to two leading researchers in a new report published in the journal Science. Go to techxplore
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RFK Jr. says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September
RFK Jr. says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September WASHINGTON — The nation’s top health agency will undertake a “massive testing and research effort” to determine the cause of autism, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine critic who has pushed a discredited theory that routine…
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BIO’s John Crowley on RFK Jr. and tariffs, plus calls for more federal biotech funding
BIO’s John Crowley on RFK Jr. and tariffs, plus calls for more federal biotech funding Is there more funding coming for the biotech industry? Will the pharmaceutical industry be hit with tariffs? And is it possible to reason with RFK Jr.? We talk about all that and more on this week’s episode of “The Readout…
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Health secretary RFK Jr. declares certain vaccines have ‘never worked,’ flummoxing scientists
Health secretary RFK Jr. declares certain vaccines have ‘never worked,’ flummoxing scientists Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has expressed another unorthodox view on vaccines, with the long-time vaccine critic declaring that vaccines for respiratory bugs that target a sole part of the pathogen they are meant to protect against do not work. The claim…
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STAT+: Arkansas may force companies to choose between running a PBM or pharmacies
STAT+: Arkansas may force companies to choose between running a PBM or pharmacies File this under “You can’t have it both ways.” An Arkansas bill that would prohibit pharmacy benefit managers from operating retail and mail-order pharmacies was passed by the state senate and is now headed to Gov. Sarah Sanders, the first time such…
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CDC officials plan for the agency’s splintering, but questions remain
CDC officials plan for the agency’s splintering, but questions remain NEW YORK — A top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official told staff this week to start planning for the agency’s splintering. Several parts of CDC — mostly those devoted to health threats that aren’t infectious — are being spun off into the soon-to-be-created Administration for…
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OpenAI Countersues Elon Musk, Accuses Billionaire of ‘Bad-Faith Tactics’
OpenAI Countersues Elon Musk, Accuses Billionaire of ‘Bad-Faith Tactics’ Emails from OpenAI allegedly show Musk pushed to abandon its nonprofit model, take majority equity, and become CEO. Vismaya V Go to decrypt.co
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Major Australian Bank CEO Apologises After Freezing Customer Funds Over Bitcoin Transfer
Major Australian Bank CEO Apologises After Freezing Customer Funds Over Bitcoin Transfer The CEO of Westpac’s apology comes as the Australian government moves to address debanking concerns for individuals. Sebastian Sinclair Go to decrypt.co
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ShareRing to Trial Blockchain ID in Australian Government Age Verification Push
ShareRing to Trial Blockchain ID in Australian Government Age Verification Push ShareRing is set to pilot its digital identity solution with school students as part of a federal initiative to boost online safety. Vince Dioquino Go to decrypt.co
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OpenSea Asks SEC for Clarity on NFT Marketplace Rules
OpenSea Asks SEC for Clarity on NFT Marketplace Rules OpenSea, which describes itself as a digital bazaar, wants regulators to draw a clear line between NFT marketplaces, exchanges, and brokers. Callan Quinn Go to decrypt.co
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Binance to Debut Reward-Bearing Asset For Its Futures Market
Binance to Debut Reward-Bearing Asset For Its Futures Market The new asset, which is not a tradable token, allows traders to earn rewards and use them as collateral. Mathew Di Salvo Go to decrypt.co
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Deep spatio-temporal point processes: Advances and new directions
Deep spatio-temporal point processes: Advances and new directions arXiv:2504.06364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatio-temporal point processes (STPPs) model discrete events distributed in time and space, with important applications in areas such as criminology, seismology, epidemiology, and social networks. Traditional models often rely on parametric kernels, limiting their ability to capture heterogeneous, nonstationary dynamics. Recent innovations…
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Deep Fair Learning: A Unified Framework for Fine-tuning Representations with Sufficient Networks
Deep Fair Learning: A Unified Framework for Fine-tuning Representations with Sufficient Networks arXiv:2504.06470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ensuring fairness in machine learning is a critical and challenging task, as biased data representations often lead to unfair predictions. To address this, we propose Deep Fair Learning, a framework that integrates nonlinear sufficient dimension reduction with deep…
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Sparsified-Learning for Heavy-Tailed Locally Stationary Processes
Sparsified-Learning for Heavy-Tailed Locally Stationary Processes arXiv:2504.06477v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparsified Learning is ubiquitous in many machine learning tasks. It aims to regularize the objective function by adding a penalization term that considers the constraints made on the learned parameters. This paper considers the problem of learning heavy-tailed LSP. We develop a flexible and…
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StealthRank: LLM Ranking Manipulation via Stealthy Prompt Optimization
StealthRank: LLM Ranking Manipulation via Stealthy Prompt Optimization arXiv:2504.05804v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The integration of large language models (LLMs) into information retrieval systems introduces new attack surfaces, particularly for adversarial ranking manipulations. We present StealthRank, a novel adversarial ranking attack that manipulates LLM-driven product recommendation systems while maintaining textual fluency and stealth. Unlike existing…
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A Metropolis-Adjusted Langevin Algorithm for Sampling Jeffreys Prior
A Metropolis-Adjusted Langevin Algorithm for Sampling Jeffreys Prior arXiv:2504.06372v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inference and estimation are fundamental aspects of statistics, system identification and machine learning. For most inference problems, prior knowledge is available on the system to be modeled, and Bayesian analysis is a natural framework to impose such prior information in the form…
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Deb8flow: Orchestrating Autonomous AI Debates with LangGraph and GPT-4o
Deb8flow: Orchestrating Autonomous AI Debates with LangGraph and GPT-4o Introduction I’ve always been fascinated by debates—the strategic framing, the sharp retorts, and the carefully timed comebacks. Debates aren’t just entertaining; they’re structured battles of ideas, driven by logic and evidence. Recently, I started wondering: could we replicate that dynamic using AI agents—having them debate each…
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Why CatBoost Works So Well: The Engineering Behind the Magic
Why CatBoost Works So Well: The Engineering Behind the Magic Gradient boosting is a cornerstone technique for modeling tabular data due to its speed and simplicity. It delivers great results without any fuss. When you look around you’ll see multiple options like LightGBM, XGBoost, etc. Catboost is one such variant. In this post, we will…
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Time Series Forecasting Made Simple (Part 1): Decomposition and Baseline Models
Time Series Forecasting Made Simple (Part 1): Decomposition and Baseline Models I used to avoid time series analysis. Every time I took an online course, I’d see a module titled “Time Series Analysis” with subtopics like Fourier Transforms, autocorrelation functions and other intimidating terms. I don’t know why, but I always found a reason to avoid…
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Mining Rules from Data
Mining Rules from Data Working with products, we might face a need to introduce some “rules”. Let me explain what I mean by “rules” in practical examples: Imagine that we’re seeing a massive wave of fraud in our product, and we want to restrict onboarding for a particular segment of customers to lower this risk. For…
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How to create an AWS Lambda function
How to create an AWS Lambda function Many developers are turning to AWS Lambda as an alternative to EC2 instances. Here are two ways to create a Lambda function. Go to techtarget
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Google enters new era of AI for data with launch of agents
Google enters new era of AI for data with launch of agents Agentic AI applications for data engineering and data science along with a new underlying knowledge engine aim to make data management and analytics easier and more efficient. Go to techtarget
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Dremio Supercharges Lakehouse Intelligence with Latest Updates
Dremio Supercharges Lakehouse Intelligence with Latest Updates Dremio, the Intelligent Data Lakehouse Platform, is marking the next generation of its latest platform release, offering breakthrough intelligence capabilities that help organizations accelerate AI and analytics projects, and reduce costs. Go to dbta
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Data Observability Considerations and Best Practices with Astronomer
Data Observability Considerations and Best Practices with Astronomer Examining the next evolution of data observability, experts from Astronomer joined DBTA’s webinar, Best Practices for Data Observability and Reliable Apache Airflow Pipelines, armed with valuable insights and strategies for adapting data observability to the needs of modern data and business. Go to dbta
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dbt Cloud Now Available on Google Cloud and Google Cloud Marketplace, Powering Data Quality and Trust
dbt Cloud Now Available on Google Cloud and Google Cloud Marketplace, Powering Data Quality and Trust dbt Labs, the pioneer in analytics engineering, is unveiling that dbt Cloud is now deployable on Google Cloud, as well as currently available on the Google Cloud Marketplace. Go to dbta
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AI with, for and by everyone can help maximize its benefits
AI with, for and by everyone can help maximize its benefits Humans’ ability to learn from one another across cultures over generations drives our success as a species as much as our individual intelligence. This collective cultural brain has led to new innovations and developed bodies of knowledge. Go to techxplore
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Chile and South Africa could be green hydrogen exporters, but setting up industries with debt is dangerous
Chile and South Africa could be green hydrogen exporters, but setting up industries with debt is dangerous Vast amounts of renewable energy are needed to produce green hydrogen, a new form of energy made by splitting water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen using renewable power. Go to techxplore
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What would happen if the US’s Section 230 went away? Exploring ‘the law that built the internet’
What would happen if the US’s Section 230 went away? Exploring ‘the law that built the internet’ Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, passed in 1996 as part of the Telecommunications Act, has become a political lightning rod in recent years. The law shields online platforms from liability for user-generated content while allowing moderation…