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Dec 27
2021

Meta’s Bean Machine: The Hot Topic In Probabilistic Programming

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Probabilistic modelling

Four major steps are entailed in generating successful probabilistic modelling through the Bean Machine. The modelling is based on generative techniques, the data collected from Python dictionaries where it is associated with random variables. The learning step improves the model’s knowledge based on observations, and the results are stored for further analysis.

Through probabilistic modelling, engineers and data scientists can account for random events in future predictions while measuring different uncertainties. This method is preferred because it offers uncertainty estimation, expressivity, and interpretability facilities. Let’s discuss these.

Dec 27
2021

Language modelling at scale: Gopher, ethical considerations, and retrieval

We are publishing a detailed study of a 280-billion parameter transformer language model called Gopher, a study of ethical and social risks associated with large language models, and a paper investigating a new architecture with better training efficiency.

Dec 26
2021

When hiring, I evaluate people on their velocity to learn

I seek to recognize Einstein before everyone knows that they are an Einstein. There left us 1 spot at the codegen team (works on Codex 2.0) and the language team (works on GPT-4). https://grnh.se/68b9465f4us

Dec 26
2021

Meet Stella — the pup who knows how to use 29 human words

Dictionary for dogs.

“What a shock,” said no dog lover ever.

Dec 26
2021

The battery invented 120 years before its time

At the turn of the 20th Century, Thomas Edison invented a battery with the unusual quirk of producing hydrogen. Now, 120 years later, the battery is coming into its own.

Dec 26
2021

Antarctica was once a rainforest. Could it be again?

The coldest continent on Earth used to be as warm as Italy. Here’s how we know.

A polar expedition drilled into the seafloor and unearthed 90-million-year-old tree roots.

Dec 25
2021

Scientists accidentally discover a first-of-its-kind mineral from deep inside Earth

WHEN OLIVER TSCHAUNER AND COLLEAGUES dusted off a sample of volcano-ejected diamond found in a South African mine, they had no idea that they were holding the first-ever natural sample of a new high-pressure mineral from deep within Earth.

While minuscule, researchers predict that this mineral is responsible for the movement of crucial components like rare earth metals and radioactive isotopes through the Earth’s mantle. To figure this out, the team turned to X-ray beams and lasers.

Using x-rays and lasers, scientists have analyzed the second-ever high-pressure mineral extracted from the earth’s lower mantle.

Dec 25
2021

Giant reservoir of ‘hidden water’ discovered on Mars

The hidden water was found at a site as large as the Netherlands.

The water likely exists as ice, making the region ripe for future exploration.

Dec 25
2021

Henry Kissinger: AI Will Prompt Consideration of What it Means to Be Human

WASHINGTON, December 24, 2021 – Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger says that further use of artificial intelligence will call into question what it means to be human, and that the technology cannot solve all those problems humans fail to address on their own.

Kissinger spoke at a Council on Foreign Relations event highlighting his new book “The Age of AI: And Our Human Future” on Monday along with co-author and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt in a conversation moderated by PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff.

Schmidt remarked throughout the event on unanswered questions about AI despite common use of the technology.

Dec 24
2021

Omicron is Coming to Town

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Performed by Don Caron.
Executive Producers Don Caron and Jerry Pender.

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