Can we design a generative AI algorithm that works for any data type? Together with a team at FAIR, CSAIL researchers propose a "unified theory of GenAI" called "Generator Matching" (GM). GM brings together a range of GenAI models, allowing researchers to build models for any
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Barbara Liskov Birthday: MIT Professor and Turing Award Winner
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Happy bday to MIT Prof. Barbara Liskov, Turing winner & programming pioneer: https://t.co/N1oK03hrUQ pic.twitter.com/qNalDmqeIs
— MIT CSAIL (@MIT_CSAIL) 7 novembre 2024Happy bday to MIT Prof. Barbara Liskov, Turing winner & programming pioneer: http://
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PortaChrome: Reprogrammable Surfaces with UV RGB LEDs
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In the field of reprogrammable surfaces (or items whose appearances we can digitally alter), users can redesign things like a wall or mug w/important information like health stats.
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The portable light system & design tool "PortaChrome" uses UV & RGB LEDs to activate photochromic… pic.twitter.com/GE1zw61zVlIn the field of reprogrammable surfaces (or items whose appearances we can digitally alter), users can redesign things like a wall or mug w/important information like health stats. The portable light system & design tool "PortaChrome" uses UV & RGB LEDs to activate photochromic
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Bell Labs Releases First Unix Programmer’s Manual 1971
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#otd in 1971 Bell Labs released the first Unix Programmer's Manual. Download the free PDF here: http://
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Yann LeCun’s 1998 gradient-based deep learning breakthrough
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#otd in 1998 @ylecun submitted a paper on “gradient-based” deep learning for document recognition. It took more than a decade before the world finally warmed to neural networks: https://
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Why Programmers Confuse Halloween with Christmas: Oct 31 Equals Dec 25
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Why can’t programmers tell the difference between Halloween & Christmas? Because oct 31 = dec 25. #HappyHalloween
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Genetic Research Advances from Broad Institute and MIT Collaboration
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Authors: @manoliskellis & @yk_tani Related thread: https://
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MIT Hypometric Genetics Unlocks Hidden Measurement Data
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In scientific research, measurements that are too small to be quantified are usually labeled as "below the limit of quantification" & discarded. MIT CSAIL researchers recently developed the "hypometric genetics" approach, which uses these typically disregarded measurements to
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Tim Berners-Lee Introduces HTML Markup Language in 1991
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#otd in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee first described the HTML mark-up language in a message to the WWW-talk mailing list: https://
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First Online Message: 55 Years of Internet History
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55 years ago today, UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock & his team sent the first online message: https://
bit.ly/4fgQQsR Funny enough, it was a typo: "LO" instead of the intended "LOGIN." v/UCLA & Reuters
