#otd in 2019 scientists released the first-ever photo of a black hole. Here’s the moment that Prof. Katie Bouman and colleagues first processed the image: https://
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First Black Hole Image: AI Processing Breakthrough by Katie Bouman
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The 12 Types of Machine Learning Papers Explained
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The 12 types of ML papers. (created by @natashajaques @maxhkw
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Julia Programming Language Advances Quantitative Biology Analysis
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The Julia programming language could meet growing demands for quantitative methods in biology, says new MIT paper. Its speed, flexibility, thriving package ecosystem, and readability could enable new ways of analyzing biological data & systems: https://
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Understand Problem Domain Before Solving Solutions
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"Don’t even start considering solutions until you understand the problem. Your goal should be to “solve” the problem mostly within the problem domain, not the solution domain." — Oz Nova
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MIT’s Four-Legged Robot Plays Soccer Using Reinforcement Learning
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MIT’s four-legged robotic system now plays soccer on diverse terrains. It was trained in simulation using reinforcement learning, and uses a mixture of onboard sensing and compute to dribble: https://
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Apple Founded by Jobs and Wozniak on This Day 1976
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Apple was founded #otd in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak: https://
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MIT Ranks Number One in Computer Science and AI
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MIT ranks No. 1 in 2023: *Computer Science & Information Systems
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New Method Grows Smaller Language Models Into Larger Ones
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New method “grows” smaller language models that were already trained into larger ones. The technique performs better than similar methods, saving about 50% of the computational cost required to train a large model: https://
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Historic 1946 RAM Byte: Computing Hardware Evolution
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This is what one "byte" of RAM looked like in 1946. (Why "byte" is in quotes: https://
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Hectare: Type-Directed Program Synthesizer 100x Faster
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Want to get a program from just its type? Meet new type-directed synthesizer Hectare. Over 100x faster than state of the art on some problems — all with 10x less code. All thanks to a new kind of solver, ECTAs, solving a decades-old problem in synthesis: https://
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