Congratulations to all of our #SASHackathon teams as they submit their hacks. Stay tuned to see the humanitarian problems they've solved + their innovative solutions. The winning team will be announced at #SASInnovate 2025. https://
sas.com/sas/events/hac
kathon.html
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SAS Hackathon Teams Submit Innovative Humanitarian Solutions
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LLaVA-Critic: Open-Source Multimodal Model Evaluator
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LLaVA-Critic: Learning to Evaluate Multimodal Models https://
arxiv.org/abs/2410.02712 https://
llava-vl.github.io/blog/2024-10-0
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OpenR: Open Source Framework for Advanced LLM Reasoning
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OpenR: An Open Source Framework for Advanced Reasoning with Large Language Models https://
github.com/openreasoner/o
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Meta-learning Demands More Trial-and-Error Than Standard Learning
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Meta-learning requires a lot more trial-and-error than learning.
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AI Model SPOT Predicts Substrate-Transporter Proteins Accurately
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Scientists at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany have developed an AI-powered model called SPOT, designed to accurately predict substrate-transporter proteins that are responsible for the ongoing movement of substrates into and out of a biological cell. Click on the
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Engineer’s Guide to AI Galaxy: 2017 Vision Remains Relevant
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I just published "An Engineer’s Guide to the Artificial Intelligence Galaxy" – This speech was given in 2017, and shows my thoughts about the future of AI. In light of today’s huge progress in GenAI, it is interesting to revisit this speech and see that it is still relevant and
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SQL Queries as Code: AI-Driven Database Approach
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Bet Against SQL: Queries as Code by James Cowling & Sujay Jayakar https://
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AI Rendering Optimization: 2-5x Speed Improvement via Upscaling
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It already runs 10 fps, so I believe another speed up of 2-5x should be realistic. Also, maybe they car render it in lower resolution and with sparse pixels, and then use some fast upscaling and denosing to get to 4k. I think the biggest problem is consistency over longer time
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Science as Accessible Wizardry: Democratizing Technology and Logic
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What better way to truth than through than science? We have wizardry and spells – they’re called science, technology, and logic. Spells that we can all learn and cast, no esoteric schools of wizardry required.
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Borges on Loss: What Infinite Have We Lost?
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As Borges said, who of us has never felt that they have lost something infinite?