7/ Visual Instruction Tuning – uses language-only GPT-4 to generate multimodal language-image instruction-following data; applies instruction tuning and introduces LLaVA, a large multimodal model for general-purpose visual and language understanding.
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Generative Search Engines Citation Accuracy Audit Results
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4/ Verifiability in Generative Search Engines – performs human evaluation to audit popular generative search engines like Bing Chat & NeevaAI; only 52% of statements are supported by citations & 75% of citations support their associated sentence. https://
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tus/1649075151303221249?s=20
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Deep Learning Framework Enables Large-Scale Biomolecular Dynamics Simulation
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3/ Deep Learning for Large-Scale Biomolecular Dynamics – presents a framework for large-scale biomolecular simulation; this is achieved through the high accuracy of equivariant deep learning and the ability to scale to large and long simulations. https://
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tatus/1649214171236691969?s=20
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Quantum Breakfast at Defcon: Learn and Engage with Quantum Village
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If you are attending this quantum breakfast be sure to ask about ways to learn more and get involved. That will be a good prompt for me to remind everyone to follow and engage with the #Defcon @quantum_village
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Quantum Encryption vs Computing: Defense or Offense Dominance
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In 2001 I published a paper titled Quantum Encryption vs Quantum Computing: Will the Defense or Offense Dominate? Great engineering has advanced quantum compute and security since then. But it remains a critical question to explore. Lets see what we come up with at #RSAC2023
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Quantum Computing Security Remains Critical for Enterprise Strategy
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Things change really rapidly in science and tech and in enterprise IT. but the foundational points made in this 2019 post on quantum computing and quantum security still hold true: https://
oodaloop.com/archive/2019/0
9/12/the-executives-guide-to-quantum-computing-what-you-need-to-know-for-your-strategy-today/
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DEC’s Western Research Lab: Innovation Hub for Computing
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I actually joined DEC's Western Research Laboratory, and then Compaq acquired DEC later. DEC WRL was a small lab (~30 researchers), but doing a ton of interesting things: AltaVista came out of there, multicore processors, early handheld computers, link-time optimizers, …
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AI Development Cycles Periods of Flatness and Rapid Growth
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There have been several extended periods of flatness, followed by rapid rises to new plateaus
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Public University Experience in AI Research and Education
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I loved my time at two fantastic public universities (
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Date Manipulation Techniques for Analytics and Reporting Tasks
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Working with dates is a common task and is important for downstream tasks such as reporting. In this week's challenge, we introduce another date manipulation you may encounter. http://
ow.ly/e50L50NOh53 #WeeklyChallenge #AnalyticsForAll
