The Birthday Paradox Experiment
Welcome to the party! Today you will participate in an interactive experiment about the birthday paradox. We will use you, the reader, as part of our data, to help explain what it is, why it is cool, and how it works. By Russell Samora Hello! I’m Russell. On what day of the year were you […]
Autoflow, a Graph RAG based and conversational knowledge base tool
Introduction An open source GraphRAG (Knowledge Graph) built on top of TiDB Vector and LlamaIndex and DSPy. Perplexity-style Conversational Search page: Our platform features an advanced built-in website crawler, designed to elevate your browsing experience. This crawler effortlessly navigates official and documentation sites, ensuring comprehensive coverage and streamlined search processes through sitemap URL scraping. You […]
Key Transparency and the Right to Be Forgotten
This post is the first in a new series covering some of the reasoning behind decisions made in my project to build end-to-end encryption for direct messages on the Fediverse. (Collectively, Fedi-E2EE.) Although the reasons for specific design decisions should be immediately obvious from reading the relevant specification (and if not, I consider that a […]
U.S. women are outpacing men in college completion in every major group
Students look for family and friends during UCLA’s commencement ceremony on June 16, 2023. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images) Women between the ages of 25 and 34 continue to be more likely than men in the same age group to have a bachelor’s degree. The gender gap in bachelor’s degree completion […]
Broadcastarr: Stream web content through your Jellyfin instance
Broadcastarr is a service that allows you to broadcast media content retrieved from web pages. The different actions are split into tasks that are handled by the AgendaTS service. The tasks are: Publish category Ensures that the active categories are published, and starts indexing the categories for each active indexer. Index category Indexes the category […]
What’s Next for WebGPU
François Beaufort Corentin Wallez Published: November 21, 2024 The WebGPU specification is always evolving, with major companies like Google, Mozilla, Apple, Intel, and Microsoft meeting weekly to discuss its development. The most recent GPU for the Web working group meeting offered a glimpse into the main objectives and features planned for the next iteration of […]
WhisperNER: Unified Open Named Entity and Speech Recognition
Abstract:Integrating named entity recognition (NER) with automatic speech recognition (ASR) can significantly enhance transcription accuracy and informativeness. In this paper, we introduce WhisperNER, a novel model that allows joint speech transcription and entity recognition. WhisperNER supports open-type NER, enabling recognition of diverse and evolving entities at inference. Building on recent advancements in open NER research, […]
Autopoietic Networks
A type of cellular automaton with the intent of simulating autopoiesis in an emergent manner, with a simple scaling rule and with each unit having binary state attribution and a corresponding gate associated to it. Such concept of autopoiesis is as introduced by Maturana and Varela in Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living, […]
Security researchers identify new malware targeting Linux
ESET researchers have identified multiple samples of Linux backdoor, which we have named WolfsBane, that we attribute with high confidence to the Gelsemium advanced persistent threat (APT) group. This China-aligned threat actor has a known history dating back to 2014 and until now, there have been no public reports of Gelsemium using Linux malware. Additionally, […]
Show HN: Llama 3.2 Interpretability with Sparse Autoencoders
Source: OpenAI – Extracting Concepts from GPT-4 Project Overview Modern LLMs encode concepts by superimposing multiple features into the same neurons and then interpeting them by taking into account the linear superposition of all neurons in a layer. This concept of giving each neuron multiple interpretable meanings they activate depending on the context of other […]