Micrograd.jl
A series on automatic differentiation in Julia. Part 1 provides an overview and defines explicit chain rules. This is part of a series. The other articles are: All source code can be found at MicroGrad.jl. Table of Contents 1 Introduction A major convenience of modern machine learning frameworks is automatic differentiation (AD). Training a machine […]
The Fall of StackOverflow: A Data-Driven Analysis
Did ChatGPT kill StackOverflow, or was it already dying? In recent years, the rise of advanced AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT has sparked discussions about the future of StackOverflow. Many articles and posts suggest that StackOverflow is in decline, attributing its struggles to these new technologies. While these claims are certainly understandble and […]
Cosmic Alpha Released
It’s happening! This is not a drill! The alpha version of COSMIC, our new desktop environment for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros, has been released. COSMIC adds new features, customization, performance, stability, and security. Its “alpha” state adds bugs. Bug reports are welcome, as are screenshots of your custom themes and panels. To make sure […]
Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?
Halo: The Master Chief Collection Battlefield 2042 Paladins Make sure to check recent updates, the game is known to break often (And the status may not update to reflect that) Black Desert Online Requires Proton GE or Proton Experimental Hunt: Showdown Logging in to the game works with BattlEye runtime, including trading, hideout management and […]
Thoughts on the Durov Arrest
Today we learn that Pavel Durov, founder of the popular messaging app Telegram, has been arrested as his private jet landed in France. Early indications are that the arrest stems from Telegram’s alleged noncompliance with French requests for content moderation and data disclosure: BREAKING: #Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested by French authorities. Early official comments […]
Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine
A next-generation COVID-19 mucosal vaccine is set to be a gamechanger not only when delivering the vaccine itself, but also for people who are needle-phobic. New Griffith University research, published in Nature Communications, has been testing the efficacy of delivering a COVID-19 vaccine via the nasal passages. Professor Suresh Mahalingam Professor Suresh Mahalingam from Griffith’s […]
Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines
Data Collection via Agent Play: Since we cannot collect human gameplay at scale, as a first stage we train an automatic RL-agent to play the game, persisting it’s training episodes of actions and observations, which become the training data for our generative model. Training the Generative Diffusion Model: We re-purpose a small diffusion model, Stable […]
Tesla’s TTPoE at Hot Chips 2024: Replacing TCP for Low Latency Applications
Last year at Hot Chips 2023, Tesla introduced their Dojo supercomputer. For Tesla, machine learning is focused on automotive applications like self driving cars. Training deals with video, which can demand a lot of IO bandwidth. As an example, the size of a single tensor could be 1.7 GB for the company’s vision applications. Tesla […]
KLEE Symbolic Execution Engine
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How Chrome Accessibility Works
This document explains the technical details behind Chrome accessibility code by starting at a high level and progressively adding more levels of detail. Please read the accessibility overview first. Accessibility for a simple (non-browser) application As described in the overview, every platform has its own accessibility APIs that are used by both assistive technology and […]