Friday — November 8, 2024
Microsoft Notepad introduces AI text editing, Nvidia overtakes Apple as the largest company, and MLGarden visually simplifies neural network training without complex math.
News
Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now
Microsoft is introducing AI-powered text editing to Notepad, a feature called Rewrite that allows users to rephrase sentences, adjust tone, and modify the length of their content. Additionally, Microsoft will also roll out AI image editing tools in Paint, including Generative Fill and Generative Erase, to Windows Insiders for testing.
AI for real-time fusion plasma behavior prediction and manipulation
Researchers have developed a groundbreaking machine learning methodology for multimodal super-resolution diagnostics, enabling the capture of detailed structural evolution and responses to perturbations in complex systems like fusion plasmas. This advancement has broader applications, potentially revolutionizing diagnostics in fields such as astronomy, astrophysics, and medical imaging, and will aid in developing effective Edge Localized Mode (ELM) suppression strategies for future fusion reactors.
Nvidia Rides AI Wave to Pass Apple as Largest Company
Nvidia Corp. has surpassed Apple Inc. as the world's largest company by market capitalization, highlighting the growing dominance of artificial intelligence on Wall Street. Nvidia's rise to the top spot underscores the significant impact of AI on the tech industry and the market.
Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five Eyes members
Meta has announced that it will allow US government agencies and contractors working on national security to use its artificial intelligence models, called Llama, for military purposes. This is a shift from Meta's previous policy that prohibited the use of its technology for military purposes, and the company says it is now backing "responsible and ethical uses" of the technology that support the United States and "democratic values" in a global race for AI supremacy.
Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers
Anthropic has teamed up with Palantir and AWS to sell its AI family of models called Claude to defense customers. The collaboration will allow U.S. intelligence and defense agencies to access Anthropic's AI models through Palantir's platform, hosted on AWS.
Research
AI Knowledge and Reasoning: Emulating Expert Creativity in Scientific Research
Researchers tested AI's ability to emulate expert creativity in scientific research by having it analyze and predict outcomes from recently published studies it had not been trained on. The results showed the AI's proficiency in understanding specialized research, deductive reasoning, and evaluating evidence, suggesting its potential to transform academia and automate roles requiring knowledge-based creativity.
Evaluating the world model implicit in a generative model
Researchers propose new evaluation metrics to assess whether large language models have learned coherent world models, and find that despite performing well on existing diagnostics, these models often have incoherent world models that can lead to fragility when applied to related tasks. The new metrics, inspired by the Myhill-Nerode theorem, reveal the limitations of current generative models in capturing the underlying logic of various domains.
Physics-informed Shadowgraph Network: End-to-end Density Field Reconstruction
A novel approach using physics-informed neural networks is presented to quantitatively reconstruct density fields from shadowgraph images. This method combines neural networks with physical principles to achieve accurate reconstructions.
Age Normalized Testosterone Peaks at Series B for Male Startup Founders
A study of 107 male Y Combinator founders found that age-normalized testosterone levels increased by 99.6% from pre-seed to Series B funding, then dropped by 42.2% afterwards, coinciding with a spike in cortisol levels. This suggests that early startup success boosts confidence and dominance, while later-stage pressures erode these feelings, or alternatively, that high-testosterone founders are more likely to secure larger funding rounds.
Age Normalized Testosterone Peaks at Series B for Male Startup Founders
A study of 107 male Y Combinator founders found that age-normalized testosterone levels increased by 99.6% from pre-seed to Series B funding, then dropped by 42.2% afterwards, coinciding with a spike in cortisol levels. This suggests that early startup success boosts confidence and dominance, while later-stage pressures erode these feelings, or alternatively, that high-testosterone founders are more likely to secure larger funding rounds.
Code
Show HN: TutoriaLLM – AI Integrated programming tutorials
TutoriaLLM is a self-hosted web-based programming learning platform designed for K-12 education, targeting both content creators and learners. It offers a community in English through Discord and provides more information on its official website and a demo version for users to try.
Show HN: MLGarden, a tool/toy to build and train simple neural networks visually
MLGarden is a visual editor that allows users to create and train neural networks without requiring linear algebra or advanced math, using a computation graph system. The system uses backpropagation to calculate derivatives and optimize the network, allowing users to define an error function and iteratively improve the network's performance on a given task.
Show HN: Personalized remote job recommendation using resume Analysis
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Show HN: I built an agent to make open source contributions easier
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A mod that turns TI-84 calculators into GPT-based cheating device
The TI-32 has added Gemini API support, paginated response on GPT, and the ability to reply to GPT. Documentation and a video are available for further information, although the project is not fully built.