Month: April 2025

The TechBeat: LangChain Promised an Easy AI Interface for MySQL—Here’s What It Really Took (4/20/2025)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Embeddings 101: Unlocking Semantic Relationships in Text By @riteshmodi [ 14 Min read ] Text embeddings power AI language understanding. Learn … Read more

‘Crypto is not communism’ — Exec slams BIS’ take on crypto

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The Bank for International Settlements’ (BIS) push to isolate crypto markets and its controversial recommendations on DeFi and stablecoins is “dangerous” for the entire financial system, warns the head of a blockchain investment firm. “Many of their recommendations and conclusions — perhaps due to a mix of fear, arrogance, or ignorance — are completely uninformed … Read more

Evaluating TnT-LLM Text Classification: Human Agreement and Scalable LLM Metrics

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Method and 3.1 Phase 1: Taxonomy Generation 3.2 Phase 2: LLM-Augmented Text Classification 4 Evaluation Suite and 4.1 Phase 1 Evaluation Strategies 4.2 Phase 2 Evaluation Strategies 5 Experiments and 5.1 Data 5.2 Taxonomy Generation 5.3 LLM-Augmented Text Classification 5.4 Summary of Findings and … Read more

Congress has questions about 23andMe bankruptcy

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3The leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce said they are investigating how 23andMe’s bankruptcy might affect customers’ data. Representatives Brett Guthrie, Gus Bilirakis, and Gary Palmer (all Republicans) sent a letter Thursday to the genetic testing company’s interim CEO Joe Selsavage asking a number of questions about how 23andMe will handle customer … Read more