Dictaphone Trap

:::info Astounding Stories of Super-Science October 2022, by Astounding Stories is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD – THE WHOLE TRUTH Astounding Stories of Super-Science October 2022: THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD – THE WHOLE TRUTH By Agatha Christie ::: … Read more

How Glooko Turns 3B+ Data Points/Month into Lifesaving Diabetes Healthcare with Tiger Data

:::tip This is an installment of our “Community Member Spotlight” series, in which we invite our customers to share their work, spotlight their success, and inspire others with new ways to use technology to solve problems. In this edition, Per Grapatin, Vice-President of Engineering at Glooko, a diabetes monitoring solution used by 1M+ patients, shares how … Read more

Apple Quietly Built a New AI Stack and It Runs on Your Device

:::info 2025 Tech Report By Apple ::: We introduce two multilingual, multimodal foundation language models that power Apple Intelligence features across Apple devices and services: (i) a ∼3B-parameter on-device model optimized for Apple silicon through architectural innovations such as KV-cache sharing and 2-bit quantization-aware training; and (ii) a scalable server model built on a novel … Read more

AI Model Develops Object Recognition Without Human Guidance

:::info Authors: Mathilde Caron, Facebook AI Research, Inria Hugo Touvron, Facebook AI Research, Sorbonne University Ishan Misra, Facebook AI Research Herve Jegou, Facebook AI Research Julien Mairal, Inria Piotr Bojanowski, Facebook AI Research Armand Joulin, Facebook AI Research ::: Abstract In this paper, we question if self-supervised learning provides new properties to Vision Transformer (ViT) … Read more

Structural Coercion and the AI Workplace

Part 3: Why Huxley aged better than Orwell on this question, and what the adoption curve is actually measuring A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love … Read more