The Data Security Duo: Data Encryption and Vulnerability Scans

With the rise of tools such as Wiz and Dig, data vulnerability scans have become more accessible than ever, allowing companies to quickly identify and address potential security issues. However, identifying vulnerabilities is just the first step—addressing them effectively requires robust solutions. While scans can pinpoint weaknesses, encryption ultimately protects sensitive information. The combination empowers teams to effectively … Read more

Meet AELF: HackerNoon Company of the Week

Welcome back to another HackerNoon Company of the Week! If you’re not already in the loop, each week, the team at HN showcases a new company from our tech company database or from our awesome business blogging partners. This week, we’re pleased to bring you Aelf, a newcomer to our business blogging program and a … Read more

Why Embeddings Are the Back Bone of LLMs

I’m going to cover the basics and provide you with a clear road map for understanding how these models absorb and process the complex world of human language. What Are Embeddings? Imagine trying to use simple pictures to express a complicated idea. Embeddings function similarly but with numerical values. They transform complicated text data into … Read more

Beyond the Hype: How Data Annotation Powers Generative AI

From Alexa playing your favorite music to Google Assistant booking your dental appointments and giving you reminders, AI has swiftly become an indispensable part of our daily routines. It has quickly woven itself into the fabric of our daily lives, transforming everything from visual art and storytelling to music composition. Yet, behind the impressive outputs … Read more

Here’s How we Made a Real-time Phishing Website Detector for MacOS

This real-time, on-device antiphishing solution for macOS takes reference-based detection to a new level, instantly warning Mac users they are on a phishing website. First, background How many unique phishing websites were published in 2023? The Antiphishing Working Group counted almost 5 million. At the beginning of 2024, MacPaw’s cybersecurity division Moonlock reported about the … Read more

Most Promising and Exciting Investment Sectors in Europe in 2024

The European investment environment in 2024 is marked by a surge of exciting and promising sectors that are capturing the attention of venture capitalists and investors alike. According to the Venture Pulse Report by KPMG, the European venture capital market experienced a significant increase in activity in the second quarter of 2024, with investments rising … Read more

Deriving the DPO Objective Under the Plackett-Luce Model

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Deriving the DPO Objective Under the Bradley-Terry Model

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Deriving the Optimum of the KL-Constrained Reward Maximization Objective

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Behind the Scenes: The Team Behind DPO

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GPT-4 vs. Humans: Validating AI Judgment in Language Model Training

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Theoretical Analysis of Direct Preference Optimization

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Bypassing the Reward Model: A New RLHF Paradigm

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How AI Learns from Human Preferences

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Simplifying AI Training: Direct Preference Optimization vs. Traditional RL

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Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model

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The Noonification: The Good Quarter (8/25/2024)

How are you, hacker? 🪐What’s happening in tech this week: The Noonification by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our top 5 stories of the day, every day at noon your local time! Set email preference here. ## Famous Companies That Have Sunk Big Money in AI, Blockchain, and Web3 By @aelfblockchain … Read more

Bitcoin and Politics: The First Sin of Bitcoin

Bitcoin is not only a religion; it is a philosophy. Yes, Bitcoin is both an innovation and an economic messiah as shown in my previous article. Similar to every religion, Bitcoin should be mindful of its revolution. As an asset backed by faith, Bitcoin is an envy of conventional financial systems. In this article, I … Read more

Introducing FauxRPC: How Does it Work?

I would like to introduce FauxRPC, a powerful tool that empowers you to accelerate development and testing by effortlessly generating fake implementations of gRPC, gRPC-Web, Connect, and REST services. If you have a protobuf-based workflow, this tool could help. Why FauxRPC? Faster Development & Testing: Work independently without relying on fully functional backend services. Isolation … Read more

Dev Diary #2: Run Away from Nesting Functions in Your Code

Picture the scene: You have a critical bugfix to make in your payments system, and the stakeholder is nervously watching on from the corner of the room asking helpful things like “How close are we to the fix?”. You start by looking at some code in get-payment-methods.ts, the top-level entry-point of an API route. // get-payment-methods.ts const … Read more

Educational Byte: GBYTE Total Supply vs Other Coins

In general, ‘supply’ indicates the quantity or amount of something available for use. In finances (including cryptocurrencies), it refers to the total amount of a particular asset, like a coin, that is available or will ever be available in the market. Commonly, fiat currencies have unlimited supplies, while cryptocurrencies often come with limited supplies. That’s … Read more

The Noonification: OpenAI Made an AI Detection Tool, So Why Isn’t It Releasing It? (8/24/2024)

How are you, hacker? 🪐What’s happening in tech this week: The Noonification by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our top 5 stories of the day, every day at noon your local time! Set email preference here. ## Introducing Dev Encyclopedia: A Wikipedia Specifically for Developers By @buzzpy [ 3 Min read … Read more