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On Jun 18, 2020
@NathanBenaich shared
Join us on Friday next week for @itsjonstokes' of @MIT talk on AI for antibiotics discovery at @RAAISorg online AI conference. His work shows how virtual screening and empirical lab work led to the discovery and validation of potent antibiotics. https://t.co/ic0vfPOAsp
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The Research and Applied AI Summit (

The Research and Applied AI Summit (

Jonathan Stokes is a Banting Fellow under the supervision of James Collins at MIT. He received his BHSc in 2011, graduating summa cum laude, and his PhD in antimicrobial chemical biology in ...

On Jun 18, 2020
@Miles_Brundage shared
RT @ch402: I think the most important thing I believe that people generally disagree with is probably that neural nets are composed of meaningful, interpretable features. Hoping our in depth characterization of curve detectors can help move the discussion forward: https://t.co/SeJA3279tZ https://t.co/FYjPxf0MIj
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Curve Detectors

Curve Detectors

Part one of a three part deep dive into the curve neuron family.

On Jun 18, 2020
@juliacarriew shared
Bank of America, Starbucks, Target, Facebook, Google and Microsoft have all claimed to support #BlackLivesMatter. Meanwhile, they have quietly funded police department purchases of weapons and surveillance tools through private police foundations https://t.co/G9Sx9jSHjS
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How Starbucks, Target, Google and Microsoft quietly fund police through private donations

How Starbucks, Target, Google and Microsoft quietly fund police through private donations

More than 25 large corporations in the past three years have contributed funding to private police foundations, new report says

On Jun 17, 2020
@GoAbiAryan shared
RT @spacy_io: Out now: spaCy v2.3 – our last big release before v3! 📦 Models for Chinese, Japanese, Danish, Polish & Romanian 📚 Word vectors for all model families 🚀 2-4× faster model loading 💬 Alpha support for Armenian, Gujarati & Malayalam 🐛 Various fixes https://t.co/ANpaMS3x33
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Introducing spaCy v2.3

Introducing spaCy v2.3

spaCy now speaks Chinese, Japanese, Danish, Polish and Romanian! Version 2.3 of the spaCy Natural Language Processing library adds models for five new languages. We've also updated all 15 ...

On Jun 15, 2020
@prostheticknowl shared
RT @NVIDIAAIDev: To generate a seemingly infinite number of portraits in a variety of painting styles, @NVIDIA researchers developed StyleGAN2. The new model, trained on NVIDIA V100 GPUs with @TensorFlow, will be presented at #CVPR2020. Learn more here: https://t.co/ThD0TmLL18
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Synthesizing High-Resolution Images with StyleGAN2

Synthesizing High-Resolution Images with StyleGAN2

Over the years, NVIDIA researchers have contributed several breakthroughs to GANs. The work builds on the team’s previously published StyleGAN project. Users can also modify the …

On Jun 18, 2020
@hardmaru shared
“Sequence modeling is a universal unsupervised learning algorithm… We deliberately chose to forgo hand coding any image specific knowledge in the form of convolutions, or techniques like relative attention, sparse attention, and 2D position embeddings.” https://t.co/h3hCjvMFRn https://t.co/6JyxBtb3Ql
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Image GPT

Image GPT

We find that, just as a large transformer model trained on language can generate coherent text, the same exact model trained on pixel sequences can generate coherent image completions and ...

On Jun 18, 2020
@Sam_L_Shead shared
"There's no question that information from Huawei routers has ultimately ended up in hands that would appear to be the state," Eric Schmidt claims https://t.co/3CtrgXmhMX
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Eric Schmidt: Huawei has engaged in unacceptable practices

Eric Schmidt: Huawei has engaged in unacceptable practices

Google's ex-chief raises security concerns but says West should not disengage from Chinese tech.

On Jun 18, 2020
@arstechnica shared
Why one email app went to war with Apple—and why neither one is right https://t.co/IuI95BIii0
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Why one email app went to war with Apple—and why neither one is right

Why one email app went to war with Apple—and why neither one is right

Op-ed: As antitrust probes and WWDC loom, one developer sparks a firestorm.