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Researchers from the Paris Brain Institute have gained new insights into the neurological process of dying. They found that during oxygen deprivation, the brain undergoes a series of changes, including a surge in gamma and beta waves that are potentially linked to near-death experiences. This is followed by a “wave of death” that marks the […]
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The author presents a novel approach to the problem of Kalman Filtering using Transformers, which are autoregressive deep learning architectures. Transformers have recently demonstrated impressive performance in various tasks, including vision, language, and robotics. In this study, the author shows that Transformers can approximate the Kalman Filter with high accuracy. They introduce a causally-masked Transformer, […]
OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are a widely used goal-setting framework that helps companies track progress and ensure alignment towards specific objectives. However, in my experience, OKRs can sometimes become rigid and frustrating due to their heavy focus on metrics and constant measurement. As a team manager, I have also felt pressure to continuously monitor […]
In this web content, the author, Bess Stillman, discusses her experiences as an ER doctor and the wife of someone with squamous cell carcinoma. She shares her struggles with memory and the fear of forgetting important moments with her husband. She talks about the videos they made together to document their life and ensure she […]
Australia has become the first country to ban engineered stone due to the rising cases of the lung disease silicosis among workers. The ban, which will start on July 1, 2024, in most states and territories, comes after hundreds of workers developed silicosis from working with the popular material used for kitchen benches and bathroom […]
Biscuit tokens provide decentralized verification through public key cryptography, allowing any application with the public key to verify the token. A unique feature of Biscuit is the ability to generate new tokens with fewer rights, such as restricting write access or adding an expiration date. Authorization policies for Biscuit are written in a logic language, […]
This C library provides an implementation of channels, inspired by Hoare and popularized by the Go programming language. It supports buffered and unbuffered channels, as well as the select statement in both blocking and non-blocking forms. Currently, the library works with Ptreads, but support for Win32 threads is still in progress. To use the library, […]
Windows AI Studio Preview simplifies generative AI app development by providing developers with a comprehensive set of tools and models. It allows users to browse and download AI models from Azure AI Studio Catalog and Hugging Face, and then fine-tune and test them for use in Windows applications. The computation happens locally, so users need […]
This web content introduces Concept Sliders, a method that allows artists to have precise control over attributes in generated images produced by text-to-image models. Artists often struggle to fine-tune attributes like lighting or eye size without disrupting the overall structure of the image. Concept Sliders address this issue by training low-rank adaptors on top of […]
In this article, the authors present SMERF, a view synthesis approach that achieves high accuracy in real-time rendering of large scenes. They highlight the tension between explicit scene representations and neural fields, with the latter surpassing the former in quality but being expensive for real-time applications. SMERF overcomes these challenges by using a hierarchical model […]