Kyle Vogt, co-founder and former CEO of autonomous vehicle company Cruise, has resigned. The news comes amid a period of controversy for Cruise, after the California Department of Motor Vehicles suspended its permits to operate self-driving vehicles following an incident where a pedestrian was hit and dragged by one of its robotaxis. Mo Elshenawy, executive […]
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Richard Dedekind was a renowned mathematician in the 19th century who made significant contributions to the field. He defined infinity rigorously and came up with the definition of real numbers that underpins modern mathematics. In one of his works, he explored a numerical pattern, which led to the discovery of what is now known as […]
In 2021, while performing routine maintenance, Tektronix personnel made an intriguing discovery in the crawl space below building 13. They stumbled upon a storage area filled with CRT funnel molds, which seemed to have been used for ceramics and subsequently forgotten. The molds consist of an inner mold made of aluminum and an outer mold […]
I have fond memories of building my first crystal radio in the 1950s, and I recently came across an old kit that was identical to the one I originally had. Restoring it brought back a flood of memories. Crystal radios were simple devices that used a demodulation scheme to receive AM radio stations. They captured […]
The author recently went on a 3-day trip to explore Sears houses and Frank Lloyd Wright houses in the suburbs of Chicago, or Chicagoland. They stayed at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Rosemont, which had interesting and unique architectural and design elements. The author and their sister visited various suburbs including Glen Ellyn, Villa Park, […]
OpenAI’s new interim CEO, Mira Murati, is reportedly looking to bring back Sam Altman, the ousted former CEO, and Greg Brockman, the former President, in some capacity. Although yet to be finalized, this move is surprising given that Altman was fired by the board and Brockman resigned in protest shortly after. Negotiations are currently taking […]
In this web content, the author discusses the differences between Hypermedia APIs and Data (JSON) APIs. They argue that tightly coupling a web application to a hypermedia API is a good approach and advocate for splitting a data API and hypermedia API. The author dismisses content negotiation as the right approach for returning both JSON […]
In their paper, “StyleTTS 2: Towards Human-Level Text-to-Speech through Style Diffusion and Adversarial Training with Large Speech Language Models,” authors Yinghao Aaron Li, Cong Han, Vinay S. Raghavan, Gavin Mischler, and Nima Mesgarani introduce StyleTTS 2, a text-to-speech (TTS) model that uses style diffusion and adversarial training with large speech language models to achieve human-like […]
The author discusses the technique of low-rank adaptation (LoRA) for training custom language models (LLMs), particularly in the context of open-source LLMs. They share the primary lessons derived from their experiments and address frequently asked questions about LoRA. They highlight that despite the randomness of LLM training, the outcomes remain consistent across multiple runs. They […]
This webpage provides access to slides, recordings, and a virtual machine for François Fleuret’s deep learning courses at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. The course covers a comprehensive introduction to deep learning using examples in the PyTorch framework. The materials include lectures on machine learning objectives, tensor operations, automatic differentiation, gradient descent, and specific deep […]