Parallelized sampling using exponential variates

As part of our recent work to support weighted sampling of Spark data frames in sparklyr,…

The Download: Google’s AI podcasts, and protecting your brain data

Google’s new AI podcasting tool, called Audio Overview, has become a surprise viral hit. The podcasting…

Protecting Democratic Institutions from Cyber Threats

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) is disrupting the technical infrastructure used by a persistent Russian nation-state…

Modeling relationships to solve complex problems efficiently | MIT News

The German philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche once said that “invisible threads are the strongest ties.” One could…

Helping robots zero in on the objects that matter

Imagine having to straighten up a messy kitchen, starting with a counter littered with sauce packets.…

State-of-the-art NLP models from R

Introduction The Transformers repository from “Hugging Face” contains a lot of ready to use, state-of-the-art models,…

People are using Google study software to make AI podcasts, and they’re weird and amazing

The tool generates a podcast called Deep Dive, which features a male and a female voice…

Thank you, teachers, for the stories we can’t fully express

Join us this World Teachers’ Day as we express our gratitude for educators everywhere. There aren’t…

How AI is improving simulations with smarter sampling techniques | MIT News

Imagine you’re tasked with sending a team of football players onto a field to assess the…

Stronger together: miniature robots in convoy for endoscopic surgery

Miniature robots on the millimeter scale often lack the strength to transport instruments for endoscopic microsurgery…