How should entrepreneurs think about new business opportunities in AI?Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman on an October episode of the podcast Masters of Scale that startups can find a niche in fine-tuning AI models with accurate examples. Fine-tuning means revising the models with examples so they perform better with fewer hallucinations.”You have to show [an AI model] tens of thousands of examples of good behavior, and you have to fine-tune those into the model,” Suleyman said. “The good news is that tens of thousands of examples are very accessible to many niche domains or specific…
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James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust Slowly cracking through the dense pack ice of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea is hefty, ice-breaking research vessel S. A. Agulhas II (pictured below). It was part of Endurance22, a successful 2022 expedition to locate the sunken ship of explorer Ernest Shackleton. James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust Endurance went down in 1915 after it was trapped by pack ice during its first voyage – leaving him and his crew of 27 men stranded, with little hope of rescue. “The story of survival of Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance is a legendary feat of leadership, grit,…
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’ differing styles were on full display during dueling rallies Friday night in Milwaukee, the largest city in one of the nation’s most important swing states.The two held late night rallies roughly six miles apart in Wisconsin’s largest city, with Harris generally sticking to the script in a speech that lasted 24 minutes, while Trump gave a signature rally speech, veering off-script and rambling on odd topics including his audio equipment, while touching on a wide-range of issues over nearly 90 minutes.Trump spoke to a packed Fiserv Forum, the home of Milwaukee Bucks, spending time on…
For a machine that’s designed to replicate a star, the world’s newest stellarator is a surprisingly humble-looking apparatus. The kitchen-table-size contraption sits atop stacks of bricks in a cinder-block room at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in Princeton, N.J., its parts hand-labeled in marker. The PPPL team invented this nuclear-fusion reactor, completed last year, using mainly off-the-shelf components. Its core is a glass vacuum chamber surrounded by a 3D-printed nylon shell that anchors 9,920 meticulously placed permanent rare-earth magnets. Sixteen copper-coil electromagnets resembling giant slices of pineapple wrap around the shell crosswise. The arrangement of magnets forms the defining…
The animosity and anger ahead of the November US presidential election will soon turn toward violence and absolute civil unrest. I will not mention the name of the application, but perhaps some of our US readers have received texts or emails urging them to sign up. While it is illegal to see who someone voted for in the election, whether someone voted or not is public record. “Do some snooping…Check up on your friends, boyfriend, hookup, or whoever you want with this link. Friends don’t let friends skip elections!” the message repeats. The creators are primarily targeting young voters with…
Credit: Infrogmation of New Orleans, via Wikimedia Commons Nearly 63 million Americans have already cast ballots ahead of the Nov. 5 election. With just days to go before the election, some 62,941,182 have already voted. That includes 33,097,262 in-person early votes and 29,726,085 mail ballots returned. Some 66,672,015 mail ballots had been requested as of Thursday afternoon, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab early voter tracker. In states that record party-affiliation, Democrats cast 11,972,215 early ballots (38.9%), while Republicans cast 11,100,748 early ballots (36%), according to the tracker. More than 100 million voters went to the polls earlier for the 2020 general election. …
Romance rumors between the two continue to swirl, fueled in part by their heartfelt performance during Disney Night on “Dancing with the Stars” on October 22. Dancing to “Kiss the Girl” from Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” Tran and Farber captivated the audience with a performance that concluded with a sweet moment as Sasha kissed Jenn on the forehead, sparking even more speculation about their chemistry.As the judges took their turns giving feedback, Derek Hough couldn’t resist adding his thoughts.Article continues below advertisementDerek Hough ‘Ships’ Jenn Tran And Sasha FarberMEGAWhen giving the couple scores on their Disney Night performance, Hough playfully…
WASHINGTON: The United States announced on Friday (Nov 1) the deployment of additional military assets to the Middle East, including ballistic missile defence destroyers and long-range B-52 bomber aircraft, serving as a warning to Iran as it and Israel trade tit-for-tat strikes. “Should Iran, its partners, or its proxies use this moment to target American personnel or interests in the region, the United States will take every measure necessary to defend our people,” Pentagon spokesman Major General Pat Ryder said in a statement. The additional resources build on previous US defence deployments to the Middle East in support of Israel, including…
Republicans wanted some so-called provisional ballots to be rejected.The United States Supreme Court has dismissed an effort by Republicans to prevent the counting of provisional ballots in Pennsylvania – a move that would have meant thousands of votes were not tallied. Republicans in the state, which Joe Biden and the Democrats narrowly won in the 2020 US presidential election on their way to victory, had argued that “tens of thousands of votes” could be at stake and ought to have been rejected. Reports suggested that as of late this week, somewhere close to 9,000 ballots out of more than 1.6…
The Golden State Warriors are off to a dominant 4-1 start. With two of those wins coming without Stephen Curry and Andrew Wiggins, head coach Steve Kerr has had the opportunity to showcase the Warriors’ depth. Given the surprisingly successful start, here are five takeaways from Golden State’s first five games. Lindy Waters III should be a rotation pieceWith injuries to Curry and Wiggins on Oct. 29, Waters III seized his opportunity, giving Kerr more tough decisions to make with the rotation. That night, Waters III provided the Warriors with much-needed spacing and effort, chipping in 21 points and eight rebounds. Overall,…