Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. My biggest argument was the “library with holes” problem. I decided to follow through and attend.

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Machine Learning Mastery

APRIL 3, 2023

Last Updated on April 4, 2023 Deep learning is a fascinating field of study and the techniques are achieving world class results in a range of challenging machine learning problems. It can be hard to get started in deep learning.Which library should you use and which techniques should you focus on?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Consider how the accessible online library Bookshare – an initiative of Benetech , a Silicon Valley non-profit that builds technology solutions addressing social problems – is transforming the lives of American students with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The page contains a whole library of questions that users can get answers to, including how to track packages, cancel orders, or start a return. For simple questions, Amazon also launched a new AI chat feature last year called "Rufus," which can help customers solve some problems and make more informed purchase decisions.

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2022

If you’ve logged onto YouTube today, you may have noticed that something was off with the homepage: the sidebar that lets you access things like your subscriptions feed , trending videos , and “Library” that keeps your Watch Later list and video history, is missing (though you can access some of the pages by clicking on the links we’ve included).

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Wired

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Microplasticsa global problem The term plastic refers to a wide variety of artificially created polymers. Sophisticated algorithms whose inner workings can be opaque make these predictions, so the lack of an uncertainty measure becomes an even greater problem when machine learning is involved.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. While AI does involve logic and problem-solving, it does not think. It calculates.

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TechSpot

JULY 20, 2022

In a Q2 2022 earnings interview, Netflix executives hinted that their plans for an ad-supported subscription would not include the entire VOD library when it launches later this year. The problem stems from the company lacking the licensing to move some content to the cheaper tier.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

But it threatened the survival of countless old games and animations — a problem for web preservationists and anyone who fondly remembers platforms like Newgrounds. And Flash mega-portal Kongregate partnered with a museum to preserve its library of projects. Fortunately, we’ve seen numerous efforts to keep Flash media alive.

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Machine Learning Mastery

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

PyTorch library is for deep learning. Some applications of deep learning models are to solve regression or classification problems. In this post, you will discover how to use PyTorch to develop and evaluate neural network models for binary classification problems.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Caltech feeds an intense curiosity, a burning desire to understand, to grapple with hard problems and to own them! The thrill of solving problems, of figuring something out, and bringing that understanding into the service of humanity.

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The Verge

JULY 13, 2020

When you do, you’ll see a message that you’ve successfully claimed the game and that it will soon show up in your Uplay library. But technical problems prevented some people from claiming the giveaway. It’s unclear how long the giveaway will be going on, though, so you might want to jump on the deal sooner rather than later.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 17, 2024

A common problem with Python applications is how to share them with other people. Streamlit is a Python library that aims to solve many of these issues at once. Using Streamlit, developers can create Python apps with web-based front ends, built from a rich library of interactive components.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Years ago, Uber had a problem. That was the active problem that confronted a quad of engineers and data scientists tasked with solving the problem. Both libraries remain in active development on GitHub and through Uber’s Visualization team. a year later using Deck.gl Via Unfolded.ai.

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2021

But the academics say they are being silenced for exposing problems on Facebook’s platform. NYU’s research offered new insights into Facebook’s problems. Data collected by Ad Observer is then made publicly available to researchers and journalists who use the information to reveal trends and problems on Facebook’s platform.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

But the effort grew from there, spanning more than two months as iFixit added dozens more staff members to the project; began talking to more biomedical technicians, doctors, and nurses about their day-to-day needs; and started collecting and cataloging information from libraries and other sources.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Instead, they and others who want to understand and quantify the social media platform’s misinformation problem — including these researchers — have often turned to a tool called CrowdTangle, which is owned by Facebook.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Amazon’s crucial web services business AWS is experiencing problems today, with issues affecting services like Slack, Imgur, and the Epic Games store for some users. Asana said the problems constituted a “ major outage ,” with “many of our users unable to access Asana.” Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

Cooking a meal shouldn’t be fatal: clean-burning stoves, as well as clean fuels and energy all help combat this problem. Since I’m a software guy, I asked about what software could do to help with these two real-world problems. Improving childhood nutrition. The lifelong impact of significant malnutrition on a child can be devastating.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Basics of Meta Ad Library Meta has 3 versions of its Ad Library, each with its own caveats. Ad Library is a user interface that lets you search ALL the ads currently running and archived (up to 5 years) in the past across Meta. The Easy Steps Pull up ad library view. The caveat is that the data can’t be exported.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Or, as seen by a growing trend this year, developers deliberately sabotaging their own software libraries as a means of protest — turning software into “protestware.” It was entirely within his power to do, but it instantly created problems. The recent rise of protestware.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Widgets, hideable pages, App Library, and App Clips: a lot of new concepts for one update Eight years ago, I wrote a piece bemoaning the fact that the iPhone’s home screen was too restrictive and boring. There will be a new section called the “App Library” over to the side, but you are free to pay it no mind. App Library.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

Solving a major problem involving information is beyond the capability of any one enterprise – no matter how terrific. Furthermore, instead of having to scan many books at $100 to $5000 apiece, our library now gets five to 10 thousand books each month for free, in a standard format that costs us pennies per book added to our collection.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Explosion , a company that has combined an open source machine learning library with a set of commercial developer tools, announced a $6 million Series A today on a $120 million valuation. She believes if you’re thinking too much about diversity in your hiring process, you probably have a problem already.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In a word: it solves the desktop audio problem.). And it’s not just playlists; Soundtrack also features libraries of music tuned to specific moods that they’re calling Stations. So, if you’re watching a streamer who’s using Soundtrack in their broadcast, you’ll see some thoughtful additions from the Twitch product team.

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Blue Avocado

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Although some AVOs have permanent locations (such as in the back room of a historical home or at the library for a Friends of the Library), many do not — and meetings and documents move from home to home as officers change. These people are typically classified as “independent contractors” rather than employees.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We also designed improved sublinear algorithms for different flavors of clustering problems such as geometric linkage clustering , constant-round correlation clustering , and fully dynamic k-clustering. Highlights include a model library and model orchestration API to make it easy to compose GNN solutions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We realized the security problems in web3 are product problems, interface problems as well as data problems and security problems,” Dhesi said. The open source extension acts like a firewall between any transaction and a user’s wallet, but never has access to one’s private seed phrase or keys. “We

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Trying to add the titles to your digital library earlier today was harder than it should’ve been, as continued server problems, following yesterday’s Fortnite outage , slowed down the store.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

How to Stream and Apply Real-Time Prediction Models on High-Throughput Time-Series Data Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash Most of the stream processing libraries are not python friendly while the majority of machine learning and data mining libraries are python based. So we need 10s overlapping windows with 1s overlap.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Users can change text, build out sections, change out products or save sections of text to a library for use on other pages. In addition, there is a section library. However, they all still need to launch content and build out their e-commerce experience, and the part that was interesting to us is that this was a solvable problem.”

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Towards Data Science

JUNE 2, 2023

This is the journey the data engineering team I am part of went through until we found the dbt-unit-testing library. Now that we introduced the library, let’s look at the bare minimum you need to know to start implementing real unit tests for your dbt SQL models. Be also aware of other limitations listed in the library docs.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Published on February 7, 2025 7:35 PM GMT TL;DR: If you are thinking of using interpretability to help with strategic deception, then there's likely a problem you need to solve first: how are intentional descriptions (like deception) related to algorithmic ones (like understanding the mechanisms models use)? What is the problem?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities. We’re thrilled that today’s rapid changes in technology are opening up tremendous new ways to address the problems they face. Bookshare has made my homework easier,” Brennan says.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Oriol Vinyals, principal research scientist at DeepMind, told The Verge over email that the research was still in the early stages but that the results brought the company closer to creating a flexible problem-solving AI — a program that can autonomously tackle coding challenges that are currently the domain of humans only. “In

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