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How to Tackle an Optimization Problem with Constraint Programming
Case study: the travelling salesmanproblemTLDRConstraint Programming is a technique of choice for solving a Constraint Satisfaction Problem. In this article, we will see that it is also well suited to small to medium optimization problems. Using the well-known travelling salesman problem (TSP) as an example, we will detail all the steps leading to an efficient model.For the sake of simplicity, we will consider the...
Published on: December 23, 2024 | Source:
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Why Sets Are So Useful in Programming
And how you can use them to boost your code performanceA set is a simple structure defined as a collection of distinct elements. Sets are most commonly seen in fields like mathematics or logic, but they’re also useful in programming for writing efficient code. In this article, I detail cases where sets outperform alternative data types like lists, and the underlying implementation of sets which makes them so useful to...
Published on: December 23, 2024 | Source:The Morning After: Apple’s next AirPods Pro could offer heart rate and temperature monitoring
Apple is working on the next generation of AirPods Pro, and they may have some new health features, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman – although it’s a rumor we heard before, back in 2021. The company has reportedly started testing features like temperature sensing and heart rate monitoring for the earbuds. Apple has found that the Apple Watch still does the latter better, but the AirPods “aren’t terribly far off”...
Published on: December 23, 2024 | Source:Italy Fines OpenAI €15 Million for ChatGPT GDPR Data Privacy Violations
Italy's data protection authority has fined ChatGPT maker OpenAI a fine of 15 million ($15.66 million) over how the generative artificial intelligence application handles personal data. The fine comes nearly a year after the Garante found that ChatGPT processed users' information to train its service in violation of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The authority
Published on: December 23, 2024 | Source:Sriram Krishnan named Trump’s senior policy advisor for AI
Incoming president Donald Trump has confirmed reports that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Trump said in a statement that Krishnan will “help shape and coordinate AI policy across government, working with […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Published on: December 22, 2024 | Source:An Agentic Approach to Reducing LLM Hallucinations
Simple techniques to alleviate LLM hallucinations using LangGraphPhoto by Greg Rakozy onUnsplashIf you’ve worked with LLMs, you know they can sometimes hallucinate. This means they generate text that’s either nonsensical or contradicts the input data. It’s a common issue that can hurts the reliability of LLM-powered applications.In this post, we’ll explore a few simple techniques to reduce the likelihood of...
Published on: December 22, 2024 | Source:All of Canoo’s employees are reportedly on a ‘mandatory unpaid break’
Image: Canoo Days after furloughing dozens of its employees without pay, EV startup Canoo told the remainder of its staff they will be on a “mandatory unpaid break” through at least the end of the year, TechCrunch reported Friday. A company email seen by the outlet said employees would be locked out of Canoo’s systems by the end of Friday, with their benefits continuing through the end of this month. The report follows...
Published on: December 22, 2024 | Source:A new and better way to control your smart home
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 65, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, get ready to take up all your phone’s storage space, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This is the last Installer of the year! I’m taking a couple of weeks off for the holidays, and I hope you’re getting some relaxation in too. Thank you so much to...
Published on: December 22, 2024 | Source:What is the Two Generals Problem in Distributed Systems?
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Published on: December 21, 2024 | Source:Evaluation-Driven Development for agentic applications using PydanticAI
An open-source, model-agnostic agentic framework that supports dependency injectionIdeally, you can evaluate agentic applications even as you are developing them, instead of evaluation being an afterthought. For this to work, though, you need to be able to mock both internal and external dependencies of the agent you are developing. I am extremely excited by PydanticAI because it supports dependency injection from the...
Published on: December 21, 2024 | Source:Conditional Variational Autoencoders for Text to Image Generation
Investigating an early generative architecture and applying it to image generation from textinputRecently I was tasked with text-to-image synthesis using a conditional variational autoencoder (CVAE). Being one of the earlier generative structures, it has its limitations but is easily implementable. This article will cover CVAEs at a high level, but the reader is presumed to have a high level understanding to cover the...
Published on: December 21, 2024 | Source:It’s probably just a plane: drone experts advise calm over New Jersey sightings
Although politicians have called to shoot them down, experts say the lights are likely legal drones, planes – or starsAt first, in mid-November, the mysterious lights were seen blinking across the night skies of New Jersey. Then, they spread. Reports of incandescent flying objects were logged in New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Bystanders in Virginia Beach said they saw an aircraft “unlike any other they’ve seen”....
Published on: December 21, 2024 | Source:Qualcomm wins a legal battle over Arm chip licensing
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A federal jury in Delaware determined on Friday that Qualcomm didn’t breach its agreement with Arm through its 2021 acquisition of Nuvia, a startup founded by three former Apple engineers. As reported earlier by Bloomberg and Reuters, the decision stems from a two-year-long legal battle that accused Qualcomm of misusing the chip designs Arm licensed to Nuvia before its...
Published on: December 20, 2024 | Source:Here are the shipping and return policies for all the big-name retailers
Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images As people scramble for last-minute gifts and late-year bargains, everyone is double-checking their lists and figuring out the fastest way to get their purchases. Thankfully, many retailers are offering generous shipping policies for their products, with some offering free two-day shipping or even same-day delivery if you pay extra. And just in case the gift you choose isn’t quite...
Published on: December 20, 2024 | Source:OpenAI's next-generation o3 model will arrive early next year
After nearly two weeks of announcements, OpenAI capped off its 12 Days of OpenAI livestream series with a preview of its next-generation frontier model. “Out of respect for friends at Telefónica (owner of the O2 cellular network in Europe), and in the grand tradition of OpenAI being really, truly bad at names, it’s called o3,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told those watching the announcement on YouTube. The new model isn’t...
Published on: December 20, 2024 | Source:NHTSA finally releases new rules for self-driving cars — but there’s a twist
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced a new “voluntary national framework for the evaluation and oversight” of autonomous vehicles, a bureaucratic first step that could eventually open the floodgates for fully driverless cars. But there’s a twist: the agency wants self-driving car companies to cough up more data. The proposed rules were first...
Published on: December 20, 2024 | Source:When Averages Lie: Moving Beyond Single-Point Predictions
The Case for Predicting Full Probability Distributions in Decision-MakingSome people like hot coffee, some people like iced coffee, but no one likes lukewarm coffee. Yet, a simple model trained on coffee temperatures might predict that the next coffee served should be… lukewarm. This illustrates a fundamental problem in predictive modeling: focusing on single point estimates (e.g., averages) can lead us to meaningless...
Published on: December 20, 2024 | Source:Our favorite Sony earbuds hit an all-time low, plus the rest of the week's best tech deals
We're less than a week from Christmas, and if you haven't finished your holiday shopping, well, you should probably get on that. While it's likely too late to get most items shipped by Wednesday morning, there are still tons of decent tech deals available for those you're seeing after the holiday — or if you just want to treat yourself. For one, Sony's WF-1000XM5, our pick for the best wireless earbuds, is down to an...
Published on: December 20, 2024 | Source:What Engine Is Cadillac Using In The New F1 Team?
General Motors surprised racing fans when Cadillac entered the F1 ring, but what engine will the new contender vehicle feature when it debuts?
Published on: December 20, 2024 | Source:The Morning After: Google accused of using novices to fact-check Gemini’s AI answers
Last week, Google allegedly instructed contract workers evaluating Gemini not to skip any prompts, regardless of their expertise, TechCrunch reports based on internal guidance it viewed. Now, contractors have allegedly been instructed not to skip prompts that “require specialized domain knowledge” and to “rate the parts of the prompt you understand,” adding a note that it’s not an area they have knowledge in....
Published on: December 20, 2024 | Source:Introducing Layer Enhanced Classification (LEC)
A novel approach for lightweight safety classification using pruned languagemodelsLeveraging the hidden state from an intermediate Transformer layer for efficient and robust content safety and prompt injection classificationImage by author and GPT-4o meant to represent the robust language understanding provided by Large LanguageModels.IntroductionAs the adoption of Language Models (LMs) grows, it’s more and more...
Published on: December 20, 2024 | Source:Amazon to pay OSHA $145,000 in workplace safety settlement
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has reached a settlement with Amazon about alleged hazardous workplace conditions at ten of the tech giant's facilities. Under the terms of the settlement, Amazon will pay a penalty of $145,000 and must implement "corporate-wide ergonomic measures" to reduce the risk of worker injuries. OSHA will also continue inspecting the facilities for the next two years. On the...
Published on: December 19, 2024 | Source:This Switch 2 mockup could be the most accurate representation of Nintendo's next handheld
On Wednesday, The Nerd Nest Podcast showcased what could be the most accurate mockup of the Switch 2 we have seen so far. The dummy unit comes from the case maker Ivoler. Ivoler doesn't have a record for accuracy. However, case and accessory makers generally get their guesses accurate since...Read Entire Article
Published on: December 19, 2024 | Source:World(coin) must let Europeans comprehensively delete their data, under privacy order
It took a lot more than the initially slated few weeks to arrive, but a pivotal privacy decision that’s been hanging over Sam Altman’s World (aka Worldcoin) for months has finally landed, via a late December decision from the Bavarian data protection authority enforcing the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a comprehensive privacy framework […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use...
Published on: December 19, 2024 | Source:Star Trek: Lower Decks ends on a new beginning
Spoilers for “The New Next Generation.” When Starfleet said it had dispatched the Enterprise to help the Cerritos close the rift, I was worried. Lower Decks has spent the last four years stepping out the shadow of its more famous predecessor. Its grand finale didn’t need a focus-pulling cameo from any of the Next Generation cast (or even a subtle one from Steven Culp). Mercifully, none came, and we got one last chance...
Published on: December 19, 2024 | Source:macOS 15.2 Sequoia backup bug(s) affecting Time Machine, CCC, and more
One or more backup bugs in macOS 15.2 Sequoia is affecting Apple’s own Time Machine utility, as well as third-party apps SuperDuper and CarbonCopyCloner. Initially the problem appeared to affect bootable backups only, but it now appears that it is either more general than this, or there is more than one bug affecting Mac backups … more…
Published on: December 19, 2024 | Source:The Morning After: US Supreme Court agrees to hear TikTok’s ban appeal
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear TikTok owner ByteDance’s appeal of a law that could ban the app. The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act is set to go into effect on January 19, the day before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. ByteDance claimed the law violates free speech rights, a position the ACLU has supported. The Justice Department defended the law in lower...
Published on: December 19, 2024 | Source:GM and ChargePoint plan to install hundreds of fast EV chargers by the end of 2025
A station render with Chargepoint-built GM Energy chargers. | Image: GM GM is partnering with ChargePoint to build out a new EV charging network under the GM Energy brand, the companies announced today. GM plans to install up to 500 DC fast-charging ports at stations deployed in “strategic” places across the US, with some equipped with ChargePoint’s Express Plus platform that supports charge speeds up to 500kW. GM and...
Published on: December 18, 2024 | Source:Five more Amazon facilities authorize worker strikes
Teamsters unions at five additional Amazon facilities have voted to go on strikes, following similar action in New York City and Illinois. The international Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) announced in a statement that union members “unanimously” approved measures to authorize strikes in four Southern California facilities and a fifth facility in Atlanta. The four Southern California facilities are based in City of...
Published on: December 18, 2024 | Source:OpenAI brings ChatGPT to your landline
ChatGPT is coming to phones. No, not smartphones — landlines. Call 1-800-242-8478 (1-800-CHATGPT), and OpenAI’s AI-powered assistant will respond as of Wednesday afternoon. “[Our mission at] OpenAI is to make artificial general intelligence beneficial to all of humanity, and part of that is making it as accessible as possible to as many people as we […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: December 18, 2024 | Source:Classifier-Free Guidance in LLMs Safety — NeurIPS 2024 Challenge Experience
Classifier-Free Guidance in LLMs Safety—NeurIPS 2024 Challenge ExperienceThis article briefly describes NeurIPS 2024 LLM-PC submission that was awarded the second prize—the approach to effective LLM unlearning without any retaining dataset. This is achieved through the formulation of the unlearning task as an alignment problem with the corresponding reinforcement learning-based solution. The unlearning without model...
Published on: December 18, 2024 | Source:Classifier-free guidance in LLMs Safety — NeurIPS 2024 Challenge experience
Classifier-Free Guidance in LLMs Safety—NeurIPS 2024 Challenge ExperienceThis article briefly describes NeurIPS 2024 LLM-PC submission that was awarded the second prize—the approach to effective LLM unlearning without any retaining dataset. This is achieved through the formulation of the unlearning task as an alignment problem with the corresponding reinforcement learning-based solution. The unlearning without model...
Published on: December 18, 2024 | Source:100 Years of (eXplainable) AI
Reflecting on advances and challenges in deep learning and explainability in the ever-evolving era of LLMs and AI governanceImage byauthorBackgroundImagine you are navigating a self-driving car, relying entirely on its onboard computer to make split-second decisions. It detects objects, identifies pedestrians, and even can anticipate behavior of other vehicles on the road. But here’s the catch: you know it works, of...
Published on: December 18, 2024 | Source:Nifty survival horror game Pacific Drive is getting turned into a TV show
The survival horror indie hit Pacific Drive is getting turned into a TV show, according to a report by Variety. Director James Wan, who is best known for Saw and Aquaman, has scooped up the rights to the game, though that’s about all we know. There’s no casting news yet, or even information as to which streamer or network it will premiere on. It’s time to play the waiting game. Pacific Drive is certainly a unique take...
Published on: December 18, 2024 | Source:Launch HN: Innate (YC F24) – Home robots as easy to program as AI agents
Hey HN! We’re Axel & Vig, the founders of Innate (https://innate.bot). We build general-purpose home robots that you can teach new tasks to simply by demonstrating them.Our system combines a robotic platform (we call the first one Maurice) with an AI agent that understands the environment, plans actions, and executes them using skills you've taught it or programmed within our SDK.If you’ve been building AI agents...
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