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The UK Has It Wrong on Digital ID. Here’s Why.
In late September, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced his government’s plans to introduce a new digital ID scheme in the country to take effect before the end of the Parliament (no later than August 2029). The scheme will, according to the Prime Minister, “cut the faff” in proving people’s identities by creating a virtual ID on personal devices with information like people’s name, date of birth, nationality or residency status, and photo to verify their […]
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OK, what’s going on with LinkedIn’s algo?
Women ran an experiment to see if LinkedIn’s new algo was being sexist and thought they proved it. But there’s more complexity involved, experts say.
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Spectral Community Detection in Clinical Knowledge Graphs
Introduction How do we identify latent groups of patients in a large cohort? How can we find similarities among patients that go beyond the well-known comorbidity clusters associated with specific diseases? And more importantly, how can we extract quantitative signals that can be analyzed, compared, and reused across different clinical scenarios? The information associated to […] The post Spectral Community Detection in Clinical Knowledge Graphs appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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An American Holiday: The Moral Meaning Behind Thanksgiving
Ayn Rand described Thanksgiving as “a typically American holiday . . . its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.”
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CA Fires Spotlight Licensing Carriers for Inmates
California’s recent wildfires were fought by over 780 inmate firefighters who received rigorous taxpayer-funded training. But until recent reforms, many of these trained firefighters faced insurmountable barriers to employment after release—state licensing laws blocked them from the very careers they’d prepared for. lead , Cato scholar Stephen Slivinski examines this issue in a new Washington Post opinion piece, revealing how occupational licensing laws create employment barriers for 70 million Americans with criminal records. The evidence is clear: employment is […]
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Microsoft AI Releases VibeVoice-Realtime: A Lightweight Real‑Time Text-to-Speech Model Supporting Streaming Text Input and Robust Long-Form Speech Generation
Microsoft has released VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B, a real time text to speech model that works with streaming text input and long form speech output, aimed at agent style applications and live data narration. The model can start producing audible speech in about 300 ms, which is critical when a language model is still generating the rest of its answer. Where VibeVoice Realtime Fits in the VibeVoice Stack? VibeVoice is a broader framework that focuses on next token diffusion over continuous […]
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From Transformers to Associative Memory, How Titans and MIRAS Rethink Long Context Modeling
What comes after Transformers? Google Research is proposing a new way to give sequence models usable long term memory with Titans and MIRAS, while keeping training parallel and inference close to linear. Titans is a concrete architecture that adds a deep neural memory to a Transformer style backbone. MIRAS is a general framework that views most modern sequence models as instances of online optimization over an associative memory. Why Titans and MIRAS? Standard Transformers use attention over a […]
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The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 10: DBSCAN in Excel
DBSCAN shows how far we can go with a very simple idea: count how many neighbors live close to each point. It finds clusters and marks anomalies without any probabilistic model, and it works beautifully in Excel. But because it relies on one fixed radius, HDBSCAN is needed to make the method robust on real data. The post The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 10: DBSCAN in Excel appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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