Something wonderful just happened with Qualified Immunity
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Apple Researchers Release CLaRa: A Continuous Latent Reasoning Framework for Compression‑Native RAG with 16x–128x Semantic Document Compression
How do you keep RAG systems accurate and efficient when every query tries to stuff thousands of tokens into the context window and the retriever and generator are still optimized as 2 separate, disconnected systems? A team of researchers from Apple and University of Edinburgh released CLaRa, Continuous Latent Reasoning, (CLaRa-7B-Base, CLaRa-7B-Instruct and CLaRa-7B-E2E) a retrieval augmented generation framework that compresses documents into continuous memory tokens and then performs both retrieval and generation in that shared latent space. […]
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Meta’s upcoming ‘Avocado’ AI model could be a part of effort to rebalance its open-source vision
Key Highlights: Meta is among the few tech giants that advocate open-source AI (like its Llama models) for innovation, security through community testing, cost-effectiveness for businesses, and preventing gatekeeping. But it seems Meta has realized the future with open-source AI isn’t worth it, as that goodwill won’t pay the bills for its $600 billion investment pledge in the US infrastructure. Meta is reportedly working on a “closed” model, codenamed “Avocado” Well, this comes after disappointment around Meta’s recent […]
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Google Denies Report Claiming It Plans to Bring Ads to Gemini Chatbot
Key Highlights: Google has been heavily criticized for sprinkling sponsored results across search results. No doubt, ads are one of the major driving forces of any company’s revenue. But when ads start getting in the way of how a user uses a product or service, things start to get annoying. Let’s be honest, we all hate ads, and when a new report circulated yesterday claiming that Google is mulling over the idea of showing ads in Gemini tools, […]
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Eco-driving measures could significantly reduce vehicle emissions
Any motorist who has ever waited through multiple cycles for a traffic light to turn green knows how annoying signalized intersections can be. But sitting at intersections isn’t just a drag on drivers’ patience — unproductive vehicle idling could contribute as much as 15 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. land transportation. A large-scale modeling study led by MIT researchers reveals that eco-driving measures, which can involve dynamically adjusting vehicle speeds to reduce stopping and excessive […]
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COVID and the Craving for Certainty
In March of 2020, I published an essay warning both the public and our policymakers against overreacting to the COVID threat. We overreact, I argued, in times of “epistemic uncertainty,” when we do not know enough about a threat we face and are unclear about our best response. Continue Reading…
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Cashew Research is going after the $90B market research industry with AI
Cashew Research uses AI to automate the market research process while still collecting real-world data from humans.
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Innovation to Impact: How NVIDIA Research Fuels Transformative Work in AI, Graphics and Beyond
The roots of many of NVIDIA’s landmark innovations — the foundational technology that powers AI, accelerated computing, real-time ray tracing and seamlessly connected data centers — can be found in the company’s research organization, a global team of around 400 experts in fields including computer architecture, generative AI, graphics and robotics. Established in 2006 and led since 2009 by Bill Dally, former chair of Stanford University’s computer science department, NVIDIA Research is unique among corporate research organizations — […]
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The Economics of the Sacred: Politics as a Covenant Exercise
The lie that religion has no bearing on politics has yielded the kind of politics we have now: managerial, sterile, and devoid of moral conviction. The idea that political office could be a covenantal trust or that economic policy might have covenantal implications would strike most technocrats as medieval sentimentality; yet, the biblical worldview insists that public life is precisely where covenants are lived or broken. Continue Reading…
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Giving Real Meaning to Veterans Day
Any element of self-sacrifice in war is a betrayal of our soldiers and the American freedom they fight for.
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