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Google Approaches Bert-Level Performance Using 300x fewer Parameters with Extension of Its New NLP model PRADO
The trimmed-down pQRNN extension to Google AI’s projection attention neural network PRADO compares to BERT on…
AI devs created a lean, mean, GPT-3-beating machine that uses 99.9% fewer parameters
AI researchers from the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich have developed a bite-sized text generator…
At the Math Olympiad, Computers Prepare to Go for the Gold
The 61st international mathematical olympiad, or imo, begins today. Due to the covid-19 pandemic it’s the…
PS5 Game File Sizes Revealed, And They Are Huge
Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Demon’s Souls will both take up a lot of space on your…
Gaming companies are reportedly the next targets in the US government’s potentially broader Tencent purge – TechCrunch
Some of the biggest names in online gaming in the United States have received letters from…
How AI will automate cybersecurity in the post-COVID world
As cybercrime is becoming more lucrative and more automated, we’re going to have to depend on…
Microsoft’s updated DeepSpeed can train trillion-parameter AI models with fewer GPUs
The company claims the technique, dubbed 3d parallelism, adapts to the varying needs of workload requirements…
Physicist: The entire universe might be a neural network
We live inside a neural network, he says, not a simulation — “but we might never…
A robot wrote this entire article. Does that scare you, human? | GPT-3
My brain is not a “feeling brain” but it is capable of making rational, logical decisions.…
This tiny nuclear reactor just won safety approval
A nuclear power startup called NuScale has received safety approval for its tiny nuclear reactor. The…
I’m Sorry Dave, You Shouldn’t Write Verilog
We were always envious of Star Trek, for its computers. No programming needed. Just tell the…
Watch the first ever demo of a self-powered electronic paper interface
Scientists have developed a method of turning paper into keyboards that can convert notebooks into music…
Facebook open-sources Opacus, a PyTorch library for differential privacy
Facebook’s Opacus is a library for training PyTorch models with differential privacy that’s ostensibly more scalable…
iOS 14: Facebook’s Apple Nightmare Keeps Getting Worse
Soon-to-launch iOS 14 is a momentous leap for iPhone privacy, but this week Facebook confirmed its…
Neuralink demonstrates its next-generation brain-machine interface
During a press conference held online, Elon Musks Neuralink gave a progress update on its ambitious…
Fix For Potential SSD-Damaging Bug Coming in Windows Update – ExtremeTech
Microsoft is rolling out a fix for an SSD defrag bug introduced in the 2004 update…
Nano-diamond self-charging batteries could disrupt energy as we know it
California company NDB says its nano-diamond batteries will absolutely upend the energy equation, acting like tiny…
The USB Null Modem Cable Is Now A Thing
The classic serial null-modem cable was, among other things, used to connect two computers together for…
Solved astronomy mystery after just one year at university
Three first-year students have found a way to detect violent explosions in distant galaxies. Now, one…