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Advances in Conversational AI
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Facebook
Advances in Conversational AI
Facebook AI has made scientific progress in improving nuanced conversational skills, including consistency, specificity, and empathy.
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Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects
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Andreessen Horowitz
Hidden Networks: Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects
Many of the most consequential projects of the internet era — from Wikipedia to Facebook and bitcoin — have all been predicated on network effects, where the network becomes more valuable to users as more people use it. As …
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Misconfigured Jira instances exposed data of hundreds of Fortune 500 companies
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Medium
One Misconfig (JIRA) to Leak Them All- Including NASA and Hundreds of Fortune 500 Companies!
Hi Guys,
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A teen’s visual diary of the early-90s rave scene
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Huck Magazine
A teen's visual diary of the early-90s rave scene
At 15, Simon Burstall made two discoveries that would change him forever: photography and raves. Now, having trawled through a trove of material from that time, the Australian has uncovered scenes from a subcultural oasis – and a turning point in his life.
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The Art of Warez [video]
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Vimeo
The Art Of Warez
This is "The Art Of Warez" by oliver payne on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US
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the Guardian
Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US
Exclusive: the high-altitude balloons promise a cheap monitoring platform that could follow multiple cars and boats for extended periods
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Medieval people bathed regularly
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Going Medieval
I assure you, medieval people bathed.
I can’t believe I have to write this down right now, but my dear friends, medieval people bathed regularly. Yes. I assure you. I am very serious. It is true. In fact, medieval people loved a bath a…
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Amazon will pull the plug on dash buttons
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MarketWatch
Amazon will pull the plug on Dash buttons at the end of August
Those little branded gadgets that let users reorder products with just one touch will stop working at the end of August, Amazon said Thursday.
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Facebook to Add Its Name to Instagram, WhatsApp
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The Information
Facebook to Add Its Name to Instagram, WhatsApp
In a big shift, Facebook plans to signal its control of Instagram and WhatsApp by adding its name to both apps, according to three people familiar with the matter. The social network will rebrand the apps to “Instagram from Facebook” and “WhatsApp from Facebook…
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More on Backdooring (or Not) WhatsApp
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SpaCy PyTorch Transformers
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explosion.ai
spaCy meets Transformers: Fine-tune BERT, XLNet and GPT-2 · Explosion
Huge transformer models like BERT, GPT-2 and XLNet have set a new standard for accuracy on almost every NLP leaderboard. You can now use these models in spaCy, via a new interface library we've developed that connects spaCy to Hugging Face's awesome implementations.
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Building a Programming Language Pt. 3 – Interpreting
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China’s options for retaliating against tariffs are limited by its own economy
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NY Times
China Wants to Hit Back at Trump. Its Own Economy Stands in the Way.
Beijing’s leaders have increasingly focused on rekindling growth as the trade war drags on and negotiations prove difficult to control or predict.
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Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
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alexdanco.com
Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
I’m sure many of you either have an Alexa-powered device in your house, or at least have played around with one somewhere. So it won’t be surprising to you that Amazon has been partnering with home…
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Lawsuit filed against GitHub in wake of Capital One data breach
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TheHill
Lawsuit filed against GitHub in wake of Capital One data breach
Capital One and GitHub have been hit with a class-action lawsuit over the recent data breach that resulted in the data of over 100 million Capital One customers and credit card applicants being
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Amazon allegedly scammed out of $370K by 22-year-old's return shipments of dirt
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Fox Business
Amazon allegedly scammed out of $370K by 22-year-old's return shipments of dirt
A 22-year-old is accused of scamming the largest internet retailer in the world out of nearly $370,000 by sending returned packages with dirt.
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Who Did the Maya Sacrifice?
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The Economist
Who did the Maya sacrifice?
Anyone and everyone
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Rome Is the Fulcrum of AMD’s Datacenter Pivot
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The Next Platform
Rome Is The Fulcrum Of AMD’s Datacenter Pivot
The good news about having a diverse product line, as chip maker AMD increasingly does, is that the company operates like a multi-cylinder engine and that
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Dreaming about Better Sleep: Dreem, Oura and the Rest
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Medium
Dreaming about Better Sleep: Dreem, Oura and the Rest
A real-life comparison of the top sleep-tracking gadgets will change what you thought about your sleep and sleep measurements.
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Bad Times in Tech? Not If You’re a Startup Serving Other Startups
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NY Times
Bad Times in Tech? Not if You’re a Start-Up Serving Other Start-Ups (Published 2019)
Meet the two Stanford dropouts, both 23, who run Brex, which provides charge cards to start-ups. Its growth is a sign of Silicon Valley’s unflagging exuberance.
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Roaring glacial melt under the bridge to Kangerlussiauq, Greenland
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Twitter
Laurie Garrett
This is a roaring glacial melt, under the bridge to Kangerlussiauq, Greenland where it's 22C today and Danish officials say 12 billions tons of ice melted in 24 hours, yesterday. https://t.co/Rl2odG4xWj
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