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Apple has released Pkl, a new open source ‘embeddable configuration language’, hoping to take the stress out of ‘small to large, simple to complex, ad-hoc to repetitive configuration tasks’. Launched on February 1 2024 into version 0.25, the tech giant’s team have provided a ‘quick tour’ of the language in a text post on the …

Book by John Wilkins An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (London, 1668) is the best-remembered of the numerous works of John Wilkins, in which he expounds a new universal language, meant primarily to facilitate international communication among scholars, but envisioned for use by diplomats, travelers, and merchants as well. Unlike many …

BOSTON (AP) — White House officials concerned by AI chatbots’ potential for societal harm and the Silicon Valley powerhouses rushing them to market are heavily invested in a three-day competition ending Sunday at the DefCon hacker convention in Las Vegas. Some 3,500 competitors have tapped on laptops seeking to expose flaws in eight leading large-language …

Enlarge / The lobby of Google’s new campus and office in Singapore. Getty Images Google has a company-wide mandate to pump out products that use a ChatGPT-style language model, and the latest is Google NotebookLM. This Google’s third notebook app, after Google Notebook (2008-2012) and Google Keep (2013- ). This was originally announced at Google …

As someone who is new to running Language Models, I am struggling to understand the infrastructure needed to run them effectively. I would greatly appreciate any advice you can offer. Could you please help me with the following questions: 1. What are the hardware specifications you would recommend for running Language Models? 2. What are …

Language Learning with Bing Chat, and the Impending Advent of OmniAssistant Software tl;dr: The new bingchat is an incredibly effective language learning tutor, and its capabilities imply that we are closer than we previously thought to major societal advances and upsets. — – In the past few days my request for access to the new …

λ (Imaginary Programming Functions) Summary tl;dr: Imaginary Programming (IP) is where data and knowledge has been substituted for inference by a LM. Therefore, the implementation of an λ library will be uniquely tailored to each language. I design and build an IP library named λ.el for emacs. Think of it a bit like a functional …

As the crowd gathered on a hot, dusty Thursday afternoon, Laura Brisboe recalled her childhood and her mother’s desk piled high with papers. Yet the stakes were even higher, because Pauline Flett was fighting to save her native Salish language. “It hurt her so much to think that we could lose that,” Brisboe said. “She …

Algorithms similar to those used by Netflix, Amazon, and Facebook may lead to better comprehension of the biological language of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson disease (PD) and Alzheimer disease (AD), according to a research article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers highlight that intracellular phase separation of proteins …

The Pannell Clinic in South Sacramento is offering paperwork and translator support in 12 different languages to promote language equity. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As more people continue to get vaccinated, families are running into language barriers as most mass clinics are primarily English-speaking. But a weekly South Sacramento vaccination clinic is working to break down …