Deep Learning, NLP, NMT, AI, ML
In this issue: We introduce a new dataset designed to assist renewable energy infrastructure planners, a new method for denoising MRI imagery, and an AI tool for analyzing distant galaxies. Check out our latest research and other updates. NEW RESEARCH Global Renewables Watch: A Temporal Dataset of Solar and Wind Energy Derived from Satellite Imagery
Read morePython’s in and not in operators allow you to quickly check if a given value is or isn’t part of a collection of values. This type of check is generally known as a membership test in Python. Therefore, these operators are known as membership operators. By the end of this video course, you’ll understand that: The in operator in Python is a membership operator used to check if a value is part of a collection. You can write not in […]
Read moreLast month brought significant progress toward Python 3.14, exciting news from PyCon US, notable community awards, and important updates to several popular Python libraries. In this news roundup, you’ll catch up on the latest Python 3.14.0a6 developments, discover which PEP has been accepted, celebrate record-breaking community support for PyCon travel grants, and explore recent updates to popular libraries. Let’s dive in! Python 3.14.0a6 Released on Pi Day The Python development team has rolled out the sixth alpha version of Python […]
Read more[THEME MUSIC FADES] The passage I read at the top there is from Chapter 7 of the book, “The Ultimate Paperwork Shredder.” Paperwork plays a particularly important role in healthcare. It helps convey treatment information that supports patient care, and it’s also used to help demonstrate that providers are meeting regulatory responsibilities, among other things. But if we’re being honest, it’s taxing—for everyone—and it’s a big contributor to the burnout our clinicians are experiencing today. Carey, Zak, and I identified […]
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EuroBERT: Scaling Multilingual Encoders for European Languages A large group of authors, mostly from CentraleSupélec in Paris and Instituto Técnico in Lisbon, released EuroBERT, a multilingual BERT model for European and major global languages. There is also a 2.1 B version, unusually large for encoder models. High-Dimensional Interlingual Representations of Large Language Models A print from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology evaluates the sentence-level similarity of LLM hidden states across languages. It shows that the idea that […]
Read moreBy default, Python’s .strip() method removes whitespace characters from both ends of a string. To remove different characters, you can pass a string as an argument that specifies a set of characters to remove. The .strip() method is useful for tasks like cleaning user input, standardizing filenames, and preparing data for storage. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll understand that: The .strip() method removes leading and trailing whitespace but doesn’t remove whitespace from the middle of a string. You […]
Read moreEvery day, countless videos are uploaded and processed online, putting enormous strain on computational resources. The problem isn’t just the sheer volume of data—it’s how this data is structured. Videos consist of raw pixel data, where neighboring pixels often store nearly identical information. This redundancy wastes resources, making it harder for systems to process visual content effectively and efficiently. To tackle this, we’ve developed a new approach to compress visual data into a
Read moreIf you’re active on social media, then you know that images and videos are popular forms of content. As a programmer, you mainly work with text, so sharing the content that you create on a daily basis may not seem intuitive. That’s where a code image generator comes in handy! A code image generator allows you to turn your code snippets into visually appealing images, so you can share your work without worrying about formatting issues, syntax highlighting inconsistencies, or […]
Read morePython’s bytearray is a mutable sequence of bytes that allows you to manipulate binary data efficiently. Unlike immutable bytes, bytearray can be modified in place, making it suitable for tasks requiring frequent updates to byte sequences. You can create a bytearray using the bytearray() constructor with various arguments or from a string of hexadecimal digits using .fromhex(). This tutorial explores creating, modifying, and using bytearray objects in Python. You’ll dive deeper into each aspect of bytearray, exploring its creation, manipulation, […]
Read more[MUSIC FADES] I’m excited to share the mic today with three guests to talk about a really cool program called Accelerating Foundation Models Research, or AFMR for short. With me is Cesar Torres, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Texas, Arlington, and the director of a program called The Hybrid Atelier. More on that soon. I’m also joined by Muhammed Idris, an assistant professor of medicine at the Morehouse School of Medicine. And finally, I welcome […]
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