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You know that expressionWhen you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail? Well, in machine learning, it seems like we really have discovered a magical hammer for which everything is, in fact, a nail, and they’re called Transformers. Transformers are models that can be designed to translate text, writepoems and op eds, andeven generate computer code. In fact, lots of the amazing research I write about on daleonai.com is built on Transformers, likeAlphaFold 2, the model that predicts the structures of proteins from their genetic sequences, as well as powerful natural language processing (NLP) models likeGPT-3, BERT, T5, Switch, Meena, and others....

It may not exactly be archeology, but the way that Vidcinity allows you to discover videos that were shot in an area reminds me a lot of digging up hidden treasure. Vidcinity is a video sharing service with “geopinning”. This means that when you shoot and share a video, it’s pinned to the location where it was shot and only people within a mile of the video can see it....

If you didn’t know, therearereasons why some businesses stick to Internet Explorer 6. Not many, we admit, but they do exist. Top on the list is that certain web applications that enterprise companies use require IE6 to run. Why those apps have not been updated to support browsers built after the Fall of Rome is beyond us, but the fact remains that many companies are stuck using IE6. And as you well know, IE6 is not compatible with Windows 7....

The Japanese fashion brandUniqlohas often been the center of attention because of its fun and innovative interactive campaigns. One of the first retailers to launch an iPhone app back in 2008, Uniqlo has since found entertaining ways to win over our tweets and status updates via applications likeSportweet, a scoreboard that values your 140 characters as a noble sport, Twitter visualizationUTweetand the more practicalLucky Counterthat invited consumers to tweet about their favorite products in order to lower a product’s price....

Universities are increasingly using computer programs to supervise university students sitting their exams. Is this the future of testing? Due to the pandemic, institutions worldwide have rapidly adopted examsoftwarelike Examplify, ExamSoft and ProctorU. Proctoring technology allows exam-takers to be monitored off-campus. They can sit exams in their homes, instead of a person having to watch them in a traditional exam room. Some programs simply enable a person to supervise students remotely....