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Phrase of the day: Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 Nodes

Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 Nodes: We've scaled Kubernetes clusters to 7,500 nodes, producing a scalable infrastructure for large models like GPT-3, CLIP, and DALL·E, but also for rapid small-scale iterative research such as Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models. Scaling a single Kubernetes cluster...
Source: openai.com

My next Tweet could be generated by a deep-learning neural network.

blog post image My next tweet could be generated by a deep-learning neural network. I've been training one. Would anyone notice the difference? Could I just hand over tweeting to my machine? Method: downloaded the last 3200 Tweets that I posted using allmytweets.netpruned the dates off and removed the RTs by using some...
Source: agnate.co.uk

Show evidence that apps for COVID-19 contact-tracing are secure and effective

"Show evidence that apps for COVID-19 contact-tracing are secure and effective: Governments see coronavirus apps as key to releasing lockdowns. In exchange for people’s health data, they must promise to work together to develop the highest standards of safety and efficacy. Governments see coronavirus...
Source: nature.com

Corporate bollox generator

blog post image Over the holiday season I have been fine-tuning a new improved "corporate bollox generator" which can now deliver whole sentences of management goop. Please feel free to give it a go. It is written in Javascript and generates random phrases by linking adverbs, verbs, adjectives, and nouns all selected...
Source: agnate.co.uk

Would you pay $1 million to enroll in a phase 1 clinical trial of an

Would you pay $1 million to enroll in a phase 1 clinical trial of an “anti-aging” gene therapy? "Libella Gene Therapeutics, LLC made the news last week for announcing a “pay-to-play” trial of its telomerase-based anti-aging gene therapy. What was shocking about the announcement was not that it...
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org

Phrase of the day: "Future-directed Postfactual Speculation". A planning technique ('backcasting' - analogous to 'forecasting')

Phrase of the day: "Future-directed Postfactual Speculation". A planning technique ('backcasting' - analogous to 'forecasting') for deciding what steps would need to be taken to reach a particular future state. Used by futurists to help identify important factors that may lie ahead. "Backcasting is increasingly...
Source: wikipedia.org

Phrases of the day: selective exposure, selective perception, principles knowledge, vicarious trial, change agent, and cue-to-action.

Phrases of the day: selective exposure, selective perception, principles knowledge, vicarious trial, change agent, and cue-to-action. I’ve been reading Everett Rogers’ book Diffusion of Innovations with a ‘learning lens’ on. I’m fascinated that the adoption of innovations is so analogous to...
Source: amazon.co.uk

Phrase of the day: Elaborative Interrogation - Generating an explanation for why an explicitly stated fact or concept is

Phrase of the day: Elaborative Interrogation - Generating an explanation for why an explicitly stated fact or concept is true. Evidence suggests it is moderately effective and should be very familiar for anyone with young children in their family. It is one of ten techniques frequently used by learners...
Source: psychologicalscience.org

Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World's Oldest Continuously Run Libraries: The centuries-old texts were erased,

Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World's Oldest Continuously Run Libraries: The centuries-old texts were erased, and then written over, by monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt
Source: smithsonianmag.com

Trying to write a killer headline for social? Here are some of the most (and least) effective phrases: Jostling for readers

Trying to write a killer headline for social? Here are some of the most (and least) effective phrases: Jostling for readers for your listicle on Facebook? Aim for the number "10" in your headline. Trying to promote a story on Twitter? Emotion-based appeals popular on Facebook don't translate to Twitter....
Source: niemanlab.org

Phrase of the day: Quantum Cryptography. IEEE says Quantum Cryptography System Breaks Daylight Distance Record: New 53-kilometer

Phrase of the day: Quantum Cryptography. IEEE says Quantum Cryptography System Breaks Daylight Distance Record: New 53-kilometer record for quantum cryptography through the air could enable a 24/7 space-based quantum Internet.
Source: ieee.org

Phrase of the day: Rotational superradiance 'Water waves can gain energy when they scatter from a whirlpool-like vortex.

Phrase of the day: Rotational superradiance 'Water waves can gain energy when they scatter from a whirlpool-like vortex. That is the conclusion of physicists in Brazil, Canada and the UK, who are the first to observe a phenomenon called "rotational superradiant scattering". The team says that the effect...
Source: physicsworld.com

Phrase of the day: Complex adaptive system - a system in which a perfect understanding of the individual parts does not

Phrase of the day: Complex adaptive system - a system in which a perfect understanding of the individual parts does not automatically convey a perfect understanding of the whole system's behavior.
Source: wikipedia.org

The Power of "My": The phrase "my doctor"€ implies a relationship that is key to the practice of medicine. Understanding

The Power of "My": The phrase "my doctor"€ implies a relationship that is key to the practice of medicine. Understanding the implications of this relationship is vitally important, particularly in this time of rapid change in the structure of medical practice. Some years ago, as a young research fellow,...
Source: jamanetwork.com

About RASE Pedagogical Model - Moodle and Pedagogical Design Workshop

About RASE Pedagogical Model - Moodle and Pedagogical Design Workshop
Source: google.com

Phrase of the day: Sympatric speciation - the process through which new species evolve from a single ancestral species while

Phrase of the day: Sympatric speciation - the process through which new species evolve from a single ancestral species while inhabiting the same geographic region.
Source: wikipedia.org