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NY-based Hume, which is building a conversational AI that it claims can interpret emotions based on people's voices, raised a $50M Series B at a $219M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishri…

Feeling Sad, Excited Or Bored? This Startup Claims Its AI Can (Mostly) Tell
The company, which is building “empathic” conversational AI, is now valued at $219 million.

🪧 After backlash, ICSD board rejects school budget proposal, approves reduced version for public vote
https://ithacavoice.org/2024/04/after-backlash-icsd-board-rejects-school-budget-proposal-approve…

After backlash, ICSD board rejects school budget proposal, approves reduced version for public vote
ITHACA, N.Y. — Following pushback from taxpayers, the Ithaca City School District Board of Education rejected the district’s 2024-2025 school year budget proposal at its meeting late Tuesday night. Instead, […]

Football GOAT Tom Brady Seeks to Follow in the Footsteps of Basketball GOAT Michael Jordan: Brady Is Moving Forward In Bid to Acquire Ownership Interest in the Las Vegas Raiders

Football GOAT Tom Brady Seeks to Follow in the Footsteps of Basketball GOAT Michael Jordan: Brady Is Moving Forward In Bid to Acquire Ownership Interest in the Las Vegas Raiders
Tom Brady‘s bid to acquire a minority ownership interest in the Las Vegas Raiders is “making progress” according to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Goodell made the remarks at the Annual NFL Team Owners Meeting in Orlando, Florida. Following in the footsteps of basketball GOAT Michael Jordan, football GOAT Tom Brady is seeking to acquire an ownership interest in a professional sports franchise. Jordan owned the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets for 13 years, before selling the team for approximat…

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Neural Architecture Search for Sentence Classification with BERT
Philip Kenneweg, Sarah Schr\"oder, Barbara Hammer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18547 ht…

Neural Architecture Search for Sentence Classification with BERT
Pre training of language models on large text corpora is common practice in Natural Language Processing. Following, fine tuning of these models is performed to achieve the best results on a variety of tasks. In this paper we question the common practice of only adding a single output layer as a classification head on top of the network. We perform an AutoML search to find architectures that outperform the current single layer at only a small compute cost. We validate our classification architec…

2 years of war: how Ukraine and the world have changed. Ukraine in Flames #578: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/27/years-of-war.html

Sources: the US SEC sent a subpoena to OpenAI in December 2023, seeking internal records, following the board's decision in November to fire Sam Altman as CEO (Deepa Seetharaman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/sec-investigating…

CORE-BEHRT: A Carefully Optimized and Rigorously Evaluated BEHRT
Mikkel Odgaard, Kiril Vadimovic Klein, Sanne M{\o}ller Thysen, Espen Jimenez-Solem, Martin Sillesen, Mads Nielsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15201

CORE-BEHRT: A Carefully Optimized and Rigorously Evaluated BEHRT
BERT-based models for Electronic Health Records (EHR) have surged in popularity following the release of BEHRT and Med-BERT. Subsequent models have largely built on these foundations despite the fundamental design choices of these pioneering models remaining underexplored. To address this issue, we introduce CORE-BEHRT, a Carefully Optimized and Rigorously Evaluated BEHRT. Through incremental optimization, we isolate the sources of improvement for key design choices, giving us insights into the…

Sources: the US SEC sent a subpoena to OpenAI in December 2023, seeking internal records, following the board's decision in November to fire Sam Altman as CEO (Deepa Seetharaman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/sec-investigating…

Filing: Sun Microsystems co-founder Andreas Bechtolsheim settles with the US SEC for alleged insider trading on Cisco's $2.6B offer to buy Acacia in 2019 (Austin Weinstein/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Billionaire Bechtolsheim Accused of Insider Trading by SEC
Andreas Bechtolsheim, a billionaire founder of Sun Microsystems Inc. and Arista Networks Inc., will be barred from serving as an executive or board member of a public company for five years after the Securities and Exchange Commission accused him of insider trading.