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Mar 13, 2024

Chronos: Learning the Language of Time Series

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Amazon presents Chronos.

Learning the language of time series.

We introduce Chronos, a simple yet effective framework for pretrained probabilistic time series models.

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Mar 13, 2024

Multistep Consistency Models

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Google presents Multistep Consistency Models.

Diffusion models are relatively easy to train but require many steps to generate samples.


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Mar 12, 2024

‘Strange’ New Prehistoric Bird Discovered in China and Named for David Attenborough

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A newly discovered species of prehistoric bird that lived 120 million years ago is shedding light on how modern birds evolved from their dinosaur ancestors, according to a study published last week in the journal Cretaceous Research.

The scientists who discovered the novel species gave it a name that highlights its uniqueness and pays tribute to the British naturalist David Attenborough: Imparavis attenboroughi, which means “Attenborough’s strange bird” in Latin.

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Mar 12, 2024

Polar Signals wants to help companies cut cloud costs with more efficient code

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Polar Signals was founded in 2020 by Branczyk, an ex-Red Hat engineer and leading figure in the Prometheus and Kubernetes ecosystems — experience that positions Polar Signals well to target the enterprise cloud segment.

Since its formal commercial launch back in October, the company has amassed more than a dozen paying customers, including Vercel, Materialize, Canonical and Weaviate — and this is something that its fresh cash injection will help it double down on, as it seeks further scale in the coming months and years.

“Our pipeline is so large we can’t even close them [new customers] quickly enough, which is also why we’re planning on growing the team in this direction significantly,” Branczyk said.

Mar 12, 2024

A 3D view into chaos: Researchers visualize temperature-driven turbulence in liquid metal for the first time

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Experiments with liquid metals could not only lead to exciting insights into geophysical and astrophysical flow phenomena, such as atmospheric disturbances at the rim of the sun or the flow in the Earth’s outer core, but also foster industrial applications, for example, the casting of liquid steel.

However, as are non-transparent, suitable measurement techniques to visualize the flow in the entire volume are still lacking. A team of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has now, for the first time, obtained a detailed three-dimensional image of a turbulent temperature-driven liquid metal flow using a self-developed method. In the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, they report on the challenges they had to overcome on the way.

Ever since researchers have been investigating the properties of turbulent flows in fluids, they have used an experiment that initially seems quite simple: the fluid is filled into a container/vessel whose base plate is heated and whose lid is cooled at the same time. A team of the Institute of Fluid Dynamics at HZDR is investigating the very details of this process.

Mar 11, 2024

Brain’s Unified Blueprint: Shaping Early Neurodevelopment

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Summary: Researchers provided new insights into brain development, revealing that different brain regions share a similar organizational structure in early stages rather than being pre-specialized. This finding, supported by advanced optical imaging, suggests a universal blueprint for brain development, which has significant implications for understanding neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and schizophrenia.

By observing synchronized activity in nerve cell networks across various brain regions, the study highlights a potential common foundation for brain disorders, offering a new perspective on their widespread impact. Future research will further explore how this shared developmental pattern evolves over time and across different brain areas.

Mar 11, 2024

New Carbon Removal Facility Will Capture 1 Million Tons Per Year

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The facility will extract the equivalent carbon of 40 million trees annually from Scotland.

Mar 11, 2024

This Could Be How the Earth’s First Cells Formed

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The answer may have been hiding in our own bodies all along.

Mar 11, 2024

Shields up: New ideas might make active shielding viable

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Active shielding was first proposed in the ’60s. We’re finally close to making it work.

Mar 11, 2024

New type of tunable filter reveals the potential for terahertz wireless communications

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Electromagnetic waves in the terahertz frequency range offer many advantages for communications and advanced applications in scanning and imaging, but realizing their potential poses challenges. Researchers at Tohoku University have addressed one of the key challenges by developing a new type of tunable filter for signals in the terahertz wave band. They published their work in the journal Optics Letters.

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