Deep Learning, NLP, NMT, AI, ML
In this edition: We introduce privacy enhancements for multiparty deep learning, a framework using smaller, open-source models to provide relevance judgments, and other notable new research. We congratulate Yasuyuki Matsushita, who was named an IEEE Computer Society Fellow. We’ve included a recap of the extraordinary, far-reaching work done by researchers at Microsoft in 2024. NEW RESEARCH
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Resource leaks are an unpleasant type of bug. Little by little your program uses more memory, or more file descriptors, or some other limited resource. Everything seems fine—until you run, and now your program is dead. In many cases you can catch these sort of bugs in advance, by tweaking your test suite. Or, after you’ve discovered such a bug, you can use your test suite to identify what is causing it. In this article we’ll cover: An example of […]
Read more[MUSIC FADES] I’m your guest host, Lindsay Kalter. Today I’m talking to Microsoft Principal Research Manager Tian Xie and Microsoft Principal Researcher Ziheng Lu. Tian is doing fascinating work with MatterGen, an AI tool for generating new materials guided by specific design requirements. Ziheng is one of the visionaries behind MatterSim, which puts those new materials to the test through advanced simulations. Together, they’re redefining what’s possible in materials science. Tian and Ziheng, welcome to the podcast. TIAN XIE: Very […]
Read moreMaterials innovation is one of the key drivers of major technological breakthroughs. The discovery of lithium cobalt oxide in the 1980s laid the groundwork for today’s lithium-ion battery technology. It now powers modern mobile phones and electric cars, impacting the daily lives of billions of people. Materials innovation is also required for designing more efficient solar cells, cheaper batteries for grid-level energy storage,
Read moreDictionary comprehensions are a concise and quick way to create, transform, and filter dictionaries in Python. They can significantly enhance your code’s conciseness and readability compared to using regular for loops to process your dictionaries. Understanding dictionary comprehensions is crucial for you as a Python developer because they’re a Pythonic tool for dictionary manipulation and can be a valuable addition to your programming toolkit. In this video course, you’ll learn how to: Create dictionaries using dictionary comprehensions Transform existing dictionaries […]
Read moreOver the past year, our work on AutoGen has highlighted the transformative potential of agentic AI and multi-agent applications. Today, we are excited to announce AutoGen v0.4, a significant milestone informed by insights from our community of users and developers. This update represents a complete redesign of the AutoGen library, developed to improve code quality, robustness, generality,
Read moreThere are multiple ways of interacting with Python, and each can be useful for different scenarios. You can quickly explore functionality in Python’s interactive mode using the built-in Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL), or you can write larger applications to a script file using an editor or Integrated Development Environment (IDE). In this video course, you’ll learn how to: Use Python interactively by typing code directly into the interpreter Execute code contained in a script file from the command line Work within […]
Read moreAs we welcome 2025, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the exciting advancements the Python community made in 2024. Python 3.13 stood out as a milestone release, introducing ground-breaking experimental features like free threading and a just-in-time (JIT) compiler, both designed to boost performance. The REPL also received an upgrade, with a modern redesign that enhances the coding experience for developers of all levels. These updates, along with other cool new features, have reinforced Python’s reputation as a continually […]
Read moreRemoving items from a Python list is a common task that you can accomplish with various techniques. Whether you need to remove an item by its position or value, Python has you covered. In this tutorial, you’ll explore different approaches to removing items from a list, including using .pop(), the del statement, and .remove(). The .remove() method allows you to delete the first occurrence of a specified value, while .pop() can remove an item by its index and return it. […]
Read moreIn our increasingly complex digital landscape, enterprises and cloud providers face significant challenges in the development, deployment, and maintenance of sophisticated IT applications. The broad adoption of microservices and cloud-based serverless architecture has streamlined certain aspects of application development while simultaneously introducing a host of operational difficulties, particularly in fault diagnosis and mitigation. These complexities can result in outages, which have the potential to cause major business disruptions, underscoring the critical need for robust solutions that ensure high availability and […]
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