Image by Editor # Introduction Getting labeled data — that is, data with ground-truth target labels — is a fundamental step for building most supervised machine learning models like random forests, logistic regression, or neural network-based classifiers. Even though one major difficulty in many real-world applications lies in obtaining a sufficient amount of labeled data, …
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New research shows that reorganizing a model’s visual representations can make it more helpful, robust and reliable “Visual” artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. We use it to sort our photos, identify unknown flowers and steer our cars. But these powerful systems do not always “see” the world as we do, and they sometimes behave in …
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as the years before: fireworks across the globe. People greeted the new year with new resolutions and new goals. Someone, somewhere, surely said: “2026 is going to be THE year.” Then January happened. As the weeks went on, the end of the month came closer. And for people in ML research, late January has a …
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Image by Editor # The Fragile Pipeline The gravitational pull of state of the art in modern machine learning is immense. Research teams and engineering departments alike obsess over model architecture, from tweaking hyperparameters to experimenting with novel attention mechanisms, all in the pursuit of chasing the latest benchmarks. But while building a slightly more …
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Acknowledgements This research was developed by the SIMA 2 team: Maria Abi Raad, John Agapiou, Frederic Besse, Andrew Bolt, Sarah Chakera, Harris Chan, Jeff Clune, Alexandra Cordell, Martin Engelcke, Ryan Faulkner, Maxime Gazeau, Arne Olav Hallingstad, Tim Harley, Ed Hirst, Drew Hudson, Laura Kampis, Sheleem Kashem, Thomas Keck, Matija Kecman, Oscar Knagg, Alexander Lerchner, Bonnie …
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are so easy to use that it’s also easy to use them the wrong way, like holding a hammer by the head. The same is true for Pydantic, a high-performance data validation library for Python. In Pydantic v2, the core validation engine is implemented in Rust, making it one of the fastest data validation solutions …
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Image by Author I used to hate vibe coding. I believed I could write better code, design cleaner systems, and make more thoughtful architectural decisions on my own. For a long time, that was probably true. Over time, things changed. AI agents improved significantly. MCP servers, Claude skills, agent workflows, planning-first execution, and long-horizon …
Weather predictions need to capture the full range of possibilities — including worst case scenarios, which are the most important to plan for. WeatherNext 2 can predict hundreds of possible weather outcomes from a single starting point. Each prediction takes less than a minute on a single TPU; it would take hours on a supercomputer …
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about the Small-World Experiment, conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960’s. He devised an experiment by which a letter was given to a volunteer person in the United States, with the instruction to forward the letter to their personal contact most likely to know another person – the target – in the same country. In …
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Image by Author # Introduction Handling massive datasets containing billions of rows is a major challenge in data science and analytics. Traditional tools like Pandas work well for small to medium datasets that fit in system memory, but as dataset sizes grow, they become slow, use a large amount of random access memory (RAM) to …
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