Mar 26, 2024

• Scientists rename genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates
  27 human genes were renamed to prevent Microsoft Excel from misinterpreting their symbols as dates, a change driven by the software's default data formatting settings.

• An AI robot is spotting sick tulips to slow disease through Dutch bulb fields
  Theo, an AI robot, tirelessly inspects tulip fields for disease, marking a shift towards high-tech agriculture in the Netherlands, with its operation based on capturing and analyzing thousands of images to identify sick tulips.

• Sora: First Impressions
  Sora, a tool introduced by OpenAI, is revolutionizing the creative process for visual artists, filmmakers, and designers by enabling the creation of new and surreal ideas previously deemed impossible.

• Canva acquires Affinity, its biggest acquisition, to compete with Adobe
  Canva Inc. acquires the Affinity suite of creative software, marking its largest acquisition aimed at expanding its competitive edge against Adobe Inc.

• Your salary is determined mainly by geography, not your skill level
  A salary model built from nearly 24,000 responses in the 2022 Kaggle Machine Learning & Data Science Survey reveals that geography significantly outweighs skill level, experience, or industry in determining salaries for data professionals. Source

• Google's First Tensor Processing Unit: Architecture
  Google's first Tensor Processing Unit (TPU v1) was designed to accelerate tensor operations primarily for inference, achieving a 10x cost-performance advantage over GPUs.

• Up to 17% of Recent AI Conference Peer Reviews Written by ChatGPT
  A new study reveals that up to 17% of peer reviews for major AI conferences in 2023-2024 likely contained significant content generated by AI models like ChatGPT, marking a substantial increase from 1-2% in pre-ChatGPT years.

• Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor
  Aqua Voice, a voice-native document editor, revolutionizes dictation by understanding natural language commands and intent, making it a more intuitive tool for writing.

• Show HN: Tracecat – Open-source security alert automation / SOAR alternative
  Tracecat is an open-source automation platform aimed at security teams, offering a Tines / Splunk SOAR alternative with a focus on enterprise-grade tools, AI infrastructure, and a practitioner-obsessed UI/UX.

• Moirai: A time series foundation model for universal forecasting
  Moirai introduces a novel approach to time series forecasting, leveraging a large-scale dataset (LOTSA) with 27 billion observations across nine domains, and innovative techniques like multiple patch size projection layers and any-variate attention mechanism for universal forecasting.

• Show HN: Auto-generate an OpenAPI spec by listening to localhost
  OpenAPI AutoSpec is a server proxy that automatically generates OpenAPI 3.0 specifications for local websites or applications by capturing and documenting network requests in real-time.

• Hybrid-Net: Real-time audio source separation, generate lyrics, chords, beat
  Hybrid-Net is an AI-powered, transformer-based multimodal model designed for real-time audio source separation, and generating lyrics, chords, beats, melody, and tabs for any song, enhancing music information retrieval through interdependent network models.

• Show HN: Invertornot.com – API to enhance your images in dark-mode
  InvertOrNot offers a free, open-source API that predicts whether an image should be inverted for optimal dark-mode rendering, with its code and model weights available on GitHub.

• On Plagiarism of "Trajectory Consistency Distillation"
  The Consistency Trajectory Models (CTM, ICLR24) was plagiarized by Trajectory Consistency Distillation (TCD), including verbatim copying of proofs, as detailed in their comparison.

• What do the responsibilities of a typical “research scientist” in big tech companies look like?
  Research scientists in big tech companies often balance between conducting research and fulfilling internal company responsibilities, with the freedom to publish papers varying significantly.