# 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](https://jobs-in-data.com/salary/data-scientist-salary)

- **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](https://github.com/mattismegevand/invertornot).

- **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](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.02279v1.pdf).

- **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.