Keir Starmer announces plan to abolish NHS England
Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced plans to bring NHS England back into the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) with the aim of ending the duplication resulting…
Validation technique could help scientists make more accurate forecasts | MIT News
Should you grab your umbrella before you walk out the door? Checking the weather forecast beforehand will only be helpful if that forecast is accurate. Spatial prediction problems, like weather…
Steve Blank Secret History – When Kodak Went to War with Polaroid
This part 2 of the Secret History of Polaroid and Edwin Land. Read part 1 for context. Kodak and Polaroid, the two most famous camera companies of the 20th century,…
Alibaba Researchers Introduce R1-Omni: An Application of Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) to an Omni-Multimodal Large Language Model
Emotion recognition from video involves many nuanced challenges. Models that depend exclusively on either visual or audio signals often miss the intricate interplay between these modalities, leading to misinterpretations of…
More than 5,000 vital NHS screenings missed due to IT oversight
An admin error dating back to 2008 meant that 5,261 patients weren’t invited for routine screening when their details failed to reach the correct IT systems. The issue occurred when…
Food delivery startup Wonder acquires media company Tastemade for $90M
Food delivery startup Wonder is acquiring media company Tastemade for around $90 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. Founded in 2012, Tastemade produces food, travel, and home videos and…
Making airfield assessments automatic, remote, and safe | MIT News
In 2022, Randall Pietersen, a civil engineer in the U.S. Air Force, set out on a training mission to assess damage at an airfield runway, practicing “base recovery” protocol after…
the story of Maria Paula — Bsurance
More than eight months ago, Maria Paula Caicedo joined the bsurance team as the Business Development Intern. Maria Paula comes from the second most biodiverse country in the world, Colombia,…
Steve Blank The Venture Mindset – Worth A Read
Posted on May 21, 2024 by steve blank Ilya Strebulaev at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Director of the Stanford Venture Capital Initiative just came out with a…
From Sparse Rewards to Precise Mastery: How DEMO3 is Revolutionizing Robotic Manipulation
Long-horizon robotic manipulation tasks are a serious challenge for reinforcement learning, caused mainly by sparse rewards, high-dimensional action-state spaces, and the challenge of designing useful reward functions. Conventional reinforcement learning…