Microsoft deletes blog telling users to train AI on pirated Harry Potter books

The blog recommended that users learn to train their own AI models by downloading the Harry Potter dataset and then uploading text files to Azure Blob Storage. It included example models based on a ...
TMCnet

Data Normalization vs. Standardization: What's the Difference and When to Use Each

Data Normalization vs. Standardization is one of the most foundational yet often misunderstood topics in machine learning and ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Extra voting time for SD9 race is possible. Here’s what would have to happen

Any plans to vote over the weekend for the Senate District 9 run-off election were frozen due to the winter storm that iced over North Texas. Tuesday is the last scheduled day for early voting before ...
GitHub

PL/SQL Connector Builder Examples

These examples demonstrates all data types and PL/SQL Connector Builders used by PL/SQL Enterprise Workbench. All examples contain a normal executable main Java program and a JUnit test case. These ...
IEEE

LSD: Adversarial Examples Detection Based on Label Sequences Discrepancy

Abstract: Deep neural network (DNN) models have been widely used in many tasks due to their superior performance. However, DNN models are usually vulnerable to adversarial example attacks, which ...
unite

The Poison Paradox: Why Bigger AI Models Are Easier to Hack

For years, the AI community believed that larger models are naturally more secure. The logic was simple: as larger models train on an ocean of datasets, a few drops of “poisoned” samples would be too ...
The Atlantic

Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t

The disintegration of a democracy is a deceptively quiet affair. For a while, everything looks the same. Each authoritarian milestone—the first political prisoner, the first closure of an opposition ...
Hacker

How to Create Purchase Order Lines in Oracle R12 (with PL/SQL Examples)

Vinish Kapoor is an Oracle ACE Pro, software developer, and founder of Vinish.dev, known for his expertise in Oracle. Vinish Kapoor is an Oracle ACE Pro, software developer, and founder of Vinish.dev, ...
NPR

A look at political violence in the U.S. following the Minnesota shootings

Following the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers, NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Matthew Dallek, a historian and professor at George Washington University, about political violence in America. The ...