Ayse Elvan Aydemir, Tugba Taskaya Temizel, Alptekin Temizel, Kliment Preshlenov and Daniel M. Strahinov provide a generic framework for estimating player performance and performing player-fit-to-criteria assessment, under different objectives, for left and right backs from competitions worldwide

Edward J. Hu, Yelong Shen, Phillip Wallis, Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Yuanzhi Li, Shean Wang, Lu Wang and Weizhu Chen propose Low-Rank Adaptation, or LoRA, which freezes the pre-trained model weights and injects trainable rank decomposition matrices into each layer of the Transformer architecture, greatly reducing the number of train...

By looking at the politics of classification within machine learning systems, Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen demonstrate why the automated interpretation of images is an inherently social and political project.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN - The double helix can archive a staggering amount of information in an almost inconceivably small volume

Wired | All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.

NY TIMES - Digital Creators used the blockchain to create a whole new art scene. Then their work started selling for thousands of dollars, sometimes millions.

QUANTAMAGAZINE - The world’s biggest flower, Rafflesia arnoldii, is a parasite that spends much of its life inside its vine hosts. New genomic work suggests that the parasites in this group of plants have lost an astonishing share of their genes.

Regulation of the European Parliament and of the council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (artificial intelligence act) and amending certain union legislative acts (AI Act)

Stella Biderman, Sid Black, Charles Foster, Leo Gao, Eric Hallahan, Horace He, Ben Wang and Phil Wang discuss Rotary Positional Embedding (RoPE), a new type of position encoding that unifies absolute and relative approaches to position encoding in transformers. The authors find that across a large suite of setups, RoPE matche...

The University of Adelaide released the first full tectonic plate reconstruction of the last billion years – spanning nearly a quarter of the Earth’s existence.

250 years after the publication of Adam Smith’s Wealth of the Nations, the emergence of completely free markets of digital assets can shed a new light on economic theories. Can Economics really provide a useful framework to understand the evolutions of these embryonic markets?

The Finance industry is one of the most advanced in the use of data. Yet, there are untapped opportunities, in particular by identifying liquidity in the least liquid markets. A quick introduction to the little-known niche of secondary transactions on Private Equity portfolios.

The ever-increasing production of information poses two problems: a physical physical one, as storage capacity does not increases as fast as production, and an environmental one, since this industry is very energy-intensive. What if data could be stored in a truly durable way? The case for data storage in DNA.

In 2020, a global pandemic caused millions of deaths. The probability that such event happens, however, is not much higher than for other natural disaster that could make our information systems useless globally. Focus on coronal mass ejections

Henry Allen, Jim Reid and Luke Templeman considers various tail risks that could cause another global crisis, and assess the probability that they will occur.

Quantamagazine - Representation theory was initially dismissed. Today, it’s central to much of mathematics.

TeamErlich's DNA-Fountain project is a unique approach to data encoding and storage using synthetic DNA. The project provides methods for encoding and decoding data, as well as tools for sorting and stitching sequencing data.

NASA - Five years after NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric current systems in the Martian atmosphere

QUANTAMAGAZINE - The human mind has long grappled with the elusive nature of time: what it is, how to record it, how it regulates life, and whether it exists as a fundamental building block of the universe. This timeline traces our evolving understanding of time through a history of observations in CULTURE, PHYSICS, TIMEKEEPI...

Wired - Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being. Then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable. For a long time, no one could make sense of it.

Quantamagazine - The emergence of new genes is an important source of biological novelty. Recently, researchers have found clues to how frequently take shape de novo, within DNA sequences that previously did not encode anything.

Quantamagazine - The laws of physics imply that the passage of time is an illusion. To avoid this conclusion, we might have to rethink the reality of infinitely precise numbers.

FoodData Central is an integrated data system that provides expanded nutrient profile data and links to related agricultural and experimental research.

Quantamagazine - Activity in the visual cortex and other sensory areas is dominated by signals about body movements, down to little tics and twitches. Scientists are now rethinking how they study and conceive of perception.

Vidya Muthukumar, Kailas Vodrahalli, Vignesh Subramanian and Anant Sahai investigate the overparameterized regime in linear regression, where all solutions that minimize training error interpolate the data, including noise