2. Google Flow Music (www.flowmusic.app)

Google Flow Music is a generative AI platform for creating, remixing, and sharing studio-quality songs. Direct music videos, vibe-code new instruments, and personalize your sound effortlessly.

3. Refuse to let your doctor record you (buttondown.com)

By: Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney At a recent appointment, Emily’s physical therapist (who knows some about her research) said, “Before we get started,...

7. Composition Shouldn't be this Hard (www.cambra.dev)

Fragmented systems are brittle. Coherent systems are special-purpose. We need a new, general-purpose model so we can build coherent, multi-domain applications.

9. Different Language Models Learn Similar Number Representations (arxiv.org)

Language models trained on natural text learn to represent numbers using periodic features with dominant periods at $T=2, 5, 10$. In this paper, we identify a two-tiered hierarchy of these features: while Transformers, Linear RNNs, LSTMs, and classical word embeddings trained in different ways all learn features that have period-$T$ spikes in the Fourier domain, only some learn geometrically separable features that can be used to linearly classify a number mod-$T$. To explain this incongruity, we prove that Fourier domain sparsity is necessary but not sufficient for mod-$T$ geometric separability. Empirically, we investigate when model training yields geometrically separable features, finding that the data, architecture, optimizer, and tokenizer all play key roles. In particular, we identify two different routes through which models can acquire geometrically separable features: they can learn them from complementary co-occurrence signals in general language data, including text-number co-occurrence and cross-number interaction, or from multi-token (but not single-token) addition problems. Overall, our results highlight the phenomenon of convergent evolution in feature learning: A diverse range of models learn similar features from different training signals.

14. Machine Learning Reveals Unknown Transient Phenomena in Historic Images (arxiv.org)

Transient, star-like point sources that appear and vanish over short timescales are described in astronomical images prior to launch of Sputnik. We have reported that transient numbers diminish significantly in Earth's shadow (shadow deficit) and are more likely within (plus/minus) one day of nuclear testing (nuclear window). These findings remain debated with some arguing that transients identified via existing automated pipelines are simply plate defects. Therefore, we use machine learning (ML) to enhance transient identification accuracy and validate the phenomenon. The model was trained against 250 transient image pairs taken 30 minutes apart that were classified as real versus plate defect by expert visual review; the model demonstrated good discrimination (out-of-fold AUC$=$0.81; sensitivity$=$0.71, specificity$=$0.71). After deployment in a dataset of 107,875 previously-identified transients, the model assigned each a probability of being real. After controlling for ML-identified artifacts, transient counts were significantly elevated for dates within a nuclear window (p$=$.024); transients with the highest probability of being real were more likely to occur within a nuclear window (p$<$.0001). The shadow deficit was significant (p$<$.0001) and largest in the highest probability transients relative to lower probability transients (p$=$.003). Results strongly support existence of an unrecognized population of transient objects in historical astronomical plates warranting further study.

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