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How Canva Became The Home of Everything

In the span of about two years, Canva went from being a nice to have tool to a cornerstone in marketing, design, and even productivity. Here’s how.

Did you know Tears of the Kingdom has 'a physics engine for sound'?

Lead sound engineer Junya Osada says making a procedural sound system allowed Nintendo's sound team to work more closely with other departments.

Forecasting Electricity Market Signals via Generative AI

This paper presents a generative artificial intelligence approach to probabilistic forecasting of electricity market signals, such as real-time locational marginal prices and area control error signals. Inspired by the Wiener-Kallianpur innovation representation of nonparametric time series, we propose a weak innovation autoencoder architecture and a novel deep learning algorithm that extracts the canonical independent and identically distributed innovation sequence of the time series, from which samples of future time series are generated. The validity of the proposed approach is established by proving that, under ideal training conditions, the generated samples have the same conditional probability distribution as that of the ground truth.

LLocalSearch

LLocalSearch is a completely locally running search aggregator using LLM Agents. The user can ask a question and the system will use a chain of LLMs to find the answer. The user can see the progress of the agents and the final answer. No OpenAI or Google API keys are needed.

plandex

AI driven development in your terminal. Designed for large, real-world tasks.

Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy

Why do startups typically fail? It turns out that “avoiding those things” is already a plan for success.