# forck.live — 29 November – 5 December 2021 > AI lab announcements, news reports and podcasts. forck.live follows what companies announce about their own products. Press may corroborate an official story; it never leads and never appears as an item of its own. A missing date stays missing. A title is the publisher's words — where a company does not publish in English, an English rendering is listed separately as `Title in English` and named as this site's translation, never as theirs. This file is one issue of the weekly archive: every confirmed first-party announcement of ISO week 2021-W48, 29 November – 5 December 2021, newest first. The window never moves, so this URL always names the same seven days — but a post published inside them and detected later is added when it arrives, so a closed week can still gain entries. Every entry is one first-party announcement, and carries the same eight fields in this order before any others: Company · Announced · Category · Coverage · Announcement · Group · Source · Record `Source` is the company's own page the announcement was traced to and `Record` is this site's page for it. Both are safe to cite. `Coverage` is a number of outlets, or `not counted` — which means this record reached no count of its own, never that nobody wrote about it. `Category` is this tracker's own analysis, and is authoritative wherever it is stated. `not stated` means either that nothing has analysed the post yet or that the analysis placed it outside this taxonomy; neither is a verdict about the announcement. `Announcement` is whether the post is news of something the company did, rather than a how-to, a customer story, a changelog listing or a staffing note. `Group` is which of this record's groups the entry falls in, carried on the entry itself so it holds where the groups are headings and where they are not. One of: `models`, `covered`, `announcements`, `routine`. Anything after `Record` is held detail that only some announcements carry. - This week's page: https://forck.live/week/2021-W48 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### LG AI Research — LG AI Research Holds 『LG AI Talk Concert - The Best of 2021』, Sharing Achievements in Light of its First Anniversary - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2021-12-03 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=162 - Record: https://forck.live/items/11086-lg-ai-research-holds-lg-ai-talk-concert-the-best-of-2021-sharing-achievements - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research held its annual 'LG AI Talk Concert – The Best of 2021' on December 14, presenting research achievements from the past year. The event included a keynote summarizing 2021 research results, sessions on fundamental research papers selected at major conferences, applied AI projects with LG affiliates, and a super-giant AI session whose details were kept private until the keynote. ### LG AI Research — LG AI Research Holds 『LG AI Talk Concert - The Best of 2021』, Sharing Achievements in Light of its First Anniversary - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2021-12-03 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=162 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4972-lg-ai-research-holds-lg-ai-talk-concert-the-best-of-2021-sharing-achievements - Subject: EXAONE LG AI Research is holding an event called 'LG AI Talk Concert – The Best of 2021' to share its research achievements from the year, including presentations on reinforcement learning, composition AI, deep image prior, materials AI, vision inspection, battery abnormality detection, demand forecasting, machine reading comprehension, and super-giant AI. ### Replit — Replit Blocks Adult Content and Malware - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2021-12-02 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/family-friendly-dns - Record: https://forck.live/items/18158-replit-blocks-adult-content-and-malware - Subject: Replit Agent At Replit, we have created a general purpose computing environment that anyone can use to run whatever programs they want, and access whatever services they want. You can run almost any type of software in a repl, including Mac OS , a Commodore 64 emulator , DOOM , or even a web browser. While this is powerful, it poses a few problems for us. There are some types of programs, like cryptocurrency miners and spam bots, that either use too many resources or damage the community as a whole, and as a result we can't allow them. This is especially important considering that a substantial portion of users on Replit are teenagers, many of whom use Replit at school or under parental supervision. We want to continue giving everyone computing superpowers, while still finding a way to protect our users from inappropriate content. That's why, starting this week, we are blocking all internet access to adult content and malware. That means if you run a web browser on Replit, you won't be able to access any objectionable or NSFW websites. How does it work? We did this by enabling the use of Cloudflare's family-friendly DNS resolver by default in all user repls. … ### Hugging Face — Introducing Snowball Fight ☃️, our first ML-Agents environment - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2021-12-02 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/snowball-fight - Record: https://forck.live/items/2237-introducing-snowball-fight-our-first-ml-agents-environment - Subject: Platform Hugging Face introduces Snowball Fight, a custom Deep Reinforcement Learning environment built with Unity ML-Agents, hosted on Hugging Face Spaces, as part of an ecosystem for ML-Agents researchers and enthusiasts. ### OpenAI — OpenAI Residency - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2021-11-30T08:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/openai-residency - Record: https://forck.live/items/923-openai-residency - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI announces a residency program to support and develop AI talent. ### Hugging Face — Getting Started with Hugging Face Transformers for IPUs with Optimum - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2021-11-30 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/graphcore-getting-started - Record: https://forck.live/items/2238-getting-started-with-hugging-face-transformers-for-ipus-with-optimum - Subject: Platform Hugging Face and Graphcore announce Optimum integration for IPUs, enabling developers to accelerate Transformer models like BERT on Graphcore's Intelligence Processing Unit with minimal code changes. ### Replit — Will Nix Overtake Docker? - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2021-11-29T20:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/nix-vs-docker - Record: https://forck.live/items/18058-will-nix-overtake-docker - Subject: Replit Agent In many discussions about Nix , the comparison of Nix and Docker comes up frequently . This question could be dismissed by saying that Nix and Docker are different tools that solve different problems. One is a toolkit for building and deploying containers and the other is a package and configuration manager. However, these tools do have some overlap: they can both be used to create reproducible environments. A reproducible environment is one that can be recreated from scratch in an identical way (ideally bit-for-bit). Practically, this means having the same tools, versions, and configuration between the environments. Reproducible environments are useful to ensure all developers on a project have the exact same set of tools. Additionally, you can develop in an environment that is similar to the production environment -- leading to less surprises when deploying. Both tools can solve the age-old problem of "it works on my machine". While both tools aim to solve this problem, they take different approaches. Reproducible Environment with Docker Docker provides tools for creating container images. An image stores the contents and configuration for a container. … ### LG AI Research — Researching the AI of Tomorrow, Sungryull Sohn of LG AI Research US - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2021-11-29 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=160 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4973-researching-the-ai-of-tomorrow-sungryull-sohn-of-lg-ai-research-us - Subject: EXAONE Profile of researcher Sungryull Sohn from LG AI Research US, discussing his background, research interests in reinforcement learning and embodied agents, and his experience at LG AI Research. ### Hugging Face — Introducing the Data Measurements Tool: an Interactive Tool for Looking at Datasets - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2021-11-29 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/data-measurements-tool - Record: https://forck.live/items/2239-introducing-the-data-measurements-tool-an-interactive-tool-for-looking-at - Subject: Platform Hugging Face announces the Data Measurements Tool, an open-source Python library and no-code interface for analyzing and comparing datasets. It provides interactive widgets for dataset basics, descriptive statistics, and distributional statistics to help users understand, build, curate, and compare datasets.