Reason

Data Centers Use Less Water Than Almond Farms—and Do More Good

California's almond farms consume 4.2 billion gallons of waters per day, according to Reason's Christian Britschgi. Data centers consume just 46 million gallons per day. Those numbers will certainly ...
IEEE

Improved Speech Recognition using Vector Quantization, Genetic Algorithm and Neural Networks

Abstract: Speech recognition has long been one of the most difficult and active research problems in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) finds applications in the field of ...
The Verge

Use this map to find the data centers in your backyard

Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. is a policy reporter at The Verge ...
IEEE

MuQ: Self-Supervised Music Representation Learning With Mel Residual Vector Quantization

Abstract: Recent years have witnessed the success of foundation models pre-trained with self-supervised learning (SSL) in various music informatics understanding tasks, including music tagging, ...