The UP Parser

The official student publication of the Department of Computer Science, University of the Philippines

02/09/2024

: Palace suspends government work and classes in private and public schools in NCR and Region IV-A tomorrow, Sept. 3 due to bad weather, ES Lucas Bersamin says. | via Anna Felicia Bajo/GMA Integrated News

01/09/2024

sa lahat ng antas sa pampubliko at pribadong paaralan sa Quezon City ngayong Lunes, Setyembre 2, 2024, dahil sa inaasahang sama ng panahon dulot ng bagyong .

Pinapayuhan ang lahat na mag-ingat at manatili sa inyong tahanan kung kinakailangan para sa inyong kaligtasan.

27/08/2024

sa lahat ng antas sa pampubliko at pribadong paaralan sa Quezon City ngayong araw, August 28, 2024 dahil sa malakas na pag-ulan sa buong Metro Manila.

Pinapayuhan ang lahat na mag-ingat at manatili sa inyong tahanan kung kinakailangan para sa inyong kaligtasan.

Bootcamp 11.0: DCS welcomes Batch 2024 23/08/2024

Last August 7-9, the Department of Computer Science and The CS Network held Bootcamp 11.0: the annual introductory event for freshies, shiftees, and transferees (FSTs). The event featured workshops, games, and talks for the incoming students to get to know one another.

Read more about the three-day event below:

Bootcamp 11.0: DCS welcomes Batch 2024 By Eriene Galinato and Gabriel Inigo De Guzman

Photos from The UP Parser's post 09/08/2024

IN FOCUS:

Batch 2021 representative Paolo De Los Santos hooks Bootcamp 11.0 participantsโ€™ attention as he delivers the finishing talk โ€˜Through the Looking Glassโ€™ at the UP AECH Accenture Ideas Exchange Room (AIER).

Photos by Cole Lago

Photos from The UP Parser's post 09/08/2024

LIVE NOW:

Freshies cheered and mingled at the Department of Computer Science on Bootcamp 11.0โ€™s third and final day.

After the opening, students now race against each other in the ultimate activity 'Tea Time Trials'โ€”an Amazing Race-inspired challengeโ€”inside the UP AECH. Nine teams must solve tasks that test their creativity, teamwork, and problem-solving skills.

Photos by Jon Mayuyu and Cole Lago

Photos from The UP Parser's post 08/08/2024

LIVE:

Bootcamp 11.0 toured the freshmen across the laboratories, classrooms, and libraries in the Alumni Engineers Centennial Hall.

UP AECH Accenture Ideas Exchange Room (AIER) also remains buzzing, as the UP Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) hosts another set of activities for the participants.

Photos by Shannen Tan and Elijah Mejilla

Photos from The UP Parser's post 08/08/2024

IN FOCUS:

DCS alumna Shannen Tan takes the stage as she presents a talk titled 'Back to the Real Virtual World,' one of the main highlights of Bootcamp 11.0. Tan was also the former editor-in-chief for The UP Parser.

Photos by Sidney Fernando

Photos from The UP Parser's post 08/08/2024

HAPPENING NOW:

UP Center for Student Innovations (CSI) keeps FSTs energized while they hold activities at the UP AECH Accenture Ideas Exchange Room (AIER).

Photos by Sidney Fernando

Photos from The UP Parser's post 08/08/2024

LIVE NOW:

Freshies and volunteers gather at UP AECH's ground floor as Bootcamp 11.0 begins its second day.

Photos by Sidney Fernando

Photos from The UP Parser's post 07/08/2024

๐‘ซ๐‘ช๐‘บ ๐‘ญ๐‘บ๐‘ป๐’” ๐’‰๐’‚๐’—๐’† ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’ˆ๐’–๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’Š๐’“ ๐’…๐’†๐’”๐’„๐’†๐’๐’•!

Bootcamp 11.0โ€”a 3-day welcoming event organized by the Department of Computer Scienceโ€”kicks off today. Incoming freshmen, shiftees, and transferees (FSTs) have gathered at the UP Alumni Engineers Centennial Hall to start their CS journey at UP Diliman.

Day 1 of the event features student-led coding crash courses, talks, and collaborative mini-games for the incoming FSTs to get to know one another.

Photos by Eriene Galinato

12/05/2024

๐‰๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ ๐†๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ! Get ready for an evening of ๐๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐๐จ ๐’๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐œ๐ก ๐ ๐š๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐  excitement with UP ACM and The UP Parser. From Overcooked cooking competition to Smash Bros battles, there's non-stop fun waiting for you. Whether you're a casual gamer or a competitive pro, join us for an unforgettable night of gaming.

Game Night will take place on ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘, ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’ - ๐Ÿ”๐๐Œ ๐ญ๐จ ๐Ÿ—๐๐Œ at the ๐–๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐‘๐จ๐จ๐ฆ, ๐€๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ง๐ข ๐„๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ' ๐‚๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ง๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐‡๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ, ๐”๐ ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ง.

๐ƒ๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ž๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐†๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ through the form below!

bit.ly/CSW24-GameNight
bit.ly/CSW24-GameNight
bit.ly/CSW24-GameNight



Pub by: Jeremiah Daniel Regalario

11/05/2024

๐Ÿ ๐๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ ๐†๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ! Heads up because UP ACM and The UP Parser are ๐›๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐ž๐๐œ๐ฎ๐›๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ! Whether you're a seasoned cuber or a beginner, there's something for everyone. Don't miss out on the fun waiting for you at Game Night! Let's get solving!

Game Night will take place on ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘, ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’ - ๐Ÿ”๐๐Œ ๐ญ๐จ ๐Ÿ—๐๐Œ at the ๐–๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐‘๐จ๐จ๐ฆ, ๐€๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ง๐ข ๐„๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ' ๐‚๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ง๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐‡๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ, ๐”๐ ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ง.

๐ƒ๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ž๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐†๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ through the form below!

bit.ly/CSW24-GameNight
bit.ly/CSW24-GameNight
bit.ly/CSW24-GameNight



Pub by: Jeremiah Daniel Regalario

10/05/2024

๐Ž๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ ๐†๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ! UP ACM and The UP Parser have an exciting line up of board games to play. Whether you're into classics like Uno, Exploding Kittens, and Monopoly Deal or prefer lively party games such as Jackbox, Pictionary, and Song Association, we've curated an unforgettable gaming experience just for you. Don't miss out on the fun waiting for you at Game Night!

Game Night will take place on ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘, ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’ - ๐Ÿ”๐๐Œ ๐ญ๐จ ๐Ÿ—๐๐Œ at the ๐–๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐‘๐จ๐จ๐ฆ, ๐€๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ง๐ข ๐„๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ' ๐‚๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ง๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐‡๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ, ๐”๐ ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ง.

๐ƒ๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ž๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐†๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ through the form below!

bit.ly/CSW24-GameNight
bit.ly/CSW24-GameNight
bit.ly/CSW24-GameNight



Pub by: Jeremiah Daniel Regalario

08/05/2024

For CS Week 2024, ๐”๐ ๐€๐‚๐Œ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐”๐ ๐๐š๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ... ๐†๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ! Join us for a fun-filled event where you can unwind, make new friends, and enjoy a variety of games. Whether you're into card games, board games, video games, or speedcubing, there's something for everyone. Don't miss the opportunity to win prizes, connect with fellow students, and have a blast!

Game Night will take place on ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘, ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’ - ๐Ÿ”๐๐Œ ๐ญ๐จ ๐Ÿ—๐๐Œ at the ๐–๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐‘๐จ๐จ๐ฆ, ๐€๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ง๐ข ๐„๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ' ๐‚๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ง๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐‡๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ, ๐”๐ ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ง.

๐๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐†๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ so we can plan accordingly and ensure a great experience for everyone. Your registration helps us get an accurate count of attendees and tailor the event to suit your preferences. We look forward to seeing you there!

bit.ly/CSW24-GameNight
bit.ly/CSW24-GameNight
bit.ly/CSW24-GameNight



Pub by: Stephen James Gonda

30/04/2024

Prof. Q is back in DCS! ๐Ÿคฉ

Join us on Friday, May 17, 2024 from 3 PM - 5 PM for a keynote session with one of the fathers of DCS, Prof. Emeritus Evangel Quiwa! ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿซ

Register for the event and preorder a copy of his book now:

https://bit.ly/CSWeek2024BookSigningReg
https://bit.ly/CSWeek2024BookSigningReg
https://bit.ly/CSWeek2024BookSigningReg

Don't miss your chance to meet him and get a copy of his book signed โœ๐Ÿป See you there! ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป



Pub by: Char and Ellie

Photos from Computer Science Week's post 30/04/2024
10/04/2024

Announcement from the UP Diliman (UPD) Office of the Chancellor:

In view of the concerns raised by the UPD University Student Council regarding extreme heat in Metro Manila in the coming days, faculty members whose class activities may be done online are requested to consider shifting to remote and/or asynchronous modes of learning during extreme heat conditions.

Photos from The UP Parser's post 03/04/2024

The Association of Computing Machinery - UP Diliman (UP ACM) is hosting the finals of ๐€๐‹๐†๐Ž๐‹๐˜๐Œ๐๐ˆ๐‚๐’ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’: ๐๐Ž๐‘๐ƒ๐„๐‘๐‹๐€๐๐ƒ๐’, this April 6 at the UP Alumni Engineers Centennial Hall (UP AECH).

Now in its 11th year, ALGOLYMPICS is a collegiate programming competition open to all undergraduate students in the Philippines. The contest takes place in two parts: (1) an online elimination round held last February 16-26 and (2) the in-person final round. This would be the first face-to-face iteration of the finals since the pandemic.

The online round of ALGOLYMPICS listed over 231 participants forming 77 teams. The top 20 teams among them qualified to the finals, which will be held on April 6, 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM at the Accenture Room in UP AECH. Aside from the contest proper, the event will also stage a practice round for contestants to warm up and hold talks from partner companies.

For more information, you may check the ALGOLYMPICS FAQ at https://algolympics.upacm.net/2024/faq/, or the UP ACM page at https://www.facebook.com/upacm

16/03/2024

๐Ÿ” | ๐Ž๐ง ๐…๐ž๐›๐ซ๐ฎ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ, ๐†๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ฅ๐ž ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐š๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐€๐ˆ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ญ๐›๐จ๐ญ, ๐†๐ž๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ข.

This comes after user reports of historical and factual inaccuracies in its image outputs, which includes Native and African American U.S. Founding Fathers, a female Pope, and dark-skinned Vikings.

According to Google Senior Vice President Prabhakar Raghavan, Google took steps to avoid the flaws that were observed with past image generators. This includes a lack of diversity in prompts that ask for a vague or generic type of person (e.g. โ€œa cookโ€, โ€œa teacherโ€).

However, they failed to account for prompts that ask for people with specific physical characteristics (e.g. โ€œa German cookโ€, โ€œa Black teacherโ€). In other words, they did not consider prompts that should not show diversity.

It was also observed that the image generator would refuse โ€œanodyneโ€ prompts such as protest movements (e.g. the Arab Spring, George Floyd protests, 1989 Tiananmen Square protests) to avoid the โ€œtrivialization of sensitive topicsโ€ or the โ€œspread of misinformationโ€.

Google is now taking action to correct the problem, vowing to relaunch Geminiโ€™s image generator in a few weeks.

Sources:
- https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-image-generation-issue/
- https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1234532775/google-gemini-offended-users-images-race
- https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/2/28/24083814/google-gemini-ai-bias-ethics
- https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/26/googles-gemini-ai-picture-generator-to-relaunch-in-a-few-weeks.html
- https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/22/google-pauses-gemini-ai-image-generator-after-inaccuracies.html
- https://apnews.com/article/google-gemini-ai-chatbot-imagegenerator-race-c7e14de837aa65dd84f6e7ed6cfc4f4b

Written by: Eriene Galinato
Design by: Stephen Gonda
Edited by: Elijah Mejilla, Ayen Manguan

14/03/2024

๐Ÿ” | ๐ƒ๐ž๐ž๐ฉ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐๐จ๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐›๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฆ๐š๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ค๐ข๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐๐ข๐š๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ

Last February 5, 2024, a team of MIT researchers published a study showing how AI assistance could boost the accuracy of skin disease diagnosis across skin tones.

The team recruited more than 1,000 medical professionals from 39 countriesโ€”including board-certified dermatologists, general practitioners, and other types of doctorsโ€”to diagnose 364 images varying in skin shades that cover 46 skin diseases. They found that images with dark skin received less accurate diagnoses.

Then, two versions of a deep learning system (DLS) trained on 30,000 images, with 47% and 84% accuracy each, helped the doctors examine another set of images. These two models contributed in assessing if AI accuracy would influence their evaluations.

The study revealed that both dermatologists and general practitioners had higher accuracy with access to the DLS. Additionally, they rarely accepted suggestions by the AI that had already been eliminated by themselves.

Dr. Matt Groh, the paperโ€™s senior author, has an interest in human-AI collaboration and was inspired by another MIT study, which found that facial-analysis programs frequently mispredict gender of darker skinned individuals.

Groh wanted to identify bias and difficulties of AI models, as well as doctors themselves, concerning skin diagnosis, and analyze whether partnership between physicians and machines enriches decision-making for diverse patients.

Sources:
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02728-3
- https://news.mit.edu/2024/doctors-more-difficulty-diagnosing-diseases-images-darker-skin-0205

Written by: Abram Josh Marcelo
Design by: Annika Domondon
Edited by: Elijah Mejilla, Ayen Manguan

13/03/2024

๐“๐ฐ๐จ ๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐œ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐›๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‡๐จ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‘๐š๐ฆ๐š๐๐š๐ง. As students of the University of the Philippines, we should seize this as a time to celebrate and foster a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Here are some reminders and things to know on how we can show our love and solidarity to our Muslim community members in the Department of Computer Science, as well as the wider University community.

๐Ÿ. ๐ƒ๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ซ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐๐ฌ

Muslims observe Ramadan by fasting, i.e., abstaining from food, drink, sexual activity, and sinful behavior, during daytime for 30 days.

This means no food and no food or drink from approximately 4 AM to 6 PM.

Muslim students likely will be exhausted, hungry, and dehydrated especially during the hot climate nowadays. Please do not tire them so much either physically, emotionally, or mentally.

๐Ÿ. ๐’๐ฉ๐š๐œ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ

Since there is yet to be a permanent prayer room for Muslims, please allow your Muslim friend to seek space for prayer in the building or place you find yourself in.

If you encounter a Muslim praying, please observe respect by maintaining silence and not passing near in front of them.

๐Ÿ‘. ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐‚๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž

Please do not joke nor tempt them with food and drink during daytime. Moreover, do not anger them because fasting includes abstaining from anger.

For the exact time, your Muslim friend would know the exact minute they are allowed to eat and drink. In general, food and drink are allowed around before 4 AM and around after 6 PM.

In the allowable times, please do invite them for food or join them when they invite you for food!

Written by: Hamdi Tuan
Edited by: Elijah Mejilla
Design by: Ayen Manguan

26/02/2024

๐Ÿ” | ๐€๐ฆ๐š๐ณ๐จ๐ง ๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ข๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ "๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ" ๐ญ๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ-๐ญ๐จ-๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐ž๐œ๐ก ๐€๐ˆ

Researchers at Amazon claim they have made an AI model that displays โ€œemergentโ€ capabilities in text-to-speech generation.

The Amazon Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team, in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, made what they claim to be the biggest text-to-speech (TTS) model at present called BASE-TTS โ€“ โ€œBig Adaptive Streamable TTS with Emergent abilities.โ€ It was trained on Spanish and English audio data.

The team at Amazon created three versions of BASE-TTS based on size. BASE-small is trained on 1,000 hours of audio data with 150 million parameters. Next, BASE-medium is with 10,000 hours of data with 400-million parameters. Lastly, BASE-large is with 100,000 hours of data with 980-million parameters.

The reason why they made three versions based on size of the data and the parameters is because they wanted to see if the scale of either the data or the parameters of the model, or both, mattered. They found that scale had an important effect.


Past a certain size, the AI model displays emergent capabilities โ€“ the text-to-speech model feels more โ€œnatural.โ€

The 10,000-hour model, BASE-medium, was the sweet spot for the emergence-abilities checklist that the Amazon AGI team had. The larger 100,000-hour model with almost a billion parameters experienced a continuing but diminishing return on improvement.

In all sizes of BASE-TTS, emotions and paralinguistics remain the most challenging task. Paralinguistics is the aspect of spoken communication that does not involve words โ€” such as volume, speed, intonation, etc. Furthermore, their model occasionally produces โ€œhallucinations or cutoffs, โ€ฆ extra or incomplete audio than intended by the text.โ€

On the ethics of their model, the researchers promote that their model provides opportunities to โ€œenhance user experiences and support under-resourced languages.โ€ A particular application is to create synthetic voices for mute people, subject to informed consensus and data privacy reviews. The researchers decided against open-sourcing their model because of potential misuse. They acknowledge that their data may produce bias.

All in all, the researchers stated that their AI text-to-speech model is โ€œthe largest model of its kind known to us, both in terms of parameters and training data.โ€ They conclude that their middle-size model, trained with 10,000 hours of data and 400 million parameters, started to exhibit an โ€œadvanced grasp of text.โ€

Here is the link to the article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08093.

Written by: Hamdi Tuan
Edited by: Elijah Mejilla
Design by: Ayen Manguan

26/02/2024

[Koreanist Career Talk] How to Succeed in Korea 101 for Filipino Students ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท

๐ŸŽคSpeaker: Paul Vincent Contreras, Software Engineer, Probit Global, Korea
๐Ÿ”–Organizers: UP KRC, UPD Department of Computer Science
โฐDate & Time: 1 March 2024 (Fri) 1:30PM
๐Ÿ“Venue: ERDT Room, UP AECH
(UPD campus map: https://upd.edu.ph/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/UPD-Map-2018.pdf)

Talk point: This talk will give ideas to aspiring Filipino students, especially who come from Computer Science or related disciplines, who would like to study and live in South Korea and eventually look at the path to Korean citizenship.

Vincent studied his computer science undergraduate degree in UP Diliman and masterโ€™s degree in Sogang University in Seoul under the direction of Prof. Myungwhan Choi of the former Network Systems Lab. His research includes heuristics in drone navigation. He first came to Korea in 2011 under the scholarship program offered by Korea University of Technology in Cheonan-si. He is currently working as a software engineer in a company based in Gangnam, Seoul. He recently got his Korean citizenship last April 2023.

This event is on site & open to the public. See you all!

25/02/2024

๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ Last call for the Borderlands! ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ

This is your last call to sign up for the mission and qualify to cross the Borderlands. The Earth Borderland Space Program is still looking for the best prospects for our Borderland Campaign. It could be you, your friend, or the one sitting next to you!

You can only sign up until February 26, 2024, 1:00 PM and the Elimination round ends on February 26, 2024, 8:00 PM so give your best to gain a slot for the IN-PERSON FINAL ROUND on April 6, 2024.

Register at: bit.ly/AlgoRegForm2024

You can find the elimination round mission briefing here: algolympics.upacm.net/2024/mechanics

ALGOLYMPICS 2024 is brought to you by The Association of Computing Machinery - UP Diliman Student Chapter, co-presented by Insight Direct, in cooperation with Samsung Electronics Philippines Corporation and Old St. Labs, and also brought to you by Expedock.

ALGOLYMPICS 2024 is also co-presented by FEU Tech ACM Student Chapter, Google Developer Student Club - Cebu Technological University, made possible with UP Center for Student Innovation and UP Association of Computer Science Majors, and with special thanks to The UP Parser

๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ Mission Control, signing off! ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ

Photos from UP Diliman Department of Computer Science's post 23/01/2024
18/12/2023

Should you need to wrap up some more requirements or projects before the holiday break, EnggLib is still open to serve you.๐Ÿ˜‰

See you at EnggLib!

17/12/2023

Due to the ongoing transport strike, departments are continually encouraged to hold classes online next week. Some classes may still choose to be conducted face-to-face, but must give consideration to students affected by the strike.

Read more here: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=743201831169393&id=100064387493475&mibextid=Nif5oz

12/12/2023

The university is encouraging classes to be held online on December 14-15 due to the incoming transport strike. However, some classes may choose to conduct face-to-face activities, but must give consideration to students residing far from campus.

Read more about the announcement here: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=740428564780053&id=100064387493475&mibextid=Nif5oz

22/11/2023

ANNOUNCEMENT: In light of the continued transport strike, the UPD Office of the Chancellor has declared for classes to be held remotely from Thursday to Friday (Nov. 23-24).

See more here: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=728993442590232&id=100064387493475

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