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When a collaboration is not a collaboration
Prisoner’s dilemma in digital productdesign.Collaborating on digital product design with engineers or managers follows the same principles as the prisoner’s dilemma—both of you can either cooperate or defect. In more modern language, suited to the design industry, you can either collaborate by building on each other’s ideas or make the most common beginner’s mistake:falling in love with your owndesign.In real life, the...
Published on: February 05, 2025 | Source:
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Dynatrace Extends AI Reach to Bridge DevOps Divide
Dynatrace, today at its Perform 2025 conference, extended the reach of its Davis artificial intelligence (AI) engine to provide predictive and generative capabilities that complement the causal analytics already provided. Additionally, Dynatrace unveiled an Observability for Developers module for its platform that includes a Live Debugger tool that will be made generally available in 90 […]
Published on: February 05, 2025 | Source:Google now thinks it's OK to use AI for weapons and surveillance
Google has made one of the most substantive changes to its AI principles since first publishing them in 2018. In a change spotted by The Washington Post, the search giant edited the document to remove pledges it had made promising it would not "design or deploy" AI tools for use in weapons or surveillance technology. Previously, those guidelines included a section titled "applications we will not pursue," which is not...
Published on: February 04, 2025 | Source:Figure drops OpenAI in favor of in-house models
Figure AI, a robotics companyworking to bring a general purpose humanoid robot into commercial and residential use, announced Tuesday on X that it is exiting a deal with OpenAI. The Bay Area-based outfit has instead opted to focus on in-house AI owing to a “major breakthrough.” In conversation with TechCrunch afterward, founder and CEO Brett […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: February 04, 2025 | Source:Cruise lays off half its staff after GM sunsets robotaxi program
Autonomous vehicle company Cruise is laying off around half of its workforce, according to reporting by TechCrunch. The cuts even extend to the CEO and other top executives. This is part of a major restructuring effort by parent company GM that will eventually see a total shutdown of operations. These layoffs are expected to impact well over 1,000 people and include CEO Marc Whitten, chief safety officer Steve Kenner...
Published on: February 04, 2025 | Source:Deel unloads $300M in secondary sale, brings General Catalyst on as an investor
Fintech-turned-HR outfit Deel is trying to lay the groundwork for an IPO. On Tuesday, it said its annual revenue run rate climbed to $800 million in 2024 after growing by 70%. The startup, which helps businesses globally hire, manage and pay employees remotely, also said it has sold $300 million in secondary shares to General […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: February 04, 2025 | Source:How to use your Google TV or Chromecast to stream via a VPN
Google is notorious for killing off initiatives in both its hardware and services divisions. And, indeed, the announcement of the Google TV streaming box was effectively seen as an epitaph for the more affordable Chromecast brand that Google had built up in the previous decade. But here's the weird thing: Months after being pronounced dead, the $30 Chromecast is shambling along at Google's online store. Maybe it will...
Published on: February 04, 2025 | Source:The Morning After: Ontario cancels then un-cancels its Starlink contract over tariff trade war
After President Trump announced a 25 percent tariff on nearly all Canadian imported goods (and Canada announced its own 25 percent tariff on American imported goods), Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario — and a former supporter of President Trump — announced the Canadian territory would be “ripping up” a $100 million contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink. The contract was signed in November last year. Musk, boss of Starlink...
Published on: February 04, 2025 | Source:Neuralk-AI is developing AI models specifically designed for structured data
“Tabular data” is a broad term that encompasses structured data that generally fits into a specific row and column. It can be an SQL database, a spreadsheet, a .CSV file, etc. While there has been tremendous progress on artificial intelligence applied to unstructured and sequential data, these large language models (LLMs) are fuzzy by design. […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: February 04, 2025 | Source:Meta says it may stop development of AI systems it deems too risky
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to make artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which is roughly defined as AI that can accomplish any task a human can — openly available one day. But in a new policy document, Meta suggests that there are certain scenarios in which it may not release a highly capable AI […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: February 03, 2025 | Source:Best Practices for API Rate Limits and Quotas
Like any online service, your API users expect high availability and good performance. This also means one customer should not be able to starve another customer's access to your API. Adding rate limiting is a defensive measure that can protect your API from being overwhelmed with requests and improve general availability. Similarly, adding quota management also ensures customers stay within their contract terms and...
Published on: February 03, 2025 | Source:Support Vector Machines: A Progression of Algorithms
MMC, SVC, SVM: What’s the difference?The Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a popular learning algorithm used for many classification problems. They are known to be useful out-of-the-box (not much manual configuration required), and they are valuable for applications where knowledge of the class boundaries is more important than knowledge of the class distributions.When working with SVMs, you may hear people mention...
Published on: February 03, 2025 | Source:Are Public Agencies Letting Open-Source Software Down?
Open-source software is everywhere—powering the tools we rely on daily. Yet, when it comes to supporting and sustaining these projects, public agencies and institutions often fall short. In this article, I explore why this happens and what we can do to changeit.Open-source software promotes transparency, sharing, and collaboration, paving the way for technological development and innovation. A well-functioning...
Published on: February 03, 2025 | Source:Chinese algorithm claimed to boost Nvidia GPU performance by up to 800X for advanced science applications
The PD-General framework improved computational speed by up to 800 times on a consumer-grade Nvidia RTX 4070 compared to traditional serial processing methods.
Published on: February 03, 2025 | Source:The best 2025 Super Bowl TV deals from Samsung, LG, Sony and more
Super Bowl LIX is less than a week away, so it's a decent time to grab a new TV at a discount. If you're looking to make a living room upgrade before the Chiefs and Eagles go at it once again, we've searched through Amazon, Best Buy and other retailers to find a few Super Bowl 2025 TV deals that might actually be worth your time. To be candid, many of the discounts are the result of TVs naturally falling in price this...
Published on: February 03, 2025 | Source:All You Need to Know About Apache Spark
Apache Spark is a general-purpose and lightning-quick cluster computing framework and an open-source technology based on a wide range of data processing platforms. Moreover, it reveals development APIs that succeed data workers in achieving streaming, machine learning (ML), and SQL workloads. It also requires repeated accessibility to the data sets. Spark can perform stream processing and batch processing. For context,...
Published on: February 03, 2025 | Source:AI to revolutionise fundamental physics and ‘could show how universe will end’
Exclusive: Cern’s next director general Mark Thomson says AI is paving the way for huge advances in particle physicsAdvanced artificial intelligence is to revolutionise fundamental physics and could open a window on to the fate of the universe, according to Cern’s next director general.Prof Mark Thomson, the British physicist who will assume leadership of Cern on 1 January 2026, says machine learning is paving the way...
Published on: February 03, 2025 | Source:ChatGPT's Deep Research tool can create reports from hundreds of online sources
There’s no two ways about it, there’s a newfound sense of urgency at OpenAI. Two days after releasing o3-mini to the world, the company made a surprise announcement on Sunday evening, revealing Deep Research. The new feature allows ChatGPT to find, analyze and synthesize hundreds of websites and online sources to create reports “at the level of a research analyst.” On top of the usual text questions, users can upload...
Published on: February 03, 2025 | Source:Improving Agent Systems & AI Reasoning
DeepSeek-R1, OpenAI o1 & o3, Test-Time Compute Scaling, Model Post-Training and the Transition to Reasoning Language Models(RLMs)Image by author and GPT-4o meant to represent DeepSeek and other competitive GenAI model providersIntroductionOver the past year generative AI adoption and AI Agent development have skyrocketed. Reports from LangChain show that 51% of respondents are using AI Agents in production, while...
Published on: February 02, 2025 | Source:The 10 best things I saw at NAMM
The 2025 NAMM Show is over. Every year music gear manufacturers, ranging from iconic synth brands like Korg, to boutique guitar pedal makers like Walrus Audio, and even companies making fog machines and knobs descend on Anaheim to show off their latest wares. It is chaos in all the ways that you’d expect a convention to be — miles-long lines for coffee, hordes of strangers jockeying for position around new products,...
Published on: February 01, 2025 | Source:Elon Musk is reportedly taking control of the inner workings of US government agencies
People working for, or with, Elon Musk are reportedly taking over the inner workings of multiple government agencies, including the Office of Personnel Management, the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration. The Washington Post reported Friday that the highest-ranking career official at Treasury is leaving the department after “a clash” with people working for […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights...
Published on: February 01, 2025 | Source:What is the Byzantine Generals Problem in Distributed Systems?
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Published on: February 01, 2025 | Source:Elon Musk’s Friends Have Infiltrated the General Services Administration
Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say.
Published on: January 31, 2025 | Source:Fine-tuning Multimodal Embedding Models
Adapting CLIP to YouTube Data (with PythonCode)This is the 4th article in a larger series on multimodal AI. In the previous post, we discussed multimodal RAG systems, which can retrieve and synthesize information from different data modalities (e.g. text, images, audio). There, we saw how we could implement such a system using CLIP. One issue with this approach, however, is that vector search results from a...
Published on: January 31, 2025 | Source:How Likely Is a Six Nations Grand Slam in 2025?
Quantifying uncertainty in sportsfixturesPhoto by Thomas Serer onUnsplashIntroductionFor rugby fans the long wait is nearly over, like Christmas the Six Nations comes once a year to lift our spirits in the cold winter months. If you’re not very familiar with rugby, the Six Nations is an annual tournament where the top national sides in Europe (England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Wales) each play five fixtures...
Published on: January 31, 2025 | Source:Inequality in Practice: E-commerce Portfolio Analysis
From Mathematical Theory to Actionable Insights: A 6-Year Shopify CaseStudyImage generated by DALL-E, based on author’s prompt, inspired by “The Bremen Town Musicians”Are your top-selling products making or breaking your business?It’s terrifying to think your entire revenue might collapse if one or two products fall out of favor. Yet spreading too thin across hundreds of products often leads to mediocre results and...
Published on: January 31, 2025 | Source:From Text to Code: Enhancing RAG with Adaptive Prompt Engineering
Extracting relevant data from structured tables required more than a standard RAG approach. We enhanced prompt engineering with indexed term suggestions, contextual row retrieval, and dynamic few-shot examples to generate reliable Pandas queries, making our system both accurate and efficient.Co-authored by Michael LeshchinskyClalit is Israel’s largest Health Maintenance Organization—it serves both as the insurer and as...
Published on: January 31, 2025 | Source:Uber files racketeering suit against New York groups alleging car crash fraud
Uber has filed a racketeering suit against a group of legal firms and medical professionals, claiming they staged car crashes and performed unnecessary surgeries to commit insurance fraud, Bloomberg reported. The group allegedly recruited passengers involved in purported or minor vehicle collisions and provided "medical unnecessary... [sometimes] invasive and painful surgeries like spinal fusions," according to the...
Published on: January 31, 2025 | Source:The Morning After: Our verdict on the Galaxy S25 Ultra and Galaxy S25
It’s early 2025, the weather’s still cold, so it must be time for Samsung to kick off the year’s flagship smartphone race with its latest barrage of devices. This time, we’ve got three S25 phones, ranging from the $800 S25 through to the $1,300 S25 Ultra. Let’s start with the flagship, the S25 Ultra. This year, Samsung has honed the design of the slate to closer match the rest of its family, while adding a...
Published on: January 31, 2025 | Source:Apple CEO says DeepSeek shows ‘innovation that drives efficiency’
Apple CEO Tim Cook said DeepSeek’s AI models represent “innovation that drives efficiency” on his earnings call on Thursday while fielding questions from analysts about the iPhone maker’s AI ambitions. “In general, I think innovation that drives efficiency is a good thing. And, you know, that’s what you see in that model,” said Cook, responding […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: January 30, 2025 | Source:How to Share a Secret: Shamir’s Secret Sharing
A general overview of secret sharing and Shamir’s secret sharing algorithmIn this writeup, I’m going to talk about what secret sharing is and dive into the details of a popular secret sharing algorithm, Shamir’s secret sharing. Essentially, secret sharing examines how to distribute some secret information among a group of parties in a secure manner, without compromising the ability for authorized groups to recover the...
Published on: January 30, 2025 | Source:Samsung Galaxy S25 review: More powerful, but more of the same
Over a year since it dipped into generative artificial intelligence, Samsung’s Galaxy S-series phones are now the vanguard for its gen-AI features. This year, we’re getting even deeper hooks into Google’s Gemini AI assistant and more built-in software tricks than ever before. At the same time, however, the Galaxy S25 arrives with marginal hardware upgrades over last year’s S24. While there’s a case of “if it ain’t...
Published on: January 30, 2025 | Source:Security researchers found a big hole in DeepSeek's security
The generative intelligence platform DeepSeek has set the world on fire this week, but with great popularity comes increased scrutiny. Analysts with Wiz Research have found a fairly substantial hole in the software’s security. The research shows that DeepSeek left one of its critical databases exposed. This means that whoever came across the database would be allowed access to more than one million records, including...
Published on: January 30, 2025 | Source:Nine Pico PIO Wats with Rust (Part 1)
Raspberry Pi programmable IO pitfalls illustrated with a musicalexamplePico PIO Surprises—Source: https://openai.com/dall-e-2/. All other figures from theauthor.Also available: A MicroPython version of thisarticleIn JavaScript and other languages, we call a surprising or inconsistent behavior a “Wat!” [that is, a “What!?”]. For example, in JavaScript, an empty array plus an empty array produces an empty string, [] + []...
Published on: January 30, 2025 | Source:Contextual Bandit Simulation in Marketing
When A/B Tests Are Not The RightChoiceBandit Algorithm Or A/BTest?Imagine working as a Data Scientist for an adtech company and you are serving ads on behalf of a client. If that client comes to you and says that they have 2 variants in mind (i.e. changes to creative / message / offer ) for their upcoming campaign and they want to figure out “which ad is best”, what do you do? Run an A/B test where you randomly split...
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