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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 review: Pure AI excess for $2,000
A $2,000 video card for consumers shouldn't exist. The GeForce RTX 5090, like the $1,599 RTX 4090 before it, is more a flex by NVIDIA than anything truly meaningful for most gamers. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said as much when he revealed the GPU at CES 2025, assuming that it'll be for hardcore players who have $10,000 rigs. Personally, I don't know anyone who actually fits that bill, not unless you count parasocial...
Published on: January 23, 2025 | Source:
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Real World Use Cases: Strategies that Will Bridge the Gap Between Development and Productionizing
Image generated by Dall-e. All images and visualisations in this article are created by theauthor.Data science demonstrates its value when applied to practical challenges. This article shares insights gained from hands-on machine learning projects.In my experience with machine learning and data science, transitioning from development to production is a critical and challenging phase. This process typically unfolds in...
Published on: January 23, 2025 | Source:Nine Pico PIO Wats with MicroPython (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.In 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, [] + [] === "".Wat!Python, by comparison, is more...
Published on: January 23, 2025 | Source:Jim O’Dea named general manager of Workhuman for Ireland
This is the latest in a series of new appointments for the company, which is in a period of personnel expansion. Read more: Jim O’Dea named general manager of Workhuman for Ireland
Published on: January 23, 2025 | Source:Samsung Galaxy S25 series falls behind Pixel with 12GB of RAM on all models
Users generally don’t feel spoiled for choice when it comes to smartphone variants, and that’s even more the case with the Galaxy S25 series. The Galaxy S25 series only comes in one RAM option — 12GB. more…
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:New survey reports one in 10 game developers have lost their jobs in 2024
One in 10 game developers lost their job in 2024. That’s according to the results of the annual Game Developers Conference state of the video game survey. The survey sampled over 3,000 developers and covered a number of topics including industry layoffs and what kind of games developers are working on. Prolific layoffs have ravaged the industry over the last two years making the question of their impact on developers...
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra hands-on: Faster, curvier and way more... AI-ier
Last year Samsung embraced artificial intelligence with its suite of Galaxy AI features. And while the new S25 Ultra is a bit faster, a little curvier and has a slightly bigger display than before, it’s clear the company’s primary focus was upgrading the software and machine learning capabilities of its top-spec flagship phone. But is that enough? Design: A curvier titanium frame with a handful of quirks Similar to its...
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:The Galaxy S25 and S25+ have more RAM and context-sensitive AI
As expected, Samsung used its first Unpacked shindig of the year to officially unveil the Galaxy S25 series. Although the Galaxy S25 and S25+ bring welcome hardware upgrades like more RAM (12GB) and a Samsung-centric flavor of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, most updates revolve around new Galaxy AI features — many of which are on-device and context-aware. Fortunately, you won’t have to pay more: The phones cost...
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:How to Evaluate LLM Summarization
A practical and effective guide for evaluating AI summariesImage fromUnsplashSummarization is one of the most practical and convenient tasks enabled by LLMs. However, compared to other LLM tasks like question-asking or classification, evaluating LLMs on summarization is far more challenging.And so I myself have neglected evals for summarization, even though two apps I’ve built rely heavily on summarization (Podsmart...
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:Customer Retention Rate: Essentials
Customer Retention Rate (CRR) is a key business performance metric that measures the percentage of customers a company retains over a givenperiod.CRR formula, reference values andexampleCustomer Retention RateformulaNumber of customers at the end of the period: Total number of customers at the end of the measuredperiod.New customers acquired: Number of customers gained during theperiod.Customers at the start of the...
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:A Practical Guide to Creating a Spring Modulith Project
Spring Modulith empowers developers to define logical application modules in their code, facilitating the creation of well-structured, domain-aligned Spring Boot applications. This approach introduces modular design principles to the Spring Framework, providing a more organized way to develop applications. The General Availability (GA) version was released in August 2023, and the current stable version at the time of...
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:Human Minds vs. Machine Learning Models
Exploring the parallels and differences between psychology and machinelearningDisclaimers:This blog post was co-authored with my friend, Dee Penco, a certified therapist and counsellor.For the past 2.5+ years, Dee and I have spent hours and hours discussing and reasoning human behaviours, which has sparked my passion for psychology. With time, we cross-shared ideas about psychology and ML/AI modelling concepts.While I...
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:7 Of The Most Bizarre General Motors Engines Ever Built
A look at 7 of the most bizarre engines General Motors has ever created, showcasing innovative oddities and powertrains that defied all expectations.
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:Can our climate be saved by vacuuming carbon out of the skies?
Imagine: A switch is flicked and, in a heartbeat, every process spewing deadly pollution into the heavens is replaced with something clean and sustainable. Sadly, even then, the Earth would still tip towards being uninhabitable thanks to all of the carbon we’ve already dumped up there. If we as a species are to survive then all of that junk needs to be pulled back to Earth, and fast. Proponents of Direct Air Capture...
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:Eleven percent of game developers were laid off in 2024, according to GDC survey
It's a challenging time to be a developer these days, according to GDC's 2025 State of the Game Industry report that surveyed over 3,000 game devs and industry professionals. In one of the worst years ever for game industry job losses, 11 percent of developers said they were let go from their positions in 2024 and 29 percent observed direct colleagues being laid off. All of that is part of an unfortunate trend caused...
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:Data Structures & Algorithms in Swift [SUBSCRIBER]
Understanding how data structures and algorithms work in code is crucial for creating efficient and scalable apps and acing job interviews. Swift’s standard library and, more recently, the Swift Collections and Algorithms packages contain a robust set of general-purpose collection types and algorithms, yet they don’t cover every case! In Data Structures and Algorithms in Swift, you’ll learn how to implement the most...
Published on: January 22, 2025 | Source:Trump says he’s open to Musk or Ellison buying TikTok
Image: The Verge President Donald Trump says he’d be open to his buddies Elon Musk or Larry Ellison buying TikTok. “Larry, let’s negotiate in front of the media,” Trump said at a press conference with the Oracle co-founder, SoftBank CEO Masa Son, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to announce a $500 billion artificial intelligence infrastructure investment. “What I’m thinking about saying to somebody is, buy it, and give half...
Published on: January 21, 2025 | Source:Microsoft is letting OpenAI get its own AI compute now
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Microsoft and OpenAI announced Tuesday that they have adjusted their partnership so that OpenAI can access competitors' compute. The new agreement “includes changes to the exclusivity on new capacity, moving to a model where Microsoft has a right of first refusal (ROFR),” Microsoft says. “To further support OpenAI, Microsoft has approved OpenAI’s ability to build additional capacity,...
Published on: January 21, 2025 | Source:ACLU and 18 states sue Trump over his attempt to repeal birthright citizenship
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images One of President Donald Trump’s first moves in office was an executive order repealing birthright citizenship — something he promised to do but didn’t deliver on during his first term. The move, which is almost certainly unconstitutional, would affect more than 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country as well as people in the US on non-immigrant visas, including...
Published on: January 21, 2025 | Source:Large Language Models: A Short Introduction
And why you should care aboutLLMsImage byauthor.There’s an acronym you’ve probably heard non-stop for the past few years: LLM, which stands for Large LanguageModel.In this article we’re going to take a brief look at what LLMs are, why they’re an extremely exciting piece of technology, why they matter to you and me, and why you should care aboutLLMs.Note: in this article, we’ll use Large Language Model, LLM and model...
Published on: January 21, 2025 | Source:Understanding the Evolution of ChatGPT: Part 3— Insights from Codex and InstructGPT
Mastering the art of fine-tuning: Learnings for training your ownLLMs.(Image from Unsplash)This is the third article in our GPT series, and also the most practical one: finally, we will talk about how to effectively fine-tune LLMs.It is practical in the way that, if you were asked to train your own LLMs today, you can skip pre-training and jump straight into using an open-source LLM or SLM; However, very likely you’ll...
Published on: January 21, 2025 | Source:Fighting Fraud Fairly: Upgrade Your AI Toolkit
A practical approach to address bias in AIsystemsPhoto by theauthorAs sophisticated AI systems are increasingly used in decision-making, ensuring fairness has become a priority, with a growing need to prevent algorithms from disproportionately affecting vulnerable groups in sensitive areas like the justice or educational system.One famous example is the COMPAS algorithm, that was designed to assist the U.S. criminal...
Published on: January 21, 2025 | Source:The Morning After: TikTok lives to scroll another day (or 75)
Almost immediately after taking office, President Donald Trump signed a swathe of executive orders — including a reprieve for TikTok in the US. With the executive order, Trump’s Justice Department will not enforce the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act for 75 days, extending the time the company has to reach a deal. TikTok (and other ByteDance apps) went offline late Saturday, but...
Published on: January 21, 2025 | Source:Trump executive order rescinds Biden's AI framework
At a rally following the inauguration ceremonies, President Trump had a desk brought out on stage where he signed a number of executive orders. The first of the evening took aim at 78 of the Biden administration's orders, including the October 2023 guidelines for AI. "The revocations within this order will be the first of many steps the United States Federal Government will take to repair our institutions and our...
Published on: January 21, 2025 | Source:Trump signs executive order to pause US TikTok ban
President’s order says temporary pause would give ‘opportunity to determine appropriate course forward’What executive orders did Trump sign on day one?Donald Trump has signed an executive order temporarily suspending the sale of the Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok, as mandated by a law passed in the US last year.Trump’s order was one of a raft signed by the new president on his first day back in the White...
Published on: January 21, 2025 | Source:Why Generative-AI Apps’ Quality Often Sucks and What to Do About It
How to get from PoCs to tested high-quality applications in productionImage licensed from elements.envato.com, edit by Marcel Müller,2025The generative AI hype has rolled through the business world in the past two years. This technology can make business process executions more efficient, reduce wait time, and reduce process defects. Some interfaces like ChatGPT make interacting with an LLM easy and accessible. Anyone...
Published on: January 20, 2025 | Source:How Most Organizations Get Data Strategy Wrong — and How to Fix It
Wave by CLEANPNG.DEMYSTIFY DATASTRATEGYHow Most Organizations Get Data & AI Strategy Wrong—and How to FixItRedefining Data Strategy to Drive Competitive Advantage with Data, Analytics andAIUnlocking business value from data, analytics, and Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic. Yet, most organizations struggle to monetize existing data or to create new data that advances their thinking. I assert that in most...
Published on: January 20, 2025 | Source:Confirmed: AI vision startup Metropolis acquires Oosto (formerly known as AnyVision) for just $125M
The general hype around all things AI is not lifting all boats, as certain startups continue to struggle and look for exits. In one of the latest developments, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Metropolis, an AI-powered parking platform, has acquired Oosto, the controversial computer vision company that used to be known as AnyVision. TechCrunch […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: January 20, 2025 | Source:Five Key Lessons for Google Earth Engine Beginners
Hands-On Insights from a Python APIuserLand cover map for the Paute water bassin in Ecuador for the year 2020. Image created using Google Earth Engine Python API and Geemap. Data source: Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022); Lehner, B., Grill G. (2013) and Lehner, B., Verdin, K., Jarvis, A.(2008).IntroductionAs a climate scientist, Google Earth Engine (GEE) is a powerful tool in my toolkit. No more downloading heavy...
Published on: January 20, 2025 | Source:World's largest telescopes threatened by light pollution
European Southern Observatory Director General Xavier Barcons told Space.com that astronomers expect the project to brighten the sky by up to 10 percent around the observatory. Such an increase would be enough to diminish the Very Large Telescope's status as the world's premier observatory, reducing it to merely an "average"...Read Entire Article
Published on: January 19, 2025 | Source:Top 10 Red Flags Designers Should Watch for in an Offer Letter
Imagine this: You’ve just aced your interviews, and the company seems like a dream fit. But as you open the offer letter, something doesn’t sit right. The words are there, but the clarity isn’t. This is where things can gosouth.As a designer, your career thrives on creativity and precision—but your offer letter? It sets the stage for how your work will be valued. Without clear terms, you risk falling into a cycle of...
Published on: January 18, 2025 | Source:The FAA is grounding SpaceX's Starship after its latest explosion
The Federal Aviation Administration is ordering SpaceX to conduct a mishap investigation into what caused the company's Starship rocket to explode mid-flight on January 16. Until the FAA approves SpaceX's investigation reported, the company won't be allowed to proceed with future Starship missions. SpaceX's launch seemed to be going as planned prior to the explosion. Starship successfully made it off the launch pad and...
Published on: January 17, 2025 | Source:General Motors Barred From Selling Driver Data for 5 Years
The company allegedly collected and sold geolocation and driver behavior data to third-party companies.
Published on: January 17, 2025 | Source:Automakers sue to block Biden’s ‘flawed’ automatic emergency braking rule
Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images A new rule requiring all vehicles to have automatic emergency braking is “flawed” and should be repealed, a new lawsuit filed by the auto industry’s main lobbying group says. The suit was filed in US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit by the Alliance of Automotive Innovation, which represents most of the major automakers, including Ford, General Motors, Stellantis, Hyundai,...
Published on: January 17, 2025 | Source:Where to Start When Data is Limited
A launch pad for projects with smalldatasetsPhoto by Google DeepMind: https://www.pexels.com/photo/an-artist-s-illustration-of-artificial-intelligence-ai-this-image-depicts-how-ai-can-help-humans-to-understand-the-complexity-of-biology-it-was-created-by-artist-khyati-trehan-as-part-17484975/Machine Learning (ML) has driven remarkable breakthroughs in computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition,...
Published on: January 17, 2025 | Source: