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Where to Start when Data is Limited: A Guide
Overcome small data constraints & ambitious performance requirements β leveraging modern ML to surpass conventional methods.Photo 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...
Published on: January 17, 2025 | Source:
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Prime members can now get $50 off the Kindle Colorsoft
Amazon expanded its ereader lineup a few months back with the Kindle Colorsoft, its first model with a color display. However, at $280, it was certainly on the pricier end β especially compared with similar devices from competitors. That equation has changed a bit, at least for Amazon Prime members. They're currently able to pick up the Kindle Colorsoft for $230. That equates to a discount of 18 percent. It's the first...
Published on: January 17, 2025 | Source:Learning from Machine Learning | Sebastian Raschka: Mastering ML and Pushing AI Forward Responsibly
Sebastian Raschka has helped demystify deep learning for thousands through his books, tutorials and teachingsSebastian Raschka has helped shape how thousands of data scientists and machine learning engineers learn their craft. As a passionate coder and proponent of open-source software, a contributor to scikit-learn and the creator of the mlxtend library, his code runs in production systems worldwide. But his greatest...
Published on: January 17, 2025 | Source:FTC bans General Motors from selling driving data without permission, adding to case for CarPlay 2
The Federal Trade Commission has taken action against General Motors and OnStar for selling location and driving data from millions of GM car owners, allegedly without informed consent. This data was collected as frequently as every three seconds. Both companies have been banned from selling location and driving behavior data for a period of five years, and will need to ensure they disclose any future sharing plans,...
Published on: January 17, 2025 | Source:GM hit with data-sharing ban from FTC
A settlement has been agreed upon between the FTC and GM. Read more: GM hit with data-sharing ban from FTC
Published on: January 17, 2025 | Source:FTC settlement bans GM from sharing driver location data for five years
In March 2024, a New York Times report uncovered how connected cars with built-in telematics share driver statistics and data with insurers, often without the owners even realizing it.Read Entire Article
Published on: January 17, 2025 | Source:FTC bans General Motors from selling driver data for five years
The Federal Trade Commission has taken action against General Motors and OnStar for allegedly sharing details about drivers to third parties without their consent. The agency launched an investigation into the automotive company after The New York Times found that GM had collected data about customers' vehicle use and sold it to third-party platforms used by insurance companies. The information came from the OnStar...
Published on: January 17, 2025 | Source:Everyone suddenly has cold feet about banning TikTok
With a TikTok ban seemingly imminent, TikTok users have spent the last few days fleeing to Chinese social media app βRedNote,β trying to learn Mandarin, and bidding heartfelt farewells to their βChinese spy.β But itβs looking increasingly unlikely that TikTok will actually disappear on January 19. Most Supreme Court watchers expect the court to uphold the law that requires ByteDance to sell TikTokβs US business or face...
Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source:GM banned from selling your driving data for five years
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge General Motors and its subsidiary OnStar are banned from selling customer geolocation and driving behavior data for five years, the Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday. The settlement comes after a New York Times investigation found that GM had been collecting micro-details about its customersβ driving habits, including acceleration, braking, and trip length β and then...
Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source:3 Ways to Create and Nurture Great Customers for Long-Term Success with Workatoβs SVP Embedded Sales
Workatoβs SVP of Embedded Sales and Director of Solutions Marketing joined us at SaaStr Annual to talk about how to nurture customers β a great topic in general, but especially for embedded sales and APIs that can take a while to scale. The Second Most Important SaaS Hire? Customer Success. Hereβs Why It Changes Everything... Continue Reading The post 3 Ways to Create and Nurture Great Customers for Long-Term Success...
Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source:CFPB fines Block up to $175m over Cash App's lax fraud controls
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced today that's it's ordering Block, the creator of Cash App and parent company of Square, to pay up to $120 million in "refunds and other redress to consumers" and a $55 million fine over how the company handled fraud on its payment platform. Per the CFPB, Cash App's Terms of Service at one point claimed that any bank linked to an account for transferring funds...
Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source:TikTok, Temu and more face complaints alleging GDPR violations in EU
Austrian privacy advocate NOYB has launched its first GDPR complaints against Chinese businesses. The organization has filed complaints against TikTok, Xiaomi, Shein, AliExpress, Temu and WeChat, alleging that these companies unlawfully shared information about European users with parties in China. The group is seeking suspension of data transfers to China as well as fines of up to four percent of a firm's global...
Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source:The Large Language Model Course
How to become an LLM Scientist and Engineer fromscratchImage byauthorThe Large Language Model (LLM) course is a collection of topics and educational resources for people to get into LLMs. It features two main roadmaps: The LLM Scientist focuses on building the best possible LLMs using the latest techniques. The LLM Engineer focuses on creating LLM-based applications and deploying them.For an interactive version of this...
Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source:Squire secures Entourage funding to boost AI-powered GP report automation
Ghent start-up Squire has received funds from Pieterjan Boutenβs investment fund Entourage via Entourageβs startup studio.Squire has developed an AI solution to automate general practitioners' (GPs) ...
Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source:Oklahoma lawmaker introduces legislation to establish strategic Bitcoin reserve
Representative Cody Maynard introduced House Bill 1203 to implement a Bitcoin (BTC) Strategic Reserve of up to $850 million in Oklahoma. The state is the sixth to receive such a proposal in the US. The legislation would allow the Oklahoma State Treasurer to allocate funds from the State General Fund, Revenue Stabilization Fund, and Constitutional [β¦] The post Oklahoma lawmaker introduces legislation to establish...
Published on: January 15, 2025 | Source:FTC sues John Deere over βunfair corporate tacticsβ and βhigh repair costsβ
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a suit against John Deere, accusing it of βunfairβ practices that force farmers to pay higher-than-average repair costs. The federal organization, along with attorneys general for Illinois and Minnesota, are alleging that the company engages in practices that keep farmers from being able to make repairs on equipment they own. In other words, this is another salvo in the...
Published on: January 15, 2025 | Source:AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI
FranΓ§ois Chollet, an influential AI researcher, is launching a new startup that aims to build frontier AI systems with novel designs. The startup, Ndea, will consist of an AI research and science lab. Itβs looking to βdevelop and operationalizeβ AGI. AGI, which stands for βartificial general intelligence,β typically refers to AI that can perform any [β¦] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: January 15, 2025 | Source:User Engagement Metrics: Essentials
User engagement metrics measure how actively and effectively users interact with a platform, product, or service. These metrics help businesses evaluate user interest, satisfaction, and retention.This article explores key user engagement metrics and offers practical tips for improving themetrics.Number of activeusersThe number of unique users who engage with a product or service in a single day/week/month. This is a...
Published on: January 15, 2025 | Source:The Acura RSX calls dibs on Honda's proprietary Asimo OS
Honda has announced that its first original EV design, the Acura RSX, will use its proprietary Asimo operating system, according to The Verge. If those names sound familiar it's because RSX is a Honda nameplate from the early 2000s, and Asimo was a Honda project to build humanoid robots from the area, which was finally mothballed in 2018. Everything old is new again. Asimo OS was mentioned at CES 2025 alongside its 0...
Published on: January 15, 2025 | Source:Whatβs next for agentic AI? LangChain founder looks to ambient agents
LangChainβs founder Harrison Chase is looking to advance agentic AI with the concept of ambient agents, which might well be the next step on the path to generalized intelligence.
Published on: January 15, 2025 | Source:NVIDIA's AI NPCs are a nightmare
The rise of AI NPCs has felt like a looming threat for years, as if developers couldn't wait to dump human writers and offload NPC conversations to generative AI models. At CES 2025, NVIDIA made it plainly clear the technology was right around the corner. PUBG developer Krafton, for instance, plans to use NVIDIA's ACE (Avatar Cloud Engine) to power AI companions, which will assist and banter with you during matches....
Published on: January 15, 2025 | Source:LossVal Explained: Efficiently Estimate the Importance of Your Training Data
LossVal Explained: Efficient Data Valuation for NeuralNetworksHow to exploit the loss function to efficiently estimate the importance of your trainingdataData Valuation visualized. Understanding how important each training sample is for the performance of your machine learning model. (Image byauthor.)This blog post summarizes and explains our paper βLossVal: Efficient Data Valuation for Neural Networksβ.Not all data is...
Published on: January 15, 2025 | Source:Scaling Segmentation with Blender: How to Automate Dataset Creation
A Step-by-Step Guide to Generating Synthetic Data for Training AIModelsPhoto by Lina Trochez onUnsplashIf you have ever trained a segmentation model for a new project, you probably know itβs not about the model. Itβs about thedata.Collecting images is often straightforward; you can usually find plenty on platforms like Unsplash, or even use Generative AI tools such as Stable Diffusion to generatemore:How to Train an...
Published on: January 15, 2025 | Source:The new Witcher animated film finally has a legit trailer
Weβve been hearing about the latest animated movie based on The Witcher franchise for a while now, but weβve only ever gotten a short teaser and an equally short clip. Now, finally, thereβs a legit full-fledged trailer. This is opportune timing, as The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep hits Netflix on February 11. The big hook here? Geralt is voiced by Doug Cockle, reprising his role from the video games. Anya Chalotra and...
Published on: January 14, 2025 | Source:Deep Dive into KV-Caching In Mistral
Ever wondered why the time to first token in LLMs is high but subsequent tokens are superfast?In this post, I dive into the details of KV-Caching used in Mistral, a topic I initially found quite daunting. However, as I delved deeper, it became a fascinating subject, especially when it explained why the time to first token (TTFT) in these language models is generally highβa pattern I noticed during countless API calls.I...
Published on: January 14, 2025 | Source:Amazon's AI lead says technical issues are holding back Alexa AI
Amazon had been planning to roll out a new Alexa powered by generative AI in October 2024, but that obviously didn't happen. According to reports that came out back then, the company pushed back its new voice assistant's release to sometime this year. Now, a new report by The Financial Times says the company still needs to be able to overcome "several technical hurdles" before it can launch a more powerful version of...
Published on: January 14, 2025 | Source:UK opens antitrust investigation into Google's search practices
The UK's Competition and Market's Authority (CMA) has launched an antitrust investigation into Google's search services, following similar steps from the likes of Japan, the United States and the European Union. It's the CMA's first probe under the UK's Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Act, which went into effect on January 1, 2025. The regulatory body previously announced it would launch two separate...
Published on: January 14, 2025 | Source:DJI's Flip combines the best of its lightweight drones for $439
DJI continues its streak of innovative (and highly leaked) drones with the launch of the Flip, a lightweight and people-safe model that folds in a new direction β downward β to accommodate the large, shrouded propellers. The new model should appeal to beginners and experienced users alike with features like a large sensor, 4K 100p video, safety features, a three-axis gimbal and an affordable price. The company says the...
Published on: January 14, 2025 | Source:The Morning After: What to expect from Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event next week
Welcome back to the newsletter. We are changing things up, so expect to see at least two editions each week, with the occasional special edition. The newsletter will continue to live on Engadget.com too, but if you havenβt subscribed, you should do that. Next week, Samsung will reveal its next family of Galaxy phones. Not the foldables, no, but the traditional S series devices. Going on track record, we can expect to...
Published on: January 14, 2025 | Source:Google investigated by UK watchdog over search dominance
CMA to look at impact on consumers, businesses, advertisers and publishers, as well as collection of dataBusiness live β latest updatesGoogle is being investigated by the UK competition watchdog over the impact of its search and advertising practices on consumers, news publishers, businesses and rival search engines.The tech company accounts for more than 90% of general searches in the UK, according to the Competition...
Published on: January 14, 2025 | Source:Russian-Linked Hackers Target Kazakhstan in Espionage Campaign with HATVIBE Malware
Russia-linked threat actors have been attributed to an ongoing cyber espionage campaign targeting Kazakhstan as part of the Kremlin's efforts to gather economic and political intelligence in Central Asia. The campaign has been assessed to be the work of an intrusion set dubbed UAC-0063, which likely shares overlap with APT28, a nation-state group affiliated with Russia's General Staff Main
Published on: January 14, 2025 | Source:Russia-Linked Hackers Target Kazakhstan in Espionage Campaign with HATVIBE Malware
Russia-linked threat actors have been attributed to an ongoing cyber espionage campaign targeting Kazakhstan as part of the Kremlin's efforts to gather economic and political intelligence in Central Asia. The campaign has been assessed to be the work of an intrusion set dubbed UAC-0063, which likely shares overlap with APT28, a nation-state group affiliated with Russia's General Staff Main
Published on: January 14, 2025 | Source:Contextual Topic Modelling in Chinese Corpora with KeyNMF
A comprehensive guide on getting the most out of your Chinese topic models, from preprocessing to interpretation.With our recent paper on discourse dynamics in European Chinese diaspora media, our team has tapped into an almost unanimous frustration with the quality of topic modelling approaches when applied to Chinese data. In this article, I will introduce you to our novel topic modelling method, KeyNMF, and how to...
Published on: January 13, 2025 | Source:llama.cpp: Writing A Simple C++ Inference Program for GGUF LLM Models
Exploring llama.cpp internals and a basic chat programflowPhoto by Mathew Schwartz onUnsplashllama.cpp has revolutionized the space of LLM inference by the means of wide adoption and simplicity. It has enabled enterprises and individual developers to deploy LLMs on devices ranging from SBCs to multi-GPU clusters. Though working with llama.cpp has been made easy by its language bindings, working in C/C++ might be a...
Published on: January 13, 2025 | Source:A Multimodal AI Assistant: Combining Local and Cloud Models
Dalle-3βs interpretation of βa quirky robot wearing a tool belt and puzzling over questionβ. Image generated by theauthor.Use LangGraph, mlx and Florence2 to build an agent that answers complex image questions, with the option to run everything locally.In this article weβll use LangGraph in conjunction with several specialized models to build a rudimentary agent that can answer complex questions about an image,...
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