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The best Cyber Monday TV deals for 2024: Save on models from Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and more
Cyber Monday is nearing its end, but there's still time to grab a good TV at a decent price. If you’re hoping to make a living room upgrade but aren’t sure which set to get — and you don’t want to fall victim to the many junky deals retailers throw out this time of year — we’re here to help. We’ve spent the past several days scouring reviews and checking price histories to figure out which Cyber Monday TV deals are...
Published on: December 03, 2024 | Source:
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Lego Cyber Monday deals: Save up to 29 percent on Star Wars, Super Mario sets
We’re big Lego fans here at Engadget, so it’s not difficult for us to understand why the building block sets are some of the first items to sell out during the holiday shopping season. Kids and adults alike seek out Lego sets all year round, and they make particularly good gifts. Whether you know your recipient loves Star Wars or Super Mario, or they don’t have a fan-favorite franchise and just love building stuff,...
Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source:GM sells stake in EV battery plant to partner LG Energy Solutions
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge General Motors is selling its stake in an electric vehicle battery facility to its partner LG Energy Solutions, the automaker announced Monday. The nearly completed factory in Lansing, Michigan, was being developed by Ultium Cells LLC, a joint venture between GM and South Korea’s LG. Following the non-binding agreement, LG will become the sole owner and complete the plant. The...
Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source:GM offloads one of its battery factories to joint venture partner LGES
General Motors is selling its stake in the nearly completed Ultium Cells battery cell plant in Lansing, Michigan, to its joint venture partner LG Energy Solution (LGES). GM’s step back from the factory comes amid weakening electric vehicle demand and the potential rollback of Biden administration incentives to produce clean energy domestically. GM and LGES […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use...
Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source:Machine Learning Experiments Done Right
A detailed guideline for designing machine learning experiments that produce reliable, reproducible results.Photo by Vedrana Filipović onUnsplashMachine learning (ML) practitioners run experiments to compare the effectiveness of methods for both specific applications and for general types of problems. The validity of experimental results hinges on how practitioners design, run, and analyze their experiments....
Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source:Can AI Revolutionize Therapy? What People Want (and Fear) About Mental Health Tech?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing various industries, and mental health is no exception. Recently, I conducted a research project to explore the potential applications of AI in mental health. This involved interviewing 10 individuals from diverse backgrounds, residing in California, who have regular experience with therapy. My goal? To understand how AI could enhance therapy while maintaining the...
Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source:The Arcane Network
How to use network science and Python to map out the popularshowThe second season of Arcane, a recent blockbuster series on Netflix based on the universe of one of the most popular online video games ever, League of Legends, is set in a fantasy world with heavy steampunk design, closed with astonishing visuals and a record-breaking budget. As a good network and data scientist with a particular interest in turning pop...
Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source:The Morning After: Elon Musk wants the court to stop OpenAI becoming a for-profit
Elon Musk’s attorneys filed for an injunction against OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday, accusing them of anticompetitive practices. He wants to stop OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit company. Musk first sued OpenAI earlier this year for allegedly violating its founding mission of building AI “for the benefit of humanity,” but he withdrew the lawsuit a few months later. He filed another lawsuit against OpenAI in a...
Published on: December 02, 2024 | Source:Amazon MemoryDB Multi-Region is now generally available
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Lego Cyber Monday deals: Save up to 32 percent on Star Wars, Super Mario sets
We’re big Lego fans here at Engadget, so it’s not difficult for us to understand why the building block sets are some of the first items to sell out during the holiday shopping season. Kids and adults alike seek out Lego sets all year round, and they make particularly good gifts. Whether you know your recipient loves Star Wars or Super Mario, or they don’t have a fan-favorite franchise and just love building stuff,...
Published on: December 01, 2024 | Source:Lego Black Friday deals you can still get: Up to 32 percent off Star Wars and Super Mario sets
It’s not hard to understand why Lego sets are some of the most sought-after gifts for the holidays. We’re big fans of the building blocks here at Engadget, and we know they make particularly good gifts this time of year. Whether it’s a Super Mario starter set or a mammoth Star Wars collectible, there are dozens of Lego sets to consider shopping for right now — be it for yourself or for someone on your gift list. And...
Published on: December 01, 2024 | Source:Black Friday gaming deals still available for 2024: The best discounts from Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, Meta and others
Black Friday is usually a good time to restock on video games and gaming gear at a discount, and this year has been no exception. If you’re looking to pad out your backlog, pick up a new console or refresh your desktop with new peripherals, we rounded up the best Black Friday gaming deals you can still get today. The selection includes a ton of popular Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox and PC games at their lowest prices to...
Published on: December 01, 2024 | Source:The best Black Friday TV deals you can still shop from Samsung, Sony, LG, Hisense and more
Black Friday is over and Cyber Monday is right around the corner, and this shopping period has brought some of the lowest prices of the year on quality TVs. If you’re looking to buy a new set, we’ve scoured through reviews and checked price histories to find which Black Friday TV deals are genuinely worth your time and still available now. You can find our favorites below, which include OLED and LED TVs in various...
Published on: December 01, 2024 | Source:Best Black Friday laptop deals: Save on machines from Apple, Microsoft, Lenovo, ASUS and others
Black Friday may have come and gone, but many retailers are still offering a heap of computer discounts across their storefronts. Per usual, most of those aren't any good. But if you need a new notebook, we've picked through the selection, checked price histories and rounded up the Black Friday laptop deals that are still available and worth your time. The offers include several notebooks we’ve tested and recommended,...
Published on: November 30, 2024 | Source:ExpressVPN Black Friday deal: 30-month plans are up to 61 percent off
Black Friday doesn't just mean discounts on "stuff," it also means big price cuts on services. There are so many great subscription deals to shop now, including sales on VPNs. ExpressVPN, a mainstay on our list of best VPNs, is currently offering an attractive discount for all new customers: Up to 61 percent off. US-based customers can choose between two plans with huge discounts over ExpressVPN's standard rate. The...
Published on: November 30, 2024 | Source:Best Black Friday SSD deals for 2024: Discounts on gear from Samsung, WD, Kingston, Crucial and others
While many of the storage-related deals retailers promote during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday time period aren’t anything special, a handful are genuinely decent. If you’re looking to add some space to your PC, tablet or gaming handheld, allow us to do the research for you. Here are the best Black Friday SSD and storage deals you can still get today. Before you browse, note that storage prices have generally...
Published on: November 30, 2024 | Source:The best Black Friday TV deals for 2024: Discounts on sets from Samsung, Sony, LG, Hisense and more
Black Friday is over and Cyber Monday is right around the corner, which means it’s one of the best times of the year to buy a new TV. If you’re hoping to make a living room upgrade but aren’t sure which set to get — and you don’t want to fall victim to the many junky deals retailers throw out this time of year — we’re here to help. We’ve spent the past several days scouring trustworthy reviews and checking price...
Published on: November 30, 2024 | Source:Fortnite is hosting a virtual concert today in tribute to the late rapper Juice WRLD
Fortnite is bringing its current chapter to a close with a live concert event featuring music from the late rapper Juice WRLD, as well as Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Ice Spice. The in-game event, Remix: The Finale, kicks off at 2PM ET, but it’s recommended that you log on early to ensure you get in on time. Fortnite’s tribute to Juice WRLD began earlier this month with a Juice WRLD skin and a number of related items. Juice...
Published on: November 30, 2024 | Source:Black Friday gaming deals for 2024: The best discounts from Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, Meta and others
This year’s Black Friday sales are once again a good time to restock on video games and gaming gear on the cheap. There’s still too many junky “discounts” out there to count, but if you’re looking to add some games to your backlog, pick up a new console or upgrade your desktop with new accessories, we’ve rounded up a few Black Friday gaming deals that are genuinely decent that you can still get today. Among the...
Published on: November 30, 2024 | Source:If AI can provide a better diagnosis than a doctor, what’s the prognosis for medics? | John Naughton
Studies in which ChatGPT outperformed scientists and GPs raise troubling questions for the future of professional workAI means too many (different) things to too many people. We need better ways of talking – and thinking – about it. Cue, Drew Breunig, a gifted geek and cultural anthropologist, who has come up with a neat categorisation of the technology into three use cases: gods, interns and cogs.“Gods”, in this...
Published on: November 30, 2024 | Source:Model Validation Techniques, Explained: A Visual Guide with Code Examples
MODEL EVALUATION & OPTIMIZATION12 must-know methods to validate your machinelearningEvery day, machines make millions of predictions—from detecting objects in photos to helping doctors find diseases. But before trusting these predictions, we need to know if they’re any good. After all, no one would want to use a machine that’s wrong most of thetime!This is where validation comes in. Validation methods test machine...
Published on: November 30, 2024 | Source:Lego Black Friday deals: Get up to 45 percent off Star Wars and Super Mario sets
It’s not hard to understand why Lego sets are some of the most sought-after gifts for the holidays. We’re big fans of the building blocks here at Engadget, and we know they make particularly good gifts this time of year. Whether it’s a Super Mario starter set or a mammoth Star Wars collectible, there are dozens of Lego sets to consider shopping for right now — be it for yourself or for someone on your gift list. And...
Published on: November 30, 2024 | Source:CleaR: Robust and Generalized Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Noisy Labels
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00873 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42275848 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Published on: November 29, 2024 | Source:How Did Open Food Facts Fix OCR-Extracted Ingredients Using Open-Source LLMs?
Delve into an end-to-end Machine Learning project to improve the quality of the Open Food FactsdatabaseImage generated withFlux1Open Food Facts’ purpose is to create the largest open-source food database in the world. To this day, it has collected over 3 millions products and their information thanks to its contributors.Nutritional value, eco-score, product origins,… Various data that define each product and give...
Published on: November 29, 2024 | Source:Amazon workers across the globe are on strike for Black Friday
Amazon workers across the world have gone on strike for Black Friday, according to the labor advocacy group UNI Global Union. The protests, dubbed “Make Amazon Pay,” are scheduled to last until December 2. Strikes are happening everywhere, from the US to Australia and Nepal. There are also demonstrations happening in more than 20 countries over “labor abuses, environmental degradation and threats to democracy.” The...
Published on: November 29, 2024 | Source:Why Internal Company Chatbots Fail and How to Use Generative AI in Enterprise with Impact
Start with the problem and not with thesolutionBackground licensed from elements.envato.com, edit by Marcel Müller2024The most common disillusion that many organizations have is the following: They get excited about generative AI with ChatGPT or Microsoft Co-Pilot, read some article about how AI can “make your business better in some way,” then try to find other use cases where they can slap a chatbot on and in the end...
Published on: November 29, 2024 | Source:AI Math: The Bias-Variance Trade-off in Deep Learning
A visual tour from classical statistics to the nuances of deeplearningSource: All images by author unless otherwise indicated.In deep learning the bias-variance trade-off is not straightforward and can often be the wrong thing to pay attention to. To understand why, we need to take a tour through inferential statistics, classical statistical learning methods, and machine learning robustness. We’ll end the article by...
Published on: November 29, 2024 | Source:GenAI is Reshaping Data Science Teams
Challenges, opportunities, and the evolving role of data scientistsPicture by articstudios onUnsplashGenerative AI (GenAI) opens the door to faster development cycles, minimized technical and maintenance efforts, and innovative use cases that before seemed out of reach. At the same time, it brings new risks—like hallucinations, and dependencies on third-party APIs.For Data Scientists and Machine Learning teams, this...
Published on: November 29, 2024 | Source:The Intuition behind Concordance Index — Survival Analysis
The Intuition behind Concordance Index—SurvivalAnalysisRanking accuracy versus absoluteaccuracyTaken by the author and her Border Collie. “Be thankful for what you have. Be fearless for what youwant”How long would you keep your Gym membership before you decide to cancel it? or Netflix if you are a series fan but busier than usual to allocate 2 hours of your time to your sofa and your TV? Or when to upgrade or replace...
Published on: November 28, 2024 | Source:Five Reasons You Cannot Afford Not Knowing Probability Proportional to Size (PPS) Sampling
Data ScienceSimple Random Sampling (SRS) works, but if you do not know Probability Proportional to Size Sampling (PPS), you are risking yourself some critical statistical mistakes. Learn why, when, and how you can use PPS Samplinghere!Photo by Justin Morgan onUnsplashRahul decides to measure the “pulse” of customers buying from his online store. He wanted to know how they are feeling, what is going well, and what can...
Published on: November 28, 2024 | Source:Dog Poop Compass: Bayesian Analysis of Canine Business
Dog PoopCompassA Bayesian analysis of caninebusinesstl;drDo dogs poop facing North and South? Turns out they do! Want to learn how to measure this at home using a compass app, Bayesian statistics, and one dog (dog not included)? Jumpin!IntroductionThis is my dog. His name is Auri and he is a 5 year old Cavalier King CharlesSpaniel.Auri (image byauthor)As many other dog owners, during our walks I noticed that Auri has a...
Published on: November 28, 2024 | Source:Black Friday gaming deals 2024: The best sales from Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, Meta Quest and others
This year’s Black Friday sales are once again a good time to restock on video games and gaming gear on the cheap. There’s still too many junky “discounts” out there to count, but if you’re looking to add some games to your backlog, pick up a new console or upgrade your desktop with new accessories, we’ve rounded up a few Black Friday gaming deals that are genuinely decent below. Among the highlights are $75 price drops...
Published on: November 28, 2024 | Source:The Morning After: Thread’s latest feature is stealing Bluesky’s starter packs idea
According to reporting by TechCrunch and others, Threads is tapping into one of Bluesky’s best new features: starter packs of people to follow. Chris Messina, who invented the hashtag (!), posted a screenshot of the tool to the social media app. You can see an early version of the tool by pasting “installedbarcelona://recommended_follow_lists” into Safari on iOS if you have the latest Threads app. The version likely...
Published on: November 28, 2024 | Source:The best fast chargers for 2024
Fast chargers are basically a must-have nowadays. With so many of our devices demanding more power — think phones, tablets, laptops and even wearables — a standard charger just doesn’t cut it anymore. Fast chargers come in all shapes, sizes and types, each designed to get your device back to full battery as quickly and efficiently as possible. But not all fast chargers are created equal. Depending on your device and...
Published on: November 28, 2024 | Source:The best projector for 2024
If you’re looking to take your movie nights, gaming sessions or even big sports games to a whole new level, a projector is a great investment. With projectors, you’re not limited to a single screen size; you can expand the display to fit almost any wall or even set up a big screen outdoors for those summer movie nights under the stars. And if you’re really looking to make the most of your space, a projector can even...
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