March 28, 2024

Where Do EU Horizon H2020 Fundings Go?

Combining explorative data analytics, geospatial data, and network science in Python to overview 35k+ EU-funded projects. Milan Janosov · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 11 min read · 9 hours ago — All images created by the author. The Horizon 2020 was the EU’s research and innovation funding program from 2014–2020 with a budget of nearly €80 billion, funding research projects across the continent at various scales, covering topics from Anthropology to Particle

Milan Janosov March 28, 2024

Learning to Rank — Contextual Item Recommendations for User Pairs

Train a Machine Learning recommendation engine that learns the shared preferences of groups of people Jay Franck · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 6 min read · 2 days ago — Photo by Lucrezia Carnelos on Unsplash This walkthrough is for… Anyone interested in DIY recommendations Engineers interested in basic PyTorch ranking models Coffee nerds This walkthrough is not for… Someone who wants to copy-paste code into their production system Folks that wanted

Jay Franck March 28, 2024

Hardware

Western Digital Ships 24TB Red Pro Hard Drive For NASes

Nowadays highest-capacity hard drives are typically aimed at cloud service providers (CSPs) and enterprises, but this does not mean that creative professionals or regular users do not need them. To cater to demands of more regular consumers, Western Digital has started shipments of its Red Pro 24 TB HDDs, which are aimed at high-end NAS use for creative professionals with significant storage requirements. Western Digital’s Red Pro 24 TB hard drives come approximately 20 months

Anton Shilov March 28, 2024

8 things most data science programs don’t teach (but you should know) — Part 2

Data Science 101 MIT calls this “the missing semester of your CS education” Dasha Herrmannova, Ph.D. · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 10 min read · 20 hours ago — Created using Midjourney. What data science and software engineering have in common is writing code. But while code is the main outcome of software engineering, data science projects typically end with…

Dasha Herrmannova, Ph.D. March 28, 2024

Hardware

Zotac Unveils Small And Mighty AI Mini PCs With Intel And AMD CPU Options

When you hear the brand Zotac, your mind may immediately think of graphics cards, but the company was actually one of the real pioneers in the mini-PC space with its Zbox brand. Zboxes date back to 2011, predating even the original Intel NUC, and Zotac has offered a wide range of models sporting both Intel and AMD CPUs since the very beginning. As you probably expect in 2024, Zotac’s latest Zbox machines are the company’s

Zak Killian March 28, 2024

Robotics

Revolutionary biomimetic olfactory chips to enable advanced gas sensing and odor detection

A research team led by the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has addressed the long-standing challenge of creating artificial olfactory sensors with arrays of diverse high-performance gas sensors. Their newly developed biomimetic olfactory chips (BOC) are able to integrate nanotube sensor arrays on nanoporous substrates with up to 10,000 individually addressable gas sensors per chip, a configuration that is similar to how olfaction works for humans and

Editor March 28, 2024

Salt-Sized Sensors Mimic the Brain

3 min read Each sensor, shown here next to a dime, mimics the how the brain’s neurons send signals through spikes of electrical activity. Nick Dentamaro/Brown University To gain a better understanding of the brain, why not draw inspiration from it? At least, that’s what researchers at Brown University did, by building a wireless communications system that mimics the brain using an array of tiny silicon sensors, each the size of a grain of sand.

Gwendolyn Rak March 28, 2024

How We’ll Reach a 1 Trillion Transistor GPU

7 min read Mark Liu is chairman of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. H.-S. Philip Wong is a professor in the school of engineering at Stanford University and chief scientist at TSMC. In 1997 the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. It was a groundbreaking demonstration of supercomputer technology and a first glimpse into how high-performance computing might one day overtake human–level intelligence. In the 10 years that followed, we began

Mark Liu March 28, 2024

Why a16z-backed Wonderschool is acquiring EarlyDay | TechCrunch

Wonderschool, a startup that provides software and support to help individuals and local governments spin up childcare businesses, has acquired EarlyDay, which operates an early childhood educator marketplace. TechCrunch has covered Wonderschool since its infancy, including both of its seed rounds and its Series A (led by Andreessen Horowitz). Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but in an interview with TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, EarlyDay’s co-CEOs Emma Harris and Melissa Tran described the transaction as

Alex Wilhelm March 28, 2024

Google.org launches $20M generative AI accelerator program | TechCrunch

Google.org, Google’s charitable wing, is launching a new program to help fund nonprofits developing tech that leverages generative AI. Called Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI, the program is to be funded by $20 million in grants and include 21 nonprofits to start, including Quill.org, a company creating AI-powered tools for student writing feedback, and World Bank, which is building a generative AI app to make development research more accessible. In addition to funding, nonprofits in the

Kyle Wiggers March 28, 2024