March 30, 2024

Iron Sheepdog is fixing short-haul trucking from the bottom up | TechCrunch

Will Lawrence, the co-founder and CTO of Iron Sheepdog, likes to say that sometimes building something simple is actually really hard. Building simple-to-use technology for the short-haul trucking industry is Iron Sheepdog’s goal. That approach is also why the company thinks it has been able to see a level of adoption from the industry its competitors haven’t. The Williamsburg, Virginia-based company’s software looks to make the short-haul trucking space, which largely involves outsourcing short-haul jobs

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Hardware

PlayStation 5 Pro Enhanced Game Requirements Break Cover At 4K 60 FPS

More leaks have emerged regarding the upcoming Sony Playstation 5 Pro. Prior leaks have pointed to a console with more RAM, an overclocked mode, and an upgrade to AMD’s RDNA 3 graphics architecture. As PC gaming becomes more affordable and accessible, many console gamers are having a harder time justifying the potential investment in a new console. The dilemma has only gotten more confusing, with more and more supposed “console only” games making their way

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AI

Do not over-think about ‘outliers’, use a student-t distribution instead

A Bayesian approach using R and Brms Daniel Manrique-Castano · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 15 min read · 11 hours ago — For many researchers, outliers are rogue waves that can dramatically alter the course of the analysis or “confound” some expected effects. I prefer to use the term “extreme observations” and leave the term outlier for observations that are not truly part of the population being studied. For example, in my

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AI

Causal Machine Learning: What Can We Accomplish with a Single Theorem?

Exploring and exploiting the seemingly innocent theorem behind Double Machine Learning Harrison Hoffman · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 27 min read · 11 hours ago — North Carolina. Image by Author. Causal inference, and specifically causal machine learning, is an indispensable tool that can help us make decisions by understanding cause and effect. Optimizing prices, reducing customer churn…

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AI

Marlin: Nearly Ideal Inference Speed for 4-bit Large Language Models

Up to 4x faster than inference with fp16 parameters Benjamin Marie · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 6 min read · 12 hours ago — Generated with DALL-E Large language models (LLMs) are often too large to be directly used on consumer hardware. To reduce their size, various techniques have been proposed to quantize LLMs and lower their memory consumption. While recent algorithms for 4-bit quantization are often released along with their own

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Hardware

AMD Zen 5 Core CPU Arch Alleged To Be Over 40% Faster Than Zen 4

Normally we wouldn’t report on something like this, because ultimately “some guy on a forum said a thing” isn’t exactly newsworthy on its own. However, in this case, the poster in question is Kepler_L2, a well-known fellow who frequently shares insider information and astute analysis of upcoming hardware, particularly for AMD. Posting on the AnandTech forums in a long-running thread about Zen 5, Kepler_L2 replied to a user asking about specific claimed performance increases on

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Hardware

Could LinkedIn Usher In A New Professional TikTok Style Sensation?

LinkedIn is experimenting with the idea of bringing TikTok style short-form video to its business-centric social network. The Microsoft-owned social media network is playing around with the video shorts idea in hopes it will bolster video content in a timely and easily discoverable manner. It is no secret that social media platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram have had a lot of success with short-form videos. As such, it is no surprise that other

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Hardware

Best Buy’s Easter Weekend Sale Is Live Now With Great Tech Deals

Easter is nearly upon us, but before you find yourself in a ham and chocolate induced coma, take a moment to browse Best Buy’s current crop of discounts. You’ll find everything from laptops to headphones (and everything in between) marked down. We’ve taken the liberty of curating some of the better deals, starting with the laptop you see above. That’s the Dell XPS 15 with Intel Evo certification, and it’s on sale for $1,499.99 at

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Robotics

Zoox gets ready to launch robotaxi service in Las Vegas – The Robot Report

Listen to this article Zoox is expanding the geofence for its operations in Las Vegas. | Credit: Zoox Over the past year, Zoox Inc. has made significant progress on its autonomous robotaxi service roadmap. In February, the Amazon.com subsidiary announced that it completed a key milestone: deploying its robotaxi on open public roads with passengers. In the shadow of the disappointing news from competitor Cruise, which lost its autonomous operating permit from the California Department

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