April 5, 2024

Start-ups

Startups Weekly: Let’s see what those Y Combinator kids have been up to this time | TechCrunch

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to receive the Startups Weekly newsletter in your inboxes. It’s the most wonderful tiiiiiiime of the yeaaaaaaar … That’s right, we’re back with all the you-can’t-miss companies from the current batch of Y Combinator startups. AI was, not shockingly, the biggest theme, with 86 out of 247 companies calling themselves an AI startup, but we’re

Haje Jan Kamps April 5, 2024

Discover future-ready strategies for staff and tech evolution with Sand Technologies | TechCrunch

At the upcoming TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 event taking place in Boston on April 25, one session will stand out for early-stage companies seeking to navigate the turbulent waters of tech and staffing strategies. Titled “How to Evolve Your Tech and Staff Strategies for Future Rounds,” the session will be led by Brad Stanton, the managing director of business development at Sand Technologies. Drawing from his extensive experience in consulting and software development with global

Robert Frawley April 5, 2024

Improving Generalization in Survival Models

Suggestions for estimating and enhancing predictive accuracy for the employee attrition case Nicolas Lupi · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 10 min read · 8 hours ago — Photo by Israel Andrade on Unsplash Recently, I’ve come up with a particular issue when dealing with survival analysis: many models I fitted performed well in theory, with strong test metrics, but then failed to predict the true outcomes that were observed in practice. In

Nicolas Lupi April 5, 2024

Solana Meme Project Donk.Meme Raises 1000 SOL In 10 Days | HackerNoon

Too Long; Didn’t Read Donk.Meme ($DONKM) presale is officially live and this new donkey themed Solana meme coin is replicating the same method pioneered by Book Of Meme founders. Over 1,000 SOL has been raised in the first few days of the presale with over 7 days left to go.

Chainwire April 5, 2024

Need for Speed: cuDF Pandas vs. Pandas

Image by Author (Dalle-3) A comparative overview Thomas Reid · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 11 min read · 9 hours ago — What is cuDF Pandas? If you’re a user of the Pandas library in Python, and you want or need to maximise your program run times, then you have a few options available to you. Most of these options revolve around the use of external libraries that supplant existing Pandas operations

Thomas Reid April 5, 2024

Beyond the Blind Zone

Inpainting radar gaps with deep learning Fraser King · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 19 min read · 9 hours ago — Overview In this post, we review high-level details from our recent work on image inpainting of radar blind zones. We discuss the main science problems, inpainting techniques, model architecture decisions, fidelity metrics, uncertainties, and finish with an analysis of model explainability (XAI), in the hope that this information can help others

Fraser King April 5, 2024

How Reliable Are Your Time Series Forecasts, Really?

How cross-validation, visualisation, and statistical hypothesis testing combine to reveal the optimal forecasting horizon Bradley Stephen Shaw · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 13 min read · 9 hours ago — Photo by Nigel Tadyanehondo on Unsplash Imagine you have a crystal ball — a mysterious family heirloom, handed down through generations. It shows its age, its clarity and lustre long gone, with some chips scattered across the surface. Despite its hazy provenance,

Bradley Stephen Shaw April 5, 2024

5 Key Soft Skills to Elevate Your Data Science Game

Top soft skills that should be highly valued by data scientists to distinguish themselves from the crowd Florent Pajot · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 10 min read · 9 hours ago — In this story, I’ll share with you my top 5 soft skills that should be highly valued by Data Scientists to distinguish themselves from the crowd. These observations are based on my experiences over the past decade, working with and

Florent Pajot April 5, 2024

Video Friday: LASSIE On the Moon

3 min read The Legged Autonomous Surface Science in Analog Environments project tests a quadrupedal robot on Mt. Hood in Oregon. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 17–21 April 2024, KASSEL, GERMANY AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2024: 22–25 April 2024,

Evan Ackerman April 5, 2024

Disrupt 2024 call for speakers closes in 3 weeks | TechCrunch

Get ready to ignite the tech world with your passion and expertise! TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 is set to electrify San Francisco from October 28–30, and we’re searching for vibrant speakers like you to elevate our event with your insights. Seize the opportunity to apply and share your knowledge by April 26. Here’s your pathway to becoming a speaker at TechCrunch Disrupt Are you a pioneering startup founder, a perceptive venture capitalist, or a renowned figure