April 7, 2024

Hardware

AMD’s next-gen Zen 5 ‘Granite Ridge’ CPU spotted in the flesh: 8 cores, 16 threads of Zen 5

Here we go folks: AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 9000 series “Granite Ridge” desktop CPUs based on the new Zen 5 architecture are closer than ever before… an actual shot of the Zen 5 chip. The photo of AMD’s new Ryzen 9000 series “Granite Ridge” Zen 5 processors comes from X user @ExperteVallah, who posted a picture of an ES (engineering sample) of an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 5-powered CPU. The OPN ID on this processor is “100-000001290-11,”

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R Games Gearing To Become World’s First Gaming AI Token Listed On CEXs | HackerNoon

Too Long; Didn’t Read R Games will launch on platforms like DAOMaker, Poolz Finance, Finceptor, and Paragen. R Games has ambitious plans in store to implement upgrades such as an advanced Upgrade System, Virtual Garage, and AI integration. These additions are designed to give users a variety of opportunities to earn, with models including Formula One, Street Racing, Story Mode, and Off-Road Racing.

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How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet

7 min read Mark Kempf [left] and Alan Kirby with the logic module in the LANBridge 100. Alan Kirby I’ve enjoyed reading magazine articles about Ethernet’s 50th anniversary, including one in the The Institute. Invented by computer scientists Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs, Ethernet has been extraordinarily impactful. Metcalfe, an IEEE Fellow, received the 1996 IEEE Medal of Honor as well as the 2022 Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery for his work.

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AI

5 Powerful Strategies To Make Sure AI Doesn’t Steal Your Job — A Spotify Data Scientist’s Survival…

Why I stopped freaking out that AI will replace me and what I do instead Khouloud El Alami · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 14 min read · 11 hours ago — We all know it. AI is coming for us. It’s no longer a matter of “if” but “when”. When will AI come after our jobs and nudge us off the picture? No one seems to be safe. AI threatens to replace

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Today’s Software Sucks, but It Doesn’t Have To

3 min read Daniel Zender You can’t see, hear, taste, feel, or smell it, but software is everywhere around us. It underpins modern civilization even while consuming more energy, wealth, and time than it needs to and burping out a significant amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The software industry and the code it ships need to be much more efficient in order to minimize the emissions attributable to programs running in data centers

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AI

How to Think About Using Your Company’s Information with GenAI

Assessing the options for GenAI information integration along with considerations for your specific company David Hundley · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 12 min read · 11 hours ago — Title card created by the author While GenAI is super cool, there’s no doubt that the companies getting the most value out of GenAI have found a means to integrate their own information with the AI model. What I don’t necessarily see, however,

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How to Recover From an Emotional Outburst At Work | HackerNoon

Too Long; Didn’t Read Negative emotions like anger, fear, or frustration show up when your expectations aren’t met or people say or do things that conflict with your personal values and aspirations. Ignoring the conflict or whatever’s bothering you for too long creates inner turmoil—it makes you react to other people or the things in your environment. You act without thinking. You become a victim of your thoughts and circumstances.

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AI

Build Autonomous AI Agents with Function Calling

Transform your chatbot into an agent that can interact with external APIs Julian Yip · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 11 min read · 5 days ago — Function Calling is not something new. In July 2023, OpenAI introduced Function Calling for their GPT models, a feature now being adopted by competitors. Google’s Gemini API recently supported it, and Anthropic is integrating it into Claude. Function Calling is becoming essential for large language

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