April 28, 2024

EDITORIAL: Reports of the Apple Vision Pro’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated—And We Need to Compare Apples to Apples (Pun Intended)

Many people are already talking about the death of the Apple Vision Pro…what’s the real story? Four days ago, I blogged about a widely-circulated report by an Apple industry pundit, speculating that the computer maker was making significant cuts to the number of Apple Vision Pro (AVP) units it was planning to ship this year, and stating that demand for the brand new, high-end VR/AR headset had “fallen sharply beyond expectations.” This report ignited no

Ryan Schultz April 28, 2024

How to use LLMs to lose your competitors: A mixology for enterprise leaders

A set of quick and to-the-point recipes for different approaches you can take when it comes to large language models (LLMs).Read More

Brian Evergreen, The Future Solving Company April 28, 2024

Understanding sync.Cond in Go: A Guide for Beginner’s | HackerNoon

Too Long; Didn’t Read In conclusion, sync.Cond is a useful type in the Go programming language that allows for synchronization and coordination between goroutines based on specific conditions. It provides a way to create and manage condition variables. It has methods to wait for, signal, and broadcast conditions. By using `sync.Cond`, you can write more controlled and synchronized concurrent programs in Go. It’s important to note that sync.Cond is just one of the synchronization primitives

Ivan Lemeshev April 28, 2024

How I Built a Redis-Compatible Pub/Sub System Using Golang | HackerNoon

Too Long; Didn’t Read Over the last year, I’ve been building EchoVault, an embeddable Redis alternative for the Golang ecosystem. EchoVault aims to replicate most of the Redis features while providing both an embedded interface and a client-server interface that is compatible with existing Redis clients using the RESP protocol. One of the features implemented in EchoVault is the Pub/Sub feature. This article is a short walkthrough of how the Pub/Sub module has been implemented

Kelvin Clement M. April 28, 2024

What To Do As A Startup Without A Market | HackerNoon

Too Long; Didn’t Read Blockchain is a new technology, but there is no market for it yet. The global crypto market cap was about [$1.69 trillion in January 2024] However, the blockchain services and products market was just [$11.4 billion in 2022] If your startup is aiming to take 0.01% of a $206 billion market, it is aiming at $20.6 million. Even 0.1% of an $11 billion market is $11 million.

Dmitry Mishunin April 28, 2024

Electronically Assisted Astronomy on the Cheap

4 min read A secondhand DSLR with a telephoto lens can capture astronomical images with a little help from software and a clamp [right] to keep the focus steady. James Provost I hate the eye strain that often comes with peering through a telescope at the night sky—I’d rather let a camera capture the scene. But I’m too frugal to sink thousands of dollars into high-quality astrophotography gear. The Goldilocks solution for me is something

David Schneider April 28, 2024

Towards infinite LLM context windows

It all started with GPT having an input context window of 512 tokens. After only 5 years the newest LLMs are capable of handling 1M+ context inputs. Where’s the limit? Krzysztof K. Zdeb · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 9 min read · 13 hours ago — I like to think of the LLMs (specifically, of the models parameters, i.e., their weights of the neural network layers and…

Krzysztof K. Zdeb April 28, 2024

Unveiling the Architecture: Key Papers to Understand Distributed Systems! | HackerNoon

Too Long; Didn’t Read With the advent of the internet and smarter devices, the amount of data that needs to be processed has exploded. Simple day-to-day activities like ordering an Uber, watching a show on Netflix, a simple Google search, online shopping, or interacting with social media, all trivial actions that we take for granted are powered by hundreds of distribution services. All these services are built on the backbone of some foundational papers in

Bhavdeep Sethi April 28, 2024

Capture and Unlock Knowledge: A guide to foster your AI Business Plan

Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash AI solutions aren’t just a tool approach; it’s about well-understood use cases and ways to measure their impact Raul Vizcarra Chirinos · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 12 min read · 13 hours ago — The world we are shaping around AI includes different types of organizations: those building sophisticated AI technologies, others developing AI-based solutions, and finally, organizations that aim to use AI for positive impact

Raul Vizcarra Chirinos April 28, 2024

Feature Engineering that Makes Business Sense

The author outlines three ways to expand your machine learning feature set with features that represent explainable behaviors and that maximize predictive power. Guillaume Colley · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 6 min read · 13 hours ago — Business-Friendly feature engineering — Image by DALL-E3 When it comes to Machine Learning in a business application, you will most likely implement the model you built in…

Guillaume Colley April 28, 2024