July 14, 2024

Reflection: Top 5 Tips to Bootstrap From $1.5K to $16K Monthly Revenue and Raise $400K | HackerNoon

Building a two-sided managed pet care platform as first-time founders is not an easy task. Looking back, it’s clear that some intuitive decisions brought us to where we are today. After 1.5 years of bootstrapping, we raised $400,000 from a VC fund and an angel syndicate, with follow-on investments totaling $1 million. We now have 30,000 paying customers, 3,000 pet caregivers connected to our platform, and over $5 million in gross revenue since launch. Here’s

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Kirill Baranov July 14, 2024

How Build Your Own AI Confessional: How to Add a Voice to the LLM | HackerNoon

While OpenAI is delaying the release of the advanced Voice Modes for ChatGPT, I want to share how we built our LLM voice application and integrated it into an interactive booth. Talk to the AI in the jungle At the end of February, Bali hosted the Lampu festival, arranged according to the principles of the famous Burning Man. According to its tradition, participants create their own installations and art objects. My friends from Camp 19:19

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Iaroslav Sobolev July 14, 2024

The Noonification: BEP 341: Consecutive Block Production (7/14/2024) | HackerNoon

How are you, hacker? 🪐What’s happening in tech this week: The Noonification by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our top 5 stories of the day, every day at noon your local time! Set email preference here. By @aibites [ 5 Min read ] Is it time to ditch the long-reigning GPT-4o model for the latest Claude 3.5 Sonnet model? Turns out it depends on the task at hand. Read More. By

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Noonification July 14, 2024
Robotics

Making it easier to compare robot manipulation research

Listen to this article Robotic arms in the NERVE Center can perform a variety of tasks. | Source: UMass Lowell, Brooke Coupal Everyday tasks for humans, like simply picking up a water bottle, are still a huge challenge for robots. Robotics researchers and developers have been working for decades to enhance robot manipulation skills, but there’s a broader issue slowing their work and making it difficult to innovate.  This issue is a “full system problem,”

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The Robot Report Staff July 14, 2024
Software

How to Improve Cybersecurity With Digital Twins | HackerNoon

Digital twins are highly accurate virtual versions of real-life places or things. They have become widespread in industries such as manufacturing because decision-makers want to test factory layouts, product prototypes or other specifics before approving them. Some leaders also build digital twins of critical equipment to detect when a machine’s operating conditions deviate too much from the virtual version’s norms, indicating an urgent problem to investigate. How can cybersecurity practitioners apply digital twins to their

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Zac Amos July 14, 2024
Software

The Advice Paradox: Why We Can’t Follow Our Own Wisdom | HackerNoon

Hey there, I didn’t write an article last week. And if I’m honest, it’s because I felt like a hypocrite. I’ve been dispensing advice left and right, but I haven’t been following my own. It felt inauthentic, and that’s something I never want my writing to be. So, I took a step back and spent some time reflecting. Why is it so easy to give advice and yet so hard to take it? Why do

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BenoitMalige July 14, 2024

Inside the Three-Way Race to Create the Most Widely Used Laser

6 min read Julianne Pepitone is a Contributing Editor covering consumer tech, cybersecurity, and business. IBM researchers [from left] Gerald Burns, Marshall I. Nathan, Gordon Lasher, Frederick H. Dill Jr., and William P. Dumke developed the gallium arsenide laser in October 1962. The semiconductor laser, invented more than 60 years ago, is the foundation of many of today’s technologies including barcode scanners, fiber-optic communications, medical imaging, and remote controls. The tiny, versatile device is now

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Julianne Pepitone July 14, 2024

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