July 20, 2024

There’s a simple answer to the AI bias conundrum: More diversity

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As we approach the two-year anniversary of ChatGPT and the subsequent “Cambrian explosion” of generative AI applications and tools, it has become apparent that two things can be true at once: The potential for this technology to positively reshape our lives is undeniable, as are the risks of pervasive bias that permeate these models. In less

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Robotics

#RoboCup2024 – daily digest: 20 July – Robohub

The Standard Platform Soccer League in action. This is the second of our daily digests from RoboCup2024 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. If you missed the first digest, which gives some background to RoboCup, you can find it here. Competitions continued across all the leagues today, with participants vying for a place in Sunday’s finals. The RoboCup@Work league focusses on robots in work-related scenarios, utilizing ideas and concepts from other RoboCup competitions to tackle open research

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#RoboCup2024 – daily digest: 20 July – Robohub

The Standard Platform Soccer League in action. This is the second of our daily digests from RoboCup2024 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. If you missed the first digest, which gives some background to RoboCup, you can find it here. Competitions continued across all the leagues today, with participants vying for a place in Sunday’s finals. The RoboCup@Work league focusses on robots in work-related scenarios, utilizing ideas and concepts from other RoboCup competitions to tackle open research

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AI

Forecasting in the Age of Foundation Models

Benchmarking Lag-Llama against XGBoost Alvaro Corrales Cano · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 14 min read · 10 hours ago — Cliffs near Ribadesella. Photo by Enric Domas on Unsplash On Hugging Face, there are 20 models tagged “time series” at the time of writing. While certainly not a lot (the “text-generation-inference” tag yields 125,950 results), time series forecasting with foundation models is an interesting enough niche for big companies like Amazon, IBM

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AI

Modern Enterprise Data Modeling

How to address the shortcomings of shallow, outdated models and future-proof your modeling strategy Bernd Wessely · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 11 min read · 10 hours ago — Photo by Justin Chrn on Unsplash I have been involved in modeling data for over 30 years, creating a variety of data models (3NF, dimensional, ensemble (anchor, data-vault), graphs, etc.) mainly for analytical systems. However, many of these have also gradually become outdated

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AI

Full Guide to Building a Professional Portfolio with Python, Markdown, Git, and GitHub Pages

How to develop your image as a developer or data worker with a quality portfolio Pierre-Etienne Toulemonde · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 9 min read · 11 hours ago — Photo by Product School on Unsplash Index My previous portfolio The adventure begins The code3.1. Software needed3.2. Configure the local environment3.3. Create the working folder3.4. Prepare Git3.5. Feed the website3.6. Website configuration3.7. Final mkdocs.yml file3.8. Final file structure3.9. Deploy the work GitHub

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Hardware

ASUS’ Major Armoury Crate Update Levels Up ROG Ally And Ally X Gaming Handhelds

The ASUS ROG Ally X is due to launch on the 22nd of this month. That’s this coming Monday, if you haven’t been keeping up. Arriving alongside the revised version of ASUS’ gaming handheld is a new version of the Armoury Crate software designed specifically to improve the user experience on the handheld gaming system. Armoury Crate Special Edition 1.5 rolls up all of the advancements made to the software since the launch of the

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Evolution of Data Sharding Towards Automation and Flexibility in Apache Doris | HackerNoon

To handle large datasets, distributed databases introduce strategies like partitioning and bucketing. Data is divided into smaller units based on specific rules and distributed across different nodes so databases can perform parallel processing for higher performance and data management flexibility. Like in many databases, Apache Doris shards data into partitions, and then a partition is further divided into buckets. Partitions are typically defined by time or other continuous values. This allows query engines to quickly

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Hardware

A New Research Paper Claims May’s Solar Super Storm Caused Massive Satellite Migration

A new research paper claims an intense solar storm in May may have caused a massive satellite and space debris migration. The authors noted the May 2024 geomagnetic storm was the first such event to occur during a period when low-Earth orbit satellite launches have grown dramatically, and highlights the need for the satellite operator community to understand how satellite drag will be impacted during geomagnetic storms as the solar maximum nears. The month of

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