July 23, 2024

Spatial Index: Grid Systems

Grid Systems in spatial indexing using GeoHash and Google S2 Adesh Nalpet Adimurthy · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 12 min read · Jun 12, 2024 — This post is a continuation of Stomping Grounds: Spatial Indexes, but don’t worry if you missed the first part—you’ll still find plenty of new insights right here. 3. Geohash Geohash: Invented in 2008 by Gustavo Niemeyer, it encodes a geographic location into a short string of

Adesh Nalpet Adimurthy July 23, 2024

Most Data Quality Initiatives Fail Before They Start. Here’s Why.

Show me your data quality scorecard and I’ll tell you whether you will be successful a year from now. Barr Moses · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · 6 hours ago — Photo by Braden Collum on Unsplash Every day I talk to organizations ready to dedicate a tremendous amount of time and resources towards data quality initiatives doomed to fail. It’s no revelation that incentives and KPIs drive good

Barr Moses July 23, 2024

Software

Republic’s Digital Asset Dividend Pool Reaches $1 Million Mark | HackerNoon

Republic, a blockchain technology firm focusing on financial investment into the web3 industry, has announced that its Republic Note dividend pool has surpassed $1 million. This milestone marks a significant step towards the company’s goal of distributing dividends to Note holders. This achievement represents a significant step towards the company’s goal of distributing dividends to Note holders and highlights the growing interest in alternative investment models. The Republic Note, launched as an innovative venture digital

Ishan Pandey July 23, 2024

Robotics

What Intuitive Surgical’s limited da Vinci 5 launch can teach device developers – The Robot Report

Listen to this article Intuitive plans updates to the da Vinci 5 — including capabilities for surgeons using the console (pictured) — before fully launching the next generation of the surgical robot. | Source: Intuitive Surgical Intuitive Surgical Inc. said it can’t make enough of its new da Vinci 5 robotic surgical system to meet customer demand. But that’s part of the Synnyvale, Calif.-based company‘s plan for “measured rollout” so it can tweak the next-generation

Jim Hammerand July 23, 2024

Robotics

Kodiak Robotics establishes driver-as-a-service agreement with Atlas Energy – The Robot Report

Listen to this article Kodiak and Atlas have already completed their first driverless delivery of frac sand in West Texas. | Source: Kodiak Robotics Kodiak Robotics Inc. today said it will outfit new Atlas Energy Solutions Inc. high-capacity trucks with its autonomy technology. Under the terms of the partnership, Kodiak will provide its technology via a driver-as-a-service licensing agreement. The companies have already completed their first driverless delivery in the Permian Basin of West Texas.

The Robot Report Staff July 23, 2024

Event Study Designs: A Beginner’s Guide

What are they and what are they not Arieda Muço · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · 3 days ago — In this article, I attempt to clarify the use of essential tools in the applied econometrician’s toolkit: Difference-in-Differences (DiD) and Event Study Designs. Inspired mostly by my students, this article breaks down the basic concepts and addresses common misconceptions that often confuse practitioners. If you wonder why the title

Arieda Muço July 23, 2024

Software

The Machines Arena Announces Start Date For Play 2 Airdrop | HackerNoon

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, July 23rd, 2024/GamingWire/–The Machines Arena(TMA),the top-down competitive hero shooter for PC and Android devices developed by Directive Games, has announced the Play 2 Airdrop event launch starting July 30th. This 8-week event offers players the chance to earn points and secure $TMA tokens. The Play 2 Airdrop invites players to engage in various activities within and outside the game. Points earned will determine ranks on the P2A leaderboard, directly influencing the amount of

Gaming Wire July 23, 2024

Lumoz: A New Paradigm for Rollup Platformization | HackerNoon

1. Environmental Factors Driving Rollup Changes Layer 1 Scaling is Urgently Needed As the number of Ethereum users continues to grow, the network becomes increasingly congested, especially during initial coin offering events, causing gas fees to spike. Additionally, the rising price of $ETH has led to prohibitively high transaction fees, making small transactions impractical. Therefore, improving storage efficiency, increasing transaction throughput, and reducing transaction latency are crucial for the development of Ethereum. Arbitrum currently leads

Lumoz (formerly Opside) July 23, 2024

AR/VR

BaseScape Acquires Valor Server, Boosting Their Gaming Universe

BaseScape (formerly known as Etherscape), a cryptocurrency project dedicated to enhancing the gaming industry, recently announced its acquisition of Valor Server. BaseScape’s team shared the announcement on their Medium page on July 21, 2024, and their community enthusiastically received it. BaseScape Expands Its Capabilities with Valor Server Acquisition BaseScape, a GameFi platform dedicated to turning every quest completed, duel won, and skill mastered into real earnings for its users, has announced the purchase of Valor

Press Release July 23, 2024

Hardware

Intel Core i9-14901KE Headlines New Batch Of 14th Gen CPUs Without E-Cores

Don’t get excited; these aren’t the Bartlett Lake processors that we just reported on last week. However, they are new LGA 1700 Raptor Lake processors that come with all the usual features you expect—except for Intel’s heterogeneous architecture. That means that these parts are 100% composed of Raptor Lake P-cores. The CPUs in question are still listed as “Products formerly Raptor Lake” by Intel, so we suspect that these might simply be normal Raptor Lake

Zak Killian July 23, 2024