July 24, 2024

The 5 questions Google couldn’t answer on it’s earnings call about its AI future

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google‘s carefully crafted image as an AI pioneer is cracking under Wall Street’s scrutiny. In yesterday’s earnings call, analysts relentlessly probed Alphabet executives, exposing a growing belief that the tech giant is losing its grip on the AI revolution it helped start. The tense exchange revealed a stark reality: Google’s cautious approach to AI deployment has

James Thomason July 24, 2024

Handling Hierarchies in Dimensional Modeling

There are various modeling techniques for hierarchies. Which of them performs best in dimensional modeling in Data Warehouses? And how to address various types of hierarchies with them? Let’s find out. Krzysztof K. Zdeb · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 12 min read · 4 hours ago — Hierarchies play a crucial role in dimensional modeling for Data Warehouses, influencing both the structure and efficiency of data analysis. Drawing from my own experiences

Krzysztof K. Zdeb July 24, 2024

Nine Rust Cargo.toml Wats and Wat Nots

Master Cargo.toml formatting rules and avoid frustration Carl M. Kadie · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · 4 hours ago — Rust Cargo Suprises — Source: https://openai.com/dall-e-2/. All other figures from the author. In JavaScript and other languages, we call a surprising or inconsistent behavior a “Wat!” [that is, a “What!?”]. For example, in JavaScript, an empty array plus an empty array produces an empty string, [] + [] ===

Carl M. Kadie July 24, 2024

Nvidia’s latest AI offering could spark a custom model gold rush

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Nvidia quietly unveiled its new AI Foundry service on Tuesday, aiming to help businesses create and deploy custom large language models tailored to their specific needs. The move signals Nvidia’s push to capture a larger share of the booming enterprise AI market. The AI Foundry combines Nvidia’s hardware, software tools, and expertise to enable companies to

Michael Nuñez July 24, 2024

Google Play now allows you to play two PC games simultaneously

GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games here. Google today announced new ways its augmenting the Play platform, which includes several game-related updates. These updates include a new feature for Google Play Games on PC that allows players to

Rachel Kaser July 24, 2024

Hardware

AMD Delays Ryzen 9000 Launch 1 to 2 Weeks Due to Chip Quality Issues

AMD sends word this afternoon that the company is delaying the launch of their Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors. The first Zen 5 architecture-based desktop chips were slated to launch next week, on July 31st. But citing quality issues that are significant enough that AMD is even pulling back stock already sent to distributors, AMD is delaying the launch by one to two weeks. The Ryzen 9000 launch will now be a staggered launch, with

Ryan Smith July 24, 2024

The Top 5 Angular DataGrids | HackerNoon

Angular DataGrids have become an important tool in almost any Angular application, especially in the enterprise sector. There are many options when choosing an Angular DataGrid, so we will compare some popular options. This will be an honest review based on our opinion from experience in the industry. Now, let’s take a look at some popular Angular DataGrids and how they stack up. Wijmo FlexGrid Without question, our top choice for an Angular DataGrid is

MESCIUS inc. July 24, 2024

Understand REINFORCE, Actor-Critic and PPO in one go

Use the loss function of the Policy Gradient algorithm as key to understand various reinforcement learning algorithms: REINFORCE, Actor-Critic, and PPO, which are theoretical preparations to understand the Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) algorithm used to build ChatGPT. Wei Yi · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 37 min read · 5 hours ago — Image from Unsplash Studying reinforcement learning can be frustrating because the field is cursed with confusing jargon and

Wei Yi July 24, 2024

From Observability to Architectural Observability—Shifting Left for Resiliency | HackerNoon

In my previous article, Managing Architectural Tech Debt, I talked about understanding and managing architectural technical debt. Architectural technical debt is the often ignored, but ironically, one of the most damaging, categories of technical debt. In this article, I want to dive deeper into one way to manage architectural technical debt (and technical debt as a whole)—architectural observability (AO). AO is a new category of observability that I believe is just as important, if not more so, as application

John Vester July 24, 2024

Robotics

Foam fluidics showcase lab’s creative approach to circuit design

When picturing next-generation wearables and robotics, the foam filling in your couch cushions is likely not the first thing that comes to mind. However, Rice University engineers have shown that something as simple as the flow of air through the airy, meshlike structure of open-cell foam can be used to perform digital computation, analog sensing and combined digital-analog control in soft textile-based wearable systems. “In this work, we integrated material intelligence — the ability of

Editor July 24, 2024