July 31, 2024

Tech giants: AI will transform 92% of ICT jobs; we must upskill now

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Generative AI is already changing the way many of us work — and it is set to completely revolutionize some roles.  In fact, according to one bold new prediction, more than 92% of information and communication technology (ICT) jobs will either be highly or moderately transformed by AI.  This assertion comes from the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce

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Taryn Plumb July 31, 2024
Hardware

China’s first ‘AI PC’ processor: 12-core Arm CPU on 6nm, 45 TOPS from NPU for AI workloads

China has just jumped on the AI PC bandwagon with the country’s first AI-focused consumer processor based on the Arm architecture, with 45 TOPS of AI workload performance. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES Chinese company Cixin Technology has unveiled its new Cixin P1, based on the Arm architecture-similar to Qualcomm’s new fleet of Arm-based Snpadragon X series SoCs. The Cixin P1 features a 12-core Arm CPU split into 8 performance cores and 4 efficient

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Anthony Garreffa July 31, 2024
Hardware

AMD reports massive 59% drop in gaming revenue: includes Radeon and chips for Xbox, PlayStation

AMD posted some better-than-expected Q2 2024 earnings this week, but its gaming business took a rather large 59% revenue drop year-over-year. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES During its Q2 2024 earnings report, it was noted that gaming revenues dropped 59%, which covers the Radeon GPU business and semi-custom chips provided by AMD (made by TSMC) to Microsoft for its Xbox Series X/S consoles and Sony for its PlayStation 5 consoles. Microsoft announced earlier today

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Anthony Garreffa July 31, 2024
AI

Stable and fast randomization using hash spaces

Generate consistent assignments on the fly across different implementation environments David Clarance · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · 2 days ago — A bird’s eye view A core part of running an experiment is to assign an experimental unit (for instance a customer) to a specific treatment (payment button variant, marketing push notification framing). Often this assignment needs to meet the following conditions: It needs to be random. It

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David Clarance July 31, 2024
AI

Death to Tech Debt?

Deep dive into AI-driven tech debt reduction approaches and remaining technical limitations. Ari Joury, PhD · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 13 min read · 4 hours ago — The grim reaper might be coming for technical debt. Image created with Leonardo.ai This piece was co-written with David Meiborg. We created this deep dive as part of a research process with a very experienced tech executive who wants to build a venture in

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Ari Joury, PhD July 31, 2024
Software

Large Language Models on Memory-Constrained Devices Using Flash Memory: Conclusion & Discussion | HackerNoon

Authors: (1) Keivan Alizadeh; (2) Iman Mirzadeh, Major Contribution; (3) Dmitry Belenko, Major Contribution; (4) S. Karen Khatamifard; (5) Minsik Cho; (6) Carlo C Del Mundo; (7) Mohammad Rastegari; (8) Mehrdad Farajtabar. Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Flash Memory & LLM Inference and 2.1 Bandwidth and Energy Constraints 2.2 Read Throughput 3 Load From Flash 3.1 Reducing Data Transfer 3.2 Improving Transfer Throughput with Increased Chunk Sizes 3.3 Optimized Data Management in

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Knapsack July 31, 2024
Hardware

Best Buy Briefly Lists AMD’s Ryzen 9000 CPUs: From $279 to $599

Although AMD delayed launch of its Ryzen 9000-series processors based on the Zen 5 microarchitecture from July 31, to early and mid-August, the company’s partner (and major US retailer) Best Buy briefly began listing the new CPUs today, revealing a very plausible set of launch prices. As per the retailer’s product catalog, the most affordable unlocked Zen 5-based processor will cost $279, whereas the highest-performing Zen 5-powered CPU will cost $599 at launch. AMD will

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Anton Shilov July 31, 2024
Software

How to Scrape Data Off Wikipedia: Three Ways (No Code and Code) | HackerNoon

I needed some data for my side project. Google helped me find only outdated CSVs, expensive closed sources, and APIs hidden behind the “contact sales” button. Wikipedia was ranking high in my searches, but I quickly found that the tables are as unstructured as the ones you typically create in Word or Google Docs. There was no consistency in columns and naming conventions. This at first discouraged me but after failing to find another data

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Karol Horosin July 31, 2024
Software

Declarative Shadow DOM: The Magic Pill for Server-Side Rendering and Web Components | HackerNoon

Server Side Rendering Web components Generating static HTML from JavaScript on the server called Server Side Rendering is a technique used to improve the perceived performance, SEO, and support for non-scripting environments. Shadow DOM: Shadow DOM is a web standard enabling the encapsulation of DOM subtrees in web components, shielding them from external styling and manipulation. It allows developers to create isolated scopes for CSS and JavaScript within a document, preventing conflicts with other parts

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Pradeep Kumar Saraswathi July 31, 2024

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