August 6, 2024

Understanding Leontief Input-Output Modeling in Infrastructure Economics | HackerNoon

Authors: (1) Matthew Sprintson (2) Edward Oughton Table of Links Abstract and Introduction 2. Literature Review 2.1 Reviewing Broadband Infrastructure’s Impact on the Economy 2.2 Previous Research into IO Modeling of Broadband Investment 2.3 Context of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act through Previous Research 3. Methods and 3.1 Leontief Input-Output (IO) Modeling 3.2 Ghosh Supply-Side Assessment Methods for Infrastructure 3.3 Data and Application 4. Results and 4.1 To what extent does the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law allocate

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OpenAI’s meltdown: Inside the summer that could redefine artificial intelligence

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI, once the undisputed titan of artificial intelligence, is seemingly crumbling right before our eyes. In a stunning turn of events that has left the tech world reeling, three top executives have abandoned ship this week, leaving the company adrift in increasingly turbulent waters. I shared the following note with my OpenAI colleagues today: I’ve made

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Fitting It All In: Keys to Mastering Work-Life Balance

5 min read Mark Wehde is chair of Mayo Clinic Engineering and assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. This article is part of our exclusive career advice series in partnership with the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society. With technological advancement and changing societal expectations, the concept of work-life balance has become an elusive goal for many, particularly within the engineering community. The drive to remain continuously

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requirements.txt Is Obsolete

Managing Python project dependencies and metadata with Poetry Giorgos Myrianthous · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 9 min read · 9 hours ago — Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash Python’s standard library is a collection of built-in modules that provide users with rich functionality, aiming to standardise the way basic operations are performed in day-to-day programming. A few examples include I/O operations, text processing, file compression and mathematical operations, among others. This

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Omitted Variable Bias

Rothstein, A., photographer. (1939) Farm family at dinner. Fairfield Bench Farms, Montana. Montana Fairfield Bench Farms United States Teton County, 1939. May. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017777606/. An intro to an especially sneaky bias that invades many regression models Sachin Date · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 20 min read · 10 hours ago — From 2000 to 2013, a flood of research showed a striking correlation between the rate

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NVIDIA app updates adding more features and free Xbox Game Pass

NVIDIA rolled out the beta for its NVIDIA App back in February, and since the company has been listening to the community feedback and working on a bunch of new features for GeForce owners to enjoy. 3 VIEW GALLERY – 3 IMAGES The Green Team has taken to its blog on its website to announce a new update for the Beta app that combines NVIDIA Control Panel and the GeForce Experience App into one, and

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Scale Your Productivity: Leveraging AWS Gen AI to Summarize Meeting Notes in Seconds

A comprehensive walkthrough on how one can utilize AWS Lambda, Bedrock, and S3 to create a workflow that will summarize a meeting transcript Jacob Ingle · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 16 min read · 11 hours ago — Image generated with DALL-E Disclaimer: The meeting transcript used in this article is entirely fictional and created for illustrative and educational purposes only. It does not reflect any actual conversations, events, or individuals. Any

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Amazon Web Services unveils the Iron Dome of cloud security systems

Cybersecurity is paramount in a world that is only becoming more digitized, and one of the biggest cloud hosting players in the game, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has revealed how it keeps its services clean of malicious domains. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES The hosting arm of Amazon took to its blog to detail its industry-leading security system called Mithra, which the company explains uses an internal neural network graph model that assigns a

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Intel 18A Status Update: First Chips Booting, First External Customer Tape-Out in H1’25

Following Intel’s painful Q2 earnings call and the announcement of their 2025 cost reduction plan last week, it has become increasingly evident that Intel’s future is in the hands of their foundry group. Between Intel’s IDM 2.0 initiative and their internal chip production plans, all roads lead back to Intel retaking – and retaining – fab process leadership. To win as both a chip designer and a contract chip maker, Intel needs to be able

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Solidigm D7-PS1010 and D7-PS1030: PCIe 5.0 and 176L TLC Datacenter SSD Performance Play

Solidigm’s datacenter SSD lineup includes models targeting different performance, endurance, and cost tradeoffs. Last year, the company had introduced the D5-P5336 QLC drive as a low-cost high-capacity drive for read-heavy workloads, while also preparing the SLC-based D7-P5810 for extremely write-intensive workloads requiring high endurance. The D7-P5520 / D7-P5620 Gen 4 drives with Solidigm’s own 144L 3D TLC have been the high-performance offerings for generic workloads over the last couple of years. Solidigm is announcing the

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