September 13, 2024

AI

I Coded a YouTube AI Assistant that Boosted My Productivity

Image generated by Author using flux-dreamscape via replicate. A step-by-step tutorial in Python Chanin Nantasenamat · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · 8 hours ago — Have you ever found yourself in a position where you needed to sift through a lot of YouTube videos to learn or research about a particular topic? Watching hours and hours of videos, taking notes, and still overlooking important details is a genuine struggle.

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A $700 PlayStation 5 Pro? In this economy? | Kaser Focus

GamesBeat Next is connecting the next generation of video game leaders. And you can join us, coming up October 28th and 29th in San Francisco! Take advantage of our buy one, get one free pass offer. Sale ends this Friday, August 16th. Join us by registering here.  PlayStation this week revealed the latest console joining its family: The PlayStation 5 Pro, a more powerful version of its current-gen console that boasts the ability to make

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The SaaS That I’m Building in Public Made $534.76 in Revenue in the First 2 Weeks After Launch 🎉 | HackerNoon

I will share what I did to get customers and the lessons I learned to help fellow startup founders. The pitch: Find Your Customers in Seconds with Social Media AI. Until now, I still can’t believe that people are using and paying for a tool that I built. I had very low expectations when I built and launched this because I’m already so used to building and launching projects and ending up with 0 or

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Microsoft’s Windows Agent Arena: Teaching AI assistants to navigate your PC

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Microsoft has unveiled a groundbreaking benchmark called Windows Agent Arena (WAA) to test artificial intelligence agents in realistic Windows operating system environments. This new platform aims to accelerate the development of AI assistants capable of performing complex computer tasks across diverse applications. Published on arXiv.org, the research addresses critical challenges in evaluating AI agent performance. “Large

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Software

How to Earn $1,000 a Month in Crypto Without Trading | HackerNoon

You’ve heard that trading is the only way to get ahead with crypto. It’s not true. Below, I’ll share an easy, relatively safe way to make money without trading or gambling: Staking. Rewards you can cash out any time With staking, sometimes called bonding or locking-up tokens, you leave your altcoins with the protocol in return for rewards. It’s like passive income, paid in crypto. One of the easiest cryptos to stake is ATOM, the

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AI

How Biased is Your Regression Model?

Image by Author A deep dive into the causes, effects, and remedies for bias in regression models Sachin Date · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 25 min read · 7 hours ago — This pack of peanut M&Ms weighs 45 grams. (Image by Author) Mars Inc. has likely priced this pack to perfection. But how does Mars know how many peanut M&Ms to stuff into a 45g pack? One could simply divide 45

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Software

zkEmail Account in Noir & Aztec – Part 1 | HackerNoon

Big thanks to Mach34 team for the initial version of zkemail in Noir. Introduction A zkEmail account is a smart contract account that allows users to confirm transactions by replying to an email. How it works? Each email message is signed by the user’s email provider (e.g., iCloud, Gmail or ProtonMail). User’s smart contract account verifies the signature on-chain and executes the transaction if the signature is valid. In addition to the signature verification, it

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Apple aims for on-device user intent understanding with UI-JEPA models

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Understanding user intentions based on user interface (UI) interactions is a critical challenge in creating intuitive and helpful AI applications.  In a new paper, researchers from Apple introduce UI-JEPA, an architecture that significantly reduces the computational requirements of UI understanding while maintaining high performance. UI-JEPA aims to enable lightweight, on-device UI understanding, paving the way for

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Bridging Real-World Assets and DeFi: An Interview with Lumia Co-Founder Kal Ali | HackerNoon

In this installment of our “Behind the Startup” series, Ishan Pandey sits down with Kal Ali to discuss the inception of Lumia, its innovative approach to making RWAs a functional part of the DeFi ecosystem, and how features like HyperNodes and integration with Polygon AggLayer are setting the stage for a more decentralized and liquid financial future. Ishan Pandey: Hi Kal Ali, welcome to our ‘Behind the Startup’ series. Can you share your journey from

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Inside VALR’s Growth Strategy: VALR’s CMO Shares Insights on Connecting Emerging Crypto Markets | HackerNoon

VALR, headquartered in Johannesburg and backed by Pantera, is the largest exchange by trading volume on the African continent, serving over 1,000 corporate clients and 800,000 traders globally. Recently, VALR has been highly active in Asia. Who is driving this initiative, and what are his values and development strategies? We are delighted to have Ben Caselin, Chief Marketing Officer of VALR.com, share his story and VALR’s future direction with us. Ben has many years of

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