September 16, 2024

AI

Football and Geometry — Passing Networks

Football Analytics Understanding networks through the analysis of Bayer Leverkusen’s passing networks Pol Marin · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 10 min read · 3 hours ago — Photo by Clint Adair on Unsplash Long time no see… But for a good reason. After some months I’m back on Medium and today we’re merging two exciting worlds: football and geometry. Concretely, we’ll touch upon the topic of networks but, as always, through a

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PySpark Explained: The InferSchema Problem

Image by AI (Dalle-3) Think before using this common option when reading large CSV’s Thomas Reid · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 10 min read · 3 hours ago — Whether you’re a data scientist, data engineer, or programmer, reading and processing CSV data will be one of your bread-and-butter skills for years. Most programming languages can, either natively or via a library, read and write CSV data files, and PySpark is no

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Introducing NumPy, Part 4: Doing Math with Arrays

Quick Success Data Science Plus reading and writing array data! Lee Vaughan · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 11 min read · 3 hours ago — An array doing math as imagined by DALL-E3 Welcome to the fourth and final edition of the beginner series, Introducing NumPy! In the previous articles, we reviewed NumPy’s workhorse arrays: what they are and how to create them (Part 1); how to index and slice them (Part

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AI

CTE Vs. Subqueries In SQL — 3 Practical Tips To Make A Right Choice

Data Science Master the key differences between CTEs and subqueries to know exactly when and where to use each! Suraj Gurav · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 6 min read · 3 hours ago — Photo clicked by Author Should I use a CTE or a Subquery in SQL?? — you must be asking this question quite often. I had it too! A subquery, as its name suggests, is a query within another

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SambaNova challenges OpenAI’s o1 model with Llama 3.1-powered demo on HuggingFace

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More SambaNova Systems has just unveiled a new demo on Hugging Face, offering a high-speed, open-source alternative to OpenAI’s o1 model. The demo, powered by Meta’s Llama 3.1 Instruct model, is a direct challenge to OpenAI’s recently released o1 model and represents a significant step forward in the race to dominate enterprise AI infrastructure. The release signals

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EA reveals next Battlefield title has a modern-day setting

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.  Electronic Arts has dropped the first details about the next installment in the Battlefield series, including hints about the setting and the combat. The biggest concrete detail revealed

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Software

The Ultimate Challenger’s Guide: How to Play Minesweeper and Beat the Odds | HackerNoon

The puzzle game Minesweeper requires skill, strategy, and reasoning. It began as a straightforward Windows game and developed into a problematic, thought-provoking one. Because websites like 1000 Mines are making the game more accessible than ever, new and old players are discovering the game from a new perspective. This article delves deeply into the game’s evolution, demonstrating how artificial intelligence and other problem-solving techniques have altered gameplay. It is now more than just clearing a

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Quantifying Gender Bias: Key Variables in Remote Pair Programming | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 1.1 The twincode platform 1.2 Related Work 2 Research Questions 3 Variables 3.1 Independent Variables 3.2 Dependent Variables 3.3 Confounding Variables 4 Participants 5 Execution Plan and 5.1 Recruitment 5.2 Training and 5.3 Experiment Execution 5.4 Data Analysis Acknowledgments and References 3.2 Dependent Variables The response variables measured using questionnaires containing 0–10 linear numerical response items are the following: Perceived productivity compared to solo programming (pp) interval variable

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Robotics

Mach9 Robotics accelerates geospatial data processing for infrastructure industry – The Robot Report

Listen to this article Faster production of mapping data can cut costs for the construction industry, says Mach9. Source: Mach9 Robotics Autonomous vehicles, delivery robots, and aerial drones all rely on geospatial data, as do construction and utility firms. Mach9 Robotics Inc. said it takes 3D data from lidar scans and turns it into 2D and 3D engineering models faster and cheaper than with conventional methods. “Just as CAD software allowed GPS to revolutionize the

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