October 14, 2024

AI

Florence-2: Mastering Multiple Vision Tasks with a Single VLM Model

A Guided Exploration of Florence-2’s Zero-Shot Capabilities: Captioning, Object Detection, Segmentation and OCR. Lihi Gur Arie, PhD · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · 8 hours ago — Image annotations by Author. Original image from Pexels. Introduction In recent years, the field of computer vision has witnessed the rise of foundation models that enable image annotation without the need for training custom models. We’ve seen models like CLIP [2] for

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Mary Ellen Randall Is 2025 IEEE President-Elect

2 min read Kathy Pretz is the editor in chief of The Institute, IEEE’s member publication 2025 IEEE President-Elect and IEEE Fellow Mary Ellen Randall. Deanna Decker IEEE Fellow Mary Ellen Randall has been elected as the 2025 IEEE president-elect. She will begin serving as president on 1 January 2026. Randall, who was nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors, received 16,389 votes in the election. Fellow S.K. Ramesh received 10,647 votes and Fellow John

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Image-to-Image Translation with FLUX.1: Intuition and Tutorial

Generate new images based on existing images using diffusion models. Youness Mansar · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 6 min read · 9 hours ago — Original image source: Photo by Sven Mieke on Unsplash / Transformed image: Flux.1 with prompt “A picture of a Tiger” This post guides you through generating new images based on existing ones and textual prompts. This technique, presented in a paper called SDEdit: Guided Image Synthesis and

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PyTorch Optimizers Aren’t Fast Enough. Try These Instead

These 4 advanced optimizers will open your mind. Benjamin Bodner · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 10 min read · 9 hours ago — Source: image by author If you’ve been working with deep learning for a while, you’re probably well-acquainted with the usual optimizers in PyTorch — SGD, Adam, maybe even AdamW. These are some of the go-to tools in every ML engineer’s toolkit. But what if I told you that there

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Software

How to Choose the Right Laptop: A Step-by-Step Guide | HackerNoon

Over the years, we have witnessed how technology has been advancing, including laptops. Due to the wide range of models and the computational power each one of them has, choosing the right laptop can be quite taxing. Be it as an office worker who needs a dependable working laptop, a gamer who needs fast specifications, or a student who wants an inexpensive and portable device, the stage is reached where it is all too much.

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WordPress is Entering its End-Stage Founder Period | HackerNoon

I exit Founders for a living. It takes a special personality to bring something into existence: grit, passion, vision. But most Founders lack the self-awareness to embrace the limitations to scale their creations. That’s where people like me enter. WordPress is entering its “end-stage founder” period. And creations of all sizes – startups, established companies, even thriving enterprises – all approach this extremely dangerous period of their lives where they are forced to confront a

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The Trouble With Telegram

5 min read Slava Gomzin is a cybersecurity and crypto enthusiast, full-stack technologist, and entrepreneur. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto/Getty Images Pavel Durov, the founder of the chat app Telegram, was arrested in late August in France on charges that the company hasn’t done enough to prevent malicious and illegal activity on the app. One might be tempted to think that Telegram’s high level of data protection would prevent it from effectively addressing malicious activity on the platform:

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Hardware

Concerned About CPU Warp On Intel’s LGA 1851 Arrow Lake Socket? Noctua Sounds Off

With the impending launch of Intel’s Arrow Lake CPUs seemingly around the corner, we are seeing many companies confirm product compatibility with the LGA1851 socket. As such, Noctua has confirmed which coolers in their line-up will be compatible and has also given instructions on how some users can get free upgrade mounting kits if their cooler didn’t come with the LGA1700/LGA1851 mounting hardware at the time of purchase. It’s worth noting that many Noctua coolers

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AI

Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA)

Discover how LDA helps identify critical data features Ingo Nowitzky · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 12 min read · 2 days ago — Classification of LDA within AI and ML Methods | image by author This article aims to explore Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), focusing on its core ideas, its mathematical implementation in code, and a practical example from manufacturing.I hope you’re on board. Let’s get started! Who works with industrial data

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Hardware

ASUS Zenbook S 14 Review: This Luxurious Lunar Lake Laptop Impresses

ASUS Zenbook S 14 (UX5406SA) ($1399 as tested, $1499 for 32GB RAM) The latest elegant corporate laptop out of ASUS comes strapped with Intel’s latest and greatest mobile microprocessor. Elegant Styling, Refined Looks Excellent Performance On Wall Power Unreal Battery Life Fantastic HDR OLED Screen Limited External I/O Mediocre Multi-Core Grunt Performance Falls Off On Battery We don’t normally associate PCs with haute couture, but there is a small-yet-significant segment of the laptop-buying market that

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