October 19, 2024

The human factor: How companies can prevent cloud disasters

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Large companies work very hard to make sure their services don’t go down, and the reason is simple — significant outages will hurt your brand and drive customers to competing products with a better track record. Building a reliable internet service is a hard technical problem, but for company leaders it also presents a human challenge.

Aditya Visweswaran, Google Cloud October 19, 2024

What’s Wrong With Your New Team? | HackerNoon

Have you ever had a situation where you onboarded a new team, but something needed to be fixed? You have done the recruitment, gone through all of your standard onboarding steps, and even had a formal contracting session with the most excellent name for the team and team charter that bonds them all in an agreement. No matter what you have done – the dynamics are wrong in the team, and the new team just

Viktor Didenchuk October 19, 2024

Game studios are getting candid about funding problems | Kaser Focus

The games industry’s economic struggles are not exactly an unknown — by now, it’s been over a year since the layoffs, studio closures and game cancellations began in earnest. Somewhere in the midst of this, game companies have become somewhat more transparent about the goings-on behind the scenes. And recently, that’s taken the form of admitting when they’ve simply run out of money. Surgent Studios revealed today it’s put its staff on notice as it’s

Rachel Kaser October 19, 2024

Visualization of Data with Pie Charts in Matplotlib

Examples of how to create different types of pie charts using Matplotlib to visualize the results of database analysis in a Jupyter Notebook with Pandas Diana Rozenshteyn · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 5 min read · 3 days ago — Photo by Niko Nieminen on Unsplash The Challenge While working on my Master’s Thesis titled “Factors Associated with Impactful Scientific Publications in NIH-Funded Heart Disease Research”, I have used different types of

Diana Rozenshteyn October 19, 2024

The HackerNoon Newsletter: How to Improve Your Data Literacy Skills (10/19/2024) | HackerNoon

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, October 19, 2024? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The Stock Market Crashed in 1987, Americans Defeat the British at Yorktown in 1781, Napoleon retreats from Moscow in 1812, and we present you with these top quality stories.

Noonification October 19, 2024

Custom Tab Bar in iOS 18: 30 Days of Swift | HackerNoon

Day 8: Level Up with a Custom Tab Bar! In the eighth post of the #30DaysOfSwift series, let’s make a Custom Tab Bar with animations and icons. Standard tab bars are fine, but a custom one adds that extra touch!

Vaibhav October 19, 2024

Robotics

Horizon Surgical Systems raises Series A toward robotic eye procedures – The Robot Report

Listen to this article Horizon Surgical said its technology make ophthalmologic procedures more precise and consistent. Source: Adobe Stock Horizon Surgical Systems Inc., which is advancing microsurgery with artificial intelligence-enabled robotics, this week announced that it has closed a $30 million Series A round. The privately held, micro-robotics company said it plans to use the funding to continue developing its technology platform, progress to in-human studies, and further build out its team. “Both our team

The Robot Report Staff October 19, 2024

An Extensive Starters Guide For Causal Discovery using Bayesian Modeling

Bayesian approaches are becoming increasingly popular but can be overwhelming at the start. This extensive guide will walk you through applications, libraries, and dependencies of causal discovery approaches. Erdogan Taskesen · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 33 min read · 11 hours ago — Landscape of Unsupervised Causal Discovery. Image by the author. The endless possibilities of Bayesian techniques are also their weakness; the applications are enormous, and it can be troublesome to

Erdogan Taskesen October 19, 2024

How Much Stress Can Your Server Endure if You’re Self-Hosting LLMs?

Do you need more GPUs or a modern GPU? How do you make infrastructure decisions? Thuwarakesh Murallie · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 6 min read · 12 hours ago — Image created by the author using Dalle-E-2024 How does it feel when a group of users suddenly start using an app that only you and your dev team have used before? That’s the million-dollar question of moving from prototype to production. As

Thuwarakesh Murallie October 19, 2024

Software

How to Improve Your Data Literacy Skills | HackerNoon

Are you data literate? An easy way to tell is to ask yourself whether you know how to source, analyze, and share quantitative information. If you don’t, you should learn how. The good news is the process is easy, even if you’re not a numbers person. Here’s what you need to do to improve your data literacy skills. What Is Data Literacy? Data literacy is the ability to interpret and interact with information meaningfully. You

Zac Amos October 19, 2024