November 1, 2024

AI on your smartphone? Hugging Face’s SmolLM2 brings powerful models to the palm of your hand

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Hugging Face today has released SmolLM2, a new family of compact language models that achieve impressive performance while requiring far fewer computational resources than their larger counterparts. The new models, released under the Apache 2.0 license, come in three sizes — 135M, 360M and 1.7B parameters — making them suitable for deployment on smartphones and other

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Michael Nuñez November 1, 2024
Robotics

New Atlas video; Climbing to new heights in warehouse automation with BionicHive

In Episode 170 of The Robot Report Podcast, co-hosts Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman discuss the latest video from Boston Dynamics showing Atlas electric humanoid in an autonomous material movement demo. The video shows Atlas moving automotive parts from one storage bin to another bin. The hosts discuss the unique aspects of this video and how Atlas appears to move differently from the other competitive humanoid robots in recent demonstration videos. Read the entire video

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The Robot Report Staff November 1, 2024
AI

Unpopular Opinion: It’s Harder Than Ever to Be a Good Data Scientist

What working as a data scientist at various companies and industries over the past 6+ years has taught me of the future of data science and AI engineering Marcus K. Elwin · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 25 min read · 5 hours ago — GenAI and Large Language Models (LLMs) continue changing how we work and what work will mean in the future, especially for the data science domain, where in this

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Marcus K. Elwin November 1, 2024
Software

How to Make Your Social Media Bio Catchy and Memorable With ChatGPT | HackerNoon

Do I Even Need a Bio? Yes, you do. And do people actually read other people’s bios on social media? Also affirmative. First impression is what matters and lasts. Additionally, I find it useful to try to squeeze my professional career story into a few short sentences. It helps me get a better overview of what my strengths and areas of expertise actually are. Maybe even inspires me to make some changes and get a

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productiveimpact November 1, 2024

The show’s not over: 2024 sees big boost to AI investment

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Global AI deal volumes reached 1,245 during Q3 2024, a level not seen since Q1 2022 reflecting how confident and resilient investors are about investing in AI. With a 24% year-over-year growth, global AI deals far outpaced the -10 % quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) declines across the broader investment market. CB Insights notes in its State of AI Q3’24 Report

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Louis Columbus November 1, 2024
Software

CreationNetwork.ai Emerges As a Leading AI-Powered Platform, Integrating Over Twenty Two Tools | HackerNoon

LONDON, United Kingdom, November 1st, 2024/Chainwire/–CreationNetwork.ai, a groundbreaking digital platform, today announces its public launch, redefining digital engagement for businesses, content creators, and influencers. As an all-in-one solution for content creation, e-commerce, social media management, and digital marketing, CreationNetwork.ai combines 22+ proprietary AI-powered tools and 29+ platform integrations to deliver the most extensive digital ecosystem available. Empowering Digital Transformation with 22+ AI-Powered Tools CreationNetwork.ai’s suite of tools spans every facet of digital engagement, equipping users

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Chainwire November 1, 2024
Software

Midnight To Launch The World’s First Deconstructed MMO On Aptos, Unveiling The Future Of AA Gaming | HackerNoon

LAS VEGAS, US, November 1st, 2024/Chainwire/–Midnight Evergreen Technologies, Inc. (Midnight) dares to reimagine the role of an AA game publisher, with a mission to fundamentally reshape how we play together. Midnight is building The Evergreen, the first (of-its-kind) publishing platform designed as a deconstructed, composable MMORPG, delivering immersive, cross-genre experiences that seamlessly span across various platforms, pushing the boundaries of how games are played and enjoyed. The Evergreen fuses enduring player progression with constantly evolving

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Chainwire November 1, 2024
Software

Why Waiting Matters: Making Automated Tests Reliable | HackerNoon

I remember working on a project where I was implementing a regression suite for a web app using Cypress. Initially, everything was going smoothly, and the tests were running well. However, I soon encountered a frustrating situation: some tests began to fail for seemingly no reason. It wasn’t as if I had introduced any changes that would cause this, but the failures persisted. I spent quite a bit of time debugging the issue, trying to

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Joseph Cole-Showers November 1, 2024

Designing and Implementing Request Throttling | HackerNoon

Managing request flow effectively in distributed systems is crucial to maintaining stability, reliability, and performance. If unchecked, incoming traffic can overwhelm services, leading to degraded performance or complete failure. Developing a robust throttling mechanism ensures that requests are handled gracefully, balancing availability with system protection. Throttling: Your First Line of Defense Implementing throttling mechanisms helps prevent overuse of system resources and ensures fair distribution of access. Let’s examine different throttling strategies from the infrastructure to

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Sneha Murganoor November 1, 2024
AI

On the Programmability of AWS Trainium and Inferentia

Accelerating AI/ML Model Training with Custom Operators — Part 4 Chaim Rand · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 12 min read · 18 hours ago — Photo by Agata Bres on Unsplash In this post we continue our exploration of the opportunities for runtime optimization of machine learning (ML) workloads through custom operator development. This time, we focus on the tools provided by the AWS Neuron SDK for developing and running new kernels

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Chaim Rand November 1, 2024

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