November 10, 2024

Software

How to Stop Making Singletons in Swift: A Dependency Injection Guide | HackerNoon

This article outlines how to transition from singletons to dependency injection in a SwiftUI app with minimal effort. If you’re here, you likely already know that you should avoid singletons with various of reasons like: Hidden Dependencies: Classes rely on singletons without explicit indicators, making it harder to track app dependencies and leading to unintended coupling. Circular Dependencies: Singletons depending on each other can create cycles, leading to initialization deadlocks as instances wait for each

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Software

Step-by-Step Guide to SQL Operations in Dremio and Apache Iceberg | HackerNoon

SQL (Structured Query Language) has long been the standard for interacting with data, providing a powerful and accessible language for data querying and manipulation. However, traditional data warehouses and databases often fall short when dealing with the scale and flexibility demanded by modern data workloads. This is where Apache Iceberg and Dremio come in. Apache Iceberg is an open table format designed for large-scale data lakes, enabling reliable data management with features like ACID transactions,

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Building Scalable Event-Driven Orchestration Platform in AWS | HackerNoon

These days, we’re surrounded by apps everywhere—on our phones, in our smart homes, and throughout businesses big and small. It’s almost unbelievable how much data they churn out every single day. We’re talking billions or trillions of events, from a simple tap on a phone screen to complex business transactions. It is essential for applications to handle these events in real-time to act on them as they occur and derive useful insights for the growth

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Building the Next Unicorn: Interview with SKL.vc, Startups of the Year 2024 Nominee | HackerNoon

Hey Hackers, SKL.vc has been nominated in HackerNoon’s annual Startups of The Year awards in Venture Capital, Investing, and Entrepreneurship under Business. Read more about us below to understand why we deserve your vote. Meet SKL.vc ‘SKL.vc is where data-driven insights meet visionary startups’. ‘We’re building the B2C startups that define tomorrow’. This is how we usually describe ourselves, but what does it actually mean? Many people assume we’re a venture fund, given the “VC” in our

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Software

The One-Shot Generalization Paradox: Why Generative AI Struggles With New Information | HackerNoon

Generative AI has been nothing short of a technological whirlwind. Models like GPT-4 have taken the world by storm with their surreal capacity to generate text that mimics human conversation, write essays, code, and even come up with creative solutions to some fairly complex tasks. We’re constantly inching closer to an AI-assisted future, one where our digital assistants will effortlessly understand and respond to our needs. It’s enough to make anyone a believer, right? Well,

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AGI is coming faster than we think — we must get ready now

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Leading figures in AI, including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, suggest that “powerful AI” or even superintelligence could appear within the next two to 10 years, potentially reshaping our world. In his recent essay Machines of Loving Grace, Amodei provides a thoughtful exploration of AI’s potential, suggesting that powerful AI — what others have

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AI

AdaBoost Classifier, Explained: A Visual Guide with Code Examples

ENSEMBLE LEARNING Putting the weight where weak learners need it most Samy Baladram · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 11 min read · 10 hours ago — Random Forest, Explained: A Visual Guide with Code Examples Making tree-mendous predictions with random trees towardsdatascience.com Everyone makes mistakes — even the simplest decision trees in machine learning. Instead of ignoring them, AdaBoost (Adaptive Boosting) algorithm does something different: it learns (or adapts) from these mistakes

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AI

Jointly learning rewards and policies: an iterative Inverse Reinforcement Learning framework with…

A novel tractable and interpretable algorithm to learn from expert demonstrations Hussein Fellahi · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 12 min read · 11 hours ago — Photo by Andrea De Santis on Unsplash Introduction Imitation Learning has recently gained increasing attention in the Machine Learning community, as it enables the transfer of expert knowledge to autonomous agents through observed behaviors. A first category of algorithm is Behavioral Cloning (BC), which aims to

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AI

The Four Pillars of a Data Career

The technical foundations for securing an entry level data analyst role Charles Mendelson · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · 12 hours ago — Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash TLDR; Spreadsheets (Excel) SQL Visualization tool (Tableu or Power BI) Scripting language (Python or R) Intro I am often asked by people trying to break into data what skills they need to learn to get their first job in Data,

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Robotics

Korea University Medicine shares single-port robotic thymectomy comparative results – The Robot Report

Listen to this article A graphical abstract of the research. | Source: Korea University Medicine A joint research team from the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Korea University College of Medicine last week announced comparative results of single-port robotic thymectomy using a single-port robotic system.  The team compared and analyzed the perioperative outcomes of 110 cases of robotic thymectomy using the single-port robotic system and conventional video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) thymectomy from

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