November 23, 2024

Hardware

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti leaked specs tease 8960 CUDA cores and 300W power

TL;DR: NVIDIA is reportedly developing the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card, which is expected to feature 8960 CUDA cores, 70 Streaming Multiprocessors, and the GB203 “Blackwell” GPU. NVIDIA is reportedly working on its GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card, with new leaks teasing some information on CUDA core counts and power consumption. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES The purported GeForce RTX 5070 Ti will rock and roll with a rumored 8960 CUDA cores, 70

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Hardware

Overwatch 2’s new tank character is here, check it out

TL;DR: Blizzard introduced a new tank hero, Hazard, to Overwatch 2, available for a limited trial before officially joining in Season 14. Hazard is a punk rocker with a dive-brawl playstyle, featuring abilities like Jagged Wall and Violent Leap for enhanced mobility and attack strategies. Blizzard has just unleashed a new tank hero into Overwatch 2 with the introduction of Hazard, which is playable all weekend before joining the game in an official way in

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Getting started with AI agents (part 1): Capturing processes, roles and connections

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A modern-day AI agent consists of, at least, a large language model (LLM) that has been enabled to call some tools. Given the right set of tools for coding, it would start by generating the code, be able to run it in a container, observe the results, modify the code and therefore have a better chance

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Software

2001: A Bitcoin Odyssey | HackerNoon

Editor’s note: this is a work of fiction. A Story Prologue: The Bitcoin Renaissance In the later half of the 21st century, the Bitcoin Renaissance reshaped human civilization. It began with a handful of visionaries who saw Bitcoin as more than just digital money. They envisioned it as the foundation for a decentralized world, where the immutability of blockchains could ensure transparency, security, and autonomy across all systems. All hedged by one currency – Bitcoin.

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Software

Mispricing Opportunity: Lending to Immigrant Founders | HackerNoon

Mispricing Opportunities: Underserved Small Business Segments Immigrant communities are the heartbeat of American entrepreneurship. They’re launching startups, scaling innovations, creating jobs, and driving economic growth. According to payroll company Gusto, immigrants have formed about around 20% of new businesses, with rates over 40% in some states. A more recent study at MIT reveals, on a per capita basis, newcomers are 80% more likely to start their own businesses than US-born citizens. In fact, many of

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Using MLLMs for Diffusion Synthesis That Synergizes Both Sides: How Is This Possible? | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background & Problem Statement 2.1 How can we use MLLMs for Diffusion Synthesis that Synergizes both sides? 3 DreamLLM 3.1 End-to-End Interleaved generative Pretraining (I-GPT) 3.2 Model Training 4 Experiments and 4.1 Multimodal Comprehension 4.2 Text-Conditional Image Synthesis 4.3 Multimodal Joint Creation & Comprehension 5 Discussions 5.1 Synergy between creation & Comprehension? 5. 2 What is learned by DreamLLM? 6 Related Works 7 Conclusions and References A

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Software

Get to Know More About DreamLLM: The Background on This Learning Framework | HackerNoon

Authors: (1) Runpei Dong, Xi’an Jiaotong University and Internship at MEGVII; (2) Chunrui Han, MEGVII Technology; (3) Yuang Peng, Tsinghua University and Internship at MEGVII; (4) Zekun Qi, Xi’an Jiaotong University and Internship at MEGVII; (5) Zheng Ge, MEGVII Technology; (6) Jinrong Yang, HUST and Internship at MEGVII; (7) Liang Zhao, MEGVII Technology; (8) Jianjian Sun, MEGVII Technology; (9) Hongyu Zhou, MEGVII Technology; (10) Haoran Wei, MEGVII Technology; (11) Xiangwen Kong, MEGVII Technology; (12) Xiangyu

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: Educational Byte: Are Privacy Coins Like Monero and Zcash Legal? (11/23/2024) | HackerNoon

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, November 23, 2024? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, was introduced in 1992, BBC aired “An Unearthly Child” in 1963, The Convention on Cybercrime was signed in Budapest, Hungary in 2001, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Could Artificial General Intelligence Make Government Corruption Obsolete? to #AI-chatbot

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AI

Building Sustainable Algorithms: Energy-Efficient Python Programming

6 techniques for reducing the computational cost of Python algorithms Ari Joury, PhD · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 9 min read · 11 hours ago — You can get your Python performing better by using these techniques. Image generated with Leonardo AI A junior software developer shall be forgiven for being happy when their code works. If that’s you, I do not judge you. However, if you are ready to get to

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Robotics

VDMA Robotics + Automation Association names new chairman

Listen to this article Dietmar Ley, CEO of Basler AG, was named the new chairman of VDMA Robotics + Automation. Dr. Dietmar Ley, CEO of Basler AG in Ahrensburg, Germany, has been elected as the new chairman of the VDMA Robotics + Automation Association. He succeeds Frank Konrad, CEO of Hahn Automation Group GmbH, whose three-year term of office as chairman recently came to an end. Ley has been the CEO of Basler AG since

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