January 16, 2025

Unpacking Key Proofs in Reinforcement Learning | HackerNoon

Authors: (1) Jongmin Lee, Department of Mathematical Science, Seoul National University; (2) Ernest K. Ryu, Department of Mathematical Science, Seoul National University and Interdisciplinary Program in Artificial Intelligence, Seoul National University. Abstract and 1 Introduction 1.1 Notations and preliminaries 1.2 Prior works 2 Anchored Value Iteration 2.1 Accelerated rate for Bellman consistency operator 2.2 Accelerated rate for Bellman optimality opera 3 Convergence when y=1 4 Complexity lower bound 5 Approximate Anchored Value Iteration 6 Gauss–Seidel

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Anchoring January 16, 2025
Robotics

Fine-tuned brain-computer interface makes prosthetic limbs feel more real

You can probably complete an amazing number of tasks with your hands without looking at them. But if you put on gloves that muffle your sense of touch, many of those simple tasks become frustrating. Take away proprioception — your ability to sense your body’s relative position and movement — and you might even end up breaking an object or injuring yourself. “Most people don’t realize how often they rely on touch instead of vision

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Editor January 16, 2025
Robotics

Positec Group reaps $250M to further develop autonomous mowers – The Robot Report

Positec Group’s Landroid Vision AI robotic lawnmower, which it sells under its Worx brand. | Source: Worx Positec Group Ltd. this week announced that it secured $250 million in its first round of equity financing. The provider of robotic lawn mowers said it will spend the investment on product development as it continues the global expansion of its consumer-facing brands.  “This investment recognizes three decades of technological innovation, operational excellence, and commitment to sustainable development,”

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The Robot Report Staff January 16, 2025

How To Build a Multilingual Text-to-Audio Converter With Python | HackerNoon

“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”— Charlemagne Imagine you are traveling to a new country and had the ability to seamless have a conversation in their local language. That is what we will be trying to achieve in this article by building a simple text-to-audio converter app using Python, googletrans API and gTTS for text-to-speech conversion. We will go over the complete code, how the different components work, and how to

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Ajay Krishnan Prabhakaran January 16, 2025
AI

Learnings from a Machine Learning Engineer — Part 3: The Evaluation

Practical insights for a data-driven approach to model optimization David Martin · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 11 min read · 4 days ago — Photo by FlyD on Unsplash In this third part of my series, I will explore the evaluation process which is a critical piece that will lead to a cleaner data set and elevate your model performance. We will see the difference between evaluation of a trained model (one

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David Martin January 16, 2025
AI

Learnings from a Machine Learning Engineer — Part 2: The Data Sets

Practical insights for a data-driven approach to model optimization David Martin · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · 4 days ago — Photo by Conny Schneider on Unsplash In Part 1, we discussed the importance of collecting good image data and assigning proper labels for your image classification project to be successful. Also, we talked about classes and sub-classes of your data. These may seem pretty straight forward concepts, but

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David Martin January 16, 2025
AI

Top 3 Questions to Ask in Near Real-Time Data Solutions

Questions that guide architectural decisions to balance functional requirements like most frequent queries with non-functional requirements such as latency and scalability. Shawn Shi · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 16 min read · 6 hours ago — Image by author. Icons from flaticon.com. Introduction Would you agree that our life is surrounded by technology nowadays? Technology has changed our lifestyle in all kinds of ways in the past decade. Behind the scene, data

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Shawn Shi January 16, 2025
AI

The Data Analyst Every CEO Wants

Data Analyst is probably the most underrated job in the data industry Benoit Pimpaud · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · Apr 2, 2024 — Credits Unsplash With only self-service as the last level in the analytics game, we often underestimate how much an ad-hoc analysis made by someone who understands business AND understands data can be valuable. I got the chance to work with a few in my previous

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Benoit Pimpaud January 16, 2025
AR/VR

NFT Infrastructure: The Tech That Makes Them Tick

Have you ever wondered how digital collectibles can hold real value—or why a sports NFT might suddenly change based on live scores? That’s all thanks to the technology powering NFTs behind the scenes. While headlines often focus on the front-end excitement of high-priced sales, the real magic happens under the hood. In this article, we’ll explore the hidden layers of NFT infrastructure—oracles, wallets, and middleware—that keep NFTs secure, functional, and innovative. NFTs and the Revolution

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Jason Newey January 16, 2025
Robotics

NEURA Robotics raises $123M to continue developing cognitive, humanoid robots – The Robot Report

Neura Robotics offers robots for a variety of applications and industries. NEURA Robotics GmbH today said it has raised €120 million ($123.3 million U.S.) in Series B funding. The Metzingen, Germany-based company said the investment validates its leadership in “cognitive robotics” and in European robotics as the region collaborates and competes with the U.S. and China. “Cognitive robotics is expected to become bigger than the smartphone,” stated David Reger, founder and CEO of NEURA Robotics.

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The Robot Report Staff January 16, 2025

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