January 18, 2025

AI

Showcasing Soaring Wildfire Counts With Streamlit and Python: A Powerful Approach

Analyzing historical wildfire trends in Canada with public data John Loewen, PhD · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 11 min read · 11 hours ago — CL-415 In Action (in Italy). Image By Maarten Visser — Wikimedia commons Python Streamlit is terrific for creating interactive maps from a GIS dataset. Interactive maps that allow input from your audience can be used for deeper analysis and storytelling. Python Streamlit is the right tool for

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Hardware

AMD May Tap TSMC’s 3nm Node To Bring Back Flagship Radeons In 2026

AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT is expected to be the fastest GPU that the company launches using its RDNA 4 architecture. Despite that, by AMD’s own estimates, it seems like it will probably perform around the same level as the GeForce RTX 5070. That’s far off from the higher-end NVIDIA GPUs, which would seem to prove true the early rumors that AMD’s next GPU generation would focus on the mid-range and skip the enthusiast market

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Robotics

NVIDIA heralds ‘physical AI’ era with Cosmos platform launch – The Robot Report

[embedded content] For too long, AI has been trapped in Flatland, the two-dimensional world imagined by English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. While chatbots, image generators, and AI-driven video tools have dazzled us, they remain confined to the flat surfaces of our screens. Now, NVIDIA is tearing down the walls of Flatland, ushering in the era of “physical AI” — a world where artificial intelligence can perceive, understand, and interact with the three-dimensional world around us. “The next

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AI

How to Use Pre-Trained Language Models for Regression

Why and how to convert mT5 into a regression metric for numerical prediction Aden Haussmann · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · 14 hours ago — Screenshot of https://huggingface.co/google/mt5-large Introduction My undergraduate honour’s dissertation was a Natural Language Processing (NLP) research project. It focused on multilingual text generation in under-represented languages. Because existing metrics performed very poorly on evaluating outputs of models trained on the dataset I was using, I

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Hardware

Nintendo Switch 2 Comes This Year But Will It Play Current Switch Games Too?

If you case you missed Nintendo’s big announcement this week, the company’s much-anticipated and oft-referenced Switch 2 console is finally official. However, what we got from Nintendo was a “first-look trailer” that showcased the upcoming console’s design, but it left out many explicit details such as the underlying hardware and specifications (and of course pricing). Nintendo also doubled down on saying the Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with Switch 1 games, but which ones

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Hardware

ASUS ROG OLED Gaming Laptop With RTX 4090 Is $450 Off And More Mobile Deals For Gamers

In theory, it is an incredibly awkward time to be shopping for a gaming laptop with NVIDIA having announced a new generation of mobile graphics chips. In practice, however, you can find some great deals as retailers looking to make room for new models. On top of that, it’s going to take some time for gaming laptops rocking GeForce RTX 50 series hardware to find their way to retail. If you’re looking to upgrade right

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