February 24, 2025

LLM & RAG: A Valentine’s Day Love Story | HackerNoon

Love is in the air, and so are the perfect AI partners: LLMs and RAG! 💑 LLMs are great at writing and answering questions, but sometimes, they get things wrong. That’s where RAG comes in – it finds real facts and helps LLMs stay accurate. Together, they make a powerful pair: one creates, the other monitors. Let’s dive into this love story of intelligence and reliability. Meet LLM: The Charming Yet Forgetful King️👑Imagine someone who has

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Shyam Ganesh S February 24, 2025
Software

The Fundamentals Behind Cables Finance: Monetizing Yield, Perpetuals, And Institutional Liquidity | HackerNoon

Cables Finance DEX and liquid staking platform is launching around core business fundamentals and revenue-producing aspects that will sustain its growth. By integrating new aspects of RWAs, FX, liquid staking, and perpetual futures into a single DEX and liquidity hub, Cables captures marginal revenue across every layer of its technology stack, which also includes the Cables AppChain. This approach ensures that every component of the Cables ecosystem contributes to a sustainable, self-reinforcing financial model. Instead

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BTCWire February 24, 2025
Robotics

ARM Institute releases special call for robotics – The Robot Report

Robotic perception capabilities are improving with recent advances in AI. | Credit: ARM Institute The project call centers on the following Special Topic Areas (STAs) in robotics: STA1: Multi-modal inputs for AI robotics in manufacturing Recent advances in artificial intelligence are giving robots improved perception capabilities, noted the ARM Institute. While deep learning methods in robotics have relied on RGB image data, there is no reason to restrict their use only to vision data, it

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The Robot Report Staff February 24, 2025
Software

vFunction CEO & Co-founder on Complementing Observability Tools with Architectural Insights | HackerNoon

HackerNoon: What is your company in 2–5 words? Moti Rafalin: The pioneer of AI-driven architectural observability. 2. Why is now the time for your company to exist? AI is accelerating code generation—but also creating architectural chaos. Without visibility and control, teams risk runaway complexity, mounting technical debt, and serious scalability and reliability issues. 3. What do you love about your team, and why are you the ones to solve this problem? Our core team has

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Moti Rafalin February 24, 2025
Software

Ticked Off: A Dark Web Researcher’s Perspective on TikTok’s Controversy | HackerNoon

Do I really need to write about this if I do not use TikTok? That is the question I have asked myself several times. The U.S. government has been laser-focused on banning TikTok, citing national security risks, concerns over data collection, and its ties to China. While there are legitimate debates over the app’s influence and data privacy practices, the obsession with banning TikTok seems more like theater than an actual cybersecurity issue. For myself,

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blackheart February 24, 2025
Robotics

FANUC Tech Transfer includes tutorials for robot and cobot users – The Robot Report

A student at FANUC Academy using ROBOGUIDE. Users can also learn from online tutorials at FANUC Tech Transfer. Source: FANUC America FANUC America Corp. today launched a new resource for students, customers, integrators, and industry partners to learn about its industrial and collaborative robots. FANUC Tech Transfer offers engineer-guided tips, video tutorials, and answers to common questions for programming and setup of robots and cobots. The company said it designed the site to enhance end-user

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The Robot Report Staff February 24, 2025

A comprehensive list of 2024 and 2025 tech layoffs | TechCrunch

The tech layoff wave continued through 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, 2024 saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 542 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Large companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap, and Microsoft conducted sizable layoffs in 2024, while smaller-sized startups also experienced cuts, and in some cases, shut down operations altogether. We’re continuing to track the industry’s layoffs into 2025 so you can see the trajectory

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Cody Corrall, Alyssa Stringer February 24, 2025
AI

6 Common LLM Customization Strategies Briefly Explained | Towards Data Science

Why Customize LLMs? Large Language Models (Llms) are deep learning models pre-trained based on self-supervised learning, requiring a vast amount of resources on training data, training time and holding a large number of parameters. LLM have revolutionized natural language processing especially in the last 2 years, demonstrating remarkable capabilities in understanding and generating human-like text. However, these general purpose models’ out-of-the-box performance may not always meet specific business needs or domain requirements. LLMs alone cannot

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Aaron Birnbaum and Matthew Makansi February 24, 2025
Robotics

WPI develops robotic arms to help wheelchair users increase their reach – The Robot Report

Researchers are using origami to design a robot that could help wheelchair users grasp objects. | Source: WPI Inspired by origami, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, or WPI, robotics engineering researchers are developing a lightweight, flexible robotic arm. This arm will enable a wheelchair user to safely grasp, lift, and carry objects that would otherwise be out of reach. “The basic scientific discoveries we are making in this research address real-world challenges for people who use wheelchairs

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The Robot Report Staff February 24, 2025

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