March 7, 2025

One Would Think The World Was Built Just as Much for Women as It Is For Men | HackerNoon

When my girlfriend visited me for the first time, we stayed in my room. It was all very romantic, except that we immediately discovered we were at war over the air conditioning. The coldest temperature she could tolerate still felt lukewarm. But this isn’t just our problem—it’s a universal struggle. We often assume that the world is for everyone. Supposedly. Roads, buildings, and everyday objects are designed for “people.” And since women, according to the

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Software

Stay Calm in Stressful Situations With These 6 Proven Techniques | HackerNoon

Ever feel like stress is life’s way of playing a never-ending prank on you? One minute, you’re handling things like a pro. The next, you’re overwhelmed by an email subject line that starts with “Can you take a look at this?” Stress doesn’t disappear—it just changes costumes. 7 years ago, I was stressed about figuring out how to get started in real estate investing. Three years ago, it was about scaling my business while juggling

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Countdown to the Annual IEEE Election

2 min read Chris Philpot On 1 May the IEEE Board of Directors is scheduled to announce the candidates to be placed on this year’s ballot for the annual election of officers—which begins on 15 August. The ballot includes IEEE president-elect candidates and other officer positions up for election. The Board of Directors has nominated IEEE Senior Member Jill I. Gostin and IEEE Senior Member David Alan Koehler as candidates for 2026 IEEE president-elect. IEEE

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Exclusive: Google removes ‘underrepresented’ language from its grant website

Just weeks after Google said it would review its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, the Google for Startups Founders Fund web page is peppered with changes. Most notably Google is now using past tense to describe all of its fund programs for underrepresented founders.  This is a change that took place after December, according to the internet archives. And the site currently says that there are zero fund programs available.  Google’s Startup Founders Fund launched in

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AI

Using GPT-4 for Personal Styling | Towards Data Science

I’ve always been fascinated by Fashion—collecting unique pieces and trying to blend them in my own way. But let’s just say my closet was more of a work-in-progress avalanche than a curated wonderland. Every time I tried to add something new, I risked toppling my carefully balanced piles. Why this matters:If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by a closet that seems to grow on its own, you’re not alone. For those interested in style, I’ll show

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AI

Image Captioning, Transformer Mode On | Towards Data Science

Introduction In my previous article, I discussed one of the earliest Deep Learning approaches for image captioning. If you’re interested in reading it, you can find the link to that article at the end of this one. Today, I would like to talk about Image Captioning again, but this time with the more advanced neural network architecture. The deep learning I am going to talk about is the one proposed in the paper titled “CPTR:

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Sessions: AI speaker applications close March 7 | TechCrunch

On June 5, TechCrunch Sessions: AI will kick off — and you can be part of the industry-changing conversations that will be taking place. We have an open invitation for members of the AI community to lead breakout sessions and discussions with over 1,200 startup founders, VC leaders, and AI aficionados attending our newest event, which will be held in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley. There’s just one catch: You have to apply by midnight tonight,

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AI

When You Just Can’t Decide on a Single Action | Towards Data Science

In Game Theory, the players typically have to make assumptions about the other players’ actions. What will the other player do? Will he use rock, paper or scissors? You never know, but in some cases, you might have an idea of the probability of some actions being higher than others. Adding such a notion of probability or randomness opens up a new chapter in game theory that lets us analyse more complicated scenarios.  This article

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AR/VR

How Yelp reviewed competing LLMs for correctness, relevance and tone to develop its user-friendly AI assistant

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The review app Yelp has provided helpful information to diners and other consumers for decades. It had experimented with machine learning since its early years. During the recent explosion in AI technology, it was still encountering stumbling blocks as it worked to employ modern large language models to power some features.  Yelp realized that customers, especially

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