March 13, 2025

Fourier Transform Applications in Literary Analysis | Towards Data Science

Poetry is often seen as a pure art form, ranging from the rigid structure of a haiku to the fluid, unconstrained nature of free-verse poetry. In analysing these works, though, to what extent can mathematics and Data Analysis be used to glean meaning from this free-flowing literature? Of course, rhetoric can be analysed, references can be found, and word choice can be questioned, but can the underlying– even subconscious– thought process of an author be

Aaron Birnbaum and Matthew Makansi March 13, 2025

Samsung offers 80/20 revenue share for games on the Galaxy Store

Samsung Electronics announced that it will share 80% of revenues and keep 20% for itself for games on the Samsung Galaxy Store. The big South Korean tech company made the announcement ahead of the Game Developers Conference next week. It’s big news, as both Google and Apple charge as much as 30% to developers who sell their goods on the big platforms’ app stores. It’s been the subject of litigation, as Epic Games has highlighted

Dean Takahashi March 13, 2025

Sesame, the startup behind the viral virtual assistant Maya, releases its base AI model | TechCrunch

AI company Sesame has released the base model that powers Maya, the impressively realistic voice assistant. The model, which is 1 billion parameters in size (“parameters” referring to individual components of the model), is under an Apache 2.0 license, meaning it can be used commercially with few restrictions. Called CSM-1B, the model generates “RVQ audio codes” from text and audio inputs, according to Sesame’s description on the AI dev platform Hugging Face. RVQ refers to “residual vector quantization,”

Kyle Wiggers March 13, 2025

Nvidia’s GTC keynote will emphasize AI over gaming

Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) takes place in San Jose next week, not terribly far from San Franciso concurrently hosting the Game Developer’s Conference in the heart of the city. Despite geographic proximity, the subject matter of both conferences will likely be a world apart, as Nvidia CEO Jen Huang seems to be aiming for less of a talk about what Nvidia will do for gaming and more what it will do for AI. In

Imran Khan March 13, 2025

Robotics

When will we get the ChatGPT of robotics? The future of embodied AI is bright – The Robot Report

Google’s RT-X is an example of a general-purpose robotics model that can control many different types of robots and perform basic reasoning about complex tasks. Source: Google DeepMind With the success of generative AI, there has been much discussion around the potential for bringing the kind of flexible intelligence found in large language models into the physical world. This is often called “embodied AI,” and it is one of the most profoundly transformative opportunities in

James Falkoff, Converge March 13, 2025

Y Combinator’s police surveillance darling Flock Safety raises $275M at $7.5B valuation | TechCrunch

Flock Safety and one of its long-time VCs, Bedrock Capital, announced Thursday that the startup raised a fresh $275 million at a $7.5 billion valuation. Flock makes computer vision-enabled video surveillance technology used by law enforcement as well as businesses, property management companies, and so on. It’s best known for its automatic license plate recognition tech, but Flock also makes gunshot detection tech marketed to schools, and recently acquired public safety drone company Aerodome. Flock

Julie Bort March 13, 2025

Mastering Hadoop, Part 2: Getting Hands-On — Setting Up and Scaling Hadoop | Towards Data Science

Now that we’ve explored Hadoop’s role and relevance, it’s time to show you how it works under the hood and how you can start working with it. To start, we are breaking down Hadoop’s core components — HDFS for storage, MapReduce for processing, YARN for resource management, and more. Then, we’ll guide you through installing Hadoop (both locally and in the cloud) and introduce some essential commands to help you navigate and operate your first

Aaron Birnbaum and Matthew Makansi March 13, 2025

Are You Still Using LoRA to Fine-Tune Your LLM? | Towards Data Science

LoRA (Low Rank Adaptation – arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685) is a popular technique for fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) on the cheap. But 2024 has seen an explosion of new parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques, an alphabet soup of LoRA alternatives: SVF, SVFT, MiLoRA, PiSSA, LoRA-XS 🤯… And most are based on a matrix technique I like a lot: the SVD (Singular Value Decomposition). Let’s dive in. LoRA The original Lora insight is that fine-tuning all the weights of a

Aaron Birnbaum and Matthew Makansi March 13, 2025

Software

Moonacy Protocol Adds Dogecoin (DOGE) To Its Ecosystem | HackerNoon

Moonacy Protocol continues to expand its ecosystem by adding support for Dogecoin (DOGE). This means that users of the platform will be able to use DOGE for deposits, exchanges and withdrawals, expanding the range of investment and trading tools available. Dogecoin (DOGE) is one of the most popular meme coins that was created in 2013, and has since gathered the largest crypto community in the market. The asset gained its recognition thanks to the support

BTCWire March 13, 2025

Software

Aura Raises $5.5 Million Seed Round To Accelerate AI Model Validation And Rental Marketplace | HackerNoon

NEW YORK, United States, March 13th, 2025/Chainwire/–Aura, the pioneering platform for the testing, validating, and accessing on-chain AI models, is thrilled to announce the successful completion of its $5.5 million seed financing round. The round was led by Daxos Capital, Manifold Trading and Selini Capital, with participation from Hermeneutic Investments, and additional support from key industry leaders. This milestone marks a significant step forward in Aura’s mission to address critical challenges with the expanding on-chain

Chainwire March 13, 2025

Fourier Transform Applications in Literary Analysis | Towards Data Science

Samsung offers 80/20 revenue share for games on the Galaxy Store

Sesame, the startup behind the viral virtual assistant Maya, releases its base AI model | TechCrunch

Nvidia’s GTC keynote will emphasize AI over gaming

When will we get the ChatGPT of robotics? The future of embodied AI is bright – The Robot Report

Y Combinator’s police surveillance darling Flock Safety raises $275M at $7.5B valuation | TechCrunch

Mastering Hadoop, Part 2: Getting Hands-On — Setting Up and Scaling Hadoop | Towards Data Science

Are You Still Using LoRA to Fine-Tune Your LLM? | Towards Data Science

Moonacy Protocol Adds Dogecoin (DOGE) To Its Ecosystem | HackerNoon

Aura Raises $5.5 Million Seed Round To Accelerate AI Model Validation And Rental Marketplace | HackerNoon

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