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MAY 2, 2018

We’ve already been exposed to multiple extraordinary health technologies in 2018, and there is plenty to look forward to. The post 6 Incredible HealthTech Devices of 2018 appeared first on Dataconomy.

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APRIL 9, 2024

Some user manuals are a frustration, some are a pleasure – and all reveal more about us than we might think.

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DECEMBER 25, 2023

A Clock Projector can project the time to a ceiling in the night. There are lots of commercial alarm clocks with integrated clock projector on the market but I thought, it would be fun to build one myself. Moreover it was a good project for becoming accustomed to the process of 3d-designing cases which can be…

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

by Mike Bendzela Tribes In the great class of mammalian vertebrates, antagonism arose between the egg-laying monotremes and the marsupials. Neither side could see the other on its own terms, each insisting it was the True Mammal. An opossum (Didelphis) complained, “The platypus is a shameful pretender! It won’t admit that it is a failed…

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DECEMBER 16, 2023

[intense_dropcap font_color="primary"]'S [/intense_dropcap]o what's the scoop on this conductor guy?” a friend once asked after I took her to an orchestral

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The post It’s a Wrap: Highlights from Data Natives 2018 appeared first on Dataconomy. How do you bring together the likes of Google and IBM with academics and universities to find answers to the most relevant questions in the world.

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APRIL 17, 2024

For many, Casablanca is not just any old movie but the old movie. When Woody Allen was looking for a heroic exemplar for his nebbish cineaste in Play it Again, Sam, it was to Bogartâ?Ts Ts Rick Blaine that he turned. When Nora Ephron wanted to illustrate the practicality of women in When Harry Met Sally, it was Bergmanâ?Ts Ts example she held up (â?oI

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

No, not multi-threading. I’m talking about Clojure’s threading macros, better known as “the arrows.” ” The -> (“thread-first”) and ->> (“thread-last…

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Centuries before the computer, whimsical automata pushed the uncanny boundary between human and machine.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Explaining how quaternions, a four-dimensional number system, describe 3d rotation.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

[By prior agreement, this post will be cross-posted on Microsoft's Q# blog, even though it has nothing to do with the Q# programming language. It does, however, contain many examples that might be fun to implement in Q#!] Why should Nature have been quantum-mechanical? It's totally unclear what would count as an answer to such…

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APRIL 15, 2024

Configuring Org Mode in Emacs for beautiful typography for both text and code editing.

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AUGUST 13, 2023

(As with anything else I write about parenting, this is mostly just my observations with my own two kids and may not generalize as well as I think it does.) A few weeks ago I wrote about why I think it's valuable for parents to be predictable.

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The Data Natives Conference 2018 will be exploring life at an accelerated pace, and what rapid innovation. The post Ethics to Ecotech: 5 Unmissable Talks At Data Natives 2018 appeared first on Dataconomy.

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APRIL 21, 2024

One group of capuchins uses stone tools, but neighbouring groups do not – suggesting primates - including us - might enter the Stone Age simply by chance

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The post Machine Learning & Data Analysts: Seizing the Opportunity in 2018 appeared first on Dataconomy. As ML and AI become increasingly ubiquitous in many industries, so does the proof that advanced analytics significantly improve day-to-day operations and drive more revenue for businesses.

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AUGUST 12, 2023

In 1985, Alexey Pajitnov and Vadim Gerasimov released Tetris to the public. This fun and highly addictive game challenged players to fit. Simon Laroche

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Dataconomy

JULY 16, 2018

This is the first part of an article series based on a whitepaper by Dataiku) The year 2018 was supposed to be the one. The post The most important unanswered questions of 2018 in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) appeared first on Dataconomy. Let’s find out.

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APRIL 24, 2023

The company was founded in 2018 by Alexander Matveev, a former researcher at MIT, and Nir Shavit, a professor of computer science at MIT. Neural Magic is a startup company that focuses on developing technology that enables deep learning models to run on commodity CPUs rather than specialized hardware like GPUs.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

An interview with Gmail creator and partner at YC Combinator, Paul Bucheit. Tagged with interview, google, career, advice.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

However, in 2018, the “Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Text Classification” paper changed the entire landscape of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Introduction Welcome to the world of Large Language Models (LLM). In the old days, transfer learning was a concept mostly used in deep learning.

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 9, 2018

Preparations are well underway for the 2018 edition of Data Natives– the data driven conference of the future, hosted in Dataconomy’s hometown of Berlin. The post First Speakers Announced for Data Natives 2018, The Tech Conference of the Future appeared first on Dataconomy.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Some years ago, Matt Daniels [1] wrote a great article on who has the largest vocabulary in hip-hop. I thought it was brilliant: comparing Shakespeare to famous hip-hop artists. It got me thinking and gave me the inspiration of doing something similar with a genre I love: Power Metal. People …

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

The Mass Immersion Approach seeks to optimize the path to true foreign language proficiency.

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MARCH 26, 2024

Ballad Health was granted the nation’s largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly in 2018. Since then, its emergency rooms have become more than three times as slow.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Linux has rich virtual networking capabilities that are used as basis for hosting VMs and containers, as well as cloud environments. In this post, I will give a

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Dataconomy

MAY 30, 2018

Great tech events often feature a stunt or two that attendees will be talking about long after the conference hall has closed its doors; on this front, CUBE Tech Fair 2018 certainly delivered. The post Machine Learning to Mineral Tracking: The 4 Best Data Startups From CUBE Tech Fair 2018 appeared first on Dataconomy.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Previously on the blog, we've discussed a recurring theme throughout mathematics: making new things from old things. Today, I'd like to focus on a particular way to build a new vector space from old vector spaces: the tensor product.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Can you think of a famous password, such as one used in a book or a movie? Do people see passwords being typed on screen and think "hey, now that is a pretty good password."? I downloaded the Exploit.in combo list containing over seven hundred million leaked logins and tried to look how often than…

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The post 5 Ways Big Data and Analytics Will Impact E-Commerce in 2018 appeared first on Dataconomy. One of the ways we understand our world is to study trends in behavior. The issue that people run into now, however, is that technology.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

After being accused of stealing one another's photo, Ron Risman and Eric Gendron, both from New England, learned that they had captured the exact same millisecond in time, from the same location, using different cameras, to create virtually identical images.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Researchers testing the dispersal of bacteria in public restrooms found that the hand dryers were picking up bacterial deposits, likely from aerosolized microbes caused by the flushing of uncovered toilets.

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MARCH 17, 2024

Before I explain what I did to hurt poor Logan, I must explain our apartment’s media setup. You will see why shortly.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Gate's Law: “Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in ten years.” Here’s why it matters to you.

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APRIL 26, 2024

ShareTextures.com Free PBR Textures and models archive include wood, stone, wall, ground, metal and more. Download free models and textures up to 4K resolution.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Martin Thompson, Real Logic (U.K.)Moore's Moore's Law has come to an end. Spectre and Meltdown mitigations have resulted in significant performance impacts for serve.

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