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Create your Own AI Voice Clone using Elevenlabs

Analytics Vidhya

Are you looking for your digital doppelganger? Ever wished you could use your voice for YouTube or podcast narration, even when you’re not recording? Say hello to voice cloning, the sci-fi tech that’s become surprisingly accessible thanks to platforms like ElevenLabs. In this article, we’ll peel back the curtain on this fascinating technology, showing you […] The post Create your Own AI Voice Clone using Elevenlabs appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Implementing the Successor to LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) from Scratch

Hacker News

Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is a machine learning technique that modifies a pretrained model (for example, an LLM or vision transformer) to better suit a specific, often smaller, dataset by adjusting only a small, low-rank subset of the model's parameters.

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Performing Data Science Tasks with LLM-Based Agents CrewAI

Towards AI

Author(s): Cornellius Yudha Wijaya Originally published on Towards AI. Trying out the agents to do data scientist activityImage generated by DALL-E 3 LLM-based Agents or LLM Agents are agent structures that could execute complex tasks with LLM applications that have an architecture that combines LLMs with components like planning and memory. In simpler terms, LLM Agents is a tool where LLM is the brain and orchestrates the decision to achieve the goals.

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"Rabbit Test" Unwins the Hugo Award

Hacker News

I cannot convey the supreme depths to which I'd rather be doing anything else with my Saturday afternoon other than writing this blog post, but here we are. If you have been blessedly insulated from the current furor over the 2023 Hugo Awards -- good for you!

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Do Not Create That New Report!

Towards AI

Author(s): Deepak Chopra | Talking Data Science Originally published on Towards AI. Embracing a focused reporting approach in the data-driven era to overcome the pitfalls of excessive reporting and enable efficient and effective decision-making.Photo by Fey Marin on Unsplash In the contemporary business landscape, data-driven decision-making is no longer a luxury but a necessity.

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Apple broke iPhone web apps in the EU for anticompetitive reasons – Tim Sweeney

Hacker News

After Apple confirmed yesterday it’s breaking web apps for customers in the EU due to its compliance with the EU regulation the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney suggests in a post on X there’s another reason behind Apple’s decision: iPhone web apps don’t make Apple money.

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How Norway Built an EV Utopia While the US Is Struggling to Go Electric

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Norway boasts the highest electric vehicle adoption rate in the world. 82% of new car sales were EVs in Norway in 2023. In comparison, 7.6% of new car sales.

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Causal Inference Python Implementation

Towards AI

Author(s): Akanksha Anand (Ak) Originally published on Towards AI. Photo by SHVETS production from Pexels As per the routine I follow every time, here I am with the Python implementation of Causal Impact. If you haven’t read my previous blogs in the series, set your worries aside as I have covered the basics in these blogs: Causal Inference — The Game Changer When knowing beats guessing medium.com Methods of Causal Inference Investigating the methodology behind the rationale medium.com Dataset T

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A beginner's guide to making beautiful slides for your talks

Hacker News

I love designing slides for my talks, so here are some of my not-so-secret secrets and three beginner-friendly steps for how you can up your slides game.

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Deploying Models with Xinference

Towards AI

Author(s): zhaozhiming Originally published on Towards AI. Today, let’s explore Xinference, a deployment and inference tool for Large Language Models (LLMs), characterized by its quick deployment, ease of use, efficient inference, support for various open-source models, and provision of both a WebGUI interface and API endpoints for convenient model deployment and inference.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Why are shopping carts always broken?

Hacker News

It’s an almost-inevitable part of any shopping trip. You enter a store to grab a few necessities and right away you find yourself wrestling against the one wheel that seemingly has a mind of its own.

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How to Make Money with OpenAI’s Sora

Towards AI

Last Updated on February 18, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Meng Li Originally published on Towards AI. Meng Li DALL·E 3 Created Currently, the cost of using the Sora video generation tool is unknown, as it has yet to be officially made available to users. However, a ChatGPT Plus account can generate up to 50 images per day. Calculated at 25 frames per second, this amounts to a video duration of two seconds.

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Castle Engine – free, os, x-platform, 2D/3D game engine using modern Pascal

Hacker News

Free open-source 3D and 2D game engine. Cross-platform, for desktops (Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD.), mobile (Android, iOS), console (Nintendo Switch). Powerful visual editor. Powerful API for devs. Supports a lot of model formats, like glTF, X3D and Spine. Many rendering features (physically based rendering, shadows, mirrors, gamma correction). Fast code compilation and execution using modern Pascal.

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EarlyStopping and LiveLossPlot Callbacks in TensorFlow, Keras, and Python

Towards AI

Author(s): Rashida Nasrin Sucky Originally published on Towards AI. How to Improve Your Model Training Time and to Prevent Overfitting Using EarlyStopping and Plot the Losses and Metrics Live While TrainingPhoto by Pierre Bamin on Unsplash Keras library has several callback functions that make your model training very efficient. One of them is EarlyStopping which I love to use.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Nixing Technological Lock In

Hacker News

I take a dive into the world of software and look at the problem of managing dependencies. From the Unix design, we've inherited many problems. Can we nix them with 'Nix'?

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Generative AI: Should We Build or Buy LLM-Powered Platforms?

Smart Data Collective

Manpower, budget, and time!! AI technology has been invaluable to businesses in all sectors. Over the past year, AI has become even more impactful. According to Exploring Topics, over 250 million businesses around the world are using AI. One of the ways they are taking advantage of it is with generative AI technology.

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Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally

Hacker News

When Bram Cohen released the first version of BitTorrent in 2002, it sparked a file-sharing revolution. At the time bandwidth was a scarce resource, making it impossible to simultaneously share large files with millions of people over the Internet. BitTorrent not only thrived in that environment, the protocol remains effective even to this day. BitTorrent transfers rely on peer-to-peer file-sharing without a central storage location.

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10 Tips to Fight Against AI-Driven Ransomware Attacks

Smart Data Collective

AI technology has led to a lot of promising benefits. Unfortunately, it also has some downsides. Taylor and Francis Online talked about the dark side of AI in this article.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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How China Built BYD

Hacker News

The leading Chinese electric vehicle company, with origins as a battery maker, has posted two years of million-car growth in sales.

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The Role of Predictive Analytics in Forecasting using Business Intelligence

Smart Data Collective

Predictive analytics is having a huge impact on the world of business. As a result, global companies are projected to spend over $28.1 billion on it in 2026. One of its most valuable benefits is with forecasting. Forecasting is an essential part of any business’ growth.

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Nude awakening: Japan's 'naked men' festival succumbs to ageing population

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The Kokuseki Temple in Iwate ended its annual naked men festival, which has become a heavy burden for ageing locals, who find it hard to keep up with the rigours of the ritual.

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How to Optimize Facebook Ad Campaigns for Cheaper Leads

Smart Data Collective

Analytics has become very valuable in the marketing sector. Mordor Intelligence reports companies will spend over $6.31 billion on marketing analytics this year. Data analytics has become very helpful for the digital marketing sector. One of the many ways that data analytics has shaped marketing is with Facebook advertising.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers

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Several years ago I had the chance to lead two seminars with a group of high-performing Chinese high school seniors. Each seminar had between 20-35 kids; each of these students was a graduating senior enrolled in the international department of a prestigious high school in Beijing. The purpose of these seminars was twofold.

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Braun 7185 Shaver Overview and Demo

Data Science 101

The new, for 2024, Braun Series 7 7185 includes 3 shave modes. Gentle, Normal, and Turbo mode. I them out in this video and give you my opinion. Braun Series 7 Model 7185 New in 2024, the Braun 7185 now has a turbo mode for an extra fast shave. New picture coming soon. Buy at Amazon As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

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Airline Takes Revenge After Bad Review, Posts Passenger's Passport Online

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YouTuber Josh Cahill, who has nearly 700,000 subscribers, reviews flights and courts drama, it seems. Just a couple of months ago he was banned by Qatar Airways over a negative review. Now he’s taken on East Timor’s Aero Dili.

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Paper Summary #11 - Sora

Shreyansh Singh

Technical Paper : Sora - Creating video from text Blog : Video generation models as world simulators These are just short notes / excerpts from the technical paper for quick lookup. Sora is quite a breakthrough. It is able to understand and simulate the physical world, generating upto 60s long high-definition videos while maintaining the quality, scene continuation and following the user’s prompt.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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The web won't be nirvana (1995)

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The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

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Paper Summary #12 - Image Recaptioning in DALL-E 3

Shreyansh Singh

Technical Paper : Improving Image Generation with Better Captions OpenAI’s Sora is built upon the image captioning model which was described in quite some detail in the DALL-E 3 technical report. In general, in text-image datasets, the captions omit background details or common sense relationships, e.g. sink in a kitchen or stop signs along the road.

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RoR Debugbar

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Rails debugging dev tools for faster development. Inspect your request details (queries, logs, cache, jobs and more).

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The COCO dataset: All you need to know

Mlearning.ai

Intorduction The computer vision research community relies on standardized datasets to assess the efficacy of novel models and enhancements to existing ones. These datasets function as universally applicable benchmarks, facilitating comparisons across different models. This methodology enables the evaluation of the relative effectiveness of various models, shedding light on their comparative performance.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.