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Getting Started with Python Data Structures in 5 Steps

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This tutorial covers Python's foundational data structures - lists, tuples, dictionaries, and sets. Learn their characteristics, use cases, and practical examples, all in 5 steps.

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Paris Becomes the First European Capital to Ban Rented Electric Scooters

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But the city is adding bike lanes, and scooter companies are shifting their focus to electric bikes. E-scooters were involved in accidents resulting in the deaths of three people in Paris last year.

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AI medical capabilities show accuracy in clinical decision making

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A striking new study from Mass General Brigham revealed that ChatGPT is nearly 72 percent accurate in making medical decisions, including identifying possible diagnoses and final care decisions.

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Vector Search with OpenAI Embeddings: Lucene Is All You Need

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We provide a reproducible, end-to-end demonstration of vector search with OpenAI embeddings using Lucene on the popular MS MARCO passage ranking test collection. The main goal of our work is to challenge the prevailing narrative that a dedicated vector store is necessary to take advantage of recent advances in deep neural networks as applied to search.

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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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AI systems have learned how to deceive humans. What does that mean for our future?

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AI systems with deceptive capabilities could be misused in numerous ways by bad actors. Or, they may become prone to behaving in ways their creators never intended.

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John le Carré's 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' is the ultimate spy novel

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As it turns 60, Adam Scovell celebrates the gritty power of this tale of a disillusioned British agent, which was rooted in Le Carré's own experiences in espionage.

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Jetbrains are offering 65% off Rider personal licenses for 65 hours

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Following the announcement of Visual Studio for Mac’s retirement, we are offering a 65% discount on new subscriptions for Rider, the only cross-platform.NET IDE.

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Transformers Revolutionized AI. What Will Replace Them?

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If modern artificial intelligence has a founding document, a sacred text, it is Google’s 2017 research paper “Attention Is All You Need.” This paper introduced a new deep learning architecture known as the transformer, which has gone on to revolutionize the field of AI over the past half-decade.

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Foxconn's Promise to Invest $10B in Wisconsin Is Now a Distant Memory

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Foxconn is selling two buildings in Wisconsin, which have remained mostly empty since they were originally purchased for its plans to bring production to the US.

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AI identifies top predictors of adolescent suicide and self-harm

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Researchers have used a machine learning algorithm to identify the top factors that can predict an adolescent’s risk of self-harm and attempting suicide. They say their model is more accurate than existing risk predictors and could be used to provide individualized care to vulnerable patients.

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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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Climate Change Tracker

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🛰️🌎 Track climate change, global warming and greenhouse gas emissions with our dashboards. Explore the latest data and insights. Share and make an impact!

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26 of the best MIT courses you can take online for free

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Find free courses on everything from game design to machine learning. TL;DR: A wide range free online courses from MIT are available to take on edX. If you're looking to pursue a passion, you should stop what you're doing and check out edX.

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SiFive’s P870 Takes RISC-V Further

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RISC-V is an open instruction set architecture, which means that anyone can create a core that understands RISC-V instructions without worrying about patents and licenses. SiFive is an important player in the RISC-V scene, and creates custom RISC-V cores that other companies can license. SiFive presented their P870 core at Hot Chips 2023.

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Choosing the Right GPU Strategy for Your AI Project

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Last Updated on September 4, 2023 by Editorial Team Author(s): Ryan Shrott Originally published on Towards AI. Explore the practical implications of purchasing versus renting a GPU for your AI endeavors, using real-life scenarios to guide your decision. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Photo by Daniel Leżuch on Unsplash Whether you’re a budding startup aiming to change the world with a revolutionary AI solution, or a dedicated researcher trying to unearth the nex

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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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Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of ‘Pirate’ URLs Last Year

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Under the current DMCA legislation, US-based Internet services are expected to remove infringing links, if a copyright holder complains. This process shields these services from direct liability. In recent years there has been a lot of discussion about the effectiveness of the system but it remains standard practice. Google has always maintained that the DMCA works well.

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Build Your First Autocorrection without Machine Learning

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Last Updated on September 4, 2023 by Editorial Team Author(s): Thao Vu Originally published on Towards AI. A step-by-step guide to building your own spell checker. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Spell correction is everywhere. When I was writing this article, Grammarly is quietly helping me with the typos.

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Low-latitude oceans have become greener in the past 20 years: study

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A large swath of Earth's oceans changed color over the past 20 years—and human activity is suspected to have caused it, a new study reports.

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Artificial intelligence may influence whether you can get pain medication

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Elizabeth Amirault had never heard of a Narx Score. But she said she learned last year the tool had been used to track her medication use. During an August 2022 visit to a hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Amirault told a nurse practitioner she was in severe pain, she said.

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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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Harry Browne’s 17 Golden Rules of Financial Safety (2013)

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When you read in the news that a person whom you know as rich and wealthy is in financial trouble or has declared bankruptcy, it is easy to feel a sense of futility about managing your own money.

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The First General-Purpose Visual and Language AI: LLaVA

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Last Updated on September 4, 2023 by Editorial Team Author(s): Louis Bouchard Originally published on Towards AI. LLaVA: Bridging the Gap Between Visual and Language AI with GPT-4 This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Originally published on louisbouchard.ai, read it 2 days before on my blog! [link] GPT-4 is powerful, but did you know that some AIs are built entirely thanks to it?

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He created the Katamari games, but they’re rolling on without him

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Twenty years after his quirky project Katamari Damacy delighted the video game industry, Keita Takahashi is an independent designer who receives no royalties for his debut work.

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ANPR with YOLOV8

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Last Updated on September 4, 2023 by Editorial Team Author(s): Skander Menzli Originally published on Towards AI. Photo by Semyon Borisov on Unsplash Introduction: YOLO V8 is the latest model developed by the Ultralytics team. It’s a state-of-the-art YOLO model that transcends its predecessors in terms of both accuracy and efficiency. [link] It’s easy to use and accessible from the command line or via the Python package.

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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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Da Vinci robot surgeon removes inoperable tumor, saving patient’s life

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New reports highlight the success of the Da Vinci surgical robot in a procedure that humans couldn't have pulled off alone.

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Beyond Tutorials: Learning Data Analysis with LangChain’s Pandas Agent

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Last Updated on September 4, 2023 by Editorial Team Author(s): Edwin Tan Originally published on Towards AI. How to leverage LangChain's Pandas Agent as your co-pilot. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Image by author. Pandas has become the de-facto Python library when it comes to data processing and analysis due to its rich API and intuitive data structure.

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Amiga Samplers: Budget dance music in 1990

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An Amiga 500, Stereo Master and handful of $1 records from a 1990 Sunday market: Can we make a dance track on a budget home computer? Of course! Back when bi.

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Cathie Wood's Ark Invest Is Selling Nvidia and Betting Big on These 2 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Growth Stocks

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Ark Invest still has a stake in Nvidia, but it pales in comparison to its positions in these AI growth stocks.

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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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Sag-AFTRA votes unanimously to expand its strike to include the games industry

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The media artists union SAG-AFTRA has voted to expand its ongoing Hollywood strike to encompass the games industry.

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Threads Dev Interview 13: @wayne.codes

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Threads Dev Interviews I am finding developers on Threads and interviewing them, right on Threads. You are welcome to follow along and let me know on Threads if you would like to be interviewed. “Write lots of code. Build things. And most importantly, have fun!” — Wayne Simmerson (@wayne.codes) on Threads Today we have @wayne.codes. Wayne, Your profile mentions being *Unix Admin, did you do that before becoming a developer?

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Confessions of a Netflix DVD Dead-Ender

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The company is finally retiring the famous red envelope. When it does, a certain relationship to art and time will be lost.

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‘I hope I’m wrong’: the co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it - 3 Quarks Daily

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David Shariatmadari in The Guardian: Halfway through my interview with the co-founder of DeepMind, the most advanced AI research outfit in the world, I …

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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.