Conway’s Game of Life with a third dimension
FlowingData
MARCH 25, 2024
Alec Singh added another dimension to Conway’s Game of Life for a pretty, mesmerizing animation. Tags: Alec Singh , Game of Life The z-axis is used to show positions over time.
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Readable and informative AI safety guide
FlowingData
MAY 8, 2024
It grows more likely that the systems will directly affect your day-to-day life. Tags: AI , ethics , Hack Club , Nicky Case While the current tools are fun to play with, there are and will be real safety challenges as the systems slurp up more data and process faster.
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Love: math or magic?
FlowingData
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
This American Life tells the tales as old as time : When it comes to finding love, there seems to be two schools of thought on the best way to go about it. Tags: love , This American Life One says, wait for that lightning-strike magic. The other says, make a calculation and choose the best option available. Who has it right?
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Real space location of Star Trek and other science fiction
FlowingData
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Overview Effect mapped, charted, and spreadsheeted the possible real-life locations in space of the fictional places. Tags: fiction , Overview Effect , space , Star Trek Star Trek and related might be fictional, but they usually reference real stars, planets, and galaxies.
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Data portrait of a life with long Covid
FlowingData
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Giorgia Lupi, known for using data visualization to connect real life and numbers, has been dealing with long Covid for the past three years. My spreadsheet was the only thing I could control in a life I no longer recognized. Tags: coronavirus , Giorgia Lupi , long Covid , New York Times Worth your time.
Life timeline in a spreadsheet
FlowingData
JUNE 15, 2023
Cells are colored by the main thing going on his life. You can access the sheet here , in case you want to make one for your own life. Tags: Emmett Shear , spreadsheet , timeline He marked where he lived in the left column, years run top to bottom, and months run left to right.
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Conway’s Game of Life in infinite space
FlowingData
DECEMBER 14, 2022
Conway’s Game of Life is a zero-person game where cells in a grid live or die based on a simple set of rules. Life Universe by saharan is an infinite game of life where you can zoom in and out recursively. Tags: Game of Life , infinite , saharan. You set the initial state and the cells change accordingly.
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Conway’s Game of Hope
FlowingData
APRIL 3, 2024
Alexander Miller wrote a “fable of emergence” that combines Conway’s Game of Life with Pandora’s Box. Tags: Alexander Miller , fable , Game of Life Conway’s game grew on Pandora the more she played. Something was hidden within this deceptively simple format.
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Less rich Covid billionaires
FlowingData
OCTOBER 19, 2022
With Covid came sudden shifts in daily life and work, which gave rise to certain companies that were able to fill specific needs. Bloomberg zeros in on the billionaires whose net worth increased and then decreased because of the life changes. Tags: billionaires , Bloomberg , coronavirus , wealth.
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Clock shows percentage of life lived so far
FlowingData
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Shortlife is a clock by artist Dries Depoorter that simply shows the percentage of your life lived, based on life expectancy from the World Health Organization. Tags: clock , Dries Depoorter , mortality. It has a warranty of six months. I kind of want this? Please note: Results may vary.
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Perfect seasons needed to get over.500 overall
FlowingData
DECEMBER 9, 2022
500 record over the life of the franchise. Tags: record , sports , Washington Post , wins. Here’s a fun one from Philip Bump for The Washington Post. Bump simply asks how many wins it would take for sports franchises to reach a.500 The historically bad teams bubble to the top.
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Oldest U.S. government
FlowingData
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
You expect age across most occupations to increase with life expectancy, but this seems a bit much. Tags: age , government , Insider. Annie Fu, Walt Hickey, and Shayanne Gal, for Insider, show the disproportionately aging government officials with a series of straightforward charts with lines moving up.
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When Americans Are Happiest
FlowingData
JANUARY 4, 2023
We saw that life satisfaction changes with age , based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Tags: happiness , time use , well-being. In the same survey, people were also asked about their happiness throughout the day when they ate, traveled, watched television, took care of kids, and other activities.
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Building a happy life, interpreted through data
FlowingData
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
How to Build a Happy Life from The Atlantic is a podcast on finding happiness: In our pursuit of a happy life, we build, we structure, and we plan. Tags: Atlantic , happiness , podcast , uncertainty. Often, we follow conventional wisdom and strategize.
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China’s possible blockade around Taiwan
FlowingData
AUGUST 30, 2022
The New York Times mapped the possibility and how it could disrupt life in and around the island. Tags: blockade , China , New York Times , Taiwan. It appears China wants to impose a blockade around Taiwan with ships, submarines, and airplanes.
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Meet the Apple R1 processor, aka Vision Pro chip
Dataconomy
JUNE 6, 2023
Power efficiency: The R1 chip is power efficient, which is important for extending the battery life of the headset. This is important for providing a realistic and immersive AR experience. The Vision Pro chip is responsible for processing data from the headset’s sensors, such as its cameras, microphones, and motion sensors.
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Your place in the world population
FlowingData
MARCH 16, 2022
It also provides a few back-of-the-napkin calculations for life expectancy based on averages, with maybe a bit too much certainty for your expected date of death. Tags: age , population , World Data Lab. For more uncertainty but more accuracy for what is known, see also this look at mortality.
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Most people think their employers don’t care about their well-being
FlowingData
MARCH 30, 2022
This finding has significant implications, as work and life have never been more blended and employee wellbeing matters more than ever– to employees and the resiliency of organizations. Or maybe it’s just life’s terrible way of saying it’s healing. Tags: Gallup , pandemic , well-being , work.
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Joke machine learning projects to advance your career
FlowingData
JANUARY 21, 2022
I wonder if someone has ever done this in real life. Tags: humor , Jess Peter , machine learning , Pudding. Generate a fake resume with a specified level of experience, define a profile pic for your socials, and then use that fake image of your face for the video interview. This had to have happened at least once, right?
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Americans are dying too much
FlowingData
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Average life expectancy surged above 80 years old in just about every Western European country in the 2010s, including Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, the U.K., by contrast, the average life span has never exceeded 79 —and now it’s just taken a historic tumble. Tags: Atlantic , Derek Thompson , mortality.
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Cost of breastfeeding, seen in self-tracked data
FlowingData
JUNE 1, 2022
I can show you exactly how much time, because I used an app to track every minute I spent nursing and pumping over the first six months of my son’s life. Tags: breastfeeding , time use , Washington Post. She then translates the many hours spent into dollars, based on your salary.
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We need an Apple Vision Air ASAP
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
It’s all about this thing called augmented reality (AR), or what Apple wants to call it, spatial computing , where digital stuff blends with real life. Long battery life: We need it to have a battery that lasts a long time so we can use it all day without worrying about running out of power. Sounds awesome, right?
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Cancer and statistics
FlowingData
JUNE 6, 2022
At the same time, Hannah records her own cancer journey in raw and emotional personal footage, where the realities of life after a cancer diagnosis are laid bare. Tags: cancer , Hannah Fry , Numberphile , risk. You can only watch the film in the UK for now, but she spoke about the topic on the Numberphile podcast. Worth a listen.
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Mapping the probable heat around the world
FlowingData
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Dots on the map point to a handful of short stories on how warming has changed daily life, which I feel like could use more attention. Tags: climate , global warming , Probable Futures , temperature. Next to the zoom navigation buttons is a camera button, which lets you download the view that you’re looking at.
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Guide for working with machine learning datasets
FlowingData
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
As part of the Knowing Machines research project, A Critical Field Guide for Working with Machine Learning Datasets , by Sarah Ciston, offers advice for working through the life cycle of complex and large datasets : Machine learning datasets are powerful but unwieldy. Tags: ethics , guide , machine learning , Sarah Ciston
Best Midjourney AI tips and tricks (with prompts)
Dataconomy
JUNE 21, 2023
From making sense of prompts to harnessing the power of specific tags, these insights aim to unravel the potential of AI in manifesting your creative ideas visually. To utilize the -creative tag, it’s mandatory to also include –test or –testp. This eliminates the need to append various tags to each prompt.
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Personal life dashboard
FlowingData
JUNE 28, 2022
Felix Krause tracks many metrics of his life, both manually and passively, and put the data in one database. Tags: Felix Krause , life. He put up a subset of the data on an updating site that shows where he is, what he’s eaten, how he’s feeling, the time he spent on the computer, and plenty more.
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Communicating risk in the context of daily living
FlowingData
JUNE 16, 2022
Tags: context , risk , Wayne Oldford. Important reading if you’re trying to understand the odds of things these days. My favorite explanation of risk in the day-to-day is still the one from David Spiegelhalter.
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Artificial Intelligence for eCommerce: A Closer Look
Smart Data Collective
AUGUST 25, 2021
This section will share eight ways an eCommerce business can use AI and provide some real-life examples. Image Tagging. Like visual search, image tagging also uses visual recognition technology. If you click one of the labels, the platform will direct you to visually similar results under that tag. Advanced Visual Search.
Build A Codeless Chatbot and Deploy in Javascript?—?Kommunicate
Chatbots Life
JUNE 14, 2023
Integrating Kommunicate chatbot with express jS project To integrate kommunicate with express js, create a separate script file in the public javascript folder and call it using the script tag on the layout.pug file. Check if the below function signature is added in the app.js Originally published at [link] on July 8, 2021.
Amazon Self Publishing Service to Crack Down on AI Generated Content
ODSC - Open Data Science
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
So it seems that the company is hoping to tag AI content through three of its most likely sources: book covers, interior artwork, and of course the content within the books. AI-generated images include cover and interior images and artwork.”
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ChatGPT Can Now Automate Operational Tasks: The DAM Example
Towards AI
JUNE 24, 2023
ChatGPT Can Now Automate Operational Tasks: The DAM Example Real-life scenarios where ChatGPT can improve your Digital Asset Management platform With the chatter about OpenAI and ChatGPT taking up lots of space and content over the Internet and even here on Medium, it is probably a topic that is familiar to many of you.
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phData Toolkit December 2022 Update
phData
DECEMBER 29, 2022
Tram previously managed a separate TAG table manually for customers to be able to apply TAGs to different objects in their information architecture. Previously, if you needed to specify a template, you would have to pass the full path to the template.
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We will soon see humanoid robot for sale flyers all around us
Dataconomy
JANUARY 12, 2024
The advance of technology has brought about a new era of humanoid robots that are designed to assist humans in various aspects of life. But be prepared, its price tag reflects its sophisticated technology, reaching into the millions.
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8 Revolutionary Applications Examples of Machine Learning in Real-Life
Smart Data Collective
MARCH 26, 2021
From the most subtle advances, like Netflix recommendations, to life-saving medical diagnostics or even writing content , machine learning facilitates it all. Then, they can help people in daily life. Manually, it would take individuals countless hours to sort types of images into folders or tags. Language Processing.
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How does Facebook use Big Data?
Pickl AI
MAY 7, 2023
With the significant development technology has made in our life, it has also brought forth some interesting insights. Facial Recognition With the DeepFace technology, Facebook analyses the image and, based on it, recommends the name of the friends for tagging. Thus aiding the process of tagging.
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How Big Data Will Make Or Break Future Smart Cities
Smart Data Collective
JUNE 23, 2019
An example of how it is used in daily life is through using online maps such as Google Maps to take the quickest route to work possible. As with the daily life traffic example above, transport across a city is greatly improved through leveraging big data to assist in processes.
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LlamaSherpa: Revolutionizing Document Chunking for LLMs
Heartbeat
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Under the Hood: Node Traversal : The method begins by initializing an empty list, tables, to store nodes tagged as tables. Tag-Based Identification : During traversal, the method checks the tag attribute of each node. If a node has its tag set to 'table', it is considered a table and is added to the tables list.
Build an end-to-end MLOps pipeline for visual quality inspection at the edge – Part 2
AWS Machine Learning Blog
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Solution overview The sample use case used for this series is a visual quality inspection solution that can detect defects on metal tags, which could be deployed as part of a manufacturing process. With a passion for automation, Joerg has worked as a software developer, DevOps engineer, and Site Reliability Engineer in his pre-AWS life.
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Countries with the longest healthy retirements
FlowingData
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Bloomberg compared retirement years in the context of life expectancy and healthy life expectancy. In the above, the yellow dots represent retirement age, the green dots represent healthy life expectancy, and the purple dots represent regular life expectancy. Tags: Bloomberg , health , retirement
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Top 5 Data-Driven Lease Accounting Software Solutions
Smart Data Collective
AUGUST 18, 2021
Trullion even enables managers to authorize tagging functions and supports several authorization rounds. It is chock-full of life cycle automation features — from commencement to data management, accounting and reporting, and end-term supervision. It can even detect asset-related Excel data. Image source: Trullion. Costar Group.
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Named Entity Recognition With SpaCy
Heartbeat
APRIL 17, 2023
Part-of-speech (POS) tagging: Each word in the text is tagged with its part-of-speech (e.g., This involves identifying contiguous groups of words that belong together, based on their part-of-speech tags. It is responsible for tokenization, part-of-speech tagging, dependency parsing, and named entity recognition.
Create high-quality datasets with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth and FiftyOne
AWS Machine Learning Blog
MAY 5, 2023
Although articles of clothing are labeled with categories (and subcategories) and contain a variety of helpful tags that are extracted from the original product descriptions, the data is not systematically labeled with pattern or style information. It’s an established and well-cited dataset, but it isn’t directly suited for your use case.
Build an end-to-end MLOps pipeline for visual quality inspection at the edge – Part 3
AWS Machine Learning Blog
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The sample use case used for this series is a visual quality inspection solution that can detect defects on metal tags, which you can deploy as part of a manufacturing process. In a production setting, you can decide to automatically notify another system that takes care of removing faulty metal tags from the production line.
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