Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
Atkinson’s gleeful brilliance helped people draw on computer screens and access information via links.
This “robot bird” flies at 45 mph through forests—With no GPS or light
Unlike birds, which navigate unknown environments with remarkable speed and agility, drones typically rely on external guidance or pre-mapped routes. However, a groundbreaking development by Professor Fu Zhang and researchers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has enabled drones and micro air vehicles (MAVs) …
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Novel analytics framework measures empathy of people captured in video recordings
Empathy, the ability to understand what others are feeling and emotionally connect with their experiences, can be highly advantageous for humans, as it allows them to strengthen relationships and thrive in some professional settings. The development of tools for reliably measuring people’s empathy has thus been a key objective of many past psychology studies.
The 8 Rules of Open-Source Generative AI Club!
Fully made with open-source tools within ComfyUI: – Image: UltraReal Finetune (Flux 1 Dev) + Redux + Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) Lora > Flux Fill Inpaint – Video Model: Wan 2.1 Fun Control 14B + DW Pose* – Upscaling : 2xNomosUNI esrgan + Wan 2.1 T2V 1.3B (low denoise) – Interpolation: Rife 47 – Voice …
Dealing with Missing Data Strategically: Advanced Imputation Techniques in Pandas and Scikit-learn
Missing values appear more often than not in many real-world datasets.
Loss Functions Explained: Understand the Maths in Just 2 Minutes Each
I must say, with the ongoing hype around machine learning, a lot of people jump straight to the application side without really understanding how things work behind the scenes.
Palantir Is Still Not a Data Company (Palantir Explained, #7)
A refresher on the most common misconceptions about Palantir, what we do, and how we work Editor’s Note: This is the seventh post in Palantir Explained, a series that explores a range of topics, including our approach to privacy, security, AI/ML safety, and more. In this post, we revisit some of the themes discussed in our …
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Build a serverless audio summarization solution with Amazon Bedrock and Whisper
Recordings of business meetings, interviews, and customer interactions have become essential for preserving important information. However, transcribing and summarizing these recordings manually is often time-consuming and labor-intensive. With the progress in generative AI and automatic speech recognition (ASR), automated solutions have emerged to make this process faster and more efficient. Protecting personally identifiable information (PII) …
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Accelerate your gen AI: Deploy Llama4 & DeepSeek on AI Hypercomputer with new recipes
The pace of innovation in open-source AI is breathtaking, with models like Meta’s Llama4 and DeepSeek AI’s DeepSeek. However, deploying and optimizing large, powerful models can be complex and resource-intensive. Developers and machine learning (ML) engineers need reproducible, verified recipes that articulate the steps for trying out the models on available accelerators. Today, we’re excited …
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Sam Altman calls for ‘AI privilege’ as OpenAI clarifies court order to retain temporary and deleted ChatGPT sessions
Should talking to an AI chatbot be protected and privileged information, like talking to a doctor or lawyer? A new court order raises the ideaRead More