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27 May

The Ninja Creami ice cream maker is down to $149 for Memorial Day

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It’s officially ice cream season, and if you’ve been wanting to try your hand at making the dessert yourself, Walmart has a deal you might be interested in. The Ninja Creami ice cream maker is $50 off right now, bringing the price down to $149 — the best price we’ve seen for it all year. The Creami is designed for ease of use and gives you control over the texture of the finished product, so you can make ice cream, sorbet, milkshakes and other kinds of frozen treats.NinjaThe deal applies to the Ninja Creami model with 5 one-touch progams: Ice…

27 May

We found over 300 million young people had experienced online sexual abuse and exploitation over the course of our meta-study

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It takes a lot to shock Kelvin Lay. My friend and colleague was responsible for setting up Africa’s first dedicated child exploitation and human trafficking units, and for many years he was a senior investigating officer for the Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre at the UK’s National Crime Agency, specialising in extra territorial prosecutions on child exploitation across the globe. But what happened when he recently volunteered for a demonstration of cutting-edge identification software left him speechless. Within seconds of being fed with an image of how Lay looks today, the AI app sourced a dizzying array of online photos…

27 May

Stretchable e-skin could give robots human-level touch sensitivity

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A first-ever stretchy electronic skin could equip robots and other devices with the same softness and touch sensitivity as human skin, opening up new possibilities to perform tasks that require a great deal of precision and control of force. The new stretchable e-skin, developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, solves a major bottleneck in the emerging technology. Existing e-skin technology loses sensing accuracy as the material stretches, but that is not the case with this new version. "Much like human skin has to stretch and bend to accommodate our movements, so too does e-skin," said Nanshu…

27 May

Data Machina #237

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AI Code Generation: A New Paradigm. Several developer surveys indicate that devs -especially Sr. devs- who use AI tools are “more productive.” Today you can use lots of AI tools for code completion, pair programming, data generation, an even having a team of AI coding agents to complete tedious tasks for you. Back in October, the team at DeepSense wrote an excellent blogpost on the state of the art in AI coding agents, detailing the pros & cos, and workflows of each AI coding agent. Worth mentioning that -fundamentally- all these AI coding agents are mostly based on prompt engineering,…

27 May

Release notes for Deephaven version 0.31.0 | Deephaven

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Deephaven Community Core version 0.31.0 was recently released. Deephaven's final release of 2023 brings several bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements. Let's talk about some noteworthy updates from the release.Deephaven's Python API now supports type hints for functions that:Return arrays, lists, or other sequences of data.Have optional returns.This means that the query engine fully supports your functions that return lists, arrays, or (optionally) nothing. The best way to show what this means is through code. Keep reading to see these new features in example queries.Arrays, lists, and sequencesUsers often work with data that's grouped into arrays in tables. Python functions that…

27 May

Large Language Models and Nearest Neighbors

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Instead of jumping on the latest trend of the week, I wanted to dive into a recent, fascinating application of nearest-neighbor methods in the context of large language models (LLMs) that made big waves in July.You may know that I like simple yet elegant and baselines, but I also found this method quite refreshing given that most of the current research is about scaling already massive LLMs. While they may not scale to all kinds of problems where LLMs currently excel, seemingly simple methods such as nearest neighbor algorithms have a certain beauty to them. It also shows that there…

27 May

Does ChatGPT have a liberal bias?

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Previous research has shown that many pre-ChatGPT language models express left-leaning opinions when asked about partisan topics. But OpenAI said in February that the workers who fine-tune ChatGPT train it to refuse to express opinions when asked controversial political questions. So it was interesting to see a new paper claim that ChatGPT expresses liberal opinions, agreeing with Democrats the vast majority of the time.Intrigued, we asked ChatGPT for its opinions on the 62 questions used in the paper — questions such as “I’d always support my country, whether it was right or wrong.” and “The freer the market, the freer…

27 May

Red Lobster’s owner once said the business left such a ‘big scar’ on him that he had to ‘stop eating lobster’

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But owning Red Lobster left such a "big scar" on Chansiri that he told investors in February that he was swearing off lobsters forever."Other people stop eating beef. I'm going to stop eating lobster," Chansiri said in an earnings call — a possible reference to how some followers of Buddhism prefer not to consume beef and other meat products.On May 19, Red Lobster said in a statement that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after it sustained major operating losses in 2023. Red Lobster said its restaurants will "remain open and operating as usual during the Chapter 11 process."Chansiri,…

27 May

Six Use Cases of Conversational AI in Public Sector Governance

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Today's citizens expect seamless, convenient interactions with government entities, akin to the experiences they have with consumer-facing businesses. However, public sector organizations often struggle to meet these rising expectations due to limited resources, complex bureaucracies, and outdated technological infrastructures. This is where conversational AI – including technologies like chatbots and virtual assistants – emerges as a powerful tool for enhancing public services. It uses the power of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning to transform how citizens interact with government services. This allows public sector organizations to streamline processes, enhance citizen engagement, and deliver more efficient and responsive governance.…

27 May

Highly Modular EV/ICE Platform: Great Idea or Wishful Thinking? – EE Times

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//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> The term “modular” usually has positive connotations. It can refer to something as basic as a chassis, which you plug various test or I/O cards into. Or it can even refer to something as complicated as a house that is built using individual room designs built in a factory, which are then trucked to the building site and assembled into a complete house. It’s also a word which often conceals—either intentionally or inadvertently—what is involved in a project. The presumed benefits of modularity have been embraced over the years by…