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The 5 best cordless vacuums for 2024

The 5 best cordless vacuums for 2024

Old-school vacuums left a lot to be desired, and cordless vacuum cleaners are here to right many of those wrongs. The latest models tend to be thinner, lighter and easy to maneuver around a home, and you don’t really have to sacrifice suction power anymore to get those benefits. Dyson isn’t your only option anymore either — like the robot vacuum space, there are dozens of cordless vacuums to choose from today. Variety is great, but it can also lead to decision fatigue and confusion. We at Engadget can help make that decision a bit easier. After testing a bunch…
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24 powerful Deephaven tools for data analysis | Deephaven

24 powerful Deephaven tools for data analysis | Deephaven

Deephaven is the data backbone that powers hedge funds, banks, exchanges, and more. How do Deephaven experts leverage its power? I'll show how through 23 examples of simple operations used regularly by some of the world's top data experts. Don't be fooled by their simplicity - they are the building blocks for innovative analysis that large firms rely on time and time again.The only prerequisites for this blog are some version of Deephaven Community Core and Python installed on your machine. You have three options for Deephaven:Any of the three options will get you started with the examples in this…
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Mastering Stratego, the classic game of imperfect information

Mastering Stratego, the classic game of imperfect information

Research Published 1 December 2022 Authors Julien Perolat, Bart De Vylder, Daniel Hennes, Eugene Tarassov, Florian Strub and Karl Tuyls DeepNash learns to play Stratego from scratch by combining game theory and model-free deep RLGame-playing artificial intelligence (AI) systems have advanced to a new frontier. Stratego, the classic board game that’s more complex than chess and Go, and craftier than poker, has now been mastered. Published in Science, we present DeepNash, an AI agent that learned the game from scratch to a human expert level by playing against itself.DeepNash uses a novel approach, based on game theory and model-free deep…
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Spotify Premium prices have increased again in the U.S. – gHacks Tech News

Spotify Premium prices have increased again in the U.S. – gHacks Tech News

Spotify has announced that it has increased the prices of its Premium plans, again. This is not really surprising because most streaming services have raised the costs of their subscriptions in the recent times. This is the second time Spotify has hiked its price in less than a year. To recap, the music streaming service announced a price increase for its services in July last year. To be fair, it was the first time the price of Spotify Premium had been hiked in 12 years. The Premium subscription, which debuted at $9.99/month in 2011, saw a $1 increase, to $10.99.…
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Ubisoft Toronto is helping out with the troubled Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake

Ubisoft Toronto is helping out with the troubled Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake

Another Ubisoft studio is pitching in to help develop Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake. Ubisoft Toronto has announced on X/Twitter that it's joining the company's Montreal division to work on the game. In 2022, Ubisoft Montreal took over the project from Ubisoft Pune and Mumbai after several days from its target release date of as far back as January 2021. The company said back then that Montreal was "building upon the work achieved" by its studios in India. In an interview last year, though, producer Jean-Francois Naud revealed that the project was still "in conception" and that…
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Documentation enhancements for Deephaven v0.19.0 | Deephaven

Documentation enhancements for Deephaven v0.19.0 | Deephaven

Seasoned Deephaven users will appreciate our new section of documentation on configuration, which gives more detail on how to customize Community Core for your needs. This month we also made several updates to complement the autocomplete, Python type hints support, and query execution improvements in the newly released Deephaven v0.19.0.Configuration​Our how-to section now features a set of guides for:These are targeted to users who want to build from scratch or manually configure properties.Plotting​Pulling real-time data into tables only shows you part of the story when it comes to making valuable insights about your data. Well-designed vizualizations are essential to interpreting…
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How to create GraphQL API in Nest JS? Step by Step guidelines!

How to create GraphQL API in Nest JS? Step by Step guidelines!

Creating a GraphQL API in NestJS involves several steps. Here's a step-by-step theoretical guide: Step 1: Setup a New NestJS Project Install Nest CLI: npm install -g @nestjs/cli Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Create a New Project: nest new project-name Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Navigate to the Project Directory: cd project-name Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Step 2: Install GraphQL and Apollo Server Install Required Packages: npm install @nestjs/graphql graphql apollo-server-express Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Step 3: Configure GraphQL Module Create a GraphQL Module Configuration: Open src/app.module.ts and configure the GraphQL module: import {…
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AI for the board game Diplomacy

AI for the board game Diplomacy

Research Published 6 December 2022 Authors Yoram Bachrach, János Kramár Agents cooperate better by communicating and negotiating, and sanctioning broken promises helps keep them honestSuccessful communication and cooperation have been crucial for helping societies advance throughout history. The closed environments of board games can serve as a sandbox for modelling and investigating interaction and communication – and we can learn a lot from playing them. In our recent paper, published today in Nature Communications, we show how artificial agents can use communication to better cooperate in the board game Diplomacy, a vibrant domain in artificial intelligence (AI) research, known for…
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New York is about to give parents more control over their kids’ social media feeds

New York is about to give parents more control over their kids’ social media feeds

New York is poised to pass a law that will bar social media platforms from showing algorithmic feeds to teens without parental consent. The Wall Street Journal that lawmakers in the state have reached a “tentative agreement” on a bill that will be voted on later this week.State officials, including Governor Kathy Hochul, introduced a bill requiring parental consent for algorithmic feeds The Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act doesn’t restrict the type of content teens can view on social media apps, but they wouldn’t be able to view algorithmic feeds without permission from their parents or guardians.…
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Deephaven tables now support Python type hints | Deephaven

Deephaven tables now support Python type hints | Deephaven

Deephaven's v0.19 release rolled out some awesome features, particularly for Python programmers - table slicing, autocomplete, and others. For me, support for type hints in tables is an unsung hero. I've always had so many explicit typecasts in my table operations. Now I can reduce how many I need, which results in cleaner code. Let me show you what I mean.I write a lot of Deephaven queries. I also write a lot of Python functions. Sometimes, I wish I didn't always have to cast my Python functions in query strings to the data type I want:from deephaven import empty_tableimport numpy…
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