Humanoid robots might be able to run, dance, and occasionally kick people, but to become truly human, they’re going to need to learn how to do all sorts of menial chores at work. Flexion Robotics, a Swiss startup founded by ex-Nvidia robotics researchers, thinks it has the solution. The company has developed a way to…
Streaming advertisements could be getting rather a lot quieter this week. A California regulation banning streaming companies from exhibiting advertisements “louder than the video content material” that they accompany is about to take impact on Wednesday, July 1. (Present laws already imposes comparable quantity restrictions on broadcast and cable TV commercials.) Ars Technica notes that…
Has Silicon Valley been building the wrong things? Despite its self help-y title, writer/designer/academic Ian Bogost’s forthcoming book “The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life” asks some pointed questions about how technology has transformed our experience of the physical world. Using Bogost’s popular article in the Atlantic about the decline of stick…
Ford executives said they have hired 350 veteran engineers — some of them were former employees, while others had been working at suppliers — after artificial intelligence and automated systems failed to deliver the desired quality level. Bloomberg reports the company’s chief operating officer Kumar Galhotra told journalists that Ford had been “relying more and…
Has Silicon Valley been building the wrong things? Despite its self help-y title, writer/designer/academic Ian Bogost’s forthcoming book “The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life” asks some pointed questions about how technology has transformed our experience of the physical world. Using Bogost’s popular article in the Atlantic about the decline of stick…
def _purge(*prefixes): for name in [m for m in list(sys.modules) if any(m == p or m.startswith(p + “.”) for p in prefixes)]: del sys.modules[name] def _load_ocrmypdf(): _purge(“PIL”, “ocrmypdf”) import ocrmypdf return ocrmypdf try: ocrmypdf = _load_ocrmypdf() except ImportError as e: if “_Ink” in str(e) or “PIL” in str(e): print(“Repairing an incompatible Pillow (reinstalling pillow<12)…”) sh(f'”{sys.executable}”…
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Micron, the Boise, Idaho-based memory chip maker, has captured Wall Street’s heart. Whether the love affair endures will heavily depend on how long the AI-driven supply crunch for memory chips lasts. Micron promises that it has shored up its position for the long term, which would allow it to withstand a sudden drop in demand…
For some people, the ice in a beverage is almost as important as the drink itself. That’s the audience Govee had in mind when designing its latest ice maker, the GoveeLife Smart Nugget Ice Maker Pro. This $500 premium smart home gadget is aimed at those who crave what’s called “the good ice,” the soft, chewable…
rprint(Panel.fit(“[bold]Baseline 1: Predict output_type from context using pure Python Naive Bayes[/bold]”)) model_artifacts = {} classifier_df = df.dropna(subset=[“output_type”]).copy() classifier_df = classifier_df[ classifier_df[“output_type”].astype(str).str.len() > 0 ].copy() if classifier_df[“output_type”].nunique() >= 2 and len(classifier_df) >= 30: X_text = ( classifier_df[“context”] .fillna(“”) .astype(str) .map(lambda text: text[:12000]) .tolist() ) y = classifier_df[“output_type”].astype(str).tolist() train_indices, test_indices = stratified_train_test_indices(y, test_size=0.2, seed=SEED) X_train = [X_text[i]…
