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The ability to Interpret image data using software is advancing fast! The two images above are captioned with program generated text. Here's an article that describes concepts and an approach to generate a caption for an image. The code is written in Python and uses TensorFlow. …
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on May 25, 2017 at 8:57am — No Comments
This is what I'm reading right now. Here you go! Matt has given us good presentations that are quick and to the point. Super cool! If you decide to pay $19.95 for the printed book, it'll cover about 3 craft pints. The health monitor app Matt made will record one less point. You'll see! Enjoy, and be sure to let Matt know how much you appreciate this free mini…
Added by Michael Levin on May 18, 2017 at 2:30pm — No Comments
First of all, relax, I'm not announcing an exclusive executive swapmeet. The market for used cell phones has ramped up to a whopping $11 billion as of 2016[1]. That's a big number by itself, especially since the market scarcely existed just ten years ago. By comparison, everything sold in every category by everyone worldwide on Ebay, new or used, was $84 billion total in 2016[2].
Unless you are actually a senior exec and can offer your device, refurbished, to other…
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Mobile devices prove to be a setback for cross-platform software development, but I hope it will be a minor one. At present, Android totally dominates the mobile market both in terms of hardware and software volume. As well, mobile devices are overtaking desktops for overall usage as we speak. But Linux, as open-source-friendly as it is appears to be getting the rub from Google, so where are we?
As Google continues to grumble about not controlling the world, they're leaking…
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Monzo has redesigned its fraud prevention platform to detect scams in real time, handle growing payment volumes, and deploy new controls rapidly. Explore the bank’s modular control architecture, feature computation pipeline, and observability using BigQuery for accurate, low-latency fraud detection.
By Leela Kumili
Anthropic released sandboxing capabilities for Claude Code and launched a web-based version of the tool that runs in isolated cloud environments. The company introduced these features to address security risks that arise when Claude Code writes, tests, and debugs code with broad access to developer codebases and files.
By Vinod Goje
Google has unveiled Project Suncatcher, a research initiative exploring how solar powered satellite constellations equipped with Tensor Processing Units TPUs could one day enable large scale artificial intelligence computation in space.
By Daniel Dominguez
Jinsong Yu shares deep architectural insights into the Orion AR glasses, detailing the use of 11 custom microcontrollers for thermal dissipation, the SLAM/VIO needed for world-locked rendering, and input fusion (EMG, eye/hand tracking). He concludes with critical lessons for technical leaders on setting direction, managing complexity through testing, and strategic hardware-software co-design.
By Jinsong Yu
Microsoft announced the general availability of .NET 10, describing it as the most productive, modern, secure, and high-performance version of the platform to date. As stated by the company, the release is the result of a year-long effort involving thousands of contributors. It includes improvements across the runtime, libraries, languages, tools, frameworks, and workloads.
By Almir Vuk
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