2025-02-16
New Study Reveals the Best AI Models for Power Grid Optimization
A large-scale benchmarking study of 44 DPFL methods identifies performance trends, practical limitations, and research gaps. This work supports method selection and outlines ten key future directions in DPFL.
If Life Is a Simulation, Do We Have an Exit Strategy?
This article explores Roman Yampolskiy's radical ideas on hacking reality, from AI-driven jailbreaks to rewiring human perception. Dive into the science, philosophy, and speculative methods of breaking free from a...
Ducho: A Unified Framework for Multimodal Feature Extraction in AI-Powered Recommendations
Ducho simplifies multimodal feature extraction for recommender systems with a modular architecture. Future plans include broader backend support, a unified extraction interface, and low-level feature extraction.
Ducho, the AI That Knows What You Think About That Toaster
Ducho processes textual features from Amazon’s dataset, distinguishing product descriptions from user reviews. Using multilingual BERT for sentiment analysis, it enhances recommendations by capturing nuanced customer interactions.
Making AI Recommendations Smarter with Visual, Text, and Audio Data
Ducho’s demos showcase its multimodal capabilities in fashion and music recommendation. Using deep learning models like VGG19, Xception, Sentence-BERT, and Hybrid Demucs, Ducho extracts and processes visual, textual, and audio...
Ducho’s Big Bet: A Unified Future for Multimodal AI
Ducho’s extraction pipeline automates multimodal feature processing using a YAML-based configuration and deep learning backends. To simplify deployment, Ducho offers a Docker image preloaded with CUDA and cuDNN, ensuring a...
A New Way to Extract Features for Smarter AI Recommendations
Ducho’s architecture consists of three key modules—Dataset, Extractor, and Runner—designed for efficient multimodal feature extraction. It supports TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Transformers, allowing flexible dataset processing, model selection, and YAML-based configuration...
A Unified Framework for Multimodal Feature Extraction in Recommendation Systems
Ducho is an open-source framework for extracting multimodal features in recommendation systems. It integrates TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Transformers, offering a configurable YAML-based extraction pipeline. A Docker image with CUDA support...
It is Cheaper to Grow than to Die
Staying stagnant costs more than investing in growth. Whether through steady linear progress or bold exponential leaps, investing in yourself is key to survival.
Lead Scoring 2.0: From Static Models to Dynamic Buyer Intent
Traditional lead scoring systems are based on the assumption that buyers go on a simple, linear journey. Dynamic scoring updates in real-time based on actual buyer behaviour, providing more relevant...
A DevOps Approach to AEM Packages: Automating Creation, Configuration, and More
The `create-remote-aem-pkg.sh script automates interactions with AEM’s Package Manager API, offering a structured approach to package creation, configuration, and distribution. Designed for developers and administrators, it replaces manual workflows with...
The Best ‘Saturday Night Live’ Sketches, According to the People Who Made Them
Alan Siegel at The Ringer: Ahead of ‘SNL50,’ we asked Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers, Bill Hader, and more to tell us which of their sketches they hold closest to their...
Gurman: ‘Apple’s Long-Promised AI Overhaul for Siri Runs Into Bugs, Possible Delays’
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: Apple Inc.’s long-promised overhaul for the Siri digital assistant is facing engineering problems and software bugs, threatening to postpone or limit its release, according to...
AI’s Non-Determinism, Hallucinations, And... Cats?
AI is like cats: sometimes they eat, sometimes ignore it, and sometimes they scratch you. ChatGPT’s answers result from a stochastic process rather than a rigid rule. It tends to...
Apple Research Paper Documents Anthropomorphic, Emotionally Expressive Robot Lamp, à la Pixar’s Luxo
New research published from Apple machine learning researchers Yuhan Hu, Peide Huang, Mouli Sivapurapu, Jian Zhang: Nonverbal behaviors such as posture, gestures, and gaze are essential for conveying internal states,...
Unfortunate Exoplanet Being Dragged by Star at Unfathomable Speed
A tiny star is making big moves — whether its accomplice likes it or not. Astronomers have spotted a star just a fraction the mass of the Sun crashing through...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Futures of Ethereum II - Censorship Resistance (2/16/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 16, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you...
Scientists Invent Device That Straps to Any Car's Tailpipe, Transforming Exhaust Into Electricity
The combustion engines in gas-powered cars are pretty inefficient, because most of the energy they use — about 70 percent — gets lost as heat. But what if you could...
Meta Appears to Have Invented a Device Allowing You to Type With Your Brain
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta says it's created a device that lets you produce text simply by thinking what you want to say. As detailed in a pair of studies released by...
Hands-on Agile 2025: Embracing the Shift to Context-Based Agility — The Slides
TL; DR: The Slides of Hands-on Agile 2025 If you weren’t at the virtual Hands-on Agile 2025 conference earlier this month, you missed an incredible opportunity to explore the shift...
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