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Sweat the details on your resume, especially if you are a developer or technology leader – Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens
Your resume is a simple enumeration of your experience and the first sample of work you are presenting to a potential employer. Many developers neglect the quality of their resume because they aren’t comfortable with writing, not comfortable talking about themselves, or simply because they don’t think it is important. Photo by Vanessa Garcia Every …
Google’s Photo App Still Can’t Find Gorillas. And Neither Can Apple’s.
Credit…Desiree Rios/The New York Times Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled as gorillas by image analysis software — and despite big advances in computer vision — tech giants still fear repeating the mistake. May 22, 2023 When Google released its stand-alone Photos app in May 2015, people were wowed by what …
Music Company Asks Google to Delist ‘YouTube Downloader’ Wikipedia Article * TorrentFreak
Home > Anti-Piracy > DMCA > The music industry is doing all it can to get rid of its YouTube ripping problem. The RIAA and BPI, for example, regularly send DMCA anti-circumvention notices to Google, asking the company to remove sites from search results. Independent label “Because Music” has also joined in the action but …
Canada’s big banks log 13-fold rise in loan loss provisions
Canada’s big five banks this week collectively set aside the most money for loan losses since 2020, as concerns about an economic slowdown and higher defaults in commercial real estate mount. The country’s top five lenders, which all reported earnings this week, logged a combined C$3.37bn (US$2.48bn) in credit loss provisions in the first three …
Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner – Wikipedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner (also known as Joseph T. Tykociner; 5 October 1877, in Włocławek, Congress Poland – 11 June 1969, in Urbana, Illinois, United States) was a Polish engineer and a pioneer of sound-on-film technology. In 1921 he became the first research professor of engineering at the University of Illinois at …
A practical relational query compiler in 500 lines of code
Imp needed a relational database that is simple enough to experiment with but fast enough to power real applications. Relational databases are usually complicated beasts. Even SQLite, a relatively lightweight database, is 116,000 lines of code. Its btree implementation alone is almost 10,000 lines, and the core of the query plan interpreter is another 7000 …
YouTube Stories, Google’s clone of Snapchat, is dying on June 26
YouTube Stories would sometimes show up in your subscription feed. (Sorry about the arrow, blame YouTube.) Mostly, though, they hung out in this backroom tab. The stories auto-deleting means the screen always looked nearly dead like this. The creation interface. YouTube’s “copy the hot new video site” strategy is ending the way it often does—with …
Hyundai Motor Group, LG Energy to build $4.3 bln EV battery plant in US
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution Ltd on Friday said they will build a $4.3 billion electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in the United States amid a push to take advantage of tax credits. Manufacturers must adhere to new US sourcing requirements for EV battery components and critical minerals so that buyers …
Probabilistic AI that knows how well it’s working | MIT News
Despite their enormous size and power, today’s artificial intelligence systems routinely fail to distinguish between hallucination and reality. Autonomous driving systems can fail to perceive pedestrians and emergency vehicles right in front of them, with fatal consequences. Conversational AI systems confidently make up facts and, after training via reinforcement learning, often fail to give accurate …
We Have Working CFET Transistors in the Lab, But They Are Generations Away
Offering an update on its work with complementary field-effect transistors (CFETs) as part of the company’s European Technology Symposium 2023, TSMC has revealed that it has working CFETs within its labs. But even with the progress TSMC has made so far, the technology is still in its early days, generations away from mass production. In …
