The data collected shows the reduction rate needs to be twice as fast to get to the net-zero goals. Study offers further evidence about true impact of electric vehicles: 'We have to sustain that for another 20 years' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
AI trained on simple heart rate data can predict an episode of the most common heart rhythm disorder, atrial fibrillation, 30 minutes in advance, new research has shown. With plans for it to be incorporated into a smartphone so it can analyze data from a smartwatch, the model wou … | Continue reading
"More Data Breaches Than You Can Shake a Stick At". That seems like a reasonable summary and I suggest there are two main reasons for this observation. Firstly, there are simply loads of breaches happening and you know this already because, well, you read my stuff! Secondly, Ther … | Continue reading
Researchers have developed a security solution for power-hungry AI models that offers protection against two common attacks. | Continue reading
Robert Lea, writing about our far-flung friend: NASA’s interstellar explorer Voyager 1 is finally communicating with ground control in an understandable way again. On Saturday (April 20), Voyager 1 updated ground control about its health status for the first time in 5 months. Whi … | Continue reading
There's an effort on the network to connect the Fediverse's federation powers to Solid's data storage and access capabilities. The post ActivityPods: Federated Solid Pods appeared first on We Distribute. | Continue reading
What an amazing story by Josh Dzieza at The Verge about the people who repair undersea fiberoptic cables to keep data flowing around the world: The world is in the midst of a cable boom, with multiple new transoceanic lines announced every year. … | Continue reading
Experts say the US is not sharing as much data on the outbreak as it should. | Continue reading
The Voyager 1 spacecraft returned usable data for the first time in more than five months, giving hope for the 46-year-old mission to finally be able to resume its normal operations. Read more... | Continue reading
In a StackOverflow question, Thomas Tempelmann asked: How to get all TableCellView prototypes from a TableView object? […] How do I get to that TableCellView in its prototype form when I only have a reference to its TableView object, so that I can alter its tooltip for all rows a … | Continue reading
The data is heartening and will hopefully encourage drivers riding the middle line to go electric. New research on EV car usage challenges common range anxiety phenomenon: 'Need not be a concern' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Chris Baltusni talks about the difference between adopting an omnichannel approach versus a multichannel one. The post Leader Spotlight: Leveraging data to understand buying behavior, with Chris Baltusnik appeared first on LogRocket Blog. | Continue reading
"A recent MIT study indicated that “the cloud” now has a larger carbon footprint than the airline industry, and that “a single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes.” The study also cites the enormous cooling costs, the huge volumes of water required, … | Continue reading
Today's Drop discusses three spiffy tools: Duckling, neko, and tv. Duckling is a data management app for viewing and querying multiple data sources. Neko is a remote desktop tool for private web browsing and collaborative projects, while tv is a command-line tool for pretty-print … | Continue reading
When the Board of Commissioners for Washtenaw County, Michigan, approved a climate action plan in 2022, the county was uncertain what implementation steps it needed to take—and how to pay for all of it. Limited staff, financing, resources, and data meant the county’s fleet manage … | Continue reading
While digital security threats continue to get more sophisticated and complex, sometimes the best ways of protecting yourself and your data are pretty simple—and here we’re going to introduce you to one of the easier checks you can carry out regularly on your various devices. Rea … | Continue reading
Last week, we discussed AI's incredible evolution in terms of its performance against humans. Almost across the board, AI has surpassed humans in a range of performance-based tasks, necessitating the development of new, more challenging benchmarks. Arguably, that degree of develo … | Continue reading
Last week, Georgia Power won regulatory approval to fast-track construction of 1.4 gigawatts of fossil-fueled power plants and to contract for nearly a gigawatt more power from coal- and fossil-gas-fired power plants owned by other utilities. The reason? Fear that skyrocketing po … | Continue reading
online, 17th May 2024 h. 14 CET This webinar in two parts will bring together professionals from the spectrum of Digital Cultural Heritage practice to share their experiences of using and working with paradata seeking to lay down a common understanding of paradata as a first step … | Continue reading
The namespace clojure.pprint has some useful function to pretty print different data structures. The function print-table is particularly useful for printing a collection of maps, where each map represents a row in the table, and the keys of the maps represent the column headers. … | Continue reading
qrank Interesting and very niche project by Colin Dellow. Wikidata has pages for huge numbers of concepts, people, places and things. One of the many pieces of data they publish is QRank - "ranking Wikidata entities by aggregating page views on Wikipedia, Wikispecies, Wikibooks, … | Continue reading
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) high-performance computing (HPC), efficient data center operations, and powerful visualizations have left an indelible stamp on clean energy innovation. As the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) only national laboratory solely … | Continue reading
The namespace clojure.pprint has some useful function to pretty print different data structures. The function print-table is particularly useful for printing a collection of maps, where each map represents a row in the table, and the keys of the maps represent the column headers. … | Continue reading
In simpler terms: Solar energy is on the way up and coal burning is on the way down. Government data reports unprecedented capacity growth of American solar energy: 'The inevitable winner' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
In social science, we’ll study some topic, then move on to the next thing. For example, Yotam and I did this project on social penumbras and political attitudes, we designed a study, collected data, analyzed the data, wrote it up, … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Informed Consent and Privacy – Pixel Envy: Meta is probably one of the more agreeable players in this racket, too. It hoards data; it does not share much of it. And it has a brand to protect. Data brokers are far worse because nobody knows who they are or what they collect, share … | Continue reading
Peter Lynch (2006) A very technical examination of the world's first numerical weather "prediction" – although in fact it was really a "postdiction", taking detailed data and using it to compute a scenario that could be compared against a known ground truth. It was an incredible … | Continue reading
Tesla’s just had a tough quarter, including in the United States, but a tough quarter for Tesla would be a stunning, fantabulous success for any other company trying to sell electric vehicles. In the USA, according to data from Cox Automotive and Kelley Blue Book, more than one o … | Continue reading
In the absence of strong net neutrality protections, internet service providers (ISPs) have made all sorts of plans that would allow them to capitalize on something called "network slicing." While this technology has all sorts of promise, what the ISPs have planned would subvert … | Continue reading
The study is small and imperfect but offers more data on how time-restricted diets work. | Continue reading
An operator of the HelloKitty ransomware operation announced they changed the name to 'HelloGookie,' releasing passwords for previously leaked CD Projekt source code, Cisco network information, and decryption keys from old attacks.. [...] | Continue reading
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is investigating a cyberattack after threat actors breached its IT systems to steal human resources data. [...] | Continue reading
During the historic April 8 total solar eclipse, a government radio station in Colorado started sending out slightly shifted "time signals" to millions of people across the globe as the moon's shadow altered the upper layers of our atmosphere. However, these altered signals did n … | Continue reading
Xometry’s essential guide reveals the transformative power of artificial intelligence in supply chain optimisation. It lifts the lid on how machine learning, natural language processing, and big data, can streamline procurement and enhance operations efficiency. The guide showcas … | Continue reading
James Heathers reports on the article, “Contagion or restitution? When bad apples can motivate ethical behavior,” by Gino, Gu, and Zhong (2009): There is some sentiment data reported in Experiment 3, which seems to be reported in whole units. They … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Infinite scrolling in Next.js no longer requires external libraries — Server Actions let us fetch initial data directly on the server. The post Implementing infinite scroll in Next.js with Server Actions appeared first on LogRocket Blog. | Continue reading
Sorting is one of those classic Dunning-Kruger topics in information science: you think it’s easy, until you start uni and learn how to implement it. Sorting algorithms vary in complexity, efficiency, and speed, and are optimised for different data sets, structures, and systems. … | Continue reading
Building an affordable and reliable benchmark for LLM chatbots has become a critical challenge. A high-quality benchmark should 1) robustly separate model... | Continue reading
Neural data can reveal health, mental states, emotions, and cognitive function. | Continue reading
Scientists want to replace electrons with so-called 'nanobubbles' — or skyrmions — to store data more densely and efficiently in advanced memory components that would replace RAM and flash storage. | Continue reading
Posted Kaleigh Rosenblat, Chrome Enterprise Senior Staff Software Engineer, Security Lead Generative AI has emerged as a powerful and popular tool to automate content creation and simple tasks. From customized content creation to source code generation, it can increase both our … | Continue reading
Introduction In this article, we are going to investigate how to calculate percentiles with the SQL PERCENTILE_CONT function. Domain Model Let’s consider we have the following quotes table that holds the historical price values of various stocks and indexes: The quotes table is p … | Continue reading
I came across this post from 2011, “Infovis, infographics, and data visualization: Where I’m coming from, and where I’d like to go,” and it seemed to make sense to reassess where we are now, 12 years later. From 2011: I … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Volume 11, Issue 1, January-December 2024 . | Continue reading
I gave a talk last month at the Story Discovery at Scale data journalism conference hosted at Stanford by Big Local News. My brief was to go deep into the things we can use Large Language Models for right now, illustrated by a flurry of demos to help provide starting points for f … | Continue reading
In an analysis of the real estate market in Brampton, Ontario, data indicates a varied terrain for prospective buyers. The city witnessed a modest increase in the average home price by 0.5% year-over-year, reaching $1,033,673. Continue reading | Continue reading
There are a lot of updates in the fight for our freedoms online, from a last-minute reauthorization bill to expand Section 702 (tell your senators to vote NO on the bill here!), a new federal consumer data privacy law (we deserve better!), and a recent draft from the FCC to reins … | Continue reading
NASA's stranded Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has beamed back its final signal to Earth from the Red Planet, which included a farewell message for mission scientists. It will continue collecting data on Mars until it dies but will not transmit this data to Earth. | Continue reading