What is synthetic data? Examples, use cases and benefits
Synthetic data is information that’s artificially manufactured rather than generated by real-world events. It’s created algorithmically and is used as a stand-in for test data sets of production or operational data, to validate mathematical models and to train machine learning (ML) models. While gathering high-quality data from the real world is difficult, expensive and time-consuming, […]
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5 Biggest Hurdles Preventing Delivery Drones
Drones could solve many common problems with last-mile deliveries. They’re fast, don’t emit greenhouse gas emissions, can avoid traffic, and provide a way around worker shortages. Despite those benefits, they have yet to take off in the mainstream. It’s not that drone deliveries are altogether impossible. So, what’s stopping them from rewriting the delivery playbook? […]
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How to avoid exceptions in C#
var result = Test.DivideNumbers(15, 5); if (result.IsSuccess) Console.WriteLine($”The result is: {result.Value}”); else Console.WriteLine($”Error occurred: {result.ErrorMessage}”); Avoid exceptions using the Try-Parse pattern The Try-Parse pattern is another great way to avoid exceptions in your application. In C#, the Try-Parse pattern is represented using the TryParse method, which converts a data type into another and […]
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What is a drone (UAV)?
A drone is an unmanned aircraft. Drones are more formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or unmanned aircraft systems. Essentially, a drone is a flying robot that can be remotely controlled or fly autonomously using software-controlled flight plans in its embedded systems, which work in conjunction with onboard sensors and a Global Positioning System […]
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How Will Smart Dust Impact Cybersecurity?
Smart dust is small, technologically advanced and invisible to the naked eye. Will it become a staple in the cybersecurity industry? Or will cybercriminals use it to launch even more sophisticated cyberattacks? What Is Smart Dust? Smart dust is a group of wireless, microscopic Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Each of these autonomous microelectromechanical nodes […]
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The reality of AI-centric coding
“For example, you can ask these LLMs to create code and they sometimes make up a framework, or an imaginary library or module, to do what you want it to do,” Taulli said, explaining that the LLMs were not creating a new framework as much as pretending that they created it, but they actually didn’t. […]
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GitHub survey finds nearly all developers using AI coding tools
More than 97% of respondents to GitHub’s AI in software development 2024 survey said they had used AI coding tools at work, but only 38% of US-based developers said their organizations actively encouraged adoption. The survey report was released on August 20. Of the four countries featured—the USA, Brazil, Germany, and India—only the United States […]
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What is machine vision?
Machine vision is the ability of a computer to see; it employs one or more video cameras, analog-to-digital conversion and digital signal processing. The resulting data goes to a computer or robot controller. Machine vision is similar in complexity to voice recognition. Machine vision is sometimes conflated with the term computer vision. The technology is […]
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How Mathematics Keeps Your IoT Device Safe
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a paradigm that has brought about a new era of connectedness and collaboration and is revolutionizing the way we live and work. However, it comes with several new security challenges. IoT devices, often connected to sensitive data and systems, attract attackers. The number and variety of devices connected to […]
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Meta working on a Self-Taught Evaluator for LLMs
Facebook parent Meta’s AI research team is working on developing what it calls a Self-Taught Evaluator for large language models (LLMs) that could help enterprises reduce their time and human resource requirements while developing custom LLMs. Earlier this month, the social media giant’s AI research team, dubbed Meta FAIR, published a paper on the […]
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