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Month: December 2022
Minimize the production impact of ML model updates with Amazon SageMaker shadow testing
Amazon SageMaker now allows you to compare the performance of a new version of a model serving stack with the currently deployed version prior to a full production rollout using a deployment safety practice known as shadow testing. Shadow testing can help you identify potential configuration errors and performance issues before they impact end-users. With … Read more
Improve governance of your machine learning models with Amazon SageMaker
As companies are increasingly adopting machine learning (ML) for their mainstream enterprise applications, more of their business decisions are influenced by ML models. As a result of this, having simplified access control and enhanced transparency across all your ML models makes it easier to validate that your models are performing well and take action when … Read more
Watch this live Nintendo concert featuring holograms of K.K. Slider and Splatoon 3’s idols
Image: Nintendo Move over, Spotify Wrapped. My favorite music thing on the internet this week is Nintendo’s official English translation of its Splatoon 3 and Animal Crossing concert with holograms of the characters from the games. The concert, starring the musical dog K.K. Slider as a DJ and the idol superstars from Splatoon 3, originally … Read more
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ first trailer is full of Maximal action
Optimus Primal in his beast mode. | Image: Paramount After years of Paramount’s live-action Transformers movies feeling like they were coasting on their good looks, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ first teaser trailer is here to remind everyone that Beast Wars has always been the superior chunk of the larger Transformers franchise. Transformers: Rise of … Read more
Define customized permissions in minutes with Amazon SageMaker Role Manager
Administrators of machine learning (ML) workloads are focused on ensuring that users are operating in the most secure manner, striving towards a principal of least privilege design. They have a wide variety of personas to account for, each with their own unique sets of needs, and building the right sets of permissions policies to meet … Read more
Build an agronomic data platform with Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities
The world is at increasing risk of global food shortage as a consequence of geopolitical conflict, supply chain disruptions, and climate change. Simultaneously, there’s an increase in overall demand from population growth and shifting diets that focus on nutrient- and protein-rich food. To meet the excess demand, farmers need to maximize crop yield and effectively … Read more
Separate lines of business or teams with multiple Amazon SageMaker domains
Amazon SageMaker Studio is a fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) that enables data scientists and developers to perform every step of the ML workflow, from preparing data to building, training, tuning, and deploying models. To access SageMaker Studio, Amazon SageMaker Canvas, or other Amazon ML environments like RStudio on Amazon SageMaker, … Read more
Operationalize your Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks as scheduled notebook jobs
Amazon SageMaker Studio provides a fully managed solution for data scientists to interactively build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models. In addition to the interactive ML experience, data workers also seek solutions to run notebooks as ephemeral jobs without the need to refactor code as Python modules or learn DevOps tools and best practices … Read more
Italy to impose 26% capital gains tax on crypto profits
The 26% capital gains tax will be imposed on cryptocurrency trading profits larger than 2000 euros ($2,062.3).
Binance Exec Says Company May Not Be Around in 10 Years
In a bid to alleviate worries for retail investors, Patrick Hillman, chief strategy officer at Binance, discusses the crypto exchange’s proof-of-reserve system following the collapse of FTX.
Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet
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Amazon CodeCatalyst provides blueprints for collaborative app development
During a keynote at re:Invent 2022 today, Amazon announced CodeCatalyst, a service designed to take away the heavy lifting of working across different codebases, tools and environments to build apps. Based on the concept of blueprints, CodeCatalyst — currently in preview — provides a “single place” developers can use to create an app on Amazon … Read more
Ask HN: Was I pwned?
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OpenAI’s new chatbot can explain code and write sitcom scripts but is still easily tricked
OpenAI’s latest tool / toy is an AI chatbot. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI has released a prototype general purpose chatbot that demonstrates a fascinating array of new capabilities, but also shows off weaknesses familiar to the fast-moving field of text-generation AI. And you can test out the model for yourself right here. ChatGPT is adapted … Read more
The EU wants to legitimize carbon removal schemes
The weekly meeting of the EU Commission on November 30th, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. | Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images The European Union has taken a major step toward legitimizing attempts to pull carbon dioxide out of the air. Yesterday, the European Commission adopted a proposal for new rules on how to certify carbon removal, … Read more
Bitcoin price volatility expected ahead of Friday’s $430M BTC options expiry
Here is why Bitcoin bears stand to profit from this week’s $430 million BTC options expiry.
New Amnesia game offers ‘semi-open world’ gameplay and a gun
Frictional Games Frictional Games, maker of SOMA and the Amnesia series, has announced it’s working on a new entry in its roster of survival horror titles with Amnesia: The Bunker. With a release date sometime next year, Amnesia: The Bunker seems to be unlike any of its predecessors. For starters, in the game’s short announcement … Read more
Blaseball, the cult favorite online game, will return on January 9
The internet’s favorite fantasy fantasy sports league, Blaseball has a return date at last. On January 9, the horror metagame will set out to prove that it’s more than just a viral pandemic hit. A creepy, collaborative baseball simulator, Blaseball garnered 1.75 million hits in August 2020, its first full month online. The next month, … Read more
Coinbase claims Apple blocked wallet app release over gas fees
The platform said Apple wanted Coinbase Wallet to disable NFT transactions, introducing “new policies to protect their profits at the expense of consumer investment in NFTs.”
New York City hiring top rat killer
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RDNA 2 quietly arrives in budget laptops
A very boring render of the IdeaPad 1 from Lenovo’s website. | Image: Lenovo Back in September, AMD launched some of the first mobile chips from its upcoming Ryzen 7000 line, the budget-oriented “Mendocino” series. At launch, they were described as tailored to “the everyday laptop,” combining last-gen Zen 2 CPU cores with high-end RDNA … Read more
Netflix is letting more subscribers preview its films and TV shows, report says
Content is king for streaming services, and Netflix may be going the extra mile to ensure its content is up to par with subscribers. According to the Wall Street Journal, Netflix’s prerelease screening program will soon enlist tens of thousands of subscribers to preview new movies and shows and provide their feedback. Netflix declined to … Read more
Coinbase Disables Mobile NFT Trading, Citing Apple’s App Store Policies
The exchange made the announcement in a Thursday Twitter thread, saying Apple is demanding Coinbase pay a 30% tax on gas fees used to transfer all NFTs.
A black hole ripped apart a star and brought together astronomers from around the world
An artist’s impression of a tidal disruption event. | Image: Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Swinburne University of Technology It was an event not seen in more than a decade: a sudden flash of energy launched out from the center of a distant galaxy, bright enough to be … Read more
Rostin Behnam points to CFTC-regulated LedgerX as success story amid FTX collapse
“The customer property at LedgerX — the CFTC regulated entity — has remained exactly where it should be, segregated and secure,” said Rostin Behnam in a hearing on FTX’s failures.