TikTok Tuesday revealed the inaugural class for TikTok for Black Creatives, a new incubator program aimed at investing in and supporting emerging Black creators and musical artists on its video creation platform, which it introduced last month. TikTok teamed up with Macro, a multiplatform media company founded by CEO Charles D. King to represent the…Read More
When you’re building a machine learning model you’re faced with the bias-variance tradeoff, where you have to find the balance between having a model that: Is very expressive and captures the real patterns in the data. Generates predictions that are not too far off from the actual values, A model that is very expressive has a low bias, but it can also be too complex. While a model that generates predictions that aren’t too far off from the true value has low variance. Overfitting When the model is too complex and tries to encode more patterns from the training data than it’s actually…
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TLDR: The Complete Android 11 Developer Bundle is an 11-course package of training to help users learn everything they need to know to build a killer Android app from scratch. If you thought the world was crazy for apps before a global pandemic, you should take a look at the numbers now. 2020 pushed app downloads through the roof, with 2.5 million apps available on the Google Play Store. Coming up with the killer app idea that’s ready to take the world by storm is great, but without the ability to make that idea a reality, it’s just a great…
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LinkedIn Stories, which officially debuted for members of the professional network as part of a major visual redesign last September, were rolled out to pages Tuesday. A small number of pages worldwide received advanced word so that they could get started using the new feature immediately, and the professional network will use Stories of its…Read More
At a time when 1.8 million Americans per day are getting one of the Covid-19 vaccines and infection rates continue to fall, most of us are daydreaming of a post-pandemic future. Among those dreamers are quite a few retailers that–unless their names happen to be Home Depot, Walmart or Amazon–are desperately counting on a return…Read More
IronSource is acquiring Luna Labs as it seeks to offer mobile app developers a comprehensive suite of monetization tools. The deal comes as the number of mergers and acquisitions in the space accelerates ahead of Apple’s upcoming iOS 14 privacy overhaul. Top line Luna Labs offers mobile app developers the ability to incorporate video ads…Read More
Today, South Korean carmaker Hyundai unveiled its new hatchback EV, the 5. And you know what, it looks like a bloody brilliant. The motoring media has already published plenty of lengthy write-ups, so I’m going to focus on just three things you need to know about this new car: its range, how fast it charges, and a unique feature that means it can power other devices. But before we get to that, here’s a picture (lucky you) and quick overview. Hyundai’s 5 is the company’s first EV that’s part of its new electric-focused Ioniq brand. In August last year, Hyundai announced that…
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I love making up band names. If you don’t believe it, I once spent an entire evening creating new musical group names for folks on Twitter. Coming up with funny or catchy monikers is hard. But… what if an AI did all the heavy lifting? Dream no longer. This Twitter bot not only comes up with new metal band names, but also makes their album names and artwork too. The algorithm behind this not super complex by today’s standards. The bot uses Open AI’s GPT-2-simple to generate band and album names. For generating album art, it uses the big-sleep library that converts texts into images. …
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Business directory and crowdsourced review forum Yelp continues to tweak its offerings with the aim of helping restaurants survive during the pandemic. Prior to lockdown, the Yelp Waitlist feature was primarily used to manage dine-in service at restaurants and, while some restaurant owners managed to figure out ways to use Waitlist to deal with the…Read More
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