How knowledge distillation compresses neural networks

For instance, the famous BERT model has about ~110 million. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. So, what is knowledge distillation? Lets imagine a very complex task, such as image classification for thousands of classes. Often, you cant just slap on a ResNet50 and expect it to achieve 99% accuracy. So, you build an ensemble of models, balancing out the flaws of each one. In broad strokes, the process is the following....

October 26, 2020 · 3 min · 453 words · Kevin Perry

The Apple Watch design is already a classic — will it ever change?

The Apple Watch is a thing of absolute beauty. The Curpertino-based company isnt exactly known for left-field approaches to product design. Its all about evolution, about tinkering and perfecting. This leads to clear aesthetic growth across its products. Well, in everything but the Apple Watch. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. And now compare that to this years Series 6: Theyre remarkably similar. But apart from that? So why has the Apple Watch design stayed so similar?...

October 26, 2020 · 2 min · 369 words · Tracy Stanley

The ewaste crisis could be avoided if we made batteries cheaper and easier to recycle

Powered by advancements in battery technology, the number ofplug-in hybrid and electric vehicleson U.S. roads is increasing. And utilities are generating a growing share of their power from renewable fuels, supported bylarge-scale battery storage systems. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. However, todays lithium-ion batteries are highly sophisticated and not designed for recyclability. Moreover, manufacturers have little economic incentive to modify existing protocols to incorporate recycling-friendly designs. Today itcosts more to recyclea lithium-ion battery than the recoverable materials inside it are worth....

October 25, 2020 · 2 min · 383 words · Leah Bond

Why can’t I fix my own phone, toaster, or tractor?

Butnot allwere in working condition. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. I had just expected, Oh, no problem. Where can we send it? I wasnt expecting them to dig their heels in. With the ventilator, he had thought they might relent. It was just a shame, he said. Groups like The Repair Association have helped push consumer electronic right-to-repair bills introduced in dozens of states. None, however, have become law in recent years....

October 24, 2020 · 2 min · 327 words · Ashley Castaneda

Galactic gas can help unveil what dark matter is made of

But astronomers have promisedto leave no stone unturnedand have started to cast their net wider out into the galaxy. The masses of these clumps fall on a spectrum, with lower mass ones expected to be more numerous. Is there a limit to how light they could be? It depends on the nature of dark matter particles. We know it exists because we can see the gravitational effects it has on the surrounding matter....

October 23, 2020 · 2 min · 303 words · Jerry Jackson

How I passed the TensorFlow Developer Certification Exam

At the start of May, I decided to get TensorFlow Developer Certified. So I set myself upwith a curriculum to sharpen my skillsand took the certification turns out, I passed. Let me tell you how I did it and how you’re able to too. Hold on, what even is TensorFlow? Its what Google uses to power all of its machine learning services. Chances are, the machine youre reading this on has run some kind of TensorFlow before....

October 23, 2020 · 4 min · 845 words · Steven Mayer

Here are 10 best practices for Node developers

Node.js is popular among developers as an asynchronous and event-driven language used for backend development. It has a syntax easy enough to understand even for beginners. In this post, were going to point out 10 best practices every Node developer should follow. Especially, if the project is open source, so we need to be mindful of this possibility. We can use two methods to prevent this clash of package versions....

October 22, 2020 · 3 min · 558 words · Rebecca Fields

Hide your Kindle SHAME with this case that looks like a REAL book

I love ereaders, but regular books are better. Im not saying Kindles and the like arent worth your time, far from it.Theyreamazing. Take, for example, my Kindle Paperwhite. It holdthousandsof books, so Im never at a loss for something to read. The backlight means I can devour novels in low-light. Its easy to hold, so I can get comfortable everywhere. Whats not to like? Well, Ill tell you: it doesnt make me look smart....

October 22, 2020 · 2 min · 356 words · Colleen Cook

How corporations and SMBs can turn competition into collaboration

We can finally live out ourJetsonsfantasies almost. Thanks to this collaboration, catching a lift will have a whole new meaning. So how important are this punch in of collaboration or partnership to a digital ecosystem? What is an ecosystem in the first place? Founders with problems to solve. Co-founders who believe in their vision. Networking events so they can find each other. Funding from friends and family, angels, VCs, and private equity funds....

October 22, 2020 · 2 min · 401 words · Patricia Joseph

Sustainable car-sharing brand Lynk & Co. launches in Europe — and we investigated

Its a car brand, but the car is far from the companys centerpiece. If youvenot heard of Lynk & Co. Lynk & Co. isnt a name that immediately screams car brand, Visser tells me this is intentional. The name for the company was thought up, almost jovially, during a taxi ride with his colleagues. Before the brand was released it went by the code-name: Lynk. 40% off TNW Conference! That 500 a month covers all vehicle expenses except electricity, fuel,and parking tickets, Visser jokes....

October 22, 2020 · 3 min · 554 words · John Cantu

Why is it so rare to have a woman leading a game?

In 1986, a game was released calledMetroid. 40% off TNW Conference! Then, shortly after the turn of the century, a new sort of female protagonist emerged. A more dressed-down, less-sexualized woman began to appear in leading roles. One of the first was Jade, the protagonist of 2003sBeyond Good and Evil. Even Lara herself received a more practical makeover in the 2013Tomb Raiderreboot. That said, the number of female-led games has not risen at a rate commensurate with this evolution....

October 22, 2020 · 3 min · 506 words · Tonya Anderson

Coding, hacking, vlogging — how tech is changing your everyday language

You should…commence the conversation by saying Hulloa! suggested the first phone book, New Haven, ConnecticutsThe Telephone Directory. And so language changed, at least to start conversations. The former won, perhaps thanks to early phone books, andHelloentered the global lexicon. 40% off TNW Conference! The next, Hello is the worlds most universal greeting. Its hard now to imagine anything else taking that slot. Podcasts, he called them, echoing a term coined at random a year earlier....

October 21, 2020 · 3 min · 445 words · Kevin Matthews

I’ve fallen for the electric Hummer and I hate myself for it

Not just any Hummer, though, but the upcoming 1,000 horsepower all-electric brute from GMC. 40% off TNW Conference! For those that refuse to let go of the past, youre in luck, it looks decidedly Hummerish. Its also proportioned like a Hummer, in that its bloody massive. Looking at it head-on, youre faced with the recognizable slab-like front-end,a lobster it is not. The biggest battery EVer How does it do this?...

October 21, 2020 · 2 min · 296 words · Dawn Paul