Control Your Spotify Playlist with an MCP Server
KDnuggets
APRIL 16, 2025
Use AI to control Spotify playback, search for songs, and manage your queue for a personalized experience.
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From Data Points to Decision Boundaries: A Hands-On Guide to Predictive Maintenance using PCA
Towards AI
APRIL 16, 2025
Author(s): Luis Ramirez Originally published on Towards AI. For industrial equipment the default approach is preventive maintenance, which involves servicing equipment on a fixed schedule, such as monthly or semi-annually. While better than reactive maintenance (fixing equipment after failure), this one-size-fits-all strategy has significant drawbacks.
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How to Write Efficient Dockerfiles for Your Python Applications
KDnuggets
APRIL 16, 2025
Learn how to build faster, leaner, and more secure Python containers with these efficient Dockerfile strategies.
Applications with Context Vectors
Machine Learning Mastery
APRIL 16, 2025
This post is divided into two parts; they are: Contextual Keyword Extraction Contextual Text Summarization Contextual keyword extraction is a technique for identifying the most important words in a document based on their contextual relevance.
Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration
Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate
Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.
AI Data Platform Hammerspace Raises $100M
insideBIGDATA
APRIL 16, 2025
AI data platform company Hammerspace announced that several venture investors have invested $100 million in growth capital in the company. Altimeter Capital, which inveted in Meta, MongoDB, NVIDIA, Snowflake and Uber, led the Series B round.
Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?
Hacker News
APRIL 16, 2025
In their own words, we see that Snap Incs design choices expose millions of kids to harm
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Hacker News
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Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.
OpenAI in talks to pay about $3 billion to acquire AI coding startup Windsurf
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Kermit: A typeface for kids
Hacker News
APRIL 16, 2025
Using design to empower children by making reading easier, improving comprehension, and helping dyslexics.
Microsoft researchers say they’ve developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs
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Microsoft researchers claim theyve developed the largest-scale 1-bit AI model, also known as a bitnet, to date. Called BitNet b1.58 2B4T, its openly available under an MIT license and can run on CPUs, including Apples M2.
Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data
Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage
There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.
SQL CTE vs. Subquery: This Debate Ain’t Over Yet!
KDnuggets
APRIL 16, 2025
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Google used AI to suspend over 39M ad accounts suspected of fraud
APRIL 16, 2025
Google on Wednesday said it suspended 39.2 million advertiser accounts on its platform in 2024 more than triple the number from the previous year in its latest crackdown on ad fraud.
Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
Hacker News
APRIL 16, 2025
Jared Mauch gets $2.6 million from gov’t to expand fiber ISP in rural Michigan.
Meet The AI Agent With Multiple Personalities
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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control
Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives
Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri
When College Might Not Be Worth It
Hacker News
APRIL 16, 2025
A look at some of the factors that may contribute to the cost of college not being worth the return, including differences by major.
OpenAI says newest AI model can 'think with images,' understanding diagrams and sketches
APRIL 16, 2025
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ACM Human-Computer Interaction Conference (CHI) 2025
Machine Learning Research at Apple
APRIL 16, 2025
Apple is presenting new research at the ACM annual conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CHI), which takes place in person in Yokohama, Japan, from April 26 to May 1. We are proud to again sponsor the conference, which brings together the scientific and industrial research communities focused on interactive technology. Below is an overview of Apples participation at CHI 2025.
EU bans the bots: Commission bars ‘AI agents’ from joining online meetings
APRIL 16, 2025
AI-powered assistants are becoming a popular business and consumer tool. The EU says no thanks for now.
Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work
Speaker: Frank Taliano
Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.
Sony Unveils the Smallest and Lightest Lidar Depth Sensor
Hacker News
APRIL 16, 2025
The Sony AS-DT1 is the world's smallest and lightest LiDAR Depth Sensor. The tiny camera measures distance using a SPAD sensor.
demis hassabis, co-founder of google deepmind
APRIL 16, 2025
Demis Hassabis is reshaping whats possible in science. His work at DeepMindmost notably the development of AlphaFold, which earned him a share of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistryis already accelerating discoveries across biology and medicine.
Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient
Hacker News
APRIL 16, 2025
Around 60% of the European Union’s soils are considered unhealthy, but geographer Jesús Rodrigo Comino is determined to help change that in his native Spain. Around 60% of the European Union’s soils are considered unhealthy, but geographer Jesús Rodrigo Comino is determined to help change that in his native Spain.
AI is coming for music, too
APRIL 16, 2025
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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier
Hacker News
APRIL 16, 2025
All JetBrains AI tools including our improved AI Assistant and new coding agent Junie are now available within our IDEs under a single subscription and come with a free tier.
AI system restores speech for paralyzed patients using own voice
APRIL 16, 2025
Researchers in California have achieved a significant breakthrough with an AI-powered system that restores natural speech to paralyzed individuals in real time, using their own voices, specifically demonstrated in a clinical trial participant who is severely paralyzed and cannot speak.
A Postmortem of a Startup
Hacker News
APRIL 16, 2025
A postmortem of a startup that attempted to address Britain's housing crisis by building software to streamline the planning permission process.
Microsoft lets Copilot Studio use a computer on its own
APRIL 16, 2025
Microsoft has its own computer use feature for AI agents to automatically use websites and apps. Microsoft has enabled a new computer use feature for Copilot Studio this week that lets AI agents interact with websites and desktop applications.
Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting
Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street
In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.
The UCSD p-System, Apple Pascal, and a dream of cross-platform compatibility
Hacker News
APRIL 16, 2025
The UCSD p-System, Apple Pascal, and a dream of cross-platform compatibility never quite realized I've been thinking about the UCSD P-System a lot lately, and I thought I'd write about it a bit, and about bytecode systems more-generally. And along the way, I hope to write some interesting code. What's the p-System?
BigQuery is 5x bigger than Snowflake and Databricks: What Google is doing to make it even better
APRIL 16, 2025
Google Cloud announced a significant number of new features at its Google Cloud Next event last week, with at least 229 new announcements.
Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data
Hacker News
APRIL 16, 2025
Kaggle is hosting Wikimedia Enterprise's beta release of structured data in both French and English.
OpenAI Releases Smarter AI Models
APRIL 16, 2025
OpenAI today announced the release of new o3 and o4-mini AI models, which the company says are its smartest models to date. o3 and o4-mini can use and combine all ChatGPT tools, including web searches, analyzing files and data with Python, reasoning about visual input, and generating images.
The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide
Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring
Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?
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