Growth in Singapore retail sales slows to 1.1% in June
The Straits Times Business News August 04, 2023 3:30 PMTakings at the till are down from 1.8 per cent in May. Go to Source 04/08/2023 – 15:07 / Twitter: @hoffeldtcom
Pandemic set back social and emotional growth of children in England, study finds
Coronavirus | The Guardian Half of youngsters from all economic backgrounds affected and especially those whose parents’ jobs were hit, says Institute for Fiscal StudiesHalf of all children suffered a setback to their emotional and social development during the first year of the pandemic, with younger siblings more likely to have been negatively affected than […]Continue reading
A simpler method for learning to control a robot
MIT News – Artificial intelligence Researchers from MIT and Stanford University have devised a new machine-learning approach that could be used to control a robot, such as a drone or autonomous vehicle, more effectively and efficiently in dynamic environments where conditions can change rapidly. This technique could help an autonomous vehicle learn to compensate for […]Continue reading
Anchor Brewing: America’s oldest craft brewery shuts after 127 years
BBC News – Business The owner of Anchor Brewing said it could not overcome the hit from the pandemic. Go to Source 13/07/2023 – 21:03 / Twitter: @hoffeldtcom
When computer vision works more like a brain, it sees more like people do
MIT News – Artificial intelligence From cameras to self-driving cars, many of today’s technologies depend on artificial intelligence to extract meaning from visual information. Today’s AI technology has artificial neural networks at its core, and most of the time we can trust these AI computer vision systems to see things the way we do — […]Continue reading
UK Covid inquiry: public health bosses relied on media for information
Coronavirus | The Guardian Inquiry hears of communication problems and lack of preparedness for pandemicCommunication from central government was so poor during parts of the Covid pandemic that directors of public health relied on TV and newspapers to find out about key decisions, the UK Covid public inquiry has heard.Government departments did not even have […]Continue reading
Poor people hit hardest by Covid because of NHS cuts, experts say
Coronavirus | The Guardian Worst affected were those in northern England from minority ethnic backgrounds, inquiry toldPoor people were hit hardest by Covid – and poor people living in the north of England were hit hardest of all – because of government cuts to health services in the years leading up to the pandemic, experts […]Continue reading
No-deal Brexit planning ‘crowded out’ efforts to prepare for pandemic
Coronavirus | The Guardian Covid inquiry hears that from 2018 planning for UK’s disorderly exit from EU ‘drained resources and capacity’Planning for a no-deal Brexit from 2018 “crowded out” government efforts to prepare for a pandemic and contributed to leaving the country unready, the first evidence session of the Covid public inquiry has heard.UK government […]Continue reading
Exploring Generative AI in conversational experiences: An Introduction with Amazon Lex, Langchain, and SageMaker Jumpstart
AWS Machine Learning Blog Customers expect quick and efficient service from businesses in today’s fast-paced world. But providing excellent customer service can be significantly challenging when the volume of inquiries outpaces the human resources employed to address them. However, businesses can meet this challenge while providing personalized and efficient customer service with the advancements in […]Continue reading
Scaling audio-visual learning without labels
MIT News – Artificial intelligence Researchers from MIT, the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, IBM Research, and elsewhere have developed a new technique for analyzing unlabeled audio and visual data that could improve the performance of machine-learning models used in applications like speech recognition and object detection. The work, for the first time, combines two architectures […]Continue reading