AI study claims tennis is the most ‘euphoric’ sport. I’m not convinced

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by on June 30, 2021 at 7:19 pm
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If you’re captivated by the drama of the European Football Championship, have you considered watching Wimbledon instead? Tennis is, after all, a more euphoric sport to watch. Or so claims a new AI analysis. The study by British TV platform Freeview explored emotional reactions to different sports by analyzing the expressions of viewers. The 150 participants were sent content from 10 sports consisting of 30,750 frames, which were standardized to capture the same format of low, medium, and high-intensity clips. Their responses were measured by software developed by startup RealEyes, which analyzed reactions caught by cameras on viewers’ devices. According to…

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Cryptocurrency isn’t as impenetrable as you think. This training even explains how to make your own

Jun13
by on June 13, 2021 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Offers


TLDR: The Cryptocurrency with Ethereum and Solidity Blockchain Developer Bundle explains the entire crypto phenomenon and also explores creating your own real world cryptocurrency. If your knowledge of cryptocurrency only extends as far as shaking your head dismissively when someone brings up Elon Musk’s darling dogecoin, you might be missing the larger point. While much of the cryptocurrency market is still driven by wild speculation with minimal basis in real world logic, crypto and its blockchaining roots are anything but a fly-by-night idea. In fact, many would argue the decentralized technology that fuels crypto creation on platforms like Ethereum are…

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Self-driving startup Waabi just managed to net $83.5M — how?

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by on June 12, 2021 at 3:00 pm
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It is not the best of times for self-driving car startups. The past year has seen large tech companies acquire startups that were running out of cash and ride-hailing companies shutter costly self-driving car projects with no prospect of becoming production-ready anytime soon. Yet, in the midst of this downturn, Waabi, a Toronto-based self-driving car startup, has just come out of stealth with an insane amount of $83.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures, with additional participation from Uber, 8VC, Radical Ventures, OMERS Ventures, BDC, and Aurora Innovation. The company’s financial backers also include Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li,…

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