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A new job comes with a new laptop. As such, I was given a Framework Laptop DIY Edition with the objective to install and configure it entirely with NixOS. I will share my first impressions after receiving and opening the box, sharing my personal feedback on the hardware. Then, I will go through the various pitfalls I encountered with the installation of NixOS on a Framework Laptop DIY Edition so that you can be up and running in no time. If you are not familiar with Framework computers, that’s OK. The Framework laptop is relatively new to the market as…

This is a joint post with Inbar Naor. Originally published at engineering.taboola.com. As deep neural networks (DNN) become more powerful, their complexity increases. This complexity introduces new challenges, including model interpretability. Interpretability is crucial in order to build models that are more robust and resistant to adversarial attacks. Moreover, designing a model for a new, not well researched domain is challenging and being able to interpret what the model is doing can help us in the process. The importance of model interpretation has driven researchers to develop a variety of methods over the past few years and an entire workshop…

TL;DR Amazon Autos has rolled out in beta today. Shoppers will be able to use the service to buy vehicles from the e-retailer. For now, you’ll only be able to purchase one of Hyundai’s new vehicles. Amazon has expanded its list of categories today. As you’re perusing the website’s listings to finish off your holiday shopping, you’ll have the chance to add a car to your cart along with that tablet for your parents.In late 2023, the e-retailer announced it would be launching an automotive service sometime in 2024. Just in time to beat its set deadline, the company has…

For several years, Jupyter notebook has established itself as the notebook solution in the Python universe. Historically, Jupyter is the tool of choice for data scientists who mainly develop in Python. Over the years, Jupyter has evolved and now has a wide range of features thanks to its plugins. Also, one of the main advantages of Jupyter is its ease of deployment. More and more Spark developers favor Python over Scala to develop their various jobs for speed of development. In this article, we will see together how to connect a Jupyter server to a Spark cluster running on Hadoop…

This is a joint post with Inbar Naor. Originally published at engineering.taboola.com. Understanding what a model doesn’t know is important both from the practitioner’s perspective and for the end users of many different machine learning applications. In our previous blog post we discussed the different types of uncertainty. We explained how we can use it to interpret and debug our models. In this post we’ll discuss different ways to obtain uncertainty in Deep Neural Networks. Let’s start by looking at neural networks from a Bayesian perspective. Bayesian statistics allow us to draw conclusions based on both evidence (data) and our…

Rankin pointed to an analysis that looked at 39 different viral outbreaks in birds from 1959 to 2015, where a low pathogenic avian influenza became a highly pathogenic one. Out of those, 37 were associated with commercial poultry operations. “So it’s a very clear relationship between the increasing pathogenicity of this virus and its relationship with industrial animal raising,” Rankin said. Some researchers worry that large farms with multiple species are providing the optimal conditions for more species-to-species transfer. In North Carolina, the second-largest hog-producing state after Iowa, some farmers have started raising both chickens and hogs under contracts that…

When it comes to exposing services from a Kubernetes cluster and making it accessible from outside the cluster, the recommended option is to use a load-balancer type service to redirect incoming traffic to the right pod. In a bare-metal cluster, using this type of service leaves the EXTERNAL-IP field of the service as pending, making it unavailable outside of the cluster. Comparatively, this is a native feature of Cloud managed clusters. Let’s find out how to achieve a similar result in a bare-metal cluster. For the past few years, managed cloud Kubernetes clusters offers have thrived with the continuous growth…

This is a joint post with Inbar Naor. Originally published at engineering.taboola.com. Now that we know what uncertainty types exist and learned some ways to model them, we can start talking about how to use them in our application. In this post we’ll introduce the exploration-exploitation problem and show you how uncertainty can help in solving it. We’ll focus on exploration in recommender systems, but the same idea can be applied in many applications of reinforcement learning — self driving cars, robots, etc. The goal of a recommender system is to recommend items that the users might find relevant. At…

Yesterday, Google announced its new quantum computing chip called the “Willow.” The company claims that the Willow only takes five minutes to solve a problem compared to the world’s fastest supercomputers which would take ten septillion years to complete. Google unveils the new quantum chip “Willow” with breakthrough achievements So, what’s so special about Willow? Besides powerful performance, Willow can significantly reduce errors. For those unaware, quantum computing uses qubits instead of bits. Reuters notes that “qubits are fast but error-prone.” That’s because they tend to quickly exchange information with their environment. In a published research paper, Google adds that…

With many security challenges solved by design in its core conception, lots of projects benefit from using WebAssembly. WasmEdge runtime is an efficient Virtual Machine optimized for edge computing. Its main use cases are: Jamstack apps, through a static front end with a serverless backend (FaaS) Automobiles IoT and Stream processing It is an embeddable virtual machine that can be used as a process, in a process, or orchestrated as a native OCI container (providing an OCI compliant interface). What is WebAssembly? WebAssembly (Wasm) is a byte-code meant to be run alongside JavaScript, it is a successor to a few…