Last Week: Exhibit your startup at TechCrunch Sessions AI
If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to showcase your newest innovation to a massive AI community, this is it! You have until this Friday, May 23 at 11:59 p.m. PT, to secure one of the few remaining exhibit tables at TechCrunch Sessions: AI and position your brand at
Read moreMultiplying a matrix by its transpose
An earlier post claimed that there practical advantages to partitioning a matrix, thinking of the matrix as a matrix of matrices. This post will give an example. Let M be a square matrix and suppose we need to multiply M by its transpose MT. We can compute this product faster than
Read moreA bit-twiddling marvel
Pop quiz: what does the following code do? bool is_leap_year_fast(uint32_t y) { return ((y * 1073750999) & 3221352463) <= 126976; } It determines whether the year y is a leap year in the Gregorian calendar, of course. :) It’s very efficient, though I don’t image that would ever matter. But
Read moreCEO Update: Exploration and experimentation for bold evolution
As we envision what the ideal future version of Stack Overflow looks like, we’re committed to engaging with our community.
Read moreHow Can AI Transform Data Visualization: Insights from PBT Group
The business world is filled with data from sales and operational reports to customer behavior analytics and social media sentiment. Yet, turning this data into meaningful insight has always been a challenge. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the field of data visualization, making it faster, smarter, and more accessible than
Read moreHow Can AI Transform Data Visualization: Insights from PBT Group
The business world is filled with data from sales and operational reports to customer behavior analytics and social media sentiment. Yet, turning this data into meaningful insight has always been a challenge. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the field of data visualization, making it faster, smarter, and more accessible than
Read moreBrex partners with former competitor Zip, with an eye on reducing cash burn to get to an IPO
Brex has once again made the surprising, but perhaps realistic, decision to partner with another one-time competitor. This time Zip, the CEOs of both companies told TechCrunch exclusively. In April 2022, fintech Brex announced it was making “a big push” into both the enterprise and software. The news was notable
Read moreSouth Loop Ventures closes $21M fund in Houston to build up local tech ecosystem
South Loop Ventures, a Houston-based venture firm, announced a $21 million Fund I, with Rice Management Company and Chevron Technology Ventures serving as anchor investors. The firm, which launched in 2022, focuses on seed and pre-seed companies, with $400,000 as the average check size. It also primarily hopes to focus
Read moreSparkCharge raises $30M to help fleets electrify without commitments
SparkCharge raised $15.5 million in equity and secured a $15 million loan to expand its fleet charging operations.
Read moreAlation acquires Numbers Station to bolster its AI agent offerings
Alation plans to integrate Numbers Station's products into its own as soon as the end of this quarter, Alation co-founder and CEO Satyen Sangani told TechCrunch.
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