Plaid will deposit open banking intel on the Fintech Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
If a cat had a thousand lives, we would name it Plaid — in recognition of the fintech startup giant that moves forward relentlessly, regardless of obstacles along the way. Case in point: When the Department of Justice scuttled a $5 billion acquisition deal with Visa, Plaid barely blinked. Instead,
Read moreWhat’s it like being a Black founder in France?
In France, Shaila Sahai says pitching investors usually goes like this. She is a woman, Black and a CEO, and when she walks into a meeting with investors, armed with a slide deck for her fintech startup We Take Part, she’s often greeted with bafflement. “They are surprised, and they
Read moreHalley’s variation on Newton’s method
Newton’s method for solving f(x) = 0 converges quickly once it starts to converge. Specifically, it converges quadratically: the error is roughly squared at each step. This means that the number of correct decimal places doubles at each iteration of Newton’s method. Doubling the number of decimal places is nice,
Read moreReddit braces for life after API changes
Reddit has had a tumultuous month after announcing changes to its data API. In the last month, Reddit’s CEO gave interviews defending the company’s decision, the social network had fights with developers and moderators, and the platform saw a large number of subreddits going dark and later protesting in different
Read moreCJEU ruling on Meta referral could close the chapter on surveillance capitalism
Mark your calendar European friends: July 4th could soon be celebrated as independence-from-Meta’s-surveillance-capitalism-day… A long-anticipated judgement handed down today by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) looks to have comprehensively crushed the social media giant’s ability to keep flouting EU privacy law by denying users a free
Read moreCreating Interactive Maps with Custom Markers Using SwiftUI in iOS 17
With the release of iOS 17, Apple introduces an exciting enhancement to SwiftUI that revolutionizes how we add markers on maps.Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreMachine Learning Model Deployment: From Jupyter Notebook to the Cloud
Building a machine learning model is only half the battle. Deploying the model into a production environment where it can be used to make predictions is equally important. In this article, we will explore the steps involved in deploying a machine-learning model from a Jupyter Notebook to the cloud.Photo by Safar
Read moreNeRF at CVPR23: Arbitrary Camera Trajectories ➿
Since the release of NeRF at ECCV 2020 there’s been more and more NeRF papers published each year. This trend continued at CVPR 2023, where 5% of the total papers, i.e. around 120 papers, revolved around NeRF and its various iterations! Let’s have a look at two papers about Arbitrary
Read moreWWDC 2023: What’s New in Core Data
Photo by Kaizen Nguyễn on UnsplashAlthough at WWDC 2023, Apple will mainly focus on introducing the new data framework SwiftData, Core Data, as the cornerstone of SwiftData, has also been enhanced to some extent. This article will introduce the new features that Core Data has gained this year.A Chinese version of this
Read moreClickUp, a productivity platform that was last valued at $4B, cuts 10% of workforce
ClickUp, the software-as-a-service startup that offers a workforce productivity platform and counts storied investors Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global among its backers, has laid off 10% of its workforce. With a total headcount of about 900 employees, it represents approximately 90 people. The company says it looks to become more
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