Digital Production

Here comes Houdini 22

Houdini 22 adds KineFX, APEX rigging, Gaussian Splats, Karma updates, Solaris work, MCP and UI improvements for production artists.
GitHub

TimesFM (Time Series Foundation Model) is a pretrained time-series foundation model developed by Google Research for time-series forecasting.

1.0 and 2.0: relevant code archived in the sub directory v1. You can pip install timesfm==1.3.0 to install an older version of this package to load them.
CNBC

Inside Kevin Warsh's selection process for the next Atlanta Fed president

The presidency of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta has been open since February when its occupant's term expired. That seat is the one immediate opportunity for new Chairman Kevin Warsh to reshape ...
aboutamazon

Amazon uses robots that sort, lift, and carry packages—see them in action

These nine robots help make employees' jobs safer and more productive by handling physically demanding tasks, freeing up time for skilled technical roles. The goal of robotics technology within Amazon ...
IEEE

A Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Feature Selection Method for Invasive Disease Event Prediction Using Imbalanced Follow-Up Data

Abstract: The machine learning-based model is a promising paradigm for predicting invasive disease events (iDEs) in breast cancer. Feature selection (FS) is an essential preprocessing technique ...
IEEE

Greedy Shapley Client Selection for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning

Abstract: The standard client selection algorithms for Federated Learning (FL) are often unbiased and involve uniform random sampling of clients. This has been proven sub-optimal for fast convergence ...
GitHub

Absolute C++ Sixth edition by Walter Savitch, Pearson

Practical programming problems solved in C++20, organized by chapter and topic. Predefined functions, Programmer-defined functions, Scope rules. File size - Compute video file size from bit rate and ...