Discrete

From the Archives: Generative AI in the ‘00sI want to take you back to the last generative AI episode, in the early ’00s. During this time, Geoff Hinton, one of the founding fathers of deep learning, published an influential paper detailing the contrastive divergence algorithm . This discovery allowed Smolensky’s harmonium  — which Hinton called the restricted Boltzmann machine — to be trained efficiently. It was soon realised that this model could be used for all sorts of purposes: initialising a feed-forward neural net…

Solving GATE Previous Year’s Questions (PYQs) not only clears the concepts but also helps to gain flexibility, speed, accuracy, and understanding of the level of questions generally asked in the GATE exam, and that eventually helps you to gain good marks in the examination. Previous Year Questions help a candidate practice and revise for GATE, which helps crack GATE with a good score. Discrete Mathematics Previous Year GATE Questions help in analyzing the question pattern of a subject and marking scheme as well as helps…

Honor MagicBook 14 (2022) pros and cons Pros 12th-gen Core i5 CPUNvidia GeForce RTX 2050 optionAll-day battery lifeCompetitive price Cons 300 nits screen720p webcamDisappointing speakers Keys have 1.5mm of travel and there's a combined power button/fingerprint reader in the top right corner. Image: Sandra Vogel / ZDNETMy review unit had a US keyboard layout, but otherwise I found it efficient and comfortable to use. There's 1.5mm of key travel and good bounce-back, and the gentle clicking generated by typing…

What is  Standard Deviation?A scientific measure of dispersion that is widely used in statistical analysis of a given set of data is known as Standard Deviation. Another name for standard deviation is Root Mean Square Deviation. Standard Deviation is denoted by a Greek Symbol σ (sigma). Under this method, the deviation of values is taken from the arithmetic mean of the given set of data. According to Spiegel, “The Standard Deviation is the square root of the arithmetic mean of the squares of all deviations. Deviations…

Improving a busy emergency department with stochastic discrete event simulationPhoto by Zichao Zhang on UnsplashIn everyday life we often encounter and engage with queue based systems. This is the case where a system or process necessitates that entities, such as customers or patients, flow through the system while queuing for limited resources. We also often find ourselves wondering if the system we are engaged with is optimal, or speculate about the amount of time it will take to be served.Within the domain of queuing…

Intel for many users equates to years of extensive trust and outstanding reliability, and the latest range of high-performance graphics continue to build on that. It's likely that you have been using Intel integrated graphics for years, which makes moving to more powerful dedicated graphics from Intel a wise and easy choice. Intel has unleashed an exciting new product line for consumer high-performance graphics – the Intel® Arc™ discrete graphics, built to enable premium gaming, creating, and streaming experiences.Intel®…

Miniature workstations with high-performance CPUs are pretty common these days. However, compact workstations with a discrete graphics processor that can drive modern games are, to put it mildly, hard to find. Nevertheless, Minisforum's new HX90G packs an eight-core AMD Ryzen 9 processor and AMD's discrete Radeon RX 6600M GPU into a chassis measuring just 20.5×20.3×6.93cm, which is comparable to a Mac Mini. Minisforum's Neptune Series HX90G is based on AMD's Ryzen 5900HX processor (8C/16T, 20MB L2+L3 cache, 3.30 GHz –…

The industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) spending in the discrete manufacturing sector in Asia-Pacific is likely to reach $89 billion by 2025, according to a new report.Discrete manufacturing is the production of distinct items like automobiles, furniture, toys, smartphones, and airplanes, among others.According to an IDC report, manufacturing is the most common target of infrastructure cybercrime, accounting for one-third of all assaults.Additionally, the level of competitiveness is rising and so do the expectations of…

Intel has announced its new Intel Arc brand for discrete high-performance consumer GPUs, as well as companion software and services, aimed largely at gamers. The first models for both desktops and laptops will be launched in 2022. Moreover, the company has disclosed the first of its genre-themed codenames that refer to upcoming products. 'Alchemist', formerly known as DG2, will be based on the Xe HPG architecture, and will launch in early 2022. The series will progress alphabetically, with Battlemage, Celestial, and Druid…

Intel held a virtual Architecture Day presentation, disclosing details of the engineering behind several upcoming products in the consumer and data centre spaces. While exact specifications of CPUs and GPUs will have to wait till they are actually launched, we now have a better idea of the building blocks that Intel is using to put them together. Intel SVP and GM of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics group, Raja Koduri, led the presentation during when multiple senior Intel engineers appeared.The 12th Gen Core…