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This article is an excerpt from my book TinyML Cookbook, Second Edition. You can find the code used in the article here. Getting Ready The application we will design in this article aims to continuously record a 1-second audio clip and run the model inference, as illustrated in the following image: Figure 1: Recording and processing tasks running sequentially From the task execution timeline shown in the preceding image, you can observe that the feature extraction and model inference are always performed after the audio…

2023 is coming to a close. To mark the end of the year, Valve has rolled out a "year-in-review" tool that allows players to review their 2023 stats and find out which games they played the most, their top genres, number of achievements unlocked, and lots more.The Steam Year-in-Review page also allows players to see how their results compare against the wider community and share their results around the internet. Valve created a pretty funny video, too, to promote the Steam Year in Review--check it out…

In her Reith lecture of 2017, recently published for the first time in a posthumous collection of nonfiction, A Memoir of My Former Self, Hilary Mantel recalled the beginnings of her career as a novelist. It was the 1970s. “In those days historical fiction wasn’t respectable or respected,” she recalled. “It meant historical romance. If you read a brilliant novel like I, Claudius, you didn’t taint it with the genre label, you just thought of it as literature. So, I was shy about naming what I was doing. All the same, I…

Following an appearance at the Annapurna Interactive Showcase today (June 29), Dinogod founder Ben Ruiz has spoken to NME about Bounty Star, their studio’s upcoming base-buiilding mech game. Announced last year, Bounty Star follows ex-soldier Clem, who must build up her base of operations while hunting bounties in her mech. Thanks to Bounty Star‘s elements of farming, base-building and 3D mech combat, along with its “post-post-apocalyptic” Western setting, fans have been struggling to find an existing game to compare it…

Apple has updated its Podcasts app on iOS, iPadOS and macOS with features that make it easier to find content in your favorite genres. It now includes nine new subcategories: Mental Health, Relationships, Self-Improvement, Personal Journals, Entrepreneurship, Documentary, Parenting, Books and Language learning. Those come on top of existing subcategories like True Crime, Sports and others.  Apple has been focused on mental health over the past few years, and recently introduced the Journal app that lets you document how…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Liking certain things or styles is an important aspect of peoples' identities and social lives. Tastes can influence the ways humans act and judge. How to best describe musical taste reliably is—due to the ever-changing diversification and transformation of music—difficult and open to debate. …

Tokyo, Japan, May 25th, 2023, Chainwire Herencia Artifex promotes collaboration across art world boundaries and provides a venue for artists of different backgrounds and styles to come together and produce creative works. The project name “Herencia Artifex” (abbreviated HXA) is Latin for “Herencia” (inheritance) and “Artifex” (artist). The HXA project aims to use NFT to pass on outstanding artists and crafts. This genre-transcending artistic collaboration in the Web3 space will give birth to new art forms and…

One of the more delightful things—aside from the movies themselves—to come out of Shinji Higuchi and Hideaki Anno’s “Shin” tokusatsu movies is the Shin Japan Heroes project, a merch collab that mashes up Evangelion, Ultraman, Godzilla, and Kamen Rider. Now, it’s gotten even weirder, and more delightful.Reservation Dogs | First FandomsTo celebrate the Shin universe’s latest mashup, Bandai has created a special new short film which sees Evangelion’s Unit 1, alongside the “Shin” iterations of Kamen Rider Ichigo, Godzilla,…

Image: Universal PicturesDirectors Tyler Gillett and Bettinelli-Olpin, the directing duo known as Radio Silence, have had a good run as of late with Scream 5 and Scream VI. Though they plan on returning to the series at some point, their very next project will be a Universal Monsters movie that they’re being veeeeeery secretive about, to the point where it’s not even sure which Monster they’re tackling.Ernie Hudson | First FandomsThat hasn’t stopped them from building out that mysterious movie’s cast. Scream VI star…

via Universal It might sting a certain section of the DCU fandom to hear it, but Zack Snyder’s very first movie – the phenomenal Dawn of the Dead remake – is also his highest-rated on Rotten Tomatoes to this day. Technically, the filmmaker has never bettered it, and it must hurt even more to know that the script was penned by none other than James Gunn. One of Snyder’s hallmarks throughout his entire career have been impeccably-crafted opening scenes that plunge you right into the thick of the action, while…