Interaction

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Supreme Court deliberations happen behind closed doors. Can we peek behind them using the voting record? Employing techniques from statistical physics and complexity science, Eddie Lee, a postdoctoral researcher at the Complexity Science Hub, along with his colleague George Cantwell of Cambridge University, analyzed U.S. Supreme Court voting data from 1946 to 2021. …

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMichelle Yeoh has taken to social media to explain her awkward interaction with Emma Stone while presenting the Oscar for Best Actress last night.Yeoh, 61, won the award last year for her role in multiverse comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once.This year she presented the award to Stone for her performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, but there was a moment of confusion as Yeoh…

This Tuesday, Google will roll out a change to the Core Web Vital metrics where it will replace First Input Delay (FID) with Interaction to Next Paint (INP) as a Core Web Vitals metric. This March 12th you will see FID go away and INP take its place. Please know that this is unrelated to the ongoing March 2024 Google Core update, core updates and Core Web Vitals have zero to do with each other. On March 12, 2024 Google will replace First Input Delay (FID) with Interaction to Next Paint (INP) as a Core Web Vitals…

Google has announced that the new Interaction to Next Paint (INP) metric will become one of the three Core Web Vitals metrics on March 12, 2024. It’s replacing the older First Input Delay metric. This marks the biggest change to the web vitals since Google first introduced them as a ranking factor in 2021.What is Interaction to Next Paint? The three Core Web Vitals metrics each measure a different aspect of the experience users have on your website. INP assesses how quickly your website responds to user…

Wizard of Oz Programming is an innovative method used in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This method simulates the look and feel of a fully operational system. However, the backend is manually controlled by a human. It creates an excellent user experience. The phrase first appeared in the well-known story "The Wizard of Oz." However, its use in HCI helped it become prominent in the late 1970s. Its main idea was to create the impression of automation while allowing researchers to get user input early in developing a…

Building a Chat Application with LangChain, LLMs, and Streamlit for Complex SQL Database InteractionBuild and deploy a chat application for complex database interaction with LangChain agents.Image generated by DALL-E.In this article we will see how we can use large language models (LLMs) to interact with a complex database using Langchain agents and tools, and then deploying the chat application using Streamlit.This article is the second and final part of a two-phase project that exploits RappelConso API data, a French…

Social cues can be extremely difficult to learn. Body language, vocal inflection, unspoken rules and subtext are hard enough to decipher. But especially when we find ourselves in unfamiliar scenarios, it can be easy to feel like an alien.But we swallow our pride and try our best to fit in wherever we are, even when there will inevitably be some embarrassing moments. One Reddit user who knows this all too well recently shared a story on the Today I Up subreddit, detailing how they missed their friend’s wedding because…

Meta-owned, WhatsApp has expanded the capabilities of its Channels feature, initiating a widespread release of the ability to share channel posts through status updates. This development follows the introduction of four additional channel-related features announced last month, some of which underwent testing in beta versions.User-Friendly Access Across PlatformsRecent tests indicate that sharing channel updates as status is now accessible on both Android and iOS versions of WhatsApp. Although the feature may have been…

AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Bing Chat and Bard are becoming more and more popular, but what if they could also have a human-like appearance, voice and even emotions?That’s the idea behind WEHEAD, an artificial intelligence device that transforms ChatGPT into a lifelike avatar that can interact with you in real time. Person talking with WEHEAD (Zero Distance)What is this AI head?WEHEAD is a smart, 3D, head-shaped device that connects to ChatGPT and displays a face, expressions and voice. WEHEAD mimics a real person you can…

On March 12, 2024 Google will replace First Input Delay (FID) with Interaction to Next Paint (INP) as a Core Web Vitals metric. The news of INP replacing FID is not new, and we knew it was coming in March but now we have the specific date – March 12. “Today, we’re announcing that INP will officially become a Core Web Vital and replace FID on March 12 of this year, and that FID will be deprecated in this transition,” Google posted today on its Web.dev blog. “It’s worth repeating that INP will officially become a Core…