Author: Samuel Alejandro

From “superintelligence” to “slop,” here are the words and phrases that defined another year of AI craziness.

OpenAI’s Function Calling feature allows for the transformation of unstructured data into structured formats, addressing a significant need in data processing. This article explores five powerful, yet often overlooked, applications of GPT functions, demonstrating their potential for data extraction, scoring, categorization, option-selection, and filtering.

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The Coros Nomad presents a compelling alternative to Garmin’s Instinct series, offering a robust feature set, including offline maps and exceptional battery life, at a more affordable price. While it lacks some smartwatch functionalities like NFC payments, its focus on outdoor fitness tracking and durable, lightweight design makes it a strong contender for adventurers seeking value.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is reportedly renewing a comprehensive cybersecurity contract that will significantly expand its ability to monitor and investigate its own employees, particularly amid increased government focus on leak investigations and internal dissent.

A key graph from Peter Attia’s book “Outlive” highlights the importance of maintaining high cardiovascular fitness to preserve physical capabilities in later life. It suggests that achieving top-tier fitness levels is crucial for everyday activities as one ages.

Five individuals, including two prominent British social media campaigners, have been denied US visas. The US State Department accused them of attempting to “coerce” American tech platforms into suppressing free speech, a move that has drawn condemnation from European leaders.

Instagram for iOS has integrated Dolby Vision and ambient viewing environment (amve) support, significantly enhancing the HDR video experience. This update ensures that unique metadata from iPhone-produced HDR videos is preserved end-to-end, making Instagram the first Meta app to offer Dolby Vision video playback.

This article details how to programmatically build an Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) solution. It leverages Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) as a parser, integrated with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and the Strands SDK, to extract insights from multi-modal documents. The solution is demonstrated through a Jupyter notebook, enabling users to process various business documents and augment foundational models with relevant context.

Great API design goes beyond initial readability and correctness, focusing instead on how the code using the API will evolve and adapt to future changes and requirements.