🌟 Brainwaves

Curated insights and tools for curious minds.

📅 Date: 17/01/2025

1. 🎯 Highlight of the Week

• ✨ Title/Resource: NVIDIA’s Project Digits PC
• 💡 Why it matters: A petaflop of AI power for prototyping and scaling models locally or in the cloud.

2. 📚 Key Articles & Insights

• 📰 Detecting violent behaviour on edge using Convolutional Neural Networks by Gelayol at al., 2024 – Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) can effectively detect violent behavior in real-time on edge devices, achieving high accuracy and fast inference times, making them a viable solution for public safety applications in resource-constrained environments.

3. ⚙️ Tools & Resources

• 🔧 PlotDigitizer: Free-online-app offers reverse engineering of visually represented data back to CSV columns or even Python lists. 🔗Link: https://plotdigitizer.com/app
• 🛠️ Artificial Intelligence in Apple Notes: Although Image Wand (Apple's new AI image generator) still requires time to reach its full potential, AI writing tools have already demonstrated significant promise, offering a range of language tones (such as friendly, professional, and concise) for rewriting options.

4. 🌐 Social Spotlight

• 💬 AI Product Management: According to Andrew Ng, as software development, particularly prototypes, becomes cheaper with AI, the demand for skilled Product Managers who can define what to build will grow significantly. AI Product Management is a promising field, requiring technical proficiency, iterative development skills, and the ability to manage ambiguity, all while ensuring responsible AI implementation.

  🔗Link: https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-284/

• 📣 CES 2025: Check out NVIDIA’s data-centre level Linux-based Project Digits PC if you are looking to train AI models in-house sales start in next May.

• 🔗Link: https://www.ces.tech/