Ugoos X5M Pro is a TV box based on Amlogic S905X5M chipset, which is one of the new budget chipsets from Amlogic (no VCC/H.266 support for instance). This box is similar if not identical to it’s older brothers from X4 family (reviewed here in the past), and the specs are simply upgraded. Aside for BT …
Ugoos AM9 is Ugoos’ newest offering, but like with SK series (SK1 to SK2), it takes a step back. From the powerful AM6 Pro and the AM8 (not sure where AM7 went), it goes to a cheaper chipset (Amlogic S905X5) with lighter specs. Many thanks goes to James from Ugoos for providing the AM9 Review …
Ugoos SK2 is Ugoos’ new budget Android TV box, and it’s a bit different than their other boxes. The biggest difference is the OS. SK2 uses Google Android TV at its core, and a realtek RTD1325 chipset. All of that is done to keep costs down, while still including licensing for the big streaming services. …
Architecting cost-effective infrastructure by navigating the latency and storage trade-offs of HNSW, SPANN, and DiskANN The post How to Optimize Vector Search When RAM Gets Too Expensive: On-Disk vs. In-Memory ANN Indexes appeared first on Towards Data Science. Read More
I generated a Kármán vortex street without solving a single fluid equation. Here’s how the Lattice Boltzmann Method gets there instead, derived from first principles, implemented in C++, and run on a supercomputer. The post The Fluid Simulator That Doesn’t Solve the Fluid Equations appeared first on Towards Data Science. Read More
The inferno that sent toxic smoke billowing toward the United States won’t be the last. Officials are now battling both the wildfires and misinformation. Read More
Tabular foundation models predict the missing column of any spreadsheet zero-shot, the way an LLM completes text — and on the TabArena benchmark they now sit above fully tuned gradient-boosted trees. An introduction to how they work, an independent reproduction of the strongest open one, and a map of where XGBoost still wins. The post …
Microsoft has officially announced a new testing phase for an ad-supported tier of Xbox Cloud Gaming, offering players free access to stream select titles in exchange for viewing advertisements. This move follows other recent platform developments, including expanded backward compatibility for older Xbox titles on PC, and aims to broaden accessibility for gamers who prefer …