Have you ever played mobile games like Subway Surfers or Temple Run and wondered how the position of the runner changes?
Have you ever counted the number of steps/distance you’ve walked in a day? Have you ever used a compass in your phone and wondered how it works?
Or ever thought about while talking to a person through your phone, how the phone’s screen goes black when you bring it close to your ear?
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In the final part of our series (we’ve arrived!) we’ll add some polish to our game. To do this, we’ll refine our level by adding a menu system (main and pause menus), which is a necessary part of any game. We will also add background sound to our game.
Before proceeding forward, a quick recap. We started by learning Unreal basics—how to navigate and create a HUD (heads up display).
We also created some enemy AI and winning and losing mechanisms. We even tested the game on an Android device. These are core components of any mobile side-scroller game. In this final part we’ll polish our game so that it can be presentable.
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With this article we aimed to create a guide for data scientists and machine learning enthusiasts who are looking for alternatives to Amazon SageMaker.
We explore the top alternatives available in the market, and provide insights into their features, benefits, and limitations. The article aims to equip readers with the knowledge and practical guidance they need to make informed decisions when choosing a machine learning platform.
We’ll also discuss the criteria you should consider when choosing a machine learning platform, including cost, ease of use, features, scalability, and integration with other tools.
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Deep Learning requires a lot of computations. It typically involves neural network(s) with many nodes, and every node has many connections — which must be updated constantly during the learning. In other words, at each layer of the network, hundreds and thousands of identical artificial neurons perform the same computation.
Therefore, the structure of a neural network fits very well with the kinds of computation that a GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) can efficiently perform — which are designed to compute, in parallel, the same instructions.
Back when I first started using Photoshop, I’d waste hours between classes cropping out pictures of my friends and pasting their faces onto celebrities and teachers. My go-to method was using the Magic Wand tool to select a person, and then creating a crude mask to cut and paste onto another background. This had varying degrees of success and usually resulted in having to manually outline and erase unwanted pixels from my selection.
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As mobile application developers, we’re all aware that the app bundle size (APK/IPA) is always a matter of concern. This is especially true when it comes to developing with Xamarin—large bundle sizes is a well-known drawback with Xamarin apps. They can be really heavy! But then the question is, how do you deal with this? Let’s find out!
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The TensorFlow Dev Summit 2018 was full of exciting announcements and great tech talks. There’s a lot to digest and you can see the full live stream below.
For this post though, I’ve pulled out just the bits I think are most relevant to edge computing and mobile development using TensorFlow.
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At the end of the WWDC20 Keynote, Apple announced that it’s switching from Intel processors to its own: Apple Silicon. The release of custom Apple chips, powered by ARM, comes after a long history of using Intel-based chips, for the greater part of the 21st century.
Modeled after Apple’s use of its own chips on the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, the company is switching to its own chips to give the Mac more performance per watt and better GPU performance.
Several weeks ago, we all watched as Redditors took on the hedge funds and the price of Gamestop’s stock (GME) rocketed up to $470 at its peak before coming back down to Earth.
During the craze, billions of dollars exchanged hands in a historic short squeeze that left millions of people asking — “do you have diamond hands?” The typical Internet forum lingo suddenly became part of our vernacular (for better or worse), as Redditors banded together to hold out for a moon shot.
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Print on demand (POD) is a business model that allows entrepreneurs to sell custom-designed products without holding any inventory.
This model is popular among artists, designers, and entrepreneurs who want to start a business without investing a lot of money upfront. Managing a POD store can be time-consuming, especially if you have a large number of products and this is where AI might come in handy.
In this article, we will discuss how you can use AI to automate your POD store and generate mockups for your products.
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