The HackerNoon Newsletter: There’s No TensorFlow Without Tensors (5/19/2025)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 19, 2025?

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data-science

There’s No TensorFlow Without Tensors

TL;DR Explore the fundamentals of tensors in TensorFlow, covering creation, operations, and advanced concepts like broadcasting and ragged tensors.

By @tensorflow [ 22 Min read ]

All tensors are immutable like Python numbers and strings: you can never update the contents of a tensor, only create a new one.

First, create some basic tensors.

Here is a "scalar" or "rank-0" tensor . A scalar contains a single value, and no "axes".

Typical axis order..

tech-stories

This AI Model Doesn’t See the Line Between Text and Images

TL;DR Chameleon is a powerful AI model that understands and generates images and text together, outperforming major models like GPT-4V and Gemini-Pro.

By @regularization [ 4 Min read ]

Author:

(1) Chameleon Team, FAIR at Meta.

Abstract and 1 Introduction

2 Pre-Training

2.1 Tokenization

2.2 Pre-Training Data

2.3 Stability

2.4 Inference

3 Alignment and 3.1 Data

3.2 Fine-Tuning Strategy

4.2 Baselines and Evaluations

4.3 Inter-annotator Agreement

Appendix..

tech-companies

Is Twitter Throttling Patreon Links? Yep

TL;DR Twitter is now slowing down traffic on links to the crowdfunding site Patreon, WhatsApp, and at times, Meta’s Messenger app, a Markup analysis confirms.

By @TheMarkup [ 6 Min read ]

Twitter is now slowing down traffic on links to the crowdfunding site Patreon, WhatsApp, and at times, Meta’s Messenger app, a Markup analysis confirms.

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