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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

Hacker News

They house hundreds of thousands of computer servers and disk drives and have brought cloud computing, more powerful search engines, and faster Internet service. After graduating in 1997 with a master’s degree in computer science, he left General Physics and became a computer science consultant. He retired in 2008.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly Media

Cloud computing? It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” Next up is compute power.

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Banking on mainframe-led digital transformation for financial services

IBM Journey to AI blog

Before the internet and cloud computing , and before smartphones and mobile apps, banks were shuttling payments through massive electronic settlement gateways and operating mainframes as systems of record. The world’s biggest modernization challenges are concentrated in the banking industry.

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How MSD uses Amazon Bedrock to translate natural language into SQL for complex healthcare databases

AWS Machine Learning Blog

For example, instead of writing complex SQL queries, an analyst could simply ask, “How many female patients have been admitted to a hospital in 2008?” Due to file size limitations, each data type in the CMS Linkable 2008–2010 Medicare DE-SynPUF database is released in 20 separate samples. For simplicity, we use only data from Sample 1.

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