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Why AWS Gave OpenSearch To The Linux Foundation

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

AWS has transitioned OpenSearch under the Linux Foundation and so led to the creation of the OpenSearch Software Foundation.

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Navigating Missing Data Challenges with XGBoost

Machine Learning Mastery

XGBoost has gained widespread recognition for its impressive performance in numerous Kaggle competitions, making it a favored choice for tackling complex machine learning challenges. Known for its efficiency in handling large datasets, this powerful algorithm stands out for its practicality and effectiveness. In this post, we will apply XGBoost to the Ames Housing dataset to […] The post Navigating Missing Data Challenges with XGBoost appeared first on MachineLearningMastery.com.

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The world knows Wim Hof as "The Iceman", his family suffered domestic violence

Hacker News

While Wim Hof was becoming one of the most famous health gurus in the world, his family at the time had to endure his physical and mental aggressiveness. Now that a movie about his life is in the making, his ex, their son, and her other children speak out.

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Generalizable Error Modeling for Human Data Annotation: Evidence from an Industry-Scale Search Data Annotation Program

Machine Learning Research at Apple

Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) systems rely heavily on human-annotated data for training and evaluation. A major challenge in this context is the occurrence of annotation errors, as their effects can degrade model performance. This paper presents a predictive error model trained to detect potential errors in search relevance annotation tasks for three industry-scale ML applications (music streaming, video streaming, and mobile apps).

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How To Align Product Management And Supply Chain Operations For Successful Product Launches

Speaker: Shalini Dinesh

Effective cross-functional collaboration and communication heavily influence product launch success. Research shows that as many as 70% of product launches fail due to inadequate coordination among stakeholders, including supply chain, product management, legal, marketing, and change control teams (Gartner, 2022). The 2023 Supply Chain Insights Report highlights that 60% of supply chain disruptions are caused by poor communication and misalignment among cross-functional teams.

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FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance Is Out of Control

Hacker News

A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report confirms what EFF has been warning about for years: tech giants are widely harvesting and sharing your personal information to fuel their online behavioral advertising businesses.

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Misty: UI Prototyping Through Interactive Conceptual Blending

Machine Learning Research at Apple

UI prototyping often involves iterating and blending elements from examples such as screenshots and sketches, but current tools offer limited support for incorporating these examples. Inspired by the cognitive process of conceptual blending, we introduce a novel UI workflow that allows developers to rapidly incorporate diverse aspects from design examples into work-in-progress UIs.

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Building a Smart Chatbot with OpenAI and Pinecone: A Simple Guide

Towards AI

Author(s): Abhishek Chaudhary Originally published on Towards AI. This article shows you how to build a simple RAG chatbot in Python using Pinecone for the vector database and embedding model, OpenAI for the LLM, and LangChain for the RAG workflow. Hallucinations Large Language Model (LLM)-based chatbots, especially those utilizing Generative AI (GenAI), are incredibly powerful tools for answering a broad range of questions.

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Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture

Hacker News

I used to think GitHub Codespaces would help popularise Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Gitpod is currently permitted to exist in the Visual Studio Code ecosystem to popularise GitHub Codespaces, and Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises that strategically divide the market from a business perspective because, like Apple and their AppStore: it is their ecosystem that they control and they are in absolute control.

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Getting to Know AutoGen(Part2): How AI Agents Work Together

Towards AI

Last Updated on September 30, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Anushka sonawane Originally published on Towards AI. Credits In Part 1, we went over the basics — what AI agents are, how they work, and why having multiple agents can really make a difference. That was just an introduction, setting the stage for what’s next. Now, it’s time to take things up a level!

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US East and Gulf Coast Ports Face Shutdown as Union Announces Intent to Strike

Hacker News

Upcoming east coast port strike: ILA announces plans for a widespread strike at Atlantic and Gulf ports, impacting trade and supply chains.

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Building Your BI Strategy: How to Choose a Solution That Scales and Delivers

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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LLaMA 3.2 Vision: Revolutionizing Multimodal AI with Advanced Visual Reasoning — Now LLaMA Can See

Towards AI

Author(s): Md Monsur ali Originally published on Towards AI. Discover How LLaMA 3.2 Vision Integrates Advanced Visual Perception and Text Processing for Powerful Image Understanding and AI-driven Document Analysis This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. 👨🏾‍💻 GitHub ⭐️ | 👔LinkedIn |📝 Medium Image by Author The AI landscape has been rapidly evolving, with the growing emphasis on multimodal AI — the ability for models t

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The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve

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SteamOS is built on top of Arch, and Valve is now providing a build service infrastructure and secure signing enclave for Arch.

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Bayesian Methods: From Theory to Real-World Applications

Towards AI

Last Updated on September 30, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Shenggang Li Originally published on Towards AI. A Practical Guide to Using Bayesian Techniques in A/B Testing and Uplift Modeling This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Photo by Mike Hindle on Unsplash The Bayesian approach is commonly applied in fields such as finance, marketing, and medicine.

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Students Paid Thousands for a Caltech Boot Camp. Caltech Didn't Teach It

Hacker News

Hundreds of universities have lent their names to online programs, plugging budgets but alienating students who feel misled.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro

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How to Optimize Document Processing Through OCR Machine Learning Technologies

How to Learn Machine Learning

Hello deader! In this article we will speak about OCR Machine Learning technologies and how to hypercharge your documment processing using them. So sit back, relax, and enjoy! Introduction to OCR Machine Learning Tech Manually processing paperwork is slow and prone to mistakes. It takes up valuable time that could be better spent on more important tasks.

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Floating megabomb heaves to near the English coast

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The MV Ruby, a ship carrying a highly explosive Russian cargo, is damaged and looking for a port. The threat is clear.

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More Organizations Use AI to Manage Documents

Smart Data Collective

AI technology is making it easier than ever to manage documents.

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Kris Kristofferson has died

Hacker News

Kris Kristofferson, the revered songwriter whose poetic lyrics transcended genre, has died at age 88.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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What is PEAS in Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

Pickl AI

Summary: The PEAS framework in Artifical Intelligence—Performance Measure, Environment, Actuators, and Sensors—defines how AI systems interact with their environment, set goals, and take action. It guides developers in creating adaptive, efficient AI solutions that enhance performance across applications like autonomous vehicles and game-playing systems.

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A Taxonomy of Tech Debt

Hacker News

What’s it like to be a part of Riot Tech? Explore everything from titles and personal development to tech challenges and philosophies.

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U-Net Paper Workthrough

Towards AI

Last Updated on September 29, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Fatma Elik Originally published on Towards AI. Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation Document Explanation in Detail This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Photo by Venti Views on Unsplash Convolutional networks have been around for a long time, but their performance has been limited by the size of the available training sets and the size of the networks under consideration.

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NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective

Hacker News

Audio Overview is a fun new feature of Google’s NotebookLM which is getting a lot of attention right now.

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Data Modeling for Direct Mail: Boosting Multi-Channel Reach and Response

Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners

This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.

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Avoiding downtime: modern alternatives to outdated certificate pinning practices

Hacker News

The number of outages caused by certificate pinning is increasing. We’ll explore why certificate pinning hasn’t kept up with modern standards and recommend alternatives to improve security while reducing management overhead.

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Web Components Are Okay

Hacker News

Every so often, the web development community gets into a tizzy about something, usually web components. I find these fights tiresome, but I also see them as a good opportunity to reach across "the great divide" and try to find common ground rather than another opportunity to dunk on each other.

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Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement

Hacker News

How to build web pages so they work in HTML first: starting with HTML, extra styles and features, using JavaScript.

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Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it

Hacker News

Some Libgen links can’t be reached after broad takedown order.

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How To Speak The Language Of Financial Success In Product Management

Speaker: Jamie Bernard

Success in product management goes beyond delivering great features - it’s about achieving measurable financial outcomes that resonate across the organization. By connecting your product’s journey with the company’s financial success, you’ll ensure that every feature, release, and innovation contributes to the bottom line, driving both customer satisfaction and business growth.

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FDA approves a novel drug for schizophrenia, a potential 'game changer'

Hacker News

The approval comes less than a year Bristol Myers Squibb paid $14 billion to acquire the developer of the drug, Karuna Therapeutics.

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Geothermal Energy Could Outperform Nuclear Power

Hacker News

Geothermal energy, propelled by enhanced systems and government-industry support, has the potential to transform the renewable energy landscape.

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Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types

Hacker News

Resources and community around CRDT technology — papers, blog posts, code and more.

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On With Theo / T3.gg

Hacker News

On Thursday a prominent developer YouTuber, Twitch streamer, and journalist posted a video titled This might be the end of WordPress. It was very harsh.

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What Is Entity Resolution? How It Works & Why It Matters

Entity Resolution Sometimes referred to as data matching or fuzzy matching, entity resolution, is critical for data quality, analytics, graph visualization and AI. Learn what entity resolution is, why it matters, how it works and its benefits. Advanced entity resolution using AI is crucial because it efficiently and easily solves many of today’s data quality and analytics problems.