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WEKA Introduces New WEKApod Appliances to Accelerate Enterprise AI Deployments

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WekaIO (WEKA), the AI-native data platform company, unveiled two new WEKApod™ data platform applianced: the WEKApod Nitro for large-scale enterprise AI deployments and the WEKApod Prime for smaller-scale AI deployments and multi-purpose high-performance data use cases.

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Jamba 1.5: Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Advanced NLP

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Jamba 1.5 is an instruction-tuned large language model that comes in two versions: Jamba 1.5 Large with 94 billion active parameters and Jamba 1.5 Mini with 12 billion active parameters. It combines the Mamba Structured State Space Model (SSM) with the traditional Transformer architecture. This model, developed by AI21 Labs, can process a 256K effective […] The post Jamba 1.5: Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Advanced NLP appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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PETA's Animal Shelter Continues as a Leader in Animal Death

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Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) recently posted the "news" that it had "newly obtained public records" showing…

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39 Lessons from Industry ML Conferences in 2024

Eugene Yan

ML systems, production & scaling, execution & collaboration, building for users, conference etiquette.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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Neurotechnology boosts memory without surgery

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EPFL researchers have combined virtual reality, non-invasive brain stimulation and advanced brain imaging techniques to improve spatial navigation in healthy participants. The study is a first step in addressing dementia in an aging population without medication or surgery.

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Support Vector Machines Math Intuitions

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Last Updated on November 3, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Fernando Guzman Originally published on Towards AI. Support Vector Machines, or SVM, is a machine learning algorithm that, in its original form, is utilized for binary classification. The SVM model seeks to determine the optimal separation line between two classes, understood as the best margin between these classes, as demonstrated in the following example: SVM Example by OSCAR CONTRERAS CARRASCO As shown in the image, we have a sepa

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Deploying Custom Detectron2 Models with a REST API: A Step-by-Step Guide.

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Author(s): Gennaro Daniele Acciaro Originally published on Towards AI. An image generated using Midjourney In the life of a Machine Learning Engineer, training a model is only half the battle. Indeed, after obtaining a neural network that accurately predicts all the test data, it remains useless unless it’s made accessible to the world. Model deployment is the process of making a model accessible and usable in production environments, where it can generate predictions and provide real-time insig

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Rivian's chief software officer says in-car buttons are 'an anomaly'

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The trend of big touchscreens in cars has left many yearning for the not-so-distant days when most user interactions happened with physical buttons.

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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Search

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Last Updated on November 2, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Get The Gist Originally published on Towards AI. Plus: Claude AI Gets Desktop App This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Welcome to Get The Gist, where every weekday we share an easy-to-read summary of the latest and greatest developments in AI — news, innovations, and trends — all delivered in under 5 minutes!

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Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacenter networking evolution

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Google networking leaders reflect on the milestones that led to Jupiter supporting 13 petabits per second bandwidth, and what comes next.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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25 Simple Concepts We’re Tired of Explaining Again and Again

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25 Simple Concepts We’re Tired of Explaining Again and Again

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Don't return named tuples in new APIs

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In my opinion, you should only introduce a named tuple to your code when you're updating a preexisting API that was already returning a tuple or you are wrapping a tuple return value from another API. Let's start with when you should use named tuples.

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Hacking cars in JavaScript (Replay attacks in the browser with the HackRF)

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Collection of side projects, conference talks and blog posts experimenting with frontend technologies and human-computer interaction

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Security flaws found in all Nvidia GeForce GPUs. Update drivers ASAP

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If you have an Nvidia GeForce graphics card, you need to download the latest driver updates now.

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The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.

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Ratting on wildlife crime: training rats to detect illegally trafficked wildlife

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The illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is one of the largest global crime economies, directly threatening species and their habitats, and biodiversity, and indirec.

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Show HN: A minimalist (brutalist?) website for sharing all your links

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Lynx.Boo lets you create a compact, fast-loading links page. A minimalist approach to sharing all your important links in one place.

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Next Generation Out of Band Garbage Collection

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In this post we look at the impact of a new feature of Ruby 3.4 on Shopify’s monolith.

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Data movement bottlenecks to large-scale model training: Scaling past 1e28 FLOP

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Data movement bottlenecks limit LLM scaling beyond 2e28 FLOP, with a “latency wall” at 2e31 FLOP. We may hit these in ~3 years. Aggressive batch size scaling could potentially overcome these limits.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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Show HN: Someday, Open-Source Calendly Alternative for Gmail / Google App Script

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Free and open-source cal.com / calendly alternative built on Google-App-Script for Gmail users. Built with modern technologies like React, TypeScript, Shadcn/UI, and Vite.

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A Craving for Calculation

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In 1965, Patrick Haggerty, president of Texas Instruments (TI), wanted to make a new bet on the future of electronics. In that future, he believed, in a theme he frequently expounded, the use of electronic would become “pervasive.

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Spann: Highly-Efficient Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (2021)

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The in-memory algorithms for approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) have achieved great success for fast high-recall search, but are extremely expensive when handling very large scale database. Thus, there is an increasing request for the hybrid ANNS solutions with small memory and inexpensive solid-state drive (SSD). In this paper, we present a simple but efficient memory-disk hybrid indexing and search system, named SPANN, that follows the inverted index methodology.

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SmolLM2

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New from [Loubna Ben Allal]([link] and her research team at Hugging Face: > SmolLM2 is a family of compact language models available in three size: 135M, 360M, and 1.7B parameters.

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Introducing CDEs to Your Enterprise

Explore how enterprises can enhance developer productivity and onboarding by adopting self-hosted Cloud Development Environments (CDEs). This whitepaper highlights the simplicity and flexibility of cloud-based development over traditional setups, demonstrating how large teams can leverage economies of scale to boost efficiency and developer satisfaction.

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The evolutionary mystery of the German cockroach

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The species evolved to exploit human-built environments and exists nowhere else. So where did it come from?

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Eighty Years of the Finite Element Method (2022)

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This document presents comprehensive historical accounts on the developments of finite element methods (FEM) since 1941, with a specific emphasis on developments related to solid mechanics. We present a historical overview beginning with the theoretical formulations and origins of the FEM, while discussing important developments that have enabled the FEM to become the numerical method of choice for so many problems rooted in solid mechanics.

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Ractor – a Rust Actor Framework

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Ractor provides a fully-supervised, tokio-friendly actor framework for Rust frameworks. It is modelled closely off of Erlang’s gen_server along with extensions such as factories and distributed clusters.

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Venvstacks: Virtual Environment Stacks for Python

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An open source utility for packaging Python applications and all their dependencies into a portable, deterministic format based on Python's `sitecustomize.py`.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Superstreamer – OSS streaming toolkit from video source to player

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An open, scalable, online streaming setup. All-in-one toolkit from ingest to adaptive video playback. Built for developers in need of video tooling.

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Ring-Based Mid-Air Gesture Typing System Using Deep Learning Word Prediction

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Text entry is a critical capability for any modern computing experience, with lightweight augmented reality (AR) glasses being no exception. Designed for all-day wearability, a limitation of lightweight AR glass is the restriction to the inclusion of multiple cameras for extensive field of view in hand tracking. This constraint underscores the need for an additional input device.

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Listening in on the Mysterious Marbled Murrelet

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Applying machine learning to forest soundscapes helps researchers pinpoint rare and threatened birds.

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The Language of Faces

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How Culture, Psychology, and Social Context Shape Our Expressions

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.