insideBIGDATA

MARCH 29, 2024

In this contributed article, technical leader Kamala Manju Kesavan discusses how AI and cloud computing research in the payment industry sheds light on a prosperous arena of inventions and transformation. In the near future, the payment sector will probably welcome advanced technologies such as blockchain, biometric authentication, and AI-powered solutions, which will lead to transactions that will be more secure, rapid, and user-friendly.

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Analytics Vidhya

MARCH 29, 2024

Introduction Image captioning is another exciting innovation in artificial intelligence and its contribution to computer vision. Salesforce’s new tool, BLIP, is a great leap. This image captioning AI model provides a great deal of interpretation through its working process. Bootstrapping Language-image Pretraining (BLIP) is a technology that generates captions from images with a high level […] The post Salesforce BLIP: Revolutionizing Image Captioning appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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databricks

MARCH 29, 2024

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Databricks Notebooks on SQL warehouses. Databricks SQL warehouses are SQL-optimized compute that provide.

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Analytics Vidhya

MARCH 29, 2024

Introduction Video recognition is a cornerstone of modern computer vision, enabling machines to understand and interpret visual content in videos. With the rapid evolution of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformers, significant strides have been made in enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of video recognition systems. However, traditional approaches are often constrained by closed-set learning […] The post X-CLIP: Advancing Video Recognition with Language-Image Pretraining

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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have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth.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.

Data Science Dojo

MARCH 29, 2024

Large Language Models are growing smarter, transforming how we interact with technology. Yet, they stumble over a significant quality i.e. accuracy. Often, they provide unreliable information or guess answers to questions they don’t understand—guesses that can be completely wrong. Read more This issue is a major concern for enterprises looking to leverage LLMs.

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KDnuggets

MARCH 29, 2024

Begin your MLOps journey with these comprehensive free resources available on GitHub.

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Hacker News

MARCH 29, 2024

The researchers hit a rate of 301 terabits per second — equivalent to transferring 1,800 4K movies over the internet in one second — using existing fiber-optic cables.

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Dataversity

MARCH 29, 2024

Instead of celebrating World Backup Day 2024 for accomplishing another year of successful backups, I recommend using it to look forward to a year of testing recovery. Instead of starting data protection strategies by planning backups, organizations should flip their mindset and start by planning recovery: What data needs to be recovered first? What systems […] The post World Backup Day Is So 2023 – How About World Data Resilience Day?

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Hacker News

MARCH 29, 2024

Freeze 'em, heat 'em, blast them into empty space; with survival skills unlike any other organism on the planet, those hardy critters known as tardigrades will only come back for more.

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FlowingData

MARCH 29, 2024

Alasdair Rae outlines the basics of visualizing basketball shot data with QGIS , an open-source software package typically used for geographic maps. Even if you’re not into basketball, sports data can be fun to poke at because it’s comprehensive and usually covers a good range of time and categories.

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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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Hacker News

MARCH 29, 2024

The upper 10 kilometers of the Earth’s crust contains vast geothermal reserves , essentially awaiting human energy consumption to begin to tap into its unstinting power output —which itself yields no greenhouse gasses. And yet, geothermal sources currently produce only three-tenths of one percent of the world’s electricity. This promising energy source has long been limited by the extraordinary challenges of drilling holes that are deep enough to access the intense heat below the Earth’s surface

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IBM Journey to AI blog

MARCH 29, 2024

Imagine a future where artificial intelligence (AI) seamlessly collaborates with existing supply chain solutions, redefining how organizations manage their assets. If you’re currently using traditional AI, advanced analytics, and intelligent automation, aren’t you already getting deep insights into asset performance? Undoubtedly. But what if you could optimize even further?

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Hacker News

MARCH 29, 2024

MIT chemical engineers devised an efficient way to convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, which can be used to generate useful compounds such as ethanol and other fuels.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

MARCH 29, 2024

Amazon Lex provides advanced conversational artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to enable self-service support for your organization’s contact center. With Amazon Lex, you can implement an omnichannel strategy where customers engage via phone, websites, and messaging platforms. The bots can answer FAQs, provide self-service experiences, or triage customer requests before transferring to a human agent.

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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.

Hacker News

MARCH 29, 2024

Local residents who at first suspected gold or uranium deposits had been found are being won over by the initiative to protect nature and economically develop the areas involved

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IBM Journey to AI blog

MARCH 29, 2024

Monitoring and optimizing application performance is important for software developers and enterprises at large. The more applications that an enterprise deploys, the more data that exists for collecting and analyzing. Yet, this data isn’t worth much without the right tools for monitoring, optimizing, storing and—crucially—putting the data into context.

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Hacker News

MARCH 29, 2024

The digital archive of the 'Santa Barbara News-Press' is poised for sale to a murky foreign firm likely to destroy it for data to feed online search algorithms. Will we step up to save our history?

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IBM Journey to AI blog

MARCH 29, 2024

As the conduits through which software components interact and data flows across the internet, APIs are the lifeblood of contemporary web services. API technologies like SOAP (a web services messaging protocol), REST (an architectural style) and GraphQL (a programming language and tool) simplify software development by enabling third-party data and services integration.

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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.

Hacker News

MARCH 29, 2024

Unpaid bills, bungled contracts and a disastrous meeting with Nvidia's kingmaker CEO. Inside the stunning downfall of Emad Mostaque.

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Towards AI

MARCH 29, 2024

Last Updated on March 31, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Meng Li Originally published on Towards AI. Best AI SQL Query Tools Want to quickly get answers from your database? The Vanna framework makes this simple. It’s an open-source tool that helps you generate SQL to let the data speak for itself. [link] Vanna has three modes to suit different needs.

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Hacker News

MARCH 29, 2024

Boats come in all shapes and sizes. We have container ships, oil tankers, old-timey wooden sailing ships, catamarans, trimarans, and all sorts besides. Most are designed with features that give them a.

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Towards AI

MARCH 29, 2024

Last Updated on March 31, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Dr Richard Matthews – Chief AI Officer RHEM Labs Originally published on Towards AI. Microsoft’s 6 responsible AI Principles that we use at RHEM Labs Top highlight At RHEM Labs, we run on trust, and we’re committed to building using the latest responsible AI solutions and guidelines to provide our partners and customers with secure platforms for business and data.

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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.

Hacker News

MARCH 29, 2024

First, they build programs with open source. Then they build their business with open source. Then they abandon it and cash out.

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Towards AI

MARCH 29, 2024

Last Updated on March 31, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Federico Peccia Originally published on Towards AI. Top highlight In the last week of March, I attended the Design, Automation, and Test in Europe 2024 Conference. This academic conference is focused on techniques and methods for designing better electronic systems. It covers a wide range of topics, from optimizing Neural Networks for a particular hardware platform to new fabrication methods for building new hardware for AI applications

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Hacker News

MARCH 29, 2024

Support for Wasm just landed in the current Flutter beta, thanks to an exciting JavaScript interop milestone reached in Dart 3.3.

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Gil Press for Forbes

MARCH 29, 2024

The term AGI was coined in 2007 when a collection of essays on the subject was published.

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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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Hacker News

MARCH 29, 2024

As South West Water defends a court action from a Devon swimmer, it also claims it has no legal duty to keep waters clean

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IBM Journey to AI blog

MARCH 29, 2024

Customer retention must be a top priority for leaders of any company wanting to remain competitive. An effective customer retention strategy should support the company to maintain a healthy stable of loyal customers and bring in new customers. Generating repeat business is critical: McKinsey’s report on customer acquisition states (link resides outside of ibm.com) that companies need to acquire three new customers to make up the business value of losing one existing customer.

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Hacker News

MARCH 29, 2024

Astronomers have used the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes to confirm that the universe appears to be expanding at different speeds.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

MARCH 29, 2024

Addressing challenges of the energy transition with grid asset management The energy transition is gearing up to full speed as renewable energy sources replace fossil-based systems of energy production. The grid itself must green to operate within the environmental, social and governance (ESG) objectives and become carbon neutral by 2050. This shift requires energy utility companies to plan their grid asset management holistically as they find a new balance between strategic objectives.

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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.