Tue.Oct 15, 2024

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The Key to LLMs: A Mathematical Understanding of Word Embeddings

KDnuggets

Word embeddings is a numerical representation of text, allowing a computer to process words efficiently by converting words into numerical vectors that can be processed with machine learning algorithm.

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Interview: Charles Sansbury, CEO, Cloudera

insideBIGDATA

insideAI New recently caught up with Charles Sansbury, CEO Cloudera, at the company's EVOLVE24 event in New York City to gain some insights into how Cloudera is embracing machine learning and data science, but also the company's work environment, and employees. Also discussed was news announced at the event such as the partnership with Snowflake.

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AI Bytes: OpenAI, Meta, NVIDIA Lead Breakthroughs amid Industry Challenges

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction The past week in artificial intelligence has been marked by rapid advancements in model capabilities, hardware, and ethical considerations, sparking conversations about the societal impacts of AI. From OpenAI’s $6.6 billion funding round, pushing its valuation to $157 billion, to Meta’s ambitious launch of Movie Gen for video generation, the landscape is evolving quickly. […] The post AI Bytes: OpenAI, Meta, NVIDIA Lead Breakthroughs amid Industry Challenges appeared first on

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NVIDIA Contributes Blackwell Platform Design to Open Hardware Ecosystem, Accelerating AI Infrastructure Innovation

insideBIGDATA

To drive the development of open, efficient and scalable data center technologies, NVIDIA today announced that it has contributed foundational elements of its NVIDIA Blackwell accelerated computing platform design to the Open Compute Project (OCP) and broadened NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ support for OCP standards.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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A Data Scientist GenAI Survival Guide

KDnuggets

This guide emphasizes the growing significance of GenAI but also highlights the crucial role that data scientists play in harnessing this technology to solve real-world problems.

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How to Build an AI Chatbot Without Coding?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Chatbots have become an essential tool for most organisations. They provide excellent customer support and enhance user engagement. Are you interested in building a chatbot for your business but aren’t a developer? No problem! Thanks to rapid advancements in no-code platforms, building an AI agent chatbot without coding is now possible for anyone.

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Android 15 release date is today, Google accidentally leaks

Dataconomy

Android 15 is confirmed to roll out to Pixel devices today, thanks to an early post on Google’s German Pixel Community forum. Though quickly removed, the news has already made waves through screenshots shared by Redditors who received emails about it. Pixel users to enjoy Android 15 today Below is a translated version of the message, shared by a Redditor : “ Dear Pixel Community, This month, all supported Google Pixel devices running Android 14 will receive the software update to Android 15.

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7 Free Data Science Platform for Beginners

KDnuggets

Explore free platforms for learning, building portfolios, accessing code editors, engaging with communities, and hosting projects.

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How to Use Generative AI in Marketing?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction The marketing landscape has undergone a massive transformation with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Among the AI-driven innovations, generative AI (GenAI) is particularly revolutionizing how marketing teams create content, optimize activities, and deliver campaigns. From personalizing customer experiences to automating content creation, GenAI is capable of enhancing the productivity of the marketing team […] The post How to Use Generative AI in Marketing?

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The deep-sea 'emergency service' that keeps the internet running

Hacker News

Ninety-nine percent of the world's digital communications rely on subsea cables. Fixing them keeps us all connected – and has changed our understanding of the ocean.

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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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17 Prompting Techniques to Supercharge Your LLMs

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Large Language Models , like GPT-4, have transformed the way we approach tasks that require language understanding, generation, and interaction. From drafting creative content to solving complex problems, the potential of LLMs seems boundless. However, the true power of these models is not just in their architecture but in how effectively we communicate with […] The post 17 Prompting Techniques to Supercharge Your LLMs appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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OpenAI Is a Bad Business

Hacker News

OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year, will at some point in the next six or so months convert into a for-profit AI company, at which point it will continue to lose money in exactly the same way.

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What are AI Agents?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly evolving, and 2024 is shaping up to be the year of AI agents. But what are AI agents, and why are they becoming so important? AI agents represent a shift from traditional AI models to more autonomous systems capable of reasoning, planning, and acting on their own. In this […] The post What are AI Agents?

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Big Advance on Simple-Sounding Math Problem Was a Century in the Making

Hacker News

A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture.

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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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Scalable Private Search with Wally

Machine Learning Research at Apple

This paper presents Wally, a private search system that supports efficient semantic and keyword search queries against large databases. When sufficiently many clients are making queries, Wally’s performance is significantly better than previous systems. In previous private search systems, for each client query, the server must perform at least one expensive cryptographic operation per database entry.

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The C23 edition of Modern C is now available for free

Hacker News

The C23 edition of Modern C is now available for free download from [link] This new edition has been the occasion to overhaul the presentation in many places, but its main purpose is the update to the new C standard, C23.

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Function Calling in AI Agents Using Mistral 7B

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Function calling in large language models (LLMs) has transformed how AI agents interact with external systems, APIs, or tools, enabling structured decision-making based on natural language prompts. By using JSON schema-defined functions, these models can autonomously select and execute external operations, offering new levels of automation.

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Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove

Hacker News

Improvements in public health and medicine have lengthened human survival, but science has yet to overcome ageing. Improvements in public health and medicine have lengthened human survival, but science has yet to overcome ageing.

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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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NVIDIA stock soars, closing at a new high of $138.07

Dataconomy

NVIDIA’s stock just hit a record high, closing at $138.07. If you’re wondering why this is significant, let me take you through a clearer view of what’s happening. NVIDIA is now the second most valuable company in the U.S., with a market cap of $3.4 trillion, right on the heels of Apple. In simpler terms, NVIDIA’s meteoric rise is no accident—it’s tied to something much bigger: artificial intelligence, or AI for short.

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OCP Summit 2024: The open future of networking hardware for AI

Hacker News

At Open Compute Project Summit (OCP) 2024, we’re sharing details about our next-generation network fabric for our AI training clusters. We’ve expanded our network hardware portfolio and are contributing two new disaggregated network fabrics and a new NIC to OCP. We look forward to continued collaboration with OCP to open designs for racks, servers, storage boxes, and motherboards to benefit companies of all sizes across the industry.

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How gen AI is impacting low-code software development

Dataconomy

Advances in software development have had profound changes from hand-coded to more machine-like approaches. Probably the most transformative technology that came out of this evolution is Low-Code/No-Code (LCNC) platforms, whose sole purpose it is to make development easier and faster. The tsunami of demands for faster application development in the wake of digital transformation has fueled the growth of LCNC platforms.

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Study: Dark matter doesn't exist, the universe is 27B years old

Hacker News

A study from the University of Ottawa suggests we might not need dark matter or dark energy to explain the workings of the universe.

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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.

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Building a successful e-commerce brand in the age of Amazon

Dataconomy

If you’re interested in building an e-commerce business in 2024, there’s no avoiding the 500lb gorilla in the room: Amazon. Whether you want to or not, you’ll need to compete with them for a share of almost any market segment you target. The problem is that competing with them in scale, reach, and resources is impossible. So, if you want to stand a chance of succeeding, you need to learn how to do more with less.

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National Archives Pushes Google Gemini AI on Employees

Hacker News

The National Archives is launching a public-facing AI chatbot called "Archie." Employees have concerns.

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Microsoft patents real-time audio-to-image generator

Dataconomy

You’re on yet another endless Zoom or Teams meeting. Voices droning on, slides barely holding your attention, and your eyes glazing over as someone rattles off quarterly stats. Now, imagine if, instead of boring you with spreadsheets, the AI in the meeting starts to whip up visuals on the spot—actual images that bring the conversation to life, generated in real-time as people speak.

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Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

Hacker News

Apple today introduced the new iPad mini, supercharged by the A17 Pro chip and Apple Intelligence.

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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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The future of sports safety: Exclusive interview with Andrey Baykov

Dataconomy

Quanta Sphere LLC is transforming sports safety with cutting-edge technology. In this interview, Andrey Baykov, the founder, explains how the company’s flagship product, AirGuard, is revolutionizing safety in extreme sports through AI and ML. What was your initial vision for Quanta Sphere LLC, and how has it evolved? My vision for Quanta Sphere LLC came from my background in skydiving and aviation.

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Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan

Hacker News

Since the 1930’s, archaeologists have tunneled into the acropolis at Copan to understand the many phases of construction throughout its history. With investigations now mostly complete, the tunnels measure close to 4 kilometers in cumulative length, and have uncovered early stelae, plaster facades and tombs that have taught us much about what the acropolis was like before its final phase.

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Presidential election still a toss-up

FlowingData

You’re probably going to see election forecasts more this month, and one candidate will have a higher chance of winning than the other. Even so, it won’t mean much, because the forecast is basically a coin flip. Nate Silver explains the chances in the context of gambling : Gamblers understand this, perhaps like nobody else. Yes, if you think Harris is really a 55/45 favorite and prediction markets have it the other way, you have a profitable wager — but you’re still going to lose the

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The richest people borrow against their stock (2021)

Hacker News

Many of the country’s richest people, including Elon Musk and Larry Ellison, borrow against their stock while avoiding capital gains taxes.

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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