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The insideBIGDATA IMPACT 50 List for Q4 2023

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The team here at insideBIGDATA is deeply entrenched in keeping the pulse of the big data ecosystem of companies from around the globe. We’re in close contact with the movers and shakers making waves in the technology areas of big data, data science, machine learning, AI and deep learning. Our in-box is filled each day with new announcements, commentaries, and insights about what’s driving the success of our industry so we’re in a unique position to publish our quarterly IMPACT 50 List.

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Comparing Natural Language Processing Techniques: RNNs, Transformers, BERT

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RNN, Transformers, and BERT are popular NLP techniques with tradeoffs in sequence modeling, parallelization, and pre-training for downstream tasks.

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Leading With Data: Building a Data Driven Organization with Srikanth Velamakanni

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Analytics Vidhya’s ‘Leading With Data’ is a series of interviews where industry leaders share their experiences, career journeys, interesting projects, and more. In the 5th episode of the series, we are joined by a very special guest – Mr. Srikanth Valamakanni. He is the Group CEO, Co-founder, and Vice-Chairman of Fractal Analytics, one of the […] The post Leading With Data: Building a Data Driven Organization with Srikanth Velamakanni appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Secure Your Seat for Canada’s #1 Data AI Conference

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BIG DATA & AI TORONTO is back this October 18-19 2023 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Get your free pass now!

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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OpenAI’s GPT-4V(ision): A Breakthrough in AI’s Multimodal Frontier

Analytics Vidhya

In a groundbreaking move reshaping the landscape of artificial intelligence, OpenAI has unveiled GPT-4 with vision, aptly named GPT-4V. This new iteration empowers users to harness the combined might of language and visual data. Thus unlocking unprecedented capabilities that promise to revolutionize our interactions with AI. Here, we delve into this latest advancement and explore […] The post OpenAI’s GPT-4V(ision): A Breakthrough in AI’s Multimodal Frontier appeared first on A

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RAG vs Finetuning: Which Is the Best Tool to Boost Your LLM Application?

KDnuggets

The definitive guide for choosing the right method for your use case.

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Edge computing in 2023: International data science trends

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In today’s world, technology is evolving at a rapid pace. One of the advanced developments is edge computing. But what exactly is it? And why is it becoming so important? This article will explore edge computing and why it is considered the new frontier in international data science trends. Understanding edge computing Edge computing is a method where data processing happens closer to where it is generated rather than relying on a centralized data-processing warehouse.

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A Complete Guide On ZenML For Beginners Simplifying MLOps

Analytics Vidhya

Are you new to Data Science, Machine Learning, or MLOps and feeling overwhelmed with tool choices? Consider ZenML—an orchestration tool for streamlined production pipelines. In this article, we’ll explore ZenML’s capabilities and features to simplify your MLOps journey. Learning Objectives This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon.

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Announcing public preview of Databricks Assets Bundles: Apply software development best practices with ease

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We are delighted to announce that Databricks Asset Bundles are now in public preview. Bundles, for short, facilitate the adoption of software engineering.

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Delv AI, launched by a young entrepreneur, receives ?3.7 crore funding

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Young prodigy Pranjali Awasthi, aged just sixteen, has captured the attention of investors with her innovative artificial intelligence (AI) startup, Delv AI. This Florida-based venture, which came to life in January 2022, has recently raised an impressive ₹3.7 crore in funding, marking a significant milestone in Pranjali’s entrepreneurial journey.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Starlink Direct to Cell

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UBIQUITOUS COVERAGE Starlink satellites with Direct to Cell capabilities enable ubiquitous access to texting, calling, and browsing wherever you may be on land, lakes, or coastal waters. Direct to Cell will also connect IoT devices with common LTE standards. STAY CONNECTED Direct to Cell works with existing LTE phones wherever you can see the sky.

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The New AI Panic

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Washington and Beijing have been locked in a conflict over AI development. Now a new battle line is being drawn.

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QX82: Tiny JavaScript game/experience engine inspired by retro 80s computing

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The Deep Link Equating Math Proofs and Computer Programs

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Mathematical logic and the code of computer programs are, in an exact way, mirror images of each other.

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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AVX10/128 is a silly idea

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Intro and lots of context Intel recently unveiled the AVX10 specification as means for consolidating the vast majority of AVX-512 extensions into a single, easy-to-target specification. It aims to solve a few issues, among which is the startling array of configurations, targets, and spaghetti of AVX-512 implementations with disjointed instructions support.

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AI's Electricity Use Is Spiking So Fast It'll Soon Use as Much Power as an Entire Country

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"Each of these Nvidia servers, they are power-hungry beasts.

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Using OpenBSD Relayd(8) as an Application Layer Gateway

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I was lucky enough to attend to EuroBSDCon 2023 and offered the opportunity to talk about one of my favorite OpenBSD stock daemon: relayd(8). The talk was recorded and made available on the EuroBSDCon YouTube channel. One may check the EuroBSDCon 2023 program for more material. This post attempts a reboot of the slides content in a more browser-friendly format.

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Anysphere raises $8M from OpenAI to build an AI-powered IDE

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Anysphere, a startup building what it describes as an “AI-native” software development environment, called Cursor, today announced that it raised $8 million in seed funding led by OpenAI’s Startup Fund with participation from former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Dropbox co-founder Arash Ferdowsi and other angel investors.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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In Search of Writers' Haunts

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I seek out the haunts of writers because pursuing the paths of those who have gone before affords me a degree of justification in my own pursuits.

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10 Artificial Intelligence Startups That You Don't Want To Miss At Expand North Star 2023

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The startups participating in the Supernova Challenge are among 42 winners of the Expand North Start global roadshow, an initiative between the Dubai World Trade Centre and the Dubai Chamber of Digital Commerce.

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Announcing public preview of Databricks Asset Bundles: Apply software development best practices with ease

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We are delighted to announce that Databricks Asset Bundles are now in public preview. Bundles, for short, facilitate the adoption of software engineering.

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The generative AI bill is coming due, and it’s not cheap

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For many businesses deploying the new technology, future shock is giving way to sticker shock. Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly LinkedIn newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Inverted Transformers Are Effective for Time Series Forecasting

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The recent boom of linear forecasting models questions the ongoing passion for architectural modifications of Transformer-based forecasters. These forecasters leverage Transformers to model the global dependencies over temporal tokens of time series, with each token formed by multiple variates of the same timestamp. However, Transformer is challenged in forecasting series with larger lookback windows due to performance degradation and computation explosion.

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Guys, the Android 14 AI wallpaper generator is so cool. Here are some we made!

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We've created some truly stellar AI-generated wallpapers with Android 14's new system. Over the past few months, Google has announced a slew of new features for Android 14. One of them took center stage at Google I/O in May.

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Rethinking Open Source Licenses

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Striving for Open Source Purity and Commercial Viability

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Is AI overhyped or underhyped? Here’s what techies in Seattle think

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From top left, clockwise: Wanda Wang; Gaurav Oberoi; Beth Birnbaum; Jonathan Yan; Bob Muglia. (GeekWire Photos / Taylor Soper) Depending on who you ask, artificial intelligence is getting too much attention — or not enough. That was one takeaway from my conversations last night at the opening reception for the IA Summit , which takes place today in Seattle and focuses on intelligent and generative applications.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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In Defense of Electricity Markets

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Force-sensing ‘smart scalpel’ helps hone doctors’ surgical skills

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Researchers have developed a scalpel with built-in force-measuring sensors and coupled it with a machine-learning model that could streamline how doctors are trained to perform surgery and pave the way for automated surgical devices.

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Jumperless: Breadboard Without Jumper

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Using a bunch of analog crosspoint switches wired together into one bigger switch, Jumperless makes real, fully analog hardware connections between any points on the board or the Arduino Nano header at the top via serial, instead of needing to use jumper wires. Jumperless also has a ton of voltage/current sensing so the RGB LEDs underneath each row can show a ton of information about what's going on with your circuit.

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“We broke them all” — How researchers broke current image watermarking protections and what it means for a new era of truth-altering ‘reality’

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The tool many big tech companies are banking heavily on being able to help the public and businesses separate fact from fiction, in the context of …

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?