Mon.Nov 04, 2024

article thumbnail

Five Ways AI Will Break Software Development

insideBIGDATA

In this contributor, Cory Hymel, VP of Research & Innovation at Crowdbotics, discusses why we need to think bigger about AI's role in software development. The growing capabilities of AI models, particularly large language models, have the potential to fundamentally disrupt the software development lifecycle (SLDC).

AI 390
article thumbnail

Optimizing RAG with Embedding Tuning

KDnuggets

Learn how to improve the performance of RAG systems, and make them more accurate at retrieving context-aware information.

356
356
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Natural Language Generation Inside Out: Teaching Machines to Write Like Humans

Machine Learning Mastery

Natural language generation (NLG) is an enthralling area of artificial intelligence (AI) , or more specifically of natural language processing (NLP) , aimed at enabling machines to produce human-like text that drives human-machine communication for problem-solving.

article thumbnail

Promotions for Introverts: How to Advocate for Yourself in a World of Extroverts.

KDnuggets

As an introvert, do you ever feel like your coworkers are screaming for attention while you're being overlooked? Learn how to advocate for your promotions.

343
343
article thumbnail

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?

article thumbnail

Flood Risk Assessment Using Digital Elevation and the HAND Models

Analytics Vidhya

In early 2024, Brazil experienced heavy rainfall, particularly in the south and northeast regions, leading to floods that damaged cities, destroyed crops, and caused fatalities. As climate change increases the frequency of extreme weather conditions, such as droughts and floods, contingency planning and risk assessment are becoming increasingly crucial for managing such events.

Analytics 208
article thumbnail

Accelerate Your Data Agility at Foundations 2024: A Sneak Peek of the BI & Reporting Track

KDnuggets

Discover how fast, seamless data connectivity can transform your decision-making processes for a bigger impact

328
328

More Trending

article thumbnail

How to Summarize Texts Using the BART Model with Hugging Face Transformers

KDnuggets

To summarize text using Hugging Face's BART model, load the model and tokenizer, input the text, and the model generates a concise summary.

318
318
article thumbnail

HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer

Hacker News

HPV vaccines offer a rare opportunity to effectively eliminate one type of cancer. By taking this opportunity, it’s possible to save hundreds of thousands of women each year.

182
182
article thumbnail

7 Critical Thinking Skills Needed in Data Science

KDnuggets

Hone these analytical and practical thinking skills to become an authentic "data wizard"

article thumbnail

Magentic-One: A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Tasks - Microsoft Research

Flipboard

By Adam Fourney, Principal Researcher; Gagan Bansal, Senior Researcher; Hussein Mozannar, Senior Researcher; Victor Dibia, Principal Research Software Engineer; Saleema Amershi, Partner Research Manager Contributors: Adam Fourney, Gagan Bansal, Hussein Mozannar, Cheng Tan, Eduardo Salinas, Erkang (Eric) Zhu, Friederike Niedtner, Grace Proebsting, Griffin Bassman, Jack Gerrits, Jacob Alber, Peter Chang, Ricky Loynd, Robert West, Victor […]

article thumbnail

Apache Airflow®: The Ultimate Guide to DAG Writing

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

article thumbnail

World's oldest tree? Genetic analysis traces evolution of iconic Pando forest

Hacker News

A vast colony of aspen clones could hold clues about how ancient organisms protect their genomes from harmful mutations. A vast colony of aspen clones could hold clues about how ancient organisms protect their genomes from harmful mutations.

182
182
article thumbnail

Why You Should Be Polite To ChatGPT And Other AIs

Flipboard

In my latest conversation with ChatGPT, I caught myself saying "please" and "thank you." My wife, overhearing this, couldn't help but laugh at my politeness toward a machine. Had I gone too far in humanizing AI, or was I onto something more profound?

AI 181
article thumbnail

Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes

Hacker News

The shift in policy, covering government agencies and contractors working on national security, is intended to promote “responsible and ethical” innovations, the company said.

182
182
article thumbnail

An AI polling startup makes its predictions for the 2024 US election

Flipboard

Young entrepreneurs who think their AI chatbots can model human behavior better than humans can, agreed to put their model to the test in the 2024 …

AI 178
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

FFmpeg up to 94x performance boost after implementing handwritten assembly code

Hacker News

FFmpeg developers achieve a unique performance achievement with a handwritten AVX-512 code.

182
182
article thumbnail

FERC rejects Amazon’s nuclear data center

Dataconomy

Amazon’s plans to power its U.S. data centers with nuclear energy have run into a significant hurdle. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected a deal that would have allowed Amazon to draw more power from the Susquehanna nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. The proposed amendment would have increased the co-located load from 300 to 480 MW, a move that regulators argued could jeopardize grid reliability and potentially increase energy costs for other users.

article thumbnail

We're Leaving Kubernetes

Hacker News

After six years of running our CDE on Kubernetes we've learned Kubernetes is not the right choice for us. Here's why.

182
182
article thumbnail

Why Software Secrets Need Ghostbusting

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

As developers “cut” code, they will leave a crumb trail of artefacts ranging from user requirements notes to design documentation to use cases reference architectures

161
161
article thumbnail

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?

article thumbnail

New York Times Tech Workers Go on Strike

Hacker News

The Times Tech Guild represents more than 600 software developers and others who run the back-end systems behind The Times’s digital operation.

182
182
article thumbnail

60 of the best Harvard University courses you can take online for free

Flipboard

Dive deep into your favorite topics without spending anything. TL;DR: A wide range of online courses from Harvard University are available for free on edX.

article thumbnail

Albertsons kills rural grocers with land use restrictions

Hacker News

Albertsons uses land use restrictions in Mammoth, CA to stop competition so it can be the only store in town.

181
181
article thumbnail

We're Recruiters. This Is The Biggest Tell You Used ChatGPT On Your Job App.

Flipboard

“A good recruiter can spot an AI-written application from a mile away." With the rise of AI-powered writing assistants, typing up your job application can be quicker than ever.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

US Forest Service Decision to Halt Prescribed Burns in CA Is History Repeating

Hacker News

Exploring the consequences of ending prescribed burns in California. Discover the importance of understanding the state's forest management practices.

180
180
article thumbnail

Optimizing Contextual Speech Recognition Using Vector Quantization for Efficient Retrieval

Machine Learning Research at Apple

Neural contextual biasing allows speech recognition models to leverage contextually relevant information, leading to improved transcription accuracy. However, the biasing mechanism is typically based on a cross-attention module between the audio and a catalogue of biasing entries, which means computational complexity can pose severe practical limitations on the size of the biasing catalogue and consequently on accuracy improvements.

208
208
article thumbnail

Gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses

Hacker News

How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses

180
180
article thumbnail

Let’s not declare the death of SEO marketing too hastily

Flipboard

As AI abounds, is it time to say goodbye to the role of the SEO marketer? Not quite, says Louis Evans of Tug: professionals able to adapt and innovate will remain in demand – and prosper.

AI 139
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Diagrams · Diagram as Code

Hacker News

Diagram as Code

180
180
article thumbnail

Does the Rise of AI-generated Content Affect Model Training?

Analytics Vidhya

Recently, there’s been a surge of tools claiming to detect AI-generated content with impressive accuracy. But can they really do what they promise? Let’s find out! A recent tweet by Christopher Penn exposes a major flaw: an AI detector confidently declared that the US Declaration of Independence was 97% AI-generated. Yes, a document written over 240 […] The post Does the Rise of AI-generated Content Affect Model Training?

AI 208
article thumbnail

Blog Writing for Developers (2023)

Hacker News

Comments

177
177
article thumbnail

Iterative random forest-based identification of a novel population with high risk of complications post non-cardiac surgery

Flipboard

Assessing the risk of postoperative cardiovascular events before performing non-cardiac surgery is clinically important. The current risk score systems for preoperative evaluation may not adequately represent a small subset of high-risk populations. Accordingly, this study aimed at applying iterative random forest to analyze combinations of factors that could potentially be clinically valuable in identifying these high-risk populations.

Database 131
article thumbnail

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.