insideBIGDATA

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In this contributed article, editorial consultant Jelani Harper suggests that since there are strengths and challenges for each form of AI, prudent organizations will combine these approaches for the most effective results. Certain solutions in this space combine vector databases and applications of LLMs alongside knowledge graph environs, which are ideal for employing Graph Neural Networks and other forms of advanced machine learning.

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Analytics Vidhya

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Introduction Stuck on a coding problem? Need a fresh perspective on your project? Blackbox.ai is your new AI-powered coding assistant, ready to supercharge your development workflow. Whether you’re seeking code suggestions in real-time, want to chat about complex concepts, or require assistance writing entire sections, Blackbox has you covered.

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KDnuggets

MARCH 1, 2024

Want to start your data science journey from home, for free, and work at your own pace? Have a dive into this data science roadmap using the YouTube series.

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databricks

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Special thanks to Phillip Jones, Senior Product Manager, and Harshal Brahmbhatt, Systems Engineer from Cloudflare for their contributions to this blog. Organizations across.

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insideBIGDATA

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

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Analytics Vidhya

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Introduction Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly becoming powerful tools for understanding and generating human language. These models have achieved state-of-the-art results on different natural language processing tasks, including text summarization, machine translation, question answering, and dialogue generation. LLMs have even shown promise in more specialized domains, like healthcare, finance, and law.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The big LPU vs GPU debate when Groq has recently showcased its Language Processing Unit’s remarkable capabilities, setting new benchmarks in processing speed. This week, Groq’s LPU astounded the tech community by executing open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) like Llama-2, which boasts 70 billion parameters, at an impressive rate of over 100 tokens per second.

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Eugene Yan

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

How it differs from unit testing typical software and some guidelines

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Hacker News

MARCH 1, 2024

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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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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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Have you ever wished your still photos could speak or sing? Meet EMO, short for Emote Portrait Alive. Developed by researchers at Alibaba’s Institute for Intelligent Computing, EMO is an artificial intelligence system designed to do just that. EMO takes a unique approach to animation, bypassing complex 3D models by directly converting audio into video frames.

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FlowingData

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I read that there are more golf courses than there are McDonald’s locations in the United States, which seemed surprising. There are about 16,000 golf courses and 13,000 McDonald’s locations. How could this be? Obviously, there are a lot of McDonald’s locations, but where are all these golf courses? Some maps made it clear.

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Hacker News

MARCH 1, 2024

The Lazarus Group is back with an upgraded variant of their FudModule rootkit, this time enabled by a zero-day admin-to-kernel vulnerability for CVE-2024-21338. Read this blog for a detailed analysis of this rootkit variant and learn more about several new techniques, including a handle table entry manipulation technique that directly targets Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike Falcon, and HitmanPro.

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KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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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.

Towards AI

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Last Updated on February 29, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Hira Akram Originally published on Towards AI. Diagram by author As technology continues to advance, the generation of data increases exponentially. In this dynamically changing landscape, businesses must pivot towards data-driven models to maintain a competitive edge. Time emerges as a critical factor in this equation, where the ability to make timely decisions surpasses all other strategies.

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FlowingData

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Based on data from the USDA Census of Agriculture , this map by John Johnson shows the predominant domesticated animal in each county in the United States. It nonchalantly includes humans.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The loss of the tail is among the most notable anatomical changes to have occurred along the evolutionary lineage leading to humans and to the ‘anthropomorphous apes’1–3, with a proposed role in contributing to human bipedalism4–6. Yet, the genetic mechanism that facilitated tail-loss evolution in hominoids remains unknown. Here we present evidence that an individual insertion of an Alu element in the genome of the hominoid ancestor may have contributed to tail-loss evolu

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KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Exploring the limitless possibilities of AI and making it context-aware.

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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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Towards AI

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Last Updated on February 24, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Dr. Leon Eversberg Originally published on Towards AI. Compute-optimal large language models according to the Chinchilla paperThe evolution of GPT’s number of parameters over time. Large Language Models (LLMs) have grown rapidly in size over the past few years. As shown in the graph above, GPT-1 was released in 2018 with 117 million parameters.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Amazon Bedrock provides a broad range of models from Amazon and third-party providers, including Anthropic, AI21, Meta, Cohere, and Stability AI, and covers a wide range of use cases, including text and image generation, embedding, chat, high-level agents with reasoning and orchestration, and more. Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock allows you to build performant and customized Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications on top of AWS and third-party vector stores using both AWS and third-

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As California prepares to implement a new law that requires major fast food chains to pay workers a minimum of $20 an hour starting in April, a new report explains why the governor's relationship with a billionaire helped exempt Panera Bread and chain restaurants like it.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As more countries, companies and individuals seek energy sources beyond fossil fuels, interest in renewable energy continues to rise. In fact, world-wide capacity for energy from solar, wind and other renewable sources increased by 50% in 2023. More than 110 countries at the United Nations’ COP28 climate change conference agreed to triple that capacity by 2030, and global investment in clean energy transition hit a record high of USD 1.8 trillion in 2023.

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MoorInsights for Forbes

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Analyst Anshel Sag reviews the latest 5G, AI, spatial computing and automotive announcements from Qualcomm at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This is a guest post written by Axfood AB. In this post, we share how Axfood, a large Swedish food retailer, improved operations and scalability of their existing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) operations by prototyping in close collaboration with AWS experts and using Amazon SageMaker. Axfood is Sweden’s second largest food retailer, with over 13,000 employees and more than 300 stores.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I'm unsure how popular GameNOW magazine was, but over the course of two years, they pulled off one of the weirdest running gags I've seen in a game magazine, just to have fun at the expense of an irate reader who didn't like Final Fantasy VIII.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This week, as thousands of network operators, technology vendors, and mobile device providers from all over the world converge on Barcelona for Mobile World Congress , it’s the perfect time to discuss how IBM® is shaping the future of network operations and telecommunications. Outside the glitz of new phones, connected cars and 5G with everything, there are some real challenges the industry must address.

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Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

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Towards AI

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Last Updated on February 24, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Leo Tisljaric, PhD Originally published on Towards AI. From LLM-based machine translations to text generation fine-tuning, find all the theory, examples, and code in one place.Working on AI (Image by: Author) In one of his recent interviews, famous AI scientist Yann LeCun said that we do not have to seek general intelligence because even humans do not have it as „machines“ that have very specific and limited knowledge and skills.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP), improving tasks such as language translation, text summarization, and sentiment analysis. However, as these models continue to grow in size and complexity, monitoring their performance and behavior has become increasingly challenging. Monitoring the performance and behavior of LLMs is a critical task for ensuring their safety and effectiveness.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

While the recent development of cryogenic electron tomography (CryoET) makes it possible to identify various macromolecules inside cells and determine their structure at near-atomic resolution, it remains challenging to visualize the complex cellular environment at the atomic level. One of the main hurdles in cell visualization is to render the millions of molecules in real time computationally.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Sourcing is getting smarter. To start, many organizations have already pivoted from a tactical to a strategic sourcing mindset—which can make all the difference when it comes to gaining and retaining a competitive advantage. Why? Because organizations with strategic sourcing mindsets look beyond price and cost savings-centered supplier selection initiatives.

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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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