Analytics Vidhya

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Introduction Python is a popular programming language known for its simplicity and versatility. However, it has a unique feature called the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) that sets it apart from other languages. In this article, we will delve into the details of the GIL, its purpose, and its impact on Python’s performance. What is the […] The post Understanding the Python Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The need to mix, broaden and lengthen our use of AI with fluid tokenization control and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures is very of the moment.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The healthcare technology sector has been rocked by a significant disruption: The Change Healthcare cyber attack 2024 has knocked critical systems offline. Change Healthcare, a major healthcare IT provider, confirmed the attack, citing a “cyber security issue.” Services have been severely impacted as the company disconnected systems to contain the threat.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Nach langer politischer Auseinandersetzung hat der Bundestag am Freitag, 23. Februar, den kontrollierten Umgang mit Cannabis gebilligt. Mit dem Gesetz soll Erwachsenen künftig der Besitz von bis zu 50 Gramm Cannabis für den Eigenkonsum im privaten Raum erlaubt werden. Im öffentlichen Raum soll die Höchstgrenze bei 25 Gramm liegen. In namentlicher Abstimmung votierten 407 Abgeordnete für das Gesetz, 226 stimmten dagegen und vier enthielten sich.

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have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth.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

IBM Journey to AI blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In an era of accelerating climate change , predicting the near-future can yield major benefits. For instance, when utility officials are aware that a heat wave is on its way, they can plan energy procurement to prevent power outages. When farmers in drought-prone regions are able to predict which crops are susceptible to failure , they can deploy additional irrigation.

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SAS Software

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Rare diseases, often called orphan diseases, affect a small percentage of the population. Despite their rarity, these diseases collectively impact millions worldwide. Being a health care professional who cares deeply about overall patient care, the challenges in diagnosing and treating rare diseases resonate profoundly with me. Limited data availability, dispersed [.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Welcome! The fact that you’re reading this means that you probably care deeply about the issue of privacy, which warms our hearts. Unfortunately, even though you care about privacy, or perhaps because you care so much about it, you may feel that there's not much you (or anyone) can really do to.

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FlowingData

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

How much you sleep each night matters, but more importantly, it’s about the quality and if you feel rested when you wake up. This seems to shift with age as responsibilities and sleep patterns change. The following chart shows how rested people felt, based on answers to the American Time Use Survey.

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Candice Vu February 19, 2024 - 11:17pm Matthew Miller Senior Director, Product Management With the evolution of voice-based assistants, chat bots, and generative AI assistants, it’s becoming ever more clear that interacting with technology via natural language prompts is here to stay. Tableau has been on a long journey to provide natural language interfaces for analytics.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Consumer sentiment analysis isn’t a flashy topic or mind-blowing concept, yet the importance of these tools in business is hot and getting hotter. Without gauging consumer sentiment, businesses can spiral with a solution, looking for a problem instead of meeting customer demands. Consumer sentiment is an economic indicator of well-being, often presented statistically.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

I've been getting a lot of those "your parcel couldn't be delivered" phishing attacks lately and if you're a human with a phone, you probably have been too. Just as a brief reminder, they look like this: These get through all the technical controls that exist at my telco and they land smack bang in my SMS inbox. However, I don't fall for the scams because I look for the warning signs: a sense of urgency, fear of missing out, and strange URLs that look nothing like any

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Towards AI

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. While digital channels are booming, phone support remains crucial for many customers. Although digital channels are growing rapidly, phone support remains an essential communication medium for many customers. However, phone interactions can be tedious, expensive, and hard to track.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Today, people don’t just prefer instant communication; they expect it. Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) leads the charge in breaking down barriers between businesses and their audiences. This class of AI-based tools, including chatbots and virtual assistants, enables seamless, human-like and personalized exchanges. Beyond the simplistic chat bubble of conversational AI lies a complex blend of technologies, with natural language processing (NLP) taking center stage.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

China’s Betavolt just cracked the code on the miniature atomic battery , also known as nuclear battery , igniting a new era of long-lasting power with potential to revolutionize industries. What is an atomic battery (nuclear battery)? An atomic battery , also known as a nuclear battery or radioisotope battery , is a device that harnesses the energy released by the decay of radioactive isotopes to generate electricity.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In 2010, Congress capped fees for debit card networks so merchants don't get gouged by Visa and Mastercard. But the Fed stuck in a loophole for Discover. And that is leading Capital One to buy it.

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Towards AI

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Author(s): Jelle Van Bost Originally published on Towards AI. Google’s new model offers impressive performance alongside a unique licensing approach designed to promote innovation and responsible use.Image generated by the author on [link] Google’s new open-source model, Gemma, is shaking up the landscape of Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite its size (with 7B and 2B parameter variants), Gemma’s performance is remarkable, rivaling the performance of larger open-source models.

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BAIR

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

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IBM Journey to AI blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming society, including the very character of national security. Recognizing this, the Department of Defense (DoD) launched the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) in 2019, the predecessor to the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), to develop AI solutions that build competitive military advantage, conditions for human-centric AI adoption, and the agility of DoD operations.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Announcing Stable Diffusion 3 in early preview, our most capable text-to-image model with greatly improved performance in multi-subject prompts, image quality, and spelling abilities.

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Towards AI

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Author(s): Cornellius Yudha Wijaya Originally published on Towards AI. Trying out the agents to do data scientist activityImage generated by DALL-E 3 LLM-based Agents or LLM Agents are agent structures that could execute complex tasks with LLM applications that have an architecture that combines LLMs with components like planning and memory. In simpler terms, LLM Agents is a tool where LLM is the brain and orchestrates the decision to achieve the goals.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

BYD has launched its low cost sedan in China which industry observers are calling the Corolla Killer. The post “Corolla killer:” BYD launches $US15,000 EV in direct attack on legacy makers appeared first on The Driven.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Nielsen today released its January report on viewing usage across linear TV and streaming, which revealed that YouTube is once again the overall top streaming service in the U.S., with 8.6% of viewing on television screens. Netflix, meanwhile, saw 7.9% of TV usage.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The United States is not building enough transmission lines to connect regional power networks. The deficit is driving up electricity prices, reducing grid reliability, and hobbling renewable energy deployment. At the heart of the problem are utility companies that refuse to pursue interregional transmission projects, and sometimes even impede them, because new projects threaten their profits and disrupt their industry alliances.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In an exclusive interview ahead of an invite-only event today in San Jose, Intel outlined new chip technologies it will offer its foundry customers by sharing a glimpse into its future data-center processors. The advances include more dense logic and a 16-fold increase in the connectivity within 3D-stacked chips, and they will be among the first top-end technologies the company has ever shared with chip architects from other companies.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The authors of the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) unveiled an amended version this week, but it’s still an unconstitutional censorship bill that continues to empower state officials to target services and online content they do not like.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Signal’s mission and sole focus is private communication. For years, Signal has kept your messages private, your profile information (like your name and profile photo) private, your contacts private, and your groups private – among much else. Now we’re taking that one step further, by making your.

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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.

Hacker News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Researchers outline the PrintListener side-channel attack, which is claimed to be the first to leverage swiping sounds to infer fingerprint information. They claim they can successfully attack up to 27.9% of partial fingerprints.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The invisible substance called dark matter remains one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology. Perhaps, a new study suggests, this strange substance arises from a 'dark mirror universe' that's been linked to ours since the dawn of time.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Implants and other technologies that decode neural activity can restore people’s abilities to move and speak — and help researchers to understand how the brain works. Implants and other technologies that decode neural activity can restore people’s abilities to move and speak — and help researchers to understand how the brain works.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Microsoft announced that it caught Chinese, Russian, and Iranian hackers using its AI tools—presumably coding tools—to improve their hacking abilities. From their report : In collaboration with OpenAI, we are sharing threat intelligence showing detected state affiliated adversaries—tracked as Forest Blizzard, Emerald Sleet, Crimson Sandstorm, Charcoal Typhoon, and Salmon Typhoon—using LLMs to augment cyberoperations.

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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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