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25 Ways AI Can Make Your Daily Life Easy

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Imagine a world where your morning alarm adjusts to traffic conditions, your coffee brews to your exact preference before you even get out of bed, and your commute is planned with the perfect balance of speed and scenic detours. This sci-fi dream is becoming a reality thanks to Artificial Intelligence. AI is here to […] The post 25 Ways AI Can Make Your Daily Life Easy appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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5 Free Machine Learning Courses from Top Universities

Machine Learning Mastery

If you’re reading this article, I assume you already know what machine learning is. But just for a quick refresher, it’s simply making computers smart enough to do jobs that humans used to do, for example, taking attendance using facial recognition. Anyway, moving on to our main discussion, I know there are a lot of […] The post 5 Free Machine Learning Courses from Top Universities appeared first on MachineLearningMastery.com.

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How FactSet Implemented an Enterprise Generative AI Platform with Databricks and MLflow

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“FactSet’s mission is to empower clients to make data-driven decisions and supercharge their workflows and productivity. To deliver AI-driven solutions across our entire.

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10 GitHub Repositories to Master SQL

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Learn SQL and databases through free courses, tutorials, tools, guides, books, practice exercises, projects, awesome lists, and other resources.

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The Project Clinic: Assessing Project Health, Planning, and Execution

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar

Picture your projects as patients, each with its own unique rhythm and pulse, thriving under your care 🥼 🩺 Step into the role of an innovative project doctor in our upcoming webinar! This session is your guide to evaluating the health of your projects through Waterfall and Agile practices like Scrum and Kanban. We’ll explore the vital signs of project success through the lens of the “iron triangle” metrics, using deliverables as tracers.

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VRChat is Laying Off 30% of Team

Hacker News

Below is the full text of an email sent to our team today. Aside from removing some email addresses and formatting, there are no redactions or edits. To: All VRChat Employees Personal and Company Emails From: Graham Gaylor, CEO Subject: Important Announcement - Company Update - June 2024 Hi everyone, Today, I have some very hard and sad news to share.

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Visualize This on storytelling with data

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I talked to Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic about my early motivations, FD origins, the new book, how I work, and data things. Listen to the episode here. Cole, who runs storytelling with data , came around not long after FD. Although she has a team now, I count Cole as one of the few long-term, independent visualization folks. It was fun to finally get to chat.

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Building RAG Application using Cohere Command-R and Rerank – Part 2

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction In the previous article, we experimented with Cohere’s Command-R model and Rerank model to generate responses and rerank doc sources. We have implemented a simple RAG pipeline using them to generate responses to user’s questions on ingested documents. However, what we have implemented is very simple and unsuitable for the general user, as it […] The post Building RAG Application using Cohere Command-R and Rerank – Part 2 appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Stored Procedure in SQL

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Stored procedures are a crucial part of SQL databases. They consist of prepared SQL code that you can save and reuse. This feature helps avoid writing the same queries repeatedly. You can call the stored procedure to execute the saved code. Additionally, stored procedures can accept parameters, making them versatile and dynamic. This article […] The post Stored Procedure in SQL appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Databricks + Tabular

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We are excited to announce that we have agreed to acquire Tabular, Inc, a data management company founded by Ryan Blue, Daniel Weeks.

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Databricks Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Foundation Models for Language, Q2 2024

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We are excited to announce that Forrester has recognized Databricks as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Foundation Models for Language, Q2.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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Mosaic AI: Build and deploy production-quality Compound AI Systems

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Over the last year, we have seen a surge of commercial and open-source foundation models showing strong reasoning abilities on general knowledge tasks.

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5 Free University Courses to Learn Coding for Data Science

KDnuggets

Learn programming for free from top-tier universities like Harvard and MIT.

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Clearview AI Used Your Face. Now You May Get a Stake in the Company

Hacker News

The facial recognition start-up doesn’t have the funds to settle a class-action lawsuit, so lawyers are proposing equity for those whose faces were scraped from the internet.

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IntelliJ GitHub Plugin leaking credentials

Hacker News

A new security issue was discovered that affects the JetBrains GitHub plugin on the IntelliJ platform, which could lead to disclosure of access tokens to third-party sites. The issue affects all IntelliJ-based IDEs as of 2023.1 onwards that have the JetBrains GitHub plugin enabled and configured/in-use.

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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

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Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize

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Photo by Arturo Villarrubia Science fiction writer Ted Chiang has won the 2024 PEN/Bernard and Ann Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. The award is given each year to a writer who has “demonstrated exceptional achievement in the short story form.

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Hybrid working from home improves retention without damaging performance

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Working from home has become standard for employees with a university degree. The most common scheme, which has been adopted by around 100 million employees in Europe and North America, is a hybrid schedule, in which individuals spend a mix of days at home and at work each week1,2. However, the effects of hybrid working on employees and firms have been debated, and some executives argue that it damages productivity, innovation and career development3–5.

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Indian Startup 3D Prints Rocket Engine in Just 72 Hours

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Indian startup Agnikul can 3D print a rocket engine in 72 hours. After successfully launching a test rocket, the company is one step closer to "on-demand" rocket launches for operators of small satellites and other bespoke rocketry needs.

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The Titan Submersible Disaster. The Inside Story Is More Disturbing

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A year after OceanGate’s sub imploded, thousands of leaked documents and interviews with ex-employees reveal how the company’s CEO cut corners, ignored warnings, and lied in his fatal quest to reach the Titanic.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Inside Mexico’s anti-avocado militias

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<strong>The long read:</strong> The spread of the avocado is a story of greed, ambition, corruption, water shortages, cartel battles and, in a number of towns and villages, a fierce fightback

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How Meta trains large language models at scale

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As we continue to focus our AI research and development on solving increasingly complex problems, one of the most significant and challenging shifts we’ve experienced is the sheer scale of computation required to train large language models (LLMs). Traditionally, our AI model training has involved a training massive number of models that required a comparatively smaller number of GPUs.

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Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to use computers

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MIT Media Lab Spin-off Augmental has developed the MouthPad, a device that allows users to interact with phones and computers using their tongue and other head gestures.

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GPT-4 autonomously hacks zero-day security flaws with 53% success rate

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Researchers were able to successfully hack into more than half their test websites using autonomous teams of GPT-4 bots, co-ordinating their efforts and spawning new bots at will. And this was using previously-unknown, real-world 'zero day' exploits.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Intel is trucking a 916k-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab

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Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound cold box from the Ohio River to its new fab near Columbus. This load is one of the largest of Intel's approximately 20 super loads making their way across the state.

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Passenger tracks missing luggage to home of airport store worker

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A Florida man is facing a felony grand theft charge in Broward County after a plucky airline passenger scheduled to fly out of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in March tracked her stolen luggage to the man’s home, according to the probable cause affidavit in the case.

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The New Math of How Large-Scale Order Emerges

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The puzzle of emergence asks how regularities emerge on macro scales out of uncountable constituent parts. A new framework has researchers hopeful that a solution is near.

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Oracle Is Shutting Down Its Ad Business  

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Software giant Oracle shared that it is shutting down its ads business during its earnings call last night for the quarter ending March 31, as revenue declined to $300 million in the 2024 fiscal year. "In Q4, we decided to exit the advertising business, which had declined to about $300 million in revenue in fiscal.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia

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A new trial conducted by the University of Oxford reveals that sildenafil, commonly known as Viagra, enhances blood flow to the brain and improves the function of brain blood vessels in patients at a heightened risk of vascular dementia.

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“Confidential” 988 Conversation Records Shared with Corporations

Hacker News

Editor’s Note: This story is the second in a two-part series on 988. This piece addresses issues around privacy and the sharing of the contents of conversations for AI development. The first part addresses the increase in unwanted or coercive police and EMS interventions after 988’s implementation, and can be found here: Dramatic Rise in Police Interventions on 988 Callers.

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Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Security Backlash

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After weeks of withering criticism and exposed security flaws, Microsoft has vastly scaled back its ambitions for Recall, its AI-enabled silent recording feature, and added new privacy features.

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USA Solar Panel Manufacturing Capacity Soared 71% in Q1 2024

Hacker News

Florida and Texas charge ahead on solar installs while California stumbles due to policy changes WASHINGTON, D.C. — A record-setting 11 gigawatts (GW) of new solar module manufacturing capacity came online in the United States during Q1 2024, the largest quarter of solar manufacturing growth in American history. According to. [continued] The post USA Solar Panel Manufacturing Capacity Soared 71% in Q1 2024 appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene